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grand, how elevating Is liberty, il Is cur de-
sire to enjoy that grandeur, that elevation
which comes from the most complete freedom
consistent with the peace and prosperity oil
humanity. Colonel Hughes allie ges that the
party that has received our confidence and
support, that has done more heretofore than
any other political organization to promote
the cause of human freedom and progress
stands opposed TO a measure that completes
human freedom so far AZ the law can do it,
go that our freedom-inspired desires, aspira-
tons ariN efforts will be to US the mockery
Of our emancipation.
Can it be that such bascness and treachery
as would lie the opposition to our complete
freedom Oh the part of the.Republican party
is to be true of that party? We do not and
cannot think it. We confidently look to the
Republican party in Cong ss this winter to
do its full duty. and live up to its professions
FL the matter of our civil rights. There may
be few men of the Col. Hughes stripe in
the party, but we by no means consider such
as being the exponents of the principles and
actions Of the party.
To the coiored people we say let your de-
mand for your complete freedom be heard
You have the right to demand that the par
ty that appealed to you for your ballots with
the promise that your civil and public rights
should be fully recognized, shall make good
its promise to you. Your fidelity to the par
Is entities you to make reasonable demands
upon it. Let petition on petition be sent in
to Congress praying for the recognition ol
our rights let the Equal Rights convention
next month represent the colored people in
every section of the Union. We must leave
nothing undone to secure negative answer
to our inquiry in regard to the truthtulncss
of Col. Hughes assertion, and to have that
negative emphasized by the passage of the
/ Sumner Civil Rights Bill.
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What's I'm the Wind!

The Democracy of Wisconsin evidently
think there is something in the bad name BY
which they are usually known. But they no
sooner adopt new one than they render it
as odous as the Old. And so they keep
changing till it is said they have as many
aliases as first-class burglar. Among the
names by which II calls itself are the Demo-
cratic Liberal party, Democratic Reform,
Peoples Reform, Labor Reform, and Anti
Monopoly. 1t is not to be supposed that
Congressman Mitchell, their member from
the Fourth District of the State, will indorse
the last name. However. to the voter null
tplicity of names is scarcely as bewildering
as multiplicity of parties, and therein the
voter in Wisconsin has an advantage over
his brother in Chicago, where the parties are
almost innumerable. The Litter Ocean has
essayed the task Of enumerating them, and
succeeds to this extent: The Law and Order
party, the independent Citizens party, the
Leading Citizens party, the Hesing o 'IIara
party, the Grand Pacific Hotel party, the
Sherman House party, the Whte-Jussen-
Gazette party, the Jussen-Gazette- Blakely
party, the Sunday Wine and Beer party, and
the Committee Of Seventy Iarty.
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4 Grinding Monopoly.

One Joseph z. Woodbury., of Boston, who
has recently, by some unexplained means,
procured patent for an Improvement upon
Woodworth's planning machine, has caused
much excitement and Indignation among
lumber dealers and owners of planning ma.
chimes throughout the country by demand
for a royalty for the use Of every machine
made with that improvement. The sum he
demands would amount IN the aggregate, it
is stated, to about $50, 000, 900. Lumber
dealers and owners have resolved to resist
his claim by every means in their power, not
only because ii is exorbitant, but illegal.
Tho facts in regard to this patent and the
efforts he has made to procure it are repre-
scented to be that in 1913 Woodbury. applied
for patent for an improvement in planning
machines, in which he used yielding pres
sure bar instead OF Woodworth's yielding
pressure roller. Lock Woodwork 5 roller 40
that il will not turn, and we have, substan-
TALLY, Woodbury's pressure bar. Long prior
to lS4S the courts had decided that the use
Of yielding pressure bars were iniingcmcnts
on WOodworths yielding pressure rollers
and therefore, while Woodbury's patent
might have been new and patentable, he
could not have used the device had the pat
ent then been allowed. But the Patent Office
decided that there was not sufficient novelty
in Woodbury's device to support patent,
and, accordingly, rejected his claim. The
applicant then withdrew his petition. and
received back his money. AS he could not
obtain a patent, everybody who made plan
ing machines had free right to use his de-
vice, and they did so. Woodbury's invention
is now to be found employed on almost every
planning and molding machine in the land.
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Tahc Notice.

/; having cna.c 10 our notice that person
cIoimirc 10 be stockholders in the NEW Ma
?IoNAI ERA AND CITIZEN Company arro-
cate 70 themselves the tight to make collec-
lions Of money due this corporation, respect
fully Give notice that none but authorized
agents are recognized at this office. Some
imagine that the editors Of the paper are the
proper parties to do business With. THIS Is
not 50, their is a separate department.
The business department is conducted BY
Frederick Douglass, Jr., who is secretary OF
the company.
This arrangement does not interfere with
our friends securing and sending us subscribe
crs, deducting twenty per cent. Tor so dong,
hut has reference to collections for job-work,
advertising, sc. LEWIS ii. DOUGLASS,
President.
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Ghirstiu. Tor ssinn.i.

Judge Davis, before whom Stokes was
tried, exhibited such feeling, not only Of dis
appointment but Of Indignation that the Jury
brought him in guilty Of mau>'aughter in the
third degree instead of murder IN the first, rs
places him in no cnvahle light before the pub
lie and shows him unfit Tot the position he
holds. In delivering his sentence he took
occasion 10 express his deep regret that he
was deprived by the iury of the pleasure of
sentencing him to be hung. and abused him
in the most bitter and haunting language he
could command. The temper he exhibited
the tone of his philippe, and indeed his very
words proved that he was th!rsting for the
blood Of Stokes, and he evidently ielt that
great wrong had been done hin by depriying
him of the sweet privilege Of pronouncing his
death sentence. II was Il most undignifed
and indecent exhibition, sounding more like
4 TRADE from one who had some personal
feeling TO CRAFTY other than the calm, digni-
fed, dispcnsate judgment q high judicial
officer
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The Fisk Jubilee singers.

1t has been several weeks since We have
had anything from the Jubilee Singers, now in
England. We have the pleasure of publish
ing elsewhere an account Of an entertain
ment in their honor, given, and attended, by
the nobility Of Edinburgh. While in this city
these singers were refused accommodations
that they paid for, AMI were compelled to take
quarters in an out Of the way corner of
fourth rate hotel because Of their race and
color, to-day in England they are received by
the best class in that land. The treatment of
these singers in England con,rasted with
what they would receive here mark. the DIFF
ference between genuine nobility of charac-
ter and pusil!anmity.
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The Jubilee sings r..

To the Editor ot The North B,,tisa DULY Mad:
SIR: have been watching with some Gu
riosity the criticisms which have appeared
in metropolitan and provincial press upon the
music and singing oi these Interesting visitors.
As might have been expected they met with
a Kind and hearty reception, and the T per-
iomances have been highly commended.
At the same time they seem to be puzzle to
most Of our musical critics aud usually a
kind of apologize tone has been adopted as
if they were afraid or unable or unwilling to
say so much in favor Of "such uneducateI
singer" That the Jubilee Singer. are IN
educated is q great mistake. No IL ubi they
are children Of a race To whom education was
long denied. Consequently they have la
bored under many disadvantages but these
they have beeu struggling nobly 10 over
come and as students of the Fisk Uniyersi-
~ it will be found that they have been dill
gently making up for the deficiencies Of train
ing la their early youth, and for years have
been studying with much success. The let
tiers which appear in the American newspa-
pers, written by these student. to their
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Pennyvisc and POundfO foolish.

Though hundreds of manufacturing compa-
MES are driven, by the financial embarrass-
ment which has overtakcn the country, to
the alternative Of suspendin. altogether or
reducing the wages of their employees, the
latter are almost universally threatening to
strike ii any such reduction is made. Some
working men, indeed, are striking for highe,
wages They seem as incapable of under
standing their own interests as they are
indifferent to those Of their employers. But
the truth is that the labor unions are ALSO.
lutely controlled by a very few shrcwd, de-
sisning, INSCRIPTIONS men, who have been
receiving such high wages that they can afford
to remain idle for while, or BY professional
agitators who live by contributions from the
more credulous dupes and ignoran: mem
bcrs OF these organizations. Under the bad
advice Of these dernagogues, they are, il hun
drcds of instances, refusing to work ut all
rather than submit 10 a small reduction OF
their wages, thus not only subjecting their
families to absolute want, but compelling
their employer to suspend operations en-
tirely.
1t is shown by the last census that
3,.01 ,42l working men are employed in min
Ing, manufacturing, and mechanics. From
the distress sure to follow even the tempo
rary suspension of portion OF our manufac-
turing establishments, aud the consequent
of workinsmen employed in them,
and as miners and mechanics, some idea may
be formed Of the calamity policy would
prove which should permanently suspend
nearly all manufacturing operations, and de-
prive large portion of three millions OF
workers OF employment. That is what the 1
Revenue Refomers" and The Democratic J
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/. ,.or statistics

AT the present time, when manufacturing
establishments Of various kinds all over the
country are compelled to suspend operations
altogether, discharge a portion OF their en-
ployes, or reduce their wages - "a to con
form to and be able to meet the pressure
which the money panic has brought upon
them, statistics upon the subject Of labor
will be of interest to all who live BY the sweat
of their brow. And especially IN regard 10
the number Of working people in The l h'ted
States The last census report enables Us
to give this information. According to this
report, the number Of working people in this
country pursuing specific occupations IN -"
were l2,50j ,923, Of whom 10, 500, +2G were
males, and only l,S2G,4S: were females,
leaving S,lJ0, 900 without any specific occu-
patton, although the greater portion OF them
must have some regular employment.
The war, rs the statistics show, and as was
one Of its inevitable and very natural results,
largely increased our working population.
In 1850, according to the census reports OF
that wear. they constituted but about one
fourth Of the population, whereas IN $50 the
ratio is augmented to one-third, aud, with
proper addition for female industry, would
have constituted a full half The greatest
change has been at the south, where many,
women a. well rs men, who were formerly
regarded as beyond the reach of want, now
labor for their subsistence.
Of our working force as enumerated,
. 800. 03S were born in this country, 9lo, lGl
in Ireland, $50, SOP in Germany, SOL 19 in
England and Wales, $50 ,397 in British North
America, IL? ,G3l in the three Scandinavian
States, u ,G93 in Scotland, IS, 10, in France,
and &c, 3eU in China and Japan. These arc
distributed as follows: Agriculture, 1902,
All; mining, manufactures, and mechanics,
3.7O7 ,42l; professions, 2,G34,7?l; trade and
transportation, l,ll9.221. In the minor
classification arc sc, 0Gi sailors. S,9,j Steam
boat men, and : .:3Se canal men % ,362 ply
sicians, 81 clergynen, 4o,I3G lawyers,
1876 900 teachers, g. ,9!2 ofiice-hodcrs. %, 93j
BARRIERS, 1919 musicians, $3.50 journalists,
. ,28G army and navy officers, ~, 40 employed
in hotels, and &c, 900 in livery sta5le..
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The Colsred schsois.

As was to be expected, the committee ap-
pointed By the Governor to examine into the
condition OF the colored schools, have re-
ported that they are IN excellent condition.
The advocates of mixed schools do not base
their arguments on the ineGiciency Of the col
ored schools, nor 90 they claim that the
teachers Of our school, are not compe-
tent; on the contrary, we believe the IN to
be fully competent to teach schools, white
or colored. We are opposed to distinctions
and Determinations in the enjoyment of pub
lie rights based on race or color. A few
colored persons here seem to oppose us. but
privately they say that we are right. Their
lack of manly and noble qualities makes them
bend low, and cunge that thrift may follow
fawning. They are to he pitied However,
1t is unfortunate that we, as a race, are judged
to be ike those cOlCred men who ally them
selves with that class of white men who would
view with plea sure our utter determination
There are colored men in this city who, when
| it was proposed to ask for the extension of
the elective franchise to the colored people
here, opposed it on the ground that ii would
be asking too much, and that they were sat-
| isfied with the right to testify in the courts
against a white man it is from this soon
tented" class hat opposition to mixed schools
comes, and who claim that we do not repre-
sent the views Of the colored people. Do
they represent the aspirations of our race:
Are we so ignoble as to claim, that while our
men are fit to associate in the halls of
legislation with our white fe!.ow citizens,
our children are unfit TO receive instruction
with the children of other races? Are our
Young ladies and gentlemen, graduates Of our
High School, unfit to attend the Normal
School with white students? DO we mis-
represent the colored people when we claim
that they are not unfit? If we do not, why
the evident delight on the part of certain
colored school trustees over the defeat of
''nxed-school candidates for the Legisla-
ture?" Who are the willing slaves of
foolish prejudicc-the trustees aforesaid, or
the defeated candidates?
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The streets Ira Memphis.

bn the streets pedestrians are i,.w and lar
between. \ lady Is rarely met, and when
met - almost invariably clad IN dc.p mourn
ing. The street car drivers have ed
their pace; their vehicles arc more frequently
empty now than carry Wing passengers, aud 50
the light burdcncd mules dash along al a
spanking rate. The hearSe with lis uoltiny
piumcs, snowy white or raven black, j. uuw
the most familiar vehicle on the streets Of
Memphis. one would think at times that il
was never out o! sight. 1t i fast LOSING it,
ghastlv appearance, 30 familiar have sc be-
come with IT. hldcOus form. But il no longer
moves with the stately funeral ,Glrn.u!tv
which heretofore has characterized Il. The
driver looks comfortable the horses are -lecl.
and spruce, and show their keeping, and th,
horses move OF 10 the house Oi death " ia
the speed 81 i sporting iUur-u.haud dl-iuu.
along Harlem road to the Jerome Pall. frrc,
The city srhOD!- are closed. The merry hun
OF happy chldren's voice. - hu,hrd, und
from the playground there are nov, Il" ,o,-
Gus shout III ringing ausAlcr, but a sD!riuu
silence rrigns instead. But Il i, AT night
when darkness falls upon the devoted City,
that Memphis indeed puts on her m,urnlu..
robes. At an early EOur the streets are de-.
serted, and by 10 o'clock there i scarcely %
sound heard save the hurried steps OF ,,ue
a8ltatcd messenger seeking Il Doctor os 4
c!er5 man To minister To the SICK or u Law
yer u draft the last viii aui testament Of
the dying; or the sound. 81 the wheel ct
the vehicle, here and there, hurry ing OF with
people On The same mission oT the stea!thy
step oi some thief, proving IN the darknrs,
or some solitary policeman upon hi beat,
watching for the thief The gas-light when
in prosperous time. cheering effect, nov
serves only u make the drcariue-s and dc--
oIdlion ul the streets more visible N.n.yifs
IHled!.
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a Nice Case Of Gratitude.

l. irr1rt- are true there . a mode! yQuu-
l,.h IN Ottawa. Canada, who deserves the
at,cIt lion Of some good family man, as WEI
70. q cluIcteBt romance writer. The StDry
-..,. That in 'SlI, when the cholera wa
ra.'U. go canada, 81 Young American COUPE.
Ni.h % YAH, gal, arrived "a Ottawa and wrr.
stricken with the disease. They Died Hi
'r'l uo means b, which their relative. u.
even th,.r bonn. could Toe traced. The ltt.-
-.gl live anl grew IL grace and beauty undr.
ilr Gaze At au old wa>hrrwpnlau. She too.
this w"man's name and was taught e. BOO.
upon her n her mother Five wears re-" BE-
Gentleman at New \ "rk WIS visiting O:,iNl.
and learned the girls history. Closer .ur....r.
revealed the fact that she wls b.. niece. a..
daughter OF b. brother, Who passed aWa-
from earth very wystcr.1UslN wear. n~1 or ri,
least had g;irclUal.y i..ilcu himself i-.N b.
relative, md friends. The gentleman. now.
for the ir-t time, leaned The manner OBJ: D.
brother. death. and heinz well ., 90 ans
rhEllr.. himself. hr A.-hr.i 90 ella. ,'r ta-
.''i, the OH woman gave up the ..-i See.
reluctantly bu: consented - do What ~ g.
h'~, i,r he, Adopted child. HUi lea ha- 30.
With hen uuc,c t. New \ pra She iAI ..4
easy home. .t.i hr. education 80 ~ |.s.
.ou,!rtrj.
la-t summer lac lu,i hrr ,r-t.r m,tarr b.
visit. md found her very poor, IN brokr4
Lcllth aud unable to wnrh. >hg was ,.mp,
~taryinr III young lady resolved never To-
leave her Oh "muthcr' l.,Ju while "a,
lived. Lat Ia STAY aud work trr her. Nh" ~.
a situation with the Canada Bank Note
Printing Company, and no; all the persuasion
o.! her tine, New York t,.ruj- AMI relatives
can induce hcg II return e. them She
maxim. evening sunshine Tor the old woulu
who uouri>hcd hc~ "a hrr dlyA aud ,.'u,',
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The Result In Pennsylvania.

The Republicans of Pennsylvania seem
to have achieved a substantial victory at the
late elections. Besides electing all their
candidates on the State ticket, they have
majority Of twenty-nine on joint ballot in the
Legislature, after conceding the Democracy
a very doubtful district in the State. Eff
teen Republicans and seven Democratic
mcmbers of the Senate hold over, and the
Republicans have this year elected five mem
bers and the Democrats six. The Senate,
therefore, will be composed of twenty Repub-
licaus and thirteen Democrats, among the
latter being included Alexander Il. Mcclure,
"Indopendent Republican, Of Philadelphia.
To the House the Republicans have elected
sNty-one members and the Democrats thirty
nine
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"lark" With the President

The Toledo ''G rTHurrrial' -tatc- tin
among those who accompanied the Pre-
dental party to cars, the other morning, Wrrr
y"ung gentleman and his two lady CON.
rau."n-, who were invited into the -pr--
al car and became 50 cn9roSScd in con
Srr-al;on with the various diguitarirs that
they tool, no note Of the warning bell, or the
rnndrIrtor's All aboard" and before thpy
we're aware ont they were being carried east
ward At the rate Of 80 miles an hour. They
wcr" annoyed, of Couec, hut the President
seeing their embarrassment, proposed 10 them
I" accompany the party to lrycland. Flat
tered by the invitation given ia 20 Curdll! Il
~pht, they accepted It, They spent Ire
hours pleasantly on the route, entered the
Carriages wallns there for the party, drove
alOn" with the others To- the kennurd House.
amid the plaudits Of the multitude assembled
t. honor the Nation. ruler; took part in ia,
receptions, ETC., etc, until they had almo.I
hrrom" convinced that they were really dis
uuguish"d iplk-, instead OF plain citizen. al
TIA" great city OF the future. But the pleas
ATTEST illusions come To an end and The i'm
prnmilu tourists were aware that their sta.
could not be longer prolonged. and they pre-
pared {" return 10 the banks at the Maufurr
Here another trouble arose. The gentleman
made an inNO.,r of lis currency, and !uuut
lha' the total amount brought ulOng with h. us
would not suffice 10 pay more than hal: IT,.
return lJr". Here WAS u dilemma, indeed
over loo m.ic, from home, and amid ,tsana
crS. Again the Intuition Of the kIul-heq!tr
PRESIDENT OWNED the tlUublr, aud iu4ut.a
nj" The matter. came 10 their relief by Y,i..
them 80 bill. II was a rcptrd. and iut.l.
Ia lIrtE arrived NJ home
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The Rev. Moses ID. II"ge, ID. who adj
dressed the Evangelical Alliance on the Ne
gro, and gave Utterancc to his belief that the
negro is naturally inferior to other races, has
been making speech before the Southern
(rcbeD historical association; in his remarks
he 'said we failed 10 do the best thing be-
cause we failed to accomplish our object in
the late war" His hatred Of the negro i
easily accounted for in the fact, of his the
negroe' in checking the '!ittlc
game Of the rebels during ilic" slight I'M
plcasantrcss" of afcw wears agy.
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party propose. Free trade would not, OF
course, destroy all kinds Of manufacturing
enterprises But il would shut up large
portion Of cur cotton, woolen, and sllk fac
tories, and prove almost literally ruinous to
our iron manufacturing interests. AT least
one-half Of these 800 900 workingnien, now
earning, on an average, $50 year each, or
more than thirteen thousand millions Of dol
lars in the aggregate, would se deprived oil
their legitimate employment. And this great
sacrifice is ia bc made that British nianufac-
turers may enjoy the Privileg" of sending Va
their products free Of duty!