The northwestern bulletin-appeal., 1924-06-28
WHERE NO VISION is"

WHERE NO VISION is"
chapter story the Negro raugh
with pathos than that chapter which deals with the effort
ambitious souls make place for the and daughters of the
race the field commercial enterprise Negro
business indeed have soul of ron For the Negro
that the initial crucial period its existence
because of the solid the and file of the
race, but in spite of it.
When Negro to drug store grocery store
shoe publish sort of business the
which will greater opportunity Negro youth the
majority of Negroes especially those who have scratched the
surface education by few high school or college, stand
back predict prophecy the duration time before
its final collapse Or they begin to make comparison with stores
downtown commenting lily and with bad the quality
the goods the the fixtures and finally the character of the
entrepreneur
Are his drugs Negro of her when
he prescbe medicine advises her the prescription filled
drug store owned and operated by Negro Certainly Mad
them wholesale house the down.
town. 81 didn't know she amey adds He charges than
the Main Street. and buy where get the cheapest
prices boasts Negro who always complaining about the lack
of opportunity for his children He asks why He doesn't
realize that volume trade would enable the Negro
to sell heapy the Main Street would provide
tonal opportunity for his and daughter living.
But the tragedy of the whole thing the pfu blindness of
the Negro their interests They spend their
millions of dollars the of white tradesmen
that and employ white boys and girls who turn
shun the Negroes who have been their scooaes because
Negro youth mena positions They hurry by
store owned by Negro give their harearned
white competitor who buys home in neghborhood in which
Negroes neither rent nor buy.
the Negro group The day will and distant
children will dearly for this short-sghtedness.
AS financially incompetent We able bring
great and powerful through mased wealth those
who would epress And until influence which
wealth give to will remain inferior in fact if
not in theory
Centuries ago-A Prophet issued injunction which the
well consder-Whee No Vision s the People PERISH
"A QUESTION OF POLICY"
The outstanding feature of the National Republican
indictment against that neaous organization as the
Ku Kux Kan Convicted of crime condemned by the
great mass of lawabdng citizens being
of the government this hooded gag
can Convention Ceveand-so that only protest
made against and that protest feeble invita-
hon rather than an act of repression.
The outstanding feature of the National Conven-
ton has been the bitter and sustained effort the
party to write into the platform denunciaon principles
the Kan, to call by and to into the
issue of Klan rule or Anti-Klan rule.
This action of the two conventions should be thought
for Negro voter in the land the Democratic party
against the ku Kux Kan is difficult why the
Negro should the ranks of Democracy against
foe the Republican party dares openly challenge the Kan
then must be that the Kan powerful influence the
party councils
To the Negro the Kan anatRsa itstana for every kind
of intimidation repression violence and his oppor-
tunity to better his condition: The ehe vstyer
be and duty to give battle The that this nsid
Gus monster shall be crushed Democracy offers that
would be truly blind did not help to meet
and vanquish these hooded knights of ouawry and
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