Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1921-09-10

after office to prevent the appontme" {
of Negroes to any Office which they
would desire to hold. And again:
If Il sufficient number of the leading
men of tho South of both races, pos.
sessed of intelligence. and character,
could DO induced to enter heartily in
TO such an arrangement as this It
might be that tho sanguine eXpecl;l-
tions of the administration would bo
realized. AT any rate, 1t is certain tina.
the experiment will be tried. In max
Ing this trial Of tho plan mapped out
the President may be counted upon
as being insistent upon Il square dcai
all around.
1t is up to the South to demonstrate
whether such plan can be worked
out in good faith.
How can you build up Il Rcpubli.
can Party in tho South or any
where olse with Il class of people, VITO
do not believe in and who will not pra :
tice tho fundamental principles of the
Republican party? How can you build
upa Roman CATHOLIC Church with
membors, who bitterly oppose the dog
mas OF that Church and tho sac cd
edicts of tho Pope? How can you build
UP Baptist Church with members OF
Roman Catholic Church, or
members, who have left the Roman
Catholic Church and who yet believe
in tho fundamental teachings of that
Church? How can you build up the
kingdom Of Heaven with inmates of
tho kingdom of Hell?
How can you mako cloth suit out
of paper and how can you make gla IS
bottles out of wood Or wooden boxes
of glass?
Men. who in good faith attempted
to do these things would DO regarded
as fooling themselves or as trying to
fool some one else, For our part, wn
refuse and decline to be fooled. Then
follows the browning comment upon
The PRECEDENT believes that the ira
ditional prejudice Of the South requir
cs more time and patience to work out
the proper relations Of tho two races
upon n basis Of harmony and Justice.
He wants to help the Negro to rise to
mis- proper position az full Pledged
citizen, but he thinks that the best
possible way to accomplish this is to
go slowly and work for Reasoning
OF the friction Through such pol:.
cy or Cancellation and firmness, 1T IS
expected that tho Republicans will he
able to build up real party In the
south, thing that does not exist to
day. 1t Is thought by those in The
PRESIDENTS confidence that this poi
cy will work out to tho advantage of
tho race, rather than to It's disadvaut
age.
We are so Disguised with this com.
ment that wo find 1t difficult TO dis.
ouss the subject with equanimity. It
Is q case of insisting upon q square
deal In a crooked transaction. 1t "a
AKIN to making an object white and
black at tho Same time to going for.
ward and moving backward at one
and the same time, to deH,ing Justice
and Injustice at ono and the came
limo, to accomplish in one brief moyo
ment a leserdcrmain feat, which has
not been brought about from the
days of Solomon down to the present
time This ~ an age of deception, of
hypocrisy, Of using words to deceive,
or trying to fool the people some Of
tho time and then ending it UP by fool
ing the people all the time But tho
New York Age and its able editor
should know better and he should
have the nerve and the backbone to
say so.
We would to God we knew tho
name OF his informant. He should be
paced in museum with the other
curiosioies. Time has made some Of
our colored folks simple, but they arc
not oil of them fools. Selah.