The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-09-18
WILL GIVE JUSTICE
5AMERICAsWILL, .NOT.FAIL
COLORED PEOPLE .
SAYS SENATOR HARDING IN ADDRESS TO
ECOLORED DELEGATIONS

your blood. America needs the deep
religious faith. She needs it whether
it comes from Catholic, Jew or
Protestant. She needs it in her
citizenship, andzI recognize that the
best of America is our spiritual life
and not our material possessions, and
that if America ever let her spiritual
life die, she will no longer be the
land we love. <E : .:..-<.
"The expression Of that spiritual
life, alive in the hearts Of the people
Of your blood, has, l. believe, been
the basis for the achievements of the
American colored man. They are great
and amazing achievements. They
have been wrought not from words
nor: false claims, but by patience,
tolerance, restraint, and by the earn
ed, rewards Of that merit, capacity
and worth in citizenship Of which &
have spoken : =. IN
y .ssILet. alt true Americans know that
the. census of 1910 showed that, over
81 per cent of the men and 81 per,
cent Of the women Of your blood
were gainfully Employed, is larger
percentage in both cases; than the
rest Of US Americans. "a. TX; -. !: II :
.7sas Set America know :. that :. the
churches of the scolored, race have in
creased; during a little more. than
half q century from 100 to as. 900.
Let her know that home owners have
increased from IL, 600 to soc. 600. and
farms operated from 10000 to one
million. :, Lets America 4! know that
hteracy a1nolae, y: colored people has
climbed from 10 per cent to 80: per
cent. '.S%% ~ ~ 70. 100
:'Let: all true Americans, know and
recognize that during TIE war the
colored race Of America Invested one
dollar out Of every. five they owned
in war bonds. Let them know that
100000 colored boys were in our
army; with only one case of" convic-
ton for avoiding the draft. ~ =
'*': ~|% Let Us Not Forget. +: 4. .:
p "But, when we Americans of what.
ever color, render tribute to the
record of the colored American. let
us not forget to render tribute to
America under whose institutions and
among whose people their record was
made. For. tell you-and through
you I tell all Americans-that if vo1,r
people have progressed in, 50 amazing
and inspiring manner, it must have
been that America gave you oppor:
tunity. If you have risen by your
merit. capacity, and worth, and mot
by agitation and violence and revolt
against our institutions, it is proof
that you. have prospered under ou1
institutions, and have loved them
If the men and women of YOU,
blood have given, as we all desired
to give, great 'outpouring of treas
ure and blood upon the altar oil
patriotism, it is because the truth
was in your hearts-America has Civ
en- you her great blessing of Justice
Good American Citizenship.
'You have it, and YOU shall have
IT. 1t will be good American citizen
ship and will continue to accord il
to your people. If have anything
to do with it, it shall also be good
American obedience to law. Brutal
and unlawful violence whether il
proceeds from those who break the
law or from those who take the law
into their own hands, can only be
dealt with in one way by true Amer.
leans: whether they be of your blood
or Of mine.
Gear not! Here upon this be.
. loved soil you shall have that Justice
that every man and woman of us
knows would have been prayed fol
by Abraham Lincoln. Fear not! Your
people by their restraint, their pa.
thence, their wisdom, integrity; labor
and belief in God will earn the right
to that justice, and America will be.
stow it,"