Show 20 or a X mm tf vav BUSINESS 1 jokerst So Kerst negro nam ahead of kis IKs brother in business and getting an is another side to this tat iett t at tre e af f the negro in nashville aside A aide which is add M Dresen presented ted of thi negroes of the north norih I 1 have nothing thing to say in disparagement of the ahe baseness bo ba siness men of color in the hyorth orth they are am doing the best their circumstances allow and de serve serpe all the enco encouragement ura gement the they y get the negro business men and professional men of nas nashville aville are far far and away ahead of the negro business men of washington or new york and make mak e less of an effort to secure patronage these men are an prosperous rons and independent andare and are able ble at a moments notice to put ant their hands on enough of the substantial to satisfy the most sceptical of the fact that they have reduced money getting to a positive science there is not that competition in the south in business and the professions for negro patronage which is found in the north and negroes in business get their fair share of all the b business they are capable of doing it is my firm conviction that if a syndicate of moneyed negroes would establish in any southern city a clothing store a dry goods store and two or three first class drug stores the investment would beld a handsome revenue and at the same time would do much toward breaking down the barriers which everywhere confront the intelligent and progressive negro A negro politician worth much more in tennessee or georgia or mississippi than he is in washington or new york or pennsylvania politics and business wont mix adv any quicker than theology and politics cn A mans bu business or profession is his master and until he is is able to release himself from the exactions and duties of his position as the servant of this master he ought not attempt to engage in in politics I 1 except in in so far as his duties as a good citizen compel him to the th e successful business men of color in the south are not politicians b but ut they exercise on every proper occasion sion their prerogatives at the polls which is a duty that belongs to every freeman I 1 in nashville the negro business men appear to have learned a lesson from the jews who as business men succeed everywhere and in in everything they undertake nobody has ever seen a poor and struggling jewish merchant in in the south wasting his time energy and cash fooling with politics if he goes into politics at alt all it is is for the purpose of succeeding and he generally succeeds if there is is any possible chance for him to do so the jew permit anything to stand between him and the american dollar except space and he closes the apertures aper tures as speedily as possible with him peez ness is is peez ness politics avy vy dot is is anhder I 1 say that the colored business men of the south and of nashville IT in particular are becoming imbued W with this idea the development of which has made the jews a strong force in m the commercial life of that 1 s section as well as of the entire F country and it is is a hopeful sign as indeed to see colored men every where in this section taking apran I 1 deal and sensible view of the mo f mentora question which every ne ik gro of aver average intelligence cons considers id to be of more importance than apy any other question which concerns burwell our well being as a blass A negro with or more dollars in m nashville or georgia or mississippi ipp P is 15 every whit as big a man it if not bigger than a negro in the north with a like amount of 14 the substantial there is no poeju dice toi noney ney m in the south S auth but att akeis ria a very pronounced feeling against both poverty and ignorance and I 1 doubt note not but that the same feeling obtains elsewhere the condition of the masses of both the two ram races in the south is more inimical 1 to to their adv advancement arcement than epco ocolor lc olor I or A poor white man with a IR N 2 por i quality of brains much show anywhere than a poor AW aigro ne grov who rho may be afflicted in in his MER ln in the pamp way the ane W aly advantage adva niage he has over the poor lip bro ala is his color but bat he g treated with a great deal more re 4 rewti jit pert ani and sometimes not as much he blackman whose condition land ignorance are easily accounted WF fors T these kee ii twin WM brothers brothen differing 00 41 are recognized reco zed 0 o hoai tie southland as relics sli c f u y 41 T which has done much 1 usefulness to sow so M ji a 1 1 4 I 1 V nd fiey d ig I 1 protest 1 cc RE 31 tf I 1 e A ty nsf t VS V S leeden M jc 6 absolutely tw M 2 i klat y C casau the ra n K they th 01 W 4 i are both black enough as everybody wh who 10 has seen them can testify the poor whites and the poor blacks are being Oa educated dated the i poor blacks however are not receiving the attention in this direction that their deplorable condition merits there is ample room for larger and better school facilities for the benefit of those who need instruction every white man in in the south regards himself as his brothers keeper and is doing what he conceives to be his duty toward the elevation of the ignorant poor of his race the better class of the whites sustain and encourage e schools and missions missions for the mental and moral advancement of these ignorant poor whites the better class of the blacks appear to be contented with the situation as it exists and are not doing anything as I 1 discovered in in nashville outside of the churches for the uplift of the masses the students in in the colleges come largely from other states and cannot properly be charged to tennessee there are ten thousand negro children in the public schools of nashville and the same fate awaits them after they have finished their careers in these schools thit awaits the thousands of 0 f negro school children in washington and other large cities with the magnificent opportunities which the south presents to negroes pos the cash and business in 1 there ought not to be adv any question as to the future of the negro in that section and it if the thinking men of the race there could be made to see what a splendid opportunity they have tor for a practical demonstration of their capacity for doing business on a larger z scale they would not hesitate to put their money in m business enterprises which would be sure to succeed prejudice in the south has made anade the negro clannish and a tew few shrewd members of the race have taken advantage of this feeling among the common people to make moley very rapi rapidly and very very continuously there are few negro lawyers in nashville if any any all the physicians and dentists dennit den tits tit appear P to have their hands full of business indeed all the professional men ot of the race with whom I 1 talked assured me that they chev were doing first rate one of the largest larest and best appointed drug stores in the cita of nashville is is owned and managed by a negro and is is doing a good busness business one of the biggest undertaking establishments there is owned and successfully mati managed aged by a negro as is also th the continued in in our next |