The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-06-24

help his race viii consider the inlil
lence4 OF his business upon the people
as well as the pecuniary benefit
(which will come to himself" This /
a nugget of wisdom
The Negro chauffeur Is gratifyingl,
In evidence, We shall next hear o
the Negro aviator" We are Away
up-to-the-minute If there Is one chanc,
In hundred to get into the game.
Take 1t from,'-Jeifries will never
meet Jack Johnson in the ring. He |.
afraid Of the BLACK Wonder" and Il
not going to take any chance of get
ting licked by him, 1t Is his plan t.
stack Al Kaufman, Stanley Ketchel
lor anybody he can induce to take 3
try-out against the dusky champioan
In the hope that some one of the
bunch will. through some lucky blow
save him from the impending danger
The big boiler-maker Is putting up an
exhibition Of stalling. four-flushing
and bar-room bluffing that Is disgust,
ing to even the most narrow-minded
and prejudiced of the devotees OF pugi
| l1sm-on-the-square. Real sports have
| no use for a dub-and that is what
Jsfries Is proving himself to be- Like
Dickens "Joep Bagsrock," he is sly
l-devilish sly"
Plums. fall more rapidly from the
federal tree when there Is q change of
parties. Since McKinley's first cleo
ton, each succeeding administration
has simply inherited the policies and
hold-over officers Of their predecessors
For this reason, President Taft has
been freer from a siege of place-hunt-
|ers than any other chief executive in
many years. and the changes SO far
have been comparatively few.
Up to this writing, no member of
the BLACK Cabinet" has hung out a
&c. D." signal-that Is, not so "a Won
could notice it.
The Negro is not without his mega
tive virtues. No colored woman has
yet appeared in the new-fangled
'trouserette skirt" and no man of the
race Is identified with the "BIack
Hand" outrages.
The colored laborer spends every
cent he earns among the merchants of
this country. There are other better
thought-of-peoples who live on next
10 nothing. boarding their earnings.
and skurrying back to their mother
land as soon AS they have accumulat-
cd fortune Let us stand by the
WorkiDgmen who build I'D American
institutions
Notwithstanding the vicious left
labs Of Correspondent F. H. M. Muir
ray In the Boston Guardian, the pub
lie schools Of Washington continue to
do business at the old stand.
There is a general feeling that those
VINO accepted Secretary Taft's nomi-
nation with whole handful of salt
have no right to complain If President
Taft associates their claims to official
recognition with few grains of the
same substance.
1t looks as If the present national
Is superseding the
Rooseveltian "Ananias Club" with the
Tart Don't Worry Association" 4
The evangelizers Of New York's Chi
nese might find productive field for
their jabors among the heather "Do'
whites of Georgia and Mississippi,
Mississippi Day" will be big fea-
ture or the Louisville meetings Of the
National Negro Business League.
NO success is possible among races.
corporations or families without team
work"
1t may not be fashionable to say>so.
but the hard fact remains that the
most comfortable summer resort" ia
home
President Taft's critics would be left
without leg to stand upon II thew
would read his speech fully and in a
spirit OF fairness 1t is easy to find
naWs in any utterance IL sentences are
Isolated from their context and essen
tial modifying clauses are omitted.
mus changing the entire meaning Of
the speaker.
Dr. Booker T. Washington is cap,
turing Underwater Virginia this week.
PHILIPPINES ISLANDS ARE DISCUSSED
| washington, D. c., June 18th,
status Of the Philippine Islands wa