The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1931-10-10
RELIGION, VICE AND BUSINESS

Pay visit to any incorporated town city in the United
States where few thousand coored people ana
there arc outstanding features the life OF these people
that you will compelled observe First will note that
are many churches pointing their tall spires toward
heaven and behind churches there will be found organ
lied religion Socordy will be perceived that there Is even
and anon tenleron district where dives and den houSh
and behind these noutes will be discovered organized VICE
Almost everywhere people have taken their abode they
have successfully organized their religion and their vice. these
conditions being observed udey and abruptly call mind the
absence of organized business cndeavor
/; scems moclery upon sense and reflection
upon our procve and propenses to see us making
such feeble efforts and miserable pretnses to do business
in our districts when at the time we are supporting
so many magnificent and obviously churches IL
seems travesy upon the intelligence that supposed
to possess to witness gambling den drinking emporums,
our scarlet houses halls and cabares actively engaged
ard 70 business of serious and sound nature being under
take.
few barber SHOPS poorly stocked drug store, greasy
urant and dngy funeral psrlor the total
average in the town among
coored people These businesses Just
are the kind enterprises that vertically forced o
bcause white people positively refuse to serve and accom-
odae them Ard in this conjunction 4 Is well to reaze
that the white people aid and assist with religious pro-
grams and cooperate effectively wh in the promo:
development of vices In OF souo
hara:r aid Distinct need however they give us little active
and very dene and determined opposition
To such an that be readily and understood
the majority of whites consider wees and regos
little material value and shape and equip IN no wise 20
get Of the rut that now emharasses us
The recognized colored vice lords of most communities are
the recognized political leaders of their people, they have an
an" with the ruling whites and permitted to go as long
they split up their ILL gotten gains and support the right
candidates for political Offices Some of the most auent and
powerful pocal bosses of color that have been created
sprung from tenderon districts where thev have e
fa or graft privilege These flourish in both the north
ard the The white people have demonstrated that they
willing with leaders in organized vice ard to
virtually perpeuae Them in their iniquitous systems
The colorcd ministry has likewise in for due recog
no in almost community the coored preachers
the leading whites. There this ridiculous
disconcerng situation existing in of communi-
all the nation. The Jew readily caters to wants
and needs and conducts of the barrier and trade IN
districts while The Creek the Italian and the Chinaman
have surprising facility into districts and
conduct business with splendid success
The white people have their organized religion and their
organized vice but bey also have their tremendous and i'm
posing organized business We their standards of
gon adopt their standards Of vice. but when to
barter and trade and the deveonen of business find
ourselves decidedly different The of such situation
douct from within the and from without it.
There very @ chance of changing the white mans att
tude but it has been shown time and time again that he qu
willing with when develop institutions. Ii
obviously lies with concentrate business development
the duv of organized religious bodies and organized
and entrerched vice help round into citizenship
ard what purrcrts 70 be standard Americanism.