s and
will be a happier, a more inspired and inspiring nation; a better home
for all her people.

One of the results of the war will be an improvement in the government
and condition of Negroes in Africa. Exploitation of the race for
European aggrandisement is sure to be lessened. No such misgoverned
colonies as those of Germany will be tolerated under the new rule and
the new spirit actuating the victorious Allies. Evils in other sections
of that continent will disappear or receive positive amelioration.

The most hopeful sign in America is the tendency in some sections where
trouble has been prevalent in the past, to meet and discuss grievances.
In some sections of the South, men of prominence are exhibiting a
willingness to meet and talk over matters with representatives of the
race. Such a spirit of tolerance will grow and eventually lead to a
better understanding; perhaps a general reconciling of differences.

Many concessions will be required before complete justice prevails and
the Negro comes into his own; before the soil can be prepared for the
complete flowering of his spirit.

Primarily, before attaining to the full growth and usefulness of the
citizen under the rights guaranteed to him by the Constitution, the
Negro, especially in the South, will require better educational
facilities. If he is to become a better citizen, he must have the
education and training necessary to know the full duties of citizenship.
He pays his share of the school taxes and it is manifestly unjust to
deny him the accruing benefits.

He is ambitious too, and should be encouraged to own land, and to that
end should have the assistance without prejudice or discrimination, of
national and state farm loan bureaus.

Unjust suffrage restrictions must and shall be removed, giving to the
Negro the full rights of other citizens in this respect. With better
educational facilities and the ownership of real estate, he will vote
more intelligently, and there will be no danger that his vote will be
against the interests of the country at large or the section in which he
resides.

The withering taint of "Jim Crow"-ism, must be obliterated; wiped
out--will be. Railroads will be compelled to extend the same
accommodations to white and colored passengers. The traveller; whatever
his color, who pays the price for a ticket, must and shall in this land
of Equality and Justice, be accorded the same accommodations.

Peonage, so-called, will end.