The Washington Bee Newspaper, August 10, 1907, Page 1

ZNO. 13 * ——— pa WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY AUGUST 10, 1907. rT | | he Nesto's Gala Day. Washington Sounds Key at Jame n OF EXPOSITION NO| ONGER IN DOUBT, cator Urges Race to Take | f Every Opportunity to} te Worth and Capacity — Welcome of President Tuck- less Program Executed with-} — Hampton and Fisk nce — National Con- ative Negroes Ex- ment of Race in Exem- teprese sm that has} g the life of} Hampton fittingly ob- ma on | Exposition Company, t j men from abroad, including Dr. J. H. | Cromwell, principal of Banneker School | 2 of the same place; Prof. J | president National Association of Col-| des Mrs. T. J Calloway, assistant hostess of the Ne- gro Building, and Dr, A. M. Curtis, chairman of the committee of the Med- ! Exhibit. In the fashion boxes were y distinguished ladies and gentle- Jones, president of Wilberforce Univer- sity; Prof. R. R. Wright, president of Colored State Industrial College, Sa- vannah, Ga.; Prof. J, H. N. Waring, principol of the High and Manual Training School, Baltimore; Dr. W, B. ans, principal of Armstrong Manual Training Schocl, Washington, D, C.; Dr. Lucy E. Moten, principal of Nor- mal School, No. 2, and Prof. J. W. R. E. Lee,| ored Teachers; Dr. F. J. gton; Major R. R. Hampton; Dr. W. De Grimke, of | Noten, of cker Johnson,pres- | Va |ident of Allen University; Dr, J. W.| | Collett, business manager A. M. E. Pub-| ing House, and many others of like ndsomely at- ved with friends every section of n the fortunes | ment of the Ter-| f the institution has colored | t t. From | Build was not a hitch | were continued The enthusiasm |! ence. At the conclusion of the} Lees Parade. and the| way of “War Negro | . where the exercises of the day enjoyable drill on gton, the officers, alth avenue 1 the the grounds of the Taking Advantage Dr. Washington spoke in part, as follows : 1 to expre gratitud to the mana nent of this on for the opportunity here liveliest inter-| sented to exhibit our p idous outpouring of the| ple. I also wish to ‘ nd brawn of the de-| Thomas J. Calloway and his board of twenty Negro slaves} assi s well as Mr. Jackson, for pot only three hun-| their successful efforts in making s not only a triumph | Negro Department he N > De to the Jam hol and its rt- ton Sounds a Li note. and particular star of the course, was Dr. Booker T the widely known educa- founder of Tuskegee and pronounced by President N.St. Tucker to be “the greatest Am- 1 America.” His unusually able gorous address covered the entire of current race topics. It ed, clear and convincing, and was was listened to with rapt attention, his} clling points being greeted with evi- c s of the warmest approval, The eloquent message in praise of the mar- yelous progress of his people and in commendation of the practical efforts of Exposition officials in exploiting it, sounded a key-note of hope, of oppor- ity and of civic usefulness, and the uplifting spirit which pervaded every utterance will cheer and hearten his thousands of hearers for many a day. The Day in Detail. The crowd gathered early at the inds, large delegations coming in . Portsmouth, Hampton, Newport and surrounding cities of Tide- Virginia. Washington, Richmond | many metropolitan cities of the na- were largely represented. Three ired teachers who had been attend- the convention at Hampton, and @ number of delegates to the Hamp- ynference augmented the immense After exchanging greetings on Jegro Reservation, they gravitated toward the spacious Lee Pa- here the Hampton students were ed for an exhibition drill at 11 e grand stand from which The; ions | f open | s through-! most | 1 of the} pera mechanical, housekeeping, educa- | “I believe that our people should take matter of pride race. Everyon na slight de s Exposition d entire people. ro’s Part in Exposition, ce coming to thes ay that I have be the active appearance of the Negro - archi ral point of} to Mr Pittman | nd all connected with its construc' and | greatly surprised at neat From an iew it does high cr ed at the large exhibit which has been | installed in such an attractive and in-| structive manner. say that I wish that every member of my race could come here and witness these evidences of progress in agricul- tional, moral and religious development. In all these matters, those in charge of the Negro Department deserve the high- est praise. I know that all this has been accomplished under great difficulties, but I have long recognized that hardships lay back of all things worth while. “T have been equally interested and gratified on account of the deportment of the thousands gathered upon these grounds today. They present a clean, | orderly, sober, industrious appearance. This deportment on a public occasion such as this is within itself the highest evidence of your progress. Whenever an opportunity to see the slightest evi- dence of the progress of our race pre- sents itself there our people should not fail to put in appearance in large num- bers.” Dr, Washington referred feelingly to the sacred memories that clustered about this vicinity which was to him a home for several years. It was as a student at Hampton that he gathered his first inspiration to go forward to hold up his head and strive to be a_man. He felt that he owed to Hampton an ever- lasting debt of gratitude for whatever he had been able to accomplish had its root in that great institution. evelt spoke on the occa-} his two visits here was well- ampton Institute Band arched in review, fol- jred and fifty stu- to advantage, neat- caps and theH ngton, fiscal agent, and Director 1 Giles B. Jackson, constituting ecutive committee, anc President Isaac Johnson, Treasurer R. T. Hill, Robert Kelser and other of- the box of honor were Dr. | gtt nd staff, COM-/ tered slavery : 1, E. Davidson; Travel- | we should show results of improvement | gress that both races rs ‘A. Cox and wife, and | both in slavery and in freedom. When} E t J. Scott, together with | our first represen! an T, J. Calloway, Secretary- | only twenty in num! | rer Andrew F. Hilyer, Mrs. A-| nearly ten millions; when our first rep-| advantage of every opportunity, no mat-} ter wherever presented, North or South, | whole, I am equally free to| = | nities, as is being done at this Exposi- EDITOR tion, rather than our disadvantages. In the fundamental things of life we have great opportunities before us as a race in this country. No one who would be honest should deny or overlook the fact that we have disadvantages with which to contend, and that acts of injustice are often perpetrated on us, as a race, but in spite of all this, in the funda- mental] consideration of securing a home, of earning and saving money, of finding employment, either iq skilled or com- |mon labor, in entering into business or professional life, no one can deny the fact that in America, and especially in the South, that we have a rare oppor- tunity. These are the things in hand, and we should get all of them possible. Utilizing the Education We Have. “In the matter of securing and using cation we have, in this country as a an opportunity which we should value. While in many sections are discouragements, acts of un- taking the country as a public schoo] system is wide open to our race; further, without hi wh highly there fairness, rance, we are at liberty to establishthe perpetuity of the Order”—and| polt DAVIS DISS ING OPINION. Statement in re the dissenting opinion by Grand Treasurer 5. J. Davis, in the Alabama re- ly decided by the S.C. M. of case, Fellows in America: io the Members of the Grand United Order of O. F. in erica: the writer of the dissenting opin- ion in the Alabama case, recently decided by the S, C. M. of the G. 2 oe Ge: oe 8 F, desires to say 1ere withdraws from, that he now erases and strikes out of said dis- the opinion, following to wit: precedented action of the S. C. revolutionary in character M. so constituting a menace against} | ~| 1 have been equally surprised and pleas-| nR BOOKER T. WASHINGTON AT THE JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION FIFTEEN THOUSAND PECPLE GREET HIM. private schools, industrial schools, col- leges, and professional institutions.One of the peculiar advantages presented by the South consists in the fact that we are at liberty to use whatever education ! we receive in promoting our own wel- fare, as well as the welfare of others. | No one event during the past year! has been so important as the magnificent ' gift of $1,000,000 by Miss Anna T.Jeanes | of Philadelphia, the interest of which | is to be used in promoting rural schools. So long as the race finds such friends we need not despair. “Again, we not only have an oppor- tunity to make progress in materia] and | educational lines, but we are in a posi- | tion where no man can take from us the privilige of having a beautiful, well- kept home with high moral standards. Throughout this country we have free- dom of religious worship and the pro- gress that he have made in the number of ministers and church organizations clearl proves that we are taking ad- vantage of that opportunity. “We of both races here in the South have the opportunity of teaching the world how two races, dissimilar in many respects, can live together, side by side, in peace and harmony, each promoting the welfare and happiness of the other. The South Should Exploit Its Resources “J pelieve,.too, that the South should call attention more often than it does to the general progress that our people are making. And you have a right to be proud of this progress. T shall never to show to the world the progress that we as a.race are making. No battle} was ever won by an army standing still or sulking in its tents. Racial bat- tles are to be won by marching for- ward, not by halting. “There are some special reasons why should have a part in the James- It was near this spot, town Exposition Sy three hundred years ago, that the first representatives of our race were ht into America. It is especially ig therefore, that since here we en-| tatives landed we were} ber, now there are/ resentatives landed here we had no uni-| form language, now we speak the Eng- lish tongue. For the most part we were pagan, now we profess Christianity. | “More and more as a race I believe + of the Negro Development and | that we should emphasize our opportu- forget the impression that a Southern } white man in the little town of Tus- kegee, where I live, made upon me somé | ago when he passed a grocery , and with one exception I c the largest and most succ | store in that town, owned by a} time grocery = ed 1 an, and pointed to the Neg! t and to his store, and said I am proud of that man; T owned hts r, and I am proud of his success. | get so much in the habit of dwell- | difficulties that I am afraid | col 1 col f We ing upon our are making 19} the working out of this tremendous problem. But when we consider, my friends, that complications of this prob- lem, when we consider where we start- ed forty years ago, I believe that we | have every reason to congratulate our- selves that we have done as well as we have, and have had as few difficulties Continued to page four. | would be tried. ilso the words, to wit: “There is not one iota of evidence presented to the S. C. M. in the case”—and also these words: “Upon this ex-parte showing T- 1 Grand United Order of Odd} | Am- “Now therefore in view of this} eaid dissenting opinion, to wit: “The S. C. M. proceeded in the case upon the assumption that C. | F. Johnson had more rights that jit was bound to respect than the other 23,000 Odd Fellows who were jat home innocent and at work.” | And also are the following words in the said dissenting opinion with- | drawn, to wit: | “If this unprecedented action of | the a, a. is acquiesced in then the honor and prosperity of every PARAGRAPHIC LW BY MISS BEATRIZ L. CHASE. The agents of the Industrial Insure ance Company, Brooklyn, N. Y., haye organized a labor union : What is the next thing Qa the pro- gramme, now that the men and women who are the Negroes of America have had their “day” at the Jamestown Ex- Position? “Every dog has his day.” Rev. M. W. D. Norman, at whose | jurisdiction in America is at the|church the National Baptist Conyention ” s * ° o ei | merey of the ward heeler and graft-| will meet in September, is chairman of ae é j the local committee : : ‘ : As the Jamestown E iy ae Genet » Ja lestown FE ; : ‘> | older the“Negro Criterion” bs lso withdraws from said]er. Why di g opinion the following | words, viz: oubted ear marks of v0litical rsecution and display a attempt to pay off and dischz ical debt.” Phe opinion now writer of the said dissent m the Order that while he did not agree with his colleagues on the S.C. M. in the opinion and decision reached by them in the \labama case, yet he in no wise vishes to in any { motives or reflect upon their hon- esty or standing either as Odd Fel- lows or men; he simply does not agree with them as to their conclu- sions, conceding to them that which here also states to the} ay impugn their} Rev. B E. Church, Perkins, of Mt. Zion M. is expected to preach two “The whole proceedings bore the | 5&™"s tomorrow at Lutherville Md. Mr. Marcus M. Cass, a pioneer Re- publican, died at his home, Wakkins, N. J., the 3d inst. aged eighty-three, Hon. J. Milton Turner was orator at the very recent cornerstone laying of the St, James’ Methodist Episcopal $1o,- 000 church at St. Louis, Mo. : _Teh fifty-first annual session of the G. U. O. of Galilean Fishermen was begun last Tuesday in their temple, om F street southwest, and lasted four days. The authorized capital stock of the G. U. O. of Galilean Fishermen’s Con- solidated Bank, at Hampton, is $100,000. The summer school at Cheyney, "Pa closed its third ,annual summer session jlast Wednesday week. Prof Hugh M. | Brown is principal, Augustus Saint Gaudens, said to be the nation’s foremost sculptor, died at to himse an honest, r difference of opinion, any reflection upon the S. I, or any member thereof be- cause the writer could not and did | not e with a majority of the cC.M. | To the end that the Order may i tha H i | know that this, and this only, was what was intended this is publish- ed. July 26, 1907 nd Treasurer, HOWARD'S DE NSHIP, Center Marshfield, August 6, 1 Mr, Editor: eae ; In view of your observations in your issue of the 3rd inst. on the faculty | his home in Cornish, N. H., after a long lIness, last Saturday eve: ing It is said that her Levont Martoo- gessian, the Armenian priest now in the mbs, charged with having sent blacks i mailing threats to rich Armentafi mers ants, has been unfrocked. The Standard Uil tug Radiant, which | sailed from Richmond, Va., last week, and had in tow a large steel oif barge, ran the barge upon a rock, which tore |a hole in the bottom, from which about fifty thousand gallons of oil ran into | the James River, | Louis Sambolia, a chronic wife-beater, was handcuffed to a post in the street at Wilkesbarre, Pa., last week, and them horsewhipped by Alderman L. A. Me Kelvey, in the presence of an approving crowd, The Nashville Globe says that the Ne- of Howard University, permit me to say| groes of Nashville are contributing their that I have observed that a number of! part to make that city beautiful, papers have announced the election of! Dr. George H. Whitesides, of Oma- judgment was entered against our|a “dean” of the College of Arts, mis-,ha, Neb., filed suit against the Adams brethren in Alabama without no- | led, no doubt, by the fact that a succes- Express Company for $20,000 because, tice to them or giving them an op- portunity to be heard.” And also the words: ' “Yet the Grand Master tells you that after a careful and impartial hearing the S. C. M. determined a fair trial is advertised in the proc- lamation and yet no copy of the charge was served upon the de- fendants—the defendant D. G. L. not cited to appear still you are asked to believe that the S. C. M. acted with due deliberation.” And also does the writer expressly strike out of his said dissenting opinion the words: ; “The action of the S. C. M. in this case was purely one of lynch law. No mob ever acted with less respect for the rights of man than the S. C. M. did on this occasion. The S. C. M. acted upon the mere statement of C. F. Johnson_with- out hearing from the D. G. L. of Alabama or serving notice upon it that it was in court and its case The defendant D L, had no knowledge that it was rt and therefore made no an- And the writer now here states that at the hearing of the said Al- e by the S. C. M. there was present before the S. C, M. Bro. C, A. Howze, the then D, G. M. of said D. G. L No. 23, and that on the same spot| too often we fail to emphasize the PFO"! hefore the S C. M. decided said case Bro. Howze made a statement. The writer of the dissenting opin- ion now here withdraws and strikes out of said dissenting opinion the following. words, to wit: “The brethren in Alabama were simply taken up and lynched with- out hearing.” And also are the following words withdrawn from sor to Dean Fairfield, as a professor in that department, had been elected. The deanship is an executive office, inde- pendent of the professorship, and the election of a dean was deferred till the meeting of the board of trustees, the professor having been elected by joint action of the teachers’ committee and executive committee. Again, no “reorganization” of the col- lege is contemplated. By action of the deans and board of trustees a careful revision and correlation of the courses of study have already been made. I have found the faculties of the depart- ments composed of well-equipped, earn- est and devoted workers,fellowship with whom in service I have greatly enjoyed, and the outlook promises a year of un- usual attendance and strong, united and successful work, Wilbur P. Thirkield. THE JEFFERSON DAVIS BUREAU. PRESENTING An appropriate musical and lecture pro- gram especially designed for the ben- efit of the Daughters of the Confed- eracy- | Dr. S, L. Corrothers, President, Wash- ington, D. C. My Dear lec opposed to Mr. Taft for President ear. You are gnawing a file. ft has no more chance for the) nation than you have, and you nomir i yo have about as much as @ snowbird in be nominated ; | hell. Mr, Roosevelt and he will be elected. He has prom-| ised prominent men in the South that he intends, if re-elected, to put the Negro where he belongs—as @ servant—and kcep him there. This will carry the | South for him. We would rather have | |him than a weak-kneed Northern Dem-| So howl on. Truly, | next Mr, | ocrat. | Athens, Ala., July 29, 1907. | he alleges, they lost the diploma given him by Harvard College upon his grad- uation. Because the Jamestown Exposition authorities have failed to remit the first | $100,000 due on the loan of $1,000,000 | made by the government to the Exposi- tion, the Treasury officials are not much alarmed. Earle Frisbie, an aeronaut, and his wife nearly burned to death last Sun- day, while their balloon was inflating at Fairview, Martinez, Cal. The testing of substitutes for twine for binding packages of mail was be- gun in the Baltimore Postocfie last Monday, Itis said that the fine of $29,240,000 on the Standard Oil Company may not be collected for years, if ever. The funeral of Mr. James W. Thomp- son, the husband of Mrs. Rachel Thomp- son, took place last Thursday from As- bury Methodist Episcopal Church, Rev. Maurice Fikes, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Franklin, Pa., is advocating the idea of a billiard room on his church property. Plans for a new patriotic organiza- | tion, to be known as the Descendants |of the Declaration of Independence I notice you are very | Signers, have been perfected, Kenneth Hines, fourteen years old, ved the life of his older brother from drowning, and is expected to receive @ Ca: gie hero present. BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD. Popular excursions to Niagara Fails, only $10 round trip; August -2 and 16; September 6 and 20; October 6, 1907. Excursion tickets will be sold on the above dates, good going only on Special Train leaving Washington at 7.45 a.m, arriving Niagara Falls at 11.00 p.m. Tickets valid for return ten (10) days, including date of sale, on all regular W. C. Frost. paar except “Black Diamond Express,” BALTIMORE AND OHIO EXCUR-| of Lehigh Valley Route. SIONS. Call on ticket agents for pamphlet Sunday, August II. $1.00 to Harpers | giving full particulars as to stop-overs, Ferry, i return. Train leaves Washington at 7 am. | Charlesown and Winchester and | side-trips, etc. READ THE BEE, ! e t 25 z i i. Ei t? st : :