The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1919-05-03
A c OF NATIONS.
BY VIM. H. Dawiey. Jr.

Negro delegates from the worlds
important Negro centers in ten Pan
African Congress, of which 16 we're
from the United States of America. 10
from the French West Indies. Z from
Hayti, These delegates adopted GER
tain very clear, specific and definite
articles concerning the betterment of
the Negroes, civilized and uncivilized,
dispersed around the globe, over the
signatures OF Blaise Diagne, Presl.
dent W. f. B. Dubois, Secretary, ana
laid them before the Peace Confer.
enCe. This may have effect. The per.
sonal appeal of the unarmed but up.
landing Bishop of Rome, Leo ], affect
ed the dread Attila.
The current crisis struck another
ringing note, to-wit: Every Negro
(Of the United States) should speak
French. Large numbers should speak
Spanish and Portuguese Why? Be
cause the peoples Of the Romance
tongues have a deeper sympathetic
vein with us. Because the majority
Of the Negroes of the world speak
these languages, and when at some fu.
ture time we are thrown together we
shall be able to understand one an
other. Most of the Negroes ii the
United States who speak a foreign
language speak German and the lon
gIage Of Luther, Gothic and Schiller,
is rich. 1t p~leases, it thrills, but does
it inspire the Negro? In the Romance
literature are Negro heroes, generals,
statesmen, scholars, artists. In these
literatures as well as Greek and Latin
there is no sentence, no word dispar.
aging to the Negro.
Mr.. Wilson may with finesse sway a
Democratic congress and repeatedly
mold it to his views but it is dispar-
agement of him to affirm that he
meets his master in the little Welsh
ma nthat is now guiding the destinies
of the British Empire. When Mr.. Will
son left America the first time he was
vigorously waving the flag, Freedom
of the seas Since his visit to Eng
land not a word has he uttered about
it. open covenants he was advo-
eating on his second visit. Mr.. Will
son had hardly been in France a week
when ten already limited ten was re-
duCed to four. and now these four, it
is said, are to submit the treaty to
powers review it.
2 Why did Mr.. Wilson send for the
George Washington? Here is the an.
= swev, There were three essentials. l
4 that Lloyd George made good his
r promise that Germany pay England,
y cost of the war; ?, that Clemenceal
see to it that Germany pay for the de
5 struction in the French provinces anC
d the ruined French industries; 8. tina
n Mr.. Wilson have the League of Ma
g lions constitution so modified as t
e exclude the Monroe doctrine from it
.e operations. The ever mindful Lor
Northcliffe, the worlds foremost eC
i itor, logged his premier's memor,
re Lloyd George suddenly informed NJ
y Wilson that Great Britain found ser
W GUS difficulties in the way of modif.
ing the League. Taken by surprise
his move, the President sent for II
George Washington at once. Howeve
! as his ship was approaching the E
ropean shore Mr.. Wilson seems to a
preciate the Anglo-French attitude
the matter of re%parations. Theer
at the same time a growing p~ossibili'
on the part of Lloyd George, the pre-
ent dominant figure of the conferenc
to understand and accept Mr.. Wilson
n view about the Monroe doctrine ar
the covenant of the League of n
IN tons