Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-30
COLORED PEOPLE PROTEST
Alleged Discrimination on Account of Race
at Local Opera House.
Addresses at Mass Meeting Held Last
Night at Vermont Avenue
Baptist Church.

A mass meeting to protest against the
action of Mr.. p. b. Chase manager of the
Grand Opera House, in alleged discrimina-
ton against colored people in the case of
n. E. Weatherless. the particulars of which
have been already fully stated in The Star,
was held last evening at the Vermont Ave
nue. Baptist Church. MIR. w. Calvin Chase
presided and Mr.. Peril w Frisby was sec
rotary.
An address was made by Mr. Thomas l..
Jones, who after recitng what he termed
the wrongs TO which his race is subjected,
said:
The negro has always regarded the re-
publican party as the morning star Of his
hope and the anchor TO his liberty. but it
is sad to reflect that during The last three
years of the republican administration there
has been more lynching OF legroes more
mob violence. OutrageS and Determinations
perpetrated upon the American negro than
at any time since the days If rcc3nst-lc-
ton.
ITO remedy this condition of affairs we
have been advised that the only course left
open to us Is 10 continue to submit TO
present conditions Prof. Booker T. Wash
iIIgton would have you to choose the line of
least resistance. while Bishop Turner ad-
vises us to migrate to the malaria swamps
o. Africa.
COunscIs Organization.
Il counsel the negroes to organize; save
Your means, be moral and taw-atiJiIs Citi
Zens. true to one another, ami by the help
of God, through the agency of the courts
OF this country and by noiGag a healthy
public sentiment against outrage and
wrong, the negro will ultimately enjoy his
rights and immunitieS in common WIKI his
white fellow citizens. The record Of the
black soldier i'll the Spanish-A mcr!can war.
his gallant charge up the hill of FL Caaey
before Santiago in which the Rough Ri
ders were saved, our national honor pre-
served and the American flag planted On
the ruins OF Moro Castle viii revive
through the ages and will live in the
hearts Of American people as loag as lib
erty and love find q home n the American
republic
Remarks by DR.. Purvis.
DR.. C. B. Purvis was introduced by Mr..
Chase the son of a man who had worked
nobly to upiift the colored race. DR.. Purvis
said he very much regretted the necessity
for such meeting as the present. He would
Ike to see broad catholic spirit existing
everywhere, and up to the present time
there had existed to a certain extent this
feeling in Washington. He termed the
election Of Prof. Weatheress from the
Grand Opera House as an outrage. DR..
Purvis deplored race prejudice He knew
no way of the colOred people getting their
rights except by COntending for them. He
did not favor the performance of any overt
act. The trouble with the white people. he
said. was that they measured the inteIli-
sence of the colored race by the lawless
clements.
DR. Puryis concluded by telling his au-
dience that If they wanted to secure their
rights IT would be necessary to contribute
funds TO help those who are trying TO Sc
cure the rights of the colored people gem
orally. He believed, he said that there
We're hundreds of white people also who
would be willing to help the colored people
along this line.
Dr- F. j. Shadd expressed his sympathy
with the object of the meeting, and said he
was willing to aid with contribution.
W. Lee, W. T. Thomas and others