The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-10-21

Hayes erected n monument to mark
the resting place of this last ser
vice" All subsequent efforts of the
republican party to champion the
cause of the negro have been futile
and inert.
You ask. do think President
Hayes was correct in Withdrawing
the federal troops from the south?
Certainly do. Physical force never
did help any cause unless it worked
in harmony and accord with the psy
chical-the ego. ! have always been
one of the few who believed that
freedom for the American negro was
the result, in very large measure,
of a happy agreement between forces
within the physical and pschical
planes, that spiritual force in man as
suming leadership. In profane history
we read of the valor and heroism of
the physical man, the inward man is
veiled and unseen. Who is able to
speak OF the rebellion and war with
in? Traditional and historical pref
udices so color past events until the
philosophical mind, chroniclng the
results stops to inquire whether or
not there is such thing as truthful
profane history. There Is this differ
ence between divine writing and pro
fame writing, the former records facts
without prejudice and the latter does
not. cannot let us surmise, being
bound by the recognized law of
necessity that exists within the ma
terial sphere.
In reading history written by or
binary men. one must read between
the lines, make alloyances for human
feeling and note and check up results
The slaves had countless friends in
the south, real friends, beginning
from Jefferson down TO the close of
the war, and here make this point,
never couli the underground rail
way have been the success it was
had there not lived countless sympa-
thizers of freedom in the south, men
whose consciences told them that sla-
very was a great wrong Jefferson
said. speaking of the slavery ques
ton, when | reflect that God is
lust. | tremble for my country SO
a1ttsn 1,at in ORC
questions, tremendous silent, un-
seen force, fighting on the side OF
human liberty. This force, because OF
its very nature, could not be cir
cumscribed or weighed.
That part of the Chickasha resolu-
ton which says, Whereas. the social
list parry has invited us to affiliata
with them for the reason that the
socialist party believes in social
equality of all races is mistake,
and is an injustice done the so.
cialist party and the white and black
races for the following reasons
First. that is not a principle of so
cialism: second, no white man be
lieves in such a thing, and thirdly
no decent, thoughtful negro desires
it. The thinking negro has the great
est faith in the potentialities of the
race and possibilities, and he there
fore wants the identity OF the race
preserved and conserved. It's rubbish,
mere rot, to think that political equal.
ity means social equality, or anything
like it. The negroes OF British Guiana
have great political privileges, yet
you will not find a half dozen le
gitimate mulattoes in that country
The spirit of political independence
beginning to manifest itself in the
negro IS what | have been contend
ing for, both by writing and speak
ing for several years. We are the
storm center of every political cam
paign. where we exist In great num-
bers, not so much because of our
color and previous condition of ser
vitude, but because of certain eco
nomic laws and our heretofore un-
alterabe political opinion. We have
been too definite political guam
tity, a party asset. Because OF these
things we today find ourselves be-
tween Scylla and Charybdis. We are
today like the Evil One In Milton's
Paradise Lost, prostrated, and at
times exhausted without a silver lin
ing on lowering lark cloud of des-
olation, are exclaiming. "Whither
shall I flee? Wherever / go is hell;
myself am hell" But 1t is not wise
to become confused ever the effects
until we shall become unable to faith
ON out the cause producing said eff
fects or to find a remedy for them
The world-spirits of the negro are
those of humility and endurance. Crea-