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The colored American., 1900-07-07

developments Of the future, he must let
politics, as politics alone, and study the
science OF government, he must not
draw party lines IN the South or any
other section, but be must make
friends with the white man and both
vote In zach others interest ard work
for greater achievements. There are
millions of mineral wealth stored in
the nIks and mountains west OF the
Miss issiI pi and the colored man must
have hand in developing them, not
merely 8a q IabOTer, but as stock
holder. The latter half of the twentieth
century will see iD this country anon Q
the whiies, billiOnalres emOpg the col
OFed, millionares. This will be brought
about by indIViGusl effort on pert of
b 9TH races. " hatever the individual of
any race accC mplisbed helps the race
al the c0lOTed men must appreciate
it ana work to that end"
The rapid growth OF the institution
has rendered necessary the addition of
a new annex or dormitory, which is
now com mpleted. 1t Is healed through
out by hot water, Lighted ty its own
electric plent, aud elegantly furnished.
The officers of the school are as fol-
20 VS.: George 6 Turley, NJ. D., pres1
dent; Wm. Menley, vice president;
Joseph D. Mshoney. secretary and
tressursT, Executive con mittee: Or.
TurIey, chairman; Samuel Rosemond
and Joseph D. Mshoney. Finance
committee: DR.. G. Nj. ShillitO, Robert
The colored American., 1900-07-07
LakeVieV Park, Md.

This is the new Pleasure resort which
can be Re ached by most delightful car
ride. 1t IS the largest Park in the Dis
trict. Knowing the need of Pleasure
Park for our people, this park has been
arranged and fitted up with a large
pavilion 40 90 feet. Summer houses,
sWIngs, cr' quet grounds, and other IA
ollitIes. Thtfe is plenty f Shade and
an abundantly supply Of elegant water
HOW TO GET TO THE PARK
Take the Metropolitan cari; transfsr
20 Was hinRtOn and Great Falls road:
get off at he station at the District
Ltue; take the Toad leading to the
Girls Reform School. The Park Is
200 yards above the School only eight
minutes walk from the cars.
Gates open al 0 am. cloee at 1880
pm. Admission, 90 cents. Children
10 cents. Music by Hoffman's OIcbe 3
ira For dates, apply TO ]. w. Green.
manager, 1926 Florida avenue.
The colored American., 1900-07-07

PrinciUal r. T. COtes Of the Garrison
School, Kansas City, 40, delivered The
principal address 10 q large audience at
Avery College Trade School commence
ment. Subject the ''Race Question. f"
Among other things, he said:
THE problem Of how to succeed in
all lines Of business snd become an im
ponant factor ia the present ciViliza'
ton, must first be solved by the
American Negro before he can be con
sidered seriously in the affairs of the
nation. II We are 10 solve this problem,
our educated men and women must
make It possible. The future of the
race must lie in the hands of the men
and osnea who have been educated
along all lines, men ard women Of self
control, and self re source. The splendid
record already made by Individuals OF
the race, in law, medicine, theology,
journalism RnG in the school rooms,
must be augmented and extended TO
0lheT lines OF b more substantieI
character.
AS long as we are dependent upon
other races for the more substantial.
We Will remain s race OF WeakliOgs.
The strength and glory OF the race are
entirely ID The hands Of the young, If
We ere 10 have a fnture in aFt, in agFl
cultural pussuii ia the trades, in the
commercial world, in dealing with sll
KINDS OF &C mm Odisies, our young peO
Ile must make il possible by securing
that kind Of education, tIaC will fl
Them for the various puTs uits. Such
training in the Iast has been aim Ost or
wholly neglected, thus HnG KING Us weak
and unable 10 cope with other races,
when II becomes necessary to discuss
and settle great economic, commercial
aid industrial problems. Cur boys and
gnls must learn the dignity OF labor,
that labor is honorable, ard hat skIIIed
labor Is the best. The d6wn Of the in
dustIiel idea in our educational sys
tenn is q blessing, whose value cannot
be estimated. The education Of the
hand, with The head, is the Cne side Cf
the kOyIs education that hes been 100
Iobg and toO sadly neglected. The
splendid work being dOpe by this
kcIcoi, and by Hampton and Tuskegee,
ana others of like character, is dong
lsT more for he masses Of cur people,
than the schools whose cUrSiculUms
sIe devoted wholly to tie higher edu
talCn,. for The higbeT education sffeets
manly lie IL " OF all races, but 1t Is the
IebH Ell, whIC hIteYertth The " hole lump.
lhI tVeIy boy sId girl ought to
iaNt tlauf, HIICb Should be learned
The colored American., 1900-07-07
y Virginia Union University
Richmond
Theological
Seminary

MAGNIFICENT
on Border OF Ond
Large Faculty Of Enthusiastic and Able Professors.
Lectures by Distinguished Scholars Educators and Preachers
COLLEGE DEPARTMENT. Ofg Modern Broad Thorough with
many Electives Courses leading Degrees Bachelor of
Bachelor OF Science orof Iiteratur
DEPARTMENT. Baptist Conservative, Scholarly,
eectVes Hebrew
eor OF Divinity and English leading of
theology Ministers
ton, desire to fit themselves ministry
ACADEMY DEPARTMENT. Thorough
Course
and noble
NlOSl DEPARTMENT, training in
and and
Unequae advantages pursuing literary along
habits
rance examination and
845 Term begins Wednesday, Catalogue
IckmOndT IN
The colored American., 1900-07-07
THEAvERYTRADE SCHOOL

The Progress of the Race Built on En-
during Lines by This Practical InSti-
tutIon commencement ExerciSeS-A Gala
Day for Friends of the School Prof
Coles Mastery Address
Allegheny, Pa, special The COM
mencemsnt exercises Of the Avery
Trade and Industrial School took pla e
IN thls this cityweek A large and repre-
sentative audience attended the ex
erclses and it was replete with musical
and literary refreshments for the large
number present. This school has a
wonderful history and it is the pride of
the people of his section. A feature of
thIs particular commencement was
tnat twelve young women graduated
aud that $500 was given to the gradu
aCes IN the different departments as a
result Of the years work The system
OF how each student can earn money il
explained in full IN the catalogue.
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e year or two on the Indian frontier and
IN some OF the Southern states, but 1T
never entered the head of human being
to attempt what ~. ~
@SSsss The CLpperh ead Prophets
OF disaster had frantically foretold. In
9S and 80 you yourselves saw regiments
and brigades and divisions return from
CUBA, Porto Rico and the Philippines, to
be disbanded and swallowed up in the
mass Of the people, if volunteers, and if
regulars to assume their ordinary work
IN tort and cantonment, and after greet
ing them on the day they returned the
bulk OF the people would never have been
able ITO tell, except by the newspapers,
whether they had: come back or not.
"Of all idle chatter the talk Of the
danger of militarism is the idlest. The
army we have now is, relatively to the
population Of the country, less in size
than it has been again and again during
the last century and a quarter. in times
when we had only our own Indians to
guard against. In Washingtons admin
1stration Gen. Wayne spent some three
years In Ohio warning against the Tagals
OF that day, with an army under him
larger in proportion to the then popula-
ton of the nation than all our present
national forces, regulars and volunteers
combined, and there is just as little dan
ger from the evils of militarism now as
there was then. It is as utter folly to
talk of our liberties as menaced by the
existence Of force capable of keeping
order in our outlying possessions as it
would have been to talk of their being
menaced in the seventies by the soldiers
who followed Custer and his fellows
against Comanche, Apache and Sioux.
mo, our opponents mean nothing and
know that they mean nothing when they
pirate about militarism, when with forked
tongues they say that they favor ex-
pansion but are against imperialism
They used precisely the same arguments
six years ago against our taking Hawaii
that they now use against our taking the
Philippines. They pulled down our flag
in Hawaii just as they now wish to pull
it down in the Philippines. We had to
undo their work in Hawaii just as in the
end, but at an infinite cost of bloodshed
and woe, we would have to do in the
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:alism and militarism knowing that there
Is not one shred Of truth in waht< they
say, knowing If they know anything,
that their words are putting premium
upon trouble In every island from which
the Spaniards have been driven and car
ing nothing because they wish to pur-
chase party success even at the cost OF
dishonor to the flag. of death and suffer
ing to the men that fight under the flag
Bitter indeed is the cup they hold out to
the nation to drink, and thrice bitter ii
will be for the nation If it does not spurn
it.
What they say about Cuba and Porto
Rico need not detain US for moment
In Porto Rico we now have Governor
Allen in charge. We have established a
system under which the island is advanc-
ing by leaps and bounds to prosperity.
In Cuba we have put Gen. Leonard
Wood in charge and all the preliminary
steps have been taken to give to the peo-
pie Of the island their own government
Our pledge to Cuba shall of course be
kept Gen. Woods administration is
a synonym for honesty and cleanliness,
and the minute that fraud was discov-
cred in the postal department, the wrong
doors were hunted down in unsparins
pursuit, and the best possible proof was
thereby given that we meant what we
said, and that governmental cleanliness
would be obtained in the only possible
way by the unsparing cutting out of cor
ruption wherever it was found.
I'VE now come to the Philippines, and
to the general question of expansion.
Many of the. positions taken by the Pop
ulistic Democracy at the moment are 50
palpably dishonest and maintained in
such palpable bad faith that to state
them is sufficient. It is hardly necessary
to discuss what they say about 1.-The
Constitution following the flag The
Democratic party never championed the
doctrine. thus set forth save in the dark
days. when it had become the
Handmai1en of Slavery
and rebellion. and danced to any tune
which the apostles of slavery chose to
pipe. When, under Jefferson, the great
West beyond the Mississippi was acquired.
when, largely through the Instrumental
ity of Jackson, Florida was added to the
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nations would be exactly as IL we now
sided with the Boxers in China, demand
ed for them the license to butcher their
neighbors, 81 allowed them to- establish
their own Independent government, and
then agreed to protect them from the
wrath Of civilized mankind. A more
wicked absurdity than the Kansas City
proposition for dealing with the Philip
pines was never cnunciated by the repre-
sentatives Of a responsible political party
II would ask those who by their words
have encouraged the warfare Of the Fill
pinos against us to recall the latter Of
Gen. Lawton, written just before his
blood of his soldiers Redeemed the hands
OF the men at home who encouraged
Our Foes Abroad.
Some years ago when certain Eastern
ers were clamoring in the name of hu-
mainly against the army officers who
warred to protect the Western settlers
from the Indians, Gen. Sheridan wrote:
4 do not know how far these humanita-
rians should be excused on account Of
their ignorance, but surely it is the only
excuse that can give a shadow Of justi-
fication for aiding and abetting such hor-
"The scheming politicians at Kan
sas City have not even the excuse
of Ignorance when they fncite the
insurgents to fresh warfare against
our soldiers with the base hope that
thereby they may further their own
political Advancement.
There are doubtless many worthy and
amiable gentlemen of humanitarian ten
denotes in the Northeast who oppose ex-
pansion now, as men like them have al
ways opposed expansion. In 1911, when
Louisiana was on the point of being ad-
mitted to the Union, and the country be-
yond the Mississippi-the country now
carved into the great states from which
so many of my hearers come-was being
governed territorially, a. prototype of the
modern anti-imperialists, the Hon. Josiah
! Quincy, addressed the house Of represent
tatives in language that, with very slight
variation, might be used by his successors
to-day. In q speech that would be quite
In place at the Kansas City convention,
or in any anti-expansionist meeting of to-
day, he stated that his anxiety and dis
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tress OF mind were wholly unprecedented
for with the admission of the trans Mis-
sissippi territory into the Union the lib
critics and the rights Of the whole people
OF the United States were so completely
upset as to justify a revolution. He de-
clared that IT Louisiana was admitted to
the Union, then the Union ought imme-
d1ate'y to be dissolved. He denounced in
unmeasured terms
Territorial Avidfty'
or the Americans of the day. He as
serted that the Constitution was never
constructed Ito form a covering for. the
inhabitants of the Missouri and the Red
river country and finally, when his pro-
phet1c vision brought before him the aw-
full picture of senators and representa-
tives from west Of the Mississippi AFRO
gantly assuming right to take part in
the legislation of the country, he asked
with fervor worthy Of the most pro-
nounced anti-expansionist Of to-day:
DO you suppose the people of the
Northern Atlantic states will or ought to
look with patience and see representatives
and senators from the Red river and Mis-
souri, country pouring into congress, man.
aging the concerns of a seaboard fifteen
A1uAAuAS GU AAAAeS at least from tIekf resi-
dence and having a preponderancy in
councils in which constitutionally they
could never have been admitted? And
he continued further to harrow the minds
of his hearers by stating that the expan-
sionists of that day might even intend
to establish states in California and at
the mouth Of the Columbia, and concluded
by asserting that the extension Of the
principle (of expansion) to states contem-
plated beyond the Mississippi cannot, will
not and ought not to be borne Well,
am addressing at this moment citizens
from the very states, the possibilities OF
whose existence appeared so terrible to
the excellent Mr.. Quincy. You yourselves
are the fruits Of the expansion which he
regarded as fraught with such inimeasur-
able disaster to the nation. You your
selves represent the results Of that policy
which was followed from, the days OF
Washington and Jefferson, through those
of Jackson, down to the time when Sew
ard purchased Alaska. The great Amer1-
can policy which has, again been applied
under President Mckinley
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Philippines If they were successful in the
coming election. Yet not one of them
now would dream of saying that we were
not right about Hawaii; in fact, they
could not do so, when by strange irony
the Kansas City convention had to rely
upon the vote of Hawaii before it could
settle Its views on" the financial system of
our country.
Al Regards the Philipp1nes,
even the Kansas City convention felt
that they had to, propose some policy.
What they propose is that we should
first give them a stable form of govern
ment; second, independence, and third,
protection from outside interference BY
the order in which they put these propo-
sttions they showed their estimate of
their Importance. We'll, what we are do
ing now is precisely and exactly to try to
secure a stable fern of government n
the philippines, and the chief obstacle
In our way is the support given to the
bloody Aguinaldian oligarchy by their
sympa thizers among the people that were
represented in the, Kansas City conven-
ton. Moreover, now we are seeing that
no outside nation interferes in the island.
After we have secured stable govern
AACAI We LASu AAlcQu 70 give tHem SELL
government as rapidly as they are fitted
for it, Our opponents say that they wish
now to give them independence. To give
Independence now would be precisely
like giving independence to the widest
tribe Of. :ARaches in Arizona. 1t would
mean the turning over of the most peace
full, law-abiding and prosperous part Of
the population to be plundered by the
banditti that are following Aguinaldo.
TN China we see at this moment the
awful tragedy that is following just ex-
actly such a movement as that which
the so-called a1lti-imperialists have
championed in the Philippines. The Box
ers n, China are the precise analogues
and . representatives OF the Aguinaldian
rebels "a the Philippines. Had>we adop-
ted the policy OF sc4ttle'' In the Philip
pines, the policy which our political OPP
2ponents now champion, the streets of Ma
. Mia pllld have witnessed such scenes
as those of the streets Of Picking. To
allow the Filipino rebels to establish
their own so-called government; and then
to protect them against other civilized
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Union, the new provinces, with their In
dian populations were governed precisely
and exactly on the theory under which
the Philippines are now governed. Pres
ident Jefferson secured the Louisiana pur-
chase just as President Mckinley secured
the Philippines and Andrew Jackson
warred against the Seminoles when we had
acquired Florida from Spain, precisely as
Gen. Macarthur is now warning against
the bandits among the Tagals in Luzon.
Unless we are willing to deprive Jefferson
and Jackson of the need of honor which
mas been held to be peculiarly theirs, we
cannot deny the same high praise to
President Mckinley. At Kansas City, the
men engaged in preaching the gospel of
Q1shonor and Reputation solemnly as
serted that imperialism abroad will lead
quickly and inevitably to despotism at
home You men of Minnesota and the
Dakotas who are here this evening can
appreciate the fatuousness of that state
ment by the simple process of thinking
whether your liberties have been abridged
by the return of the Minnesota and Da-
kota troops who won such honor for them
selves in the Philippines. There are geo
metr1cal propositions so essentially absurd
that mathematician hold their mere
statement to be equivalent to their refu-
tation. So it is with this proposition. If
it were worth while would point out
its dishonesty and insincerity. But fla-
grant though these are, it's absurdity is
so much more fragrant that nothing need
be said. ,
$50 1t Is with their cant about militar-
:sm. and intimidation and oppression at
home as following what they are pleased
to call conquest abroad We cannot
argue with them on this proposition, be-
cause no serious man thinks for one mo-
ment that they believe what they assert.
During the great Civil war. there were
many preachers Of the gospel Of disloy-
atty among the so-called Copperheads Of
the North, and these men, like their rep
resentatives among our opponents today,
prophesied the subdivision of the country
when the great armies Of Grant and. sher-
man should come back from the war: but
the great armies Of Grant and Sherman
returned to civil life and were swallowed
up among their fellow citizens without 4
ripple. A considerable army was kept for.
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|kEYN0TES OF
!. THE CAMPAIGN
GOV. ROOSEVELT RIDDLES
. THE KANSAS CITY PLATFORM.

He Depicts the Inevitable Disaster That Would Fol-
low the Adoption of Democratic Principles
and Presents an Admirable Plea for
the Continuance of National
Prosperity and Honor.
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Mrs. McQuerry came In this mora
ing from visit TO relatives 10 Mlssou-
ri. She Will visit Miss Byrd lronsIde
before returning home TO Tulsa.
The leading Indian Territory news
paper-the Daily and Weekly Chief
tain. 40 cents a month for The Daily,
and dollar a year for the weekly.
For Sale:-Two fiue bird dogs. Call
during Mr.. Anderson's absence
and get them cheap Send all negoti-
ations to Mrs. ], G. Anderson, Vinlta,
1T
Senator e. b. Wright came up fro
Pryor Creek today on business with
Chief Burlington, but failed TO see him
as the latter had left for Washington
yesterday.
Assistant District Attorney Charles
II. Sawyer arrived from the east yes
terday and is registered at the Cobb.
His family will arrive in a few days
to remain
Tabler's Buckeye Pile Ointment is
no panacea, but is recommended for
piles only. These it will cure Price
80 cents in bottles, tubes rs cents.
Peoples drug store.
The leading Indian Territory news
paper--the Daily and Weekly Chief
tain. 40 cents a month for the Daily
and dollar year for the weekly.
so doses for so cents IS the same
size of other 81 bottles, and money re-
funded if DR.. Simmons Cough Syrup
fails to give entire satisfaction. Try
it; costs nothing If not satisfied.
@. Conrad is getting ready to plant
shade and ornamental trees n his
grounds in the south part Of town; he
will also set a number Of cherry, apple,
plum and peach trees.
The wife OF Rev. w G.. Patterson
will leave tomorrow morning for
Deasmore, Iowa, To meet her sister
there from st. Johns, New Brunswick
whom she has not seen 10 80 years.
For lovers-of choice pork we have
a toothsome and tempting array at all
times, that includes delicious young
roosters, fine chops and oins, fresh
hams, and finely favored sausage, at
Gus Nichols.
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ALL MET WITH MISFORTUNE.
The Old Superstition Relative to the
Number Thirteen Singu-
iarly Verified.

II would not sit down to dinner in a
party of 49," said broker who is cred
tied with plenty Of horse sense" for
the simple reason that don't intend to
give coincidence chance to play into
the hands of superstition. Moreover, |
have had one very disagreeable expert
ence along that hne. In the early
spring of 1890 was one OF bachelor
party gotten up 10 give the usual send
off to a friend about TO commit matri-
mony. There were IS Of us in the crowd,
but at the last moment two were called
away. That reduced us to the fatal
number, which nobody noticed until
we were seated at the table, when a
desperate effort was made TO scare up
another guest, but no one could be
found. SO we laughed the matter of
and went on with the fun, but there was
a palpabls undercurrent Of depression
and several Of the boys acquired
lachrymose jags-which, next 10 the
English comic newspapers, are saddest
things in the world.
IF you are not familiar with the
terms / viii explain that a lachrymose
jag is the stage of inebriety at which
a man tells you the story of his life and
weeps on your shoulders at intervals of
six months in the narrative. However,
to get to the point. two OF the fellows
present died in 1896 and the way the
circumstance demoralized nearly all
the others was simply amazing. IL
several Of them II effected a total
change in disposition. The death OF
distant relatives. petty misadventures
in business. occasional attacks Of sick
ness and hundred and one other Incl
dents Of everyday life were all charged
up 70 the blight Of ls. sue finally. about
a year aud half hter. became so
tired Of hearing that sort OF siories
that took The pains 10 collect statistics
on another sSag party given within .
few weeks Of ourh An even dozen bad
been present and the Get result WAS:
1--WE deatha. three basiD<sa failures.
one loaf leg and one Iosi ~ eye 10
accidents. one e-sbezxler skipped out.
one divorce and mo msn gone to the
dogs through drink. This waa not q
party Of hoboea. either. but average
chaps about town and their caislogue
Of disaster pul an erd 80 further croak-
ing over our Is supper. Az the same.
don't yeeru Tor repetition ofthe e.
perierce. ufe's 100 short FOR al worry
not airictly uecessary. ~. .. Times
Democrat.
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IoHS c. ELrIoTr,
Managing Agent.
Chemical buil,ling. S,h and Olive sts.,
St. Louis, Nc.