The Denver star., 1916-03-18
What Shall We Do
To Be Saved?
Lawyer Townsend Writes Segregation in St. Louis
and Declare. Embers are Smoulde1ing Here.


and Declares Embers Smouldering Here
Editor Star:-The Negroha been told repeatedly since
his freedom that to be real citizen. he educate him
self and and become burden shar
ing citizen Stimulated by that wholesome advice the Negro
reduced his ieracy 80 and acquired
erty-unt the South in particular fourth farm
operated and owned by bim and in addition that the
,oooooo million Negroes diftused throughout the
United States 100000 homes This is indeed marvel
progress made in few eeng from slavery by
who riendess, penness, homeless without name
without dollar and without foot OF land In the strug
gle Negro believed that he could depend the
of this country to protect him in the exercise OF
his freedom and his rights Was Lord Byron right
he characterized democracy ian arsocracy of
black guards Mazzin telling the truth when he de
hned democracy as the of all through ALL under
the leadership of the wisest and best? However. it will
remembered that Detockviile that democracy
will the majority refuse the rights Of the
minority In the election at ST. Louis democracy
was on majority refused the rights OF
the minority hunated them and conscated and took
their property and property rights without compensa
without due of law under the slogan
which has place the definition OF democracy
This supporters of segregation knew They knew that
ON the question injustice interest
hate, discrimination and deprivation of rights
While the other side the fundamental principles of
American democracy-justce liberty and equality of
perty rights Let dsress to ask. where the
pubcans of city who have regularly told the Negroes
of their friendship and who cultivate them from the
about edom and equal rRhts-before election tmes1
wonder where those democrats who regularly
solve about "ther Jefersonum Democracy7 From the
election all of them have gotten into the Melt
no DOT" and ad their political pocivtes melted in large
for segregation They voted deprive the
Negroes that city of the right live in and their
property if it be in white neighborhood When they did
that they knew the time that they enacting into
their and hatred and restricting the
of class of citizens 1t not be saying
too much when declare that American democracy and its
institutions government long
upon the rights of citizens were embodied in the segrega
If Bv
the fundamental principles upon which this government
founded often difficult the life of democra
lcv What has st. Louis? Is she the victim
or etharxy and backsm1 Has she awakened from
the Rip VanWinke sleep ard found that her
walls have passed her in their onward arch
population business a.tiveIy1 And did she
unlawful backward advertise the world
she is not dead, but only sleeping? The fact Of the
adoption ordinance will be disasterous old
|St Louis Its citizens for years have been trying call
attention of the world her wide awake enterpsng
people inviting others there take advantage
the commercial opportunities and to invest capital But
atlas moor Yorick' She has hung the sign the
as being where white people by Negroes
that there is Negro domination in St Louis and that
people cannot fair chance in business and
not able their rights the Negro
m en of that city. What St. Louis has done to the Ne
is and places her justly back the dark
ages committing crimes that committed upon
Iews by confnng behind the pales This treatment
of any class Of citizens inexcusabe he Negroes
in the land of his birth risk limbs and yield up
his life in the consuming fires of the battle field that the ap
which has had baptism in his blood and shall
continue float in undsputed supremacy land
unconouered and urconquerabe! That flag symbozes
all men who have beneath its folds the right individual
ppness restrained only when it nvades the equal
rights of fellow citizen. 1t symbozes the "Accounta-