It takes moral courage to face any evil, but it must be faced or dire consequences will follow of its own breeding.

Our last word then, is an appeal to our BROTHERS IN WHITE, in the pulpit, that they should rally the people together for justice and; condemn mob violence.

The Negroes do not ask social equality, but civil equality; let the false notions that confound civil rights with social rights be dispelled, and advocate the civil equality of all men, and the problem will be solved.
Edmund Burke says that "war never leaves where it found a nation." applying this to the American nation with respect to the Negro it is to be hoped that the late war will leave a better feeling toward him, especially in view of the glorious record of the Negro soldiers who participated in that conflict.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
William McKinley.......................................Frontispiece General Fitzhugh Lee.............................................

6 General Antonio Maceo............................................

8 Miss Evangelina Cosio y Cisneros ...............................