The Washington Bee Newspaper, July 20, 1907, Page 4

ssa on anti ati ee eS a TT ee is a great deal behind this which will be more fully explained after the meeting of the sub-committee PUBLISHED AT 110g Eye St, N. W., Washington, he f2 DC the tf membership of the order is fror W. CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR. South to rebel and secede an Entered at the Post Office at Wasb- | © Ure : ‘ngfon, D. C., as second-class establish a new B. M. C. mail matter. Many of the Northern lodges wi ESTABLISHED 1880. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. It will be seen that a di x) drastic measure next week. This may read like a “fairy tale, Three months ..... sea seonwess Subscription monthly ....+..-.. 2@ but The Bee has published many] bama, and no one high in authority, | and pole, and are trying how mean,| but if the working man owned the} = ltales of a similar character that] with the aid of the sub-committee] delivish and utterly unfit for gov-] machine how different it would be. FOR PRESIDENT OF THE /of the offenders. UNITED STATES vis, of the Atlanta Independent, i SENATOR JOSEPH BENSON | the idol of the South, FORAKER OF OHIO FOR executive ability. VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE} Georgia alone furnish more dele UNITED STATES gates at the Bb. M. C. TIMOTHY L. WOODRUFF, | than the entire North. OF NEW YORK ODD FELLOW POLITICS. The Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America has been the greatest factor in the American they knew all. body politic “from the time when 1 the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.” has had men at its head that have reflected credit upon the order. This organization ter will be given to the public, A TYRANNICAL ACT. \t the meeting of the B. M. ¢ in those who are directly concern-{of Odd Fellows in Americ: The Bee has great confidence in the organization, and much interest} for the benetit of humanity. There are delegated body. One among the purpose only. While the Bee is|and, as The Bee stated last week, not the organ of the order, it has|he is one of the brainiest men in an interest in those who have the} the South, and a man of the high- welfare of the people at heart, as|est honor and integrity. He was well as the welfare of the order. | elected Grand Treasurer of the Odd The Bee would be derelict in its} Fellows in America, and executed duty if it failed to warn the two} his bond: The subterfuge that has hundred thousand Odd Fellows in| been sprung by his enemies is that America of the danger that threat-| he has violated his obligations. ens the order. Men sometimes be-| Never was a more infamous come so selfish and conceited by AS treasurer the ginary power that they will not} money of the organization has not | falsehood told. ima listen to reason, If there are albeen turned over to him, although few men at the head of the order|he has executed his bond and it who will not listen to reason for|has been accepted. The people, as the benefit of a’ great body, an im-| well as the Odd Fellows, in this mediate change then becomes nec-| country are not aware of the cause. essary. Treasurer Davis refused to agree a friend-| to the payment of ille; ly hint to the S. C. M. of an exist-/ tracted, and The Bee last week gave al bills con- gain he rendered an ing or impending revolution in this} adverse opinion in the Alabama great organization. Phere is a dis-|case. When all of these facts and position to discountenance this! much other damaging information friendly hint and declare the dec-/in the possession of The Bee are | laration to be an “infamous lie.” | made known, they will show a con- The Bee has in its possession a| dition in the organization that will most infamous deal _ that would | tend to a revolution in the order, make denizen politicians blush. :and the Odd Fellows might as well For officers of an order, who! prepare to meet it. have been elected by regularly! Because certain limited power has elected delegates, to be a party to| been delegated to men, they must such a deal is infamous.. It was} not presume that they can ride the expose of this infamous deal, ‘n| rough shed over the will of the ma- the Alabama case, that caused the| jority. There are certain condi- injunction to be dismissed against} tions that exist in this order that the D. G. L. of that State. {are not at all known to the Odd If this grand body is to be offi-/ Fellows of thi cered by such men the sooner mem-| — The publication in The Bee last bers of the order should know the} week has startled the Odd Fellows facts and decide for themselves, | throughout the country, and many whether such men should be con- | inquiries are being made asking} tinued in office to make the order a} what the conth They are} cesspool of corruption. | most startling | Editor B. J. Davis, of the At-j pels their publication The Bee will lanta Independent, is a victim of} do so. a deep-laid campaign to oust him country. } | ons are, and if necessity com- | Editor Davis is a victim ‘of a} from the order, because he gave a} deep-laid conspiracy, and D. G. M.} dissenting opinion in the A.abama:A. C. Howze can @ tale unfold| case, of which Mr. C. A. Howze isj which will put to flight these graft- D. G. M. of the State. The D. G. M. of Alabama is} Present indications show that the paying the highest endowment of | entire order will be put to a stand- any order in the South, and te crip-| still on- account of the ignorance ple the usefulness of the order, as|and bigotry of some of the heads well as Mr. Howze, a decision was} in the order. which} The order should not be made to was to put Mr. Howze out of busi-| suffer because selfishness and ignor- ness and place his opponent, who is|ance have controlled by trickery. ers in the Odd Fellows. | rendered, the tendency of of management, which is to meet in Philadelphia next Monday, July 22. It would seem to The Bee that those in control would stop this t that ove. two-thirds of the the South. The removal or attempt at removal of either Editor Davis} Alabama. or Mr. Howze will surely cause the}a thorough investigation of follow the South. The Bee is con- fidentially informed that many of| corruption, and the world will ap-|‘the poor whites” were have terminated in the destruction] of management wiil be able to elect| ernment they can make themselv Editor B. J, Da-jhim Grand Master. Mr. Howze| Mr. C. A. How The Bee has made a thorough in-| tion for pe vestigation of all the circumstances made in gi in this matter, and not half has} Acts of tyranny can exist no- been told. . The Odd Fellows of} where, and before the end of this}on the editorial page of the New The Bee would be pleased to see] on illegal contracts made, t harmony, but if harmony cannot involye the National Grand Body, certaim | know. ed in making it what it should be] officers were elected by the regular times when grafters| principal officers was Editor B. J. get control of institutions for one} Dayis, of the Atlanta Independent,} phase of the race probleni, if there body of men by refusing to turn crats who had so long kept “poor| would have a job or not,or whether over the money of the order to the, white” in abject poverty and social) he would be able to pay the rent, -e of management was wrong, by) voter. m| dismissing the injunction proceed-! on top indeed. His aim was pr It was dismissed after, superior and dictator. He failed i d|laws governing the order in thejal, inexperienced, pride-blown —i appeal case to the sub-committee of| fact, a boor and a fool. By th ll] management, The Alabama case shows base] plomacy of the aristocratic classe prosperity of the ex-slave. It wa The Odd Fellows of Alabama are] shown that the Negro and not th the Odd Fellows of America may| determined to see that Mr. Howze| aristocrat was the thing to be fear-| wealth which he produces he must One copy per year in advance. $2.08] happen at any time if the sub-com-|is properly succeeded and that no} ed, Six months ........+.+e..+2++ 1.08! mittee of management attempts any} trick will remove him. Mr. John-| superiority which the ex-slave feel s|has been nine times -|action of those who have won ajtinues to remain a deluded anc ratherings| temporary victory will realize that] pride-blown fool. § s ) ) P The Bee was fair and the sugges- igs ce and harmony was od faith. COMMENCEMENT AND POLITICS. this city would become disgusted if] contest someone will be wounded.| York Age of last week, the trustees , If money has been illegally spent|of Wilberforce University, Ohio aL willl are reminded that they were guilty it tor Foraker to, talk The Bee will keep nothing back] Brownsville affray at their recent if the members who are not aware | commencement. of what is going’on are anxious to output of opinion, presumably | Thomas Fortune, would have all discussion of a political nature ex- A RACE PROBLEM. | cluded from the college atmosphere, Perhaps the most unfortunate | especially at commencement sea sons. It can be readily understood really exists such a thing, lies in the fact that the absence of a just] control the Age are opposed to any and clear definition of that problem| mention of the Brownsville matter permits and encourages the exploit-} which tends to reflect on the Presi- ation of the thousand and one issues} dent or Secretary Taft. But that and ologies conceived by mischiev-j js not a reason why political topics ous and malignant deniagogues and] should not be discussed in colleges incubated by well-meaning but mis-} Tf this principle is sound, the ex guided visionaries. Not a day pass-| elusion of political discussions from es but some new side is 27 led to the | commencement exercises, then Sec- j already angular and disterted prob-| retary Taft, Senator Knox, Secre lem. This want of accurate defini- tary Root, President Roosevelt and tion of the race problem suggests} host of others have been guilty, one of two very important conclu- | this year and in years past, of bad sions or both. Either the race prob-| taste and academic indecorum. Then, doesn’t The Age recall that the Brownsville matter is not a po- litical subject? Doesn't The Age remember that no less an authority jthat President Roosevelt himseli| lem is indefinable, and therefore non-existent from a practical point of view, or it is intentionally left }an open question by agitators for the purpose of eliciting the most thorough scrutiny and of applying] said at the now historic Gridiron every cast of thought to which a] dinner, and on other and divers oc proposition is susceptible. It may be stated just here that the history of this country has fur- | . } casions, that any discussion of his| order of discharge would be purely “academic”? So that even if it be nished Bo pare wae S social admitted that political subjects} condition, taking the form of a should be left off commencement problem, has been so uniformly and] programs, it would still be in order universally juggled, mystified, and misunderstood, or where there has been less disposition to insist upon actual facts than in the so-called race question. Whatever may have bee nthe motive of the inventors of this race problem, it is clear to us that something is radica to discuss the Brownsville c . be- cause the President says such dis- cussion is academic. By the deter- mination of President Roosevelt, even The Age may discuss the Brownsville case, and permit its “staff correspondent’ to do so,with lly wrong. From the “line up” we imagine that this so-called race problem con- stitiites so much “sop” thrown out out fear of incurring displeasure in Administration circles. We assume that this phase of the matter has escaped ghe attention of , 1 _| “the brethren in interest,’who con- tain class from the real source Offtro] The A And it re- requires no prophet to see this. The for the purpose of diverting a cer ge, and we take pleasure in giving them light on the matter, in the hope that however modest Editor Fortune may be as to the their past conditions. “poor white man” has, by the grace of Abraham Lincoln, had lis social,| 4; cope : ‘ oe ns discussion of other matters in which material, and in a measure moral, fetters stricken off really and truly an American he deems it his bounden duty to think as the Administration does, he may at least be frank as to the Brownsville affair, for it is now an academic, not a political subject. He now stands zen, at ast so far as emancipation can make him so. with the ri He is invested hts of citizenship,which, by the way, prior to emancipation, TRUSTS VS. THE PEOPLE. Next to the ability to create With| wealth , the power to keep it is the untrammelled suffrage came power,| most important. he exercised only under conditions named by the aristocracy. and with power all of the hatreds,| tle difference to a person whether ambitions and aspirations of which| he creates much or little if he gets the human soul is capable. conducting a petty insurance busi-} The idea of two or three men de-| power, too, came the spirit of re- it. ness in the State, in power. There | fying the authority of a delegated) venge—revenge upon those aristo-| never had to worry whether he superior intelligence, tact and di-| there are always plenty waiting to} attracted the lodges in the District ef Co-|plaud Editor Davis if all the facts| toward the alarming progress and] ever owns the tools of production lumbia will unite with the South.]and circumstances are published. lution of This was apparent from the] own the tools with which he works. son is not now, and never will be,| over the “poor white trash.” The] saving machinery because it takes; Grand Master of the State of Ala-|“poor whites” took bait, hook, line] work away from the working man, Mr. Johnson] In the meantime the colored people] friend and it would be impossible} defeated by} are progressing, the aristocracy are to have too many of them, :, and he will nev-| plotting to regain power, the race is an organizer and a man of great} er be Grand Master so long as the} problem remains an “open ques Alabama and] Odd Fellows exist in the State.The} tion,” and the poor white man con-| systematically and to work hard, In the first instalment of opinion} save what he had created but also | i Sg. that “the brethren in interest,” who regular elected Grand Treasurer!) degradation. The consequence has] or the grocery bill, or the doctor, Then another notorious and arbi-' been that scarcely a man who rep-|or many of the other annoyances trary act is the deciding against a resents the old regime in Southern] that he must look out fo rtoday. grand body upon ex parte evidence. politics holds a respectable or com- The Alabama courts have decided, manding position which can be giv-|not only own the tools with which dirty business at once, in view of] that the action of the sub-commit-' en at the hands of the Southern] the slave created the wealth, but he The “poor white man” is|had to own the slave himself. To- Under slavery the master had to i-} day it has been found much more ings against the Grand Lodge of! marily to humiliate his erstwhile] profitable to only own the tools and n}hire the worker, as then the work-} the this becaiise he was ignorant, brut-|er must take care of himself, and n| if one should die there is absolutely | i | no cash loss to the employer, and s| take his place. From this it is evident that who- S| virtually owns the producers, and elif the Negro wants to keep the s| Today there is opposition to labor- The machine would then be his best { The other day John D. Rocke-| -| feller advised the reporters to save 1) for that was the foundation of ev-| ery large fortune. But he failed to tell them, as he could have done, that by owning the tools of produc- tion he had not only been ablg to y} the wealth that had been created by millions of his fellow men. .| Lut Rockefellar is teaching , the suits the people will b | will be able to keep the wealth he! ¢ produces and not until then, j 1 THE BUSINESS AGUE. | The regular annual session of the | National N | will meet in month. t gro Business League Topeka, Kansas, next} From all reports it will be}, the greatest gathering of Negro | business men who have ever as 1 }sembled in this country... \When Prof. Booker T. Washington con t }ceived the idea to organize a busi- , cans, The bootblack pari admit the colored Ay so-called up-to-date j lors conducted by ¢! forms the colored A cannot be served, \\ of this mean? { The colored Amer jup and doing; he n inesses of his own able to accommodate ‘every branch of ind How necessary it ored Americans to kinds of business. 1 a foreigners learns to America is the w has that word upper: mind. He knows not! he lands upon Americ Do we need the c busine: our wives and childr« Do we ne jthem the insults of t invade It is very nece fore, to be a part of tl mercial world, and be of the “Dago.” The. Negro Busin therefore, a factor SUB BOSSi In the schoolroor | where you will fir Dr. Chancellor his schools, espe ored supervisors to the city. He that. He will find t boss to the sup coats,” They w people the benefit of co-operation, | the lower grade t of a violation of commencement de-| and after the President has failed| stand that they | prevail, the facts of every charac-| the members are entitled to know] corum when they permitted Sena-|in his receivership campaign against thority to order about the} the trusts as badly as he has by his!‘ of the schoolro n to in-| colored people The writer of this| vestigate the matter for themselves dare give any .| and eventually they will come to the | recent system conclusion that the only way to keep | tain teachers i the trusts from owning them is toj™mand the attent own the trusts. Then the worker|tendent, and man children were 1 These teachers nm gnorant or infamous! to get even with sor hese conditions are t responsible persons shot missed without ceremor ave been several teacher jown for spite. The Bx ication will be asked to pecial committee to hese complaints and re \ e ~ tings to the Board before }ness association of colored men he | x i ens, because a few disn became a race benefactor. When | jcolored men are able to conduct business as other nationalities they] jthen become a strong factor. They | not only command respect, but it] voluntarily comes to them. The d colored failure. this League. ness enterpriss only an incident, so to speak. colored American should away politics, but it does mean that! is | undoubtedly follow, an \merican in politics is a] confident that This he has readily realiz-} Very much in need of mor ed. Every colored man in the Unit- help. enterprise should ally himself with informations. Well conducted busi-| Venes at 1 or 1.30 P s are direct tenden-| read the informations to t cies to good citizenship; politics is} ants and swear the JUVENILE COU Clerk Harper of t jo three men’s work. | Judge | All the forenoon ( ed States who conducts a business] Per’s time is taken up 1 When C both the prosecution an The Bee does not mean that the} Then there is another throw | has; he issues every wart compelled to remain he should not make politics the di-]9-30 A. M. to 6 and sor clock P.M. before c« rect object of good citizenship. A} dividual zen. He will vote for good men; T' for office, irrespective of poli w It is true that}! there are some places in the South mulate property. where he is envied. But it is be- lieved that all good white citizens are not dead. The colored man in| \ business should not be an active] th participant in politics if he would] p} succeed. Try, therefore, the Busi-j er ness League, and be convinced how | |y much can be rez 1 lized from it. th DAGOES DISCRIMINATE, jth Coming to this country’ to free themselves from oppression, one] its would suppose that they would not wi be tainted with the least diserim-|™i It makes but tit-| ination. But it is a fact, neverthe- less, that the Dagoes who are now tle power delegated to monopolizing every available busi-}¢vidence that he must use that With|no more than a bare living out of| ness space in the city, have been|¢r to the detriment of his fri The slave got that much, and taught to say, “We don’t serve| It is best to go slow sometimes you,” meaning the colored Ameri- He will pay bis poll tax and accu- help by good citizen is a well behaved in- The Bee has always had ¢ He will study the inter-]Spect for Clerk Harper. | est of his neighbor. He will obey of the most accommodati | the law and protect his fellow-citi- connected with the jud he Bee hopes that Judge ill apply at once for mor ‘ause the court is need of it. THE The warning that T! to the executive hea r. O. of O. F. last e good of the order. > e may think that the ything because they are on the inside. Onc e inside and then not k ing. The Bee dislikes to friends, but there hen friends unintentior t blunders. Because a person has | —_—_———_—_ READ THE BEE. Court is a busy man. H leit » day enti { frie K N to ‘ ret