The colored man has a large part in
raising cotton in the South. More
than one-third of the cotton farms are
cultivated by colored men, either as
owner or tenant.
PROTEST AGAINST SEGREGATION.
Colored Chicagoans Wire President
Wilson Opposing Jimcrowism in
the New National Army.
Protesting against the announced
policy of keeping colored and white
soldiers separately in cantonments
and insisting "that regiments be
formed and training provided with
out making any distinction based on
race, a letter of protest has been
sent to President Wilson, signed by
the executive committee of the com
mittee on national citizenship de
fense, at Chicago, 111.
The signers are: Rev Archibald
J. Carey, pastor, and warden Insti
tutional Church Edward H. Wright,
assistant corporation counsel Maj.
Robert R. Jackson, member Fiftieth
general assembly Edward D. Green,
former member Illinois legislature
Louis Anderson, alderman, sec
ond ward, George W. Ellis, assistant
corporation counsel Robert S. Ab
bott, editor Chicago Defender, and
S. B. Turner, editor Illinois Idea.
A CORRECTION.
the Editor of THE APPEAL.
I became interested in an article
which appeared in your issue of the
15th September inst, because it was
carried by a very attractive, and,
to me, compelling headline, namely,
"The Father of Slavery." But, I
was doomed to disappointment, for
I found that your statements were
but a reassertion, substantially, of
an unfounded charge against a man,
whose power and greatness in the
early history of the Western Hemis
phere have compelled students of
that science, after a lapse of cen
turies, to become more familiar with
the details of a life of such marvel
ous activity in the interest of prog
ress and justice.
