The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-21
BOOMS NEGRO FAIR.
DIR. NEWs0ME SPEAKS At THE
NORMAL SCHOOL.
Tells People Of His Race That Project
Ii the Most Gigantic and Far.
Reaching Yet Suggested
For Negroes.

For the purpose OF creating interest
In the National Negro Fair movement,
DR.. Newsome. President of the Fair As
ISOLATION. spoke to a number of negro
citizens at the State Normal School
last night.
DR.. Newsome told Of the work which
the railroads are doing for the move
ment and of the help the movement il
receiving. He said in part:
TT is certainly source of great
pleasure to be privileged to come be-
fore you this evening to discuss the
| ever launched by negroes in the his
tor yof the world. To show our pro-
ductive ability In great Negro Expo
sition along all lines Is our main object.
THE National Negro Fair Associa-
ton was Incorporated during the
month of March. 1907. 1t Is capitalized
at s25o.ooo. Many of the most infiu-
entail and substantial negroes Of this
country are stockholders and assist
ant promoters. We have stock holders
in thirty States; we also have thirty
State Commissioners, appointed by SO
many Governors of their States. We
have thirty-two acres of land located
on the edge Of Mobile. touching both
the Mobile and Ohio Railroad and the
city street car line. This thirty-two
acres of land has been fenced In at q
cost of more than $4,000. We have four
large buildings on the ground in course
Of erection, and two completed, which
we are now using. The ground Is well
lighted with gas. and the illumination
will be added to By an electric plant
being placed on the ground early In
August.
what we most need now in this
movement Is cooperative action upon
the part OF our people,.
1.-THE endorsing of the project by the
leading doctors, lawyers, ministers and
business men generally OF Mobile, will
tell you in more eloquent terms than I
could. IL were to stand here q week,
that the white people are standing by
us In very substantial and tangible
way.
aside from all this, this project has
been endorsed by many of the leading
white men In all parts Of this Common
wealth, including ESQ Senators ana
congressman. II our race will fall in
line and help us as the white people
are helping us, that $25Q,oo0 or 100000
appropriation by Congress TO help US
will be almost an assured fact.
I'VE need more persistence. determ-
inatIon and tenacity to accomplish
great things than anything else. That
which has made the white race gigan-
tic is the doing of gigantic things; no
race can become great without doing
great things.
Let us get together this one time as
race throughout this great country,
and prove to the world that adherence
and cooperation are features OF our
character. Let us make this National
Negro Fair a success or die trying. Big
speeches in efforts to demonstrate our
intellectual acquisitions are birds with
out wings, organizations with no high
er purposes than to get into ONCE and
to be passively honored Is dead Lett
ter.
ut is high time now that we, as a
race, were waking up to the sense of
our duty to our race and our God. Let
us break away from light, frivolous
things and do the weighty and tan
giblee.
"Going from State to State. especially
North, will do no good. The Negroes
opportunities are here in the South, and
we ali know that we have innumer-
able white friends here who never fail
to come to our rescue when we need
them. -
"Exertion produces development. No
one knows what he can do until he
tries. and when you begin to do big
things, no one can tell what you can do
or what great efforts you will put
forth next"