Franklin's paper the statesman., 1912-07-20

and education for all. regardless of color,
with a genuine mixing of teachers and
members Of school boards as of pupils.
We reiterate our appreciation of the
worth and work of ex-senator Joseph
Benson Foraker as expressed in our first
declaration of independence We than.
and commend such men as ex-Sena-Srs
Foraker and Bulkeley. who went to their
political deaths at the hand of President
Roosevelt battling for a square deal for
the colored soldiers in the Brownsville
discharge without trial. the blackest crime
in the annals of our army, and here de-
clare we will not forget their destroyer.
We reaffirm our position that these SOL
diers have not yet had justice at the hands
of Theodore Roosevelt. President Taft or
congress. We demand that congress pass
the Foraker soldier bill and pledge our
opposition to every one involved in this
lynchng of soldiers until he reverses his
position.
We declare in consistency with our first
declaration our opposition to those. con-
demned therein and that until they re-
verse their positions they are not entitled
to the votes of self respecting colored
men. We commend the native people of
the Philippines for their stand for the in
dependence of their country and in con-
formity with our great Declaration of In
dependence urge congress to grant them
that independence which our republic en-
joys.
We commend the colored Cuban patriots
for their manly resistance against a de-
NAL of full rights. Color prejudice has
grown there by the invasion of people of
the United States. We call upon congress
to prevent the sending of United States
warships to Cuba to interfere against
these Cubans fighting for their rights and
liberties. Public school education is fun
damental to our republic Inasmuch as
the failure of certain states to provide
adequate school facilities is well known.
we demand that congress pass law for
federal aid to education along the lines
of the bill of that great patriot Hon. Hen
ry w. Blair.
We advise the colored men of this coun-
try to agitate against all injustices and to
use their ballots as a weapon of self de-
fense, as means to secure justice lib
erty and equality. by voting not for the
benefit of any party. but for the benefit
of their race. punishing the recipients and
beneficiaries of their votes who when
elected are recreant to their interests by
voting them out and ever seeking by alli-
anceS to weaken or diminish the hostility
of their avowed enemies.
We desire to ally ourselves with all those
who are laboring for equal rights and op
portunities for all the oppressed people of
this world. We realize that we have con-
demned many in these declarations. but
we have not done so from malice, but of
necessity in the desperate resistance to
the loss of our rights. We are glad to
thank Senator w. NJ. Crane for his stand
for justice for the black battalion and IA
vorable reception of the Moody -Pillsbury
anti-lynching bill and constant loyalty as
senator to the colored people
We thank the Methodist Episcopal gen.
eral conference for petitioning the Repub-
lican platform committee for this anti
lynching bill and commend the president
for his appointment of Judge Pitney and
nonappoin tment of Judge Hook on request
of colored citizens We commend also
Mr.. Chaplin. the last presidential candi-
date of the National Prohibition party,
for his rescue of colored man out of the
hands of lynching mob and appeal to all
friends of freedom to bring about liberty
and equality for all in this land OF our
fathers.