The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-10-24
EDITORIAL COMMENT

The negro is here to stay. 1t is bet
ter that he should be educated-better
for him and better for all. Much has
been done for him already and much
more can be done The warmest en-
couragement Booker Washington has
received has been from the people in
the south. He was sympathetically re-
ceived by an immense audience of
southern whites in Atlanta eight
years ago. We refer to the magnitude
of his work only to praise it, and to
arouse the whites to friendly emula-
ton.
Let the truth be known that the ne
groes are going forward! 1t will the
better stir us up to our own work. In
Georgia the assessed value of property
held by negroes is placed at $4,000, 900,
representing a real market value of
$50 000,0 900. OF this sum $1,000. 900, of as
sessment, or s2,000,0O0 market value,
was added in the year just closed. The
wealth of the negroes of the southern
states is not less than $400, 0O0, 900. The
building UP of wealth follows a sharp
ening of the intellect. If the untutored
colored men of the past quarter of a
century could amass almost half a
billion of dollars, why not the educated
negro during the next quarter of a
century quadruple the amount AT
lanta Constitution.
There is difference OF opinion
among the Boston Police Court Judges
as to just how drunk man must be
before he can be officially regarded as
palpably and culpably drunk. Judge
Dewey, who owns a complete set of
the Century Dictionary Gall owners of
this dictionary are learned persons,)
held that the fact that a man wob-
bled in his walk and took up the whole
sidewalk did not constitute evidence of
drunkenness within the meaning of the
law. Yesterday Judge Burke declared
that a staggering gaig and incoherent
speech, resulting from drinking intox-
icating liquor, did, in hi. opinion, prove
a man to be drunk. Between the lex
icographers and the criminologists the
status of the Boston topers may be
said to be under a cloud.-Hartford
Times.
There is some disposition to criticise
the queens Of society who wear crowns.
There is really no cause for doing so.
Anybody here can wear a crown who
can afford to buy one, and is not re-
stricted in the least as to it's design and
size except by ordinary taste. In fact,
it is rather refreshing for a really pa
triotic American to look upon a
crowned social queen, and realize that
our institutions have made a crown an
ornament to a beauty's couture and a
plaything for her amusement-only
that and nothing more.-Baltimore
American.
The editor of the Revere Journal, E.
H. Pierce, has secured the promise
from Andrew Carnegie that he
will give $4,000 for a public
library there, eff Revere will furnish
a suitable site and agree to maintain
the library, at a cost of not less than
$4,000 a year" 1t is now in order for
Revere to thank Mr.. Carnegie and then
turn to and get along without his help.
In the long run there would be more
profit in this, and certainly more self
espect-Springfeld Republican.
Sir Thomas Upton says he will not
get married until he lifts the cup. His
friends are sorry he is doomed to per-
petual celibacy, but are less grieved
than they would be if he had promised
not to shave until he lifted the cup.
Sir Thomas would not look well in a
grey beard reaching below the waist
Boston Advertiser.
Ambassador Choate's crop of British
jokes will now begin to fall with dull,
sickening thuds around the mahogany.
New York Press.