The Twin City star., 1914-02-27
IMPORTANCE OF
HUMAN JUSTICE
Or. E. R. Shippan Praises
Work Of Lincoln.
DELIVERS GREAT SERMON.

Detroit Gives His Views on the Prob.
lem Of Manhood Rights a. Il Relates
to Afro. .Amerieans-True Meaning Of
| Emancipation.
By FRANCIS II. WARREN.
Detroit, Mich.-My interest was
much aroused when I read the an
nouncement In the daily press Of this
city that the Rev. DR.. Eugene Rodman
Shipper, pastor Of the First Unitarian
church, Woodward avenue and ed
mund place, would preach sermon on
''The Negro, Our Brother" as q pre-
lude to the general celebration of Lin
coins birthday, and l at once deter
mined to hear that sermon.
was first to arrive at the church
A good sized congregation turned out
to listen to this learned divine talk
upon this burning subject just one
month after the now famous DR.. Joel
II. Spingarn addressed mass meet
Ing of 1900 people ut the Second Bap-
list church.
Shows Oneness Of the Human Family.
DR.. Shipper took for his text the
twenty-sixth verse of the seventeenth
chapter Of Acts, HE hath made Of one
blood all nations Of men," He in part
said:
The anniversary Of the birth of Abra-
ham Lincoln brings to our attention the
| 20 called race problem. Lincoln wrestled
with the problem that our attention is
| called to today. Emancipation In his time
| related to the freedom Of man to do what
he pleased with his own person and labor,
freedom to 60 and come and move about.
Emancipation today means different
freedom. It means the freedom Of the
Negro to enjoy all the civil rights and to
receive just administration Of the law.
| There has been q reaction toward greater
pre1udice, and race prejudice Ii now found
north al we'll as south. The north can
no longer point its finger Of shame at the
south.
A young woman possessing q trace Of
Negro blood was employed In q large De.
troit establishment for three years. Civ.
Ing satisfactory SERVICE before It was
learned that she possessed Negro blood,
when she was Immediately discharged. !
shall not make further comment on the
act, but the problem has become national
| In it, scope The Negro has been polit-
ically disfranchised In some states. II is
| said that some Of them will sell their
votes for q drink Of liquor. but this 10
not Negro popularity, There are hum
dreds Of white men who will do the same
thing. II there is to be discrimination In
permitting people to vote II should be
rational discrimination based upon edu.
cation or other like qualification. but not
upon race or color in this democratic ma
tion
Country Should 30 Ruled by the People
Whites don't want to be ruled by the
blacks. Neither do the blacks want to be
ruled by the whites. We want neither
white nor black to rule. We want a rule
Of all the people. az Lincoln advocated In
his great speech at Gettysburg. Industri-
ally the Negro faces many hardships
Even II he has the slightest trace Of Negro
blood he meets with ostracism and exclu-
sion from many fields Of employment.
Many employers would employ Negroes.
but their workmen interpose serious OBJ
joctions to working with their colored
brethren. which II Q grave wrong against
humanity.
In the face Of such conditions It is no
wonder that so many Negroes find their
way to criminal lives No colored man
may now 60 through West Point or An
napolis notwithstanding there Ia no law
to prevent 1t Is simply the fact that
state. There are at least nine great col
leges north OF Mason and Dixon's line,
where life Is made miserable for Negro
students. The refined and educated Negro
meets with many difficulties when trav
cling and he Is often denied the courte'
sies and accommodations due refined peo-
pie, while a white man. though he be In.
ferior, is made entirely welcome and &C
corded every courtesy.
Negroes have souls as well as We How
any one can willfully injure one with such
impunity Is simply inconceivab'e I am
not concerned with the question Of social
equality. That takes care Of itself. Ev-
cry man has the absolute and inherent
right to select his own associates, and
that question does not enter into the dis
cussion. Due to the agitation OF enemies
Of the race. for the first time disc"mina-
ton is being prncticed against Negroes In
the governmental departments. know
from personal experience there has been
no friction between the white and colored
employees at the nations c"ptal who
have worked side by side for more than
generation President Wilson promised
Just and fair Christian treatment to the
Negroes before his election, and those OF
US who admire him most expect the most
from him and q faithful performance Of
his promise.
Mako linsoin's Ideals Effective.
The failure to give the Negro civil JUS
tice was nothing to the failure to give him
legal justice. The defender Of lynching is
the defender Of murder. The Negro suf-
fers through no fault Of his own. He Is
what the great God Of nature has made
him. They are now preparing to build
great 5000. 900 monument to Lincoln This
will be erected Of marble and cement. but
the truest and most lasting monument
that could be erected to the memory Of
the greatest Of Americans would be to