The Jews understand this matter and they maintain their own racial
standards which are the highest and best. Now, it is up to the African,
the ten millions of them in the United States, to adopt the standards of
excellence proper to their dignity, and to their purity as one of the
original or primary divisions of mankind.
The Jews have ages of learning and wisdom to fall back upon, and the
African, although interrupted in his advance, by ages of repression,
nevertheless has the ages of high civilization, the reigns of the Queens
Candace, the learning of the Egyptians from Ethiopian magi, and the
startling wonders and marvels of buried cities and high culture recently
unearthed in Africa as a foundation. These ought to be an incentive to
him to regain the lost prestige. He has the opportunity now, and there
is no one to stay his march upward, on the contrary, there are helping
hands everywhere, and incentives such as no other race in the world ever
had or will ever have.
He may look back to his ancestral days with as much pride as any other
race, and he may point to the magnificent ruins of the departed glories
of his race to prove that his origin is to be found in as high a type of
civilization as compared to any other race.
_THE WORLD’S CONGRESS of RACES_
_Great Importance of Colored Race in the Tremendous World Upward
Movement_
_One Thousand Delegates from Fifty Different Races Proclaim Uplift of
People_
In considering the opportunities offered the Colored people of the
United States, two things must be constantly borne in mind:
1. That the advance of the world and of the nations toward harmonious
action and unity of motives, is purely of the mind and soul and not of
the material things of life.
2. As to the world’s progress the Colored Americans of the United States
occupy a prominent position in the vanguard with the other divisions of
the human race, all of whom are moving in the same direction toward
carrying out the Divine plan of bringing all nations into one fold.
On July 26, 1912, there opened in the City of London, England, a great
congress of the races of the world including all the dark races or their
representatives. In fact, fifty different races were represented by
their leading men, consisting of over thirty presidents of parliaments,
the members of the permanent court of arbitration and of the delegates
to the Second Hague Conference, twelve British governors and eight
British premiers, over forty colonial Bishops, a hundred and thirty
professors of international law, the leading students of mankind, and
other scientific men of the world.
When Lord Weardale, at the head of the World’s Peace movement, opened
the first session of this congress, he looked into the faces of a
thousand people representing fifty different races of men.
Lord Weardale said among other things: “To those who regard the
furtherance of international good will and peace as the highest of all
human interests, this First Universal Races Congress opens a vista of
almost boundless promise.
“Nearer and nearer we see approaching the day when the caste population
of the East will assert their claim to meet on terms of equality the
nations of the West; when the free institutions and the organized forces
of the one hemisphere will have their counterbalance in the other; when
their mental outlook and their social aims will be in principle
identical; when in short the color prejudice will have vanished and the
so-called “white races” and the so-called “colored races” shall no
longer meet in missionary exposition, but, in very fact, regard one
another as in truth men and brothers.”
Dr. Felix von Luschan, of Germany, declared, “There is an increasing
mutual sympathy between the races as they come to know each other.”
Mr. Gustave Spiller, the organizer of the congress, said:
“The common standard provided by university diplomas shows almost all
races, even the majority of those which are regarded as inferior,
represented successfully in the universities of Europe and America, and
that they are equal in intellectual capacity with the others. Hence the
difference between them are mere physical characteristics.”
Professor Robertson, of England, among other things established this
comforting assurance:
“It is only after a long and painful apprenticeship that European
nations have attained autonomy. Why not admit that it may be the same
with the so-called backward peoples?”