The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1921-12-03

when he said, "Do you want Socia.
Equality? 2"
And so this undeceiving deception
has gone on for fifty years until the
President of the United States,
throwing caution to the winds, has
either boldly or unwittingly an
nounced as a national policy that
'men Of both races may well stand
uncompromisingly against every sug-
gestion of Social Equality"
Or in other words, that no man,
no matter how civilized, decent or
gifted he may be, shall be permitted
to associate with his fellow men on
terms Of equality or want to asso-
ciate with them, if he be a Negro or
Of Negro descent.
Let us sweep away all quibbling.
Let us assume that the President was
sane and serious and could not and
did not mean by "social equality
anything SO inconceivable as the right
of man to invite himself to an
other mans dinner table. No. Mr..
Harding meant that the American
Negro must acknowledge that it was
wrong and a disgrace for Booker
T. Washington to dine with Presi-
dent Roosevelt!
The answer to this inconceivably
dangerous and undemocratic demand
must come with the unanimous ring
of IL million voices, enforced by the
voice of every American who believes
in humanity
Let us henceforward frankly ad-
NIT that which we hitherto have al
ways known: that no system of social
.uplift which begins by denying the
manhood of a" man can end by giving
him free ballot, real education and
a just wage.
Race Equality.
Let US confess that the pseudo
science to which the President I'M
happily referred as authority, and
the guilty philanthropy which has
greedily levelled racial barriers and
now seeks with the blood-stained
hands of Lugard to rearrange them
SO that profit may emerge and man.
hood be dammed-let us confess that
all this is vain, wrong and hypocrit-
zeal and that every honest soul today
who seeks peace, disarmament and
the uplift Of all men must say with
the Pan-African Congress:
''The absolute equality of races
physical, political and social-is the
founding stone of world peace and
human advancement. No one denies
great differences of gift, capacity and
attainment among individuals of all
races, but the voice of science, religion
and practical politics is one in deny
ing the God-appointed existence of
superior races, or of races naturally
and inevitably and eternally inferior.''
To deny this fact is to throw open
the door Of the world to a future of
hatred, war and murder such as never
yet has staggered bowed and cruel
| fled humanity. How can man bring
himself to conceive that the majority
of mankind--Chinese, Japanese, In
dams and Negroes are going to stand
up and acknowledge to the world that
they are unfit to be men or to asso-
ciate with men, when they know they
are men?
AmaIgamation.
But President Harding does not
stop even here. He declares, "Racial
amalgamation there cannot be-
What does the President mean?
Does he mean that the white and
Negro races in this land never have
mixed? There are by census reports
over two million acknowledged mu-
lattoes in the United States today;
and witout doubt there are, in fact
no less than four million persons with
white and Negro blood
Does he mean that there is no ANAL
gamation today? Between 1850 and
1921 the mulattoes have increased
over 400 per cent. Does he meain
the1e will be no future amalgama-
tion? How does he know?
! Or does he mean that it would be
better for whites and blacks not to
amalgamate? If he meant that, why
did he not say so plainly? And if he
had said so, 80 per. cent of the Ne
groes would agree with him. We
have not asked amalgamation; we
have resisted it. It has been forced
on us by brute strength, ignorance
poverty, degradation and fraud. II
is the white race, roaming the world
that has left it's trail of bastards anc
outraged women and then raised holy
hands to heaven and deplored Grace
mixture" No, we are not demand,
ing and do not want anlalgamation
but the reasons are ours and not
yours. 1t is not because we are I'm.
worthy Of intermarriage - eithe1
physically or mentally or morally. Il
is not because the mingling of races
has not and will not bring mighty
offspring in it's Dumas and Pushkir
and Coleridge-Taylor and Booker
Washington. It is because no rea
men accept any alliance except or
terms of absolute equal regard ant
because we are abundantly satisfied
with our own race and blood. AnC
at the same time we say and as FREE
men must say that whenever two hu
man beings of any nation or race de-
sire each other in marriage, the de-
nial Of their legal right to marry i!
not simply wrong it is lewd
-. SEGREGATION and Race Pride.
And this brings us to the last wore
of President Harding: He says il
one breath: "a
Especially would I appeal to tn
self-respect Of the colored race
would incu]cate in it the wish to i'm
prove itself as distinct race with ;
heredity, set of traditions, an ARA!
of aspirations all it's own. Out O.
such racial ambitions and pride will
come natural segregations.
The one thing we must sedulousl!
avoid is the development Of group an.
Eclass organizations in this country
There has been a time when we heart
too much about the labor vote, tn,
business vote, the Irish vote, the Scan
dinavian vote, the italian vote, ant
SO on. But the .demagogues VIII,