Phoenix tribune., 1919-02-22

WHO is GUILTY?


from partaking of the joys of the true
and everlasting democracy of Amer.
lea?
'Tis the disloyal American who kin.
died on the altar of race pride and
hatred an unquenehable fire, which
the weary struggle of many years has
modified into a deep-seated contempt
Gus resentment and a righteous indig-
nation, but which now has blossomed
forth into an insuperable determine
tion to surmount all impediments and
climbing rung by rnng up the tedious
ladder of our aspirations, "over the
top" into the full glory of matchless
achievements Achievements which
will qualify and give us unlimited ad-
mission into the freedom of domoc.
racy which is now enjoyed by our
more favored brothers.
While we are not unaware of the
overwhelming odds against us and
While we are not ignorant that we
may be numerically weaker, yet We
are convinced we are not intellect
ually or morally inferior since tho
greater of our stunted intellect and
bad morals are handed down to us in
the guise of the sins of our sires and
their defenseless slaves.
Who are they that crush and op-
press us, laughing to scorn our every
efi0lt at the self-assertion CT our ad-
vanced ideas and principles?
Tis they, who are content tJ grovel
in the blood-lost and Illicit passion of
prof'igate predecessors, VIII never
achieved or persued but stayed indol-
emily by their demoralized standard.
The sons they are of the innovators
of new and illegitimate race in this
country, race whose only heritage
from the father is the imputation of
a vile and infamous name, whose only
legacy is an innate desire to appease
their bestial passion 'Tis they who
have forgotten that their grand
fathers (and some of ours, tool, were
The prime factors in the breeding of
evil in he Negro race. 'Tis they who
laugh at our poverty and want, while
they feast off the fat things of the
land which the toll worn hands Of
our progenitors have produced. The
idle slackers who flaunt their wealth
in our faces; the wealth which oui
slave ancestors poured into their cof-
fers, mid stripes and groans and sweat
and tears. Leaden weights they are
that drag helpless race deep into
degradation and plunge them into
wanton wickedness. Spots they are
and blemishes that deface with i'm
punity the noble character of the
whole moral law; livid spots of shame,
dripping with the innocent blood of the
maltreated and wantonly seducted!
Blemishes they are on the face of
the worlds history which forced the
virginity of our race into the perpet-
uation of an unlawful race whose
dowry is the utter detestation of the
fathers race and the unlimited pity
and tolerance of the mothers race.
But fellow racers" let not our hearts
be troubled, for what is sown must
be reaped," but rather let us see to it
that the seeds we ale sowing are good
and of the proper kind that when har-
vest comes we may not be disap pooint-
ed and dishonored. Let us build our
houses on the sclid rock of truth and
justice, that, when the fury of His
wrath shall sweep over the land adj
justing differences and establishing
right and equitp, we be not shaken or
alarmed but sit steadfastly by and
watch the good work go on.
Oh! brothers, pray that the holy
spirit of truth and justice lead us from
one degree of justice up to another,
until from the lowest depth of human
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mounted to the highest pinnacle of
our ambition, until we can once more
stand before the world, our garments
all white and shining, pure race and
spotless, whose vesture is cleansed of
all the mutilating spots which have
been stamped and restamped upon the
pure and protesting souls of defense
less race; an invincible conqueror
from whom the shackles of degeneracy
and illiteracy have been shaken; a
freed man from whom the fetters of
hatred and all thoughts of useless re-
taliation have been removed; being
tried by the triple headed fires of a
cruel and INSCRIPTIONS race, who
though tried came out brighter for the
burning, pure gold which knows no