Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1917-12-29

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can expect no more help from North
.ern Democrats In resisting the en-.
forcement OF the Fourteenth and Fif.
teenth Amendments. The cry, "No
Force. Bill No Negro Dominauon!,
will fall, upon deaf ears. II the
South is determined to have CEN.
tralized Government that regulates
the personal habits Of the American
people 1t must accept centralized
Government that regulates Negro
franchise and all that pertains there,
to-
This is q threat. Will the North
s,ern Democrats have the nerve to en-
force It? 1t emphasizes 1t in the fol-
lowing language:
s. before many years have passed the
inevitable swing Of the political pen.
quinn VIII bring about a Republican
Cohgrcss-a Congress that Is Repub-
mean p0th IN the House and the Sem
ate When that Congress conyenes It
is certain that another attempt will
i, be made to reduce the representation
of the South. Southern domination
of tine present Congress has not been
agreeable to anybody DIN the North.
Democrat or Republican. Men like
Claude Kitchin have been treatinr
the rest Of the country like con.
quered province, imposing outrageous
burdens OF taxation and giving as lit.
tie rs possible In return. The price
OF wheat for the Northern farmer la
nxed by due process Of law, but the
southern farmer is allowed to charge
ior his cotton, all that, the traffic will
pear and Is demanding more. All
those chickens will come home to
rooat some day.
Ut is time for colored folks to
smile. God Is holding the. destiny OF
nations in His hands, and the destiny
OF some people. All OF these declara-
tons sound good to us. Here are
some more Of tho same kind:
Nobody can object to, the Southern
States imposing the most drastic pro.
hlbitory laws upon themselves, but
when they undertake to rule New
York and Pennsylvania" and Massa.
chas@ts and say what the people OF
those States may eat and drink, then
the Southern Democrats have again
cut Themselves off from the body OF
Northern Democrats as effectually as
they did In 1860 when they demanded
that the Northern Democracy musa
ap1ectly surrender to their views of
the institution of human slavery.
Northern Democrats will no sooner
mink Of surrendering on the Issue of
personal liberty than on the issue OF
slavery, =
If the South is determined ito go
ahead with this insensate policy-if
THIS new, sectionalism of prohibition,
Is to be imposed upon Northern and
Dastern States by the South and Vest
then the Southern Democrats will
nave again taken themselves out Of
the democratic Party and must abide
Dy the consequences, whatever these,
The Northern Democrats aided tho
southern Democrats In denying to
colored. people personal liberty and
now moro than forty years after.
wards they find themselves 'hoist
with his own, petard," Where will the
colored people Of tho North and the
'asuth DO upon this great question {?
VIII they line UP with tho aouthern
people, with whom they have lived fol.
many centuries. or will they support
their new:found friends In the North?
Y This Is a question for careful and
prayerful consideration. Once more
we give voice to the opinion that the
time will yet comes 1t Is not now
at hand, when the white South will
insist upon tho colored citizens exer.
cising the right of suffrage and will
be forward In supporting him In these
rights, The peadulum of Justice the-i'
orr'ettcally, at least, swings as far one
way as 1t does the other and eternal
Justice will yet be done to one of the
hrmblest and kindliest races Of peo-
pie In all Of this land
"For truth will conquer at the last,
AS round and round we rum
And ever the right comes uppermost,
And ever Is Justice done