Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1920-07-31
MIR. w. \. BIsYANS REPLIES TO
MIR TILLNiAN ON THE JIM
GROW QUESTION.

Turtle Creek, Pa, July %, 1920.
Richmond Planet, Richmond, Va,
: Dear Editor,-In your issue Of July
10, 1920, you published q letter from
one Steve T.. Tillman, who calls you
to account for your editorial on the
Jim-crow cars Of the Southland. Mr..
Tillman, If he has not read the story
of Hannah and Mordecai | would ad-
wise him to do so. He may be OF the
opinion that while the Southland is
in sway and i'll the saddle and has
control Of the affairs Of the inhuman-
ity to man, as conducted in many
parts OF this, the home Of the free
and the brave, that the king whom he
. delights to honor would have all the
Negroes in the Southland bowling
down TO him. But the story tells us
what became of Hannah.
He asks the question: of you were
white, would you be in favor of some
one out of proportion colored lady sit
herself along side of you, would you
like it. Your answer rs no.
PLEASING TO NEGRO-HATERS.
mans type would have you give, in
order that he and his kind could have
the excuse to place on the, statute
books of the Southern commonwealth
more laws Of such nature in order to
keep down a progressive people. or
as lie puts 1t, keep them in their place
AS he would measure ii out to them
The Negro must not look up or at
RI 1cly PNr hat nr
conditions in which to raise his family
as in the days Of Daniel and his three
friends.
But God in those days did not allow
all Of the imps to have full sway, so
, in this day and Year of our Lord, 1920
as i'm the days of 776, when Patrick
Henry threw off the British yoke and
cudgel with all the force that God
had given him, with, '"Give me liberty
or give me death" In like manner
I say to the colored race in these
United States Of America to put on the
whole OF manhood that God has given
them by being men under all afflic-
tons and prove to the world that they
are men in every sense Of meaning
Of the word men.
A QUESTION TO MIR. TILLMAN.
I would ask Mr.. Tillman: Suppose
he was colored man and had all his
life and his family since before the
days Of July 4, 1776 enjoyed all of
the freedom in the Northland and one
who had taken part in all the wars to
make this land fit and proper place
to live in for all men. would he, Mr..
Tillman feel like submitting to all
insults that have been put on the
cOlored race by the lower elements
and the very imps of hell itself. if
there was any manhood in him?
Would he not do all that it would
be possible for him as a man and
a citizen OF the u. S. a. to have his
rights and pursue them and his own
happiness and that Of his family?
Would Mr.. Ti,man like it?
QUESTION or COLLABORATION.
Now, Mr.. Tillman, If Booker IT.
Washington's advise to keep his own
race Of the Southland as separate as
the fingers, was needed, the many
ghosts that are haunting him would
disappear; namely the intermmgling
and co-habiting of the races and the
past shows. conclusively that the white
man will not let the colored woman
pass by without the eye Of lust fol-
lowing her, and yet to be seen in a
seat Of some conveyance with her, is
stencil to his nostrils.
Mr.. Tillman asks what right has
the Negro to want or ask for such
privileges OF the white man. First,
history tells me that the first life to
be offered in behalf Of liberty was a
Negro and besides, sir, the Negro