The sun., 1909-06-07
GQODADVICE TO THE NEGROES
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. breaches
THEGOSPELOF WORK.


York Negroes Idle, Says r. +. Jones.
rockcr r. Washington talked yesterday
n ,ho Negro Business Mems League OF
yev York at the A. NJ. F.. Zion Church in
Most Eighty ninth street. All the speak
or. were negroes /. c. Collins. a lawyer.
rrcsidcnt of the league, said that Mr..
Washington had conceived the idea OF a
negro business league about three years
ago. II is now Il national and a growing
oreanizaton. MIR. Collins said that tho
league had brought out the fact that
there are many successful negro stock
brokers. doctors. merchants and men
and women in all walks OF life who up
to this time had been obscure and work
ing alone.
The Rev. p. E. Jones said that the
negro had for years been singing you
can take the world. but give me Jesus, )"
but the white man had got the world and
plenty of Jesus. The negro must get to
work and do things besides pray. Re-
ngous salvation wouldn't solve the negro
question,
DR.. A. P. Roberts, formerly a member
Of the health board. said that Booker T.
Washngt on could only point out the
vay. The individual must solve the
question The woman In the kitchen
must do her part; so must the boy run
ming the elevator and the negro waiting
on tables.
If the members Of my race don't take
different action soon there will be serious
complication of the race question. There
,v.l in,
New York now than there were twenty
FIVE years ago. said Dr. Roberts. Not
less than o.oOO are not working Not be-
cause there isn't something for them to
do They show a disnclination to exert
themselves They won't work for the
white folks and consider it disgrace to
work for those OF their own color. You
believe in MIR. Washington now. You
praise him because he is loved and re-
spected by the black and white for his
work in uplifting the negro. But II it
had been left to the efforts Of his own
race to show appreciation he wouldn't
he the sane Booker T. Washington.
Mr.. Washington said that II the New
York negro refused to work or considered
it disgrace TO labor for man Of his own
color he had acquired the had habit since
leaving the South. He rather liked the
New York negro. II that individual was
sick to-day he would bs we'll tomorrow.
il his present day was cloudy he was sure
there was sunshine coming.
III the negro thinks that the North and
the South are everlastingly going to fight
over him he is mistaken. Those sections
are getting together over the dollar, and
when that eliminates the negro better
look out. Business draws no color line.
The man who can produce what the other
man wants gets the trade. IL negro
roultrv dealer serves fresh eggs in the
city of New York the dealer will buy them
snd he won't ask whether they were laid
bv black hens or white hens" .Ap-
Elause.
Mr. Washington said that it would he a
good thing for the average negro IN this
town to stroll down to the Battery and
ooa over the immigrants as they land.
You have opportunities many times
greater than theirs. Look how the immi-
grant pinchcs and saves when he comes
10 this country. Look how he voes hun
gry First he peddos on the sidewalk.
Then he buys himself a cart and he Keeps
on prospering until he owns store,
Work save, work.
Commerce makes people forget race
and sectional difference disappears Sue.
cess makes one man respe ct another
whether he wants to or not. IL reminds
mo OF the old negro farmer down in Ala
hama who had beeI attending gran ge
meetings " no thought he was too ignorant
10 understand new ideas. but kep, trying
and trying iist the same. His cottor
kept improving
Here MIR Washington stopped a minutf
and fairly shouted TO his audience laugh
ing i said cotton, my good friends.
Ever hear that before?' There was
plenty Of laughter.
'Yon stared when ! said cotton Dom
you know the thing We useC to grow
down South-down there in Mississippi
nothing so strange about. that IL there
Well, this old man's cotton kep' in, prov
there, Uncle shouted one Of the whit<
men. You dun tnk th prize now tel
us what your nams is; Well the negr,
answered slowly, vars ago when | wa'
in debt and pore laiF they used to cal
n- al- jim Hill Now that own hun
dred acre farm. a nice house and have
educated my children they call he Mr.
Jfnle~ f1.l. lI,duS''ttll'
Negroes must cultivate the virtue
C. saving, You have manv temptations
in his big city. Whv. before coming
here This time | had quarter IN my
pocket for week. That was at Tuske-
gee. But in New York you cotldn'i
live I've minutes without spending that
much lou are in spending atT,os-
phern pou't spend TOO much I'm
dress / remember seeing an old darky
coming to hank down South not long
ago 60 many patches tackled TO his
clothes by dir erent kinds OF thread never
saa before When he reached ~ the
bottom of his pocket | thought his hapc
was never going 10 &c; there, but stood
back a little when that ragged mar
counted the money he brought forth
s2?1n He wasn't ashamed Of his patches
There are fortr-six negro banks IN the
SJuth furtv-siX negro bank presidents
and fnrtv-sty negro boards of directors
and the r,en who make this possible are
th"s- who are not afraid to work with
thei- hands and who are not ashamed
to wear PATCHES.
-T1" negro is getting there-why,
even read of one robbing bank down
Soutt the other day. They said afte'
Inc civil war tina; we wouldn't he able
10 fesd or clothe ourselves, that we
W0Vlir', rrovi,!. our own shelter. Well
! holioye We all eat and ! don't believe
that ANYTHING is much too good in the
eating lin .or some OF rs TO get to
'l'"ch,.,'
Remember that negroes nay taNe'
-, ,"' ~, homes in this country unc
'f"T own property equivalent n 'ht
a'rtorr ~ siv New England States
We rave morr. or less solved the educa