Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1921-08-13

, aohAh6 tiiu ucScItihS OH cfeTS< Slue.
She went to him and with irreslsttbl.
energy and pathos exclaimed, Fred.
crick, God Is not dead" We feel like
saying In the. same language and un
. der similar conditions, "Brucc.Gri..
God Is NJ, dead" Right is eternh spd
wrong flourishes only for a little
while.
| We did not quote the constitutions
al law. the fundamental principles Of
the Republic with any hope or OK.
: pectation that it would change eth
er President Warren G.. Harding 0,
the Republican leaders in Virginia
with reference to their attitude to.
wards the colored people of this fair
land. Only defeat and discontinue
followed by a. guilty conscience cu,,
do that. These people can
not live always and there will be
, found some white people ana many
colored ones, who have not "bowed
the knee to Baal." Biblical and pro.
fame history will show where similar
conditions have txisted in all ages Of
tha world.
Rtsht las t:iumphed at times
through seas Of blood. The late
Wc:'d War ~ enc Of the penalties
paid ftr just such species of wrong.
doing. Tho ministers of the GOSPEL
AMI the Churches and their creeds
are ut work in tens of thousands of
edifices in this and other countries OK
pounding the principles Of the Con
of Heaven and the humble practices
ana traits Of the lowly Nazarene.
Still error flourishcs at times under
tho temples, but this does not deter
the workers within. In fact it was
prophcsied that just such conditions
would obtain before the end of time.
Every great reform has Eccn a:Goi,-
plishcd in the face of persistent oppo
sltion and ridicuic. But why argue
or even state these things to n man
or the cnlibrc and culture of the train
cd New Yorker, II man, who knows
more history in one week than the
writer could quote in one year?
If President Harding is correctly
quoted upon this oflicc-holding propn-
sition, so far us the colored pcoplc
arc concerned, he is dead, politically
speaking with them already. We feel
about the matter like the person dill
who was party to the affair, viii, Il
mas parsed the rounds often In this
southern country. IT was said tina, j,
man killed u snake and seeing his tail
still wiggling. he continued to ham,
mer at the reptile. A man passin..
along said TO him, Mister, why are
you still beating on that snake? He
Is dead already" 81 know It," was tho
reply" want him to know that there
Is such thing as punishment after
death"
In this instance, our quotations from
Che law may have no effect upon
these Pharaohs OF today, but befor.
we get through with them, thew
shall know that there is such thing
as punishment after death. Joking
aside, we have been unwilling to be-
lieve that the distinguished occupant
In the White House, the man, who pro
fessed friendship for our people ana
openly declared In favor Of according
to them oil OF their political rights
and privileges should have SO soon
after his Inauguration declared q pol
Icy which we believe to be diametri-
cally in conflict with his oath Of
office.
We have been In favor OF Senate:
Warren G. Harding for nearly dec
ado and then to have thia rude awak.
ening is awful. But, "The Lord Civ.
eth and Warren G. Harding take,h
away, blessed be the name of the Lord
and the Lord only.