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102 chist. But despite all the backsets we have gotten from prejudice we have been true to our country. I sound the knell of warning that a closer brotherhood must be created among ourselves. We must trust one another to a larger extent than we do now. We must work steady and save a part of our earnings. We must go into business and deal squarely so that all things being equal we must trade with one another. We must establish and maintain our own banks. We have millions of our moneys deposited in everybody’s else banks and we can not borrow our own money to pursue legitimate businesses, or build ourselves homes. The Bishops and general officers of our church were invited to a luncheon at the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company last summer and an official stated that the Negro pays $33,000,000 premiums to that company annually. What might we do with this large sum controlled by us. We are too easily satisfied with talk while other race groups are demanding results. We educate our boys and girls with scarcely any place for them to go when they have finished. Other people have lots of places for theirs to go when they have finished, they go to the