The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1914-11-21
PRESIDENT WILSON AND sEGRE-
CATION.
CATION.

The interview between President
Woodrow Wilson and William Monroe
Trotter has become part of the history
of this country and nothing can ever
change it or effaee it from its pages in
justice to Mr.. TrOtter it must be said in
his favor that he is a graduate of Har-
ward which is one of the best and oldest
educational institutions in the world;
that he is the owner and the brilliant
editor of the Guardian of Boston, Mass,
which is by far the best newspaper
published in the interest of the Afro
American race in any part of this
country; that through its columns he
loyalty supported the Hon. Woodrow
Wilson in his more than successful race
for President in 1912; that before en-
tering the White House, November IL,
for the sole purpose of seeking an
interview with the President and mot
for social equality he was backed up
with petitions signed by more than one
hundred thousand Afro-Americans re-
siding IN all parts of this broad land,
land many of them had eheerfully voted
for the President in 1919, bitterly pro-
testing against segregation in the de-
partments at Washington, D. c., which
has caused the Colored clerks and others
effected by III, new order of things to
feel like aliens and eowardly criminals
in a strange land; that Mr.. Trotter's
father before him, J. Monroe Trotter,
bravely fought in the Union army dur
ing the war of the slave holders re-
belion; that he was Recorder of Deeds
for the District of Columbia under the
first administration of that great Demo
crat who lowered like a wonderful giant
above all the spineless Democrats of the
present age and in all the ages of the
past for that matter, who was one of
the best and most patriotic statesman
that this country or any country in the
world has ever produced-the late Presi-
dent Grover Cleveland.
In view Of the above undisputed facts
Nh Trotter, as any other American
seitizen, had the right to present his side
of the case or argument to President
Wilson In a plain matter of fact and
manner, for no sane person can uphold
or defend segregation of the various
races in a democracy, like the one we
are supposed to exist under or along the
lines Of a Democratic form of Govern
ment.
Those who are loudly condemning
President Wilson for being unable to
see the light of day or the bright sun
light shining forth on the final solution
of the sO-eaIled Negro problem, or ques-
ton in this county, must remember that
President Theodore Roosevelt without
trial or jury mobbed and lynehed three
companies of the 25th Regiment; that
President William h. Taft, after his
election IN 1908, spent the winter of
that year down in Georgia that more
than one half of his inaugural address,
March 4, 1909, was devoted to his
Southern policy, which he would adhere
10 in dealing with the Negro; that he
was the first Republican President
broadly speaking to evolve the idea Of
segregating the White and COlOred
clerks in the various governmental de-
pztments at Washington; that the de-
festable Unreeonstrueted rebel southern
Democrat Of Tennessee, Luke Wright
was a member Of the Roosevelt and Taft
cabinets; that not more than ten White
men ont Of one thousand in any part
Of this county are willing to permit any
Colored man to argue or dispute any
point or question with them unless they,
the Whites, feel highly insulted or
offended