The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-05-25

Massachusetts has been made to
do this by Legislators recreant to
their trust, unworthy to have in
trusted to their keeping the glOri-
Gus record, the bright escutcheOn
of the Commonwealth, against the
the sentiment of majority of her
citizens Of all races, over the earn
est and united protest of that class
of citizens directly injured. To
this unjust and tyrannical step the
state of Attucks, Garrison, Andrew
and Sumner has been forced by
the hand of governor reared, if
not born, within the shadow of the
state house, bearing an honored
name, a lifelong member of that
party which claims liberty and
equality as its special ensign, one
who has been consistently assisted
through his entire political career,
aided in his upward climb in polit-
ical life and elected to his present
position by colored voters. Shame
upon him and upon all those who
have thus sacrificed human rights
for pelf, who have made Massachu-
setts bow obsequiously at the
shrine of the money god as she
threw her own children into the
NAV of the hideous female mon
ster, color prosciptive Virginia, to
quiet the war from the Negro-de-
vouring throat.
1t is a sad day for Massachu-
setts, it is a sad day for her color
ed citizens, it is a sad day for the
colored American of the Negro
hating south, when a Virginia
money-making corporation can
come from the south, especially
from a state which like Virginia
has, by law, in its crusade of OPP
preston and enslavement OF her
own colored people, cut down the
education of the youth, disfran-
chised the men and humiliated the
women even by mandatory jim
Crow street car law, and can carry
away the money contributed in
part by the colored people of this
state, for a project in the south
without a word or line in the
law to exempt from the operation
of all the civil humiliations Incl
dent upon visiting the project even
the colored taxpayers of this state
nor even protecting them from
segregation and determinations
within the enclosure controlled by
the corporation getting the public
money.
The only solace in this calling
wrong, this gross insult especially
to our women, this bitter oppres-
sion right here at home, this brutal
tyranny, is that the colored peO-
pie almost to man (and woman
stubbornly contested every inch
of the ground as the measure was
gradually pushed through the leg
islaturc, as the Irish patriot and
champion of freedom said, disput-
ed every blade of grass while be-
ing driven back and finally over
come by larger forces and num-
bers, and that a complete defeat
| was secured only by single vote
and that by the combined forces
of the governor, and of the prcsi-
dent of the Boston and Maine r.
r., and of Virginia company's lob
by which we only hope that brave
reformer, District Attorney John
IB. Moran will investigate in his
probing Of graft and bribery on
Beacon Hill. Another solace is the
widespread determination of the
colorcd voters to resent at the
: polls this year and the next anC
the next and again the next this
5 gross insult to their sisters, wives
, and mothers and this tyrannica
r subvcrsion of their rights as tax
4 payers. Any other spccdicr mca.
d urcs oil redress available viii Ger
f tainly be tried. We know nov
- v-herr wa stand at home and Shal