Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-07-05

Il thSwcViNN0 AAu paw hothih6t ohu
must depend upon the charity Of those
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 q 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 PEG.
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
arcusing 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 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 60
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
i ed upon to do what he says he will
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 1t, because 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,
lnatured 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 bust
ness station, place they call it, white
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 we'll 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 che ut
most of their means and opportunity.
They will fiGd it 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 tho strong. but to him that
endureth to the end."-New York Age.
The school has recently installed q
six thousand egg capacity incubator.
With the smaller incubators which
have been III use for some time, this
will give an egg capacity Of nearly ten
thousand The institute is trying to
make its poultry plant of the largest
possible service to the students in
poultry raising, az we'll as to the sew
Ieral 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, 1850 are chicks
Matched within the past few weeks
Southern Letter. " D.. ,...S
Mrs. Rosa Simpson, one of the dea-
conesses from Galveston. Texas, says
that Champion Jack Johnson paid her
expenses to the Methodist conference.
HE met her in Chicago, and took her
to his house to see his mother, also
telegraphed friend in st. Paul to
meet her and md nice place for her
to stay. She says that, Jack did this
because Of, his good heart -Minneap-
oils Star. g,.. .,,rs 81 ~. 81 e.
We have great faith. in the final
triumph Of right and In. the words
OF the prophet, will be content to wait
until the day break and thesshsdows
nee sway Richmond Planet ~
| No negro should be allowed to earn