The colored American., 1901-04-27
NE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW

IfLawyer John A. Moss is a candidate for jos-
tice OF the Peace.
Ifwomen had the right of suffrage would there
be ''silent vote"
IfGov. Pinchback and George H. White are not
about due to land -
by some people find it pleasant to brag of
their white ancestry.
If the civil rights law in the District of Column
bia has been repealed.
If the Negro question isn't breaking the record
in the length of its inning.
How many speeches Counsellor w H. H Hart
made emancipation day.
" i'll Prof Kelly Miller accept reelection as
president of Bethel Literary.
If Justice Hewlett realized so keenly that his
job was such a highly priced sinecure.
If the emancipation parade business has not
been scotched,' if not entirely killed.
How many Negro clerks in the departments here
making a desperate effort to pass for white"
If Col Perry s. Heath wouldn't make an ideal
Public Printer. who would really be Public Printer.
How much real freedom the colored citizens of
the District of olumbia found to celebrate on the
10th.
citizens of the District may prove to be dark
horses
by the promotions of deserving colored EN-
pIoyees under the government are so few and far
between.
If Tom Allen feels better, now that he has re-
heved himself of his famoue maiden speech at the
Lyceum.
Why is it that people who live in glass houses
the most audacious in the dangerous habit Of
throwing stones.
If the people who lay awake of nights, Matching
schemes Of newspaper consultations, are not talk
ing through their hats.
If one or two of the conspicuous divorce suits
pending not rather rich specimens of farce
comedy or opera bouffe.
If the departments would not be better off if
few of the sycophantic Negroes bigoted auca-
slams could be eliminated.
Why some of our young ladies who are anxious
to teach. do not try for some of the good places
offered in the Philippines
If the insanity epidemic isn't working overtime
in its mad endeavor to make the Negro go crazy,
just the same white people.
If the banquet procession cannot be DETECTED
in the direction of Hon. John P. Green who, in
the logic Of events, ought 10 be next,
If any local celebrity has not yet had a banquet
given in his honor by himself or anybody else,
let him speak out. and his case will be attended
to.
In what year of the millennium the administra-
ton expects to southern state through its
new policy of building up white republican party
in the old rebel states.
" by our preachers and public men do not
start movement for cheaper funerals and re-
form methods in conducting them indicated in
a recent number of The CoIored American.
Why the foolkiller, while on his rounds, habit
ually overlooks that class of nuisances who want
to stop taking a newspaper the minute it prints
something that is in accord with their notions
If something can be done to provide more Sun
days or more Lyceums, for the benefit of those
learned gentle pen who have in their minds great
thoughts that the public ought to get the benefit
OF.
Why Chases, the Academy of Music and the
Lafayette Square Opera House are allowed to vio-
late the civil rights law with impunity and a poor
black man is sent the work house for purloin-
ing a chicken.
If the speeches of the High School orators are
to be censored this year. to avoid the oficious re-
buke of a bumptious preacher, such as happened
two years ago. to the disgust of every liberal
minded person,
If the rumor is true that MaJor Sylvester de-
tailed an officer haunt Moore &Prioleau's cafe
to listen to Edward {. Aliens talk, with view of
determining whether not that young gentleman