Show THE THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN THE NEGRO by D W cux GULP P A M X M X a V BUT says one if the negroes should disintegrate where should they go should they go to the democrats I 1 answer no a thousand times no and for the following reasons ast 1st the democratic party from its origin has right rightly 15 lyeen been known as a party opposed to the negro and his best interests the congressional record will show that omry every measure looking to the negros welfare passed by aby congress was vigorously opposed by the democratic party the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments and the civil rights bill were opposed by that party 2nd and the democratic party has all of the negroes bitter enemies in it I 1 3rd ard the negroes should not ally with the dem democrats brats for the same reason that they should not be solid as they now are any party will use as tools and badly treat any class clan of voters who stick to them like sycophants the republican party has nut not failed to take advantage of the negroes sycophantic ophan tic adherence to tn them when that was in power the irishman or the frenchman or the italian or the swede or the hungarian could go to washington and put in their claims for office with a great deal more prospect 0 of f success than the negroes why because on the one hand band the a appointing t ing powers felt that they had to umu make concessions to io these nationalities or they would at the next election throw their votes to the other party and on the other hand they knew that the negroes were solid republicans and that they would vote for them office or no office now if the negroes were solid democrats they would be treated in the same way I 1 once thought t that hat it would be a good idea for the negroes to ally with the populists lists as they promised a disintegration of the solid south but I 1 do dd not think that now I 1 that the ne negroes groes should organize themselves into a negro party not a solid negro party in the sense in m which they are now solid for then th the solid south would become more solid but wu solid in the sense see of being independent of the other parties having that leht would goto and support the party that wis was make the greatest con concessions emms tw tot t liem em this would woula set the t c several y pai parties t es COM competing 9 cx fr 3 ica for afie ln la such case caa t sew aaa ti s 7 to tm treat 1 a 1 art and to do 40 the thene the groes e 4 v 1 1 feet fe ig en kowm wm t 8 A f a Z s s Te power zt 4 d v beav aas A as i q V vo gg a th le ve r Y ae me aro roea aa 4 isa th li abit ifs is A 1 ysa ia i a sa ak ys W t iss sr v acet whatever esy pt x k aaa ue m yit af jj overn i as Ss f at wa 9 ame g rodo xe iga U W 11 1 t mb xa negroes therefore would have protection tec tion and there would be no murdering of them for political reasons Inthis in this way the negroes would become the pets of all parties and factions each trying to do the most for them in order to gain their votes I 1 hope to see the day come when the negroes will do this thing whenever that day comes there will be a great change in politics so far as the negroes are concerned and you yon will see the negroes and the whites getting on peaceably for no two peoples like the whites and the negroes can live together in in peace when they are arrayed against each other in politics let the negroes then disintegrate I 1 have now named the things which the negroes must do in order to the solution of the problem let us next see what the whites must do lat they must cease to think that the negroes were designed to be only their drawers of water and hewers of wood they must stop trying to keep the negroes in this position they must realize the fact that all negroes are not their servants that there are some negroes who have risen above the necessity of hewing their wood frood and drawing their water for bread they must accord to this class the treatment which they deserve they must treat them as they treat any other people in similar circumstances intelligent negroes who have their thousands will never be satisfied to be cuffed and kicked around as servants and I 1 want to say here that the negroes who are serving the whites in menial positions are not satisfied with the treatment which they receive at the hands of their employers many white people seem to forget that their servants are not their slaves the white people must come to the PO point int where they will treat both the colored people who are their servants and those who ure are not their servants better if they would have the negroes satisfied and peaceable 2nd and the whites must learn to treat the negro right as a neighbor bishop haygood indicates the way in which white men should treat their negro beig neighbors mors he says the white man should propound poun d this ques question tiou to himself how must mast I 1 and my black neighbor treat each oth other er he is my neighbor living near me with his f ardely he is my friend also he is a i citizen more ore than thaia that he ig iff a man the lawn law made him a citizen god made him bim a man I 1 am as inu much ch bound by eimm eternal righteousness to deal as righteously with him in im all things thim am s with my most cultivated neighbor and let it not be overlooked that the negro as is as much bound as I 1 am to deal righteously binau relations that bind 1 because 1 I us together may 2 have larger opportunities owe more duty to vm him than he ovea to me but buhe ahe of th the e obligation is 1 0 21 justi the 66 same I 1 arg black neighbor taking advantage of h ignorance norance or weakness or de joaq iceo t tolus t hak giver ane the U y xam y t anile an ah wl ile the f aim fc W ste 2 ag yg 5 ia i t ay iy i pel sl t asal n V con ares ewt i SK to do this I 1 must set the example I 1 emust teach him to speak the truth to do this I 1 must speak the truth to him I 1 must teach him honesty to do this I 1 must be honest to him to be continued |