Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1910-10-27

Of the worlds industrial e1posiiions.
We saw ten thousand inventions
evolved from the worlds unresiinr /
brain. But We failed to see one me-
chanicul invention given to the world /
By the negro race. He alone Of 81 /
the people who bless or curse the |
globe was unrepresenied. for be alone
Of at the races has never given one
great or useful invention to the world.
Mind you. we do no, speak Of the
American negro. whose ignorance and
low condition the quoted writer ut-
tributes to his Caucasian neishbor.
We speak Of the negro as be is in his
own naive iungles. the negro who has
never known the bond Of slavery. the
negro who has never been denied
squal rights BY over lords or taskmas-
masters. the negro who has lain unmo-
Tested beneath bis own vine and &c
tree. The Caucasian Of America IS
certainly not responsible for the con-
dition o. the negro as found in the
Soudan and along the Congo. There
a least he has had rights and priv
lsges galore.
Nor is there any excuse or saving
grace for the condition Of the negro Of
Central Africa. He stood by the era
die Of civilization. He saw the cur
tain rise upon that mighty drams
played BY the nations Of the past He
saw the dawning Of Egyptian glory as
| it rose above the Hall Of Karnak to
blend the prelude Of learning with the
sobbine Of the Nile. He beheld the
mural splendors Of renowned Babylon;
he heard the call Of the white dove oil
lNineveh; he saw the city Of David
crown the hill Of Zion. and he saw the
walls Of Tyre and Sidon threaten The
waves Of the neighborine sea. He
was neiahbor to Greece in the Golden
DAYS Of Pericles. when the flower
fields Of knowledge burst into tulles
bloom. He beheld the dazzling pa.
oesnt of the Aueustan Age, when the
Iron Kingdom sent her eagles over
every nation and her triremes over
every sea. But in the fastness OF his
iuneles and in the tastuess OF his ig
norance the negro remained the same
Five thousand years Of PRIVILEGES hav'
taught him nothing. The song OF civ
Aizstion and progress, the song tha
! thrilled the heart Of Greek and Romar
and Carthaqinian has been to him a
meaningless as the roll Of an emptl
! drum. He. our colored brother, VIII
!. has never had a chance, is today tn
j, ssme savage who left the Euphrate
basin when the race was young an
r civilization unknown. His only char
acteristic is passivity; his only desir
e fornication.
!. Such is the history ofthe man who's
d privilege Of suffrage is on trial in OI
e laboma. AS he has failed under to-
e mer conditions so will he fail undo
i later conditions. As the right to vol
= was eiver him in older States, so
d has been given him in Oklahoma. z
l hal right hes been taken from him
older States, so it will be taken Iro
}, him in this. Negro suffrage, neg
81 equality and negro domination al
y eternal corollaries, Give him the hr:
e he will take the others Deny hind
,r FIRST YOU will escape the last.
. -Four million Southern negroes 81
~ looking towards Oklahoms. ConlnT
1t our present system Of negro 'atras
y. and they viii be our future neighbo'
r. Adopt The Grandfather amendme
/, ii II. State ,v;ll be saved from n
gro domination Shall Oklahoma
y eeeroid or Anglo-Saxon PIX. Ian