The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-11-26
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Even at this late day beaed comments of various sorts on
the speech of president at Birmingham are beng made pup
lie Some of them really thought provoking others ridiculous
This from Savoyard contains passage that fall in each
class In speaking of political equality as advocated by the pes
what political rights have the blacks Ohio other than the
right to vote ct the % @ Nsso has sGR e @ to b GoVe
if elected to that dignity but what is the value of right
draft Ohio Negro be Car of all the Russas and cothe him
with all the autocIatc preroaves enjoyed and exercised by
Ivan the Terrible Of Peter the Great Ohio will choose Negro
be Governor of that State Then what the good Of prang
about sham equality such as that If Fred Douglas were ae
and endowed with enfod the mental equipment that was ms IN
his prime the verest white hobo could beat him out of sight
they opposing candidates for Congress before either constr
tuency in Vermont
In what Northern State will you find Negro Judge the
bench?
The political equality the G. O. p purveyed for the Ne
gro keeps the promise to the and breaks the hope is
sham fraud crime In the Northern States there more
than million and half Of Negro citizens and their number is
constantly augnenng Here field for propaganda Let the
North betow the Negro political equality before goes down
When this scribe allowed his thoughts heated
he doubtless forgot about the fact that recent months seven
Negroes have been elected by popular vote public officers One
Of these men now sits in the Missouri legislature
There Negro Judge in Philadelphia and there is one in
Washington Even in Arkansas permitted to SIT for sew
ela days proxy for the real occupant Of the bench
That such condition could maintain to any general extent
proposed by the President not likely in the next two gene
atoms but it and in such by development ana
education that it will not be attended by hazards to the well
The greatest departure the real facts by this scribe
however come when he said:
The Negro hopeless because he has no pride OF race
Thoughtess folk compared him with the Jew who suffered
all the of cruel and nhuman oppression for centuries
What preserved the Jew? It his pride There
was Jew who not grateful to God for creating him Jew
If there such Isaac of York as Scott pictured nm
he looked down with sovereign contempt upon every
Pantagens of the entire lot But there Negro cap
able of thought the subject who did not the fate that
made him Negro There your problem there is your race
question Caste dominates it. and caste stronger than all the
armies and all the naves all the world has SEEM
He probably wrote the above paragraph out OF contempt
which he probably could Justify but which by no means me
ted.
To say that we do have pride would imply wonder
whether really tor but proof that his
reasoning is false is found independent church organza
ons businesses and schools founded and maintained by
efforts purely and simply These show pride and their num-
Der is constantly increasing
Without doubt the problem does not lie there Where it
does lie and how it will be solved time alone tell We feel
however that approach toward with charity and the desire
for hepfuness will much toward making
of settlement