The Colorado statesman., 1922-07-29

TT Is to be hoped that some way Will
be found to overcome and nullify
- the disposition on the part of the
leaders of the colored people to antag-
onize and abuse each other. When
one offers a plan for the solution of
some great racial question and gathers
together under his leadership a group
of followers to put into effect his IDEAS
some other colored leader proceeds at
once to attack him either from the ros-
trum or in the public print. The lead
or so attacked considering that railN
iniustice has .been done him lmmeul-
o+elv or as soon as possible proceeds
to strike back and as result the COZ
ored folks for the time being are IN
turmoil.
If seems to us that our leaders
should learn a lesson from the denom-
national church leaders. In most IN
stances, Il Methodist church may De
on one corner and a Baptist church Oh
the other and the congregations pass
eoch other in a most respectful fash
ion and the respective pastors treat
each other with the utmost Difference.
But when it comes to polltlcs OF u
economic questions and even in pusl-
ness. Immediately the war is on. ms
condition of affairs is especially no
ticeable in the contentious now raging
between DIR. w. L. b. Du Bois, ADMIT
tedlv one of the brainiest citizens OF
color in this country today, and the
Hon. Marcus Garvey, who glories III
being a Negro and in having the mass
es of that race with him.
DR.. Robert Russa Motion is now pc
ing the center of an attack, although
lilo Christ he isreviled but he reviles
not again. 1t may be that DE- Motion
has ''cussing closet" where he can
enter and have the satisfaction OF say
ing inst what he wishes to say con-
cerning his alleged traducers Then
we have the Hon. Henry Lincoln Johh-
son. who has the time of his llfe 1ght-
ing the white folks in front ana the
colored folks behind. The moment any
the extent that he is regarded Wlth
favor by the public from natlonal
standpoint. he becomes the target lor
outrageous attacks. The people VINO
do this do not seem to understand that
they are iniuring the race as Whole'
although they may be gratifying indl-
yidual spleen in this special case.
The proper solution of this condl-
ton is to realize that these leaders
represent different viewpoints. Dr'
Du Bois is an American, believer IN
socialism, in contravention to Amerl-
can ideals and principles.
Marcus Garvey is citizen of the
world so to speak and an African IN
thought and principle. He champions
the cause of the Negroes without re
gard to governmental groups. lie pe-
lieves in the restoration of the Elmo
plan to his pristine splendor and prom
inence, with an empire or Repupnc
in Africa.
Colored people, o-Americans, cit
iZens of COLOR who subscribe to the
Declaration of Independence and VINO
believe that the Thirteenth, Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Amendments to the Con-
stitution of the United States recog-
nize them as entitled to all of the priv
ileges of the original instrument can
not follow, either DR.. Du Bois into
the Socialist camp, or Mr.. Garvey in
to the purely African camp. large
contingent of colored people, living
in this country, are just Americans
and will pay taxes and offer up their
lives for this government. Owing to
this fact, they are in line with Henry
Lincoln Johnson, insisting upon the