The Washington Bee Newspaper, September 21, 1901, Page 1

“PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. | FIRESIDE COMPANION. Ban WASHING she Bee GRERY ADVERTISING MEDIUM, 20. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 21, 1901. should be men and measures with iim! and not party. The negro commits self murder when he yotes again-t the interests of those who give him! uccor. If atraveler comes to your home ina sickly and hungry condition| nd is taken in, and you give him medicine and feed him and he is made| well and is aided on his journey hould he afterwards operate agains! the interest of his benefactor, is it not natural that on the day of rec koning| thathe will remember it? Soit is now with the master and the slave nd the offspring of those who were! nslaved., After these many years lof freedom the black man has noi iearned from experience and observa- tion. He is still following in the wake of false and corrupt negro leadership Alleged crimes which are charged to he black man and the penalty inflict d have been transfered from the outh to our enemies in the North, All of our enemiesare notin the South The oppositions to the black mani have permeated the Northern atmos- iphere and the woods are thick with) them clothed as was the wolf when he intercepted little Red Riding Hooa, NEGROE 4OUSAND ASSEMBLED AT HAMIL) TON, VIRGID 4s In the!Parade.—Speeches by Mr. W, use and Mes, Reseetta EB. Lawson. Va. September. 21, rgor, socipation celebration of the this place and the sur- yunties took place this| , o'clock. Long before the » asemble the people from| ng counties began to recisely atg o’clock themUet us not be deceived. Let us have formed and marched#@ Watchful eye of our surroundings and ibe charitable in the expression of ou: thoughts. ‘Ihe day will surely com when the North and South, the Eas: land West will find in the black man not the venom of the anarchist, socialist, or any other foreign element that does not believe in our form oi government. ‘I'hese sections will finc the black man more preferable as 1: citizens, more preferable as body guards, artisans and the like. ‘het! will the stragling element that is daily rossing the waters of the Atlantic auc Pacific into our country cease to be so much in evidence. It is true, the south enacting laws against us in former years the white boy, who is low enacting laws against us, suckec principal streets headed| ated band of that place, -veral other bands in the at the head of the several thechairman of the meet- *s Hicks, a well known h Fork. Va., had the gement of the affair. Thespeakers Mr. ton were W. Calvin eloquent speech, »y Mr. W Calvin Uhase, the principal speech and silows ; citizens: After a hard ra have assembled today rest. Have you been from physical and politi-ggttue breast of a black mammy. Phe or are the chains to beqpmilk, there from, nourished him and i are you to retropradems44ve him vigor. Now the sons ot this ner political conditions, el2ck mammy must ride in a seperate construction? You havegc@!, known as a ‘jim crow C from one end of t Stategpodge in seperate hotels. that this is your Smanci ggepring of the breast that nourished him ty. What have you to re-gco Yay 1s regarded an out cast, and an} mmoralist and unfit for citizenship, Does our condition warrant libel? Does our condition strate the truthfulness of the as sertion? The year of 1gor is rapidly coming to aciose, what has been ac ver? Is it the assembling of yustitutional convention, in the nond, whose object and o deprive you of the right of Do you see in the far future ht prospects of unlimited citizen > I have not come here to give omplished since the dawn of the new ing generalities, neither shail Igpeentury? Have we learned any more? Ifso, what have we saved? Have we nstructed our children how to make consistant, law abiding citizens? Have we invented anything beneficial to promote the wellare of our fellow lpeings? Have we done anything t hmprove our own conditions or com- mend us to the thoughtful consid eration of our more fortunate neigh- nor? You say the “‘jim crow car law’ is obnoxious to you and a disgrace tol the State of Virginia. The question| will be asked, who is responsible for such alaw? If the negro is responsi »le,as itis said he is, what has been done to discredit the charge? There| your virtues. Your committee, your distinguished chairman, know well, and forwhom 1 most profound respect, saw to be present with you -asion of your Emanci tion and I shall not giv foctrine, nor am I here tur- of heavenly love, or on and Territory in this| ro is being discussed is the bone of conten- South. The negro that he was prior juent to reconstruction! , have learned a littleg's. no disguising the fact and we s alittle more book\gmight as well conclude, that this law be repealed until our con- I mean by this, that will never why is it that he is such ditions change. the parties among} been living so long inggthe colored man, woman and child sperity. Is it his fault 4gmust put himself in acondition to com mand respect. When we prove our appreciation for industry, cleanli- ness, education and the accumulation~ lof wealth, then our citizenship will be established and respected. Don’t be mislead by false prophets and get the insane idea that the President o} the United States is able to protect lyou, or any om, if a crime is com. mitted against the laws of your State, lor your country. You are governed by your State laws, and if there ar auy violations of the laws, the violate: must expect to be punished, and if the iaw is not permitted to take its course ind judge, lynch sits in judgement,| the President is powerless to protect you. If wedo not put ourselves inal position to commit crimes, and asso- ciate with characters who are known to be criminals, or men of doubtful characters and reputation there willl Inever bz a cause for tne enforcement of laws by judge Lynch. ase who seek now tc thas been some years 1 or since the proclama am Lincoln and the first the republican party over four millions of et free and allowed to ind enjoy such rights and] ts the white man then en- had control of the State its, with the assistance o} allowed a carpet-bag| knew no law, and had to plunder, rob and im4 1¢ people. It was not so} taultof the negro as it was] tess and the cunning intrigues arpet-bag rule, or certain] ym the North. After they sir pockets, and their 1s discovered, those wh t captured and jailed fled, and ro had to suffer for th The forme: ease and from of ovals ngs of others. once lived in OUR GOVERNMENT. was made poor late civil war, had toff Weare told that this is our govern ack seat. What little prop- In law this is our government, id left was taxedto supportfbut, in fact this government ts I claimed by a superior race and by suf and igry set of whit , aggers. Thus the indigna-[ferance only are we permitted to oc+ rich master of theficupy the ground that we have bought] enraged and no rest orffwith our money, tilled with our labor, {came to him until theffand protected with our lives, against arpetbagism was ob-fdomestic and foreign invasion. The rpet bag governmentsf#black man has always been willing tk now is affand ready to do his whole duty upon a! ensl t of thefland and sea. He has been ever ready who nefittedffto uphold the flag of his country by nstruction regime andffleaving wife and children and sacri i tothe North fromfificing home. Still it is claimed t at i now SilentMhe is unfit for citizenship. The negr sfranchise is never actuated by malice, neither He is Sou vo. Whoffis he quick to resent a wrong. ja trust worthy citizen who may always = ue yanmar be depended on todo his duty in the 7 hour ofextreme peril. Yes, we have aj s_ it is standingMjgovernment. Our government per- nits the anarchist to excite riot and confusion. Our government permits; the anarchist to live and dwell among) usin style and splendor; it permits convention ading your cause and 1ore radical not to take} your last and only sacred more conservative element{Mhim to assassinate the chief magistrate} ed the carpet baggersffof the nation, a man who is as brave a 1 It is some offfhe is good, aman who is !oved, hon s are bitter against you,Mored and respected by the American y history repeating itself ges his condition} useless for him to} ution and respect is more fortunate} The negro must not] that he has no imong those now in supremacy tust he entertain the belief will come to him with his part, or that his will receive the proper, sn without an improvement al and political attitude people, aman who has extended the slive branch of peace to the rebelious South. The anarchist has more rights than the black man, whom you wil disfranchise in afew days. l appeal to you to bring forth your christian civilization, Lask you what has be- come of your gratitude? Were it posi+ bhe for your ancestors to return to life, they would ask what has become o! lour laws. Where is John? What bas become of old aunt Sallie? Where is) black mammy? [he anarchist, t, the socialist, and the whit barbarian are permitted to roam you streets, invade your homes, disturb your national and domestic tranquility’ but, your faithful and honest black e idea POLITICS. © made an incident and not the; tC object of his citizenship. It illustrious citizen servant, your black citizen, who is here} ready to pretect you, must be senten4 dor eliminated from our American| body politic. I ask if this is right or, ust? Does the black man deserve sar I appeal to you, fellow citizen the when the black man comes to power land he is surely coming notwithstand- ing the enactment of your laws, he' will protect you. He will see that your dear and innocent little ones can} still be safe alone,with the black man] lt is true, there are bad and good in ul races. { do not condone crime! imong my people, any sooner than I would pluck the eysfrom my head. Che law should be enforced whenever crime is committed. if we have a law ind it is not obeyed the enactment of such a law is useless. The negro! aever expects to dominate the South any morethan he dues the North, but the day will soon come when Ethio- aia will stretch forth her hand unto sod. The negro whois so baaly iated and disliked will some day b ecognized as a man and a brother Che good will be selected from the bad fall races, then you will see in th 1egro, if not before, such things as you ail to see to day. When people come tmong you and endeayor to impress and educate his own children. The Negro politican has become an agita- or and aisturber of public peace by| iving unwholesome advic Negr ndustries have end are taking the| places of the beggars and ministerial ramps. And business leagues unde he leadership of Prof. tsooker T Washington nave,taken the place of he National gwasi political monstros ity, the Afro-American Council, which is doing as much harm to the cause o} he Negro, as political agitators. Therefore I say, the future of the Ne- gro in the great American body poli tic is left with the Negro. He musi think and act for himself. The Negro| by all means must protect and respect the women of our race and we will have no occasion to disturb the wo- men ofany other race. By following and adhering strictly to these precepts the future of the Negrois then estab lished. The ‘Jim Crow car’’ law will] then be repealed and then the white} Iman will seek you and you not seek him. Around your fireside will be hap-] piness and contentment. In your gar- iden the mingnonnette will bloom and its fragrance will enchant your preju- diced neighbor, while the corn and cotton fields will bring forth abundani rops. Things objectionable will be PRESIDENT WILLIAW MIXIILEY AT REST, Wil Ohio, on last Thursday. President liam McKinley was buried at Canton, Thousands assembled at the dead Chieftian’s grave. The American people have lost a .aost and memory will be perpetuated, you with the idea that you have done great things, you consider to yourself, what great things you have done and ben make a comparsiou with what your neighbor has done After thirty six years of freedom he is unable to} show one rail road owned and con- troled by a negro; one steamboat, zotton mill, or tobacco plant. This of; tself does not speak very well for the} industry of the negro. The negro has} nade a good and brave soldier it is rue, an excellent consumer, and a Zreat producer of natural gas. He can produce more natural gas and say nore and do Jess than any race of peo- ole onthe globe. Heis the great con vention producer and _ resolution ideptor, with less enforcement than any nationality. There area great 1umber of negro representatives in his country who would rather beupon| la dress parade telling you what they, nave done and telling you what you lought to do than to be shutin, in some garret, trying to invent something tol be handed down to posterity. To an xtent the preachersare just as bad, nstead of building such large and ex ensive structures, and having mem-} f thees churches mortage their homes} to pay for them, they should build factories and employ our boys and i then God would b'ess them i This would be the esult of true religion. There is as much deception in the negro pulpit, as here is in democratic and republican oO itics. One is schening to outd he other. So itis in the negro pulpit nd if tne negro politicians would tel] he truth to the masses the condition of the negro would be better Let say just here, live on friendly! erms with your neighbor. Those negroes in the North, over eight hun- dred miles from you, tell you to use the torch and the whinchester. Extend to them an invitation to come down and ry it themselves. The negro is weak financially and physically, and it is just aS easy to live in harmony and eace with his neighbor as it is to live in discord. THE NEGROES’ FUTURE. It is a question to be seriously con- sidered, what the future of the Negro will be. There have been all kinds o theories advanced, but none havc solved the problem. In the first place, the masses of the Negro must not b deceived by crafty and misleading pol ticians and these quasi organization jaone of which have advanced an ideas which have proved profitable t the Negro. There was a time whe opposed the doctrine of Booker T Washington because his mode of ex pressing himself placed him in the po ition ef an apologist and trimmer. H was advocating 4 doctrine that was de :rimental to the Negro and which tick led the fancy ofthe southern white man who was inimical to our interests Now, he is acting the part ofa man land a benefactor of the race. He i> practically solving the great Negro question. The Negro has been asleep since his lemancipation. He has just been a- roused froma thirty years slumber. land begins to realize the importance lof depending more upon himself and ach other. Don’t you know that ince the emancipation of the Negro, with his boasted intelligence and guas7 leadership, he has been a domestic ana national beggar? Ifhe hasa celebra tion of his emancipation he appeals to his white friends to defray the ex- ipenses; if he builds a church, schoo! house or college he asks his whit Ineightors to assist him. The North m philanthropists have been very enerous, but stilisome of them hav: ‘oncluded to allow the Negro to wor ut his own salvation, build his cw hurches, school-houses, and college~ He must establish his own industrie benefactor. He is dead but his things of the past. We will be regard- -d as human beings and not beasts of prey, and not game and sport for the| hunter's gun, or mobs tu have a holi Jay. Iam giad I have had the oppor- tunity of addressing you upon ques- ‘ions which I know are near to you, The great question which concerns the American Negro to day, is: How to ive? You want to know how to stay he hands of the mob and the burning atthe stake. No mob willinvade your homes if no crime has been commit Continued on fourth page. MEN YOU HAVE HEARD ABOUT.’ Gov. Yates may use his appointing power to name the three new circuit judges. Alfonso XII. is not a black Span- iard. He fair land curly hair. Prof. Hinckley G. Mitchell, of the Boston university school of technolo- gy, has gone to Pale where he will spend a yea of the American study and research. B. F. Meek, who invegted the reel universally used on fishing rods now- ladays, died a few days ago at Frank- fort, Ky., aged 60. It is said by these who knew him well that he never fished a day in his life. It was William Pitt who originated the income tax in Great Britain in 1798 as a war tax. The Napoleonic wars were fought with it. From that time to this it has been the resort of all ministries to meet war exper tures. M. Hanotaux, late French minister for foreign affairs, has informed the electoral committee of Vervins that he will not offer himself for reelec- tion, having decided to retire defi- nitely from politics and devote him- is and has blue eyes tor school for oriental self to literature. James Lawrence, Jr., of Grafton, Ma: is regarded as the most popu- lar man at Harvard this year. “Big Jim, he is known, is a splendid football player, ro No. %in the s up in all sorts of ath- leties, a favorite, and, though coming from one of the England, ved ‘varsity race tremendous social wealthiest famiuies of New is thoroughly Hard to Tell. It is hard to tell whether flies or people aggravate @ man the more.— Atchison Globe. MONUMENT TO PRES!IDENT MCKINLEY, Loyalty of Colored Citizens is very significantly Shown. Chicago, Ili,. Sept. 16th—The con- :regation of Bethel African Methodist iscopal Church, which is located on rhe Corner of 3o!h and Dearborn Sts n Chicago has on foot a project to rect at Canton, Ohio, a monument in nouor of President McKinley. The| ollowing committee was chosen at a neeting of the congregation Sunday vening, September r5th to formulate nlans. The committee consists off Rev. A. H. Murray, 'ohn G. Jones, <ichard E. Moore, John C. Buckner, 4. H. Morris, A. H. Roberts, and O R. Johnson. Representative Iohn G. Jones offered he following resolutions which were} inanimously adopted by rising vote. “Whereas, We have learned with| rofound sorrow and regret of the jeath of His xcellency, McKinley, President of the United! tates, and whereas, we deem it fit- ting and proper, as members of the| Bethel Atrican Methodist Episcopal (Church togivean expression of the Sincere loss that this nation has sus- tained by his death, Therefore be it Resolved that we recognize in his death that the nation nas lost one of its most valued, pro- gressive and distinguished citizen, a wise and patriotic statesman, a faith- ful and watchfui public servant, for whose loss this country meurns, Resolved Further, that the Pasto: Rev. Dr. A. L. Murray of this church be requested to appoint a committee pf seven (7) for the purpose of formu- lating a plan to build a monument at Canton, Ohio in memory of this dis- tinguised dead hero. Resolved that we here extend to hi: family our sincere and heart felt sym-| pathy in this hour of bereavement.” Brief and eloquent addresses were| imade by Representative John G. Jones} land Rev. A. L. Murray. OUR PRESIDENT NO MORE, AMPAIGN THAT WILL END IX HALLS OF CONGRESS START. ED AT COLORED VETERANS CAMP FIRE, Remarkable Speeches Stir Up Scemes of Strange Intensity at Gathering in Grays Armery— Race Feeling and Party Differences Vanish: Away. From the Cleveland O. Plain Dealer. Aged and bent colored veterans, many fromthe center of the black belt of the south, relieyed their pent up feelings with tears andshouts to-— gether with hundreds of their white Che Assassins Bullet Effective. The fumer the Nations Chief, Thousands Could Not See him. Impressive Ceremonies—Laid. At Rest in Canton, Ohio. President Wm. McKinley, th Nations’ Chief, who was fatally shot, Friday, September 6th at Buffalo, N. Y.in the Temple of Music, and died Friday, Sept. 13th in the City of Buffalo, N. Y., was brought to this City on las: Monday evening and carried to th Executive Mansion. On Tuesday, the remains were carried to thel Capitol, where services were held. I'he procession was headed by Major Sylvester, Chief of Police, followed by over one hundred mounted officers anda military es- rt aud several hundred civic or-] ganizations. It was the most im- pressive spectacle thut was ever witnessed in this City and th most solom» that has ever taker place. Thousands of people stood upon the side walks of Pennsylve. uia, Ave, while the heaven was} pouring forth its tears intermin- gled with the tearsfrom the popu- lace and their aching hearts telling the story of the sad death of Wm. McKinley. At THECAPITOL. the casket was opened and the heart bleeding citizens took a look in the face of their dead Chieftain, In the eve.ing the remains were ried to the Baltimore and Po- tomac depot under military and police escort and conveyed to Can-, ron, Obio, the home of the dead President. A CENTURY OF PROGRESS. been reserve r Prof. E. B. United States, to give the most striking summary of the world’s progress in science during the century just ¢ It is an admirable instance of the multum in parvo and brin, home the salient points of the century in a way that volumes of learned disquisition would not do.) We received we bequeath 80. We received the stairway, we be-| queath the elevator. We received the gunpowder, we be} gueath nitroglycerin. We received the tallow dip, we be- queath the are light. We received the sailing ship, we be- queath the steamship. We received the sickle, queath the harvester. We received ordinary light, we Be-+ queath Roentgen rays. We rived the galvanic battery, we bequeath the dynamo. We received the flintlock, we queath automatic Maxims. We received the scythe, queath the mowing machine. We received leather fire buckets, we bequeath the steam fire engine. We received the hand printing] press, we bequeath the Hoe cylinder pr qt has Dolbear, of the chemical elements, be- we re be-| we be- We received the hand loom, we be-+ queath cotton and woolen fac tory. We received the average duration of life of 30 years, we bequeat% 46) the years. "We received the goosequill, we be+ queath the fountain pen and type- writer We received the nounced, we bequeath the weather bureau. We received unalleviable pain, we; bequeath aseptics, chloroform, ether| and cocaine. We received wood and stone for bequeath 20-storied weather unan- structures, we steel buildings. We received the beacon signal fire, we bequeath the telephone and wire- less telegraphy. We received the painter’s brush, we bequeath lithography, the camera and color photography. The nineteenth century received from its predecessors the horse. We bequeath the bicycle, the locomotive and the automobile. omrades from nearly every state in he union last night atthe Grays* rmory. As the camp fire of the colored roops progressed the successive peakers seemed to be inspired by some unseen power and many of the sentiments expressed will pass inta lnistory as the most remar«able of the entire encampment. Questions that politicans have been in the habit of discussing almost in whispers, fearful of stiring up intense keeling, were handied by notable men astnight with unguarded frankness. Gen. O. O. Howard, the idol of the colored civil war veterans, started a campaign against anarchy and lynch taw with a ringing speech, that he says line purposes to end in the halls of con- gress. ‘There are no black men and no white men here tonight,” said the beloved general, ‘but this hall is fill- ed with grand American c tizens “The bloody days of war are over, jout new perils threaten the nation that must be strangled, and strangled t once, “Anarchy, the venomous spirit of nate and malice, is rearing its hissing aead in this country. And with all my strength | wish to sink in your minds the tact that anarchy is treason. “It is now the duty of congress te pass certain laws that will go after treason with the force of a trip ham- mer Lawsmust be enacted that will be carried out if every Anarchist that roams in our great cities has to bite the dust. “The awful custom of lynching American citizens without any show joeing given the bleeding victims must also be stamped out. The satanic spirit of hell that these awful scenes breath forth is only half the pity. But the fact that the majesty ofthe law is veing trampled upon is the great curse of these terrible affairs: A mighty cheer that set the rafters of the armory to ringing greeted the Kervid utterances of the noble old soldier. When the feelings of the au- ditors were under control General Howard leaned sympathetically to- ward the eager crowd and witha broken voice he said: “This, my dear comrades, is proba- bly the last time the old man will see you, colored and white, you are all the Same to me, and so in departing | ieave you in the hands of the God ot the heavens and all the peoples.’”’ As the general left the platform and tarted tu leave the hall the unique udieece arose as if with one impulse nd cheered the old cammander te he echo. Following Gen. Howard, Congress- man Burton spoke especially to the Id colored ‘*heroes” of the bright pages which they have written in American history, and of what the American people yet expect. When Gov. Nash stepped to the iront of the stage he received one of he most significant greeting givem him during the encampment. It was. three minutes before he could make his voice heard in the hall. He sa.@ in part: “I do not propose to taik about the deeds of the colored people, for we all now them andthe people of Ohia are magnanimous enough to acknowl dge them. But 1 do propose to talk bout the results ofthatwar Whenit was ended no longer did humam slavery exist in this country. And then the colored man acquired the same right toobtain property and to vote that | possessed. But what I do want tosayisthat the movement to disfranchise the negro already started n some of the states, is a burning ut-rage. You who have fought for the preservation of the unionare not ho be disfranchised by those wha tought against it. ‘And { stand here to tell you thata reat work is leittorus todoand a terrible blot on ourcountry’s record imust be wiped away. And Iam not shamed of the record of Ohio in re- ard to the evil o1lynchlaw. On the ontrary 1am proud that there has uot been a lynching in Ohio for some years. But one attempt has been imade and that at Akron. The attempt. was frustrated, happily fur the honor f Ohio, and over tweniy five of those who attempted the great crime are now behind the penitentiary wails. But the nation must be aroused and he honor of law and true Americanism eld up for the benefit of aul men in ur grand commonwealth ’' The govenor came into the hall lean- ng heavily on hiscane, but in the arnestness of his address he forgot I] about his weakened condition and spoke with unusual force. The spirit {the gathering bad thrown down alt varty barriers and so Col. james Kil- vourne, the Democratic nominee for venta Continued on eighth page. SEE CPE EES tae SERENE eteelionesiiiy apenas