The Washington Bee Newspaper, February 14, 1903, Page 1

A FIRESIDE COMPS:niva. 4t Is true if you see it in THE BEE. ont BORROW TH'TS PAPER 00D ROADS NEEDED. joterest in the Subject Stimulated by the Brownlow Bili. “ateamen Who Ald In Improving Our Highways Will Deserve and Khe- ceive the Plaudits of the People. the days of the old National d, sometimes called the Cumber- i road, and locally known as the tional pike, Henry Clay could ride whole length of that thorouga- e and be entertained at all the tels on its course without the cost a single cent to himself. This nor was extended to him because f his activity and influence in get- ing the road established and in con- tructing and extending other higue ys at the nation’s expense. Wal- P. Brownlow, one of Tennessee's bers of the popular branch of ess, stands some chance to link .me also with the building and vement of highways through untry, and several bodies of -ntative men are working for ime object, and will deserve f the same praise. ownlow’s bill proposes to the general government, in co- on with the states, in the f road construction, extension nprovement. His measure is i: “A bill to create in the de- ut of agriculture a bureau to wn as the bureau of public and to provide for a system ral, state and local coopera- 1 the permanent improvement e public highways.” It proposes ppropriation of $20,000,000 by onal government, to be used ection with sums set apart t counties or towns for maintaining public high- s e highway commission- many parts of the country are g their approval of the Many of the congressmen dy now alive remembers such st in the country at large in HON. WALTER P. BROWNLOW. (Tennessee Congressman Who Is Booming he Road Problem.) the question of the construction and improvement of the public highways as now exists. When the firat bill making an appropriation for the Na- tional road from Cumberland, on the ‘Potomac, in Maryland, to Wheeling, ion the Ohio, was passed by congress fin 1806, and when the first actual ;work of construction began in 1811, the matter of getting communication between the Atlantic seaboard com- munities and the Ohio and Mississip- pi valleys was a subject of vital con- cern to the people of the country. ‘he steamboat had not been invent- i at the time when the first bill was passed. In 1811, when the work of lilding the road actually started, t first steamboat west of the Al- nies went down the Ohio and arted on its route between New Or ins and Natchez. It was a dozen ars after that time, however, be- re steamboats became in any way erous on eastern or western wa- But the steamboat did not the need of opening communi- the east and west. he mountains stood in the way, and e roads did not begin approach- » Alleghenies until about the the first quarter of that The National pike was ex- to the Ohio river, as contem- nd was then pushed across Indiana to the Llinois line, ons of it built farther west. 38, when railroad building ed far enough to absorb s attention to the exclu- construction of »propriations for the Na- i stopped. The imperious ty of improving and extending present publie highways and of icting others, as a matter of | economy, is forcing itself on of the United States, ho aid in this work, says the s Globe-Democrat, will de- nd receive the plaudits of the an people. tion between ttention No Privacy for Lovera. ved lovers in the Canary t& tind it difficult to exchange ©t confidences, as the young man “* bot allowed to visit his fiancee im turn-! WASHING GRERP ADVERTISING MEDION. whe Bee BPAY cr: WASHINGTON, D. C. WEEK OF SATURDAY FEBRUARY 14, 1903. ‘her bome. He t» her house, and, finding ber at the window, must telk to her from the stieet. Some- imes her window is perhaps ten or | 12 feet above the road, therefore he must talk loudly. and very often members of the girl’s family are un- | seen listeners. The Travels of Sound. In dry air sound travels 1,442 feet @ second, in water 4,900 feet, and in fron 17,500 feet. THE HARVARD DINNER. Negro Alumnists Excluded After Having Been invited. Sometime ago a notice appeared in the daily press inviting ait Harvard xtaduates to send to a certain address, given, their names and addresses. A very prominent aad well-kaowa color= ed phisician, a da graduate of Har- vard Co lege, sent tis name, and in the letter he informed the gentieman that he was colored, In the repy that (he received, it was stated that it made no d.fference; Unat he would be treaied jus. che same as any ovher graduate. ile received another leiter taxing him five do.lars for a cinner to be given in this city at some future tine named in the leuer, which was promptiy seat Noting was said for som- ume, or a lutie before che time for the diuner to take pace, when to the surprise of this uistinguished colored Harvard gradu- ated puysiciun, he was informed ‘hat his presence at the dinner would em- barrass the President, heuce the invi- tation bad beenreca ‘ed, notwithstand- | iug the fact that the colored physician’s nawe was printed on the card, the | sid. nu’s name appearing just three names above the colored physicians. itis very surprising that there should be so much discriwination in this city and opposition .o the colored physician atten-ing this dinner, because it was claumed tnat the President would be embarrassed, when this same physician was hignly entertaimed in “Boston, iast year, at « similar dinner given by the Aiumni A suciauion, at which many well known while men attended. BETHEL LITERARY. An Inconsistaat Address. Rev. B. J, Bolding, pastor of John Wesiey Churcn was booked toread a Paper before the Bethel Literary -ociety On last Tuesday evening his subject being,‘ should the preachers aud educator’ take part in politics. in one portion of the paper Rev. Bulding advocated one proposition and iu another paragraph was just to the opposite. He auvocated such men as Messrs. Booker T. Washington and jJcsse Lawson as the best ,men to solye the negro question. There | wore groans at thisjuacture. At the conclu .onof bis paper, Mr. R. W. Laws look issue with bim and declared |that such men as Booker Washington we.e injurious to the race He was fosiowed by atterney T. L, Jones, who opposed the paper in unmeasured terms, Mr. Lawson declared when he dis- cussed the paper, thalit was alright. He attempted to discuss the constitu- uon, state» and national aad said when a Slate pasted a law, the proper place was tocarry it to the Unite. States Supreme Court He attempted to xive a iccture on inter state commerce law and the resolution that he clai ued tu have offered in either the Senate or the House commitiee. Jesse always offers sowething. _ither a bill ora reso.utiun or heis calied to the execu- tive mansion to be consulted. Mr. W. Calvin Chase, followed Mr. Lawson and he said, we needed less Wasbington and the same number of Lawsons, The paper of Rev. Bolding said Mr, Chase, had no beginiag ana no ending. It reminded nim of a house that he saw in course of erection, wuile oa bis Way to New York, which coatated all kinds of bricks, One of the passengers said the house was erected by a preacher. The bystander said he thought so because the bricks were all varied colors. So was the paper that hau just been read. It con- tained many inconsistancies. Bo ding in his attempt to reply he wz ed it duderstvod that he was a logician but he soon convinced those who un- derstood logic that he was neither a logician or a polite orator. It was soun manifested that he decended from tae diguity of an orator whea he com- pared tnose who differed with him as asses. Itwas disgusting. THE NEGRO IN OFFICE. From the Bostom Herald. We oughi to go back a little, and to cease the effort to treat backward rac- es, citer here orin Asia, as if they were tne equal of the most advanced. The President’s theory that black men should be treated as individuals svunds well, but it does not take the veal welfare of the biack into account. fe Diack individuai can make his own way to high laces, but when he is put imvo high places by the Pres:dent, he is, (0 the suuthern community, merely the represcutative of the race whose worst membe:s are in politucs for office and p.under, The process keeps the race down; it docs not help it up. How can it help the negro in the outhern s ales to violate this law in ius Denali? Ought a President to ap- pO.wt a man to ve collec.or of customs way, for any reason, is offensive to the cOummuuity wita (ne members of which ne must Weal? Would a due regard to ihe federai business warrant such an a pO Dunent? Will the superior negro ve ataed by being thrust upon his uenzhbors? Wili he not, rather, lore whatres ecthe has gained in private afc, and be classed h. aceforth with the co upt blacks who are n w the politi- cian of their race? Is not Booker than the President’s? Wil! it not be better for the whole race to develop a- long is own lines? It has developed men “ho have gained the respect of | their neighbors. Dr. Crum is one of these, and it is inevi able ihaé, in time, if we of the Norh do not impede them, superior negroes will recieve that soci- al recognition in the South which they receive in the North. When that time comes, nosoutherner will rebel a- gainst the ppointment of a negroto office on the ground of his race. There are, it will be seen, two siles to this question, even among the friends of the negro. GOOD TEACHERS LEAVING. Not Enough Pay-- Action Should be taken. The low salaries paid to teachers in the public schools of Washington and the better inducements offered tothem elsewhere are a'traciing to other cities some of the most talented, and the question has now engaged the serious atiention of the board of education. At a meeting of the board held at the Franklin School building last Tuesday night the matter was brought up; when the resignation of an instructor in the high schools wis tendered. Mr. J. S. Mills, head of the department of chem- istry of the high schools, resigned, and Mr. E. L, Newton, of the Wes ern !!igh School, was las’ night promoted to the vacancy Mr. Mills a few days ago |hot only right but wise, is the problem merely academic, for while the legal form of Negro suffrage | seems to be a fixed fact the actual privilege or right is so largely denied | and thwarted that there is no question more vital than the problem of the Negro vote and its suppression, in re- | spect to pe:haps a million men, by fraud or violence, or both. j _ Many Am: ricans who form ‘rly be- lieved unhbesitatingly inthe justice and good policy of giving the whole col- ored popula:ion of the United States | the right to vote, on equal terms with | white men, have grown weary of the| difficulties attending to the practical workings of Negro suffrage. They are tired of the cheating, the tricks, and the various crimes by means f| which the highest right of citizenship | is made a farce and a mockery, as far | as the colored men of the States most largely peopled by Afro-Americans are concerned. From weariness and impatience of a very hard problem spitgs a certain relaxing of principles a willingness, perhaps, to yield the point of abstract justice for the sake of quiet. And so Negro suffrage is ques- | tioned, as punlic policy, where it was once almost unanimously accepted as This paper had no doubts in the days when the ballot was given to colored men. Itis stul true to the old belief that race and color could not rightly or wisely be permitted to be a test of fit- ness for the suffrage. Grave ills have attended the granting of a privilege = 2 wae a MR. Of South Carolina, the leader of | and attention to business | ington Bee in its advocacy of a suffrage | convention vicious man with a white skin, That would have been a mockery of American professions and principles which could not have failed to blight the moral life of no one class. race or section. but of the whole naéion. GENERAL GEO. H. HARRIES A Man of many parts. Successful and Energetic in all things. General Geo. H. Harries a few years ago was comparatively unkaown to the peoplein this city. By industry he is rare among the foremost men in the United States. Like ail men who are success- ful, he has enemies and evil designed people. Several attempts have bean made to misrepresentfhim.{For honesty, integrity and as an educator he has done more for the public schools than any oneelse. He is and has been particularly interested in the success of the public school-, and it was through him that the industgal feature of the public school system has met with such success. General Harrieshas no prejudice whitch alone makes him popu | lar with the masses. In,all the enter - prises in which heis engaged, heis a success and his one object is to serve the people and those who have confi- } dence in his ability. Lawyer Hayes in the North. Attorney James H. Hayes of Rich- mond, Va., is inthe North telling the/ people of the fraudulent Virgiaia Con- stitution and of the cowardly negroes he left behind. fhe people are with Hayes. He is notathishome. Heis convinced of the cowardice of demo- gogues and trimmers. Ho! For A Suffrage Convention. [From The Boston Guardian.] The Guardtax agrees with the Wash- among colored people. The time is now ripe for such a move- ment. Some such concerted action by the thinking men of the race should be | taken in the very near future to con- EDWARD H. DEAS the Fairbank cont’ngent. A race representative. —, accepted a position ata higher sa'ary than he could command here, with the new Commereial High School, of New York City. J During the past year the public schools of Washington have lost some of their best qualified teachers, under present conditions nothing can be done to prevent other cities from taking their pick. It is not likely that any ac- tion will be taken other (han repetition ot appeals to Congress for appropria- tions sufficient to pay instructors the salaiies which tney can command elsewhere. : Theepidemic of minor contagious diseases among the school children of the city, it was learned last night, has now become fess prevalent, and the spread of the complaints appears tohave been stopped The matter was not taken up officially by the board, It was decided to give authority for the closing of the colored schools today, in order to givethe members of the Negro race opportunity to celebrate the anniversary of Frederick Douglass. The following canges were .rdered: Resignations—J. S. Mills, head of the department of chemistry, W ashing- ton High Schoo!; Miss M. W. Baker, teacher of Latin in Western High School. : Promotions—E. L. Newton of West- ern High Schooy. to head of the de- partment of chemistry of the Washing- ton High schools. High School teach- ers: Miss M. W. Weddell, from $1,000 to $1,200; Miss J. L. Ditto, from f959 to f$10co; Dr. A. 1.» Howard, from $900 to $950; Mi-s R. E. Shanley. from $350 to $900; Miss. A, Van Doren, from $825 to $850; Miss S. C. Graham, from $800 to $825; Mr. G° S. Edelen, from 0 to 5 yf ee Miss Rena T. Jor- dan, substitute grade teacher; Miss Catherine Bates substitiute teacher in the sindergarteas. IS NEGRO SUFFRAGE A MISTAKE ? A reader living in a smail town of this State asks that something more than a bare answer be given a ques- tion which he puts in the following form: : Did the American people do right by granting the Negro the suffrage? It will be seen that the question is one of right rather than expediency, Washivgtou’s fundamental idea better! momentous topics efthe the time, but no doubt it includes,in the mind ot the reader, the whole problem of Negro suffrage. Ix the narrowest sense or the widest it is one of the mon ° which millions of white men in the | South are determined to render no more than a delusion or anempty form of law. It has seemed to provoke wholesale crime. But no evil with which Negro suffrage has been identi- fied can be weighed againstthe greater and more monstrous wrong of deciar- ing, the deliberate judgement and our- pose of the greatest republic of the earth, that neither patrotism nor char- acter, nor yet mental attainments ana worth asa citizen, shall be the test of fitness for the ballot, but only the acc’- , dent of race and the color of the skin. Intimidation and fraud in elections, crime,and lawlessness rampant and defiant, {unpunished and boastful, are very bad for any country, They are the crowning disgrace of America today. It is a lamentable thing to quicken race prejudice and intensify class feeling in any partot the country. Danger lurksin | wholesale violation or evasion of the national Constitution. Corruption and other evils flourish on tke conditions which attended the practically nominal right of Negrosuffrage, in many States and parts of States. But consider the alternative fo writ- ing Negro suffrage into the statutes and organic laws of the American re- public. Now the decree of the nation stands for right and justice. In the ! darkest hour of discouragement every ambitious and aspiring man of Negro b!ood knows that the laws of his coun try are intended to open every door of | advancement /o him and place him on the same foo/ing, asa free citizen of | native like hinselt or foreign-born, He | realizes ¢haf the forces which thwart | his natural desire for ordiaary rights j and privileges are lawless forces. He feels, more or less definitely, that his fate is linked with that of his country. He understands that in the degree he that its ideals and the promise of its | past and present can never be realized until heis given his rights under the laws. fll this is on immeasurably valuable | uplifting force. It isa beacon of hope }and courage, an inspiration and a source of al! thatis best worth while {in the civic life of te1 million Ameri- leans, The balance is onthe side of right. Negro suttrage wa- just and | right. ‘ [ts consequences, at the worst, have been less evil than the inevitable | fruits of deliberate denial, by the l|1ws aad the Constitution, of the highest | rights of cifizenship to a Booker Wash- | ington while these priceless privileges were conferred upon every useless or the great republic, with the white man, | is defruded it is dishonored. He knows | sider ‘“‘ways and means’’ for the recuv- \ery of the Negro’s franchise. The Ne- j}gro is all right as far as President | Roosevelt’s acion goes in a certain |} way, but the time has come four the | sacred righ's of this race to be crystal- | 1zed and embalmed in law! The rights | of 12,000,0000 people cannot be allowed to depend upon the wishes of one man; \life is too uncertain, and fate too | treacherous. | The thoughtful men of the Colored race should, therefore, come together before the passing of another summer to take action as o the best methods of forcing congress consideration on the Negro’s franchise. It might be well to confine the conven ion to non- office holders and to the north, so that its action may not be influenced by fear or intimidation. Boston would be an ideal place for such a meet, but we stand ready lo co-operate with our brethren in other sections, and will, therefore, agree to any more central place. Cleveland would not be a bad place, as it is the most central for the actual voting strergth of the race. Let | the press take this matter up for con- sideration. It is something upon which the political life of the Negro depends. How about this, gentlemen of the PARKER HAS | Many Democrats Would Like to See Him Run for President. Leaders Claim to See a Hope of Vic- tory in 1904—Othbers Think New York Jurisi’s Chances Are Very Precarious. Judge Alton B. Parker still hok prominent place as a democratic pi »- idential possibility. From east, soutg and west come demands that he be the candidate of his party. Many thought that because he was not made the candidate for governor by Hill last fall he would drop out of sight. But just the opposite re- sult has happened, says the New York Herald. Democrats all over the coun- try have apparently made up their minds that Judge rker is the leader for a winning democratiqg campaign. They think he can unite all elements of the party. They believe he can carry New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Indiana. Democratic leaders all over the eoun- try are saying that had Judge Parker been the candidate last fall he would have been elected governor. They call attention to the fact that Judge Par- ker is the only democrat since 189% who has curried New York state in a straight-out contest between the two great parties. He was elected chief justice of the court of appeals in 1897 over Judge Wallace, republican. While it is true that the Tracy-Low fight in New York city contributed toJudge Parker's success, it is believed that he would prove a strong candidate un” der any circumstances. Demoera of congress were hopeful last fall that Judge Par- ker would be nominated for governor. A campaign in his behalf was carried on quietly all over the country. In the south and west, particularly, steps were taken to acquaint the democrats with Judge Parker’s qualities as a candidate. In the middle of the summer a prominent New York business maa, ic members JUDGE ALTON B. PARKER. (Boomed for the Presidency by New York State Democrats.) press? The Thrilling Story of the Joiz Brown insurrection at Harper’s Ferry Re-told by the Original Correspondence The February Number ~Book of the Royal Blue” Presents a Most Remarkabie Document. There are many published accounts of the John Brown insurrection at Har- per’s Ferry, but the most interesting is probably that published in the Feb- ruary number ‘Book of the. Royal Blue,” in connection with the authen- tic dispatches and letters which passed between the principals engaged in cap- turing Krown, The details, given step by step, the unusual! promin-nce of the men con- nected with the suppression of the in- surrection, and the personality of the correspondence, make a most remark- able document. The narrative is fur- ther intensified by o'd-time photo- graphs of Harper’s Ferry, showing the U.S. Armory buildings as they were at the time of the insurrection, also the same views taken during the civil war, showing the destroyed railroad bridge, and armory buildings, and the remains of a pontoon bridge across the Poto- mac River Portraits of the men who were foremost in the great tragedy are given, including no less personages than President Buchanan, Secretary of War Floyd Governor Wise of Virginia, | President Garrett of the B. & O., W. P. smith, Master of Transportation of the B. & U., and Colonel Rcbert E. Lee. The picturesque village of Harper’s | Ferry, thus brought into prominence | in 1859, and later racked and torn by war, to-day peacefully guards the gap inthe Blue Kidge mouatains, where | the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers |meet. The government armories and rifle works have disappeared, and a simple granite shaf: marks the jocation of ‘John Brown’s Fort.” The story is especially valuable to schools and libraries for references Single c pies may be had for five cent, each, on application to D. B. Martin. Manager Passenger Traffic, Baltimore & Ono Railroad, Baltimore. The an- nual subscription to the magazine is but fifty cents, ard each number issued monthiy, contains some special article of interest, while visiting St. Louis, met several prominent Missouri democrats. With one accord they began to say aice things about Judge Parker. They thought Hill ought to nominate him for governor, and were positive that he would be elected. If this resulted they did not think there was any doubt, if he were nominated for president in 1904, that he would be elected. ' Judge Parker declined to encourage the movement to nominate him for governor. Democrats now say it makes no difference whether Mr. Parker ran for governor or not, he remains the ideal candidate for the presidency, and energetic work is be ing done in his behalf in many states Friends of David B. Hill are also at work, but so far the Hill propaganda has not met with the same success as Judge Parker's. Texas is the latest state to come to the front in behalf of the New York popular judge. There is no antipathy to Bryan in that state, but leaders there do not think Bryan can win They are looking for some one who ean carry the doubtfui states, and they regard Judge Parker as the man Democratic papers all over the state are making favorable comments about Judge Parker. Senators Bailey and Culbertson, Thomas Ball, and many politicians are of the opinion that the party ought to take Park It is reported that the same ang is true of Georgia, Alabama, | rida, Missouri, Indiana and Minnea sta. Much attention has lately been at- tached to Senator Gorman, of Mary- land, and he has been repeatedly urged to look favorably on the movement to get southern and western delegates for himself. Senator Gorman has re- fused to encourage this scheme, pre- ferring to remain in the senate. He Knew. Teacher (to class in geography)— And who knows what the people whe live in Turkey are called? Class (unanimously)—Turks! Teacher—Right. Now who can teil me what those living in Austria are jed? tate Boy—Please, mum, i know. Ostriches!—Troy Budget. : —— — ite aan asa pS Snr ' H