The Denver star., 1916-07-08
A DEBT DUE
THE BLACK MAN
How Facts Whip Prejudice and Injustice.
Why Can't the Negro Get His Due?

John E Mhoand. after tracing the injunction pro
claim liberty throughout the land and all the Inhabitants
thereof" back to Moses, goes still further.
ut Moses who promulgated the idea of demoC-
racy, he saSs-'Who it then?. Why, the Ethiopian
priest of Mdian, his father in law )ethro In the
imperous requirements Of local situation ehro saw the
foundations of the American Republic and effort to-
ward democracy that the world has throughout the
tervening years..
And for this priceless gift of the Ethiopian how have
in treated his peopehese joyous people, who in
he birth that which only get when sitting the
starboard side of cream layout uttt frutt This
Marx Tapey quality ir the coored is overwhelming
If slavery, and the aftermath of slavery through
which they passing would have made them misan
thropes anarchists form enemies of establish
ed society What other would with what they
have suffered and still remain good citizens and loyal the
government that refuses the lives and their
Ierty2
"In for what the Ethiopian has given in the
fundamental of that form of government which and
enjoy today Of for and by the people,
turn for human liberty as the ,e meaning what it
plies today freedom of speech by Jury
absences of class and all forms Of
the king business we have treated people
bominable manner impossible to characterize.
To-day the Negro of the South all intents and
dfranchised In the region south Of the
Potomac wherein reside the overwhelming majority the
million cooed citizens of the United States, Negro suf
frage negligible quantity 1t is practically abolished
Why? Because the Negroes poor and gnorant2 Ger
ta,nly not The 10 o. which is the only one
percent fully terae. OF the $4,000 registered Negro
the State of Alabama than could
and More than OF these Coored citizens
owned their little farms Nearly 5000
part More than 10000 cash tenants and
nearly share There fully
colored male teachers the public and private schools
State There colored merchants, bankers, law
editors physicians and ministers to the number of
less than 5000 all Yet of all this army less than
per centhave been allowed since the alleged
doton of the State constitution which from the stand
point of equity if not OF law is worth the
which written. Why, DR.. Booker Washington him
admitted that all he times compel ed
the Democratic ticket In lalapoosa county with
la coored population Of than only Negro
allowed in the entire Even Negro prnci-
pals coored schools denied registra,ion.
"Just think ofit-eleven millions of American citizens
|dened representation in the Cabinet in the Con-
gress scarcely the Legislatures of the various States
oftentimes unfairly, and always unrepresened
the very upon which the Revolution Of IS based
No other people in the United States discrmn mated
gainst in this The Irish the Germans. the Norweg
Poles the Jews Indians
ed in the government but Coored Congressman has
been in Washington George White driven from
public lie in consequence Of the Wilmington
ago This is ndeensble, and all this chatter about Negro
,omn alton is silly to talk about. 1t is par with
the defense OF vnching when from the Potomac
the Rio Grande entirely in the hands Of white
TO put it forth necessity for the protection Of
Southern womanhood is hypocrisy daft. 1t is
white but coored womanhood that needs protection Any
man familiar with conditions knows that where white
attacked by the conventional BLACK brute there
are thousand girls seduced bv white men.
"lt is question Of virtue, but ambition for power
the State and in the naon that constitutes
driving the anti Negro crusade and has been
since the There prejudice in the South