The Unjust Treatment to Garvey
On February 7, 1925 at 2 A. M., I was called out of my bed to warn you, my people, the Black Jews, that you have caused the world to put in jail, only to please you, the man of God, who is your children’s saviour. You as a race are cursed, you shall never see Africa, but your children shall go.
This man, Marcus Garvey, has finished his work, and it is well done. He is now having a well needed rest. He has only stepped in the shoes of Moses and Jeremiah, who were put in jail, put down into a well, because they told the truth, which condemns you Black Jews. Jesus Christ was whipped and driven out of cities, until he was almost starved. At last he was rebuked by wicked men and women. Then lynched by white men because he dared to tell you Black Jews the truth.
In the 15th century, you were chained and brought to all nations and sold for two hundred and fifty years as slaves, and suffered all kind of trouble. Then God raised up the good white people in your favor to help you to get free from the yoke of bondage all over the world.
Mr. Abraham Lincoln promised that if he ever got the chance he would hit slavery a hard blow.
The white people of America elected him to be president and he struck slavery a terrible blow. He emancipated four million, five hundred thousand so-called negroes, and was killed for doing it.
Now, some of you mixed people are bucking the dead man and saying that he did not mean to free us. Whether he meant to or not, he gave us guns and ammunition to help free ourselves, and our fathers got on the job.
Three weeks before he was killed, he had promised Frederick Douglas, our leader then, that he would go before congress and present a bill that would demand one state in this country or send us back to Africa. We must have our name that we may know who we are, and can serve our God.
Our president, Garfield, picked up our righteous issue, and they assassinated him for telling the truth as he saw it.
Our late president McKinley hit the righteous trail, and spoke the truth as he saw it, and they put him to sleep.
Our late president, Roosevelt, stepped out in the path of righteous, and invited Mr. Booker T. Washington to luncheon with him at the white house, and when he was on his campaign in nineteen hundred and twelve they shot him.
When Mr. Marcus Garvey stepped out on the platform of righteousness, they shot him twice while he was in his office, but God spared him to rest a while in jail, until the good-thinking white people set him free.
My open opinion of the man, I know a crook when I see one and deal with him. I was introduced to Mr. Garvey in nineteen hundred and nineteen at the Messiah Baptist Church in Yonkers, New York. I was chosen to make the opening address on this night. He organized a division in this church, one of the finest colored churches in the State of New York, and I was one of those who joined. But this division went down through jealousy among its members. Then I watched Mr. Garvey, his officers and members and those who read his paper. By doing this I found out where the trouble lay. It was in his crooked officers. Nine out of every ten showed up at the conventions dishonest. When Mr. Garvey began to expose them, they began to plot against him. The worst of it all is, that the majority of them all were preachers who were all in, down and out.
I found the work of this organization in the bible. In nineteen hundred and twenty-one, I called my friends together in Yonkers, New York, and laid the facts before them. I suggested that they should organize a division of their own, which they did. I have been watching Mr. Garvey from then until now.
My opinion of him is that he is one of the most honest men of all time, with a big heart, no jealousy toward any man. I do not believe that Mr. Garvey would entertain any evil thoughts. He means good to all, both white and black. He is the best colored friend that the white man has. He is only trying to take a great curse off of the white people that God is about to send on them, because they won’t let the Black Jews go back to Africa. He sees it and knows it. I myself have seen the same thing. The destruction is coming if these stiff neck black people are not sent from among you whites. You must let them go and serve their God. This is the road to peace and prosperity.
Now my white and black friends, this subject was written with a spirit of love, for love is the only way, and the only sources that the nations or races can get together.
Moving picture shows the power of love. They show every crooked step that the lover makes and its results. This should be a warning to others, that they should marry for love and not for money. For true love is the only step to righteousness and honor. Without true love, no man can respect his wife or no woman can respect her husband. The vow which is made at the altar cannot be kept without true love. Money can not keep it. Let us marry because we love and we will be happy on this earth. Without it our life struggles are in vain. The movies will help you, if you go there to learn and not for a good time. You will show respect for one who has true love in his heart.
I want to state here, that I have made a round of a number of moving pictures, and studied the characters, and the power of love, and the destruction of false love.
I am compelled to say, that the movies are doing a lot of good now, to mend up the broken hearts, that some of the victims may start life over and count yourself unworthy of their love if you have not the true love in your heart. You are the man or woman that is on your way to destruction, whether it be a race or nation, its leaders must be of true brotherly love for mankind, for out of the mouths, the heart speaketh.