The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-06-17
EMANCIPATION DAY.

Again we are celebrating the day of emancipation from
physical slavery 0gI pr w g ond s orsves to the
full eapng satisfaction from hearing recounted IN various ways
the babaes Of slavery days ana the story q nS rape
since pleasant to think that in little better than MY
esayes have acquired @ acres o. lana Jo
5 erate ~ hanks 100 insurance companies 10000 bust
ness houses with combined capital Of than $150OOOOO0
have 10000 professional men, $4,000 teachers 400 news
papers and periodicals and are 80 per cent hterate
It is wonderful record and well worth ecountng on such
an occasion this For it true that the survivors OF slavery
days live glorious than they could have mag
lined as they seathy for freedom which seemed hope
essy far away We have progressed We have by our progress
amply Justified atom Of energy and every minute Of hard
in closer union of the states Of our great nation We
ought to be joyful on this occasion
But with our rejoicing there should be mixed the most sober
reflection Of which capable to what our future record
will be-
No longer are we actual physical slaves bound as chattel
human overords to be bought sold at will Amer
longer nation part slave holding goying in the pos
session of human cattle"
the descendants slaves your days Of infancy
past record able to take Of yourselves Re
OF your stay upon this continent that your members beings
separate distinct set out from the great American group by
fate whether benecent unnd You must by your own
effort and accomplishment succeed fail up you to
face condition which actually confronts and find so
ton to problem take the place to which your failure VIII
assign YOU"
Such an attitude exists but altogether unsympa-
hetc It's seeming severity tempered by the fact that part
OF the great civic have least Of the rights and lib
critics accorded fellows In theory we have them all in
fact they are limited
How will face the future? How viii grapple with our
problem bringing ourselves into the full realization of high
possibilities and winning for ourselves esteem which will
demand for permanent place in the sun?
Fyseven years ago physically emancpated but in
spirit great extent still enslaved And that enslave
is at part possible to be dissolved by enter
prise and ingenuity
We still slaves the characteristic which keeps from
having that faith in ourselves which will guarantee high de-
gree collective efficiency Our ability to cooperate in all things
for our common good is too limited
We slaves petty jealousy and internal chickering's which
sap the life blood from movements and organizations
We supersttions and fears being governed
by them the extent that fail to weed out from among
the worthless and nonproducve and movements forcing
them to prove themselves before hearty adoption OF
them
But by far the most hinderng of masters the fear to
pool moneys directing them into channels productive OF
their greatest good to us.
We emancipated but in many ways yet not
free.
May not be that learn fully throw off and
rid ourselves forever of of these hnrance relics of past
of which not proud that future state be made
more productive of good results than now believe?
is true that prescribed bound in and hndered
by circumstances which to control But it is
true that surrounded by opportunities in abundance
for making future record more splendid than past
has been.
ton Should not the light of the spendor of achieve
study plan and woro further free ourselves that
the future may be more glorious?