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Don’t wait to hear what the public
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ion. Say what you think if you believe
you are right.
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vices every Sunday. Sunday School,
4 p. m.; Divine services, 7:45 p. m.
AH are invited. Conducted by Rev.
Jefferson.
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prices.
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dinary market prices.
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Springfield
Consolidated
Railway Time
Table
Time Table of Springfield Consolidated
Railway Co.
Cars for North Fifth street will
leave Fifth and Monroe every 7Vi
minutes from 6:07 a. m., until 8:00 p.
ra.; every 10 minutes from 8:00 p. m.
until 11:20 p. m.; owl cars will leave
at 11:4# p. m„ 12:07 and 12:30 a. m.
Cars for South Fifth street will
leave Fifth and Monroe every 71/& I
minutes from 6:07 a. m. until 7:45 p.
Fifth and Monroe every 12 minutes
from 6:00 a. m. until 11:24 p. m.; owl
cars leave at 11:48 p. m., 12:00 mid
night and 12:24 a. m.
Cars for North Seventh street leave
Fifth and Monroe every 12 minutes
from 6:00 a. m. until 11:24 p. m.; owl
ears leave at 11:48 p. m. and 12:24
a. m.
Cars for Spring street leave Fifth
and Monroe every 12 minutes from
S:08 a. m. until 11:20 p. m.; owl cars
leave at 11:44 p. m., 12:08 and 12:30 |
a. m.
Cars for East Carpenter street leave
Fifth and Monroe every 12 minutes
from 6:08 a. m. until 11:20 p. m.; owl
cars leave at 11:44 p. m., 12:07 and
12:30 a. m.
Cars for South Grand avenue leave
Fifth and Monroe every 15 minutes
from 6:07 a. m. until 11:22 p. m.; owl
cars leave at 11:45 p. m., 12:07 and J
12:30 a. m.
Cars for Lawrence avenue leave
Fifth and Monroe every 12 minutes
from 6:00 a. m., until 11:36 p. m.; owl
cars leave at 12:00 midnight and 12:30
a. m.
Cars for North Ninth street leave
Fifth and Monroe every 12 minutes
from 6:00 a. m. until 11:36 p. m.
Cars for East Capitol avenue leave
Fifth and Monroe every 12 minutes
from 6:00 a. m. until 11:36 p. m.; owl
cars leave at 12:00 midnight and 12:30
a. m.
Cars for South Eleventh and Rut
ledge streets leave Fifth and Wash
ington every 15 minutes from 6:07 a.
m. until 11:22 p. m.; owl cars leave at
11:52 p. m. and 12:22 a. m.
Cars for West Washington street
leave Fifth and Monroe every 15 min
utes from 6:00 a. m. until 11:15 p. m.;
owl cars leave at 11:45 p. m. and 12:07
a. m.
Cars for Governor street leave Fifth
and Monroe every 15 minutes from
6:07 a. m. until 11:22 p. m.; owl cars
leave at 12:30 a. m.
Cars for South Eighth street leave
Fifth and Monroe every 15 minutes
from 6:00 a. m. until 11:15 p. m.
Please don’t put the collectors off
by telling them you want to see the
editor. We employ them because w#
have not time for that ourselves.
When the collectors come, pay them.
VIRGIL MOTLEY, Solicitor,
Appeal Made by Ne
gro Conclave.
PREJTDICE CALLED DIS
EASE.
The Negro Conclave opened at
the Central Baptist Chucrcn. St.
Louis, on July 10, and closed at
the St- Paul Chapel on July 11.
There were 200 delegates present
from twenty five widely scattered
counties of the state. The pur
pose of the convention was to
unite the negro people of the
state in order as a unit to co-op
erate with the white people of
the state in preventing class leg
islation and injustice and to ele
vate the standards of citizenship
among the negroes, and to en
courage them upon the higher
and substantial lines of life.
The convention adopted as its
name, “The Negro Constitution
al League of Missouri.” Bishop
Abraham Grant was made presi
dent and Rev. George E. Stevens
ofiSt. Louis was elected secretary
A constitution was adopted in
which provision is made for the
formation of branch leagues in
in every county, city and town of
the state.
The address from the Negro
Constitutional League of Missou
ri to the people of the state and
nation, read by Secretary, Geo
rge E. Stevens, D. D., July 11,
follows:
It is known to all careful stu
clems oi me conuiuons in uur
ceuntry that we are passing
through serious times. There
is no question so vital, no prob
lem of our American life so diffi
cult of solution and none so un
fairly treated as the so called
negro question. The essential
principles of our government and
the‘Christian faith are involved
in this questisn. Although we
deplore that the unjust discrim
ination against us as a people
denies us equal privileges along
various lines of industry and
otherwise, it is gratifying to see
that in every section of our state
and country men of African de
sce it are holding, in the employ
of our white neighbors, places of
responsibility and large remuner
ation.
We are grateful for this evi
dence of fraternity and confidence
and along this line we plead for
Afro-Americans still wider op
portunities for equal service, that
trades, unions, firms and indi
viduals among our white fellow
citizens would be chivalrous and
just in welcoming the colored
mechanic and employe according
to merit with no regard to color
and rejecting him as an individu
al and never as a class, and then
only for demerit and inefficiency
Race prejudice is a widespread
debilitating miasma, which is af
fecting balefully the common
weal. It is lowering the tone of
national morals; it is brutalizing
and corrupting the whole land,
and even giving to the people a
false view of God and his holy
institutes, white and black, rich
and poor, all shouldstand togeth
er to extirpate the prejudice of
race, as a deadly disease, for the
souls of the people in general
seem to be darkening and shriv
eling with resantmeut and hate as
a result of this prejudice.
(To be continued )