Show HOW THEY ARE TREATED The negro organ the Advocate has learned some things thick it would be well for the blacks generally if they were also to learn The paper named has been making an investigation in-vestigation as to how the negroes are treated by this administration and as a result re-sult of its inquiries it prints the following among other facts When a colored man through the influence of a Congressman or some otherprominent person secures a position and is assigned to a division it is not many days before he is called on to go to the house of the chief of that division to make fires in the morning to cut grass sprinkle the sidewalk put down carpets wait on dinner parties par-ties drive the family carriage and do scores of other things without a pennys extra compensation compensa-tion Negroes do these things through fear of being dismissed from their positions With the possible exception of the White house in which negroes are boycotted altogether there is not a department of the government in which auditors audi-tors secretaries assistant secretaries chiefs commissioners and deputycemmissionersdonot roUe gJ use government employees meaning colored employees to their own advantage If colored people imagine that they will be placed on a plane with whites they will be grieveously disappointed and the disappointment dis-appointment will be the same and without difference of degree whether Republicans or Democrats are in power No matter what the law may say or promise the negro will be a negro In the eyes of men at all times save on election daywhen he will be a man and brother It is to be regretted regret-ted that the colored peaple so persistently close their eyes ears and intelligence to the true situation and defying the truth 1 as proven by everything about them keep > I attainable on vainly hoping and longing for the un |