The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-23

was marked by great advancement. The
first period was the first quarter of the
century Whch was characterized Dy faul
wnen ne SAID prospecuvely: Let there pc
neither Jew nor Greek. DIR. Hamilton said
the Jew in the sense in which he spoke
mad come over in the Maytiower. The
Greeks had been coming over in almost
every boat since. The Jews had formed
the idea that they owned this country but
during the first quarter of the present CEN
tury the idea had passed away and now all
natlonalitles were admitted here on equal
Iootlng ana welcome TO earn and maintain
an equality with all others
Inc second period saw the emancipation
OF the negro from slavery. While the ac-
tuai emancipation did not occur. the doctor
said the seeds were sown and the fruit be-
came certain. 1t was during this period
that 1t became generally accepted that the
negro has a soul and that the Lord Will
not permit the soul to be chained. DR..
Hamilton called attention to the fact that
ony three years ago prominent South Car
oIlha minister had written an alleged scien-
tiflc book, which attempted to prove that
the negro had no soul and was entitled to
no better recognition than a BEAST But
this, he said was only a type of a class
that had long ago ceased to eXist-a type
which was rooted out and practically de-
stroyed during the second period or the
Christian century, from 1925 TO 1850 This
was the period OF the emancipation of the
slaves.
Dr. Hamilton spoke of the mistake of the
government in freeing the negroes and turn
ing them adrift without means of support.
He said the Car of Russia, when he freed
the Serf, gave to each three acres of land
and an equipment. The United States gov
eminent turned four million people loose
the prejudice which exists everywhere
against the colored race. In Cambridge,
Mass. he said, a colored woman might
teach in a white school, but try that in the
South and he said there would be lynch
ing. The trades unions refused TO allow col
ored men to become members, ana no mat
ter how good mechanic colOred man
might be he could not get work, for the
unions would oppose MIN.
DIR. Hamilton gave Organism thrust III
a little side remark. he was saying that
after all it was largely matter OF money
that keeps the colored man down, Tor,
said he, let a colored man get rlch enough
to buy a controlling interest in the STANDARD
Oil Company or the Pennsylvania railroad
and no one will question his right ana pIlVl-
lege to walk the boulevard in New YORK
or Richmond After all the people are
prone to worship the gold dollar and last
fall lot of them were worshlplng SILVER
one; which was worth only % cents. ,o-
The third period-between 1880 and 1Sl5-
according to DR.. Hamilton, marked the
emanc4 patton of woman. Human chlValry
came 10 the fore and woman came TO be
re- OgniAed as the gentler sex ana the ac-
know ledged equal Oh man, with all the lat
ter privileges accorded her. 1t was less
than fifty years ago, he said, that England
passed a law which took the women from
the mines and colleries where they were
little better than slaves of men. And II
was less than that period since women
were not permitted to attend school and
were forbidden an education.
we nave advanced a DIT III our treat
ment of women" declared Dr. Hamilton,
but the most cruel and barbarous theory
in all history the traducing of the col
ored woman We robbed her of her wages
of her husband, of her children and of her
WomanhOod, and then finally turned a race
of them on the streets, mere Magdalenes.
When l think of it ! pray to God that our
own white women may never receive the
same treatment in retaliation"
The fourth period was the present time
when labor was crying out for emancipa-
ton. 1t was seen in the useless march of
Coxey and Kelly to Washington, iIS the
burning of cars at Chicago, in the strike at
Homestead and in the riots at Hazleton
lie said it was shown in the disposition to
no longer rent pews in churches, so that
the rich might be better seated than the
poor. To settle the question: he said. there
must be mo Jew, no Greek. All must be
in accord-n a brotherhood which could
only be brought about by the people com
ing to the feet of Jesus
When he had concluded DR.. Hamilton had
a collection taken for the cause he rep
resens. The specific purpose of the con-
tribution is to tit up schoolroom in the
seminary at Morristown, Tenn.