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Why I Am Dissatisfied 
 
 — BY 
 
 REV ZEBEDEE GREEN 
 
 Copyright 1923 
 
 By ZEBEDEE GREEN 
 
 Entered into the Copyright Office in the Library of Congress 
 
 By Act of Congress 
 
 Washington. D. C. 
 
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 RZV ZEBEDEE GREEN 
 I AM NOT SATISFIED 
 
 This writing was done by the request of Honorable 
 Georj^e A. Weston, President of Pittsburgh Division No. 61 
 of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, by Rev- 
 erend Zt'l)edee (Ireen, Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania. 
 
 in lin.'i, I could just write my name. Jesus said. "Seek 
 ye first the Kingdom of Heaven and its righteousness thereof 
 and all these things shall be added unto thee. 
 
 Not enjoyment, and not sorrow 
 Is our destined end or way, 
 But to act that each tomorrow 
 Finds us farther than today. 
 — Longfellow. 
 
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 "Satisfaction leads to stagnation; 
 stagnation to dctet ioration and deterioration 
 to extinction. '" 
 
 — B. S. Clark 
 
 *' Among other things show yourselves 
 to be dissatisfied. 
 
 — Woodrow Wilson 
 
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I AM NOT SATISFIED 
 
 I was born in the Southlands in 1882 on the 25th day of 
 June. When I g-ot old enough to know and see things as 
 othtTs. I confessed Jesus Christ. Since I have confessed 
 Him. He has enabled me to see. know and understand more 
 about doing things for Him and His people. 
 
 As I .see the condition of my race, it makes me dissatis- 
 fied. No. I am not satisfied and. if I say I am, I would not 
 be telling the truth to my Heavenly Father, to myself, to 
 my wife, to my mother, or to my race. I know that I am a 
 Christian, but still I am not satisfied. 
 
 God Him.self is not satisfied with the condition of things. 
 He has created all men equal and that is one thing we as 
 a race should look at, for we as a race do not c;ire for any- 
 thing of our own, though still there aie a few of us who really 
 want something. We care for it in a way. That is, if some- 
 one gives us something, we are ready to receive it, but if 
 we have to go through hardships to obtain it. then we do 
 not want it. 
 
 We say this is a white mun's country and a white man's 
 government. It is. We say that we are ruled by his laws 
 and government. We are. He beats us, he kills us, he 
 works us. he lynches us, he burns us. and every time he gets 
 in trouble, he makes us fight for him. We win the victory 
 for him every time we fight and at the end we get nothing 
 but the same old thing that we were getting before. Still 
 ue s.iy we are in a free country and are free citizens of this 
 country. I say, "We are not free citizens in this country 
 for we were forced and brought to this country and s^ld like 
 cows and horses." No citizenship papers were given to us 
 at all and we did not ask for my. Why? We c::uldn't. We 
 were slaves f(jr them vu(\ the only free thing that we had 
 was to work to help them to build up their governmrnt. 
 
 That is just a.s if I were helping another m:in Iniy a 
 houst'. He h:is the papers made out in his name; I haven't 
 any. W'e live in the same house, but he couM put me out 
 any time he gets ready. That is how we stand in America. 
 I noticed in the .speech of Lincoln at the close of the Civil 
 War at ( ;ettysl)urg. Maryland. November 19. 18G:^. he said. 
 "Fourscore and seven years ago. our forefather's brnu<xht 
 forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty 
 and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created 
 I'qual." In that speech the Negroes were said to be free. J 
 
say in part they are free and in part they are not. In the 
 biggest part he is not free. I am not saying anything about 
 Liberty at all, for there is a difference between Libsrty and 
 Freedom. A man can be free from jail, or any place where 
 he is bound, and still not be at Liberty to do what he wants 
 to do. 
 
 I heard the remarks of a man of my race who was in a 
 parade on July 4, 1917. He said, "I now belong to the 
 United States Army and I am going up against Germany. 
 I don't mind fighting, I don't mind dying, but I hate to leave 
 my wife." He received much applause from the other race 
 and also from his own race. It didn't please mo at all. It put 
 me to thinking and I was not satisfied. I went on a long 
 time trying to find something to match what he had said. 
 At last, I have found something to match him. 
 
 I say, "I belong to the Universal Negro Improvement 
 Association and Africa must be free. I don't mind fighting, 
 I don't mind dying, for I am preparing a place for my wife 
 and my race. I have no children of my own, but ray brother 
 has some. When I say my brother, I rrean this Negro race 
 of mine. When I look upon the faces of the boys and girls 
 of my race, it brings much cheer to me because of their 
 bright future. But when I stop and think, I wonder w^hat 
 these children will have to use their bright future on. These 
 children are looking for their fathers and mothers, yes, and 
 to the race at large, to put something in their way that 
 they may catch hold of it and make themselves better men 
 and women. 
 
 A lot of us who call ourselves men and women, aren't 
 worth the clothes that we have on our backs. Say, men 
 and women of my race, do you not know that these children 
 are going to school every day to get knowledge? I know 
 you will say, '\ves." What are they going to do with it after 
 they get it? AH of them cannot preach the gospel, be sec- 
 retaries, officers of the church, stenographers, typists, book- 
 keepers, or clerks. We haven't enough business places to 
 put them in. The one that has a business place, you're 
 knocking him all the time. 
 
 I am saying to you, "Let us stop and think over this 
 great task that is now before us. Let us stop knocking and 
 saying so much about what I am going to do. Let us work 
 and bring things to pass. Do you ever stop to think of how 
 
vour children are taught and who is teaching them? How 
 •vould you like for me to whip your child and teli you to 
 keep your han.is off mine? Would that be fair, or would it 
 not? Some of us Negroes do not want Negroes to teach 
 our children, I ut. listen, when I get to the place that I do 
 not want to be with my own race and don't want a Negro 
 to teach me, I ought to die. 
 
 And some of us use the phrase, "I am getting more like 
 the white folks every day." If you only knew how that 
 phrase sounds, you would stop using it. You never hear 
 them say that they want to be like you. Now, if you say 
 that you are more like Jesus, you would be doing the right 
 ihing. That is what is the matter now. Too many v^hite 
 things have been shown to us. So I want to see myself now 
 because I love my color. 
 
 Listen, good people, I am saying these things because 
 it is the truth and it is right for me to say them, as a min- 
 ister of the Gospel, and as a man who loves his race. For 
 it is better i\v me to tell you now so that you may make 
 a change, than to let you die in this world and leave it with 
 a shame. For God has assigned me to this work and that 
 I must do. so that when I go to make a report, it shall 
 be true. These are some of the things that make me 
 dissatisfied. 
 
 Again, here is something else I look at. I work all 
 the time and sometimes make two days in one and I can't 
 get above meat, bread and house rent, sometimes my wife 
 helps me, but still I can't get above meat, bread and house 
 rent. Listen, good folks, there is something wrong some- 
 where and badly wrong at that. We say we don't drink 
 whiskey and only have one wife; no sweetheart. Do not 
 eat fine food. U" not dress line and do not live in a fine 
 house. Still wo work all the time and haven't got anything. 
 
There is something wrong. Yes, there is. Now, don't 
 say the reason I havein't got anything is because I have 
 been out of work; because when you were working it was 
 the same. We cculd hardly make it from one pay to 
 anoi-her then and pay days were only two weeks apart. Now, 
 1 am not gouig to say anything about the money you were 
 making. I am "showing you why it is I am dissatisfied. 
 0-ur boys and girls are looking to you and me and what are 
 we doing for them. Someone may say, "i haven't any 
 chiluien". ' But i.hat doesn't excuse you, for you have a duty 
 just like M\y other man. 
 
 We have been singing this song, "You can have all the 
 woiia, but give me uesus". 1 have Jesus now and i want 
 some of ihe wona ior these childr&n. And we have been 
 s.ymg, '"When I came into the woild I bioag-it nothing and, 
 wiien I go out, I will leave nothing." Our trouble is, we 
 do not want to leave anytning when we go, bui: the white 
 n'an will i:ave something. Listen, men, it is time for us to 
 move, for I hear a voice crying to the four corners of th3 
 woria and we ought to run to the call. When I say men, I 
 aon't mean some of them, but I mean ail of them, both men 
 and v;cm£n. We, as a race, ought to answer this call and 
 dc justice to ourselves and children. For, if we are ever 
 going to be a race, now is the time. Somxe of us think that 
 cliis is a joke, but I am saying that it is not a" joke. 
 
 We want what is due us like other nations and we must 
 havc it. For my part, my life belongs to it, for I expec'^ to 
 be a man and pky a man's part on the ground whereon I 
 stand. I am Vvrilling to put my strength to anything that 
 will help me to be a man. 
 
 Someone may want to know why I keep saying I am 
 dissatisfied, and why I am talking as I am through this 
 little pamphlet. Well, this is why. When I think of the 
 South and see how they have mobbed, burned and killed my 
 people, also 1:11';; d my cv/n blcod brother and th nk they are 
 df^in-T rip-ht, I vnW sav to you that that is enough 'o make 
 anyone dissaiisutd. That is the reason why I love the U N. 
 I. A. and am giv'ng it my life, for we negroes do nothing 
 here in ihe U. 3. A, to slop '.hese outrages. And in this 
 
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 ^reat World's War while our men were in France along sida 
 of the whits men, as well as other nations, they v;ere still 
 mobbing, burning and killing our people. In 1918, when the 
 hardest of the struggle was on and our men were helping 
 to make this country safe, the record that I had, show that 
 there were 68 lynched, mobbed and burned. 
 
 And nothing could be done until' this great man, Marcus 
 Garvey, cams with thiS great movement. And I will say tnat 
 this man is a man among men and I will go to his call at any 
 time, for he has done more for this race in thiea years tiian 
 we have done in 356 years. Not only the United States can 
 see it, but the world can see it. I am willing to give honor 
 to whom honor is due. The great men and the mighty men 
 are standing off looking at him today. A lot of our people 
 are standing up today saying, "I v/ill wait unlil I i^ee what 
 he is going to do and how he is going to come out". And 
 yet, they say Ihey are for the right thing and for the race. 
 Well. I am sr.ying to all of thorn who are in that fix that 
 it doesn't look to me as if you love the race or evcn yours:-lf. 
 You just st;iy out there and knock and see how you will 
 come out. If you think this movement is going down, you 
 are wrong. And, if you tliink it is a dr* am, then you sleep 
 on until you get through dreaming and then wake up and 
 think. You will find out that it is not a dream, but real. 
 And, if this gre?.t man dies, this m.ovement is going on. 
 We have thous.inds and thousr.nds of great m.en who are 
 in t'lo f vjr corners of the world who are r.b'e to see to it 
 that this great work will still go on and, if this great man 
 lives, I know that this great work will go on. 
 
 Greater love hath no man than this, thnt a man l:iys down 
 his life for his friends. John, 15th Chapter, 13th verse. 
 These words were spoken by Jesus Christ, telling us to love 
 ye one ano'hcr. This is one thing that we have got to c^me 
 up t) and we are a long way from it. We love in a wiy, that 
 is, when everything is g ;ing on all right pnd things are gong 
 our way, but if trouble arise then our love is gone. 
 
 No man wants to die for another man. He would 
 rather go out and g.miblo and di? over live cents, or some- 
 thing else that would not amount to a row of pins, than to 
 (lie for a man who is in the right. The biggest thing wo 
 
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 ■do is to say we love and do another way. And still we are 
 ■going to Heaven. But Heaven is not down below, but above. 
 Now, Mr. Marcus Garvey has done what Jesus said do. He 
 is not only saying it, but he is proving it by doing it. Now, 
 .'if I am lying, prove it to me that I am. The time has come 
 now that this race has got to move from where it is and 
 I am going to be at the moving. For I see it and am going 
 after it. If I do net succeed, I will die trying. 
 
 Say, women, I am not saying anything about you in this 
 copy.but I have yours too, just as I have it for the men. So I 
 will see you all later, but 1 m.usx say one thing to you, "You 
 ought to drop your dresses in the right pliice and get out 
 of the young girls' v/ay and get to work and make them 
 competent for the future lac e. A nd your faces are white 
 whe^n they ought to be black. So I am dissatisfied. 
 
 We are looking now for men and women all ovei- the 
 
 world. We are going to get this race and put it in its right 
 
 place. The Lord's word is gone out and it will not return 
 
 to Him void. I want to be satisfied, but I can't be. For 
 
 when I look at the other nations and see that they have all 
 
 of what it takes to make a nation and then look at my race 
 
 ?»nd see hov; we are fixed, it makes me more dissatisfied. 
 The truth about it is, I don't like it. 
 
 God has made me a man just as He has made othef 
 men and made us a race just like other races. And these 
 races will stick together and will not sell themselves to 
 another race, but we won't stick together like that. All we 
 care for is to get in a good little place to ourselves and the 
 rest c?.n go and root like little pigs, or die poor. We don't 
 look for a place any big-ger than one large enough for our- 
 se'ives. We will say that we are for the race, but act in 
 another way. I think we ought to change that now. Do 
 more and say less; for we can do nothing in this world but 
 make a living. Why is it that it can't be done in the right 
 way? Let us make it up in our minds to do the right thing 
 and make the race whrt H on-^iit to be. Don't be afraid that 
 somecne will get more than you. 
 
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 I am talking: because I love the race and it is my duty to 
 do This is the commandment that was given by our 
 
 Lord Jesus, that we should love one another. That is what 
 we should do. I don't believe that the Lord is pleased over 
 the condition of things and I know that I am not. I can't 
 be until some change is made for the better. 
 
 And here is another thing that gives ug a lot of troub-e. 
 that is, we knov/ all and we do net want to follow anybody. 
 Wh-^n we come into the possession of something and it will 
 take someone cl^e to help us out, we Will say, "I know what 
 to do", and then proceed to do it. .Then we go on with it 
 until we can't go any farthar, then we will stop and g-it 
 someone who does know and will give it to him, or her, and 
 it would give thsm m.ore trouble than it would ba worth and 
 they sometimes have to give it up. Then we would bs in 
 a worse fix than v,e were in at first. We do not regard leader- 
 ship. We follow the leaders whsnaver we want to and, 
 when we get ready, we stop. This is where we get in bud. 
 
 Do you Icnow that there are many people who are dsad 
 who ou ght tn \e l iving? When they get ?.ick, they stay at 
 home and try to doctor themselves until thsy are nearly 
 dead, then go running to or send someone for a doctor. 
 VVh^n he gots to *hem, he can't do any good and sometimes 
 the patient dies before he gets there. When I ?e9 t'lese 
 thing.-?, or hear them, they make me dissatisfied. We ought 
 to be wil'ir"' to follow our leader now since we know that 
 we are in trouble and have been for ys^.rs. Tho^e who sny 
 "I know" hav*» ffcne on tryin? for years to get us out of 
 trouble and nothing has been done yet. 
 
 Clrod reorle, listen, 'et us stop and think over the con- 
 dition of things ?nd go to those who know and let them 
 help us out of it. I want this race cf mine to stop pnd r-id. 
 and think over what I am talking fbout. If you dcn't know 
 I will toll VDU that T pm a man Hke other m'^n. W'^en 1 
 think over this, it makes me s^y. "I am not mi^^ch of a man." 
 How c".n 1 1 o satisfied when I think of it. Yet if they tel! 
 me what I have to do I will do it, just as if I were a child. 
 
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 These children of ours are going to be abie to do just as 
 other rac£s because we are going to make it possible. Why 
 do you talk so much about the children, Mr. Green? I know 
 you will ask this. 1 talk about them because they don't know 
 so much. We have got to get them ready for the future race. 
 We "old folks" know too much of that we should not know 
 t.nd do not want to know that which we should know. There- 
 fore, we can't do much with you, for some of us want the 
 Lord to come down from Heaven and talk with us and put 
 our hands on the things that ought to be done. 
 
 We are like the Children of Israel. When Moses was 
 leading them they said to him, "We are tired of hearing 
 you. We want to taik with God for ourselves". That was 
 as good as saying, "We know as much as you and you can 
 tell us nothing". So Moses came to be dissatisfied and went 
 and talked with God. His job was to take them to the land 
 that God had told him to take them to. I am dissatisfied 
 today for I hear someone crying saying, "Come on and let 
 us go to the land that God has promised us and let us be a 
 nation like other nations and be free." For this man is a 
 Moses and we as a race need straightening out along all 
 lines. Some of us do not like intelligence. In a way we 
 like it and in a way we do not. We have it fixed so that 
 when we don't want to go to intelligence we don't go, and 
 when we get ready to go to it, we go. 
 
 Pure intelligence means that you m.ust be intelligent at 
 all times. That is why I like the Universal Negro Improve- 
 ment Association, for it calls for intelligent people as well 
 as the Bible does. 
 
 But we will steal, rob, and take one another's lives and 
 lead our neighbor's daughters astray; we will talk about 
 each other without a cause and we are glad to see our neigh- 
 bor's downfall and we will teil falsehoods on one another. 
 A whole lot of us will borrow and won't pay back and stay 
 in houses with women who are not our wives and say they 
 are. We stay with her as long as we want to and then 
 leave her with a shame. Some of us grudge our neighbor 
 his possessions and are ourselves as selfish as selfish can be, 
 and we do not care anything about our word. 
 
 A lot of us do not want work and won't work. Some of 
 us love to make fun of people. When our neighbors teach 
 their children to do the right thing, others are leading them 
 
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 astray. Some will do right when they want to, and leave it 
 ott" when they get ready. And there are some who won't 
 do right and do not care what you say or do to them. 
 
 Now, all of these are not worldly folks, but some of them 
 are so-called Christiano. This brings my mind to the 10th 
 Chapter of Romans, Fir^t, Second and Third verses. When 
 Paul was talking with the people at Rome, he said, "Bieth- 
 em, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that 
 they might be saved. For I bear them record, that they 
 have zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they 
 being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to 
 establish their own rightsousness, have not submitted to 
 the righteousness of God." 
 
 And when I see these things and think over them, my 
 soul cries out within me. Net only our own people do this, 
 but the other races do the same or worse. There are some 
 people who are going to do right no matter what happens. 
 Still I am not satisfied. 
 
 Time is another thing that we do not regard. We have 
 a meeting and we say that it will begin at seven o'clock, 
 but when that time comes, only a few will te there and they 
 will have to stay there and wait, I don't know how long, be- 
 fore the others get there and sometimes it is the main ones 
 who are holding the meeting back. In our meetings, 1 
 notice that the one who com.es late is the one who hasn't 
 time to stay untii the meeting is out. Especially, if it is a 
 meeting that will help us to become a better race. It appears 
 to me that they do not care about time. When someone 
 sees them who v/ants to be on time, they will say, "You are 
 early because you have plenty of time". Perhaps it is nearly 
 time then for the meeting to start. We don't for one minute 
 remember that there may be someone in that meeting who 
 should be at home doing their work, or at some other place 
 of duty. Perhaps they have been waiting for an hour and a 
 half on you, when you get there, you have more to say than 
 anyone else. 
 
 I am talking about time because it is valuable. We came 
 into the world on time and we are going out on time. There- 
 fore, we ought to put all of our time in good service for God 
 and for man. Job tells us that man's bound is set and that 
 he cannot pass. Since we know we cannot pass it. then we 
 ought to be up and doing for the Lord and lor the race. It 
 is time for us to stop playing now and go to work. When 
 the white people put on a meeting and say the meeting will 
 
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 be at eight o'clock in the morning, v/hen that time comes 
 every one of them will be tl:eie and, it they are not, there 
 is someone to find the rea-on why. And when they get 
 there, they stay until the meeting is over. To be a progres- 
 sive race, we will have to do the same thing. becau>e it is 
 time for business. There is a season for everything and a 
 time for every purpose under the Heavens. A time to be 
 born, and a time to die: a time to plant and a time to piuck 
 up that which is planted ; 
 
 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down 
 and a time to build up; 
 
 A time to weep and a time to laugh ; a time to mourn 
 and a time to dance ; 
 
 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones 
 together; a time to embrace and a time to refrain from em- 
 bracing; a time to get and a time to lose; a time to keep 
 and a time to cast away ; 
 
 A time to reap and a time to sow; a time to keep silent 
 ind a time to speak; 
 
 A time to love and a time to hate; a time of war and a 
 time of peace. 
 
 So the world is at war since it cannot find peace, there- 
 fore, I am dissatisfied. The more I write on this subject, 
 the more I see to write about it. Many see, but few 
 know. In the days of Noah when men began to multiply on 
 the face of the earth and daughters ware born unto ihem 
 t;v+ t'v^ prns ^f God saw the daughtsrs of men that they 
 were fair, and they took them wives of ail which they 
 cjfiuo=-e. 
 
 They became wicked, so much so that it repented the 
 Lord that he had made man on the earth and it grieved Him 
 at His neart. And the Lord said, "1 will destroy man whom I 
 created from the f?.ce of the earth." So God told Noah to 
 build an ark. He told him how to build it jvid wnat 
 to build it with. And He gave Noah a hundred and twenty 
 years in which to buiid it. The people had the same length 
 of time to repent. Noah went en doing the work that God 
 had given him to do. At the same time, he warned the 
 people about what was going to happen, but they wculd 
 not believe him and went on their way. 
 
 They saw Noah building the ark, but they did not know 
 that God was going to destroy the earth with water and 
 -oitho]^ r'-(] fhpy believe it. N-^ah kont warning them and 
 they called him a foolish man. All of the people saw 
 
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 him building the ark. but only a few knew what he was 
 building it for. God himself was not satisfied. We people 
 today are going from one place to another and, as we go. 
 we see, but who knows what is in front of us and who knows 
 where he or she is going to die and wnai thty are gomg to 
 die in. You Gon't know whether you will die in the house 
 or on the ground, or on the water. We go from piace to 
 place and we see as we go, but who knows wnat will happen 
 to what we have seen. We 1-e down at night to take our rest 
 and when we get up in the mornmg, we see the sun shining 
 brightly. But who knows what will happen before night. 
 We speak that we know and testify that we have Scen. 
 These words were spoken by Jesus Ciirist as He was talking 
 to a rich ruler of the Jews who came unto Him by night 
 and ^'iid unto Him, "Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher 
 come from God, for no man can do miracles that thou doest 
 except God be with him. Jesus started to talk to him and 
 told h'm ;o much that he begin to wonder. He said, "How 
 can these things be?" Jesus answered and said unto him. 
 "Art thou a master of Israel and knoweth not these things? 
 Verily, veri y, I say unto you, we speak that we know and 
 testify that we have seen, and ye received not our wit- 
 ness." So Nicodemus saw Jesus but did not know Him as he 
 thought. 
 So all of the nations see one another and one thinks it knows 
 more than the other. That is what caused the great World 
 War. Now, they r^re trying to find peace and can't find it. 
 Why? Because thev do not w.int to recognize me. So I am 
 yet dissatisfied. We as a race talk too much and 
 that is one reason why we can't get along. For some of Us 
 will tell other nations what is done among ourselves and 
 th^t is th ' rpason they can keep us separated. No other 
 nation will tell us what it knows and that is why they think 
 thev can keep us separated. With God to help us, in spite of 
 all that, we :ire going to make it right on to the end. We, 
 as a race, ought to quit talking to other races about our- 
 selves .'^irce we know how they have treated us and have 
 given us the bad end. 
 
 Let us change this thing around and start everything 
 doing things for ourselves, so that we may be a nation like 
 other nations. 
 
 We have many betrayers in our race, and it ouerht to 
 be fixi d so that when we (i'ld them, we could give them a 
 "final resting place of honor." The 18th Chapter of Mat- 
 
thew, the Seventh, Eighth and Ninth verses, tells us "Woe 
 unto the world because of offenses, for it must need be that 
 offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence 
 cometh! Wherefore, if thy hand, or thy foot, offend thee, 
 cut them off' and cast them from thee: it is better for thee 
 to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than, having two 
 hands or two feet, to be cast into everlasting fire. And, if 
 thine eye offends thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee: 
 it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye than, 
 having two, be cast into hell fire." Now, if you would 
 read this whole chapter, it would give you a better under- 
 standing of the subject which is now before you. 
 
 If you would take in this subject as you read it, we would 
 be a better people and a better race and it would stop us 
 from talking about and betraying each other to the other 
 races. I am saying these things because they are true and 
 I have studied human nature and, especially, the Negro 
 Race. For the world is my school house and the people are 
 my books, and my Heavenly Father is my Teacher. I am the 
 pupil who is learning wisdom from Him. 
 
 If I can die for the other race, why is it that I can't die 
 for myself? So I am not satisfied. No, I am not satisfied. 
 I have been here now nearly forty years under the Stars 
 and Stripes and I have found nothing in them yet that looks 
 like me. A few years ago, I looked and saw peeping out 
 from under a cloud something that looked like me. That is, 
 the Red, Black and Green. Red is the color of the blood 
 that men must shed for their redemption and liberty. Black 
 is the color of the noble and distinguished race to which we 
 belong. Green is the coibr of the luxuriant vegetation of our 
 Motherland. But before Africa can be suft"iciently strong 
 to protect all of us, we must have Annies, Navies, Ships, 
 Factories, Mills, Educational Institutions, Churches, Thea- 
 tres, Railroads, Docks, Farms, Banks, Stores, Ware- 
 houses, Militia. Coal, Iron, Silver, Gold and Copper Mines, 
 Mints and Chemicals, but above all. we need a Government. 
 
 I AM NOT SATISFIED 
 
 I want liberty and to get liberty, we will have to have a 
 government and to get a government, we will have to have 
 everything that is necessary to make a government. We 
 want our own government like other nations and we must 
 have a government like other nations. Someone may say 
 
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 now, "Can Negioes have a Government?" Yes, go and build 
 it up. Wiiere are we going to build it ? In Africa where our 
 home i.s. You know the Bible says that, before the end of 
 time, every nation shall return to its own home, but how do 
 we know when the time will come. When you go away from 
 your home and it is time for you to return, who tells 
 you to rtlurn home? Well, common sense will tell any man 
 when to go back to his house. 
 
 If common sense will tell him to go back to his home 
 then that same sense will tell us to go back to Africa 
 •and do fur ourselves the .same thing we have done for other 
 nations and that other nations have done for themselves. 
 
 What have we to build our government with? We have 
 the .same thing that the other nations had. They had noth- 
 ing, but they went to work and got something. It is a 
 strange thing to me to see how we can do things for others 
 but, when it comes time to do something for ourselves, we 
 will say, "We can't, for we have nothing to do it with." 
 IJut if we will knock that "t" out of can't we will find 
 that we can. 
 
 .Some say. "Let all of them go to Africa that want to, 
 for 1 have lost nothing there". No, but I am sure you have 
 lost something in the United States. That is why the United 
 States is in a bad fix today. My brother's blood is crying 
 before Ciod as that of Ai)el when Cain, his brother, slew him. 
 This is one of the things that causes me to be dissatisfied. 
 Listen, CJalatians, Sixth Chapter, Seventh and Eighth verses 
 say, "He not deceived. God is not mocked; for whatsoever 
 a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth 
 to his llesh shall of the llesh reap corruption. But he that 
 soweth to the Spirit shall reap life everlasting." 
 
 If you sow it. you will surely reap it. let it be good or 
 bad. When we sow. we ought to be careful about how we 
 sow a-nd what we sow, because it will come back upon us. 
 Then, the Scripture says. "Take not that you cannot give". 
 So. if you cannot give life, why should you take it? My 
 Father is not dead, nor asleep. He has not gone away, 
 He is not deaf, neither is He so weak that He cannot do any- 
 thing he wants to do. For He said, "I will be with you in 
 tlu' sixth trouble, and in the seventh trouble I will not for- 
 sake you." 
 
 (To be continued.) 
 
 5 19 J ^ 
 
Why I Am Dissatisfied 
 
 BY 
 
 Rei\ Zebedee Green 
 
 PART TWO 
 
 PRICE: 75 CENTS 
 
 Copyrighl I9AL 
 By ZEBEDEE GREEN 
 Entered into the Copyright Office in the Library of Congress 
 By Act of Congress, Washington, D. C. 
 
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE'S TRIBUTE TO 
 
 ABRAHAM LINCOLN 
 
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 A Proclamation issued Jan. 30th, 1919, by Calvin Coolidge, 
 then Governor of Massachusetts 
 
 '^^ IVESCORE and ten years ago that Divine Providence, which 
 If infinite repetition has made only the more a miracle, sent 
 ^^ into the world a new life, destined to save a nation. No 
 star, no sign, foretold his coming. About his cradle all was poor 
 and mean save only the source of all great men, the love of a 
 wonderful woman. When she faded away in his tender years, 
 from her deathbed in humble poverty she dowered her son with 
 greatness. There can be no proper observance of a birthday which 
 forgets the mother. Into his origin, as into his life, men long have 
 looked and wondered. In wisdom great, but in humility greater, 
 in justice strong, but in compassion stronger, he became a leader 
 ^f men by being a follower of the truth. He overcame evil with 
 jood. His presence filled the nation. He broke the might of op- 
 pression. He restored a race to its birthright. His mortal frame 
 has vanished, but his spirit increases with the increasing years, 
 the richest legacy of the greatest century. 
 
 Men show by what they worship what they are. It is no 
 accident that before the great example of American manhood 
 our people stand with respect to reverence. And in accordance 
 with this sentiment our laws have provided for a formal recogni- 
 tion of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln ; for in him is revealed 
 our ideal, the hope of our country fulfilled. 
 
 Now, therefore, by the authority of Massachusetts, the 12th 
 day of February is set apart as LINCOLN DAY and its observ- 
 ance recommended as befits the beneficiaries of his life and 
 admirerers of his charactt/. in places of education and worship 
 wherever our people meet one with the other. 
 
 Given at the Executive Chamber, in Boston, this 30th day 
 of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred 
 and nineteen, and of the independence of the United States of 
 America the one hundred and ^orty-iX^u^^^^^^ COOLIDGE 
 
 8 1924 
 
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OPPORTUNITY AND WHEN TO GRASP IT 
 
 There comes a time in every individual's life when an op- 
 portunity of some kind presents itself; to old and young, whether 
 it be little or much, it should be taken advantage of by that 
 person. There are opportunities for both good and bad; the ones 
 that should be taken are the good ones. But these are generally 
 left to pass on by our doors and counted worthless by us. 
 
 1 — The time to accept an opportunity, is when it presents 
 itself to you. 
 
 2 — The great men and women who have passed this way and 
 left their footprints in the sands of time, did not have the op- 
 portunity that we now enjoy. They had no schools in which to 
 learn every skilled trade, business and profession which the 
 world has in its program for today; nor did they have school 
 buildings spreading over much land and towering toward the 
 sky. But they caught the vision of this day, as best they could, 
 and made it possible for you to have the opportunity. 
 
 3 — I want to say to the youngsters of today that, if there 
 were great men as far as Booker T. Washington's boyhood days, 
 then, with the chance you have, you can be much greater men if 
 you will only grasp the opportunity. 
 
 School days are the best days in which to prepare your- 
 selves. Opportunity will then open doors to you that have long 
 been closed. This day offers an opportunity that was not offered 
 in the day of your foreparents and now is your chance to grasp 
 it for opportunities only comes to us once in a lifetime and then 
 pass on, never to come to us again. It is easy to take hold then 
 but oh, how hard when it has passed us by. 
 
 4 — After long years have passed, we can only look back and 
 say, "I had a good chance, but I let it pass. Now all my best days 
 are spent, I see my mistake but cannot accept those opportunit- 
 ies now, for they have gone by." 
 
 5_So young people I leave this thought with you as_ a 
 friend, would you count it wise to accept an opportunity while 
 present, or, wait until it has passed and then run after it? 
 
 6 — Our foreparents did not have the opportunity that I have 
 and I haven't the opportunity that you have. For instance, our 
 foreparents used the words "master" and "mistress" ; in my day 
 and time we used "yes sir" and "yes ma'm"; in your day, you 
 use the terms "yes" and "no". That shows some of our oppor- 
 tunities. 
 
 7 — I mention this to show how opportunities present them- 
 selves to us and then pass on. 
 
 So I would advise each as a friend, to grasp the opportunity /^ 
 when it is present, for when it has passed it will never come 
 again^^By Zebedee Green. 
 
 
"WHY I AM DISSA TISFIED. " 
 
 This writing was done by the request of Hon. George A. 
 Weston, who was the president of Pittsburgh Division No. 61, 
 of the U. N. I. A. 
 
 By Rev. Zebedee Green, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 
 
 In 1913 I just could write my name. Jesus said, "Seek ye 
 first, the kingdom of heaven and its righteousness thereof, and 
 all these things shall be added unto thee." 
 
 Not enjoyment, and not Sorrow 
 Is our destined end or way 
 But to act that each tomorrow. 
 Finds us farther than today. 
 
 — Longfellow 
 
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 4213 Shields St., Pittsburgh, Pa. 
 
 ZEBEDEE GREEN 
 
 I began to write the second part of this book on January 
 
 28th. 1921. 
 
 It has come time for me to begin ^\Titing upon this great 
 subject which is now before me: "WHY I AM DISSATISFIED." 
 
 The world is dis.satisfied today because we Negroes are seek- 
 ing our place in the Sun, which we mean to have; for so long 
 as the Negro was satisfied, the world seemed to be satisfied, but 
 when we looked and saw our condition we came to be dissatisfied, 
 therefore the world became dissatisfied with us; because they 
 were sucking our blood and that was what they had to live on. 
 God did not intend it to be. The white man know when the Negro 
 get out from under him, he will have to go and get it for hirriself. 
 In the days of slavery they kept our fore-fathers under bondage 
 and would not pay them anything for their work and at the 
 same time they took advantage of our women, and today we 
 are as spotted as a leopard with the many colors and yet w'e are 
 the most loving race of people to them in the world, for any- 
 thing they wanted us to do we did it, even among ourselves, so 
 if they say, fight or kill one another we did it and have had u^ 
 to help lynch, mob and burn our own people and made us honor 
 them as lords on the earth. For all the pleasures of life was 
 theirs, they thought, and we thought so too. But since the Hon. 
 Marcus Garvey has brought to us through the hands of God the 
 U. N. I. A., we have found out better; for life is for us as well as 
 any one else, therefore it has caused me to be dissatisfied. 
 
 I remember when I was a boy I worked for fifteen cents a 
 day and had to go from 'can to can't'; this is from the time I 
 just could see until I couldn't see, and they want us to keep that 
 up now, but they are wrong, that is why they are trying to get 
 the. Hon. Marcus Garvey out of the way and put him in the tomb. 
 They think if they get him out of the way they can carry us 
 back to the old stage again. Now, did God intend that to' be? 
 No,/ for He has no respect of persons and therefore He created 
 all men equal, and of one blood. But in creating man he [^ave him 
 five senses that he might think and act in the right way— that 
 is to till the earth and to give honor to His Creator, and love 
 and care for one another during his short stay on earth ; but we 
 are using these senses in another term. Instead of caring for 
 one another, we- are trying to keep the other down, putting all 
 the glory and blessing among one or two groups, so in that sin 
 has taken place among us which I will show you farther down 
 the line. ^As I write, showing you what has happened to govern- 
 ments, and what will happen to any government or nation of 
 peoi)le who do these things, and I will prove them by the Bible. 
 God is dissatisfied with the condition of things that is now existing 
 
among us and so am I. The world is dissatisfied itself and all of 
 it is one the account of sin and injustice. Now let us iro back to 
 the beginning- of sin, with the words of the Bible and come down 
 to the present time. 
 
 1— NATURE 
 
 The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an 
 abomination to men. — Prov. 24:9. 
 
 He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart has turned him aside, 
 that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, is there not a lie in my 
 right hand? — Isaiah 44:20. 
 
 The heart is deceitful above all; things and desperately wick- 
 ed :who can know it? — Jeremiah 17:9. 
 
 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come 
 forth fromjthe heart; and they defile the man. For out of the 
 heart proceedeth evil thoughts ; murders, adultries, fornications, 
 theft, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which 
 defile a man; but to eat with unwashed hands defileth not a 
 man.— (Matthews 15:18-20.) 
 
 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God ; for it is not 
 subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be, so then they 
 that are in the [flesh cannot please God. — (Romans :7-8). 
 
 And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eat- 
 eth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith, is sin. — <Romans 
 14:23.) 
 
 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of 
 this world, according to the prince of the power of the air. the 
 spirit now worketh in the children of disobedience. — (Ephesians 
 2:2.) , 
 
 But every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his 
 own lust and enticed. Then when, lust hath conceived, it bringeth 
 forth sin: and sin when it is finished, bringeth forth death. — 
 (James 1:14-15.) 
 
 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it 
 not, to him it is sin. — (James 4:17.) 
 
 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for 
 sin is the transgression of the, law. — (I John 3:4.) 
 
 II EXAMPLES— Adam and Eve 
 
 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, 
 and that it, was pleasant to the eye. and a tree to be desired to 
 make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and 
 gave also unto her husband with her and he did eat. — (Genesis 
 3:6.) 
 
 CAIN — Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew 
 his brother, and wherefore slew he him? Because his own works 
 were evil, and his brother's righteous. — (I John 3:12.) 
 
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 SODOM AND GOxMORAH 
 
 And the Lord said, because the cry of Sodom and Gomorah 
 is great, and because, their sin is very grievious; I will go down 
 and see whether they have done altogether according to the crj' 
 of it, which is come unto me, I will know. — (Gen. 18:20-21.) 
 
 ACHAN — Achan asswered Joshua and said, "Indeed I have 
 sinned against the Lord God of Israel, and thus and thus have 
 I done:" When I saw among the spoils of goodly Babylonish 
 garment, and two hundred sheckels of silver, and a wedge of 
 gold of fiftj^ sheckels weight, then I coveted them and took them, 
 and behold, they j are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, 
 and the silver under it. — (Joshua 7:20-21.) 
 
 SAUL — For rebellion is as the sin of witch-craft and stub- 
 bornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast reject- 
 ed the word of the Lord; ^le hath also rejected thee from being 
 king.— (Samuel 15.23.) 
 
 DAVID — And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against 
 the Lord, and Nathan said, unto David, the Lord hath also put 
 away thy sin; thou shalt not die. — (II Samuel 12:13.) 
 
 AHAB — And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but 
 thou and thy father's house, , in that ye have forsaken the com- 
 mandments of the Loi'd, and thou hast followed Baalim. — (I 
 Kings 18:18.) 
 
 JEREBOAM AND THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL 
 
 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jere- 
 boam which he did; they departed not from them. — (II Kings 
 17:22.) 
 
 JUDAS — Then, Judas which had betrayed him, when he saw 
 that he was condemned repented himself, and brought again the 
 thirty pieces of silver to the > chief priests and elders; saying, 
 I have sinned in that I have betraj'ed the innocent blood, and 
 they said, what is that to us? See thou to that. — (Matt. 27:34.) 
 
 ALEXANDER THE COPPERSMITH 
 
 Alexander, the coppersmith, did me much evil: the Lord 
 heard him according to his works. Of whom be thou aware also, 
 for he hath greatly withstood our words. — (II Timothy 4:14-15.) 
 
 III. RESULTS 
 
 And unto Adam he said, because thou hast barkened unto 
 the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree which I com- 
 manded thee, saying, thou shalt not eat- of it: cursed in the 
 ground for thy sake: in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days 
 of thy life.— (Gen. 3:17.) 
 
 His own iniquities shall take the wicked, himself, and he 
 shall he holden with the cords of sins. — (Prov. 5:22.) 
 
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 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul ; all 
 they that love me love death. — (Prov. 8:06.) 
 
 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot 
 rest, whose waters cast up mire, and dirt. — (Isa. 57:20.) 
 
 Thy way and thy doings have procured things unto thee; 
 this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth 
 unto thine .heart. — (Jeremiah 4:18.) 
 
 But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their 
 detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their 
 way upon their own heads, saith the Lord God. — (Ezk. 11:21.) 
 
 For they have sown the wind and they shall reap the whirl- 
 wind: it hath no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal; if so be it 
 yield, the stranger shall swallow it up. — (Hosea 8:7.) 
 
 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of, sins, which were 
 by the law, did work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto 
 death — (Romans 7:5.) » 
 
 Now the work of the flesh are manifest, which are the.se: 
 adultry, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness. — (Galatians 
 5:19.) 
 
 Be not, deceived; God is not mocked; for whatever a man 
 soweth, that shall he also reap. — Galatians 6:7.) 
 
 IV. DIVINE FEELING TOWARD 
 
 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the 
 earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart 
 was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had 
 made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. — (Gen. 
 6:56.) 
 
 For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness; 
 neither shall evil dwell wath thee. The foolish shall not stand in 
 thy sight: Thou hatest all workers of iniquity. — (Psalms 5:45.) 
 
 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, 
 are an abomination unto the Lord thy God. — (Deut. 25:16.) 
 
 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire and blesseth 
 the covetous, whom the Lord abhoreth. — Psalms 10::3.) 
 
 The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, 
 when we bringeth it withia wicked mind?— (Pro. 21:27.) 
 
 Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising 
 early, and sending them, saying. Oh. do not this abommable 
 thing that,! hate. — (Jeremiah 44:4.) 
 
 Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cau.^e me to behold 
 grievance? for spoining and violence are before me: and there 
 are that raise up and strife and contention.— (Hobakkuk 1:3.) 
 
 And let none of you imagine evil in your heart against his 
 neighbor; and love no false oath; for all these are things that 
 I hate, saith the Lord.— (Zech. 8:17.) 
 
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 And he said unto them, ye are they which justify your- 
 selves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which 
 is highly esteemed among men, is abomination in the sight of 
 God.— (Luke 15:16.) 
 
 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against 
 all ungodliness of men, who hold the truth in uprighteousness. 
 
 — (Romans 1 :18.) 
 
 PENALTY — But ,of the tree of knowledge of good and 
 evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest 
 thereof thou shalt surely die. — (Gen. 2:17.) 
 
 Keeping merely for thousands, forgiving iniquity and trans- 
 cessions and sins, and that will by no means clear the guilty: 
 visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children's children, 
 unto the third and fourth generations. — (Exodus 34:7.) 
 
 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the 
 Lord: and be sure your sin will find you out. — (Num. 32:23) 
 
 These things hast thou done, and kept silence; thou thought- 
 est that I was altogether such a one as thyself; but I will re- 
 prove thee, and set them in order before thine eves. — (Psalms 
 50:21.) 
 
 Though hand joined in hand, the wicked shall not be un- 
 punished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered. — 
 (Prov. 11:21.) 
 
 He that being often reproved, hardeneth his neck, shall 
 suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. — (Prov. 29:1.) 
 
 And these shall go away into , everlasting punishment: but 
 the righteous into life eternal. — (Matt. 19:46.) 
 
 And thinketh thou this. men, that judgest them which 
 do such things and ,doest the same, that thou shall escape the 
 judgment of God. — (Romans 2:3.) 
 
 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escape 
 not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not 
 we escape if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven. 
 
 — (Col. 2:25.) 
 
 Be he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which 
 he hath done: and there is no respect of persons. — (Heb. 12:25.) 
 
 VL REMEDY 
 
 He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded 
 his covenant for ever; holy and reverend is his name. — (Psalms 
 111:9.) 
 
 All we, like sheep have gone astray. We have turned every 
 way. — (Lsa. 53:6.) 
 
 He will turn again, he will give compassion upon us; he 
 will subdue our iniquities: and thou will cast all their sins unto 
 the depths of the .^oa.— (Micah. 7:19.) 
 
 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house 
 of David, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for 
 uncleaness. — (Zech. 13:1.) 
 
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 To give knowledge and salvation unto his people by the re- 
 mission of their sins. — (Luke 1:77.) 
 
 Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again 
 for our justification. — (Romans 4:25.) 
 
 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us 
 from this present evil world, according to the will of God and 
 our father. — (Gal. 1:4.) 
 
 But God, who is rich in mercy for his great love wherewith 
 he loved us, even when we were dead in sins hath cjuickened us 
 together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved). — (Eph. 2:4-5.) 
 
 Who his ownself bear one sin in his own body on the tree, 
 that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness by 
 whose stripes ye were healed. — I Peter 2:24.) 
 
 He that committeth sin is of the devil ; for the devil sinneth 
 from the beginning. For this purpose the son of God was mani- 
 fested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. — (I John 
 3:8.) 
 
 VII. REPENTANCE AND FORGIVENESS 
 
 If my people which are called by my name, shall humble 
 themselves and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their 
 wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive 
 their sins and will heal their land. — (II Chron. 7:14.) 
 
 I acknowledge my sins unto thee, and mine iniquity have I 
 not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; 
 and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. — (Psalms 32:5.) 
 
 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and. 
 as a cloud thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee. 
 — (.Isa. 44:22.) 
 
 It may be that the house of Judah will hear aK the evil which 
 I purpose to do unto them: that they may return every man 
 from his evil way, that I may forgive their iniquity and then- 
 sin. — (Jer. 36:3.) 
 
 Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel everyone ac- 
 cording to his ways, saith the Lord God. Repent and turn your- 
 selves ^from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be 
 your ruin.— (Ezk. 18:30.) 
 
 For if ye forgive men their trespasses your heavenly father 
 will also forgive you. — (Matt. 6:14.) 
 
 I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over 
 one sinner that repenth, more than over ninety and nine just 
 persons, which need no repentence. — (Luke 15:7.) 
 
 Repent ye therefore and be converted, that your sins may 
 be blotted out, when the time of refreshing shall come from the 
 presence of the Lord. — (Acts 3:19.) 
 
 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us 
 our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. — (I John 
 1:9.) 
 
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 Now if you will read these scripture you will find out that 
 sin is the cause of Governments and also races and nations to 
 fall from a progressive stage in life. Now let us face facts and 
 truths of our welfare here in the world. 
 
 It is not the will of our Father that these things be. but it 
 is the weakness of us. I say us because I am in the world with 
 you, therefore the world is dissatisfied along with me, because 
 of sin. And all of this is due to the fact of untrue leadership, 
 for if we had true leadership they would see to it that all the 
 people had true justice, and where the trouble is; the righteous 
 people have got down off the justice seat and let the wicked take 
 their places, and you know when your head gets wrong, then 
 your whole body is wrong. And the nation don't seem to care who 
 set on the seat as governor or seat at the head as president, so 
 long as they say, "I will keep the Negro down", and I'm saying 
 now, they may try to keep me down, but somebody will have to 
 stay there with me for the 16 Chapter of Isaiah and the 1st 
 Verse tells me to rise and shine, for the light is come and the 
 glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. But before the light will 
 be turned on in full we must have our own government for if 
 we stop here and don't continue to build our government then we 
 will suffer more in the future than in the past, and not only we will 
 be dissatisfied but our unborn children will be dissatisfied and 
 they will be more oppressed than we are. So you see by that 
 our own work is greater than ever before. For if we don't pro- 
 tect ourselves no one else will do it for us. The Lord will help 
 them that help themselves. 
 
 Now since the Lord has sent us a true leader let us follow 
 him. The U. N. I. A. is the greatest and best organization in the 
 world today for us Negroes. 
 
 The Honorable Marcus Garvey is the greatest leader in the 
 world today. He has come with the greatest movement and 
 stirred up the world. Therefore the world is dissatisfied. 
 
 Some people say that we make a Jesus out him, — yes he is 
 a Jesus to me, because the Lord sent him to save me from 
 bondage, so I have two Jesus now. One to help me while I live on 
 earth and one to save me when done with this earth. No one 
 could do what he has done, and is doing now, but a Jesus. 
 
 Now I know that I am dealing with a serious subject, and 
 indeed a great and large one. it is the largest one that is con- 
 fronting the world today. 
 
 And I being so small a man in the mind, and also in the 
 gospel but I'm forced to do so as a minister because the Bible 
 tells me, as I being a minister: it says. "I place you on the wall 
 as a watchman, and if you see danger coming, and you warn the 
 people, and they keep on to destruction, then their blood shall 
 be required at their own hands, but if you see it coming and 
 don't warn them then their blood will be required at your 
 
v.] 
 
 hands," and the Bible tells me ai^ain, "to po ye therefore, and 
 teach all nations, baptizin^r them in the name of the father, and 
 of the son and of the holy g:host, teaching them to observe all 
 things, whatsoever I have commanded you. and lo I am with 
 you always, even unto the end of the world", and in that I can 
 fully see that God did not intend for one race or nati(jn of peo- 
 ple, ito try to keep another race or nation down, and these are 
 the things that make God and also the race or nation of people 
 who are oppressed dissatisfied, for I find among races and na- 
 tions of people, that they will teach my race, but they don't 
 want my race to teach them. Now you take the United States 
 of America: people can and have come from other countries 
 here, and stay here a little while and they can sit on any high 
 seat except the President's seat, and although we were bron and 
 raised here we can't get one of these seats, no place: not even to 
 make law that we might get a chance to help govern our people, 
 and we have played our part in everything here just like any 
 other man or woman. In every war that has been fought, my 
 race was in it even the first drop of blood shed in this country 
 was shed by a Negro, and yet we are less thought of by them, 
 and lynched and mobbed and burned and they have taken the 
 advantage of our women, and then want me to be satisfied, and 
 try to tell me 'that we don't need a government. 
 
 Yes I should say that I'm dissatisfied and who wouldn't be 
 when things are going against them like that. The Bible says 
 to everybodv, "Do unto all men as you would have them 
 to do unto you", so if you want me to give you justice, why not 
 give it to me? You can have a dog and if you treat him good he 
 will love you and not only that he will protect you, and if you 
 are cruel to i him, he will love a stranger better than he will love 
 you. Then if an Animal has this much sense, what do you think 
 of the human family, who are all created of one blood and of 
 one flesh. 
 
 I must say here, that there is no end to this subject because 
 we will find out that we will be dissatisfied in many things in 
 life as we go in the future, because the w(n-ld is stirred up 
 on account of the Negro demanding his rights, that we must 
 have at any cost. We are not asking any one to give us anything, 
 all we ask is to let us alone and we will get what we want, and 
 what belongs to us. For we have been working against ourselves 
 for lo! these many years. Now we are determined to work for 
 our selves, from now on as other races and nations who are 
 working for themselves and had us to help them. That is one of 
 the rea'sons why I am dissatisfied. 
 
 They also try to scorn us and make us believe that we are 
 nothing by calling us "nigger" or "darkey" and sometimes call 
 us "black nigger", that is to make us believe that the color of 
 our skin makes us nothing and is the cause of our condition 
 
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 of being black. Now I had no one to come over in the other world 
 before I was born to ask me what color I wanted to be and they 
 didn't either, for when we all knew anything we were here in 
 this world making a noise and if someone had come and asked 
 us, it might have been that we all would have had a different 
 color, to what we have but I am proud to say that black is 
 honorable and I have sense enough to know that being black 
 does not have anything to do with me being a human being like 
 other races or nations and I want the world to know if there is 
 any such thing as a 'nigger', they are among all races and na- 
 tions of people for the devil is a nigger, and he has many follow- 
 ers among all groups of people, and the devil with all of his imps 
 is as dirty as dirty can be. Even he tried to be dirty in heaven 
 but God would not let him and his imps stay there. He got them 
 out from among the good and holy angels by throwing them 
 out because he was dissatisfied with them so now they are here 
 on earth among us therefore the whole world today is dissatis- 
 fied and will be until someone comes and throw them into the 
 next best place. 
 
 I don't say that we are the best group, or race of people 
 from days of slavery on down until now. And yet they try to 
 make me believe that the color of my skin is the cause of my 
 condition, but it is not so, for the cause of my condition is the 
 reason that I haven't got anything is, the other race went to 
 my country and got our forefathers and mothers and forced 
 them into this country, as well as other countries and placed 
 them in a way that they could not get anything for themselves. 
 But today, we are determined through the mercy of God, to do 
 something for ourselves and be a true race of people to our Crea- 
 tor and Maker, and also to ourselves \\'e have been dissatisfied 
 in this way long enough, that's why I like the U. N. I. A., be- 
 cause it is getting us together again from all parts of the world 
 and is giving us that principal and Improvement that we ought 
 to have had all the time, but I find among us. that some of us 
 don't want that but we don't always get what we want, but what 
 we need. We need this and need it bad for we care but a little 
 for race pride and race uplift, that's the reason I'm glad of 
 my leader today. The more we hollar the more he go on to do 
 the work that God has sent him to do, but I feel sure that all 
 of us will feel proud of him in the future for we will not forget 
 his imprisonment and also suffering that he took going through 
 his trial, and also being in i)rison to bring justice to the race 
 and are going through it now, and if the readers of this ibook 
 will read closely they will find out that I am only dealing with 
 things that will make any race or nation dissatisfied, for it is no 
 good feeling when you think of it, and with all tills the i^eople 
 use the word fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. 
 They call me brother when they get in trouble, but when things 
 is going on all right, then I'm no more than a dog in their sight, 
 
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 and that is no good feeling when you think of ii and with all this 
 that will make any race or nation dissatisfied for I will say 
 that that look like brotherhood, and if you don't treat me right 
 here, it is good evidence that you will not treat your God right; 
 and if I can understand the meaning of brotherhood, it means 
 that you should treat everybody alike regardless of creed or col- 
 or. Now I am talking about common things, since I am among 
 the common people in which races and nations will have to stop 
 and recognize the common people and also stop and pick up com- 
 mon things, for they have left them reaching after highor things 
 in which it has caused us all to be dissatisfied. 
 
 For when Christ was here it was the common people that 
 followed Him, for the so-called wise people knew so much, and 
 had so much, until they would not stop to fool with Him. So to- 
 day it is only the common people that is following ^Marcus Garvey 
 to help him free this race, but it is dangerous to fool with the 
 U. N. I. A. and the ones who are interested in it for we are after 
 freedom and liberty and, that, we must have by the help of God, 
 for we fear nothing under the sun but God. We are tired of 
 the other races wiping our mouths with meat skins and telling 
 the world that we have been eating meat, because from now on, 
 if our mouths are greasy and anyone ask us what have we been 
 eating we are going to tell them that we have been eatintr moat 
 and not the skin. 
 
 For we are awoken people and not asleep, for in the days 
 gone by a Negro was at a gin mill lying on a bale of cotton asleep 
 and two white men was standing near the Negro who was asleep 
 smiled in his slumber, and these white men seen him, one said 
 to the other: "I wonder what that nigger is laughmg about? 
 and his reply back was, "I don't wonder that for I am thinkmg 
 about what that nigger will do when he wakes up." So we Negroes 
 are awake now and not only that, we are getting up and putting 
 on our clothes, and when we get them on the world will see what 
 we are going to do, for the question was asked sometime ago 
 by a writer, "What will it take to satisfy the Negi-o?" Now I'm 
 going to answer the question through this book by saying, "The 
 onlv thing will satisfy we Negroes is, that we must get every- 
 thing that other races and nations have. We want nothing 
 more and nothing less, for we are due it and we must have it 
 Because if it is good for the other races and nations then it 
 is o-ood for the four hundred million Negi'oes of the world. \V o 
 we have satisfied their wants by helping them to build a great 
 empire and helped them protect it after building it. 
 
 Now we are going to satisfy ourselves by building an empire 
 of our own and protecting it ourselves. So the world see that 
 we are determined to build our own empire, therefore it has 
 become dissatisfied. That's why they tried to destroy the Hon. 
 Marcais Garvev and put him in the tomb, saymg that he had 
 defrauded the 'United States mail, saying that he had taken we 
 
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 poor colored people's money, when the United States of Amer- 
 ica itself know that he did not take it, not only the United 
 States knows that he didn't take it but the world know that 
 he didn't take it. 
 
 For ]\Iarcus Garvey is known to the four corners of the 
 earth, therefore it's no place on earth for him to hide. Because 
 any place he goes he will meet a Negro and they will know him, 
 and its a known fact, that he can't stay in the air, and if he did 
 it would be more than anyone else has done. 
 
 NO! All of it was done because ^larcus Garvey came to 
 give life to the Negroes all over the world. And they thought 
 if they were able to get him out of the way they would be 
 able to destroy the Association. 
 
 Why didn't they hollar when white people and Negroes 
 too, were taking everything from the Negro they could get 
 their hands on, from ages back on down to the present time. 
 Look at the many hundred banks that have cried out. Busted", 
 many lodges and other institutions, and they go from one state 
 to the other and build mansions and plants of all kinds. No- 
 body said anything about it. Now because Marcus Garvey came 
 with this great movement and to build a Government that the 
 Negroes everywhere might be protected like other races and 
 nations are protected. 
 
 Now they wants to take advantage of him by saying that he 
 defrauded the United States mail, and destroy him, and scatter 
 the six and a half million Negroes that belong to the Associa- 
 tion. 
 
 But we will see to it that all devils in hell will not separate 
 us. Therefore we are determined to free ourselves. 
 
 Now let me get you told about me and Marcus Garvey and 
 this Association, I cares no more for Marcus Garvey than no 
 other man, as far as the human being is concerned for I respect 
 every man as a human being. It is the Association and the prin- 
 ciple^ for which the Association stands for. in which I will die 
 thereby which God gave to him to bring to this race of people, be- 
 cause he see their condition. Therefore I'll pull my hat off to 
 Marcus Garvey and give him the honor that is due him. For 
 Marcus Garvey is telling the Negroes everywhere to do some- 
 thing for himself. 
 
 Now I didn't have the advantage of schooling, I only went 
 to school three months, and I worked all day and went to 
 school at night. But the National Benefit Insurance Company is 
 due much credit for I had the honor of being an agent for them 
 for more than a year, in which it is the largest Negro company 
 in the world. They employs over nine hundred men and women 
 of its own race, in which they are operating now in twenty-five 
 different states. 
 
 Now my friends to show that the Negro has played his 
 
part I will relate to you some of the wars in which he played 
 his part as a man. 
 
 Historical Sketch of the American Ne^ro War Record 
 
 Negroes fought in every war of consequence during the 
 colonial period. 
 
 South Carolina in the year of 1704 enacted a law empower- 
 ing and calling upon Negroes, both slaves and freemen of color 
 saw services in the war of 1711-1713 against the Indians. Ne- 
 groes played a conspicious part in the Yemasse War (1715-1718) 
 which threatened the whole colony of South Carolina. 
 
 During the year of 1708, at which time the Queen Anne's 
 War was being waged, Rhode Island passed a law providing for 
 enrolling all men regardless of color between the ages of 16 and 
 60 in the state militia. 
 
 The Revolutionary War (1775-1783) one of the first martyrs 
 to shed blood and to sacrifice his life in the struggle for in- 
 dependence was Crispus Attucks. a Negro, who was fatally 
 wounded in the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1775. At the Battle 
 of Bunker Hill. June 17, 1775, when Major Pitcarin of the 
 British Army was exulting in his expected triumph. Peter Salem 
 Negro, stepped forward and killed him. Salem, a poor Negro 
 also distinguished himself in this battle and was reported to 
 Congress for distinguished Service. At the time Colonel Barton 
 of the American Army undertook to capture General Prescott. 
 while the royal army was stationed at Newport. R. I., his Chief 
 Assistant was a Negro named Prince. 
 
 In 1777 a Negro company was organized in Boston. It may 
 seem increditable to a person living in the twentieth century, 
 that the majority of Negroes, slaves for the most part, were 
 allowed or had the desire to fight for the freedom of the people 
 that enslaved them. Even the British used the Negro as a soldier 
 to a very large extent during the year of 1775, Negroes com- 
 posed more than one-third of the garrison at Fort Cornwallis at 
 the time of seizure of Augusta, Ga., war of 1872. 
 
 Even though in the year of 1812. United States did not 
 recoznize the Negro as a citizen. The cause of the war of 1812 
 was due to the imprisonment of three sailors by the British Gov- 
 ernment, two of which were Negroes. During the war of 1812 
 when Gen Andrew Jackson was in command at ^lobile. Ala., 
 Some American Troops that had charge of the British were re- 
 treating- in disorder and when a Negro named Jeffries saved the 
 day by placing himself at the head of the troops and rallying 
 
 them to a charge. * i, i • *u 
 
 General Jackson also called on Negro soldiers to help in the 
 defense of New Orleans. Here, they especially distinguished 
 themselves. It was a Negro who convinced the idea of the famous 
 cotton breast works used in that battle. ^ ^,. , . 
 
 In October, 1814, an act was passed establishing two regi- 
 
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 ments of Negro militia in New York State. About this time Ne- 
 groes formed more than one-tenth of the crews of all battle- 
 ships. John Davis and John Johnson, Negro sailors on the private 
 armed schooner, George Thompson, were among those cited for 
 conspicious bravery. 
 
 Mexican War— 1845-1847 
 
 The period from 1845 to 1847 were the darkest hours in 
 American history for the Negro. It was at this time that the 
 Negro was removed from both, the United States Army and 
 State Militia. No information can be found as to the definite 
 number of Negro soldiers who took a part in the INIexican War 
 and were present at Vera Cruz, Mexico, in 1847 when they man- 
 ned the naval battery in that siege. We are sure that some did 
 participate as the question of how many Negroes were in the 
 army and navy during the Mexican War came up in Congress 
 a few years afterward. 
 
 Civil War— 1861-1865 
 
 The first Louisiana volunteer was the first regiment of Ne- 
 groes enlisted during the war, and the first under fire. Negroes 
 were prominent in the operating of the siege of ]May 27, 1863 
 under Colonel Nelson. On June 14, 1863 color Sergeant, A Plan- 
 ciancois was killed, when the colors were given to him he said, 
 "Colonel I will bring back these colors to you or report to God 
 the reason why." On July 8, 1863 a Negro in the capture of the 
 Confederate battleship at Port Hudson. On July 18, 1863. the 
 Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment, colored, under the com- 
 mand of Colonel Robert Gouldshaw distinguished itself in an 
 attempt to take Fort Wagner. On this occasion Sergeant Will- 
 iams H. Carney siezed the regiment of colors from the hands 
 of a fallen comrade and planted them to the works. When borne 
 bleeding from the field he said, "Boys the old flag nearly touched 
 the ground." At Fort Pillow, April 13, 1864 the Negro soldiers 
 made a bold stand against great odds. 
 
 Among other engagements in which Negroes took part are 
 the following: Olustie. Fla., P^eb. 20. 1864; Wilson Wharf, Va., 
 May 24, 1864 ; .Alillikens Bend, Va., June 6. 1863 ; the Battle of 
 Morris Island. August 25, 1863; Deep Botton, Virginia, June 
 30 to July 1, 1864; Chaffins Farm. Va., Sept. 20. 1869; Fair Oaks, 
 Va., Oct. 27-28. 1864. Hatcher Run, Va. :March 20-31. 1865 
 Farmville, Va., April 7. 1865. 
 
 In these battles the colored soldiers won for themselves 
 lasting glory and golden oi)inion. 
 
 In New Orleans, Aug. 24. 1862 there were formed two 
 regiments in which all the new and a large number of the live 
 officers were colored. 
 
 Oct. 13, 186;> orders were issued to enlist colored troops in 
 Maryland, Missouri and Tennessee. The total number of colored 
 
troops in the armv from 1862-1805: New KukIuikI, 7.916; the 
 Middle States, 13,922; Western States. 12,711; the Border States, 
 45,184; Southern States, 63,571. Total. 143,304. 
 
 Spanish- American War — 1898 
 
 The Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Infantry, and the 
 Ninth and Tenth Calvary fought during the last years of the 
 Spanish-American War, and entered regular service 1866. 
 Various volunteer companies were raised in Alabama. Virginia, 
 Illinois, Indiana, Kansas and Ohio. The Eighth Illinois was 
 officered entirely by Negroes with J. R. Marshall. Commanding 
 Major; Charles E. Young was in charge of the Ohio battalion. 
 
 These latter organizations formed a part of the militia of 
 their respective States at the out-break of the Spanish-American 
 War, 1898. The first regiment ordered to the front in this war 
 was the Twenty-fourth Infantry. Negro troops were conspicious 
 in fighting around Santiago. They figured in a brilliant charge 
 at Lasquasimas on June 24. 1898 and in an attempt on June 1, 
 upon a garrison at El Caney. 
 
 It was in this war that Colonel Roosevelt's Rough Riders 
 were saved from annihilation by the gallant work of the Tenth 
 Calvary. 
 
 The Battle of Carazal— 1916 
 
 During the year of 1916 the United States had trouble with 
 Mexico. Among the troops sent to guard the border were the 
 10th Calvary, 24th and 25th Infantry and the Chicago National 
 Guards. On March 24th, 1916 a colored man was killed at Paral. 
 He was the first to die in this battle. The most important en- 
 gagement occured on the morning of June 21st 1916 when the 
 troops C .-iind K of the 10th Calvary were attacked by surprise 
 in the tow^n of Carrzal while attempting to secure permission 
 to pass through the town to reach Villa Alunado. . , ^ ^ 
 
 The troops of the 10th Calvary were outnumbered eight to 
 one in this engagement. Fifteen enlisted men were killed, nine 
 wounded and twentv-three were capturd. Those who were taken 
 to prison suffered a great humilation at the hands of their 
 
 caTDtors 
 
 Peter Bagstaff, a trooper of the 10th Calvary was died for 
 bravery because of the danger he encountered in aidinr.- hi^ 
 wounded and dying officer, Lieut. H. F. Adair. 
 
 Guard of Honor— 1917 
 
 Much honor came to Negro Americans Nvhen on March 25. 
 1Q17 fV.P «^pcretarv of War bv order of the President called the 
 fiLt sepamte bat alTon of the District of Columbus to defend 
 ?hf NTonal capitol. This was just before the ormal ckclara- 
 tion of war. They were under command ot Major James E. 
 
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 Walker and were used for guarding the capitol, White House, 
 water supply system, Potamac River projects, various power 
 plants and district railroads, and other places of importance that 
 made for the health and happiness and person securities of the 
 capitol of the American Republic. Although the colored troops 
 were outnumbered by the white troops stationed in the city, the 
 fact that the first separate battalion was placed at the first honor 
 post was concrete evidence officially acknowledged that the Afro- 
 Americans' allegiance was rightly not even suspected of being 
 less than one hundred per cent. 
 
 World War— 1914-1918 
 
 There was 387,710 Negro soldiers who served in the United 
 States Army during the World War. Out of this number 367,710 
 came into the service through the operation of the select draft 
 law. When war was declared 20,000 Negro soldiers were ready 
 to enter the field which comprised the 9th and 10th Calvarys, 
 24th and 25th Infantrys. 8th Illinois and 15th New York Na- 
 tional Guards of the 9th Battalion of Ohio Company L. National 
 Guards of Massachusetts — the first separate Company of Conn., 
 first separate Company of Maryland G. National Guards of 
 Tennessee and the first separate battalion of the District of 
 Columbia. 
 
 On October 15, 1917, 639 colored men were commissioned at 
 Camp Dodge as officers in the United States Army. Of the num- 
 ber 106 were commissioned as Captains, 329 as First Lieuten- 
 ants and 204 as Second Lieutenants. 
 
 The famous Negro Division (92nd) was commandered to a 
 large extent .by Negro Officers. The division made a splendid 
 record, not only on the firing line but also for discipline while 
 in France. The division took part in the following engagements: 
 St. Dis (Vasges Sector), Argonne Forest (Meuse Sector) Mar- 
 bache Sector, (Martha Mosselle) before Metz. In this division 
 57 men of which fourteen were officers were awarded the distin- 
 guished Service Cross. There were 209 men killed in action. 32 
 died of wounds, 589 wounded, 799 gassed and 28 reported miss- 
 ing. 
 
 The following organizations were brigaded with the French 
 Army: 369th, 370th, 371st, and 372nd Infantrys. 
 
 The 369th took part in the following engagements at Bois 
 d'Hause Champagne where the regiment held a complete sec- 
 tor; Minancourt, near Butte De Mesniland and in the engage- 
 ments which started at jMarsonen-Champagne. 
 
 It was in the last engagement that the entire regiment was 
 cited for bravery and awarded the Croix de Guerre. The 369th 
 was the first regiment of the allied armies to reach the Rhine. 
 
 The 370th was commandered by colored officers, Lieutenant 
 Colonel O. B. Duncan commanding officer. The 370th met 
 its strongest opposition on the Sissons front in which engage- 
 
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 ments they distinguished themselves l>y taking Hill 304 from 
 the Germans. 
 
 The 371st for the first three months in the trenches held 
 Arocourt and later Verrieris, sub sectors northeast of Verdun 
 They were put into the great September offensive in the Cham- 
 pagne sector. From September 28th to October 6th. 1918 this 
 regiment lost 1.065 men out of 2,384 actually engaged. Their 
 regimental colors were decorated and the entire regiment was 
 awarded a citation for bravery. 
 
 The 372nd was decorated as an entire regiment with the Croix 
 de Guerre for distinguished service, in the Champagne offensive. 
 
 The following are some of the sectors held by the 372nd: 
 Argonne , West Vacquois sector (sub sector of Verdun). 
 
 Negro heroes of the war who received the greatest honor 
 and note and who were the first awarded the Croix de Guerre 
 were Henry Johnson and Needham Roberts, both of the loth 
 National Guards of New York. 
 
 Now we all see that the Negro has played his part in the 
 wars as a man, so it is no doubt about that, and yet since he has 
 played his part he hasn't the opportunity to execute his brain and 
 power as other races and yet they try to make us Negroes be- 
 lieve that we don't know anything along these lines. But that 
 is a big mistake for we have men and women in our race that 
 can do anything that any other man or woman in the other races 
 or nations can do and not only that he has done it. 
 
 Even Abraham Lincoln in his day saw in the Civil War and 
 even before, along with other men what the Negro could do. So 
 much so until it forced him to make this speech at the close of 
 the Civil War: 
 
 Four scores and seven years ago, our forefathers brought 
 forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and 
 dedicated to the proportion that all men are created equal. 
 
 Now we are engaged in a great Civil War; testing whether 
 that natiion or any nation so conceived, so dedicated, can longer 
 endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have 
 come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place 
 for those who gave their lives that that nation might live. It 
 is altogether fitting and proper, that we should do this. But in 
 a large sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot concentrate, we can- 
 not hallow, this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who 
 struggled here have consecrated it far above our power to add 
 or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what 
 we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for 
 us, the living, rather to be dedicated here, to be untmished 
 work of those who fought here have. thus far so nobly advanced. 
 It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task re- 
 maining before us. That from these honorable dead, we take 
 
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 increase devotion for that cause for which they gave their last 
 full measure of devotion — that we have hiprhly resolved that 
 these dead shall not have died in vain, and that this nation 
 under God shall have a new birth of freedom and, that govern- 
 ments of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not 
 perish from the earth. 
 
 Now that speech was deeper than you can imagine and it 
 will be brought out some day in the fullest sense for he saw the 
 mind and power of the Negro, and he knew if the Negi'o got 
 a chance, what he would do. 
 
 So the Negro's chance is here now and you can make sure 
 that we will get all out of it that is in it for we have been wait- 
 ing long enough on some one else to give us that which we can 
 get for ourselves. For even though the speech of Abrahiim Lin- 
 coln, the white man, has been telling us that we don't know 
 anything and we don't know how to do anything, and took all 
 of our privileges from us. 
 
 But I thank God today that I can say that we can do any- 
 thing on this green earth that any other race or nation can do. 
 All we ask is let us alone and we will show them that we can 
 for they tell us that we can't handle a government, but with the 
 help of God we are going to show them that we can handle and 
 hold a government, for in this government and the many other 
 governments they will not allow us to do that which we can 
 do, because we are black people they say. But still they want 
 us to fight for them every time they get in trouble. And in this 
 great World War the cry was everywhere that this is all of our 
 country and we all were as one for we all were fighting for 
 democracj^ for we were going to make this country safe once 
 for all. 
 
 It was a time of trouble and you didn't hear 'black nigger' 
 mentioned, and as soon as peace was declared they turned it 
 from democracy to a moggason and now you cnn hear t?ie word 
 'black nigger' anywhere. 
 
 Now why I'm dwelling upon this word 'black' is because the 
 white people try to make us believe because we are colored peo- 
 ple that, that is why we are in the condition that we're in and 
 that's why they scorn us. But it is not so, because if we were so 
 much poison and detrimental to their color, why is it that they 
 take all of the money that can be gotten out of our black hands 
 and take everything that we can accumulate that is really worth 
 while, that was gotten by the same black hands and at the same 
 time take our women and men into their cook kitchens. And 
 they take these same black hands and mingle and handle their 
 food. They take the same food and eat it and are satisfied, and, 
 in lots of cases ask for more of the food that was cooked by the 
 same black hands and vet when its time for us to sit on the 
 
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 trains, street cars or even in the home, they scorn us and Jim 
 Crow us in every form because of our blackness, but the truth 
 about the thing is, the condition of us not having having a gov- 
 ernment; they taught us how to do for them but they never 
 taught us to do for ourselves. We Negroes are thinking and 
 teaching ourselves since we know what is best for us. for we 
 have found out that the same thing that is good for the white 
 man is good for us Negroes; that is what causes us to be dis- 
 satisfied. In reading the book of Daniel I see that he was dis- 
 satisfied in his day, just as we are now for he was captured and 
 brought from his home, Jerusalem to Babylon, like the people 
 did our forefathers when they captured them in Africa and 
 brought them to this country and carried them also to other 
 countries and held them as captives. But Daniel being in 
 captivity did not forget his motherland like a lot of us Negroes 
 have, for he was dissatisfied. He went up into his upper room 
 and looked toward Jerusalem and prayed three times a day for 
 he longed to go back to his motherland where he came from 
 Here some of us Negroes hollar "Africa is not my home" — for 
 here I was born and raised and right here is where I am going 
 to stay. Yet they see the condition that, we as a race, are in. Here 
 comes Marcus Garvey with this great movement to help us get 
 back home, for in the days of old as well as in the twentieth 
 century the Lord heard the Negi'oes' groans in the land for some 
 of us Negroes are like Daniel, we are praying three times a day 
 and looking towards our mother land — Africa. I hear a mighty 
 roaring of voices as a mighty wind in the north, south, east and 
 west saying, "Oh Africa, Africa, my mother land where I long 
 to be. We Negroes are dissatisfied here as in other countries 
 and we will be the world's guest until we get back home where 
 we belong." Some of the Negroes do not want to go to Africa 
 because they know they will have to work to build it up and 
 there are trees to fell, cities to be built, railroads to !"■ '"''r 
 factories, department stores and plants of all kinds and 
 to be done they know it will take work to do it and some of us 
 are yet dependant upon the white man to do for us what we 
 ought to do for our selves, but I thank God we hav^ ..,^.....rU %-,, 
 groes who are willing to go and do the work and r\ 
 pass — for their children and their children's children and these 
 lazy jackasses who are afraid that they will do sonv ' ' ■■ for 
 themselves or for the race, thinking that the one Wi.-. ^^ will- 
 ing to go and do the work that they will come afterward and en- 
 joy the praises. Well! that may be so, for that is the way this 
 whole world has been doing for these thousands of years, but I 
 will say this it does not show any manhood or womanhooc! abojt 
 them at all. All races or nations have this kind of lazy people 
 in their group. They are not any good to themselves ami i.or 
 anvone else. Thev are just here in good peojile's way. so to speak, 
 and that kind of ^people wouldn't have anything if you wr.uld give 
 
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 it to them; they would throw it away. Now look back at the 
 past and see how many you know that were left wealthy or 
 what someone else left them and see how much they have of it 
 now and even the Bible speaks of this, so you can see it takes 
 only the one who is willing to do the work some one eUe made it 
 possible for me so I could do this work so I will have to do 
 likewise for others. So I am yet dissatisfied. 
 
 Smash the separate school ideas says one writer of the Ne- 
 gro race who wrote an article in the Pittsburgh American ]\Iarch 
 2. 1923. Though it is one year from that date that I am an.^wer- 
 ing his article. I take much pleasure in doing so. This class of 
 Negro are sick in bed with the white man's fever for they think 
 that Negroes ought to always stick under the white man and 
 let him do for the Negro what the Negro should do for himself. 
 Now that class of Negroes ought to have sense enough to know 
 and see that the white man will not let the Negroes teach him 
 or his children. Then why is it that he wants to be better to 
 the white man than the white man is to him or his people? The 
 white man knows that no race or nation of people is not going 
 to teach his children like he would himself and when the Negro 
 learns that he is responsible for his own children then he will 
 do the same thing. As for the Negro being Jim Crowed, that was 
 placed upon him when the white man brought our forefathers 
 and mothers from our mother land to this country and the only 
 thing that will lift the Jim Crow system of the Negro is that 
 he get a government of his own. The reason that Negro 
 schools are not better than what they are is because the so- 
 called leading Negro puts his money where the white man can 
 get it and takes it and open banks, department stores, factories 
 and many other things that he wants to do with it and by the 
 Negro doing this it has helped the white man to make his 
 school what it is today and also helped him to have the business 
 places that he has to put his boys and girls in after they get 
 their education, but the Negro has closed the doors in his chil- 
 dren's faces in many ways. Some of them are still doing it. Yet 
 they are saying, "I am for the Race I" This class of Negroes are 
 not any good to the race nor to themselves and when it comes 
 to the separation the white man has already done that himself 
 for a white man is a white man and I don't care how you take 
 it, for it has been tried out over and over again. The people who 
 are fighting for the separate school have what belongs to them 
 in the way of looking out for the Race because they see the 
 damage of it so the fight is on and will be until we true Negroes 
 of our Race get what we want ami what we must have, and as 
 I said before, a white man is a white man therefore we who are 
 Negroes ought to be Negroes and nothing else but Negroes. 
 
 Notwithstanding we will have to respect the white man and 
 his government but upon doing this we are determined to work 
 for ourselves and give the Race that which they ought to have 
 
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 had long ago; that is, a government so that we can protect our- 
 selves like other races and nations, for so long as we stay in this 
 condition that we are in now we will never get any race or nation 
 to respect us. We want them who are not afraid to work in the be- 
 half of this Race and who are not afraid that they will hurt 
 the white man's feelings concerning the bad treatment that 
 they gave the Negro people of the world. This is the time that 
 a change must take place in the behalf of the Negro people of 
 the world and for this to be done we want Negroes who are not 
 afraid to work, who are not afraid to stand up like a man should, 
 and who are not afraid to die for the cause of this Race of ours. 
 We cannot do anything in this world but work and serve human- 
 ity and glorify our God and Lord Saviour Jesus Christ. 
 
 GREATNESS! I find some Negroes who want to be great 
 without working or giving the proper service. That never will 
 be done, for no man or woman ever became great without giving 
 great service in some way for the uplift of humanity. God put 
 all mankind here on earth for a purpose and that must be carried 
 out by working and giving service to the human family as He 
 appointed man to do. As for me I expect to work and give serv- 
 ice to the human family, both spiritually and materially as it 
 was appointed by my heavenly father for me even in creation 
 for everything that has been done or even was done through 
 creation. 
 
 Moses, Joshua, King David, Isaiah, Elisha Jerimiah. Quefen 
 Esther, Mary the mother of Jesus, Elizabeth the mother of 
 John, Zachious King Solomon, Job and also our Lord and Savior 
 Jesus Christ, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Peter Paul, and others 
 who could be mentioned became great only by giving serv- 
 ice to falling humanity and if any of us Negroes or any other 
 race of people become great it must be through giving service 
 to' the people of the world. That is why I am dissatisfied now 
 because of the condition of my Race all over the v/orld. When 
 God Himself gave service even before he commanded anyone 
 else to give it by creating the heaven and the earth and in that 
 I see that God Himself cannot use any lazy people for all through 
 the Bible I read where it tells us to work out our own salvation 
 through fear and trembling and to do this it must be done 
 through giving service. Daniel, another one became great by 
 giving service. Let's take up a part of the 12th Chapter of the 
 book of Daniel and see did he not become great. He was captured 
 as I aforesaid and carried to Babylon just like our forefathers 
 were and brought to this country in that he became dissatisfied. 
 
 Daniel 12th chapter and 1st verse, "And at that time shall 
 Michael stand up. the great prince which standeth for the chil- 
 dren of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such 
 as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: 
 and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that 
 shall be found written in the book." Second verse, "and many 
 
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 of them that slept in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to 
 everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt." 
 Third verse, "And they that be wise shall shine as the bright- 
 ness of the firmament, and they that turn many to righteous- 
 ness, as the stars for ever and ever." Fourth verse, "But thou, 
 Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book even to the time 
 of the end ; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be in- 
 creased." 
 
 The words and the "Book" here spoken of doubtless refer 
 to the things which had been revealed to Daniel in the prophesy. 
 These things were to be shut up and sealed until the time of the 
 end; that is, they were not to be specially studied or to any 
 great exent understood until that time. The time of the end as 
 has already been shown commenced in 1789 as the book was 
 closed up and sealed to that time the plain inference is that at 
 that time or from that point, the book was to be unsealed; that 
 is, people would be better able to understand it, and would have 
 their attention especially called to this part of the inspired 
 word. Of what has been done on the subject of prophecy since 
 that time it is unnecessary to remind the reader. The prophecy, 
 especially Daniel's prophecy has been under examination by all 
 students of the world wherever has spread abroad upon the 
 earth and so the remainder of the verses being a prediction of 
 what should take place after the time of the end commenced, 
 says, "Many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall be in- 
 creased. Whether this running to and fro refers to the passing 
 of people from place to place and the great improvements in 
 the facilities for transportation and travel made within the 
 present century or whether it means as some understand it, a 
 turning to and fro in the prohpecy ; that is, a diligent and earn- 
 est search unto the prophetic truth, the fullfillment is certainly 
 and fully before our eyes; and in both of these directions the 
 present age is very truly marked. 
 
 So of the increase of knowledge. It must refer to the in- 
 crease of knowledge in general, the developments of the arts 
 and science or an increase of knowledge in reference to those 
 things referred to in Daniel, which were closed up and sealed 
 to the end of time. Look at the marvelous achievement . of the 
 human mind and the works of man's hand rivaling the magician's 
 wildest tricks which have been accomplished within the last 
 hundred years. The scientific American has stated that \vithin 
 this time more dcvelopement has been made in all scientific at- 
 tachments and more progress in all that tends to domestic com- 
 fort, the rapid transaction of business among men. the trans- 
 mission of interchange from one to another and the means of 
 rapid transit from place to place, and even from continent to 
 continent then all that was done for three thousand years pre- 
 viously, but today. 
 
 l^The suspension bridge. The first suspension bridge as 
 
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 noted in this country was built across the Niagara River in 1855. 
 The Brooklyn Bride was completed in 1883. 
 
 2 — Electric lig-htin<r. This system of litrhtinjx was perfected 
 and brought into use withing the last twenty years of the 19th 
 century. Only two electric lighting experts were to be seen at 
 the Central Exhibit in Philadelphia in 1856. At the Paris Ex- 
 hibition twenty-four years later where there were two hundred 
 such exhibits. 
 
 3 — Modern artillery. At Sandy Hook, guarding the entrance 
 to New York Harbor is a monster breach-loading gun forty-nine 
 feet in length, weighing one hundred and thirty^ tons, capable of 
 throwing a shell at a distance of twenty miles. 
 
 4 — The Automobile. Only a few years ago this machine \\as 
 entirely unknown. Now automobiles are common in every sec- 
 tion of the country and bid fair to almost entirely supersede the 
 horse carriage as a means of locomotion. Read in connection with 
 the description of the automobile and the railroad train the pro- 
 phecy of Nahum 2:3-4. 
 
 o — Presses now used in the large newspaper offices con- 
 sumes in an hour two hundred and eighty miles of paper, of 
 newspaper width and turn out in the same time 06.000 papers 
 of 16 pages folded, pasted and counted. Contrast with the hand 
 printing press of Benjamin Franklin. 
 
 7 — The telegraph. This was first put into operation in 1844. 
 
 7 — The trolley car. The first practical electric railway line 
 was constructed and operated at the Berlin International Ex- 
 position in 1879. Interurban travel by trolley car in many places 
 nearl}^ equals in speed and excells in comfort the best steam rail- 
 , way service. It is generally believed, in fact that the electricity 
 is about to conquer steam on the railway lines. 
 
 8 — The Telephone. The first patent on the telephone was 
 granted to Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. 
 
 The steam railway. The first American built locomotive was 
 made in Philadelphia in 1832. The use of the steam engine for 
 locomotion have made it possible to travel around the world in 
 about forty days. 
 
 10 — Ocean Steamship. Early in the last century the applica- 
 tion of steam power to ship revolutionized ocean travel. Ships 
 are now built which can cross the ocean in four days and are 
 supplied with every luxury to be found in the finest hotels and 
 in size far out rank the famous great eastern. 
 
 11 — The Modern Battleship. A single battleship of the pres- 
 ent day could easily overcome the combined naval fleet of the 
 world as they were at the middle of the century. 
 
 12 — Typewriter. The first model of the modern tjTpewriter 
 was put on the market in 1874. 
 
 13 — The Combination Reaper and Thresher. Tomnare the 
 
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 harvesting methods of the present clay when grain is not only 
 cut and gathered, but at the same time threshed and collected 
 in a bag ready for the market by one machine with the old 
 method of hand reaping which was in use in the days of our 
 grandfather. 
 
 14 — ^The Type Setting Machine. This machine has worked 
 a revolution in the art of printing. The first Mergenthaler 
 machine was made in 1884. 
 
 15 — Oil Wells. The discovery of petroleum in the last cen- 
 tury revolutionized domestic lightning also affording such in- 
 dispensible products as benzine and gasoline. 
 
 structed in 1877. 
 
 16 — The Phonograph. The first Edison phonograph was con- 
 The Photographic Camera. The first sunlight picture of a 
 human face was made by Prof. Draper of New York in 1840. 
 
 Wireless Telegraphy. The first apparatus capable of trans- 
 mitting wirelesss messages over long distance was made by 
 Marconi in 1896. 
 
 Almost every large steamship is now provided with this 
 appratus and conversations can be carried on by people of the 
 ocean hundreds of miles apart, A daily paper is published on 
 trans-atlantic liners giving each day's news of the world events 
 sent out by the wireless telegraphy to the ships from the shores 
 of America or of Europe. 
 
 Now the writer has given us many ideas upon the prophecies 
 of Daniel, and also on the inventions that were invented in the 
 last hundred years. But first we will talk about people going to 
 and fro through the world and knowledge shall be increased 
 unto them. For Daniel desired to see the end and what the end 
 will be. So I'm like Daniel, I desire to know the end. and what 
 the end will be, but that part is shut up from me as it was shut 
 up from Daniel. Therefore I will have to continue to wTite. 
 
 You take the white world, they have been going to and 
 from through the world and knowledge has been increased unto 
 them, but they kept it hid from the dark world. They have gone 
 as high as civilization will allow them to go. So it must come 
 down. 
 
 Job said a man continues not in one stead, he is either go- 
 ing up or down. So the same thing to the races and nations. So 
 when the white world reached the highest height then God put 
 it into the Germans head that they could whip the whole world. 
 And I believe that the Germans would have done it if they had 
 not brought in the darker world. The truth about it I don't be- 
 lieve that Germany was whipped, but after fighting such a 
 length of time, and they saw a race of people standing before 
 them who had not done them any wrong therefore they threw 
 
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 up their hands from the battlefield. And in Germany challenKing 
 the world for a fight then the white man cried this is a white 
 man's war and not a Negro's war. But when they got into it 
 they found out that they couldn't do without the darker peo- 
 ple of the world, both for war and for labor. 
 
 At the beginning of the war, the masses of Negi'oes were in 
 the extreme South, so God put it into the white world's minds 
 to immigrate the Negro to and fro from the South to the North. 
 And from the South to the North, on into France and Germany 
 and elsewhere. 
 
 Now in the Negro going to and fro through the world in 
 this like manner. Knowledge has been increased unto them. So 
 much so, until the world is stirred up over them, and have be- 
 come dissatisfied and at the same time God had prepared the Hon. 
 Marcus Garvey to come from over in Jamaca and got him ready 
 to land upon American soil to do the work which he sent him to 
 do. 
 
 Right here I must say that God works in a mysterious way 
 and his wonders to perform. He plants his foot steps in the sea 
 and He rides upon the storm. 
 
 For God knew he had placed Marcus Garvey upon the 
 American shores there would not have been much good he could 
 have done in working with his own people. 
 
 Then He knew that he could not have placed Marcus Garvey 
 in the South among those wicked people to do the work that he 
 wants done. Therefore he sent the Negroes to and fro through 
 the world to meet Marcus Garvey. Though they left as if they 
 were going to war and to labor in various parts of the world. 
 And at the same time sending Marcus Garvey to the American 
 shores to meet them, and he has educated the Negro. So much 
 so, since he has been on the American soil that you can go to 
 the four corners of the world and hear talk about Marcus 
 Garvey. And you can see the knowledge that has been increased 
 unto them and yet through all of that men and women of our 
 race, as well as other races are crying against ^Marcus Garvey 
 as the legions of devils cried in the man against Jesus Christ, for 
 when the legion of devils saw Jesus Christ coming they cried 
 out saying, "Let us alone for we know who thou art. For thou 
 hast come to torment us." But through all of that Jesus drove 
 them out of the man. 
 
 So likewise with Marcus Garvey. For the people are crying 
 everywhere let us alone for we are satisfied with the condition 
 which we are in. We don't need no government. What can we 
 do with it if we had one? 
 
 And yet some of them are dumb enough to think that we 
 are trying to build a government upon a government and they 
 know that can't be done. But the more they holler "let us alone" 
 the more ]Marcus Garvey makes his appeal to the Negroes for 
 their own government. So when they called him menace and 
 
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 said he must go they meant that he must go to work and build 
 us a government, and that's the reason why I am saying that 
 we have the greatest leader in the world. 
 
 For there haven't been a man in this day and time who 
 have done the work and stood the test as jMarcus Garvey has 
 done in so short a time and while for he has the hardest race 
 under the sun to handle, and the Negro race, and nations 
 operate their brains from Negro people. Therefore they know 
 what step to take against a Negro to keep him down. The world 
 knows that Marcus Garvey have taken upon his shoulders a hard 
 job and he has done great work in a very short while. 
 
 Just think of it, when he started in 1914 with this work 
 he had only a few followers and his work has brought forth 
 over six and a half million Negroes of the world. And any man 
 that can get such a crowd of Negroes as that together from the 
 four corners of the world, especially as hard as they are to 
 handle, then I say that this Negro is the greatest leader in the 
 world black or white. 
 
 And not only has he continued with the Negroes going to 
 and fro from the South to the North or from the North to the 
 South, but he has caused Negroes to go to and from from 
 continent to continent, therefore greater knowledge has been 
 increased unto them, and I'm asking the Negro why should he 
 not be proud of such a leader. 
 
 Marcus Garvey stated to the Negro people of Pittsburgh on 
 February 10, 1924 in his speech at the Central Baptist Church, 
 that the book has been hid from the Negro and that he has 
 found the book, and he has proved to me, and not only that but 
 to the world, that he or somebody has found the book. For they 
 have taught me that there are eighteen lost books of our Lord 
 and Savior Jesus Christ and his works, but I never have believed 
 it. This brings my attention to another passage of scripture. 
 
 The reason that men love darkness rather than light, it 
 is because their deeds are evil and then another passage of 
 scripture says, all that is done in the dark shall be brought to 
 light, and for the five years that Marcus Garvey has been en- 
 gaged in this great work, he certainly has turned on a great 
 light upon this dark wicked world. 
 
 So yet I'm like Daniel, I want to see the end for I wonder 
 what the end will be, but I only can write as far as it permits 
 me, and yet the book will be sealed up. 
 
 The scripture did not say how or who would bring this to 
 the light, but it said it would be brought to light. So I have 
 as much right to believe that the light is to come through 
 Marcus Garvey, that anyone else have to deliver that it should 
 come from any other source. 
 
 For our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ did not leave us 
 handicapped in the work that he gave us to do, for in His teach- 
 ing He said that I have made the way so plain, that a way faring 
 
fool cannot error. Then He says again in His teaching, by all 
 the works that I have done, greater wonders ye shall do. Which 
 mans that we can do the same things that Christ done and 
 even greater things than He done. So then why is it that we 
 wonder at Marcus Garvey and his works, when there is space 
 for such work to be done. 
 
 But for this to be done, you must go to and fro ihrough the 
 world and in that knowledge will be increased unto you. 
 
 He also said, go ye therefore into all the world and teach 
 all nations my commandments, and this is what Marcus Gar- 
 vey is doing now. Dispute me and justify yourself. 
 
 Second — Let us turn back to the inventions in which the 
 writer so forcibly explained to us, I know I can't dig so deep 
 into knowledge as the writer but there is some points in that I 
 see, that must be brought out at this time as I'm writing upon 
 this subject "Why I am Dissatisfied 
 
 There has been many things achieved as the writer says, 
 by the minds of men and they are yet being achieved and in that 
 the Negro minds are being mingled into this affair, and yet none 
 of this achievement is attached to his honor as being a skilled 
 minded human being along with the human family. 
 
 And as I look up these achievements it shows that all other 
 races have all of the skillful minds and the Negro's mind is 
 dumb, I mean as far as the Negro is concerned in having some 
 of these achievements under his control as the other races have 
 them today. That is to say that the Negro has invented a lot 
 of these inventions. 
 
 And why is it that he is not operating them since he is the 
 master of it, in a great commercial world. 
 
 Well, this is why, first he has no power or control here in 
 this country or no other country where governments are estab- 
 lished. Therefore they will not give him the right to operate 
 them after he invents them because he has no land whatever to 
 operate them on. 
 
 It takes much land for a railroad, we all know, and also for 
 many other industries and even if he could buy land for some 
 of the inventions which he has gotten out, they would sell the 
 land at such high prices and pay him such small amount for 
 his labor until he scarcely could live, leaving out trying to 
 operate his achievements in this great commercial world and it 
 is known that the strong will always oppress the weak, and yet 
 the Negroes has done wonderful since the emancipation, espec- 
 cially the people who are in the South, who are yet under the 
 great task of slavery and yet we havent done what we could 
 have done. For it is hard to turn a Negro's mind down. The Ne- 
 groes feel and has always felt that way. What other men have 
 done men yet can do, and why he hasn't done any more than 
 what he has is because he knows he hasn't got anywhere to 
 operate the inventions after he gets it out and he don't feel 
 
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 that he should always give to the other races and nations his 
 brains so that they can live a happy life from it, while he do 
 the work even from the inventions that he invented, even if 
 they pay him anything for it, it's only a few dollars, and these 
 are the things that make me dissatisfied. You take the first 
 railroad that was invented, it was invented by a Negi'o, and 
 after he invented it all that he can do is to work hard to keep 
 it going. He can't even become an engineer and he is Jim Crowed 
 on the thing he invented; then try to tell us that we are free 
 citizens of this country and a lot of Negroes say the same thing, 
 and they all see that people from foreign countries can come 
 here and get jobs and hold positions that we Negroes cannot 
 get. 
 
 Now I'm not writing this because I think the world or even 
 the United States don't know it. But I'm writing it for remem- 
 brance of the born and unborn generations to come for this 
 transaction that has been taken against the Negroes shall al- 
 ways be remembered as long as the world stand. 
 
 Even in the midst of all these inventions and all other 
 political affairs they have kept them out of the Negroes' hands 
 and was taught that this is the best that we can do for you, 
 and too, the way the thing was fixed, it did look to us Negroes 
 that it was the best, but at God's own set time he sent us a man 
 to show us that there is better yet for the Negro people of the 
 world. So as he is showing it to us we are after it. For we means 
 to have everything that it takes to make a race or nation. Now 
 we are not after revenge for revenge belongs to God but we 
 are after just what belongs to us. Since the other nations have 
 what belongs to them. 
 
 Now at this time we are still asking God for the things 
 v.'hich we cannot get ourselves, and that which we can get for 
 ourselves. We are going after it. For a thought came to me 
 when I was a little boy and I have watched it on down until 
 now, that is, the wars have been in the United States of Amer- 
 ica, in France, in England, Belgum, Japan, Turkey. Cuba, 
 Mexico and Italy among all of these nations, and I have wonder- 
 ed why was it that they never had any war in Africa. I see why 
 now, because Africa was much right country, but ask me won't 
 there be some trouble on that ground now and I can tell you 
 ask the generations to come. 
 
 To my mind that's why the other races and nations had 
 the opportunity of knowing how to invent things for in going 
 to and fro through the world. Knowledge was increased unto 
 them therefore they had the opportunity of knowing the wealth 
 of our motherland. And in finding the wealth there they knew 
 that it would take something more than the strength of man 
 to get it into this country and also into various countries. So at 
 this time we have automobiles, airplanes, and railroads to sell 
 to us at a high price. But I thank God for opening our eyes to 
 
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 see these things before Africa was explored more than what it 
 IS. So its up to us Negroes in this day and time to look out for 
 our own welfare and to redeem our motherland— Africa, and 
 there have all kinds of inventions among our selves. So wo all 
 can see yet that the prophecy of Daniel haven't finished yet un- 
 folding itself to us for the same things that it took for the peo- 
 ple m those days to live it takes the same things for us to live 
 today. 
 
 So we will go further with the book of Daniel. 5. 6 and 7th 
 verses. Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, 
 the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on 
 that side of the bank of the river. 6 — And one said to the man 
 clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river. How 
 long shall it be to the end of these wonders? 7 — And I heard the 
 man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, 
 when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, 
 and swore by him that liveth forever, that it shall be for a time, 
 times, and a half; and when he shall have accomplished to 
 scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be 
 finished. 
 
 The question to us now, is how long shall it be to the end 
 of these wonders? 
 
 Verses 8, 9, and 10. 
 
 8 — And I heard, but I understood not: then said I. my 
 Lord, what shall be the end of these things? 9 — And he said. 
 Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till 
 the time of the end. 10 — Many shall be purified, and made white, 
 and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the 
 wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand. 
 
 If the world is not trying the Negroes now in bringing 
 freedom and liberty and justice to ourselves and country then 
 I would like to know, when will the trying time come? 
 
 Verse 11 — And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall 
 be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set 
 up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. 
 
 Verses 12 and 13. Blessed is he that waiteth. and cometh 
 to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. 13 — P.;;^ 
 go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and >;t; 1 
 in thy lot at the end of the days. 
 
 Now Daniel waiteth on the Lord and prophecied as Gud 
 gave the prophecy unto him. He become great in the .sight of 
 God and also in the sight of the people. He is now hiying at 
 waiting for his lotted days which was appointed unto him. 
 
 Just as Daniel served him time the same way we will have 
 to serve ours for in the prophecy of Daniel we all can fully i^co 
 that Daniel became great through giving service before he could 
 fulfill the prophecy as he should. God allowed the wicked people 
 to capture him and carry him to Babylon and put him among 
 the strange and wicked people of that gi-eat city and country 
 
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 and in being there with them he was able to do much great 
 work for God and for mankind. So hkewise God allowed the 
 wicked people to go over in our motherland — Africa, and capture 
 our forefathers and mothers and brought them to this country 
 as well as elsewhere and put them among strange and wicked 
 people. So at this time, God has sent a Daniel, after us to take 
 us back home to our motherland Africa in whose name is Marcus 
 Garvey who is the greatest leader in the world today, and we 
 Negroes ought to feel proud of him everywhere even in the four 
 corners of the world for he has stood the test and is standing 
 it yet. So let us turn to the Bible again and see if Marcus Gar- 
 vey's name is mentioned. 1 Peter 5:13, reads as follows: The 
 church that is at Babylon elected together with you, saluteth 
 you ; and so doeth ^larcus my son. 
 
 Now you can read the whole chapter if you so desire, but 
 especially the 13th verse. 
 
 So when it comes to this I am satisfied then I will give my 
 life for this man. For the Bible talks about him and his great 
 works that he is doing and that's why I advise the members of 
 the U. N I A. everywhere and also to the four hundred 
 million Negroes of the world to stick to its Constitution and its 
 laws. 
 
 Rev. Z. D. Green Adjures U. N. I. A. to Stick to the Constitution 
 and Grow Stronger And Better In Every Way. 
 
 Editor Pittsburgh American, 
 
 Sir: 
 
 You wall agree with me when I say that we are engaged in 
 a great work to bring freedom, liberty and justice to our race 
 and country and we ought to feel prouder to-day of our condi- 
 tion than ever before, for to-day we have a view of what we want 
 and what we must have. Heretofore, we didn't know what w^e 
 wanted, and therefore, we did not seek for it and they all told us 
 that it wasn't any use, but our President-General and the Pro- 
 visional President of Africa saw the needs through the hands 
 of God of the Negroes all over the world. Yet. knowing the task 
 that it would take to bring the Negroes together and make them 
 a nation, he took upon his shoulders a work for Negroes that 
 no other man, black of white, would attempt. 
 
 This man, Marcus Garvey. in 1014, in Jamacia, either by him- 
 self or with the help of a few others, drew up a constitution for 
 Negroes which would be our guide in an organization that was 
 to be world-wide, and when he came to the United States we 
 helped him to frame more laws. When he started he stood in New 
 York on boxes and preached the Universal Negro Improvement 
 
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 Association with only thirteen followers, but he continued to 
 preach until now he has over 6.000.000 members of the Universal 
 Negro Improvement Association. At the same time, while Kcttinj? 
 a goodly number to work with him. he picked up also his enemy. 
 This reminds me of Jesus Christ when He was in the world. He 
 had only a few followers with Him, and among that few He be- 
 gan with. He picked up His enemv and His enemy followod Him 
 until death and betrayed Him. Marcus Garvey did likewise; he 
 picked up his enemy. 
 
 Anguis in Herba 
 
 When Garvey started with the Negro Improvement Associa- 
 tion a few so-called wise Negroes saw that he had an organization 
 that was worth while, therefore they came to him with deceit, 
 for they were frauds just like a snake. No doubt IMr. Garvey 
 talked with them on some facts, but upon the facts that he gave 
 them they had him to know that they were going to stand by 
 him no matter what happened. And when they began to get warm 
 they too commenced to crawl and stretch themselves to determine 
 whether or not they were sufficiently warm enough or able to 
 do the evil that they had desired to do. They had followed him, 
 they have done everything that they could do to him. shot him, 
 tried to besmirch his character, tried to break down his energy 
 and his power and his nerve with which he was to bring about 
 liberty and freedom for the Negro race, and have continued with 
 him until today they have caused him to be in the Tombs. And 
 they think that because they have him in the Tombs the Negro 
 Improvement Association is getting weaker; it is stronger today 
 than ever before. Garvey is not the only one that has to go to 
 the Tombs or to prison for anything or in any form, for there 
 are thousands and thousands that have to suffer likewise. Today, 
 if I could, and they would grant it to me, I would leave Pitts- 
 burgh, go to New York and take the place of Mr Garvey in the 
 Tombs and stay in prison for five years or longer if necessary 
 and let him take my place and give to the world the thing that 
 he desires to give to the people. But since I cannot, I am going 
 to stay out here and do my bit; and if it is necessary for me on 
 account of the truth to go to the Tombs or any other place of 
 punishment I am willing to go just as he has done. INIr. G.irvey 
 made a statement through the Negro World on July 7 in the 
 fourth paragraph saying that the enemy is still at work to dis- 
 courage you. I agree that that is true, but I here are some Ne- 
 groes in the Negro Improvement Association that no one can 
 discourage, though hell itself will come upon them, for I myself 
 have no fear at all. 
 
 So I would like to have him know that some of us know that 
 the enemy is more at work now than ever before. The enemy is 
 trying to sneak upon you on every hand, he will come to Liberty 
 
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 Hall to hear what you have to say. He hasn't got nerve enough 
 to talk but will meet you on the street or come to your home or 
 at your work place and take advantage of you if j'ou are weak 
 enough to let him do so. 
 
 Hon. Marcus Garvey is asking us to be loyal, for he says 
 we can do him more good by being so than we can in any other 
 way. Now in doing this we will have to obey the laws which are 
 laid dovv-n for us. It is being said throughout the country that 
 some of the laws ought to be changed, but I want to tell you that 
 whether the laws be changed or not they are there, and we should 
 go by them, and stop fighting each other and the laws and get 
 together and get strength so we can gain ground enough so that 
 we can say that we are on the solid. Then, after we do this, we 
 can take the wrong and make it right, and put it with the right 
 that we have already, and it will make us stronger and better 
 people. At present we have no time to fight the constitution of 
 the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Therefore I am 
 offering a resolution that I think should be paid to this noted 
 man, Marcus Garvey, for his work and for his service that he 
 has rendered and is rendering now; as I only know of one that 
 did what he is doing now, and that is Jesus, Christ Himself. 
 Yours, etc.. 
 
 To the women of my race I will not miss the women in this 
 book, at this time as I told them in the first part of the book 
 No. 1, that I would see them later. So I am not writing to give 
 you all yours, for we as Negroes are at work to build up a race 
 nationhood among ourselves and we can't do it without you all, 
 for you all must be in it and to be in it you must first know your 
 part as God has given it to you. 
 
 Now let us go back to creation when God made man. and 
 gave him you as a heli)-mate, and see what he says to them 
 after they had broken the law that He gave to them. Gen. 1 :26, 
 And God Said, Let us make man in our own image, after our 
 likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, 
 and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all 
 the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the 
 earth. 
 
 Gen. 2:18. And the Lord God said, It is not good that' the 
 man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him. 
 
 Verses 21, 22. and 23. 
 
 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon /.dam 
 and he slept ; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh 
 instead thereof. And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from 
 man.made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And 
 Adam said. This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; 
 she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man. 
 
 Gen. 3:1-21. Now the serpant was more subtile than any 
 
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 besst of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said 
 unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, ye shall not eat of every 
 tree of the garden? 
 
 And the woman said unto the serpent. We may eat of the 
 fruit of the trees of the garden: 
 
 But of the fruit of the true which is in the midst of the 
 garden, God hath said. Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye 
 touch it, least ye die. 
 
 And the serpent said unto the woman, ye shall not surely 
 die: 
 
 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then 
 your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good 
 and evil. 
 
 A.nd when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, 
 and that it v/as pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired 
 to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and 
 gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. 
 
 And the eyes of them both were opened and they knew that 
 they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made 
 themselves aprons. 
 
 And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the 
 garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid them- 
 selves from the presence of the Lorr' God amongst the trees of 
 the garden. 
 
 And the Lord God called j-'nto Adam and said unto him, 
 Where art thou? 
 
 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was 
 afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. 
 
 And he said, Who told thee that thou was naked, Hast thou 
 eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded three that thou should- 
 est not eat? 
 
 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be 
 with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. 
 
 And the Lord God said unto the woman. What is this that 
 thou hast done? And the woman said. The serpent beguiled me, 
 and I did eat. 
 
 And the Lord God said unto the serpent. Because thou hast 
 done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast 
 of the field; upon thy belly shalt thy go, and dust shall thy eat 
 all the days of thy life: 
 
 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and 
 between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and 
 thou shalt bruise his heel. 
 
 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow 
 and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children: 
 and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over 
 
 thee. 
 
 And unto Adam he said. Because thou has barkened unto 
 the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I com- 
 
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 manded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat it: cursed is the ground 
 for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy 
 life; 
 
 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and 
 thou shalt eat the herb of the field: 
 
 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou re- 
 turn unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust 
 thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. 
 
 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the 
 mother of all living. 
 
 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord make coats of 
 skins, and clothed them. 
 
 They tell me that the hand that rocks the cradle, rules the 
 world in which it is true. And since the woman is the mother 
 of all living, that shows that she has a great part in the world 
 to play. As I stated before that we are now building a race na- 
 tionhood and a government of our own. 
 
 Every man and woman must know the part they must 
 play in building it, and also after it is built. 
 
 Since you are our help meet you are to stay in the home and 
 give birth and raise children and teach them in the way they 
 should be taught. 
 
 Now to do this, you will have to be a real woman, and be 
 true to a mother's duty along all lines. You must teach your 
 children to do right, and honor your men and women, the first 
 of all notwithstanding to honor all men and stop telling them 
 that they are not anything and never was nothing and never will 
 be nothing. Stop crushing your child's mind like that. 
 
 If you don't know, that is the reason we haven't got any- 
 more men in our race today of a standard, because the white 
 folks tell us that we are not anything. There is no reason why 
 we should tell our children so for at this late hour we are build- 
 ing up a race and a nation among ourselves. And to do this, you 
 all must play your part as woman for we need women who will 
 stand upon her womanhood as well as we need men to stand as 
 men, and give to these children what belongs to them, for we 
 are responsible for them, and if we don't do for them what we 
 ought to do, there ain't no else going to do. So it is absolutely 
 up to us Negro men and women to train these children in the 
 way that they should go and that is in the way that God would 
 have them go. And to do that, we must first be right ourselves 
 for I find in reading the Bible that you arc great in the world 
 among men. And if you all would stand up like a woman should, 
 and as God would have you do, then races and nations would 
 stand and kingdoms or governments would not be so easy to 
 fall. For every kingdom or government that was built I find that 
 the woman were there and everytime it fell she was the cause 
 of it falling. So I'm pleading to you all now. in the name of God 
 and His dear Son; let us start right and stay that way. If we 
 
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 g-et rig-ht then it will be some chance of us cndinK right for I 
 am determined to play my part as a man in this work, and vou 
 all have a better chance to raise or train your children than our 
 loreparents had, yet some of you who have them let thorn raise 
 themselves and they won't respect you or no one else. You 
 women have the first chance at a child in the way of raising 
 it and you ought to play your part as a woman alon^ these lines, 
 for no man is greater than his woman. Therefore, if you all will 
 respect yourselves then you can demand respect from your men 
 and other races as well. And yet we have as good a women in 
 our race as it is in any other race or nation ; but still I'm dis- 
 satisfied because we are not what we ought to be as a race of 
 people, for we can be improved in many ways and we must 
 make an improvement on ourselves as a race of people, and by 
 doing this we can improve ourselves in raising or training our 
 children. 
 
 When should we begin to train our children? The child 
 should begin training twenty years before it is born into the 
 world — that is to say, if the father and mother will keep them- 
 selves trained from their youth then it wouldn't be so hard to 
 train the child after it is born. For in many ways the child 
 training have been left undone and these are some of the ways: 
 destinct, getting drunk off of whisky or wines and other strong 
 drinks, dipping snuff, chewing tobacco, staying out late at night 
 without a cause, staying in houses with men and they are not 
 your husbands and using all kinds of language in front of them. 
 For when the child see or hear these things, he or she, it is two 
 to one that they don't do the same thing now. 
 
 I am talking to both father and mother, but especially to 
 the mothers, because they have the first chance at the child 
 after it is born. 
 
 This is what the U N. I A. stands for. Now remember 
 that I said that you all are great in the world among men. in 
 which I will show you all as I continue to write, and also we will 
 go to the book of Revelation and quote a few words of what a 
 writer says after quoting the Scripture and see what it says 
 about you all, for in it great things are said, and even in it I 
 find things that causes me to be dissatisfied. For you women 
 are the cause of the world being stirred up today because of 
 your greatness. For you have caused many men to live and 
 3^ou have caused many men to die; you have caused men to build 
 many cities, and you are the cause of many cities falling. You 
 are the cause of men not sleeping today as they should, because 
 of the kingdom and governments in which they hold. That's why 
 governments are trying to keep us down so as to protect their 
 women. 
 
 So as I'm still pleading to the women of my race, stand up 
 like a woman should and lets be a real good race and a strong 
 natio^ of people to God and to the world, for we can do it and 
 
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 we will do it if we try, for God has sent to us a real leader and 
 a true leader: and I believe if he do what he tells us to do there 
 will be no reason why we should not have good success in build- 
 ing a government and making us a strong nation of people. 
 
 This is too great a subject for a small man as I, but since it 
 is assigned to my hand to do it, I am not afraid of it, for the 
 more I WTite the more I see to write. 
 
 Women this is a serious time with us and also with the 
 human family at large. Now you may not believe me but watch 
 the signs of time. If we don't mind we all will be found wanting, 
 and this depends largely upon you all as a woman, to play your 
 part in this work. I am calling upon you all at this particular 
 time because I am writing concerning you all and these children 
 but the more I write on this subject the more I become to be 
 dissatisfied for great is the earih, for I find that it is your 
 Savior and Reaper for the earth has brought forth trees and 
 vines, etc.. to hide the woman from that old dragon when he 
 persue after her and the serpent cast out of his mouth water, 
 as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried 
 away off. The flood and the earth helped the woman. The earth 
 opened her mouth and swallowed the water and saved her life. 
 
 Now I did not know that a woman was so great in the 
 world, not until I began to write upon this book and to study 
 the Word of God. 
 
 Now let us go to the Bible although I will not go to the 
 book of Jobe and Solomon and the many other books I could 
 mention, but go and search the book of Revelation. 
 
 Rev. 12:1, 2 and 3. 1 — And there appeared a great wonder 
 in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun. and the moon under 
 her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: 2 — And 
 she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pain to be 
 delivered. 3 — And there appeared another wonder in heaven; 
 and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten 
 horns, and seven crowns upon his head. 
 
 So said a writer, a woman: *'A corrupt woman is used to 
 represent an apostrate or corrupt church." Eze. 23:2-4. 
 
 Rev. 17 :3, 6, 15, and 18. By parting of reason a pure woman, 
 as in this instance, would represent the true church. The sun. 
 the light and glory of the gospel dispensation. 
 
 The Moon, the Mosaic dispensation. As the moon shines 
 from a borrowed light derived from the sun, so the former dis- 
 pensation shone with a light borrowed from the present. There 
 they had the type and shadow; here we have the antitype and 
 substance: a crown of twelve start, the twelve apostles; a great 
 red dragon, pagan Rome (see under verses 4 and 4). 
 
 Verse 4 — And his tail drew the third part of the Stars of 
 heaven, and did cast them to the earth; and the dragon stood 
 before the woman, which was ready to be delivered, for to 
 devour her child as soon as it was born. 5 — And she brought 
 
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 forth a man-child, who was to rule all nation, with a rod of iron: 
 and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. 6 — 
 And the woman fled into the wilderncs.s, where .she had a place 
 prepar'^d of God. that they .should feed her there a thousanrl 
 two hundred years and three score days. 7 — And there was war 
 in heaven: Michel and his anj^els fought against the dragon; 
 and the dragon fought and hi;-, angels, 8 — And prevailed not. 
 neither was there peace found anymore in heaven. 9 — And tho 
 great dragon was cast out. that old serpent called devil, and 
 satan, which deceiveth the whole world: He was cast out into 
 the earth and his angels was cast out with him. 
 
 10 — And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven. Now is come 
 Salvation, and Strength and the kingdom of our God, and the 
 power of his Christ, for the accuser of our brethren is ca.st 
 down, which accused them before our God day and night. 11 — 
 And they overcame him by the blood of the lamb, and by the 
 word of their testimony, and loved not their lives unto the 
 death. 12 — Therefore rejoice, ye Heaven and ye that dwell in 
 them. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the .sea: for 
 the devil is ccme down to you: having great wrath because he 
 know^eth that he hath but a short time. 
 
 Verse 13 — And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto 
 the earth, he pursued the woman, w^hich brought forth the man- 
 child. 14 — And to the woman were given two wings of a great 
 Eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, 
 where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, 
 from the face of the serpent. lo^And the serpent cast out of 
 his mouth water as a flood after the woman that he might cause 
 her to be carried away of the flood. 16 — And the earth helped 
 the woman, and the earth opened hei' mouth and swallowed up 
 the flood which the dragon cast out o^ his mouth. 
 
 17 — And the dragon was wroth with the woman and went to 
 make war with the remnant of her seed, which kept the com- 
 mandments of God. and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. 
 
 Now John wrote as God revealed it, unto him and m that 
 he gave us the past tense, the present tense and the future 
 tense. And in reading the past tense we see how races and na- 
 tions lived, and also we see how they were destroyed, and how 
 the kingdoms and governments were built and how the kuigdoms 
 and governments were destroyed. And in the present tense we 
 all see just how we stand. For at present the whole world is 
 dissatisfied because of its own sin, and if the people don't stop 
 and consider God and his word the future wdl be worse than 
 the past or present tense. If we don't make a change. »"« this 
 depends largely upon you women as I said before, for the hand 
 that rocks the cradle is the one that rules the world. Now 1 m 
 not trying to write a Bible but I am only trying to show to you 
 all and also to the world why is it that I'm dis.sati.shed. And 
 when I say that I am dissatisfied I mean that I am dissatisfied 
 
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 for there is something wrong about this thing, and it is up to 
 us Negroes to find it, and that's why I'm shoving this pen as I 
 am, because we are going to find it before we stop. 
 
 Now many people may not Hke this, but we are not going 
 by likes at this time, but justice and nothing else but justice. 
 For that is the reason why there is dissatisfaction today, be- 
 cause of the injustice towards we Negroes. Now just one more 
 thought before I lay down my pen for this time. 
 
 Man is God's glory, the woman is man's glorj', and the wo- 
 man's hair is her glory therefore since she is the mother of all 
 living, it would be a nice thing if she would stop using those hot 
 tongs on her head to straighten out her hair, for this is where 
 the five senses lie of all mankind, for the heat that comes from 
 the tongs comes in contact with the five senses and make them 
 weaker minded, and a lot of times it interfers with a child's mind 
 after it i.s born, and, in otherwords, God fixed it like he wanted 
 it. Any other way or form, he would have done it, and it goes 
 on to show that she is not satisfied with the way he has fixed it. 
 Now don't think that I am scorning you all for I am not. 
 But I am only telling you all the truth, and I'm at this time in 
 the name of our Creator and Maker of heaven and earth, call- 
 ing upon you women to play your part in this work, for we are 
 building a nation for the people of our race. 
 
 Now what are you going to write next. Mr. Green? I may 
 not write like angels or smooth it up like men but I can tell 
 the world how we Negroes are treated by the cruel white men. 
 But I can see a change coming through the powerful hands of 
 God to take us out of misery into the land of our own, and after 
 we get there we can sing the song of Moses in the land and praise 
 my God Just as I am. And it may be in that hour we all will be 
 satisfied. 
 
 I went to Washington. D. C., in 1921, I went into the 
 capitol and was shown many beauties within but not a single 
 office was shown me that was held by a Negro playing his part 
 in the political game. I went from there to the White House, 
 where the President stays, where the nations of the world 
 bring their troubles to this particular place. I went from there 
 to the patent office, and many inventions did I see with the 
 names written thereon as if all were done by white men, but 
 I'm sure that they know that I knew better. If they don't, just 
 wait and see. For we're going back to Africa and build an 
 empire of our own, and in the same like manner will the inven- 
 tions be shown. 
 
 So I'm saying to all oi the Negroes who have this kind of 
 brains. Make your inventions and keep them on hand so that you 
 will have a patent office — in your motherland. For on December 
 12, 1923 our Secretary General and three others went across 
 
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 the sea to draw out plans for our jjfovernment, which wo now 
 need. For they were successful in getting there, and he said I'm 
 home at last and how happy I am. 
 
 They were sucessful in getting out the plans and they were 
 on their return back to the American lands. His health was good 
 until he got to Europe. But after leaving Europe he was struck 
 with an attack of pneumonia and in the attack he was called to 
 the great beyond. 
 
 Though Poston is gone, and yet he is here. Though his body 
 is lying moldering in the clay and his soul to Him who giveth. 
 But his work and spirit shall always be with us. And in that R. 
 L. Poston shall ever live. 
 
 Now who will be found to take his place, that will go to work 
 
 as he done to protect his race, 
 Now Poston wasn't fiery nor was he in haste, 
 But what Poston done was right in his place. 
 He kept up will all of the moneys right to the dot. 
 So he left we Negroes right on the spot. 
 
 So don't think this subject is ended for it is not. 
 
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