The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-07-26

Negro Contributes Big Sum-BOh
Caurch Did It-COlOred Churches
Call COurt-Refused to Sing Am
erica ON Account Isolated Grie-
vances-MOtives Questioned.
UNION ASSOCIATION.
Recently the teachers of the state
of Kentucy, both white and black,
held their state association at Berea
College, which, according to reports,
was one of the most interesting asso-
Citations ever held in the state. Be-
rea College is the most famous insti-
tuition of learning in the South for
more reasons than one. First, be-
cause it stands head Of the list as
having sent out large number of
graduates who have gained national
regulations, both as public benefi-
Charles and as private business men;
and, secondly, because Berea College
was the very first institution in the
South that threw open its doors to
white and colored students, one and
alike, and has maintained such a sta
tus ever since. At present there is
not single school in the South ex-
cept Berea where white and colored
pupils attend on the same footings.
1t is one Of the largest institutions
of learning in the South and has the
best financial backing.
TAXATION VS.. REPRESENTATION.
If no mistake is made the State of
Virginia took an active, if not lead
ing part, in the American Revolu-
ton, which opposed the British gov
ernment because it imposed a tax on
the American colonies without Civ
ing them due representation in the
making Of the laws that imposed
such taxes. Now this same state has
constitutional convention in ses-
sion for the express purpose Of dis
franchising the colored voters of that
state, and in order that the job would
not miscarry in single instance it
was distinctly given out by the pro-
moters of the convention that not
colored man should be permitted to
sit in the convention as a delegate.
Thus these men are setting aside and
overthrowing the almighty princi-
pies that forced their ancestry to war
with their mother country, and the
colored folk of the state are to be
legislated against without being CIV
en- any representation or any oppor-
tunity to legally defend themselves.
If taxation without representation
was wrong in 1776, taxation without
representation is wrong in 1901, not
withstanding the fact that those be-
ing taxed in 1901 without represent
alton are of a different color and ma
tionality from those that were being
taxed without representation in
1776. There are colored men in tn
State of Vilginia just as intelligent,
just as mindful of the states good,
and just as much interested in
the financial success of the state as
any of the members of the present
constitutional convention, and these
men should have been permitted to
have taken seats in that convention
and help to frame laws in the inter
est of the states good, without re-
gard to color, class or condition.
Those colored men are, perhaps, Just
as much opposed to the ignorant Ne
gro dOmineering in the states affairs
as the members of that convention,
and would have gladly joined hands
in framing laws to that end had they
been permitted to have done so.
DIDN'T RAPE HER.
Recently 200 white citizens gath
cred around the city jail in Kansas
City, Mo-, with the intention of
lynching two colored men confined
therein, who were accused Of way
laying young white man and lady
and after beating the young man in
to insensibility, the young lady was
dragged, more dead than alive, to
some secreted spot and outraged.
''All is not gold that glitters," and
the young lady's evidence in court
clearly demonstrated that fact
Though the mob howled to
wreak summary vengeance on
| the accused. vet at their Dde-