Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-22

Mothers and fathers, we need more
negro literature in our families. AS
our children are taught in the schools
of the greatness of George Washing
ton let US teach the children of our
race of the greatness of Our leader
Booker T. Washington.
AS ! said in the beginning, We need
to love our race And when we see
what We can to alleviate them in their
distress We need some device to
keep our boys out of the saloons and
pools rooms, our girls from unbecom-
ing places We need something to
occupy their minds and time.
Young men, you have talent;
young women. you have a talent
There is not one among you who have
some vocation you can fill. We need
more laborers for Christ. We need
more workers in the Sunday school,
in the literary societies. and in diff
show your knowledge and your talent.
We need men of education, men of
wisdom and power, men who will
prove theit devotion to principle.
whose lives are full of love and truth
for the negro race, and believe in us
ing their knowledge as a means or
end in uplifting the negro race.
Brothers of the north, be courageous.
We need smart men and women to
go out in the world daily as repre-
senatives of our race, and whose aim
it is to help the other. While the
aged are doing their part. you, the
rising young men and women, have
your part to do. If you have high and
noble ideals. lofty inspirations. in your
minds, even though you may not be
able to realize all of them, it will be
help to you and to your race We
have several classes among us; we
must lay those classes aside and
remember we all belong to the same
race, and we must all come together
as children of one family, regardless
of religious denominations. We make
a mistake som etimes when we let our
religious belief warp our minds, and
forget that we all belong to the same
family. Negroes of the north. be unit
ed. 1t Is essentially necessary that
we unite in spirit, and it is the same
of religious unity. We can find there
is religion in unity, for we know that
God liz one, and that He is not d.
vided.
We can't unite unless we have faith
and confidence in one another. and il
we can or will combine our faithful
ness in one another, we, as a race, viii
be able to pull through ali reverse5.
We need to learn the lesson that will
help us great deal as a people.
There are two classes of people going
to school under the Anglo Saxon race,
especially so, in the north. There
are those learning their first letters Of
civilization, and thinking they are
white, or ought to be white men. and
secondly those learning their first let
ters with the distinct idea in their
minds that they cannot be white men,
but better black men. And that while
we are receiving this education, we
should become prouder of that part of
the race to which. We belong.
We have good people amongst us
and bad ones. You will find bad peo-
pie of all races. We want to move,
but not too fast We need to study
the situation and see that our ideals,
as the future of our race, are, in our
own hands. We need more to study
the history of different nations, such
as the French, the German, the Eng
lish and other nations, and note what
greatness they had achieved, and com
bine the ideas. We see natives of
foreign countries coming to America
to study the ways and means of man
againg government finance enonom-
les, etc. We need our young men to
do the same, to be skilled in finance,
how to make money, how to organize
the relation between labor and capital.
We need more valiant leaders of our
race in the north, men of character:
for character is the quality of the
individual, and all personality is based
upon it; men of Christ-like charac-
ter, who will be what you are, and re-
buke impurity and wrong, and exalt
righteousness. By what you. are you
show the nobility of good character
and illustrate the saving power of
righteousness. You become shining
light in a dark place When you speak
and act your words and deeds have
double power, for in them, and back of
them. is the power of integrity. We
negroes, of the north and south must
try and prove to the world that We
are men and women that are willing
to pay the price and pass through the
refining fire of publication, despite all
odds and injustice to our race. We
need our own ministers to reveal the
Word of God, our own teachers to