The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-03

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in the world that could have such 9
document to be sent out to the United
States of America. That thing has
lifted us to the status of a govern
ment, to nationhood. The whole
thing is pressure.
when our delegation was in Lii
IBERIA, the English. and French con.
suls danced around trying to find out
what was going on. They had in.
structions. Ultimately they found out
what we intended to do, viz, to help
to build up Liberia. SO long as she
remains undeveloped Liberia supplies
an argument for England and France
and Italy and Spain that the Negro
is incapable of self-government; that
therefore they must go there with
their protectorates, manufactures and
colonial domination and run the coun.
try until they have exploited all its
wealth. England and France knew
we'll that if a group Of progressive
Negroes coming from the western
world, equipped with the best in sci
ence, in art and in literature, went
there, it will only be question OF
time when all Africa will be one place
for the black man. And they could
not allow that to go on, so they had to
put some obstruction in the way.
Therefore they called upon little, help
less Liberia, who has borrowed money
from them. She owes England and
France over million dollars, and
they said to her, 1T is an unfriendly
act to allow the U. N. l. A. to settle
here. Now, what are you going to do
about it?' Unfortunately we hadn't a
j. j. Borsum as president of Liberia,
who would have replied, Go to hell!
and let the black man redeem his
country 1t is purely question of
backbone and CUTS, and the belief that
we could not pay off the two million
dollars that they owe. If we had that
amount to give them to pay off Eng.
land and France we could have put
backbone into somebody. That is one
side of the matter.
"A couple of weeks after our dele.
gates left Liberia, the Firestone Rub.
Der and Tire Company of Akron, Ohio,
United States of America, went there
when they heard that Negroes had
been there. They knew it was valu.
able and what the land contained and
what Negroes who had the aid of sci
ence would do. They said, Look here,
here is money. Give us some land.
You know what money is. And one
million acres Of land-nearly half OF
the country-was given to that CAPT.
talist concern of Ohio to exploit for
rubber and minerals. That is the 9TH
er side of it.
Nov, how would the Firestone
company act, going there where there
are two million natives who are crude
and whom they can employ in the
rubber fields just as they did in Peru
and in the Congo? Give them hardly
anything but hash twice day. Surely
they should keep out the American
Negroes who knew about the price OF
labor and abou union organization
and high wages. And the word was
therefore passed to keep out the
| U. N. I. A. crowd.
THAT is what they played up to, and
it is there that the Negro proved that
he is the greatest enemy and curse to
the race. That man Dubois is the
greatest enemy of his race that God
Almighty has ever made. He is the
man who supplied the argument. Two
years ago he wrote in the Crisis that
it was the intention of the Garvey men
to go into Africa and drive out all the
whites from there. That is the man
who gave the argument to the Eng
lish and French to tell President
King"
lin quoting Garvey's remarks about
DR.. w. E. B. Dubois, feel that it is
only fair to say that Dubois criticisms
of Garvey have been partly based
upon Garvey's soliciting financial sup
port from white capitalists in return