ng the qualifications
for electors conferred upon the legislature the power to enact laws to
carry those provisions into effect. Ability to read any section of the
Constitution or to understand it when read was made a qualification
necessary to a legal voter. Another provision made the qualifications
for grand or petit jurors that they should be able to read and write.
Upon the complaint of Negroes thus disabled the court held that these
provisions do not on their face discriminate between white and Negro
races and do not amount to a denial of the equal protection of the law
secured by the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. It had not
been shown that their actual administration was evil, but that only
evil was possible under them.

In Washington County, Mississippi, Williams had been indicted for
murder by a grand jury composed of white men altogether. He moved that
the indictment be quashed because the law by which the grand jury was
established was unconstitutional. (_Williams_ v. _Mississippi._)

[67] 193 U. S., 621.

[68] 238 U. S., 347.

[69] _Ibid._, 368.

[70] _Ibid._, 763.

[71] 175 U. S., 528.

[72] 120 U. S., 102.

[73] 202 U. S., 1.

[74] 110 U. S., 651.

[75] 144 U. S., 236, 286, 293.

[76] 92 U. S., 214, 217.

[77] 110 U. S., 651.

[78] 178 U. S., 458, 462.

[79] 9 Wheaton, 738.

REMY OLLIER, MAURITIAN JOURNALIST AND PATRIOT[1]

It is of interest to the Negro to know the patriots of the race who
have blazed the path of social progress in the various lands in which
their lots have been cast. Not to all men is it given to be great as
the world counts greatness. Each of us, however, may have a task
which, if well done, may leave its impress upon the life of the
community in which we live. These, although obscure, efforts of the
talented and persevering are the monuments which silently mark the
progress of the race. Remy Ollier was one of these obscure
personalities; but yet, a man whose career made such contributions to
the life of Mauritius that he is regarded by its people as one of the
great figures in its political history. He was an educator, a
journalist, a patriot, and in some respects a liberator of his people.

Mauritius is an island under British control situated in the Indian
Ocean. It is 550 miles east of Madagascar, which lies off the east
coast of Africa. Under the control of the French, it was known as Ile
de France. It is mountainous in character and its