New-York tribune., 1921-10-27
Asks
Equal Chance
For Negroes
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ance, to be drained away by the proc
esses of migration into all other Sec
tions. That is what has been going on
in recent years at rate SO accentuated
that it has caused this question of races
to be, as have already said, no longer
one of particular section. Just as I
90 not wish the South to be politically
entirely of one party; just as l be-
lieve that is bad for the South, and for
the rest of the country as we'll, so I
do not want the colored people to be
entirely of one party. | wish that both
the tradition of solidly Democratic
South and the tradition of solidly
Republican black race might be broken
up. Neither political sectionalism ssxor
any system of rigid groupings Of the
people will in the long run prosper
our country.
II want to see the time come when
black men will regard themselves as
full participants in the benefits and
duties of American citizenship; when
they will vote for Democratic candi-
dates, if they prefer the Democratic
policy on tariff or taxation, or foreign
relations. or what not; and when they
will vote the Republican ticket only
for like reasons. We can not GO on, as
We have gone for more than half
century. with one great section of our
population, numbering as many people
as the entire population of some sig
nifcant countries of Europe, set off
from real contribution to solving our
national issues, because of a division
on race lines
"With such convictions one must
urge the people of the South to take
advantage of their superior under
standing of this problem and to assume
an attitude toward it that will deserve
the confidence of the colored people.
Likewise, plead with my own political
party to lay aside every program that
looks to lining up the black man as a
an end of prejudice and of demagogy
In this line Let the South under
stand the menace which lies in forcing
upon the black race an attitude OF
political solidarity"
Warns Lawless Minority
Earlier in the day President Harding
spoke at a luncheon presided over by
Senator Underwood and delivered a
short address containing the following
paragraph, which YVES taken by has
hearers as having possible bearing on
his attitude toward the Threatened
railroad strike:
There will never come the day when
the rights of any minority are denied,
however formidable or weak it may be,
but no minority shall ever challenge
the supremacy OF the rule Of law.
THE readjustments and the restora-
tions of peace are not easy. War in
variably leaves its impress on the in
dustrial and financial life of every par
ticipating people. With all my heart
| crave Il better and higher industrial
state, as a compensation for the sacri-
Aces made. But we can no more main
tain the abnormal heights than we can
| favor the return to the oid-time levels.
There must be-there is-a righteous
mean between these two extremes, and
we mean to find it. 1t will be law
full pursuit, orderly in cur practices
and reverent for the government, VIII ere
Justice is supreme and the law is our
security"
The President paid tribute to Sena-
tor Underwood and to the late Senator
Bankhead in the course Of this speech
Everywhere the President was greeted
with the utmost enthusiasm Mrs
Harding received a greeting no less
notable than that accorded the Presi-
dent, and as they drove through the
city together in white automobile she
ssnilingly acknowledged the ovation. A
feature of their visit here was their
welcome by sixty-seven girls, each
chosen as the representative of her
county.