The Seattle Republican., 1901-03-22

For Brother In Black In
This Country.
THE NEGRO RACE REVIEWED
The Missouri Separate Coach Bill
Killed-Tuskeegee's Electrical
School-SenatOr Chandler Hon
ored-Mrs. Nations Newspaper
Tennessee Woman Lynched-
To Defend Themselves Negro
Burned.
The separate coach bill which was
introduced into Missouri legislature
during its present session has been
killed beyond resurrection for the
next two years. This measure was
brought forward by some Of the more
enthusiastic members Of that legisla-
ture who desired that state to pattern
after South Carolina and many Of
the Southern states in that particu-
lar, but it was opposed to a successful
finish by the leading colored men of
that state, and it was through their
untiring efforts that the bill met its
defeat at the final vote. The separate
coach system on railways is one of
the most vicious as well as per-
nicious laws that was ever put on the
statute books of any state, and Mis-
souri, is to be complimented for hav-
ing had horse sense enough to not
allow such measure to ever dis
grace its statute books.
PROF. WASHINGTON's SCHOOL.
Prof Booker 7. Washington has
recently added a school of electrical
engineering to his wonderful school
of industry, which is attracting
worldwide attention among all
classes and nationalities of mankind.
This new branch of industry is un-
der the management Of Mr.. Arthur
Z. Craig, and, from reports from
there, he is proving very successful
at the undertaking. 1t means much
for the colored race when the boys
and girls start out in industrial pur-
suits and after they have finished
their respective educational courses,
to be able to be classed as mechanical
experts and thereby command excel
lent positions Of trust and honor,
their color to the contrary notwith-
standing. There is no doubt but
that when young colored men are
able to do just as well as young white
men they will find many places of
usefulness in business concerns
thrown open to them which have
heretofore been closed against them.
VIRGINIA WANTS ADVICE.
When the legislature Of Virginia
called into consultation Booker T.
Washington, to get his opinion as to
the advisabiIity Of that legislature
DISTINGUISHING large number Of the
ignorant colored voters, it showed
very plainly that its members were
not satisfied in their own minds as to
the actual outcome of such a mea-
sure. One Of the largest and most
influential Democratic papers of that
state recently editorially announced
that it was most decidedly against
the proposition Of disfranchising the
Negro because of the fact that he
was Negro, and that self same SEN
timent is finding advocates even
among the members of the
Virginia legislature. 1t begins
to look as though the gov
ernor of the state of Virginia
had run up against the 'real thing"
in his efforts to initiate the example
Of some of the other more Southern
states in disfranchising colored vot-
ers, that they might be classed as so
many semi-slaves in the states in
which they live.
THE PICTURE NUISANCE.
Mrs. Mary Church Terrill may be
very able and scholarly lady and
deserving of all the praise that the
women Of this country, without re-
gard to color, have bestowed upon
her, but it seems that she has allowed
the American, a weekly publication
IN Washington, d. c., entirely too
much privilege with her face. Her
picture appears in that paper on an
average of at least thirty times a