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jVLuskocjoG Oklci. Fiudau Daeombep 6 1907.
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NEW YORK REPUBLICAN CLUB
Appeals to Nation to Stop.
Color Prejudice
DEMANDS THAT CONGRESS ENFORCE
14TH AND 15TH AMENDMENTS
Issue Powerful Document in Behalf of Colored
Americans Through its Committee on
National Affairs.
ANDREWS HUMPHREY SECRETARY OF CONSTITUTION LEAGUE
iv CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE . uJ1IB ADDUKSS SHOULD BE READ "BY 1000001)0' -.
;f k ': ' U01-.OUED "CJTiZEXS ! -.' "
Report or the Committee on Nation-1
a') Affairs fo the Republican Club
of New York unanimously adopt-
ed by the Club at its Regular
meeting November 18 1907.
We call on all American citizens
to oppose the rising tide of race dis-
crimination that threatens to over-
whelm us. The situation is far worse
than It was ten yoars ago.
The late Carl Schurz not long be-
fore his death wrote: "Here is the
crucial point: There will be a move-
ment either in the direction of re-
ducing the Negro to a permanent
condition of serfdom the condition
of the mere plantation hand along-
side pf the mule practically without
any rights of citizenship or a move-
ment in the direction of recognizing
him as a citizen In the full sense of
tho tornl. 'One or the other will pre
vail"
Carl Schurz's predication has be-
come true sooner than ho expected.
Tho American people 'are apparently
moving swiftly in the effort' to re-
duce tho Negro to a permanent posi-
tion of Inferiority. Hace discrimina-
tion and race hatred are growing by
leaps and bounds.
A Call to Dujty.
We call on all by voice and pen
and l)ullo( to put down this spirit.
Especially do we urge our foreign
born citizens fo join in salting down
this deadly evil.
This is their fight as well as the
Negro's.- Do "they not' see Unit if
success should come to Jhose who
are striving' to separate tlje peoplfc oir
account of color or race gieir turn
may .come next?.
A distinguished southerner of Lou-
isiana was recently asked: "What
will you do if the Italians continue
to swarm into the south and secure
a majority of tho voters in your
state?" His answer was: "We wil.
treat them as we have the Negro
we "will disfranchise them. Tho
southern Anglo-Saxon men must rule
and shall rule" and in the adjoining
st;ate of Mississippi as wo learn from
The Associated Press dispatches the
people of several towns havo under
consideration a plan to expel children
of Italian parentage "from the public
schools.
The importance to the foreign born
citizens of the .fight therefore to
give the Negro a "square deal" Is
tthnU'it the fight continues to go
against him and the Negro is placed
permanently In the disfranchised class
there will soon be a demand for dis
crimination between different' classes
of immigrants.
The Hebrews in Russia. "
Tlie Hebrevs"who hav.o been djs-
criminated against ..for generations
and who now In Russia and Romania
are realizing the awful results of
race hatred surely will be found fight-
ing for justice for all. On what prin-
ciple of consistency can they en-
courage our natives to espouse their
cause In foreign lands and fall to do
all thoy can to right the wrongs of
native born citizens in this country?
The Italians will not be found want-
ing In tils fight when they umler
stand It. The Germnns. the Irish the
scotcn tno canumRvians j.ue hub-
sians me-urecKs Tne-wmeniaus in
that will Impel them to be on the
side of Justice and against oppres-
sion. The singular and awful factls that
this bitter determination to discrimi-
nate against the colored race Is
chargeable to the native born American.
No Race. Prejudice With Immigrants.
The immigrants have little or none
of such prejudice when thoy como
here. In Europe and Asisl there is
very slight prejudice against a dark
skin and Jn the West Indies and Cen-
tral and South America almost none.
It Is a sight that lowers this Na-
tion In the eyes of the whole world
to see a great and In many ways a
highly civilized people like tho white
people of the United States engage
in a cowardly brutal effort to crush
and keep down a race of nine mil-
lions of people.
Let us endeavor to look at the sit-
uation from an outisder's standpoint
as it looks to the Canadians and Eu-
ropeans and not as it looks to us
for it is well known that continuous
contact with any form of wrong and
?hprime renders perils or peoples
f hardened and indifferent to it.
The American people claim to love
their constitution. Oaths to honor
and obey it are constantly made and
yet the race discrimination has grown
to be so strong that this sacred con-
stitution is trampled under foot and
depplsed In many stntes. Two of its
amendments especially the 14th and
15th are openly defied. .
The Right of Representation.
Again the right of representation
supposed to be in brn in every
ericnn. Taxation without repre
sentation was tho primal cause of
our revolution and separation rrom
the mother country. The constitu-
tion of the nation and of tho forty-
six different states specifically de-
clares against Taxation without
representation and yet nine mil-
lions of citizens born on our soil in
every way having the same political
rights as the other seventy-six mil-.
lions and paying taxes upon hundreds
the right of suffrage.
Brave White Men South.
There are brave white men In tho
south who would grant justice to
the black race if the north would
lead and In no way can thoy bo so
helped as to proportionately reduce
representation in tho states that re-
fuse suffrago to the black man.
When the southern states began
to enact legislation by which tho Ne-
gro was deprived of the privilege of
voting those who advocated these dis-
honest measures urged many of them
sincerely that by thus taking the
Negroes out of politics better and
kindler relations vould be established
between the races. It has not worked
that way: indeed wo should have
known that It woul not. The drift
has been steadily in the direction of
a wider separation and more unfriend-
ly relations between tho whites and
the blacks.
Tho southern whites now in ab-
solute cojitrol are determined to pre
vent the Negroes from voting even
voting
-freedom
of millions of property -and tqkjnj?
part with high honor in the nation's
wars ar.e absolutely debarreU from
representation at Washington.
Of 391 congressmen and sena-
tors that frame our laws' hot ' one
is of. this race. By fcaud Intimida-
tion bii murder they hnvo been and
are now deprived of representation
while -forty representatives of their
stolen votes Hit in the nation's capi-
tal.' These representatives having
robbed "the" black man of his ballol
are using' the stolen right to legis-
late for themselves and against him.
These great and far-seeing states-
men of civil yar timns. foresaw tho
evil conditions tt.bat now exist and
provided the remedy while we their
indifferent and commercialized suc-
cessors stand by and rofiise or fail
to apply the constitutional remedy
specificially designed to. destroy .this
infamous law breaking conspiracy.
They forbade raqe djsqriminatiori in
if fraud intimidation nnd murder con-
tinue to be necessary to accomplish
it while the Negroes arq growing in
their determination to secure the
rights guaranteed to them by tho
constitution of the United States.
Let as recall to our follow citizens
that tho great Franklin said: "You
may take away the ballot from the
rich and strong for they -can get
along without it but you must never
take it from the poor nnd weak for
that. IS their one dcrense in- a re-
public." . .
The Voting Power and Its lenefits.
With the exercise of the
power come ovorything-
inau hood rights proper considera-
tion protection for life property nnd
tho fnhiily yes protection for the
wives and daughters of black men.
The astonishing facts in this connec- :
tlon are that colored men have-been'
charged with assaulting white women
and have been lynched for it but .' .
who ever heard of white mien being '
lynched or punished for assaulting
colored women and It would semn
tjiat this latter happqns far' more fre-
fluently - than tho first. ""
Furthermore a black man who 're-
pels an insult to his wife or-sister
in soma Fections of our land does it Y
at .the peril of his life nnd tho col- xf
ored woman who rpsents Insults froin '
white men does so at the peril of x
her Hfp. Recently in Rome Ca. a
white mail shot a Negro woman who ' -
roseuted his. attentions. His ball was i
fixed at $100. Commenting on this
"The. Vlcksburg American1' Bays with
great candor: m
'This sshort Item presents tho .
whole of the Negro's side of the race.
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problem in a nutsneii. it is me logi-
cal outcome of the determination of
the whites to demand all and give .
nothing. We "condemn the Negroes
for immornllty; we preach sermons
nnd write editorials about the dutyft
of .the race to elevate itself and
antnyer with the shotgun when they
try to do so. One of our favorite
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fact all iiatlon'nlltles comlrigto 'our
shores have histories add' 'tratllftioft's tlon; of. any state denying or abridging
the f Igkt of .suffrage nnd provided n preachments' to them Is thnt the mor-
penalty or reducing tho representa-
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Twine, W. H. The Muskogee Cimeter. (Muskogee, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 10, Ed. 1, Friday, December 6, 1907, newspaper, December 6, 1907; Muskogee, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc70092/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.