Clearview Patriarch. (Clearview, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 31, 1911 Page: 4 of 4
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CLEAR VIEW PATRIARCH
L W WARREN EDITOR
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$100 per Year In advance Six
flonhts 50 Cents Three Months 25
Cents
Entered at the Post office at dear-
view Oklahoma as Second Class Mat-
ter If you fail to get your paper notify
the Editor Matters intended for pub-
lication should reach the office not la-
t“r than Tuesday
If your paper has the blue mark
in the square at the top of the pa-
per it means your subscription has
EXPIRED Renew at once
LECAL AGENTS FOR THE
PATRIARCH
Parties whose names appear
here have the authority to do
any Agents business for the PA-
TRIARCH receive money and re-
ceipt for same
Q A RUSEAU
Editorials
The Dallas Morning News
Aug 25 in its editorial relative
to the nomination of the presi
r ent of the United States said
if he got his nomisation as well
his election from the peoole di-
rectly there would be neither
sense of gratitude nor of depen-
dence to constrain his course
He would not have to restrain
his dasire to act as a popular
leader by a feeling of obligation
to a few party bossesThis right
to choose their own party nomi
nees for the presidency is one
which the people should assert
at the earlest possible day in ev-
ry state” That Is Right! I
wonder who they were talking
i bout when they said “People”
Did they mean to include the
two and one half million Negro
voters in the United States?
“There are lots of Negro Demo-
rats Find out from the News
whether you were included”
What is sauce for the goose
should be good for the gander
Tf we elimenate partisan iioss-
J s let the party subscribe to the
same principles Let ns enact
fair election laws and let every
body vote Let us set out a set
rf principles that are good for
the country and call the people
1o our assistance (They will
i ome) instead of resorting to e-
c lection frauds (which seem to
he all the go nowaday) and
making criminals out of good
P A T R I A R C-H S
(but light-headed partisans)
“Criminals” the country is try-
to get rid of them On one hand
we seem to discourage crinle and
on the other we are instructing
them how to be slick in making
election returns It Seems To
Depend On Whose Ox Is Gor-
ed Wink at crime when com-
mitted on others because we are
to some extent interested and it
will soon stalk brazenly before
us in our own path to our discon-fiture
NOTICE
Brothers Sisters and Friends
wo the members of the Clearview
Baptist Church is going to erect
a stone Church house and we are
going to begin work on monday
after the 3rd Sunday in Sept
which shall be known as “Rock
Day” and we ask the citizens of
Clearview North folk Salt Creek
Galilee Mt Olive and of Jimboy
Community to come and bring
your wagon and team and help
us to haul rock with which to
build a Churh house we ask every
man to come if you have no wag-
on and team come just same
Dinner wTill he served on the
ground to every-body that will
come and help
Don’t forget the date
E W D‘ Garmon Pastor
Jas Sanders Clerk
PATRIARCHS
This order was organized after
20 years of study Itsplanswill
meet the present demands It
has for its object the helping of
the widows orphans and th
helpless After a careful study
of this organization you will be
convinced that it will do for the
Negro what Masonary has done
for the civilized world
LOVE UNION AND ECONOMY
Our warch words henceforth be
Greater benefits no principles
Cun bring to such as we
And tho our road runs thro difficulties
Uryond the goal is not far
In the light of American Patriarchy
Nearer than we think is our star
The Head Quarters of The Patriarchs
of America is Located at Clearview
Blow is A list of The officers:
SUPREME OFFICERS:
1 E Thompson Supreme Patriarch
LW Warren Supreme Shepherd
J A Rouce Supreme Scribe
The following address was deliver-
ed by Hon J E Thompson founder
of the PATRIARCHS of America aNe-
gro organization before the Farm-
ers’ Confrence at Clearview Okla
Mr President Fellow Farm-
ers Ladies and Gentlemen: —
I compliment my-
self upon this opportunity of
meeting and addressing a Negro
farmers’ Conference in a Negro
to ivn I am pleased to see that
our people have begun to realize
the necessity of training on the
Farm as well as as in other indus-
tries -
The most dependable resource
of wealth to the Negro is fr rming
and yet there is room for improve-
ment in the method of planting
growing and harvesting of the va-
riouscrops perhaps than in any
other field of labor And since
because of the fact the Negro is
unorganized and without busi-
ness experience he as a mass
must look to the soil as a general
means of support it would be
well if organizations such as this
were general and meetings fre-
quent and they should receive
the hearty support of the Negro
in every phase of life
And taking into consideration
the general condition of the Ne-
groes of this country (political
and otherwise) it is essential to
his greatest general good that he
organize in order that he may re-
ceive the proper kind of instruc-
tion along all lines from the prop-
er source and in the proper way
For the purpose of accomplish-
ing great aims the older organi-
zations were formed and so well
did these serve their purposes
that some of them have followed
man down through the ages of
time and have been propagated
throughout the world but my
Friends permit me to call your
attention to the fact that these
organizations were framed and
effected for and by a people that
was in control and ruling the
lands wherein their full beauty
and force have been seen and
felt They have been propagat-
ed by the Negroes of thiscoun-
try and have done much good
but they were not prepared for a
class of people whose environ-
ments were similar to those of
the Negroes and consequently
but few of the Negroes can join
them if the letter of the law is
enforced and the few who do join
them are not recognized by the
Great Fraternal Concourse of
Brotherhood that planted and
supports the great civilization of
to-day
And believing as I do that ev-
ery class of people must have an
Organizationof their own pecul
iar to themselves one ih which
all or nearly all)f them are able
to meet the requirements if that
people is to accomplish greatest
possible good your humble ser-
vant and others have framed and
prepared and are presenting to
to you with pride The Patriarchs
of America an organization for
Negroes and by Negroes This
organization is chartered under
the laws of the state of Oklaho-
ma with its principal office at
Clearview Oklahoma Its prin-
ciple object is the concentration
of the Negro
We purpose to properly lay our
cause before the leading men of
this government and our plan is
To have the government set a-
part some territory in some part
of the United States for the col-
onization of the Negroes to have
the government appraise and buy
this land with government bonds
w’hich will run for a long term of
years and to sell it to Negroes in
small tracts at its appraised val-
ue the principle and interest on
this land to be collected annually
in the form of a tax and this tax
to continue until the land is paid
for without regard of the owner-
ship These lands shall be trans-
ferable That the white peo-
ple in this territory shall move
into selected cities in this terri-
tory and shall have their own gov-
ernment independent from the
Negroes’ government and that
neither shall participate in the
affairs of the others’ government
Our plan is that Congress shall
enact laws providing for the es-
tablishment of Federal courts in
this territory with civil and crim-
inal jurisdiction and granting to
the citizens of both the territory
and cities the right of a change
of venue of the Federal courts
These My Friends are soma of
the plans of the Patriarchs of A-
jmericn an organization which
’ stand for all that is noble just
and right All citizens of the
United States of African decent
above the age of one year are el-
gible to membership therein and
does not in any way interfere
with ones political or other per-
sonal matters and in presenting
this organization to you we ap-
peal to your better judgement
your race pride and your good
citizenship to lend your support
to the move that is the only
means through which a solution
to tlie vexatious race problem
may be reached
If you are thinking of moving
your business toanew locality or
if you are thinking of starting a
new business you had best see
Clearview and surrounding
this is the place come and see
for yourself
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Warren, L. W. Clearview Patriarch. (Clearview, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 31, 1911, newspaper, August 31, 1911; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1860544/m1/4/: accessed June 12, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.