. Crisis. CharlesSumner tried to do, right on the heelsof emancipation, that Avhich must bedone before emancipation is long as a single American citizen,be he poor or black or ill born, can bepublicly insulted by common carriersand public servants, just so long isdemocracy in the United States a con-tradiction and a farce. The civil-rights law has long been adead letter. First it was declared un-constitutional, as far as the States wereconcerned, in that series of astoundingdecisions of the Supreme Court, whichturned the Fourteenth Amendmentfrom its true purpose as a protector ofme
. Crisis. CharlesSumner tried to do, right on the heelsof emancipation, that Avhich must bedone before emancipation is long as a single American citizen,be he poor or black or ill born, can bepublicly insulted by common carriersand public servants, just so long isdemocracy in the United States a con-tradiction and a farce. The civil-rights law has long been adead letter. First it was declared un-constitutional, as far as the States wereconcerned, in that series of astoundingdecisions of the Supreme Court, whichturned the Fourteenth Amendmentfrom its true purpose as a protector ofmen into a refuge for law, however, still stood as apply-ing to territories, the District of Colum-bia and the high seas. In the latestdecision this vestige goes, but the Negrois by no means left without civilremedy. He is still a citizen and stillhas a right under common law, theConstitution and general legislation toappeal against discrimination. Let himneglect no opportunity to do BILL HUDSON-Hero A STORY —By T. R. PATTEN
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