The Washington Bee Newspaper, March 9, 1889, Page 1

Terms. $2.00 Per year in Advance, VIL. Vi ON. RE ©s f leadership is one ps taken up much 2 press nen as iscussed by them. and = popalarity it of the mysteries as eit its fe 4 e question w definitions si- and e bist It in- What stories s broad seuse e fact of leading, a or may not be ability. In the colored people a leader, it is tar a colored that there 2ud, a As the ple, lowing. reg ader musi ente i perfect concep tiot to which the Ne g He must be ac he many sides of e. He mast kaow ts e poiuts and must ki of the law as it re- lat I pies. His poli- ¢ e ace be aud. terest of the those of a wh ist min be representa tive and tie em- bod } ir will. He mits a following, a real live leg « following composing the wity of the people. This following INust represent a Common idea which a clsss can unite. The iestion of leadership is a broad one. Where does it begin and where end? Does it involve the political or the moral or the edlucatioaal? Or does it take in everything? af this something means everything are these some- presentable? Besides the e position of the leader mast i. Where must he re- ith, nd ofa he So Jast or West? district must be wealthy or poor? Must he b man of the schoo r mast he be self-made? Mast he ocrat, republican | or ist he be an Oflies se solder of office? Must r or doctor or rs) ebe aplain me sca business 1t this leader estion arises produced ? er, assan- Kt ound? This i guestion of naturally as ever hada now? Did y»? Ifso how to what extent elit to said con- e did not prove a : It he did, to what a ssuming that we had a Jeadk ‘re is he now? What has he heen doing during these k and gloomy years? ofiice daring that pe- ie been log-rolling for ng that time in order pe in case of 4t constitution- s he mooted, what se- rages has he opposed ? r 2a8 he as: xtent has he i race 01 white map inst him. Has Mis 4 ¢ to the people ou he s nage i cooperation? Has te « lienabie righ of henabie right t which some have legis- aled to the pop- touching proserip es nee public \ nd pab- 1 propose er to these in- ¥ Gesire to express e have never bad seuse, that is time and that proper ie is defined and any of the meim- we bave » have done ng of the low assiduously ourse but p as CMSIONS to leat : vey leaders by vi it chi ice of the popular Where there have been bo need of 4 oe es 5 cents per copy. WASHINGTON, D. ©. , SATURDAY, MARCI, 1889. No, 41. : nee | A : i these pretensions are cases in| manhood or womanhood was denied which there was no claim to the| the slave, and the influence which title but a cold unwarrantable as-| conspire to destroy individuality BY | sumption based in self-conceit and | were fostered by the whites then prosecuted 1 sinister motives. | besent with their awful consequen- The idea of self constituted lead-| ces among them. Whether the ership is one which seems to be | last traces of African individuality | | taking a most dangerous hold on | was destroyed in the vortex of con- the minds of some of cur promi- spiring tendencies it is difficult to nent colored men. They seem to | say Surely when- the Negro be spurting about in a most figity | emerged from slavery he brought manner now at this and then at/ bat little sin in common save the | that attempt at political diploma. | stripes of brutality together with cy. Today they are on the ros-|ignorance and poverty. Such a trom in defense of those high prin-| condition was the logical conse- ciples which lie at the bottom of | qience ot slavery—a life of intense | the republican party, civil and po- | misery and deprivation; a standing litical equality of rights—tomorrow | monument to the eupidity and _ty- they assume a middie ground and | rannical apirit of past times. To the next day they contend that it | day we are in a condition to appre- is the duty of tne colored people | ciate the forces which have operat- to ignore both their former po-/|ed against the liberty and equality sitions and toadopt one which is/|of our people. By the few lessons tic to them ; to become a! we have learned while in the en- of power—a_ corporate | joyment of a new estate, we can some conception of the possi- to the fluctuations common to all | bilities which lie before us and the marketable commodities. And if | only means by which they may be positive alliance become necessary | realized. they would have the negro join the; We occupy a peculiar place in demveratic party, that historic en- | the busy Americen body politic. We emy of Jiberty and good govern-/are included in the basis of ment, and (o abide our time among | representation; we are taxed them. They have been drifting be |and made to conform to all the tween todyism and independence |rules and regulations governing without avy apparent aim or end | society, but we have no real rep except their own personal aggran- | resentative force and _ practically | dizement. They were forgetful of | nothing to say with regard to tax the fact that the colored man has | ation. Our votes are not counted a history unwritten thoagh it be | and our lives and property are sub- upon wh to claim equal and ex- | ject to the fiendish caprice of law- act justice; that it became neces sness and crime. balance body to be bought and sold, pliable | fo The prejudice sary to repeat some portions of it | which operateagainst us are fed in order that the whites may know | by a vicious sentiment which fay- that it is not forgotten by us; that | ors non interference with state sov- o has for centuries bourn | ereiguty even when the assertion of the neg the heat and burden of the day;/such presumed sovereignty over- been toiling incessantly and with-| rides the power and authority of out compensation to furnish proofs | the federal government—a_senti- otthe stability of the American | ment which permits state authority institution ; that they have by their | to interfere in federal as well as in labor caused the South to bloom | state elections. The propagalin of with the rich products of busban-| this sentiment has been the result dry, and the North to ring with | of the inadaquacy of the adminis. the noisy hum of presperity ; that | trative policies of presidents. They in ali the wars in which this coan- | have been too cowardly, too pon- try has been engaged, the colored | dering and regardless of the rights man was found battling for an in-| and liberties of the people as a dependence which he did not feel | whole. and for the security of liberties! The disposition on the part of which were denied him; that the | the whites of the north to absolate- colored man has always been true |ly ignore the national and consti- to his tasks—a life of self sacrifice | tutional rights of the colored peo- and devotion to friends and du-| ple in that section is producing an ty- alarming effect upon the people “This class of some individuals | throughout the north. The ab- are constantly insisting epon their | sence of republican forms of gov- greatness when they do not possess | ernment in those states where the even the elements caleulated to | colored people are in the majority form the basis of ordinary man-/|is stimulating inquiry into the hood. These would-be great peo- | causes which have brought it about. ple are constantly in the way.| At the north a condition of things When those who possess proper | cannot be readily corceived under elements are marching forward | which a state may exist intact unostentatiously and attacking the | while violating the essential prin- strongholds of error, these would-| ciples upon which a state should be great people are tugging at|act. There, obedience to the pop- their beals in order that they may | ular will results as a matter of also appear great, or are snapping | course from the very theme of gov- and growling and snarling becanse | ernment, the wisdom of which is they cannot take the lead. If a! confirmed by practice and endorsed convention is to meet and they are| by the most enlightened states. not named among the great lights, | Under it the states at the north there to display their witskers, | have grown and prospered, law their grey hair, bald heads or long | reigns and peace is queen ; the dig- ears, these pigmias set up a howl | nity ot labor is conceded and the and make the air lurid with de-| component parts of the body pol- nanciations and promiscuous sul-|itie are kept in motion and har- phurous yaporings. They fairly | mony by a fixed sentiment in favor froth at the mouth and declare | of the will ot the majority. At that the world is all upside down | the south it is different. The gov and themselves alone on top in- | ernment of the state rests upon the: stead of the bottom. This class | the theory that the majority of a; are brawl-breaders and sore-heads | certain class of citizens constitutes and can be of no permanent good | the popular will. Now, instead of to the race. This question of lead-| insisting upon some mysterious ership is purely a question as to | leadership, some unaccountable position in line. If the truly great | panacea for the evils which we now are now in the rear, it wont be jong | Suffer, why not look at the history before they will be called to the | of the development of peoples and front. The brave private will al-| fiom exemples of progress and Ways supercede the cowardly cap | means advaneement found there tain if he will o wait long | select the means of our own devel- enough to give the captain time to | opment? show his inabil aud the deed Why expect any one man or set will justify the theme thatin anion | of men to point outthe way when there is strength and in dessention | that way is open to the intelligent there can be nothing bat retrogres-| of our people and open the history sion, broken vows or broken bones. | of human progress? In this light The causes of our present position | I regard the propriety of turning are well known. The means eal- | our attention to industrial parsuits culated to modify or elevate that | cannot be over estimated. It is condition are not obseare or oceult | the absence of wealth, the want of that a } yhenomenal personage is) acquaintance with the diversified necessary to delve into the hidden | industries ot this country, our fail- mysteries of development. The ure to appreciate the true relations remedy is plain and the ovly ques- of capital to labor and our inability is will we appreciate aud act | to cope succ sfully with our white aceording!y? For upwards of two brothers in skilled labor Which is hundred years the colored people | one of the secrets of our failure to most bitter hatred aud tyranny. oguition. The ballot of the freed- | No task was too laborious, no ten- man is excepted to not because 1t} | dency was too humiliating for the is not the legitimate incident to | slave. A life of unequaled toil lay | citizenship—it is the very charac: | ° | before him, a past black with the | teristic of citizenship—but cecause | | shameless atrocities of a hard and it does not represent a sufficient | wicked master. Everything essen-| property of material interest to tialto the make up of a proper| command respect. | this exception to our suffrage is | nant race to insist that our suffrage bave been made the objects of the | Secure full social and pelitical rec- | | honest elections. right or not, or even expedient is not a question with us inasmuch as it is the disposition. of the domi- = ie Dv Se CONTINUED AT THE e ’ THE GREAT shall represent some permanent and common interest. The theory aud practise of taxation without representation is wrong in principle and should not be tolorated, but the theory of representation with- out the subject of taxation might be equally objectionable. Disguise it as we may the fact remains that we may not hope to be recognized as eqaals in the vast and busy American body politic until we ac- cumulate wealth or at least evince that interest in the material de- velopment of our people and a warm solicitude for the adoption of such mediums as through which labor may secure happiness and prosperity. It is the duty of the colored people to turn their attention to- ward material development, to let polities be the incedent to and not tue objeet of their citizenship and when called upon to exercise their suffrage to do so with special refer- erence to sound moral principles and on the side of material advance- ment. Of course this involves popular education asa meansof appreciation and prosecuting schemes and systems by whicb the accummulation of wealth is made BOSION SHOE 912 SEVENTH STREET NORTHWEST. ee Qereeeeeee Ladies $4 Best Dongola Button Handsewed Common Senge or Opera Toe, now go at $3.15 J. and T. Cousins’ best quality Dongola, Opera, or Common Sete also Patent Leather Tips formerly sold at $4 now go at $3.25. Our own make Ladies Best Quality Dongola Button, all sba always $4.50 Shoe, now go at $3.50. ie STRICTLY HAND-MADE. Ladies’ Best Quality Hand-Made Shoes, in Opera and Cummon possible. It also involves whole- | genge, heavy or Light weight soles, always $4, now closing them out some cooperation as a means of 2 98 All hi < & welding individual powers. into at $2.98. plete pats. one grand and _ profitable force. This question of material prosperi- ty also involve the sources of waste question relating to to the bung- hole and the spigot, It involves temperance which is now becoming a matter of double importance. Hitherto the question has assumed no greater importance than to call forth sentimental eballition. The object to the consumption of liqaor has been laid in moral tonsidera- tions merely and has been urged by moralists and divines. But to be fally considered this question must address itself to the economi- cal interest of men as well as to considerations of mere morality. It must be made perfectly plain that the consumption of liquor will in- crease the taxes and endanger the material prosperity of the people. In short it must be considered with reference to the economic policy of the country. The expense of intem- perance, as well as its horrors are being felt and the pauperization of our working classes aud the crime and misery which are its natural consequences ; are warnings which the press cannot pass nuheeded. Our condition demands not somuch aleader as it doesa more widespread manifestation of moral heroism and physical courrge. It demands that a man- ly defense be made against the encroachments of unauthorized power, greed and vice. It de- mands that when our homes are invaded the shot gun shall be the direct resort in their protec- tion; when our rights are invad- ed the navy-six shall play as im- portant part in their just arbitra- ment as it does in their denial; that when our property is de- stroyed that the torch of retalia- tion shall be lighted and applied until, devastation, destruction, blood, tears, misery and starva- tion shall teach our white op- pressors that the colored man whose heaven erected face the smiles of love adorn can and will fight and die as will a submit and suffer and is being taught to assert his rights by the deriful instruments of revenge. Our condition suggests the further adherence to the republican par- ty as alever toward our elevation. The colored man finds the repub- lican party still holding out its arms toembrace him as a man and a brother. Its principles and its practices proclaim and exe- cute in sofar asit is possible, the theory of the equality of citizenship. It builds our school houses, it stimulales in us a de- sire to develop all the noble in- stincts of our nature. Where- ever it maintains power, the col- ored man is protected against insult in a moral sense as well as against the encroachments which his enemies are endeavoring to practice in apolitical way. That party favors the~ purification of politics, a reform of the civil ser- vice, a system of protection to American industries and Amer- ican labor. It declares opposi- tion to Bourbonism and its nefa- rious practices for the defeat of Ladies’ French Tanned Dongola, in Common Sense and Opera Toes, always $3.25, now go at $2.50. J. and T. Cousiu’s Make, Best Quality $3 Shoe, now go at $2.25. All shapes. Same make. J. and T. Cousin’s Spring heels. 14 (Misses), now go at $1.75 ; elsewhere atj$2.25. Our $2.50 , $2, and 1.50 Shoes are reduced 26 per cent. 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