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THE ATHENAEUM 61 Editorials WHAT MOVE SHALL WE TAKE NEXT? By F. W. Crawford, ’23. W/HEN the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill was before the United States ” Senate, I suggested to the student body of Morehouse that peti tions, drawn up and signed by representatives of the student body, be sent to Senators Harris and George of Georgia and to Senator Shortridge of California, urg ng them to support the bill to the utmost of their ability. I also suggested that letters, worded and signed by representatives of the student body, be sent to the student bodies of nineteen of the most prominent Negro colleges and univ ersities in the country urging thent to petition to the same effect as we had. These suggestions were endorsed, the schools were written and they responded with a willingness to comply with our request. In addition to the efforts which they consequently put forth, the Anti-Lynching Crusaders, the white Y. W. C. A. of the entire South, the N. A. A. C. P. and numerous other organizations and individuals of merit throughout the land brought to bear all the pressure poss ible in an endeavor to secure the passage of the Dyer Bill. In spite of all efforts to secure the abolishment of lynching, in spite of the strong support which Negro voters have given the re publican party, the republican majority in the Senate, in a half heart ed, hypocritical manner, strove for a short while to bring up the Dyer Bill ;or debate, and then allowed the democratic minority to filibus ter until the majority quickly consented to drop the bill altogether. Besides, President Harding, in all his pleadings before Congress as sembled for the enactment of various legislation, not even once has mentioned the Dyer Bill. All our hopes and efforts have come to naught. The above facts are conclusive evidence that the interests of the Negro are not at the heart of the republican party. Why should we continue, then, to vote the republican ticket? We are not bound to vote it because, as republican leaders of both races allege, the republi can party is the party of our liberators. Those liberators are dead and the men who have taken their places are identical with the de mocrats in their attitude toward the Negro question. They no longer deserve “another chance” so far as we are concerned, for they have made miserable failures of all the chances they have had. They have nothing else to offer us to suffice for those things which they owe us and which they have refused to give us. ATTENTION! Please Trade With Our Advertisers.