The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1916-03-17
Debs Flays Birth Of a
Nation" Rap Dis
franchisement
SAYS C0tORED RACE MUST
DEPEND ON ThEmsElvt
Stalwart- Tesre Hat Nan Shows
Csselssively Thaa Msvies Dses
Net Square Viii Historical Facts

M SQu1re WIN 11Sto91col focf9
Recent elections In Terre Hante hsvp
heen - bed - those pictured in The
Birth Of Nasion," which movie shcws
eniorsd militia driving whisrs sway from
the polls in the South, according 70 .
scafhing criticism cf the movie BY E. ".
Dehs, noted Terre Hauee Socialist Debs'
criticism foalows:
THE BIRTH OF A NATION"
EAssos Post: The mevits Of this spec-
taeulai drsma excite bitter comment
whenever it is presented. There 10 no
question that it ID wonderful produc
ton, that many Of lie scenes are tense
and thrilling. and that there is much in
the play 70 approve and commend, bot
Il the anthor's studied purpose Wa 10
insult the blsck race and 70 revive and
Ins,asify the bitter prejudices which grew
out a The war he couId not have better
sncosedsd, andit would be psssine strange
il the coiorsd people did nos prosess
seaiRss certain shocking teatnrss at the
drama - doing them and their rscr
grsaes injusGice.
II y shssauosly ssssntisl 70 The play 10
ssranps ohns hazrusins rspe srsnss.
-. ~ - Ssnnd shsn 90 h shGF|
6abU6 - sad 4o4yhg-dsSt]
susuns soa q - p,sss.sisa osssss rss-
ishine The blsck danghsH bsfore her
psrsn6' eyes?
For every white woman raped in tn
South By black fiend thousand b;ark
women have heen seduced and Outraged
BY white gentlemen. but no hint Of this
10 given m the series Of pictures oompos
ing The Birth of Nation" IL 10 only
The black bruse that 10 guilty, according
10 this and oil other stories written about
The colored man BY Thomas Dixon, the
aashor, who slso calls himself . minister
Of Christ.
FOUR MILLION MULArTOES.
There are four million mulsttoee in
THE country, most Of whom were born
out OF wedlock and all of whom have .
white father or grandfather, and thee
white gentlemen are ready to fight 1t the
drop Of has for white supremacy"
and sgsinss "nieger equality"
The prssended reverence tor Lincoln
IN the play does not &C all square with
Inc fscss Of history. Lincoln was hsssd
with . savage hate by the slave owners
,f the south, and it was this ierocioo
nste that eliminated in his sssassins-
ion, and the reverence now shown him
,n the stare 10 . convenient mssk behind |
which the % me blind hate may vent L.
,rlf npcn the unofending colored man.
SHAMELESS EXPLOITATION.
Let it not be overlooked that all our
hissori<s have been written by white men
md that ooIoeed men had no hand in
Ihsm. They simply had 10 take what
We given them. but even st that tbev
b no denying the fscs tbss from the time
The cososed people we're irss ssoIen from
their native land BY white slsve-trsdeD
whom is were hsssery 10 call brutss, until
the last Law DISTINGUISHING them in The
South wss put inso effect and the lsss
"Jim Grow" car put into c mmiss'on 10
attest their Standing ~ live stock, the
Whole history Of the treatment Of the
coiorsd rsce is one OF shameless exploiss-
ton and degradation, for which the white
rscs can never atone in time nor eternity
n sbe black people to-day could srII
their ssosy about The Birth Of Ne
ton" it would be replese with scenes in
6nisely more cruel and dsmnine than
those bsssd upon Dixon's novel and
flashed upon the screen 10 conceal In
white mans crime behind the colored
mans misicr,une-
kLAN Gi.ORlFIED.
The Kn-Klux- Khan are slorified in
tbess p,csnres - -y,sisss knighss, the
pessopiicatiou of cs,ivsiry and honor,
end ne sod,enc~ spp'snd msdly - shey
dssh 70 the r~srn~ of some imaginary
white vicum Of . bi-ck iepd. hoe care b
taken Mt IN portray any of The ousrses
psrpesssfed upm d~f~ps~i~us, unofsnd-
ine cosorei peopie BY thv-s ssme lswisD
sighssiders
The pscsnres sbo~ ing tlse scens sboss
Ne polling piscps On riecsion dsy usder
cnsosUd domination srv specially cslcu-
Iss~d - snbjsrs the c.'sorsd psop,e % nd
icals and coassDps, snd shs vhiss -
dts.ss s<v~r fs'is N sssess - spprsei-
soioo b ~ asesrs snd eIssso-
LIE IN TERkE HAUTE.
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