The Lexington Standard, 1900-01-27

to get far away from the old landmark. We dress well, we look well, and talk well; but in far too many cases that is all there is nothing behind it. We need good stores and business houses of. every description. We must get money. Biloxi (Miss.) Gazette. The Negro who thinks he is "actin' like de white f o'ks" and who refuses to patronize Negro establishments, is a fool. A white man patronizes his own race first. Who uver. heard of a. white woman talking about not allowing a white dressmaker to sew for her, or a white shopper refusing to buy at a white store, or a white teacher refusing to read a white newspaper P Nobody, and nobody ever will. White people have sense. They know blood is thicker than water, and so knowing, they act along this line. The Negro does not need to talk so much of race love; he needs to shut up and work, and subscribe for his race paper. The American Guide, R. H. Fitzhugh, General Manager of the Colored Orphan Industrial Home, of Lexington Kentucky, and is well known for his loug and ardent labors in behalf of the race, argues at length in the Lexington Standard that the Negro of the South, except for the social barrier and its natural effects, "is already as free and unbounded as -any man in the land. As an agriculturist or skilled machanic" he says, "he has not only an open, unobstructed field, but his services are in such unavoidable demand that, to a very great extent he controls the scale of wages under which he is employed." m He also argues that "it is only the vicious and idle of the race who get into trouble." It must be admitted that the South is the natural home of the Those who urge him to scat-ter over the various States of the North and South overlook the fact that his industrial opportunities are almost entirely eliminated in these far-away sections, exeept in a few isolated instances With the superior opportunities portrayed by Captain Fitzhugh, there should be a bright future for the Negro in the South. Denver (Colo.) Statesman. The Negro newspaper is the black-man's only forum where an impartial hearing is guaranteed. It is not a luxury, but one of the most pressing necessities of this age The Negro who refnses to sustain an honest race journal is blind to his best interests. Colored American, Washington, D. C. More than that. A Negro who refuses to sustain an honest race journal is more often than otherwise, not only

Spirit ofthe Press. Mississippi's new governor goes for the lynchers with a vengaence and suggests that the Legislature enact laws whereby the co'unty in which a a lynching takes place shall pay to the family ot the victim a large sum of money as indemnity. This will stop the business; for the Mississippi ier don't want to be taxed for killing Negroes, Mobile (Ala.) Press. If the Negro can manage to be a friend to himself his future is secure He must learn the value of time and money. To waste either is equally foolish. There are traits which we must leave off. Mean, little, petty jealousies cause much of our present condition. Let us bo men of honor, or get out of the way and let men oi honor come by. Selma, (Ala ) Record.

Vinegar Ferments. Cincinnati, Jan. 25. At the Main Street Colored Baptist Church, Covington, Tuesday night, when Rev. Peter Vinegar, of Lexington, who had been invited to preach a special sermon, staggered to the pulpit, a stout "mammy" in a front seat exclaimed: "Sit down, you ole fool. You's drunk." Pastor Vinegar paused, clenched his fists and roared: If I am drunk I'm not" and he used a vile epithet. "How dare yo make such insinuations? Yo' ain't got the sense of a rabbit, 'deed yo' ain't. Drunk. I is a virtuous man, an' lives with man own wife and brothers an' sisters. There's powerful few in dis heyar church which can say the same. An dat ain't no lie."

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blind to his best interests, but so prejudiced and chock full of cussednes that, tsven if he sees the good in a journal, he pretends that he does not see it, and 1b never so happy as when engaged in the nefarious work of crippling the influence of tho paper and speaking ill of the men; who muk'e sacrifices that the race may ve this most effective champion of the rights and liberties of a long oppressed and proscripted people The Progress. Two Omissions. A Negro preacher had just concluded the ceremony which united an old

also with their ballots Urge them to action, Brother Benjamin. Pioneer Press, Martinsbnrg, W. Va. The Negro who has not in him the business qualifications to earn & living is a dependent, a pauper, and is as a citizen, no matter how much useless information he may have lying loose in his cranium. One trouble with us as a race is that we sre not enough interested in our standing among other races. We are tio