The colored American., 1901-09-28

OF our circumstances. Our strength is
measured by our Plastic power. From
the same materials one bulls psIaces,
another novels, thus it is that in the
same family, In the came circumstances
one man rears stately edifice while his
brother, vacillating and Incompetent,
liAes forever amid ruins. Energy Of
will, self originating force, is the soul
OF every great character. Where 1t is
| there Is life, where it is not-there is
socialism, sIothfullness, with all that
belongs in It's train. When the clements
Of character are brought into action by
determinate will, and Influenced by
high purpose, man enters upon and
cOurageOusly perserveres in the path of
duty, at whatever cost OF energy and
hrrd labor, he thus approaches the sum
nait OF his moral desting; and by this |
line OF action exhibits character in It's
most intrepid form, and embOdies the |
highest idea Of manllness.
Such is AfIo-American character-as |
explemplified by the lines Of such gen
tlsmen as g. L. RemOnd, Frederi, K
Douglass, r. B. Elliott, John NJ. Lar gs-
tOH, B. K. Bruce, William Wills Brown
P. B, s. Pinchbsck, John r. Lynch, B.
I. Washington, J. w. Lyons, E. E
Cooper, T. T. Fortune and P. L. Dun
bar--read the lives OF these Mr.. Woods
and you will see Afro American char
scter in all Of it's purity and glory
mono Of these have eyer been socialists.
What Is socialism,,
On the other hand, energy without
Integrity and a soul Of goodness may
only Represent the embodied principle
3 of evil, e is observed by NOvslIs in
his Thoughts on Morals - 'that the
ideals Of moral perfection has no more
q dangerous rival to contend with than
the ideal Of the highest strength and
the most energetic life, the maximum
= of the barbarian-which needs only a
i due admixture Of pride, ambition and
. selfshness to be perfect ideal OF the
= devil. Among men Of such stamp are
found the greatest scouges and devas-
tators OF the WOrld-those elect scoun-
g drels whom Providence, in it's inscEuta-
! able designs, permits to fulfill their
u mission of destruction of public md
l. private property and fill the public
I. mind with pain and misery and cause
innocent women to gIieve over their
murdered husbands. They depend
1T upon the strength of numbers, ignor-
7e ance and brutalized nature to accom-
n plish their .ends-the rights OF other
- people never entering their benighted
~ minds"
Il They gave an example of this in 1874
sd during the railroad strike, another in
CO 1894. and the same spirit Is violating the
rights of loyal citizens at McKeespOr'
IL now. On the Sth inst, two thousand
id socialists voted down resolution Of
,h regret for, the murder of the President
% at a meeting in Bergman's Grove
The argument of those opposed to the
at resolutions, was that the President wa
ly the represe sentive of the capitalist. VII
n. anybody pretend that such conduct al
nd this Will nelp to lessen prejudice agains
us or restore our political rights Or as
OF sist US in any sense as loyal citizens
rit this republic.
he five will compare no;es, we will fine
= that socialists and anarchists are tn
'"i same beasts-W Woods says in his lette
ng 1.-the government must take charge Q
all industries and operate them at cos
~ for the benefit OF 1he people" Tn
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