Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1906 — VERBAL GATLING GUN [ARTICLE]

VERBAL GATLING GUN

Rapid-Fire Negro Orator Opens on the President of the United States. MIGHTY HOT WHILE IT LASTS e His Theme Is the Treatment of the Negro People. Especially tbe Men of the Twenty! Fifth—“ Tarns Loose” at a Service on Thanksgiving Day.

New York, Nov. 30.—At a union Thanksgiving service in which the members of four negro churches of this city participated President Roosevelt was denounced for his action in dismissing, three companies of negro soldiers from the United States army. At the conclusion of the serv ice, which was held In the Mount Olivet Baptist church, nearly every one present made a contribution to a fund which is being raised for the relief of the dismissed soldiers. The sermon of the day was preached by Rev. W. H. Brooks, pastor of the St. Mark’s African Methodist Episcopal church. In the course of his address Brooks said: He Is Kich In Adjectives. “It has been the pretense and contention of the south that the shiftless and ignorant negro was the one she despised, hjit the real south appeared, in her true colors when she took pains to run down, humiliate and outrage the most intelligent, thrifty and upright people of the community. This was scarcely over before the chief magistrate of the ration covered himself with eternal shame and disgrace by his unjust, unkind, undemocratic. unAmerican and oznrooratic, cold, cruel, drastic and infamous orders against as brave, as heroic, as self-sacrificing a set of men as ever wore the blue or bore ‘Old Glory’ on a field of strife.

Some Sarcastic Observations. “We will not be resentful nor revengeful, blit we are bold enough to denounce the act as an outrage and aggressive enough to demand justice at the highest court of earth, and before the bar of heaven. Let him of the ‘square deal’ deal square; him of the ‘fair play’ play fair; him of the ‘door of opportunity’ not shut it and bolt it forever in the face of black veterans. "And Especially at Harvard." “Has the world’s peace-maker lost his head and tired of his job. that he can ruthlessly mistreat a suffering, hysterical woman on the one hand and outrage a battalion of soldiers on the other—soldiers- to whose faithfulness he owes his life? If ‘peaching’ on comrades Is such a soldierly virtue he should have a chair of peachment In West Point. Annapolis, and especially at Harvard. Still Reason for Gratitude. “Rut in spite of all we have reason to be thankful: for again we have disappointed the- world, for the soldiers in disgrace have acted as brave men, not resentful children: thankful that the press of the country with few exceptions hns condemned such drastic measures: that the conservative people north and south do not countenance such imputative actions. Gives Some Political Advice. “If a Republican congress refuses to correct the wrongs thus inflicted every black man in the south ought to pack up his belongings and move to a doubtful state and vote the whole thing out of existence. It la by the ballot and not by vengeance we shall win."