ijWiWJi' i I V ''jpi iW3 i Jfcfi Ht BBbSb Hfev si1 ' ' bjsjsjsj VnS HBHfl l 1 .W BBBBmBBBBBB f bmbmbEbCbbbbbWvbHbbbbB tSLBBBBr BUy y,JSSbbbbbbbW riBBr Mmrmm" bbbbLbW. HE TV TO LBCE L INE , 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.