The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1944-10-04
Ry Harold HolifIeld

tage - that of the freedom in
sured under a system whereby
the people select and choose
their own leaders and lawmak-
ers. This choice is our privi-
lege, it is our duty and in 1t lies
our ultimate hopes and their
subsequent realizations.
We are i'm danger grave
danger of losing that heritage
losing 1t before il is even fully
granted - because of circum
stances that led some of us to
believe more i'm the clever poll
ties of one man than in our
selves.
The Democratic party has been
associated with anti-Negro poll
cies since its inception. The Re-
publican party was begun as an
opposition to the Democratic
party of the South, whose tobac-
co splitting senators have for
years mouthed ideologies of
white supremacy and have lin
gered over pointless points as to
Why the Negro should be treated
kindly but firmly as one would
treat a ehild-or a puppy.
Ttis pr rty has as its figure
head a Fan who has shown his
insincerity by aspiring to be
President longer than the two
terms as according to custom
and now longer than three terms.
He has chosen as a vice prcsi
DIT q Southern Democrat whose
record is not without political
blemish. lie has set himself up
to be indispensable in the White
House occupancy and has set up
numerous agencies, commissions,
and subcommissions to tell the
American people what they can
and cannot do. He has made it
necessary that the people form
lines and queues in order that
they might be allowed to beg
for hearings from some bureau
cTat in order to conduct their
business or change their jobs.
Labor has disputed-some labor
that has never before had to
dispute, has disputed and
strikes have paralyzed our war
industries because of one-man in
reference.
He, this one man who runs
affairs, has not in any degree
brought forth that prosperity
which was To be an early re-
suit of the New Deal.
The present temporary infla-
ton canont be, by any means,
construed as prosperity, it is
merely a lull in the Roosevelt
depression, and with the contin-
uance of the depression admin
istration the wartime lull will
revert to the dark days of pre-
war hopelessness. There were
no plans for the future during
those days of peace-no hope.
Negroes had even less hope
the years appeared stretched
ahead in terms of relief and pow
erty. The 1910 outlook. after
eight years of Democratic auto
cratic rule was one still of beat
en- despair.
Small businesses, the back
bone of our economic system,
became virtually .non-existant
and the trend toward a peTma-
nent ruler class of the industrial
variety was established. The
factions of capital and labor
were soIidifying into two distinct
rungs Of the ladder. The top
and he brttor., without the
rungs in between and thereby
insuring the exclusiveness of the
two classes, because none could
climb from one to the other.
The establishment of the FE
PC was not result of Mr..
RoOsevelt's benevolent desire to
help the Negro, but was obtained
by the very effective tactics con-
ceived by one Mr.. A. Philip
Randolph, a Negro leader whose
idea of organizing a Negro
March on Washington might aid
our indispensable president In
seeing the light, the light which
Eliminates the obvious fact thai
the luxury of racial discrimina
tion in wartime can be a Sc