The Washington Bee Newspaper, June 18, 1898, Page 4

Published every SATURDAY at 1109 1 Stree Aorthwest, WasuincTon, D. C. Se Entered at the Post Office st Washington ec ud clase mail watter.t ee WwW. CaLVIN CHASE, EpitTor. ee TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ateeees 82.00 One copy per year..--- es Six months. .. Three inouths. ° City subscribers,monthly —_—_—_—_———— t@ SPECIAL NOTICE. —_—— There are regular Authorized Col- lectors in the employ of THE BEE Printing Co.. and when they call to see delinguent subscrihers they are re- quested to pay them. and not give the excuse that ‘they wilt see the Editor.” The Editor has no time to see the sub- scribers, and it is oped that his friends and the patrons of THE BEL ——— eee A FALSE ATTITUDE. There seem to be a concerted at- tempt on the part of certain local contemporaries to place the colored people in an unenviable attitude toward the American people.. They are striving to show that the mar tial spirit and sentiment of patri- otism are absolutely wanting in our people. In fact it is charged that we are expressing sentiments which are not only unpatriotic, but are indicative of our desire to see Spain succeed. Of course there are persons and oft-times influential if not just ones, who are always in a sort of trance phantasmagoria in which they and everybody who is not white are is, and who do not realize that the war is over or that the trend of the times points toward the unification of mankind into bonds of brotherhood. Over this class we are inclined to throw the mantle of charity for it is clear that they are fools and cannot be successfully undeceived. They are dreaming their lives away and when they awake they will have been in the esty of the departed, shrouded in oblivion But with our contemporaries, it is far other- wise. ‘hey are living in the pres- ent and are its immediate product, not of the best instinct and civili- zation, not of the best type of citi- zenship and manhood but of that element which the present unfor- tunately yields at its expression of the f ct that the ancient devil- ish instinct among men has not yet dieappeared from the face of the earth. It would seem that the motive of these editors is to undo what the best thinkers and philanthro- pists have succeeded in doing,name- ly, that of stimulating in the col- ored man a desire to be in every respect the equal of hia white brother in all that pertains to cor- rect life and social and political progress They cannot gainsay the just claim of the colored man to full recognition is a coordinate factor in the bcdy-politic, for the fact is too patent. They are seek- ing, however, by misrepresentation and contumely to impress the American people that the colored man is not entitled to the consid- eration he has hitherto received, on the ground that he displays a dogged disposition to shirk the re- sponsibility of citizenship in his indifference in the present war crisis. They intimate that he isa coward and clammor wiih hyena- like satisfaction. More than this they are emphatic in their decl ira- tion that the coiored soldier is not needed except as plain hewers of wood and drawers of water or dirt flingers for fortifications. Herein lies the milk of the co- coanut. They would not have us take part in this glorious war for the reason that when the war is over, we might claim some of the credit for the victories. Of coarse everybody with any sense whatever knows that the valor of the color- ed man needs no defense here; for in every war during the existance of this country he has been called upon and has in every case respond ed heroically to the call. But our contemporaries are playing upon the prejudices of the thinking class and the ignorance of those who have not had the time or the disposition to read for themselves the history are dangerous ¢ of their country. We here hurl back the lie to those who have had|by the Post that this is a white} the temerity to charge the colored surmise. We are further informed man’s government. Why is this a } A NOBLE WOMAN GON The death of Miss Mamie E, } man with disloyalty or a full share| white man’s governtiént any more Richardson, the amiable and ac- of true Americanism and warn our | than any other nationality ? The’ complished sister of Dr. Geo. H. would be traducers that a base misrepresentation isin its nature reactionary as well as unpatrotic, unjust and un-American. -We de- clare that we are just as true to the cause of liberty and social advancement ae any of the editors who are attempting to prejudice the public mind with their edi- torial hog-wash and predict that the colored man will be at the front when our howling traducers are skulking behind the bulwark of their editorials sanctum or are safely protected by a certificate of substitution. When we goto war we want to go as men and not a: servants, as citizens not as mere denizens and panoplied with all the guarantees which charao'erize| the coming soldier. This war is prosecuted in the interest of broad humanity and those editors) who are constantly attempting to | belittle the colored peoyle are the| traitors to the cause of humanity and the enemies of mankind. When the President indicates his} desire to have the colored soldier | in the field and vouchsafe to him} the recognition which the spirit of; the times demands our unfriendly | editors will be aroused from their| swinish trance into realization that! the colored man is true to his his-| tory and has not merited gratui-| tous contumely. | OUR SCHOOLS. The schools are about to close, and we pause to reflect upon their work. Many questions arise at| this time. Are the schools, under | their present management, caleu- | lated to secure the highest ends for | which they were founded? Has the curriculum been adapted to the needs ofour colored youth? Has} sufficient care been displayed in| the selection of text-books? Has there been abso.ute fairness in awarding merit, and in passing students from one grade to an- other, from the High to the Normal school? Have abuses been | corrected? Has the moral discip line been elevated ? If these ques- tions can be properly and favor-| ably answered then we may con- gratulate ourselves that our pupils have passed through such a discip- linary regime as will render them intelligent and useful, and insure for them a sure place amid the act- ivities of the world, while the parents can bless the institution which has wrought such salutary results. If, on the contrary, we cannot answer these questions in the interests of proper education, we have every reason to urge more vigorous and enlightened activity among our educators. Special at- tention should be called to the selection of suitable text-books, for it is possible to adopt books which are in no way acceptable to our youth, though they may not be objectionable to the whites. Let our trustees look to this and cor- rect errors which on account of indifference or ignorance have crept into our schools. COMPETENCY AND NOT FAVORITISM. For one to read from time to time the editorials in the Washing- ton Post, he would naturally con- clude that the demand the Negro is making for recognition in the army is based upon favoritism and not competency. The Daily Post would have the world believe that there are not competent Negroes in the United States—competent to bea colonel. We are prepared! to name several educated colored men who are thoroughly competent to command any regiment or body of men, and more so than many of/ the milk-and-water aristocrats and | society dudes who have been| appointed. We have been unable to see the consistency of the Post's position. They admit that Negro privates are competent to fight, but Negro officers are nut. Where the Post got such an idea we are ‘unable to Post, like many white people in authority we know, never see “the use of a Negro until he is wanted to be used. The Post might as well satisfy itself to the extent that the Negro was brought here against his will and goes against his will if necessity calls for it. The Post might as well accept the situ- ation: the Negro will be a general ora colonel in the existing war be- tween the United States and Spain. Tampa is now bereft of its col- ored solditrs—and what will the town do then, poor thing? We would prescribe an everlasting dose | of good sense and strong patriot- ism to remove the morbid condition of Negrophobia. But, we fear the patient is too far gone. Well, in Florida is a good place to “shuffle off,’’—flowers are plentiful and cheap Richard T. Greener, the politi- cal failure, will remain in the United States until July. It would be wise for him to start away, for he will never be superiatendent of the colored public schools. NOT SATISFIED. ——- ® R. T. Greener is a candidate for superintendent of the “Putlic Schoois. Mr Greener was at one time principal of the High School from which position the trustees removed him, If he were not com- petent to conduct a high school, we would like to know what he would do with the position of sup- erintendent? Mr. Greener is not a success as ateacher. THE BEE advises him to take his baggage and fo to Russia, the place Presi- dent McKinley sent him, before someone else is appointed. The people in this city would not tol- erate Mr. Greener as superintend- ent of the Public Schools. He must be dissatisfied with his new post. This is an opportune time to call the attention of the picnic and ex- cursion fiends to the fact that ina number of cases, picnics and ex- cursions are designed for the pur- pose of rendering the least pleasure for the greatest amount of money. Moreover, what we spend for doubtful pleasure in summer, will be much needed for bread in winter. It should be our part to imitate the wise provision of the ant, and not the giddiness and foolhardiness of the Kansas plague. If the Republican party had more men after the type of Oapt. Castle, the auditor for the P. 0. D., the traditions and principles of republicanism would be more thoroughly accentuated. This of- | ficer is a man after the pattern of Lincoln, Sumner and Grant, and God grant that he may live long and his kind rapidly increase. The appointment of Miss Mary E Wilson, of South Washington, a normal school graduate, by Mrs. M. Church Terrell, is worthy and deserving. One thing can be said to the credit of Mrs. Terrell, she, has certainly looked out for home interests. We congratulate Miss Wilson and thank Mrs. Terrell. | Richardson, of this city, takes ' away a most brilliant star, a loving sister and a dutiful daughter. This ' was a most sudden and unexpected death. To lose one so young, so gentle and so good, brings sadness ‘and desolation to the household which her presence made so cheer- ful. THE Bge extends to Dr. Richardson its heartfelt sympathy. Miss Richardson died in Cleveland, O, las: week. ‘Lhe young lady was only sickashort time. Dr ! Richardson. who was telegraphed for, arrived five minutes before she died and one minute before she be- j } | eame unconscious, The National Educational Asso- ciation which will convene here soon, will be called upon to demonstrate the utility of our educational insti- tutions asa means of eradicating} prejudice. and a leveler of caste dis-| tinction. The schools of Boston) proscriptive schools of the South, and a contest for the supremacy of ideas must necessarily be strong | and interesting. We earnestly) look for favorable revelations, | but It isa long way from a mere laborer on fortifications to the command of a company or a brig-| ade; but, unless all signs fail, we} will get there, prejudiced Negro-| phobists and weak conservatives to the contrary notwithstanding. Col. M. M. Parker is the Nation- al Republican Committeeman for the District of Columbia. Prof. H. M. Brown, teacher of physics, will have an exhibition. The trustees of the public schools | should define the position vf the supervising principals. There will be a few changes in the schooJs next year. | Major C. A. Fleetwood is being| strongly pushed for Lieut. Colonel | in the army. ——_—_———— ‘'nz colored colonel may be} needed if Germany carries out her} threats. Secretary Gage has made an ap- peal to the American people for| money to carry on the war with| Spain. | UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD. Men are born and always continue free and equal in respect to their rights. Civil distinction therefore can and should be founded only on public utility. The end of all political associ- ation is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of our man and these rights are liberty property, security and resistance of oppression. The nation is essentially the source of all soveignty, nor can any individ- j ual, or leaders of men be entitled to any authority which is not expressly derived from it. The emigrants to New England, under the main impulse | of a spirit of religion, by a desire to enjoy in peace, their mode of worship, and to spread the gospel; the emigrants to New York and Virginia chiefly to tender the influence of a spirit of com- merce by a love of adventure, or the hope of opening new paths of trade and the founders of Maryland, Pennsylva- ‘nia, Georgia by the ambition to form | new states and all the colonists, de- | sired to benetit their condition. There are certain evidences in the open register of life today pointing to a danger as deep and as wide as the social influence itself, a danger which if not presently checked and destroy- ed will drive the world into one of | those calactysms with which histor- ians round their sonorous periods and in which all the gains of a system of civilization governed bya slow and safe economy are lost in riot and the lawyers luxury of social irresponsiblity We say that science is broadening our vision and enlarging our knowledge of ways and meansand so itis, but are we |! growing wiser with our knowledge? By what criterion shall we measure in order to discover our real proportion ? the past, always the past. Men forget as is their won’t what their fathers’ |have done that they might magnify their own achievements but history forgets not in her vast treasure house is governed, all the fruits and seeds | of civilization; at her awful tribunal men await in silent expectation, face to face with their deeds; she assigns to each his place, apportion to each his reward acccording dictionary of the French Academy, history is a speci- men of a very numerous -species; and such a definition would make it con- ed or notorious events of i and actions of great and ees pres of conspicuous achievements in war and politics, in science and art in reli- gion and literature, but this is a nar- row and suferfiicial_conce tion of his- tory is made up of what is little as well as of what is great of what is common will be entered in the lists with the| sist of exceptional things, of celebrat-| * * * strange * * * counted mean as * * counted noble, Dr. Arnold’s defination, “‘history is; the biography of society,” has been often pea nor altogether undeservedly, ior it directs attention to the fact, all history accords with biography in sup- ing in its subject a certain unity of life work, and end. The history of En- glish-America began with the three slave-trading voyages of John Hawk- ins made in the years of 1592-1564 and 1567 nothing that Englishmen had done in connection with America pre-' viously to those voyages had any re- sult worth recording. In the inspiring phamplet of James Otis of Boston, Mass., the Ist against what was was known at the Declara- tory ‘‘Resolve the stamp Act” he held there could be no prescrip- tion old enough to supercede the law of nature and the grant of God Al- mighty who had given all mena right tobe free, that nothing but life and liberty were bereditable, that in solv- ing practically the grand political problem, the first and simple princi- ple must be equality and the power of the whole, there never did nor never can exista parliament of any description or generation of men in any country possessed of the right or the power of building or controlling posterity to the end of time, it is the living and not the dead that are to be accommodated when man ceases to be, his wants ceases with him and! haviag nolonger any participation o the concerns of this world he has no longer any power or authority in di- recting who shall be its governors or how its government shall be organized or how administered and as we look back to those anspicious days, we bless the Almighty that he imparted to our fore-fathers, so large a measure of his own wisdom that he breathed into their councils such a spirit of calm results hopeful ze1l, that he put into their mouths words of such compre- hensive truth that through all time as each successive as each generation draws nearer to the laws of universal | brotherhood it will but develop more fully the principle by which the Uni- ted States of America first took their} place among the nations. ! Heaven hath indeed smiled ‘upon us, butsome drops of bitterness hath} been kindly intermingled in the cup of joy lest the draught should intoxicate and lull us to sleep, among the many errors America has been guilty of, few have been greater or attended more | fatal consequences to its citizens, none leaves a more conspicuous blight up- on the country because of a direct, | active repudiation of those principles which history from the colonial period ; to the present advises us, are the prin- | ciples upon which this government is founded, the rights whichare granted, guaranteed and given every man even ifhe be of foreign birth, the enjoy- ment of liberty and freedom and pro- tection, than does the lack of respect |shown the American Negro asa citi- zen, a man anda gentleman, his ex- clusion irom a participation in rights for which he fought, for which he has | given his life in contest for the same rights which a government by the people, for the people, of the peo- ple has spread world-wide .are his, j that helps support by taxation, that he honors, respects, yea! whose time is given his country’s service officially and otherwise and even though he) bears the colors of that country, ‘“‘Old} glory’. ‘The Stars and Stripes,”’ o! “The land of the free, the home of the brave,’ on land or sea that country | has not and does not and will not re-} spect such citizens as citizens should | be respected, if America would show| its respect for character, its apprecia- { tion for man, its regard for justice, no, better place than home, no better time | can be had than now, to practically} demonstrate that belief and opinion for which humanity in its cries because | of destruction by lynching in the south the non-security in travel, or home and the markea and distinct lines of prejudice draw" in this country upon an American, @ citizen, a tax-payer, because of his complexion, his de- scendency, even in the National Capi- tal city and the demand for justice and | equality go forth It is surprising that after repeated proofs of the same evils, the result of, the same line of treatment, action, a continuation should be allowed and silence no longer can be endured when we see the independence of the! country after standing every shock} from without endangered by eternal enemies. Is it possible America! should suffer men, who are guilty of this and a_ thousand other calamities which this country has ex-| perienced to live amcng us! To live among us, did I say? Age! do they, not move in our assemblies ? do they | \not insult us with their abusive con-) |ception of preference? Do they not hold traitorous assemblies of their own? Do they not walk the streets at noon-day and taste the air of liberty? In short, do they not enjoy every previlege of a brave soldier who has| spilt his blood, or honest patriot who| has sacrificed his all in a righteous | cause? Yes, and to the eternal shame of America, be it spoken they do.— W.A.C. | i | t | | A WORTHY OBJECT. | Chicago, June roth, 1898. | Fditor of The ey gi Dear Sir: A movement has been set on foot by some of the citizens of Chicago and | also a number of prominent citizens throughout the United States to or- ganize an association to be known as “The National Colored Soldiers and Sailors Monument Association of the | United States.’’ The aim, object and purpose of this association is to erect a monument in one of the public parks | in the city of Washington, D.C., in honor of the memory of the colored} soldiers and sailors who fell in the war | of 1861 and also those thirty brave! colored sailors who lost their lives on| the battleship “Maine” in Havana Harbor in 1898. lam of the opinion that this would be one of the greatest events of the age before the nineteenth century passes away. We as a race of people owe this to the memory of those brave beroes who sacrificed their lives in de-} | fense of national honor. | Will you co-operate with us in such} a laudible movement? Let me hear} from you soon. Yours respectfully, John G. Jones, 191 Clark St. Room 11. | were made by Mrs. ROSLYN, VIRG! CLOSING oF THE Prat The public school was closed on last Frid very appropriate teacher Miss Ella M. 8 ington, D. C., des the faithful perfor She has worked h school up to its origina succeeded in doing s of this place are mu Miss Boston’s work an ious for her return has done more for school than any ot The exercises | excellently perfor: solos, instrumenta tions, duets, diz bourine drill by cluded this part of The second part concluded by P: Law Dept. of He consisted of a an Walter H. Brox both very pri The ladies handsome ta which was the host. Rev. Theo. Daniels, Mr. H A.F. T. Boston Gaines, Watson A YOU ARE R From the Rising Son Editor Chase ha tude of editi ceventeen ye is not a pessimis: not been permar has nature bee him, and the po: constitution i ance incondu OFFICE-SEEK From the Atlanta Age. The Washington B mark that ‘‘Register | of friends. The pure and simple.” Mr. Lyons would « excerpt out of the pape his hat. He has s in Georgia that will kee ing constituency as long the meshes laid for him ing malcontents whot and departments t Bruce is the only co that ever went to Washi cepted the head of a did not find himse term a political ema of the office-seeker, brother I Yes brother Pledger, lots of friends when | Men seek him more then tha other time. Look out for J HE IS ALL RIGHT The Bag is mistaken fence was never fallir needed no repairing. | ing. his fences have be er. He has the full c« party men throughout th is heartily attested by th commending him fi loyalty to the pr him to his pres Lyons is all right an of Georgia honor him. H We know that Capt. Ly right, brother Dev 4 when state comm! to convene, it means Capt. Lyons has fe The Tribune, to the « withstanding. THE LYCEUM CLOSEs. INTERESTING EXERCIS On Sunday last the C Lyceum closed for the su executive committee splendid program which pleasing to the large a ent. Miss Mattie R, Bow On takin the chair, she most remarkable and point on “opportunity” Brie Hi Peters, Moore and others by Misses Annie Payne Richardson were well re their remarkable sweet the subject of general fav Elizabeth B. Brown’s “'M vet.”” The sound of a « distance suggested to t that the little Miss at t Blanche I.Coleman ané | of Manassas” was on. Fo the audience sat in a silence and heard a national airs mingled ar booming cannon and musketry. At the conclu musical battle, she w ovation. A section of Prof. Tho ington’s Orchestra was aided greatly in the sing President W. C. Mart and after thanking t auxiliary, the various attended the lyceum | from time to time vis the exercises, anno until September next president then called { the gavel, the audien America, and the bene« Cypress of John Wes the first year’s work © Congressional Lyceum A NEW BILLIAR One of the most un loons in this city is son Taylor, 1206 Taylor is one of the in this city who is thority on sports. lors contain the most tables. If you want an er at billiard and pool, don't 1206 Pa. avenue, northwe'