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The colored American., 1903-10-03
PREACHERS DENoUNcE CRIME.
Outrages Upon Womankind Disgrace
to the Colored Race.
President Of National Negro Baptist
Association Makes Earnest Appeal
for Higher Standard.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 16. = Nearly
1000 delegates were present to-day at
the opening session of the National
Negro Baptist Convention, every State
and Territory in the country being
represented. The convention, which
will continue for six days, is being
held in the National Exposition Audi
torium Much of the business of the
convention will. be the discussion of
missionary and educational work
Rev. E. c. Morris, of Helena, Ark,
presided, and his annual address re-
ferred at considerable length to pre-
waking crime and lynching. In the
course of his address he said:
Let us consider that most of the
blood-curdling outrages committed
against the pure womanhood of the
country are charged to members OF
our race; and no matter if the per-
sons against whom these charges are
made to come from the lowest element
of the race, there is room to consider
whether or not we have made SUM-
cient effort to restrain that element
that is bringing sucn disgrace to the
race and shame upon the country. L
am sure there is no sympathy in the
who has fallen so low as to commit
an outrage against any woman. IL
should be the verdict of all true men
that every woman shall be safe in her
position from the attack of any brute,
white or black, no matter whittier she
be in her quiet home in town or city
or walking along a country road. EV-
cry man everywhere should be mace
to know that to commit an assault
upon the innocent womanhood or the
country means that the strong arm or
the law is to be exercised upon hlm
without reserve. 1 say law, for am
unalterably opposed to mob violence
and consider mobs more dangerous TO
good, potent government than any oth-
er form of lawlessness.
"As the representatives of the larg-
est church organization among our
people, we cannot ignore the response
bility which the Lord has put upon
us to lift up our people to a stand
ard of Christianity which when at
tanned will make impossible the hel-
nous crimes with which so many hith-
erto have been charged"
Upon conclusion OF DR.. Morris ad-
&110
rules by unanimous vote and elected
him president for the tenth year.
Rev. L. u. Jordan, of Louisville, for
eign mission secretary, delivered his
annual report tonight, in which he
discussed the work being done by the
Negro Baptists in foreign fields.
The colored American., 1903-10-03

Miss Lucy e. Moten principal of the
Normal School, has just returend to
the city after pleasant sojourn south,
wher she spent a number OF weeks al
Tuskegee. Ala, thence to eNw Orleans,
to San Francisco, via the Southern
Pacific. She reports delightful trip
The colored American., 1903-10-03

Several energetic young men, gradu-
ates of the business department of our
high school and Normal training
school. have formed a shorthand class
with Mr.. Chas. Thomas as president
The colored American., 1903-10-03

The True Reformers are doing big
business at their new quarters on
Twelfth and u stretS northwest.
The colored American., 1903-10-03

Mrs. Mary Reese, of 402 N north
west. is visiting in Atlantic City, Phil
adelphia and New York.
The colored American., 1903-10-03

Miss Marie Woolford, of Atlanta,
Ga. and Miss Rosa Nixon, of Hart
ford, n. c., are the guests of Mrs.
NJ. F. Burke, of 427 New York avenue
northwest. They will attend Howard
University.
The colored American., 1903-10-03

The New York Age accuses Hon.
John P Green of being an editorial
writer on The Bee, of this city.
The colored American., 1903-10-03

Mr.. N j. c. Johnson, county clerk of
Logan County, Guthrie, Okla, stopped
in this city a few hours this week,
en- route from the National Baptist
Convention in Philadelphia
The colored American., 1903-10-03

returned to the city, much delighted
with her trip.
Judge M. w. Gibbs, of Little Rock,
Ark, who has been sojourning in Cali
fornia and other points over the Rock
les, is expected in this city in a few
days. !-t-
The colored American., 1903-10-03
LOCALS.

Mr. Chas. E. Hall was on sick leave
the first part of the week.
The colored American., 1903-10-03

Mr.. Charles Crawford, of Chicago,
ILL.,, was in the city last week, the
guest of MI Harry Williams.
The colored American., 1903-10-03

DR.. o. NJ. Atwood is now located at
1885 Eleventh street northwest, where
he has hung out his shingle and guar
antees to cure all comers. The Doctor
is as hadnso meand polly as ever.
The colored American., 1903-10-03

After spending a pleasant vacation
At Atlantic City, Miss Rachel Newman
of 1908 Fifth street, northwest, has
The colored American., 1903-10-03

LOCALS.
Mr. Chas. E. Hall was ON sick leave
the first part of the week.
Mrs Mary Reese, OF 4O2 N north
west, is visiting in Atlantic City, Phil
adelphia and New York.
The True Reformers are doing big
business at their new quarters on
Twelfth and U strets northwest
The New York Age accuses Hon.
John P Green of being an editorial
writer on The Bee, of this city.
Mr. Charles Crawford, of Chicago,
ILL.,, was in the city last week, the
guest of Nj. Harry Williams.
Messrs. S. H. Hart and J. D. Wet
more. of Jacksonville Fla, are visit
/ ing our city.
Mr.. John w. Crowner, after spend
j ing six weeks at Saratoga, has re-
sumed his duties on the Southern rail
way.
Mr.. Lewis Evans, of Augusta, Ga,
/ is in the city. He will enter the med
j ical deuartment of Howard Univer-
sity.
The colored shoe store is being pat
ronized by some of the white people
as we'll as a goodly number Of their
own race. Good
Mr.. Freeborn Subler, of the Inte-
srior Department, made a flying trip to
Baltimore a few days ago, to see some
of the leading Republicans of Mary
land. Mr. Sudler is a hustler.
Mrs. NJ T. Burke and her two
daughters, Lillian and Beulah, have
,eturned to the city. The Misses
Burke will resume their studies at
Howard University.
The colored American., 1903-10-03

Messrs. S. H. Hart and J. D. Wet
more. of jacksonville Fla, are visit
ing our city.
The colored American., 1903-10-03

Mrs. M. T. Burke and her two
daughters, Lillian and Beulah, have
.eturned to the city. The Misse:
Burke will resume their studies a.
Howard University.
The colored American., 1903-10-03

Mrs J. G.. Waters, of Hyattsville,
Md, in company with her sister, Mrs.
L. B. Pierce, of Clark University, At
Lanta Ga, were in the city this week,
shaking hands with their many
friends.
The colored American., 1903-10-03

Mr. Wilfred NJ. Carter, better known
as kid Carter" is now the manager
of the Sparta pool parlors at 1906
Pennsylvania avenue northwest. These
magnificent parlors were formerly
managed by Mr.. Sampson Tyler, who
brought them into such popularity.
Mr. Carter proposes to surpass even
the record of Mr.. Tyler. He invites
his friends to pay him visit.
Mr.. Charles A. Shavers, of Key
West, Fla, visited our city last week,
and was entertained by Mr.. w. t.
aMenard of 333 Spruce street. Mr..
Shavers is an inspector at the eKy
West custom house and an ex-member
of tn eFIorida legislature.
The colored American., 1903-10-03

Mr.. Freeborn Subler, of the Int
,rior Department, made flying trip to
Baltimore a few days ago, to see some
of the leading Republicans of Mary
land. Mr.. Sudler is hustler
The colored American., 1903-10-03

Mr.. John w. Crowner, afte
ing six weeks at Saratoga,
sumed his duties on the South
way.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-08

OK. Jesus declared that God cared for the OK,
but man, in comparison, was infinitely higher
than the OK in the esteem of the Divine Being.
How much do our people, as nation, care
for human life? How about the railroad COM
panies which work men without giving suf1i-
cient time for rest and sleep? who allow no
Sundays or holidays? "Sabbath was made
for man." So Jesus said God decreed rest
for man. The railroad man is broken down at
fifty; the miner at less age. Life in some
other employments runs lower.
Baal had his infants. Our Mammon has his
infants, and mature age. Mammon kills the
babe with foul air, cold and hunger. Baal had
red-hot altars. Mammon suffers in comparison
The worshipers OF the gods of Mammon and
War expect that the slaughtered men will be
replaced from the families of the laboring
classes. 1t is only for time. Other nations
thought the same thing who have long since
been blotted out of existence
The perpetuity of nations rests upon regard
for human life and human happiness. So
Moses taught. So, also, taught Jesus; and so
did our forefathers teach in the Declaration of
independence.
Socialism is of Divine authority, because it
would afford the highest protection to human
life.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-08
State Officers Left Out.

Governor Bailey was the only state fficer
who participated in the reception to President
Roosevelt in Topeka last Friday. BY some
mistake Of those in charge of the affair, no
piovsion was made for the other stale. officers
him No carriages were provided Tor them in
the parade from the railway station to the
hote: They refused to attend the meeting in
the Auditorium, and sent back the tickets to
seats in the gallery which were sent them late
Ia the day. Lieutenant Governor Hanna was
not even provided with seats in the gallery
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-08
: "THOU SHALT NOT KILL"

After a The assaults upon the Bible by the
various io,ns Of unbelief, the Bible still stands
as prely good old book.
We are moi mnch concerned with the uues-
ton as 10 wEtther God delivered ihe law 10
Moses from the top of Mount Sinai as we are
with the question as to whether the law is
good law or a bad one. Whether God, or Just
Moses, said ct hou shalt not kill" is not the
question. Is it wrong to kill? If it is wrong
to kill i'll any one way, is it not wrong TO kill
in all ways? If it is wrong to shoot an indi-
vdua down in cold blood or drive knife
through the heart, is it not wrong to shoot a
thousand men, or ten thousand? Do right and
wrong lie III the method?
1t is the universal verdict of civilization that
Moses was one of the greatest of all law.givers.
That verdict rests more upon the one law, of
"Thou shalt not kill, /" than upon all others.
1t is the corner stone of the Moses fabric.
If men will foster human life, they can have
everything else, not excluding Heaven. Pro.
tect the babies in giving them food and COM
foIt. Protect the youth in the teaching, and
enforce the teaching by the administration of
good laws Protect manhood by not compel-
ing men to over-work on short pay. Protect
the aged in reverend regard. At all points
where life is assailed, where life is shortened,
where the body is enfeebled, where the mind
is not expanded, where the morals are corrupt
ed, let society protect
1t stands without argument that man is FIRST
and test-is above property, above kings and
titled nobility, above military chieftains, above
questions of state and "world power" above
expansion of commerce, above single standard,
gold or silver, at I6 to L.
Incomparably better than any and all these
things is the human race. Whatever raises
the ge eral average to fine men and fine women,
Moses is for. Whatever lowers the general av-
erage, Moses is against.
The law of ''Thou shalt not kill" has
never been fully practiced. No state or
nation, in its laws, has any more than grasped
the outline. According to law, one man may
not kill another but the kings and politicians
may kill multtudes of. men in organized mur-
der, and indirectly weaken the race through
the women and children.
The law of Moses cuts out the principle of
murder, >ther in thu individual, in the mob or
in the nation. The broad principle of "Thou
shalt do no murder" not only does not assail
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-08
Great Cry, Little Wool.

From the Peoples Voice, wellington.
The Republican press and partisans are max
ing great ado over the recent decision of the
circuit court on the Northern Securities merger
case which dissolved that great railroad COM
bine and gave some vitality and force to the
Sherman antitrust law. They are pointing to
this decision as great triumph OF this Repub-
lican administration, and claim that the party
Is making good all its promises to fight the
trusts of the country. 1t would be interesting
for some of the Republican claquers to point
out to an expectsnt people the tangible gain to
the public of this decision. In the final test,
the supreme court may reverse the decision of
the lower court; but, even in case it afirms it,
where is the benefit to the people who travel
over the roads in question, or use them for the
transportation of their goods? The intention
of the government in instituting this suit was
to abolish a merger of competing lines of rail
road, and thus prevent rates being raised be-
yond reasonable figure. Under the terms OF
the decision, the Gre at Northern, Northern
Pacific and Burlington railroads will be returned
bv he merger company to their original owners,
aud this will leave the roads in control Of Mr.
Hill and Mr.. Morgan and their friends, and it
Is terain that they will agree to maintain the
present rates, merger or 10 mciser. The Truth
ot he matter is that the combine took place
several wears ago, and when Mr.. Hill and his
friend, obtained control of the Northern Pa
ci6c anG the merger company was organized
simply TO cinch the combine and prevent any
one from bursting it by bold move in Wall
street in getting hold of majority of the
stock in any one of the roads. The entire in
,eres of the people of the states through which
these roads run lies in the reasonableness of
passenger aud freight rates, and is not finally
affected by the merger decision. 1t still rests
with the inter. state commerce commission as it
has for wears before. 1t is useless, therefore,
to make the people who are the customers of
the above railroads believe they have gained
great victory, when in fact, they gained nothing.
If The administration were i'll earnest, 1t
would place Morgan, Hill and others who
formed this merger in federal prison, as it
could do under the criminal clause of the same
law-the Sherman antitrust law-under which
the merger was declared illegal. If the act
was illegal, it was criminal, and nothi ,g could
save them.
Mr. Knox and they are too good friends.
Laws were not made 10 he enforced IN earnest
against such criminals. They have too much
money.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-08
Socialism or Anti-ChriSt.

E. o, Meitzen. in Word and Works.
EDITOR WORD AND WORKS: In February
Word and Works there appears an article under
the above head, by Sana Vincent, which is to
say mixture of truth and error, and appears
to me to be the result OF total mlsconception
of what Socialism really is. My idea of So
cialism leads me to think that all believers in
the fundamental teaching of Christ must be
Socialists at heart. I have not seen copies of
"The New Thought" "Social Thought" or
"Free Thought" referred to in his article. l
have, however, read Bellamy's "Equality,"a
masterfu exposition of Socialistic principles;
also, Wilshire's Magazine, the leading Socialist
exponent published; also others; but nowhere
have l noticed anything like the sentiment he
accuses us of.
The idea of his saying that the anarchsm of
the French revolution was Socialism shows an
ignorance of the subject that is barely excus-
able. There may have been Socialists who
favored a change in the government at the
time, but they did not believe that people
who had been subjected to long train of in
justices bv their rulers, for many generations,
vantages, could not be trusted with the forma-
tion of just government When the French
revolution began, thsee.fourths of the country's
wealth was owned by less than ten per cent of
the people, l. e., the clergy and the nobility.
The common people, however, who owned but
fourth of the property, paid three-fourths of
the taxes, because they had practically no voice
in the government. To this oppressive Unjust
ice must be ascribed the bloodshed and horror
that followed because, you know, that eau
eye for an eye aud tooth for TOOTH was
much more acceptable in those days than was
the precept "Love thine enemies"
Socialism as science in form to be properly
understood was, at that time, not taught. 1t
is a product of the commercial (trust) age that
has almost abolished competition, and is rapid
ly wiping out the middle class in all countries.
Princes and rulers may flourish or fade,
breath can make them breath has made
But bold peasantry, their country PRIDE
Once destroyed can never be supplied
Are we heading in that direction? Who will
deny it! What does Socialism teach? Simply
this: that the system by which a person is
living from the profit he makes off the labor of
others must be supplanted by one in which
every person shall get in value what he or she
makes; that ''he who does not work (being
able to work) shall not eat" In the early
[Concuded on editorial page.]
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-08
10 MCDILL'S SERMON
BY FRANCES MAULE

life directly, but reaches further. The princi-
pie does not assail life indirectly. III either
case, the principle is violated, or else there is
no principle. If life is sacred at any time, it
is sacred at all times. If one man may not
have authority to take lite, whv should the
whole community have authority? If it is
wrong to take life suddenly, can it be right to
take life by inches? The whole thing in a
nutshell is that man should be left to die
through natural process, observing known safe.
guards. Whatever shortens life is in violation
We need to think that lite is a grand, good
thing, to be cultivated and enjoyed.
Let us make life what it ought to be. Life
should be an innocent and joyous childhood
and youth, cheerful and vigorous manhood
and calmly sinking, to rest in age. The
great mass of the human 1ace have but little
of these great essentials of what God would
have men in possession. We must lay the
blame whereit belongs.
The state claims our choice young men in
war for slaughter. The corporations claim
youth to middle age of its employees, in cease
less toll, and turn them out to die at fifty.
Life shortened to end in misery.
Wrong conditions claim the babies in the
cradle for prey in unsanitary surroundings, in
short food and scant clothing. The individual
claims few lives and the mob still less. Our
law is against the individual and the mob
In early times, there were people who wor-
shipped false god known as Baal. Under
the teachings of Moses, the lsraeites were in
tensely hostile to Baal worship, except when
there was decline in religion. The Baal-
worshipers sacrificed infants in their worship.
The Phenicians were Baalites. That people.
made great advances in arts and commerce.
Carthagenia was world power" and contend
ed with Rome for the worlds supremacy. The
Carthagenians have perished from the face of
the earth. Life of adults was held in low es-
TEEN by the ancient Romans; also all the earlier
peoples; but their civilizations are extinct;
ruins mark their cities; the races are obliter-
ated. The Jews alone, of all the ancient peo.
Piles, have maintained their race distinction
through ceaseless storm of prescription and
persecution. Why? The Jews had high
regard for human life. Jesus was lew. The
teachings of Jesus have saved the human fam.
lily from extinction. The Christian religion.
as Jesus taught i, is a religion of humaity.
Man is first and best. But, before Jesus was
Moses, who made laws reaching down to the
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-08
Senator FulIingtOn Dead.

State Senator Geo. H. Fullington, of Clay
county, died last Friday, at his home in [dana.
Funeral services were held at Clay Center.
Senator Fullngton was brother-in-law Of
DR.. Scott, of Garnett. He was one of the
oneers of Clay county.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-06-25
PICKET WINS DERBY.
Middleton and Junsbluth's Colt Can.
lures Rich Event ut Chicago-A
Large Crowd Witnesses Race.

Chicago, June %. = The Picke4,
owned by Middleton & Jungbluth,
won the great American Derby at
Washington park track Saturday aft
ernoon. Claude was second and Ber-
nays finished third. The time was
1888.
The crowd which saw the American
Derby was the largest in the history
of the race. 1t numbered between co.
600 and $4,000 people. It was Chicago's
greatest gathering of any year and
carried with it an astounding display
OF fashion. A chilly damp morning
was followed by a warm afternoon,
with the sun shining occasionally.
What promised to be dismal day for
Derby display turned out to be the
ideal in weather. The grand stand. was
packed before one o'clock. The
crowds started as early as II o'clock,
and there was continual rush of peo-
pie up to the time the bugle sounded
the call for the Derby.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-06-25
FLOOD SITUATION.
water Rapidly Receding At East Sc.
Louis and Vicinity, and Busi-
ness Being Resumed.

St. Louis, June 2o.-The water is re-
ceding rapidly from the flooded dis
tricts in East st. Louis and vicinity.
In East st. Louis business is approach
ing the normal stage. The National
stock yards and its industries and
many of the manufacturing plants
about the city have resumed opera
ton. In the shipping yards the rail-
roads have gangs of men repairing
tracks and trains are being moved.
Passenger traffic from st. Louis to
the east has in q measure been re-
sumed from union station, but it will
probably be q few more days before
schedule time is resumed. Venice,
Granite City and Madison are still
submerged, but the water is now very
shallow and will probably have re-
coded within the next two days suffi-
GENTLY to permit the beginning of
cleaning operations in those towns.
The latest estimates show that the
flood directly or indirectly caused the
death of II persons in East st. Louis
and vicinity. Fourteen were drowned
and three were shot for river thievery.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-06-25
PAYNE RECEIVES A REPORT.
Assistant Attorney General Makes
Statement Regarding Ryan Case,
Bat It IL Not Made Public.

Washington, June 2o.-Postmaster
General Payne has received report
from Assistant Attorney General
Robb in reply to the formers request
for statement whether the decision
of the post Office department in the
Ryan Turf Investment company,
signed by Former Acting Assistant At
torney General Christiancy, is in ac-
cordance with the law and the facts.
Mr.. Payne is not yet ready to make the
report public. Mr.. Christiancy is still
under suspension. Postal officials are
in touch with him and it is believed
that final disposition of his case is de-
layed with view to securing further
information from him concerning the
administration of his Office.
Postmaster General Payne has not
announced his final action on the ap-
peal of Former Superintendent Met
calfe, of the money order system, for
suspension of the order of dismissal,
but the disposition of the appeal is
foreshadowed by a suggestion from
Mr.. Payne that Mr.; Metcalfe was con-
victed on his own statement at a full
hearing.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-06-25

his report to Gov. Beckhsm Friday.
He has the name of the man who went
TO Witness B. j. Even and offered him
5000 to testify before the trial court
80 that Curtis Jett would not be
named a. the murderer Of ]. B. Mar.
cum. Even told Judge Hines also the
names of the men who were secreted
in closet and heard the conversat ton.
They were seen by Judge Hines and
corroborated Ewen's statements.
Statement Of Gov. Deekham.
Frankfort, KY, June 20.-Gov. Beck
ham was asked on the information of
the news from Jackson what he would
do, if anything, in the matter Of q
trial. He said: 81 cannot at this time
say what will do. must refuse to
make any statement at this time.."
It was learned here that Judge Red
wine had agreed now to try the cases
at Cynthiana, but it is thought the
governor will insist on some other
trial Judge. s