The Washington Bee Newspaper, June 5, 1897, Page 4

Published every SATURDAY. Northwest, WasHINGTON, D. PPS Pe Ente-ed at tne Post Office at Wasnington €c eau Glass wail wnatter.! EDITOR. eee eee W. CALVIN CHASE. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy per year. Six months. Three mouths. City subscribers, month! - $2. I. t= SPECIAL NOTICE. #& There are regular Authorized Col- lectors in the employ of THE BEE Printing Co., and when they call to see delinguent subscribers they are re- quested to pay them, and not give the excuse that “they will see the Editor.” The Editor has no time to see the sub- seribers, and it is hoped that his friends and the patrons of THE BEE will pay the Collector when he calls, Ree SELF-CONSTITUTED. The greatest drawback to the colored people of this country is what is known as self-constitated leadership. This leadership in- gratiates itself into the good wishes of administrative powers by toady- ism and by playing the role of an apologist. In another column of this paper will be seen what a rep- resentative of the A. M. E. Church has to say relative to the authority | that has been delegated to him, as he alleges, by the President of the United States. Tue Bee is confident that Presi- dent McKinley has not delegated any such authority to the Bishop. | The colored people of this country | do not recognize any leadership. | They prefer to eelect their own men to represent them. The great mistake that politicians, now in authority, make is to thrust men upon the people the masses do not want. Ifthe colored people had of | been consulted there would have ional scandals in some rict offices. been no n of our dis The colored citizens of Maryland would be in better condition than what they are now, had their wish- es been consulted concerning col- ored appointments. When aman informs the Presi- dent that he represents the entire colored race in the United States and that a representative soutbern appointment will satisfy the entire race in the south, he states what is not true and the colored man will resent it. If Bishop Arnett would only at- tend to his church duties and allow the state representatives to speak for their people, he would be doing what is right. di SELF CONSTITUTED LEADER. HE IS TO PASS UPON ALL COLORED PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS. — REAL RACE LEADERS NOT 1N IT. ‘The Rev. Bishop B. W. Arnett, representing the A. M. E. Church and A. M. E. candidates for office and all other apphcants in the United States, was in the city last week for the purpose of landing his son and to inspect the applications of all colored candidates for office. Bishop Arnett of the A. M. E. Church, in conversation with a representative colored politician anda lawyer of distinction in the State of Pennsylvania said : “Yes, sir, I am just from the White House, I saw President McKinley and I want to say to you that the Pre- sident informed me that he_in- tends to make eight or ten appoint- ments of colored men in the Consular service, and I am to inspect all of them and decide whether they are the proper men to appoint.”’ No appoint- ment, continued Bishop Arnett “‘of a colored man to a Presidential office will be made without my indorsement. All papers of colored applicants are referred to me.” Tue Bee cannot believe for a moment that President McKinley informed th- Bishop, who is a self coustituted leader, that he is to pass upon all colored applicants to the consulor and diplomatic serv- ice before they are appointed. The many hundred thousand colored voters in this country who have constituencies behind them will not tolerate the gall and impudence of Bishop Arnett. Bishop Arnett some time apo made the remark that he is the at 1109 1 Strre> man who will ran the colored end } of this administration He en | gated to himself the appointment | W#!TE LADIES (?) IN DANGER—ARISF of Recorder Cheatham, but he had | SOUTH—THE NEGRO MAMMAS WHOS! moanore to do with his appoint-| coe ee e SUCKING DEMAND SOCIAL EQUALITY. ment than the dead King Kallu-| :ervus wnite PEOPLE TEACH THI kaua, who was once so famous as 4; NEGRO HIS PLACE. LET Us WHITE ruler of the Haiwaiian Islands, j SOCIAL EQUALITY. } (?) PEOPLE CEASE SUCKING, | Mr. O. W. Blacknall, of Ki Heke kemGIED. acknall, of Kittrell, N. |C.., writing tothe Raleigh News, and | Observer has this to say relative to aes |social equality among the whites in There are three vacancies in the | Kittrell, N. C. Among other things he trustee board of Howard Univer-| says: sity ané ina very few days the| ‘Although therailroad waiting room Bae ss | at this pl 5 remaining trustees will elect three | Place set apart for negroes is | the larger, more convenient and more new men to fill these vacancies. | comfortable of the two, the negroes of ite Ge = wecrounetitats it ig | the Kittrell Institute are making per- g : or or it 18) sistent and determined efforts! totic supposed to be, but it seems that|vade the one sét apart for white peo- the negroes are in the minority. jple. Before the waiting rooms, now THE PERSONAL LIBERTY Will the colored trustees on the| Hawkins, the secretary, ex-principal reputable colored men intendent of this division of the Sea- Avochel for gentlemen. ‘his was, of course, >| to occupy the same waiting room and We have had enough of the EES | repeatedly been treated on the streets | several occasions been knocked into | custom of the road and force an indig- |negroes invaded the white waiting | although the session having just closed ance was caused to the Rev. Mr. Aver- LEAGUE. jafter great exertion that the railroad | just opened, were finished, John R. i jand moving spirit of the institute, board have the nerve to name three | wrote to Captain Whisnant, the super- eee for these board Air Line, urging that one room places? Whll they allow Dr. Ran-| be set apart for ladies and one room 3 ictat ? j h kin to dictate to them? |tantamount to urging that the white colored trustees, on the board, | ladies of this vicinity should be forced ee Pay subjected to Dr. Rankin’s orders? | be crowded and jostled by the negro | girls from the institute, as they have ent incumbant of Howard Univer-/of the town, white ladies even while sity and think it is time for the giving half the sidewalk having on colored trustees of Howard Univer-|the gutter. Captain Whisnant, very sity to see to it that one of their properly, refused to depart from the number is made president of that | nity on the white people of Kittrell, institution. | Nevertheless, last week the institute The people will watch the com-/|room in force, and that, too, before ing elect‘on with vigilent eyes, |the colored waiting room was filled, |a good many of the pupils were at the station to take the cars. Great annoy- |itt and his wife, who happened to be |in the white waiting room. It was only gent succeeded in getting the negroes | out. Threats were made by the negroes PROGRESS OF THE ORGANIZATION. | that they will yet have the waiting THE OBJECT OF THE ORGANIZATION | room or kill. THE NEXT ANNUAL DINNER anp!.,NOW as to this negro, John R. Hawkins, wlio has evidently fomented COLLATION 1N HONOR EDITOR the whole trouble. He is the same CHASE. | Fee _ }man who some years back from the Among the many organizations in| hustings at this place incited the ne- this country there is none that has|groes to strive tor social equality or made the progress and advancement} worse by reciting how at tne north, as the National Colored Personal | where his race had their rights, he had Liberty Leugue, which was organized | escorted white ladies about and so on Chr. Xander is at 630 Mass. avenue and gog 7th street, n. w. Karl Xander is at 439 K street, n. w., and Jacob Xander is at 1315 7th street. n.w. These are all first-class houses, Moore and Prioleau are two men in business who keep one of the best houses in this city. They are two gen tlemen who are entitled to the patron- age of the public. Go to the Sparta Buffet and ask to be served with the best and you will be sure to return again. Mr. E. P. Smith, whose card appears in this weeks issue of The Bee is one of the best known business men in the northwest. Mr. Smith conducts the Fair at No. 1712 14th street, n. w., where the pedple can purchase some of the cheapest Christmas presents in the city. This gentleman is a liberal and kind man to our churches, fairs, and the poor. His name is < house- hold word among all classes of people. Give him a trial. George & Co., 908 7th street, north- west, is where you will find the best gents goods. Take your boys there and say The BEE sent you. Mr. George is an affiable and just man to the people. When you go to the Center Market, goto stands 451, 452 and 453- If you go to the Northern Liberty Market, call at stands gor and 302. Ask for Mr. Miller or Krogman. They keep the best hams, lards, etc. in any mar- ket. Don’t fail togivethem a call. Do you want fine produce? If so go to V. S. Moton who has been establish- ed since 1866. Stands 199, 200 and 201 enter Market. You can get all you want in fresh vegetables, and de- livered to all parts of the city. Mr. J. R. Gow, the shoe man, at 1638 14th street, northwest, is no doubt the best and cheapest place in that section of thecity. If you want cheap and good shoes, don’t fail to call at his place of business. Good butter can be purchased from Mr. Gibbons. Do not fail to call on him. If you want first class goods go to M. F. Moran, whose card appears in another column of this paper. He is a man of the people. May 15, 1892 in this city and officered | ad naseum. Seven years or more have by H.C. Hawkins, president; J. H.| passed since then and Hawkins fear- Perkins, of Kar sas, vice-president; !ing the loss of the contributions of Seen ie aie secretary =f use white people of his school, has ampbell, dictrict treasurer; and!long been more guarded and covert Chares C. Curtis, of Iowa, 5 . national organizer. | The membership numbers over 5000, | representing every state in the Union. | It is strictly a non-partisian organiz: tion and its objects and aims are to promote personal liberty in all things, so far as consistant with the laws of the i negro throughout the country. That jman shall be permitted to eat and ' drink what he pleases, act as he deems best, in all things without the interfer }ence ofany one. On Tuesday even- jing June 15th Mr. W. Calvin Chase, leditor of THE Bee, and attorney | for the organization, will be the guest j oftheevening. This collation is given {in honor of the editor in Moore and | Priolean’s dining rooms, 1216 Penn. avenue, northwest at §8o’clock Covers will be laid for 100. Attorney L. W. Pulies has been se- lected as toastmaster. The table will occupy both dining rooms of this well known buffet and the well-known rep- utation of Messrs. Moore and Priolean in preparing a collation is too well- known for comment. Toast will be distinguished young men in this city. The full program will be published next week. NO RING CANDIDATE WANTED There is a movement on foot among society people in this com- munity to influence the trustees to appoint one of their number musi- cal director in the schools over Prof. J. T. Layton, who is entitled tothe place. The people are in favor of Prof. Layton and they | think he should be appointed. | Jesponded to by some of the most! | instincts that nature has emplanted in in his methods, but that speech still {survives as an agent of evil in the | minds of the negroes. This institution receives considerable d from the white people of the south. ow,I call upon every white man, south or north, opposed to social | equality, to refuse support or counten- | ance to a seminary of such pernicious principles. If they do not refuse, then {let the decent people of the country repudiate them. Efforts will doubtless be made to gloze over this matter and to disprove | the inculcation of any such principles. |I_give the facts as they are. That | Hawkins’ social equality speech, his lletter urging Captain Whisnant to labolish all race distinction at this | place, the rude jostlings that ladies fthe town have r 4 éceived at the hands | of the institute girls, the refusal of the institute negroes—Hawkins and others in authority being present—to vacate the white waiting room, are the out- | come of the spirit and animus of the | school are evident. And now a word as tothe great im- e of the battle which the south | has fought, is still fighting, and must | ever fight against social equality. With- ‘out aid or sympathy from the white | race at large we are fighting its most important battle—a battle tor the purity ofthe race—for our branch of it first, | for all of it in the end. The determination of the southern | whites to resist every move, be it ever so slight, towards social equality, is | the result of one of the most wholesome | portanc the human heart. Itis an instinct work- ing good and only gocd, to both sexes. It is the first step that counts. The thin edge of the wedge always enters first, but the head and whole bulk always follows. Social equality could have but one end—an end very far offusing the span of individual life as a mete-wand, but THE BEE as well as the people) will oppose the appointment of any | ring candidate in the schools as a| music teacher. Our High and! Normal Schools are in need of a reorganization and new teachers placed at the head of these two! schools. It is strange that the trustees of the public schoole can make it convenient to appoint out siders to positions in our schools and cannot find places for our Normal School! graduates. Why was it that Mrs. | Alice Strange Davis, formerly of Baltimore, Md., was conveniently appointed by Dr. Shadd and Mrs. Terrell? The latter trustee thought | it was an insult to her dignity be- cause she was asked to assist a/ worthy Normal School graduate. | There is to be a change ia the trus-} tees in June and then perhaps they | will know something 16 YEARS OLD TODAY. Tue BEE, today enters into its 16th year. It has seen its ups and} all too near in the life-time of a race. That end would be miscegenation, amalgamation, a union of races—the conversion of the southern Anglo-Sax- oninto a mongrel breed, more inert, more depraved than the mongrel deni- | zens of Central or South American. I say more inert, more depraved, be- cause onno hybrid has nature set as emphatic a seal of protest as upon the mulatto. Immediate physical and moral deterioration is the almost ine- vitable result. i This is and must ever remain a vital, | a paramount question with us. The, northerner can better afford to flout it. | There are comparatively few negroes with him. No flood of pollution beats and chafes at its barriers eager to en- gulf his posterity. The danger while a threat to the whole nation is vastly more remote to him than to us. | Follow white men of North Carolina and of the south! is it not high time! that we had an understanding with this son of Ham in our midst—this alien who celebrat s the Anniversary of Appomattox, who rejoices over our sorrows and sorrows over our rejoic- ing? We are two to his one. His destiny is in our hands. He can edu- cate his children only by our largess. | His very franchise he holds only by | our suffrance. He must be made to understand hat we have that power and that there isan extremity in which we wili use, it. Not to oppress him; not to deprive him of any_right; not to depriye him of any privilege even, except the one that will work his damnation and our own—social eq uality. : O. W. BLACKNALL. Kittrell, N. C., May 31, 1897. | this c’ John H. Gates who keeps at No. 1225 11th street southeast is where the boys goto get good beer, wines and whis- kies. Mr Gates is a man much liked by all classes. Captain James F. Oyster, the best known butter merchant in this city and one of the men in the bus whose butter can be relied on. tain Oyster sells pure better only. A. Gutekunst and Son, at 1324 14th street. northwest, are selling some of the finest ice cream in the city. This firm cannot be surpassed. Mr. James Ryan at 331 C street southwest is well Known in the South- west. Mr. Ryan is very much liked on account of his liberality to the poor people. The next in order is Mr. Charies Kraemer, 735 7th street, n. w. Mr. Kraemer whose card appears in The BEE shows the inside of his great place of business. He is an affiable gentleman and his assistant in the rear is an accommo- gating gentleman. = Z { Go to Heilbrun’s on 7th between D and E for cheap, fine and fashionable shoes. Mr. John Curtain keeps one of the best places in West Washington. He is a thorough going business man and liked by everybody who does business with him. Price at 723 Seventh street northwes | go doing we can keep our mills run- is one of the oldest and most reliable firms in this city. He is an adept in taking Afro American pictures. You should give him acall. URGE MODERATION. {Woelen Manufacturers Oppose High Duties on Wool. Some of the severest criticisms not only of special duties and clauses, but of the whole accursed protective sys- tem, come from the protected manufac- turers themselves in their struggle with opposing interests. Mr. S.N.D. North, secretary of the Woolen Manufacturers’ association, is now and always has been @ stanch protectionist. As such he be- lieves that the 70,000,000 consumers of this country are legitimate subjects for plunder and that the manufacturers are the proper persons to enjoy the pro- tection plunder. The free wool experiment which we have been trying for three years, be- sides being an object lesson in the way of cheap woolens, has taught the woolen manufacturers that they can make as much or more profit with free wool and moderate protection, which permits people of moderate means to wear real woolen goods, than with high duties on both wool and woolens which restrict the use of woolens to peo- ple in good circumstances. The manu- facturers therefore display more than their usual modesty and patriotism in the advice which they are giving to congress. Mr. North is in Washington to voice the manufacturers’ patriotism. Here is part of his advice as taken from the Washington correspondence of the Dry Goods Economist: I am free to say the bill is far from satis- factory to the woolen manufacturers. The chief fault is to be found with the raw wool duties, which are so high that our manufacturers will find themselves sorely embarrassed. It is true the committee has provided compensatory duties which are probably sufficient to offset the duties on raw wool, but the difficulty will be, in my opinion, that the very considerable in- crease in price which must be made to cover the additional cost of raw material will have the effect of cutting down con- sumption to an extent that will be disas- trous to the manufacturers. I do not con- tend that the rates on woolen manufac- tures in the bill are not sufficient to protect us against too severe foreign competition, but the limit of the consumer’s purchas- ing power must control him in buying woolen manufactures, and I fear the rates of the new bill will very materially restrict consumption. This is practically saying to Dingley, Aldrich and the other servants of the protected manufacturers at Washing- ton: “Go slow with your high duties and don’t try to protect toomany. Ifyou let everybody into the protection ring, there will be nobody outside to prey upon and we will have to prey upon each other. Don’t make the mistake of taxing raw material too high. We wouldn’t mind it if we could sell our goods and charge the tax over to the consumer. But when the tax is so high that we have to make our prices almost * out of sight we have found that we can- not sell so many goods because the peo- ple can’t afford to wear clothes—that ; is, woolen clothes, which are the only cnes worth considering, because they ; are the only ones which we manufac-! ture. Our solicitude for the dear Amer- igan consumer is such that we do not wish to compel him to clothe himself in the skins of beasts, which are neither fashionable nor healthful. Let us not tax him to death. Let us be reasonable and encourage him to live and wear clothes. By ning and give employment to American workingmen at American wags, which, | after all, is the chief object aimed at i Do you want your watch or clock re- paired? Have you eye glasses out of order? By all means go to H. W. Pe- ters & Co. at 172» Seventh street northwest. Mr. Peters is one ot the most affable gentlemen in this city. Mr. S.G. Thompson who keeps the finest dining room in the northwest is one of the best young men in this city, Mr. Thompson has a first class place. where ladies and gentlemen can go and be accommodated. Don’t fail to go to Thompson for a lunch. Louis J. Kessel, importer of and dealer in wines and whiskies, whole sale only. Keeps one of the largest places in the city. Mr Kessel is a thor- ough going business man and if you want good wines and whiskies visi this place, 425 Tenth street northwest. Mr. Henry Murray is the poor man’s friend. Go to his place No. 1519 7th street northwest. He is a good man and will treat you well. Toby Bush is the fine looking and jolly brother among -the Bush boys He is at 831 7th street, n. w, : Mr. Henry Kraemer is one of the best known gentlemen furnishers in ity. Don’t fail to give hima call, 1o12 7th street, n. w Mr. G. W. Santord, dealer in all kinds of fresh fish, can be found in the | Center Market, stands 428 to 432. is one of the jolliest men in the bus. ness and one of the most reasonab” R. F. Harvey, 892 Penn. ave.,n. w. George W. Wise, 2900 M stree Georgetown, D. C. SATURDAY AND SU DAY EX CURSIONS TO THE COUNTRY. The B.& O R. R. has placed on sale reduced rate excursion tickets, to | be sold every Saturday and Sunday during the summer season, valid for return until following Monday, from | Washington to points on the Washing- ton Branch as far as Annapolis Junc- tion and points on the Metropolitan | Branch and Main Line as far as Fred- | downs. Let its future course speak for iteelf. Read THE BEE erick and Charleston, W. Va. my 29 to a, 31. by us protected manufacturers.”—Ly- ron W. Holt. The Protectionist Performance. The following is a part of ex-Con- gressman John De Witt Warner’s criti- cism of the Dingley bill: “As it stands the most brilliant part of the pending performance consists in eating the words of the same actors in” the Fifty-first congress. The McKinley bill of that date was virtually entitled | ‘a bill to reduce revenues.’ The Dingley bill is specially commended as a revenue getter. The McKinley bill pointed with fride to the poor man’s free breakfast table. The Dingley bill puts upon sugar—a single item of the breakfast table—one-third of the total amount of the tariff tax proposed. The items which are supposed to help the farmer are good examples of so setting your trap as to ‘cotch ‘em a-cumin’ and a- gwine.’ For instance, we have reci- procity in order to give the farmers a market abroad for what it is assumed they cannot produce for home con- sumption unless they are highly pro- tected, as is done by another section of the bill.” Senator Sherman at His Best. Every advance toward a free ex- change of commodities is an advance in civilization. Every obstruction to a free exchange is born of the same nar- row, despotic spirit which planted cae- | tles upon the Rhine to plunder peace- ful commerce. Every obstruction to commerce is a tax upon consumption. Every facility to a free exchange cheap- ens commodities, increases trade and population and promotes civflization.— ° John Sherman in 1868. Retroaction for Campaign Funds. In the opinion of the Memphis Com- - mercial Appeal, “the most retroactive | feature of the Dingley bill is the pro-' vision for paying back to the big man- ufacturers their campaign contribu-! tions.” ' _~ a Editorial Opinion of Legislation ¢) ‘Trusts. Is the country to be afflicteg second sugar scandal? Are ators from Havemeyer” ex-offic bers of the finance committ they to be permitted to di portant sugar schedule Evening Post (Ind. Rep.). The senate committee’s er designed to do so or n. the trust a great advanta, become a laW. For that country is bitterly oppose¢ ste sugar schedule, an will heed the voice of th schedule will not be embrace pew tariff. — Indianapolis (Rep.). The storm over thes steadily increasing. All - tions which have been made report, instead of clearing it make it look the blacker. It ently been made of a very com character to baffle analysi guise a job, but, intricate a does not conceal the fact t braces a very large different benefit of the trust. This conv universal, and it is aggravat. stories of personal profit in . with it—Philadelphia Press (Rep) The specific charge by a res newspaper in Chicago that th bers of the senate specui crets of the committee room a: sugar schedule on the senate t. had been framed, by the transaction. a serious to be treated by with contempt or indiffere: The peculiar influence magnates of the sugar tr erted in the framing of th schedule has already create as to the integrity of the frame bill. If the charge against t speculators shall not be it will serve to strength firm, this suspicion.—Philade letin (Rep.). This cartoon is from th Press, one of the most pe publican newspapers, which a vocates protection to any ar dustry. Like hundreds of o* lican papers, its disgust a* the Aldrich in writing the s at the dictation of the t that it is daily denounc schedule and the senate method of doing business. Who Pays the Ts The republican claim eigner pays the tax by the following letter, w! peal to the people of Nebr: Iowa, as it interests them partic Omaha, April 10.—The Company, Neb. — Gen your inquiry of the 7t tion of the recent mar price or burlap bags i changes in the tariff. Un they are on the free list, but bill provides for a duty which amount to something over one cent on the 66-inch eight-ounce burl price made you on your recen the lowest which we can offe! ent market. Yours truly. Bemis Omaha Bag C M. C. Peters, The consumers of burlap t live in this section of the countr; not imagine that the increased p bags concerns them. The foreigner to pay it. Congressman “Champ” Clar' speech on the Dingley tariff “the passage of the bill will fore merchant in the land to make for revenue only speech every t sells a bill of goods across the ters.” The above letter is only ont the tariff speeches referred t eloquent and witty Missouri ¢ man.— World-Herald. Pettigrew’s Amendme Senator Pettigrew has introc amendment to the Dingley b' provides for the admission f. of articles controlled by trus it become law and be carried estly how much revenue wot yield? There are trusts in window and plate glass, tery, wall paper, rubber, cut in nearly all kinds of hardv is no trust in tea, but tha because there has been no dut courage it. There are also tr woolen and cotton industrie will be searce if such a law sh enforced. But will those el trust funds destroy the sy fosters trusts? They may such law, as they did the S trust law in 1890, but it wil other dummy. The Airship’s Mysterious Vor*s" The airship that was lat 7 Nashville last week has from sight, but from acco tirely reliable observers’ seen heading for Canada. are thrown out that afte: assorted cargo of dutiable g« ship will recross the line am cargo in'some quiet spot far f reach of custom house office: gard to such a cargo it wou tremely difficult to apply Gage’s circular of instruc * retroactive section of the Ding/¢¥® —Philadelphia Record.