Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-07-06
THE NEGRO OF THE NINE
TENTH CENTURY.
FRIDAY. JULY 8.
Special to Bystander.

Special to Bvstander.
Dear Editor: beg leave OF you te
allow Es me space in your valuable paper
TO speak few words in regard to my
roce. which has for the last forty years
been striving to reach tie topmos,
round in the ladder Of prosperity.
The hrst fact that l wish to speak Of
IS that as the time goes by, instead the
awful hatred and discrimination be-
tween the black and white races de.
creaslng, it seems to constantly in.
crease. Some may wonder and ask
why? It is because we stand TODAY
upon the dividing line of the antibel.
ium days of the (6o's) and the priv.
leges that we have TO nobIy and brave.
" won for ourselves, during the last
thirty live years. 1t makes me feel so
proud when think of this age in
which live. There are no clouds over
head and no commissions under foot,
and oh! how reverently we return
thanks to the Almighty Lord for the
past for with confident and hopeful
promises we shall march upon sure
ground toward the future, and notice
my friends how the simple fact of our
progression the last few years have al
most paralyzed the Imagination of our
white adversaries, or as history calls
them orr mora fovorol l>~o<l..
how we are now contemplating the
vast accommodations of the coming CEN
turtles with awe and pride. Our popu-
tation has grown from about two to
nine millions and we are still moving
onward and upwards, Since the year
OF 1865 count, the intelligent and re-
nowned men and women of our race
and OF whose fathers and forefathers
never hesitated to think of the new
ideas we have taken up. Compare the
few little log ca bins of IS years ago to
the handsome mansions of today. and
the exhaustless reservoirs of orr nro.
gress and wealth. We are onen;rr
institutions every day for the poor and
needy classes of our people and more
over our institutions furnish the fnll
equipment of shield and spear for the
battle OF freedom. and absolute protec-
ton against the many opponents pre-
senting themselves to us on everv hand
The trouble is that today we need at
the head OF this government men with
the spirit Of Abraham Lincoln did he
allow the curse of slavery to continue
~ its wretched way. No! he remember
eu that the rights Of God as we'll as the
VIII OF men had to be recog nized and
o TINS government is Easily perishinp for
men OF his nature and spirit TO-DAY. ]
DOCS the constitution Of the United |
.s9 'l'l' or the laws of God say that be-
seanse the negro has black face that
ne must be burned alive or lynched bv
Allow, III bred white men without q
Just recognition of the law being ad-
n1inistered upon him-no! 1t SAYS that
the rights OF all men shall be preserved
and protected by the government re-
CARELESS to race or color, but, who is to
name? Does the blame lay upon the
poor laboring class of people, both
white and black. l think not, the stain
is placed over the heads of the officials
OF this government whom the good,
honest people of the country, put their
trust in believing them to be tribe to
their oaths and capable Of handling the
laws which Gre placed in their hands.
All. my friends, do you agree with me
when sap that the negro has perfect
right to chastise and rebuke the white
n'an for his treatment to our fellow
citizens as well as the law allows them
to take it into their hands; We must
stop it. Afro.Americans, is it your in
tention to allow the humiliation of our
unprotected kinsmen to go on and say
Dothing, if SO we had better beg for
the hardships of the ffties and sixties
t. take place again for then the negro
NAo Ao'S ooAC pACICCGlOu ITOIu Ile slave
holder if there was no law to protect
him. Weigh the subject and decide
whether you would be better off living
IN servitude and some protection from
the master than to live under the name
OF being in free country and none at
All, administered upon you, and the
worst of all, my friends. is the fact that
chat she unmerclful humiliation in
stead CT decreasing. is becoming to be
great spark in some of our southern
states where the white man can so cas-
lily black himself to the mock of ne
gro and commit the most horrible |
crimes ever read of in the annals of
history, and when the punishment
Genes in all probability, some poor in
nocent black is either burned alive or
lynched by set Of people supposed to
be civilized and living in civilized
century, and above all are honoring