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The colored people of Minnesota aie imuch elated over the passage of what is known as the "Anti-Lynching Law," this week which provides that as much as $7,500 may be recovered by the kin of a person lynched by a mob, and, that the sheriff of any county in which a lynching occurs, may be suspended from office if he does not fully protect prisoners from mobs Thus the great state of Minnesota falls in line with the states of Ala bama, Louisiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, Kansas, New York, Ohio, Pennsyhania, California, Maine, New Hampshire, Illinois, New Jersey and Wisconsin, which have laws involv ing all or a part of the provisions of the Minnesota law. There appears to be no doubt of the constitutionality of the law, as the U. S. Supreme Court in the case of Louisiana vs. New Orleans, 109 U. S. 285, decided that laws of that character are valid Mrs W. T. Francis of Stf. Paul is the author of the law and, to her indefatigible labors, in its behalf, with the membersi of the legislature is its successful passage due A REAL RELIGION. The Bahaist Congress is in session in Chicago The Bahaist faith is dif ferent from the larger Christian sects in that it not only believes in, but practices, the 'brotherhood of man. To Christians, except a few of the smaller sects, a colored man is a "nigger" to the Bahaists he is a brother in fact. The Bahaists are building in Will mette, a Chicago suburb, a $1,000,000 temple, called Mashrak el Askar. CABEL'S GOOD ADVICE. Vote! Cast your vote though tax ed for it. Cast your vote though de frauded of it, as many a white man is today. Cast your vote though you die for it. Let no man cry,."Libe?rty or blood" leave that for Socialists and Parisian mobs but when liberty means duty, fcnd death means one's own extinction, the cry of "Liberty or death" is a holy, cry, and the man THE SIN OF SILENCF Who will not make it his own, even in freedom, is not free. Seek not to buy liberty with the blood of eitiher friends or enemies it is only man's own blood at last that counts in the purchase of liberty. "Whatever .may have been the true philosophy for more ferocious times, this is true philosophy for ours. Cast your votes, then, even if many of you die for it. Some of you have died, but in com parison how few 300,000 white men poured out their blood to keep you bound, other 300,000 died to set you free, and still the full measure of American freedom is not yours A fiftieth as much of your own blood shed in the inoffensive activity of public duty will buy it. Keep your vote alive better nine free men than ten half-free. In most of the South ern States the colored vote has been diminishing steadily for years, to the profound satisfaction of those white men whose suicidal policy is to keep you in alienism. In the name of the dead, black and white, of the living, and of your children yet unborn, not as. one party or another, but as Amer ican freemen, vote! Fon in this free land the people who do not vote, do not get and do not deserve their rights. These words were written many years ago by George W Cable, fa mous writer, and friend of the color ed people, author of "The Freedmen's Case in Equity." It is as good and as true today as it was when he first penned it. And it is quite different from the advice given by certain jim crow "leaders" and "great negroes" who sneer at "mere voting." THE RACE QUESTION. In his first (message to Congress, President Harding said: "Congress ought tio wipe the stain of barbaric lynching from the ban ners of a free and orderly, repre sentative democracy. We face the fact that many millions of people of African descent are numbered-among our population and that in a number of the states they constitute a very large proportion of the total popu lation. "It is unnecessary to recount the difficulties incident Jto this condition, nor to emphasize the fact that it is a condition which cannot be removed. There has been a suggestion, how ever, that some of its difficulties might be ameliorated by a humane and enlightened consideration of it, a study of its many aspects and an effort to formulate, if not a policy, at least a national attitude of imind calculated to bring about the most satisfactory possible adjustment of' relations between the races, and of each race to the national life. "One proposal is the creation of a commission embracing representatives of both races, to study and report on the entire subject. The proposal has real merit. I am convinced in mutual tolerance, understanding, char ity, recognition of interdependence of the races and the maintenance of the rights Of citizenship lies the road to righteous adjustment." MR. HARDING'S CHANCE. For eight years one-twelfth of the citizenry of the United States suffer ed from the humiliation of segrega tion in the civil service of the coun try. It was a condition forced by President Wilson, who while deliver ing his smooth talks about world democracy, used his great' power to humiliate and degrade millions of his fellow countrymen. & K!%%fJ &K & *.*i 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 our least disputes. The few who dare must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many.Ella Wheeler Wilcox. THE MAN WHO DARES I honor the man who in the consck entious discharge of his duty dares to stand 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. Wilson considered himself a super man, and his ambition, was to be the president of a super-government and go down in history as the greatest man who ever lived. Repudiated at the ballot box by his countrymen, he is today, according to all accounts a physical wreck. And as he sits in his easy chair, his keen intellect is tortured by the spectres of his de feated ambitions Mr. Harding, you have the pow er to wipe out the President Wilson's great wrong to the colored people. You have stated on many occasions that you believe in equality of citi zenship. You have the power to is sue .an executive order abolishing segregation in the departments at Washington and in the Civil Service of the United States. Will you do it, Mr. Harding? THE WOMEN AT CLEVELAND. The National League of Women Voters at their Cleveland session formulated a plan to work for the "abolition of all sex discrimination that^ Congress has the power to deal with." Effort will also be made to have all state laws modified where they exist to the discriminatino of, women. This is quite different from the na* tional colored organizations which, without exception, compromise on some fundamental point and while some cases pretend to be working to abolish segregation, are actually seek ing to establish it in one form 01 another. The jimcrow colored leaders ought to wash their dirty hands and "come clean," and then join their brothers who are fighting for the removal of all legal hindrances, by asking Con gress to pass a blanket bill removing all racial discriminations with which it has the power to deal. SECRETARY JOHNSON OF N. A. A. C. P. CONFERS WITH PRESIDENT. Secretary James W. Johnson, Sec retary of the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People, in a recent conference with President Harding, emphasized the important fact that the national as- _. sociation was not interested in the tad parceling out of petty jobs, but that its interest was in the enactment of measures to relieve oppressive con ditions affecting colored people. The specific points discussed were: 1. Passage of a federal anti-lynch ing law by Congress. 2. A wide and thorough investiga tion of peonage conditions in the Southern states, to be made by the Department of Justice, followed by the punishment of the perpetrators of the peonage system. 3. An investigation of disfran chisement in the South and the right of the Negro to vote under the iden tical qualifications required of other citizens. 4. The appointment of a Nation al Inter-racial Commission to make a thorough study of raae relations. 5. Congressional investigation of both military and civil acts of the American occupation in Haiti. 6."* The appointment of colored as sistant secertaries in the Departments of Labor and Agriculture. 7. The abolishment by executive order of all race segregation in the Departments at Washington and the United States Civil Service,. Some of the things asked ^for are good, but others are bad, as we shall endeavor to show editorially in our next issue. We also believe that -4* is & matter which can be handled by the President without any discussion or Suggestions froin, either his cab inet or the Congress, and we have it on the authority df William Monroe Trotter and others that the President when a candidate for the office prom ised that he would issue such an or der. That is the fundamental propo sition upon which* everything else rests. Let segregation by the Fed eral government cease. It is said that tne Ku Klux Klan has about 7,000 members in Chicago. A Klan has been organized among the white servants of wealthy resi dents of Lake Forest, a suburb. The state senate of Illinois has voted approval of Governor Small's planks, the principal of which in cludes the enforcement of the 15th Amendment. They were rejected by the Republican national convention. Senator McCormick of Illinois is pushing his bill for a lynch quiz, i It would be all right if he'd leave off the inter-racial relations part There is enough in the! lynching quiz, to keep a commission busy for some time. 'The St. Paul Pioneer Press says: "The world is making progress when a Georgia jury convicts a white man of murder for killing 11 Negroes, but a lecommendation of mercy accom panies the verdict. Which raises the question, how many he would have to kill to be entitled to no mercy?" We would like to know, too. Capt. Sumner W. Kittelle, U. S. N., has been assigned to duty as governor of the Virgin Islands of the United States, and comandant of the naval base. He succeeds Rear-Admiral J. W. Oman as chief United States of ficial in the new American possession purchased from Denmark. The Isl ands have a population of about 27,000-23,000 colored and 4,000 white. BISHOP CARTER COMING. Bishop R. A. Carter, A B., A. M., of Chicago, Bishop of the Fifth Episcopal C. M. Dist, will preach Sunday, April 24th, at Grace C. Mt E. church, cor. Rondo and Kent streets, at 11:00 a. an. In the afternoon at 3:00 o'clock he will preach at St. James A. M. E. church, Fuller and Jay Sts. Monday night, April 25, at 8 o'clock, he will lecture at Pilgrim Baptist Church, Cedar St. and Summit Ave. Everybody invited to each of these meetings. Come and hear one of the greatest orators and preachers in this country. J. A. Foster, Pastor. Grace C. M. E. Church. THE N. A. A. C. P. BOARD Donates Dinner to Divines and Devel ops a Drive for New Members. The Board of Directors of the St. Paul Branch of the N. A. A. C. P., preparing for the week drive for new members, from April 25 to April 30, invited all the pastors of our churches to a 6:00 o'clock dinner at Wilson Villa, Cor. Rondo and Mac kubin streets, last Monday. Revs. S. Theobald, T. J. Carr, A H. Leal- H. Hodge, P. Jones, J. A. Foster and J. S. Strong were present Also Dr. I L. Rypins, Dr. Valdo Turner, Geo. W. James, W. T. Francis, O. C. and S. E Hall, G. Shannon, J. Q. Adams Mesdames A. W. Jordan, S. L. Maxwell, Henry High and J. Adams The menu consisted of: Fruit cock tail cream of corn soup beef tender loin, larded, aux mushrooms hot Parker House rolls mashed potatoes creamed peas and carrots, combina tion salad apple pie a la mode coffee All appetizing specimens of the culinary skill ofy Mrs. Wilson. After discussing the excellent menu the gentlemen present, each, had something to say along the line of the coming membership drive, all favoring it and pledging themselves to boost it in all ways possible. The pastors formed themselves into a special alliance to advance the cause of the N A A P., from which mueh good is expected. Each of the pastors will have some thing to say of the N. A. A. C. P. at their services tomorrow. NORTH CENTRAL AFRICA. By E. W. Gilles. In North Central Africa, we have the great Sahara desert. It is not all desert, however," as there are nu merous oases, large and small, where they have waterand vegetation and people. So we**#T finding (mission ary fields in the midst of the great desert. Some railroads are being built along the line of the chief cara van routes, so that some of these in terior fields are becoming accessible by railroad, and the camel, the an cient "Ship of the Desert," is not so much used. Across on the eastern coast of Africa we have Abyssinia, which is the ancient Ethiopia of the Bible. In the 8th chapter of Acts we read that the Ethiopian eunuch went up to Jerusalem to worship. He was, ob viously, a Jewish worshiper, but not yet a Christian. Oil his way home, Philip, the Evangelist, fell in with him and got up into his chariot and preached unto him Jesus, and he was happily converted and baptized and went on "his way rejoicing and we traditionally understand that he went home and preached the gospel to his own people and, so, no doubt, was the first Christian gospel preacher in the great continent of Africa. We also traditionally understand that the apostle Matthew lived and labored and died in Ethiopia In the northeastern corner of Af rica, we have Egypt. The descend ants of the ancient Egyptians are still there. We know them as the Coptic people, and their church is Coptic church. They are Christians in a way, but not a very good way. They have a system of church organ ization* a system of priesthood and a form of church worship, but not much Bible ^in it. This always re sults in weakness whether on the part of the individual Christian, or the local church, or the denomination, or the Christian world at large. The missionaries are going to these Cop tic people with the open Bible, and reading it to them, arid teaching and encouraging them to read it for themselves, and they are slowly edit ing into better things. Mission sta tions have been established here and there for many miles up and down the Nile river The Mohammedans are alarmingly active in Northern Africa, and this is one of our missionary problems. Gyrene is in Northern Africa, and ai we do not know of any other Cyrene, we are confident that Simon, who carried the cross for Jesus, was from Northern Africa. There was much Christian activity in Northern Africa during the apos tolic period, and also during the pe riod of the church fathers. Among the great men of the early church in Northern Africa, there was Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, Cyprian, bishop of Carthage, and Augustine, bishop of Hippo. 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