The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1924-11-07
BELIEVE THE PROPHET HAM HAS LIED


cago as if Julius Rosenwad were responsible for all the vice
in that city. At the conclusion of his he said that
"any who will whitewash gang like that in order to
prove preacher liar needs praying for and needs bad
But they didn't pray for his crowd appaudcd; they
demned with of nd-clappng instead of trying
help with their prayers because such is the kind OF
spirit cngendercd in community by Mr. Ham
By ndirccon and innuendo Ham, order to bolster up
his danabe theology, the impression in the minds OF
thousands his that Julius Rosenwad is the head OF
gang Chicago that maintains hundreds Of negro dives i'll
which white girls are esaved and made submit their bodies
to negro men, and that Rocnwald demon who reas his
profits from this infamous business
Ham says should have the prayers the means the con
demnaon Of all Gods people for trying whcwash gang
like that order make preacher out liar Ham knows
that have not tried whtewash any gang i'll Chicago
and ask fair minded public to say what they think OF
preacher like Ham who would defamc the name o good ana
innocent like Rosenwad because he happens to be Jew
and hell newspaper who mStcrS up enough
courage of the honesty OF his heart to call tor a'r pa
ask YOU what do YOU think of Ham!
Now it is easy for me to produce evidence quickly III
reply to Mr. Ham and satisfy the intelligence ot the
community with such imsy evidence as Mr. Ham can use
and yet away with with his gifts OF oratory his audacy
and his cunning developed thru OF training first as
LAWYER then as travelling salesman and cvansc-
list he can cram almost anything down the throaS ot the
masses and get away with it Mr. Ham has this advantage
that he claims to be prophet of God and he has the support
Of OF the good church people III the town behd MN
of the goodness OF their hearts and the simplicity oil e
faith good church people slow to question anything a
araes in the name Jehovah The good church people know
that there something wrong with our town and Ike drown
ing men graSpng they think Ham Is gong t"
right everything Mr. Ham has the good people ot the town
with him present and he employs tins tact to 'nhdac
bull iozc damn and DESTROY every person who doesn't agree
with Ham saw therefore, that the public will not be sat
sfcd with any OF evidence present i'll defense OF any
cl,Syn npN,Upn
Now believe from what know about Julius RoSenwa'd
and his works as citizen. humanitarian and phan'hr"
pist that he is pure upright citizen and that NJ f. Ham
has either carelessy deliberately lied about him.
am concio,s OF the strength Of the language am USE
ing want to make it plain believe that with respect to
his charges against Julius RoSenwad, Ham IS careless or
malicious liar.
am conscious Of the fact that failure to Justify my be-
lief that Ham liar in respect Rosenwad going to
cost me the loss OF friendships and prestige that now ENJOY
BI;T A RIGHTEOUS GOD SPEAKS TO ME ItiRC MY
MIND MY HEART AND MY SOUL AND AM HELPLESS
TO DO OTHERWISE THAN TO PROCLAIM WHAT Be
l.IfNE TO BE THE TRUTH.
have stated nv belief and ask all thinking and chari-
table minded men and Withhold judgement upon me
until have had time to sustain my charges admit that
| nm wrong II am wrong about RoSenwad shall be man
e,oh , sav SO and bow my head i'll submission to what
ever punishment my friends and neigborS-ald my enemies
in this town-may iuict upon me.
/ Hams Untenablc foSit1on
Every professional evangelist has to have some device
with which to terrfy ignorant and supplemented people
They used to rely solely upon hell but folks don't DeeVc Sc
riouy in hell like they used to believe and many latter Ga!
evangests have the idea that they must set up
some other bugaboo to rghen folks with. Most ot them
abuse the Catholic church, making the Catholics ont to he
seeking the overthrow of all governments except ha oi the
p,pacy few others abuse the Mormons and say Mormon
ism is working for the overthrow Of everything beautiful ana
sacred But Ham, being deep down i'll his heart ooth NO.
,anist and Mrmon consistently raise much nell
ou either Catholicism or Mormonism, 50 he takes 1t out
on the ews using material that Henry Ford with all his
millions tried to cram the troats o the public ana
which Mr. Ford himself has had to abandon and prachcaly
repudiatc.
And Mr. Ham is 50 Inconsistent lie pants 'irld PIC
tucs Of how the Jews plotting to murder and destroy
Gentle civilization and in the next breath tells lis that Is
al according to Gods plan Well, if it Gods lan then
why damn the Jews because they the helpless pawlS Ill
a game being played by great Jehovah
Mr. Ham propeSieS all sorts of dire things that are 10
he done to us by the Jews but nothing that he says the Jews
plan to do inconsistent with what the Jews o'o TO Tue"