Richmond planet., 1899-11-18
Mr.. BAYLOR SPEAKS.
He Defines the Issues.
A STIRRING APPEAL.
The Trouble In Georgia.

Editor Ri cbmond Planet:
The proposed race-csste high
school at Atlanta, Ga, from which col
ored pupils are to be excluded, raises
the raes question in all it's aspects on a
fundamental American liberty issue,
which will stir the hearts Of the people
/ from Texas to Maine. The race caste
educational disfranchment OF the chill.
dren of the Negro serf OF the south
side by side with the capitalistie edu-
cationsl disfranchisement of the chill.
dren Of the white-wage slave OF the
north (the crowning infamy OF Ameri-
can cspitalism) will OF itself, unless
checked by the toiers of both sections
with strong hand (and the toilers
alone will have to apply the cheeky
end in the complete subversion of
American liberty.
What the public school is, the Nation
will be. For veal or for woe. the des-
| tiny OF America will be finally deter
| mined by the character and teaching
Of the public school.
TO rAKE UP rHK FIGHT.
have written to Chicago paper
| (the Peoples Press) to take up the
| fight there and / now write to the
PLANET. A national committee should
be organized at once in Richmond to
| correspond with labor unions and lab
or parties all over the Nation. This is
supremely q labor question.
We now begin to sse the full and
hideous proportion of the deadly dan.
ger to American liberty growing out of
| the triumph OF the principle of race
despotism of the south.
II there had been no color line race
caste ruled South Carolina, Mississippi
and Louisiana, sanctioned by n prosti-
tuied and venal political partisRH, fed
eral judiciary and upheld by the tacit
sympathy of Republican President,
there would have been no military
suppression OF liberty in Cuba. there
would have been ne Filipino horror
Grace -despotism upheld by Federel au-
thorities Ia South CaroIina) there
would have been no organized Ameri-
can Military imperialism with its Idaho
bull pen there would have been no al
liances between the Federal Imperial
lists and she Papacy, an unholy alli-
ance which is the despair of free
humanity.
There are certain landmarks of
1 Am6rlCAD AlDbrby Wllcn must De up
held at all hazards and at all cost
They are:
1st. rhe maintenance of the secular
character of the Government in tact
including the first amendment to the
Federal Constitution.
2nd. An independent pon-partisan
: and non. political Federal Judiciary
Bird, Equality OF the educational
rights Of the children of all the people
without distinction OF race, nstiouali
ty creed or sex in free, equal. secu
larized public school system.
4th. Equality OF civil rights before
I the law for all, on every inch of Amer
,, San soil and wherever the flag floats.
. 5th. Economic justice in the dali.
lives and homes OF the people through
honest AMI just taxation for the sup
port of the Federal Government.
The public school question allied t
) the race question ct the south, involve
: all of these.
a You can put me down for $5 Co an
: fund which is proposed to raise
/ fight this public school question bsfo r
. the U. s. Supreme Court and failin
a there, to continue the fight before th
y toiling and enslAved masses, north an
Il south alike.
!. CHARLES g. BAYLOR,
Z Secretary OF the 1873 America
!. Secular Liberty League Of r.
a Providence, r. l..
November 4, 1899.