Not a Serious Difficulty
There is anything in the apprehension, credited to a member of the Administrative Board, that a free public library, as a city institution, must be open to the unrestricted use of all the people, it certainly is not impossible to meet this objection. Most of the larger cities of the South have public libraries and yet, so far as we are informed, none of these is "thronged from morning until night by be-speculated colored women, so that there is no room for white citizens." What is possible in Atlanta is possible, certainly, in Richmond, for the negro problem is the same there as it is here. The separation of the races is a matter which Richmond is accustomed to attend to without difficulty or friction. Perhaps, as it applies to the public library, it requires consideration, but it suggests no reason why the library project should be abandoned.
Prosperity is fine for employers and fine working men. Between the two is the capitalist man, and on his prosperity is pressing hard. 