The Washington Bee Newspaper, December 28, 1907, Page 1

‘Cadagrg Token = oo = yOL.27 NO. 31 LSS WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY DECEMBER 28, 1907. Liberty Where is Thy Throne? YRNEY JONES SPEAKS —HE CTRIFIES HIS AUDIENCE. *hiladelphia, Pa., December 17. 1 meeting under the aus- the State officers of the B. Y. Pennsylvania, held Tuesday | Yecember 17, in Shiloh Bap-j Lombard above Eleventh | ¢ fey. William H. Phillips, pastor, j rgest that has even been held} City of Brotherly Love. Seated platform were some of the minent citizens in the | preachers, and ers, in life. Among some of the} epeake ver E. J. Waring, J. C.| Rev. G. L. P. Taliferro, D.D., torney Thom L. oJnes, of} D.C ow was the prin- it this great meeting.When | troduced he received an ov a- | ing t aeclvery s was enthusiastically pplaud- | follows | Baptist | Yo f City of *t Cit and | rier J am am I in | sible t onor you | » me in in me here to address your most interesting, and! exercises. nd instructive xs of an occasion like this zhould be couched in noble | numented in bronze, and terity in poetry and in song he hich greets me a is hour} e thrilling and slated to the € heart and t As very r embl spirit pirat he Baptist Young People’s Union is Christian born to die, because f devoted 1 which it is found- principles .ve their home in heaven and their n in the bosom of God. This in- tion which is dedicated to God and ty is a co-¢ branch of the tist Church, one of the greatest de- nations of baptized b forth under visiting Conven- y of Wash- | 3 n the eleve fi last Sep honor me, and the org: t of | Y Baptist Union, but} t | | he Baptist vfluence which | nd objects, befc self, and the | | national gathering wor irels impres- ing mm in the hearts of the delegates to at conventic will not be for- gotten unti] Judgment, I s members { the aptist Union, | v are all f 1 ptists, and} at you believe in a ts, policies, and | n the name of God, let 1 this August Presence, pledge the de- »mination our choice, our tears, our rifices and infleunce in} prayers, our sa a grim determination to forever keep live the principles of baptism that were rn in- the manger, reflected in the ters of the Jordan, and finally burst ll-orbed from the summits of Cal- y on the day when God's only Son meful death s put to a cruel and rc the sins of a doomed world Let it be understood, however, that resolution and determination thus nounced not a spasmodic conclu- ‘n of a moment, nor are they born of e blazing fires of enthusiasm that asion, but they are this sweep over e legitimate offspring of the love we e the Baptist denomination a cause that believes in the that “of ons blood to dwell to- action natior has made 1 the face of the earth,” a cause ether ied upon the eternal principles of rhood of God and brotherhood of n, as enunciated the Ten Com- t ts, Christ’s Sermon upon the t n of American In s ynstitution of the 1 tates Union with lofty aims 1 pur- f resolve, planting | and when we know that the path of sin| ltears, that I might weep day and night | government or people | States, Greece which once ¢ contest against thee} ation, and in ant evil d of Heavenly Power to aid us in the of the land, let us invoke the} | hour. | To z in the sinful age in w e forces of ev h we live de- mands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands; ‘Men whom the lust of office does not] kill, Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; | Me who have opinions and will, Men who have honor; men who will not lie. Men who can stand before the dema- | goguc | And damn his treachero flattery without winking; Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above | the pettifog duty and private thinking In public For when the rabble with their thumb- worn creeds, Their large professions and their {it- tle deeds, Mingle in weeps; selfish strife, lo! Freedom Wrong rules the la and weeping —Justice sleeps.” The age in which we live reeks with injustice, greed, hypocrisy, and corrup- n. The giant forces of evil are every- where silently at work, slowly but sure- ly, undermining this great republic, and when we note the inactivity on the part of the Christian Church to expose and | check the onward r ch of these evils, ! the nation treads will only} destruction, plate all of these things we feel like the | great Prophet Jeremiah, who, standing mountain top of antiquity, and in which lead to when We contem- on the observing the idolatry and sins of his people, cried out in the “Oh, anguish of his| were | fountain of } soul, saying, that my head waters and mine eyes a for the slain of the daughters of my people.” I assert before high Heaven that this nation is in copartnership and living in open adultery with many of the giant] forces of evils that are training their guns against the destiny of the repub-| lic, and which are doing much to poison the minds of the young people of the land against the sacred dogmas ofChris- | tianity in the hope of crippling and de-, stroying the influence of the Christian | Church. This government harbors in om the same pois reptiles cut the throats of ancient governments and consigned them to the tomb of oblivion, leaving not even sign Or in- cription to commemorate thei ence among the sons of men citizens, t Me remind you nanent endurance wi foundation stone upon > suiper- structure of their civilization is reared, d where liberty justice are not the common heritage of all A nation that forgets God i builds pon any other foundation may be lik- ned wi th in who built his house upon the sand For the forgetfulness »f God fosters crime, crime breeds an- archy, anarchy begets revolution, revolu tion despotism, despo: injustice,and injustice and these combined is death to This fact is any nation raphically pic” 1 in the history gove ents of Assyria, Nineveh, Babylon, Persia, Greece, and the great Roman Empire, drove ugh ov- which in jestruc the plot re of sister States, erected thrones their er the graves of slaughtered citizens,ded- icated palaces with trophies dyed in blood, and made the whole earth to resound with groans and shrieks of dying victims, while Rachel was’ weep- ing for her children because they were not Walk with me by way of imagination, my friends, back through the dusky cen” turies, to the graveyards of these dead nations and amidst the awful shadows of their departed glory let us learn a tombs. Stand up, Ninevitish Dove up- on thy emerald tell us the awful story of your downfall. Leaning against the tombstone with eyeless sock- ets and fleshless limbs,she staggers forth and “It was the forgetfulness of God that laid I fell by my own acts of injustice and Nineveh and esson from their with tha Assyria! brow, and says me low; Babylon slumber with me here.” Oh, queenly Persia, who bridged the Hellespont with ships and fed upon the life’s blood of With quivering lips and an aw- imag- why are you peop! here? her once ful mind, grasping at John H. Corbin of this city. | Illinois, last Tues PARAGRAPHIC NEWS: By Miss Beatriz L. Chase. ~The South African Spectator gives a” account of the discovery of a brutal out rage and murder of a ten-year-old white | girl by a white man in Cape Colony, through a clairvoyant, who in turn is being watched closel, Many of the students of Howard Uni | versity went to their homes to spend the Christmas holidays. The of Mr. H formerly of North W.Outlaw, arolina, took place | from Winslow’s undertaking | funeral chapel. | The Freeman says “it is more bless- | ed to give than to receive, if you have! doubts about what is coming.” Rev. J. W. Corbin, took last Wednesday Hampton, Va, was the fa any whose funeral | week in Mr. { place her Of | The dynamite explosion at Ottawa, ! lay did much damage! many to property, and persons were | Congress you will probably be asked 7 Personal Liberty AN APPEAL TO REASON. WHY PROHIBITION SHOULD NOT EXIST-IN THIS CITY. The following is a copy of the letter to members of the Senate and House of Representatives, presented by Hon. J. A.Goulder, of the Eighteenth New York District. sent December 16, 1907. Dear Sir: During the sessions of the Sixtieth to consider legislation in regard to the sale of malt and spirituous liquors in the District of Columbia. We feel that the matter will receive your fair and earnest consideration. In the stress of fulminating appeal to which you will be subjected the fact should mot be lost sight of that the in- terest we represent has vested rights, the same as any other business. We are not without the pale of legitimate enterprise; as our demagogic opponents would have you believe. “Having con- ATTORNEY TH ¢ HIS GREAT SPETCH \ \ IMAS L. JONI IN PHILADELPHIA { } injured Emma Goldman delivered an address before a Jarge gathering of so-called 2 - | Paterson, N. J., Mon- | archists last day evening. The Memphis Savings Bank, of Mem- phis, Tenn., which carries deposits of jover a million, was closed this week by order of the Chancery Court After considering the matter fully, | the President has rejected the applica-! Lieut, Col. C. M. Perkins, of} the United States Marinee Corps, to be tion of allowed to withdraw his application Tor retirement under the thirty-years’ ser- vice law. The officer will be retired the 31st inst. Many members of the Cabinet spent Christmas Day out of the city. One 125,000 people at Christmas din- ners in New York last Wednesday, fur- | nished by the Salvation Army The closing of the saloons in Chat- tanooga, Tenn., Christmas Day is said favorable to have aroused much com- ment. The Carnegie Hero Fund at Pitts- burg, Pa. awarded $35,000 to the suf- ferers of the Monongah, W. Va., mine disaster last Monday. Hereafter only one train will .be al- lowed, either northbound or southboun* in the tunnel at one time, as the result of the agitation against the signal sys- tem obtaining in the tunnel beneath Cap” itol Hilt. President William H, Sallmon, of the Carleton College, says that “the world; will some day have a new Bible.” It is thought that at the General Con- | ference of the Methodist Protestants to be held next May that the Methodist | Protestants, Congregational, and United ry power, she says: “I fell by MY] Brethren denominations will unite. own = musdeeds. se-like] Out of the twenty-three who escaped Greece, ta . 100d Of! f-om San Lazaro Hospital, at Havana, anted the nineteen were still at large last Tuesday- -Governor Horn of Togoland was nd most sentenced to a fine of $3.50 and cost | t Continued on Page 4 | ducted our business along fair and hon | rable lines, we respectfully submit that any further restrictive measures aimed} at it here in the National Capital would j be unwarranted. Why experiment on Washington to find a panacea for the ills, fancied or real, of other localities of this great and broad ¢ ry of ours? S uch a procedure would be distinctly unfeir Should you feel that our business needs added restrictions we invite the most thorough personal investigation on} you find the a more hon-| our part. Nowhere will liquor trade carried on in orahle manner. Drunkenness is not fre- quent here, and crime, the concomitant | f all over-indulgence, is at a minimum. | Considering the character and numbers | e of crime oi our people, the percer the District of Columbia is comparatively small. An inspection of the court records will reveal that only | a slight percentage of the licensed liquor Washington have sinned a- gainst the laws in late years. Through a well-directed effort we are hopeful} that the succeeding years will show a slate We feel sure that the people of the District are eminently satisfied with the present torm of government, and desire here in dealers of clean no change, and respectfully ask that the Congress ‘stand pat” on the present ex- cise laws. You must the prohibition question the wherever it realize the magnitude of] Should pro- has} been rear- hibition prohibit—and the tried—tariffs reverse proved rule has would have to be ranged in order to make up a deficit in Federal revenues, for it must be borne} in mind that one-third of the Govern-|} ment’s income comes from internal rev-| enue. The sovereign right of a State to} ve the Federal Government of its stablish- internal revenue seems to be ed. But when a State, after legislative acts, shuts down the m: cauring establ ents p: nal revenue, asks from the Federal , which humankind has its failings, we shall all share in the golden mean} |Grand Lodge of Alabama, in whose ju Government appropriations for. river and harbor imprivements, rural free de- liveries, public buildings and expects potection against lawlessness and against foreign enemies, does not the question arise: Can the prohibition States expect that the moneys paid into the United States Treasury by anti-prohibition States, in the form of internal revenues, should be expended for the benefit of prohibition States? Equal protection for equal taxation is a standard maxim, and it does not seem fair that the so-called “dry” States should share alike with the ‘wet” States in the proposed munificent appropria- tion for rivers and harbors and other improvements. This prohibition wave sprang up in the South, designed, we are told, to offset the demoniacal tendencies of the colored brother in that section, due to his intemperate use of intoxicants. Pro- ition will not only fail of its pur- pose in that quarter, but deny to that great mass of American freeman, white and black, the boon of personal liberty. Granting for the nonce that the Ne- gro of the South requires the leash of prohibition in order to make him a safe citizen, there is certainly no need of such paternalism here in Washington. What the intemperate Negro of the South needs is education, as do all oth- er peoples, of whatever color or clime, avho are given to excesses. Let the States that feel the need of prohibition build up their educational systems as has been done here in Wash- ington; let the churches and other re- ligious organizations proselytize for temperance in speech, in drinkables and eatables, and in the tise of tobacco and for and a thousand and one other things of perfection. Very truly yours, Abner-Drury Brewing Company, By E. F, Abner, President. “PATRIOTISM KNOWS NO COLOR.” The Army of the Cumberland, Ohio and Tennessee celebrated the anniver- sary of the “Crowning Victories of the West” on Tuesday night at Masonic Temple, Ninth and F streets North- The veterans refought the Civil as they recounted prominent bat- tles ar west War und the banquet table. Letters of regret were sent by Secre- ary Loel for Vice Presid W. Wilson, 0. 9 t the President; James Cortelyou, Gen.} acting nt Fairbanks, Secretary Gen. Howard and Senator Speaker Cannon telephoned that he was, ed busy” that he could not, great American word suc so cons: possibly be present Harlan, of the Civil War, made a stirring speech Justice who was a soldier and said: “The men who served in the sat war are going dewn the valley one by one, and it is entirely fitting that those who are yet remaining should gather together and shake hands when- ever it is possible.” Among the other prominent speakers were: Congressman Hull, Major Wham, Col Gen. John Tweedale, Capt. L. M. Kelly, John C. Black and Col. John A. J. Henderson served as man. Music furnished by John 7 5 Mr. Abram R. F. Springstein, Master Turner Layton accompanied all Gen. T. was tham, } the soloists, sang two selections, and ) furnished all the instrumnetal music of the evening When Colonel McElvoy introduced Professor Layton he said: “Patriotism knows no color. I know of no one, black or wh better than or as well as Comrade Lay- te, who can sing war songs ton, and he can’t be excelled in singing ‘The Star Spangled Banner’” BOOKER T. WASHINGTON GETS MASONIC DEGREES Conferred by Prince Hall Grand Lodge, With Master Marshall Presiding in Special Session. The degrees in freemasonry were con- ferred on Booker T. Washington by William Lloyd Marshall, grand master of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge, F. and A. M, of Massachusetts, last night at the apartments of the colored Masons, 446 Tremont street. The work was performed in a lodge specially convened for that purpose and constitutes a very unique departure as only men of mark are selected for this honor, which can only be conferred by the grand master. H. C. Binford, grand master of the risdiction Dr. Washington resides, gave ficial sanction to the granting of degrees, and sent a letter of congrat- ilation. n a week's time the tunnel un- der st River, New York city, will be in working order. Allison. / money, Layton, Mr. Henry Sta-! BOOKERT. WASHINGTON TRUST WIVES WITH WAGES BOOKER T. WASHINGTON TELLS HOW TO SAVE Asks Colored Race to Remove Spend- thrift Stigma. Makes Three Addresses in Boston and --- Cambridge .. ... | From the Boston Globe, December 16. Dr. Booker T. Washington spoke at three meetings held yesterday by col- ored people in commemoration of the ore hundredth anniversary of the birth of John Greenleaf Whittier. At each of these meetings the audience exceeded the legal limit, and hundreds were turn- ed away. The first meeting was at the Colum- bus Avenue A. M. E. Zion Church, where he spoke to the Sunday school at two o'clock. The next meeting was at the Mount Olive Baptist Church, Massa- chusetts Cambridge, at 4.30. |The third meeting was at the Charles Street A. M, E. Church. At the Mount Olive Baptist Church, where Dr, Washington was received by tthe Cambridge young men’s forum, he made the finest address his ple ever heard fror ; 2 heart-to-heart ’ to get near & up to. his the cone” cupig long-co Foye, i to him The Miner J. He Ward oeffier Dr. to spe things tin Mz for e¢ passec the nm the § tunity, fit of | als to undertake | to succeed “You must as individuals yo. avenue, own peo- great American nath ting yourselves to be th. |zens you are helping the m. people in the South. For as yo. and all ot toward land, that property, make the ess, sO in pro- other elements ; portion do you help us in the South. “Now to help us in the South you should be helping yourselves in the }North by engaging in pursuits that call for the very best that woman, regardless of color or sex, You man or is in a can help us in the South along educa- j tional lines by giving more attention to the education opportunities that are | being offered you in such institutions as jthe Institute of Technology, Simmons ' College, Radcliffe, and Harvard, and the | newer preparatory schools like the High | Schools of Commerce and Practical | Arts. In so doing you will find new | opportunities along new lines to get a comfortable living. You should engage | more in business. \ “We have got the name of being great- jer spenders than we are savers. It is unfortunate for to have the name of spendthrift tagged to it. The possession of money and property repre~ sents the ability to to sacrifice today for tomorrow and the ability of one generation to provide for the wants of the next generation. Let us begin to teach our children to begin a new life. Let us teach people North South and West to take care of their any race work; our and money. “You men must trust your wives more and more with the spending and the ‘You speak about the conditions and how hard it is for z colored man to ‘have his money here m the North. If there are any conditions unfavorable to weekly or monthly wages to her, and you may depend upon it that at the end of the year you will have a larger bank account than did previous, and first thing you know you will be owning your own house. you, those conditions most gener- | saving of your money. Take home your ally of your own making. “We want to get out of the negative side of life, and enter the positive side , of life. I sometimes believe that we ad- our troubles too much to the Now, no one has much faith in If you advertise a downtrodden race, why, you the year are vertise world. | la sick race of people. } yuorselves a what is to hinder every other race of | people from really believing that our Continued on 4th page. RT ETT Ie | eo EE.