The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-13
Good Advice to His Race.


 A negro preacher gives some good advice to his race through the l columns of The High Point. (N. O., Journal the organ of the negro race | there. We copy-it:
 Almost every phase of the problem which has more or less to do with our success as a race in the South has been at some time largely discussed and written upon. The two races are so closely allied to each other that whatever of success or failure. pros perity or diversity. peace or trouble is the lot of one, the other must 1t seems in a greater or less degree share these blessings or curses. Many of our white people, for lack of a help full word from us, are subjected to try ing circumstances in their domestic af- fairs which, if voice were raised or an influence exerted on our part in their behalf would do much to chang ing for good these conditions.
 refer to the overlooked matter of negro help in and around the homes of our white people.
 A very large per cent of the whites employ in some form or other our men and women, our boys and girls, to do their domestic work. When I come to think about 1t. I sometimes wonder if the white people could get oAOAA8 put ln6 greater wonder Is not that, but this; could we as race get along without the white people? Emphatica1ly. no. They want and need our labor. We want and need their pay. Here we have most certainly mutual necessity existing between the two races. If this be true. hold that in the South the negro has an opportunity of growth unheard of in the history of race development an T. Aa-a we not make use of these opportunities in every possible and honorable way? The white pay Is good. we all admit; i; Is 1t not just and proper that the negro service be equally as good7 or if better, no harm but only good can come to the man or woman who will try hard to make their work beat the pay Received for 1t every day the sun goes down. This is the sure way to get a raise in wages, but 1t is a royal way. Only kings and queens of every duty well performed travel this road.
 The secret of pleasant and helpful relation between the negro help and the white pay Is this: Prompt to promises that is; if you say you will be on hand to help on a certain day and at a certain hour so whether you work or not and report. The next is faithfulness in service. That Is. for BOL yOuF employer IOT Lnc interest you take in the work he assigned you to do. Make his or her work your work.
 If this Is done. your employer can not slip right upon you before you know 1t. But you wont care for you are not studying him or her specially, but your task. It has your head. heart and hands. The next is confidence in your employer; that is. get yourself to feel and believe that the employer has an interest in your welfare; that he Is glad to see signs of real inprov- ment in you, for your own sake. The last but not least is politeness and kindness to the family. The quality of these are not strained. They are twice blessed. They bless him that gives and him that takes. They are the mightiest in the mighty.
 I appeal to the preachers. teachers. editors and parents to turn their se- rious attention to this one subject. Let us do the best we can to bring about a better state of affairs among the people with whom we and our children after us must live and die. I have ventured to say this because I feel if longer disregard facts which so vitally concern us as a race, strug- gling up the hill of life in close con tact with so dominant a race, would prove recreant to the cause I espouse as a Christian leader, and an injustice to the young people of our race. who are coming on behind us by the thous- ands but know not whither they go.
 Rev. A. J. Tate.
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