The Washington bee., 1907-02-16
THE AFRO-AMERICAN CorNcu

ne AFRO-AMERICAN COUNCIL
Louisville, KY, February 4 Iooz
IN company with President Walters
and Attorney Wetsnore l called on Sen
ator Foraker during January.
Ills noble soul goes out for the dis
honorably discharged men of the 9ztb
United States Regiment. The iustico
ne seeks will come. The American oeo
pie as whole are too Just to allow
great wrong to ten millions Of tbe;r
number be they black or white oass
without proper investigation
We are interested in the soldiers and
more than that in the principle Of M
tce involved that will be too far-rescb-
ing IN its effect to go undefended
Lieutenant Flipper, vino is now Iivino
under another flag, and Cadet Whit
aker, who had his ear cut off in = t.1
ing bee, would be as honored TODAY h.,
the American Government As C,n+,;1
Dreytus IS by the French. if the Neoro
Ilad stood by them like the Jews stood
by Dreyfus, Our failure in that has
seen us steadily beaten back and back
until the Negro cannot enter mill
tary academy in this country. Nearly
every State has disbanded their Negro
militia, and this stroke of the President
has put mountain in the Negro's path
way that must be scaled before he can
enter, as formerly, the United States
Army.
Again | say unless We make a lust
contention, aided by Senator Foraker
and other white friends, North and
South, it will affect the Negro a hun
dred years hence
Interest friends in the struggle for
justice, and make yourself responsible
for $500. Give or collect it and send
it to the One Cent Savings Bank, Nash
vile, Tenn, or True Reformers' Bank.
Richmond. Va. Mr.. J. c. Napier. cash
ier of the One Cent Savings Bank. or
Mr.. r. 7. Hill, cashier of the True
RefOrmers' Bank, will receipt 70 you.
Do not delay, but act, and act at once.
The investigation has been ordered by
the United States Senate Now. if the
Negro Is called to trial and is not ready.
all we have fought for, all Senator For
aker has won, will be lost.
Then there is the Constitution to be
adopted by the new State of Oklahoma.
The clause making legal Jim Crow"
| cars is to be submitted to a vote OF
! the people separate from other articles.
Had the Council money, we would
organize and defeat that act We must
do something to help our Oklahoma
brethren. For the race to surrender
without an honest struggle will show
us to be too big towards for any de-
cent man to fight for.
A prominent man writing from the
State of Arkansas says "The most
troublesome thing that we have on our
ha7ds at present is the Arkansas Leg
islature. They are grindly slowly but
surely trying as best they can TO en-
gulf the Negro and strip him of all his
Constitutional rights. They have al
ready introduced a servants bill which,
in my opinion, if enacted, will be pure
and simple peonage.
They have also introduced the Seq
regation Bill, which means, if enacted
into law, the denial of a vast number
of Negro children the right and privi-
lege of a common public school educa-
ton. The two acts, summed up IN
nutshell mean: involuntary servitude
and ignorance. E
Let all differences of denomination or
churches, past successes or failures OF
any racial organization, be forgotten in
this hour of our racial death-grapple
with the most outrageous wrong ever
done ten million people. It is strike
NOW or NEVER.
With a longing for better day for
our people and beloved country, l am
Your comrade,
L. C. Jordan.
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