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"Any prejudice whatever will
be insurmountable if those who
do not share in it themselves
truckle to it and flatter it and
accept it as a law of nature."
John Stuart Mill.
SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1921
MINNESOTA'S ANTI-LYNCHING
LAW.
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.
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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
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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.
Northern Afriac has a mixed popu
lation, consisting of the native Afri
can people and people from Europe
and people from Asia, which enlarges
the missionary problem. But from
the missionary viewpoint, we regard
problems as opportunities.
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