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i- THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1913. 'JIM CROW LAWS 1BMB STATE Many Anti-Negro Measures Introduced in Illinois Legislature PREJUDICE IS RAMPANT Springfield is Teeming with "Col-orphobia" and all Parties are Introducing Hostile Bills NEGROES ARE PREJUDICED So-caUed Friends of Race Showing La tie Interest Jack Jahnsoa laddeat Said to Be Cause of AM. Special to Thb New Yobx Springfield, ILL-, Aiarch 11. -To date seen bills have been introduced in the Illinois Legislature, all of them antagonistic to the Negro. They are known as the Shaw BilL the Campbell Bill, the Foster Bill, the Poorman Bill, the Hol-Jenbeck Bill, the Karch Bill and the Full Crew Bill.

With the exception of the latter, the sponsors for these measures place the blame for their action upon the Jack Johnson incident. The Campbell Bill seeks to establish the "Jim Crow" car on the transportation lines of Illinois, especially on the street cars of Chicago and the other large cities. The Full Crew Bill will eliminate the railroad porter, and is believed to be the first step in the thorough elimination of Negroes in railroad service. The other five measures aim at the prevention of marriage between Negroes and whites, thus per-Brtting illicit intercourse and whole-nk miscegenation. It is significant that these bills have been introduced by Democratic, Republican and Progressive members of the Legislature.

The Full Crew Bill has been made a party measure by the Progressive Party. What is still more significant is the attitude of the so-called friends of the Negro. They are not anxious to assert themselves at Springfield. The opposition is thoroughly active and gaining force. The Negro having no membership in the Legislature and no leader in either of the two parties, with whom he votes anxious to voice his position, is in a dangerous position.

Atmosphere Antl-Negro. The whole atmosphere at Springfield is anti-Negro. Race prejudice is more rampant, more vulgar and more arrogant in the State Capiital of Illinois than in the City of Louisville, Ky, and many other of the metropolitan cities south of Mason and Dixon's line. Unfortunately, the colored quietly accept these conditions. Your correspondent is speaking as a whole.

There nay be, and there are many individuals who chafe under the state of things, but up to the present, there has been no organized effort to protest against this backward civic attitude. When one walks along the streets and hears the "barker" for a five-cent theatre yelling out brazenly "Show for white folks only," goes to the leading theatre in the city and it only permitted to buy a seat in the "Jim Crow" SaHery. you get a fair idea of Springfield. Upon this anti-race poison, the sensationalist feeds from the moment he enters the State Capital until he leaves. All of these bills are in committee hat are likely to be reported out.

Your correspondent has found the average member of the Legislature very reason able and anxious "to be shown." Much good can be done by writing letters to louowing named members, address- ine mail to General Assembly, Spring-kid. Hon. W. Duff Piercy. Hon.

R. Shaw, Hon. John M. O'Connor, Hon. Niels Juul.

Hon. Samuel A. Ettelson. Hon. John T.

Denvir, Hon. F. C. Campbell. Hon.

A. M. Foster, Hon. i3Ham T. Hollenbeck.

Hon. Edward F. Poorman. Hon. Charles A.

Karch, Hon. fdin McCormick. Hon. Thomas Cur-jav Rev. F.

E. J. Lloyd. Hon. Michael J- igoe.

Hon. Sevmour Stedman, Hon. "wy M. Ashton, Hon. Morton D.

Hull Hon. David Shanahan. Hon. eil Browne. Hon.

Homer J. Tice, tal Hon. John' J. McLaughlin. WILLIAM H.

LEWIS RESIGNS. to Tms Ntw Tom Asa. Washivgtox, D. March 12. "Uliam H.

Lewis of Boston, who served Assistant Attorney General dur-a f-aft administration, has ten-his resignation. The new Attor-reneri! has not decided whether a Jttor will be appointed. It is not ''y that Lewis will be succeeded by if his department is con- VJf- 4is has been made several al-J ors to practice law. It is n-nHAh4t a Uw partnership is to be between the Attor-Vral and Wilford H. Smith, a Jnment Negro lawyer of New York, Gat l.eWis wfli mote to 'BLONDE BROWN CONVICTED Democratic Politician Found Guilty of Raping SixUan-Yaar-Old Girl by Jury Assistant District Attorney Makes Plea for Negro Women Sentence to ba Imposed Later.

I Joseph Brown, alias "Blondie," 34 years old, was convicted of rape in the second degree by a jury in the Court of Special Sessions Tuesday, Judge Rosal-sky presiding. Brown is an active colored Democratic worker, and up to a few weeks ago was employed at Albany. Among those to testify in bis behali were Robert N. Wood, leader of the United Colored Democracy, and James D. Carr.

A feature of the trial was ihe strong plea of Assistant District Attorney Medalie to the jury, who declared that the Negro race was progressing and that it should be encouraged in so doing by protecting its womanhood. He declared that school girls, white or black, should be protected. The appeal made a visible impression on the jurymen. The complainant, a sixteen-year-old girt, who is soon to become a mother, alleged that on July 20, 1912, Brown induced her to go to his apartments, telling her that he bad a present for her grandmother. Accompanied by another sixteen-year-old girl she visited Brown at 134 West 133d street.

Instead of giving the girl the present Brown com mitted criminal assault on her. The statements of the prosecuting witness were substantiated by the girl who accompanied her to Brown's apartments. Brown is well known in Harlem, and his political friends did all they could to get him out of his predicament. He was especially useful during the recent political campaign, and when the Legislature convened at Albany he was appointed assistant janitor at $5 a day as a reward for his services. More than ordinary interest was attached to the trial, which began March 6 Sentence will be imposed on Brown later.

BILL PASSES ASSEMBLY Civil Rights Measura Introduced by Assemblyman Levy Designed to Give All Equal Accommodations, Favorably Considered by Lower House. Albany, X. March 12 The Levy EilL providing ogainst -discrimination in public places on account of race, creed or color was passed by the Assembly Monday evening. The Senate will now act on the measure. The bill provides that no person being the owner, lessee, proprietor, manager, superintendent, agent or employe of a place of public accommodation shall directly or indirectly refuse anyone accommodations, and that if found guilty shall be liable to a penalty of $500, to be recovered by the aggrieved person or shall be fined not less than $250 or no more than $1,000, or be sentenced to jail for not less than thirty days or no more than six months.

Heretofore the proprietors of public places who have been made defendants in damage suits in which color or religious discrimination was charged have often put the blame on employes. The bill will be so amended to make either the proprietor or employe liable. DEMOCRATS PLAN FOR NEXT FOUR YEARS Hold Meeting at Washington-Re-elect Bishop Alexander Walters as President Wood Pledges Loyalty for Fourth Time. Special to Ths New Yobs Age. D.

C. March 11. The members of the National Colored Democratic League held a meeting here last Wednesday to discuss plans for the next' four years and to elect officers. R-1 X. Wood and a large number of his followers in the United Colored Democracy were there and Wood for the fourth time, pledged his loyalty to Bishop Walters and the league.

After adopting a constitution and appointing a steering committee, the following officers were elected for the ensuing four years: Bishop Alexander Walters, president: James A. Ross. Buffalo. X. A.

E. Manning, Indianapolis, James L. Curtis. New York City, and J. T.

Green. Georgia, vice presidents Peter J. Smith. Massachusetts, recording secretary; Charles L. Barnes.

Pennsylvania, corresponding secretary; James T. Lloyd. Missouri, treasurer: James H. W. Howard.

Harrisburg. Pa, assistant treasurer; Robert X. Wood. Xew York City, chairman of the executive committee: Bishop Walters, James H. W.

Howard. Francis H. Warren. Detroit; A. B.

Cosev. Newark. X. the Rev. George Clemont.

Xorth Carolina; Allan D'Honey. West Virginia; Leon H. Jor-in Miowrt: Sully Javmes. Ohio: S. D.

Russell, Oklahoma N. B. Clark, Virginia; W. T. Scott, Ifliiiois; A H.

Un-derdown. District of Columbia; Wesley L. Yovng. Xew York; A. E.

Manning. Peter J. Smith and John H. Slaughter, Wisconsin, members, of the executive committee, and X. B.

Marshall, New York, organizer. HARRIET TUBMAN DIES MONDAY Heroine of Underground Railroad Expires After Lingering Illness FUNERAL SERVICES THURSDAY Frederick Douglass Was Regarded as Deceased's Only Peer Service of Enslaved Negro. Slial to The Xew Your Agc Auburn. X. March 12.

Harriet Tubman, affectionately known as "Aunt Harriet," died Monday evening after a lingering illness at the Harriet Tubman Home. Short services will be held over the remains at the home at 11 a. m. Thursday morning, after which the body will lie in state at the A. M.

E. Zion Church from 12 to 3 p. m. Well-known persons will participate in the funeral services held at the church. Harriet Tubman, who was about 98 years old.

was one of the most widely known colored women in this country. Harriet Tubman's achievements as a conductor on the underground, nurse and THL LATE. HARRIET TU5MAN scout in the Union Army and guide and friend to her people duriue: and after tbe war will never be fully chronicled. She was a friend of Garrison, Phillips, John Krown, Gcrrit Smith, Seward and Lincoln. Her only peer in me service of the enslaved Neero was Frederick Douglass, but unlike iHmelass she is without education of ttie sort learned from books and she could not write or even relate tbe marvelous story of ber long life.

Of pure Negro Mood, she was born on a plantation in Lkircbester County, Maryland. When he was 13 ber instinctive antagonism against the tyranny of master over slave showed itself. An overwer was pursuing a slave with a club. Harriet charged the whii; man and knocked him off bis feet. Tbe enraged overseer burled sn iron weight at Harriet, crushing her skull and inflicting an injury which resulted in fits of somnolency, to which she was subject until king after the war, when she obtained relief at tbe Massachusetts General Hospital.

Her Unusual Strength First Brought Her Into Prominence. At any rate the injury played an important part in fitting her for the struggles to come, fur on account of it she was unfitted fur tbe ordinary work of women and she was act to work by ber maKter lifting heavy barrels and drawing weights. She grew so strong that when she was she wss a match physically for the strongest msn and ber master exhibited ber to visitors as one of the sights of the plat. She fell ill and while confined to ber cabin became very religious developing an almost fanatic faith that carried ber through dangers where strong men of her race faltered. Her master died and word went around the quarters thst the slaves were to be "sold South," the thing most dreaded by Negroes of tbe upper tier of Southern State.

Harriet counselled the Negroes to run away, but none bad tbe courage to follow ber. She knew only that if she followed tbe North star it wonld lead ber to freedom, and one night she stole away Of the terrible Journey North she remembers little, ber instinct guided ber and her great strength enabled her to stand tbe privation. So sbe won io tbe liberty side of the line and lifting ber great arms to tbe sky he said "You're mine now and you'll work for me and nobody else." She obtained employment and saved all she earned. Then she disappeared and was not seen for months. She bad dared to gn back to the land of bondage to ahow others tbe path to freedom.

Was Aided by Quaker Abolitionist. Aided by Quaker abolitionists in Philadelphia, she soon bad ber underground railroad in working order, and so perfect were her plsns thst a few years ajfo when sbe was introduced by Susan B. Anthony to a woman suffrage audience in Km-hewter as the conductor of the It wssnt lone W-for throughout tbe plantations of Maryland and Virginia were spread rewards for a Negro woman bn was Inrine the slave away from their masters. The price for the captnre dead or alive of Harriet Tubman rose t- nver Irtit she was ner taken. Sh made onr nineteen trine into the very heart of the country where tbe head iCosriaoeT on Pago 2) -vy GRAND MASTER H.

Grand If atrr Spencer Is sue of tbe most prominent Negro Uasons In America. Besides being tbe Brad of ancient craft Masonry la this Jorisdlrtloe he Is IVputT Grand High Prk-st of tbe Boyal Arch Uasons ia tbe Jurisdiction of New York including Connecticut), leputy Grsnd Commander of KnlrhU TemUar. chairman of the committees ou Foreijta Correvpondenre NOT TO HVE INVVASillNGTON Bishop Walters Says He Will Continue to Reside in New York City Saya He is More Concerned in Policies Affecting Negro than Political Appointments. Bishop Alexander Waiters, leader of the Wilson movement among Negroes during the last Presi4cntial campaign, 1 aud Jwiefatrfet fef "te National Colored Democratic League, denies that he has taken up residence in Washington, as reported in last eek's issue of The Age. Bishop Walters states that he will continue to make New York his home and says he has no idea of residing in the Capital city for political reasons.

In a letter to The Ace Bishop Walters declares that he is more deeply concerned in the policies of the new administration which are to benefit the members of his race than in the appointment of men to office. He raises the point that if the white citirens of the United States ere bemg discriminated against as are the Negroes of to-day, that Bishop Greer of New York would also go to Washington to prevent the passage of unjust laws against his race. Writes Letter to The Ago. Bishop Walters' letter to The Ace follows To tbe Editor of The Ago: I notice in the last issue of The Age that your Washington, I). correspondent states that I am to make my permanent home In Washington.

This is a mistake. 1 have no idea of pulling up bag and baggage and moving to Washington. I expect to do buainess at the old stand in 134th street for the years to come, at least I hope so. Washington is about the center of my episcopal district, hence a con- venient place to spend a considerable portion of my time. 1 have been assigned by my church to the district for four years.

Besides this, as president of the National Colored Democratio League the organization expects me to be in touch with the administration. Again I have neither the time nor inclination to be general dispenser of political patronage; it is not mine to give. I 'am a great deal more concerned in the policies which are to benefit my people than I am in the appointment of men to office. If the white people were In our condition without one of its own representatives in Congress, Bishop Greer would do as Alexander Walters is doing if he had any interest in his race. When our condition in this country Is as the condition of the white people then I will do what Bishop Oreer does.

1 shall look to time and events to Justify my actions. Yours with thanks, ALEXANDER WALTER. Bishop Walters is in Man-land this week attending to his church duties. ATKINS IS IN JAIL. John H.

Atkins, head of the defunct Metropolitan Mercantile and Realty Company, is a prisoner in the Raymond Street Jail. Brooklyn, awaiting the decision of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court as to whether he shall be given a new trial on the charge of conspiracy to cheat and defraud. Atkins gave himself up to the authorities Tuesday, March 4, and has been in the Raymond Street Jail ever" since. His attorneys are said to be asking that an appeal be granted the prisoner on the ground that the assistant district attorney made improper remarks during Atkins' trial when the defendant's attorney stated to the court that Atkins would not be put on the stand to testify his behalf. A.

SPENCER for tbe two lat named bodies aad Secretary of tbe International Conference of Knigbt Templar; a I no liuty of tbe Taller of WcMern Xew Y'ork, 33d degree, Scottish Kite Maon. Mr. Spencer ia an Indefatigable worker ia tbe ranee of Free Mamnry. a close student of and an authority on masonic juslrpro-deuce. He Is renerted t-r all who know til in and loved In- tbe craft.

INTERMARRIAGE BILL WOULD BREAK UP H0F.1ES Lower House of Ohio Legislature. Passes Unjust RtrtBUl MIXED FAMILIES IN PERIL President Scarborough of Wlberforcc Would be Among Those Affected if B1 Becomes a Law. Special to The Ntw Tobk Acs. Columbus, March 11. Last Wednesday the lower house of Legislature passed the iniquitous Reppert Bill prohibiting intermarriage in this state by a vote of 63 to 33.

It now goes to the Senate, and if it also passes the bill it will cause the immediate separation and breaking up of a number of families in this state in which the husband or wife is white. It will cause President Scarborough of Wilberforce. to leave the State, as tinder the provisions of the bill a Negro already married and living with a white wife will have to separate or leave the state. The bill prohibits and makes felonious "the intermarriage of white persons with Xcgroes, mulattoes or Chinamen, or their living together as man and wife in this state." It is practically a copy of the Georgia law, which, when put into operation, caused the breaking up and dispersion of thousands of mixed families. Representative Terrell of Cuyahoga tried in vain to have tBe measure restricted so as not to interfere with existing marriages.

Calling it a "Jim Crow matrimonial, bill." Mr. Reid of Fayette said there were not over fifty-five licenses for mixed marriages issued in Ohio last year, that the effect of the bill would be merely to prevent the legalizing of children horn of illicit relations of whites and blacks, and that education, not a penitentiary sentence, was the remedy for the evil of mixed marriages. Mr. Acker of Hocking declared under the bill of rights the Legislature could not deny him the right to marry a Negro if he wanted to and that the only sensible amendment to the bill would be to include members of the Ohio Legislature with Chinamen and Negroes in the prohibited marriage category. Negroes in the State opposed the bilt and sent delegates to argue against it.

but a deaf ear was turned to their pleadings. The author of the bill exhibited a letter from J. Silas Harris, a school teacher of Kansas' Citiy, Mo-favoring the passage of the bill. Harris is said to be after a job under the new administration. LINCOLNITES TO MEET.

All graduates and students of Lincoln University who are interested in the memorial tablet to the late I. N. Ren-dill, to placed in the institution at the coming June commencement, are respectfully invited to meet in the lecture room of St. James' Presbyterian Church, West Fifty-first street near Ninth avenue. Sunday afternoon, March 16, at 3 o'clock.

HENS0N GOtS TO WORK North Pole Hero Gets Appointment in Correspondence Bureau of Customs House at 11,000 a Year Collector Charles W. Anderson Instrumental in Having Hanson Put Under Civil Service. Matthew A. Henson, who accom-paned Commander Peary to the Xorth Pole, went to work Monday in the correspondence bureau of the Custom House under Collector Locb at a salary of $1,000 a year. During the last week of his administration Mr.

Taft issued an executive order making Hen-son a civil service appointee without taking an examination. Collector Charles W. Anderson is said to have been instrumental in securing Henson's appointment It w-as in May, 1912. that Collector Anderson wrote to Charles D. Hilles, Secretary to President Taft.

asking that Hen-son's case be put beforeevlr. Taft for favorable consderation. Collector Anderson's letter to Mr. Hilles follows: May 10, Hon. Charles D.

Hilles, Secretary to the President, Washington, D. C. My Dear Mr. Hilles: Will you not be good enough to lay this proposition before the President. I strongly urge that some position with a compensation of from $1,200 to J1.5O0 per year be given to Matthew A.

Henson, the colored man who accompanied Commander Peary to the North Pole. Henson was the only civilzed man who '-VHMMmw. MWMl l. I iWI i i -v 1 I- i 7 i MATTHtW A. HLNSON stood with Peary at tne Pole.

He is the only man ho every accompanied Peary on more than two Arctic trips. He was with him twenty-one years, and on one trip remained in the Arctic regions four years, after the other members of the expedition had returned home on a relief ship. He and a man by the name of Lee, alone, stuck to Mr. Peary and explored the Interior of Greenland. Mr.

Peary is now a Rear Admiral, and has received honors and gold metals galore, while Henson is still unrecognised and unrewarded. I am confident that a small place given to Henson would delight the race of which be is so satisfactory a To give you some idea of his quality I quote from Mr. Peary's (Continued on Page 2 MOVEMENT TO OUST RAILROAD PORTERS full Crew Bill Being Introduced in States of the West and Middle West-Measure Does Not Affect Pullman Porters Special to The Xsw Yoss: Ace. St. Louis, March 11.

Just as there has been an organized movement to have anti-intermarriage measures passed in the various Legislatures throughout the country, so is there a well-engineered plan on foot to have the colored railroad porter ousted in the West and Middle West, although several States have refused to consider the plan seriously. The Locomotive Brotherhood is said to be back of the movement The scheme is to prevent the employment of colored men as train porters. Porters in the Pullman service are not affected. As usual, the train porters are unorganized and are fighting the hostile measures the best they can. In each- of the States in the West and Middle West bills have been introduced in the Legislatures at the instance of the Locomotive Brotherhood, known as the Full Crew BilL which, provides for a brakeman and flagman on all passenger trains carrying more than three coaches.

The purpose of the Full Crew Bill is to do away with the colored train porter, as he carries a switch key the sane as the brakeman and performs simihr duties. The Locomotive Broth-frbood is opposed to Negroes earning a livin where white men show a preference to accept employment. Will OPPOSED TO 1HYIR0T Mrs. Booker T. Washington Says Ban is Also on Ragtime ABOUT NEGRO WOMEN Tuskegee Teachers Hear Address on "What Negro Women are Doing for Themselves' HAS MEMBERSHIP OF 50,000 National Association of Colored Women's Cluba ia Doing Effective Work for the Race, Tuskegee Institute, Ala, March 1L Mrs.

Booker T. Washington, president of the Xational Association of Colored Women's Clubs, delivered an address before the teachers of Tnskegee Institute, in which she took occasion to speak on the subject: "What Xegro. Women Are Doing for Themselves." Mrs. Washington declared that the association was opposed to the turkey trot and ragtime. She was frequently applauded.

"Women's organisation, like all others, do not spring up like 'mushrooms but are called into existence by necessity to establish or meet some great truth. So with the Federation of Colored Women known as the National Association of Colored Women's Cluba, iu uusiiiJK uiBu 1 1 ii uui i iic geueri operation of white women's clubs. "Early in tbe nineties an English friend became alarmed as to the moral life of the American colored women. She wrote a letter to this country and a newspaper man answered ber, declaring that this woman was not improving morally. Sbe was sorely lacking in all that goes to make a clean womanhood in a race.

The unpleasant subject was discussed pro and con by everybody except this woman herself. She was not Indifferent, however. She was wondering all the ttime that she was being talked about bow much ot what was being said was really true and finally woman-like, she decided that this thing was not as bad as pictured by the press and that the surest way to prove that the facts were over-dravn wan let nmilv herself: thtia bringing before the country from time to time the best women of the race. She realized also thst the womanhood of the race was not all it could be and so another reason for concreted effort The First Call. "In a call went out from the women of Boston, led by the grand old woman.

Mrs. Josephine St Pierre Ruffin. We went up from every section of the country, eager to prov that with equal opportunities to make a living, equal chance for an education we were not unlike other women or our race. How well recall at this moment that little group of women, some old. others very young, about forty In numbers, that first day in a little house on Revere street in the city of Boston, discussing, themselves a most distasteful thing to do and yet a very necessary one at times.

The result of that first call meeting was a permanent organization of colored women for thab own moral and Intellectual growth. happened to be selected president 01 that First National Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, as it was that called. Prior to this there had been chain of clubs of colored women; thirteen in number, bad luck, doing goot work. Its headquarters were In Washington. D.

and its leader was Mrs John Cook of that city. After a fe years we succeeded in breaking this chain and uniting all forces of colore rnniMi'i effort Into one mat body. We changed the name at that time ano since then we have been known as the National Association of Coiored Women's Clubs of America. The Scope. "We are composed of local cluba, state federations and sectional federations.

We have affiliated with us organisations in Canada. Liberia, and Madagascar. We have thirty federated atateo. We have a membership of fifty thousand women and girts. There Is no State in the Union without its colorec woman's club and few cities where-w do not hold our own.

have our membership In the Kntinnal Council of Women, the mosi advanced organisation of women but one In the world, and we are alwayi represented at the executive meetingr of the council, paying a hundred dol- lars for the opportunity, as all other organisations who are represented do i We are controlled by the general officers and an executive board and muar show at the biennial meetings agaii in numbers and in worth. Our las biennial was held at Hampton, Ve There were three hundred elected delegates and hundreds of alternates and volunteer representative present at that meeting. How Conducted. -And now having given you an introduction to our work I shall tell yo how we conduct it. We do our wor' through departments, the most lmpor tant of which are: Social Service, a.

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