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H. Bonner, of Fall River; Rev. G. R. Waller, of Baltimore, Md; H.

L. Bailey of Washington, D. C. Emery T. Morris, of Cambridge Clement G.

Morgan, of Boston; Rev. Byron Gunner, of Newport, R. Rev. H. W.

Scott, of Wo-burn; E. B. Jourlain, of New Bedford; W. E. B.

DuBois, of Atlanta, Ga. Capt. H. A. Thompson, of New York, N.

Y. J. Max Barber, of Atlanta, F. I McGhee, of St Paul, Isaac Bradley, of Kansas City, Kansas. C.

E. Bentley, of Chicago, W. H. Richards and W. H.

H. Hart, of Washington, D. J. R. L.

Diggs, of Richmond, Va. Rev. Geo. Frazier Miller, of Brooklyn, N. Y.

L. M. Hershaw, of Washington, D. George H. Jackson, of Cincinnati, O.

A. F. Herndon, of Atlanta, Ga. H. C.

Smith, of Cleveland, O. W. J. Carter, of Harrisburg, R. Hill, of Nashville, W.

M. Trotter, of Boston. Platform of the Niagara Movement. 1. Freedom of speech and criticisms.

2. An unfettered and unsubsidized press. 3. Full manhood suffrage. 4.

Abolition of all caste distinctions based simply on race or color. 5. The recognition of the principle of human brotherhood as a practical, present creed. 6. The recognition of the highest and best human training, as the monopoly of no class or race.

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Goods Called For and Delivered. 115 West Seventh Street. Topeka, Kansas. exclusion of black boys from the military and naval training schools. We urge upon Congress the enactment of appropriate legislation for securing the proper enforcement of those articles of freedom, the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments of the constitution of the United States.

We repudiate the monstrous doctrine that the oppressor should be the sole authority as to the rights of the oppressed. The negro race in America, stolen, ravished and degraded, struggling up I through difficulties and oppression, needs sympathy and receives criticism; needs help and is given hindrance; needs protection and is given mob violence; needs justice and is given charity; needs leadership and is given cowardice and apology; needs bread and is given a stone. This nation will never stand justified before God until all these things are changed. Especially are we surprised and astonished at the recent attitude of the Church of Christ on the increase of a desire to bow to racial prejudice, to narrow the bounds of human brotherhood, and to segregate black men in some outer sanctuary. This is wrong, un-Christian and disgraceful to the 20th century civilization.

Of the above grievances we do not hesitate to complain, and to complain loudly and insistently. To ignore, overlook or apologize for these wrongs is to prove ourselves unworthy of freedom. Persistent, manly agitation is the way to liberty, and toward this goal the Niagara movement has started and asks the co-operation of all men of all races. At the same time we want to acknowledge with deep thankfulness the help of our fellow-men from the abolitionist down to those who today still stand for equal opportunity, and who have given and still give of their wealth and of their poverty for our advancement. And while we are demanding, and ought to demand, and will continue to demand, the rights enumerated above, God forbid that we should ever forget to urge corresponding duties upon our people The duty to vote.

The duty to respect the rights of others. The duty to work. The duty to obey the laws. The duty to be clean and orderly. The duty to send our children to school.

The duty to respect ourselves, even as we respect others. This statement, complaint and prayer we submit to the American people, and to Almighty God. (Signed by) W. E. DUBOIS, Georgia.

WILLIAM H. RICHARDS, District Columbia. B. S. SMITH, Kansas.

WM. MONROE TROTTER, Massachusetts. WILLIAM H. H. HART, District Columbia.

Representing delegates from 14 states, assented to by members in 24 states. Those who attended the conference were as follows F. H. M. Murray, of Alexandria, Va.

J. S. Madden, of Chicago, 111. Robert United States should aid common school education, particularly in the South, and we especially recommend concerted agitation to this end. We urge an increase in public high school facilities in the South, where wholly without such provisions.

We favor well-equipped trade and technical schools for the training of artisans, and the need of adequate and liberal endowment of a few institutions of higher education must be patent to sincere well-wishers of the race. We demand upright judges in courts, juries selected without discrimination on account of color and the same measure of punishment and the same efforts at reformation for black as for white offenders. We need orphanages and farm schools for dependent children, juvenile reformatories for delinquents, and the abolition of the dehumanizing convict-lease system. We note with alarm the evident retrogression in this land of sound public opinion on the subject of manhood rights, republican government and human brotherhood, and we pray God that this nation will not degenerate into a mob of boasters and oppressors, but rather will return to the faith of the fathers, that all men were created free and equal, with certain inalienable rights. We plead for health for an opportunity to live in decent houses and localities, for a chance to rear our children in physical and moral cleanliness.

We hold up f6r public execration the conduct of two opposite classes of men: The practice among employers of importing ignorant negro-American laborers in emergencies, and then affording them neither protection nor permanent employment; and the practice of labor unions of proscribing and boycotting and oppressing thousands of their fellow-toilers, simply because they are black. These methods have accentuated and will accentuate the war of labor and capital, and they are disgraceful to both sides. We refuse to allow the impression to remain that the negro-American assents to inferiority, is submissive under oppression and apologetic before insults. Through helplessness we may submit, but the voice of protest of ten million Americans must never cease to assail the ears of their fellows, so long as America is unjust. Any discrimination based simply on race or color is barbarous, we care not how hallowed it be by custom, expediency or prejudice.

Differences made on account of ignorance, immorality, poverty or disease may be legitimate methods of reform, and against them we have no word of protest; but discrimination peculiarities, place of birth, color of skin, are relics of that unreasonoing human savagery of which the world is and ought to be thoroughly ashamed. We protest against the Jim Crow car, since its effect is and must be to make us pay first-class fare for third-class accomodations, render up open to insults and discomforts and to crucify wantonly our manhood, womanhood and selfrespect. We regret that this nation has never seen fit adequately to reward the black soldiers who in its five wars have defended their country with their blood, and yet have been systematically denied the promotions which their abilities deserve. And we regard as unjust the Colored Men's Address to the Country A notable conference of colored men has been held in Buffalo this past week engaged in mapping out lines of work for the welfare of the colored people. The conference was called by Prof.

W. E. B. DuBois, of Atlanta, author of "The Souls of Black Folk." Representative colored men were present from 14 states, and the result of the gathering was the formation of a national organization to be called "The Niagara Movement." This organization has for its officers a general secretary, a general treasurer and an executive committee, composed of state secretaries, who in turn are the heads of state committees. A short platform was adopted by the conference espousing the principles of equal educational, civil, economic and political opportunities and rights, and advocating freedom of criticism, opposition to subsidized race press and an united effort to realize these ideals under a wise, pure and courageous leadership.

Prof. DuBois was elected general secretary of the movement, and Geo. H. Jackson, of Cincinnati, general treasurer. The principal action was the adoption of the following address to the country at large: The members of the conference, known as the Niagara movement, assembled in annual meeting at Buffalo July 11, 12 and 13, 1905, congratulate the negro-Americans on certain undoubted evidences of progress in last decade, particularly the increase of intelligence, the buying of property, the checking of crime, the uplift in home life, the advance in literature and art, and the demonstration of constructive and executive ability in the conduct of great religious, economic and educational institutions.

At the same time we believe that this class of American citizens should protest emphatically and continually against the curtailment of their political rights. We believe in manhood suffrage; we believe that no man is so good, intelligent or wealthy as to be entrusted wholly with the welfare of his neighbor. We believe also in protest against the curtailment of our civil rights. All American citizens have the right to equal treatment in places of public entertainment according to their behavior and desert. We especially complain against the denial of equal opportunities to us in economic life; in the rural districts of the South this amounts to peonage and virtual slavery all over the South it tends to crush labor and small business enterprises; and everywhere American prejudice, helped often by iniquitous laws, is making it more difficult for negro-Americans to earn a decent living.

Common school education should be free to all American children and compulsory. High school training should be adequately provided for all, and college training should be the monopoly of no class or race in any section of our common country. We behieve that in defense of its own institutions, the PROCURED AND DEFENDED. SendmodeL drawing or photo, for expert search and free report. Free advice, how to obtain patents, trade copyrights, etc, (N ALL COUNTRIES.

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