Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-02-16
til every vestige of oppression with,

til every vestige Of oppression with.
In and without has been removed.
Facts and figures prove that slavery
was one Of our most expensive lux.
ur,es, that 1t was demoralizing, too
demoralizing to exist in Christian
land. 1t kept alive sectional strife,
and hindered men from speaking and
acting according to the golden rule for
ESQ years. No one need fear the fu-
ture as to physical freedom. No think
Ing men want slavery again. 1t is to
be Stunned, dreaded and strangled in
any form. II We would preserve the
genius Of our free institutions.
THE composite race caught the
spirit and service and learned kind
ness and fidelity. 1t titled the soil,
nursed the young, and kept watch and
ward over the masters possessions
with faithfulness unmatched In the
annals of the world. From the relg-
ion OF his masters. which he might
have believed the religion of oppres-
sions, he constructed songs of freedom
and today serves that same God and
| sings as a part of his service, before
he would be slave, he would be bur-
led In his grave and go home to his
Father and be saved. He believed
more in the prayer he prayed to this
same God to end his own night of
bondage than he did in the sermon
he often heard based on the text
Servants, be obedient to your mas
ters. His excellent conduct under
the most trying circumstances rec
ommend him as a practical Christian
who came nearer obeying the teach
ings Of Christ under difficulties, than
has any other race. Large love
and a clear vision of free
dom did not permit the race to turn
murderers and assassins as did the
Indian and other races when enslaved.
Rightly have monuments been erected
to his memory, for his fidelity, books
are truthfully filled with glowing and
commendable accounts of his conduct,
and the poet as we'll as the orator
shall ever praise the splendid service
rendered by the slave whose enamel
patton this day calls to mind.
THE negro must meet new condi-
tons more and more. He must meet
the complicated evolution Of mind and
matter as q master. He must study
the great problems that confront man
with view to proper solution, ever
keeping in mind that the fittest sur
vive. He must make himself the fttest
Of the fit. With such a policy, he can
not sing any more: You may have
all this world, but give me Jesus He
needs to look out for part Of the
world. He needs to diversity his &C.
tivities. He needs to follow cotton
through planting, gathering, manufac-
ture, export and sale. Respect for him
will rise II he scatters along the line
of ore he digs from tho ground, till
it is made into cutlery and watch
springs.
THE new requirement dictates that
the negro be not only acquainted with
the latest styles Of shoes. hats. and
clothing, but that he begin to manu-
facture these things in factories owned
and operated by colored people. The
negro uses thousands Of wagons. bug
gies, plows, tools, leather goods, dry
goods galore, furniture In great guam
titles and other articles Of daily use.
Economic independence or economic
justice he must have, If he is to sur
vive the raised standards of living.
Business opportunity Is to be seen ev.
erywhere Fortunes may be built. If
business cooperation is practiced. In
Philadelphia, New Orleans, Washing.
ton City, Memphis. Atlanta, Jackson
vile and dozens Of other cities and
localities, through cooperation, sue
cess may be achieved in almost any
line Of business. If aid and patron
age be given to the worthy ventures
of the business captains of the race,
the way will be made clear for more
business in the future. It requires
faith and possibly many failures to
succeed in those new lines of bust
ness.
Certainly, tho young people should
get their minds on some line of trade,
transportation, invention or organiza-
ton Of business companies to develop
the living man. If this Is done with
as much zeal as is shown by the
lodges and undertaking companies,
who make specialties Of burying peo-
pie in princely and dazzling style when
they, die, success will come in large
measure. Put heads together, and you
will soon have many new lines Of en-
ployment and q foundation in the COM
mercial world.
LET us today sound a note Of warn
ing as to expensive fashions and fast
living. They are millstones about the
necks Of too many young men and
young women. Fashion and fast liv-
ing are dragging down too many Of
the young to poverty and degradation.
We must cultivate more backbone in
our Judgments of fashion and do with
out the things that hurt us, or that
we in Justice, to other members Of
the family, should not expect: Early
appreciate the fact that all wealth is
the result Of saving; and Il fashion
must suffer till you have saved de-
cent bank account, why let 1t suffer.
You could not pick out anything else
that could better afford to weit. Peo-
pie do not think as much Of the dress
as they do the character and worth
Of the individual. .,.. ...-.... -,
"By all means make an honest dol
lar and save q part Of that dollar to
invest in something that will develop
real manly qualities within you instead