The supreme court of North Car
olina has just decided that schools
are not necessities. Long ago the
white people of the state decided
that education was not necessary for
the colored children, about thirty
cents per capita, more or less foj
their instruction while the white chil
dren received about fifty times as
much. North "Caliny" is a great old
commonwealth, more or less.
That "the way of the transgressor
is hard," especially if he is colored,'
has been terribly verified in New
York in the case of William Burke, an
18-year-old colored youth who was
sentenced to ten years in Sing Sing
prison for the larceny of fifty cents'
worth of bread.
The colored people in the French
West Indies (Guadeloupe and Mar
tinique) are bitterly opposed to the
sale of their islands to the United
States. They realize that with the
coming of the Americans, hell would
break loose in their own happy
homes.
The Irish having fought for 760
years to gain freedom intend to keep
it at all odds. The Irish Free State is
not yet in official being, Jbut the min
ister of defense is making plans for
a powerful standing army.
The colored people in the Island of
Trinidad, British West Indies have
been talking about local self-govern
ment and at once the British govern
ment clamps down the sci-ews on
them.
A new M. E. college for "Negroes"
was dedicated in Mississippi Friday.
Thus
theu
so-called
i
lin
ync
that the country has produced, de
clared that tlje race question must be
settled by the segregation of Ameri
can citizens.
