Peonage, so-called, will end.  It cannot endure under an awakened, enlightened public opinion.  Negroes, all other things equal, will be admitted to labor unions, or labor unions will lose the potentiality and force they should wield in labor and industrial affairs.

The Negro’s contribution to the recent war and to previous conflicts, has earned him beyond question or challenge, a right to just consideration in the military and naval establishment of the nation.  America, grudging as she has been in the past to enlarge his rights, or even to guarantee those which she has granted, has grown too great indeed.  Her discipline has been too real to deny him this fair consideration.  There will be more Negro units in the Regular Army and National Guard organizations; untrammelled facilities for training, in government, state and college institutions.

Selective draft figures having revealed the Negro as a better; if not the best, physical risk, will make it easier for him to secure life insurance, which; after all is a plain business proposition.  Insurance companies are after business and are not concerned with racial distinctions where the risk is good.  The draft has furnished figures regarding the Negro’s health and longevity which hitherto were not available to insurance actuaries.  Now that they have them, no reason exists for denying insurance facilities to the race.

With a growing, every minute, of a better understanding between the races; with the Negro learning thrift through Liberty Bonds, Savings Stamps and the lessons of the war; with an encouragement to own property and take out insurance; being vastly enlightened through his military service, and with improved industrial conditions about to appear, he is started on a better road, to end only when he shall have reached the full attainment belonging to the majesty of American citizenship.

With this start, lynchings, the law’s delays, the denial of full educational advantages; segregation, insanitary conditions, unjust treatment in reform and penal institutions, will vanish from before him; will be conditions that were, but are no more.

There is a predominance of Anglo-Saxon heritage in the white blood of America.  The Anglo-Saxon was the first to establish fair play and make it his shibboleth.  Should he deny it to the Negro; his proudest and most vaunted principle would prove to be a doddering lie; a shimmering evanescence.

He will not deny it!

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Note—­up to this point the text faces only have been numbered. The 64 full pages of half-tone photographs (over 100 separate pictures) and the plates, tinted in many colors (not printed on back) bring the total number of pages to over four hundred.