Show I AN N INIQUITOUS Georgia has hils the tho distinction of or having passed the tho most drastic hilt hill so 80 for far aimed against the colored vote YOle The Tho provides flu as a it condition of ur that a n man must own or pay Ill tax tu on 1500 worth of property or be able ablo to read and ana write a II paragraph of ot the tho Constitution of or tho the State or of ot tho United States Slates If It he cannot comply with these provisions and few tew negroes can It 11 Is III said hi he is entitled to register and vote If it hO Is U descended from any nan man who fought In any of oC the tho wars vars In which tho the United States or 01 confederate states participated Few Georgia UK no crocs groes did that lie lb la Is also entitled to register and vote rote If It he ho has hM a I proper conception of ot hl his hIA duty to his state and to 10 the nation hut but the judges thereof are arc election It Is evident that these provisions were v are framed with a tt I view of oC excluding From tho the rights of ot citizenship as many manyas us liS possible of or tho the negroes while nt n t the Santo tamo time admitting tho the white voters who may not be b any an better qualified titan than their colored neighbors It In iii expected that every very white man manIn manin In Georgia wilt will register anti and once Wintered registered ho will have hayo a II life Ufa certificate rate cate nod will then havo have only to pay hl lila taxes to enjoy tho the right of ot suffrage rage rago Under the tho llIn law l w some lamp one or alt all of ot the traps sot set ot for tor voters voter will It IB is expected keep most of ot tho the then thon negroes n gre from registering It will wll ill there therefore therefore fore tore disfranchise about of ot the till population of ot the Mate Hut nut a 11 still more moro serious fen feature uro of ot thin legislation Is Its undisguised us nil Ault upon the tho amendment In to the Con lon which provides that The right of ot of oC the tho United tp vote soto shall shull not be bo denied or abridged t by the United States or by any my ny state on account of ot race color 01 ot previous condition n of ot servitude a As lis Congress has Ims power to cm enforce force this thit irick Ir by b appropriate legislation le t conflict Is clearly Invitee which may ml become of ot Internet far beyond tho the con eon confines flats fines of Mono one stole state What will Con Conre re H do about lit it According to the section t if t the Fourteenth amendment but when whon the right to 10 ynte nt at any uny lection 1111 l aion Ion for or I the tho choice of at electors for tOI oi arid unel Vice of ot tho the thoI I United In Con grass HIU the Iho executive and nud judicial nf ot doers of ot o a no or the members of ot the thereof H Ii denied to tomy toan my an 0 of ot the Iho male milio members of ot such state using clIl of ot 21 1 yenta yean enra of oC ago RHO and citizens pf pt the United or In any way Abridged except for tor participation In III re ru bellion or ur other crime clinic the Iho of or rep shall be reduced rech In Inthe inthe the proportion which the number of ot tuch luch It mule male citizens shall bear benr to tho titO Ih whole number of ot male malo citizens 21 years ear oj Df D oge In suet such state Into flint moans means that the ho basis at ot tig hg ron rep T of or Georgia may lw 1111 reduced lI but hul that punishment not 1101 restore rl loro respect for tor or the tho Con on or compel obedIence arid ana tIit tb t tI li Ii I of ot Importance I Thu of Qt tills this Ih piece or if clue class on I la cue QU ot 1 II its ita t tea va 11 turen tires It Is III I true that there thero ore are some om among the col colored c l lored ored race KH nit there thero ore arc among their persecutors but iut the truth Is that tho the negroes ns as a I whole have mode mado won wonderful wonderful on progress In every direction Sta BLa Statisticians tell us that In 1866 tho the Geor Gear Georgia Georgin gin gift negroes owned but acres of nt land bail by b 1876 they Ihy held acres nOd and tn years yeArn later Inter 8 5 2939 In 1896 1806 they thea hod passed the tho million mark and In 1003 1006 they paid mild taxes lax q on acres that owned outright and on which they wore ere assessed sed Their stock had Increased in value In the same sanie forty years from to their city en property had gone up from o while the value of ot their church and school l property from being has hilI now tiow become The assessed ed value ot of their property y exclusive ot of and churches hits hUB grown since from to What excuse can the tha state stain offer for tor the tho violation ot of the Constitution lion tion by b which It is 19 hoped hope to disfranchise chise chiso a race capable of or the tho marvelous progress Indicated In such figures Are Arc Southern rn politicians willing wI III nil to assume the responsibility for tor measures that may mn possibly provoke smother Another race when hen the tIt Iniquity of O r item lion hll had hat tune time produce results I |