The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1913-12-05

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When country's own citizens are not
free to exercise their prefogative as men
and women. and this because of their race
or color. then that country's institutions,
along with it's churches are a farce and
q fraud upon civilization. IT III becomes
such country to Arrogate the virtue Of
calling upon other governments to set
their houses In order. Such Is rnenda-
cious, arrogant, impudent. meddling. To
change this In the United States Of Amer
lea should be the work Of men and wom-
On with honest purposes To this end
ask that you read the indictment make
In these pages
In his library at 1903 Lombard street.
Philadelphia. DIR. Taylor has most
interesting collection Of curfos and old
manuscripts bearing on the struggles Of
the race through the reconstruction pc
ried. with accounts of the part taken
by leading white and eolored men In
the fight for full citizenship for the col
ored people w..
He Is q keen observer of men and
things. With an indefatigable study of
everything readable. he has possessed
himself with vast fund Of informa.
ton. He has been traveller, lecturer.
preacher. lawyer. promoter, editor,
physician. rancher. newspaper CORE
spondent and politician. He has work
ed on the farm, in the sawnill, steam
boated and followed whatever occupa-
ton the exigencies imposed either In
following his inclination or to survive
the vicissitudes as he has made his
way upward or been knocked and
bumped In life.
Discussing the Indian as distinguish
ed from the Negro. he says: blood
will tell ID an expression often quoted,
and nothing demonstrates It stronger
than the achievements Of one individ-
nal or race as compared with the
achievements Of another individual or
race; hence tell me Of the hero's fight
In horrors blackest night. for they
alone are great who great deeds have
done, who triumph against fate, who
from depths to heights have come" II
am proud that am who and what I
am. but. hate and despiss my oppos-
ing environment. the conditions which
hamper and hem me in. So by the
eternals. have sworn. l have deter.
mined to break through"
II will be man among men. either
living or dead. will not be satisfied
with any condition less than that
which Is due to man and gentle
man.. Thus my soul, heart and
brain-yea. all my combined powers
even as a giant hand lay 1t hard
upon the world around me, compelling
where coaxing does not avail the con-
sideration accorded any other man."
blood will tell. It is in me. have
done, am doing and will do until die"
1.-THE world will know that In me q
man lived will. even II there be
one-sixteenth Of Negro blood In me.
will be man. for blood will tell, and
I have seen that Negro blood is tell
ing"
The Negro as an economic factor in
the American scheme Of government
as viewed In "The Conflict and Com
mingling of the Races" is Juicy argu
ment for the honest student In eco
nomics not less than for the real states
man and patriot. Beginning on page
81, the gifted writer says. Surely
competition begets rivalry anywhere
among all peoples. but rash indeed are
those, and insanely SO, who do not re-
alize that In this country the Negroes
are Industrial factors and have got to
be considered in any economic scheme
embracing capital and labor II this ma
tion is to continue a free and prosper
GUS republic"