Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1895-05-03
OPINIONS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS.

The Freedmen's Aid and Southern
Educational Society of the M. E.
Church in it's annual statement last
year reports 46 institutions maintained
in the south with 473 teachers and
s,525 students; property valued at
S1,S00,000; expenditures, S229, ,004. 90;
appropriation. $27O, 900; debts, S19O. 900,
to meet which 5 per cent bonds will be
issued, and also valuable unused land
may be sold.
Savannah (Ga) Tribune What has
the Negro commissioners of the At
lanta Exposition done to prevent the
exhibition. in the white department, of
the degrading theory showing the evo-
luton of the Negro from the baboon
to the standard of mankind illustrated
by themselves? The degradation is to
be shown to please the cracker and
the Buckra" viii the Negro commits
sioners let the people know something
about the matter? The people want
those appointed as their representa-
,ives to do their full duty.
Parsons Blade: The Leavenworth
Herald is rejoicing over the victory for
the colored people of Leavenworth in
the appointment of a councilman and
the city physician. We can but rejoice
with it, for step favorable always
makes us feel happy. The Herald
worked constantly and earnestly for
its peoples recognition, and it should
not become an unforgotten fact in the
minds of every colored citizen in the
community. Topeka, the capital city,
has colored man for deputy city
attorney, another break in the mist
before the professional Negro
Georgia Speaker: The white man,
though he be ever SO poor, to his race
he is a white man, and therefore. ir
general terms. he gets the benefits of
decisions and cooperation tits not SO
with the Negro He is unfaithful to
himself, to others and to his common
concerns. Among ithe greatest him
drances to the Negroes success is a lack
OF unity and pride. In all the ways of
life he separates himself from the really
good and successful procedure, and
seems to prefer single handedness, re-
gardless of his inability to do. and the
consequence is he comes out far short
of success.
Des Moines Leader, Dem: Alabama
seems determined to keep ahead of
Ohio in the matter of lynching Negroes,
and on Saturday night five, two men
and three women, We're strung up near
Greenville What vindication cf fjustice
was it to take shivering and shrinking
and to punish one crime com
nit another? Out upon these blotches
upon American civilization whatever
their locus may be. They are outrages
as to which no condemnation can be
too severe. Such crimes are infinely
more injurious than any private one
Community corruption is greater evil
than individual corruption.
There are no flies on Senator Thos.
c. Platt. Through his influence the
following Negroes have been appointed
to paying positions in New York state,
two janitors in the senate at
IS per day, two janitors in the assembly
chamber at S. per day. three mes
sengers to the senate. Miss Chapman
as stenographer and type writer. Under
the superintendent of buildings twenty
eight colored Americans, at salary of
$40 per month each, have been APP
pointed. Charles P. Lee, secretary Of
the municipal civil service board, ex-
amines all applicants for offices in
Rochester, n. Y. In the office of the
treasurer of the great state of New
ork the chief clerk is colored man,
Charles w. Anderson. Hurrah for
Ham! Long live TT omas c. Platt.
The Negroe may be slightly disfgured,
)ut is still in the ring.