William Monroe Trotter, according
to a cablegram received by the Boston
Guardian has succeeded in getting be
fore the peace conference at Paris, the
address adopted by the National
Colored Congress for World Democ
racy, which met at Washington, D. C,
December 18, 1918, under the auspices
of the National Equal Rights League,
In the sixth and seventh columns of
this page we reprint the entire address
just as it was adopted at the Wash
ington meeting.
"NEGRESS" IS NAUSEATING.
The following from the Chicago
Tribune is a manly protest against the
use of a word which is particularly of
fensive to colored women.
OBJECTS TO "NEGRESS."
Chicago.(Editor of the Tribune.)
In two recent issues you published
very fine and highly commendatory
editorials on "Race Progress and Com
mon Sense," yet, notwithstanding that,
yesterday you state in glaring head
lines the "Death of Mme. Walker,
Wealthiest Negress," That word
"Negress" is nauseating in the eye
sight of all colored women^and should
be eliminated from the vocabulary, in
which it has no rightful place. Above
all, your paper should be the leader
this regard, if you really have the
welfare of the colored race at heart.
SAMUEL Z. C. WESTERFIELD.
The colored men who persist in us
ing "negro" as a race designation are
largely to blame for the common use
of a word which should be avoided.
The colored people of the United
States are Americansthat's all. The
use of "negro" and "negress" is the
cause of many discriminations against
the colored people.
