The New York Age from New York, New York • Page 4

Jftfo Tgark je The National Negro Weekly. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 19J) PubUihed ou U'liuradiiy ot Uvary Weak. Volume ii-m. 50 Offlo of lnibllcatlun, No. MO West 136th btreet.

New York. S'ibcrlptlo- by Mall. Pmtpald. ONE YEAR 12.00 SIX MONTHS I'HKKK MONTHS S1MXE COPY CANADA tOK ONE YEAR CUUMKIES. 1 YEAR.

7) J.OO r- ni.r.,1 Sarund Clau Matter Bp tisnioer 18, 113. at Pout Oittce at Njw lota, M. uudur ttaa act ot Aitrca t. i- Telephone, Morninsald ISSi. FRElI It MOORE.

and Editor UIH'IKN H. Managing Editor 1 vi. JOMhiSUN. Contributing- Editor l.i:STKR A. Dramatic Editor A MAY DUDLEY Cawlllor I.

UH)liE. Advertising Manaser Manager Printing Dept. An r.nrrini.'a Affrnev No. 17. Jre.i Sunk Leicwtcr Stiuarc, London.

Addrea" all letter! and make all check money arera payurm 'o 4UIIK ACiE. TO SUBSCRIBERS This is to notify you that on account of the high cost of paper THE AGE will be dis i continued immediately on ex piration, of subscription, it same is not at once renewed, The date of expiration is printed on label. To get i Ht AGE promptly renew your subscription at once. Don't wait for notice. FRED R.

MOORE, Editor. HARLEM POLICE STATION The location of a police station on West 135th street has long been rec-gnized as filling a public need. That the present establUhmnt is no up-date in the matters of accommodation, sanitation and necessary equipment is also well known. But that is 00 reason for the removal of the station to another locality. Let a new station be provided in the iame locality, with all the modern improvements, as its removal would be a iistinct loss to public security.

There Is need for the maintenance of a pol ice station in the section where the fretent Union is located. Harlem is a law abiding section, but ft needs to be kept so. There are ikmints in the community that are cap able of Stirling up trouble, unless the fear of law is kept before them. The police station is a visible demonstration of the supremacy of the law. Its pres is worth more than many reserves stationed a mile away.

let Harlem have a new police station vorthy of its standing, but let it be looted where its moral influence can be to the best advantage. RVEY AND THE BOLSHE-VIKI O.ie the New York dailies recent ly ipvud Marcus Garvey, who is mas jticrading under the assumed title of Provisional President of Africa, as demanding "Why should we not seek an alliance with Trotzky and Lenine?" Now, while this Garvey movement presents to the superficial observer many of the elements of farce, it must not be forgotten that too many of its de hided followers it is taken as a serious matter. Therein lies the danger of this movement as a menace to the peaceful and gradual progress of a people emerg ing from years of repression into an controlled expression of vague and in definite longings and ambitions. It is well therefore to take Mr. Gar- -vcy's reported utterance seriously, as some of his hearers probably did, although he may have employed it merely as a rctorical flourish to impress those of his hearers, who were ignorant of what Lenine and Trotzky stand for in the world at large and in Russia in particular.

In seeking to define what Lenine and Trotzky stand for, we shall ignore the vast fund of information and denunciation of Bolshevism and its results contributed by capitalistic writers and correspondents of the capitalistic press. These writers may be regarded as bias because of their unfriendly opinions against anything savoring of socialism ir communism. Instead, we shall take he testimony of Mr. John Spargo, widely recognized as an intellectual exponent of socialism in America, i Mr. Spargo has discussed the theories of Bolshevism in several books, but his late book on the subject is entitled "The Greatest Failure in Tn it he shows how Bolshevism works ut in actual praclice.

His conclusion that Bolshevism is a gigantic failure because it has caused unspeakable and imposed a tyranny more and oppressive than the of czarism. j( Under the government of Lenine and Trotzky r-nly the proletariat, the industrial wnpe earning class constituting not hiore than or 4 per cent of the p.ipu-Jiition of Russia, we are told, is pcr-hiitlcd to vote. Mr. Spargo says: I' "fn (IfMir.g'with tin? pen.intrv Leh-) ine and Trotzky and tlieir followers have shown no greater 'wisdom ot 'I statesmanship, no stroneer love of justice, no greater humanity than the old bureaucracy of czarism. They have not elevated the life of the peasants, but on the contrary have checked the healthy development that was alread in progress and that promised' jo well.

Thev have further brutal- izrd the life of the peasants, deepened their old distrust of government, fostered anarchv and restored the most i' primitive methods of living and working. All this they have done in the name of socialism and progress. titimiiii! his summing up ed (lit results of the government of the Soviel Republic, a dominated by Lenine and Trotzky. through the People's Com Mr. Spargo says: Promising peace and freedom they have brought new wars ui'on an already war weary nation.

Promising humane and just government, they have instituted a vast, corrupt bureau. cracy. I romismg so to organise pro THE NEW YORK AGE, SATURDAY. 1920 ilnction that there should he plciitiyj'i part of the Const'tution. Thus lor all and povcrtv for none, lliey have ruined industrial production and decreased agricultural production so that famine reigns in a land of pli-nti ful resources.

Promising to mate Hi workers free citizens in a ureal in dustriaj democracy, they have made them bond slaves. By their fruits ye shall know them and yet these are the allies that Mr, Garvey would seek for the Negroes of America and Africa. As well seek to make allies of the Arkansas and Miss. issippi planters, who rob the Negro la borers ol their crops and seek to keep them in perpetual peonage, Mr Garv-y should not presume too much on the ignorance of his follow ers. NEW CAMPAIGN METHODS With every recurring political cam paign there is a necessity for improved methods of reaching the voters anil stimulating them to the performance oi the full duty in organizing and vonu at the polls.

The lime honorcl lea turcs of the mass meeting and the torch light procession have lost nuicli of their effectiveness, and have Lien sup planted to a large decree by the send ing broadcast of lilerature, setting fordi the past performance and future pro gram of the various parties and their candidates. Much of this literature prepared and circulated at vast expense is wasted either through lack of proper distribu tion or the inability to get it into hands and enlist the careful attention of the individual voter. The problem of how to reach the ordinary voter, not the individual who for the space of the campaign lives and breathes in the at mosphere of politics, is the problem hardest of solution for die political managers. The most effective method so far de vised has been through the circulation of campaign facts and figures through newspapers of wide circulation. Nearly ery irt voter is a newspaper Yr ivugh the columns of his favorite ppcr, he can be reached through the publication of those and figures relating to the campaign.

that most closely concern his interests. The recognition of this fact by the campaign managers of today is becom ing more apparent in the columns of matter relating to party issues and party candidates sent out by the various cam paign press bureaus. This is the best kind of publicity and the most effertivc in reaching the voters of every class Instead of wasting time and money in the sending out of literature that seldom reaches the voter, and when it does is seldom read, the managers would do well to increase their use of newspaper space. Mass meetings and campaign literature arc well enough as adjuncts, but for effective work the newspaper of wide circulation that reaches the voter in his home is the most effective eneans of stimulating him to the performance of lis full duty at the polls. With the enrollment of the great number, of wo men as voters, the effectiveness of the newspaper as a political auxiliary be comes redoubled.

COLLEGE GRADUATES The colleges for the education of the youth of the race have again sent forth a small army of graduates, who arc intent upon taking up their life work. Many of them will engage in teaching, while others will take up the practice of law, medicine, pharmacy or sonic other profession. But in addition to the profession, by which these graduates will earn their livelihood, there is another way in which they can become a valuable asset to the race. There is a great need for these college graduates lo become leaders of iheir people in the South, where by example and precept they can show them how to live and how to do business. There ate sections in which the example of right living and home making will be worth more than a ton of dong distance advice.

Many of these people mtd to be show how to get homes and to keep them up in a proper way. Much has already been done in this line by the devoted workcii of the race, who have cast their lot with the masses of tic South, but much still remains to be done. There arc s-vrtiuns of the South where opportunities for racial enterprise and advancement exist, but are not yet taken advantage of to the fullest extent. The young lawyer, doctor, dentist, phar macist, veterinarian, agriculturist, or whatever he may be, can here find a fruitful field for his start in life At the same time he can demonsrate the desirability or getting a home before indulging in an automobile, and in nth- er ways set a sane example of sensible living 011 a progressive scale. Willi the progress of the rmnniunilY r.hcre tl.cy may settle, tlie-r roll'o will ii.ilirraily evolve into a poiitiou oi which will results, both for tltcm-clvi-s and for the group with which they have lec me identified.

There is need fur this kind of edu cated and enlightened leadership. The colleges and ohcr institutions of higher terming should furnish it. The Republican voters of New York, both m.Ti and women, should do their whole duty at the primry elections, by voting for the designated candidates of the party. VIEWS and REVIEWS By James Weldon Johnson, Contributing Editor THE NINETEENTH AMENDMENT RATIFIED After a fierce fight in Tennessee, the Nineteenth Amendment, ranting universal suffrage to women, was ratified by the thirty- sixth state and has been proclaimed by Secretary of Slate Colby as The closing scenes were spectacular. There were moments when it seemed that the women would lose, or, at least, lose the opportunity to vote at this presidential election.

If Tennessee had failed to ratify, the only hope would have been in Connecticut, Vermont or Florida; and the governor in each of these states had positively refused to call a special session of the legislature. The Democrats are making as much as possible out of the fact that the thirty-sixth and last state to ratify the amendment was a Democratic stale. That much cannot be denied, but any claim of the Democrats that the adoption of Suffrage was tint: to their party will not stand an analysis of the vote of the various states oil 'this measure. Out of the thirty-six stall's that twenty-six had Republican legislatures, seven had Democratic legislatures, and in three the legislatures were divided. Nor can the Democratic South, because Tennessee not a Northern state, escape the responsibility for the narrow margin which stood between the amendment and defeat.

Of the states ratifying, twenty-seven were Northern and Western, seven were I 'order and South Wrvieru, and 'inly two were states of the old South. If the little things arc safe guides to a chnracter, we may get a pretty good line on the two principal presidential candidates from what c.tclfof them said 011 receiving the news of ratification by the Tennessee Legislature. Senator Harding said: "All along 1 have wished for the completion of ratification, and have said so, and I am glad to have 'all the citizenship of the United States take part in the presidential elections. The Republican Party will welcome the response of American womanhood to its appeal to the confidence of all our people." This is .1 statesmanlike declaration. There is no buncombe in it.

There is no appeal to false sentiment. No taffy 011 the end of a stick to tempt the woman vote. It is a welcome to the women of the country into politics on the same footing as men. It is an appeal to their intelligence to consider the grounds on which the Re publican Party asks their confidence and their votes. Governor Cox said "The civilization of the world is saved.

Tlic mothers of A.mr-ica will stay the hand of war and repudiate, those who traffic with a great principle. 'The action of the Tennessee Legislature has another significance. It is an earnest of the Democratic policy to pay its platform obligations. This is the same sort of rhetorical bombast we have been get ting from the White House for high-aounding, empty words which and conditions. It is an obvious It underrates their intelligence to even a commonplace compliment.

facts in the case. the The ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment is not an earnest of the Democratic policy to pay the thirty-six states that voted twenty-six ui v.ul Republican Democratic vs. ()f these cation, eiglii b.id Democratic legislatures only one was Re publican. The statements that the "civilization of the world is saved" and that "the mothers of America will ate those who traffic with a great the utterances of an eloquent demagogue. The gaining of the ballot by women is not going to save and we do not believe that intelligent women have any that it will.

They realize that it iu.iir the political fought for the ballot only for the It will be lamentable be more able to stay the hand of 1916, when they supported and in of Woodrow Wilson under the naturally believing it meant "He Governor Cox's statement on if Amendment reveals nothing more 'than a smooth, nily-tonguc! politician. Woman Suffrage is going to niag.c, however, but by earnest foresee no greater changes than political status of the Negro. I colored women to pull the race which it is now lying. The colored men have failed. 1 look for this result from colored women will take greater men now take because it is a newly acquired power.

Hut more important still, tin; colored women will be more earnest, more per sisteut, and Itoa corruptible than way of a compliment; the colored given constant proof that in the urden and struggled on even when women of America have been the church, the school and often the that would be difficult for the white women of America to under stand. Tile final victory of what became known as the Susan B. An thony Amendment brings up art interesting bit of unfamiliar history regarding th.c beginning of the Suffrage Movement in this, country and the framing of the amendment itself. It is not generally known that Frederick Douglass played an important part in giving the movement an impetus and had a ment which has now becoipc a luring the light over suffrage in circulated the charge that "the Susan 15. Anthony Amendment was written by a Negro, Frederick Douglass." The suffrage leaders in telegraphed headquarters for a refutation of the charge, and Mrs.

Carrie Chapman Catt evasively replied that the amendment was originally written and introduced by Senator Sargent of' California. '1 his statement is true, so far as it'goes. However, it ignores much that happened before January 10, IS8, the date on which the amendment was introduced in Congress. Indeed, it might be said that Frederick, was the joint originator of the movement itself. The first "Woman's Rights" convention was held at Seneca Falls.

New Vork, in 1848. At that convention the women demanded a good many things, but feared to took part in the discussion vote would defeat other demands ends a long and bitter struggle. last eight years. A string of have no relation at all to fact appeal to woman's sentimental side such a degree that it fails to be And it is contrary to all the its platform" obligations. Out of for ratification, as shown above legislatures and only seven had states that voted to defeat rat ifi stay the hand of war and repudi principle" are nothing more than civilization in any miraculous way will require a long and arduous and social order, and they have privilege of taking, part in that the mothers of America should war in 1920 than they were in.

reality brought about the election slogan, "He kept us out of war," will keep us out of war." the ratification of the Nineteenth bring about lv and iinseliis'n effort. And I ca those that it will produce in the look to the advent into politics of out of-the political slough in no sentimental reasons. The in the vote than colored the This is not said by women have for a half century things vital they have borne the the men faltered. The colored corner stone of the family, the economic mainstay to a degree direct hand in drafting the amend part of the Constitution. In fact, Louisiana last spring, the Amis demand the right to vote.

Those feared a demand for the right to which they deemed jnorc rational, and would makei the whole movement ridiculous. But Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Frederick Douglass advocated the resolution with such pcisistencfiVthat it was at last carried by a small majority. And so it was that the first declaration for the right of women to the ballot was in part due to Frederick Douglass. The Woman Suffrage Movement proper in tin's country staid in 1806 and was linked witlj the cause of Negro Suffrage. This was evidently due to the influence of Frederick Douglass, who believed it would be a great advantage to hitch the cause of his own race to that of the white woman.

Yet, strange to see, Negro Suffrage as a part of the Constitution preceded Woman Suffrage by just fifty years. The first organization which had Woman Suffrage as a deiinite and principal object was formed in 1S66, with Lucrctia Mott as president, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, vice-president, and Frederick Douglass, second vice-president. It is a part of history that the Fifteenth Amendment, which was framed to amplify and protect the rights granted in the Fourteenth, was the result of a conference between Anna Dickinson. Frederick Douglass and Theodore Tilton. The language of the Nineteenth Amendment is identical with that of the Fifteenth.

So it is not too much to believe that a Negro, Frederick Douglass, had a hand in framing them both. INTERNATIONAL ETHICS. If any one still has idea that the conduct of great nations; toward each other is governed by any defined principles of justice, and such a person ought to go at once and pick out a comfort- able room in an institution for the feeble-minded. Note the conduct of England aild Italy in the two weeks toward When Russia was at the gates of Warsaw, ami. so far as human 1 intelligence could judge, looked like a sure winner, England and! Italy were at work laying grounds for resumption of trade and! recognition.

Italy isFiicd a statement ucciainig mat 11 was nooou business but the Russians' what sort oi a government they had. With the of the Russian at my came a distinct change of attitude, lioth England and Italy searched for some excuse to get away from their earlier position. All of this diplomatic bun-: combe would be laughable if it were not lor the serious fart that itj succeeds in fooling the majority ot the people right along. 1 We also have England making a statement that Egypt will be granted independence. England declared her protectoiale.

over Egypt "for the period o( the. war," but let nobody be deceived into thinking that she would have kept her word and restored independence if it had not beeji for the trouble that Egypt has been giving l.er. something the world has heaid very little about. When Ireland ran make it as difficult to hold her as Egypt has, she will get her independence too. THE FUNDAMENTAL ERROR Governor Lickett of Nirt'- Carolina is about as fine a specimen of the up-wright and conscientious Southern executive as can lie found in that sec-lion.

The has frequently had occasion to commend his strenuous opposition to lynch law and mob rule, even to the point of calling out the State troops to maintain law and order. He is the only Governor in the South to banish the revival of the infamous Ku Klux Klan in his State, as a menace to peaceful relations between the two races. Yet this good governor in a recent message to the legislature, advocating a commission to study necessary legislation for the Negroes, fell into a fundamental error, when he said: "In North Carolina we have definitely decided that the happiness of both races requires that white government shall be supreme and unclial-lenged in our borders. Power is ina-perably linked with responsibility, and when wc deny to the Negro any participation in the making of the. law we saddle upon ourselves a peculiar obligation to protect the Negro in his life and proriy, and to help and encourage him in pursuit ol happiness.

hen the white people of the South, it any other section for that matter, deny to the Negro, or any other class of citizens, and participation in the making of the laws, they are violating the first principles of true Americanism. No tdinission of a "peculiar obligation to protect the Negro in his life and property" can gloss over the fact that the Negro is being robbed of his citizenship. His liberty and his property are at the mercy of his white neighbors. And as an en. incut authority once said, no 1.

.1, ....1, nf mall is good cnougn 10 uv ms lu.tlur man's rights and hlicrtics. The legislation recommended by the governor is all well and good. The es tablishment of a boys reformatory, a tubercular hospital, a teachers iraimng school and the amendment of transportation laws so as to afford Negro travel ers sater ana more auiui'iuw-tions are much needed reforms and the proposition to provide them is laudable. But in view of the fundamental error that justifies the deprival of the Negro of his rights to citizenship, these re forms are simply a alve to the con-sc'rii?) of ithose wiiitc Southerners, who would palliate a wrong, in ll.c vain hope that good may come out of evil. The day is toniins when good South erners like Governor Bickett will no longer be able to quift their consciences by such partial concessions to justice as he now proposes.

The fundamental er- ror of the proposition that denies the Xcaro a voice in the making o( the laws by which he is governed will be Apparent. The true method of preparing for that day is to afford the Negro the op portunity to equip himself for the full measure of citizenship. When Southern white men like Governor Bickett have the courage to openly this fact, they will no longer voice the error, that any group of people can be hcliied and encouraged in the pursuit of happiness; while deprived of their normal status as citizens. FOR BROADER CHRISTIANITY As air instrument for the betterment of humanity and the training of youth in the right direction, so much has been accomplished by the Young Men's and the Young Women's Christian Association should suffer through sectarian limitations. There seems to be no good reason, why these two organizations should not stand for a broader idcad of Christian ity by including Catholics and those with- out any formal church connections among its workers.

Many bright men and women, of undoubted morality and capacity for the work, might be enlisted these organizations, but for the (act thai only those indrntified with some Protestant denomination are considered eligible. The first question asked an applicant for admission to either of these 1l i saitl'kojibe? as to the church with which the applicant is affiliated. Unless it happens to be one of the religious LodicfVommonly classed as evangelical his or her acceptance for the work is reirardcd as out of the question. WI--- this should be so is not quite the average outsider. Both of liar while professing Christianity in their title, are not sup posed to be committed to any special creed or doctrinal belief, other than the broad tents of Oinstlantty.

The ques-tiiu then arises. Would it not be wise to admit all persons of good moral character as members and workers, re gardlcs of their church affiliations? Would not the open door be a good policy for Christian work, without any requirement ol denominational bias, but character as the sole criterion? A QUEER QUESTION Commenting on the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment by the Tennes see Legislature, which it regards as ending the long struggle over equal suffrage, the York Tribune concludes an editorial as follows: But the question arises as to what ex tent is the right of all adult women to vote to lie respected. Will the women adopt the discriminating policy of the men, or will they, with a livelier sense of tustice. insist that all women in cludes even those of dark complexion? ill thev say the Fourteenth Amend ment is the law quite as much as the Nineteenth This is a peculiar question for the for rncr journalistic exponent of old line Republicanism to ask. Why should the responsibility for enforcing the Nine tecnlh Amendment be placed upon the women? Because the Congress of the nation, when under the control of Re publicans, evaded the responsibility of enforcing tlic Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments by enacting the appropriate legislation necessary, is it to be expected that the Congress will follow that vicious precedent in dealing with the Nineteenth Amendment? The Tribune has seemingly lost sight ot the fact that the present candidate of the Republican Party, has announced his ijitention, if elected, to be a constitutional President.

This intention, if carried out in his recommendations to the Congress, will put the onus of en forcing the Constitution and its amendments up to that body. The Tribune should be true to its past records as an exponent of the Republicanism that put human rights above political expediency, by advocating the election of a Congress that Would sustain a Constitutional President in his elTorts to enforce the Constitution, in-eliding all of its amendments. The Los Angeles (Cal) AVtn Age, notes as' a proof that the race is making progress the fact that race" educators, teachers and ministers are leaving the school and the pulpit to accept em-ploynientby business organizations. It says: Dean Moore of Howard L'niversinty is reiignir.g 40 become an officer of an insurance company. Here is an coma-tor of ears' service, with a position secure for life in a great institution who resigns practically "to go into business." The public may dare conclude that the insurance comnanv will nnv him more money and give him greater jiental and executive ireedom.

Dr. Lucas, minister of Epworth Lea- I gue Assistant General Secretary for Ul SENATOR HARDING AND THE NEGRO Extracts from the speech of the Republican for President, Senator 1, Harilinu, delivered at Marion 1 on July 21, 1920: should eive Us efttcnu ,..1 "'si in sowing me prorjicm ot ample becoming housing of its ship. "I believe the Negro clticm America should be guaiantecd enjoyment, of all their rights, tn'at they have earned the full mcisu.v' of citizenship bestowed, that tl lr'i sacrifices in blood on the fields of the republic have them to all of freedom and tunity, all of sympathy and aid ti ii'i the American spirit of fairness a ij justice demands." "I believe in law enforcement If elected I mean to be a consii tional president, and it is impost i ble to ignore the constitution ua thinkable to evade the law, our every committal in to government. People ever will 4, ier about the wisdom of the enact. 1 ment of a Jaw- there is opinion respecting the eighteenth1 amendment and the laws enacted to make it operative but there can be no difference of opinion about honest law enforcement.

"Neither government nor party can afford to cheat the American', people. The lawa of congress mu-t'l harmonize with the constitution else they aoon are adjudged to be void; congress enacts the laws a-d the executive branch cf govern-' ment is charged with enforcement 1 We can not nullify because ot vided opinion, we cannot jcop2r i dic orderly government with ccn 'i tempt for law enforcement fication or repeal is the rioto free people, whenever the deliberate and intelligent public sentiment commands, but perversion and evasion mark the paths to the failure of government itself." years, resigns to connect himeit a co-operative society of both races which is "establishing grocery stor-s and other enterprises." The public may again suppose that better salary ant! er advantages are involved. 1 his tendancy of business to draft into its service the trained workers of t-e learned professions is a symptom ot the times, anw may be rightly regarded as index to racial progress. NEW METHOD OF LYNCHING Financial Hanging To the Editor of The Age: Wc have had them hung, shot, drown, ed and burned. Wc have had ho.ri bored through them with hot 01 iron; we have ironed the skin oil u.cir back wiUi hot sad-irons; wc have i-em up just a little atiovc the U'u-iiig fire and gradually roasted them, "n-tisseric" fasnion; we have strung hum up by the heels ripped them open like ut-tie.

tJut it remained for Lcxingiuu. N. to invent the newest method to circun' them through their pocket lynch them alive, to. beggar them the a Ins wile, children, all. Ihc only prequijitcs to this style oi lynching are that the vicUm liioiiH l.c accused and have a book, othcrwinc he will Le hung.

According to a white ima, well-known in North Carolina, cused a well-known colored man ui "stealing his wile's love." 1 he the data given: the white man New York City on a vfsrt. Neighbors cr "watchers" saw the colored enter his home. He was captured ud accused. Ihc wile went "back to no The husband came bam to North Carolina and attached ail property of the colored man, the latter having been ordered 10 "ilee" hv tr.e mayor and other officers of the law. You see: the Negro had monry.

He IS bcillff sued for our hunHrcri ilii.n .1 dollars, all he has. for alienating mc wife's affections. If he were poor. would have been hung without of Being rich he can more probt-ably be sued. If he were killed, be could not be sued and his estate wouij legally belong to his wite and chiUrci.

And yet only God will ever know what he is euiltv or whether he is guilty of anvthing, for even the oi'hcers of the law have banished him never tu return on his Inc. The court will pa judgment on him in his absence, and the ease will go against him by fault" of his appearance. Just think it through: the court summon a man to defend himself bch rt its bar of "Justice" and will at the- ime time tell him that he had better answer the summons or he will I killed. He must remain out of the state, the court will hear onlv his accusers and the white man will net the money. Unc, two, three! done! Now fornive us.

but let 11s "surrw" a bit. Suppose every colored man. v.iwt wite had been "stolen or taken by a white man in the South could as eailf to get that white man's propcrt). many proud fortunes would fall and n-any millim change And sup pose any Southern white woman as easily divorce her husband for relations to some colored wm.n. the Dixie divorce courts would ha-e to keep open nights.

Unless he can have his day in curt, there is no protection fur the Nr-i" eiiher in person or property. He pe killed when he is poor and when he is rich. No irregular. ilirl action can safe-guard justice. F.vcn ttie courts find it difficult enough.

It is the old truth a group witlwat its legal and political rights dire nrt get wealth. This attitude toward lb' Negro is a constant menace to foundations of law and the eil ben of Society. It reacts upon the man. In the ordinary process ot development. Mississippi ought Vf ahead of Massachusetts in nv' ilization, because Massachusetts h.i- 1,1 again and ajjain fliioded with U'pt and low standards from the did Put in fact, Mississippi, with its o-: ul American" white population, i- vcars or more behind Massau" because of this relation to it population and the absorbing sipating business of "Keeping the N'J deiwn." There are three Lcxinetons in In-f ry: Ixxington.

of KVvoIutii-'T I Vu ee liere governor and his obedient troops decide-j to break up pi ysiral lynching phs-irj' lorcc; and now tins Lexin'on. where this swift process oi financial lynching is being, inaueuratrd. here is no civilized law ami iislic. of fh constituted ties of administration and the establish- ed courts. KENPIC WILLIAMS.

New York, N. Y..