The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-03-14
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cultural ana Mechanical collce, for
negroes in Alabama makes plain in
The foilcwiAs American prejudice
PLAYS an nrortari part .n negro op
nortmity Never oegogc in Tie hgiei
history os any people has prejudice
had such hieh valuation Instead o.
teeking ad.ai sion into piwes cf
amusemenis. pleasure aad instruction
run By white people for white people.
let colored men open up such places
for their own accomuo3gticn ami
grow rich Instead of kaoting To-
admission into white circles. adorn
beautify. elevate. enlarge negro g. f.
cles and find cope for our bro, a
and most lofty social amhit on. Every
hotel which refuses the negro a meal.
every soda fountain which declines
to serve him. are voicea telling hin
ic go and open these places and
mal himself rich That negro is un.
wise who goes about asking for such
nccc cniodadons among white men when
the denial is only friendly ADVICE to
open up the business for himself
place his own bays and sl,ls IN posi-
items and build up mis- own race by
his own patronage want NY race
tc find admission, Wherever honest
service is wanted and we W u take
care Of the fun and pleasure places
President Council continues
THE negro can g ow only by being
true tc his own nature in bis sphere.
as God intended When he seeks to
unrace himself 10 rm away from his
black skin. his fiat aose. his thick lips
and fat feet -thca he win make him
self desricable in the eyes Of other
races. and WI deserve the curse o.
Sod We can not m,d,e a white man
q negro. nor a negro a white man
God has made the distraction and set
The bounds for each Each will grow
stroag and great only as he is rue
10 his own nature I honor the whit
man because he honors himself
honor him because he places his moth
er. sister, wife or daughters on a plat
form up among the stars. gets a thoul
and gatling guns and decrees death
10 him who seeks TO drag then, down
honor him l.eCauso ne throws his
powerful arms around every little red
headed. freclled-facal poor white
girl and hey in the land and makes the
way possible for them to rise IN this
world honor him because ne does
not GO around wh nine and begging
20 be helped up. but by faith in his
own muscle cuts aad caryes out his
cwn destiny Let the negro 90 like
wise according TO his own nature
and in his owIe sphere. without pre-
judice to any. with love to all man
hind aad he VII succeed sel2c these
1pportunities cultivate the most
friendly relations with al men, feel
a deer interest IN our southland. and
cur deeds viii count fer something
with man and Cod"
This wise maa of color made n
speech at Lawrence which is h ghly
interesting reading after noting Gov
lIochs recent local conditions" argu
ment to justify his approval Of the
law to exclnde negroes from white
schools President Council said to
the Kansans:
"The color line was never carried
upon brick walls, t0 the carpenters
bench, in an the other Industries Of
the south unlil northern white labor
carried It to them. The southern negro
has far ou;steppad the northern negro
Knee emancipauoa-outstepped him
IN every way. do not eay this ir
any unfriendly spirit toward my north
em brethren, but I state a fact which
must be plain to every observing man.
1h's is all due to the superior adj
vantaees of tho southern negro. Col
cred men OF the north make great
mistake in abusing the south They
forget that The south is an antercom
in which their fathers exchanged the
clout Of the barbarian for the drens o.
ciyilization-the blessed anteInom in
which four millions Of miserable. ig.
noraat sayages were changed into four
millions Of Industrious being ga
great missionary tent IN which four
millions Of fetch worshiDols were
transformed to four millions OF chris
iian citizens OF one cf TIE most pow
erful governments Of the age Let tho
south aloae and look to your own ne
elected opportunuies; correct your
Cwn wrongs. You are driven from
nearly every decent wageearniaq
position. whipped from ihe hacks and
The draws shop doors shut in your
faces labor unions united against you.
aad the friendship and sympathy OF
hitherto white friends slipping away
from yom We Of the south thank