The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-18

or county court meets of the large number of our race who are sent from the city and county of Montgomery 10 the penitentiary. to the chain gangs and coal mines. Public sentiment among our people must be so aroused that there will be fewer crimes and fewer criminals. If each man who hears my voice does his duty. the num- Der of men and boys to be sent to the prisons during the coming year can be greatly lessened. We must not feel that we have nothing to do with the criminals. -tfat this is part of the white mans duty and not ours. We have responsibility which we cannot escape. We must Jet the negro criminals understand that we are just as much in favor of enforcing the law and bringing about a high public sem timent in favor of clean living as any body else.
 Obey Prohibition.
 'Ii this connection. hope that every man of our race in Montgomery will do his best towards helping enforce the temperance law. Since the emanci- patton proclamation by Abraham Lin- coin, there has been no benefit con- ferred upon the negroes of the South equal to that conferred by the closing up of the bar rooms throughout these Southern States, and we should show Ouf kTaLltuut DY 8tttuk tu tL III 0NCA4 way possible that we help the officials enforce the temperance law and that we do not patronize the blind tigers and other institutions which are likely to spring up in defiance of law.
 "I wish that in every one of our large cities like Montgomery. there might be system of night schools where negro youths who work in the day could be thoroughly trained In ( 4f. .dt,S frf n,.t of urbi fh nlaka their living. These night schools would not prove more costly than the courts which occupy q large propor- tion of their time in dealing with the criminals of the race. question whether in Montgomery County there are as many negro youths learning trades today as were being taught trades in this county. during the days of slavery. In our industrial rela- tions, the interest of the white race and the colored race are bound to- gether. The white child spends large proportion of it's time in the arms Of the negro woman or negro girl. That negro woman or negro girl should be clean, should be intelligent, and, above all. should be moral. In a large degreesthe best white families of Ala bama and Montgomery have their food prepared by negro cooks. These cooks should be clean, intelligent and skilled.
 "As I have stated, we have great chance here in the South. I want to set every man in Montgomery who Is at the head of family own piece of property. I want to see every man have a bank account want the time to come when we shall learn to put part of our money at the end of every week in the bank instead of squan- dering it as so many do now. Just in proportion as people see that we are help to the community in which we live, and<not a hindrance. they will think more highly of us.
 Above all, want to see each man in Montgomery learn to live a clean. pure, moral live. Ask any man of ex- perience in the world. and he will tell you that from no point of view does immortality. uncleanliness and decep- ton pay. It does not pay financially, 1t does not pay from health point of view, 1t does not pay from a moral or spiritual point of view. The only life that pays in the long run, wheth- CT in the financial world or business world, the physical or spiritual world, is the life that Is clean and pure and honorable.