Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... by the standards of the criminal court! The convention, now that it has come and gone, leaves a memory of heroic hopefulness and patience, not unmingled with pathos. It was significant and altogther appropriate that a Negro singer (on Thursday evening) should have sung the "Recessional" with its double refrain, "Lord God of hosts, be with us yet!" Henry J. Barrymore. COLORED BUSINESS MEN. [Boston Globe, August 22, 1900.] The meeting of the National Negro Business League in this city, which is to take place on Thursday and Friday, is a matter of large significance, and is especially opportune at a time when an effort would seem to be being made in some quarters to revive the old prejudice against the black race. It will be attended by both men and women of affairs among the colored people and patronized by some of the leading citizens of Boston. There is one fixed fact in American social life which never fails to work to the advantage of the tabooed races. A dollar is a dollar. Armed with that weapon of strength and cowards easily become flatterers. A dollar means 100 cents, whether in the hands of the blackest or yellowest of men or men of immaculately white skin. The American dollar has no color lines, and the race which shows the ability to acquire it is bound to be respected, or if not respected at least feared in due time. The speakers at the convention of the National League will show conclusively that the Negro has the money-making faculty and some of the evidences will be present in the persons of men holding offices of great responsibility in the commercial, financial and industrial world. This is largely a wealth-worshipping nation. Perhaps most other nations may be similarly characterized, also, but though we may not excel all...
