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Why Am
I

Dissatisfied

BY

REV ZEBEDEE GREEN

Copyright 1923

By

ZEBEDEE GREEN

Entered into the Copyright Office in the Library of Congress By Act of Congress Washington. D. C.

/f

RZV ZEBEDEE GREEN

I

AM NOT SATISFIED

This writing was done by the request of Honorable Georj^e A. Weston, President of Pittsburgh Division No. 61 of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, by Reverend Zt'l)edee (Ireen, Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania. in lin.'i, could just write my name. Jesus said. "Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven and its righteousness thereof and all these things shall be added unto thee.
I

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow

Is

But

our destined end or way, to act that each tomorrow Finds us farther than today. Longfellow.

C1A;57G57
FEB ^3 1922

ii

of^'

^
-

"Satisfaction
'"

leads to

stagnation;

stagnation to dctet ioration and deterioration

to extinction.

B.
*'

S.

Clark

Among

other things show yourselves

to be dissatisfied.

Woodrow Wilson

>4

AM NOT SATISFIED

June.

the Southlands in 1882 on the 25th day of old enough to know and see things as Since I have confessed othtTs. I confessed Jesus Christ. Him. He has enabled me to see. know and understand more about doing things for Him and His people.
I

was born

in

When

g-ot

the condition of my race, it makes me dissatisnot satisfied and. if I say I am, I would not be telling the truth to my Heavenly Father, to myself, to my wife, to my mother, or to my race. I know that I am a Christian, but still I am not satisfied. God Him.self is not satisfied with the condition of things. He has created all men equal and that is one thing we as a race should look at, for we as a race do not c;ire for anything of our own, though still there aie a few of us who really want something. We care for it in a way. That is, if someone gives us something, we are ready to receive it, but if

As

.see
I

fied.

No.

am

we have
not want

to
it.

go through hardships

to obtain

it.

then we do

We say this is a white mun's country and a white man's government. It is. We say that we are ruled by his laws and government. We are. He beats us, he kills us, he works us. he lynches us, he burns us. and every time he gets in trouble, he makes us fight for him. We win the victory for him every time we fight and at the end we get nothing but the same old thing that we were getting before. Still ue s.iy we are in a free country and are free citizens of this country. I say, "We are not free citizens in this country for we were forced and brought to this country and s^ld like cows and horses." No citizenship papers were given to us at all and we did not ask for my. Why? We c::uldn't. We were slaves f(jr them vu(\ the only free thing that we had was to work to help them to build up their governmrnt. That is just a.s if I were helping another m:in Iniy a
He h:is the papers made out in his name; I haven't W'e live in the same house, but he couM put me out any time he gets ready. That is how we stand in America. I noticed in the .speech of Lincoln at the close of the Civil
houst'.

any.

War

at ;ettysl)urg. Maryland. November 19. 18G:^. "Fourscore and seven years ago. our forefather's forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in and dedicated to the proposition that all men are I'qual." In that speech the Negroes were said to be
(

he

said.

brnu<xht

Liberty created
free.
J

say in part they are free and in part they are not. In the biggest part he is not free. I am not saying anything about Liberty at all, for there is a difference between Libsrty and Freedom. A man can be free from jail, or any place where he is bound, and still not be at Liberty to do what he wants
to do.
I heard the remarks of a man of my race who was in a parade on July 4, 1917. He said, "I now belong to the United States Army and I am going up against Germany. I don't mind fighting, I don't mind dying, but I hate to leave my wife." He received much applause from the other race and also from his own race. It didn't please mo at all. It put me to thinking and I was not satisfied. I went on a long time trying to find something to match what he had said. At last, I have found something to match him.

I say, "I belong to the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Africa must be free. I don't mind fighting, I don't mind dying, for I am preparing a place for my wife and my race. I have no children of my own, but ray brother has some. When I say my brother, I rrean this Negro race of mine. When I look upon the faces of the boys and girls of my race, it brings much cheer to me because of their bright future. But when I stop and think, I wonder w^hat these children will have to use their bright future on. These children are looking for their fathers and mothers, yes, and to the race at large, to put something in their way that they may catch hold of it and make themselves better men

and women.

A lot of us who call ourselves men and women, aren't worth the clothes that we have on our backs. Say, men and women of my race, do you not know that these children are going to school every day to get knowledge? I know you will say, '\ves." What are they going to do with it after
they get it? AH of them cannot preach the gospel, be secretaries, officers of the church, stenographers, typists, bookhaven't enough business places to keepers, or clerks. put them in. The one that has a business place, you're

We

knocking him

all

the time.

I am saying to you, "Let us stop and think over this great task that is now before us. Let us stop knocking and saying so much about what I am going to do. Let us work and bring things to pass. Do you ever stop to think of how

vour children are taught and who is teaching them? How vould you like for me to whip your child and teli you to keep your han.is
not?
off

mine?

Would

that be fair, or would

it

Some

of us Negroes do not
I

want Negroes

to teach

our children,
to teach me,
I

ut. listen,

when

not want to be with

my own
die.

I get to the place that I do race and don't want a Negro

ought to

And some

of us use the phrase, "I

am

getting more like

the white folks every day." If you only knew how that phrase sounds, you would stop using it. You never hear them say that they want to be like you. Now, if you say that you are more like Jesus, you would be doing the right That is what is the matter now. Too many v^hite ihing. things have been shown to us. So I want to see myself now

because

love

my

color.

Listen, good people,

it is

am

the truth and

better i\v

it

is

right for

saying these things because me to say them, as a min-

and as a man who loves his race. For you now so that you may make it is in this world and leave it with you die a change, than to let assigned me to this work and that For God has a shame. must do. so that when I go to make a report, it shall I These are some of the things that make me be true.
ister of the Gospel,

me

to tell

dissatisfied.
all I work Again, here is something else I look at. the time and sometimes make two days in one and I can't get above meat, bread and house rent, sometimes my wife helps me, but still I can't get above meat, bread and house

rent.

Listen, good folks, there

is

something wrong some-

We say we don't drink wife; no sweetheart. Do not whiskey and only have one not and U" dress line do not live in a fine eat fine food. house. Still wo work all the time and haven't got anything.
where and badly wrong
at that.

There

is

something wrong.
I

Yes, there

is.

Now, don't

anything is because I have been out of work; because when you were working it was We cculd hardly make it from one pay to the same. anoi-her then and pay days were only two weeks apart. Now, 1 am not gouig to say anything about the money you were making. I am "showing you why it is I am dissatisfied. 0-ur boys and girls are looking to you and me and what are we doing for them. Someone may say, "i haven't any chiluien". But i.hat doesn't excuse you, for you have a duty just like M\y other man.
say the reason
havein't got
'

We have been singing this song, "You can have all the woiia, but give me uesus". 1 have Jesus now and i want some of ihe wona ior these childr&n. And we have been s.ymg, '"When I came into the woild I bioag-it nothing and, wiien I go out, I will leave nothing." Our trouble is, we do not want to leave anytning when we go, bui: the white n'an will i:ave something. Listen, men, it is time for us to move, for I hear a voice crying to the four corners of th3 woria and we ought to run to the call. When I say men, I aon't mean some of them, but I mean ail of them, both men and v;cmn. We, as a race, ought to answer this call and dc justice to ourselves and children. For, if we are ever going to be a race, now is the time. Somxe of us think that cliis is a joke, but I am saying that it is not a" joke.
We
havc
be a

want what is due us like other nations and we must For my part, my life belongs to it, for I expec'^ to man and pky a man's part on the ground whereon I
it.

stand. I will help

am Vvrilling to put my me to be a man.

strength to anything that

dissatisfied,
little

Someone may want to know why I keep saying I am and why I am talking as I am through this

pamphlet. Well, this is why. When I think of the South and see how they have mobbed, burned and killed my people, also 1:11';; d my cv/n blcod brother and th nk they are df^in-T rip-ht, I vnW sav to you that that is enough 'o make anyone dissaiisutd. That is the reason why I love the U N. I. A. and am giv'ng it my life, for we negroes do nothing
here in ihe U. 3. A, to slop
'.hese

outrages.

And

in this

^reat World's War while our men were in France along sida of the whits men, as well as other nations, they v;ere still mobbing, burning and killing our people. In 1918, when the hardest of the struggle was on and our men were helping to make this country safe, the record that I had, show that there were 68 lynched, mobbed and burned.

And nothing could be done until' this great man, Marcus Garvey, cams with thiS great movement. And I will say tnat this man is a man among men and I will go to his call at any time, for he has done more for this race in thiea years tiian we have done in 356 years. Not only the United States can see it, but the world can see it. I am willing to give honor to whom honor is due. The great men and the mighty men are standing off looking at him today. A lot of our people are standing up today saying, "I v/ill wait unlil I i^ee what he is going to do and how he is going to come out". And yet, they say Ihey are for the right thing and for the race. Well. I am sr.ying to all of thorn who are in that fix that it doesn't look to me as if you love the race or evcn yours:-lf. You just st;iy out there and knock and see how you will come out. If you think this movement is going down, you are wrong. And, if you tliink it is a dr* am, then you sleep on until you get through dreaming and then wake up and think. You will find out that it is not a dream, but real. And, if this gre?.t man dies, this m.ovement is going on. We have thous.inds and thousr.nds of great m.en who are in t'lo f vjr corners of the world who are r.b'e to see to it that this great work will still go on and, if this great man lives, I know that this great work will go on.
Greater love hath no man than this, thnt a man l:iys down his life for his friends. John, 15th Chapter, 13th verse. These words were spoken by Jesus Christ, telling us to love ye one ano'hcr. This is one thing that we have got to c^me up t) and we are a long way from it. love in a wiy, that is, when everything is g ;ing on all right pnd things are gong our way, but if trouble arise then our love is gone.

We

No man wants to die for another man. He would rather go out and g.miblo and di? over live cents, or something else that would not amount to a row of pins, than to (lie for a man who is in the right. The biggest thing wo

^
say we love and do another way. And still we are going to Heaven. But Heaven is not down below, but above. Now, Mr. Marcus Garvey has done what Jesus said do. He Now, is not only saying it, but he is proving it by doing it. The time has come .'if I am lying, prove it to me that I am. now that this race has got to move from where it is and For I see it and am going I am going to be at the moving. after it. If I do net succeed, I will die trying.

do

is to

copy.but

not saying anything about you in this have it for the men. So I will see you all later, but 1 m.usx say one thing to you, "You ought to drop your dresses in the right pliice and get out of the young girls' v/ay and get to work and make them competent for the future lac e. A nd your faces are white
Say,
I
I

women,

am

have yours

too, just as I

whe^n they ought to be black.

So

am

dissatisfied.

We
world.
place.

are looking

We

now for men and women all ovei- the are going to get this race and put it in its right

Him when I
to

The Lord's word is gone out and it will not return For void. I want to be satisfied, but I can't be.
look at the other nations and see that they have
it

all

takes to make a nation and then look at my race ?nd see hov; we are fixed, it makes me more dissatisfied. The truth about it is, I don't like it. of what
as He has made othef us a race just like other races. And these races will stick together and will not sell themselves to

God has made me a man just

men and made

another race, but we won't stick together like that. All we care for is to get in a good little place to ourselves and the rest c?.n go and root like little pigs, or die poor. We don't look for a place any big-ger than one large enough for ourse'ives. We will say that we are for the race, but act in another way. I think we ought to change that now. Do more and say less; for we can do nothing in this world but make a living. Why is it that it can't be done in the right way? Let us make it up in our minds to do the right thing and make the race whrt H on-^iit to be. Don't be afraid that somecne will get more than you.

10
I

am

talking:

because
the

love the race

and

it is

my

duty

to

do

was given by our Lord Jesus, that we should love one another. That is what we should do. I don't believe that the Lord is pleased over
This
is

commandment

that

the condition of things and I know that I am not. be until some change is made for the better.

can't

And
that
is,

here

is

another thing that gives ug a

lot of troub-e.

we knov/ all and we do net want to follow anybody. Wh-^n we come into the possession of something and it will take someone cl^e to help us out, we Will say, "I know what to do", and then proceed to do it. .Then we go on with it until we can't go any farthar, then we will stop and g-it someone who does know and will give it to him, or her, and it would give thsm m.ore trouble than it would ba worth and they sometimes have to give it up. Then we would bs in
a worse
ship.
fix

than

v,e

were

in at first.

We

do not regard leader-

We

follow the leaders

when we get ready, we stop. Do you Icnow that there are many people who are dsad

whsnaver we want to and, This is where we get in bud.

they get
?.ick,

who ou ght home and

tn \e

iving?

When

they stay at

try to doctor themselves until thsy are nearly

dead, then go running to or send

someone for a doctor.

VVh^n he gots to *hem, he can't do any good and sometimes the patient dies before he gets there. When I ?e9 t'lese thing.-?, or hear them, they make me dissatisfied. We ought to be wil'ir"' to follow our leader now since we know that we are in trouble and have been for ys^.rs. Tho^e who sny "I know" hav* ffcne on tryin? for years to get us out of trouble and nothing has been done yet.
Clrod reorle, listen, 'et us stop dition of things ?nd go to those

and think over the con-

who know and

let

them

help us out of it. I want this race cf mine to stop pnd r-id. and think over what I am talking fbout. If you dcn't know will toll VDU that T pm a man Hke other m'^n. I W'^en 1 think over this, it makes me s^y. "I am not mi^^ch of a man." How c".n 1 o satisfied when I think of it. Yet if they tel! me what I have to do I will do it, just as if I were a child.
1

11

These children of ours are going to be abie to do just as other racs because we are going to make it possible. Why do you talk so much about the children, Mr. Green? I know you will ask this. 1 talk about them because they don't know so much. We have got to get them ready for the future race. We "old folks" know too much of that we should not know t.nd do not want to know that which we should know. Therefore, we can't do much with you, for some of us want the Lord to come down from Heaven and talk with us and put our hands on the things that ought to be done.

We are like the Children of Israel. When Moses was leading them they said to him, "We are tired of hearing you. We want to taik with God for ourselves". That was as good as saying, "We know as much as you and you can So Moses came to be dissatisfied and went tell us nothing". and talked with God. His job was to take them to the land that God had told him to take them to. I am dissatisfied today for I hear someone crying saying, "Come on and let us go to the land that God has promised us and let us be a nation like other nations and be free." For this man is a Moses and we as a race need straightening out along all lines. Some of us do not like intelligence. In a way we We have it fixed so that like it and in a way we do not. when we don't want to go to intelligence we don't go, and when we get ready to go to it, we go.
all

Pure intelligence means that you m.ust be intelligent at times. That is why I like the Universal Negro Improvement Association, for it calls for intelligent people as well as the Bible does.

But we will steal, rob, and take one another's lives and lead our neighbor's daughters astray; we will talk about each other without a cause and we are glad to see our neighbor's downfall and we will teil falsehoods on one another. whole lot of us will borrow and won't pay back and stay in houses with women who are not our wives and say they are. We stay with her as long as we want to and then leave her with a shame. Some of us grudge our neighbor his possessions and are ourselves as selfish as selfish can be, and we do not care anything about our word.

want work and won't work. Some of of people. When our neighbors teach their children to do the right thing, others are leading them
lot of

us do not

us love to

make fun

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astray.
ott"

Some will do right when they want to, and leave it when they get ready. And there are some who won't

do right and do not care what you say or do to them. Now, all of these are not worldly folks, but some of them are so-called Christiano. This brings my mind to the 10th Chapter of Romans, Fir^t, Second and Third verses. When Paul was talking with the people at Rome, he said, "Biethem, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved. For I bear them record, that they have zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own rightsousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God." And when I see these things and think over them, my soul cries out within me. Net only our own people do this, but the other races do the same or worse. There are some people who are going to do right no matter what happens.
not satisfied. another thing that we do not regard. We have a meeting and we say that it will begin at seven o'clock, but when that time comes, only a few will te there and they will have to stay there and wait, I don't know how long, before the others get there and sometimes it is the main ones who are holding the meeting back. In our meetings, 1 notice that the one who com.es late is the one who hasn't time to stay untii the meeting is out. Especially, if it is a meeting that will help us to become a better race. It appears When someone to me that they do not care about time. sees them who v/ants to be on time, they will say, "You are early because you have plenty of time". Perhaps it is nearly time then for the meeting to start. We don't for one minute remember that there may be someone in that meeting who should be at home doing their work, or at some other place of duty. Perhaps they have been waiting for an hour and a half on you, when you get there, you have more to say than
Still I

am

Time

is

anyone
I

else.

came talking about time because it is valuable. into the world on time and we are going out on time. Therefore, we ought to put all of our time in good service for God and for man. Job tells us that man's bound is set and that he cannot pass. Since we know we cannot pass it. then we ought to be up and doing for the Lord and lor the race. It When is time for us to stop playing now and go to work.
the white people put on a meeting and say the meeting will

am

We

; ;

\3

be at eight o'clock in the morning, v/hen that time comes every one of them will be tl:eie and, it they are not, there And when they get is someone to find the rea-on why. there, they stay until the meeting is over. To be a progressive race, we will have to do the same thing. becau>e it is time for business. There is a season for everything and a time for every purpose under the Heavens. A time to be born, and a time to die: a time to plant and a time to piuck up that which is planted A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down and a time to build up; A time to weep and a time to laugh a time to mourn and a time to dance A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to get and a time to lose; a time to keep and a time to cast away A time to reap and a time to sow; a time to keep silent ind a time to speak; A time to love and a time to hate; a time of war and a time of peace. So the world is at war since it cannot find peace, thereThe more I write on this subject, fore, I am dissatisfied. Many see, but few the more I see to write about it. know. In the days of Noah when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters ware born unto ihem t;v+ t'v^ prns ^f God saw the daughtsrs of men that they were fair, and they took them wives of ail which they
;

cjfiuo=-e.

the Lord said, "1 will destroy man whom I created from the f?.ce of the earth." So God told Noah to He told him how to build it jvid wnat build an ark. And He gave Noah a hundred and twenty to build it with. years in which to buiid it. The people had the same length Noah went en doing the work that God of time to repent. had given him to do. At the same time, he warned the people about what was going to happen, but they wculd
at

They became wicked, so much so that it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth and it grieved Him
His neart.

And

not believe

him and went on their way. Noah building the ark, but they did not know saw They that God was going to destroy the earth with water and N-^ah kont warning them and -oitho]^ r'-(] fhpy believe it. All of the people saw they called him a foolish man.

14

him building the ark. but only a few knew what he was building it for. God himself was not satisfied. We people
today are going from one place to another and, as we go. see, but who knows what is in front of us and who knows where he or she is going to die and wnai thty are gomg to die in. You Gon't know whether you will die in the house or on the ground, or on the water. We go from piace to place and we see as we go, but who knows wnat will happen to what we have seen. We 1-e down at night to take our rest and when we get up in the mornmg, we see the sun shining brightly. But who knows what will happen before night. We speak that we know and testify that we have Scen. These words were spoken by Jesus Ciirist as He was talking to a rich ruler of the Jews who came unto Him by night and ^'iid unto Him, "Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God, for no man can do miracles that thou doest except God be with him. Jesus started to talk to him and told h'm ;o much that he begin to wonder. He said, "How can these things be?" Jesus answered and said unto him. "Art thou a master of Israel and knoweth not these things? Verily, veri y, I say unto you, we speak that we know and testify that we have seen, and ye received not our witness." So Nicodemus saw Jesus but did not know Him as he thought. So all of the nations see one another and one thinks it knows more than the other. That is what caused the great World War. Now, they r^re trying to find peace and can't find it. Why? Because thev do not w.int to recognize me. So I am yet dissatisfied. We as a race talk too much and that is one reason why we can't get along. For some of Us will tell other nations what is done among ourselves and th^t is th rpason they can keep us separated. No other nation will tell us what it knows and that is why they think thev can keep us separated. With God to help us, in spite of all that, we :ire going to make it right on to the end. We, as a race, ought to quit talking to other races about ourselves .'^irce we know how they have treated us and have given us the bad end. Let us change this thing around and start everything doing things for ourselves, so that we may be a nation like other nations. We have many betrayers in our race, and it ouerht to be fixi d so that when we (i'ld them, we could give them a "final resting place of honor." The 18th Chapter of Mat-

we

'

thew, the Seventh, Eighth and Ninth verses, tells us "Woe unto the world because of offenses, for it must need be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh! Wherefore, if thy hand, or thy foot, offend thee, cut them off' and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than, having two hands or two feet, to be cast into everlasting fire. And, if thine eye offends thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye than, having two, be cast into hell fire." Now, if you would read this whole chapter, it would give you a better understanding of the subject which is now before you.
If you would take in this subject as you read it, we would be a better people and a better race and it would stop us from talking about and betraying each other to the other races. I am saying these things because they are true and I have studied human nature and, especially, the Negro Race. For the world is my school house and the people are my books, and my Heavenly Father is my Teacher. I am the pupil who is learning wisdom from Him.

can die for the other race, why is it that I can't die So I am not satisfied. No, I am not satisfied. I have been here now nearly forty years under the Stars and Stripes and I have found nothing in them yet that looks like me. A few years ago, I looked and saw peeping out from under a cloud something that looked like me. That is, the Red, Black and Green. Red is the color of the blood that men must shed for their redemption and liberty. Black is the color of the noble and distinguished race to which we belong. Green is the coibr of the luxuriant vegetation of our Motherland. But before Africa can be suft"iciently strong to protect all of us, we must have Annies, Navies, Ships, Factories, Mills, Educational Institutions, Churches, Theatres, Railroads, Docks, Farms, Banks, Stores, Warehouses, Militia. Coal, Iron, Silver, Gold and Copper Mines, Mints and Chemicals, but above all. we need a Government.
If I

for myself?

AM NOT

SATISFIED

I want liberty and to get liberty, we will have to have a government and to get a government, we will have to have everything that is necessary to make a government. We want our own government like other nations and we must have a government like other nations. Someone may say

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now, "Can Negioes have a Government?" Yes, go and build Wiiere are we going to build it ? In Africa where our it up. home i.s. You know the Bible says that, before the end of time, every nation shall return to its own home, but how do we know when the time will come. When you go away from your home and it is time for you to return, who tells you to rtlurn home? Well, common sense will tell any man when to go back to his house.
If common sense will tell him to go back to his home then that same sense will tell us to go back to Africa and do fur ourselves the .same thing we have done for other nations and that other nations have done for themselves. What have we to build our government with? We have the .same thing that the other nations had. They had nothIt is a ing, but they went to work and got something. strange thing to me to see how we can do things for others but, when it comes time to do something for ourselves, we will say, "We can't, for we have nothing to do it with." IJut if we will knock that "t" out of can't we will find

that

we

can.

all of them go to Africa that want to, have lost nothing there". No, but I am sure you have lost something in the United States. That is why the United States is in a bad fix today. My brother's blood is crying before Ciod as that of Ai)el when Cain, his brother, slew him. This is one of the things that causes me to be dissatisfied. Listen, CJalatians, Sixth Chapter, Seventh and Eighth verses say, "He not deceived. God is not mocked; for whatsoever For he that soweth a man soweth, that shall he also reap. to his llesh shall of the llesh reap corruption. But he that soweth to the Spirit shall reap life everlasting."

.Some say. "Let

1

for

you will surely reap it. let it be good or sow. we ought to be careful about how we sow a-nd what we sow, because it will come back upon us. Then, the Scripture says. "Take not that you cannot give". So. if you cannot give life, why should you take it? My Father is not dead, nor asleep. He has not gone away, He is not deaf, neither is He so weak that He cannot do anything he wants to do. For He said, "I will be with you in tlu' sixth trouble, and in the seventh trouble I will not forsake you."
If
it.

you sow

bad.

When we

(To be continued.)

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Why

Am

Dissatisfied
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PRESIDENT COOLIDGE'S TRIBUTE TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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Proclamation issued Jan. 30th, 1919, by Calvin Coolidge, then Governor of Massachusetts

'^^ IVESCORE and ten years ago that Divine Providence, which If infinite repetition has made only the more a miracle, sent ^^ into the world a new life, destined to save a nation. No star, no sign, foretold his coming. About his cradle all was poor and mean save only the source of all great men, the love of a wonderful woman. When she faded away in his tender years, from her deathbed in humble poverty she dowered her son with greatness. There can be no proper observance of a birthday which
forgets the mother. Into his origin, as into his life, men long have looked and wondered. In wisdom great, but in humility greater, in justice strong, but in compassion stronger, he became a leader ^f men by being a follower of the truth. He overcame evil with jood. His presence filled the nation. He broke the might of oppression. He restored a race to its birthright. His mortal frame has vanished, but his spirit increases with the increasing years, the richest legacy of the greatest century.

they worship what they are. It is no great example of American manhood the before accident that our people stand with respect to reverence. And in accordance with this sentiment our laws have provided for a formal recognition of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln for in him is revealed our ideal, the hope of our country fulfilled. Now, therefore, by the authority of Massachusetts, the 12th day of February is set apart as LINCOLN DAY and its observ-

Men show by what

of his life and ance recommended as befits the beneficiaries admirerers of his charactt/. in places of education and worship wherever our people meet one with the other. Given at the Executive Chamber, in Boston, this 30th day hundred of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine and nineteen, and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ^orty-iX^u^^^^^^

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OPPORTUNITY AND

WHEN TO GRASP

IT

There comes a time in every individual's life when an opportunity of some kind presents itself; to old and young, whether it be little or much, it should be taken advantage of by that person. There are opportunities for both good and bad; the ones that should be taken are the good ones. But these are generally left to pass on by our doors and counted worthless by us.
itself to

The time to accept an opportunity, when presents you. 2 The great men and women who have passed this way and
1
is
it

the sands of time, did not have the opportunity that we now enjoy. They had no schools in which to learn every skilled trade, business and profession which the world has in its program for today; nor did they have school and towering toward the buildings spreading over much land sky. But they caught the vision of this day, as best they could, and made it possible for you to have the opportunity.
left their footprints in

3 I want to say to the youngsters of today that, if there were great men as far as Booker T. Washington's boyhood days, then, with the chance you have, you can be much greater men if you will only grasp the opportunity. School days are the best days in which to prepare yourselves. Opportunity will then open doors to you that have long been closed. This day offers an opportunity that was not offered in the day of your foreparents and now is your chance to grasp it for opportunities only comes to us once in a lifetime and then pass on, never to come to us again. It is easy to take hold then but oh, how hard when it has passed us by. 4 After long years have passed, we can only look back and say, "I had a good chance, but I let it pass. Now all my best days are spent, I see my mistake but cannot accept those opportunities now, for they have gone by." 5_So young people I leave this thought with you as_ a friend, would you count it wise to accept an opportunity while present, or, wait until it has passed and then run after it? 6 Our foreparents did not have the opportunity that I have and I haven't the opportunity that you have. For instance, our foreparents used the words "master" and "mistress" in my day and time we used "yes sir" and "yes ma'm"; in your day, you use the terms "yes" and "no". That shows some of our oppor-

tunities.

selves to us

mention this to show how opportunities present themand then pass on. So I would advise each as a friend, to grasp the opportunity when it is present, for when it has passed it will never come again^^By Zebedee Green.
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"WHY I AM DISSA TISFIED.

This writing was done by the request of Hon. George A. Weston, who was the president of Pittsburgh Division No. 61, of the U. N. I. A.

By
first,

Rev. Zebedee Green, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

all

In 1913 I just could write my name. Jesus said, "Seek ye the kingdom of heaven and its righteousness thereof, and these things shall be added unto thee."

Not enjoyment, and not Sorrow

Is our destined

end or way tomorrow. Finds us farther than today. Longfellow

But

to act that each

ZEBEDEE GREEN
4213 Shields
I

St.,

Pittsburgh, Pa.

began to write the second part of this book on January

has come time for
is

28th. 1921.
It

me

to begin ^\Titing

upon this great

subject which

now

before me:

"WHY

AM

DISSATISFIED."

The world is dis.satisfied today because we Negroes are seeking our place in the Sun, which we mean to have; for so long as the Negro was satisfied, the world seemed to be satisfied, but when we looked and saw our condition we came to be dissatisfied, therefore the world became dissatisfied with us; because they were sucking our blood and that was what they had to live on. God did not intend it to be. The white man know when the Negro get out from under him, he will have to go and get it for hirriself. In the days of slavery they kept our fore-fathers under bondage and would not pay them anything for their work and at the same time they took advantage of our women, and today we are as spotted as a leopard with the many colors and yet w'e are the most loving race of people to them in the world, for anything they wanted us to do we did it, even among ourselves, so if they say, fight or kill one another we did it and have had u^ to help lynch, mob and burn our own people and made us honor them as lords on the earth. For all the pleasures of life was theirs, they thought, and we thought so too. But since the Hon. Marcus Garvey has brought to us through the hands of God the U. N. I. A., we have found out better; for life is for us as well as any one else, therefore it has caused me to be dissatisfied.
I was a boy I worked for fifteen cents a from 'can to can't'; this is from the time I I couldn't see, and they want us to keep that up now, but they are wrong, that is why they are trying to get the. Hon. Marcus Garvey out of the way and put him in the tomb. They think if they get him out of the way they can carry us back to the old stage again. Now, did God intend that to' be? No,/ for He has no respect of persons and therefore He created all men equal, and of one blood. But in creating man he [^ave him five senses that he might think and act in the right way that is to till the earth and to give honor to His Creator, and love and care for one another during his short stay on earth but we
I

remember when

to go just could see until

day and had

are using these senses in another term. Instead of caring for one another, we- are trying to keep the other down, putting all the glory and blessing among one or two groups, so in that sin has taken place among us which I will show you farther down the line. ^As I write, showing you what has happened to govern-

ments, and what will happen to any government or nation of who do these things, and I will prove them by the Bible. God is dissatisfied with the condition of things that is now existing
peoi)le

us and so am I. The world is dissatisfied itself and all of one the account of sin and injustice. Now let us iro back to the beginning- of sin, with the words of the Bible and come down to the present time.

among
it is

1 NATURE
of foolishness is sin: abomination to men. Prov. 24:9.

The thought

and

the scorner

is

an

He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart has turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, is there not a lie in my right hand? Isaiah 44:20. The heart is deceitful above all; things and desperately wicked :who can know it? Jeremiah 17:9.

But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth fromjthe heart; and they defile the man. For out of the
heart proceedeth evil thoughts murders, adultries, fornications, theft, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man; but to eat with unwashed hands defileth not a
;

man. (Matthews

15:18-20.)
;

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be, so then they (Romans :7-8). that are in the [flesh cannot please God. And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eat<Romans eth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith, is sin.

14:23.)

Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air. the (Ephesians spirit now worketh in the children of disobedience.

2:2.)

own

But every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his lust and enticed. Then when, lust hath conceived, it bringeth

forth sin: and sin

when

it

is

finished, bringeth forth death.

it

(James 1:14-15.)
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth
not, to

him it is sin. (James 4:17.) Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth

sin is the transgression of the, law.

II

(I

John

also the law: 3:4.)

for

EXAMPLES Adam

and Eve

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it, was pleasant to the eye. and a tree to be desired to
make one
3:6.)

wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and gave also unto her husband with her and he did eat. (Genesis

CAIN
were
evil,

Not as Cain,

his brother,

who was of that wicked one, and slew and wherefore slew he him? Because his own works and his brother's righteous. (I John 3:12.)

SODOM AND GOxMORAH

And the Lord said, because the cry of Sodom and Gomorah great, and because, their sin is very grievious; I will go down and see whether they have done altogether according to the crj' of it, which is come unto me, I will know. (Gen. 18:20-21.)
is

asswered Joshua and said, "Indeed I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done:" When I saw among the spoils of goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred sheckels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fiftj^ sheckels weight, then I coveted them and took them, and behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it. (Joshua 7:20-21.)
j

ACHAN Achan

rebellion is as the sin of witch-craft and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord; ^le hath also rejected thee from being king. (Samuel 15.23.)

SAUL For

DAVID And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord, and Nathan said, unto David, the Lord hath also put away thy sin; thou shalt not die. (II Samuel 12:13.) AHAB And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the Loi'd, and thou hast followed Baalim. (I

Kings 18:18.)

JEREBOAM AND THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL

For the children of

boam which he
17:22.)

Israel walked in all the sins of Jere(II Kings did; they departed not from them.

JUDAS Then, Judas which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders; saying, I have sinned in that I have betraj'ed the innocent blood, and they said, what is that to us? See thou to that. (Matt. 27:34.)
>

ALEXANDER THE COPPERSMITH

the Lord Alexander, the coppersmith, did me much evil: heard him according to his works. Of whom be thou aware also, (II Timothy 4:14-15.) for he hath greatly withstood our words.

III.

RESULTS

unto Adam he said, because thou hast barkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree which I commanded thee, saying, thou shalt not eat- of it: cursed in the ground for thy sake: in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. (Gen. 3:17.)

And

His own iniquities shall take the wicked, himself, (Prov. 5:22.) shall he holden with the cords of sins.

and he

But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul all (Prov. 8:06.) they that love me love death. But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot (Isa. 57:20.) rest, whose waters cast up mire, and dirt. Thy way and thy doings have procured things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth (Jeremiah 4:18.) unto thine .heart. But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord God. (Ezk. 11:21.) For they have sown the wind and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal; if so be it (Hosea 8:7.) yield, the stranger shall swallow it up. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of, sins, which were by the law, did work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto (Romans 7:5.) death

Now
adultry, 5:19.)

the work of the flesh are manifest, which are the.se: (Galatians lasciviousness. uncleanness, fornication,

Be not, deceived; God is not mocked; for whatever a soweth, that shall he also reap. Galatians 6:7.)

man

DIVINE FEELING TOWARD And God saw that the wickedness of man was
IV.

great in the

earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. (Gen. 6:56.) For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness; neither shall evil dwell wath thee. The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: Thou hatest all workers of iniquity. (Psalms 5:45.)

For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, (Deut. 25:16.) are an abomination unto the Lord thy God. and blesseth desire heart's For the wicked boasteth of his 10::3.) Psalms abhoreth. Lord the whom covetous, the The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more,

when we bringeth

withia wicked mind? (Pro. 21:27.) Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising Oh. do not this abommable saying. early, and sending them, (Jeremiah 44:4.) thing that,! hate. Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cau.^e me to behold grievance? for spoining and violence are before me: and there are that raise up and strife and contention. (Hobakkuk 1:3.) And let none of you imagine evil in your heart against his neighbor; and love no false oath; for all these are things that
it

hate, saith the

Lord. (Zech.

8:17.)

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And he
selves before
is

said unto them,

men; but God knoweth your hearts:

highly esteemed

among

ye are they which justify yourfor that which men, is abomination in the sight of

God. (Luke

15:16.)

(Romans
evil,

all

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against ungodliness of men, who hold the truth in uprighteousness.

,of the tree of knowledge of good and thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. (Gen. 2:17.) Keeping merely for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transcessions and sins, and that will by no means clear the guilty: visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children's children, unto the third and fourth generations. (Exodus 34:7.) But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the Lord: and be sure your sin will find you out. (Num. 32:23) These things hast thou done, and kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself; but I will re(Psalms prove thee, and set them in order before thine eves.

PENALTY But

1 :18.)

50:21.)

Though hand joined

punished: but the seed

in hand, the

wicked shall not be un-

shall be delivered. (Prov. 11:21.) He that being often reproved, hardeneth his neck, shall (Prov. 29:1.) suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. (Matt. 19:46.) And thinketh thou this. men, that judgest them which do such things and ,doest the same, that thou shall escape the judgment of God. (Romans 2:3.) See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escape not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven.

of

the

righteous

(Col. 2:25.)

Be he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which (Heb. 12:25.) he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.

VL REMEDY
He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded (Psalms his covenant for ever; holy and reverend is his name. 111:9.) All we, like sheep have gone astray. We have turned every (Lsa. 53:6.) way. He will turn again, he will give compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities: and thou will cast all their sins unto the depths of the .^oa. (Micah. 7:19.) In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for (Zech. 13:1.) uncleaness.

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To give knowledge and salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins. (Luke 1:77.) Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification. (Romans 4:25.) Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our father. (Gal. 1:4.) But God, who is rich in mercy for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins hath cjuickened us (Eph. 2:4-5.) together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved). Who his ownself bear one sin in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness by whose stripes ye were healed. I Peter 2:24.) He that committeth sin is of the devil for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the son of God was mani(I John fested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

3:8.)

REPENTANCE AND FORGIVENESS If my people which are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their
VII.

wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive (II Chron. 7:14.) their sins and will heal their land. I acknowledge my sins unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. (Psalms 32:5.) and. I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, as a cloud thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.

(.Isa.
It

44:22.)

be that the house of Judah will hear aK the evil which man I purpose to do unto them: that they may return every from his evil way, that I may forgive their iniquity and then-

may

sin.

house of Israel everyone acTherefore I will judge you, God. Repent and turn yourLord cording to his ways, saith the iniquity shall not be so selves ^from all your transgressions; your ruin. (Ezk. 18:30.) For if ye forgive men their trespasses your heavenly father
will also forgive you.
I

(Jer. 36:3.)

say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenth, more than over ninety and nine just (Luke 15:7.) persons, which need no repentence. Repent ye therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the time of refreshing shall come from the (Acts 3:19.) presence of the Lord. us If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive (I John unrighteousness. all from us cleanse to our sins, and

(Matt.

6:14.)

1:9.)

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Now

if

you

will

read these scripture you

will find out

that

sin is the cause of

Governments and

also races

fall from a progressive stage in life. Now let truths of our welfare here in the world. It is not the will of our Father that these things be. but it is the weakness of us. I say us because I am in the world with you, therefore the world is dissatisfied along with me, because of sin. And all of this is due to the fact of untrue leadership, for if we had true leadership they would see to it that all the people had true justice, and where the trouble is; the righteous people have got down off the justice seat and let the wicked take their places, and you know when your head gets wrong, then your whole body is wrong. And the nation don't seem to care who set on the seat as governor or seat at the head as president, so long as they say, "I will keep the Negro down", and I'm saying now, they may try to keep me down, but somebody will have to stay there with me for the 16 Chapter of Isaiah and the 1st Verse tells me to rise and shine, for the light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. But before the light will be turned on in full we must have our own government for if we stop here and don't continue to build our government then we will suffer more in the future than in the past, and not only we will be dissatisfied but our unborn children will be dissatisfied and they will be more oppressed than we are. So you see by that our own work is greater than ever before. For if we don't protect ourselves no one else will do it for us. The Lord will help them that help themselves.

and nations to us face facts and

Now since the Lord has sent us a true leader let us follow him. The U. N. I. A. is the greatest and best organization in the world today for us Negroes.
The Honorable Marcus Garvey is the greatest leader in the world today. He has come with the greatest movement and stirred up the world. Therefore the world is dissatisfied. Some people say that we make a Jesus out him, yes he is a Jesus to me, because the Lord sent him to save me from bondage, so I have two Jesus now. One to help me while I live on earth and one to save me when done with this earth. No one could do what he has done, and is doing now, but a Jesus. Now I know that I am dealing with a serious subject, and indeed a great and large one. it is the largest one that is confronting the world today. And I being so small a man in the mind, and also in the gospel but I'm forced to do so as a minister because the Bible tells me, as I being a minister: it says. "I place you on the wall as a watchman, and if you see danger coming, and you warn the people, and they keep on to destruction, then their blood shall be required at their own hands, but if you see it coming and don't warn them then their blood will be required at your

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hands," and the Bible tells me ai^ain, "to po ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizin^r them in the name of the father, and of the son and of the holy g:host, teaching them to observe all things, whatsoever I have commanded you. and lo I am with you always, even unto the end of the world", and in that I can fully see that God did not intend for one race or nati(jn of people, ito try to keep another race or nation down, and these are the things that make God and also the race or nation of people who are oppressed dissatisfied, for I find among races and nations of people, that they will teach my race, but they don't want my race to teach them. Now you take the United States have come from other countries of America: people can and here, and stay here a little while and they can sit on any high seat except the President's seat, and although we were bron and raised here we can't get one of these seats, no place: not even to make law that we might get a chance to help govern our people, and we have played our part in everything here just like any other man or woman. In every war that has been fought, my race was in it even the first drop of blood shed in this country was shed by a Negro, and yet we are less thought of by them, and lynched and mobbed and burned and they have taken the advantage of our women, and then want me to be satisfied, and try to tell me 'that we don't need a government.
should say that I'm dissatisfied and who wouldn't be when things are going against them like that. The Bible says "Do unto all men as you would have them to everybodv, to do unto you", so if you want me to give you justice, why not give it to me? You can have a dog and if you treat him good he if you will love you and not only that he will protect you, and will love he than better stranger love a will he him, to cruel are you. Then if an Animal has this much sense, what do you think of of the human family, who are all created of one blood and one flesh. subject because I must say here, that there is no end to this we will find out that we will be dissatisfied in many things in go in the future, because the w(n-ld is stirred up life as we on account of the Negro demanding his rights, that we must have at any cost. We are not asking any one to give us anything, will get what we want, and all we ask is to let us alone and we what belongs to us. For we have been working against ourselves to work for for lo! these many years. Now we are determined who are our selves, from now on as other races and nations is one of That them. help to us had and working for themselves the rea'sons why I am dissatisfied. They also try to scorn us and make us believe that we are call nothing by calling us "nigger" or "darkey" and sometimes color of the that believe us make to is that nigger", us "black our condition our skin makes us nothing and is the cause of

Yes

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of being black.

before

had no one to come over in the other world me what color I wanted to be and they didn't either, for when we all knew anything we were here in this world making a noise and if someone had come and asked us, it might have been that we all would have had a different color, to what we have but I am proud to say that black is honorable and I have sense enough to know that being black does not have anything to do with me being a human being like other races or nations and I want the world to know if there is any such thing as a 'nigger', they are among all races and nations of people for the devil is a nigger, and he has many followers among all groups of people, and the devil with all of his imps is as dirty as dirty can be. Even he tried to be dirty in heaven but God would not let him and his imps stay there. He got them out from among the good and holy angels by throwing them out because he was dissatisfied with them so now they are here on earth among us therefore the whole world today is dissatisfied and will be until someone comes and throw them into the
I I

Now

was born

to ask

next best place. I don't say that we are the best group, or race of people from days of slavery on down until now. And yet they try to make me believe that the color of my skin is the cause of my condition, but it is not so, for the cause of my condition is the reason that I haven't got anything is, the other race went to my country and got our forefathers and mothers and forced them into this country, as well as other countries and placed them in a way that they could not get anything for themselves. But today, we are determined through the mercy of God, to do something for ourselves and be a true race of people to our Creator and Maker, and also to ourselves \\'e have been dissatisfied in this way long enough, that's why I like the U. N. I. A., because it is getting us together again from all parts of the world and is giving us that principal and Improvement that we ought to have had all the time, but I find among us. that some of us don't want that but we don't always get what we want, but what we need. We need this and need it bad for we care but a little for race pride and race uplift, that's the reason I'm glad of my leader today. The more we hollar the more he go on to do the work that God has sent him to do, but I feel sure that all of us will feel proud of him in the future for we will not forget his imprisonment and also suffering that he took going through his trial, and also being in i)rison to bring justice to the race and are going through it now, and if the readers of this ibook will read closely they will find out that I am only dealing with things that will make any race or nation dissatisfied, for it is no good feeling when you think of it, and with all tills the i^eople use the word fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. They call me brother when they get in trouble, but when things is going on all right, then I'm no more than a dog in their sight,

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and that is no good feeling when you think of ii and with all this that will make any race or nation dissatisfied for I will say that that look like brotherhood, and if you don't treat me right here, it is good evidence that you will not treat your God right; and if I can understand the meaning of brotherhood, it means that you should treat everybody alike regardless of creed or color. Now I am talking about common things, since I am among the common people in which races and nations will have to stop and recognize the common people and also stop and pick up common things, for they have left them reaching after highor things in which it has caused us all to be dissatisfied.

For when Christ was here it was the common people that followed Him, for the so-called wise people knew so much, and had so much, until they would not stop to fool with Him. So today it is only the common people that is following ^Marcus Garvey to help him free this race, but it is dangerous to fool with the U. N. I. A. and the ones who are interested in it for we are after freedom and liberty and, that, we must have by the help of God, for we fear nothing under the sun but God. We are tired of the other races wiping our mouths with meat skins and telling the world that we have been eating meat, because from now on, been if our mouths are greasy and anyone ask us what have we moat eatintr been have we that them tell eating we are going to and not the skin. For we are awoken people and not asleep, for in the days gone by a Negro was at a gin mill lying on a bale of cotton asleep and two white men was standing near the Negro who was asleep smiled in his slumber, and these white men seen him, one said to the other: "I wonder what that nigger is laughmg about? and his reply back was, "I don't wonder that for I am thinkmg about what that nigger will do when he wakes up." So we Negroes are awake now and not only that, we are getting up and putting on our clothes, and when we get them on the world will see what we are going to do, for the question was asked sometime ago by a writer, "What will it take to satisfy the Negi-o?" Now I'm going to answer the question through this book by saying, "The get everyonlv thing will satisfy we Negroes is, that we must We want nothing thing that other races and nations have. it more and nothing less, for we are due it and we must have then it Because if it is good for the other races and nations million Negi'oes of the world. \V o is o-ood for the four hundred great we have satisfied their wants by helping them to build a it. building after it protect empire and helped them an empire Now we are going to satisfy ourselves by building the world see that So ourselves. it protecting and own of our therefore it has we are determined to build our own empire, destroy the Hon. tried to they why That's dissatisfied. become tomb, saymg that he had Marcais Garvev and put him in the he had taken we the 'United States mail, saying that
defrauded

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poor colored people's money, when the United States of America itself know that he did not take it, not only the United States knows that he didn't take it but the world know that he didn't take it.

For ]\Iarcus Garvey is known to the four corners of the earth, therefore it's no place on earth for him to hide. Because any place he goes he will meet a Negro and they will know him, and its a known fact, that he can't stay in the air, and if he did
would be more than anyone else has done. NO! All of it was done because ^larcus Garvey came to give life to the Negroes all over the world. And they thought if they were able to get him out of the way they would be
it

able to destroy the Association.

didn't they hollar when white people and Negroes were taking everything from the Negro they could get their hands on, from ages back on down to the present time. Look at the many hundred banks that have cried out. Busted", many lodges and other institutions, and they go from one state to the other and build mansions and plants of all kinds. Nobody said anything about it. Now because Marcus Garvey came with this great movement and to build a Government that the Negroes everywhere might be protected like other races and
too,

Why

nations are protected.

Now they wants to take advantage of him by saying that he defrauded the United States mail, and destroy him, and scatter the six and a half million Negroes that belong to the Association.

But we will see to it that all devils in hell will not separate Therefore we are determined to free ourselves. Now let me get you told about me and Marcus Garvey and this Association, I cares no more for Marcus Garvey than no other man, as far as the human being is concerned for I respect every man as a human being. It is the Association and the principle^ for which the Association stands for. in which I will die thereby which God gave to him to bring to this race of people, because he see their condition. Therefore I'll pull my hat off to Marcus Garvey and give him the honor that is due him. For Marcus Garvey is telling the Negroes everywhere to do something for himself. Now I didn't have the advantage of schooling, I only went three months, and I worked all day and went to school to school at night. But the National Benefit Insurance Company is due much credit for I had the honor of being an agent for them for more than a year, in which it is the largest Negro company in the world. They employs over nine hundred men and women of its own race, in which they are operating now in twenty-five
us.

different states.

Now my

friends to

show that the Negro has played

his

part I will relate to you his part as a man.

Historical Sketch
of
in

some of the wars

in

which he played

the American

Ne^ro War Record

Negroes fought
colonial period.

every war of consequence during the

South Carolina in the year of 1704 enacted a law empowering and calling upon Negroes, both slaves and freemen of color saw services in the war of 1711-1713 against the Indians. Negroes played a conspicious part in the Yemasse War (1715-1718) which threatened the whole colony of South Carolina. During the year of 1708, at which time the Queen Anne's War was being waged, Rhode Island passed a law providing for enrolling all men regardless of color between the ages of 16 and 60 in the state militia. The Revolutionary War (1775-1783) one of the first martyrs his life in the struggle for into shed blood and to sacrifice dependence was Crispus Attucks. a Negro, who was fatally wounded in the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1775. At the Battle when Major Pitcarin of the of Bunker Hill. June 17, 1775, British Army was exulting in his expected triumph. Peter Salem Negro, stepped forward and killed him. Salem, a poor Negro battle and was reported to this also distinguished himself in Congress for distinguished Service. At the time Colonel Barton of the American Army undertook to capture General Prescott. while the royal army was stationed at Newport. R. I., his Chief Assistant was a Negro named Prince. In 1777 a Negro company was organized in Boston. It may seem increditable to a person living in the twentieth century, that the majority of Negroes, slaves for the most part, were allowed or had the desire to fight for the freedom of the people that enslaved them. Even the British used the Negro as a soldier to a very large extent during the year of 1775, Negroes composed more than one-third of the garrison at Fort Cornwallis at the time of seizure of Augusta, Ga., war of 1872. Even though in the year of 1812. United States did not recoznize the Negro as a citizen. The cause of the war of 1812 was due to the imprisonment of three sailors by the British Government, two of which were Negroes. During the war of 1812

when Gen Andrew Jackson was in command at ^lobile. Ala., Some American Troops that had charge of the British were reJeffries saved the treating- in disorder and when a Negro named
them
to a charge.
*
i,
i

day by placing himself at the head of the troops and rallying

the General Jackson also called on Negro soldiers to help in Here, they especially distinguished defense of New Orleans. of the famous themselves. It was a Negro who convinced the idea ^ cotton breast works used in that battle. ^,. establishing two regiIn October, 1814, an act was passed
,
.

*u

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ments of Negro militia in New York State. About this time Negroes formed more than one-tenth of the crews of all battleships. John Davis and John Johnson, Negro sailors on the private armed schooner, George Thompson, were among those cited for
conspicious bravery.

Mexican

War 1845-1847

The period from 1845 to 1847 were the darkest hours in American history for the Negro. It was at this time that the Negro was removed from both, the United States Army and

number

information can be found as to the definite soldiers who took a part in the INIexican War and were present at Vera Cruz, Mexico, in 1847 when they manned the naval battery in that siege. are sure that some did participate as the question of how many Negroes were in the
of

State Militia.

No

Negro

We

army and navy during

a few years afterward.

the Mexican

War came up

in

Congress

Civil

War 1861-1865

The first Louisiana volunteer was the first regiment of Negroes enlisted during the war, and the first under fire. Negroes were prominent in the operating of the siege of ]May 27, 1863 under Colonel Nelson. On June 14, 1863 color Sergeant, A Planciancois was killed, when the colors were given to him he said, "Colonel I will bring back these colors to you or report to God the reason why." On July 8, 1863 a Negro in the capture of the Confederate battleship at Port Hudson. On July 18, 1863. the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment, colored, under the command of Colonel Robert Gouldshaw distinguished itself in an attempt to take Fort Wagner. On this occasion Sergeant Williams H. Carney siezed the regiment of colors from the hands of a fallen comrade and planted them to the works. When borne bleeding from the field he said, "Boys the old flag nearly touched the ground." At Fort Pillow, April 13, 1864 the Negro soldiers made a bold stand against great odds. Among other engagements in which Negroes took part are the following: Olustie. Fla., P^eb. 20. 1864; Wilson Wharf, Va., May 24, 1864 .Alillikens Bend, Va., June 6. 1863 the Battle of Morris Island. August 25, 1863; Deep Botton, Virginia, June 30 to July 1, 1864; Chaffins Farm. Va., Sept. 20. 1869; Fair Oaks, Va., Oct. 27-28. 1864. Hatcher Run, Va. :March 20-31. 1865 Farmville, Va., April 7. 1865. In these battles the colored soldiers won for themselves lasting glory and golden oi)inion. In New Orleans, Aug. 24. 1862 there were formed two regiments in which all the new and a large number of the live
; ;

were colored. Oct. 13, 186;> orders were issued to enlist colored troops in Maryland, Missouri and Tennessee. The total number of colored
officers

troops in the

armv from 1862-1805: New KukIuikI, 7.916; the Middle States, 13,922; Western States. 12,711; the Border States, 45,184; Southern States, 63,571. Total. 143,304.
Spanish- American

War

1898

The Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Infantry, and the Ninth and Tenth Calvary fought during the last years of the Spanish-American War, and entered regular service 1866. Various volunteer companies were raised in Alabama. Virginia, The Eighth Illinois was Illinois, Indiana, Kansas and Ohio. officered entirely by Negroes with J. R. Marshall. Commanding Major; Charles E. Young was in charge of the Ohio battalion. These latter organizations formed a part of the militia of their respective States at the out-break of the Spanish-American War, 1898. The first regiment ordered to the front in this war was the Twenty-fourth Infantry. Negro troops were conspicious in fighting around Santiago. They figured in a brilliant charge at Lasquasimas on June 24. 1898 and in an attempt on June 1, upon a garrison at El Caney.
It

was

in this

war that Colonel Roosevelt's Rough Riders

were saved from annihilation by the gallant work of the Tenth

Calvary.

The Battle

of

Carazal 1916

During the year of 1916 the United States had trouble with Mexico. Among the troops sent to guard the border were the 10th Calvary, 24th and 25th Infantry and the Chicago National Guards. On March 24th, 1916 a colored man was killed at Paral. He was the first to die in this battle. The most important engagement occured on the morning of June 21st 1916 when the troops C .-iind K of the 10th Calvary were attacked by surprise permission in the tow^n of Carrzal while attempting to secure Alunado. Villa reach to town to pass through the ^ ^ The troops of the 10th Calvary were outnumbered eight to killed, nine one in this engagement. Fifteen enlisted men were wounded and twentv-three were capturd. Those who were taken humilation at the hands of their to prison suffered a great
.

caTDtors

was died for Peter Bagstaff, a trooper of the 10th Calvary in aidinr.- hi^ encountered he danger the of because bravery Adair. F. H. Lieut. wounded and dying officer,
Guard of Honor 1917
to Negro Americans Nvhen on March 25. bv order of the President called the War of ^pcretarv 1Q17 fV.P District of Columbus to defend fiLt sepamte bat alTon of the ormal ckclaracapitol. This was just before the

Much honor came

?hf NTonal
tion of war.

They were under command

ot

Major James E.

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Walker and were used for guarding the capitol, White House, water supply system, Potamac River projects, various power plants and district railroads, and other places of importance that made for the health and happiness and person securities of the capitol of the American Republic. Although the colored troops were outnumbered by the white troops stationed in the city, the fact that the first separate battalion was placed at the first honor post was concrete evidence officially acknowledged that the AfroAmericans' allegiance was rightly not even suspected of being less than one hundred per cent.
World
States

War 1914-1918

There was 387,710 Negro soldiers who served in the United Army during the World War. Out of this number 367,710 came into the service through the operation of the select draft law. When war was declared 20,000 Negro soldiers were ready to enter the field which comprised the 9th and 10th Calvarys, 24th and 25th Infantrys. 8th Illinois and 15th New York National Guards of the 9th Battalion of Ohio Company L. National Guards of Massachusetts the first separate Company of Conn., first separate Company of Maryland G. National Guards of Tennessee and the first separate battalion of the District of Columbia. On October 15, 1917, 639 colored men were commissioned at Camp Dodge as officers in the United States Army. Of the number 106 were commissioned as Captains, 329 as First Lieutenants and 204 as Second Lieutenants.

The famous Negro Division (92nd) was commandered to a large extent .by Negro Officers. The division made a splendid record, not only on the firing line but also for discipline while in France. The division took part in the following engagements: St. Dis (Vasges Sector), Argonne Forest (Meuse Sector) Marbache Sector, (Martha Mosselle) before Metz. In this division 57 men of which fourteen were officers were awarded the distinguished Service Cross. There were 209 men killed in action. 32 died of wounds, 589 wounded, 799 gassed and 28 reported missing.

The following organizations were brigaded with the French 369th, 370th, 371st, and 372nd Infantrys. The 369th took part in the following engagements at Bois d'Hause Champagne where the regiment held a complete sector; Minancourt, near Butte De Mesniland and in the engagements which started at jMarsonen-Champagne. It was in the last engagement that the entire regiment was cited for bravery and awarded the Croix de Guerre. The 369th was the first regiment of the allied armies to reach the Rhine. The 370th was commandered by colored officers, Lieutenant commanding officer. The 370th met Colonel O. B. Duncan its strongest opposition on the Sissons front in which engage-

Army:

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ments they distinguished themselves l>y taking Hill 304 from the Germans. The 371st for the first three months in the trenches held Arocourt and later Verrieris, sub sectors northeast of Verdun They were put into the great September offensive in the Champagne sector. From September 28th to October 6th. 1918 this
regiment lost 1.065 men out of 2,384 actually engaged. Their regimental colors were decorated and the entire regiment was awarded a citation for bravery. The 372nd was decorated as an entire regiment with the Croix de Guerre for distinguished service, in the Champagne offensive. The following are some of the sectors held by the 372nd: Argonne West Vacquois sector (sub sector of Verdun). Negro heroes of the war who received the greatest honor and note and who were the first awarded the Croix de Guerre were Henry Johnson and Needham Roberts, both of the loth National Guards of New York.
,

Negro has played his part in the no doubt about that, and yet since he has played his part he hasn't the opportunity to execute his brain and power as other races and yet they try to make us Negroes believe that we don't know anything along these lines. But that is a big mistake for we have men and women in our race that can do anything that any other man or woman in the other races or nations can do and not only that he has done it. Even Abraham Lincoln in his day saw in the Civil War and even before, along with other men what the Negro could do. So much so until it forced him to make this speech at the close of
all

Now we

see that the

it is

wars as a man, so

the Civil

War:

Four scores and seven years ago, our forefathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and
dedicated to the proportion that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great Civil War; testing whether that natiion or any nation so conceived, so dedicated, can longer endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper, that we should do this. But in a large sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot concentrate, we cannot hallow, this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for rather to be dedicated here, to be untmished us, the living, work of those who fought here have. thus far so nobly advanced. the great task reIt is rather for us to be here dedicated to maining before us. That from these honorable dead, we take

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full

increase devotion for that cause for which they gave their last measure of devotion that we have hiprhly resolved that these dead shall not have died in vain, and that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom and, that governments of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth.

Now that speech was deeper than you can imagine and it be brought out some day in the fullest sense for he saw the mind and power of the Negro, and he knew if the Negi'o got a chance, what he would do. So the Negro's chance is here now and you can make sure that we will get all out of it that is in it for we have been waiting long enough on some one else to give us that which we can get for ourselves. For even though the speech of Abrahiim Lincoln, the white man, has been telling us that we don't know anything and we don't know how to do anything, and took all of our privileges from us. But I thank God today that I can say that we can do anything on this green earth that any other race or nation can do. All we ask is let us alone and we will show them that we can for they tell us that we can't handle a government, but with the help of God we are going to show them that we can handle and hold a government, for in this government and the many other governments they will not allow us to do that which we can do, because we are black people they say. But still they want us to fight for them every time they get in trouble. And in this great World War the cry was everywhere that this is all of our country and we all were as one for we all were fighting for democracj^ for we were going to make this country safe once
will

for

all.

It was a time of trouble and you didn't hear 'black nigger' mentioned, and as soon as peace was declared they turned it from democracy to a moggason and now you cnn hear t?ie word 'black nigger' anywhere. Now why I'm dwelling upon this word 'black' is because the white people try to make us believe because we are colored people that, that is why we are in the condition that we're in and that's why they scorn us. But it is not so, because if we were so much poison and detrimental to their color, why is it that they take all of the money that can be gotten out of our black hands and take everything that we can accumulate that is really worth while, that was gotten by the same black hands and at the same time take our women and men into their cook kitchens. And they take these same black hands and mingle and handle their food. They take the same food and eat it and are satisfied, and, in lots of cases ask for more of the food that was cooked by the same black hands and vet when its time for us to sit on the

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home, they scorn us and Jim Crow us in every form because of our blackness, but the truth about the thing is, the condition of us not having having a government; they taught us how to do for them but they never taught us to do for ourselves. We Negroes are thinking and
teaching ourselves since we know what is best for us. for we have found out that the same thing that is good for the white man is good for us Negroes; that is what causes us to be dissatisfied. In reading the book of Daniel I see that he was dissatisfied in his day, just as we are now for he was captured and brought from his home, Jerusalem to Babylon, like the people did our forefathers when they captured them in Africa and brought them to this country and carried them also to other countries and held them as captives. But Daniel being in captivity did not forget his motherland like a lot of us Negroes have, for he was dissatisfied. He went up into his upper room and looked toward Jerusalem and prayed three times a day for he longed to go back to his motherland where he came from Here some of us Negroes hollar "Africa is not my home" for here I was born and raised and right here is where I am going to stay. Yet they see the condition that, we as a race, are in. Here comes Marcus Garvey with this great movement to help us get back home, for in the days of old as well as in the twentieth century the Lord heard the Negi'oes' groans in the land for some of us Negroes are like Daniel, we are praying three times a day and looking towards our mother land Africa. I hear a mighty roaring of voices as a mighty wind in the north, south, east and west saying, "Oh Africa, Africa, my mother land where I long to be. We Negroes are dissatisfied here as in other countries and we will be the world's guest until we get back home where we belong." Some of the Negroes do not want to go to Africa because they know they will have to work to build it up and there are trees to fell, cities to be built, railroads to !" '"''r factories, department stores and plants of all kinds and to be done they know it will take work to do it and some of us are yet dependant upon the white man to do for us what we %-,, ought to do for our selves, but I thank God we hav^ ..,^.....rU groes who are willing to go and do the work and r\ pass for their children and their children's children and these for lazy jackasses who are afraid that they will do sonv themselves or for the race, thinking that the one Wi.-. ^^ willing to go and do the work that they will come afterward and enjoy the praises. Well! that may be so, for that is the way this whole world has been doing for these thousands of years, but I will say this it does not show any manhood or womanhooc! abojt them at all. All races or nations have this kind of lazy people in their group. They are not any good to themselves ami i.or anvone else. Thev are just here in good peojile's way. so to speak, and that kind of ^people wouldn't have anything if you wr.uld give

trains, street cars or even in the

'

'

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it to them; they would throw it away. Now look back at the past and see how many you know that were left wealthy or

what someone else left them and see how much they have of it now and even the Bible speaks of this, so you can see it takes only the one who is willing to do the work some one eUe made it possible for me so I could do this work so I will have to do
likewise for others. So I am yet dissatisfied. Smash the separate school ideas says one writer of the Negro race who wrote an article in the Pittsburgh American ]\Iarch 2. 1923. Though it is one year from that date that I am an.^wering his article. I take much pleasure in doing so. This class of Negro are sick in bed with the white man's fever for they think that Negroes ought to always stick under the white man and let him do for the Negro what the Negro should do for himself. Now that class of Negroes ought to have sense enough to know and see that the white man will not let the Negroes teach him or his children. Then why is it that he wants to be better to the white man than the white man is to him or his people? The white man knows that no race or nation of people is not going to teach his children like he would himself and when the Negro learns that he is responsible for his own children then he will do the same thing. As for the Negro being Jim Crowed, that was placed upon him when the white man brought our forefathers and mothers from our mother land to this country and the only thing that will lift the Jim Crow system of the Negro is that he get a government of his own. The reason that Negro schools are not better than what they are is because the socalled leading Negro puts his money where the white man can get it and takes it and open banks, department stores, factories and many other things that he wants to do with it and by the Negro doing this it has helped the white man to make his school what it is today and also helped him to have the business places that he has to put his boys and girls in after they get their education, but the Negro has closed the doors in his children's faces in many ways. Some of them are still doing it. Yet they are saying, "I am for the Race I" This class of Negroes are not any good to the race nor to themselves and when it comes to the separation the white man has already done that himself for a white man is a white man and I don't care how you take it, for it has been tried out over and over again. The people who are fighting for the separate school have what belongs to them in the way of looking out for the Race because they see the damage of it so the fight is on and will be until we true Negroes of our Race get what we want ami what we must have, and as I said before, a white man is a white man therefore we who are Negroes ought to be Negroes and nothing else but Negroes. Notwithstanding we will have to respect the white man and his government but upon doing this we are determined to work for ourselves and give the Race that which they ought to have

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a government so that we can protect ourand nations, for so long as we stay in this condition that we are in now we will never get any race or nation to respect us. We want them who are not afraid to work in the behalf of this Race and who are not afraid that they will hurt the white man's feelings concerning the bad treatment that they gave the Negro people of the world. This is the time that a change must take place in the behalf of the Negro people of the world and for this to be done we want Negroes who are not afraid to work, who are not afraid to stand up like a man should, and who are not afraid to die for the cause of this Race of ours. We cannot do anything in this world but work and serve humanity and glorify our God and Lord Saviour Jesus Christ. GREATNESS! I find some Negroes who want to be great without working or giving the proper service. That never will be done, for no man or woman ever became great without giving great service in some way for the uplift of humanity. God put all mankind here on earth for a purpose and that must be carried out by working and giving service to the human family as He appointed man to do. As for me I expect to work and give service to the human family, both spiritually and materially as it was appointed by my heavenly father for me even in creation for everything that has been done or even was done through
is,

had long ago; that

selves like other races

creation.

Moses, Joshua, King David, Isaiah, Elisha Jerimiah. Quefen Esther, Mary the mother of Jesus, Elizabeth the mother of John, Zachious King Solomon, Job and also our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Peter Paul, and others who could be mentioned became great only by giving service to falling humanity and if any of us Negroes or any other race of people become great it must be through giving service to' the people of the world. That is why I am dissatisfied now because of the condition of my Race all over the v/orld. When God Himself gave service even before he commanded anyone else to give it by creating the heaven and the earth and in that I see that God Himself cannot use any lazy people for all through the Bible I read where it tells us to work out our own salvation through fear and trembling and to do this it must be done through giving service. Daniel, another one became great by giving service. Let's take up a part of the 12th Chapter of the book of Daniel and see did he not become great. He was captured as I aforesaid and carried to Babylon just like our forefathers were and brought to this country in that he became dissatisfied. Daniel 12th chapter and 1st verse, "And at that time shall Michael stand up. the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book." Second verse, "and many

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awake, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt." Third verse, "And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and they that turn many to righteousness, as the stars for ever and ever." Fourth verse, "But thou, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book even to the time of the end many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be inof

them that

slept in the dust of the earth shall

creased."
to the things

The words and the "Book" here spoken of doubtless refer which had been revealed to Daniel in the prophesy.

These things were to be shut up and sealed until the time of the end; that is, they were not to be specially studied or to any great exent understood until that time. The time of the end as has already been shown commenced in 1789 as the book was closed up and sealed to that time the plain inference is that at that time or from that point, the book was to be unsealed; that is, people would be better able to understand it, and would have
part of the inspired this word. Of what has been done on the subject of prophecy since that time it is unnecessary to remind the reader. The prophecy, especially Daniel's prophecy has been under examination by all students of the world wherever has spread abroad upon the earth and so the remainder of the verses being a prediction of what should take place after the time of the end commenced, knowledge shall be insays, "Many shall run to and fro and creased. Whether this running to and fro refers to the passing of people from place to place and the great improvements in travel made within the the facilities for transportation and present century or whether it means as some understand it, a turning to and fro in the prohpecy that is, a diligent and earnest search unto the prophetic truth, the fullfillment is certainly and fully before our eyes; and in both of these directions the present age is very truly marked. So of the increase of knowledge. It must refer to the increase of knowledge in general, the developments of the arts and science or an increase of knowledge in reference to those things referred to in Daniel, which were closed up and sealed to the end of time. Look at the marvelous achievement of the human mind and the works of man's hand rivaling the magician's wildest tricks which have been accomplished within the last hundred years. The scientific American has stated that \vithin this time more dcvelopement has been made in all scientific attachments and more progress in all that tends to domestic comfort, the rapid transaction of business among men. the transmission of interchange from one to another and the means of rapid transit from place to place, and even from continent to continent then all that was done for three thousand years previously, but today. l^The suspension bridge. The first suspension bridge as
their attention especially called to
;
.

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noted in this country was built across the Niagara River The Brooklyn Bride was completed in 1883.
in

1855.

2 Electric lig-htin<r. This system of litrhtinjx was perfected and brought into use withing the last twenty years of the 19th century. Only two electric lighting experts were to be seen at the Central Exhibit in Philadelphia in 1856. At the Paris Exhibition twenty-four years later where there were two hundred such exhibits. 3 Modern artillery. At Sandy Hook, guarding the entrance to New York Harbor is a monster breach-loading gun forty-nine feet in length, weighing one hundred and thirty^ tons, capable of throwing a shell at a distance of twenty miles. 4 The Automobile. Only a few years ago this machine \\as entirely unknown. Now automobiles are common in every section of the country and bid fair to almost entirely supersede the horse carriage as a means of locomotion. Read in connection with the description of the automobile and the railroad train the prophecy of Nahum 2:3-4.

o Presses now used in the large newspaper offices consumes in an hour two hundred and eighty miles of paper, of newspaper width and turn out in the same time 06.000 papers of 16 pages folded, pasted and counted. Contrast with the hand printing press of Benjamin Franklin. 7 The telegraph. This was first put into operation in 1844. 7 The trolley car. The first practical electric railway line was constructed and operated at the Berlin International Exposition in 1879. Interurban travel by trolley car in many places

nearl}^ equals in speed and excells in comfort the best steam railway service. It is generally believed, in fact that the electricity is about to conquer steam on the railway lines.

8 The Telephone. The first patent on the telephone was granted to Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. The steam railway. The first American built locomotive was made in Philadelphia in 1832. The use of the steam engine for locomotion have made it possible to travel around the world in about forty days. 10 Ocean Steamship. Early in the last century the application of steam power to ship revolutionized ocean travel. Ships are now built which can cross the ocean in four days and are supplied with every luxury to be found in the finest hotels and in size far out rank the famous great eastern.

11 The Modern Battleship. A single battleship of the present day could easily overcome the combined naval fleet of the world as they were at the middle of the century. 12 Typewriter. The first model of the modern tjTpewriter was put on the market in 1874. 13 The Combination Reaper and Thresher. Tomnare the

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harvesting methods of the present clay when grain is not only cut and gathered, but at the same time threshed and collected in a bag ready for the market by one machine with the old method of hand reaping which was in use in the days of our grandfather. 14 ^The Type Setting Machine. This machine has worked The first Mergenthaler a revolution in the art of printing.

machine was made

in 1884. 15 Oil Wells. The discovery of petroleum in the last century revolutionized domestic lightning also affording such indispensible products as benzine and gasoline.

The first Edison phonograph was conThe Photographic Camera. The first sunlight picture of a human face was made by Prof. Draper of New York in 1840. Wireless Telegraphy. The first apparatus capable of transmitting wirelesss messages over long distance was made by
Marconi in 1896. Almost every large steamship is now provided with this appratus and conversations can be carried on by people of the A daily paper is published on ocean hundreds of miles apart, trans-atlantic liners giving each day's news of the world events sent out by the wireless telegraphy to the ships from the shores of America or of Europe.

structed in 1877. 16 The Phonograph.

Now the writer has given us many ideas upon the prophecies of Daniel, and also on the inventions that were invented in the last hundred years. But first we will talk about people going to and fro through the world and knowledge shall be increased unto them. For Daniel desired to see the end and what the end will be. So I'm like Daniel, I desire to know the end. and what the end will be, but that part is shut up from me as it was shut up from Daniel. Therefore I will have to continue to wTite. You take the white world, they have been going to and
from through the world and knowledge has been increased unto them, but they kept it hid from the dark world. They have gone as high as civilization will allow them to go. So it must come down.
Job said a man continues not in one stead, he is either going up or down. So the same thing to the races and nations. So when the white world reached the highest height then God put it into the Germans head that they could whip the whole world. And I believe that the Germans would have done it if they had not brought in the darker world. The truth about it I don't believe that Germany was whipped, but after fighting such a length of time, and they saw a race of people standing before them who had not done them any wrong therefore they threw

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battlefield. And in Germany challenKing the world for a fight then the white man cried this is a white man's war and not a Negro's war. But when they got into it they found out that they couldn't do without the darker people of the world, both for war and for labor. At the beginning of the war, the masses of Negi'oes were in the extreme South, so God put it into the white world's minds to immigrate the Negro to and fro from the South to the North. And from the South to the North, on into France and Germany and elsewhere. Now in the Negro going to and fro through the world in this like manner. Knowledge has been increased unto them. So much so, until the world is stirred up over them, and have become dissatisfied and at the same time God had prepared the Hon. Marcus Garvey to come from over in Jamaca and got him ready to land upon American soil to do the work which he sent him to

up their hands from the

do.

Right here I must say that God works in a mysterious way and his wonders to perform. He plants his foot steps in the sea and He rides upon the storm. For God knew he had placed Marcus Garvey upon the American shores there would not have been much good he could have done in working with his own people. Then He knew that he could not have placed Marcus Garvey in the South among those wicked people to do the work that he wants done. Therefore he sent the Negroes to and fro through the world to meet Marcus Garvey. Though they left as if they were going to war and to labor in various parts of the world. And at the same time sending Marcus Garvey to the American shores to meet them, and he has educated the Negro. So much so, since he has been on the American soil that you can go to and hear talk about Marcus the four corners of the world Garvey. And you can see the knowledge that has been increased unto them and yet through all of that men and women of our race, as well as other races are crying against ^Marcus Garvey
as the legions of devils cried in the man against Jesus Christ, for when the legion of devils saw Jesus Christ coming they cried out saying, "Let us alone for we know who thou art. For thou hast come to torment us." But through all of that Jesus drove them out of the man. So likewise with Marcus Garvey. For the people are crying everywhere let us alone for we are satisfied with the condition which we are in. We don't need no government. What can we

do with

it if

we had one?

yet some of them are dumb enough to think that we trying to build a government upon a government and they are know that can't be done. But the more they holler "let us alone" the more ]Marcus Garvey makes his appeal to the Negroes for

And

their

own government. So when they

called

him menace and

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must go they meant that he must go to work and build us a government, and that's the reason why I am saying that we have the greatest leader in the world. For there haven't been a man in this day and time who have done the work and stood the test as jMarcus Garvey has done in so short a time and while for he has the hardest race under the sun to handle, and the Negro race, and nations operate their brains from Negro people. Therefore they know what step to take against a Negro to keep him down. The world knows that Marcus Garvey have taken upon his shoulders a hard job and he has done great work in a very short while. Just think of it, when he started in 1914 with this work he had only a few followers and his work has brought forth over six and a half million Negroes of the world. And any man that can get such a crowd of Negroes as that together from the especially as hard as they are to four corners of the world, handle, then I say that this Negro is the greatest leader in the world black or white. And not only has he continued with the Negroes going to and fro from the South to the North or from the North to the South, but he has caused Negroes to go to and from from continent to continent, therefore greater knowledge has been increased unto them, and I'm asking the Negro why should he not be proud of such a leader. Marcus Garvey stated to the Negro people of Pittsburgh on February 10, 1924 in his speech at the Central Baptist Church, that the book has been hid from the Negro and that he has found the book, and he has proved to me, and not only that but to the world, that he or somebody has found the book. For they have taught me that there are eighteen lost books of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and his works, but I never have believed it. This brings my attention to another passage of scripture. The reason that men love darkness rather than light, it is because their deeds are evil and then another passage of scripture says, all that is done in the dark shall be brought to light, and for the five years that Marcus Garvey has been engaged in this great work, he certainly has turned on a great light upon this dark wicked world. So yet I'm like Daniel, I want to see the end for I wonder what the end will be, but I only can write as far as it permits me, and yet the book will be sealed up. The scripture did not say how or who would bring this to the light, but it said it would be brought to light. So I have the light is to come through as much right to believe that Marcus Garvey, that anyone else have to deliver that it should come from any other source. For our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ did not leave us handicapped in the work that he gave us to do, for in His teaching He said that I have made the way so plain, that a way faring
said he

cannot error. Then He says again in His teaching, by all I have done, greater wonders ye shall do. Which mans that we can do the same things that Christ done and even greater things than He done. So then why is it that we wonder at Marcus Garvey and his works, when there is space for such work to be done. But for this to be done, you must go to and fro ihrough the world and in that knowledge will be increased unto you. He also said, go ye therefore into all the world and teach all nations my commandments, and this is what Marcus Garvey is doing now. Dispute me and justify yourself. Second Let us turn back to the inventions in which the writer so forcibly explained to us, I know I can't dig so deep into knowledge as the writer but there is some points in that I see, that must be brought out at this time as I'm writing upon
fool

the works that

this subject

"Why

am

Dissatisfied

There has been many things achieved as the writer says, by the minds of men and they are yet being achieved and in that the Negro minds are being mingled into this affair, and yet none of this achievement is attached to his honor as being a skilled minded human being along with the human family. And as I look up these achievements it shows that all other races have all of the skillful minds and the Negro's mind is dumb, I mean as far as the Negro is concerned in having some of these achievements under his control as the other races have them today. That is to say that the Negro has invented a lot
of these inventions.
is not operating them since he is the commercial world. Well, this is why, first he has no power or control here in this country or no other country where governments are established. Therefore they will not give him the right to operate them after he invents them because he has no land whatever to

And why
it,

is it

that he

master of

in a great

operate them on. It takes much land for a railroad, we all know, and also for many other industries and even if he could buy land for some of the inventions which he has gotten out, they would sell the land at such high prices and pay him such small amount for leaving out trying to could live, his labor until he scarcely operate his achievements in this great commercial world and it is known that the strong will always oppress the weak, and yet the Negroes has done wonderful since the emancipation, especcially the people who are in the South, who are yet under the great task of slavery and yet we havent done what we could have done. For it is hard to turn a Negro's mind down. The Negroes feel and has always felt that way. What other men have done men yet can do, and why he hasn't done any more than what he has is because he knows he hasn't got anywhere to operate the inventions after he gets it out and he don't feel

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that he should always give to the other races and nations his brains so that they can live a happy life from it, while he do the work even from the inventions that he invented, even if
it, it's only a few dollars, and these are the things that make me dissatisfied. You take the first railroad that was invented, it was invented by a Negi'o, and after he invented it all that he can do is to work hard to keep it going. He can't even become an engineer and he is Jim Crowed on the thing he invented; then try to tell us that we are free citizens of this country and a lot of Negroes say the same thing, and they all see that people from foreign countries can come here and get jobs and hold positions that we Negroes cannot

they pay him anything for

get.

Now I'm not writing this because I think the world or even the United States don't know it. But I'm writing it for remembrance of the born and unborn generations to come for this transaction that has been taken against the Negroes shall always be remembered as long as the world stand. Even in the midst of all these inventions and all other political affairs they have kept them out of the Negroes' hands and was taught that this is the best that we can do for you, and too, the way the thing was fixed, it did look to us Negroes that it was the best, but at God's own set time he sent us a man to show us that there is better yet for the Negro people of the world. So as he is showing it to us we are after it. For we means to have everything that it takes to make a race or nation. Now we are not after revenge for revenge belongs to God but we are after just what belongs to us. Since the other nations have what belongs to them. Now at this time we are still asking God for the things v.'hich we cannot get ourselves, and that which we can get for ourselves. We are going after it. For a thought came to me when I was a little boy and I have watched it on down until now, that is, the wars have been in the United States of America, in France, in England, Belgum, Japan, Turkey. Cuba, Mexico and Italy among all of these nations, and I have wondered why was it that they never had any war in Africa. I see why now, because Africa was much right country, but ask me won't there be some trouble on that ground now and I can tell you ask the generations to come. To my mind that's why the other races and nations had the opportunity of knowing how to invent things for in going to and fro through the world. Knowledge was increased unto them therefore they had the opportunity of knowing the wealth of our motherland. And in finding the wealth there they knew that it would take something more than the strength of man to get it into this country and also into various countries. So at this time we have automobiles, airplanes, and railroads to sell to us at a high price. But I thank God for opening our eyes to

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see these things before Africa was explored more than what it IS. So its up to us Negroes in this day and time to look out for our own welfare and to redeem our motherland Africa, and there have all kinds of inventions among our selves. So wo all can see yet that the prophecy of Daniel haven't finished yet unfolding itself to us for the same things that it took for the people those days to live it takes the same things for us to live today.

go further with the book of Daniel. 5. 6 and 7th Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river. 6 And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river. How long shall it be to the end of these wonders? 7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and swore by him that liveth forever, that it shall be for a time, times, and a half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be
will
I

So we

verses.

Then

finished.

The question to us now, of these wonders?

Verses
8

is

how

long shall

it

be to the end

heard, but I understood not: then said I. my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? 9 And he said. Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. 10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand. Negroes now in bringing If the world is not trying the freedom and liberty and justice to ourselves and country then I would like to know, when will the trying time come? Verse 11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. Verses 12 and 13. Blessed is he that waiteth. and cometh P.;;^ to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. 13 go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and >;t; in thy lot at the end of the days. Now Daniel waiteth on the Lord and prophecied as Gud gave the prophecy unto him. He become great in the .sight of God and also in the sight of the people. He is now hiying at waiting for his lotted days which was appointed unto him. Just as Daniel served him time the same way we will have to serve ours for in the prophecy of Daniel we all can fully i^co that Daniel became great through giving service before he could fulfill the prophecy as he should. God allowed the wicked people to capture him and carry him to Babylon and put him among the strange and wicked people of that gi-eat city and country
I

And

8, 9,

and

10.

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and

in

being there with them he was able to do

much

great

So hkewise God allowed the wicked people to go over in our motherland Africa, and capture our forefathers and mothers and brought them to this country as well as elsewhere and put them among strange and wicked people. So at this time, God has sent a Daniel, after us to take us back home to our motherland Africa in whose name is Marcus Garvey who is the greatest leader in the world today, and we Negroes ought to feel proud of him everywhere even in the four corners of the world for he has stood the test and is standing it yet. So let us turn to the Bible again and see if Marcus Garvey's name is mentioned. 1 Peter 5:13, reads as follows: The church that is at Babylon elected together with you, saluteth you and so doeth ^larcus my son. Now you can read the whole chapter if you so desire, but
for for mankind.

work

God and

especially the 13th verse.

life

So when it comes to this I am satisfied then I will give my for this man. For the Bible talks about him and his great works that he is doing and that's why I advise the members of A. everywhere and also to the four hundred I the U. million Negroes of the world to stick to its Constitution and its

laws.

Rev. Z. D. Green Adjures U. N. I. A. to Stick to the Constitution and Grow Stronger And Better In Every Way.
Editor Pittsburgh American,
Sir:

agree with me when I say that we are engaged in a great work to bring freedom, liberty and justice to our race and country and we ought to feel prouder to-day of our condition than ever before, for to-day we have a view of what we want and what we must have. Heretofore, we didn't know what w^e wanted, and therefore, we did not seek for it and they all told us that it wasn't any use, but our President-General and the Provisional President of Africa saw the needs through the hands of God of the Negroes all over the world. Yet. knowing the task that it would take to bring the Negroes together and make them a nation, he took upon his shoulders a work for Negroes that no other man, black of white, would attempt. This man, Marcus Garvey. in 1014, in Jamacia, either by himself or with the help of a few others, drew up a constitution for Negroes which would be our guide in an organization that was to be world-wide, and when he came to the United States we helped him to frame more laws. When he started he stood in New York on boxes and preached the Universal Negro Improvement

You

wall

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Association with only thirteen followers, but he continued to preach until now he has over 6.000.000 members of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. At the same time, while Kcttinj? a goodly number to work with him. he picked up also his enemy. This reminds me of Jesus Christ when He was in the world. He had only a few followers with Him, and among that few He began with. He picked up His enemv and His enemy followod Him until death and betrayed Him. Marcus Garvey did likewise; he picked up his enemy.

Anguis

in

Herba

started with the Negro Improvement Associafew so-called wise Negroes saw that he had an organization that was worth while, therefore they came to him with deceit, for they were frauds just like a snake. No doubt IMr. Garvey talked with them on some facts, but upon the facts that he gave them they had him to know that they were going to stand by him no matter what happened. And when they began to get warm they too commenced to crawl and stretch themselves to determine whether or not they were sufficiently warm enough or able to do the evil that they had desired to do. They had followed him, they have done everything that they could do to him. shot him,
tion a
tried to besmirch his character, tried to break down his energy and his power and his nerve with which he was to bring about liberty and freedom for the Negro race, and have continued with him until today they have caused him to be in the Tombs. And they think that because they have him in the Tombs the Negro Improvement Association is getting weaker; it is stronger today than ever before. Garvey is not the only one that has to go to the Tombs or to prison for anything or in any form, for there are thousands and thousands that have to suffer likewise. Today, if I could, and they would grant it to me, I would leave Pittsburgh, go to New York and take the place of Mr Garvey in the Tombs and stay in prison for five years or longer if necessary and let him take my place and give to the world the thing that he desires to give to the people. But since I cannot, I am going to stay out here and do my bit; and if it is necessary for me on account of the truth to go to the Tombs or any other place of punishment I am willing to go just as he has done. INIr. G.irvey made a statement through the Negro World on July 7 in the fourth paragraph saying that the enemy is still at work to discourage you. I agree that that is true, but I here are some Negroes in the Negro Improvement Association that no one can discourage, though hell itself will come upon them, for I myself have no fear at all. So I would like to have him know that some of us know that the enemy is more at work now than ever before. The enemy is trying to sneak upon you on every hand, he will come to Liberty

When Garvey

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Hall to hear what you have to say. He hasn't got nerve enough to talk but will meet you on the street or come to your home or at your work place and take advantage of you if j'ou are weak

enough to let him do so. Hon. Marcus Garvey is asking us to be loyal, for he says we can do him more good by being so than we can in any other way. Now in doing this we will have to obey the laws which are
laid dovv-n for us. It is

being said throughout the country that

some of the laws ought to be changed, but I want to tell you that whether the laws be changed or not they are there, and we should go by them, and stop fighting each other and the laws and get together and get strength so we can gain ground enough so that we can say that we are on the solid. Then, after we do this, we can take the wrong and make it right, and put it with the right that we have already, and it will make us stronger and better people. At present we have no time to fight the constitution of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Therefore I am
offering a resolution that I think should be paid to this noted man, Marcus Garvey, for his work and for his service that he has rendered and is rendering now; as I only know of one that did what he is doing now, and that is Jesus, Christ Himself.

Yours,

etc..

To the women of my race I will not miss the women in this book, at this time as I told them in the first part of the book No. 1, that I would see them later. So I am not writing to give you all yours, for we as Negroes are at work to build up a race nationhood among ourselves and we can't do it without you all, for you all must be in it and to be in it you must first know your part as God has given it to you. Now let us go back to creation when God made man. and gave him you as a heli)-mate, and see what he says to them after they had broken the law that He gave to them. Gen. 1 :26, And God Said, Let us make man in our own image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. Gen. 2:18. And the Lord God said, It is not good that' the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.
Verses 21,
22.

and

23.

sleep to fall upon /.dam slept and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof. And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from

And

the Lord
;

God caused a deep

and he

man.made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said. This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man. Gen. 3:1-21. Now the serpant was more subtile than any

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besst of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent. We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the true which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said. Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye

touch
die:

it,

least ye die.

And

the serpent said unto the woman, ye shall not surely

For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. A.nd when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it v/as pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lorr' God amongst the trees of
the garden. And the Lord Where art thou?

God

called

j-'nto

Adam

and said unto him,

And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. And he said, told thee that thou was naked, Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded three that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. And the Lord God said unto the woman. What is this that

Who

thou hast done?

And

the

woman

said.

The serpent beguiled me,

and
done

did eat.
this,

the Lord God said unto the serpent. Because thou hast thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thy go, and dust shall thy eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children: and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over
thee.

And

And unto Adam he said. Because thou has barkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I com-

manded
life;

thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy

Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field: In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the

mother of all living. Unto Adam also and skins, and clothed them.

to his wife did the

Lord make coats of

They
world
to play.

tell

me

that the hand that rocks the cradle, rules the

in which it is true. And since the woman is the mother of all living, that shows that she has a great part in the world

As I stated before that we are now building a race nationhood and a government of our own. Every man and woman must know the part they must play in building it, and also after it is built. Since you are our help meet you are to stay in the home and give birth and raise children and teach them in the way they should be taught. Now to do this, you will have to be a real woman, and be true to a mother's duty along all lines. You must teach your children to do right, and honor your men and women, the first of all notwithstanding to honor all men and stop telling them that they are not anything and never was nothing and never will be nothing. Stop crushing your child's mind like that. If you don't know, that is the reason we haven't got anymore men in our race today of a standard, because the white folks tell us that we are not anything. There is no reason why we should tell our children so for at this late hour we are building up a race and a nation among ourselves. And to do this, you all must play your part as woman for we need women who will stand upon her womanhood as well as we need men to stand as men, and give to these children what belongs to them, for we are responsible for them, and if we don't do for them what we ought to do, there ain't no else going to do. So it is absolutely up to us Negro men and women to train these children in the way that they should go and that is in the way that God would have them go. And to do that, we must first be right ourselves for I find in reading the Bible that you arc great in the world among men. And if you all would stand up like a woman should, and as God would have you do, then races and nations would stand and kingdoms or governments would not be so easy to find that fall. For every kingdom or government that was built I the woman were there and everytime it fell she was the cause of it falling. So I'm pleading to you all now. in the name of God and His dear Son; let us start right and stay that way. If we

39 then it will be some chance of us cndinK right I am determined to play my part as a man in this work, andfor vou all have a better chance to raise or train your children than our loreparents had, yet some of you who have them let thorn raise themselves and they won't respect you or no one else. You women have the first chance at a child in the way of raising it and you ought to play your part as a woman alon^ these lines, for no man is greater than his woman. Therefore, if you all will respect yourselves then you can demand respect from your men and other races as well. And yet we have as good a women in our race as it is in any other race or nation but still I'm dissatisfied because we are not what we ought to be as a race of people, for we can be improved in many ways and we must make an improvement on ourselves as a race of people, and by doing this we can improve ourselves in raising or training our
g-et rig-ht
;

children.

When should we begin to train our children? The child should begin training twenty years before it is born into the world that is to say, if the father and mother will keep themselves trained from their youth then it wouldn't be so hard to train the child after it is born. For in many ways the child training have been left undone and these are some of the ways: destinct, getting drunk off of whisky or wines and other strong drinks, dipping snuff, chewing tobacco, staying out late at night without a cause, staying in houses with men and they are not your husbands and using all kinds of language in front of them. For when the child see or hear these things, he or she, it is two to one that they don't do the same thing now. I am talking to both father and mother, but especially to the mothers, because they have the first chance at the child

after

it is

born.
is

N. I A. stands for. Now remember are great in the world among men. in which I will show you all as I continue to write, and also we will go to the book of Revelation and quote a few words of what a writer says after quoting the Scripture and see what it says about you all, for in it great things are said, and even in it I find things that causes me to be dissatisfied. For you women are the cause of the world being stirred up today because of your greatness. For you have caused many men to live and
This
I

what the

that

said that you

all

have caused many men to die; you have caused men to build cities, and you are the cause of many cities falling. You are the cause of men not sleeping today as they should, because of the kingdom and governments in which they hold. That's why governments are trying to keep us down so as to protect their
3^ou

many

women. So as I'm
like

still pleading to the women of my race, stand up a woman should and lets be a real good race and a strong natio^ of people to God and to the world, for we can do it and

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we

will do it if we try, for God has sent to us a real leader and a true leader: and I believe if he do what he tells us to do there will be no reason why we should not have good success in building a government and making us a strong nation of people. This is too great a subject for a small man as I, but since it is assigned to my hand to do it, I am not afraid of it, for the more I WTite the more I see to write. Women this is a serious time with us and also with the human family at large. Now you may not believe me but watch the signs of time. If we don't mind we all will be found wanting, and this depends largely upon you all as a woman, to play your part in this work. I am calling upon you all at this particular time because I am writing concerning you all and these children but the more I write on this subject the more I become to be dissatisfied for great is the earih, for I find that it is your Savior and Reaper for the earth has brought forth trees and vines, etc.. to hide the woman from that old dragon when he persue after her and the serpent cast out of his mouth water, as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away off. The flood and the earth helped the woman. The earth opened her mouth and swallowed the water and saved her life. Now I did not know that a woman was so great in the world, not until I began to write upon this book and to study the Word of God. Now let us go to the Bible although I will not go to the book of Jobe and Solomon and the many other books I could mention, but go and search the book of Revelation. Rev. 12:1, 2 and 3. 1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun. and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: 2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pain to be 3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; delivered. and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his head. So said a writer, a woman: *'A corrupt woman is used to represent an apostrate or corrupt church." Eze. 23:2-4. Rev. 17 :3, 6, 15, and 18. By parting of reason a pure woman, as in this instance, would represent the true church. The sun. the light and glory of the gospel dispensation. The Moon, the Mosaic dispensation. As the moon shines from a borrowed light derived from the sun, so the former dispensation shone with a light borrowed from the present. There they had the type and shadow; here we have the antitype and substance: a crown of twelve start, the twelve apostles; a great red dragon, pagan Rome (see under verses 4 and 4). Verse 4 And his tail drew the third part of the Stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth; and the dragon stood to be delivered, for to before the woman, which was ready devour her child as soon as it was born. 5 And she brought

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forth a man-child, who was to rule all nation, with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. 6 And the woman fled into the wilderncs.s, where .she had a place
prepar'^d of God. that they .should feed her there a thousanrl two hundred years and three score days. 7 And there was war in heaven: Michel and his anj^els fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and hi;-, angels, 8 And prevailed not. And tho neither was there peace found anymore in heaven. 9 great dragon was cast out. that old serpent called devil, and satan, which deceiveth the whole world: He was cast out into the earth and his angels was cast out with him.

10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven. Now is come Salvation, and Strength and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ, for the accuser of our brethren is ca.st down, which accused them before our God day and night. 11 And they overcame him by the blood of the lamb, and by the word of their testimony, and loved not their lives unto the death. 12 Therefore rejoice, ye Heaven and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the .sea: for the devil is ccme down to you: having great wrath because he know^eth that he hath but a short time. Verse 13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he pursued the woman, w^hich brought forth the manchild. 14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great Eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. lo^And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. 16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened hei' mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out o^ his mouth.

17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which kept the commandments of God. and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. Now John wrote as God revealed it, unto him and m that

he gave us the past tense, the present tense and the future natense. And in reading the past tense we see how races and tions lived, and also we see how they were destroyed, and how the kingdoms and governments were built and how the kuigdoms and governments were destroyed. And in the present tense we the whole world is all see just how we stand. For at present people don't stop the if and sin, own its of because dissatisfied than and consider God and his word the future wdl be worse this " change. a make don't we If tense. present the past or hand depends largely upon you women as I said before, for the m world. Now that rocks the cradle is the one that rules the write a Bible but I am only trying to show to you
1

not trying to
all

and also to the world why

I

is

it I

when

say that

am

dissatisfied

mean

And that I'm dis.sati.shed. that I am dissatisfied

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is something wrong about this thing, and it is up to us Negroes to find it, and that's why I'm shoving this pen as I am, because we are going to find it before we stop. Now many people may not Hke this, but we are not going by likes at this time, but justice and nothing else but justice. For that is the reason why there is dissatisfaction today, because of the injustice towards we Negroes. Now just one more thought before I lay down my pen for this time. Man is God's glory, the woman is man's glorj', and the woman's hair is her glory therefore since she is the mother of all living, it would be a nice thing if she would stop using those hot tongs on her head to straighten out her hair, for this is where the five senses lie of all mankind, for the heat that comes from the tongs comes in contact with the five senses and make them weaker minded, and a lot of times it interfers with a child's mind after it i.s born, and, in otherwords, God fixed it like he wanted it. Any other way or form, he would have done it, and it goes on to show that she is not satisfied with the way he has fixed it. Now don't think that I am scorning you all for I am not. But I am only telling you all the truth, and I'm at this time in the name of our Creator and Maker of heaven and earth, calling upon you women to play your part in this work, for we are building a nation for the people of our race.

for there

Now what are you going to write next. Mr. Green? I may not write like angels or smooth it up like men but I can tell the world how we Negroes are treated by the cruel white men. But I can see a change coming through the powerful hands of God to take us out of misery into the land of our own, and after we get there we can sing the song of Moses in the land and praise my God Just as I am. And it may be in that hour we all will be
satisfied.

capitol

went to Washington. D. C., in 1921, I went into the and was shown many beauties within but not a single office was shown me that was held by a Negro playing his part in the political game. I went from there to the White House, where the nations of the world where the President stays, bring their troubles to this particular place. I went from there inventions did I see with the to the patent office, and many names written thereon as if all were done by white men, but
I

I'm sure that they know that I knew better. If they don't, just wait and see. For we're going back to Africa and build an empire of our own, and in the same like manner will the inventions be shown. So I'm saying to all oi the Negroes who have this kind of brains. Make your inventions and keep them on hand so that you in your motherland. For on December will have a patent office 12, 1923 our Secretary General and three others went across

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the sea to draw out plans for our jjfovernment, which wo now need. For they were successful in getting there, and he said I'm
out the plans and they were on their return back to the American lands. His health was good until he got to Europe. But after leaving Europe he was struck with an attack of pneumonia and in the attack he was called to the great beyond. Though Poston is gone, and yet he is here. Though his body is lying moldering in the clay and his soul to Him who giveth. But his work and spirit shall always be with us. And in that R. L. Poston shall ever live.

home at last and how happy I am. They were sucessful in getting

Now who

will

be found to take his place, that

will

go to work

as he done to protect his race,

Now

Poston wasn't fiery nor was he in haste, Poston done was right in his place. what But will all of the moneys right to the up He kept

dot.

So he

left

we Negroes

right on the spot.

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this subject is

ended for

it

is

not.

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