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24 THE VOICE

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Can a man fall at once? No this is not the way of life, for in life we fall time after time, and such a life is liken to a tree, green on the outside, but rotten at the heart.

Are then the examples which are set before the youth of today to be as the tree? Seemingly this has been the case for we have failed to obtain the proper social adjustments and this does not apply only to the Negro Race, but all races living in the confines of America. If we are to adjust life's situation in order to combat crime, then our moral codes should be more practical, and morality must be read and lived or the future generation will find itself unable to make a real man.

From a psychological side, moral principles or right living can be instilled in the nervous system of youth just as other subjects, and nothing is worth making that does not make the man.

Today we have a general breaking down of morals and it then seems that our codes have been only failures and the seriousness is that something must be done, and this must begin in the home. Homes today are too negligent too many privileges extended which only bring the foils of detriment. The moral responsibility or the training rests largely with the parents; for the home life presents a vastly greater variety of social relations and far more opportunities for moral or immoral conduct than are found at school.

A POLITICAL PRIMER

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to him by being a party slave. He told the Negro he was now the sole architect of his future in the United States; that

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APRIL, 1926 25

there was not and could not be, any reliance for the Negro outside the Negro self; that in the Negro's estate of freedom must stand or fade on compliance or noncompliance with the only possible Mandate: Root, Hog, or Die.

But a few weeks later, Wendell Phillips, the Robert Ingersol of the Abolitionists, the Back Bay Aristocrat, who not only sacrificed his position in America's highest social life, but was banned for more than thirty years from looking at his beloved mother's face (at last sneaking in to look on it through tears of anguish as it lay a mute mask under her coffin-plate) because he would not forego pleading the cause of the helpless slave - spoke the Theorems of this Primer's Lesson Two more clearly than Greeley spoke, yea, as he ever spok, "with the tongues of men and of angels." 

In the New York journal of a forgotten date in 1870, this sublime champion poured forth the life of his liberty worshipping soul in advice to the enfranchised for whom he had sacrificed all the joy of his existence. No space is here to recite the clear, wise axioms that his devotion framed; but this is the truth of them: Had his counsel of that day been accepted as the chart of Negro political action, there would not be one scintilla of color prejudice in the civil life of our country today.

It has been argued there was no way for the sage council of Phillips, Greeley, Summer and the other paladins of Negro citizenship to reach the ears of the freedmen to which they were directed. This is untrue. Each speeding Negro "carpetbagger" that flew south after the adoption of the XVth Amendment to be a "leader" at so much(or all he could get) a "lead", knew these principles even as he knew his own name; and, when, later, their transient "leaderships" had been set up, whenever one herald of these priciples would appear to speak them to colored voters, these Iscariot "leaders" would make din of party shibboleths and the words of wisdom would fall to earth stillborn and unheard.

Again, back in the 80's and early 90's, throughout this nation, race loyal colored

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