"YOU CAN'T TALK LIKE THAT NOW

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 155, 26 March 1919, Page 7

"YOU CAN'T TALK LIKE THAT NOW

"In a passenger-coach of a Southern train the other day' I espied a veteran of PersliihgV Arniy, Upon ail empty sleeve wero two- six months' foreign servije stripes and a wound chevron, and oa his breast a. medal of tunonr," says a writer in the New. York ''Nation." "As lie sat there the conductor of tho train came lo him and touching his worn uniform said, "You're in the wrong coach, Yoi b'long in the Jim Crow car. Get cut of here".' The negro looked him steadily in the eyes. 'I'll stay'right here,' ha said, firmly. 'You could have talked to me that way once, but can't now!' ami he'pointed to his empty sleeve. 'All right,' said the conductor, 'I'll.soon fix you.' "Whereupon he called a burly brakeman, and they were about to throw this one-armed veteran out of the car, when the gorge of the Southern men who witnessed this humiliating scene rose, the train hands were ordered to .desist, and Pershing's veteran rode on in peace, the Bole coloured man in a carload of whites. " 'Oh, very well,' said the conductor just before he- slammed the door, 'that's just like you wiiito folks; first you make the laws and then you break them.'"There are a good many laws (hat ought to be broken nowadays, which af feet the coloured people. After the 150,000 coloured: men now in 'France return from their glorious sharo in Pershing's victory, shall we continue to JimCrow them, disfranchise them, and remind them that though they .may he good enough, to fight for Uncle Sam they ara still to be despised at home?"