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promises anything-to wipe out
a. certain number of negroes.
Mr.. Roosevelt is deliberately
accentuating prejudice against
the negroes in the South. And
He Knows 1t. And the intelligent
negroes know it. There is not
the slightest doubt that the
whites are going to rule the South.
There was not the slightest
doubt that the first white men
who landed here-a mere hand
ful-Were going to rule here, des-
plte any efforts of the Indians.
The negroes can get decent
treatment only by the develop
ment of good feeling. If there
shall occur now, in the South, a
series of outbreaks against the
negro arrogance-Mr. Roosevelt
Will Be Responsible. 1t seems
appropriate for those who under
stand the feelings of the South to
ask Mr.. Roosevelta few questions.
Are you aware, Mr.. Roosevelt
that the Republican votes from
the SoutA in the Republican
Presidential Convention Of 1904
will be Negro votes? If you are
aware of that fact, did it have any
connection with your Spartan
attitude on negroequality?
Have you been a conspicuous
friend of the negro in the North,
whence no negro delegates are
sent to the Republican Copven-
ton?
In California there exists against
the Chinese, prejudice most
J violent on the part of the whites.
Have you appointed any Chinese
as postmasters or collectors of
ports, in California? There are
many Chinese American citizens
! in California, good voters, and
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very intelligent, 1aw-abiding citi-
zens. Which of them have YOU
selected for public office?
Their rights under the Con-
stitution are the same as those of
any negro. A Chinese born
here could be president.
ALI the Republican delegates
from California are white, and all
of them are prejudiced against
the Chinese race. Has that fact
any relationship to the other fact
that you have skipped the Chi
nese in your splendid program
of human equality? A
Are you aware of the fact
that in the South you can get ne
gro delegates, able to nominate
you in 1904, and of the other fact
that you can't get white votes?
Do those two facts influence you
when you compel white mer-
chants of the South to accept
your views of the race question
that you do not understand?
You invite a colored man and
his wife to dine with you at the
White House. Did you ever in
vite colored man and his wife
to dine with you and your family
in your Madison avenue house in
New York City?
You did not!
Then, do you think that the
general public will believe that
your sudden inviting of negroes
to the White House is anything
but fishing for the votes of ne
gro delegates? Do you really
expect anybody to doubt that you
are deliberately offending the
Democrats of the South in the
hope of winning the votes of ne
gro delegates?
How does it happen that as
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that a Female member of Mr..
Roosevelt's family became engag-
To Marry A Negro. Would Mr..
Roosevelt remem Der his views in
regard to absolute equality!
Would he apply to a case Near
TO Himself the fine generalities
which he applies to white men in
the South? No, he would not.
Every man knows that. right or
wrong, TheIe Does Exist A Race
Prejudice n~This Country.
Everybody knows that Mr..
Roosevelt would absolutely for
bid a marriage engagement be-
tween negro and member of
his family. He would not for a
second hesitate to admit that his
objection tothe match was based
Upon Race Prejudice. You
might remind him of human
rights. You might praise the
negro fiance, you might even
prove that negro to be the moral
equal ofAbraham Lincoln and in
finitely superior, mentally,to Mr..
Roosevelt. Yet Mr.. Roosevelt
would say: Il forbid the match
because he is black man"
Does any friends of Mr.. Roose-
velt's doubt this statement?
If the statement cannot be de-
nied-and it cannot-will it be
said that Mr.. Roosevelt is sincere
in his attitude toward the negro
question in the south, in his re-
fusal to recognize race prejudice?
Perhaps you will say: IF there
does exist aprejudice against the
negro, all honor to him who be-
gins the task of wiping it out"
But Mr.. Rossevelt's attitude
does not promise to wipe out race
! prejudice, 1t promises-if it
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Attention Everyb body.

Post IA will have agranden
tainment and oyster suppei
the w. R. C. hall on Thus
evening Feb; II, 1908, Lined
Birthday. The Rev. D. c. q
man, Rev. Mr.. Dougherty
Rev. Mr.. Tuttle will speak|
the lives and service of our N
tyerd Presidents. The III
quartette will singseveral Of
best selections. Ahmissi6
supper and entertainment;
entertainment alone, 1sc.
one, come all.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-02-06

We believe that the white d
of the South, dealing with gr
problem, and dealing with
most earnestly and honoral
are entitled to put thea bove al
tiohs to Mr.. Roosevelt.
And we are sure that th
who will most deeply deplore
Presidents negro-delegate-fi
ing excursion are the intellia
negroes.
What these men want Il
treatment before the laws. I'll
want a chance to acquire the 4
cation that brings genuine Ed
ity. They want to live pei
bly, with their more nume
and necessarily more powa
white friends. They do not
a scheming politician to stir
race hatred in the hope Of sec
ing national delegates.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-02-06

temporary and accidental inha
tant of the Nations White Ho
you leave behind the social Il
toms that governed you in ID
own New York house?
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"Ain't 1t Just always so?" said the Cho-
rus Girl. Just when you have something
set aside for yourself, the whole bunch you
have been keeping alive by artificial respi-
ration comes idling In for the name and
address of the new Lady Bountiful?"
II was telling you about the gentleman
that's going to star me in musical comedy
next season. Well. no sooner are we back
to the fiat. 1 mean Amy and me. than we
are UP against Mama De Branscome initial
ing US into the Tell Club
What does he look like?'" is her first
yell. HAS he dark eyes? Dark eyes is
SO deceitful. and are you sure that Louie
zinsheimer isn't stringing you and making
you the subject Of a bet? And you know
that Ella Wheeler Wilcox says the young
man who makes a young lady a subject Of
a wager Is a cad"
LAS soon as Mama De Branscombe is
wise, when I tell her what the check comes
to. do you think she does? Congrat-
ulate me that / have a live one on my
staff? Not on the wink sign! She curls an
other paper in her false front and says.
Ibid he hear Amy sing?' When we say
there wasn't a piano within hailing dis
lance the whole evening, her succeeding
scream is. Wouldn't 1t be lovely IL he got
interested in Amy's voice and would send
it to Italy to get 1t cultivated?'
wouldn't that make you swallow the
cynide? But the worst is yet to come.
When 1 gently but firmly intimated that
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Mama de Branscombe, won't you please
Iend me a little of my money!
And then she said, Now. Lulu, You
krow it would be nice to live in a fne
brown stone front, even IL there was a piece
of paper pasted over the door Dell Win
Furnished Rooms written upon u.
You could say I was your rich aunt ano
only let a few roomers because l felt 50
lorely in my big house and liked TO seq
young people around me-
Honest, she looked so happy. I really
hadn't the heart to wake her up. although
size would have every cent I expected to
get. spent In another FIVE minutes, so l give
the signal to Amy to back her q length
make a flying switch to her bunk. and Amy
led her of still raving about the OLD COLO
NAL wall paper she had In the back parior
bed room and may be We could get a doctor
to pay US forty a month for the parlor
floor. and how respectable a doctors sign
in the window made a furnished room house
look.
And that's the way It IS with me- I'm
the eet-rich-quickly investment for all my
friends.
Here is my ship Just sighted of Fire
Island and my friends are getting reaoy
to unload the cargo.
Maize Montressor hears Of 1t and asks
me to have her along with us the next
time We go to dinner and to bring up the
subject Of whether 1t is good taste to wear
jewelry, so she can commence to get oe-
spondent about her diamond sunburst that's
In pawn and her ticket going to run out
next month.
Already Amy is limiting about how her
sealskin needs new cuffs and even Dopey
Mcknight comes up and starts to c.y about
some Of the fellows noticing he has fringe
on his pants. and mentioning as how he saw
a sign on Sixth avenue which says GEMS
Fashionably Attired For a Dollar Down
and g. Dollar a Week"
And when my friends have a cake to
cut. am 1 handed a knife and a napkin
Nay. not so, little one!
well. I'd be foolish to fall for 1t,
wouldn't L? And will 1? Um, the word
this week is Wow! Wow!'
! Copyrighted by Roy L McCardell.
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Of her work may be broken by the many
holidays.
II nave no holidays. for on them I work
harder than ever. Altogether. I think the
other girl has much the best Of It."
sss
When Wagner was starving in Paris sixty
years ago, unable to sell his "RienZi" or his
Flying Dutchman." he wrote an autobi-
ographic story about a German musician
who predicts that the time will come when
every Partisan will know him. This proph-
ecy has been fulfilled, and much more than
that. 1t was not until 1881 that this Ger
man musicians operas began to be pro-
duced in Paris, but since that time his heirs
have already received over $500, 600 in roy
alties. First Meyerbeer was ousted, and
now he has gone even ahead of Gounod.
Last year there were 1877 performances at
the Opera, the receipts for which were g.
O92, ss7 francs. The highest average receipts
were for "Siegfried, 1888 francs a per
formance: ..Tannhauser," 1851 francs;
..Lohengrin." 1877; Die walkure," 17.s15.
Next to Wagner came Gounod whose "Ro-
meo ct Juliet averaged 1871 a night, and
Faust" 1875 francs.
.ss
William Lorraine, composer of the music
of George AIDES Peggy From Paris" tells
a story Of the troubles Of an orchestra
leader in a one-nisht stand. Peggy" car
ried its own orchestra. when the theater
in which they played had an orchestra of
its own they simply doubled up. One
night there was an awful discord and the
composer noted that the local musicians
were playing half a tone lower than the
-company's orchestra.
Hello, there. what's the Natter" whis-
pered Lorraine to the local orchestra lead
er. why are your men playing half a
tone lower than the others!"
ssCn tho orJiappa con toll that NC ont two
orchestras.'' answered the local man, with
a happy and radiant smile.
A special from London says that Maude
Adams was recently in that city perfecting
her arrangements for her next season, the
exact details of which. however. have not
yet been announced. and then left for
Egypt and the Holy Land, where she will
stay until the middle Of next month.
William A. Brady has determined to keep
Wilton Lackaye in the stellar ranks If per-
severance can do it. Should the dramatiza-
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ton of THE PITT fail to please. Mr.. Brady
will continued Lackaye as a star in Shake
spearean roles. chiefly Shylock.
William L. Arlington. the English actor,
has signed an extension OF his contract with
the Amelia Bingham company and will &C
company that organization to California
After signing the contract Mr.. Arlington
said: II want to see the country ana l
want the country to see me-"
The four Cohans are at last to part COM
pany. Ethel Levy going out as a star next
season under the management of John X
Considine, and it is expected that her hus-
band. George NJ. Conan. will join her.
s
Under Cover" Is the title Of the new play
in which Liebler & Co. are to star Edward
Joseph Sparks. Dan Collyer and Will Bray,
all Harrigan and Hart favorites. will be in
the cast. and probably Mrs. Annie Yea
mans.
John Drew has Travelled something like
5000 miles this season. showing The Num-
my and the Hummingbird" in almost every
city of consequence in the country. He is
back in New York and will end his season
there. going to London at its close. and
will there meet Charles Frohman to de-
eide on a piece for next season.
"
The interesting company Of players who
are to present Romeo and Juliet" at the
Olympic Theater tomorrow and Tuesday
afternoon. arrived in st. Louis this morn
ing. Eleanor Robson Is to play Juliet. She
was the original Bonita In Arizona" and
later appeared In St. Louis with Otis Skim
ner and Mrs. LIE Moyne in Browning's I'm
a Balcony" This season. she starred in
Audrey"
Kyrle Bellew. the Romeo. was seen here
this season, at the head of his own COM
pany as CASTOR de Marsac in "a Gentle
mar of France"
Ebben Plympton. who will be seen as
Mercutio. is inseparably associated with all
the great Shakespearean REVEALS in this
country during the last twenty-five years.
lie was the Romeo to Adelaide Nelson's
Juliet and was especially engaged for this
hero for the Metropolitan debuts of Mary
Anderson, Margaret Mather and Julia
MarlowA
William H. Thompson. recently the star
Of THE Bishops Move" in New York. will
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Amy would have to get an angel of her
own. was Mama De Branscombe backed
behind the freight house? Say. you don't
know her.
She's taken with her old Authorizations
about a furnished room house, and this is
the way she raves:
"'wouldn't It be nice II he advanced us
$500 SOS 1 could take a furnished room
house,
This fiat is so full Of cheap people that
positively I am ashamed for your sake and
Amy's to invite anybody around. I was
looking at a lovely house on West Forty
seventh street the other day. The landlord
Is willing to decorate the first two floors.
and If I paid a hundred dollars down to
the installment people they'd furnish it
with brass beds and all the way through
with overstuffed brocade furniture for the
parlor.
I'VE wouldn't bother about table board
ers, but 1 could have sandwiches and bot
tied beer and let the roomers have them.
Della Fortescue was telling me that she'd
take a room from me. and I know a whole
lot of professional people who'd be glad Of
the chance
charge Is cents a bottle for the
beer. which isn't dear. when you consider
it has to be kept on ice and costs a dollar
a box of two dozen, and 10 cents for the
sandwiches. Maize Montressor's mother
told me that before she had to quit house
keeping to get rid Of her last husband. who
drank so terribly, and used to pawn the
roomers' things and embarrass her, that
! she used to make the gas and the servants
wages and almost a third Of the rent on
the beer and sandwiches alone.
"'You know that some of the girls In the
| profession are real nice. quiet, homelike
girls that don't want to go out to them
all-nisht restaurants after the show where
all sorts of bold girls go. but would sooner
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play Friar Laurence. John e. Kellard will
be the Tybalt. Mr.. KeIlard has appeared
in THE Cipher Cjde." "Tatterly" and 'Th6
Climbers" Forest Robertson made a great
Tess of the D'Urbervilles'' and in many
productions by Charles Frohman and the
late James A Herne. Other weu-known
names in the cast are Edwin Arden. W. j
Ferguson. George Clark. Frank c. Bangs
Ada Dwyer and Mrs. ". @. Jones.
Rose Flynn Of ST. Louis is to play an Inn
portant part in The Girl With the Green
Eyes next season. Clara Bloodgood will
continue in the leading role. =
CURRENT PROGRAMMES.
Nance O'Neil will appes- at the Olympic to-
night in sudermann's ~ Ia" One Of tho neN
plays which she will pr : during her engage.
ment will be the histoncaI tragedy. ''Elizabeths
Queen Of England" A second novelty Is prom.
ised IN .Hedda Gabler.' the first Ibsen DRAINS
that has been seen mere in several seasons. Miss
o'Seirs repertoir. has been arranged as fol.
lows: Sunday. Monday and Tuesday nights,
Mazda: Wednesday. Thursday and Friday
nights will be devoted to Giacometti's "Eiiza-
beth. Queen Of England" while The Jewess'.
will constitute the closing bill on Saturday night
nee. md the Ibsen play. 'Hedda Gabler." at the
Saturday matinee, Romeo and Juliet" revived
by all all-star- cast. will be given tomorrow and
Tuesday afternoons.
Maberle Gilman comes to the Century in sfThe
Aocking Bird" a new opera by A. Baldwin
Sloan. The young singers temperament is said
to be admirably fitted to the role Of Yvette. She
has scored a greater success In this opera than
she did in The Runaway Girl ..The Hall Of
Fame or even in the name part in The Casino
Girl
Miss Gilman graduated from the Mills Sem
mary. San Francisco. in 1887. Augustin Daily
CHANGED to attend the Mills commencement exer-
cises. He was pleased with the girls voice and
engaged her for his production OF THE Geisha."
She then apDeared in the otber pofahIA rsfc,
comedies. pI: On in later years at Days The
alter. New York. and now. as a star. she has
spent nearly the entire season in the East. Her
engagement at the Century begins tonight.
The farewell engagement of Frank L. PerIey's
company of singing comedians in THE Chap
erons' will begin at the Grand this afternoon.
The cast Is said to be about the same as II was
before. Walter Jones still plays the New York
subway contractor: Ed Redway is still the comic
%billposter and Eva Tanguay continues as the
curious girl detective. May Boley. who last sea-
son appeared in a less important character, now
'nterprets the role OF the modern c~haperon. Mae
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when being quickly removed. When the
usual layers of grease-paint, rouge, powder.
etc, are applied and the lines on the face
carefully marked to represent a monarch
of nearly 50 years. he proceeds to put on the
outer garments which designate royalty.
First comes a royal robe of the very
heaviest silk obtainable; a monkey Jacket
with flaps on either side. to represent the
stubby wings of a Dodo bird; sleeves. a
ruffe around the neck and the insignia of
Office.
Rufles also in the sleeves are put on sep
arately. Lastly the bald pate. which serves
for SO much comedy in the piece, and the
crown. on which so much Of the story
hinges, are placed in position.
A concert Of unusual interest and variety
Is offered to the st. Louis lovers Of music
by the artists and the members Of the
Mexican colony to be given Monday even
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Lulu Finds a Man Who Is Willing
to. Back Her in Comedy and
Mamma De Branscomb at Once
Begins to Talk About Furnished
Room Houses and Other Invest
ments.
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MISTAKES on TWo ouEENs.

Marie Antoinette, escaping from the
TulIeries. turned TO the right instead
OF TO tho left after passing the inner
arch. She lost her way. lost time and
by this means lost her own head and
the head Of Louis XVI. SO tho story
of Carlyle runs.
Queen Draga Of servia, according to
the cable news of the hour. meant to
leave Belgrade, but waited for a go
ing-away gown. being anxious that. rs
fugitive. she should appear in becom-
ing attire 1t was fatal delay. The
queen and Alexander fell in the pal
ace, victims Of nothing, to wear"
There are many gaps in the hedge
which the divinity OF tradition spreads
about royalty And spiteful small cir
cumstance slips easily through with
fatsful large results. Besides which.
II appears that he must be a wise king
who can fcrereckon with the false
step or folly Of his queen.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-07-02
Coed Road Notices.

Here are few gems which adorned
the wall Of the odeon, st. Louis,
Missouri, where the International con-
vention met recently:
Good roads are necessary for rural
free mail delivery"
your town will prosper in proper
tion to the improvement on your coun-
try roads"
Wide tires are road makers; mar
row tires are road breakers"
Good roads are conducive TO good
morals; good morals to citizenship"
Good roads make even trade the
year around"
There Is no more common interest
than the common road"
"As the public roads are the prop
erty Of all and for the use of all, Their
cost should be shared by ALL"
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rHE NEGATIVE Man.

The negative man is met with very
much more frequently in business and
social circles than is appreciated. IA
Is generally the kind OF a man OF
whom his women friends speak as "a
real nice man" And he is nice, Just
as nice as he can be, only he has not
enough determination to know It him
self. Heis ne ,er IN the world spoken
OF as a mans man. and when a mans
man is asked his opinion Of this uE-
offending creature, sniff generally
expresses IL. The undecided man is
so very uncertain. He Is never
known to express an opinion unless II
strictly concurn with that of the per
son to whom he Is talking. II by any
sad perchance he is between two fires
he burns low and dies out quickly WITH
out ever committing himself
1t is positively painful to him 20
have to express himself decidedly He
Is perfectly helpless unless he has a
guiding star. and he falls by the way
2. ae when sides are uneven and he is
expected to take one or the other.
Among business men he is an unce'-
tain factor. lie Is the man who when
council of men Is called sits in per-
feet terror for fear his opinion may
be asked On the subject under discus
sion.
There is only one palliating clrcum-
stance in this vacillating mans pea.
dulous life, He does not like to Of
fend anyone. II has never struck him
that nobody cares a picayune for his
opinion but he is so afraid that he
raay lose a friend But has he any
friends2 Business men tolerate him
Women boss him. Children impose
on him.
He Is continually Skipping from pill
lar to post and he never finds rest
ing place. II he did Light he would be
afraid that he had displeased the.
other spot of earth that had not felt
his feather weight n would seem as
II this man had not much reason o
live. but he does. although his life Is
long excuse for daring to cumbes
ihe earth
lie has just one excuse for living
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Personally, think pink ribbon
shows up better through girls shirt
waist than blue.
am a good deal interested in a
Guthrie girl, BUT think an actor who
was here last winter has me on a sid
ing wait.ng for orders.
The most difficult thing have to
contend with is to keep breakfast from
running on dinners time.
have never met Chauncey Dewey,
but l judge by his pictures that some
body ought to call his attention to
the merits of Herpicide.
, do not pay undue Difference to
many people. but admit that al
ways feel like taking of my hat to the
man who carries a Pullman pass.
haven't a great deal to be thank
ful for, but when l stop to consider
that don't have to live in Oklahoma
City am reasonably content.
admit that ! fool away good deal
of my money. Only last night bought
and carried home a copy of the maya
zine called Physical Culture,
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