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The Pot and the Kettle.
Brother E. A. Abbott, who Jives,
moves and has his being in the
city of New York, felt an urge.
The urge that Brother Abbott felt
was so strong, so insistent, so
overwhelming and so compelling
that it could no longer abide in his
system with any reasonable degree
of safety to the urge, the system,
or Brother Abbott. Therefore he
wrote to the papers about it. No
need to tell you which paper he
wrote to. The New York World
was the happy beneficiary of this
piece of wisdom which was raising
so much sand in the tranquil sys
tem of the above-mentioned broth
er. Needless to say, the esteemed
World ate it up —feathers, hide
and all —and one can imagine the
World and Brother Abbott coim
miserating each other on the evil
days upon which the heathens of
Georgia have fallen, and hoping
for a happy time when the worst
crime that can happen in Georgia
will be the kidnapping of girls for
the brothel, the shooting of citi
zens by organized gangs of gun
men, and a boasting defiance of
the Eighteenth Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States
—in a word, when the ideal con
ditions now obtaining in the heaven
commonly known as New York
will also obtain in Georgia.
Hark to good Brother Abbott:
To the Editor of the World:
The churches of America ought
to quit sending “missionaries” to
Africa and send them to the South,
especially to Georgia, where they
are badly needed.
We may as well begin now to
cut out our hypocrisy as leaders
of American Christianity and deal
“straight from the shoulder” with
the situation as it exists.
Why send American mission
aries to foreign fields to "civilize”
others when they are so deplor
ably needed right here at home?
It is sheer hypocrisy! Listen to
the words of our Lord: “Why be
holdest thou the mote that is in
thy brother’s eye, but considerest
not the beam that is in thine own
eye?. Or how wilt thou say to thy
brother, let me pull out the mote
out of thine eye; and behold, a
beam is in thine own eye?
“Thou hypocrit, first cast out
the beam out of thine own eye;
and then shall thou see clearly to
cast out the mote out of thy broth
er’s eve.”
The peonage case against Wil
liams and the atrocities revealed
through the trial of this semicivil
ized Georgia farmer, along with
the statements made by Hugh M.
Dorsey, Governor of Georgia, con
vince us that the missionary is
sadly needed in the South.
“I call your attention,” said
Governor Dorsey, “to the follow
ing suggested remedies:
‘ An organized campaign by the
churches to place in every section
of Georgia,s sufficient number of
Sunday schools and churches,
where in their seperate places of
worship the young and old of both
races will learn from suitable
teachers the gospel of justice, mer
cy and mutual forbearance to all.
Compulsory education for both
races.”
These are the words of a wise
and God-fearmg Executive. Will
Church and state take heed?
Rev. E. A. Abbott.
“Listen to the words of our
Lord!” says the Reverend. It’s a
pity the Reverend hasn’st read all
til 1 Bible. The Lord said several
things besides telling the Rever
end to throw his beams overboard
before yanking motes out of the
eyes of others. For instance, He
sald, “Judge not, lest ye be judg
ed.” It' the Reverend is the kind
of man his article leads us to be
lieve he is, e haven't much co:i
fidence in his religion, sincere
though he may be. As a preach
er he would make a first-class
ditch-digger. The scripture he
quotes is peculiarly apt, but not in
the sense he thinks. He is evi
dently convinced that the morals
of his home city are secure. If
they are, then the world is sadly
misinformed about his home city.
Brother Abbott commends Gov
ernor Dorsey for the stand he has
taken. It might be interesting to
him to know that every other
honest man, white or colored, in
the state of Georgia is as much
opposed to crime as the Governor
is. Some people think the Gover
nor has exaggerated the situation.
That is beside the point. What
ever the facts are, they are de
plort d by the law-abiding citizens
of Georgia, to a man, and if con
ditions in Georgia ary worse than
they are in other states, then
Georgia herself will remedy them,
without assistance or advice from
officious editors and ministers of
the wickedest city in America —
New York.
First cast out the beam out of
thine own eye, Brother Abbott,
and then shalt thou see ciearlv to
cast out the mote out of thy
brother’s eye. Remember, also,
that the pot that called the kettle
black found out some astonishing
facts about itself before the ques
tion was finally settled. And you,
too, New Yook—do you honestly
think your skirts are sufficiently
white to entitle you to cast the
first stone, or any stones what
ever? Do your four-score unpun
ished murders of the 1920 season
make you an example that you
would set to Georgia? Does the
fate of the two thousand or more
women and girls whom you allow
to be forced into white slavery
annually give you any right to
your holier-than-thou attitude?
Are you quite sure that the mis
sionaries whom you would send
to Darkest Georgia are not needed
at home.
Brother Abbott is evidently one
of those earnest but mistaken
zealots who go off half-cocked,
without knowing the facts. His
heart may be in the right place,
but there is evidently something
wrong with his head. The same
malady that is troubling him is in
a fair way of becoming an epidemic
in Noo Yawk and other places up
nawth.
700 Years and Still Fighting
Ireland has been fighting inter
mittently for something like sev
en hundred years for freedom.
It has been a long fight, in the
face of every possible discourage
ment and obstruction.
The Irish, like our own people
of the original thirteen colonies,
want the right to govern them
selves. Some day they, will have
it.
Ireland in a constant state of
turmoil, and with a huge army
maintained to keep it in subjec
tion, can be of but little value to
England. But a free Ireland, with
reciprocal trade relations, might
be a profitable neighbor.
Certainly a peoole who have
been “kicking up the dust” for 7UO
years will hardiy remain quiescent
as long as the same blood flows
in their veins.
England might let go of her hot
poker with distinct advantage to
herself.
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HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McDONOUGH, GEORGIA
Grady’s Great Work.
It is a striking tribute to the life
work of any man that thirty-two
years after his death its influence
should exercise such a powerful
effect upon public sentiment as in
the instance of Henry Grady!
That influence is felt today
throughout the whole country and
in many ways, the first and fore
most of which is that largely
through his work and counsel the
sections were brought together in
social and commercial intercourse
by the bridging of the chasm of
civil war.
Next, in this connection, is the
feature of Gradv’s work discussed
in a communication, from Profes
sor John L. Sibley, of the Univer
sity of Georgia, having to do with
the relationships between the
races.
It required more courage for
Grady to deliver his message on
racial good will at that time than
it does to meet and solve the racial
problem today, for this message
was delivered at a time when the
racking influence of reconstruc
tion was still fresh in the minds
of the people.
But that message, delivered un
der these conditions, is the key
note of the sentiment by which
those very problems can be solved
today.
His appeal to the conscience of
the people—his assurance that the
great problems of racial relation
ship can and will be solved—reads
today like an inspiration; and the
importance of striving toward a
right and just solution is eloquent
ly expressed in Henry W. Grady’s
statement —
“I had rather see my people
render back this question rightly
solved than to see them gather all
the spoils over which faction has
contended since Cataline conspired
and Caesar fought.”
It is a problem that will be
solved, not by appeal to prejudice
and passion, but through the con
science and the faith of the people
of the South!
And on that basis it can best be
solved without outside interfer
ence. —Atlanta Constitution.
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