medical schools, 25 theological seminaries, all doing a mighty work
for God and humanity.

Now as to laziness. We have now in practice 14,000 lawyers and
doctors, and have accumulated over $150,000,000 worth of church
property. In the South we have over 150,000 farms and houses, valued
at $900,000,000, and personal property at $170,000,000. We have raised
over $11,000,000 for educational purposes. The property per capita for
every colored man, woman and child in the United States is estimated
at $75, and we are operating successfully several banks and factories;
we have 7,500,000 acres of land, and the business activity of the
colored people was never as thoroughly aroused as it is to-day.

When I come to deal with the charge of immorality I bow my head and
blush for shame, first because if the charge be true, I see they are
getting like the white man every day. I know that at the close of the
American civil war the 4,000,000 negroes had more than 25 per cent. of
white blood coursing through their veins.

What about this new educated negro? Just ask the Pullman Car Company,
which employs hundreds of negroes, into whose care thousands of women
and children of our best American families are entrusted every day.

Now, you cannot do without the negro, because if you send him away,
you will run after him. He is here to stay. The only way to deal
successfully with the colored race is God's way. First, recognize that
he is your guest; second, recognize that you have robbed him of his
birthplace, home, family and savings. It is these facts that are
causing so much unrest on the part of the whites in this country. The
negro loves his country, which he has proved beyond a doubt in every