Show NEGRO COLONISTS DYING liberia returned travelers say is not nat el dorado as pictured WILLIAMS and john osgood two intelligent and well dresser colored young men who were formerly employed in the new york postoffice Post office arrived at ellis island yesterday they are on their way dav to their homes in sibley ill and aej ark having crossed the atlantic in an immigrant snip ship on the recommends I 1 tion of a colored baptist bishop the young men say say they emigrated with a party of colonists to monrovia i liberia last june jane williams and osgood tell horrible stories 04 0 the ravages of coast fever in liberia out oat of one colony of negroes who went to liberia from arkansas only twelve have survived the returning return in g travelers say they chev pic ture the ravages of the scourge as terrible tem ble to contemplate williams stated that the arkansas colony is one of a dozen that have been practically wiped out by coast fever exchange the above emphasizes the fact that it is a grand mistake to think that a person in in order to advance or rise in the world must leave his some an and country especially is this true if the person is fortunate enough to live in this beautiful country of ours no other laud land in the wide world holda holds out to the members of our race such great opportunities port unities as the united states i etwas it was she who gave us a language it was she who set us free from the chains of slavery superstition and barbarism prom from her we learned that man was made to live and to I 1 grow in goodness and strength she taught us that man is is more than a machine that he has a mind through the proper exercise of which he can better himself and his condition by reason of this long and efficient tutelage we have become teachers some haie hae become skilled mechanics there are others who have become good farmers many hally have entered the higher professions and speaking generally all are rising rapidly in the scale of human skill goodness and intelligence there are peoples in in other parts of the world who have had the blessings of civilization for centuries whose progress has been nothing when compared to that which we have experienced in this the greatest of all lands we may go to the wilds of africa to the far off land of asia or to the uttermost parts of the earth and wherever there is work wot to be done wherever there is a dollar to he be earned P there we will find members of the white race competing with us for the same the conditions will nowhere be as favorable to vs us as they are here if we are to rise we should rise here it if to fau a no other lap P of earth can hold ns Ms 80 SY gently and an from which have I 1 kindly as that 1 we received au aft that vs is d diac to us let us thea Y aher ye we bait our po etim aus do uial ana 7 vp pian hera lire V we wu aisbet ai Stet an let C ou te lie in ll angHa N W 0 G M A |