The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-11-18
The Week
$4,000 caskets
2. An Old Bible
3. Another Battle
4SSouthern Republican,"
5. Mr.. Creager of Texas
ROsCoE SIMMONS /.

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I. Florence Mills is buried in a
$4,000 coffin. Very expensive, you
will say. Think of the good that sum
of money did for so, many still living
for those who worked to make that
coffin.
If you feel life finding fault with
whoever decided to buy so expensive
casket remember that Miss Mills
husband is spending her money, not
yours.
Be proud of the memory of a
young woman brave enough to try
her genius against both that of the
other race" and against circum-
stances.
Her lips moved in music, to the
beat of time, to tunes that lightened
the heart, but the song came from
Miss Mills soul. Her steps were
graceful upon the stage but her dance
took you back to the era when dark,
beautiful young women drove worry
from the brow of kings and gave eve
ming into the hands of pleasure.
News reports say that 1900 per-
sons attended Miss Mills funeral. Is
not that sign of love, respect, ap-
preclatlon, PRIDE!
Young ladies, remember that Miss
Mills goodness, gentleness, lowell
ness will be remembered longer than
her genius, as her ability is called
Also reme Ter she took her color
sG ever she went. She
pa only for what she was and
from first to last she was as God
made her without seeking change
except to rise from the bottom to the
top. Pretty is as pretty does.
2. Mrs. Julia Taft Bayne remem-
bers Lincoln. A cousin to William
Howard Taft, luckiest man in Amer
lean history, she played in the White
House as a child. Once she gave
Lincoln peck on the neck" She
called herself kissing the greatest
man, who, tired out working against
the rebels trying to break up the U.
s. A., usually turned to the children.
Miss Bayne says:
II ran down one of the long cor
ridors in the White House one day
and saw Mr.. Lincoln sitting in his
room. He was in his stocking feet
and he was reading from an old Bible
that always stood on a stand in his
room" "a
An Old Bible, Stocking Feet. AL
ways stood on a Stafid. There Is Lin
coin. You might add the word Chill
dren, and there he is complete.
An "Old Bible" read better. In
order to take in what he read he took
off binding shoes which always pre-
vent thought and reflection. Women
in tight shoes prove that.
The Bible always stood on a
stand" 1t was not hidden among
books, most of which do more harm
to the human brain than typhoid. The
lessons he read were so simple that
he could turn from them to children.
Remembering the language: Except
we become as little child" etc.
The more you read of Lincoln,
study him, see him as he is, the more
you look into his eyes of gratitude,
the easier il is to see that from the
beginning of his life he was prepar-
ing himself for the proclamation and
to meet without murmur the MUIR
der by which he went to martyrdom.
If the American Negro, as he is
called, had in him stuff that makes
races, peoples, that compels the world
to say Mister, he would establish a
church free of the pretense of white
Christianity. He would make Simon,
the Cyrene, the patron saint, raise
Lincoln through faith to the left
Then say to the world: "If you would
find Christ, seek Him with u.s."
3. Four years ago through your
leaders you won a great political
battle, perhaps your greatest since
you entered politics under Grant. Up
against northern lily whites of the
G. o. p, led by Mr.. Howell, senator
from Nebraska, your leaders for the
first time showed they, too, knew
that in union there is strength.
Maybe you recall that fight. Like
wise the real Republicans who stood
up then, Mr.. Pepper, Mr.. Hills, Mr..
Hynicka, Mr.. du Pont, Mr.. Williams
of Oregon, Mr.. Butler, then grooming
Mr.. Coolidge to succeed himself and
so forth.
This humble writer had hand in
that struggle, being chosen by con-
ference, of which Lincoln johnson
was chairman, to present your case.
Ladies and gentlemen, you have a
right to wonder why the Republican
party would give you trouble, keep
you up at nights, compel you to de-
fend yourselves. Many say: "Why, let
us quit the Republican party and
Join the Democrats" That is to say,
jump from the frying pan into the
fire.
Since 1876, about the time po-
litical thought got loose among you,
every four years two or three lead
ers" quit the party and invite you
to follow on behind. 1t is hard to
fool you, even some of the time.
"No," you have said, mo, we will
hold on"
The fight of 1924 shows that if
you fight within the party; that Is,
IL you go in on reason and intelli-
gence, you can get what is coming
to you.
Neither northern gentlemen,
afraid of you socially, nor southern
gentlemen, afraid of you intellectual
", are able to rub out your name in
the G. o. p. as put down in 1856.