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Petition Presented to Congress Extension of Remarks of Hon. Fred erick H. Gillett, of Massachusetts, in the House of Representatives, Saturday, June 29, 1918. (Congressional Record, June 29, 1918) Mr. Gillett. Mr. Speaker, under the leave granted to me to extend my re marks in the Record I include a peti tion lO the house of the National Lib erty Congress Colored Americans that ''■s has been sitting here this week. The petition is as follows: PETITION. To the House of Representatives of the United States of America: Honorable Speaker ami Representa tives, hear and receive, we pray, the petition of the National Liberty Con gress, composed of delegates from all sections of the country in behalf of all Colored Americans, those of Afri can extraction, 12,000,000 strong, loyal citizens desiring liberty and the rights of democracy, \vc petition you to hear our grievances, to wit, that— First. We are the victims of civil proscription, solely because of race and color, in three-fourths of the states and in the national capital (federal territory), barred from places of public accommodation, recreation, and resort; yes, from such places within government buildings. Second. We are the victims of clasp distinction, based solely on our race and color, in public carriers in one third of the states, segregated even when passengers in interstate travr and with the railroads under the con trol of the federal government. Third. We are the victims of caste and race prejudice in government military and naval schools and in of ficer schools with other citizens soiel; j on the basis of race and color, and j in the navy' itself, except as to service J below deck. Fourth. We are the victims 01 [ proscriptive discrimination, based on our race and color, in the executive departments of the federal govern ment, refused employment in many I after appointment through the civil | service, segregated at work, in the appointments of health and comfort. Fifth. We are the victims of po litical proscription in one-third of the states, even in the election of federal officials, in violation of the federal constitution, both indirectly by con ! gressional representation roased on j disfranchisement and directly through intimidation, trickery, or state statutes and constitutions. Sixth. We are the victims in many' states, as a consequence of the fore going civil and political prescriptions of imposition, robbery, ravishing, mob violence, murder, and massacre, be cause of our race and color, denied protection by police, of sheriffs; de nied trial by court or jury, rendered impotent, to protect our daughters, j wives or mothers from violation by white men or murder by the mob. Inasmuch as our country is now engaged in the most gigantic war in recorded history, going to Europe to fight, our President, Woodrow Wil son, now the moral leader and spokes man of the allied nations which are resisting Germanic aggression having officially declared that our country has entered the fight for the pur pose of democratizing the nations of the world and liberating the free peo ple everywhere, that we are embarked upon “an enterprise which is to re [ lease the spirits of the world from bondage,” that we are “fighting for j the rights of those who submit to au thority' to have a voice in their own government," to “make the world at last free” for “security for life and liberty,” to make the world safe for democracy” which, meaning rule of all people, necessarily carries the pre sumption of the same pi/nlic rights for all without difference or distinc tion because of the accidents or race or creed, thereby not creating class privilege, which means autocracy. Inasmuch as American citizens ir respective of race or color are sub ject to draft, or are drafted into fight ing, while all citizens regardless of race are expected to aid the govern ment by moral support, by propa ganda, by sacrifice at home to help the government, all of which our ra cial element is now doing with a loyalty unsurpassed by citizens of any race or color in every war, and, even now, under present treatment, moral ly greater than that of others because the only vicarious loyalty; In order that our country may not be weakened in moral position, pres tige and powrer by violations here of the noble pronouncements of its presi- j dent; In order that the morale and esprit de corps in this war, both of the sol dier and of the civilian part of an element of the American nearly one eighth, may not be weakened by the consciousness of the present denials to it at home of those conditions and ideals which they are sacrificing or are risking life to secure for others, with their soldiers witnessing the con | tinuance of indignities, oppressions, and killing of their kin ere they leave for the battle front abroad, and with out assurance of protection to their j family, their sisters, wives, mothers ; from the lynching mob; In order that when this awful world war is over and victory comes to the entente allies, the condition of life of ' 12,000,000 human beings in the United States of America may not prevent the awful sacrifice from accomplish ing the war’s moral purpose—democ-' ratizing of the nations of the world— and that our own republic may not be a part of the world not safe for democracy; We do now petition you, the con gress of the United States of Ameri ca, as an act of justice, of moral con sistency, and to help win the war for ' world democracy; 1 First. To abolish and forbid alf distinctions, segregations, and dis- 1 criminations based upon race or color ' in places of public accommodation, j recreation, and resort in federal build j ings and in federal territory. Second. To abolish and forbid all 1 distinctions, segregations, and dis- 1 criminations based upon our race and color or upon prejudice of race or color in the emoluments, the rating, the promotions, the placement of em ployees in the facilities provided by the government for eating, rest, rec i renting, health for government em j ployees, or for others in federal gov ernment buildings or in federal hos ; pitals. Third. To abolish and forbid any distinction, separation, or discrimina tion based on race or colrtr in any coach of any public carrier operated | by the federal government. Fourth. To open the doors of all | schools of ft he federal government J and all branches of the army and j navy to citizens on the same basis, without distinction or discrimination based on race or color, j Fifth. To exercise the mandatory powers of the thirteenth, fourteenth’ j and fifteenth articles of the federal constitution, to the end that there shall be no involuntarily servitude, no denial of the equal protection of law, no denial of the exercise of suf frage because of race, color, or pre vious condition. Sixth. To pass legislation extend ' ing the protection of the federal gov j eminent to all citizens of the United I States of America at home by' enact ing that mob murders shall be a crime against the federal government,’ sub ject to the jurisdiction of the federal courts, for in the words of Presi- ; dent Wilson, “Democracy means, first of all, that we can govern ourselves.” Herewith endeth the petition of the Colored Americans asking that the words of the president of the United i States of America be applied to all at home: “As July 4, 1776, was the dawn of demociacy for this nation, let us on July 4, 1918, celebrate the birth of a new and greater spirit" of democ racy, by whose influence we hope and believe that what the signers of the Declaration of Independence dreamed of for themselves and their fellow countrymen shall be fulfilled to all mankind.” NEBRASKA HOUSEHOLDERS MUST EAT THIRD LESS SUGAR Gurdon W. Wattles, Administrator Nebraska’s allotment of sugar for the month of August is 4,153,000 pounds, one-third less than the amount we received in July. This cut of one third means that Nebraska consumers must reduce their consumption one third if everybody is to have sugar throughout the month. The new reg ulations are: Householders may buy two pounds this month for each person in their household. In cities and towns they can buy only two pounds at a time, no matter how large the family. Cus tomers living on farms may buy five pounds at one time. Public eating places may buy two pounds for each ninety meals served. Less essential manufacturers may have one-half the amount they used in the corresponding period last year. For canning and preserving pur poses housewives may have what they actually need. To get this sugar for canning they must secure a certifi cate from the county food adminis trator or his representative after complying with the requirements of the administrator. 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