MR. MARCUS GARVEY IN U.S.A.

Sir; - We the undersigned Jamaicans residents of the United States for several years, beg permission to call to your attention and the public of Jamaica a matter affecting the welfare of Jamaicans at home and abroad.

Under the caption of Journalist and President of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, Jamaica, W.I., one Marcus Garvey, Jr., is giving an extended series of lectures in this country, pertaining to the social and economic conditions of Jamaica.

We, having .attended his lectures found them to be pernicious., misleading, and derogatory to the prestige of the Government and people.

Among the many assertions of the speaker are the following: -

1. Governmental misrule, causing economic depression, poverty and misery with their detrimental consequences.

2. The falsity and hypocrisy of the existing social condition between the white and black races - to wit: Absorption by intermarriage of the intellectually superior and advanced blacks with whites, with .the view of estranging end nullifying their usefulness to their race.

Result - Acquiescence, arrogance and unapproachableness, on the part of these blacks who intermarry. The white wife tires. There is an ultimate separation. Wife returns to her native land. Husband in Jamaica contributes to her support abroad.

3. The Governmental and commercial interests connive to keep the scale of wages so low that the labouring classes are unable to meet the necessary demands to sustain their needs and wants. The girls of Jamaica are resorting to vice and immorality through lack of industrial opportunities and poor economicconditions: Praedial larceny is rampant and the jails are filled. Education is restricted and limited to the children of the poorer classes causing intellectual deficiency to the masses.

4. He drew a deplorable picture of the prejudice of the Englishman in Jamaica against the blacks, portraying hypocrisy and deceit of his attitude towards the blacks, and stated his preference for the prejudice of the American to that of the Englishman.

Mr. Editor, the above are only a few of the damaging statements being disseminated by the aforesaid Marcus Garvey Jr., among the American public.

Further details would be a repetition of the demoralising utterances of the speaker.

The bad effects of these lectures on the minds of the American public are deplorable and are causing great indignatlon among Jamaicans here, who feel greatly humiliated.

Thanking you for space and hoping through this medium Jamaicans will be enlightened on the seriousness of this matter.

We are.

Father Raphael, O.C.G., Priest-Apostolic; the Greek Orthodox Catholic Church, Dr. Uriah Smith, Ernest P. Duncan, Ernest R. Jones, H, S. Boulin, Phillip Hemmings, Joseph Vassal. Henry H. Harper, S. C. Box, Aldred Campbell, Hubert Barclay, John Moore. Victor Monroe, Henry Booth, and many others,

Philadelphia, P.A. U.S.A.

September 19th, 1916