The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1914-10-02
GREAT MEETING
Colssed PespIe n Csayea6ss at
New Ysrk Urge Widespread
0rganisatiaa e he Race.

m. this morning when i;ise last speaker
at the second night mas meeting con-
cluded at the National Independent Po-
liticd League in Bethel NJ. Z. Church.
William Monroe Trotter. Secretary of the
league, concluded his report on the au-
dience the organization had with Pces-
ident Wilson last winter, protesting
against segregation of colored govern
ment clerks and held sloft q letter from
. coiorei editor in Minnesota 10 start the
fund 10 send another delegation 10 see
the President before election.
The mass mersing followed morning
and afternoon ssssions. which were ex-
ecutive with so delegatfs enrolled from
q dozen Northern States and one each
from Virginia. Georgia and Louisiana
Prof. Joel f spinearn, chairman Of
the executive board of the National As
sociation for the sdvsncement OF coiored
people, composed Of both white and COL
ored, strongly urged the organization by
colored people for colored people under
colored leadership to regain frredom and
equality.
ADDRESS.
To County OF National Independents
Equal Rikhts League Seventh An
nual Meeting. New York City. Sep
tember z 10, 1914.
To recspitalsts:
Let the American people, and especial
y shs frssident, m xiew Of -oss blnody
war OF all Europe and the probable grant
Of freeaom 10 Ireland and suffrage to
women, freedom TO Poles and Firms and
relief from aggregation and political dis
abilities for the Jews, induced by the
neets Of warning nations, remember that
IL, ,0OO. 600 native citizens la this country
are wore prescribed than those OF Europe.
We appeal 70 Presidents Wilson 70 free
coiored Americans from Jim crow carr,
Acknowledgement, lynching and seyrega-
ton, especially under the Federal Gov
ernment at the Federal capitol now rath-
er than await some awful war here.
Southern disfrxnchisement encourages
other forms of Iawle~sness and renders
the colored citizen helpless in a. coward
" fashion a. the iyDching which its dis
respect for law breeds.
Jim crow carr were absurd enough, but
roufdon<o uo-xro<<o fs<.r, oh<.. H. la<..sl.
knows no limit in prescription il let
alone.
Segregation Of federal employees il the
most alarming symptom. The petition
presented against il TO President Wilson
by q delegation OF this league checked il
only. We ssk president Wilson 70 en-
tirely remove this Matchmaking of caste.
We protest against di-franchisement,
lynching, segregation, denial Of civil and
political rights- We want only the right
Al others enjoy, even the foreigner We
shall never cesse until all citizens have
full eqnal rights in every state.
We advocate endorsement OF the Con-
stitusion. making lynchine q Federal
crime. abolition OF legal Segregation. Fed
eral aid n education.
This prescription, viSted upon no Ame-
ricsns but tbose Of color, II serious and
not 10 be minimized. Colored ciszer.s
are warned that they must ever resist il
by agitation and organization, Organ
ixstion Of colored persons ~ the only
means N gain rights or retain them II
gained.
We urre tho u-e n the ballot a. the
rrsl v~-ron of ->lf-,ie<-,-e. voting indc-
pendentiy for our dsbe and hbertie.
and not for party.
Grs~tines and spprccisfions are ex-
tended N tlse Nstionsl Association for
the Advsncement of Oolored Psople and
the Constitution resrDs for sid, and
thanks given Congrs-smsn t. O. Th-ek-
~ and A. j. Peters ~ Massachusetts, Cor
securing hearing against -ezrcgssion
and opposing it.
Federal segregation a. prscticsd In the
departments and sncouched IN various
hills should he male an i--ue e. n sup
porins candidates Cor Ooners~-, and no
doubtful men on sh>-s issues should be
who'd for.
Another delegsfiun % - President
Wilson on undoins Federal Segregation
h advised.
Nert 10 segregation. The denial n en-
pioyment Of indu~ery y the most inhu-
msn practice of tbis county.
Az sn sssempt to reduce colorsd Amer
icsns 10 permanent e.sae b 20 powerful,
ac0vsancs a sos-bsgni ssKysessios IN
phansasrspir inssisnsions n - usvsh
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