The Washington bee., 1907-03-30
stated

stated
This recalls the fact that on FL
/ 8, 1907, the Senate, seeking 10 avo.l .
appearance Of paternalism on the ~. -.: L:
the government and the one man ,- V
passed the following resolution.
Resolved, That the Secretarv q.
Treasury, the Attorney-General. +ts s-. ,.'
retary Of the Interior, the Secrqt,-- ~ y.
J Commerce and Labor, the Ss,-r+s-. v, y,
Agriculture, and the Interstate c.
mence Commission are hereby 60
directed TO report TO the Senate .. -.
learliest moment possible the nurba- 80, -,
names Of all persons employed Lv -
or under their authority in their say.-,
departments during the fiscal wear 81
ing June 80, 1906, or who are non, y
employed as special agents atto-r..,
inspectors, employees, or otba-,r;.,
where no specific appropriation IN 5s.,5
has been made by Congress for -
employment or only made in gs,..-,
terms, and also to report in eyerv ,,,.
the amount paid, or to be paid. as rom
pensation, and make a specific stats7.-.
OF the nature Of the employment IN es-I
case, and also whether such persons ..
IN the classified service"
In answer to this the several Se,rs,,.
les submitted their reports to the G,
ate and Senate Document No AK r
copy of which I hold in my hands, >.
veals the fact that although hundred,
Of such employees were sent Out md.
instructions from the White House n,
a single Negro was selected, and tbj, /,
a republican form Of government
It should not be necessary 70 rem;,3
any one and especially a great bips
priest of the square DEAL the head and
front of this Administration, of the is4
that a republic cannot be successfurv
maintained based on inequality Of eli.
zenship or opportunity and that al At.
tempts to maintain class and caste dis.
tinctiOns have proven the downfall Of
those who tried to enforce them.
In nearly all of the Executive D.
parments Negroes of ability, education
and efficiency are employed on work IN
which their white fellow clerks have So.
nally failed to produce as good results
as their Negro compeers and yet these
same Negroes are in a number Of IN.
stances placed under these failures IN
sections that are tabooed as "jimcroy
sections" and this too when the Admin
istration is Republican in name if not
in form and loud in its acclaim Of The
Square dear' and broad door Of o.
portunity."
Why is it that when the work Of Ger.
tain sections in the departments Is only
suited to Negro brain, Drawn and in.
tellect, that some of the capable, dessH-
ing and worthy Negroes who have gra
evidence of initiative efforts as well as
executive ability of high order cannot
be placed in charge of these sections and
given the full credit of the work turned
out under their supervision?
As a rule this has not obtained and
the nominal head has been compelled TO /
make his reports, working diagrams, ETC.
from the constructive knowledge ofs9m
capable Negro who neither draws t5:
pay nor gets the credit.
This condition is not confined a0,t
to the Departmental Service in Washing
ton; while the most recent instance s
to be found in the appointment from Tx
Civil Service roster Of 4 Neg''
draughtsman IN the Supervising Arczf
tect's Office; the white employees Of ts
Railway Mail service petihouing ti
segregation is also to the point liz
prompt refusal, however, Of the Fo5'
Office Department to even consider sud
an infamous discrimination furnishes
speedy remedy for these far too Oft r.
peated and winked-at conditions. I4
prompt denial seems to furnish at 0S
the panacea for the untoward c0ndlr5a
existing in the Bureau Of Engray1g
and Printing, now under the control
the same official who at the head 0I iH
Postofice Department was respoa'o1
for the stamping out Of the mcP.~
color line in the Railway Mail ser7F
similar conditions existing IN the Cels2
Office, under the control Of a Bo'p-
man of culture, whose principal ID
Secretary of Commerce and Labor u
felt in his own race the sting OF opp"
sion and prejudice; and last bli -
least, the Sixth Auditors Office, "A~
is now also under the c0ntrol ol -
former head of the National RepaD-'-
Committee and who knows no d-'LD
ton Of race, but relies on the meriI'l,-
showing of the individual, who Ike D.
self overcomes obstacles and NOUNS
the highest pinnacle.
The Negro in the Departments ~
sents the best Of his race IN POM
culture, intellect and education y