Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-11-25
EUH Results of Race Prejudice
ElOquently Described by Martinez

The address of Hon. Felix Martinez.
which was read from the platform Of
she armory yesterday afternoon. was
one Of the really notable contributions
90 the oratory of the teachers con-
vention. Owing 10 his illness. Mr.
Martinez was unable To deliver the
address in person, and it was read by
NJ L. Fox.
MIR. Martinez speech was as fol-
lows:
No one could ask for greater COM
uliment or stronger endorsement than
The kindness of your MANAGEMENT IN
honofing me with q request 10 adj
dress this most important convention
If cultivated minds and progressive
thought. for you are the active dis
Seminators Of knowledge and wisdom
10 the multiplied thousands with
whom YOU come in daily contact, and
indeed. deeper and more far-reaching
than that--into daily communion
being actually engaged in the task of
constructive character building.
So there could be no more fertile
field than through this gathering Of
teachers and educators, for the SOW
ing Of seed, where bountiful and null
tiplied harvests may rightfully be eX-
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now it chances TO be the opportune
time to organize for the eradication
az the cancerous evils with which we
arr, confronted.
Effect being the result of cause,
and a proven fact, what little seed
has been sown on the subject ] am
asked to speak on. evidently produced
satisfactory results, thus doubling my
encouragement
In addressing you on The Evil Re
suits of Race Prejudice must If
7 do my duty. speak in a clearer vein
and more to the point that is custom
ury where imaginary political reser-
vations are made.
Importance of Convention.
Fellow citizens, teachers and edu-
Gators. while your life is necessarily
one of constant study may l be per
mitted to ask; Have you actually
experienced the impression in your
minds and hearts that there is not
nor can there be, a greater medium
or more powerful avenue for the dis
semnation of thought and impress
ing the mind and heart of mankind
than the very nature of this state
wide. world-reaching gathering?
Why
because Whatever YOU tAAiSL III
your book of ethics to be taken up
and developed in the routine Of your
daily work, is not a mere suggestion
to your listeners, but an unqualified
command, thus Installing q positive
life impression, making it part of
character itself.
Permit me tosindulge in harboring
the thought and emphasizing the be-
lief this most vital of all questions
and the most corroding OF evils, race
prejudice, can be taken up by your
profession throughout the land as by
no other organization, and absolutely
eradicated. if it is combatted with
due persistence and zeal.
When we consider that no one can
contradict the philosophy that the
greatest achievement in life and the
nearest to perfection, is to live, to
work for the benefit of mankind,
then the doing Of the contrary, or
even tolerating it, is permitting a
weakness, which in time becomes a
vice instilling this awful evil Of race
prejudice, and communicating the
human fabric to the degree of caus-
ing the most terrible disasters in null
tiplied forms. and preventing us from
doing duty that would bring about
universal blessings
Now. my friends, let us face the
truth, as dsagreeable as it may be.
Race EgOtism a Cancer.
For a conclusive proof, a clear and
timely illustration of the barbarity,
destructive Influence and depravity of
this awful cancer, race egotism, self
superiority and vanity, beginning
with personalities of individuals,
breeding envy, hatred, political, So
cial and personal antagonisms and
countless wrongs let us look at the
unprecedented mutual and suicidal
destruction now at its height in our
brother continent, Europe!
What else but selfish ambitions de-
veloped by race vanity in its worst
form, has brought about this awful
cataclysm and conflagration, without
even the sembance of a moral eX-
cuse?
AS long as the German entertains
the thought that he is better than the
Englishman; the Englishman, that
he is superior to the German; the
Russian that the car, by divine right,
has the authority to command and
can make no mistake; the French
man that his is the greatest race; the
Spaniard that he is the proudest and
greatest OF all, and all Othef natlons
in the same strain, they, unconscious
~ by their very state Of existence
arc secretng virulent poison in all rs
forms which in due time asserts It's
fatal effect by destroying each other
For 2 time the victims of this curse
use policy (so-ealled) to prevent the
eruption of the volcano over which
they live, taking points in deceptive
methods which they call diplomacy
while working at fever heat prepar-