The Washington Bee Newspaper, November 27, 1886, Page 1

The Washington Bee, = 5 cents per copy. V. you WASHINGTON, D. ©., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1886. a NO. 26. TEVER SUCH BARGAINS os gg Men’s Boys’ and Children’s Clothing yx are now offered at the GreatSample of Men,Boys’ and Children’s Clothing Opening at 924 7th St., N.W. Bet. 1 St. AND MAsSAcHUSETTS AVENUE. Over one thousand Men’s Boy’s and Children’s Suits and Overcoats t say and a Alvert than tuem superi coods. Many of them will be sold at less than the cost of the nothing about the making and the trimmings. Actual bar- ~ seldom come. A sample Suit worth $20 can be bought for $12. vcreoats very low, and Children and Boy’s Suits at little over half: ». Children’s Overcoats at less than you would have to pay for the ig. These goods are mostly in single Suits, only one. me made of the best English, French and American Goats sold for $15 now $g, Suits that sold for $12 to $20 at less two-thirds of the cost. There are no better goods made, many of i ‘or to the best ordered work. Men’s Suits start at $5 and go a kind, s. Prince to $16; Boys’ suits $5 to $10; Children’s Suits $2.50 to $6, and Over- ts for Men, Boys’ and Children from $2. 50 up. You can secure the vest bargains of formerly sold for $15, and $10, ages, 4 to 8. Just think of it. your life in any of these goods you can get fitted in. We ea lot of Children’s Suits—54 in all—the price of them was $6.50, $7, You can have your choice of this Jot for $3.90. Little Overcoats for halfprice. Men’s Pants 75c., ya 50, 82 up to $6, We have alot of Prince Albert Coats, Black Cloth $20, $22—your choice to day for $12. It would be impossible to enumerate the thousands of good things in Come and see for yourself at the great sale of sample Suits at 924 7th St. N. W., bet. I St. and ass. Ave. Look for thesigns. Sample Suits and all styles of men’s Boy’s,and Children’s Clothing. Salecommences TUESDAY MORN- Clothing for Men, Boys’ and Children. ING at 10 o’clock. JOHN F. ELLIS & CO, 937 PENN. AVENUE, WASHINGTON, D. C. EXTENSIVE DEALERS IN SONVId MUSIC AND MUSICAL MERCHANDISE OF EVERY DESCRIPTION Sole agents for the Weber Behring, Vose, Guild, Mason and Hamlin Behr Bros. PIANOS! MASON AND HAMLIN, SMITH AMERICAN. GEO. WOOD PACKARD, CHASE ORGANS! SNVOUO L HEILBRUN’S ONE PAIGE SHOE 4o2 7TH. STREET. Fine Calf Boots [2.50 GOOD WORK BOOTS $2 to $3. ELECTRIC SHOES $2.50. LADIES KID BUTTON $1. to $4. to 55.00. HAND SEWED GAITERS. $4.00, SEAMLESS SOLID GAITERS $2. MISSES KID & PEBLE BUTTON 97 Cts. CHILD'S SCHOOL SHOES 75 Cts. CONDITION OF THE COLOR. ED cage LOUISsI- ANA. HON. T. T. ALLAIN OF IBERVILLE PARISH, LA., MAKES A GREAT SPEECH. COLORED CREOLES AND THEIR RELIGION. THE UNWRITTEN HISTROY. MORE WHITE PUPIL THAN COLORED IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. HE GETS THE CONTRACT FOR BUILDING ST. GABRIEL AND ALOYSIA LEVEES. Hon, T. T. Allain of “Sweet Iberville, La.,is no doubt one of the best known and most enter- praising colored men in this coun- iry. His distinguished services rendered the state of Louisiana have been invaluable He is not only a national politician but he is a man of letters. He has been recently given the contract for building the St. Gabriel and Aloy- sia levees in the Parish of Iber- ville, the first on the left bank end the other on the right bank. The St. Gabriel levee measures 35,000 yards and has been award~ ed at 15 cents per yard. The Aloysia levee measures 15,000 yards at 14 cents, In a speech delivered by him in Louisiana, Sept. 5th, “Silver Dollar Day,” Mr. Allain after being introduced by Rev. Geo. W. Bothwell, said: I am to give just as I understand it to be, “The Condition of the Colored People of the State of Louisiana.” I must say that I feel highly the compliment you pay me, by this invitation, to ad- dress a cultivated assemblage of the citizens of New Orleans. On many occasions have I expressed to my constituents in “sweet Iber- ville,” the banner parish of the south. for liberality, prosperity and fair play—the depth to which my heart had been penetrated by their partiality, but this mark of your esteem to permit me by in- vitation to speak in the Temple of the Lord, so overwhelms me, that I can neither attempt to express my gratitude, nor desciibe the emotions that swell my bosom, when I contemplate the magnitude of the occasion—the subject, the place, and the distinguished audi- ence. I propose to “Hew to the line and let the chips tall where they muy.” ‘Lhe full assessment of the state of Louisiana, to day, is $215,000,000 and our people, the colored peo- ple psy taxes on $30,000,000 worth of assessed property in their own name, which is more—yes, a great deal more than the colored people of any of the states or ter- ritories in the United States can show, when it comes to property and representation. ; But upon this occasion, I wish RUBBER BOOTS & SHOES P.S. Look for the Old Lady in the Window. ve ue sane EXPLOSION [N CLOTHING Prices Knocked to Pieces. —Go tothe Great Executors Consignment of Clothing At. Ob F SIREET ON. W. Opposite United States Patent Office Me's Suits by the 1000. Did yon ever buy an all Wool suit for $3.90. Did you ever buy anall Wool Double Breasted Suit for $5.60. Your] [ would like the historians and 2.00. Elegant Dress Suits at $6.40, Boys’ Suits from 12 to 17 years 2.65, 2.75 and 3 dollars. DO YOU KNOW WHAT AN EXECUTORS SALE IS? We Wii rex, You A big firm breaks up on account of the Death of one ol the partners, and to settle the estate the above sale is ordered. The Stock is consigned to leading clothiers in different cities and sold re- cardless of cost or manufacture, in order to make a settlement with the Tehaluing partners. THIS WILL LAST FOR 15 to 20 DAYS only. 816 FE Street, n: w, Opposite United States Patent Office,) Between Sth and 9th Sts. ROX, terrane rt nh ne 7 > eer ate Ant hs Soprano AES 921492 TH STREETL r Cas, ®RIG es to make it plain, in order that the historians of the country, who are preparing facts to be handed down to poster*ty, will, when speaking of the colored people of Louisiana, be able to say in the language of Othello, “Nothing extenuate, nor ought set down in malice;” “But set you down this,” Just as we were in 1863, and the happy pros gress that we have made siuce and up to the ist of September, 1886, in property, education and refine- ment. of a thonsand pair of men’s pants at 65c., 75c., $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 newspaper men of the country to 7.50, 7.80, 8.40, and 9 dollars. say, that the 331,726 emancipated freedmen of Louisiana, had in 1863, the immediate iufiuence and good example of 18,647 free col- ored people, who, most of them, were educated in Europe, with ali the advantages of civilization, mod- rality and refinement. Many of our free colored citi- zens were wealthy in 1863, and it must be recorded that many of the freedmen element, have be- come well educated, and a respec- table number of them are some} what well to do in this world’s goods since 1863. Hon. Oscar Arroyo, our secre- tary of s'ate, in his letter to Gov. 8. C. McEnery, and the legisla- ture for the session of 1886, sayr, that the colored population of the state of Louisiana in 1869, was as follows: Free colored people 18, 547;" slaves, 331,726. Therefore when Abraham Lincoln, the Christian and humanitarian, sign- ed the immortal declarattion of EMANCIPATION, on the Ist day of January 1863, there was a total colored popula- tion in Louisiana of 350,378 per- sons; and from 1863 to the report of the last census, as published by our secretary of state, the colored population of Louisiana has be-~ come 485,200, which is an increase since the emancipation of 134,627 persons in 17 years. This show- ing is a fraction less than 8,000 per annum. , This wonderful accession of our people, will forever remain and} prove to avery great extent, the popularity shown by the kind treatment received at the hands of our white fellow citizens in southern Louisiana, extended to our peopte and to people of other states and territories of the union. THE INCREASE. Because the inflow of colored peo- ple into Louisiana, in 17 years has been very great iudeed, as you will notice, we calculate from 1863 to the adoption of the census of 1880. But above all the poiat that I would like to make plain in the pages of American history is this, that four fifths of the 18, 647 free colored people of Louisi- ana in 1868, who were of age when freedom came, were skilled artisans, mechanics, sugar-makers, carpenters, bricklayers, vigar-ma- kers, painters, musicians, and the best of engineers, and many of them, men and women of which make people great the world over. These people are known and called acoording to custom in tiis state, «The Colored Creoles of Louisi- ana,” and are Catholics by relig- ion. They have not in any way deteriorated in morality, education wealth, religion nor in numbers up to this day. And it is a well known fact, but unwritten in the history and newspapers ot the country, that among the 331,726 people who were slaves in Louisi- ana, when freedom came, that a very large number of them were trained before the war by their masters, as a matter of business and economy, and therefore there were to be found among the emancipated slaves, managers of sugar, rice and cotton plantations; and more than the number of tree colored persons in 1863, were en- gineers, blacksmiths, bricklayers, carpenters, painters and cigar-ma- kers. It was the rule and custom duriug the days of slavery, for the planters and business men, who owned slaves, in Louisiana to have one or more of their slaves well taught and trained in all the industrial arts, in order to save and to make money. I challenge any One to contradict the truth of this assertion, when I say that the ex-free colored creoles, just as I have stated, and the cultivated and trained ex-slaves, as 1 have euumerated them in this address, are the true representatives ot the colored people of Louisiana, and this fact should be written in the pages of history. CONDITION OF THE COLORED PEOPLE. When we considering the “Con- dition of the colored people of the state of Louisiana,” one might ask on the point of education among the masses: “What show- ing can the colored people iu your state make?” I shail endeavor to speak of us just as we are, and to borrow the language of Burns: “Would to God the gift would gi’ us to see ourselves as others see us.” We have in this state, according to the report of the state superintendent of public ed- ucation, Hon. Warren Easton, as submitted to the General Assem- bly, at Baton Rouge. ae White pupils enrolled for 1885: 49,931, including New Orleans; colored pupils enrolled for 1885: 40,900, including New Orleans. The report shows 9,022 more white pupils than colored in the public schools of the state. We have in all white and colored public schools, 1,689; 1,095 for the whites and 594 for the colored children. | There are in the 57 parishes outside | ot New Orleans; 1,635 public! schools, Fcr the whites 1,053, | and for the colored children 582. we are bad off in Louisiana, and New Orleans makes the shameful showing of 54 public schools; 42 for the whites, and only 12 public schools for colored children. It may not cound mel- odious to many of our fastidious citizens, but I must say that the colored people of New Orleans, with a reported population accord- ing to the last ceneus of the United States, of 57,761, that for them to show on enrollment a total public school attendance of only 4,752, is not satisfactory to me, and I therefore do not upon this particu- lar mattgmeompliment’ the school authorities of the great and liberal city of New Orleans, where the white people are more generous and open hearted, with their money than any other class ot people upon the map of theworld. In the 57 parishes outside of New Orleans, we have according to su- perintendent Euston’s report for 1885, 36,157 colored pupils on en~ rollment in the country parishes of the state, out of a total colored school population as reported in the census of 1880, of 146,632. We make the calculation accord- ing to the facts presented to us, because the State Superintendent of public education, does not in his report give the full number of children between the ages of 6 to 18 years for white and colored schools in the state of Louisiana. We have a total school population in our state, accordiug to the census of the United States of 291,049. White children, 139,665; evlored children 151,384. The educational census of the United States shows 11,719 more colored children in Louisiana than white. Superintendent Easton in his report gives fur the state, 1,689 public schools; 1,095 white and and 594 colored. Hdueational re- ports of the country give Louisi ana 11,719 more colored children thau whiie, and on examination of the report of our state superin- tendent of education, you will find that there are 501 more white public schools in our state than colored. Mr. Allain asserted, not withstanding, Mr. Easton’s ad- ministration bad done more than his predecessors when it comes to the higher education of the color~ ed people. * may understand them perfectly, they say, “Niggers are notallowed to have reserved seats down stairs at the Bijou theater, we only ad- mit white people down stairs.” The above tells us that the race is the same everywhere. Wherever the number of the colored popu- lation in the north is found lar, enough to demand recognition the prejudice of the whites in that community asserts itself. The prejudice of the whites form our race distinction in every part of the American Union. Itis not so much complexion with them as it is the race; but. the question of complexion of that portion which claims that in 50 years a race of about 9,000,000 people with not more than 500,000 mulattoes and quadroons together, will have died, as they expressively hope, through loose living, filth and adultery by amalgamation with the whites, which is virtually ad- mitting the facts of the imputed charges made from time to time by the whites, that as a race we are unfit for social equality in that our morals can by them be so truthfully called in question. Let us therefore consent to reverse the idea of our condition arising from 50 years of changes and say that in 50 years time, there will not be such a thing as a black person, a mulatto nor a quadroon known; in that that education in general, and respectability in particular will have broken the backbone of of immorality and amalgamation with the whites by whom we are so frequently slandered and so unrighteously hated. For if edu- cation is of any possible use, it is to improve a people, a community and the world. It both informs one of dangers, and reforms him from crimes, Theretore it will always keep respectable colored citizens from amalgamation with mean white people, and the good will keep themselves away. The Rev. Dr, Laws will visit the cities of Pittsburg and Wash- ington, Pa., within the month of December. And besides doing general church work he will lec- ture upon our relation. In fifteen years Washington has grown in wealth from $74,957, 765, as follows: Washington, $62, 421,331; Georgetown, $6,036,434; the county- $6,500,000, to $108, 302,101, as follows: Washington, $96,388,486; Georgetown, $4,741, 540; the county, 7,172,075; and the population from 141,000 to 205,000, an increase of 64,000 in population and of $33,344,336, in wealth. * * * « In conclusion I wish to say that the time will pever come when the Negroes ot the south will cease to hold in grateful remem- brance the kind humanitarians of New England whoare now located in every state of the south as mis sionaries to teach our people, and thereby make them good citizens of the country. When the petty revolutions of society and the bloody conflicts of the battle field are forgotten the beneficiaries of Straight University, supported by the ‘American Missionary As- sociation;” the beneficiaries of New Orleans University, support- ed by the Methodist Freedman’s Aid Society and otiera will build mouuments after monuments all over the “sunny south” which will stand uushaken and untarnished transmitting to all in after times, the record of their virtues and achievements. In reading the works of Samuel Smiles, you will find the following: “When Louis XIV asked Colbert how it wus that in ruling so great and fopu- lous a country as France, be had been unable to conquer so small a country as Holland? The min- ister replied: ‘Because since the greatness of a country does not depend upon the exteni of its ter- ritory, but on the character of its people. It is because of the in- dustry, the frugality and the en- ergy of the Dutch that your maj- esty bas found them so difficult to overcome.” The implied slander imputed to, and heaped upon our members of Congress, by the officers of the Met:opolitan Police, for which these officers are likely to be sus- peuded does not speak well for men who are the lawful conserva- turs of the peace. It is said that up in one town- ship the three assessors and clerk vf election had to make their mark to the certificate instead of writing their names; the inquiry followed, how did Maine stand on the Blair Educational Bill? FAS LETT TEIT CHARLESION EARTHQUAKE. There will be an entertainment given at the Asbury M. E. church Monday evening, Nov. 29 by Mr. H. A. Monroe, for the benefit of the parsonage fund. It will be a pan- oramic exhibit of this great earth- quake at Cherleston and Summer- ville, S.C. Everybody should go. Admission - - - - * - 25cts., Children - - - - - - - 15 cts. Henry Brooks, President ; Thom- as Smallwood, Secretary: Mrs. Mary Diggs, Treas’r of the Parson- age Fund. ‘Tae GARRISON HOTEL. —o 1 a> +> GENERAL ITEMS. 342 PENN. AVE. n. w., Wash’a D.C, BOADING ¢ LODGING, There are persons who think that every community of the north ace rd equal privileges to its citizens without regard to their complexion- The B jou theater, Pittsburg, Pa, refuses tickets of admission to the down stairs floor Everytuine First Crass. Meals at all Hours. Ladies and Gents Dining Room, BILLIARDS & POOL. When it comes_to public schools Fred A. Dyson, Proprietor. to culered citizens, and that you 77 a _ moore SE nes a ‘