ot be in democracy, but it will be due to the
fact that we are not practicing what we preach."

At the close of my remarks many of the white citizens, including the
judge, the sheriff, lawyers and other prominent men came forward and
congratulated me on what I had said and some said that the white people
of Camden needed more of such plain talk. I took these signs to mean
that better things were coming for the Negro of the South after the war,
but I must admit that when I read in the evening papers of June 27th
that Senator John Sharp Williams of Mississippi had practically defeated
the bill for women suffrage, because he said that he favored the vote
for white women only and that the bill in its present form would not be
allowed in his state--I must confess that this action almost took away
all of my hopes especially after there was no one to rise and rebut his
argument. There was no one in the United States Senate to speak for
democracy for all the people. Now I think that just such spirit as this
exhibited by that great Senator from Mississippi is at the foundation of
this world's war and until that spirit is crushed, I fear that this war
will continue. For of a truth, "God is no respecter of persons."

Now I have given my answers to both the Negro and the white man. What is
the answer of the white man?

Are we fighting for democracy for all the people, or are we fighting for
democracy for the white man only?

This question has never been answered by the white man, but it must be
answered after this great war.

APPENDIX

_Address Delivered by Mr. Edwards on the Twentieth Anniversary of His
Graduation from Tuskegee._

"Two decades ago, twenty members constituting the class of '93, received
their commission from the illustrious Principal of this great
institution on yonder hill, to go ye into all parts of the South and
teach and preach Tuskegee's gospel. This gospel was then as it is now, a
gospel of service. Now after the lapse of twenty years we have assembled
here to review the efforts of past years. Although twenty years are not
long enough in which to record the life's work of a class, it is
sufficiently long to indicate the direction in which this work is
tending.

"So we come today, not so much to tell what we have accomplished as to
tell what we are doing to renew our allegiance to our Alma Mater, and to
assure its Principal and members of the Faculty that our motto, "Deeds
Not Words," is stil