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of failure on the part of the other to
carry out faithfully its promises and
achieve the purposes for which it was
placed in power. It is evident, there-
fore, that only the Republican party
or the Progressive party should sur-
vive, for the perpetuation of both of
them would mean the continuance of
minority domination in the United
States for an indefinite period, with the
disastrous results that minority con-
trol, if long continued, inevitably
brings about.

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moral integrity, omitting all reference
to its Christian duty, by denying to
fellow citizens, or to human beings,
because of their color, the right to live,
and the right to live is denied if the
right to make a living is denied. The
racial question can degenerate in that
way into a racial crime.
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WILSON'S DELIBERATE WAY.
It is comforting to follow the devel-
opments of the so-called war scare

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Riviera. In some ways it may be posi-
tively beneficial. The merchantmen
that fly our flag are few and far be-
tween; some of the Consuls must be
weary of waiting to spy the stars and
stripes at a masthead.

It is worth while to suggest, how-
ever, that many of our native ports
have seldom seen a war vessel. There
have been plenty of pictures of them,
but battleships themselves are curiosi-
ties in dozens of American ports which

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Hammerstein will continue to produce
opera so long as someone else contin-
ues to product the wherewithal.
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A church that turns down a profit of a
million dollars because it will not sur-
render its place in the midst of business
is a refreshing novelty, and the fact that
it is located on the fashionable thorough-
fare of New York adds to the interest.
Sometimes it is well to show that money
is not everything, or even the largest

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bunch of Western mining stock as pay-
ment for a dept and the supposedly
worthless stock turned into a fortune
when the mine really developed excel-
lent ore.

Thus it is that the fellow who puts his
hand in your pocket sometimes leaves
more there than he intended to take
away—but I adit that this is an exception
rather than the rule.
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You have heard about the girl who
had "rings on her fingers and

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training in foundry work.

When the Tuskegee Institute closes the
school term for a short vacation next
May I will guarantee to say that there
will be many large business concerns
that will have their agents on the ground
seeking to induce our students to go to
various places in the South to labor for
these concerns; this includes both com-
mon and skilled labor.

It is our experience here at Tuskegee
that letters reach us even from the
North, asking us to recommend laborers
to work in various capacities. During
the present week letters have come from
Trenton, N. J., asking us to recommend
a number of skilled men for a large brick
making firm, and from aother asking
us to recommend laborers at from $2 to
$2.50 per day to work in connection with
a Maryland cement company.

COLORED FIREMEN ABOUND.

There is a good deal of talk, from time
to time, about the negro being debarred
from the railroad service as a fireman;
notwithstanding the talk, one who trav-
els in the South, as I do constantlym see
negro firemen on the locomotives. I do
not know how many negro firemen are
employed on the locomotives in the
Northern and Western States, but I do
know that hundreds and I beleive thous-
ands are employed in this capacity
throughout the South.

But my main object in sending this
communication is to emphasize the fact
that in this part of the country, at least,
the negro can find all the work he is
willing to perform, and in some cases the
pay is disgracefully low, but, on the
other hand, the cost of living is much
lower than it is in any other part of the
world.

My own belief is that the negro in the
North will never solve his problem in
the labor world until, in a large degree,
the negro begins at the bottom and cre-
ates industries of a kind that will enable
him to give employment to members of
his own race. So long as a man, whether
he is white or black, has to seek an oc-
cupation in an industry that somebody
else has created, just so long will that
individual or race be placed at a disad-
vantage
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
Tuskegee Institute, Ala., April 18, 1913.
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THE BEREAN INSTITUTE
The Splendid Work It Is Doing for
the Negro.

To the Editor of the Public Ledger:
Sir-I have read with profound interest the
four sucessive editorials in the PUBLIC LEDGER
this week on the condition of the Philadelphia
negro, namely "Race Antagonism," "Idleness and
Crime Among Negroes" and "The Church and
the Negro." These articles are most excellent
and I am sure they will tend to awaken a
right public sentiment toward the negro here
in Philadelphia and throughout the country
among all right-thinking people. The PUBLIC
LEDGER is most clear and impartial in its
statements of fact, and it is championing the
industrial and manhood rights of the negro as
no other paper in Philadelphia, for which the
more than 100,000 negroes in Greater Philadel-
phia are most grateful. In my judement, one
of the most feasible ways of soiving the in-
dustrial and moral problem of the negro is
through the church and industrial school. The
Berean enterprise, on South College avenue
opposite Girard College, consisting of Berean
Presbyterian Church, Berean Bullding and
Loan Assocation and Berean Manual Training
and Industrial School, is doing more toward
the general uplift of the negro than any one
agency in the North. Through the Berean
Building and Loan Association nearly 400
negroes of Philadelphia have secured homes
of their own, and the assets of the association
are now over $200,000.

Over 3000 young colored men and women
have been in attendance for long and short
periods at the Berean Manual Training School
within the last 13 years, and were made more
efficient as servants and workmen. In the
meantime over 200 have completed trades.

The one encouraging thing about the Berean
enterprise, as has been mentioned by Dr.
Talcott Williams in a public address, is that
it was the creation of and is being inspired
by a negro brain. "MATTHEW ANDERSON.
Philadelphia, April 18, 1913.
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Race Discrimination.
To the Editor of the Public Ledger:
Sir—Will you spare me a few moments to ex-
press my most sincere appreciation for the
series of editorials which you have been run-
ning on the very serious "Negro Problem."
As a negro I can apprectate what it is to be
discriminated against, but I have always en-
deavored to look at this matter from the point
of view of the Caucasian. My early training
and associations have made this more possible
for me than for some others of my race, and
in the last analysis it has always seemed to me
that the problem centered around the inability
of the negro to secure lucrative employment in
the field for which he might be best fitted by
nature. The negro, like all other men, must
live; and if he cannot live by fair means then
he will live by foul means, and when he enters
the vicious walks of life he menaces the white
people of the community in which he lives
even more than he does those of his own
race * * * C.
Philadelphia, April 21, 1913.