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A ' dvertisement. BIDS are rvequested for the following supplies which are needed in the ad- ministration o the Cnristiansted Muni- cipal Hospital, for the month of Febru- ary 1920. Delivery is to be made by the merchant, ir case the merchant is outside the limit of Christiansted Municipality. Bids should be addressed to the Inspector, Municipal Hospital, Christiansted. After January 27ch, no bids will be considered. All supplies to be of the best quality. Wheat flour, 50 ibs.: Corn Meal, 85 Ibs.; Rice 100 ibs.; Lard, 35 lbs.; Cooking butter, 35 Ibs.; Sugar 300 lbs.: Table but- ter, 50 lbs.; Irish pctatoes 300 Ibs.; Meat, (Beef, Mutton, Pork,) 400 ibs.; Salt fish, 60 Ibs.; Tea, 3 Ibs.: Quakar Qats, 60 lbs.: Cream of Whaeat, 20 lbs.; Beans and Peas, 50 lbs.: Onions, 20 lbs.: Kercsenea Oil, 50 gallons; Matches 1 gross. Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I. of U.S.A., January 20th 1920. 4. C. DbuBOIS Inspector Municipal Hospital. "THE Promotars. Former Members. and L Persons desirous of participating in the Horse Racing to be held on Estate “Manning’s Bay’’ on Easter Monday, as well;as those desirous of becoming Mem- bers of the Saint Croix Racing Associa- tion are cordially invited to attend a meet- ing at Kings Hili, on Sunday, 25th inst. at 3 o’clock p. m. Subject: Membership; Election of Officers, : For the St. Croix Racing Association Signed: A. DE CHABERT. K. HENDERSON, W. H. FLEMING, E. L. BROWN, CORNELIUS PENTHENY. On the Whart To-Night by the Native Brass Band PART 1. L. March. “'The Battle Sonz of Liberty”’ Arv. Hildreth 2. Operatic Minge ........ Arr. Berry 3. Waltz. ..Spring Bells...Mackie-Beyer 4. March...*"On To Vietory’’.. Mackie- Beyer :—:lntermission: —: 1. March.. " "The New L iberty”’ .Lincoln 2. Overture. . 'Scenes From Operalzand’’ ' Arr. Al Hayes 3. Two-Step. ... “‘The Booster’’.. .Klein 4. One-Step.. ""A Warming Up In Dixie”’ é Paull STAR-SPANGLED BANNER FRED. C. JACKSON, Jr. Banidmaster. e ¥ B 113 A N | B The sugar shortage is undoubtedly acute, very little being obtainable any- where and the price | whatis to be had almost prohibitable The Bethlehem con cern has started grinding it is umder- stocd ana there, howevar, is at that rate relief in sight. Tie schooner Creole has not yet ar- i ved here owing probably to the heavy win«s which have pravailed since yes- tecaey. Christiansted, Jan. 20. 1920. Fditor *he Avis:- Don’t you think the people ought to remember the Danish American Grocery in these days as the place that stood up for their interests during the first days of the exchange panic? Why not pa- tronize this place now when even during the existing sugar scareity it is holding on to reasonable prices, and giving the public the benefit of 18 ects. a lb. for what little it can place on the counter? Yours, CONSUMER. To The Editor of the Awvis. Dear Mr. Editor: In WESI' END NEWS of the idth inst., under the heading of ‘‘News Notes’” an invitation was issued to the public to hear the delegates of the Virgin Islands Protective League scund the death-knell to class hatred in these is- lands, which, in the absence of qualifica- tion (the speakers being members ot the Negro race) and in an overwhelming Negro population, one was led to believe that the lecturers (?) intended to deal with the subjeet in the true light. To my great surprise, the very next day, a gentlemap —a white man - show- ed me a copy of WEST END NEWS, with the report of the speeches, and in strong language gave vent to his feelings over the outroge rerveirated con an inno- cent population by the delegates of the Vir:in Islands Protective League in the Roman Catholie Schoolhouse in Frederik- sted. I admitted to him that I was astonish- ed, but at the same time felt that the un- wary delegates had fallen the helpless victims of some unscrupulous persons in Frederiksted and its environmenrs. I was also told that Mr. frer. Fleming of Hpgensborg, Planter Gaffney, Planter Smith of Whim, ana the Catholic Priest shook hands with, and congratulated the speakers. ‘ it is not my wpolicy to denounce those who deserve pity, but, as pyprocrisy and I do not sit in the same saddie, and as I cannct stand double dealings, [ am bound, for the sake of my race, to show our people thai when the delegates at that meetine in the Catiholie Schoolhouse spoke of race-hatred, and attributed its introduction herve to “‘the man’’. they were acting as convenient mouthpieces for the oppressors or would-be-oppres- sors, and I shell quote from letters wit- ten me from New York, which I no long- er deem confidential. I shall however mention in psssing, as I have so often pointed out to members of the League in America, that, it the Virgin islands Protective League has ‘or its im the welfare of the Islands, it n ay devend upon my whole-nearted sungcrt; but as the present mission of its del.-ya:es has shown that the league has no d fir ite plan of action, I must, for the preseat. withdraw my promised support, until st ch time as the representatives show a great- er amount of wisdom, conscientiousness, and stability. Weather vanes revcive in all directions, accocding to how the w nd blows. But to the question nf race-aa- tred. The foilowing extracts from letters of some of the officers of the league, v'ill shed some light on my silence in the mat- ter, and readers will taz2n see hypocr sy in its most flagrant-form. Compare he tenor of these extracts with the addr :ss in the Catholic Schoolhcuse on the night of th=2 isth inst., remembering at the same time that those letters were wit- ten in New York, and the leetures deiv- ered here. See if it displays courzge to stand Dy convietion. The following are from a letter from Miss Hendrickson, now here; the date of the letter is April 7, 1919. “"We have from time to time beer he ir- ing of ditferent outrages and injus:i:es being committed apon our people by nen in the service of the U. S. Governmet, and that the press in the islands are sp- pressed, anc are not permitted to piib- iish. the various attrocities. . . .. ‘We therefore solicit your suppot and co-operation as the organization wo ild like ‘o work in conformity with you.. .. "It is therefore essential that the or- ganization be permanent in order to vo.ce the sentiments ot the neople, as we .re cognizant of the fact that wheree er American white men goes, they carries with them race prejudize and hatred, aad are always ready to execute same 0n the people of darker complexion, whom tley termn 'DNigoers’ .... .... “In order to combat these obsraces that are working against us as a race, and to make the Virgin Islands saie or Democracy, the Virgin Islands Prot :ct ve League must live, so we can openly iell our white Americans that the Negrces are human, aid will nc longer toler: te being kept in seridom and peonage’’. ... From another officer, dated April 17, 19 9: "It (the League) had its origin fron tae unheard ot attrocities perpetrated vpon the deferseless natives of those islar ds by thcse Southern brutes on Christn as Eve Night”’. ... Vr. Arnold Golden was very active in clavping with the white people ai tae meeting, we hear. Os course race-c(n- scinusn~ss is dead in h .