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Minn., under act of Congress, March S. tiTt.SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1915.“THE BIRTH OF A NATION”The representative of THE APPEAL was present at the complimentary presentation of The Birth of a Nation” at the Auditorium last Tuesday evening, and we unhesitatingly and unqualifiedly declare that we failed to discover one redeeming feature in it, or, a plausible reason for its existence, other than that it is a fine example of the perfection that has been reached in presenting moving pictures. But it does not engender one good thought that is not banished by the horrible mass of ill feeling, race and sectional prejudices which it, with goulish glee, delves into the charnel houses of the buried past and brings to view the grinning skeletons that would much better be left to molder and decay.Nor, is it historically correct, except in a measure, and almost everything touched upon is outrageously exaggerated. It, however, certainly has the effect desired by the despicable authr of -the book from which it was inspired. How any human being who possesses the slightest belief in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, can derive one lota of pleasure from viewing such scenes as are depicted, we are unable to realize, for it certainly was bred in sin and born in iniquity ,and should not be permitted to be exhibited.Commissioner McColl stated a factwhen he said, no average person could view the pictures without leaving with a lower estimate of the colored people.”THE ONLY SOLUTION.Recently at the Church of England Congress at Southampton, Sir Sidney Olivier, who was governor of Jamaica from 1907 to the end of 1912, put forward the claim that no solution of the American color question was possible except by a resolute disclaimer of the color line and the race differentlon theory.Sir Sidney Olivier certainly knows what he is talking about. In the Island of Jamaica, where he was governor for five years, there are about800,000 colored people and only 20,000whites and yet there is absolutely no friction between the races. Jamaica is a British colony and the government is just. Colored men enjoy every civil and political right which white men have and there is no color line.Among other things Sir Sidney said;My study and comparison of conditions in the United States and the West Indies,” he said, has brought me to that conclusion. American and colonial politicians and public men, are not Exeter Hall abolitionists nor evangelical Christian missionaries. I do not expect them to adopt the methods of missionaries, nor do I sympathize with all their programmes. But it cannot be ignored that it happened that the faiths of the men who laid the foundations for the peaceful development of the mixed community in Jamaica were democratic and humanitarian and, above all, uncompromisingly Christian.Were race differentiation held to it must increase civil discord. When the balance of numbers is as it is in the South in America it must tend to foster obscure preparations for civil war and rebellion. If statesmen and citizens face in the contrary direction I do not say that they will attain immediately civil peace, but I am confident that they will be traveling the only road toward it.I do not suggest that race does not greatly affect facilities for combination between humans in healthy national life, but race difference is only one of many schismatic agencies. The solution of the difficulty involves discipline for the white man as well as the black.”THE COLORED MAN'S STAND-ARDS.The Christian Register, the leading Taken altogether the standard of ante* Unitarian publication of the country, prints so excellent an article on colored man’s own standards that we are constrained to print extracts from it.White men have set standards for the colored man for many years. During slavery days the standard was mainly one of health and strength, agood disposition” was also esirable; a bad nigger” was harder to sell than one who would make no trouble.helium days for colored men was much the same as that for horses,— warranted sound and kind,” and arl the rest. During the war, with the splendid record of black men as soldiers, the standard held up for them by the white man shifted, though only slightly. After the war, and after the Fifteenth Amendment began to operate, the white man gradually altered his expectation of what the black could be and ought to be. Whites differ greatly to-day, both North and South, upon this question; as a rule, the more civilized the white man, theTHE UN WI honor tha m sclentious dischaito stand alone; tlant, intolerant ji damn, the counta may be averted,frlaads grow cold duty dono shall' blt; applause of the i ancos of relative:friends.—Charles
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The Appeal
Saint Paul, Minnesota, US
Sat, Oct 23, 1915
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