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Ihe Golden Age
(SUCCESSOR. TO RELIGIOUS JORUM)
Published Ebery Thursday by the Golden Sigs Publishing
Company (Inc.)
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WILLIAM D. UPSHfXW, - - - - Editor
A. E. RAMS A UR, - - - Managing Editor
LEHG. RROUGHTON - Pulpit Editor
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Club With a Purpose.
Our columns have contained several references,
both news and editorial, to the recent battle against
liquor in Aiken county, South Carolina. We have
received evidence that the battle did not cease
when the sun went down on temporary defeat caused
by a palpably fraudulent election. The stalwart
citizens of Montmorenci have organized a Demo
cratic club whose avowed purpose is the condemna
tion of the wrong and the enthronement of the
right in county and state affairs.
The following resolution was unanimously adopt
ed at the organization meeting of the club:
“Whereas, we believe the preservation of our
homes, our boys and girls depends upon the wiping
out of the liquor traffic in our county and state and
the nation, having witnessed the harmful influence
on our people, and
“Whereas, believing this to be the paramount is
.me in the coming campaign, we desire to put on
record in no uncertain terms our position on this
question, and, whereas, we have heard with deep
regret of the shameful conduct of some of our fel
low citizens who were in favor of whiskey in Aiken,
on the night of the election, April 15, and of
the attempted intimidation and insulting attitude
toward Mr. Will I). Upshaw, ami certain ministers
and citizens prominently identified with the cause
of prohibition.
“Therefore, be it resolved, That we, the members
of the Montmorenci Democratic Club, in convention
assembled, do hereby condemn the action of those
certain persons, whoever they may be, public offi
cers and servants of the public or whomsoever,
who banded themselves together for the purpose
wholly for intimidating, insulting, terrifying and
frightening innocent women and children and men
who had the manhood to fight openly the liquor traf
fic now prevailing in Aiken county.
“Further resolved, That we recommend the use
of all honorable means to call on them to consider
whom they shall elect to represent them in the fu
ture in our selection of various officers of the county
and state, whether they shall be men who say for
the sale of whiskey, Yes or No.
“JAS. S. KEEL, President.
“P. Y. HITT, Secretary.”
A club like this in every militia district can run
whiskey out of every county in Carolina — and keep
it out!
The Golden Age for May 7, 1908.
M hat on earth will New York do next? In the
words of the old war-comrade that Dr. 11. R. Ber
nard tells about: “The Lord only
Whites and knows—and He won’t tell.” The
Blacks whole country has been nauseated
“Flirting” at with the shocking details of a
Dinner in dinner given in Brooklyn last week
New York by the Cosmopolitan Society—
a “function” where twenty-odd
whites and forty-odd blacks were interlaced at the
table in a startling admixture of color and per
fume I
No wonder Dr. Madison C. Peters, one of the
speakers, took to his heels as soon as he saw the
“seating arrangement.” But there were orators a
plenty—orators black and orators white, orators
male and orators female —who pleaded amid a de
lirium of cheers and “wild enthusiasm” for the
intermarriage of the races.
That is what they came together so air
their shameful view 7 s of amalgamation and defy the
whole country with their horrible propaganda.
“Move your chairs up closer together,” shouted
one of the woman speakers, and white girls and
black men and white men and black women broke
up the proceedings for a time trying to get “nearer
each other.”
A dispatch says:
Hamilton Holt, editor of the Independ
ent, struck the keynote of the feelings of
the negroes when he said: “Intermar
riage, if continued long enough, would solve
the race problem. I do not believe that the
white man would be so anxious to marry
the negro woman as would the negro man
to wed the white girl; but this would con
tinue, the negro man marrying the white
woman, ’until the dark race would grad
ually bleach.”
Send for Tillman I We had called him rough and
profane in bygone days —but if he just won’t
“cuss,” we will declare that all the balance of his
pitchfork paraphernalia is needed right now to do
the subject justice.
We’ll warrant if the doughty and fearless Caro
lina Senator could have suddenly left the sanita
rium where he was resting in Atlanta and appeared
on that, “amalgamated” scene there would have
been the flash of lightning, the roar of thunder and
pitchforks flying through the air!
Why, oh, why, does the folly of fools tempt the
Palmetto Senator and millions besides him in any
such way as this?
Listen again:
Then came Editor Villard, of the New
York Evening Post He said: “This
spirit of caste is the most, dangerous spirit
that can threaten any land, particularly a
democratic form of government. We stand
in this country for equality —equality of
rights, liberties, and to do as we see fit.
It is a question of whether one believes in
Christ or not.”
We deny the allegation—and we are tempted to
“defy the alligator.”
This is not a question of caste, as among the
Hindus, but a question of race as between negro and
Caucasian.. We complain at Editor Villard’s inter
pretation of “American liberties.” Our “liber
ties” do not allow us to “do as we see fit”—but
they call on us to build the nation without blotting
out the integrity of the races God has made. The
most devout Christian leaders in both races are
utterly opposed to wiping out the lines which the
Creator made with His own hand. But about the
saddest case of all was the speech of a young white
woman, speaking with misguided but evident sin
cerity, and reported as follows:
“I am very glad I have been asked to
welcome you in behalf of the Cosmopolitan
Club,” said Miss Ovington. “We hope to
have many such clubs as this soon, and
we shall know by next season if our move
ment is going to be a success. Caste spir-
THE TOLLY OT TOOLS
it is not simply a race question. I am in
this work because it is human. The danger
of this caste spirit is not a racial matter,
but relates to us men and women of this
republic. It means moral and physical
ruin, especially in the South.
“I like to think that we are going to
eat with and stand up for our colored
brothers and sisters whenever and wher
ever we meet them or wherever we can.
1 believe it would be a terrible state of af
fairs when the negro gives up any of his
rights as a man.
“He should never be satisfied until his
equality is recognized. The power of love
overruns caste and brings people of all
castes together. I should like to think
that our society stood for the hunger of
brotherhood among all human beings.”
This is the deliverance of the speaker who be
gan her remarks by asking the whites and blacks
to “move up closer together.”
She tells us there are to be many other such
clubs —a regular crusade, bless you, for the inter
marriage of the races, led by a few transcendental
idealists who are anxious to “satisfy the hunger
for the brotherhood of man” by tearing down the
very walls between the races which the God of
races has set up in Wisdom and builded with Om
nipotence ! 'ill
The Editor of The Independent who ought to have
known that he was doing the worst possible thing
for the black man whom he essays to help, declared
that the “South must, recognize the negro as the
social equal of the white man.” And supporting
this contention, Dr. Ferris, “a colored collegian,”
said in blazing tones:
“Is it too soon to admit the negro into
the brotherhood of equality in the human
family? This meeting means more to the
negro of the black belt of the South than
to the negro of the North. It marks an ep
och for the down South negro. It is a
question of recognizing him as a man and
as an equal. There is only one way to
succeed —demand your equality.
“We have two leaders—Booker Wash
ington, advocating peaceful resistance,
and then there is Dubois, saying’, i Exercise
your rights.’ Now 7 , which shall it be?”
“Exercise your rights'” shouted a voice,
followed by great applause, which was
joined in by white and black alike.
To all of which we say, as the judge says before
passing the death sentence: “May the Lord have
mercy on your soul.”
If these foolish reformers start a flaming cru
sade along this line it will mean their social death —-
a death that will extend into the moral and physi
cal.
Solution of the race problem indeed! If these
amalgamated reformers could have their dream in
this country it would mean the extinction of the
negro race whom God created for His own pur
poses while it would witness the complete dethrone
ment of the Anglo-Saxon who was designed by
heaven for a conquering leader in the march of civ
ilization.
The sensible leaders among the negroes of the
South are calling for mass meetings of their own
race to condemn that Cosmopolitan folly. Ninety
nine hundredths of the negroes themselves don’t
want it—and nine hundred and ninety-nine thou
sand, nine hundred and ninety-nine millionths of
the white people, North and South, will not have
it!
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter:
The writer of these lines has sometimes been crit
icised for his friendship for negro evangelization
and education. If the gospel can save one (and
it has saved thousands) then it can save them all.
Sensible teaching can save them—but the folly of*
fools — never!
What God has put asunder, let not man join
together! ’ ’
