Third Baptist Herald from Topeka, Kansas • 3

THE THIRD BAPTIST CHUBCH HERALD. a si Fancy Groceries PRODUCE OF ALL KINDS AT N. W. WRIGHT 1201 WASHINGTON AVENUE. Bell Phone 507 Young Men Get Land, WE SHOULD FORM COLONIES Get Out of Crowded Ministers Endorse Our Positions Pulpit Grafters Oppose Us.

i.V Never in the history of our race should there be a greater effort to secure lands than should be made at this time. The cities are overcrowded with us and we must change such a horrid condition. J. W. Patterson Carries A First-class Line of DRUGS SODA WATER AND FINE CANDIES 307 KANSAS AVENUE.

if. While we have acquired ome property .4 in the cities and towns, we have secured but little of the fast diminishing agri I cultural area that forms the basis of a people's wealth. WHAT THE NEGRO PRESS HAS Tu SAY. Industrail School Class Educate Him. In the West and Southwest are yet to be found large areas of splendid land suitable for agricultural purposes.

Upon these lands the immigration agents are busily engaged in locating the foreign settler while ourself named leaders and Stop At The average big Negro isn't fond of public criticism, and for this reatm he should be retired from public life. A hireting ministers say nothing nor do a suggestive carton dealing with his weakness or his rascality drives him to imple thing toward helping our people secure farm land; there are some few arket thoughts of libel. The New Rochelle good Cinistian ministers among our peo Journal. pie but the pulpits are full of Vampires For Meat and Produce, 110 Tor fancy Groceries CALL AND SEi: W. HARRIS 828 3th.

Street. The Old Reliable EATING PLACE fiouuros erne FURNISHED ROOMS ALSO. U4 Kansas Avenue. Phone Bell 1200. who suck the life's blood from our people and who oppose colonization or any West Eighth Street.

A Little Courage, Elder. What are we do to save, if saved they other movement that takes the negro can be, this army of worthless, good out of the cities where he is afraid that for nothing, lecherous miscreants? We are entirely sore of them, we would fair the negro will not be in constant reach of his dunn for money we mean nothing ill to the upright, God-fearing, race loving preacher, but we have no patience, nor respect for the immoral grafter whose only text is a raise in his salary and who lives a questionable life in his rid every community of them, but. how? We have nothing in common with them, save the tie that "binds together people of the same race and blood, yet we evei hate to see these common cattle as the; are, mistreated, maltreated, and we protest against it. Yet they must be suppressed, they must be made to behave themselves, for we as a race cannot longer stand for their shortcomings, their bad conduct, their disgraceful behavior everywhere, discharge firearms, crap shooting, and every conceivable disorder and drunken reverly. The True Re- THE POPULAR Barber Parlor E.

Stewart, Prop FIRST-CLASS WORK 326 KANSAS AVENUE. Rex Pharmacy 1001 KANSAS A VE. TOPEKA, KAS. DRUGS OF ALL KINDS Prescriptions Carefully Filled J. C.

CLEMENS GROCERIES AND CANDIES SOFT DRINKS AND LUNCH 824 CENTER STREET. Ruter's Shoe Repair Factory Sole Leather and Shoe Findings, 912 Kansas Avenue. community. We have begun a land sewing movement through the Afro-American Colonization and Home Settlers As sociation with the headquarters at Tope-ka and we want the co-operation of the race loving and all others interested in the advancement of our people. There are many thousands of acres that can be purchased upon terms any energetic settler can meet.

The remarkable wheat and corn development of this state, Nebraska and othsr western state affords exceptional opportunities for our people. Let the news of the cheap lands of the West and Southwest be scattered abroad among our people and let us jok in deflecting the stream of our people from the city to the farms. Many thousands of our young men are attracted to the city each year through the glittering stories of "easy money" in hotels and at train porters, but this easy money prepo sition is gettiDar harder and harder, there For Photographs CALX SEE W. H. LUCAS 122 KANSAS AVENUE, A New Problem.

From a news item in the Tribune, of Port Angeles, the following has been clipped, "A popular estimate of Negroes in the United States is 10,000,000. That is far from correct. There are not fewer than 18,000,000 today in this country and there are 4,600 colored babies horn every day." If the above figures art CASH OR CREDIT Ilortl) CopeRa furniture Company correct then it is only a question of a very short time before the Negroes o) he United States will-wonder "What wiV we do with the Caucasian race problei that confronts us." The Seattle Repub lican. fore get Land! Get Land! Third Baptist Herald. 300 Stoves Private Sale Household Goods, and Store Fixtures of all Kinds, Bought Sold and Exchanged.

9o2. 609-610-612 NORTH KANS. AV Koth I'hones 1763, or sr nd Postal NORTH TOPEKA, KANSAS. A Home Opinion. Mr.

Rucker's successor has been named, The Hon. Mr. Jackson, of Atlanta, has been appointed to the place which Mr. Rucker has filled with credit to himself Published in the interest of the Third Baptist Church and the people of the East Side..