The Afro-American press and its editors . eptions. There areAfro-American editors who expect the people to take theirjournals, simply from the fact they are published by coloredmen, and not because they give an equivalent for valuereceived, in the make-up of their paper. As to the future course of the Press in promoting goodamong our people, I think it well first to inspire confidenceas to its stability and devotion to the interests of the race;and at all times to take an uncompromising stand againstthose who outrage, oppress and malign the negro. I now,and always, hope to be the friend of the
The Afro-American press and its editors . eptions. There areAfro-American editors who expect the people to take theirjournals, simply from the fact they are published by coloredmen, and not because they give an equivalent for valuereceived, in the make-up of their paper. As to the future course of the Press in promoting goodamong our people, I think it well first to inspire confidenceas to its stability and devotion to the interests of the race;and at all times to take an uncompromising stand againstthose who outrage, oppress and malign the negro. I now,and always, hope to be the friend of the Press, and shall beglad to do all I can to advance its interests. Opinion of Prof. George E. Stephens. 1st. The negro Press has been a success, relativelyspeaking. I do not understand the question to have anabsolute sweep. There are many milestones between it andits goal to be reached yet. In my opinion, paradoxical as itmay seem, its true success will have been reached when ourPress ceases to depend entirely upon the negro for support,. PROF. GEORGE E. STEPHENS. 461 462 THE AFRO-AMERICAN PRESS. and shall have assimilated fully with the white Press, andbe considered a component part of the news-bearing instru-ments of our country, and, I might add, of the world. 2d. The achievements of the Afro-American editor havebeen of a twofold character, and they presage the finaltriumph, if he adjust his views to the advancement of thepublic thought; or if he keep pace with the progressive ideasappertaining to a wide-awake country and age like constituents, when he first began to mold public sentimentamong them, had small conception of the power of the the years that have elapsed a change has been going on,and the negro has given tangible proof of it in the increasedpatronage he has given his own Press. 3d. It is hardly necessary to state that the efficiency ofthe negro Press is the measure of its support. I have alreadyintimated that our newspapers must be cosmopolitan
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