The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-08-18
Famous Negro Educator Says
ills Nothing but Heart
less Murder
SHOWS CHANCE FOR RACE
He SAYS THAT THE BUSINESS oP-
PoRTUNlTIEoiTHAT HAVE BEEN
OPENED NOW HAVE NOT BEEN
EoUAlIEO.

New York, Aug. 1s.-Booker r.
Washington said last night at the
eleventh annual session OF the Nation.
al Negro Business league in the Palm
garden:
Il call (Etention to the numbering
of negroes at this time because the
habit has SO grown upon the nation
that murder or lynching of this kind
attracts little attention. Be it remem
bered, too, in connection with these
recent murders that not one in ten has
any connection with alleged assaults
upon women.
Il speak with sorrow and with a
sense of shame and humiliation when
call attention to the fact that within
q period of thirty days during the
present summer not fewer than TWEEN
ty-six negroes were wantonly murder
ed by mobs-shot down or hanged as
II they had been SO many wild beasts,
Let this truth never be forgotten
that whatsoever man or nation sows,
that 1t shall also reap. The white
man who murders q negro today and
goes unpunished 10 likely to murder
. white man tomorrow and go unpun.
ished.
Wants Equal Law Enforcement.
II plead everywhere for equal and
exact enforcement Of the laws, not
only In the interest Of the negro race
but In the interest Of all the races,
for without law enforcement our civi.
lization will disappear and we, as .
nation, shall become as object of rid.
icule at the hands of other nations"
The speaker said of the industrial
situation of his people:
'The chief object Of the National
Business league Is to teach the negro
the value Of the opportunities he pos.
sesses as well as the value OF those
opportunities that lie before him.
To him that hath shall be given,
10 . law OF life. On the other hand
II the world becomes convinced that
We have no opportunities, that there
10 no future before US, despair and
death will follow and the opportunit.
les that We now have will disappear.
The world is interested in the man
who is succeeding. The world is in.
terested In the race that Is succeed.
ing. ...s
Practically all the fundamental con.
ditions for industrial and business sue.
cess are before the negro in America
and here I speak Of prevailing con.
ditions. not OF exceptions. The negro
has . greater opportunity to get own
ership In the soil OF this country, es.
pecially in the southern states. than
any other 100000 of people in the
world who are in the same relative
stage Of civilization.
euslnsss Opportunities Great.
ITO the negro in business, espec.
ially in,the southland, In the matter OF
freedom of trade, there Is a golden Cd
portunity. While In other directions
there are restrictions, in the bust.
ness world there Is freedom and an
opportunity that has rarely come to
any race SO recently out OF slavery.
The negro retail merchant can buy
his goods from the wholesale dealer
on as favorable terms as the white
retail merchant can. The negro busi.
ness man can borrow money at the
local bank just as readily as the white
business man can. The best white
people in the south are just as ready
to purchase from the negro merchant
a. from the white merchant.
1T ID conservatively estimated that
negroes OF the United States are add.
Ing from $12.oo0.o00 to $4,000, 900 to
their wealth each year and that their
total wealth is now not far from
$500. .000. .000."