y because there is no
foundation. But, when more coloured people succeed in the more
fundamental occupations, they will then be able to make better
provision for their children in what are termed the higher walks
of life.

"And, now, what I have said about these important industries is
especially true of the important industry of agriculture. We are
living in a country where, if we are going to succeed at all, we
are going to do so largely by what we raise out of the soil. The
people in those backward countries I have told you about have
failed to give attention to the cultivation of the soil, to the
invention and use of improved agricultural implements and
machinery. Without this no people can succeed. No race which
fails to put brains into agriculture can succeed; and, if you
want to realize the truth of this statement, go with me into the
back districts of some of our Southern States, and you will find
many people in poverty, and yet they are surrounded by a rich
country.

"A race, like an individual, has got to have a reputation. Such a
reputation goes a long way toward helping a race or an
individual; and, when we have succeeded in getting such a
reputation, we shall find that a great many of the discouraging
features of our life will melt away.

"Reputation is what people think we are, and a great deal depends
on that. When a race gets a reputation along certain lines, a
great many things which now seem complex, difficult to attain,
and are most discouraging, will disappear.

"When you say that an engine is a Corliss engine, people
understand that that engine is a perfect piece of mechanical
work,--perfect as far as human skill and ingenuity can make it
perfect. You say a car is a Pullman car. That is all; but what
does it mean? It means that the builder of that car got a
reputation at the outset for thorough, perfect work, for turning
out everything in first-class shape. And so with a race. You
cannot keep back very long a race that has the reputation for
doing perfect work in everything that it undertakes. And then we
have got to get a reputation for economy. Nobody cares to
associate with an individual in business or otherwise who has a
reputation for being a trifling spendthrift, who spends his money
for things t