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I J gun his affiliation with the Democratic foregoing, received:party.—Louisville (Ky.) American; (Telegram.) !• Baptist. Cincinnati, O.. March 6, 1016. I! Wonder if Editor Steward, of the Hon. Harry C. Smith,. i American Baptist, has forgotten how ; Editor, The Gazette,| a carload of Afro-Americans which Cleveland, O. 1: Booker T. Washington took front P'lv“!e «■*»«« of Photoplay. The j lt;. .Chicago to Minneapolis, Minn.,.years ago. •controlled that meeting fQp tw0 thoU8and masons. Protests! j of the National Afro-American C oun- ma(je jn letters to Mayor and Governor I j cil and deposed its president, Bishop j by Cincinnati branch of National As- j' [Alexander Walters, electing Editor ■ sociation through its president, Wm.; j Timothy Thomas Fortune as his sue- j Stevenson. Lawyers claim right to ex- j I cessor and practically killing the or- j hibit privately. yj ganization and its several years’ DABNEY ;standing suit in the U. S. Supreme . ~ , „ , ____i Coort to test the constitutionality of, '»L. , . . .... , Hon. Harry C. Smith,the franchisement ‘law, of Missis Editor, The Gazette,[sippi, which was on the calendar of Rlaekstone Bldg,,i the court for hearing, that fall? Cleveland, Ohio.! When the Council was but a Dear Sir:I SHADOW of what it was when cap Replying to your inquiry of MarchItured at Minneapolis, l)r. Washington I 4th, 1 beg to advise that no ethibitionI and his friends sought to load it S of “The Birth of a Nation has-been•on the Bishop , but he evidently would w»th^b™e,at oMta Bo.rt. not be used in any such manner, li adv,8ed that a 8howing of the 8ame I wras not the latteris affiliation with , was raade ip Cincinnati on February — I the Democratic party that killed the 27th at what was claimed to be a pri-4 | National Afro-American Council, butivate exhibition at a closed meeting of t the successful effort, to please the some secret order, the parjties ex-•1 solid Democratic and prejudiced bibiting it claiming that they were d ' South by wiping out the Council's an- w‘fhin their legal rights. Inasmuchh . „ . ,, . . ; iu a maiiieiuaur ceruuiuy wuai is aSupreme 'Court, that was made j private pubiic «xhiblUon. we Havef Minneapolis some years previous to refprre(i all facts that have , come to_ | the Baltimore meeting. We do not I our attention in connection with this: wonder that the Bishop refused to ac- to the office of the Attorney General| cept, from practically the same peo- in order to enable him to take suchpie. the SHADOW (at Baltimore) of steps in these matters as he finds the- ! the SUBSTANCE taken from him (at Iaw demands.Minneapolis! You my rest as8ured that thisMinneapolis!. UnarA th* r.nvomnr nr Attnrnpv—_________ Board, the Governor, or the AttorneyGeneral will not consent to any exhi-IN THE DISCARDS. bition of this film that is In theirpower to prevent,When President Thomas Woodrow' Yours very truly.Wilson went to Congress at the open-1 CHAS. G. WILLIAMS,ing of the session he exposed the programme of legislation which he The private exhibition of the iniwanted put through. He advocated 1 famous photoplay is now a matte the Continental Army scheme which Attorney General Turner to handle. Mr. Garrison had developed at the and we can depend upon his doing all President’s request and which the j the law will permit him to do in the President told the legislators he matterhoped they would sanction and put Our Columbus representative writes into effect. Where is the Continental The Gazette, after a careful Snvestiga Army scheme now? In the discards - tion and visit to the office qf the At ln and with Mr. Wilson’s tacit assent, torney General, that the ohly letter ar!ln the same address Mr, Wilson spoke from a member of thewith approbation of the taxationj of exhibiting the miserable photoplay. 17 * schemes which Secretary McAdoo had he haB been able to learn of, was one lt evolved among them a tax on from one J W, Harrison, an attorney, naphtha and gasoline, a tax on auto- of Norfolk, Va., who first represented mobiles and internal explosion en- our people of his city before its Coun t- gfnes, a stamp tax on bank checks, a cil, to have that body reject the pic-ryjtax on pig iron, and a tax on fabri* ture, and after failing to succeed in )n cated iron and steel. Where are those doing this, wrote a strong letter, in n* plans for taxation now? In the dis- favor of the miserable photoplay, to ly cards--and Mr. Wilson is raising no the Epoch Film Company, which ap voice in protest. The fact is that Mr. parently is in control of The Birth of -y | Wilson is not thinking much about a Nation We did not believe that r* the legislation which Congress will Ohio harbored that kind of an Afro-enact, except as that legislation has a American and are glad to knowr that80 bearing upon his own desire to secure we were right in that belief. We?e a re-election in violation of the prom- shall leave Attorney Harrison to the ises upon which he sought office four tender mercies of our esteemed con years ago. To achieve a second term temporary, The Norfolk (ya.) Jour ht he would cheerfully see all else go nal Guide and other race publica-ill tions. particularly those in £he South,AN OPPORTUNITY OF SERVICE:is HAVE WE BLACK JUDASES.”T* j N The Expression Must Be Originalof Dispatches to the daily papers of With Riggs—The Old South” is the state, last Friday, announced that Alive in its Youth, Too.• seventy-six affidavits praising The ; ■ ^5® Birth of a Nation” film were read in U. S. court that day, during the he; ing on I Ho motion of'Attorney General Thacta. president of the Alabama j r i; • *. tn Polytechnic Institute. Auburn; PresiE. ( . Turner, for dismissal of the «n- deBt w M niggB of the eiemson Col-j junction suit Instigated by the Epoch , g th Carolina. and other|lege. South Carolina, and other* Producing company to compel the friends (“white”), spent a few hours re state movie censors to allow the pro- at Tuskegee Institute. a. duet ion of the film in Ohio. Proml- Students, teachers and members of j d nent colored men approved the film in Greenwood families packed the Chapel j re affidavits says the dispatch. We can to hear the speakers. Mr. Warren, •t. not believe it! Surely Ohio does not j Losan, treasurer of the school andI _ _ . i optinp ltninpindl aincct tho /loath nf Hr* * * . a *♦ ^ : oooKer i. wasningion. imrouuceuat race. Assistant Attorney G‘‘neral tliem. Among those to address the Iie Ballard, arguing against the Epoch iargP audience wTas Prof. Riggs who (5d company, asserted that the federal { that it was not his good fortune)P court has no authority to hear t!n- to visit Tuskegee Institute while he *d! case, inasmuch as the Ohio censor law was a student at Auburn and that, he | ,o- provides a means for appealing to the was of that class of Southern whiteip state supreme court. In this, we be people whq regarded the Negro rather i • lievo he is correct and w ill be sus-1 AS AN OPPORTUNITY OF SERVICE | ne is ‘T;'m.lr ... FOR THE WHITE PEOPLE, than a ,j talced by U. S. Judge S.ter. Mr. Balbuto them. What do you think j g, lard asked (he court to dismiss Ills of^,at, And it was pub,ished ,n the ; • suit. It is clearly an attempt to con- Tuskegee Student, too.e trol state administrative offices in fed ------------- . — ...y. eral court, a violation of states’ ST L0UIS ADOPTS SEGREGATION. !q ' rights the Epoch company would notlo seek in its dear beloved South. J. gt ,^uis Mo ordinances provid- iJ. Sagmeister and Joseph W. Heintz- jng for segregation in this city, were ' lt;r. man. of Cincinnati, counsel for the adopted at a referendum election j i ie film company, urged the court to re- j Feb. 29. One prohibits our people ; h view the film and offered to arrange from moving into blocks in which 751 t a special exhibition for the purpose. Ppr cent of the families are white,” , i Judge Sater is not likely to accept this ?lt;• ?he other forbids them from mov- ; rt invitation for the very good reason. bIocks who' occP|r(1 b ',e that, seeing the infamous photoplay | The ordlnances provlde simliar re. ’o will not aid him to pass upon the legal strictions against white” persons j f. technicalities involved in a decision of moving into blocks occupied by our , t. the case. However, should he for any ! people. The vote was 52.220 for seg- j ] i reason do so, he should insist on view-! rogation and 17.876 against, the ma- lt;►t ing the photoplay and not an eraas jority being 34,344. Our people now | lt;e: culated production of it made such for °f taking the matter into the l1 the clear purpose of misleading him. Vnited States courts.___________ ),x We have known of such a course be i- ing pursued in the case of other films 1-' on exhibition. This is one reason j why i- The Gazette has kept standing ih its , , , _, , , ar .. Atlanta, Ga. -The fhrst (ongrega-e i eolumns for week the excellent com-, ^hll„h „.v ,, P,^ tional church. Rev. H. H. proctor, pas-1eU-knonn persons on the ,or broke ,he re(.ord for our thurchae.! S-\ miserable photoplay, to be found else- Sunday morning, Feb. 20, when at one 'i- j where In this paper. sitting it subscribed its entire indebt- *g ....... ——— ■■ edness of $4,800, with the exception 1of $300, which was pledged at the i *evening hour. Subscriptions ranged j afrom $1 to $500, the largest amount j jbeing subscribed by a woman.M The following letter, which is self- ment to be on the ill8tailment plan j i e explanatory, and one of the same j running for one hundred weeks. The.! tenor, were sent, last week, to the church's property is valued at $200,-j Chairman of the Ohio Board of Film 000.Censors and to Editor Phil Dabney of 7------------------——— 1the Cincinnati Union, a member of th^ THE BATTLE OPENS. (j' race. - --- ,1; OFFICE OF THE GAZETTE. Washington, D C.—Consideration of 1Biackstone Building. a hill by Representative Sisson pro- yCleveland. March 4, 1916. aiding for the repeal of the Four- j i Chairman Chaa. G. Williams. ‘fen',h Hfteenth Amcndmcnis to g^ the United Stales Constitution was 1 y,; Sute Boart of *•'*». C ensors. begun here, last week, by the judici ,I No. 232 South High Street. ary (.onimittee of the House. Mr. Sis-.’ j Columbus, Ohio. S(vn began his argument on which he1 v' Friend Williams: - hopes to establish that these amend- jj[j Is It a fact that The Birth of a Na- rnents were not passed according to }l , I tkm was given an exhibition in Cin- the requirements of Article 5 of the h I cinnati. last Saturday eveuing, or re- Federal Constitution s, cently, with the consent of tjie Board- and Gov. Willis? I have just been A WORTHY EFFORT-HELP!* sent that information from Columbus, _1 the writer saying that this was done ven°’ (Y;, T^.e ___ . _ . A. M. E. church, of this city, are ask-ilh tbe Governors and the Board s *. t . j* *or fctlp* For thirty years* consent, and I question it The writer bavo tryinar t0 gPt a church here, jtells me that the exhibition was given hut never before has the effort be*-n i , in th** Scottish Rite temple. Trusting carried forward so far as at tbe pres e r to bear from you promptly, and hoj- ent time, and this latter is tbe direct S * ipg tliat not even a private exhibition result of hard work, believing in hon- ei of the miserable photoplay was given «***' and prayer. Friends, help us; n* 1 we are few in number and poor, but f rlany U e a O • * are t»nergeric and hopeful. AU dona j Vlour* truly. tions can be sent to Charles Russeil, 1 bHARK 1 C, SMITH 161 N cbestnutt St, Ravenna, Ohio. Jlt;j Tbe following are the repliea, to the —Adv. 4t 1 V
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