The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1910-08-25


ism. Whittier has gone American
proud, moral leadership of the world.
Where is the generous thought, the
sweet applause. the sous wide free
| ;!om "ith which wo once were wont
20 greet the up-struggling of human
kind? How natural it has become
fresh from the laurels Of Browns
vile. should greet old Egypt's fight
TO-: freedom with a blow between the
eyes!
Onward we reel. Peace? Ten
thousand dollars for peace and two
hundred millions for war. How can
there be peace for those who are
white and hate "Niggers"? Demo-
cracy? Absurd! Dream Of infants!
Let Disfranchisement and Privilege
and a Solid South rule this great
republic. The rights of woman? Are
rot American women the best dress
ed in the world? Do they not bring
the highest titles in the market?
Does free America want to enfranch-
Use any more degoes and hybrids?
1t is not alone this pitiful striking
of colors in the great world crusade
for liberty, equality and brotherh God,
it is the humtliating thought in our
own souls that this outward surrend-
er is the honest counterpart of the
inward degeneration-the deliberate
Gripping and deforming Of the Souls
Of White Folk by the glorification
of Color Caste.
TO you this is less Immediately ap-
parent than to me; for before me
the Souls Of White Folk stand sing
ularly naked. In my presence they
tend to lay aside all their little lies
and hypocrisies and battle in brutal
frankness. Why not? Am a mil
lioHaire? Have l a political pull
Have | social prestige? Have l any
brains? l bear the Swallowed answer
on my face. Well then, be thrifty
Why waste manners, beauty, court
esy or conversation on me? There's
nought to gain and much to lose, fol
the Watchful world is sitting near
ready to resent social equality. There.
tore, he who seems to you a gentle
man is but his boorish self to me;
she who is to you a vision of woman
ly loneliness may be but selfish
Vulgarity to me. Such nastier as
poets Of modern American life fasi
repeatedly both on me and mine, 81
that realize even more yividfy-tha
you how thoroly and persistently W,
are making these things character
lstlc of the nation, the measure 0
It's thought and soul, every time yo1
make the measure Of a man, white
ness. Why not? There is no logica
escape. A true and worthy idea
trees and uplifts a people; a falls
IDEAL imprisons and lowers. Say t
men, earnestly and repeatedly: Hon
esty is best; knowledge is power; d
unto others as you would be don
| BY Say this and act it, and tn
nation must move toward it if no
70 1t. But say to q people: 9Th
one virtue is to be white" and t.
people rush to the one inevitabl
f conclusion, Kill the Nigger!"
Is not this the record Of preser
- America? Is not this it's headlon
progress? Are We not coming NOR
and more day by day TO making tn
statement, II am white" the on
fundamental tent of our DractIc;
morality? Only when this basic iro
9 rule IS involved is our defense {
= right nationwide prompt. Murdf
q may sWagger, theft may rule an
prostitution flourish, and the n14io
gives but spasmodic, intermittent an
lukcWarm attention. But let II,
;. murderer be black or the tnit
) brown or the viOlator Of woman
I mood have but a drop OF Negro blooC
and the righteousness Of the indij
nation sweeps the world. Nor woul
e ChlS fact make the indignation les
r Justititable did not We all know tn;
= 1t was blackness that was pdem1
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