Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1925-04-04
1-OHIO'S ANTI-MARRIAGE BILL.
3-RELIGION OF NON-RELIGION.
OHIO'S ANTI-MARRIAGE BILL.

OHIO'S ANTI-MARRIAGE BILL.
Assemblyman Roberts, of the Ohio Legis-
lature has introduced into the regular session
1925, a new AngloSaxon hope, known as
ouse Bill No 218, measure aimed to pr
vent the "arnalgamation of the white race
with any other race. Among other things
Mr.. Roberts bill provides five hundred to
one thousand dollar fine or three to nne
months imprisonment, or both, for any per-
son of pure white blood" who marries per-
en- of another race, or one having distinct
and visible admixture of the blood OF another
race, and vice versa as to any persons OF
another race who marry persons Of pure white
blood The usual fines and mprisonments
are provided in the bill for those who dare to
solernnize such forbidden matrimonial allan
ces g
The big fish in the sea of Asser1fbymaa
Roberts mind, however, is, of course, the pre-
vention, by legal means, of racial adrlixtures
between the whites and the blacks-a situation
eagerly sought by hundreds of white men in
the day time, and, unfortunately for both
races, for that matter, forgotten by thousands
of white men in the night time. The on
marching tide of mulattoes has dehed the
1niscegenation laws of Georgia, Florida, Ala
bana, Arkansas and virtually all States which
have them on the books in the day and on
the shelves in the night.
The evasion of marital law and order is
of course, of no credit to either whites or
blacks, and it is a sad, sad reminder of that
truth when figures show that in Arkansas,
whose statutes are heavily laden with mar
rage barriers between the races, mulattoes
increased in forty years more than $50 per
cent. The spirit of advocacy of racial purity
is to be highly commended, but when legal
barriers estop the lawful confirmation of lille
gitinlate unions, pray what is to become Of
the notes and the beams which daily exist
upon the eyeballs of inter-racial relationships:
The amalganlation marches onward, day by
day, and thessons Of Ham and Of Shem and
Of Japhet top, are as vari-oolored as was
.JosephS coat.
OF far greater interest to Assemblyman
Roberts, democrat of Belmont County, Ohio,
it seems to us, would be the greater protection
of the 2,o2o Negro citizens in his county,
residing principally in Barton, Bridgeport,
Martins Ferry and Bellaire, who complain
that Mexican and other foreign laborers are
,urping their places in Ohio industries. This
they say is more important to them Just now
than the matter of blood fltering. Amen!
INTERSTATE COMMERCE
CAI4AMITIES.
Upon the ground that the South is not ade-
quatey represented in the personnel of the
Interstate Commerce Commission, Federal
tribunal created by Congress to see that dis
elimination on the part of common carriers
is done away with, when passengers or pro-
perty are transported insterstate it is said that
Southern Senators will refuse to confirm
Hon. Thomas F. Woodlock, who has just
been given recess appointment to the Com
mission by President Coolidge.
The watchfulness of the South over the
personnel and activities of the Interstate Com
merce Commission has always been marked
And to colored people who, when travelling
interstate southwark through Jim Crow States
are given inferior coaches and accommoda-