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As storm-cloud at night sudden gathers
Our armies come rushing to thee.
We must in the fight be victorious,
When swords are thrust outward to glean;
For us will the victory be glorious
When led by the Red, Black and Green.
Chorus:
"Advance, advance to victory;
Let Africa be free;
Advance to meet the foe with the might
Of the Red, the Black and the Green."
It was further declared: "Race amalgamation must cease; any member of this organization who marries a white woman is summarily ex-pelled."
Apparently, the second feature of the program, the triangular shipping line, was the real aim of Garvey. A first shipping venture had failed. He proceeded to use the Association to peddle 2,000,000 shares (for sale to Negroes only) of the Black Star Line, which was organized with $10,000,000 capital.
Disaster overtook the Line. Of the three ships operated two went aground and the third was seized to meet claims of $100,000. Garvey continued to solicit passage money to Africa after he had no ships. On January 12, 1922, he was arrested and later indicted, with three associates.
On January 15, 1922, his Association protested the arrest, asserting that Garvey had been betrayed by his lieutenants.
His fellow Negroes soon began to scent fraud, and a meeting of the Friends of Negro Freedom (August 6,1922) declared his schemes impracticable, and that he was secretly in sympathy with the Ku Klux Klan.
On September 10, 1922, three Negro mass meetings resolved that "Garvey must go."
The trial of the Black Star Line Company revealed that the line has $31.75 in the bank and liabilities of $731,432, One of Garvey's former agents, " Sir" Sydney de Bourg, Knight Commander of the Order of the Nile, Leader of the Far Western Provinces of the West Indies, Duke of Nigeria and Duke of Uganda, testified to Garvey's extravagance in the West Indies, asserting that he had " gone broke at the races." The Assistant Treasurer of the line testified that Garvey had appropriated for himself money collected for the Association and for the Black Star Line. Unless Marcus Garvey can bring evidence to prove the propriety of his financial operations, the case will end with the Provisional President of Africa behind the bars for common fraud.