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SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1919.
THE VICTORY LIBERTY-LOAN.
The steam whistles in the Twin
Cities at 9:00 o'clock Thursday night,
with the loud acclaim told the people
of the Fifth district that they had gone
over the top with their subscriptions
to Fifth or Victory Liberty Loan and
knocked the "if" out of the Fifth, and
thus showing that we finished the job
over here that they began over there.
"AMERICANIZATION."
Since the war there has been a lot
of talk in the papers about "Ameri
canization" and it is important that
every person in the United States
should be taught the essentials of
good citizenship.
This does not apply solely to for
eigners but to many of American
birth. For instance, in the southern
tier of states, large numbers of peo
ple have no conception of American
citizenship. Many of the leading citi
zens are so busy with lynching and
other deviltry that they lose sight of
the essentials of American citizen
ship.
ETERNALLY VIGILANT.
The Victory Loan campaign finds
Republicans everywhere zealously
working for the success of the last
popular appeal the Government will
make for financial assistance. Most
of the sum represented by the Vic
tory bonds has been realized already
by the Treasury in the sale of certifi
cates of indebtedness, which will fall
due at various dates within a few I
months. The money received for
those certificates has been applied in
the payment of emergency obligations
by the Government. The bonds sim
ply have got to be sold for the ma-'
turing certificates cannot be paid.
The credit of the Government is at
stake, and the people will see to ft
that it is maintained, as they always
have done in the past.
But in working for the success of
the Loan Republicans are not losing
sight of the other duties they owe the
Na'tion. Their fight against the men
ace of Bolshevism continues as here
tofore their study of the proposed
league of nations proceeds unabated,
and the necessity for floating the loan
Name
Street
^istX"
HEADLINE HARBINGERS.
Out of eight column headlines in one
of the leading metropolitan dailies of a
recent issue an issue printed when we
are supposed to be either at peace or
close to it, the following story is told:
"Allied Missions Seized-Interned Buda
pest at Request of Lenine." Guns
Rule Budapest." "All Egypt in Re-
volt." "Poland, Roumania and Jugo
slavs Fear Bolshevik Invasions."
"Council Needs ChiefLeader Wanted
at Peace Table to Bring End to Dis-
cord." And now take a lpok at the
following one which represents what is
going right on just as though the other
headlines never existed. A representa
tive of blind egotism and stubborn
will a representative of the limit to
which a man will go who believes in
theories above practical things. "Wil
son Draws Clause to Guard Monroe
CodeLeague Powers LimitedCan
Recommend but Not Force, Reduction
in Armament." Such a comparison
needs no explanation. In its subtle
way it speaks for itself.
MINISTER MILITANT.
"I don't prbpose to have it (the
league of nations) crammed down my
throat until I know what it is, what
it looks like, tastes like and what it
is to cost this country." This is thewho
way one minister expresses his views
concerning the league. He is the Rev.
Charles A. Eaton, pastor of the Madi
son Avenue Baptist Church, of
Newancing
York, and head of the National Service
Section of the U. S. Shipping Board.
He expressed his views while speak
ing at Wilmington, Del., and praised
the critics of the league plan, even
though he is for a league of nations,
by saying: "God bless the thirty
seven Senators who criticized the
league of nations plan. Americans
have to make the greatest decision
since the signing of the declaration of
independence."
HAD A FINE TIME.
"..tWs^JT
WORLD DEMOCRACY PETITION
Colored Americans Call Upon Senate of United States of
America to Carry Out the World War
Declarations of World Democracy.
i PETITION.
To the Senate of the United States of America:
We, the undersigned, petition the Senate of the United States of America,
which by virtue of its treaty power must give to the League of Nations
Covenant its assent before said Covenant can be finally adopted, in the ful-
fillment of the noble purpose of the recent World* War repeatedly proclaimed
by this Government and its Allies while the result was in doubt viz* To
establish real Democracy everywhere, to make the World safe for Democ-
lacy, and a safe place to live in, to insert or add by way of amendment
when said Covenant comes before the Senate the following clause:
Real Democracy for the World being the avowed aim of the Nations
establishing the League of Nations, the contracting parties agree to vouch-
safe to their citizens the possession of full liberty, rights of Democracy and
protection of life without restriction or distinction based on race color or
previous condition.
City state
N. B.Sign and send to THE APPEAL or to Jas. L. Neill, Secy., 906 Street
N. W., Washington, D. S.
Cut out, attach blank sheets and get signatures. Circulate in Churches
Societies and Race Organizations. Act at once. Byron Gunner, Chairman
World Democracy Congress Committee, Allen W. Whaley, Natl' Organizer
is not allowed to obscure the far
greater obligation of the party to
preserve our American institutions
untainted by foreign influence and
in every patriotic endeavor to which
the Republicans are pledged, both lo
cally and through their representa
tives in Congress, their interest will
be maintained. The Victory loan is
floated with the whole hearted
co-operation of Republicans through
out the country, but the thrills of the
bond campaign do not pervert their
sober judgment in other matters af
fecting the welfare of the Republic.
The Department of Labor's indus
trial junketeers, who sailed in Janu
ary to study labor conditions abroad,
and possibly to catch a few crumbs
from royal tables, have returned. Like
Mr. Hurley, who meandered abroad to
enforce a world-wide marine wage
scale, they return with open minds
and ears to the ground aftf an
entemptation
joyable trip at public expense which
netted them no concrete information.
It is now Secretary Redfield's turn to
provide for a junket. European tours
de luxe at public expense for govern
ment officials looking forward to
rethem
tirement in 192ft are the order of
theWhere
day. "On account of the war."
NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN.
William J. Bryan positively asserts
-that the idea in the League of Nations
of "deliberation before war" is taken
from the 30 treaties negotiated by the
United States with three-quarters of
the world. These treaties were writ
ten while Mr. Bryan was Secretary
of State. So the idea is not, as some
would have us understand, original
THE SIN OF SILENCE
To sin by silence when we should
protest makes cowards out of men.
The human race has climbed on pro
test. Had no voice been raised against
injustice, ignorance and lust, the in-
quisition yet would serve the law, and
guillotines decide ourleast disputes.
The few who dare must speak and
speak again to right the wrongs of
many.Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
with Mr. Wilson. However, if this
nation should ever again undertake
the deliberation which characterized
our "watchfully waiting" Administra
tion from 1914 to 1917 it might be we
would be overwhelmed before the plan
of defense had been mapped out.
SOUTH OUT OF SADDLE.
An analysis of the state of commit
tee chairmanships of the next house,
as framed by the Republican commit
tee on committees, shows the transfer
of power from the south to the north,
with the middle west exercising the
dominant influence.
Whereas nearly all of the important
chairmanships, during the Democratic
regime, were held by the south, only
two states south of the Ohio river,
Kentucky and Tennessee, will figure
in the list this time. These two states
will have one minor chairmanship
each.
The chairmanships of seven of theshattered
ten principal committees will be held
by representatives from the four mid
dle western states of Iowa, Minnesota,
Wisconsin, and Michigan. Two of the
remaining three go to Pennsylvania
and one to California. Pennsylvania
leads the list of states in the number
of chairmanships with eight. Illinois
is second with seven, but none of
these is a major chairmanship.
WISE SPENDING.
Are you a wise spender? Wise
spending is regarded as a highly im
portant preliminary to thrift by the
U. S. Treasury. As part of its cam
paign for promoting popular savings
through Thrift ahd War Savings
Stamps during 1919, it has issued
through its Savings Division the fol
lowing definition of wise spending,
which merits the thoughtful attention
of every family and every individual
would get ahead in life:
Wise spending implies the balanc
ing of all needs and of all means of
meeting these needs and, after bal
needs against means, spending
in such away as to meet the most
urgent needs, even if lesser ones have
to be left unsatisfied in essence it
means a sort of budget-making. When
a family, city or state makes a budget,
what it does essentially is to take a
comprehensive view of both needs and
income. It is important that not all
the income be spent on the first needs
that may occur lest other more urgent
needs appear and no funds be left to
meet them that is, thought must be
taken so that available income can be
applied intelligently and wisely to
cover most important needs and
totogether
satisfy them somewhat in proportion
to their relative importance.
'Perhaps the most important and
difficult problem in connection with
wise spending (or saving) is to real
ize the relative importance of future
as compared with present needs. The
of all of us is to satisfy
present needs at the neglect of future
needs. It is very foolish to neglect
the urgent necessities of today for the
petty wants of the morrow, but fewand
need very much persuasion to induce
to take care of the present.
most of us are foolish or un
wise is in satisfying petty wants of
the present rather than saving in or
der that urgent needs of the future
can be met."
NOT EVEN GOOD OLEO.
"Fine words butter no parsnips." If
they would President Wilson could
make" a success of at least one of his
undertakings. Fine words could not
save the Mexican fiasco. Fine words
could not prevent the disaster wrought
months before the war stopped its op
eration. Fine words could not make
up for the surrender of our rights to
the Panama Canal. Fine words could
not lessen the taxes due to extravagant
administration. Fine words could
not carry letters when the mail service
was demoralized. Fine words could
not keep us out of war when the Huns
were deliberately murdering our citi
zens. Fine words will not remove the
dangers of European entanglements.
Yet there are many people who pre
fer fine words rather than butter on
their parsnips.
by the free trade law during the few girls and the soldier keeps his uniform
because he cannot buy a suit" Such
a condition should be remedied at the
next session of Congress. Bills have
already been prepared to give the men
a year's pay, anaS-other advantages.
If the government can afford a $240
bonus for its girl war workers it can
afford a substantial bonus for thejnen
who won the war. Think it over!
JEWS OPPOSE A SEGREGATED
NATION.
Short-sighted colored men who areport
talking about a "negro republic" in
Africa, and forgetting to agitate for
leform in the treatment of 12,000,000
colored citizens of the United States,
ought to know that prominent non
Zionist Jews from all parts of theto
United States have sent with Presi
dent Wilson to the peace conference
their objections to the Zionist demand
for a Jewish state in Palestine.
The petition was handed to the
President by Congressman Kahn on
February 5. There were 988 names
on the petition representing the rich
est and most prominent Hebrews in
the country.
The objections to the establishment
of a "Jewish Homeland in Palestine"
are set forth under four specific head
ings, the chief one of which is that
"the Jews are dedicated heart and
soul to the countries in which they
dwell under free conditions."
"All Jews," the petition states, "re-
pudiate every suspicion of a double
allegiance, but to our minds it is nec
essarily implied in and cannot by any
logic be eliminated from the estab
lishment of a sovereign state for theseas
Jews."
The petition also states that "by the
large part taken by them in the great
war, the Jews have once and for all
the base aspersions of the
anti-Semites, who charged them with
being aliens in every land, incapable
of true patriotism, and prompted only
by sinister and self-seeking motives."
It says that those who would seek
the establishment of a Jewish sover
eign state and yet "insist on their
patriotic attachment to the countries
of which they are citizens, are self
deceived in their professions of Zion
ism, and under a spell of emotional
romanticism or of a religious senti
ment fostered through centuries of
gloom."
If the Jews representing to a great
extent the leadership in commerce
and industry and the money power of
the World are opposed to a "jimcrow"
state, why should not colored men pro
test againgj,. segregation in every
form?
"REBUILDING THE WORLD."
"Rebuilding the world," is the in
scription surrounding the cross on the
shield of the "Missionary Centenary
of the Methodist Episcopal Church,"
which is working up a scheme to get
Southern colored people to plant cot
ton in "God's Acreage" and contribute
the money to the missionary fund of
$120,000,000 which it is planned to
raise.
THE APPEAL does not believe that
the colored people should give one
penny to aid the Methodist Episcopal
Church until it reverses its present
jimcrow policy.
The Methodist Episcopal Church
split into two branches over the ques
tion of slavery, but now the Northern
and Southern branches are to come
again at the centenary. The
weak-kneed Northern men have given
in to the. aggressive Southerners and
have agreed to sacrifice their colored
members who have been asked to
form a jim crow church. So far thepearandnsecurity
colored members have refused to get
out, but they may perhaps be kicked
out.
The Methodist (Episcopal Church has
given up all ideas of the "Fatherhood
of God and the Brotherhood of Man,"
at the centenary it is very likely
that the brethren will recount the
wonderful thing the church has done
for "the negro" and all will join in
singing "Onward, Christian Soldier."
AN ABSOLUTE MONARCHY?
No, An Absolute Democracy!
Wilson Reigns!
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(From the Cincinnati Union.)
than h*mrfnr hi'
feel that bv refusine nansnortn t
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our government!
WE'LL HANDLE OUR BUSINESS.
We shall very likely make many
changes in our laws and a few changes
in our Constitution, in the future as
in the past, but we shall make them
on our own judgment and not at the
behest of people of other lands who
have come here to share in American
prosperity without helping to sup
American institutions.
PUT PEP IN POSTAGE.
A New Yorker suggests that if Col.
Roosevelt's picture were to be placed
on our postage stamps it might tend
infuse new life into a moribund
and disgracefully conducted depart
ment of the Government.
REORGANIZE "OLD 8TH" PLAN
Col. Otis B. Duncan Here to Make
Regiment Permanent.
Chicago, 111., April 25.Men of the
"old 8th," crack colored regiment
which won for Illinois and Chicago so
much honor on the field of battle, will
not be "homeless." Lieut.-Col. Otis
B. Duncan, highest ranking colored
officer in Illinois, arrived in Chicago
today to supervise plans for reorgan
izing the regiment as a unit of the
national guard. Later he will visit
the other cities in the state, which
had companies before the federaliza
tion of the troops, including Danville,
Bloomington and Quincy.
The work of organization will be
carried on without intermission, ac
cording to announcement made in
Springfield today by Adj.-Gen. Frank
S. Dickson. Membership will not be
limited to men who saw service over
with the 370th infantry.
TO MR. EMMET SCOTT.
The May CRISIS says in an open
letter to Mr. Emmet Scott:
The world and you will bear us
witness that THE CRISIS and its Edi
tor has given you loyal and unselfish
co-operation, even at the cost of sus
picion and criticism. We have done
this, FIRST, because the war demand
ed, and had aright to demand, un
swerving loyalty and unity on the
part of the Nation and its constituent
groups and, SECONDLY, because we
believed that you were doing all that
was possible under very difficult cir
cumstances. A visit to Europe has,
however, revealed to the Editor a
state of affairs in regard to Colored
troops which is simply astounding!
Some of these facts we are publishing
this month and others we shall reveal
later. Meantime, we are withholding
judgment in your case and simply
asking you publicly three questions:
1. Did you know the treatment
which black troops were receiving in
France?
2. If you did NOT know, why did
you not find out?
3. If you DID know, what did you
do about it?
Statement of the Ownership, Manaare
ment. Circulation, Etc., Required hy
the Act ot Consreaa of Auut 24,
lBl Z, Of
THE APPEAL, published weekly at St.
Paul, Minn, for April 1, 1919.
STATE
OF
MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF
Ramseyss.
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me Notary Public In and for
eSSranl^elieA tne State and county aforesaid, per
sonally appeared J. Q. Adams, who.
having- been duly sworn according' to
law, deposes and says that he is the^(S^msS&^^PL^''1^
owner of THE APPEAL and that the
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the ownership, management,,
aforesaid publication for the date
shown in the above caption, required by
the Act of Congress of August 24, 1912.
embodied in section 443, Postal Laws
'^Regulations. Printed on the reverse
of this form, to-wit:
Mthe names and addresses of
the publisher, editor, managing editor.
and business managers are: Publisher.
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Adams,Sto St.n
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Paul Minn.
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Business, Manager,Editor,.
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PAID FOR PULCHRITUDE.
How about this: Discharged soldiers
receive a bonus of $60 and girls re
tained in (Government service receive
a bonus of $240 with a big increase in publicationsy only.)
salaries. oes the government owe Swortn to and subscribed' before me
these girls more than it does the men
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SSihKE!
hone is J- Q. Adams
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St Paul, Minn.
3. That the known bondholders,
mortgagees, and other security holders
owning or holding 1 per cent or more
of total amount of bonds, mortgages,
or other securities are: None.
4. That the two paragraphs next above
giving the names of the owners, stock
holders and security holders, If any
contain not only the list of stockhold
ers holders as they ap
upo the books of the company, but
also, In cases where the stockholder or
security holderyappears upon the books
ii.
ajJ truste
other fiduciary relation, the nama of
the person or corporation for whom
such trustee is acting, is given also
that the said two paragraphs contain
statements embracing affiant's full
knowledge and belief as to the cir
cumstances and conditions under which
stockholders and security holders who
do not appear upon the books of the
company as trustees, hold stock and
securities in a capacity other than that
of a bona fide owner and this affiant
has no reason to believe that any other
person, association, or corporation has
any Interest direct or indirect in the
said stock, bonds, or other securities
than as so stated by him.
5. That the average number of
copies of each issue of this publica
tion sold or distributed, through the
mails or otherwise, to paid subscribers
during the six month1919- preceding the
date shown above is (This
information required from dally oifs
who faced death in France? As one (Seal) No^ar?Spubiic,N'
soldier says: "Washington keenq it a ,-MT
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ojo. ucom^iuu *.eps us (My commission expires Jan. 14. 1921.)
BRUCE GRIT FILES STRONG DEMURRER
AGAINST MOTON'S METHODS
anxious citizens%.rimV*,
dog than hanging him.
cratic administration, so ^tinr
make the world safe for democracy, ^Jt
has shown a sublime disregard for the Hf-SSS
rights and safety of colored American fiV^?,?!!
citizens at home. It now seems to
enou
ey County, Minn.
coaches dur-
pant of the "Jim Crow'
ing times of peace.
The pity of the whole despicable
business is that our country is not
great enoug to upntChristian-
itto
for which the war was fought.
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darker nation?
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precepts
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badge of humiliation in a Belle,
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^SrL ff gloriously did her sable sons rally to
sana ana reeling mat its body is hid. America on bended knee will cry for
Europe knows that there is a skel- help. Will there still remain forgiv-
eton In America's closet and that ing black sons to come to her aid
that skeleton is the black citizen of or will they all have been brutally
the U. S., occupant of the front-line done to death by the mob, the tree
trenches during times of war occu- the torch?
i W aSBRrfjJJte* oSffij/* _P fc-j**^ csSSEiffi&*!!^S^^S6a^4.
"HUMAN NATURE'S FOULEST BLOT."
My ear is pained
My soul is sick with every day's report
Of wrong and outrage, with which earth is filled.
There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart.
It does not feel for man: the natural bond
Of brotherhood is severed as the flax
That falls asunder at the touch of fire.
He finds his fellow guilty of a skin
Not colored like his own: and having power
To enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause
Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys:
'Tis human nature's broadest foulest blot. Cowper.
ADDRESS TO THE COUNTRY ANDTHE WORLD
ADOPTED BY TH E NATIONAL COLORED CONGRESS FOR WORLD DE-
MOCRACY UNDER THE AU8PICE8 OF TH E NATIONAL EQUAL
RIGHTS LEAGUE AT WASHINGTON, D. C. DEC. 18, 1918.
Colored America, through delegates assembled from 37 of the United
States of America, sore and bleeding with persecution because of race and
color, hails with hope peace with victory, for the motto on the banners ot
the armies of the victors was "Away with tyranny and its injustice every-
where." Speaking for 12,000,000 Colored Americans, the National Colored
Representative Assembly for World Democracy under the auspices of the
National Equal Rights League congratulate their fellow Countrymen and
their government on being the instrument by which the God of righteousness
turned the tide of battle for the forces of liberty.
War Put On World Basis As To The Results.
Two hemispheres and the islands of two oceans furnished without regard
to race or color the armies of this bloody and terrible war. Shameful it
would be if its close did not mark anew humane era. To the President of
our Republic, Commander-in-Chief of our army and navy it was given to name
the principles on which the winners fought this war. and its purpose. By
his declaration, accepted by France, Britain and the rest openly before the
human race, the principles and the aim of this war were put upon a world
basis. Secondly these principles and aims were for the wiping out of autoc-
racy, inhumanity and injustice, and for the establishment of world justice,
world humanity and world democracy.
Wrongs To Individual OnWorld Basis For Redress.
With the ushering in of the new year, 1819, the nations of the world are
assembled to settle the terms of peace for the world, for the establishment
everywhere of the principles for which this world war was waged by the
forces of democracy.
Therefore every denial or violation of justice, humanity and democracy
has become a matter FOR CORRECTION AND ABROGATION ON A WORLD
BASIS BY A WORLD COURT.
Hence Colored America, which furnished 400,000 brave soldiers for this
war backed by over 12,000,000 loyal citizens without a traitor, appeals to the
allied World for justice and Democracy in the peace settlement.
Utterly Undemocratic Treatment Of Colored People of U. 8. A.
Citizens by law of the United States of America, the famous Republic
of the West, we first appeal to the civilized world for the discontinuance of
all race or class discrimination in the world peace settlement. At this
supreme moment in the cause of universal humanity, when wrongs to man
should be banished, we must call world attention to the utterly undemo-
cratic conditions under which every person of color is forced to live in this
country. Because of race autocracy, our in the Nation's Capital de-
prives us of every civil except in public carriers and subjects us to
rejection orntoF011e
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judiciacolor
,right
BOCia
Chrl8tendom.
imposition deprivations, injustices, cruelties, atrocitiesthat
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nt
lynchin
ar
Self-determination For Darker
re8Ul i
right"
The Appeal Sent By Race
thV
Petitionersr
Sr MVoiidProscription.
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0
liainst Colored noll
ar
^SL^^Sj^!^^W,ini^.uM civic noHrTanJ
,%r
the MbrS^XI
worl?
Demt
au*n
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ess: trforc7
William M. Trotter, uZ^Z^
Rev. P. c. James, N. J.
Dr. W. T. Coleman, Md.
Rev. M. L. Johnson, Ark.
G. W. Goode, Va.
Rev. W. L. Gibbons, Miss.
Atty. L. A. H. Caldwell, Ind.
Rev. J. U. King, Del.
Mrs. Ida Wells Barnett, 111.
Dr. F. A. Walker, La.
Dr. A. Porter Davis, Kan.
Rev W. D. Carter, Wash. State.
Dr. C. S. Long, Fla.
R. W. Westberry. S. C.
J. W. Ross, Minn.
William Monroe Trotter
crates Himself.
right subjects us to obloquy
th restriction of the Ghetto as employees of the federal
governmenti. Otherwise our color in many parts country deprives
0
g00d
ma3
a
Worl
aa
tn liberatioS of the people of the earth #of*" i
or democracy
SS. VuS&Sn?^ 1ZZT? o? ^f* "*"*^men Vy
sement etc., of the
dawnta
Else There I*Nh "New Day."
n0
Reconse-
(From the Boston Guardian.)
We consecrate all on the powers we
have to fight for the immediate reign
?2 nnn nnn
^atmen of
i
la
W
lAOOO.OOO of our own colored fellow
citizens, not on the banks of the
Rhine, but on the banks of the Mis
sissippi not in Africa, but in Georgia
We should lose heart if we relied
on man or men to win in this fight
/but we know as Charles Sumner once
said: "Justice reigns aloft on
thes
throne of iGod and not below with the
multitude." We turn from fatat ^T
hearted leaders and^ cheer SuMtafs!
ourseI
ee
us- Segregatioof ithe pubU carriers dis
worse i degree than ewentiall violations of worln democracy
P~ conclave
*PPNations.ea
w^^!!fi tremendous materialo and appalling human losse this
worldeth discriminations tof all of
wlthou
tocracy of race
abolitIo
Court for
For Universal Abolitioln Of Color
th
meeting to make iod p^mlw ittTe
th lS
On our partb we shall sende race petitioners to thte assembly of the renra-
v?ctoriVf8
tl
wor
7 n the basis of
Dpea trul
*"m distinctions based on color,
NAT AS AN ARTICLE OF THJ5
read
ptio
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ot
deat
a
ta
giganUc war evH1 Permanent peac after the most terrible and
Bishop^ Clements, Ky.
Atty. J. D. Ellis. W. Va.
Rev. C. V. Page, Mo.
Rev. Thomas W. Davis, Tenn.
Prof. L. B. Cash, Texas.
W. C. Brown, D. C.
Dr. R. H. Singleton, Ga.
Rev. R. A. Whitaker, Okla.
Hon. Isaac B. Allen, N. Y.
R. B. James, Mich.
G. W. Boyer, Ohio.
Bishop J. S. Caldwell, Penn., Sec.
Rev. J. C. McDaniels, N. Y.
Rev. H. H. Jackson. N. C.
Rev. John V. Goodgame, Ala.
with the thought, "The Lord God om
nipotent reighneth."
Porto Rico Will Demand Statehood or
Freedom.
San Juan, Porto Rico, March 5.
After a debate of more than two days
in both houses of the insular legisla
ture, the Unionists and Republicans
today agreed to join forces in insisting
that the American congress make
known what the future of Portoc RicoroI
is to be. It was agreed that if therefo
can be no assuranctei thatp statehoodelpo
i possible, thneopartiesn should work
for
wit
sasfie
ence
/independence.nThe
c1 "a
uZt
ve linetRwhichPhas bee forced upon them.
THE MAN WHO DARES
I honor the man who in the consci
entious discharge of his duty dares to
tand alone the world, with ignorant,
intolerant .judgment, may condemn,
the countenances of relatives may be
averted, and the hearts of friends grow
cold, but the sense of duty done shall
be sweeter than the applause of the
world, the countenances of relatives or
the hearts of friends.-Charles Sumner.