The Washington Bee Newspaper, September 11, 1897, Page 4

SM BOSE! VS : + Published every SATURDAY at 1109 1 Stree Morthwest, WasHincTor, D. C. aes Entered at. the Post Office at Washingtop ec va lass mail matter.| ———— W. CALVIN CHASE, Epvitor. | TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ‘by the democrats, that with Mr. McLain’s money he will be able to ‘tinduce” hundreds of colored vo- ters to vote ferhim. This in itself is a libel which should be spurned by all respectable colored voters. It should, and doubtless will serve to cement the colored voters more Que copy per year “es |-closely and render them the means Six months... Three mouths. City subscribers, —E—————— EE (SPECIAL NOTICE. #3 There are regular Authorized Col Jectors 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 of defeating the presumptuous de-| >| fenders of money-bag pulitics andj} re-electing a man who while able to contribute largely will not stoop to attempt the prostitution of the suf- fragist. ‘The canvass which is now open, is one which is to deter- mine whether ignorance shall govert intelligence, whether po- litical jugglery, intimidation and excuse that “they will see the Editor.” The Editor has no time to see the sub- prostitution shull be preferred to scribers, and it is hoped that his} honesty, fair dealing and untram friends and the patrons of THE BEE} melled suffrage; whether the labor- will pay the Collector when he calls. |) ey shall receive a fair day’s pay, in eee || good money for a fair day’s work, THE DUTY OF THE NEGRO instead of poor pay in doubtful cur- IN OHIO. rency for the same labor. lt is to determine whether the If then byex ees me rhenithe CW Ue vo, suEmeme oe mnether colored voter of Ohio shou'd show armed mobs and lynching bees exceptional loyalty to the cause of shall be allowed to run rampant. republicanism, that Bae ee In a word, the election is to deter- now at hand, There are many mine whether an Qhioan, whose principles invelved, In the first record for state fealty and party place, the question pe nctenl cate loyality, whose Lusiness capacity izenship in the state presents itself and statesmanship are beyond ques- in which loyalty tothe state in all tion, shall be prefered to one whose its various phases is represented principal clewas lay if ae eae by one leader and mere quasi-cit- from the state, the editorship of a izenship is represented by the other. sensational newspaper and the Senator Hanna is decidedly the favorite of a class of politicians dee qhile Mie Molin cecthe who have been and will continue to q . -,. | be the enemy of the true interests lattcr. On this point the position J - a sclereal co a 2 ey of the colored man and of doubtful equivocal. He has found that his utility to the state at large. best interests can be best subserved} AN UNLAWFUL ARREST. in the selection of men to represent him who are Ohioansall roundand| ‘The arrest vf Mrs. T. V. Haw- who have a fair right to represent] Kins, alleged to have been the re- Ohio civilization, pure and simple. | cipient of several hundred stolen Mr. McLain is cosmopolitan, at} dollars from her husband, was not least in so far as representing more] only unjust, but unlawful, and than one civilization is concerned | her counsel has good grounds for Moreover, these civilizations are} ciyj] action. Hawkins alleged in not consonant, Ohio believes in} his first interview, »fter he was fair play and a white man’s chance} captured that Mr. Collins, the dep for alleitizens. The city of Wash-| yty collector, was his confederate. ington is predominated by a senti-| ‘The entire police department and ment which accords a white man’s] district officials declared the state- chance to white men and denies} ment to be false. The newly ap- te colored men any thing like af pointed chief of the detective corps fair show. ; hbooted at the idea of such a charge. Mr. McLain is a pure and simple} An indignation meeting was called Washingtonian,in this latter re-} by the district officials expressing spect. His position socially brings| their confidence in his honesty and him in contact with the element} integrity; but, the moment the liar which feels justified in ostracising} and self-convicted thief asserted the colored man and we gyn expect | that his wife had received several but little less than that he feels! hundred dollars. the negro detect- toward ue, as his associates do. On| ive was at once dispatched to the the contrary, Senator Hanna is @]p or and helpless wife. She had through and through Ohioan repre-| already been humiliated by the senting the most liberal sentiment] scounderly action of her husband. toward colored men in this coun-|No one knew the pain this poor try, and allying himself wholly) woman suffered; no one knew her with Vhio interests and Qhio prin- agony when she had to leave her ciples. Senator Hanna has shown) jitile babe and the friends by whom his liberality in theinstance of con-| ghe was surrounded, a' the time solidating the schools in Cleveland. | and go to the detective headquar- With a few others, he faced a fear-| ters charged with having received ful opposition and succeeded in se-| stolen money. curing a glorious victory. And to-} What fool ordered the arrest ? day the hundreds of colored chil-] What fool ordered the issuing of Gren in Cleveland are enjoying the} the warrant? If Mrs. Hawkins benefits of a common school edu-| received any money she had been cation without suffering the humil-| egerced by her husband, and a wo- iation of being told that they can} ),.an so placed, is not liable under not attend the same schools with} the law. Her counsel should not the whites, because they are color-| have allowed her to give bonds, ed. In the next place the Chio| neither should the court have held voter should be true to the r- gular] her, party, because of ‘the effort on the part of the enemy to divide his elective force. The factioniats are | Why did not the detective office arrest Mr. Collins when Hawkins} 4 alleged that he was his confederate striving to make it appear that @/i, his crime? Had it any more! wavering vote signifies a powerful} rion, to disbelieve him guiltless vote. Put such nonsense is t0O/ than jit had to believe that Mrs.| ( transparent to be noticed. The) Hawkins was the recipient of some truth is that the very fact that the} 4¢ the stolen money ? democrats are striving to split the} ij) the chief of the detective colored date offers the very beat bureau explain this? Let it be! range why it should ae ve split. understood that the negro has | It is the same old tactics which the rights that the white man must slave holder of Maryland used to deter his slaves from crossing the Potomac and fraternizing with the Virginia slaves. The Virginia slaves were nut fit associates and besides they were too near the yan- kees, who had horns, and who were a very dangerous and scurvy set in- deed. The ‘‘balance of power’’ idea is impracticable and out of the question at this time, while the ‘‘personal magnetism”’ cry, if worth noticing, is certainly in favor of Senator Hauna. It is hinted 4 THE WASHINGTON BEE. i ~ ; LABOR’S SHARE. ALL FOOLS ARE NOT DEAD. [From the Weekly News.] A Club of Colored Democrats with a good membership was organized at Shrewsbury, 7th ward, parish of Jeffer- son, last night by Mr. G. S. Washing- ton, the secretary of the State Auxili- ary Committee of colored men. - Samuel Williams was elected pres+ dent, and delegates selected to attend a conference of the leading colored men of the parish to be held at Ken- ner, La., October 13th. A full list of the officers elected will be published next week. The above excerpt is from the New Orleans, L News of September 4th. These negroes must be either insave or have lost their senses. ‘Ihe very moment tle President announced the name | of Hon. Henry Vemas as naval of- ficer at the port of New Orleans, the white Democrats denounced the President and Mr. Demis. ‘The former was denounced for appeint= ing a colored mas, and the later was condemed because he is a cul ored man. ‘Lhe New Orleans ne- groes must be fools. ‘I'be more the republican party does for the negro the better he seems to leve the democratic party—or the party that seems to repudiate him. There is nothing in the democratic party fur the colored man, and when he leaves the republican party he dives into u sea of trouble. What has the democratic party done for the negro since recenstruc- , tion? Thousands of helpiess col ored men have been lynched in the South either directly or indirectly through the instrumentality of the democratic party. ‘The sentiment south against the colored man is worse today than it was prior to reconstruction. Let this negro democratic club be pitched into the sea.‘‘ What fools these mortuls be.” HE IS WORTHY. Prom The Texas Express. The Washington | Bex is still fight- ing the battles of Blanche K. Bruce, and roasting Tim Tom Fortune. Mr. Bruce needs 10_one to fight | his battles. He is fully capable to attend to his own affairs and fight | his own battles. It is a bad policy | to desert a friend in the hour of need and especially when so many vampires are at his heels. HENRY DEMAS. | And now comes a democratic howl from the North and South against the appointment of Hon. Henry Demas, as Naval Officer at the port of New Orleans ‘his! howl is heard every four years by men who are not identified with’ the republican party. A man who has wo his way and elevated him- self above the common level, and had himself appointed to one of the highest positions in his State, should be commended and not condemned. Henry Demas is a man; a brave citizen and a politician who com- mands respect. ‘HE Bee extends its thanks to the President for this just recognition of one of the mem- bers of a despised race. All honor to Henry Demas. State of Ohio, City of Toledo, | Lucas County. i SS. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State |aforesaid, and that said firm will pay he sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL- LARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of HaLt’s CATARRH CURE. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and sub- scribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. A. W. GLEASON, Notary Public. | Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internal ly and acts directly on the blood and musous surfaces of the system. Send for timonials, free. F, J. Cheney & Cc., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. respect. Both accused, a white man and acolored woman. The white man is honored, the colored woman is humiliated and arrested. Prof. Langston, do your duty to your people and the woman you repre sent. ‘lhe arrest was unjust and unlawful. Read The BEE :f you want a live paper. The Ohio campaign is getting hot. GENERAL RAILROAD AND Steamboat Ticket Office. The Richmond Transfer Ce, and Baggage Express, Office : 901 Main St., Richmond, Va. Tickets to all principal points i and cockney Rates eine eoee dese PMreegtew checked fe sears," *™ Pleasure, i for hire. W. GARBRR, Prest. & gees If you want to knows the news jread The Bee. Protection Can Give Nothing with Labor on Free List. The Laborer Now Competes with Lowest Responsible Bidder of the Woerld—Low Prices Stimulate Both Consumption and Production—Ex- ample of Steel Rail Peel. One of the best speeches made in the house while the Dingley bill was be ing discussed was made by John C. Bell, of Colorado. With facts which are in- disputable, and logic which is unan- swerable, he exposed many of the fal- Jacies of protection. His exposure of the absurd claim that protection helps the workingman is especially good. Here is a part of it: “But our friends upon the other side say that they levy a tariff for the bene- fit of the wage-workers. I say to you that any tariff bill, 1 care not from whom it comes, that does not contain a provision for prohibiting the free in- flow of immigration from foreign coun- tries is oblivious of the rights of labor and is opposed to the interest of all wage-workers. (Applause.) “Protection is always asked in the interest of others. Now, observe how it is asked in behalf of the poor laboring man—just enough to cover the differ- ence between the European scale of wages andourown. What hypocrisy! Who ever heard of the laboring man getting rich manufacturing? The sta- tisticians clearly figured from the cen- sus of 1880 that about six per cent. on our dutiable list would cover the differ- ence between the European wage sched- ule and ours, or that about 18 per cent. ad valorem covered the entire labor cost of our list of 1880, While the manufac- turerthen asked forthe poor laborer his six per cent. he got for himself at the band of congress six times six per cent. “Is there any reason why a high tariff affects wages injuriously? Yes; by enabling employers to build up a vi- cious trust system for the manufactur- er and against the laborer. The high tariff makes the manufacturer com- plete master of the wage-worker. “In the review of R. G. Dun & Co, in their weekly review of trade, dated February 12, it is stated: “‘No other event of the week ap- proaches in importance the disruption of the steel rail pool. In two days,’ says the report, ‘after it a greater tonnage of rails was probably purchased than the en‘ire production of the last year, re- ported at 800,000 tons, and instead of $28 in December and $25 in January, $17 is now the price at which works east and west are seeking orders. And further,’ says the report, ‘the Carnegie company has been selling at $17, Chi- rago delivery. These sales will employ many thousand hands, with an impor- tant decrease in the cost of track laying on renewal of railroads.’ “Now, my friends, let me ask you, was it the rising or lowering price that employed these thousands of men? Our friend, Mr. Hopkins, of Illinois, tells of the benefits of a higher duty on iron and steel. Did the steel rail pool need more tariff? What is the differ- ence in giving the manufacture a double profit through a high tariff or | through a pool? Do they ever share the profits of the pool with labor? No. Will they ever share the profits of a ‘tariff? Never. “It takes no political economist to answer these questions. If the United States manufacturers can reap twice j the profit under a high tariff by limit- ing themselves to the home inarket and running half time, why should they run full time and invade foreign markets? They never will. They will sit down comfortably and sell their limited sup- ply of goods for increased profits, mak- ing them more than whole, while the laborer tramps the country in search of work just as he does under the trust system. “It is unfortunate that the hum- drum of the tariff has been sounded in the ears of the people until many of them really believe that foreign trade is unimportant, if not a curse. Why did the breaking of the steel rail pool put so many men to work? It was be- cause the consequent lower price for iron and steel brought most liberal or- ders from abroad as well as at home. Suppose the tariff had been prohibitive and we would have been confined to the home market. Would the, manufac- turers have made so many goods? No, but they would have doubled their profits on what they did make. The people could not have bought so many because of the increased price. Who would have suffered? First, the work- men, because they would have had fewer goods to make; secondly, the consumer, because he could not have bought so many at a higher price. Who would have been benefited? The man- ufacturer, because he might have made and handled less goods,'‘made a double profit, and really have gained, as he! would have had fewer to handle for the same profit. “This bill will increase the manufac- turer’s profits on the individual arti- cles, but will lessen the power of the people to buy or use his wares. “It is the poverty of the buyer, not the producer, that must be relieved be- fore things will thrive. “The manufacturer has every facility to produce, but no facility to sell. “It is the consumption that must first be stimulated, and that will stimulate production. “There are but a few crumbs in this bill to aid the opprssed farmer of the interior or the laborer, but thousands of things to further oppress him. Higher sugar, higher salt, higher lum- ber, higher clothing, higher manufac- tured products and absolutely nothing to raise the price of labor—a high tariff on labor’s products, limiting the de- mand for his labor by narrowing the market, but throwing the ports wide open for the free importation of other laborers from foreign countries to free- ly compete with his work. . “ ‘Consistency, thou art a jewell’” f. ee WILL IT Pay; EXPORT BOUNTIES. Senator Cannon Introduces Lubin’s T Scheme to Help Farmers. he argument thar fe gruntled politicians maj, ™" © apy, He Makes « Het Speech and Floors the republican party is: * All Oppon Present Protectio: First. The negroes are ; nored. Answer. ‘This in a Dear Market—Can Be Protected + on Only by Export Bounties on Farm because existing cir, Products—If He Cannot Get These Pruve otherwise. He Wants Absolute Free Trade. Second. The . hegroes Senator Cannon, of Utah, introduced discriminated against in g, on May 25°an amendment to the tariff Remedy: Where the , pill which is likely to make trouble for the republican leaders, and which may the balance of power, as break down the whole protective sys- he does, place other m, tem. The amendment favors the Lubin ticket who are friendly ; scheme of paying export bounties on ; ds farm products. This scheme is now be- What has the democry, ing pushed vigorously, not only by its done for the negro t author, David Lubin, but sr by io support it? Will it ngers of many states and by trades ‘ eriovsand ministers. It makesitsfight 8T°% Support the deme inside the ranks of protection, and has Has that party offered a, already opened more farmers’ eyes to ments to him? ‘To ¢ the folly of the system than all of the . tariff reform work that has been done. Senator Cannon told some plain ment that bas been made truths when introducing this amend- p ‘ ment. He spoke in part as follows: resident bas been denounesg, It was with great surprise, upon an examination of the measure, that I Our young friend, Mr Jan found that the great class of our popula- Rogs of Buffalo, New Yor : tion who have from the beginning not a If ? ork only supported the protective tariff ®W€@ @ Cali tor a negro dem party by their votes, but have supported convention to be called in (jp, the protective tariff principle by their ; lano, Ohio. If Mr. Rs » me industry from the beginning of its op-j bl eration, were in a large degree excluded } D€T8, a few mont's ago, 4 from any of its benefits. It is, I say,} nounced the democratic part to supply a v tent omission from ns . tas é the sean a teas stands that the advised his friends to SUpport it y amendment is proposed, and it will be longer. Has Mr. Ross struck ay advocated here until a vote shall be had } barrel ? thereon. The bill, as it is offered to-day, affords no protection to agricultural staples. There is remaining, 1 presume, no ad- vocate of the protective tariff system who will contend that in this bill, with] | WODers never cease. Andy these import duties, there is afforded | COMes the news that a respecry any protection or benefit of increased | couple were not allowed admis prices arising from import duties upon } - 4 on any of those commodities of which we into the Salvation Army Tent yy export our surplus, nor are there re- spread near the corner of 9th ij maining at the present time in the} R Sts., N. W., because they school of protection very many men R 7 who will contend and none who will colored. It seems that the aj prove that the indirect protection af-| colored lady and gentleman wens forded to the farmer by the tariff on cats = manufactured goods is Y aiclant com- Ln —— faith, and 00 pensation to him for the cost entailed | but it availed them nothing aging rm him in curiae Be Deer the strong bulwark of Ameri Tiff system upon manufact goods. <a 5 ie hea becouid apyacend tall thauaide negro prejudice. It would ty ful observers, and certainly it is known § teresting to know how the Salwig to all who have any direct connection ( Army can hope to prosper in with the agricultural industry of the wart : Pathe P United States, that the farmer cannot, are against sin and these and the man who reads him well knows } 008 forms of iniquity when iti? that the farmer will not, much longer theis Bose dite eae ge self open to the charge of thei There are three remedies possible. uitous = of discriminng The second remedy, and one which 1,] 9g#inst christians on accoust | as a believer in protection, would be | color. ready to accept rather than to hold to a and Reia for an inequitable bill, would We have hitherto had somes be absolute free trade, by which the | respect for the Salvation Army,¥# farmer might /ouy as cheaply as he is Pm compelled to sell, and that remedy this ‘cramped esanenrl ae 5 by congress wil] not seek toenforce. There erned by humane and christianp remains, then, but the third—the ap-} ciples; but with us it goes form plication of an export bounty which} when it becomes capable o shall in a measure give restitution to the farmer for the higher prices which he conduct as above referred to (ul is compelled to pay in protected mar-}| Lord deliver us from Rete: tians. No proposition based upon the decla- ration of equal protection to all the in- dustries of the United States is com-] There is a great deal of sympail! lete, nor can there be successfully a apres nine a contention that it is just, unless expressed for Mrs. Hawkins. it gives to the exporter of agricultural Bee would be pieased to staples from the United Statesanequiv-|]why Mrs. Hawkins was # alent benefit to that given to the man- o ti hed are 7 ufacturer ‘by the imposition of an im- - a port duty. husband ? A duty of 25 cents a bushel upon TERS wheat is a delusion and a snare. The sete CED tarmer of the United States gets no ben- THE eg ttt CHASGE efit from it. The imposition of duty 5 malig upon cotton, if that were attempted, would be of no value to the cotton pro- | From The ew York Age ducer. The imposition of a duty on} When the editor of the rye is of no value to the farmer of the | BEE elects to discuss s United States. Every other protected | litical consistency of o industry has a direct benefit from this the light of his be te he Mabe tariff, because where we do not produce ieusn menhieve ae re in the United States sufficient for our} 2 convention for the speci! own consumption and a quantity con-| of jaughing themselv siderable in extent for export the im-} face. But if Editor port duty serves as a means whereby | courage to publish the the local producer can enhance the price | sneak who wrote the edito to the local consumer. tion for him, the people The immediate benefit to the farmer | 4t least would underst derived from the treasury of the United | how the wrecks on the States would not be all. For this com-| jj. iiidud tadae “iio so paratively small expenditure to him he} the waves to the pea would receive for these staples more | success. ora than $225,000,000 in higher prices than he now receives. It is true that this} ll articles relative to‘ would increase the price of breadstuffs | of the New York I to the consumers in the cities, but un- : ‘Gen der the declaration made here to-day the editor of Tue : that with higher prices the people will , He is better acquaintud be more able to buy we will have a] Fortune than himself larger consumption of wheat and wheat F flour and other agricultural staples in the cities of the country than we have | acrobatic tactics with (! now at the low prices. Tue Bez, nothing w Mr. Butler—Mr. President, the sen- sg 1 ator from Utah said he was in favor of } More pleasure. He wou about $13,000,000 export duty on wheat | able to know himself bette at ten cents a bushel. If we pay an ex-]; “ keyg, and port bounty of ten cents a hualiel that ae of brass monkeys. will raise the price of every bushel of | Atimals of the Darwinia wheat, whether exported or consumed } I’. ‘I’. Fortune would be #"™ at home, that much, will it not? d fi . ‘ Mr. Cannon—Certainly it will. a ae once Mr. Butler—Then, for an investment art of $13,000,000, which the government * would pay out in the shape of anexport} Mr. J. R. Gow, the s bounty, the wheat farmers of the coun- 1638 14th street, northwe try would get their protection of $60,- oo rer oraaparr Las 000,000 or $70,000,000, would they not? | Sng vood shoes, don't {i Mr. Cannon—They would, if there} his piace of business. be any truth in the protective principle. Mr. Butier—That would be a very —— good investment. , a8 Mr. Cannon—It would be a very good Louis J. Kessel, im investment if it were to be made in be-| 2¢@ler in wines ae | half of any manufacturing industry or sale only. Keeps one & f Z places in the city. Mr K } any trust in the United States, but any- cant A business gh going busines j thing in behalf of the fa.mer is looked | want good wines and * upon with scorn and is considered a| this place, 425 Tenth stre*t Every prominent colored the democratic party, CHRISTIAN MEANNES Stated ortune is anxious ¢ Soeat