The Washington bee., 1909-06-12

What its signs of promise are, etc"
If the readers Of The Bee will only
take notice they will see clearly that
the lynching of the colored citizens
of this country is on an alarming in
crease. Scarcely one reads the daily
papers but what he has cause to shud-
der from the awful old story, under
the big head lines, Negro Lynched. .
Judge Lynch, who defes even the
Supreme Court of our land and
country, is still doing business at his
old Southern stand, without fear of
either God or man. But ah, Mr..
White Man, the day of harvest is
coming! Study Gods Word.
Why all this mixing of the gray
and the blue? Does this mean that
the blue sanctions the crime of taking
the lives and destroying the homes
of the colored citizens of this Coun-
try by the gray, without calling al
halt, or even entering any kind of
protest against it? Shame on any
country that allows such lawlessness.
AS things now stand the colored citi-
zens of this country are citizens in
name only. Nearly every right of
citizenship has been taken from them
by the gray, while the blue, which
owes its very life to the loyal colored
citizens of this country, sits huddled
up in a corner and crying Amen! to
every injustice done to crush
the manhood and womanhood of the
colored race. Stripped of every right
to sit on the jury, stripped of this
God-given right to cast theaballot,
and yet his deceitful pretended
friends pat teh black man on the
shoulder and tell him that he is an
American citizen!
Oh, God, We do not understand it,
now, but we hope to understand It
better by and by, why thou took from
us such ones as Lincoln, Grant, Sum
ner. Fred Douglass, Langston, Elliott,
and others whose best and last days
of their lives were spent inAteaching
the future rulers of this country to
do Justice to all American citizens
alike; and then seemingly left their
chairs around the family altar of our
common brotherhood vacant! There
seems to be no one to lead uS-save
into the hands of the enemy. The
Negro's truest leaders of today can
only be found in the pulpit and III the
school house. In vain will you search
for one in the political world-for
he is not there. Having been denied
the right to sit on the jury, to ride
in first class railroad cars to cast
his ballot, the Negro, and his white
friends, can clearly see now the fruits
of the Estate rights" laws.
The South is gradually regaining
al that it lost in its cruel efforts to
perpetuate slavery in the dark days
of '6I,-65. Thus the shadow of
slavery still turks about us. About
the only great difference lies in the
fact that the burning stake" has
taken the place of the auction block
There was a great strike on the
Georgia railroad because that road
employed colored fremen. The white
hoodlums want everything in sight
except wiping off the greasy car
wheels Turn off these thrifty col
ored fremen, and if they don't get
employment in a very few hours
thereafter they will be classified as
lazy set of 'niggers" who won't work
and ought to be gotten rid off.
The world should take notice OF
such treatment of the colored brother
at the South. If those colored FIRE
men be dismissed they would do well
to shake the dust off their feet and
leave that section of the country ere
their white rivals black their faces
and commit some-crime for which they
(the colored fremen) may have to
pay the penalty-probably with their
lives And this is the way the South
is demonstrating her ability to settle
the question "if let alone"
All of his wide circle of friends
and partrons of The Bee will be glad
TO hear that the Editor. Mr.. w. Cal
vim Chase, will soon be out again.
May he live long to help wrestle with
the much vexed problems before us.
7 G Cunningham.