The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1913-12-05

COPY or RESOLUTIONS PRESENT.
Ed TO MAYOR NYE BY THE
SPECIAL COMMITTEES OF THE
NEGRO MORALS COMMITS
SION ON NOV. "a, 1918.
To the Honorable Wallace G. Nye.
! Mayor of the City of Minneapolis.
Your Honor: We, the Negro Nor
ais Commission, of the city Of Mime
apolis, after due and thorough in
yestigation of the moral conditions of
our people in this city. herewith re-
spectfully present to Your Honor, by
Special. Committee delegated there
for, the following unanimous resolu-
lions, with the full confidence and be-
lief that Your Honor will, in accord
ance with your numerous public and
private statements. give due considera-
ton hereof and enforce adequate. bona
fide action thereon.
Your petitioners, and each of them,
have and hope to always have, the
highest regard for and confidence in
Your Honor's integrity and veracity,
both as a man, and as an official
worthy of the highest elective office
in the gift Of the people Of this city;
but, your petitioners know that Your
Honor has been grossly misled and
grievously imposed upon by your sub
ordinates and others interested and
Ioncerned in the maintenance of pres
ent vice conditions; by others, actual
ed by pecuniary and political gain and
preferment.
But, your petitioners herewith re-
spectfully elect to manifest their sim
cere confidence in Your Honor, and
in the ultimate triumph Of civic and
moral righteousness over vice and
petty politics by the presentation of
these resolutions, passed after the
most thorough investigation, such as
Your Honor, personally, is precluded
from making; the reason whereof is
patent. Those whom Your Honor must
naturally delegate for such investiga-
tons are incompetent by reasons pol
itical, pecuniary or moral.
We, THE NEGRO MORALS COM
MISSION, of the city of Minneapolis,
in convention assembled, herewith
unanimously adopt the following reso-
lutions for presentation to the Honor
able Wallace G. Nye, Mayor Of this
city:
Resolved, that we, the citizens Of
Minneapolis, unanimously and un-
qualifiedly condemn the double stand
ard Of morals for white people and
Negroes, tolerated, abetted and en-
couraged by the police department, the
vicious and immoral Negroes of this
community, and by those politicians
seeking political prestige. CD and pre-
ferment.
Resolved, that we believe in and will
seek to secure, the same high standard
of morality as that obtaining and to
be obtained by and among the best
class Of white people; and further,
that we will demand the same police
protection, for our sons and daugh-
tiers, our wives and fellow citizens, as
Is, and has been and will be afforded
our more favored white fellow-citiz-
ems. 49,
Resolved, that we know that with
the withdrawal of the police protec-
tion accorded the Negroes haunts of
vice and crime, and the tacit and ap-
parent approval given thereto by
those high in official, and supposedly,
In social life, crime and immortality
will diminish and decrease to very
remarkable degree in this community.
Resolved, that we stigmatize the
supporters, aiders and abettors of
these gambling houses and brothels,
herein specified, as social vampires;
as enemies to organized government,
to social progress and moral up-lift
and betterment.
Resolved, that we repudiate the pre-
valent opinions that vices, such as
gambling and sexual immortality are
peculiarly indispensable and neces-
sarily incidental to the Negroes ex-
istence or happiness, and that the
best Negro citizenry participate in or
condone such vice, either expressly or
tacitly.
Resolved, that we hereby and herein
request that the said Mayor Of this
city forthwith order, and in good faith
enforce the complete elimination, in
despite of protests to the contrary,
(official or otherwise) of the follow
ing gambling and immoral places ESQ.,
called "clubs"), the same being vic
ious, demoralizing and vitality detri.
mental to the entire community; es-
pecially the Negro portion thereof,
viz: d,