The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-11-11
The Week
1. Thank Mr.. Thomas
2. Pray For Daybreak
3. President johnson
4. Don't Forget Grant
5. Keep Up With Politics
. ROSCOE SIMMONS

office. Thank Mr.. Thomas for his
courage, persistency, but thank him
most for calling on Mr.. Work, sec
retary of the Interior.
DR.. Work, eminent surgeon and
wide-awake politician, is new
school Republican, He thinks you
are all right so far, but believes in
the sign: THUS FAR" He isn't
quite as bad as Mr.. Blair, commits
sioner of internal revenue. Dr. Work
dotes on brain, while Mr.. Blair has
money. President Harding had his
hands full with Blair.
Harding wished to appoint Char
les A. Cotteril deputy collector of
internal revenue with offices in
Washington. ''Pll resign first" de-
clared Blair. Both Cetterill and Har-
ding are gone. You will find Blair
still making trouble for the G. o. p.
in Washington.
Thank Mr.. Thomas over and over
for calling on DIR. Work. Mr.. Hoover
is Dr. Works candidate to succeed
Mr.. Coolidge. Can il still be said
that q man is known by the COM
pany he keeps?
2. The victory won by Mr.. Thom-
as against segregation may have
you shaking hands all around. but
IL really ought to make you pull out
your handkerchief.
From the Senate and the House
of the U. s. A., down through tha
office of register of the treasury,
auditor OF the navy, assistant attor-
ney general, etc, your interest in
the Government has declined to q
tussle over what room shall few
clerks work in. Give that thought.
Also, give this thought: In NO
state south of the Ohio or the Po-
tomac do you find an American of
color holding office under Uncle
sam, except one state, louisiana
where Walter l.. Cohen, comptroller
OF customs, is kept busy holding on
How did this come about? you
Will ask. Because you laid down,
first to the democratic party, and,
then, to white Republicans. You
failed to meet the democrats in the
courthouse and, then, the lily-whites
in the. councils of the G. o. p. The
ssaOI Us o + j. c. .i'rice, preiee of Lion,
come to mind: 81 care not how long
the night; know that morning will
come" Thank Mr.. Thomas and
pray for daybreak
9. The great university, Lincoln
of Pennsylvania, established in 1854,
almost ten years before Lincoln is
sued the Proclamation, has a new
president, the Rev. William B. John
son. Two good names there, Lin
coin and Johnson. One of our great
est sons had both names, Lincoln
Johnson.
A few of your papers use the
words. William Ballock johnson,
white" Don't let that worry you,
since about all you are came through
white" men. Don't forget the
bridge that carries you over. AS
long as white" men of character,
intellect, will consent to help your
young men to find life through find
ing themselves, thank them and
thank God.
forget; Jefferson, Franklin, George
Mason and Patrick Henry of Vir-
ginia, Sumner, Phillips, Garrison,
who gave Frederick Douglass to the
forum, Roosevelt and Foraker, who
fell out with each other over you,
Brumstead, Cravath, to say nothing
of Lincoln and his apostles as led
by Grant, who came with a sword.
When you are willing to support
your colleges you will be heard as
to college presidents. Lincoln, sup
ported by the Presbyterian Church.
Is anxious to turn out strong men
who will advance the ideals of the
Presbyterian church. Do you not
see that?
Another point. as you think of
Lincoln's new president and wish
him highest success. President John
son is q graduate of Princeton. AL
though you are unable to go to
Princeton, the one great school that
shuts the door In your face, Prince
ton, through President Johnson,
comes to you.
Further along you may be able to
take President Johnson back to
Princeton through your children
Your fight is not to advance race
but to advance yourselves, despite
contempt sown your race" into
the widest liberty Of your country
your native land. Those who think
will see this.
4. Honor Lincoln, greatest of al
men, matching Moses, whose procla'
nation was put on stone while Lin
coins was written with inventions
of progress--honor Lincoln, bui
don't forget Grant.
A few days ago the Grant cabir
was dedicated at Point Pleasant
Ohio, birthplace of the grand sol
dier. On the 21st birthday OF thii
humble writer. some years bacl
now, a political meeting was held OF
the West Virginia side of the Ohi'
there. This humble writer, carried
there by s. w. Stark, who establish
ed the knights of Pythias. and wn'
must tremble as he looks down upoi
II now. was called on to make
speech, took for his subject Grant
More than 20 years before thi
writer got to Mississippi. Grant ha'
been there He had prepared II q
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