The Washington Bee Newspaper, July 13, 1895, Page 1

ESTABLISHED JUNE 2, 1881. i has the largest bona fide circula- tion of any Afro- American journal published at the Capital WASHINGTON, D.C. SATURDAY, TUT 1s, 1895. n't be worried. ;ntlemen you will not be in the : convention, he south Washington contingent rried. e gentlemar. that declares he is ss is not in it. Mr. Bradshaw will find out that he in it. 5 x hax a great deal of mouth but feated Bradshaw in the last icKinley will be the nomi of th xt convention. Some people imagine that they know it all. Col. Carson is wearing a white rose The Col. is a jolly good fellow. The fight will be a friendly one the best man will win. Do you know what todo and say he time? ‘fhe south Washington people will yo or three good men from t section, ©. Maurice Smith is one of the ( brilliant men at the bar. resident Cleveland gives surprises. Surprises are for us all and you must not be alarmed when they come. What has become of Bille Will- The people in the south are talk- ing McKinley. Don’t you forget to make a note it your whereabouts. ou must not forget that Pete Meredith is at the same old stand. Did you go to the Holmes House last week? Mr, Holmes thinks that sergeant Daily should be promoted. {nspector Hollinberger is all right. © government was very much urined over its defeat . Public Printer Benedict has rein- sted several colored printers. Jesse Roy isas fat and jolly as ever, lic i. a sporting writer from way ack ‘The Gommissioners will look int© the schools, Editor Dancy wanted to be Presi- ut, but after he got it he allowed go by default. When a person wants a thing they d appreciate it when they get it. \ new leadership is the watchword i¢ hour, Daniel Murray isa man of practical \ St. A, Smith is a conumdrum. Arthur gets there every time. Col. Carson saida few days ago he was the boss of the town. (his is the title the'Col. gives him- N ‘ell the Col, will see that this is ar for all bosses to pass in their al checks, \\inley will be neminated and i ‘t show yourself when you are le. neial positions often make peo rget their manners. K. Bruce tor vice president is y note, ‘uce isno fool and when he starts 10ws where to stop. ‘ev, W. A. Credit is a dignified ter © nestor of the negro pulpit is Geo. W. Lee. <ge Kimball has no favorites. ‘on the people to sustain you 1 you are right. Lc true to your friends always. Don’t betray your brother if he| LAW ALONE MAKES MONEY: should commit a sin. A brave man will never play the coward. The pulpit as well as the press will the peoples defender. Pete Meredith is still at the old stand, He never forgets his friends. The Bee will be the peoples T at the capital. = gs Se een A PATRIARCH. Written for the BEE, To THE UNFADING MEMORY OF HON. FREDERICK Dovatass. By Samuel Adams Wiggins, He came and sat down by the poet, 1n front of the mighty throng, His anreoled head in beauty — That only to saints belonged. Like a splendid halo of glory His locks on his noble ee The diademed head of a prophet, As white as the lilies grow. His face with the radiance of genial, Was full of a gentle grace, A soul that was sweet and Kingly, As a God in the Sacred place. As he gazed on his loyal children, Redeemed from the bondage vile. His eyes lighted up with a splendor, His lips full of tenderness, smile. So proud of his sons of redemption, The glad hearted children of grace, Their wives, and their lovely daught- ers, That filled all the holy place. So happy so joyous with triumph, He smiled like an innocent child Or a prophet that looked inte Heaven With a spirit all undefiled. He was their own Moses beloved, Who showed them the promised land, Their future of jov.and freedom, Their heritage, tious and grand. Aud they tenderly cnersned ana honored. Their glorious leader and Kang, So faithful so constant and loyal, Let the bells in the steeple ring A poean of sweetness and gladness, A chime of triumphant song, A strain without note of sadness, Unto him that hath righted a wrong. As he stood in that Gospel temple. And played on the viol rare, — The “Home sweet Home” of our fath- ers With his gifted grand-s-n there. He looked all so noble and gentle, So gracious a grand old man, The people who loved him so dearly, The tears in their eyes over-ran. Now sleeping so sweetly in Jesus, His soul in the Heavenly Rest, Their father and Kingly old prophet, Safe home in the realms of the blest. In the midst of their tender grieving, In the midst of their sorrow and pain They cherish that hour of his triumph Hear the song of “‘sweet Home” again Spruce Cottage, Mt. Pleasant, D. C. — LEGAL LIGHTS. There are many young men practic- ing law and who are doing well. The colored lawyers to a great extent are enemies tu themselves. W. C. Martin is a cool headed -attor- ney. He is very philosophical in his arguments. Fountain Payton knows the law and knows how to apply it. E. M. Hewlett is a very active attor- ney who has a large practice. He knows the law. He coins money and knows how to save it. He is not think- ing about marriage. =P. B. Bacon may be very slow, but he knows the law and graduated with high honors. Geo. C. Douglass is a new convert in the legal profession. He is a quiet man and will no doubt make a success- ful lawyer. John A. Moss isa hustler. He is a characteristic attorney and a very ear- nest one. Mr. Moss has a very good white practice. : He is better known as the police at- torney. He is more or less successful in all of his police cases. J. M. Ricks isa matter of fact man. Ricks looks for the money every time. He does as well as any around the court. EDITORS IN TOWN. Hon. John Mitchell, jr, editor of the Richmond Plan and a mem- ber of the common -unci! of Rich- mond, Va. avd Mre. R. Clifford, editor of the Pione Press of Mar- tinsburg , W. Va. we in this city Thureday and pa id visit to this office. : Editor Mitchell ,.8 growing stout and fine looking, which sh6ws that his many battles are having wholerome affect on bis robust yame, Cincinnati, Ohio July 4th, 1895. Editor of the Washington Bee. I was pleased to note your plea a few days 2g0. The position tak- en by you is timely and well taken. It is not only that the Negro is in “need of New Leaders,” but the whole Nation, out side of the ‘‘Money merchants,” need the same; if we are to judge from the course of the two old parties. They are both on the same road, and it leads to the enslave- ment-of the wealth producers of this Nation. In this city they have gotten up a farcical voting concern. On the first day we have it thus, “Silver is ahead.” Next day we had it, “three votes ahead. ‘Silver leads the contest by a nose only. Sound money men af- ter. Gn the glorious 4th, we have free silver behind,” etc. Now this kind of nonsense but for its extreme criminality would desend to the lowest ridicule; but when fwe con- sider the wrong done to the people who are the real promoters of civil advance- ment; every vertage of laughter is drowned in a sea of sorrow and we are aroused to a sense of our duty, no mat- ter what our condition or color, to do every thing in our power to repulse and finally defeat this most cruel monstrosi- ty, called sound money. —Now, friend Chase, I wish to say that Iam for the free coinage of silver 16 to1. In answer to the question, silver or gold, if we must take one or the oth- er; if I were an Englishman, I would say gold, but being an American, I say silver. As to which shall be the stand- ard of value, my answer is neither ever was or ever will be the standard of value. Standards of value are not re- sident in mett matter, but are the prop- erties of mind guided by intelligent judgement and regulated by supply and demand. We may make centracts to pay in gold, silver, paper, corn or any thing else; but we covets right of the gov- ernment of the United States or any state to force us to pay in gold alone. We would like to see both gold and silver used as money, The Constityti ited ptates, Att. is ngon sat at clause” 5 gives Congress power tv coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of for- eign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures, _ Art. Ist, Sec. 10th and clause 1st for- bids the several states from making anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts. Here we see thas Europe and her agents in this country are trying to force upon the people of the United States, that which is denied by the Constitution to any state in the Union, gold and silver coinage; not gold or silver, but gold and silver. “Law alone makes money”’ It is vain to talk about sound money, cheap money, gold standard, honest (?) money, etc. Sound money! sound money indeed; full of sound and furry signifying nothing. Honest money (?), honest money is the money that meets the working man face to face at the end of the week and goes to market with him. [t does not hide away in coves and attempt, as was attempted last winter, to lay a burden of 750,000,000 dollars taxation on the shoulders of an infant generation as it slumbers in its cradle, leaving at the end of fifty years its posterity to assume the same load of injustice. And not only that, the same foul blow was to destroy 500,000,000 dollars of our cur- rent money; better than gold; and all this was to be done in the interest of honest money. Ihave no patience in complating such ills. I will now give way to more potent witnesses against the fraud. ‘*Whatever the government agrees to receive in payment of the public dues is money no matter what its form may,be.’ Henry Clay. h “Law alone makes money.” An article is determined to be money by reason of the performance by it of cer- tain functions without regard to its form or substance.”—American Ency- clepaedia. ‘Law alone makes money.’ Metalic money while acting asa coin 1s identi- cal with paper money in respect to be- ing destitute of intrinsic value.—North British Review. Law alone makes money; gold and silver money are.not wealth but merely the representatives of wealth. Money is of no possible use to a nation except to measure and circulate its values. —- Buckle. Law alone makes money. Metalic money whilst acting as money is identi- eal with paper money in respect of be- ing destitute of value. Coin, so long as it circulates for the purpose of buy- ing and selling loses its intrinsic value. As commodities gold and silver are capital, but as UNUEY they are mere representatives of value.—Charles Mo- ran. Law alone makes money. The the- ory of the intrinsic value of money has been abandoned by the best writers and speakers.—Encyclopaedia Britannia. There is no more insignificant thing ae ically than money,—Stewart ill. Money is not a substance, but an impression of authority a printed legal decree. In conclusion we present the father of logic in proof that law alone makes money. Money exists not by nature, but by law.—Aristotle. Yours truly, J. O. Butler. 506 & 508, George street. CRASHED INTO A TROLLEY CAR, | A Baltimore and Ohio Train Runs Into a Car Crossing Its Track. Pittsburg, Feb. 18—At 10 o’elock last night the Eastern express on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ran into a Second avenue traction car at the strest crossing at Rankin station, kill- ing Anna Kosak, a Slav girl, aged eighteen; crushing the arm and foot of William Johns, of City Farms, seri- ously injuring three other passengers, and smashing the car to pieres. The street car conductor, Jatn McGhan, saw the express coming, and shouted to his passengers to jump out the rear door. As many as possible did so, and in this way several lives were saved. BOY INCENDIARIES. A Gang of Them Terrorizing Elizabeth, N. J. Elizabeth, N. J., Feb. 19.—The po- lice arrested Frederick King, a boy of thirt last night for setting fire to Cook Hall’s stable and Ogden’s furnt- ture warehouse on Sunday. The boy confessed and said he started the fire to see the engines run. The boy rob- bed Mrs. Ogden’s house some time ago. He has confederates, who are responsible for many fires, the most recent being the Post-Office on Friday vee last, when $8,000 damage was lone. FATAL RAILROAD WRECK. One Killea, Two Fatally Injured and Eighteen Hurt. Guthrie, 0. T., Feb. 18—Through a misunderstanding of orders, the seuth- bound Galveston express on the Atchi- son, Topeko and Santa Fe Railroad, heavily loaded with day excursionists, and a north-bound live stock “extra” collided while rounding a curve five miles south of Guthrie. Engineer Charles Appleby was instantly killed, two others were fatally injured and eighteen received serious wounds. Boston Motormen’s Novel Idea. Boston, Feb. 18—The drivers and motormen of the West End Street Rwiines HavO UTUUCU MUL UD aUCEpe the compromise proposition of the management of the road, but to ad- here to the original demand of $2.50 per day. The point of attack has been changed, however, and instead of a tie- up of the West End system there is to be a legislative fight begun, which is expected to restrict the employment of inexperienced men on the cars of the company. $15,000 Fire in Amsterdam. Amsterdam, Feb. 19.—A fire occurred between 11 and 12 o’clock last night in the harness shop of W. P. Clowes, on Bridge street. The building, to- gether with the Hooker Hotel adjoin- ing, was destroyed. The hotel was run by Horatio Claus. W. P. Clowes, in whose shop the fire occurred, had to be dragged out, nearly suffocated. The loss will amount to about $15,000. Washed Ashore From the Elbe Wreck. London, Feb. 18.—The body of Wil- helm Murst, a fireman on the steam- ship Elbe, was washed ashore at Deal yesterday. A lifebelt was fastened to it. An Elbe mail bag was found near by. The seal, which was intact, bore the mark, ‘Newspapers, Bremen for Chicago.” Two oars and several life- belts from the Elbe came ashore about two miles from Deal. Asphyziated. Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 18.—Henry Knoope, aged eighteen years, and Henry Seimis, aged twenty, residents of Hoboken, N. J., were found dead in Miller’s Hotel, Williamsburg. Death was due to asphyxiation. The police are inclined to believe that the boys committed suicide. La Gascogne Ready. New York, Feb. 18—The new pis- ton has been placed in position on the French line steamer La Gascogne and the ship’s chief engineer, Hugene Mar- tin, states that everything is ready for the steamer to resume her regular trips on Wednesday next. The Latest Trust. Pittsburg, Pa. Feb. 18.—The Pitte- burg Plate Company, the name under which the plate glass combine will operate, will commence business in Pittsburg about April 1. The com- pany will have a capital of $10,000,000. Prices will be advanced immediately about 106 per cent. Church Incorporated. ‘A certificate of incorporation of the Church of St. Vincent de Paul of Al- bany was filed yesterday. The trus- tees are Thomas M. A. Burke, Bishop; John J. Swift, John J. Hanlon, rector; Valentine Magin, John C. Upton. A Handsome Spee ie tac Baltimore, Feb. 18:—The inven’ of the estate of the late William T. Walters shows the value of the per- sonal estate is $4,537,000. The famous picture gallery is scheduled at $188,- 000. Sunny Skies Obscured. Rome, Feb. 18.—’\ heavy snow has} fallen throughout o ntral Italy. Three trains which left ‘incona for Rome were able to proceaa but forty miles. "They have been fast im the snowdrifts near Habrian® ut COLUMBIA CARRIAGE Co: Manufacturers. Agents, 456 PENN. AVE. N.W, FORSALE OR EXCHANGE. 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