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, Vol- - XI 013ICLAX3-0- --AjrfoTJST S5. 1 006 IVo. 44 foreigners into Its political life 'with- out catastrophe absorb ten .million Negro Americans Into that same polit- The Second Annual Meeting of the ical life at less cost than their unjust and Illegal exclusion will Involve? "Courage brothers! The battle for I humanity is not lost or losing. All across the skies sit signs of promise. Niagara Movement The Slave is raising in his might, the yellow millions are tasting liberty the black Africans are writhing I (toward the light, and everywhere the At Htrper's Ferry, West Virginia . laborer, with ballot in bis hand. Is voting open the gates of Opportunity and Peace. The morning breaks over x ft?" ffijjr L m " Kr aa T blood-staine- d hills. We must not fal The Republican Party Scored for Failing to 'En ter, we may not shrink. Above are the everlasting stars. force the 14th Amendment A Ringing Address j "Harper's Ferry. W. Va., August 16-1- 9. 1906." Issued to the Country In Which It Is Urged The above address is full of the ' right sentiments, and what the Negro That the Ballot Must Be Restored to must first refrain from doing, and Afro-America- ns that is to absolutely become or to, re- - c'BfiaRwf Pw lff f LfllVa i aaafish5x x the Women Admit- lunain the cringing and servile slave lot any political party. Then let the ted Into the Movement. .Negroes In all sections of this coun try band themselves together as one man, and be willing to make every kind of sacrifice, either in time or t y&W iLaWfi 2BBBBBBBKeAfi&" jSat Niagara Movement convened at weaker brethren are actually afraid , and premeditated breach of promise, uuCMlH The I money for the purpose of assisting Ferry, West Va., the past to thunder against color dlscrimlna-- 1 and stamps that party as guilty of Harper's to restore the ballot to those who have week and its sessions were well att- tion as such and are simply whisper- obtaining votes under false pretense. H been deprived of under one pretext most prominent ing for ordinary decencies. "Fifth. We want our children edu- - it ended, some of the or another in most of the Southern being "Against this the Niagara Move- cated. The school system In the coun- bHbbbbbbbbbIHbB T men and women of the race states. HF HMaW of the speakers in ad- ment eternally, protests. We will not try districts of the South Is a disgrace present One For without the ballot In the hands were under the be satisfied to take one jot or tittle and In a few towns and cities are the dressing those who of the Negro to protect his civil and voice, declared that less than our full manhood rights. We Negro schools what they ought to bo. ,und of his political rights he will continue to be Brown to iiar-- claim for ourselves every single right We want the national government to "God bad sent John looked upon with scorn and con- traitor to that belongs to a freeborn American, step In and wipe out Illiteracy In the per's Ferry to become a tempt by the governor of the State n mat ne political, civil and social; and until South. Either the United States will me,t guciiuuvMh,,oti order wherein he resides, Congressmen and slave." This we get these rights we will never destroy Ignorance or Ignorance will might be true to the all city and county officials po- destroy United other in ....,... referring to the cease to protest and assail the ears of the States. t MRS. CARRIE WARNER. same speaker In cluding the policeman on his beat on Negro In certain America. The battle we wage Is sot "And when we call for education Wide-awak- e Afro-Americ- Business Wo litical status of the up to the President of the United One of the Most Successful and for ourselves aloae but for all true we mean real education. We believe men In Chicago, who for More than Four years Has successfully of this VM-- , sections t' Dt toe wealth CwWusHe-afanj-Chcle- co?13?4",. ideals, toiroAWe-onilTCT-are--wortce?fv- m the No e! Ut-awd Manlrnre occupant of the white Aiueilcaus." 1fls"a 'Ighl'fur" gro may "The present but work Is not necessarily education. accumulate Is nothing in 182 State Street. absolutely on lest this, our common fatherland, house has been silent development comparison to the ballot or the right of false to Its founding, become in truth Education is the of we entertain not the least bit of prominent Colored people from all the question of the enforcement power and Ideal. We want our chil- to vote, for with all of his wealth and while his the land of the thief and the home against this nameless Colored over the State to participate. Horace fifteenth amendment; be- without It, those who make laws to the by-wo- rd dren trained as Intelligent human the vio- of the Slave a and a hissing govern man, who has never been in a posi- D. Slatter, General Newspaper Corre- secretary of war has admitted among sounding ings should be, and we will fight for him without his consent, and lv the nations for Its slightest upon spondent constitution, he has those who rule over him as though tion to confer the favor lation of the pretentions and pitiful accomplish- all time against any proposal to edu- - openly h was a the writer. In a notable address ment. cate Black boys and girls simply as still slave and not a free- WHO NEXT? tacitly Indorsed It. man, will continue to laugh condoned if not servants and underlings, or simply for and mock OHIO STATE COLORED EDUCA- It seems to be the proper thing for the pres- Never before In the modern age has him. Secretary Taft, speaking for the use of other people. They have a at Roosevelt's Cabinet Officers the a great and civilized folk threatened TIONAL AND INDUSTRIAL President ident, chides us by saying that think, aspire. Therefore, If the United States Ne- to adopt so cowardly a creed In the right to know, to to EXPOSITION. to deliver themselves upon the Negroes are political children; that things was justified In waging a war fellow-citizen- s "These are some of the chief Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 23, 1906. The gro's status. First came Mr. Root's incapacity to treatment of Its born against Spain re- they have shown their which we want. How shall we get to compel it to Ohio State Colored Educational and famous Union League speech declar- rights." and bred on its soil. Stripped of ver- move maintain their political them? By voting where we may vote, Its iron heel of oppression ing legislation-Ne- gro biage and subterfuge and In its naked Industrial Exposition will begin here that Reconstruction Negro had a by from the necks of the Cubans, the "It is true that the new American creed by persistent, unceasing agitation; Saturday, August 25th, running until citizenship and the amend- nastlness the leaders of Afro-Americ- childlike faith In the Republican party, hammering at the truth, by sacrifice the race September 1st, the principal addresses ments to the constltutldn enforcing says: Fear to let Black men even try would be perfectly justified believing that it would administer the and work. In enlist- being delivered by Vice President and protecting the same, were fail- to rise lest they become the equals ing aid and sympathy sacred trust which the fortunes of "We do not believe In violence, the of Japan or Charles W. Fairbanks, Governor A. L. ures. When Mr. Root thus delivered of the white. And this Is the land or some strong foreign power war and the constitution had Imposed neither in the despised violence of other to Harris and Booker T. Washington. himself the entire country asked If that professes to follow Jesus Christ. wage w would not use him the raid nor the lauded violence of the an unrelentless warfare upon The exercises will begin re- he was speaking his or those upon it and that it The blasphemy of such a course Is with a sentlents the game of soldier, nor the barbarous violence of this nation for the sole purpose of view of Battalion, Col- of his chief. like a gambler's stace in only matched by Its cowardice. the Ninth the compelling to freely permit Ne- lily-whi- politics." the mob, but we do believe In John it the ored troops of the Ohio National When Mr. Taft went before the te detail our demands are clear gro to enjoy scales are "In Brawn, In that Incarnate spirit of jus- his civil and political Guard, by the Governor of the State Republican state convention of "Thank God, at last the unequivocal. First, we would rights! eyes. He Is and tice, that hatred of a He, that willing- and other distinguished visitors. P. N. C, and told the white men of the falling from the Negro's vote; right to ffote goes acts of a with the ness to sacrifice money, reputation, W. Chavers, editor of the Columbus South, that there was no longer any being disillusioned 'by the everything: Freedom, manhood, the congress, speeches of and life Itself on the altar of right. JULIUS F. TAYLOR AND WILLIAM Standard, the General Director of the excuse for the cry of Negro domina- Republican the of your wives, the chastity of cabinet and honor And here on the scene of John H. CLARK INDUCED MAYOR ED- Exposition, and George W. Hays, tion for the Republican Party neither members of a Republican your daughters, the right to work, Republican president. Brown's martyrdom we reconsecrate WARD F. DUNNE TO SELECT A President of the Board of Managers, judicially nor legislatively was going the silence of a and the chance to rise, and let no to repudiate ourselves, our honor, our property to COLORED MAN AS A MEMBER will make short addresses on the to interfere with the question of He should not hesitate man listed to those who deny this. who betrayed the final emancipation of the race OF THE NEW CHARTER COM- opening day, outlining the purposes Southern Disfranchisement again, his former friendB have suffrage, for-n-- er "We want full manhood to make MITTEE. of Exposition giving his- the same question Is senti- him nor refuse to fraternize with which John Brown died free. the and Its this the and we want it now, henceforth and triumphant On or middle No- tory. ment of Secretary Is speak- enemies who are willing to give Our enemies, for the about the of last Taft or he forever. present, are fighting stars In vember Edward H. Wright, Col. Ed- Other addresses delivered ing the of him aid. While he Temalns a polit- the will be sentiments the President? "Second. We want discrimination In courses. humanity ward H. Morris, Lincoln Tay- during week, on Sunday, August When Mr. Bonaparte, Secretary ical issue he must insist upon mak- their Justice and Robert the of public accommodation to cease. Sep- must prevail. We live to lor, and a few other Colored men 26th, Woman's Day; Monday, August the Navy, gently lambasted Ne-- ing his power felt and his rights tell these the aration in railway and street cars, dark brothers of ours scattered in called on Mayor Dunne, with a view 27th, Business Men's Day; Tuesday, grc before the Young People's Chris based simply on race and color. Is wavering weak no of inducing him to appoint August 28th, An-gu- st tian and Educational Congress Other speakers gave expression to counsel, and that Dr. Allen Educational Day; at undemocratic, and silly. money notoriety, no prom- A. Wesley as member New 29th, Ohio Day ;August Washington, a few days back, on ac- the same sentiments, and on winding bribe of or a of the 30th, We protest against all such discrim- of wealth Is worth City Charter Committee. Military Day; August 31st, Day. count of his sloth and profligacy, when up Its sessions Sunday, the following ise or fame. the Field ination, c people's manhood or The morning following of Among speakers will he told his audience how the Indian address was issued to the world, surrender of a the visit the be Prof. W. self-respe- ct distinguished had been pushed to so-call- free- loss of We these gentlemen to E. B. DuBoIs, the wall and which plainly reminds the "Third. We claim the right of the a man's Atlanta University; to leadership of Mayor Dunne, Julius F. Taylor and President H. Jones, Wllber-forc- e crushed against it, and warned the Christians belonging to the opposite men to walk, talk, and be with them refuse surrender the Joshua us. No man has this race to cowards and trucklers. William H. Clark called on his Honor University; Prof. W. Gilbert, Negro that a like fate awaited him race in the United States, who profess that wish to be with J. We are men; we will be treated as for the purpose of inducing him to se- Paine College, Augusta, Ga.; again the question arose is this Bona- to have the love of their hand- a right to choose another man's Senator hearts, friends, and to attempt to do so is men. On this rock we have planted lect a nameless Colored man as a J. B. Foraker, Mayor Badger of Co- parte's or Roosevelt's sentiments? made God encircled in their May - the our banners. We will never give up, member of the New Charter Commit- lumbus, Congressman Nicholas Long-wort- h, be, by the time each one of the and who claim to be the only true fol- an impudent Interference with privilege. though the trump of doom find us tee, and when his name was mention, Mrs. Mary Church-Terrel- l, Cabinet Officers has had his shy at lowers of the meek and lowly Jesus,' most fundamental human en- still fighting. ed, Mayor Dunne declared he "had Washington, D. Mrs. Carrie Clif- the Negro, the Negro may awake and that they have in the past and are at "Fourth. We want the laws C; poor; "And we shall win. The past prom- never heard of him," and when Mr. ford, Cleveland, O.; Mrs. Hall-Kln- g, set about doing something to recover the present time falling far short in forced against rich as well as Hattle Capitalist as well as Laborer; ised It, the present foretells it. Thank Clark and the writer assured him Columbus, O.; Horace D. Blat- his citizenship and to prevent his be- dealing half-wa-y Justly with those against ing crushed God Brown! Thank? God for that this nameless Colored man had ter and others. out of existence against Afro-Amerlc- against white as well as Black. We for John composing the an race. the white man's wall of prejudice and white Garrison and Douglass! Sumner and' delivered several speeches for him, One of the principal features of the The address is as follows: are not more lawless than the race hate. The St Luke Herald, con- Phillips, Nat Turner and Robert and had worked for his election as Exposition will be the exhibits of Richmond, "The men of the Niagara movement 1 ace, wre are more often arrested, Va. and mobbed. We want Justice Gould Shaw, and all the hallowed Mayor of Chicago, on receiving that various articles of manufacture, art coming from the toll of the year's victed Last Saturday morning and outlaws. We dead who died for freedom! Thank Information, and after being warmly and handicraft produced by the Col- Editor and hard work and pausing a moment even for criminals Mrs. L. Thompson Con- God for all those to-da- few though urged by Julius F. Taylor to select ored people of the State of Ohio. The J. and their beau, from the earning of their daily bread want Congress to take charge of want the their voices be, who have not forgot- hiss, Mayor Dunne then and there en- famous Norwood Dog Kennells will tiful little daughter Miss Enola, Des turn toward the nation and again ask gressional elections. We out to ten the divine brotherhood of all men tered his name In his little red book, have on exhibition about thirty dogs, iMblnes, Iowa, who returned to their la the name of ten. million the priv- .Fourteenth amendment carried disfran- white and Black, rich and poor, for- and this nameless Colored man was all pedigree stock, some having- - taken home Monday morning after a moro ilege of a hearing. In the T?aat year the letter and every State chosen represent Afro-Ameri-ca- ns prizes various ex- than delightful visit with their the has chised in Congress which attempts to tunate and unfortunate. to the first at State fairs; work of the Negro hater friends in this dry, on: edi- by step rightful voters. We "We appeal to the young men and resMlag in Chicago, on the hibits from a Colored buggy manufac- called the flourished in the land. Step disfranchise Its tor and Mrs. Taylor. ea-forc- ed women of this nation to those whose Charter Coaaalttee. turing company, a bicycle and motor Miss Eaola la the defenders of the rights of Ameri- want the Fifteenth amendment nostrils are not yet befouled by greed Thea after Mr. Clark, and ourself, cycle manufacturing plant, work pro- Just as bright and as. sweet as she can citizens have retreated. The work and No State allowed to base and snobbery narrowness: had sacceeded la having this great duced by the only Colored gold melter can be, and Mrs. Thoapson. la a cf stealing black man's, ballot: its franchise simply oa Color. and racial the up right, prove your- aeasr conferred apoa him, we ran his in the world, plows, fancy work, charm rng lady to meet, aad JCclter bas progressed fifty more "The failure of tie Republican Stand for the and and the and Ax, Thompson, who Is oae -- selves worthy your heritage aad cat in the catenas of The Broad various other classes of exhibits will of oar oldest representatives of stoles votea, still party ia Coagrese at the session Just of whether born, north or south, dare to aad praised Ua up as being one of be shows, aad wanaest friends la the newspa- alt in the Halloa's capital. Dtecrimln-atio-n closed to redeeai its pledge of 1904 treat men as men. Cannot the aa-- the sest writers, aad race-krtria-g men The BMveauat will be nade peraa-nea- t, per world, is a race BMa to the in travel aadpsblic acecasasoda-tlo- n with refereace to ssCrafe eeaeiUoas " tea mllttoa la this eoaatry, waka la evident that aa opportaaky the has so spread that sosae ef oar attaeSoataseeaw a ptafca, deHserate, tfoa tkat has absorbed selar tfraa

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