The Washington bee., 1888-10-20
DEFENDING MANDO'S CAR
NIVAL.

uOLlCo III rOuE paper, udb'
ed Oct, 9th, a contribution under
the caption of the Mando Concerts
Carnival.
The writer begins his or her ar
ticle with a "kick," kicks in the
middle and winds up with a kick.
Now what is the object of all
this kicking?
People have cause to kick and
sometimes do kick when they pay
for one thing and get another in
stead, or when they pay for a given
amount or quantity of thing and
get less. But people seldom if
ever kick when they get more than
the worth of their money. For in
stance, no one was ever known to
kick who paid one dollar for the
tenth part of a lottery ticket and
get five hundred dollars in return,
a kind of a QUID PRO QUO if you
please. But they have been known
to kick pretty hard when they took
chance with odds against them
and got nothing,
Your contributor acknowledges
the receipt of one dollars worth for
fifty cents, also acknowledges that
the orchestra was an 'excellent
one," also that SHE stayed and en-
joyed it" to the worth of his money
and left satisfied.
Prof. Mando's programme may
aud it may not have been too long.
AS for myself, / could have re-
mained all night to listen to such
music. [ have been to theatrical
performances before now and have
stayed and have seen others stay
until twelve o'clock, and I have
yet to hear anyone complain of the
length of the play, and L dare say
this kicker of yours has done the
same thing if he took in any of the
national operas last winter when it
was never ending music.
"The programme. q must
pause here to say that its typograph-
ical appearance was excellent "
Eh. ga little flattery sometimes
does WE'LL"
Prof. Mando could not we'll fol.
low the programme as he didn't
know the situation of the organ.
The programmes were printed in
this city, and Prof. Msndo did not
reach here until the day of the
concert, and, moreyer, he was
under the impression that the organ
was built at the back of the pulpit
with would locate it upon the
stage. Hence he either had to Skip
the programme or march the or
chestra from the organ gallery to
the stage good many times, which
would have been as disagreeable to
the audience as it would have been
inconvenient to him. 1t was sup.
posed that all this was satisfactOr-
lily explained.
Again your kicker kicks because
all the musicians were not colored.
This should be no crime since sew
en- out Of every ten persons are
trying to be white. AS the kicker
got a dollars worth perhaps he
wanted fifty cents worth of music
and fifty cents worth of color. Well
there were four colored ladies and
five cOlored men and thirteen white
men in the concert, which, accord
ing to my thinking, was better
than if they had all been colored,
for it is a veritable fact that "this
old down trodden race' will never
be able to command the respect of
the world until they can convince
white men that they can do what
o her people can do and do it we'll.
The best way to force this convic-
ton is to be able to lead white men
and lead them as Prof. Mando did.
But, says your kicker, he did not
lead them. He did not know how.
Aye, there's the rub.D
''This is the cause of all of this
kicking. That dirty contemplate
prejudice against the negro which
no one possesses but colored people,
is the cause of our being so far
down the hill as we are to-day, and
my word for it, it is the mill stone
about our neck that will forever
keep US down. ANY fair minded
person will admit it, that for a
colored man to bring under his
leadership, from New York or any
where else, an orchest ra composed
principally of white men to this
city, where the kicker nor any
other colored person can not 60
into a respectable restaurant and
pay for and get a meal if properly
taken advantage of, is calculated
to go a long way toward wiping out
prejudice against us.
"Unacquainted with the piece
entirely or incapible of holding his
men," Now this means nothing if
it does not mean that Prof. Mando
did not know bis business, and If