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WORDS OF THE SMITHS.lt;They Rankle in the Bosom ofG. N. Porter.The Smith Realty Company, an eastern concern, which recently purchased and divided into lots a tract of i land 011 the north side of Riehville avenue, is selling these lots at auction today. The company, in its advertisements, offered free prizes to persons attending the sn'e, barring colored people, and also announced that free carriages would be provided for all hut colored people. Gilbert N. Porter, the East Main street peanut and candy( dispenser, and’ a well known colored | ] man, is much wrought up over the advertisement of the Smith' Company. He has gotten out a circular for hand to hand distribution in which he tells of the advertisements of the Smiths and then says:“He ought to go Sontli and sell lots. In the South where the color line is drawn. It would suit him better than Massillon. We have always got along without that and we think we can got along now without being insulted by such men as Mr. Smith. I think I speak the sentiments of the majority of the colored people. It is an insult to every laboring citizen of Massillon. You had be ter go and see Ben. Tillmau, of T South Carolina, where they draw the |1 color line. I think such things should have died with the Southern Confederacy when the Dred Scott decisiondied.”
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Massillon Evening Independent
Massillon, Ohio, US
Thu, Sep 12, 1901
Page 5
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