The Colorado statesman., 1912-07-06


to whom they preach for everything
they need; gamblers they, who spend
most of their time and talent thinking
out how they can make something for
nothing, how they can coax out of
others, who want ito get rich quick"
that they have worked hard for, by the
turn of card or a twist Of the stock
market, gambling for the most part on
"a sure thing" alike the gambler in
the Tenderloin and gambler in Wall
and Broad streets.
And there is another sort, of the
parasite class, who deal in what peo-
pie must have to eat and drink and
wear, who adulterate whatever they
have to sell and give short weight and
measure, and carry the price on all
things as high as they can without
arousing the suspicion of the custo-
mer; cheats they are, and they are to
be found wherever men buy and sell.
Men are needed on guard everywhere
to keep flying the flag of right think
ing and honest living and dealing; to
make a positive factor in their lives
and the lives of others the Christian
philosophy of brotherhood, of friend
ship, of common faith, without which
no work can be properly done, no
word safely relied upon. The word of
truth and the works of honest men go
together; when so united in one per-
son all the community singles him out
and says of him, Now, there's an hon
est, reliable man who can be depend
ID h. h
do" A certificate of character like
that in any community is worth a
fortune to any man.
Our young men in all sections are
going into business for themselves;
they should do it and be encouraged
in doing it, because a race of servers,
of loafing parasites, who make
all and spend all of and with
others than their own, hewers
of wood and drawers of water,
with no great enterprises of their own,
matured or on the way to maturity,
cannot respect itself and need not ex-
pect others to do SO. Barred out of
the manufacturing industries, the
wholesale and retail trades, and the
banking business, their children de-
MED employment and opportunity for
promotion in them, there is nothing
left for 100000 people so circum-
stanced, as Afro-Americans are, to do
but to build up manufacturing indus
tries, wholesale and retail trades and
banking business of their own. They
cannot accept the industrial and busi
ness station, place they call 1t, whits
men want them to occupy without
sinking finally to the level of the
Mexican peon, the Egyptian fellaheen
and the Chinese coolie. That they are
not doing anything of the sort is
shown Enthusiastically by the report of
the twelfth annual convention of the
National Negro Business league, held
in Little Rock, in August of last year.
The report shows that the IL years of
constant work by the business league
has had wonderfully stimulating in
fluence upon the business initiative
and development Of the negro. The
foundation is laid and they are build
ing the superstructure slowly but
surely.
We need men on guard everywhere
to set the example of making the most
of small things as well as great things,
such as they have done at Boley,
Okla, Mound Bayou, Miss, and other
places, and as they are doing in an
isolated way in all parts of the coun-
try. Our vast industrial population,
wage earners, should regard the bust
ness ventures of our men as their own
ventures, and support them to the ut
most of their means and opportunity.
They will find it a good investment in
the enhanced respect the success of
the ventures will insure to the race
and in the employment of their sons
and daughters in profitable work,
with chance to learn how to con-
duct business undertakings of their
own when they walk out of the
schools into the world of affairs,
where "the victory is not to the swift.
nor yet to the strong. but to him that
endureth to the end. New York Age.
The school has recently installed
six thousand egg capacity incubator.
With the smaller incubators which
have been in use for some time, this
will give an egg capacity of nearly ten
thousand. The institute is trying to
make it's poultry plant Of the largest
possible service to the students in
poultry raising, as well as to the sew
eral thousand farmers of the south
who gather at the institute from time
to time during the year. There are
in the poultry yard at the present time
$3.50 fowls, of which 1,460 are chicks
hatched within the past few weeks
Southern Letter.
Mrs. Rosa Simpson, one of the dea-
conesses from Galveston. Texas, says
that Champion Jack Johnson paid hei
expenses to the Methodist conference.