Liberty calls the colored people and all races. Lincoln's birthday, 1944 de Butler, W.J - 1944

Salem, OR: Capital Press, 1944. Pamphlet. Four-panel brochure, 6x9.25 inches, very good. The author, who saw his role as spreading the Gospel of World Peace, had run as a gadfly candidate for Congress in 1926 and 1932, declaring that "Interest on the people's own money credit was the Colossal Crime of the Ages." He self-published numerous tracts on various subjects in Oregon, but was forced to move to Arizona for his health before this one was printed (still using his contacts back in Salem). Here he declares that "All people born free and equal is the rock foundation of all life." A section celebrates George Washington Carver; "Dr. Carver has done more food carving, analyzing, assembling and dividing than any man that ever lived on the earth and he was only a common colored boy born in slavery's chains, handicapped all his life by being burdened with the so-called race-inferior discrimination complex." Toward the end he asks, "Why did God Almighty make the colored man black? For the unification of all races, the same as your feet, eyes and ears were made for the unification of your body. He is here to teach us tolerance, and when race prejudice and exploitation cease, emancipation will become a reality... Civilization without the colored man would be as dry as a circus without the clown.