The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-09
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 The ancient, and honorable munici- pality of Boston is famous for some thing else than beans codfsh and lit- erature. we beg to inform you. St has among its other assets a Negro Im- provement Society, as 1t ie named. We don't exactly understand whether the object is to improve the negroes or whether the negres are going to improve somebody else, but there's to be some improvement of somebody or something, else the organization is misnamed. We are inclined to the opinion that they intend to improve the Republican party, judging from a re- cent outgiving. We are free to ad- init that the party is sadly in need of improvement It needs 1t in it's constituent parts. from the chief me gull all the way down the Iine.. 1t needs improvement In its methods, its policies and it's utterances. Tn fact it needs improvement in every way and In every part, and this society seems about to take the job
 The Republican party under Roose- velt," they declare in recent pro. nouncement 'has proved faithIess to it's pledges. If Taft is nominated we will oppose him tooth and nail. We are going to fight. We want an ef- fective civil rights bill in very North ern State. We want improved travel ing facilities and we want to force the service of colored men on the juries of the South. We are going to enter politics to gain our ends. We viii or ganize and promote our cause by lob hies, by civil cases and by literature"
 There we have 1t in plain English, so plain that he that runs may read to use common expression. Taft is put on notice and if he gets a fall he cannot put up the plea that he was not warned. They propose to bite ana scratch, Judging from their language. If he has to go to the shop for repairs when they are done with him it is no more than he should reasonably ex- pect We tender to the big Secretary our sympathy in advance.
 And that declaration about wanting "an effective civil rights bill in every Northern State" sounds good, and we wish the society unbounded success. though we must confess that our wish has little to stand on. Civil rights for the negro up North is all on paper and on the lips and tongues of their Republican brethren. They talk el,h,v and mouthingly about the rights of the downtrodden negro and let him so without food They feed his van ity and starve his stomach. They nat him on the back when they want his vote and kick him down stairs when he wants to make a living among them. Oh, yes; a civil rights bill is just the thing for the Northern States.
 AS for their demand in favor of fore ing negroes on all the juries in the south-well, that might just as well have been omitted That is a matter that the Southern people will continue to manage in their own way. and the Negro Improvement Society of Boston cannot change It. If they will cut nat out and put their wits to work to improve Boston they will have their york cut out for them. And If they want job of more than gigantic pro- portions they can find 1t when they set to work to improve the Republi. can party even nt home. We hope their first successful job will be tc turn Massachusetts over to the Demo crats. We don't mean delivering the State into the power of George Fred Williams but to the real Democrats The accomplishment of that object will entitle them to a monument