The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-04-09
EDITOR TROTTER
ADDRESSES NEBRASKA
LEGISLATURE.
Legislators Dazed by Frank
ness of Address Which Urg-
ed True Democracy in the
Name Of Lincoln Who AdvO-
Gated it First in America.

Lincoln Neb., April 7.-Colored Ne
braskans made stroke unprecedent-
ed here when they secured a vote by
the house of representatives inviting
William Monroe Trotter of Boston to
address that body in their behalf. The
speech by the corresponding secretary
of the National Equal Rights League
was probably unprecedented before a
legislature i'm its non-compromise from
the Colored Americans standpoint.
Mr. TrOtter was taken to the speak
cr's desk and introduced TO the legis-
latOrs by Representative George Dy-
bali Of Omaha. For his text he took
the Lincoln statue in front of the
state house. He complimented Nebras-
ka upon bestOwing greater honor upon
Abraham Lincoln than any other state
conclude that it accepted Lincoln as
the real teacher Of the basic principles
Of the republic, the true meaning
authority on What the founders inten-
ded and on what was true American
ism. He further concluded from the
chiseling of the Gettysburg address
on the background wall of the statue
that the state considered it as the best
statement of governmental principles.
Then he quoted, Our fathers
brought forth on this continent a new
nation conceived in liberty, and dedi-
Gated to the proposition that all men
resolve that these honored dead may
not have died in vain" which made
II clear as the sun that Lincoln as
serted this republic was based on lib
erty and equality for all. Hence Ne
braska was committed to liberty of
all to have a trial when accused of
crime, liberty to cast a ballot under
the same conditions as Others liberty
public, conveyance first come first
served, equality to hire a room in a
hotel, to buy shave in a barber
shop. TO buy meal in a restaurant
M in aNafV. IL
TO take a seat in a theater the same
as the other fellow. Such is the Lin
coin teaching.
Mr., ,Trotter then referred to the
world decisive world war with the slo-
gar of world democracy, the essence
of which is that all persons and races
are to be not only in a country but of
it, with freedom tn mingle freely in
gated pleasures of the people. He
said no other ideal was ever mention
ed now but democracy. Next he remin-
ded his hearers that this claimed to
be a Christian nation based On the
gospel of love thy neighbor as
yourself" and '1ove ye one another
for all ye the brethren He appealed
that no man be so mean as to be un-
willing for another man to have a
room in a hotel while he had his own
room, so full of brute as to object u
another eating his meal out of the
plates set before him when he him
self was eating his out of he plates
set before him, but to have enough
consistency in religion to recognize
the right of another person to seat
in a public amusement place as well
as himself
Let Nebraskans have the moral
courage to be true to Lincoln, To
Christianity and to democracy, for the
peace, harmony and strength of the
nation required it, with scorn for
none in civil life considered good
enough to die in battle for the coun-
try, especially of the race that had
produced the first martyr to the foun-
ding of the country"
There was a full gallery and full
lobby of all races, with applause, but
the Legislators seemed somewhat daz-
ed by the franlIness of the address