s history shall be read; to the last moment
of recorded time.

In days to come, now on the way, men will say, one to another: "How
could it have been that those faithful Blacks; those loyal citizens;
whose toil enriched; whose blood guaranteed the perpetuity of our
institutions; were discriminated against--WRONGED?"

In a country based and governed on the principle that all men are free
and equal, discrimination or special privilege will eat at the heart of
national life. Capital must not have special advantages over labor;
neither labor over capital. Jew and Gentile, protestant and catholic,
Negro and White men, must be equal; not alone in the spirit of the law
but in the application of it. Not alone in the spirit of industrialism,
commerce and ordinary affairs of life, but in their interpretation and
application as well.

Social discriminations and distinctions may prevail with no great danger
to the body politic, so long as people do not take them too
seriously--do not mistake the shadow for the substance, and regard them
the paramount things of life.

Obviously the Negro no less than the Caucasian, has a right, and no
government may challenge it, to say who his associates shall be, who he
shall invite into his house, but such rights are misconstrued and
exceeded when carried to the point of proscribing, oppressing or
hampering the development of other men, regardless of the nationality of
their competitors.

The logical growth of achievement for the Negro is first within the
lines of his own race, but, all things being equal; genius being the
handmaiden of no particular race or clime, he is not to be hindered by
the law of the land, the prejudice of sections or individuals, from
seeking to climb to any height.

The bugbear and slander, raised and kept alive by that section of the
land south of the imaginary line, to wit: that the Negro was ambitious
for "racial equality," only is entitled to reference in these pages for
the purpose of according it the contempt due it. That the whites of the
country have not a complete monopoly of those unpleasing creatures known
as "tuft hunters" and "social climbers," is no doubt true, but that the
Negro, as represented by intelligence and race pride, ever worries over
it; cares a rap for it, is not true.

Humanity's great benefit coming from the war, which cannot be changed or
abridged, will consist of a newer, broader sense of manhood; a demand
for the inherent opportuni