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6      THE CRISIS

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THE CRISIS
Vol. 5, No. 1 NOVEMBER, 1912 Whole No. 25

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ALONG THE COLOR LINE

POLITICAL

COLORED women will vote in the next presidential election as follows:

California ----------  6,936
Colorado ------------  3,861
Idaho ---------------    187
Utah ----------------    313
Washington ----------  1,697
Wyoming -------------    494
Total (six States) -- 13,488

In Kentucky women are being allowed to vote in school elections. A report comes from Hopkinsville showing that more interest is being taken in registration by the colored women than by the white women, 190 of the former registering as against 85 whites.
Laurens County, Ga., had in 1900, 14565 white persons and 11,338 colored persons. To-day it probably has at least 30,000 inhabitants, and perhaps 6,000 males of voting age. There were registered in October 3,781 qualified voters, of whom only fifty-four were Negroes. A report in the Savannah News says: "It is probable that there will not be a single Negro vote cast here."

It is probably that woman's suffrage will be inaugurated in Hawaii within a short time ant that no color line will be drawn.

ECONOMICS.

DEAL JACKSON, a Negro, brought to market in South Georgia, on September 3, the first bale of cotton made this season in the entire South. He has both white and colored tenants on his farm.

A. H. Holmes, a prominent Negro farmer, has grown two acres of rice at McRae, Ga., in a region where it was not thought hitherto that rice could be raised. 

After a long fight for excluding Negroes the Molders' International Union of America is again considering the question of admitting them. One speaker said in their last convention:

"The Negro has demonstrated that he is a capable mechanic, and is quite able to fill the place of the white laborer. The Southern foundry managers are making capital out of the race prejudice between the white and the colored molders, and if we do not raise the colored worker to our standard he will drag us down to his. 

"We can hardly find language strong enough to express our opinion of the feudal lords, when we consider the days when the laborer was bought and sold with the land. Our evolution from a condition of slavery to the freedom that we now enjoy was slow, but we now withhold our aid from the Negro, who is trying to gain the same freedom. 

"How can you get the Negro organized unless you are willing to meet with him? His interests are identical with yours. Everyone knows that this condition will have to be met, yet some of us want to postpone the day and let others take the responsibility. Do not let your race prejudice warp your judgment."

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Images: 1. A pocket watch 2. An ostrich feather 3. Pointing hand 4. Two men using surveying equipment