Evening journal., 1913-01-01
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of economy and prudence, they must
win and merit the public respect that
now is denied to them
Plato one of the wisest men our
world ever produced. said that sin
and penalty go through the world
with their heads tied together Til
den said that the only reform that
really reforms is at work all the time.
and that is the growing demand for
better men and better women Shell
ley tells us that man. who man
would be, must rule the empire OF
himself We are informed by that
great Jewish book, the Talmud, that
the evil inclinations of mankind
start as cobweb threads, and end as
strands of cable Horace Smith
says and quite wisely: 'ldleness is
costly without being a luxury. 1t is
hard work for those who are not
used TO it. and dull work for those
that are. Remember the advice of
St Jerome. Undertake some labor,
that the devil may find thee always
occupied. DO not forget that the
gifted poet. Walt Whitman. said that
charity and personal force are the
only investments worth anything
Give heed to the opinion of that wise
man who said that TO let we'll enough
alone is to place yourself in COM
pany with the stagnant pool Man
was made to use the law OF continu-
ous advancement Robertson stated a
truth when he said that i'm Gods
world for those who are in earnest,
there is no failure. No work truly
done, no words earnestly spoken, no
sacrifice freely made was ever made
IN vain. Obey the advice given by
Ruskin to let every dawn Of morning
. 90 to you as the beginning of life,
md every setting sun be to YOU as
its close; then let every one of
these short lives leave its sure roc
ord of some kindly thing done for
others. some goodly strength of
knowledge gained for yourself
The sin of the colored race i'm the
state of Delaware has been that
thany of its members have failed 10
Ifnerit and to demand public respect
llrho penalty is that the race. as a
VIvhole, the deserving and the unde-
S 1erving. are looked down upon as
s Fomethins of an inferior nature cre-
af,od by God and placed upon earth
ifor the other peoples TO desnise
4 "The trouble is that while the world
has teen demanding better men and
wOwen, our ace has been producing
too many bad men and women.
Thousands of our men have been ut
terly lacking in the desire TO rule the
empires OF themselves and to be
forces for good i'm the communities in
which they have lived Many have
failed TO realize how sin fattens upon
sin and coils about and destroys those
ScO1 qualities that are inherent in
man. There has been a lack of ap-
pieeiaticn Of the fact that one of the
most IN nous curses of our race has
been vo'untary idleness i'm communi-
ties In which there has been plenty of
work 20 do and clamoring TO be done
Our people as a rule have lacked that
personal force that makes for success.
Trey have permitted themselves 10
fail into the stagnant pool of idle
moss, chiitlessness and extravaganza.
while the white and the yellow races
have kept themselves in the clear and
swiftly current of racial pro-
gycss They have failed to recognize
the power of earnestness and its bear
ing upon success I'm short. they have
neglected their opportunities to make
something of themselves. with the re-
suit that most of them are miserably
housed. poorly clad and fed, and liv-
ing q hand-to-mouth existence, often
and largely upon lines of credit or
charity granted grudgingly to them
by their white neighbors.
wish to warn You, my brothers
and sisters. that that is terrible
position for any race to occupy i'm an
enlightened community. and one that
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within, If we as a people. are TO pro-
gress and occupy a higher place i'm
the worlds work and esteem It
never was part of Gods plan of crea-
tion that the black man ana the black
woman should be indefinitely the
hewers of wood and the drawers OF
water for the white man and the white
woman. II never was part of Gods
plan of creation that the black man
and the black woman should remain
stationary in menial positions while
the other races swept onward TO re-
spectability enlightenment. industrial
capabilitv and financial independence
and power. While il is true thar the
colOred race has heen handicapped
by slavery, oppression. exploitation
and racial prejudice. il also is oq,al-
~ Niu' lildA IL Ht0 lllA HNdlitU li-clf
as it should have done of the golden
opportunities that have presented
themselves since Abraham Lincoln is
sued the Emancipation Proclamation.
that great charter of liberty of the
American negro
THE hope of a race rests in its
younger generation With each sue
ceeding generation the race is pre-
sumed to grow better, wiser, richer
and more powerful. That has been
the history of the white race. II did
not become in one generation on i'm
ten generations. or'in one centur, or
ten centuries, what It Is today. ITS
present standing as tie dominant race
of the world has been due to progress
sion. Each generation has seized It's
opportunities and become stronger
and better than the one that preceued
it, In other words, il has improved
itself by the exercise of the forces
it had within itself Il did not wait
for God or some other race 10 do mat
work for it. Il did il itself. with Gods
approval and spirit as an inspiration
81 want to ask you brothers and
sisters, who know a good colored
man and a good colored woman from
a bad colored man and a bad colored
woman. whether our race has availed
itself of its opportunities and whether
we pay hope for much racial advance
ment from the younger generation of
the colored race that we have i'm Del
aware today? To obtain that ad-