on "The Negro and Social
Justice," Beginning with the Declaration of Independence, Mr. Grimke
founded the rights of the Negro in the doctrines advanced by the
statesmen and philosophers of that time and then supported these
claims by the liberal provisions in the Constitution and its
amendments. How the United States Government has failed to live up to
the standard of the real democracy, although professing to promote the
cause of the same, was the main feature of this address. It was on the
whole an interesting discourse and it was well received.

Mr. Emmett J. Scott, the second speaker of the evening, undertook to
answer the question: "Did the Negro get a Square Deal?" In this
discussion he briefly reviewed the working of the War Department and
other branches of the government having to do with the war, bringing
out in each case exactly what the attitude of the respective branch of
the government was toward the Negro as evidenced by the disposition of
complaints of discrimination set before the heads of those
departments. The address brought out the two important points: that
Mr. Scott, as Special Assistant to the Secretary of War, had been
untiring in his efforts to secure for the Negro the proper recognition
of his rights, but because of rampant race prejudice these rights
were generally disregarded by the public functionaries with exception
of the War Department, where the Secretary did do so much to eliminate
such discrimination that they were decidedly reduced in that
department. It showed also that after all and in spite of the various
explanations made for delay and grievances which were not redressed
that the Negro soldiers did not get a square deal.

Dr. C. V. Roman, Field Secretary attached to the surgeon general's
office to lecture in the cantonments on social hygiene, discussed full
American citizenship as an ultimate goal of the Negro. To explain his
attitude he made his remarks strictly historical, contrasting the
discouraging aspect of things in 1857 with the much more encouraging
situation eight years later in 1865 when the Negro emerged as a free
man. He too brought forth facts to show that while the attitude of the
majority of the people of this country toward the Negro has been
unfavorable, it has on the whole been hopeful in that the condition of
the Negro has grown better rather than worse.

The morning session of Wednesday, the second day of the meeting, was
to be opened by an address by Mr. C