The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-03-23
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Race News.

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To the colored people of Georgia, Mssis-
sippi, Louisiana, Alabama and other Southern
States:
We are in receipt Of a communication from
Mr.. w. G. Byrd, 675 Hood St. Portland,
Ore, who says that excellent opportunities
are now ofered for progressive colored men
and women who wish to improve their oppor-
tuniIies. There IS great demand for them,
as the white people of that section of the
country are getting tired Of laps and China
men; they do not want anything but progress
sive and industrious colored men and women.
No loafer or those who idle the year around
need look towards Oregon, as the laws are
very strict against that class and are rigidly
enforced.
1t strikes us very forcibly the colored peo-
pie Of these states who wish to better their
condition should go to a state like Oregon,
where the laws are more equally interpreted.
The schools are mixed, the laws are admin
lstered according to justice, and seldom, if
ever, do the people judge by the color when
it comes to business. Take advantage of the
opportunity and scatter over the great North
west.-Topeka Plaindealer.
The above applies to Montana
also and all information desired
can be secured by addressing The
Montana Plaindealer, 2I S. Main
Street, Helena, Mont.
H. T. Galloway, Of New Orleans, has es-
tablished a mail order tailoring business in
Chicago, with offices for gentlemen and
ladies, and is doing large business in South
and Southwest, giving employment to 10
Afro-American travelling men. He ships
over 5000 suits a year.
Thomas ]. Emery in his $4,000 charitable
gifts to the Cincinnati fresh air fund bequests
$4,000 to the colored orphans of Vondale,
and to archbishop Of Ohio in aid of any Cath
olic institution for the care of the aged and
children, provided none are excluded on ac-
count of creed or color, $1,000.
The supreme court has received instruction
to prepare the necessary papers for an appeal
to the Supreme Court of the United States in
the Bud Cartwright case from Coffeyvillle,
Kas. Cartwright, a colored man brought
mandamus proceedings to compel the board
of education to allow his daughter to attend
school with white children. The Court de
cided in favor of Cartwright.
The appeal to the Supreme Court will tie
the thing up long enough for the next legis-
lature to pass a law similar to the Kansas
City separate high school law, which has
been held to be constitutional by the Supreme
Court.
1t is rather peculiar circumstance that
both of the decisions Of the Kansas supreme
court on the question of separate schools for
whites and negroes will 60 to the U. S. su
preme court. In the Kansas City case, the
right Of the board of education to proceed
under state law and provide a seperate
school for colored children was sustained; in
the Coffeyville case, the right of the board to
proyide seperate schools without such law
was denied. Both cases are to be appealed.
Last Friday night Prof. w. r. Richards
conducted an enormous mass meeting Of the
people Of District of Columbia to protest the
suffrage conditions in the Soulh.
The Denver mint has seven colored people
employed out of about I25,
A bill was offered last week in Mississippi
to legalize lynching.
The Postal Telegraph and Western Union
of Chattanooga, Tenn, have employed color
ed boys exclusively. Splendid results are
already being evinced.
The colored walters Of the St. James of
Baltimore have fatty refused to serve the rep
resentatives Of the ''Clansmen."
Editor Clement of the Boston Transcript
says that Americas future artists will come
from the Negro race.