The president's rhetoric is perfect,
but those who have suffered from the
enactments -of the Democratic party
and the president's approval of un
just and unlawful and UNAMERICAN
cerity. bunk.
mail expert and gather in the shekels
by the thousands, or perhaps break
into Wall street, steal a few railroads
and become a billionaire.
Some day the poor benighted
heathen of the frozen North may so
far advance in civilization that they
will organize a hellocracy which will
rival Georgia or Texas in mob mur
ders. Who knows?
ANNIVERSARY OF ATLANTA'S
SHAME.
In his gubernatorial canvass Smith
also made incendiary speeches incit
ing the Caucasians against colored
people and demanding that the race
be disfranchised.
Senator Hoke Smith is eaid to be
the author of the jim-crow policy of
the present administration and he has
the active support of Vardamari, John
Sharpe Williams and nearly every
Southerner in Congress.
THE APPEAL, reprints in this is
sue "A Litany of Atlanta," by Dr. W.
IE. Burghardt Du Bois, editor of The
I Crisis. It was written just after the
'riot, the author being at that time a
resident of Atlanta.
*^j ".September, 1916, being the tenth
r^ss-"^ anniversary of the massacre and
theAbraham
recent renaissance of burnings and
practices) naturally doubt his sin- colored papers were careful to elimi-1
it. Cutting out a strong point
like that shows the working of the
jim-crow mind.
The American thinking, intelligent,
level-headed colored people certainly
do not want any particular thing, no
matter how alluring, because of color.
If they are treated exactly as other
His beautiful words are butnate
ADVANCE OF CIVILIZATION.
