The Twin City star., 1914-03-27
ALL RACES EQUAL

ALL RACES EQUAL.
God or Savior, and the religion embody.
ing this idea became the dominant faith
Jews began; and, Ted from the same
source. they have continued to this
day.
Racial Difference . PretensA.
OF course, the Christian world will
not acknowledge that Q religion that
breaches love and charity for all has
at the same time engendered and 'fos
tered an implacable hate for an en-
tire human group. even though Il has
done it Indirectly. Hence the pseudo
scientific explanation that anti-Jewish
prejudice is the result Of 0 natural race
antagonism.
. I Do not mean to say that everyone
who at the present time manifests any
prejudice against the Jew, especially
In social relations and intercourse
has the religious stigma that has been
Axsd upon The Jew In mind. But the
word Jew, having once been made a
b. wsrl by the Christian world, Is
sufficient. The world IL full Of AFRO.
CANT snobs. prstsnders, people who give
s% snssvss v.1, air. TSsdSs .Ss oSsons s
enc against whom they may draw the
social line, upon whom they may look
down as an Inferior. And the name
Jew fills the bill. But snobbery is
not Q racial eharseteristic either. IT
b . thoroughly human trait. We all
have our snobs and arrogant fools.
can immense percentage Of snobs, l
believe, Is to be found in every rank
Of this mortal ife,o says ThackeYay.
who is quite IN authority on the sub.
ject."
Tho Crime Against tho Negro.
It 10 this immoral desire to have some
one. who. may be looked down upon as
ferior position, in a condition Of s ssrVi. vi
tude, that is largely responsible for the
attitude and conduct Of the majority of
this nation toward the colored race.
Here, indeed, We may speak Of dis
tinct race. In certain physical traits
this human group is marked of from
ell others. But what Of thatf The
eolored man. too, 50 our religion teaches,
% Of Adams offspring; and being Of
such descent, he, too, Is created in the
image Of God. His so9l, too, 10 endowed
growth and enlightenment, as the soul Of
every other human being. But setting all
religious doctrine aside, what does the
history of this race teach ugi Being
brorght here from their original habi,
tat the inhospitable regions Of Africa,
where, owing to various causes, the
native children Of the soil nevef
emerged from a state Of barbarism. or
else speedily relapsed into it; and be-
ing held in bondage and servitude here
for many generations, the colored peo-
pie have ct in the fifty years since
their ema ipation, in the face Of the
shown US lat they, too, have the same
capacity for development a. any other
race. A race cannot be spoken Of as
inferior Of which the National Busi
ness league in recent session could
say: "Starting half q century ago.
without experience. without education
and without property, we today own
and pay taxes on 20,000,00 acres Of
land; an area as large as the state Of
South Carolina; we own and control
100 insurance companies, 800 drug.
stores. "a banks, 450 newspapers, and
more than 10000 other businesses Of
various kinds, and the total wealth Of
American negroes in land, homes,
property, amounts to moro than $780,
|Der cent Of the race was wholly illitsra-
ste. TODAY more than 20 per cent
can both read and write.' A race that
has produced distinguished writer's and
orators. whose members are qualified
to enter, and to serve honorably In,
the learned professions, cannot be
spoken Of as an inferior race. There
are no inferior or superior races. There
may be backward races, oppressed races,
oualaved yacoa. aud kharn NOV 10 m oro
fortunately situated races, races that
have had favorable conditions and op-
portunittes for development, arrogant
{aces. domineering races; but no in
feriox or superior races.
New Form Of Persecution.
The dominant white race wishes the
eelored race to occupy q position of in
feriority and servitude, and to stagnate
in IT. That 10 the gist Of the matter.
But consider the Injustice, tho crying
wrong, Of It all. The race did not
Soms here Of its own accord. It was
in bondmen 3 chains. For generations
Il was kept in bondage, and was chat
tel, an article Of trade and barter. At
length mans better nature rebelled
against the wickedness of it all, his
moro humane impulses asserted them
selves, and the colored people were
But a new form of op-
preston and persecution took the place
Of the old. The majority of the race
are disfranchised, and the entire race
ID ostracised. Practically all avenues
Of honorable employment among white
people are closed to them. Even our
government, which is supposed % have
ono and the same law for all alike, 10
now seeking to segregate them, humili-
ate them, and drive them out Of its