The Colored People are Charged with Being Imitators and it is Admitted.--Mistakes made by Following White People.--Advice Given in Good Faith.--The Hand Should be Trained With the Head.--Have we as Many Colored Artisans Now as we had at the Close of the War?--History of Tuskeegee Industrial Institute and its Founder.--How Managed.--Not a White Man in It.--$15,000, Donated to it by a Southern White Woman, Descendent of the Old Master Class.--Similar Institutions Springing up in the Southland 137 CHAPTER XIV Need of Money and How to Get It.--Business Houses and How to Sustain Them.--Take the Jew for a Pattern.--We are Producers.--He Is Not, yet Accumulates Capital.--Our Preachers, Teachers and Leaders Should Lead us to be a United People.--Prejudice due to Condition, not Color.--We are Responsible for our Children’s Idle Condition.--Failure to Educate the Hand as Well as the Head.--White Men Have Used the Advantage we Gave them.--Duty of Our Ministers not Fulfilled.--We Cannot Always Rely Upon White Philanthropists, But Must Help Ourselves 143 CHAPTER XV. Went Into Business in 1866, Which was Destroyed by Fire With Great Loss.--Reopened and Burnt Out Again, Losing Six Hundred Dollars.--Reopened and After Three Years Failed.--Went Into Politics and Beaten by Twenty-Five Votes by Ex Governor Glick, For the Kansas Legislature.--Pressed for Cash to Buy Bread.--Elected Doorkeeper State Senate in 1881.--Foreman on Construction Train, A. N. R. R.--Appointed to Position at Washington.--Promoted Three Times.--Personal Experience in Pension Office.--Different Commissioners Compared.--Gen. J. C. Black, the Ideal One.--Advice to New Appointees and What They May Expect.--Life in Washington as a Clerk.--Old Clerks are the Reliables and Cannot be Displaced 155 CHAPTER I.