The jimcrow colored" leaders ought
to wash their dirjy hands and "come
THE SIN OF SILENCr 4
To sin by silence When we should
protest makes cowards out of men.
The human race has climbed on pro
test. Had no voice been raised against
injustice, ignorance and lustf the in-
quisition yet woultf serve the law, and
guillotines decide our least disputes.
The few who dare must speak and
speak again to right the wrongs of
many.Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
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THE RACE QUESTION.
THE MAN WHO" DARES
I honor the man who in the consci
entious discharge of his duty dares to
stand alone the world, with ignorant,
intolerant judgment, may condemn,
the countenances of relatives may be
averted, and the hearts- of friends grow
cold, but the sense of duty done hall
*?**be sweeter than the applause of the"
'world, the countenances of relatives or
-Jifthe hearts of friends.Charles Sumner.
ass
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clean," and then join their brothers
who are fighting for the removal of
all legal hindrances, by asking Con
gress to pass a blanket bill removing
all racial discriminations with which
it has the power to deal.
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SECRETARY JOHNSON OF N. A. A.
C. P. CONFERS WITH PRESIDENT.
Secretary James W. Johnson, Sec
retary of the National Association
for the Advancement of the Colored
People, in a recent conference with
President Harding, emphasized" the
important factN
that the national as-
sociation was not interested in the
parceling out of petty jobs but that
its interest was in the enactment of
measures to relieve oppressive con
ditions affecting colored people.
The specific points discussed were:
1. Passage of a federal anti-lynch
ing' law by Congress.
