tution, which provides one test for
all American citizens. If we win it will not only free us from the
repressionists, but will free the better element of Southern whites as
well. Your type of men can then have a chance in the South."

Young Maul sat meditating a while and then said:

"Do you know that in a fair test of strength the better element of
whites even now would triumph at the polls. But the spirit of fraud
built up to dethrone the 'carpet bag' government yet lingers to haunt
those who would now dispense with it, which shows how dangerous it is to
do evil even that good may come.

"We of the South hear much of bribery and corruption in the North, and I
stand ready to co-operate with the decent element to purify the suffrage
of the entire nation."

"You favor then the enforcement by Congress of the Fifteenth Amendment
to the Constitution," asked Ensal.

"I would not have our nation live a lie and pollute the whole stream of
our people's life. If the nation is lawless it can hardly expect its
citizens to be different. I stand for the enforcement of law, all law.
The very life of the nation itself depends upon the purity of the
electorate, and the ballot box is as sure to become sacred in America
as our nation is to stand," said young Maul earnestly.

"Now that we understand each other on those matters, let me now say a
few words to you concerning some needs of the Negro race," continued
young Maul.

"Radicalism and aggression on the part of some of the whites constitute
one phase of our problem, but the weakened condition of your race must
also be reckoned with as a factor. Had Africa been in a position to make
it uncomfortable for all who sought to hold her children in bondage,
there would have been no traffic in slaves from that continent. While we
are going to do what we can to hold in check those who would oppress or
restrict you, we expect you to eliminate the weakness in your race that
invites attack.

"You must become intellectually strong, so that you may always be in
hailing distance of the world's thought power which determines the
destiny of the human race.

"Take special note of what I am now going to say," continued young Maul.
"When an air of genuine democracy pervades the South and the spirit of
caste no longer obtains in the political and industrial world, forms of
labor now regarded as beneath the dignity of white people will no longer
be so regarded, and the Negro will find himself f