The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-05-05

mittee unless they faced with decision beween the
greater good and the lesser evil.
Not content with blocking further use of Negroes
the conspirators trying to make regular depart
ments of the discharge the specialists brought
in to bring service for Negroes up the common level
Without special attention that could not be because the
Negro last to enter into community life These poit
clans have the weapon for attack ready their conrol
of the committees in Congress and the committees con-
troll legislation and appropriations Joe Starnes of Ala
bama of the House appropriations committee leads the
attack, sneaking When the departments appeared
before his committee to show why they should have their
usual appropriations cut the for that
purpose Starnes and his l have the Naz idea of race
superiority and also the Naz practice do as we say
or starve."
They Must Not Win
This is time when country's welfare is para
mount Only like these ploers put personal interests
ahead of victory for freedom and democracy They have
over and is true that events continue they have
been going they will lose it. Sop they act logically But
they must not be permitted win Let them go hating
Negroes but they must not be permitted strike down
America in laying black men low
The white majority would not push Negroes back
from the gains they have made in the last decade They
know that reward encourages effort and for Negroes to
do their best for the country they must share the
rewards.
1t is only those whose position depends upon main
tanning the southern political system who would do that
and they not worth what their success in doing it
would cost the country.
The Democratic party is to blame is the tail wags the
dog. There Democrats in Congress sent there
viii the help of Negro voters living in eastern northern
western and border states than from the states where
Negroes DISTINGUISHED This being waged with
Democratic administration in charge of government
double reason exists for Democrats to discipline
oers guilty of this skullduggery.
Let those hate who will but let no American put
lis country to shame by insisting superiority prac-
ices here at time when have millions of
pest boys in fighting to crush the Naz principle
eas If the Democratic party through its does
lot stop Starnes and his coworker then Negroes who
yote the Democratic ticket will have to that the
lisciplning passes to other hands.
Republicans also have duty to stop this second
Pearl Harbor Wigglesworth, Republican congressman
rom Massachusetts, Starnes lieutenant in the hear
ngs of the appropriations committee where the southern
5estapo marked departments for slaughter Republicans
the opposition party have good right to get whatever
otes they to correct done by the admnisra
ion. But they must not buy support of southern Demo-
rats at the price of approving the southern political
EN- that impoverishes the whites and cheats Negroes.
the Democrats do not clean their house. it is the
why Republicans should place expediency
before principle
Forgetting the international consequences of the
,ouths undated attack the Negro it be in this
var as it in the eos when what black did
he margin of victory If So happy, because Amer
has done much for u.s. too much for to let few
,pportunists make forget the great and good
North and South who established peoples government
carried it thus far for plant its standards
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