The riots at Homestead, at Chicago, at Lattimer are but skirmishes between the picket lines, informing us that a general conflict is imminent.

Let us thank God that we are not in the struggle.

Let us thank Him that our labor problem is no worse than it is.
OUR CIVIL RIGHTS.
"For our civil rights we are struggling and we must secure them.

But if they had all come to us when they first belonged to us, we must frankly admit that we would have been unprepared for them.
"Our grotesque dress, our broken language, our ignorant curiosity, and, on the part of many our boorish manners, would have been nauseating in the extreme to men and women accustomed to refined association.

Of course these failings are passing away: but the polished among you have often been made ashamed at the uncouth antics of some ignorant Negroes, courting the attention of the whites in their presence.