Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-05-14
WE WANT LIGHT.

our little mind, no matter how ",
try. and ut the present time, we hav,
a subject that is bearing down upon
our tOp-end that we would like I,
have some brother or sister explain
Now, what we are about to mention
is not in spirit of levity, impudenc,
or anything bordering on the ridicu
lous as we are after light-yeS, real
LIGHT upon this subject. We have
been taught all our lives that away
back yonder in Asia, or some country
we have never visited, that there was
garden, called the Garden of Eden
and that in this garden God Almighty
rolled up a little wad" of mud and
made man out of it, and that man
he called Adam, and then he put
Adam to sleep, and from Adam $
side, 1--WE don't know which side he
yanked out rib and made woman.
| Now we are also taught that the
entire human race sprung from this
primitive pair, Uncle Adam and Miss
Eve. Now. since things are gener
ally believed because they are oncicnt,
we are not going to dispute the fact
that there was Il Garden of Eden, or
| that Adam was made from mud or
that Miss Eve was put in motion
from one of Uncle Adam ribs. But
since they are teaching us now and
have been ever since Hec was pup
that there are FIVE DISTINCT RACES
loF MEN, we would like to know who
IN the dickens were the fathers and
mothers of the other four races, pro-
vided the Caucasian race are the off
spring of Adam and Eve?
Now, it might be, since they tell
us the negro is human, and is there
fore relative of Adam and Eve, that
this Edenic pair were as black as the
ace OF spades, and that the white race
is the faded out and inferior portion
of Adam and Ewes children. Now,
since its light we are after, will some
one please bob up and explain to us
the why's and wherefores II the
negro is human, as all the preachers
and priests tell us that he is, and can
and will be saved high up in glory
the same as the poor white trash,
then don't you really believe that he
ought to be treated as u human be-
ing down here below? For if one
must be JUST on this earth before he
can bake his shins around the camp
fires of Beulah Land, do you think
that the PALEFACEs will ever get for
givencss for the way they treat the
negro, if he is human? Now it's
LIGHT we want on this subject, and
nothing else. Now, suppose that
when you get to heaven, my dear
chalkfaced" brothers and sisters
who have been refusing to permit
the negro to even eat at your tables,
and would not only have clothes
line full of fits if he wanted to associ
ate with your daughter, but would
kill him deader than hi if he should
ask you for her hand in marriage, the
first man and woman you met would
be Uncle Adam and Aunt Eve, and
they would happen to be as black as
tar and you would have to acknowl
edge them as your original daddy"
and nanny" wouldn't you feel
darned sneaking? Now brothers
and sisters, it's light we want upon
this subject, as we're not "foolin'."
So | trust some one will "rize" right
straight up in meetin'" and ex
plain.
What would you think of family
who would move into your neighbor-
hood or next door to you with five
children, and one of the kids would
be an offspring of the RED OR INDI-
AN RACE another the offspring of
the Brown OR MALAYAN RACE" an
other from the MONGOLIAN OR YEL-
LOW RACE, another from the eau
cAsIAN OR WHITE RACE" and the fifth
an offspring of the ETHIOPIAN or
NEGRO RACE" and the mother of
these kids would tell you that one
father was the father of all five of
EN-. What would you think of her
virtue, and what would you think of
her hubby who lived with her and
claimed to be the daddy of these
brindle cOlored kids Now it's
light we are after, but we must say,
that if Miss Eve gave birth to five
different cOlored kids" we're
darned glad that Uncle Adam was
her hubby and not us, as VIC would
have been looking for her to give
birth te menagerie next time. Now
if there are five races of men, and all
of 'em different colored, and if they
are all human, and if they are all
sons and daughters of Adam and Eve,
then we would like to know how it
comes that what happened to Adam
and Eve hasn't happened to any pa
rents since that time, as it could cas-
ier happen to-day than it could in
the Garden of Eden, when there
wasn't man on earth but Uncle
Adam. Say, I'm all balled up, and
want light badly on this subject. |