The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-03-25

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| uuimportance he felt encouraged
! "A man Of such power stay life
| tme in this little hole? Impossible
| he exclaimed iinder his breath whcl
| he looked out of the bus along th
| wide, deserted looking streets. with
! struggling cottage here and there ol
| either side
| lie stopped at the same motel will
| the preacher aud became his shadow
| for Il week He was seated With hin
| under the oak IN the Square, turasnln.
| over his argument for the hundredtl
| time in the most good naturcd bu
eyerastingly persistent wny.
Doctor, it's perfect nonsense for f
man OF your magnificent talents, ot
your culture and power over ail audi
ence to think of living always IN 4
little village IKE this
Deacon. my work is here for the
SOUTH
But, my dear man, in Boston II
would he for the whole nation north
and south I'll tell you what we will
do. Say You will come. and we viii
make your salary $1,000 year That's
the largest salary ever offered II Bap.
tist preacher in America You will
pack our church with people give Us
new life, and we can afford II You
will he q power in Boston and q power
in the world
The preacher smiled and WAS silent,
At length he said:
= appreciate your offer. deacon You
pay me the highest compliment you
know how 10 express. But you pros
porous Yankees can't get into your
heads the idea that there are many
things which money can't measure.
"Doctor there must be some trcmen-
dous force that holds yon to such u
decision in a village, II seems to me
sou are throwing your life away
"There is a tremendous force. dea.
con. Its the overwhelming sense of
obligation feel to my own people
who have suffered. are still in the grip
Of poverty and threatened with greater
trials. can't leave them while they
are struggling with this unsolTed ne.
gro problem. Two great questions
shadow the future Of the American
people, the conflict between labor and
capital and the conflict between the
African and the Anglo Saxon racc
The greatest, most dangerous and most
hopeless of these is the latter My
place is here
The deacon laughed good nnturedly
Come with tis and we will show you
greafcr problems For one, the life
and death struggle Of Christianity 1t
self with modern matcrialism. tell
YOU the negro problem was settled
when slavery was destroyed
You never maae sadder mistake.
The south did not fight 20 hold sInves.
mond offered to guarantee to Europe
the freedom of every slave for the
recognition Of our independence.
Slavery was bound of rs own weight
In her assembly of freeing her slaves
years before The war Rnt for the
frenzy of your abolition fanatics. who
first sought to destroy the Tnion by
the south. we would have freed the
slaves before this without war. from
he very necessities Of the progress of
he material world. 10 say nothing of
rs moral progress We fought Tor the
rights We held under the old consti |
iutinn. made by slave holding aris |
ocracy But We colidrd with the re |
,isiIcss movement of humanity from |
he idea of local sovereignty toward |
Capitalization. solidarity
That's why say Interrupted the
ieacon, your negro question has al
'eady been settled The nation has be-.
.ome reality. not name"
And that is why ! know, deacon
insisted the preacher that We have
iot only not settled this question-we
haven't even faced the issues Nation
llity demands solidarity. And you can
ieVer Get solidarity in nation out Of
wo hostile races that do not inter
marry In democracy yon cannot
'uiid q nation inside Of nation of two
lntagonisllc races. and therefore the
utnre American must Doe either nn
Angio-SaXou or mAlaito And If
nulaito. will the future De- worth dis
issiug:"
Il meyer thought Of II In just that
way" answered the deacon
1t is my work 10 maintain the racial
bsoluiism OF the Anglo Saxon in the
outh. politically. socially. economi-
ally"
But can II be douef I see many
vidcnces Of mixture of blood al
eady.r said the deacon. seriously.
Yes. we are doing IT, This mixture
on observe has no social significance.
ur simple reason IL il all the re-
Mt Of the surviving poIygamous aud
lwless instincts of the white male
'nless by the gradual cncroachments
( time. culture. wealth and political
\ xfsran,.iaS fha tim. comes "a hon "A NO. !