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tons and are otherwise narnQ1ully QlSClllll-
mated against in the matter OF meals, sleeping
ferths, and day coach facilities, the keen in
terest of the Southland in the Interstate Com
MERGE Commission has but one Interpretation.
Southern rail and water carriers, too, know
full we'll the scope of duties and power OF the
Commission They know that antiquated
coaches for whites constitutes the grossest
type of discrimination, properly cognizable by
the Commission They know, when Pullman
berths are withheld from colored passengers
that discrimination ensues. They remember
the legal precedents, dormant but not by any
means dead, established in the cases of Ed
wards and Gaines, under which the oblga-
tons of common carriers are clearly set forth
by the Court And they know that the Inter-
state Commerce Commission has power to
fine railroad $1oo day for practicing dis
elimination.
last, but not least, they know that some
day some able lawyer, white or black, will sue
out mandanus and invoke perform nce OF
duties imposed by law. And, of course, the
more of the South there is reposing upon the
bench of the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, the greater solace will be felt by rail
roads of Dixieand, when the day of reckon
ing comes-for come it husband drowning
men Always grasp at straws.
RELIGION OF NON-RELIGION.
The Methodists have come mad gone, and
by vote of IL to I37 the breach between
the M. E. Church North and the M. F.
Church South, which was carved into Meth
odist Christianity more than eighty years ago.
because Of slavery which the Church South
oondcned, still yawns open defiance to the
Sabbath chants of the bishops. when they adj
n,onish their followers to love theft neighbors
as themselves. When Sir Walter Scott
wrote: WHO spills the foremost foenlan
blood that party eouquers in the feud' ne
must have visualized the now present sixteen
denominations of .Methodism far; from the
minds of the Wesleys in their revision OF
Professionalism.
THESE paragraphs, though. bear not one
whit of malice against the Methodists. who are
religiously good as the best OF the other de-
nominations. The great question however,
rs we see it. for solution by all the churches
is whether Or not they intend to observe the
commandment: "Thou shalt have no other
God before Me- Malice is god. fractional
division is a god. Prejudice is god The
deception of preaching unity in the pulpit and
division in conference is god which the
NHethodsts have just openly acclaimed. At
that. they were serli-honest enough to an
i,ounce their religion of division in open court
md not keep it secret of state as their white
UNCONVENTIONAL contemporaries have done.
Just as Napoleon Bonaparte once said:
Good God, How rare men are, how rare is
religion without a strong alloy. Forests
prirneval with their murrrnlring hernlocks and
the streaming sunlight of the God-given day
seem, more and more, to make background
of honest-to-goodness religion far more pei
feet than beautiful stone masonry and tri-
colored church windows. land if the church
of today is to form the foundation of the
church of the hereafter, then III to I37 votes
for non-alliance of Christians must be made
impossible, not only among the Methodists
but among the other Christian denominations