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IULY 23
Some Negroes, like some white
folks, rejoice at th
one of his race.
1921
misfortune of
Some people#tarej chronic kickers
They kick if you jdo, and kick if
you don't do j
A Negro near Iva, who cannot
write, was accused of writing
notes to some whjite girls a few
days ago and his \*jife was accused
of being an accessary te the crime.
Both had to be spjeeded away to
another town for sifety. In Sum
ter, a white brutej was caught by
two officers of the Haw in an at
tempt to ravish a Colored girl; for
his safety the jurjy declared himl
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not guilty
We are slow to Relieve that times
are growing better If or the Negroes
in the south wheiji they are being
lynched in greater numbers than
ever, while whitesj are turned free
for crimes of much graver nature
in many cases. j
The intelligent jNegroes as well
as whites all over jthis country5 are
reading the paperjs and are pretty
well up on the conditions in the
fi|jj;>acs they rela :e to the Negroes
It has always been, and we pre
sume will continu ; to be, that one]
among many wort tiy Negroes here
and there gets a h ush up consider-. i
at ion at the nan is of supposed jj
white friends, but must we contin
ue to accept these as evidences of ^
better times? The great question r
now is/ What cos sideration is the ^
race getting as a if hole?
Judging from thk reports through
the daily papers, :he many recent
court decisions, t ie empanneling
of juries to the complete exclusion
of Negroes; the increased interest |p
in lynching; the ieorganization of | n
the nefarious KujKlux Klan, the
many threats and running tegeth-1 |j
er of the stronger} to hold the Ne- jj
groes down, the njeglect of provid- a<
ing adequate schobi buildings and ^
terms commensurate with taxes
paid etc., lead us to believe that
conditions are grcjwing worse.
In this same light all of us have
been made to seej the true condi
tions oi things ajnd it is not fair
that any one shjould attempt to
veil these conditions and present a
false picture.
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While the supppsed better class
of whites in and around Green
wood were startlejd at the long de
lay by the Governor in ordeiing a
special term of cc^urt to try Dr. C.
L. Lipscombs* slayer, the whole of
South Carolina ^as lost in wonder
to understand How a jury over in
Sumter, in the case of W. H.
Thomas, a whit * man, could stay
in a room 21 hours, and, with the
convincing facts in hand, bring
out a ?erdiet of
with intent to
'not guilty.'1
Thorns was indicted for assault
ravish a colored
girl. The giri! in question was
/"?e?surly waiking along with two
young men who were driven away
by, this inhumat krute. The boys
left and reported the case to two
officers who rusied upon the scene
and caught Thomas struggling to
overcome the girl.
~ In this case as in all similiar
eases, if this whjite brute had been
a black brute, be would have been
sentenced to death on the same
^spot. But this brute, being white
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clared "not guilty.'9
This verdict sustains the south
ern preachment that Negroes have
10 rights that a white man is
Dound to respect.
If Lawyer M. J. Frederick of
that city had been attorney for
the unfortunate girl, the verdict no
ioubt would have been a different
;>ne.^
Race pride, love for law and or.
der and justice for all alike under
the laws, would have forced Law
yer Frederick to use his best legal
talent. Too, he would have known
his jury and if possible would'ha ve
had colored .men placed on the
jury or laid a good foundation for[
an appeal if the right verdict was
not rendered. In which case if!
attorneys' fee could not be raised,
he would have defehded his client
for the sake of the race as has Esq
Moorer of Orangeburg done on
more than one occasion.
To these facts the Negro^ must|
be opened.
The outcome of this case should
open the eyes of the Negroes in all:
South Carolina that hereafter they]
will seek their own legal talent in
such serious cases instead of cross
ing the line for talent that is only
interested to the extent of the dol
lar. This seems to be a hard les
son for our people to learn but it|
is becoming more simple each day
One of Our Hopea.
Publishing a newspaper for
the benefit of Negroes is by no
neansa money paying proposi
tion. To this we are quite aure
5very newspaper man below the
'Mason and Dixen Line" will a
free. The average Negro, in
Rrhose interest a newspaper is
)ublished, labors under the false
mpression that the publisher is
it a game of making money and
inconsciously many will refuse
;o subscribe to the paper on those
grounds while others will sub
scribe as a matter of course
;hinking the paper can run per
)otaally for same reason. Tbat's
>ar opinion for the reason that
hey never put themselves to the
nconvenience of paying their
upport or dues to the paper un
ess they are approached by the
publisher or his direet r epresen
ative when they for the same
eason?a matter of course?will
tand him a little change and pass
lim on.
There are others however just
s true to their trast as the earth
I to its orbit but this number is
o comparatively small that many
ublishers are forced out of busi-,
ess while the remaining few are
?orely surviving with the hope
hat their weekly message of
ope will reach their readers and
t least offset some of the bad
lings with which the race is
harged and inspire them on
rard and upward in right living
nd the Commerical world.
The duties of a publisher are
ecidedly heavy and more ex_
ensive than what the small sub.
xiption price and returns from
dv?rtisements renumerate him
ut this is a fact that the masses
ave not as yet learned and the
uty of the ministry and all other
ublic agencies have up to now,
eglected in teachiug not as a
latter of helping the publishers
>r the publisher's personal bene
t but the masses for their bene
t.
No right thinking person will
uestion the necessity of a live
iegro newspaper in every home,
taly the careless and indifferent
rhose race consciousness haa not
een awakened would be guilty
f such during those perilous
imes when the opposite race
ournals lend us no encourage
dent and can only refer to ua
rhen one of no race pride and no
mbition is found guilty of va
cancy or petty larceny etc. Of
ourae if one of us happens to
ut-strip 1 lfe-long hard times to
each "three score and ten" we
;et a little corner metion of "A
;ood Negro servant is gone."
{ut what are these compared
nth a Henry Lincoln Johnson, a
?ooker T. Washington, an R. R.
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:hat if any misfortune should
overtake them sueh as would
ower the standarnd of the race,
jreat and screaming head lines
vould lead you to read of the 1
'ace's downfall. '
We have written all of the
'eregoing that we might say that
me of our hopes lies in Negro ;
tawspapers and that it is the
iuty of every Negro to subscribe {
x> read and pay for a good Negro 1
saper for the benefit of the race..1
People who read think, and i(
people who think act with a *
consciousness. And it depends ;
greatly on the kind of reading 1
natter*-one reads as to how he
lets. One who reads only dis
couraging news in the opposite
race papers concerning him and
his is lead to believe, argue and
let in support of his belief that
"this is a white man's country
and a Negro has no right that a
white man ia bound to respect."
Therefore he is an inferior being
and must subjeet himself to in
ferior treatment, and make him.
self een$ented with back door
refusals.
Negro newspapers teach a
gainst any desire for social
equality. (Drive a peg there) but
contends that out of one blo?d
God, the righteous Judge, created
all men and ajudged them equal.
Negro newspapers further hold
and contend that Negroes should
have all civil and political rights
of any people in keeping with
the laws governing this lard of
which they own very much and
pay taxes on the same.
Negro newspapers further hold
and contend that if Negroes
would know wnat the Negroes of
this land and country are doing
and their ability to do they can
only get it from Negro news
papers. No other race has as
deep an interest in the Negroes
as the Necrroes themselves.
Hence the one remedy for those
few narrow arid short sighted
Negroes who are quick to say, (
"1 get all the news out of my I
bounty paper" h to resolve to
rise up and get out of the slumbs
ignora lee ;w it relates to their
oWn people of wisdom and power
and resuive from this day hence
forth to read Negro newspapers
!n preference to any paper pub- 1
lished. (
That's one of our hopes.
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