Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 28, 1893, Page 13

. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: x-Benator Ingalls Secs but One Way to Rettle the Race Problem. 0 HOPE FOR THE BLACK MAN IN AMERICA No Relief from a Bondage Forced by the Tyranny of Nature, BANDONED TO HIS FATE BY REPUBLICANS [His Political Prostration Complete and Only the Right of Domicile Remains. | EXPATRIATION THE NEXT STEP TO TAKE olonization in Afriea the One Ray of Light Which Penetrates the Apparently Dark Future of the Race in the United States. [Copyrighted, 18931 Foriwentyfive years the people of the north have been dealing with the negro question in the United States upon a political theory. We have treated it asa problem in logic to be demonstrated by syl- ¢ logism. We have re- fizarded it as a moral abstraction and lemanded the rigid application of the precepts of the divine law to its considera- tion. Other subjects, domestic and foreign, have been viewed from the standpoint of ex- li'pediency and selfishness, but in this we have been altruistic. Smitten with penitence for national sin we have been making contri- butions to the conscience fund. We have juggled and jockeyed with the finances, bullied the Chinese, despoiled the Indians, played fast and loose with the pen- foners, said one thing in our platforms and K done another in our practice, but to the negro we have hitherto been just. Organ- § 1z0d benevolence has made vast contribu- tions for education and religion, and in our statutes we have recognized the injunction to do unto others as we would that they Rohould do unto us. Disregarding the di 8 tates of history, the prejudices of the van- quished and the ordinances of nature, we have endeavored to adjust the social and po- litical relations of the white and colored aces in the forum of conscience rather than i on the basis of reason, and to inquire what was right rather than what was practicable within the limitations of human conduct, Biin the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth 8 amendments to the constitution are incor- & porated the final results of the warof the rebellion. They are iis summary. These" few paragraphs are the treaty between the belligerents. In them are the trophies of |, the victors. Waged ostensibly to maintain the integrity of the union and in denial of the dogma of state sovereignty, the future tustorian will not fail to note that the three amendments are silent upon this subject, and that two of them relate exclusively, and the other principally, to the freedom, citizenship and suffrage of the negro race. The right of secession, if it ever existed, exists now, so far a8’ any déclaration in our organic law is concerned. It has not been renounced, nor is the supremacy of the nation affirmed in its | charter. This omission is more remarkable from the fact that at the outset the abolition of slavery was not avowedly contemplated. Lincoln was not an abolitionist. The re- publican party repudiated the assertion that it intended to interfere with tho exist- énce of slavery in the states. Had the pur- poso to destroy slavery been declaroa, the ‘border states would have been irrevocably lost and the issue made more perilous and uncertain, Compensated emancipation could umdoubtedly have been carried through congress long afterjthe war began, and the overthrow of the servile system was only docyoed at last as an act of military neces- sity, upon which the president invoked the favor of God and the considerate judgment ofimankind, Republican Opposition to Negro Suffrage, When the thirteenth amendment was pro- posed in 1865, the dominant party in congress indicated no purpose to interfers with the ontrol of citizenship and suffrage in the tates. Ropublican leaders were openly hostile to negro suffrage, especially in the fwest, where citizenship was confinea to free white males by constitutional declarations. heir reluctance was slowly overcome by the inadequate protection afforded the negro by the luws and usages of the rebellious states, find by thedisinclination of the north that the olitical power of the south should be in- preased by the emancipation of their slay hnd the fourteenth amendment was pro Jposed in 1867, By this, citizenship and equal fvil aud political rights were conferred on he negro. It appealed to the self-interest of the southern states to voluntarily extend uffrage to him by reducing congression: epresentation in proportion to the fraction o whom the right of voting was denied. lAs this amendment was not promptly ra fled, it was succeeded by the reconstruction acy of 1867 and by the fifteenth amendment in 1870, declaring that *‘the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” “T'he right to vote is conferred upon no one by the constitution or its amenaments. The power of the states to limit suffrage by mativity, sex, property, illiteracy or nonpay- ment of taxes is absolute now, as it has been from the beginning, he only limitation of this power is that no discrimivation or deprivation shall be made aguinst citizens of the United States solely because they are of African (;h‘!l'(!!ll, are black, and have been Blaves. Thestates can presoribo property g{ educational qualifications for suffrage, but ese must apply to black and white alike. Mr. Wickliffe, an eminent member of the New Orleans bar aud a prominent leader of advanced thought in Louisiana, asserts in a recent paper io the Forum that negro suf- frage has been a failure. He sets forth with reat power the disastrous consequences of lidozing, ballot box stufing and other evil practices against the rights of the negro, $o society. As a solution of the difficulty he suggests the repeal of the fifteenth amend- ment and the remission of the entire subject of suffrage to the states. In other words, that the idea of impartial citizenship shall be abandoned by the nation and the advan- tage of the increment of political represen- tation shall be rulhu{'uinhed by the south. To what extent Mr. Wickliffe speaks for the southern people does not appear, but the opinions he represents undoubtedly are cur- rent among thoughtful and and patriotic men iv all parts of the country and will mur or later demand a dispassionate ver- Gigantio Evils Following Reconstruction. ‘Sufticient time has now elapsed to all unbiased judgment of the offscts of recen. | finally emerged | are not without s'n, ! rant their assumption of snperior morality struction and the fifteenth amendment. It should provoke no resentment to aftirm that the anticipations of the authors and sup- porters of these measures have not been realized. The calumnious and malignant Aspersion that they were devised Lo retain republican supremacy in the south requires B0 comment, but had this purpose been the motive its inevitable failure could have been icted. The experiment of negro suffrage been disastrous, both to the whites and blacks. Upheld for a while by the inter- of national authority, without tion mmflieoopontlou by the whites, 1t re- Sulted in opisodes thai cannot be contem- di blood that has loft an_indelible stigma upon our eivilization. The attempt to reorganize society by the re- version and metrastasis of its sodiment mis- carried. The submersion of brains, political oxperionce, landownership and habits of domination by ignorant members could have but one issue. e morality of reconstruc- tion and the fiftcenth amendment was unim- peachanlo, but their wisdom has not been approved by events. After a stupendous con- vulsion the unnatural political fabric fell and great was the fall thereof. The founda- tions of society wore shaken and the institu- tions of liberty and self-government seemed engulfed in an abyss. When the states the political prostration was complete, Caucasian restored and the last tige of reconstruction had disappeared. .It was a subterranean revolution. Thoe organic law remained, but negro vote was practically supprossed. It is tolerated now only so faras to insure the unifaction of the white vote in congressional and presidential elections. Condemned as the guilty methods by which the end was attained must bein the court of morals, the people of the north are not justified in casting the first stone. They History does not war- of the negro supremacy w shred and wi nor will it exempt them from equal respor bility for the presence of the African raco and the existence of African slavery upon this continent. The conscience of the north was not abnormally sensitive to the in- iquities of slavery so long as servile labor was profitable in New England, and the sys- tem would still exist had its threatened ex- tension not menaced their capidity and their ambition, Abhorrencs of the Negro Taint. As we are all accountable, share and share alike, for the race problem, so nono are exempt from the burdens of its solution. Because the mass of the negroes are in the southern states this does not exonerate the reoph! of the north from active paticipation n all measures for the settlement of ques- tions whose gravity has not been surpassed, and which seem likely to increase rather than diminsh in difficulty and danger. Frederick Douglass is perhaps the widest known and most distinguished representa- tive of the negro race. He is an eloquent, accomplished and dignified gentleman. His father wasa white man and his mother a slave. It is perhaps not invidious nor un- civil to afirm that the distinction of Doug- lass is not on account of his African blood, but in spite of it. The intellectual traits, qualities and characteristics which have given him renown are due to his Anglo- Saxon reinforcement. He once said to me that he believed the social antipathy between the races was not inherent, but casual, a tem- vorary prejudice that would be obliterated, 50 that they would eventually coalesce and the race question thus be effaced and disap- pear. There are no indications at present that this prophecy will be verified. Instead of vanishing, the repugnance appears to bo more distinct and emphatic. Mr. Douglass bravely acted upon his theory, but his ex- ample has not been followed “nor seriously approved. Whether justly or unjustly, African blood is regarded by the Cau a taint to be abhored. The discovery of an unsuspacted negro strain by the heroine, is the tragic motive of one of +Howell's most powerful novels. Whether this > of degradation is peculiar to American, and due w slavery is disputed. Cer- tainly the revulsion in Europe is not s0 marked as here, but in the most cosmopolitan_capitals the negro is not per- sona grata. Black is not a badge of inferi- ority, because Cubans, Brazilians, Spaniards and Hindoos arc of dusky hue, but the African is not considered an equal or kindred race. No white man ever wanted 0 be a negro. Probably every educated and intelligent negro would prefer to be white. No Hope for Release. That the condition of the African has been improved in many respects by freedom and education needs no arguments, but_ his prog- ress has. been toward segregation. The great ogulf tixed between the races has widened and deepened since emancipation. As dependants and subordinates, the blacks were associates of the whites. ~As political equals they are strangers. Their children are no longer playmates. They are taught in separate schools, they worship in sepa- rate churches, they are buried in separate cemeveries. If possible the barrier is more insuperablo at the north than at the south, and the proscription more contemptuous and intolerent. Wherever the negro appears in considerable numbers the irritation is vio- lent. Their settlement inany locality de- presses the value of real estate and ropels white occupation. Immigrants avoid con- tact with them and shun the south as an in- fected region. Places of trust, honor and emolument are shut against them in- exorably. With confessed majori- ties in many districts and the balance of powerin others, they have no positions of high rank inthe state or na- tional governments. Although more than 200,000 enlisted in the union armies, no full- blooded negro holds a commissionin the army or navy, and in the militia their organ- ization is distinct. The learned professions, business, commerce and manufactures are open to all, but except with his own people the African has no function. His occupa- tions are menial, In their employments he finds toleration and is content. The rights and immunities conferred by the three con- stitutional amendments have given him no vrotection against the stronger edicts of public opinion. Surrounded by opportuni- ties which he cannot share and by ad- vantages from which heis excluded, the future offers no prospect of rel e from a bondage whose imperceptible manacles are forged and riveted by the tyranny of nature, {n the high career of enterprise and courage he has no competition. From the ennobling fraternity which unites the branches of the Aryan racc, heis exiled by an inexorable decree. This lamentable destiny secems harsh and n its pathos, because the association WO races was not volun . The African came here as a captive prisoner of war and has been the helpless victim of un- speakable cruelty and avarice. Whether capable of high mental development, or not, he is susceptible of loyalty, affection and fi- delity. His instincts are friendly to civiliza- tion. His sensibility is extreme. He en- dured the injustice of centuries without pro- test and submitted to incredible oppression without revenge. The Greatest Political Bugbear. Ineffectunl as the fifteenth amendment has been to abrogate the ordinances of nature and to suppress the prejudices of instinct, its repeal would be a criminal climax that would shock the conscience of mankind. Con- trasted with such perfidy Punic faith would be white and luminous with integrity, It would give national sanction and aporobation to the crimes by which sufirage has been made & mockery and the brother- hood of man a bloody and distemvered dream. Practically the fifteenth amend- ment has already been nullified in every state where the negro vote threatens white supremacy. Violence is uo longer practiced, for fraud is simpler and easier. It is Joss troublesome to burn a ballot than to kill a yoter, and it excites less comment elsewhere, It nas beea reserved for Mississippi, fertile in “plans,” to devise a method of constitu- tional disfranchisement by the contrivance of an educatvional qualification that ad- mits the white illiterate and ex- cludes the negro. In that paradise of justice and repudiation, the elec- tor must **be able to read any section of the constitution” of the state: “or he shall be uble to understand the same when read to him, or give a reasonable interpretation thereof.” Armed with discretionary powers under a vague and elastic provision hike this, reinforced by complicated provisions for registration and the payment of poll taxes, the judges of election will be at fault 1f white sapremacy is not indefinitely maintained. ‘The south is ‘‘solid” because of the negro. The north is silently sullen because of the negro. The dead line of the republic divides the sections as palpably now as in 1561, be- cause of the negro. ocratic success rouses jealousy and distrust in the north, as republican success excites terror and trepidation *in the south, because of the negro. Slavery is dead, secession is dead, the union is restored, but in sentiment, in sympathy, in vital national spirit, we are not a blended, assimilated, homogenous peo- nle. Nationality is in the north. The south isolated, because of the negro, Now He's Left to His Fate. Baffied aud thwarted by the failure of their attempts to enfranchise the slave, the party that freed him and enacted the fif- teenth amendmeut has apparently aban- doned the strugele and left the negro to his goe. This is tho basis of the existing truce white and black | SILKS DRESS SILKS. Black Peau de Soie, pure silk; the regular price on this silk is $1.25, for this eale, 97¢c yer yard. D. W. TILLOTSON, Letter Carrier, Leads This Week. DRESS SHIELDS That sell for from 20c to 40c a pair are all put in at the one price 5¢. A full line of ladies’ scolloped and hemstitched handkerchiefs, with em- vroidery, all new goods, at 10c, 15¢, 25c¢. SPECIAL SALE, LACES AND EMBROIDERY. 3 to 8inches wide, in white}) cream, ecru a1d black, al new goods, at 19¢ a yard. Reynier Celebrated Kid Gloves, $1.50.81.15, 82, 82.250nd $2.50 Every pair guaranteed. Kid glnvus mended and cleaned. LADIES' SUMMER VESTS, A lot of summer vests will be sold Monday morn- ing. commencing at 9 o’clock, and until one case 18 sold, PLAIN BALBRIGGAN YESTS. Low neck, sleeveless, worth 3 5¢, forthis sale 17c. 17c. T LADIES JERSEY RIBBED PANTS. A good quality at 2, At This Pri 490 The tmporter Loses SUNDAY, MAY 28 1803-TWENTY PAGES DR Y Sl SILKS Printed dapapese” Taiafall line of the latest styles which we offer at the extr: <= 43 his The Importe on Gain. Former price on these was 9oc. Per Yard 49 arantesd, and Ifit does not give satisfaction in every way wo will renluce every yard sold. ROT TTHIS WEEK P1.1S eervarn P11 ONLY. BLAGCK FAILL.E FRANGCAISE. t 81.25, 81.50, 81.75 Al these sifics aro much Under the presont markot value, The first 100 candidates in our World’s Fair contest. exciting. Will your friend ba the winnror? An oxtra fine LISLE every 25¢ purchase. Vote early and often, VEST, silk tape, low Silks |Lost Price rdinarily low price of 1 You Gain. ‘ ASH SILKS FOR MONDAY ONLY. will be_paid g will sell the balance of our stook of Wash Siiks, to olose them out In one day, 4gc Per Yard We will place on sale Monday morning one 1ot of Black Gros Graln Silk that is reaily a marvel You have a vote with Y, GO0DS Lost Twenty dol- flarsreward r L.oses 43¢ by the Morse Dry Goods Co. [for the return {of a DIAMOND, {lost Irom a isetting in onr |store last Fri-| | Evory yard wosell Is FOR THIS WEEK ONLY It is gotting OUR $ 5 CAPES ORESS SILKS. . Ue R. C. DAVIS, LETTER CARRIER, SECOND. A vory fino black gros geain sitk which would bo a bargain at $1.25, this weok we sell at 50 o yard A Phenomenal urchase Lace and Chenille Curtains, AL ; Sl &1, hiEtes Bl s Eg:kht‘l'\g‘:v;lrl:nnnnm\lr‘l‘n New Vork last neck, sleeveless; also « D, . Tillotson, ¢ . Charles Bloom, p KE' 3 ake no rlsk on the quality, fino ' LISLE PANTS,| 2. R. C. Davis, c 52, G. Kleffor, ¢ A e o, Oty a| ainajrdiqpomondt; ¥ otedttued knee length, 8. Rev. T. J. Mackey, m 53. Rov. . Wheecler, m Are golng fast. Only & * 50¢, 4. Rose Brady. t 54. N. A, Lundbery, ¢ fow left. Now is your| HALF THEIR REAL VALUE. > ) 5. Alfred Clark, ¢ 55. Mr. Drummy. e e b o 810, | Tt will bo to your interest to vistt our 6. May Hogan, t 56, Father Janett, m worth from 37.50 to 810. I 4a5.Ftmant Myntay moraing onely oud Sre 7. Rev. S. M. Frankiin, m 57. Rev. P. :\ll\l}\l ws, m got your first plek 8. Auna IFoos, t 58. Rev. J. W. Wiison, m #1.00 curtalns for (0o, An excellent im- 9. Rev. P‘.‘Comnu, m 69. Rev. Savage. m #3.00 mlrlul:u (3:: 50, perial lisle hose 10. M. Coffey. ¢ 60. 1d Fisher, o ANOTHER LOT OF #4.00 curtalns for #2.00. n black, tan, 11. Rev. J. P. D. Loyd, m 61. J. Cook. ¢ SHIRT WAISTS .00 curtains or & gray and boot 12. Ldw Hampshire, { 62. Kate Hungerford, t 8800 curtalns for #4.50. pattern, opera 13. Miss M. Lohmer. t 63. Dean Gardner, m That we will sell 50 £10.00 curtal ength, at...... C 14. Miss 1. A, Alexander, ¢ 64. Rev. B\ FPoster, m this week at.... C $12.00 curtal 15. Mr. Anderson, ¢ 65. Rev. Father Fitzpatrick, m Try and match them 18. P. J. Corcoran, ¢ 66. J. W. Muher, ¢ for —— 17. Ada Hopper, t 7. Miss O. Tool, t 18. J. R. Stein, ¢ 68. J. Dailey, { #30.00 curtalns for $1 The finest in the city 19. Julia Newcomb, t 69. H. C. Cook, p #0.00 curtuins for $22,50, apd just the hose for 20. Rev. S. W. Butler, m 70. J. M. Stafford, ¢ This wook we will sell | 0.00 cartains for 827,50, traveling, THE PAN- 21. J. Cook, ¢ 7L T. W. Schellington, ¢ ladies’ Eton sorge $75.00 curtains for $40,00, TELLA, fast black, %fi' i"’:']‘ -'&Vfi“flfi!‘ m ;2- }';d l‘“’l'{‘%c suits, that cannot be| $100.00 curtains for $50.00. . Father McCarthy, m 3. P. 1. Harvey, p ) s .50, $2 24. Rov. Turkle. m 74. Bishon Worthinaton, m tabbiiel L2 Uiy Q 0 3 s s 4 $10.00, for R ’ y 25. Thomas Croft, ¢ 75. Rev. H. Sharply, m v $2.25, $3.00 26. Rev. T. E. Cramblett, m 76. Rev. J. T. Ross, m $7.50. / Gkt ) LAt 27. Rev. W. P. Helling, m 77. Haltie Crane, t ——ON— 28. P. F. Hansen, ¢ 78. J. Michaelsen, ¢ s 29. Mary Alter, t 79. Agnes Mu])l?m\éd,t ) 30. Rev. S. M. Ware, m 80. Chas. Remillard, ¢ ’ A LOT OF 31. Clara Elder, t 81. Charles uc;iv:r:l "L‘u“;“)"il“ l?"r‘]lc! In our Basement wo have hundreds of 82. J, Woodruff, ¢ 82, Rev. D. K. Tin VERSE a1 Dinner sets that must go, and that at ASSORTED GOWNS 83. Rev. Paske. n 83. Rev. J. Gordou, m cns:nnor‘ol cl!f!tl(>ti‘- oncoe. Glance at our 16th street show made of fine muslin, with 34. m 84. Miss B, Burkett, t )“;lf“mgem {3"‘%‘13‘&? window and soe the sets we offer. yoko of insertion, tuck 35, ) C 85. Miss I, Carney, t Monday price. A An English Porcolala 100- VAN IR IOETRBOBY 36. Miss A. Witman, ¢ 86. Alice Fawcett, t onaayprice, A oeo Dikner Bobr ot Try and match them 37. T. Jorgensen, ¢ 7. Miss S P. Pitman, t 5 s $6.49 for 75¢. 38. Miss L. M. Brunner, t 88. Miss I". Butterfiela, t AT Ridgoway's Royal Biuo 101- 89. M. C. Tracy, ¢ 89, Emma Whitmore, t $13.50P1ece Dinner Sot; they would 40. Charles Wilson, c. 90. Rev. l)elwo}i[lx?r‘m 13.50%, chenp ut $20. 41. J. Stone, ¢ 91. Rev. T. | iman, m , O P TR DRGS WRSET GOVERS 0 | - & 2R 92 Chist Galligan. Boys sifTo Bnr Eanit b 00s B M J 3, Rev. C. N. l)flwBOfl, m 93. Charles Dowling, 4 goods made, would be gou ge{n '(!,'of.el..g' &::‘ (J::;; 44, C. Rose. ¢ 94. Miss:A. Hansen, t TWO-PIECE SUITS. valueat J worth from $1.50 to 32, 45. H, H. Reed, ¢ 95, Anna Withrow, t All wool, all of our 5.00] AT _ A beautiful China Dinner'Set They are soiled an 46. William Owens, ¢ 96. Rev, Conway, m Sl $21.57 of 116 piccos, positively worth odd sizes. Your 5 47. Rev. W, E. Kimball, m 97. Rev. Treden, m e 7 Choic tor... €OC| 38 1l Bowies, o 98, L. Godola, p $3.48. AT o Bihor oo saot oo lie : 49. Miss E. M. Hartman, t 99. Rev. Chas. E. Taylor, m $22.38 [and's goods: our prioo he T 80. Miss Street, t 100. Mr. Marlin, ¢ ugeeu. heretofore, 835 for th Agonti for Dr. Jaegei's Underwear, Butteriok's Patter: Mail Orders that are sent to us recieve prompt attention. between the north and south. Let the south deal with the negro as it pleases is the protocol. We have bought peace by the surrender of the civil and political rights of the freedman and by consenting to the prac- tical abrogation of all the constitutional amendments. No one doubts that the de- mand for the recognition of the political equality of the negro,and of his right to have his vote fairly and freely cast and hon- estly counted, would be followed by an out- break of sectionalism as violent as any that raged during the period which closed with the capitulation of Hayes in 1877. Whether the north will permanently acquiosce in this condition remains to be ascertained here- after. But even should no ‘“‘force bill” be presented, the cause of alienation will con- tanue so long as this unassimilated and in- ferior race constitutes a great fraction of the southern population. For 270 years history on this continent has concerned itself with the nogro. The politics of the United States have turned upon the race question. In the convention of 1787 Mr. Madison said the states were divided not by area or climate, but by the effects of having or not having slaves. The slaves have been freed, they have been made citizens, they have been deprived of their rights and re- duced to practical serfdom again. We have omitted to test ours criterion, and the African question iS as far from safe, satis- factory, permanent sottlement as at any former 'stage of its consideration. The ghost of our victim rises at every feast., It will not down at our bidding. Banishment the Race's Only Hope, One uuprecedented alternative remains untried; one method of extrication from the desperate dilemma,one aver.ueof escape from perils that may be greater than any yet en- countered ; banishment, exile, expatriation. The horrors of Siberia. the atrocities of Russian edicts against the Jews, the brutal mob violence toward the Chinese, nave pro- voked indignant protest; but they are sur- passed in human = barbarity by the increasing crimes against the negro in all parts of the United States, The north is disgraced by oc sional lynchings and mob law, but public opinion demands the punishment of the par- ticipants. In the south scarcely a day passes without the record of the death by torture of some “‘negro brute” at the hands of an infuriated populace. By what de- possession this patient, docile and timid race. who were safely left in chargo of the women and children and es tates of their masters during four years of war, have been transformed into fiends devoted to rape, arson and murder is not disclosed. But such is the trepidation, or the trucu- lence of an clement in the south that to ac- cuse & negro is to condemn him to death at the state without exculpation or appeal. No one could read the ghastly and repulsive dotails of the recent burn- ing of the negro in Texas, the mutilation, the thrusting of hot irons into the eyes, the aggravation of agony, without compassionate iucredulity. It was & revela- tion of inconceivable depravity, The crime of which the victim was accused was inex- piable, but the vengeance was equally infer- nal. And today comes the report of the murder of Peterson, by some of the “best citizens” of Denmark, with the alleged com- plicity of the authorities of the state. Send Them Back to Africa. If this condition is the inevitable conse- quence of the contact of the two races, sepa- ration, voluntary or compulsory, at what- ever cost, 1s the dictate of wisdom, morality and national safety. If reconciliation upon the basis of justice and equal rights is impossible, then migration to Africa should be the policy of the future. To that fertile continent from whence they camo they would return, not as aliens and straugers, but to the manor born. To their savage kindred who still swarm in its solitudes they would bring the alphabet, the Declaration of Independence and the bible. Kmancipated from the tradi- tions of bondage, from the habit of obedi- enco and imitation, from the knowledge of its vices, which is the only mstruction of a strong race to & weaker, the African might develop along his own axis of growth and Ethiopia streteh out her hands wo God. He might not want w go. Heis a native. Heis a civizen. He has the right to stay. So he has the right to vote. He has the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happincss. He has been deprived of them all. Only the right of domi- cile romains. He could, perhaps, submit to the loss of this with thé same resignation, which has accomplished his surrender of the rest. There are vague indications of cleay- age. In some regions the inertia is being overcome. Communities are pervaded by aimless agitations like those which preceded the flight of the Tarton tribe across the desert. The “exodus” is an intimation of what may follow. ‘The feasibility of this colonization of Africa, the cost and couditions of a migra- tion so prodigious, its effact upon the civiliza- tion of the two continents and the destiny of the two races, are subjects too vast and PROGRESSIVE COLORADO TOWN. Some of the Interesting Features of the City of Sterlin . momentous for considetistion here. Stenuivo, Colo, May 27.—[Special to May 18, 1893, Tug Bee.]—Probably no state of the union is more generally and morve favorably knopwn than Colorado, from the fact that it holds within its borders everything which is required to make it strong and prosperous, together with a people who are progressive, ST el industrious and ambitious. Mining, stock TRUST THE CHILDREN, nd agriculture are their principal industries, and this county in particul very fortunate in the two latter pursuits. Logan county, of which Sterling is the county seat, is situate in the northeast part of the state. It contains about 1,000,000 acres of land, of which nearly one-third is under cultivation, and when it is understood that nearly every acre of this thrifty county can be cultivated it will be seen that there are grand opportunities for thousauds of en- terprising, industrious home seekers. At least 500,000 acres of this county lie under ditches already constructed and subject to New York Ledger. Trust the childron! Never doubt thom! Build a wall of love about them, After sowing seeds of duty, Trust them for the flowers of beauty. Trust the children! *t them! Let your confid: At the hearth Meet them on Don't susp ice direct thon in the wildwood, © plane of childhood, ber Trust the little ones! Reme May is not like chill Decembe Let not words of rage or madn; Check thelr happy notes of gladness, Trust the little onos! Yet guide them! And, above all, ne'er deride them, irrigation, making o harvest as Should they trip, or should they Dlunder, certain as the planting 1s done. Lest you snap love's cords asunder. R e L main ditches, givingithem about 130 miles, and are all fed from the South Platte river, whose resource is unfailing. Bewg a moun- tain river its supply is as sure as the fall of the snow in the Rockies and that the sun will shine in the summer time and redu the glittering flakes which lie in beds many feet in thickness upon the tho tops and sides of these mountain peaks, into hquid form, The county has about 105 miles of railroad running in such a way as to make all parts O‘f the county accessible to railroad facili- ties. Wheat, oats, barley, corn and broom corn are grown herc very successfully and in large quantities, and alfalfa pastures and flolds aro seen oit every hand. Threo crops of this grass are cut each year, notting about seven tons to the acre, and for pasturing purposes it is far superior to the clover fields of the east, both in nutrimentand fat pro- ducing qualities, sheepand hogs both fatten- ing upon it in about one-half the time that they do on clover; besides it is several weeks in advance of other grasses and continues to be excellent pasturage all winter. The assessed valuation of this county will exceed 2,000,000, bemng about one-fifth of actual yalue, and casts $00 votes; has nearly fifty school houses. taxes are lignt and good lands can be bought from 5 to $23 per acre, owing to_improvements and distanco from towns, A small amount of good government land can still be secured, and quite a good deal of Union Pacific raiiroad lands can_ yet be had. Recently a colony of Hollanders purchased 82,000 acres of land ncar the town of Crook, in this county. This land is all in one body and cost them about §15 an_acre. They have al- ready erected twenty-five new buildings, and will soon be oneof the most prosperous settlements in this state. Sterling, the'county seat of Logan county, is 4 prosperous young city of twelve yeas of age and contains 1,100 people. It s located on the main line of the Union Pacific railroad from Omaha to Denver, being 430 miles from Omaha and 140 es from Denver, and is the largest and best town botween Kearney and Denver. Sterling 1s°a division station of the Union Pacific railroad, has one of the United States land oftices, and is the principal trading point for the farmers, stock raisers and merchants of the smaller towns iu the surrounding territory for from twenty to Catholic church of Preojous Blood in New | seventy miles. The Union Pacific runs two York, I was founddd for Ttaliaus s fow | Passengor and two feoights trains each way years ago, aud 2,000 oftvhat. nationality bo- | perday. Onocan altowo to Cheyenno or ong to ité parish., . oldrege from here over the B & M road, Trust the children! Let them treasure Mother's faith in boundless measure: Father's love in them confiding; Then no secrets they'll be hiding. Trust the children just as He did, Who for “such’ once sweetly pleaded. Trust and guide, hut never doubt them; Bulld a wall of love about them. —_————— RELIGIOUS, There are nearly 13,000 Methodists in the Southern California conference. The Southern Presbyterian Generalassem- bly has admitted a woman delegate, There are 188 Congregational churches in California with a membership of 14,002, In the Episcopal diocese of Massachusetts women are now allowed to vote at parish meetings. The receipts of the American Baptist Home Mission society for the year ending with April were $473,565.89. The floating debt of $110,000 on the famous Brooklyn tabernacle was cancelled last Sun- day, much to the relief of Dr. Talmage. Taney county, Missouri, is said by the Kansas City Times to be absolutely church- less. Ivis the home of family feuds which would do credit to Sicily. During the last year the board of foreign missions of the Presbyterian church ex- pended over $900.000 upon the heathen in foreign lands ana only $50,200 in the home department. Thirty-one head of corn fed cattle, 5,000 loaves of bread, and pies, potatoes and other interior stimulants were provided for the mass convention of Dunkards at Muncie, Ind., last Sunday. Rev. Mark Forscutt,of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, stationed at St, Joe, Mo., has been appoiited missionary to the.Sandwich islands @ud left for his new post of duty last weelg, Rev. Father Daniel McDermott of St. , Philadelphia, last Sunday celebrated the silver anniversa®y -of his ordination. Father MeDermott is q zhl known in Omaha, having been pastor of St. Philomena's cathe- dral in 18789, gt The largest cung:egdflon in the United ates is said to “that of the Roman ! up, and from the large outside trade she 1s Bishop Randolph 8. Jfoster of the Motho- dist Episcopal church“0f Boston, and Rev. Dr. A. H. Leonard, cofiésponding sccretary of ‘the missionary’ soeigty of the church, haye started on a mlen , inspection of the Chinese, Japanese aj rean missions. The Gould family has arranged plans for a memorial Presbyterian church for the late Jay Gould. The church, which will have seating capacity for 800 persons, will be built this season at Roxbury, Delaware county, Mr. Gould's birthplace. The American Home Missionary society has had the most successful year since its organization, sixty-seven years ago. Its total rsuel&lu from all sources, up to April 1, woro 74004199, This' sui |s 77,0811 i excess of the recoipts of the preceding year and frees the society from debt. Bishop Whipple of the Protestant Eisco- pal church is critically ill, and it 1s not im- probable that the busy life of this useful man—"Straight Tongue,” as the Indians called their friend—is nearly finished. For thirty-three gun he has been bishop of Minnesota and his hand has beeu in every philanthropic and noble civic movement in that state during all this time. thus giving her people an outlet in four different directions with the advautages of the best markets in the United States. One can leave Omaha at 6,30 in the evening on the fast mail Union Pacific and reach here the following morning at 4,45 without change of cars. The city has two commodious school buildings with an average avtendance of 400 children, who are looked after by six teachers. - The Methodist, Baptist, Presby- terian, Cougrsguv.k)lllllnd Catholic people all have church buildiogs and resident pastors, together with their Sunday schools and attendant meetings. The civic societies are all in healthy condition and consist of the Masonic, Odd Fellows Rebcecas, Modern Woodmen and Grand Army in addition to the Women's Christian Temperance union and some other charitable social orders, A commodious brick court house is one of the recent additions to the city. T'wo good hotels l\:glply the inuer wants of man, the depot al Awerican house, the latter of which is well known to the traveling and local trade, Mr. Taylor and lady, host and hostess, keepiug things in good shape aud making it pleasant for all who seek their hospitality. The town is becomiug quite avorably known as a health resort to those who are afflicted with rheumatic troubles, lung, asthmetic or catarrhal difficulties, thero being several here at present who have received great relief, in fact, nearly cured, after a stay of only a few weeks. Two weekly newspapers flourish here, a republi- can and a populist, of which the republican seems to be in the ascendancy. All classes of trade are represented here, and yet there are opportunities to open up business here and do well, as the city is rapidly bnilding receiving will soon double her population. Being one of the important towns of the state, situated 1n the grand valley of the Platte, surrounded by the finest agricul- tural land of the country, on the main line of the great Unien Pacific railroad, enjoying the finest climate on earth, close to the metropolis of the great west, populated with educated people from the east who have brought with them their taste tor churches, schools and good society, it is no wonder that Sterling is forging ahead and will soon dovelop new interests and enierprises which will make some of its would-be com- petitors green with envy, that they would but could not. Her real estato men and leading business men are taking hold with a determination and will to do something for their city, and with that end in view arc seeking new fiolds of light for the purpose of securing some factories and to dispose of some of the va- cant lands adjoining their town to parties who will work hand in hand with them for the development of the surrounding country and the upbuiiding of their city. Fine opportuni e now open for the building of a canning factory and broom- corn factor A starch factory would re- ceive favorable consideration by the citizens of Logan county. Parties desiring to change their location or enter business would do well to investigate this city and county. One of Nebraska's prominent real estate men has located here, and any inquiries ad- dressed to A. H, Boltin, Sterling, Colo., will receive careful attention. While these peo- ple enjoy the certainty of crops, owing to their irrigating ditches, they also reccive about as much rain as is needed to mature their crops. In 1802 twenty-five inches of rain fell. They have had several nice rains and snow, and a couple of weeks since about three inches fell during twenty-four hours, thus assuring the winter and spring grains, which are aiready looking nice, and putting their ground in good shape for corn. The silver and centennial state of this mighty union is proving herself the peer of many of her older sisters, and will soon establish the fact that she is not an arid region and evs now raises more wheat and oats per acre th Nebraska or Kansas, and Steriing, the mar- Jet town of the eastern part of tho state, is keeping pace with the rapid development of her agriculural and stock raising interests. Do not fail to visit Sterling in traveling over the state, and get acquainted with some of her wide-awake, live busin 238 men, TIES, Detroit Free Press: Newly al at the portal hands St. Peterh St. Peter, looking over them, reads: ial clerk of employers--never nfidence—scrupulously honest— a ghbor and _exemplary citizen—al- kind words and_helping hand for the ressed— a loving husband and father—a regular churchgoer and contributed liberally toward Christian objects and enterprises.’ Um! a fair record. Mr. Recording Angel, will you turn to the *“L's” and see what was the condition of his affairs when Mr. D). Linquent left the earth? Recording Augel turns to the section in question and reads: “Total sickness ex- hausted all the meaus—not money enough left to pay funcral oxpenses. Interesting family left helploss——" St. Peter: “What! No hfe insurance! That settles i How many good souls al- most gain heaven and fail through some sin of omission like this!" oy New Pastor—Did you hear your father say how he liked my sermon yesterday ! Little Johnny— He said it was too short. “Well, T declare.” “Yes, sir; pop hates to get waked up out of & sound sleep.” . e Sunday School Teacher—You weren't here last Sunday, Willie, Willie Simson—No'm. T was digging bait. ‘Leacher—Digging bait! How terrible! (Sternly). Did your parents know that you were engaged in this sinful occupation? Willie— ‘ather did. . 'y “What did the children of Israel do after they came through the Red sea?" asked a New York Sunday school teacher. “Dried their clothes, I 'spose,” replied Tommy Amsterdam. . . Deacon Jones—Do §ou think it sinful to marry for money ! Parson Tium—It never occurred to me 80; on the contrary, sometimes I have thought the fee was too small. . FAIR P, ¥ FOR THE INDIAN AGENT, Owmana, May 25.—-To the Editor of Tum Bee: 1read in Tur Bee the other day some’ rather bitter comments upon the extreme sinfulness of the ludian agent brought out by a published interview with the governor of Colorado n regard to the Navajo troubles, The editorial utterances were correct, had the information of the governor been accu- rate. But the governor talked at random and shot his words a long way from the mark. The time has gone by when the In- dian agent can make money by surreptivious methods. He is watched more closoly and limited more unreasonably than any other public official, and even when he is a ver; skillful knave and a remarkably clever all round thief his stealings are insignificant. Inspectors, army ofiicers, educated Indians, disgruntled employes, Indian rights associa- tions and half a dozen other persons or asso- ciations have their eyes upon him and if he steps to one side of the path of rectitude somebody is sure to report him and an fn- vestigation, secret or open, is fairly certain to follow. I believe the average Indian agent of today does more work, assumes more risk and car- i heavier responsibility than any other official, and for a good deal 1 than half what his services are reasonably worth. The Indian agent of today is almost never discharged for appropriating public or tribat funds or property. He is not allowed to trade with the Indians, He is not even per- mitted to appoint the agency store kecper, and all his appointmeuts of assistants are ubject to the approval or rejection of the sioner of Indian affairs. Drunken- , disorderly conduct, abuse of authority incompetency are the decapitators today. ver politics ~ cuts a very small figure. The Indian agent who holds his job in these days is forced by the limitations of his office and his surroundings to be a very decent sort of person. Governor Wai cmarks, which are re- ed throughout the country to discredit a rdworking class of public servants, are entirely without foundation, so far as the ajo Indians are conc . They re- ve no rations and consequently tho agent cannot benefit by their fail to call for them. There are no furbe: any consequence in the Navajo country and the Navajos are not huuters, hence, tho story that the thrifty agzent buys up the skins of the ration-skippers is also badly undermin: The Navajo reservation con- tains over 8,000,000 acres. It is larger than any one of the New England states, except Maime. The agencey is in the southeast cors ner, and hence the agent would find it very difficult to chastise a buck in the farther- most corner of the reserve for wandering across the line. Finally the Indian agent on the Navajo reservation is an army officer and not a civilian. The Navajos are peace- ably disposed, and offorts of cowboys and others to incite them to insurrection have thus far failed. Theyown large herds of horses, cattle and sheep; they manufacture silver from their own mines into ornaments and they weave very handsome blankets, They are above the average in intelligence as well as thrift and industry aud if not driven to it by the mismanagement, oppress sion and cupidity of their white neighbors will get on very comfortably without taking producicg a Durango stam- Indian I think tho much and I want 1o he is charged with sins he does not and can« not commit and because overybody has ase sumed the right to call him hard names. T. W. BLACKBURN, e agent is abused tof take his part, becaus A coatimondi, a species of ant eater, which is owned by Josepl Wallace of Brunswick, not confine itself to destroying ants, but has committed several robberies of jewelry, money and other articles of value. All the articles, however, have been recovered inout of the way places, whera the animal had bidaen them. “MOTHER’S .. FRIEND” . is a scientifically prepared Liniment and harmless; every ingredient is of recqfniwd value and in constant nse by the medical profession. It short- ens Labor, Lessens Pain, Diminishes Danger to life of Mother and Child. Book “To Mothers” mailed free, con- taining valuable information and v%l:x‘.\:ary testimonials, by express, es prej on o ionLby express, chibrges prepaid, on receiph Wmfll;l“m C0., Atiaats, G2, Ga., does