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depend on a much greater improvement among the freedpeople.  This is but history repeating itself.  It cannot be expected that a people just liberated from bondage, equal to that of the children of Israel, immediately after their liberation [[strikeout]] in Egypt, can or will [[/strikeout]] compare with those who have inhaled the air of freedom from their mother's womb.  Although we have made such rapid strides in education, a second ingredient in the scale of good Citizenship almost as important is, and has been, sadly neglected.  I refer to the study and practice of Economy.  It does appear that the Colored laborer can never learn to economise when employed he never thinks of the future, but spends his hard earned wages for the luxuries of live, which he can ill afford, and I fear in many  cases, at least half of his earnings finds its way into the  Rumseller's till.  It appears resonable to me that when a man earns on an average $8.00 per week for 3/4 of the year say 4313.00 per year, and in many cases his wife and children earn as much, he might lay up, over and above his necessary expenses $100.00.  But my experience during the period since the election spoken of, has been to the contrary, for in [[strikeout]] the [[/strikeout]] 300 cases they had to apply