The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-02
BARROW SAYS

does not say what color the God
who did this is---nor does II say
what color He made the man--and
there is no record anywhere that
He did any painting. This is the
story Of the fundamentalists
Then there, is the belief of the
evolutionists that man evolved from
lower form of animal life-we
call 1t lower because we are the
ones who do the talking Here
again there is no evidence OF diff
ferent races evolving.
Real Creation
What really happened? Well,
you can believe that man was ere
ated in one place and that subse-
duent generations went to different
parts of the globe to live--or you
can. believe that life began stimuli
taneously in different places At
any rate, in some manner, some
peoples of the earth went in one
direction and some another. Now,
1t is known fact that dark skin
will stand heat better than fair
skin, and that fair skin will stand
cold best. Among the people who
went north 1t Is, then. obvious that
those with the fair skins had the
best chances of survival, while those
with dark skins had the best chance
OF surviving In the south
THUS through natural selection,
over a period of years. the peoples
living south became dark of skins
and those in the north retained fair
skins. Thus the question of race Is
disposed of. One man. be he white
or black, is like another, except in
the manner. OF skin, a difference
brought about by nature.
"No people have ever suffered
such handicaps as the colored. Until
recently they had no good schools
and do not in many places. Every
effort is made by the white people
to keep the Negro in what they
thought was his place. They OPP
posed and resisted every effort on
his part to rise.
IAN automobile concern got a
large number Of colored people to
leave the South and come to GER
tain town to work In its factory.
When they got there there was no
place for them to live--they could
work in the factory all day, but at
night there was no room for them.
segregation
white people refuse to allow Ne
groes to live in the same neighbor.
hood with them and thus oppose a
hf0hnr OF I'D nN 1fussto n
part of the latter.
"In Springfield. ILL.,. houses were
burned and colored people terrorized
because a member of their race
raped white woman. They got a
colored man for it and were about
TO lynch him when they discovered
they had the wrong one and let him
go. But they got another, he said,
and that time were not so particu-
lar. Just colored man, was all that
they really wanted.
Hayes-DuBois
yet in spite of all that has been
done and is being done to you, you
have advanced. Today you have in
every field some one who is superior
to the white man in the same field.
| know of no voice better than that
Of Roland Hayes. | know of no edu-
Gator who has done more than Wal
ter White.
"You have come far in your fifty
years--a bitter. thorny road, but
you yet have farther to go, I do
not believe that you will be able to
shake off the white mans shackles
in this generation. But you must
work for the generations to come
You must work for your children
and your children's children. That
is a high self-sacrificing ideal and
II will require all you have. of
courage. But you just hold to that
ideal, for without ideals life is
nothing.
SOuth-North No Difference
II sometimes wonder If you are
very much better off than you we're
in the days before the emancipa-
ton. Certainly, you are not much
better treated. Do not get the idea
in your heads that the colored man
in the North is much better off
than the colored man In the South
of course, there is some distinc-
ton when you cross the Smith and
Wesson line" but not much. The
white everywhere looks down upon
and scorns the Negro. Yet, you
would not go back, l am sure.
Loose Freedom
81 am reminded Of story by a
southern colonel, who had been WIS.,
lifting in Tuskegee, Ala, and who
Mad engaged in many arguments as
~ whether or not the Negro is bet
" off today than in slavery days.
1YR colonel called to him one day
a yblored man whom he knew and
WHOM had been a slave. Sam, he
saidHyou were well treated on the
plantSion. weren't your 'Oh, yes,
Sam >kplied, i was well treated.
You Ind enough to eat, didn't your
the csiNnel asked Yes, yes, in
deedy. Mad enough to eat And a
comfortsWe place to sleep. didn't
you, Sam.S Yes, had nice place
to sleep stid Sam. Not any better
now that u b have your freedom, is
it, Sam No. | guess 1t amt any
better realm Colonel said Sam.