The Washington Bee Newspaper, September 18, 1897, Page 4

4 Published every SATURDAY at 1109 1 Stree Northwest, WasHincTon, D. C oa Ente-wa at un- © SLumice at Waspingtop ecu ase mail raatter.t \W. CALVIN CHASE, EprTor. “SN o, bees pee eee ee TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy per year.-- & Dix mMuutlis.... Three mouth City subscribers,monthly. 00 0° -60 +20 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- guested to pay them, and not give the excuse that “they will see the Editor.” The Editor has no time to see the sub- scribers, and it is hoped that his friends and the patrons of THE BEE will pay the Collector when he calls, OO etaid THE OHIO ELECTION. With the increasing hot weather, the pohtical can.dron continues to boil and bubble. The canvass in Ohio seems to be seething to an un- precedented extent. There is some- thing remarkable in the hostility which marks the contending parties: There has been no time for many ye-rs wheu the agricultural pro- ducts were more abundant or when prices for the Same were more factory. Nor can we point toa time when the industrial conditious were better, considering the depres- sions which have preceded better times. The factories are working eXtra time, while thousands of wage earners who have been out of em- ployment for months are enjo the results of the general prospe Indeed, business of every character has taken a boom, and the country is in a fair way to outstrip its pre- h Th confessed outcome doctrines incorpora’ rm of results are of the vious tory ly the splen the plati the repub ty and their ervstalization Into pos itive le tion. Therefore it seems strange that there shouid cea bitter Ohio. Senator ! on of his splendid exe a contest in fannva who by res cutive ability and influence as and late of the republican y leader counsellor, 1 rves the united support as all those which de-! sire a nati y which looks to the elevation of the Av erican mass- es above the dic ates of European financial and economic influences. been hinted that the fight has narrowed dows to a pergonal one, ra and-Mr. McLean. of republicans In the event of a personal fight, Senator Hanna would certainly come off with the prize. He is a business man vf scund fin n cial and economic principles. His interests are esséntially those which venerally, and his n felt among those who have profited by the deep ifested in nites pertain to Ohvoans fluence has be interest he has always ma the upbnilding of the industrial in- ter te. He is uo idle speculater, but a »ard worker, and | whatever he has acquired in wealth he has done by actual management of business concerns in which he has allowed thousands of his fellow citizens to become partakers. More- over he believes in Ohio and prefers it to any other State. We do uot think that the same can be said of his competitor for senatorial honors Mr. MeLe+n is as well known here, or better, than he is in Ohio. In- deed, many of us have believed un- til very recently that he was a Wash- imptonian. This may have resulted from his connection with the Wash- ington Gas Light Company, or it may have been because we have seen him here so long ard because he + p- peared to represent no foreign in- terest and held no representat-ve) position that he has been thought a Washingtonian. But, however that may be, there is a vast difference between the representative weights of the two men, and it is not diffi- cult to choose the better man. Some talk is being in ulged in to the eect that the colored vote is dis- ntled and y roposes to take a tack p.¥ its maneuvers. This is sim nonsense. ‘Lhe colored vot: r Ohio possesses too much discrimin- ating horse-sense to allow himself to be led off by fox-fire, and will certainly show his fidelity and con- sistency by voting the straight re- publican ticket. The anti civil- service-all-for office - get-it- or- bust convention which it is said will soon meet in Ohio to denounce the policy of the administration, has been suggested by the tramp e.ement of this city, aided by a few kickers/in lother cities ; but it will bea thi: g |likely to die ‘‘a bornin,’’ at best. ‘eut but a very srry figure and re- ‘sult in the ignominious defeat of | \the projectors. If reports are worth ; janything, Hanna will secure the legislature and be re-elected Unived | | States Senator for a full term. The} Bee certainl. predicts that Ohio | | will roil up the necessary majority, jand thus demonstrate in the old | time way its devotion to good poli -| tics and good men. 1 1 WHO ARE RUNNING THE } SCHOOLS? | ae , | Too MUCH AUTHCRITY. THE PEv- | PLE’S COMPLAINT. i Some for years ago the poor) teachers in the public schoo's of} this city were terronized by a certain | class of trustees. These men) | would compel teachers to submit to them or pay them a bonus for pro ;motions. If they were too poor to pay they were compelled to sacri-} fice there virtue. Conditions have since changed The arbitrary power of the board has been dele- ‘gated from the trustees to the su- ising principais, who now seem perv H It is a generai to own our schools. compl aint among some teacher: : the tyranical and arbitrary power ‘of some of the sup-rvising princi-| For time there has been a personal fight against ‘Miss Grace Dyson, until it has re-ulted in her transfer and re- duction. What does it means? Is favoritism to control the public pals. some schools of this aty 2 INCOMPELENT JUDGE The greatest infliction the people of this city has had, is incompetent judges on the Police court bench, | one-horse justice of the with few exceptions would the sup- Kvery peace, be port of the colored member! willing to have of the bar to urge his claims, although some of tuem have the audacity to say that they decide cases on the amount of influence a lawyer pos- sesses and not according to law. A man who hasn’t sense enough to decide a case according to law land not by the color of bis skin, is not the proper man to be judge of any court, It is hoped that Presi- dent McKin ey will appoint a wor- thy colored member of the bar to one branch of the Poiice court. pee BAD CONDITION OF OUR SCHOOLS. piles e lf there ever was a time when we need achange in our High and Normal schools it is now, ‘Ihe su- | schools. perintendent, Mr, Cook who has been at the head of the schools for some time, seem to be subordinate to the supervising principals, It seems that the superintendent, | should be acquainted with the do- ings of the teachers vefore the trus- tees are, Ifthe trustees have any | respect for our superintendent they {would suspend any supervising | principal who would bring a matter |to them before it was first submit- ited to the superintendent. | Tue Bexis confident that no supervising principal would dare to | go over Mr. Powell’s head and re | port a school matter to a trustee. Some few months ago two teachers | were suspended because it is alleged a fastidious supervising principal |thought these ladies meant to in jsult him The matter was reported |to the trustee and not the superin tendent. We did learr ‘that the trustee called the attention of the superintendent to it. Mr. Cook was officially ignorant of the mat ter. The duty of the trustees in this particular was to have directed this supervising principal to Mr. Couk. Mr. Cook is a diplomat and a gentleman. He should be recog nized as superintendent or his office abolished. THE WASHINGTON BEE. WHAT I SAW/AND HEARD. 7 Mr. ‘Travis Glasco has been called to acswer the atiack of theenemy ‘There is a class of common white people who go to Bay Ridg , Md., iull uf prejudice. ‘Lhis ciass gen- erally comes from Alexandria, Va. A company of refined colored tadies went to Lay Ridge last week und when it was about dinner time, they started to sit down at a tadle, lung enough to feed 50 people, but awhite woman and net sun who Were seated at one ene Objecied. Notwithstanding the objectuuns the colored ladies seated themselves, There is colored democratic movement on foot in this city to call a convention in Cleveland, Ohio for the purpose of assisting McLean ‘here are some dissatis- fied Washington politicians behind this movement. The editor of the Cleveland Ga- zette, is nut at all easy in mind. He is very auxious to come to Wash- ington and fill an office. As he imagines that ne is too large for any office that may be given him, he has decided toremain at home and oppose Guy. Bushnell, Col. James Hill of Mississippi who imagined that the success of the colored politicians south rested upon his shoulders, has been knocked outagain. Mr. Demas has b en appointed naval officer, at New Orkuns, with his knowledge, but without his consent. ‘‘This is a! hard blow to father.’ Col. Hili is! no doubt convinced that there are ‘other pebbles on the beach.’’ The High and Normal schools ure greatly in need vf new heads. Perhaps they will be made some time soon. What The Bree would like to knowis, whether the trustees are runuing the schools or the supe-- Vising principals? Some of these undersirappers imagine that they own the entire schoois. Well itis quiie likely, that the new trustees wili teach these subordinates their places. There are to be grade meetings r vhe reorganization vf the There are no grade meet- in2s in the colored schools. There should be some created. The candidates for the judgeship of the Police court, are getting uu- merous. Justice of the Peace C’ Donnell is a candidate, but his name is dennis Major McKinley will certainly ap- point a man who knows the laws of the District, if nothing more, When that cackling hen around the Police court is removed, per- haps there will be some respect shown colored lawyers. A judge who cannot n ought to resign. ion that is being diseu y is, Who judge the Police court, District attorney Pugh or who? Whatever Pugh says goes. . : is ROUNDER. If the supervising priucipals are the ought to know it. running shools the people Capt. J. W. Lyons is not a can- didate for register of the ‘Treasury. He will not be shelved that way. If C: 1. James Hill, of Mississippi gets what he wants he will not be the only “pebble on the beach.” i The Maryland republicans will win, notwithstanding they stuck in Mudd. are Justice of the Peace Mr. A. S ‘Taylor will no doubt be convinced that he has made a mistake. The influence that he may need will some day come from the source h has repudiated. The October editions of the BEE will be the greatest in the history of the paper. Dr. . Shadd is one of the most active trustees on the school board. The Bee was the first paper to advocate a director of music in the colored schools. Trustee Harries is just the man to be appointed on the committee to examine candidates for musical direc'or. Editor Hutchins, of the Times, and our esteemed friend of the Post, will please accept the thanks of the colored people for their worthy edit- itorials in their behalf. WOMEN’S DRESS GOODS. Will Come High When the Dingley Tax Is Added. The extremely high duties which Dingley proposes to collect from wom- en’s ee goods should be more gen- erally understood by the women of this country. It is they who must suffer most because of these duties. Here are a few samples of the inereased duties taken from a list prepared by Mr. P. B. Worrall, of the dress goods importing firm of Fred Butterfield & Co., of New York: ? “A wool and cotton cloth costing in England 1s. per yard, equal to 24 cents in our money, weighing 16 ounces to the running yard, costs under the pres- ent tariff 33.6 cents per yard, while un- der the proposed tariff it would cost 67 8-16 cents per yard. “A wool and cotton cloth costing in England 2s. 4d. per yard, equal to 56 cents in our money, weighing 28 ounces to the running yard, and costing under the present tariff 78.4 cents per yard, would under the proposed tariff cost $1.4858 per yard. “An all worsted cloth, costing in England 2s. 1d per yard, equal to 50 cents in our money, weighing 16 ounces to the running yard, and costing under the present tariff 70 cents per yard. would cost under the proposed tariff $1.298 per yard. “A 32-inch black serge (cotton warp). costing in England 75-8d. per yard, equal in our money to 15.25 cents,weigh- ing less than four ounces to the square yard, costs under the present tariff 22.87 cents per yard. Under the pro- posed tariff it will cost 30.07 cents per yard. “& 27-inch black sicilienne (cotton warp), costing in England 77-8d. per yard, equal to 15.75 cents in our money, weighing 3.7 ounces to the run- ning yard, costs under the present tariff 23.62 cents per yard. Under the pro- posed tariff it will cost 33.92 cents per 5 yard.” A WONDERFUL PILL. Uncle Sam Won’t Be Fooled by Any Quack Remedy. Uncle Sam—Why, doctor, that lookr like the pill McKinley gave me to re- duce my revenue. Dr. Dingley—Yes; its ingreéients are practically the same, though perhaps they are somewhat stronger. U. S.—But you say this is to increase my revenue. How can it work both ways? Dr. D.—It is a protection and pros- perity pill. and will produce any effect desired. It isan infallible cure for any and all fiseai and industrial ills. If taken in sufficiently large quantities, it will keep all foreign germs out of your system and leave you happy, prosperous | and— U. S.—Hold on there, doctor. You've said enough to convince me that, like all advertised panaceas, it’s a quack remedy. Besides, I've tried it and found it about the nastiest dose I ever took. Its effects were also bad—very bad. It deranged my whole system and filled it so full of trust germs ti:at I've been isid up ever since. I don’t want any more of your “protection” pills, and don’t see why they call a protection doctor again. It must have veen a mistake. Why Increase the Coal Duty? Under the existing tariff bituminous coal pays 40 centsaton. The idingley bill proposes to make this 75 cents. In 1895-6 tL. imports of bituminous coal into the United States were 1 835, tons. The exports were 2.246.284. Tae figures from Canada were: Imported from Nova Scotia. New Brunswick, ete., 123,404 tons; from Quebec, Ontario. et 39,987; from British Columbia. 627, ports to these three divisions respectively, 413 tons, 1,672,302 and 3,094. Canada now proposes in vase the Dingley rate is imposed to retaliate by a high duty on our coal, which will certainly not stimmlate exports. Here is an export business worth twice as much as the corresponding import busi- ness, and it is proposed to rur the risk of ruining the former for the sake of screwing $550,000 taxes out of the lat- ter, and this on the plea of reviving American industry. Can any saneman fail to see that, even assuming that imports do not fal! off, it is hardly worth while for the sake of a paltry $350,000 to tempt Canada into ruining an established business nearly twice as large as that which is to yield the tax? Yet this is the way in which “the old thing works.” Iniquitous Lumber Tariff. “The proposed tariff on lumber,” the Poston Transcript (rep.) says, “is sim- ply a measure to pick the pockets and crush the industry of a large, useful and influential class of American citi- zens. It is uneconomic, unscientific. suicidal. The statements upon which this schedule was made up are shown to have been insidious and misleading. The result will be to strip the country not of an annually recurring income, but of its white pine principal, which at present rates is within ten years of exhaustion, and also to ruin a sarge class of business men in this country who deserve better things. It does not possible that men to represent the people will permit such & measure to have the force of law. If do, it will they t conse to he folly aul bs URGE MODERATION. ‘Weeolen Manufacturers Oppose High Duties on Wool. > 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 a stanch protectionist. As such he be- Hieves 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 tach 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 enes worth considering, because they are the only ones which we manufac- ture. Our solicitude for the dear Amer- ican consumer is such that we do not wish to compel him to clothe himself in =——,; PROTECTION&: PROSPER Y STORE 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 so doing we can keep our mills run- ning and give employment to American workingmen at American wages, which, after all, is the chief object aimed at 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 tree exchange is born of the same nar- Tow, despotic spirit which planted cas- ties upon the Rhine te plunder peace- ful commerce. Every obstruction to commerce is a tax upon consumption. _ Exery 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 campaign contribu- | tions.” The Ohio campai warm. 4) The Blaine Invineib to give itself a The colored given a medal. of leather. The colored rest. dere repub Will stan together. Col. Jomes who is the ca revenue collec pointed. The street Hill ndida e ; tor w corner now with place hu aids The colored need of grade ser meeting Dr. Shadd is for the appoin lard and McG tmenct innis. should have been ago. The appointme lard is indeed a d she was turned d unjustly. Dr. She frienuship for ther ———— + When the Pre registership o f hearts will be at ease Assistant C Bureau of Er is one faithful iene hief pubi Every politic inence in this country office hunting Tc E NEGRO PUL! 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