The Colorado statesman., 1911-03-04
DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY MARCH 4 1911.

ing volubly aired, and the reading pub
lie among Negroes is assuming broad
er Interpretation as education among
us is extended. The Negro editor has
something to say in his editorials
worth reading, and like the preacher
he has message of serious import
which sparkles with erudition.
Let us as race take renewed in
terest in everything We are doing
which reflects credit upon us, and
give abler assistance to Negro jour
nalism everywhere. We are making
successes now for those who are to
come after us, and what we do now
will give a stronger incentive to our
youth who succeed us.
The Negro should stop whining.
Somebody is always opposing, hinder
ing and obstructing somebody else.
White people are building spite walls
against white neighbors, white people
are bringing suits for damages against
white corporations, and individuals,
and perpetrating a thousand and one
other things against each other, and
if by i'll luck some Negro should stump
his toe, or butt his head in this great
maelstrom of progress, the first
thing he hollers race prejudice" It's
no such thing. The Negro is too self
conscious; he gets an occasional shake
up because he is in the line of prog
ress. If he were making no effort to
struggle out, of his insecure condition,
he would never get hurt. Let us stop
crying like babies. and take our med
icine which the best civilization on
earth prescribes.
OF course, it frequently happens
that the Negro has to meet opposition
merely because he is colored, but it
is not always so. The white man gets
ten knocks to the Negroes one from
the white man because of the white
mans persistency to stay in the line
of progress where struggle and oppo-
sition have to be met and overcome.
1t is the battle-ground of stalwart, earn
est endeavor. Some of us, and espe-
cialy those of us who know too much
for our self interest, and not enough
to help the world, will organize little
bodies of quasi-pseudo, semi-anarchis
tic committees for the purpose of de
stroying the best feeling of distin
guished people throughout the world
toward the prosperous Negroes of the
race. Is this element of educated
tramps who print pamphlets or publish
magazines in which they claim the
right to exploit their unholy propagan-
da, the Negro Business League with
it's well-ordered governing body, and
it's multiplicity of banks, looks like a
laughing farce. These whining Negroes
patronize only the white merchant,
physician, lawyer, tailor, druggist, etc.
Their claim is they can get better bar
gain from white people, and yet they
are damning everybody for the misfor-
tunes they suffer, when they are the
very fools who bring their ruin.
II is nOl W Dt tAptIIth lhdt w VI :
Negro born will develop into stalwart
manhood The fact is, only few in
ten thousand will ever be known be-
yond their immediate neighborhood
for effecting good in the world. When
ever you see a lazy timber jack of
Negro, gaping and stretching, grin
ming and cutting didoes for the de-
light of the cheap thinking white men,
who find security in the non-attrac-
tive Negro, look around for minute,
and you will find fifty white men who
has had four thousand years of op-
portunity, unhampered and unhin-
dered, only a few degrees better than
that ignorant Negro. Did you ever
think of that? Oh! that Negro will
never amount to anything. He has
reached the acme of his little ambition.
He was born to be a monkey. The
more he gets paid for making cheap