. Crisis. 240 THE CRISIS. MR. CHANDLERS 12-FAMIIiY APARTMENT HOUSE, SEATTLE. Tacoma, for Tacoma is theirs; they gloryin Rainier, for Rainier is their God of theMountains. They are one with the landand their spirit has gxown big with itsbigness. Yet they have not forgotten theirpeople. They want them to come and findfreedom as they have. They want pickedmen—good hard-working vegetable farm-ers; merchants, men with a few hundreddollars of capital, men with well-trainedbrains. To such colored men they cry onto Washington. It is a great State. Itmay be a great colored State. The land isthere in sh
. Crisis. 240 THE CRISIS. MR. CHANDLERS 12-FAMIIiY APARTMENT HOUSE, SEATTLE. Tacoma, for Tacoma is theirs; they gloryin Rainier, for Rainier is their God of theMountains. They are one with the landand their spirit has gxown big with itsbigness. Yet they have not forgotten theirpeople. They want them to come and findfreedom as they have. They want pickedmen—good hard-working vegetable farm-ers; merchants, men with a few hundreddollars of capital, men with well-trainedbrains. To such colored men they cry onto Washington. It is a great State. Itmay be a great colored State. The land isthere in sheer abundance. The climate isthere mild and alluring. The mountainsand the sea are there. Come! What shall our pictures say of all theymight say? Little, indeed, and that withmuch apology for things omitted andslightly touched on. Out of a dozen prominent citizens we choose Mr. AndrewL. Black, a Avell-known and pushing law-yer, who made the visit of the editor ofThe Ckisis possible and most as headpieces a
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