The Washington Bee Newspaper, December 1, 1888, Page 1

Terms. $2.00 Per year in Advance. vol. VIL ROBINS’ LAMENT. Why should 1 tune my harp and ” ging? Why Jet but notes of sorrow ring? Since I have known this mournful thing, My beart’s like lead : » me the harp of sorrow bring, or Grover’s dead. Dead! Alas! his champion of democracy ? Upon the air I hear the cry, Alas Free‘Lrade. Which tells most mournfully to me That Grover’s dead. Dead ! Alas! why did he dare rhe armor of Free-Trade to wear? didu’t some angel cry “take care You'll lose your head !" justead of now in deep dispair Lament him the dead? {was but these witty Englishmen, bave belped him cht ‘gainst Ben, Oo see they couldn’t then i their aid, sing this mournfal ut he was dead. yards, and join me, of each come, My song d view the cold, cold Where be is laid : vd mourn for the by-gone days, For Giover’s dead! Southern bardies! join and sing ; This lament o'er the sea-coast ring; ll through the Soutbern States go bring Tears they MIGHT sbed. Why shouldu’t they? their all, their king : Lies cold and dead ! A'l through the streets of Wasb- ington Sad men are walking up and down, And even now dim shines the sun : All earth seems shade. Alas! poor Grover’s race is run For he is dead. The broad Potomac passing by Returns them echoed cry for cry. Alas! short lived democracy, Can no more lead! Cold Death the news has brought to me That Grover’s dead, lo-day whilst walking in a lane little lad ’'d soon o’er ta’ en, Who cried it seems as if in pain: “My child,” I said, “Yourself for deeper sorrow train : KNOW Grover’s dead !” “Why deeply shed these briny tears 7” He turned to me as half in fears: “QO, sir,” he said, “for pee con three long I've laughed and played ; But now to laugh and play who carer Since WE is dead!” I passed him on in sadness by And wiped a tear drop from my eye | gave him up to agony ; _ My grief displayed : Le bardies great, come do as I For Grover’s dead. Naught but the solitary ghost Now stands to head the fallen s host ; “pon the ground I view the post Of whipped Free-Trade. The fallen army cries “we're lost or Grover,s dead !” Sadly the distant church bells toll © knell for his departed soul ; vho will with his staff condole; who will take lead? Come ye who'll take the mourners vole, ‘Aud ery he’s dead. Come gather slowly here around lhiscold, this grand, imposing mound sadly gaze without a sound i where he’s laid : vearts alone to sorrow bound, uv he is dead, And y } arewe 1! O Grover, e’er farewell ! ( tag champion here to _— Uwe; , Well ‘ay you where you MIGET excel Au unsound bead ; ) your brother Statesmen tell That you are dead ! SiGHING ROBIN. And you waut good and cheap job we call at the Bee office 1109 Why did he die,— 4 | REV. LAWS ON THE LEAD- ERS. | HE DECLARES THEM TO BE WEAK. A | CAUSTIC LETTER, | Nov. 23d, 1888. | To the Washington Bez: After reading most carefully jand with interest, the reported | proceedings of the Bethel Liter- ary, in the columns of the evening | Star of this city, and seeing how | very particular the Star men are | to veport the mean recitals of any incidents ia the lives of colored citizens, such as their weakness | brought out on Tues“ay evening, | Nov. 20th. Iam now prepared |to admit that the leading colored }men of our social circle in this jeity are as weak as the mean white men are wicked. | It must be a fact that these col- |ored men, theinselves, live under |the verdict of their own con- | science, the criminals of these ac- ' cusations made by the whites, or | else they prove the facts conclu- | sively that their only knowledge | of the colored race is the repeated injurious accusations of white newspaper men, who live largely by the prejudice of their own race for doing just that kind of work. The acceptance of mere alleged statements of white people, con- cerning the criminal and immoral coadition of the colored, as real facts, will only prove a greater levidence of our weaknese, for, | while it seems that we make up all conclusions of ourselves from the verdict of the courts and mere | alleged accusations of the newspa- pers, yet we should remember that it is as easy to convict a col- | ored citizen in this country as it | is hard to convict a white one. The saddest intelligence from the chamber or darkness by white people against the colored, is historical information for the colored men in discassion; and their mere alleged facts of our criminal and immoral condition and unfitness for society, is our irresistable law. ‘They never give us any former conditiun with our present; but are always pleased to recite the crimes of our meanest | people with the progress of the | best. Wow, the Bethel Literary should look at the case wisely and assist the churches to improve us, and not the white newspaper men and other officials to ruin us. If Mr. J. M, Ricks was correct- ly reported by the Star reporter in the issue of the 21st of Nov., then he is asked to retract his |remarks made on that occasion, | or else that is another very strong evidence that he is as unworthy of the patronage of the colored people, as a lawyer, as he is irre- | sponsible as a defender of their |morals, But let us not stop long- ler bere, for this is only colored peoples’ weakness controlled by | white peoples wickedness; let us |go farther on from a national | standpeint, in pursuit of race pro- tection and party recognition. | Having spoken in my last week’s | letter of our national recegnition by the Administration, let us mention some of our !ocal inter ests which should deeply cancern each citizen of the District and | the country at large, because upon this center of our national gov~ ernment all eyes from every | section of this country and Europe |are turned, and whatever is per- | mitted here is taken for law else- | where. And it must be admitted | and acknowledged that the politi- |eal liberties of the culored citi- zens in the South were never so | barshly assau.ted there until they | were destroyed here. Let us, iv | the great march to political vic- \tory, demand more justice than | mercy, and let us, in the absence of suffrage, usk the appointment of either the Hon. J. H. Smytae |or Col. M.M Holland to be one of our District Commissioners; J. | W. Cromwell or Fredrick Doug- | lass, jr., to be District Marshall; | W. Culvin Chase as Recorder of | Deeds and the reappointment of | Hon. John F. Cook as Collector | of Taxes, or, if there be any ob- jection tohim by reason of the long term of years, then let Capt. 0.8. B: Wall have the place; give Col, Perry H. Carson the Superintendency of the Poor, and let us cease to quarrel among our- selves and, ia God’s name for he good of the people of this land, let there be more prudence and man- ly courage among us and less Opposition to each other. Let us now demand a redress for the injury that we sustained by the abolition of suffrage in the District by our own party, that the whites might rule by the agency of three commissioners rather than by the dictation of the colored ballot. I have never accepted the statement as any part of the truth that suffrage was taken from the District on account of aay disor- der of the colored citizens, and deny most positively and decidedly that it was taken away for anything other than to please the whites, who, alone have enjoyed it. Respectfnily, yours, R.8. Laws, 316 H street 8. w. LOST HIS HEADIN DREAM LAND. A prominent Worcester business man passed through au experience in dreamland a few nights ago that is puzzling the local pyscho- ogists and will add interesting data for the society for psycival research. He had an idea he ought to shave and proceeded to do 80. Just before he began work it oc curred to him that it would be the exsiest thing in the world to take off his head, and, placing it on the table, facilitate matters. It seemed in the dream that this was allowa ble for a certain number of min- utes without endangering life. So he hung up his watch to count the minutes, The operation continued till some errand called the man across the room, and he returned to find his head missing. He looked at the watch and found the time was near when he must have his head in its proper place if he cared to keep it. Then he “lost his ”head in two ways, and rushed frantically about the room looking in every available place. Just as the minute hand was about to cross the fatal point the Worcester man woke, felt for his head, and was relieved to find it there. —Spring- field Republican, oo WAGES IN THE SOUTH. Georgia cotton pickers are paid forty cents a day. Jacksonville cigarmakers make ¢18 and upwards a week. Cedar loggers on the Flordia gulf coast usually command $2 a day. Field hands in Mississippi receive $10 per month and board. Louisiana sugar planters pay their men from $10 to $20 per month. Mica miners and “trimmers” in North Carolina average less than $1a day. Girls employed to strip tobacco in Key West factories earn $6 to $9 per week. Some girls employed in the cot- ton factories of Macon, Ga., earn as high as $9 per week. Those who work on South Caro- lina plantations, labor all the year for, in many cases, less than $100. The men who do the “chipping” on Georgia turpentine farms receive $1 per day; “dippers” get twenty- five cents more. Florida orange growers are offer- ing $2 per day for hands to pick and pack the fruit crop of the state, shipments of which commenced the 1st of November. Farm hands are so very scarce in some sections of Alabama, that the women and little children have been compelled to go to the fields to assist the farmers in gathering their crops. And as high as $1 per hundred is being, in some cases, paid co‘ton pickers. The more than 300 hands in the employ of the Disston Drainage Company, on their big dredges in the Everglades, and engaged deep- ening the streamsintersectiag Lake Okeechobee, are paid $30 “and + ! found.” ‘And found” in plain En- glish, means, in this case, fed upon | the best the land and markets af-| ford, prepared in elegant style. Tariff League Bulletin. THEY SAY No man is happy when he is broke A full pocket makes a proud man. Positions will not change a man who has been use to them, Wade Hampton, was not much of a patriot in the Hamburg to do, District men for District offices Will be President Harrisons policy. Trotter must trot. Republicans senators and repre- sentatives did not ask any favors from this administration. Democratic senators and repre- senatatives will no doubt follow suit. The republican administration will follow the same civil service reform policy as the democratic ad- ministrations did. Democrats to sneceed republi- cans, Republicans must necessarily follow suit. There is cold comfort in the editorial of the ‘‘Indianopolis Journal for democrats. If there can be any comfort glean- ed from what the editor said, the democrats are welcome to it. Offensive negro democrats must give way to negro republicans. Negro republicans were so in- formed before the election of Mr. Cleveland, that negro republicans would have no quarters. ie Lo the victors belong the spoil,” is the Jacksonion policy and has ever since been inheritable. _ This was purely a republican victory and don’t you for get it. The negro will take nomore prom- ises, B. K. Bruce, or J, M. Langston, should go in the cabinet. The Blaine Invincible is a strong organization. Never condemn a man until he is proven guilty. Never dislike a man because oth- ers do. All men cannot be alike. Be agreeable to all who disagree with you. Look out for the woman Jour- nals. The people are on the side of right when they oppose the aboli- tion of the office of colored super- intendent. There is a social school clique in this city that must be abandoned. : Life is but adream. Things in life are but games of chance. “Nothing is certain, nntil it is made certain.” The John Sherman, club is booming. Let all color line in the inau- guration be eleminated. A little more color will haye good effect. Genl. Harrison, will do the square thing when he comes in. Negro republicans are now be- ing discharged. Fred. Douglass, was insulted out west. The next administration will put a veto on ill-treatment towards ne- groes. Everything conductive to the bet- ter condition of the baby is sure to attract attention, and hence it is that Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup is be- coming more and more appreciated as its wonderful influence in subdu- ing the diseases of babyhood be- | comes recognized. 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