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The colored American., 1903-04-11
WHAT ARE WE DOING?

What is the Washington Afro-American
doing? Is he asleep? The space writers
of the city press and the syndicate letters
which go out from Washington, tell con-
stantly of our large and prosperous colo
red population of the culture and refine
ment found among and of their many
professional and business men. But we
fail to see what they are all doing. We
know there are more than 100, 900 of them
in the District, that many hundreds OF
them are occupying high salarled posi-
tiOns, numbers are engaged IN lucrative
business enterprises, but we fail to find
local public Spirit or even race cohesion
among them.
We have an admirable public school
system and not its least cOmmendable
feature is the employment therein of more
than FIVE hundred of our best equipped
people Each year these schools are
graduating large numbers of young people
who are declared ready for the battle of
life, but what is there for them to do in
the business activities of the community?
Our salaried people are pouring thous-
ands into the Golfers of the city's depart
ment stores, grocery-stOres, and dry-goOds
establishments right in the very teeth OF
the knowledge that not one of our yOnn G
people can secure employment at any Or
them except to perform the most men1a,, !,
work.
Are not the parents Of these children,
the school teachers themselves and in
general our people in prosperous circun-
stances reIniss in performing their plain
duty? Must not some concerted effort be
made to change this 1amentable statue of
things?
Our own business enterprises languish
for the patronage of our own people Our
financial institutions fail for the same
cause and we are not exhibiting the intel
ligent appreciation of race possibilities
which our associated press friends have
right to expect from us. Where Is the
public spirited COlOred man who viii rise
up and lead us to a higher conception OF
our duties to ourselves and to the younger
generations? Where are our local mer-
chants?
Failures in the past should not deter us
but should rather give US renewed deter
mination to win. The opportunity Is
ripe. We believe only a leader is needed
The colored American., 1903-04-11
ISRAEL METROPOLITAN c. NJ. E
CHURCH

The choir of Israel Metropolitan G.
NJ E Church. corner 1st and B streets,
southwest, OF which Mr.. Lucien II.
White is chOirmaster, has prepared an
elaborate program of music for the
Easter services. At the IL o'clock ser
vice the choir will sing Schilling's
Christ Our Passover" and Shippers
L am He that liveth.'
An Easter song service will be given
at 8 o'clock in the evening, when the
following program of music will be
rendered:
Part 1.-Organ voluntary, selected,
Miss Georgia Savoy. organist; Easter
anthem, Christ our Passover" Schil-
ling; The Angels Easter Song"
Schneider, soprano solo, Mrs. Paul
Stewart; Resurrection Song" Wood,
Tenor Solo, DR.. Samuel A. Ward, of
Berean Baptist Church Choir; Easter
anthem, He is Risen," Glare.
Part 2.-Organ solo, selected, Mr.
Reginald F. Brooks, Organist, ST
Mary's P. E. Chapel: Anthem, Sweet
Day Of Rest" Thayer. ObIigato solos
and duet Ctenor and barytone), DR.. j.
E. Rattley. Mr.. a. X. Brodie. of St
Mary's P. E. Chapel: King of Kings -
contralto solo. Miss Lulu Pollen, My
Hope is in the Everlasting" from
tenor solo, Dr. j. E. Rattley; Easier
anthem, Il am He that Liveth," Sim
per. recitative and aria for basSo. Mr..
Cyrus
The following is the personnel of the
choir: Sopranos. Mesdames Paul Stew
art, Letitia Day. Albert Moxley: Misses
Loll1e ThrockmOrtOn. Hattie Allen.
Victoria Allen Lillian Gross. Ida
Brown, Adlena Shaw. Contraltos.
Mrs jamie woodward, Misses Lulu
Pollen. Beatrice Cliffors, Mrs. Carrie
Stewart. Tenors. ]. w Boston. 6 B.
Wallace, A. Moxley. ]. F. y. WiIkin-
son. jr.. F. Nash. Bass bs, L. l.. Cyrus.
Paul Stewart, NJ Bingham. Miss
Georgia Savoy. Organise
The colored American., 1903-04-11
NO COLORED EXHIBIT.

The decision of the Louisiana Pur-
chase Exposition management. not to
permit a separate Negro exhibit at
St Louis next year, is very disappoint-
ing. We have always been proud of
our distinct race exhibits at previous
exposihons and the benefits to our
selves as a people, and in the estima-
tion OF our well wiShers have been in
calculable. We are glad to note that
our race leaders and race journals are
taking up this question We want TO
hear more of them protest by every
public vehicle Of expression. The col
ored people of his country are a unit
in desiring a separate exhibit
Our correspondence, since the pub
licatlon of the reference to the subject
of the fourteenth ultimo. indicates the
warm interest in he project Agitation
vigorous and dignified should bring
the mana cement to q realization of
the true conditions
There is a side to the question
which we have not hitherto touched
upon. Expositions have rarely, if
ever, been financial successes; exhibit
tors and managers contenting them
selves with the added stimulation to
trade. Colored people have always at
tended these exposltions and by their
entrance fees and orders to various
merchants contributed largely to
The colored American., 1903-04-11
THE LIVINGSTON DRESSMAKING
SCHOOL.

This enterprising dressmaking en-
porium under the management OF
Mrs l. R Clark. at 1439 " St, y W.
is holding bazaar which began
April 4th and will continue until April
18th Mrs. Clark has a large NUMBER
of lady students and post graduates
who do all kinds of work from the ele-
mentary parts of cutting to the lasI
part which includes the highest loLH
OF work More than four hundred We
itors have attended the exnlDiI@ion' @
day and evening, excluding near! INo
hundred white visitors. who are
thusiastic over the excellent W0rh "
the school An interesting program
carried out each evening. while HluS,o 81
and other attractions are given Ior tLig
entertainment of the visitors NIL I'll
those. who have spoken ana ~
speak. are Mrs Rosetta A "a. %,
Miss Ella NJ. Boston. Miss Halue 10.
wen. Rev, l. c. Sheafe. Mrs. una II"n -,lr
son Layton. Rev. F. ]. GrlnAe' .t1i.
Geo. II. White and others. 1he plo IN.
is invited 10 attend these enter IN s'e..I
ments and special attendants hA. as
employed TO make full explana'ioHS
to exhibit, etc
The colored American., 1903-04-11
SATURDAY, APRIL II, 1898.
PUBLISHERS NOTICE.

The COlOred American will be issued
one day earlier, beginning with this
week and contributors and correspOn-
dents, are hereby notified that all
news should reach this Office by Mon
day and Tuesday and not later than
Wednesday morning Of each week, to
insure insertion in the current issue
This change of date Of publication is
done for the convenience OF the thou
sands of readers OF the paper, outside
of Washington, who want their paper
on Saturdays. Our agents are also re-
quested to get their order in by Tues
day morning of each week, IN order
that they may be filed promptly.
They will receive their paper one day
earlier each week than heretofore.
The colored American., 1903-04-11

whatever financial results accrued
either to the management or to in
dividuals-
The absence of any race exhibit will
deter and discourage thousands of
colored people from visiting st. Louis
at the time, and the result will be
seen in diminished receipts. Every
race newspaper should speak out on
this subject and continue the fight un-
falteringly. If all else fail there will
remain the final appeal to Congress
next December.
We do not intend to discuss how
far prejudice, that ghost of slavery
is responsible for the exposition man
agement's conclusion as to the Negro
exhibit, but rather to suggest the in
quiry how their attitude will appear
to even representatives of Morocco and
Liberia, and of the civilized nations
of the Orient who know the history
of the American Negro, how he is more
than one-seventh of the nations popu-
lation, how he has contributed his
Drawn and muscle to conquer our
forests and develop our agricultural
interests. how he followed our flag
and shed his blood in our every war,
and bravely won his own emancipa-
ton by the sacrifice of the lives of
many thousands and his answering
loyalty. How, when the pen Of the
great Lincoln decreed his freedom, he
numbered but four million souls, and
that he now numbers more than ten
millions. What explanation will be
possible that will not occasion shame?
Why this great and growing element
of the country's forces is unrepresen-
ted and no attempt made which by
its very entity, if by naught else, will
show its progress in the forty years
of it's freedom.
The ST. Louis people are wrong.
Congress may be justly criticized for
its Indifference, and whatever may be
its course next December, we should
bring every influence upon President
Roosevelt to appoint at once Colored
Commissioner to make preliminary ar
rangements for our exhibit. 1t will
not do to say the President is without
ample authority for the appointment
vance of any congressional action.
Such a commissioner would ind has
hands full of work.
There are a number of our race
leaders who would probably feel hon
ored by being so selected by the Pres
ident; Bishop A Grant, Editor l. B.
Advocate, of New Orleans, La, DR.. d.
P. Roberts of St Louis. Mo-, Hon. Geo.
| H. White, of North Carolina and a host
of others. any one of whom would
command the confidence and at once
awaken the interests of probable eX-
hlbitors.
The colored American., 1903-04-11

The ST. Louis Chronicle speaking of the
race problem pertinently, says:
$50 long as the white and cOlored races
both continue to grow in education, in
dustrial skill and human spirit the pro-
blern is quietly solving itself.
Nor can It be solved otherwise. For
the solution depends as much upon a
higher mental and moral development of
the whites as upon that of the blacks
The colored American., 1903-04-11
MIR. McCARL'S REJOTNEp
washington, D. c., April 6 -,
Editor OF The Colored AmAricau

holtor Oh The Colored American.
Inc publication IN your Ias+ t.
In relation to the affairs of tba issue tSsue
Savings Bank does me 2 eroo+ apiC !li CdI
tlce- 1t is not true that I aslyad Jus GS-
Baker to give any check coyarino, WI M
delinquency to the bank. bur tbe H!
is that it was Mr.. Bakers o1-- @ tacl
gestion that he should SETTLE vri+h |ts
bank, by giving his check m 60 r-.e
certain notes on which he was 1iotI.
as endorSer, and certain notes for oroN
drawn accounts. This was dono -,
the expectation that Mr.. Baker uo,,fa
make his note good and straightar ~.
his dealings with the bank. I haTe ae ~
desire to go into the details Of ~
transaction, which the receivers Ur;I
undoubtedly straighten out but 7 u,isL
the benefit of a public denial of on-.
participation by me in any dAaIing,
with Mr. Baker or any one else IN CON,
nection with the banks affairs Which
was not Straightforward. omen and
proper AS respects my reported in.
debtedness to the bank on a note for
S475.72, the simple fact is that 90
cepted from Whitef1eld Jackson Ctba
caterert one of the depOsifors with
the bank, certain checks which 7 nass-
ed to his credit and against which ba
Immediately drew and the checks
proved to be worthless. whereunnn
was requested by the then president of
the bank, to make good the amount Of
those checks, which l did by giving
my note for the same My note was
originally for s604.70, which l reduced
to the amount at which it now stands
namely s475.72, so that instead of
having any benefit in the transaction.
/ am a loser to the extent Of the
amount already paid by me and that
for which 1 still remain liable did
not exceed my authority and was not
guilty OF any bad management in the
premises, but simply became the vic
tim of a confidence placed by NE in a
depositor, which from previous trans
actions l had reason to believe was
well placed. In addition to the above
the bank owes me S1,9S1 on account
Of protest fees | was for years en-
ployed by said bank as a Notary Pub
lie. The report that has gained cur
rency to the effect that five important
books of the bank have been lost or
stolen. is not true The missing books
are simply daily blotters that amount
to a very little in he YerifcaiOn OF
ones account. This is what the bank
examiner Mr. AlberSon, told Mr.. Ba-
ker, and this is what any bank exam
iner will say, and the receivers
themselves will substantiate me IN
this statement
D. E. McCary, late Cashier
The colored American., 1903-04-11

The editors of race journals in protest
ing against unfair standards and unmau1y
determinations against our people who
do not hesitate to attack those of US who
are unworthy. They are to be COM
mended for this franknesS and for their
righteous in1patience with our wrong
doers and evil hvers. Whenever we are
brought into competition with white men
only excellence in US of superior char
acter enables US to win any reward and
SO it is that the most powerful factor in
securing fair treatment will always be
uneXceptional character and reliability.
The colored American., 1903-04-11

SUBSCRIPTIONS may be sent by post of1c~
money order, express reg ist cred letter.
All commu nicationE for pu blicatIon should
be accom- panied with the name OF the writer
not necessarily for publication but N guar
antss OF good faith.
We koiiciI news, contributions. opinion
and In fact all matters affecting the race
We viii not pay for matter, however unle-t
it IL ordered by u.s. All 10 after intended 4 T
pu blfcatlon must reach this ONCE by Wed
nesday of each week to insure insertion IL
the curF enI iesue.
Agents are wanted everywhere send
for instructions.
The colored American., 1903-04-11

prove the truth of the statement by
Studying the Britons' fine hospitality to
al. worthy men and then by promptly
initiating 1t in this country.
The colored American., 1903-04-11

Mr.. Andrew F Hillyer says ,l.AI IIja-
heart is in the performance lain
watha. Mr.. Hillyer does not
that he misses his meals
The colored American., 1903-04-11

II is said that the Orpheus +fngs %,
Club has suspended further iLs -en-
until the Hiawatha concert j
dered.
The colored American., 1903-04-11

Prof W. s. Scarborough, a leading
educator, contributes to a recent issue of
the Christian Pscor4 a most timely and
excellent article on the consideration ac-
corded to our race In England, and pub
fishes number of letters from high class
Englishnen, in which they express their
surprise at the bad treatment accorded to
the race IN America without discrimina-
uon on account of worth or achievements.
One OF these gentlemen speaks of a
White American acquaintance who.
though he had lived among negroes for
nearly seventy years, rather boastfulIy
declared he had never shaken hands with
a black man. 1t Is said that the white
men of this country ape everything
English Here is a fine opportunity TO
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-17
GOOD LUCK TO THE MINNESOTA.

The steamship Minnesota mght1est OF the mighty
ships built in the United States and rvaed III size by
only vessels in the world successfully launched
yesterday New London. The event ausp1cously an
nounces the beginning of IN the foreign COM
of the United States for this monster ship is de-
signed to proclaim the people of the Orient the emf
nence of this country in the commerce OF the world and
make that of appeal which best calculated to
reach them-through the eye
The Minnesota is happily named. Built OF steel
produced from mined in Minnesota, paid for by Min
nesota capital, the ship is part of plan that aims at
bringing the Orient into closer trade relations with that
Northwest of which Minnesota is the gateway She is
to be put into that extends the transportation
system centerng in St Paul. to the gates of the
Orient The immense size and carrying capacity of the
Minnesota is very safe indication of what the ideas of
her protector concerning the possibilities of the
Asiatc trade. 1t will at assume enormous proper
tons and the Northwest be the great gamer by its
development And there is danger that the scheme
for the extension of of which the Minnesota
the latest indication has been drawn in coors too
rosy. The Minnesota is be followed in the building
by sister ship and there will be for both of them,
and others Also on the broad bosom Of the Pacific.
The Minnesota will carry the produce of Minnesota
the teeng Orient and bring back the riches of Asia.
The profit will be mutual, but this state gains
ly in the extension of trade
May the Minnesota have all of the good luck that
has attended the for which she is named and be
the forerunner of fleet that will exhaust the roll of
states in the naming of the ships.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-17
THE BIGGEST DEMOCRAT.

Charles T. Taylor, the biggest Democrat in Man
kato has been elected mayor of that The atten
ton of those carpng Republican editors who have been
shouting at that there no big Democrats left is
invited the fact that Mr. Taylor weights 400 pounds
Can they tie that? We opne not.
In Mr.. Taylors case, as in that of the Hon Grover
Cleveland there is happy combination of Drawn and
brains. He is a of weight in the community which
is proud him its chief magistrate. And his
weight is not limited to the of avoirdupos He
Democrat And that helps some, for in the history
of Mankato and Blue Earth county there have been times
when it meant something to be Democrat. Wherefore
may be worth the while of the party and the envous
opposition to watch the career of Mayor Taylor.
He is neophyte in politics. The who is pop
uar enough be elected mayor of Mankato in defiance
of Hunt Weaver Funk and the of the mahouts who
lead the elephant through the unges of Blue Earth
be politician worthy of consideration and might be
proftaby observed.
That other big Democrat, Grover Cleveland, began
his brilliant in politics when he elected mayor
and he not lightweight when he became mayor
of Buffalo He went from the mayoralty to the shrev
atty, thence the governorshp and ultimately the
presidency. And the while he grew, though he
within hundred pounds of the weight of Mayor
Taylor. Why should history repeat itself? There is
why this giant among should not attain
to the highest plane in politics. He has justified po
stion and endorsed the enemy who said that there
longer big Democrats. May his shadow grow
less and may that time when his ample wastcoat
will be agtated by the paptatons of the heart of the
president
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-17
THE GoEBEL ASSASSINATION.

The foulest political crime in the recollection of peo
pie living was the assassination of Gov. William
Goebe1, of Kentucky during contest for political con-
troll of the in 1900 1t distinctly party muir
der, entirely different from the crimes which deprived
the nation of the life of three presidents
Republican claimants the state Offices had posses
sion of the state house. The for the office of
governor had been decided by the legsature-he
petent body to consider and decide the casen favor of
William Goebel, Democratic candidate. 1t had been
boosted by lawess Republicans that Goebe1 should
take his seat chief executive One day. while walking
in the vicinity of the capitol murderer stuck
rifle from window in the secretary of office
and shot him to death.
secretary of state made it certain there conspr-
acy and that the Republican claimants were in it. At
first it thought the Republican governor was
party the crime Later evidence has made it certain
that he He indicted but fed Indiana where
another Republican governor shelters him. refusing to
honor the requisition of the governor of Kentucky This
political protection of indicted feon accumulated the
party disgrace following the assassination.
Several prominent Republicans were indicted for
completely in the conspiracy to assassnae Goebel and
the trials resulted in conviction James Howard one of
the indicted men, trial and additional evidence
of the fact that the murder deliberately planned By
the officials and chief Republicans was brought ont
by the testimony of Frank Cecil, who was indicted a
year ago and fled the His return was the sensa
ton of the and his testimony the most direct
against Taylor, the fugitive governor now in Indiana
and Caleb Powers, Republican secretary of state Tay
or and Powers both told Cecil he swears that thew
would pay him $4,000 to shoot Goebel
The assassination of presidents was the work Of
Individuals the murder of Gov Goebel the crime of the
Republican party of Kentucky
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-17
THE TURK CRINGES.

The unspeakable Turk is on his knees again and this
time before Russia The most abject apologies been
offered for the death of the Russian consul Mrovitza
At the obsequies the Sublime Porte represented by
all the tunctlonaries available. On the demand of the
Russian government the of Stcherbna has been
sentenced to DEATH after having been condemned to life
imprisonment and the Turk for the first time since the
treaty of Berlin, PROSTATE before the Russian
All the resources of Oriental diplomacy-and thew
include everything from plain lies assassnaon-are
beng used to avert what threatens TO be catastrophe
Europe is not likely to interfere under the circumstances
Gladstone dead the German emperor has very different
ideas than those held by his predecessors and Bismarck
and 1t is likely that the partition of Turkey in Europe
and the establishment of Christian rule in the Balkan
states is within realization
Under the present conditions it is hardly likely that
Turkey will be able to make very strenuous resistance
in case Russia attacks her. Turkish bonds no longer
hold the interest for the British capitalist that thew
did The utter hopelessness of realizing ON them
added to the further knowledge that will not be posi-
bic Tor the Porte to borrow money pay interest
has impressed the Brsher with the idea that he mipht
well let the Turk be chastsed by strong hand for the
Armenian and Bulgarian atrocities 1t s-safe to assume
that England will not interfere she has assurance that
the Dardaneles will be maintained open wav and
that in the partition her rights will be respected Ger
many occupies very nearly the attitude in spite OF
the recent exchange of coureses between the kaiser
and the sultan and the fact that loan has been hoated
recently in Berlin. The loan was the guild pro ouo-a
Drlbe-or the granting of certain railroad franchises
There is nothing between the Turk and his chastse-
men but his capacity for dupcity-hat is not COM
modify that is vendable any longer
war with the Turk might resolve itself into calanl-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-17

passenger. This is street railway wit.
On the Selby line the cars either go
like mad because they are late" or
they crawl down town when the pas
sengers are in q hurry. because they
are ahead of time. The system Is per-
feet, and the taking on of passengers
is only a distressing and annoying side
issue.
No Surcease of Grub.
There is prospect of more break
fast foods. 1t is enough to make
strong men weep and women Shudder.
1t means that we will have packages
of it sent us for nothing by our gro
GERS; that we will receive long letters
telling US of it's merits and large
chromos will be given away by the
perpetrators of it. What We have ever
done as a people to deserve this deluge
of breakfast foods is beyond the ken
of ordinary mortalS. There is at the
present time a man driving about the
streets of this city in broken-down
one-horse shay, with the back of the
wagon weighed down by large pack
ages of such food. which he doubtless
distributes to the unwary at Kitchen
doors. The horse alone tells the tale:
he IS a weary looking steed with his
ribs unduly prominent: 1t Is only too
apparent that the commodity he hauls
has formed his sustenance. Something
should be done by the expiring legis-
lature to protect the people against a
form of cruelty which was evidently
not thought of by the trainers Of ma
tional and state laws.
The Pioneer Press has just heard
that Lincoln was assassinated. 1t
won't be long before 1t finds out that
the war is over.
One Hagadorn played a joke on his
wife and told her he had taken poison
when he hadn't Her disappointment
was so great that she had him ar
rested.
A Mrs. Ames, of Minneapolis. has
hOrsewhipped her husband. How much
trouble those Ameses seem to havel
NAB.
st. Paul, April 16. 1908.