Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1897-08-07
FROM THE EAST END,
Social Clubs Up in Arms
FULL OF RE SENTIMENT
They Threaten to Boycott
Us.
PLAIN TALK.
Gets a Divoroe-On to Bothwsll-Per-
sonsl and General News.


sonal and General News.
From the East End to the West End,
from the Northside TO the Southside.
and wherever the PLANET was read
throughOut the city by members of |
our social clubs last Saturday Their |
hearts were filled wi h indignation and |
reseni ment and their mouths with |
hard words for the animal who had the |
impudence TO tell the world that So |
cial Clubs are harmful to the old aud |
hurtful to the young of our race. In |
deed, il words, cruel-cutting, blasphe- |
nous, or bluns could kill, this poor, |
well-meanlng animal who has charge |
OF this column and whose very soul vi |
brates and thrills with love for his
race would have been Il dead coon"
or "nigger," or gone gosln' in de
morning.
But happily our correspondent has
already passed through the dark VAL
ley of the scorn OF our ignorant, and
the toilsome and unwholesome valley
of humiliation and thus the decree of
Boycott Him, =" " hich has gone forth,
won't Affect us in ans possible way, but
with these exceptions, that many of
our social friends wont strike US any
more for dime or two don cher
know nor will our services rs news
paper correspondent at the various
soirees, balls and outings be any
in demand. Two blessed deliverances.
OUR LOT
Well such is the lot of a newspaper
man who after discovering the truth,
is fearless and manly enough TO tell
the common herds, whose hearts are
overhowing with self-conceit, and
dumb to those grand ennobing traits
OF true manhood and lofty woman
hood whose eyes are blinded by folly
and deception out of whose mouth
cometh fOolishness and vanity and
whose entire being is wrapped up in
the pursuit of the delusive bauble of
pleasure that their actions are detri-
mental TO the welfare of our race.
ALL MANKIND Is so.
And not only are many of the young
people resentful TO those who tell
them the truth, but all mankind is So
IL is a common ailment which descends
from father to son and is hanc ed down
from generation. Now to speak plain
ly, il is not our intention of waginl
any war upon these clubs. because il
is our firm belief that this manner Oi
throwing away money and health will
die q natural death and in few year.
. u social club as is now conducted, will
/ be thing of the past.
POINTERS
7 Do social clubs as they are now car
ried on give us race cohesion prin
ciple TO which the Negro is a stranger
2 We means Union strong as death, q
l union with one or more grand and glo
;. rious obi ject in view, "a union AS possess.
ed by the l3 united colonies agains
Great Britain. Will social clubs feeC
Us. clothe US. put money in our pock
e.s, build houses, conduct Banking
and real estate concerns? Throw opel
!, the storehouses of knowledge ant
e wealth and cast out ignorance and sin
- WILL THEY MAKE US xENP
o Will social clubs give us the Godl
: spirit of integrity2 Will they he'll
: the poor and the needy? Do tn
point out the way by which we can Sc
, cure political and civil recognition
, Do social clubs make us men all,
!. women2 l mean men who posses
hearts of gold and minds full of intel
lectual wealth, men with purpose 70
high and noble character unbiemish
ed, untarnished. unstained, men an
women who are servants of a righteou
God
Do social clubs lift up the falle
young men and women, feed the hun
'e CRY, clothe the naked, relieve the suf
= fering and distressed? No thousan
n times No Every social club exists fc
their own selfish selves, to glut thei
own appetites: and are like the fool
u who set lavish and expensive fsast
ls that wise men might enjoy them, an
q next day have to return some borrow
4 ed shirt, some hired dress suit, som
81 stolen shoes.
st A EoRLEK PURPosR.
II Young people, 1 appeal to you fC
. the sake of this ignorant, unlettereC
- poverty strickened race to desst frol
such foolishness For the sake of &C
10 and all humanity save the money 20
- are now throwing away Deposit it
- some bank open up some business
as build home; or buy some groun
"a We spend our money foolishiy al
then complain of the white man ol
- pressing US. We throw away wealt
q IT duce ourselves to pauperism al
then expect to sit side by side with Il
white man in the seat OF government
We fOrsake intellectual advanceme!
for pleasure and shen expect 10 be re
It ognized as an equal by other race
ur What Ioolishness and absurdity.
at
nd AN APPEAL.
toI Young men young men must it i
.sI deed be said OF you, that you have
higher ambition than always renal
ed ing lackey, having a good tim
10 tfrowing away money, wearing ii
an clothes etc. If such is your highe
MT ambition complain no more of {
ed white mans oppression. Because it
so human for an enterprising race to U
you for their own ends You mt
,c- nee not be ignorant, nor poor u
- slaves to yourself and others, but wi
sc- no higher ambition than what v
ed now have you will always remain b
ON the of securing Of other races wi
de our women outraged and scandaliz
n lby white men, with many a Neg
he dangling to q tree, and finally lose {
of little we have already gained.
de- PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
BIZ
P. Mrs. Alpheus Scott accompanied
/. lher mother and daughter are visit
as friends in Caroline County.
Many Of our socialists threatens
Lynch, burn. mob, murder, horsewh
ro- IcOwhide, maui. beat, kick and do us
m other kinds of violence. Well, be 81
the YOU make a good b of it.
What has the j . @ p. Literl
re- gone to sleep for the summer?
nd Hal hal nobody complains OF
ery Philip Holiness excellent vegetab