It cannot endure under an awakened,
enlightened public opinion. Negroes, all other things equal, will be
admitted to labor unions, or labor unions will lose the potentiality and
force they should wield in labor and industrial affairs.

The Negro's contribution to the recent war and to previous conflicts,
has earned him beyond question or challenge, a right to just
consideration in the military and naval establishment of the nation.
America, grudging as she has been in the past to enlarge his rights, or
even to guarantee those which she has granted, has grown too great
indeed. Her discipline has been too real to deny him this fair
consideration. There will be more Negro units in the Regular Army and
National Guard organizations; untrammelled facilities for training, in
government, state and college institutions.

Selective draft figures having revealed the Negro as a better; if not
the best, physical risk, will make it easier for him to secure life
insurance, which; after all is a plain business proposition. Insurance
companies are after business and are not concerned with racial
distinctions where the risk is good. The draft has furnished figures
regarding the Negro's health and longevity which hitherto were not
available to insurance actuaries. Now that they have them, no reason
exists for denying insurance facilities to the race.

With a growing, every minute, of a better understanding between the
races; with the Negro learning thrift through Liberty Bonds, Savings
Stamps and the lessons of the war; with an encouragement to own
property and take out insurance; being vastly enlightened through his
military service, and with improved industrial conditions about to
appear, he is started on a better road, to end only when he shall have
reached the full attainment belonging to the majesty of AMERICAN
CITIZENSHIP.

With this start, lynchings, the law's delays, the denial of full
educational advantages; segregation, insanitary conditions, unjust
treatment in reform and penal institutions, will vanish from before him;
will be conditions that were, but are no more.

There is a predominance of Anglo-Saxon heritage in the white blood of
America. The Anglo-Saxon was the first to establish fair play and make
it his shibboleth. Should he deny it to the Negro; his proudest and most
vaunted principle would prove to be a doddering lie; a shimmering
evanescence.

HE WILL NOT DENY IT!

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