The Denver star., 1915-06-05
The People
Are Saying.


All Unite In Condemning Birth Of Nation"
1t is undoubtedly that the agitation carried by
organization by other Organizations and individuals
have helped advertise Dixons wretched ;m play At
the it also that unusual extent the
friends Of the Negro and of fair play in general have
been rallied the side of Justice and this easy thing
accomplish Even the New York OUTLOOK which loses few
opportunities the inhuman side of problems
says
The difficulty which Mr. Dixon as purveyor of history
lis that he is historian. historian only
true incidents from the past but he is airminded and
impartial that the incidents and
typical Many of the effective and most misleading
scenes in The Birth of Nation doubtess occurred
time somewhere in the South Chosen the whole pict
of the Reconstruction period however they unfair
and vicious Mr. Dixon has singletrack mind and the
track leads only through unpleasant He is
and dangerous He questions only
broad potches Of black and white He knows but side
Southern life. the problem OF Aryan and African
"As Mr. Dixon rightly believes and dramatically shows
the American Nation born from the travail of civil
and the injustice the period and therefore,
hshoto drama eopenng of the wounds of the
white North the white South The evil in The Birth of
Nation lies in the fact that the play both denial of the
power of DEVELOPMENT within the ee Negro and an exaa
tion of race war
The film has been defended the ground that while it
may portray unpleasant things it is historically true.
hat this defense is unwarranted has been shown
number of The Hon Albert E. Pisbury of Boston,
says in the Boston HERALD:
The play like the book The Clansman, which is
founded is gross perverson of period of history
about which the people have been persstenty lied for
generation Even the eminent historians the
truth about the interest suppose of national harmony
mean the reconstruction period; the leading of the
BOOK and presumably of the play being to install the belief
that the reconstruction OF Congress only fool
sh but wicked inspired by malice deerm
naton the of the Republican party by
humiliating the white people Of the South
There is and was, shadow Of truth in the
On the contrary the southern whites brought
themselves the msfortunes of the reconstruction
Enthusiastically they brought themselves the caamte
of :he which reconstruction followed. No sooner
they renvested with political power than they made
their first of nuy emancipation and restore the
Negro virtual slavery The proofs of this in the stat
books of the southern they familiar all who
have tried learn the truth and they nnumeabe
and this alone that compelled Congress- in order
to the Negro his personal liberty interfere
and all the grievances of reconstruction followed upon this
single circumstance for which the white South direct
lily responsible as it was for the rebellion
The New York Evening LOBE continues:
TO the members of the women chasers
and foul fends is cruel distortion of history Bad things
occurred but what will that the outrages of black
white equaled the outrages of white black
Which the day has the better right
complain of the unfairness and brutality of the oher'
The very Of The Birth of nation not merely a
of independent was born during the com
struggles of the Revolutionary War; and devoted him
self cementing the Ii insult Lincoln and
great motives inspiring him when he called to resist
the attempt denatonalize nation This nation of
was not born between 1861 and 1865 and will profit
from trying to prevent history.
white this country have been black
men,"
Ex-Congressman Samual w. Mccall says in the Boston
ADVERTISER:
As to the il one i. ignorant of its Grim
character and of brrnngs and other deest
able cmes let him the Of the trials the u S.