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THE BOSTON TRAVELER
Vol. CXL.—No. 168.

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Published by Boston Herald, Incorporated, every evening except Sundays and Holidays,
and entered at the Boston Postoffice as second-class matter.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1914.
RACE SEGREGATION

PRESIDENT JEFFERSON was one day riding with his
grandson when they met a slave who took off his hat and
bowed. The President returned the salutation by raising his
hat, but the grandson ignored the civility of the negro.
"Thomas," said the grandfather, "do you permit a slave to be
more of a gentleman than yourself?"

It is inconceivable, of course, that President Wilson should
have "turned down" a negro delegation's protest against
segregation—a protest in which was embodied a principle as
broad as human liberty—because their spokesman lacked "tact"
in presenting their case. By the same token one might ignore a
drowning man's cry for help on the ground that it was not
uttered in a pleasant, persuasive tone of voice.

It is quite obvious, from many things that have happened
during his administration, that President Wilson expects the
negroes to go on patiently enduring many "discriminations" in-
flicted by the whites which the whites would not suffer for a
moment at the hands of the negroes. Thus does "the superior
race" prove its superiority.

Perhaps the language of the spokesman was not tactful.
Perhaps the President's suave, pleasant words and promises re-
garding fair and equitable treatment proved a bit irritating
when contrasted with conditions as they exist and as the Presi-
dent knows they have existed for years. "The systematic
denial of manhood rights to black men in America is the crying
disgrace of the century." These are the words of the editor of
The Crisis, perhaps the ablest champion of his race. "We have
wrongs, deep and bitter wrongs. There are local and individual
exceptions; there are some mitigating circumstances; there is
much to be excused; and yet for the great mass of 10,000,000
Americans of negro descent these things are true." Then follows
the statement that the members of his race are denied education,
are driven out of the churches, and from hotels, theatres and
public places, are publicly labeled like dogs when they travel,
can seldom get decent employment, are forced down to the low-
est wage scale, pay the highest rent for the poorest homes, are
ridiculed in the press and on the stage and platform, taxed
without representation, cannot get justice in the courts, are
lynched with impunity and are publicly, continuously and
shamefully insulted from the day of their birth to the day of
their death, and in law and custom their women have no rights
which a white man is bound to respect.

Perhaps President Wilson would argue that if all the rest
of the country is discriminating against the negro it must be
right to do so in the federal offices; and if it is right in the
federal offices, why, of course, it ought to be all right in any
part of the country.

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THE EXCHANGE EDITOR SAYS THAT THIS IS
THE BEST CARTOON HE HAS SEEN TODAY.

[Drawing: Image of a black man being kicked out of the white house door]

THE NEW FREEDOM—FOR THE NEGRO
—New York Times
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