The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-09-20
Preacher Dickson
Joins The Flock
of Race Adjusters

your paper for the last twelve years.
Your editorials for the last four weeks
have said many things in defense of
the negro, for which we beg to thank
you.
Your editorials few days ago on
this race proposition were the best l
have ever read. l am travelling and
speaking to our people all the time; I
have never witnessed so much unrest
in the country in my life. But l am
appealing to our white friends
throughout the country-those of you
who have demonstrated friendship for
the negro at any and all times. l
appeal to you at this critical moment
to continue your faith in the negro.
The negro is just as loyal today as
he was the day he was emancipated.
When you were fighting in the Civil
War, he cut the sprouts and titled the
soil, and protected your wives and
children while you were away from
home. The negro, as a race, is just
as loyal today.
There are some conditions under
which the negro is suffering that you
good people who are running the
country, and who have the laws in
your hands, must look into:
The negro must be permitted to
have sway at the industrial pursuits
of life. The negro is farmer-a
truck gardener. He is adapted to this,
and all he wants is an opportunity
to show himself, but there are some
conditions on the farm in the country
where the negro is hampered. Let
the farmers give them better houses,
better tools to farm with, protection
on the farm as in the city, and l will
assure you the negroes throughout
the South will play their part.
l have spent five weeks looking
into and seeking information as to
this restless condition:
First / find that there is no negro,
from one side of this State to the
other, who wants social equality.
There is not a negro in Texas that
can find that would stand for min
Ute for said equality or the amalgama-
ton of the races. The negro wants to
perpetuate his own existence. He real
ICES that God made him black man,
and the same God also made the
white man. The negroes of this
country do not want to mix from So
cial standpoint. They want each man
to work his own side of the street.
They want to inculcate closer coop
Grafton, relationship, and, in that way,
be helpful to each other.
They realize that the white man
controls this country, realize that he
ought to, because he possesses the in
telligence and wealth. The negro
realizes that he is the under dog, and
needs help, and while he realizes that
he wants the blue FLOODED Anglo-Sax-
on to give him chance.
We desire to say to the public and
to the world, that we do not believe
that any Northern white man or
Northern negro can come down here
and do us any good. The negro in
the South and the white man in the
South must, work out their own sal
walton. We realize that we have a
problem-a problem that must be set
tied between the Southern white man
and the negro.
| expect to attend the national Bap-
list convention, which will convene in
Norfolk, Va, on the 18th day of Sep
TENDER. | expect to address 10000
of the representative negroes through
out the South, and l expect to lay it
upon the hearts of those leaders that
they, too, must help settle the minds
of the irresponsible and restless class
of our people.
/ expect to say to the Northern Ne
gro and the Northern white man to
take their hands off, and let us solve
our own problems. | came to Texas
in 1865. ] have been here ever since.
The Negroes pay taxes in Texas on
S20,000,000 worth of property. We
were just born Comparatively speak
ing) the other day. The Negroes arc
paying taxes in the city OF Dallas on
S2,070,0O0. The Negroes in Texas
are buying farms and property in the
city many owning ranches-five Ne
gro banks in the State-any number
of real estate and business men Of
every profession-large stores.
And while hey were turned loose
ignorant, without an education, they
have been able to make such record
as this. They have their own lawyers,
their own doctors, dentists, preachers;
their own colleges and schools, all in
the South. Two thirds of all the Ne
groes in America are in the South.
We want to appeal to the Southern
white man to give us chance. Let
us have peace. Let us have fellowship
along cooperative lines. Let the Ne
gro build up for his race an autocracy
of virtue and Christian integrity. We
realize that there is a great improve
ment here for the Negro to make, and
he must be given a chance to make
that. He must seek the cooperation
of his white brother, but of one blood.
God created all Nations, races and
nationalities-let us have peace. And
we would suggest that the leading
white men of this State, call meet
ing with the leading Negroes, by this
plan reaching a more congenial meth
cd which we can all pursue.
The Negro is here. He is not going
away. He is not all going to be
killed. And since that is true, let us
have peaceful relationship; let him
buy more land, improve his home.
Let the American white man so reg
ulate his laws that the Negro can pro-
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