him and his
associates in the belief "that a man is what he makes
himself," is wonderful, for they have, through strenuous
effort, brought the magazine up to an actual circulation of
over twenty thousand copies per month, with a steady
increase each month, besides publishing many Race books,
which are the equal of any in merit and mechanical makeup.

Personally, Mr. Wallace is of a kind and modest disposition
and hardly realizes that he has accomplished within such a
short while a thorough new departure in Negro journalism. If
ever persuaded to forget for a moment, and be drawn from his
business cares, you will find him a pleasant entertainer,
both in music and conversation, for beneath his seeming
austere countenance there lies an urbane streak of humor,
piquant with wit and pleasant cynicisms, much to be enjoyed.

In its entirety, yes. The power of the press is indisputable. To the
Negro youth of the land it should be put, as a beneficent educator,
next to our schools. In its pages they should be able to read the good
being accomplished by our prominent race-men in this glorious fight
now on; this will cultivate a desire to emulate them. They will read
of the bad being daily done and will learn to abhor such dastardly
actions. With such a mission to perform our newspapers should contain
the essence of truth and good and sensible instructions; for its power
of assimilating bad influences is equal to the good which would
accrue.

The Negro journal is an important factor, because it is a source
through which the younger generation should and must become acquainted
with the good accomplished by members of the race, with the possible
exception of a favored few whom the ordinary press seems to think is
all that is worth speaking of. Important because the rank and file is
utterly ignored and positively unnoticed by the American white press
(except as an example of the demonstrative inability to be an
intelligent and thrifty citizen), and from which they pick from day to
day the lowest as a type of Negro capabilities.

In order to fully explain the position taken in this matter we will be
compelled to deviate from the main question.

To rightly diagnose the cause, for the seemingly apathetic manner in
which the race appreciates its journals we must place the blame upon
the right parties.

A few hundred dollars, a set of type and a press do not make