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The Producer and Consumer

The Negro in this country must become, in
a more potent sense, a producer of wealth as
well as a consumer. He must become more
of a business man, must enter all avenues of
industry. Even now, in almost every part of
our country, there are industries that mean our
life-blood, as it were, that are fast slipping from
under us. From being the head and centre of

these industries, as of yore, we are too fast being
relegated to the ragged edge of some of the
most important. I repeat that we must, as a
race, enter business, for we are constantly being
required to measure ourselves by the side of
the business world, and by this test we rise or
fall. Centennial A. M. E. Zion Church.