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but tho one "choico" and that IL
the dcspotic will that orders it.
RMS same Congressman said that
This Is white mans country. Whose
country is this when thorc is a war
10 be fought Whose blood and
brain and Drawn made this country
homo and nation. Docs this
congressman mean to deny the lust
claims Of the Red and Black and
Brown men who helped to make this
country what it is? This white
mans country idea is born or dcs-
potism. 1t bellies the very Lincoln
Principle of Democracy, when it is
termed: GOVERNMENT OF THE
PEOPLE, BY TIE PEOPLE. AND
FOR THE PEOPLE.
No question is settled until it is
settled right. This is as true today
as when first uttered Listen to the
words OF one Of the acknowledged
leaders Of civilizations:
cit was but an historical accident
no doubt that this great country was
called the United States and vet I
"'h WY tlat IL mas the
word United in it's title, and TIE
MAN WHO SEEKS TO DIVIDE
MAN FROM MAN, GROUP FROM
GROUP, INTEREST FROM INTER-
EST is STRIKING AT IT'S VERY
Observation-Disclosures Wilson,
Race discrimination is wrong
because 1t violates great principle.
The principle involved is the Justice
Of Equal Human Rights. This prin-
ciDlc may be stated rs follows:
All who arc required to live by n
law shall have been givon n just
part in tho making OF that law.
The justice of a law lives in the
spirit of righteousness underlying
the letter of it,
An unjust law is but legalizod
Seliishness, Greed, Prejudice, Ty-
ranny.
a just law Is perpendicular; it ca
tends from Man to God.
An unjust law is horizontal; be-
meath 1t are tho oppressed. above it
the opprossors.
Even the rule OF the majority
must be the Golden Rule.
A good public sentiment is as just
as good law; 1t Is the spirit OF
peace.
A bad public sentiment is moro
unjust than a bad law; it is law
lessnesS.
In regard to tho last statement,
let me say that tho South, with it's
unjust laws OF segregation, is moro
cOmmendable than the parts of
America where there arc just laws;
but unjust practices against Colorcd
people.
Again, wo read in your hook:
'Intermarriago would result In
mcdiocrity that would plunge us all
into the swift downward course
that leads to the extinction of all
hybrids."
a mule is a hybrid, Mr.. George,
but NegroidC Caucasian is not n
hybrid, in the true sense of the word.
No known blood-relation between
the races renders their offspring
sterile. This significant fact seems
to prove, beyond any other evidence,
that God hath made OF one blood
all nations of men to dwell on the
face of the earth"
You devote more than four pages
Of your booklet to quotation from
the book of one Seth X. Humphrey,
who wrote "Mankind." Mr.. Hum
phrey term American Colorcd Peo-
pie as: "Negro-White" and claims
that the have advanced only because
of their intermixture with the white
race. Here is a typical example of
this mans bosh:
"There is no initiative in the full
blood Negro to follow the White
mans way, however well he may be
taught to do 500
Now, it seems to me that the fell
low who has mo initiativo'-"to
follow" may possess that more valu-
able initiative to lead. In the Ian
guage Of the army: Watch that
guy!" Personally, I have never
heard OF the initiative that follows
but shall not say "there is no sucl
animal An imitator follows, but
the man with initiative, under
stand, is the one who can do things
without having to be told how to dc
them. Or, in the words of FUNK
AND WAGNALLS NEW STANDARD
DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH
LANGUAGES: liability for origina
conception and independent action. .
The apparent differences between
minds are mainly due to develop.
mont, or lack of development. DR.
Russell II. Conwell, in his book, en-
titled. HOW A SOLDIER MAY sue.
CEED AFTER THE WAR, has &
chapter headed, "The Negro and Iii:
Book" He relates the story of &
Negro who was born a slave in Mis-
sissippi. AS TO his personal dc
scrption, | quote DR.. Conwcll:
His lips were thick. hi:
features rjdiculous He was like
the negro President Lincoln de
Scrihod whom n coi1 fbot 90 y,;oco 4,