Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-08-11

unpleasant that protects home and loved
ones.
We, by the side of thousands of white
boys, crossed the sea to do that and
found it a joy.
That is the sweetest thing in the ar
ticle.
But I see no occasion for its use.
The better class of negroes will die
with you for virtue sanctity and honor
of the American home.
You found in slavery, in war, in dis
tress the negro a friend and co-laborer
In the protection of the home.
He is no less today because he is free,
but more so because he has a home.
But to the sole point raised about re-
duction of property values, Attorney
Bryant has shown that such is not the
case.
There is no\case in our city or else
where where a eolored man bought prop
erty and was the cause of general de-
probation in surrounding property values.
There are cases where white people
rent property to colored people in So
called white districts, and elsewhere for
that matter, and because they have col
ored tenants fail to keep up the prop
erty and never think of improving 1t.
and Of course values depreciate.
But, when white people sell to col
ored people they generally get good
prices for their property.
They don't sell at sacrifice, and If
their property depreciates the coloFed
people are the ones that sustain it.
The writer stated that the white man
does not question the right of the negro
to own a home, so long as he does not
try TO own that home in a white neigh
borhood
I claim that the white man does not
an American negro owing a home any
where under the Stars and Stripes.
The negro is either an American or he
is not. If he is an American he Is en-
titled TO all tho privileges. rights and
immunities of American citizens.
NO QUARREL
WITH BLACKS.
The writer stated, "we stand ready to
help him in anyway we can, and We
have no quarrel with him on account of
his color
1 deny that this is the position Of the
segregationist, for you can help Us get
the kind OF treatment you freely give
to foreigners.
All of the friction that the segregation
ist is trying reHglously to work up is a
result of a quarrel without color.
But listen. listen, remember the Negro
as a race is not asking for the white
mans help as the segregationist consid-
ers help; he is asking for white mans
chance.
Nothing more and nothing less.
The president OF the Mapleton Civic as.
ISOLATION says, the better class OF self
respecting negroes do not approve OF the
acts Of some Of their misguided people
who persist in doing things that are det-
rimental TO their race and are loud in
their condemnation Of such acts"
OF course, the better class Of colored
people condemn acts Of their own people
that are detrimental, but don't assume
that the better class feels that buying
property even in so-called white dis
trict is detrimental
The writer again says that reputable
colored men realize the necessity for Sc
gregation.
I challenge the president to point out
a single eOlored reputable leader who
believes in segregation as necessity.
There may be few who acquiesced In
II, hoping for a day when character and
not color shall be our chief aim.
But where is the colored man who
believes IN such unAmerlcan infamyy
To accuse US Of having such infamous
ours among our better class is, il true
q serious charge and-the only seeming
justification the writer exhibits.
Strictly speaking, there is no white
district or colored district rule which
gives any Of us the divine right over
communities, 10 say whether black or
white men. blonde or brunette, tai or
low. rich or poor, shall inhabit them.
America IS not Russia, and be whose
character is 1T and money ready shan
live where he wishes in a free country.
We will some day he one In this land.
forgetting our previous national ties and
remembering only America.
Therefore I viii quote the last sen
tence Of the article of Mr.. Deeds, Even
tually, why not now?"
CHARLES SUMNER WILLIAMS, NJ. IN