The San Francisco call., 1899-07-29
SLAVERY COMING AGAIN.

THE imperial experiment Of Great Britain Is
about to break down because it does not pay
Her West Indian possessions have been an ex-
pense since she abolished African slavery there er
tropical holdings cannot be made to yield except
under forced or servile labor
The United States is entering the same field, leav-
ing behind our constitutional declaration against
slavery and involuntary servtude which followed the
Civil War and Lincon's emancipation proclamation
We have Hawaii and there under our flag are main
tanned practices and labor system opposed to our
constitution and laws, and foreign to Our domestic
policy Involuntary seryitude is the only means by
which tropical labor can be secured, and when II
ceases in Hawaii production and profits cease with IT,
In the Philippines all surplus producing labor is
forced or servie and if we take that diseased part
OF the world into our system must get profit out
Of it by continuing that form OF labor.
1t is evident that the straits in which British I'M
perialism finds itself and the necessities OF American
imperialism, together are starting revival OF the
institution of chatel slavery work has just been
issued on the subject, discussing the chronological
status of the negro 1t is written by clergyman,
printed in parts in church paper in Pennsylvania
and issued from the printing house OF the Lutheran
denomination in Philadelphia. 1t is 1ndorsed by
doctors of divinity and by presiding elders, and is
an appeal in the of God of course to the plous
everywhere to consider chattehood as the dlYlnely
appointed status OF the dark In his conclusion
and the clinch OF his argument the reverend author
says: THE ways Of God are always consistent, when
understood, and always just and reasonable. 1t is
curious fact, but fact nevertheless and FULLY sus-
tanned by Scripture as we'll as by history, and that
fact this that God never conferred and never de-
signed to confer any great blessing the human
family but what he always selects or has selected
descendant OF the Adam, holding slaves, white
S1a The by
which that blessing should reach them. Why He has
done so is not material discuss now; but the fact
that He always did so the Scripture abundanty
proves. Also there is the suggestive truth that the
Shepherding church is nearest Abraham, the father
OF the faithful in whose seed all the families of the
earth were to be blessed, and Abraham owned three
hundred and eighteen servants. And the Savior OF
the world was of the Jewish, white nation owning
servants and it held them by Gods laws, not their
own
But what of nation and government, the United
States? A government acknowledged by all nations
to be the most cosmoplastc of the nations to-day.
Who under Gods providence organized and estab
shed and its reformation principles? Let appeal
to history The first attack British power and the
aggressons OF Parliament was made by STAKEHOLDER
from slave State Patrick Henry. The first President
OF the first Congress that ever assembled this
continent was STAKEHOLDER, Peyton Randolph. The
Secretary of that Congress STAKEHOLDER Charles
Thompson. The chairman OF the committee OF the
whole who reported the Declaration of Independence
was slave holder, Benjamin Harrison The author
of the Declaration was a holder, Thomas JET
ferson The General OF the Continental army was
STAKEHOLDER, George Washington, who was also
President of the convention which framed the
stitution. The father OF the constitution slave
holder, James Madison.
Whatever OF peace, prosperity happiness and glory
the people OF the United States have enjoyed has been
under the administration OF Presidents who were
shareholders from slave States. Whenever the Presi
dent has been elected from a free State from Adams
down Lincoln confusion wrangling and strife have
been the order of the day Why all this has been
is not in the line of subject, only this far, God
will not be mocked. He ordained that the negro
should be the of servants, solely 1t is in the
Scriptures to believe less than they contain is inf
deity to believe more is superstition"
No wonder that in the theocratic revival that has
risen with American imperialism, this book is reach
ing a wide circulation. AS it in the beginning
so it is in the end Whenever men have set out upon
policy repugnant to human reason, revolving to the
conscience of man. involving slaughter, cruelty and
every abomnation members of the clerical class have
supported it and put the responsibility upon God
The instances of this in the early history of the
have been canonzed and stand as the ancient prece-
dents gilded by an assumption of divine sanction,
The of witches, the slaughter of heretcs the
holding of slaves, the butchery OF people who de-
fend their homes from invasion, all have been
loaded upon God and men have washed their hands
Of the blood upon them in the Of providential
approval!
1t is so now with imperialism and the breach of
faith and broken promise that go with it. To-mor
it may be with the restoration of slavery the
renewal of the horrors of the middle passage and the
erection again of the denominations that follow the
chatte ownership of man by man.
NEGRO SENTIMENT ON IMPERIALISM.