Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-20
NEGRO CONVENTION ADJoURNS
Meeting at Harper's Ferry Issues An
Address TO the Voters of
the Country.

HARPERS FERRY, w. Va, Aug. 1s.-
The second annual meeting Of the Niagara
movement came to a close today with re-
ligious exercises and a sermon by Rev
G. Frasier Miller. At the conclusion of the
sermon an address to the country was
read. 1t says in part:
In detail our demands are clear and un-
equivocal First-We would vote; with the
right to vote kgoes everything: Freedom
manhood, the honor Of your wives, the
chastity of your daughters, the right TO
man listen to the liars who deny this We
want fun manhood suffrage, and we want
II now, henceforth and forever.
Second-We want discrimination in pub
lie accommodations to cease. Separation in
railway and street cars, based simply on
race and color, is un-American, undemo-
cFaile ara silly We protest against all
such discrimination
Third-We claim the right of free men
to walk talk and be wish them that wish
to be with us No man has a right to
choose anotherS mans friends, and to at
tempt to, do so is sn impudent interfer-
ence with the most fundamental human
privilege.
Fourth-We want laws enforced against
rich well poor; against capitalist as
well as against laborer; against white as
well as black. We are not more lawless
than the white race, but we are, more
often arrested, convicted and mobbed we
want justice even for criminals and out
laws. We want the constitution of the
want the fourteenth amendment carried
out to the letter and every state disfran-
chised in congress which attempts TO dis
franchise its rightful voters. We want
the fifteenth amendment enforced and no
state allowed to base its franchise simply
The failure of the republican party in
congress at the session just closed to re
deem it's pledge of 1904 with reference TO
suffrage conditions in the south seems a
plain, deliberate and premeditated breach
Of promise, and stamps that party as guilty
of obtaining votes under false pretenses'
Fifth--We want the national government
to wipe out illteracy in the south; we
want our children trained as intelligent
human beings should be and we Will hght
for all time against any proposal TO edu-
cate black boys and girls simply as servants
and underlings, or simply for the use Oh
These are some of the chief things which
we want How shall we get them? by
voting where me may vote by persls'e,pitc Y, !, :
truth by sacrifice and work. We 90 not
believe in violence, but we do oelleNe IN
John Brown, and here on the scene OF
John Browns martyrdom we reconsecrate
ourselves, our honor, our property 10 the
final emancipation of the race Whlch Johl
Brown died to make free.
The address closes with an appeal to the
young men and women of the nation and
asl.s:
Cannot the nation that has absorbed
100000 foreigners into It's poIliSai onn aIe
without catastrophe absorb lOOOO,Uo negro
Americans into that same political lite az
less cost than their unjust and illegal eN-
clusion will involve.
A resolution was adopted urging voters
to question every candidate for congress as
to his attitude on the fourteenth amend
ment and to refuse support to such as Will
not positively promise to support Its en-
| forcement.