The northwestern bulletin-appeal., 1925-07-18
N.A.A.C.P. ADOPTS
RESOLUTIONS At
MEET IN Denver
Should Commemorate Birthdays
of Leaders of Great Ab0li-
ton Movement.


New York, July 17.-The N. A. A.
C. p. today made public the resolu-
tions adopted at the Sixteenth Annu-
al Conference in Denver, Colo.
The resolutions in part were as fol-
lows:
Aims Of the Association.
We have before US today Ave ma
jor aims: I. The complete abolition
of lynching and mob law. 2. Polit-
ical freedom. 3. Industrial democ-
racy. 4. Better education. S. The
absolute ending Of segregation Of all
sorts based on race and color.
Let no one think that lynching is
stopped I'm America as long as one
victim every month is publicly muir
dered and even burned by mobs.
There is no political salvation for
the Negro as long as he is owned
body and soul by the Republican
party or BY any other party. A free.
intelligent ballot is our one political
salvation. and no place, honor or sal
airy is worth its loss.
We stretch again hands Of fellow
ship and sympathy to all the working
people of this land and the world.
We would unite with them as equals
and as fellows, striving through or
ganixation to make modern industry
democratic rather than ahtocratic, to
end monopoly and privilege In credit
and capital and to make social well
fare rather than individual wealth
the end of all industry.
We are deeply alarmed at the lack
Of common schools for our children
and we see widespread effort to deny
us high school training and to keep
our talented youth out Of colleges and
professional schools.
We believe in humanity; we be-
lieve in the social and civic equality
OF all men; we will fight to the bitter
end every effort to separate, segre-
gate and publicly humiliate human
beings of any kind. because Of race
or color. We are lighting residential
segregation in the last ditch before
the Supreme Court Of the United
States. We are attacking disfran-
chisement in the South by bringing
the white primary before the bar Of
national justice.
The Bullard slander.
Resolved, That We note with dis
gust and resentment the attempt Of
General Robert Lee Bullard of Ala
bama and tn" United States Army to
defame and discredit the men Of the
Ninety second Division (colored) Of
the American Expeditionary Forces
in France. A cloud of witnesses has
arisen to overwhelm with denials this
assailant of brave men and faithful
soldiers; il is not necessary for us to
add to a refutation 30 complete and
signal. But we feel impelled to re-
cord our solemn protest against Gen
eral Billiards. action as hostile ges7
ture, most improper in any army-of-
ficer, from the element in the South
that is still unenlightened and still
cave-dwelling, and as a gross, wanton
insult to ten per cent Of the people
that pay General Bullard his wages
and whose servant he is.
Haiti.
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, as
sembled in its Sixteenth Annual Con-
ference, respectfully reminds the
President of the United States and
its Secretary of State that the inde-
pendent and sovereign republic Of
Haiti is still occupied, In defiance Of
International law by American troops.
We beg leave to represent that all
of the purposes alleged as excuses for
this illegal occupation have been
achieved. Under the military power
of the United States the constitution
Of Haiti has been destroyed and a
new one substituted. The American
capital that sought advantages denied
under the old constitution has made
It's desired investments under the
new. American sugar corporations
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