Address Delivered by Dr. Joshua A. Jones, President of Wilberforce University

Excerpt from Address Delivered by Dr. Joshua A. Jones, President of Wilberforce University Wilberforce, Ohio: On the Occasion of the Anniversity Celebration of the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, at Metropolitan Church, Washington, D. C., Tuesday Evening, March 31, 1908I. One great office of the American ballot is to teach the com mon citizen the principles Of politics by the use Of the ballot, of the interests of the affairs Of the State, county, and nation. It will help you to know the departments of the Government, and to know when any Offense is committed by any of its officers and how to correct that one when he needs correcting. It IS one of the greatest educa tors that can be given a people. We can not afford to be without the ballot. There is no school more potential than is the school Of the American ballot.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.