The Washington Bee Newspaper, February 7, 1903, Page 1

“PAPER FOR THE PROQPLE. | 1 FIRESIDE COMPArun. it is true if you see it in THE BEE. WASHINGTO “WA “Sional Library. Do youwant reiiable news? Do you want e fearless race advocate? Do you want colored trade? Read and advertise in THE BEEL he Bee ae Ba Kame ee ————------ DIUM. f Somaliland by England Means Cruel War. vad Mullah Who, on October 6, De- Col. Swayne’s Troops bh Great Loss to British Must Be Conquered. regrettable the reverse a by Col. Swayne in his opera- sinst the Somali Mahdists may have served a useful purpose, London Graphie, if it directs ttention to the importance of to account the British posses- | MUST THE | | ‘NEGRO Gt)? | de | | SENATOR MORGAN'S ,DEPORTA- TION FALAGY | His Pretended Friendship for the Race | that was and Loyal to the Re. public—Attorney T. L. Jone’s re- ply to (Political; Hypocracy—A Caustic Rejoinder to’ a Deceptiv | Theory | vantages to the voluntary negro emi- | grant whomay choose to find a good home under our flag. . WOULD BE UNCONSTITUTIONAL | | ‘Your letter indicates that there isan | Opinion among the people that | have }gone much farther thanI have above | stated, and that I have offered a bill in | the Senate. or intend to offer a biil, to ; compel the emigration of the negrocs \from this continent to the Philippine jIslands. Such a statement is without | foundation, + “puch a movement would be in utter , disregard of the Constitution of the | United States | ‘I have done all that lay in my power, i1 the measures above referred jthem in the countries of their origin, jto which they can return, if such is | | | to. to assist in preparing homes for | | | colon! ina counfry well suited fo} colored man in the countries of his | fbeir wands and ¢as¢es, where /hey will | origin’’. be free from ¢he actual compefit.on of} How kind! What kind of a home| the whive race. I/ is a coun¢ry in which | has the Senator prepared for his col- | | ‘hey could domuch goed /o o/her races | ored fellow citizens of Alabama? The | who would welcome ¢hem | lash, torch and disfraachisement are “But Uneed nof discuss this ma/fer| the political Jewels the Senator and jany further, I only refer fo fhis view ot | his party have put upon the necks ol | it, £o inform you ¢ha¢fhe opinion I have i the colored Americans of Alabama; and jof che advanfages of inigration fo ¢he| their new constitution and laws, with Philippines is wot ¢hefresul/ of any un-| the grandfather clause and educational friendly feeling foward ¢ne negro race. | qualification were made and adopted Phe negroes and ¢he whife people have | by the Senator and his friends, with] ja difficul/ /ask, ¢ha¢ now require their | the avowed purpose of degrading the unifed efforts fo avoideyils in the prop|negro. While the Senator receives er adjusmenf of ¢heir rela¢ion fo each | tue usufruct of the position as United other. {S'ates Senat-r, and from that lofty | perch as an Ex-confederate and parol- | ed prisoner dictatesto the Nation the “Tie rule of obedienee /o law is ¢he | Segregation, separation and emigra- only rulé¢hafcan secure fo bo¢h races | tion of native born American citizens. OBEDIENCETO THE LAW. HUMAN NATURE TEST Would Man’s Second Life Be Betteg Than His First? Few York Sage Comes to the Concha sion That We Would Do Just as Before If-We Were in the Same Place. “You hear men talking about what they would do if they could live their lives over nin,” said a man who poses for a e in the hotel where he lives uptown to a New York Sun reporter. “Here is an experience ihe = 5 fe Did you ever know a Negre; who - rie eae the blessings of domessic peace, and| Did y “ gro; wh ‘et gaa ith F ao the Great Eastern Horn of} ae re isc itech d to the |i/i8 nod a favorable condition for fhe | wasa paroled prisoner’ to: participate | Which makes me have goubte.cm-the Of the existence of these pos- | “For some time articles have ‘appear-| African bs ae noe v ge to the} peace and prosperity of eifner race |imthe rebellion against the stars and| subject. vecious the publie knows little; of |ed inthe daily press fucdet one: Mel they canice a pee niteds tates. 20g éoat there is no sfronger bond of union | stripes? Not one in the ten millions) “1 went bach to the country where ‘ : : a 1 | th Stay according to their |). on fi is er of fue law, | of this Republic y : y' great strategical importance | country relative to Senator John Mor-j will and pleasure. [ shall neither per- be¢ween ¢hem than fhe leéfer of fie law, saree | I grew up, and which | left 40 years ai commercial promise they know For this ignorance the present able situation is primarily due, s impossible for the imperal nt to undertake costly ex- , or to establish an elaborate itive machinery in countries “ not interest the tax-payer. f Somaliland, with the im-! ts of Zeyla, Bulhar and ecame British some 15 as a consequence of the Lgyptian dominion in the r some years it was admin- ‘ sub- to its strategical pos to India, has alway srine dependency of the | 0% In 1898, however, it} (nat : * { " ed to the imperial gov- | of the so called Negro Problem is hos- was taken in charge by ependency of Aden, | keen interest, among the colorea peo- | while my peopl | for your frankness of statement, they }gan, of Alabama and his deportation falucy. Attorney Thomas L. who was anxious to ascertain whether Senator Morgan reilly meant what had been published and whether he had been correctly reported, hence Mr. Jones addressed him the following letter Hon. John T. Mergan, My Dear Senator For the last twenty years there has been no man in public life, whose pub- lic utterances on the Negro question bave commanded and elicited more ple of this country than yours, and dmire and honor you some how conceiyed the idea your position upon the solution tile to their best interest. Jones, | saude them to go or to stay. | 1 have some opinions as t» the | Capacity of the negro rice for mental, and physical growth, which do them no discredit. ‘Ihey are the result of} | the observations of a tong life that has been spent in their midst. Such op- | portunities have convinced methat the | Regro race has no fair chance for full development in any country where the | white race is in the majority. The Senator further states that the| facts of history show the practical im- posibility of the real advancement of | the Negro race in a country where} they are incompetition with the white | race. I deny that statement in toto| and challenge proof, not presumptive or arrogant opivion. 3 *‘As no different or szronger bond is possible be/ween ¢he white and black races in the Unifed Sfafes I look fo ¢he | ulfima/e separaéion, in peace, and with | good will as the only solution ot ¢his| difficul/ problem. “This will come, without ¢he aid of agifation, from ¢hze quie? buf irrisisfi-| ~~ = i bis fare. oF public necessiZy, and 1 |, Phe United States, alone in’ the last hope mosésincerely ¢hat if will no¢| forty years Dave Siete fee when oat bring with if any ill feeling on the part} colored pe errs had an ais ‘of cilieedare foment She ofher. chance of education~and fair play in NO FEAR OR JEALOUSY op ja ..}common with the Anglo-Saxon out- ane talent whowert once fhe oc side «f the music ofthe lash and hoe that he has advanced side by side with his white feliow citizens in war and peace, Frederick Douglass, J. C. krice, | John M. Langston,J C. Dancy, Robert |} } Smal), Governor Pincnback, Judson W. | Lyons, Pay-master Lynch, Paul Dun-| bar, Senator Revels, B. K. Bruce, Jonn Mitchell and W. Calvin Chase | and q hosé of lesser lights have _ held ego. The first thing 1 did after 1 had been in the old town a few hours was to go down to Jim Sims’ place. Jim was the first Seot I ever knew. He was an old seaman. He was the first man to introduce the Scotch game of shuflie-board in the old town. He taught me the game. “Jim was not at the old place when I went back. He had been dead 15 years. However, I played shuffle, the first time in many years, and I did other things which go with the game, and went out of the place, as 1 had gone out of it years before. “The next day 1 went up to the old courthouse where the boys used to loaf in summer. 1 clambered up into the cupola and went outside, and looked down upon the old hills ce. Nopublicexplana-| By news papers and perported in- their owa in competition with the} eee walleys. : n given of this transfer, | terviews attributed to you, you have jwhite man. Faithful laborious in ‘Not far away was the old hill « who have watched the | been {charged with entertaining the jpeace, brave end gallant in war, by} where the schoolhous2 used to stand. f the international ri- Red sea and the straits | * Mandeb, the motives by | ffice was actuated | ; With the ished at Jibutil and the ‘ secure. | i } sians casting about ations in the same neigh- and with the sudden growth j | Race Problem is the deportation of | the Negro to Africa | of this country view that the only solution to the itis generally believed that some years ago youoffered a biil in tie United States Senate, for the forcible Deportation of all the colored people to Africa. Recently you have been charged with the in- tention in the near future of offering a what token shail the negro be judged. The SeMator patronizingly says— Many of yout people are aversed to giving up the Nghts and privileges ot citizenship in the United States. Let usreflect! Aversed togtving np our lega: rights,’’ What,s the matter with tue Scnator? How woy!d he like! to give up hisr gots as a citizen and | Senacor from Aiabama? Turn the ta-| It was gone, but the hill was white with snow and the boys were coast- ing as we used to coast. “I borrowed a sled from a young- ster, and lying down belly-buster fashion I made a trip down the track, as I used to do. It shook me up a bit, but I did it, ard, as in other - -. +) | bill for the purpose of having the Gov- bles fora moment, and these White|days, I narrowly escaped colliding ry power of Abyssinia in | ernment = acco ae ccloeed people people from Alabama and the Other} with a wagon. ' ng background, the impe- | of the South to the Philippine Islands. Southern States, woul grunt and| “I went into a store where every- ent probably thoughtthat | I am to address the Bethel Literary squeal worse than a th sand pigs|one used to know me. It was ar- which holds the principal land Historical Association on the under a tnousand plantation gates if! yangec very different from the oid g Abyssinia, the while it divides | 27th of January 1903 in this c.ty at the you ever suggest depurtation to their store, but the fever was on me and with Aden the command of the earre- | Metropolitan A. M. E. Church M.St., FOr en One tOn ENGI, «| 1 sat down on a counter. i | t of Red sea, shuuld not re- | northwest, on the subject: “*Senator He peri aweeee! ae oa “The floorwalker asked me where I : — — |Morgan and bis Negro Deportation gored, and the h norable Senator 5 P ‘ i « ary concern of a colo | Falacy.” May | ask, whether you are knows it better than anyone else, but}¢ame from. Ltold him. He said that i 1istration. Unfortunately, | sion of the imperial govern- | not go beyond taking the pro- ate under its immediate wing. h an immense region has been off as British, in virtue of es with Abyssinia and Italy, | g was done to occupy the coun- | tside the coast towns. The re- | was that the Arab sheiks, left to emselves, were free to plot a & | > suzerain, and early in 1899 these | tg came to a head in the agitation | the Mullah Mohammed Abdullah, | ho proclaimed himself mahdi, and | called upon the faithful to rise and irive the Giaour into the sea. Thé | lisaffection spread over an immense | area. Simultaneously with the move- ment of the Mullah in the south of the Somaliland protectorate, the sheiks n the northern provinces of British | st Africa became rebellious. Con- | sequently, in 1899 two expeditions had | be organized, one against the Oga- | sheiks and sultans ijn Jubuland, the other against the Mullah. Ogaden was effectually pacified the Mullah was several times de- ated and forced to take refuge in Thereupon the retired once more to the coast, ¢ that the Mullah would profit n_ territory. | taining your correct position, upon this | | 1 jag! | United the author of any bill, having for its object the Deportation of the Negroes from this country as alleged? er do you intend offering such measure pro- viding for the forcible deportation of the colored peorle to the Philippine Islands? A great injustice. I perceive, has al- ready been done you by evil designed persons, in misrepresenting your true} position, and at is witha view of ascer ail important matter, and ene of vital interest to my people that I address you this letter. I cannotafford to, and would not, misrepresent you. It is earnestly hoped that you will find it convenient to give me in your own way the information sought, and also your position during these years on this question. Hoping that I may be pardoned for trespassing upon your valuable tine. I have the honor to be, Your obedient servant, ‘Thomas L. Jones. In reply tothe foregoing letter Sen- ator Morgan sent the following reply. “Your letter of December 31 1s inthe spirit of kindness and sincerity that I appreciate, and requires an answer/that have occupied northern Africa or from me in the same spirit. States, believing have not brought forward any | have been atall times free to migrate discussion of the race question in the|to southern Europe, and have been that the| protected by the laws while residing ; opinions of the white and black races | sull continues to rid 2 two horses cross- ing the stream of negro deportation. 1 can assure the Senator that forty years of freedom has give us a wonder- | ful taste for the article, andit will take more than oly words and soft scap argument to imduce us to leave our jnauve land and starta new lifeina land of savages. The Senator in another part of his remarkable polifical letter, sagely Says that ‘obedience to law is the on-| y rule, thatcan secure to both races| the blessings of domestic peace.” 1 am sure that any man, thougha compara.ive fool, would net deny that “Not that the white man has any fear or jealousy of the power of the black man, or any wish to keep him in astate of restraint or repression; but itis true, through ail past history that the negrorace has never governed in a country where the white race is in the majority or even where it is found in considerable numbers. “In all ages of which we have his- torical records the negro race has occupied central and southern Africa, and they have made no real effort to | exercise authority over races or nations western Asia or southern Europe. They in those countries. Yet in all that vast z statement, but coming from the Ala- cupanés of all our presen¢ domain have | bama Senator, whose white const been separifed from zhe whife race| ents disobey and violate the Unifed and located west of the Mississppi| States law every day in the week, is riyer. i really amusing, if not ‘insulting to the “‘Ié has required compulsion 4o ac-| intelligence of common people. complish this resui¢, and ¢he lesson} And further on the distinguished has been a hard one fo all concerned.|Senafor says that ‘‘ 1 look to I do nof wish to see if repeated, and I| the uttimate separation of the white don’? believe that it will be repea/ed. | and black races in the United States, Rut the separation will come af some | and this will come by the irresistible fuéure ¢ime. + | fe of public necessity ”’ “All [have tried todo has been 49} Public neeessity,”’ the very argu- assis‘in providing for she negro race an affractive home in ¢he nafive coun: fries of ¢heir race, where ¢hey could seek anc find happiness and prosperity. accordigg fo the endowmenfs and stceng¢h ¢hat God has bestowed upon taeir race. “If they choose fo resort fo these | ments and implements of politicians and tyranis in all lands and climes, God Almighty foresaw the destiny of the Negro in his new home in; AMerica. He saw the pilgrim fathers in their native land oppressed, out- raged and condemned on account of} freedom of thought of conscience and| nobody ever sat on a counter in these days. “Wherever I went the old desire to do what I had done in the old days came back upon me. It came very near resulting in my undoing. “I was passing by a house where I used to go courting. The old house was not changed very much, and the first thing 1 knew I was at the door pulling the bell-knob out its socket. A demure woman answered the ring. “Is Miss Amanda at home? 5 asked. That was the name of the girl I used to go to see in that home. “The matron looked at me very, suspiciously and slammed the door. As I was passing down the walk the man of the house overtook me and demanded an explanation and au apology. “I finally explained who I was and then the man asked me to go back, which I did. He showed me aroun® the old place and I had a pleasant visit. He was a pretiy good fellow after all. As I was leaving he said: “I suppose you always kissed your sweetheart in leaving?’ “I told him he was all right on telepathy. “ ‘Well,’ he replied, ‘there isn’t any girl here now for you to kiss. I am es i Gang ici 1 atured, as to the | 2 tive region there are prob- x : ; atte: : = : z 9 re lest od A is mbdalalarreary be race, to make | ary Biker neues than can be Tomas counfries I wi!l be gratified. Iv no¢, 1} religion, — He saw them finally embark doing all that business myself in this : broke out again, and another such adiscossion’ prodtablc. in a single county in Alabama, while will a¢leas¢ have no cause ¢o reproach | - Pati a aie Seaton sags establishment. But if you'll step F on had to be organized. This |° Wien the African race, or anyim-|all southern Africa is now practically | myself with having omiffed fo do my | which was destined to be inhabited by) int, my den we'll have a drink to- pedition which came to grief r day at Ergo. It is very clear s that the policy of shelv- ity for the direct ad- n of the protectorate is a d that henceforth it will be to hold the country with a Happily the-enterprise h will well repay its cost. ts of the interior are of value, and if once tran- ired the trade of the enormously increased. it is to be remembered portant number of them, have maaeé up their mindsto migrate to some fore- ign land. or to some Jand under the shelter ofthe government ofthe United States, it will be timely and right to discuss the question of the inducement or assistance that 1t may become the/ where they are in competition with the duty of the government to give to/ white race. such a movement. PROVISION FOR THE NEGRO ruled by white men. E | ‘We may have different theories on which we account for these facts, but ‘the facts remain, and they show the! practical impossibility ot the real ad- vancement of the negro ina country @‘‘You are a lawyer, and I have no rea- jsonto doubt your proficiency in thet | learned profession, I gather trom your duty fo both races when opporéunity | offered." Attne Bethel Literary on Tuesday evening January 27¢h, Mr. Geo. W.} Jackson, presiding and Miss Ella M.} Bosfon, secrefary. The presiden/ in/ro- | duced Mr.Jones incomplimen/ary ferms who affcr having read fhe two above leffers, his 4oSena¢or Morgan and the Senators reply, he delivered the follow | ing address: Ladies and Gentlemen: | convention three hundred millions of people, the Continued on 4th page. Ho! For A Suffrage Convention. (From The Boston Guardian.] The Guarctes agrees with the Wash- ington Bee ia its advocacy of a suffrage among colored people. The time is now ripe for such a move= “Since 1 came to the Senate. and | appearance that you area full-b.coded before that time, I have thought of the \negro, without any admixture of the subject of clearing the way for the vo!-) blood of any other race, and men you untary emigration of the African race. | speak of your people I infer that zon 4 If the time should ever arrive when |alludeto the negro 'ace. Having the The agitation of the negro question| ment. Some such concerted action by is the great bone of contention in this | the thinking men of the race should be Republic to-day, and like the ghos of! taken in the very near future to con- Banquo it will not down at our bidding. | sider “ways and means”’ for the recuv- gether.’ “His den was the room of Aman- de’s brother, and there he and [ used to go and make sneaks on his father’s bottle. “And now whenever I hear a man talking about what he would do if he could live his life over I conclude that he would do just what he did before if he were in the same place. I don’t’ believe any of us would be any better than we are, and prob- ably not as good. “In leaving the old town I saw an ieielivetus ob Uiecoae hey would be willing to emigrate and | unmixed blood ofthe negro race in Recently I addressed the foregoing | ery of the Negro’s franchise. The Ne-| orchard that was familiar. The train i pele dibahigle Soie peed ieennine A go to. another your veins, I also infer that your sym-| letter to Hon ane T “spiky United e Sadtied all right as far as President passed by it. But the inclination to prior is held by a | SAC - , Lhave thought and still think | pathies and racial affeciions are not! States Senator fiom a abama. desiring Roosev elt’s acion goes in a certain | get into that orchard and steal fruit t on rendering Eng- | C0U® ay ave Fee erent AEA: | Confined to the American negroes. his opinion as to the depertation of the} way, but the ume has come for the | came back upon me as strongly as tenable, or, at any pat there is a s i = such provision | ‘1 here must be as many as_30,000,- black m sn by law or voluntary emigra- | sacred righ’s of this race to be crystal-| i¢ did when in 08 ia . I yielded if mndoae | tural justice in making suc Ls ‘t is |ooo negroes of full blood in Africa, tion and received in r-ply this most} 1zed aad embalmed in law! The rights | t did when in other days I yielde sii de | for the benefit of that race, when it is| 4 remarakle letier, platitudes, infused | of 12,000,0000 people cannot be allowed | to it. I felt like Jumping from the Proceeds of a Pond. | requested by such spiral Fey set NO EXCUSE FOR YIELDING. | witn philosophic sugar and vin: gar, | to depend upon the wishes of one man; | trai nan in England | Such doll ace 7 | “If only 100.000 of them had the | soft soap and wee as the solution of/life is too uncertain, and fate too] yr. anelieee Siti scare racial < of & pond jtention of : £ Pe by such | cultivation you possess there would be | the great prov em. treat herous. | get anything from the railroad com- eres in extent : cae ee support of the | no excuse for yielding the power tocon| Shade of the mighty Webster, Clay| Phe shore ses ren 4 tbe Colored pany for the scalp wound he received 1 eaitesi nee opinions LE er siege inthe encour-|Gucta government, in their own coun! and Calhoun ifths be the statesman race s' hould, therefore, come together! P@3 oye tae ocak Ff F eer" | republic of Lsheren 80 * ful. mission | try, into the hands of any other race. | ship of the nonparicl Senators of to- before the passing of another summer | When he was in the wreck? ype aan) Sie lat cere toby the ‘Free State |Such opportunities would be quite |day-God help the Afro-Ametican, |'© take action as o the best methods| Mrs. LS sepsae een op nee meena crops «being =tn \he cenjrat sip : oe | oe R -y.|suffitient to stir the enterprise and| Lett 3 analyze and paraphase S n-| Of forcing congress consider-tion on} ney of the road said it served him right ; and wa- ; of the Cone petite ave oa eoisabe courage and race affections | ator Morgan's political communica jthe Negro’s franchise. It might be) for buying ascalper’s ticket—Judge. efly eels and | Samuei Lapsley, a w — “both ofl fthe white ‘man. \ tion, and thea grieve at the poverty | Welbto confine th= conven ion to non-| See 4 g the close | Rev. Mr. Sheppard, a sie = very | wel suppose the time may come when | of statesmansnip inthis great republic. | oflice holders and to the north, so that Unselfish. { er are caught them Alabamians. It has bee y Pres o il draw your race toward your é ithough professing to te the friend | its action may sige tlie ot fear Mr. Smith—You are looking for nd are sold to | Successfu ative way I have tried to| naéiv« land, aud I have had no unktad | of the colored citizen.and denying the er ee ton. Boston would be an| _ oy are you? Well, IthinkI can find * ornamental ere seems to be a ging from $3 I water hen toas air of scaups or “Ina legi Nv ; : lay the fieadatioas for such a volun-|or unfriendly m five in wha/f I have fthe negroes of Amer | been érylag fb do, in fie p cpaeen in giving a national /of fne counsry, where your tne character and lag to ‘Free State of the | wait to ae ae ve Base r4 Congo,’ and by voting for the treaty of | and know ledge tnaé y a‘ ponies Sor The first of these} “Many of your people lL ry moyement © ica by assisting intention of introducing a bill fur the piace for such a meet, but we deportation of my brothers in black, |S'aud ready to co-operate with our the whole t nov of the S-nator’s let.| bre hrenin other sections, and will, ter is a d-sire for the expulsion of our | therelore, agree to any more central race te Africa, tue Congo Free States| Pace. Cleveland wouid not be a bad or the Philippine Islands. place, as it is the most central for the something for you to do. Uncle h—'’Scuse me, boss; but it ain’t fo’ mal it’s fo’ mah wife.—Judge. If ’'m lookin’ cites 2 . Sede A . : & actual voting strength of the race. Let " al of the takes | peace with Spain. » ee. t ghés and privileges of And in the same breath he states | 2° f ¥ ’ Pe aa nee " ng up fhe righés z pr 5 :, 1 3s take sma ws ees that tl wjld | movements attracted my attention sole spices in fae United Séa¢es, and | that “Such a movement w uld be in the pres: ae this matter up for con} In = German periodical a teaclien i, teal, shovelers, |!y for the reason that it gave the pro.) Cl @nt tt sneir discredit utter disregard of the Coustitution of | *ideration. It is something upon which) |. 6a Boer reports that he has found vall, coots, moor hen, | Mise of a home (ep es ee ee ; “| have ¢noughé, and am now safis-’ the United pistes. He Sis further | Agia necias: pe See ar fully one-half of the boys in the schools H ick.—Chicaeg, | nthe healthiest and most fe Hl 2 the Phillippine ands that he has done and is “doing all in '° sd | : ef , ee | dabehick.—Chicago iS 2 f Paris,;fied ¢haf,in ¢he J SPP! 2 ee - press? | examined by him addicted to habitual j of Africa; and the treaty 0! : man find localiéies tur very large bis power to Prepare homes for th : ‘ i : ¥ is ] » can find locali#ies tu: ¥ 3 P € f the bein, over 4 : ~---nm | for which I voted, presented equal ad-' they ¢ smoking, none_of them being wh