The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-11-21
Respectfully yours,
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PUT US IN THE CLASS WITH
PRESIDENT ]. SILAS HARRIS
OF THE N. N. E. c., SAYS
PROF. WILLIAMS.


Dear Editor of the Sun:
Your kind offer to allow space in
your valuable columns the views of
any citizen, relative to a letter styled
by you as being remarkable and writ
ten for the benefit of the readers of
the Kansas City Post by our learned
fellow townsman, J. Silas Harris, is
gratefully appreciated by me First,
| desire to say l did not read the ar
ticle referred to, published in the
Post. But after reading what your
valuable and reliable paper contained
concerning the position taken by Prof.
Harris, we were much puzzled re-
garding the caption. OF course it is
laudable to be we'll spoken of by
everybody, but we pity the individ-
ual receiving such favor. In the Sa-
cred Book, Luke's Gospel, GIG, we
read, Woe unto you when all men
shall speak we'll of you" But as
space forbids further comment on that
line, l want to emphasize every line
Mr.. Harris said as being treu. When
we consider him in the column of err
ror, we deceive ourselves and wrong
the author. What the Negro race
most grossly stands in need of today
are men standing up for righteous
ness. Truth is bound to prevail. A
noted writer in a recent article says:
Il believe that we should have in
us that fiber of manhood which will
make us follow duty whithersoever
it may lead
Instead of denouncing and enroll
ing Mr.. Harris as a long cared mule.
we ought, rather, thank and c%ongratu'
late him for being brave enough tc
tell the truth. For whatever faults
Mr.. Harris may possess l can, with
out any hesitancy, say he of all the
best informed educated Negroes
comes the nearest of being a publ
!, cist. And 1 here state without feal
of successful contradiction that if any
) fair minded man or woman will reaC
} and reread, then think deeply ant
/. weigh every word said by Mr.. Harris
. they will decide that he is right.
Does any man or woman doub
what Mr.. Harris says concerning Ne
gro school teachers? He might have
included others who are just as sus
picious among us. l believe that Mr.
Harris is right in what he said, be
2 cause facts demonstrate it. AS re
CARDS his position on the n. A. A. c
P, l talke the same position. | have
experienced enough in private am
public life to know that nothing goot
can result from it. Behold its follow
ers. Why, if all such persons includ
ing it's rank in this city were to ge
together the race question would soor
! solve itself.
Well, read him again. But better
still, read The Crisis" That little
booklet tells the story. After sub
scribing and paying for the meek ant
lowly magazine for M year | decid
ed to drop it from my list of maya
zines. l saw its aim, its purpose, its
! object. l am not a member and never
: intend to be of any such organization
If the followers of the National Asso
citation of Advancement for Coloret
People would impress me and Others
who see them as they are, let then
of themselves get together. All, in
the absence of school boards ant
withdrawal of the real Negro. support
} from professionals, what a great mo
F.. tion of dry bones there would be
: However we are glad to note many o
l our best people on the list of mem
bership whom we believe are sincere
: in real race advancement.
: We hope they will soon see thei
mistake.
/ Verify, Harris is right.
e. T. w. H. WILLIAMS,
= 1928 Jackson Avenue,
Kansas City, Mo.