Honesty in This Generation

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 1, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 13.

Honesty in This Generation

A colored porter on a New York ferry-boat found a one-thousand dollar gold certificate on the floor of the ladies’ cabin, and turned it over to the proper officials. The negro’s act of honesty was considered a thing so uncommon as to be worthy of note and comment all over the country. He ought to have done it, to be sure, but it is a fact that the people of this generation did not expect it—not because it was a colored man at all, but because it is this generation.