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of government, including police. ma
gstrates, etc, render it. easier, since, by
preferring the white, many intricate
questions of social contact are avoided
and political influence is vastly in
creased. -
Mast Work for Less Wages.
"Under such circumstances there IS
nothing for the Negro to do but to
bride the employer by undertaking his
white fellow; to work not only for less
money wages, but for longer hours and
under worse conditions.
Does he want to do this. Does he
like long hours and under worse con-
ditions.
Does he want to do thise Does he
like longer hours. Ignorant as he is as
a mass, has he not intelligence enough
to perceive the value of labor unions
and the meaning of the labor move
ment? No, It is not because the black
man is a fool, but because he is vic
tim that he drags labor down.
Judges and juries in the South are
at the absolute mercy of the white
voters. Few ordinary judges would dare
to oppose the momentary whim of the
white mob and practically only now
and then will jury convict white nan
for aggression on a Negro. Not only
is this true in criminal but also in civil
suits, so much so that it is a wide
spread custom among Negroes of
property never to take a civil suit to
court but to let the white complainant
settle it In all public benefits like
schools and parks and gathering and
institutions, Negroes are regularly
taxed for what they cannot enjoy. ]
am taxed for the Carnegie Public Ii
brary of Atlanta where 1 cannot enter
to draw my own books. The Negroes
of Memphis are taxed for public parks
where they cannot SIT down
Barred From Engines aud Autos.
witness the strike of the white
locomotive hremen in Georgia to-day;
Negro fremen get from fifty cents n
one dollar a day less than the white
fremen, have to do mental work, and
cannot become engineers. They can.
however, by good service and behavior,
be promoted to the best runs by the
rule of seniority. Even this the white
fremen now object to, and say in
manifesto; the white people of this
State refuse to accept Negro eqra
This is worse than that. The other
dav the white automobile drivers of
Atlanta made a frantic appeal in the
papers for persons to stop hiring black
drivers. The black drivers replied.
1--WE have had fewer accidents than
you and get less wages" but the whites
simply said, This ought to be white
mans job"
THE voteless Negro is a provocation.
an invitation, to oppression, a plaything
for mobs, and a bonanza for dema-
gogues. They serve always to distract
attention from real issues and to ride
! fools and rascal into political power.
The political campaign in Georgia be
fore the last was avowedly and openly
campaign, not against Negro crime
and ignorance, but against Negro in
teligence and property owning and in
dustrial competition, as shown by an
: 81 per cent. increase in their properly
in ten years. 1t swept the State, and
If it had not eliminated in riot and
bloodshed and thus scared capital, it
would still be triumphant. As 1t is.
the end is not yet
Fourteen years ago Mississippi be
gan DISTINGUISHING Negroes. You were
promised that the result would be to
settle the Negro problem. Is IT settled:
No, and it never viii be until you give
black men the power TO be men, until
you give them the power to defend
that manhood. When the Negro casts
free and intelligent vote in the South
then, and not until then will the Negro
problem be settled"