The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-01-17

gage as if it is already loaded with
bombs. l ask is this too good fol-
these, My answer is firm.
But why should I, true and
tried friend of this country and
its people be so branded in the
in the eyes of all Children will
ask Why do these have to leave
now? What will the answer be-?
My child will ask why did we
have to leave the comforts in
here and be crowded into this
place? What should my answer
be?
When we went to war with Great
Britain, France sent some of it's
best soldiers and helped us to
win in the great struggle, so when
the recent war broke out we gladly
mingled the stars and stripes with
her tri-colors to help overthrow
the earth's most insolent empire.
England has bowed to the spirit
of arbitration and settled, without
bloodshed some questions of very
great magnitude, so in this re-
cent war we also entwined Eng
glad's lion with these colors. Craft
tude seems to call forth kindness
for kindness for all, bun for the
people Of my race. We have by
our faithfulness purchased our
faithfulness purchased our rights
of citizenship in this the land of
the free, and yet we have injustice
upon injustice heaped upon us.
Better Rules for Cattle.
Texas will pass a law for a cat
tie train and will demand that
cattle be stopped within so many
hours and watered and fed. But
woman of my race with six chill
dren is forced to ride all the way
from Texarkana to Ell Paso, the
distance of about SOC miles,
crowded into a small compartment
into which the conductor and
brakeman have put all their junk
with no place for the little ones
to sleep, no place to eat, and not
allowed to eat in a single eating
house along the road.
The Negro has witnessed more
than 29,O0O,0O0 foreigners receive
these privileges that are denied
him, just for crossing the Atlantic
and having declared their inten-
ton of becoming American citizens.
He has stood by and has not COM
planned as he has seen the key to
every American institution from
the coal mine to the White House
turned over to these foreigners
while the Negro himself has re-
a foreigner here in the
land of his birth / say an alien
because the Negro has never re-
ceived the full rights of American
citizenship. The Bill of Lading
was delivered to him in the 18th,
14th and 18th Amendments to the
Constitution but the package has
never come. My people stand today
peer as the most unpro-
tected class of people in America.
After giving the figures of last
years lynching record he discussed
with unusual candor, the report of
The Congregational Committee on
which showed that
The percentage of crime among
foreign born was more than three
lines that of Negroes. In speak
ng of remedies for present con-
litions he said.
1t is my opinion that this ques-
ion has been dealt with largely
rom the wrong points of the tri-
lngle. The triangle of cooperation
las been set in the wrong way.
Thus far, in large degree, the
Joint of the triangle has been
urned down and the bad people of
10Th races have been too far apart.
This triangle must be turned up
he other way so that the bad of
9th races will be put far apart
nd the best of both races will
e brought close. together for these
onditions must be settled and I
Torked out along lines that are
satisfactory to both races.
1t is gratifying to those of Rev.
friends here to know t
hat he is not as always, tn think v
r and student as well as the o
Ugh minded, plain spoken cham
ion of full and strict American =
i'm for his people. v