Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-05-02
Quit Nagging The South

Quit Nagging The South
UP IN WASHINGTON THE OTHER DAY, according to
the daily press Congressman John E. of Mississippi
made speech the House of Representatives on the sub
ject "Qu Naggng the South in which he charged Ger
tain radicals in the CO. certain Negro agitators and few
white demagogs going before the Judiciary Committee of
the Senate and attempting to stir up trouble throughout
the Southern States by attacking OUR election laws"
Said Congressman Rankin further eve are getting
along pretty well with the Negroes in the South will
tinue to do so these agitaors will let alone The Ne
groes know their place and know ANY man who
around and directly indirectly tries create
trouble is simply aiding and abetting the enemies of
country The good Negroes of the South know they will
be protected when any trouble and the bad ones know
they will be LOOKED AFTER"
And again. these radicals in the Go say they are try
ing to get election laws in the South changed so they
organize the Negro tenants and take control of the
Southern States They think they can send down enough
carpebaggers to make the difference That is one
some of these upifters anxious get law
passed to force the American people to turn their fire
But caught it in time If they could get control
of the South the horrors of reconstruction would like
picnic in comparison But they will get such con-
troll The white people of the South the aer the
better elements OF the Negro refuse join in any such
movement They know it would simply mean the death of
thousands of their own race"
Booker T. Washington great American great Negro
philosopher and educator defined the place the Negro
the South among the principles found his famous words
In all things social be separate the fingers but
in all things that affect mutual progress develop
ment be together the hand" Today more than
before the wisdom of those remarks is being accepted
by all Negroes and right thinking white people throughout
the South land to have Congressman Rankin point out that
knowledge the part of the Negro of the South is no
Election upon their wisdom and good sense.
Nowhere in the South is there any evidence that Ne
groes are being attracted by radicals and aatos of any
kind
Viewing the reconstruction period as referred TO by
Congressman Rankin intelligent Negroes everywhere agree
that the Negroes of that period in respects warranted
the action then taken by the white people of the South
After rs years of freedom however the Negro to-
day better educated owning property responsive
the duties and responsibilities of citizenship and paying
his just portion of taxes and before the present world
crisis and the entry of country in the war intelligent
Negroes of the South within the framework of the phoso-
ply of Mooker T. Washington seeking unaded by out
side influences larger share of the rights privileges
of American citizen guaranteed by the Bill of Rights
and the United States Constitutions and today hearing so
much about new world where all men can enjoy the four
freedoms rational is only natural that the Negro should
be reawakened
As said of the white people of the South in the speech
the must be said of the Negro.
There patriotic people under the shining
than the Negro people of the South They bending
every effort to aid their country these perous hours
their in the service thousands of them the
front many of them giving their lives the last full
of devotion in order that country may ve that way
of fe and sacred institutions may be perpetuated and
that the white mans civilization may not perish from the
earth"
Reading the implication in Congressman Rankins speech
though momentary frightened bewdered and suppressed
with the Christian spirit that has borne him through the
years the Negro of the South will bow down his knees
and God for the day in the South when the spirit of
General Robert g. Lee the greatest OF the great of the
South will prevail expressed in his words The South
will from the wounds of the Civil War long
as she holds its in her BOSOM. The implication of
the speech should not fail to the most serious thought
of the right thinking Christian white people of the South
While Congressman Rankin speaking, Col Louis A
Johnson President Rooseves personal envoy India
telling the Indians, THE United Nations fighting for
the Bill of Rights; for worldwide Bill of Rights Pres
dent Roosevelt has said that all should be enjoying free
dom of speech and religion without and without fear"
and hghrankng United States DIPLOMATS being newly
transferred to Free French West Africa Nigeria Liberia
where nearly all the people and soldiers including high gov
eminent officials Negroes to strengthen the United
States diplomatic front in Africa.
Quit nagging the South lest in discussing the Negroes
place in it. lose the Indians dull the spirit of the Fill
pnos the free French Negroes of Africa and the
Chinese without whose whoehearted help the future of
country, the civilization cherish and the whole world
must rest upon most uncertain victory.