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A Proposed Sliot-gmi Policy
, For The Negro. ,
v The present wide discussion
of the relation of whites and
blacks was given a new, turn
last week by the speech; of T.
Thomas Fortune, editor of the
New York Age (Af ro-.Ainerican )
before a meeting of blacks in
Brooklyn, in an add r ess that
-I'l K ; ' : 1 was received with enthusiastic
Vf i. . i ' t o ft1 v k'nittin-o i o ronnvt.Dfl T.n
have, said:
"No man has any respect for a
coward, and the great trouble is
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that most of the negroes are a
lot of curs. When they and
their people, are discriminated
against, insulted, and outraged
they should demand an eye for
an eye and a tooth for a tooth,
They should be brave and ready
to follow their leaders of cour
age whether they lead to cavalry
or to a Wes t Virginia scaf f ol d
where John Brown, died in be
half of the negro.
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'If the negro can't be a man
in the South he should leave
there, but if he proposes to stay
there he 'should stay as a man
and fight his way up. I propose
to start a crusade to have the ne
groes of the South Jeave that
t section'; and to com e North or . go
elsewhere. It is useless to re
main in the South and 'cry "'peace!
peace! when there is no peace.
"I believe in law; but if the
law can afford us no protection
then we should protect ourselves,
and if need be die in the defense
of our rights, as citizens. The ne
gro can't win thro cowardice but
as soon as he strikes the first
blow for his freedom it will echo
around the world, and the world
-will respect us. I am not for
any compromise; there can be no
compromise in a life and death
struggle. , .
fit has been said that we
:ISftlfMK ' should make friends of .the
southerners but vve must not
make friends of any man' who
would deprive us of our rights
as men and as citizens. The on
ly, way. to" get even w;th the
southern white man is toget.'even
with! him with a bludgeod:. If
yj'sv.vV- the 'South wants peace and pros
IfKftS v perity let it - deal" squarely with
tne negro, -xi ii . wm. noi, tnen
the negro must protect himself,
- as1 not even God has any respect 1 1
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for a coward
"There are now 10,000,000 of
us, with 2,000,000 fighting men,
and there will come a time when
hey will get at the throats of the
white men who have tried to
wrong and outrage us as citi
zens' . Interviews with negro clergy
men in New York and Philadel
phia show that they do not agree
with Mr. Fortune on the wis
dom of this plan. The Washing
ton (D. C.) Colored American,
however, says; "what would 10,
000,000 of white people do, were
they persecuted, outraged and
discriminated against as negroes
are: Only the ashes or great
cities would be left to reply!"
.Newspaper comment seems to
agree that Mr. Fortune has hurt
the cause of his race by his
speech, far more than he has
h elpe d it.. Th e B r ook lye Eagle
says that "such a foolish speech
as Mr. Fortune made with' im
punity in Brooklyn would, if de
livered, tn the South, rouse just
the race hatred which would,
more powerfully than any thing
elsestaud in the path of negro
progess;" and the Hartford- Post
declares that "the roan who
gives to the colored people such
advice as Mr. Fortune imparted
yesterday is not their friend,
but their foe." The Philadel
phia bulletin, too, thinks that
such talk "only serves to in
flame still further the animosity
of the more lawless elements to
wards the black man." The
New York Times, observes that
' 'for good or ill the ' whi tes and
blacks of the South must live
together, and the men, white or
black, who try to breed strife
and bad blood and violence be
tween them are bad men, doing
a bad work. They should be
condemned by the sensible and'
right minded men of either race
as public enemies of a peculiarly
od iou s kin d . " Digest.
A German Satire on American
. . , Character
Under the title, "A Self-Made
Man: A Story for Good -Little
Boys, " appears in the St. Peters
burg Zeitung (aGerman paper pub
lished in the Russian capital) a
satirical little sketch written os
tensibly , "for the American
school reader, " and hitting , off
the Anierican Character as seen
at that distance. The ', sketch
runs in the main as follows!' ;
There was once a little boy and
his name was Freddie. He did
much for the entertainment of '
the neighborhood by fishing ' in
other people's private ponds and
picking other people's" fruits.
When he was scolded for . , it, : ho",
would proudly say: . "I ' am a
free citizen of a free country. (
The neighbors wanted his father
to whip him, but'the father said
he would not thus degrade a vfu-'v.
ture 'President of the United :.
States. Such things could be
done only in enslaved ' Europe;
Aud Freddie grew. and ; prosper
ed. He always attacked boyrt -
.who were weaker thatr. himself, .
beat them, and took awav: their
pennies in the name of civiliza-
tion and humanity. For in Fred- v
die's veins ran strong and pure
the undiluted blood of the .noble -
Anglo-Saxon. ' : ' '
One day Freddie's father was
told that his son had swindled a
friend of the family with a bogus '
dollar, and had gotton 85 .-cents:.
hange. And the father was
deeply moved, and said; "! al- ,
ways knew that Freddie would
someday be a great man. "Then
he turned Freddie's pockets
inside out and transferred the
85 cents to his own. After that
Freddie was placed with 'a wise
merchant who taught him that
two and two made five. Freddie
was wiser iban he and learned
how to make two and two equal
.to nine. Then - his bo$s made
h i m a par m er . And Freddie
was worthy of the trust. He ;
managed to 'get hold of all the
shares and to give his old boss
the bounce. And all the people
were loud in their praises of
Freddie. '
Then Freddie bought sug?ir
avid sold i t at a quarter of its :
value until he had ruined all
com petion . when he in ade good
his losses' tenfold' by raising the '
price enormously. And ' all the
people praised Freddie.
Freddie. built a railroad io ru
in the road which ran though his
city, and .succeeded and mado.,
thepublic pay.. ,He oiled the ma
chinery of Congress arid 1 worked
it so that tariffs . excluded ' every,
thing that he wished to sell dear,1
and there . was no . com petition. -And'
the pebpVstill :more'':'prais-
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