The Washington bee., 1894-04-07
PROTOPLASMAT1C, SQUIBO-
RINES,
FROM OUR BEEHIVE.

are getting in it.
President Cleveland vetoed the Bland
bill with The same degree of complais-
ancy with which he vetoed the cla inns
of The Negro democrat.
There is a feeling of uneasipess a.
mong the employees in the government
printing office. The new public printer
is sharpening his little hatchet prepar-
atory to making the fur fly.
If Miss Pollard had employed Mr..
Peter Jackson the great ethiopian slug
ger, to call on Col. Breckenridge, she
would have gotten the damages she is
now suing for, or the Colonel would
have received damages commensurate
with his criminal escapades
Our fashion editor forgot to mention
last week that bustles will be used by
the ladies next summer. Old neWSpa-
pers for sale at this Office.
Mr.. George says, he knows a great
deal more about the inside workings of
the "'Colored American" than he cares
to tell.
There is a movement On foot to call
a National Negro convention for the
purpose of finding out what relation
the Negro bears to the POLITICAL parties.
This III our judgement would be a USE
less expenditure of money and time,
from the fact that the relation the Ne
gro bears to the political parties are
past finding out. We are opposed to
such convention; but favor conven-
tion for the suppression of Negro poll
ticians and the encouragement of Ne
gro farmers and Negro mechanics.
1t is not true that Coxeys army is
coming to Washington for the pur-
pose of petitioning Congress in the in
terest of the unemployed. They are
coming with resolutions of sympathy
for the gentlemen who were not
appointed recorder of deeds.
The political privilege of the Negro
in the future will be what he makes it
aud the less he dabbles in politics now
the better it will be for him bye and
bye.
a correspondent asks "what is a
scholar?" We are not prepared to say
whether the sentence is a grammatical
one or not, but scholar, is a man who
does not know anything, Mr.. CardoZa
for instance.
Inasmuch as all the prophecies con-
cerning the Negro made by his enemies
have f lied they ought now to give him
fair play and let him alone.
Since The appointment OF Mr.. Taylor
q Of
Still, uf Philadelphia, Mathews, of New
York and the Barber man of South Car
olina, all of whom were interested in
the appointment of Mr.. Taylor, are
considering other untitled positions.
And now for the Liberian Mission.
We could name the man if we wanted
to, but proper to let the President do
SO.
If there is anything we depreciate,
and desire TO see reformation brought
about, it is the average style OF Wor-
ship in some of our churches. We have
s en- church members carry on most ri
diculous, stating that during their con-
tortions and wrigglings ey we're pos
essed of the spirit. Judging from the
performance they must have been pos
essed of the devils spirit. 1t is high time
for ouT people to conduct their services
with decency. God is an intelligent
God and ought to be worshipped intelli-
gently.
The advocates of African emigration
will never make much headWay, first
because the Negro don't care to go, and
second because as much as the whites
hate the Negro in the Sou h, if an exo-
dus OF any magnitude was planned the
white regulators would enter a short
gun protest.
One of the reasons why the negro do
not progress more rapidly in business
than he does is because most of his
time IS consumed apologizing to the
white man for e<he impertinence of be.
ing born.
1t is sad mistake to say that the Ne
gro is not producer. The vast annual
production of cotton, rice, tobacco,
corn, sugar cane, sweet-potatoes water
melons, peanuts and other staples; the
rasin, turpentine, lumber and other in
terests; the mines, the mills, the facto-
lies, the founderies that the southern
States are developing is dependent on
Negro labor. The productive value of
Negro labor is the wealth of the South,
and very considerable part Of the
wealth of the nation whether it is ac-
knoWledged or appreciated or not.
The suspense is over. Hon. G. H. j.
Taylor is Recorder of Deeds for the
Districr of oolumbia, and the world
goes jogging on just the same. We do
not see how Mr.. Cleveland could have
done otherwise than appoint Mr.. lay
lor to the position. Mr.. Taylor is un-
doubtedly the most conspicuous figure
| in Negro Democracy, and having fail
ed to get him confirmed as Minister to
Bolivia, Mr.. Cleveland was under rbli-
cations to provide another equally as
good place for him, this he has done
Mr.. Taylor is man of ripe experience
scholar and very genial gentleman
| TIE BEE doffs its hat to the new Recor.
der.