The Washington Bee Newspaper, October 17, 1891, Page 1

ate : Che Gashington Bee. Terms. $1.60 Per year in Advance. VoL. X feo ee THEY SAY Commissioner Rossel! will attend ) bis business. Commissioners. Douglass Ross will not have ‘other people nterfering with their business. The Republican party ip pistriet of Colambia will be strong: from thie city. Perry Carson ought to follow suit, before be is weighed in the balances and found wanting. “A beep sees but a few knows,” Marcellus West the young Republican wheel- are the remarks of horse. The people are determined to have primary elections. There will be a representative city Republican in this shortly. party Count your gains and losses af- ter November, 19th. Do you catch on! A silent man must be watched. A talkative man is barmless. The East will come solid. The people will be satisfied with fair elections. Men who are so strong should leave their claims with the people. The people ought to decide al questions. Ifthe world wasallof one mind there would be trouble in the land. You should have heard the great Douglass. Frederick Douglass the great. Now is the time for Douglass speak out. He is not ready to be retired yet. There should be more Doug. lasses among us. He is the Giadstone of America. He was greeted with a tremend ous applause Tuesday night. Read the Br if you want a live paper. Be kind to those who are hoves and trae. Subscribe for the Bze. Watch the man who claims to manifest 80 much interest in you The people in the East are in favor of primary elections. The South will come solid for Harrison. Gen. Nettleton is a quiet man. He is a good reader of human nature, A. St. A. Smith has knokced out the liar who attempted to injure him. The Commissionersdid not believ the liars. Lieut. Arnold has given his ene- mies the ticket of leave men. The Mogul will not be able to run the sweeping department in the interest of his beelers. Read the “sign of the times.” Something may be learned. Be carefui how you talk. INTERVIEW OF A PROMINENT ATTORNEY AT LAW AT NEW ORLEANS, LA. Cincinnati Ohio American.) Mr. Vance, what impression have you formed of the condition of the Negro during your trip through the North and East? “My impressions have been most favorable, The Negroes in thi Sections that I have visited, show themselves to be a thrifty, moving, ‘ectual factor in ths conutry’s In New York and growth. on Iwas agreeably surprise and the Andy Gleason bas withdrawn rom the contest as a delegate to lem, avenues opened up to him nest trade, especially +o among 5 cents per copy. , WASHINGTON, D. 0., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1891. Suites, only ashort time ago un- known to them, and the growing virtue of husbanding their resor- ces, saving always a little from what they earn, and the’ conven- iencies and opportunities permit- tedthem and their children in all that tends to make a people happy and great.” Do you think the Negro is ad- vancing? “Why he is moving at a wonderfal speed. He is making his mark in every sphere. All he has todo is to keep onin theever tender of bis way, and add to college, ora- tors, doctors, ministers and law- yers, skilled men and women in ag ricultural pursuits, artisans at the finished workmen’s bench, engi- .| Beers at the throttle valve of the monster iron messengers of pro- gress, mechanics in the workshop, architects that by a sweep of the eye look almost into immensity, cival engineers whose genius stands for all time in monumen:al strac- tures of granite and iron, and elec- tricians who can master the sub- tle forces that astonish and my stify mankind. This may seem an impossible task, but it is not; all the Negro has to do is to get away from the idea, that only great men are orators, doctors, ministers and lawyers, and the same energy and brain-work that bas given him a standing in the learned professions would if brought to bearin the way I bave pointed ont, in all like- lihood some day make -him famous in the other great callings” How did you enjoy your trip? “In every respect excellently +} well. In New York City, Brooklyn, Boston, Washington, Cincinnati, and in fact wherever I found my- self, the citizens of the place, the very best people of the community, made every effort to make my stay one continued round of pleasure. Faces of college days, rounded out into matured cultrred and success- 1) fal manhood, met me here and there and almoat everywhere, re- calling happy days of the long ago, and recollections of good fellow- ship that I can never forget. I would like ever 80 much to be invidious, to mention many acts of kindness and good cheer shown me by personal friends whilst in the cities I have named, dinners, and luncheons, and card parties, j|and boatings, and receptions and stags, all that would goto make life worth living, but-you can readi ly see the manifest impropriety of my doing so at thistime, and will bave torest on the satisfaction that those whom I mean kuow full well the depth aud fervor of my esteem and appreciation”. What think you of the Negro’s political faiure? t} Bright and inviting. He has arisen step by step trom ignorance and dependent servility, to imde- pendent manhood, and has attract- ed the attention and at times com- -| manded the admiration of two con- tinents at his remarkable efforts ia the realm of statesmanship. Let him bave confidence in eaeh other ; learn the hard lessons that we were not all bern to lead. En- courage our representative, leading men, whether in or out of office, when we find them honest, pains- taking and creditably standing shoulder to shoulder with the leading men ofthe country; don’t ©! 4 little removed from the masses ; don’t let us pull down more rapidly than we can build up, and aboye all things be unchangeable and ty of character, tical organizations and Southern as well as Northern communities What aboat the race problem? “Kace Problem.” repetition of this or talk about. ad j truest friends. the Negro in your section? ostracise our brainy men because they hold office or move in a spbere firm in pride of race, aud infegri- and believe me, the time is not distant when poli- will open up the way for the Negro.” In my judgment there is no The constant meaningless phrase, has seemingly given our people nothiog else to think, dream This life ot grand possibilities presents toevery one white and black, an earnest stir- g| ring problem to solve, and that is how best to be one of the “Survival of the Fittest ;” and speaking only from my experiences at home, the Negro question here, is simply and e | purely a political one, and beliey- ing a8 I do in his inaelienable right to select his own calling in life, when he enters the political arena jet him make up his mind to stand or fall by the side of his best and What is the labor condition of 7 men are organized in labor organ- izations in the City of New Orleans. They handle all the cotton, and sugar, and rice that is landed on our levee side by side with the wite laborer, from the time it is shipped from the plantation, to the time that it is freighted within the territory of our country, or screwed in the ship’s hold destined to be landed across the waters. They are paid from a dollar and a half a day, the wages of the rice handler, to seven dollars a day, the wages of the cctton handlers. There ts no caste or racial difflerences here in labor circles. Tuere is a ‘*Con- ference Committee” composed of an equal represevtation from each organization (white and black,) that decides all matters of dispute, Organizes and disposes of all strikes, and control absvlutely the organized laborofthe city. The president of the ‘Conference Com- mittee” is white. The secretary, Mr. Jas, E. Porter, about 35 years of age, 1s colored, both with equal force and commanding power.” What about the “Jim Crow Law”? That infamoas outgrowth of hate, born in infamy and fauned into an engine of oppression, from the smouldering embers ofa dead past, has, since the recent decision the “Inter State Commerce Commis- sion,” and the courageous and in- telligent bandling of the Hearst case by Mr. T. Thomas Fortune, of the **New York Age,” seen its best days; and with proper encourage- neat and financial assistance given io reputable organizations, organi- zed for the purpose of testing the constitutionality of the law, such as one we have here, w th brilliant, brainy intrepid men like Louis A. Martinet, the editor of the ‘New Orleans Crusader,” at its head, our emancipation from the injastice and contumely ofa dying issue, will come to us a right, ere twelve months shall have come and gone. What is the political situation in your section ? “We will soon be in throes of a gigantic politicai struggle, both local and national. I am a nation- al Republican in season and out of season. I hardly think that ever an issue will arise that will swerve me from my allegiance. The Negro is childish in his devotion to the “Republican party” and it can’t help but make bim feel keenly any shght put upon him by the party that lifted bim from a mere chattel to the heights of free manhood. Presiient Harrison bas been an houest and courageous Executive. I believe that be is a consciencious iriend of the Negro. Wedo know that be bas taken no high bonors from him, but to the contrary has added to the galaxy several bright stars of the race, that uuder bis administration fill for the first time places of trust, emolament and distinction. If an appreciative audience is needed to inspire a public speaker, the Hon. Frederick Douglass lacked nove ol it when he arose to talk about Haiti Tuesday night at Met ropolitan A.M. E. Church, This commodious house was filled, many white people being present, among them probably seventy-five of the Ecumenical Conference. Mr. Douglass began with a few remarks personal to himself. The correspondent of a Boston paper, he said, bad represented bim as a neglected old man, who had out- lived his usefulness and ought to be retired, He hoped the corres- pondent was présent, so that he might soothe his sorrow and drown bis tears by findivg bim neither despised vor neglected. “It these men mean,’’ said he, “that my place should be occupied by younger and stronger men, I might retire tight now. But they do not mean this, and I can’t see thatI am inthe way of anybody. Old men have a right to live, and it indicates a bad state of society where no gray hairs are to be found. As to the time of life when men should cease to address public assembles there is some difference of oppinion.” Mr. Douglass denied that he put himself alongside of the great En- glish stateman, for be knew that he could not speak as he did years ago. Every now and then the in- tensity of Mr. Douglass’ dislike for those who criticised him cropped out, and referring again to the con- duct of a correspondent who had offended him, Mr. Douglass spoke distinguished delegates to the: cornfields of the Eastern Shore talking about diplomacy. I’ve been charged with talking too much about Haiti, for a minister ot the United S:ates, by the New York Tribune. This paper charged me with blurting out state secrets, but fails to tell what secrets. This is the elegant fiction of these great newspapers. I only told what had been told before. The trouble was my way of telling the story differs from that of the salt-water corres- pondents who came down to Haiti in what they called the white squadroa. When I return their fire there is a little howling. Vve told my story about this matter in the North American Review, and if ’'ve done any man an injustice 1 stand ready to retract. However, 1 know of none now. If driven to the wall lhave it in my power to put betore the whole world all the correspondence about the Mole St. Nicholas affair in a different light and a light some gentlemen will not like to see.” Mr. Douglass then gave bis aa- dieuce a pen picture of the country of Haiti, its barbors and coasts, all of which naturally brought him around again to the subject of the Mole St. Nicholas affair. After describing the beauty of the Haitian scenery, the fertility of its soil, and the characteristics of its people, not omitting their revo— lutionary tendency and turbulent spirit, Mr. Douglass discussed the character of the President of the republic, Hippolyte. “I have been charged with-being a friend of Haiti, and I’m not ashamed of that charge,” contin- ued the speaker. “I ama friend of Haiti, not in the sease of prefering if to wy own country, but in a sense of my proper relatien to my people everywhere, and especially | those suffering under untold bard ships and misfortunes. I have no ends to secure, no fayors to ask, and expect none, so I can speak boldly. I want to say that Presi- dent Harrison has shown himself a conscientious and humane Presi- dent in this as hehas in every other inatter. In my judgment no man has been more just to the op- pressed at home and abroad than Benjamin Harrison. There is no man freer from the prejudice of color than he. When I went to Haiti as minister it was with excel- lent advice from him. ‘Douglass,’ help the Haitian peop!e and per- suade them to, as much as they can, blot out the reproaches hurled atthem. He sant me to Haiti, not ou a jobbivg and mercenary mis- sion, but as the represantative of a people who would not profit by the misfortunes of others, as the re- presentative of the nation too great tobe small. I don’t know your sentiments, but Iam for Harrison for the next term.” At this the church filled with tremendous cheers. Hon. John R. Lynch followed in @ briet speech. ————@63.T]— NEGROES IN WASHINGTON. THEY ARE EXCLUSIVE, AND HAVE ESTABLISHED A HiGH SOCIAL STANDARD. (Chicago Blade.) Washington is‘a Negro paradise, and herehe isseen at his best. There are probably more colored people of education and refinement bere than in a score of other cities of equal size, There are many bright, intelli- gent colored men and women em- ployed as clerks in the execufive departments, Several chiefs of bureaus and division chiefs have been selected {rom the colored race and they discharge their duties in a highly creditable manner. They receive salaries ranging from $2,200 to $4,000 a year, and are enabled to live in excellent style, dress well, and enjoy comforts and lux- uries equal to those of the whites in the same position. There are several lawyers and pbysicians here whose clientage is the envy of struggling white professionals. Iu the educational field there are mapy who have attained distinc tion. The Howard University has and among them are several ladies who have had the advantage of university training in Europe. This class of Negroes is very ex- clusive. They have established a high social standard, and admission rather bitterly. to their set is almost as difficult to said be to me, ‘do all youcan to j a faculty of colored professors,’ maintain an original equality with the whites, they recognize the bar- tier between the races with regard to personal and social associations. They are asexclusive in that way as are their Caucasian cousins. Many wealtby anid highly educated Negrues belong to thisclass who would scorn to force themselves on white society. But when it comes to public privileges, this class, with others ofa lower order, are sometimes over-particular. They insist on sharing comforts and conveniences witb the whites. They are able to pay the price, and are sticklers ete provisious of the civil rights ill. Not long ago a proposition was made to build a first-class hotel in Washington for the exclusive use of Negroes. Several ofthe leading colored brethren were consulted with regard to the scheme. Mach to the surprise to the promoters of the enterprise the colored people rejected it with indignation. “No,”they said, “it a palace were built where we could live like princes at rates not exceeding those at a first-class white hotel we would not consent to endorse the scheme.” They would not consent to a segregation, no matter how soft the bands of separation. They claim that they had the right to be accommodated under the same roof with white people, and if they were not accorded that privilege they «did not propose to be shut off by themselves in a place marked dis- tinctly “Negro.” The enterprise, which at first wag considere a good thing, was immediately dropped. THE UNHOLY FIGHT THEY ARE MAKING ON LANGSTON. (Petersburg Lancet). “The Herald,” the newspaper started in this city in 1888 by Hoa. John M. Langston, is now controlled by Langston’s most bitter enemy, Col. Jas. D. Brady, the collector of Internal Revenue. Both of the editors of “fhe Heraid” are em- ployed in Brady’s office and must either do as Brady bids them or quit. The collector and his two editors hold their places through the influence of Mr. Langston. Brady is anxious to go to the next National Republican Convention as a delegate, but his treachery and duplic- ity in dealing with Langston has been of such a character that he fears that Langston’s friends may defeat him. He has therefore ordered his adherents to kill Langston politically. His Negro editors have commenced the job. In the last issue of Brady’s paper, “The Herald,” we are told that Langston nev er lived in this district, and that ‘the schemy professor played the colored vote for a place in Congress.’’ We are also told that Langston is ‘one of the most arrogant and selfish men that ever stepped upon the stage of action.” Ic charges Langston with making this district hopelessly democratic, and makes the remarkable announcement that the people cry out against his appointment as judge in the new court of Appeals. ‘This is ‘’Tne Herald,” the paper start- ed by Lanyston’s money, and which thrived for years upon the support whieh Langston’s frieuds gave it. What fogratitude! Inu doing the bidding of Boss Brady, the editors of ““The Herald” may strike a big snag. We do not believe that Mr. Langston is without friends, even though Brady and his two colored editors all of whom are deeply indebted to Langston, have formed a conspiracy against bim. The editor of this paper has never slobbered over Langstou, but has had, as far buck as 1884, a knowledge of the kind of men Brady and his two editors are. He knew that they could not be trusted; and, when Langston listened to them, the editor of this paper warned him. THE OKLAHOMA RUSH. The long talked of and anxious wish of the Oklahoma home seekers has at last been gratificd. On the 22d at 12 o’clock the signal was given and the mighty rush begun. Men, women and children were ali in the race, Never in the history of this nation has such excitement and madness prevailed with people in search of a home as took place in Oklahoma last week. The Negro was there in large numbers, especially in the vicinity of Langston City, where about 1,500 bad congregated under the leadership of E. P. McCabe. At one time it was thought that there would be war between the tworaces, liu fact, prior to the opening of the lands the cow boys attempted to drive out the Negroes, but they stvod like a Stonewall Sonsampuen. ® Professor Burt, of the New York Post Graduate Medical School, read an article on “Consumption and Modern Research” before the New York Academy of Medi- cine, the substance of which will interest many of our readers. It is now believed that phthisis, in al} its forms, is due to the presence of tubercle, and that all tubercle is the out- growth of microscopic organisms—the bacillus tuberculosis—without whose | pee no debility on the one hand, nor hygienic surroundings on the other can give rise to the disease. Having gained an entrance into the body, these gnicrobes find lodgment at the points of least r-sistance, where they become centers of irritation resulting in tuberculardevelopment. Our race would be exterminated by them if they were not repelled by healthy tissue and actually killed by healthy blood serum. Though consumption itself can not be inherited, the weakened resistance to the microbes may be. Whatever lowers the tone of the system, especially of the lungs, facilitates infection, and so does whatever interferes with full respiration,, for thoroughly oxygenated blood not only keeps up the resistance of the cells but actually kills the germs. The expectorations of the patient con- tain numerous microbes, and as these re- tainjtheir vitality after drying, they may float in the air and settle on the walls of the room, and thus in time find their way into the lungs by inhalation, into the circulation through an abraded sur- face, or into the stomach with some {nfected article of food. Therefore all expectorations of a consumptive patient should be destroyed, and all clothing disinfected. The hopeful side of the case is that the microbes can seldom find lodgment in healthy tissues, that the breath of patients does not, as arule, contain them, and that they donot multiply outside the body. A person with a tubercular parentage should never marry another of like his- tory. If one parent has good blood, the child may expect to escape, if reared in- telligently ; that is to say, if he is prop- erly clothed, careful'y fed, and allowed to spend most of his time in the open air. Nothing is more conducive to complete renovation than horseback riding. The regular practice of deep breathing, with the mouth closed, out of doors, while the blood is coursing through the veins, is a purifier equalled by no drug. The great aim is to raise the tone of the tissues and the fluids that bathe them to tne pitch of highest health. The chief essential to this is the free, full breathing of pure air thoroughly vitalized by sunlight. Disraeli’s Would Be Successor. A very swagger young man is Con- ingsby Ralph Disraeli. He is the nephew of the great Disraeli, and is making a heroic effort to keep that great man’s name green and fragrant, for he was the heir to his uncle’s name, as well as most ef his estate. He was his uncle's favor- ite, and was named by him Coningsby. after his famous book. Young Mr. Dis. raeli is quite as much of a dandy as was his uncle when he wasa stripling. A- all the world knows, the elder Disrael was uncommonly fond of dress. So i: his nephew. ‘And the resemblance does not end thers either. Like his uncle, he is going in fo politics, and at the moment is candi date for parliament. He lives luxuri ously, is a member of half a dozen club= keeps a man servant and a carriage, av is much sought after by marriageab! women, for he is wealthy, handsom: only 24 years of age, and the bearer of distinguished name. Besides he is thoug! to be acoming man. He is particular! agreeable to Americans. He has been i: the States once, and hopes soon to ¢ again. “Are you in politics to stay?” wa asked him by a New York Herald eo respondent. Mr. Disraeli laughed. “Well,” he re plied, “I mean to go through the usua political routine. Of course, I can no say that I will be successful.” “What chance has a young man t succeed in politics in England “ “Not nearly so good as in America ‘There the field is always open. In Eng land it is often closed, even to brainy dashing young fellows who aspire to political honors.” I asked Mr. Disraeli for his views on what is politically the most important question of te day in England, the labor movement. “I think in the end these strike leaders will cut their own throats,” he said “The workingmen are beginning to see through them. The dockers, who were the first to bring Mr. Burns forward as « strike leader, were the first persons to re- pudiate him afterward. If these men go to parliament they would receive no more attention than any other members. Ip fact, being uneducated, they would nat- urally receive less attention than edu Jackson and compelled the cow boys to Tetrest. To prevent further trouble both | sides agreed to divide the coveted prize and thus averted a great conflict. | The land which the Negroes were con- tending for were the richest in the new addition, Many secured valuable tracts. The future of the territory is traly | bright, and Langston City is destined to be a nucleus around which will be built up the greatest Negro community in this 2” YOUR BACK ACHES, Oryou are all worn out, really good for noth country.—Texas Reformer. | gated men.” Not the Man He Was Looking For. Man of the House (quietly, but firmly, «s he presents a pistol at the head of the burglar who has just thrown his leg over the window sill)—Were you looking for anybody? Burglar (with equal nerve)—Yes. 1 was looking for Mr. eet Man of the House (coldly)—Mr. Bill- tops lives in the next block; around the | corner. Burglar (politely, as he takes his leg all it LZ iemale portion of our race, and are adaptability shown to per- themselves ia various pur- “We have the best paid labor in the world. Ten thousand colored is general debility. - “The idea,” said he, “of a fellow | obtain as an introdaction into New = epee mibithow DiFrEas, | eff the window sill)—Ah! pardon me. who came from the plantation and York’s four nandred. While they | ase you, cleanse your liver, SS et sed Oy =o oW