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The colored American., 1903-12-19
THE coLoRED AMERICAN.

Negro are of his party. 1t is hardly
reasonable to assume that Mr.. Carlisle
Will exert himself overmuch to secure
for Negroes the rights which by every
consideration of justice belong to them.
The Democratic party has great ex-
pectations for 1904 and old time lead
ers like~Carlisle will not throw any OBJ
stacles in its way if it can be prevent
ed and it can. Men do not gather figs
of this kind" and Negroes ought not
expect even good Democrats like Car
Isle to oppose their party's policies to
favor them.
We are unable to understand why
Mr.. Carlisle was chosen to represent
these causes in the Court of Last Re
sort Neither Mr.. Carlisle nor Mr..
John S. Wise, the son of Henry A.
Wise, are large enough, or wise enough
to accomplish what the Negroes of Vir-
ginia hope TO accomplish in these -suf-
frage cases. What is needed is attor-
neys of national repute; great Con-
stitutional lawyers like Choate or Root
of New York, who are respected by the
Court because of their knowledge of
the law and their standing socially and
politically. While Carlisle and Wise
are good lawyers in their way, they
have not yet made such regulations at
the bar as Messrs. Choate and Root and
men &c their calibre. The cause is too
great and the interests at stake too i'm
portant to be experimental with by
the son of great Governor and an ex-
Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives, who has yet to prove himself
great Constitutional lawyer.
The colored American., 1903-12-19
EDUCATION AND BUSINESS.

The State Negro Business League
of Arkansas will hold its annual meet
ing at Little Rock, Ark, December %,
TO the 30th, 1903. In commentator
of this League, it can be said that the
colored men engaged in business in
all parts of the State are interested
in it and the attendance will be un-
usually large. The Colored School
Teachers Association will meet in
Little Rock at the same time. and the
professional men such as lawyers,
doctors and ministers from all over
the state have been notified 10 be pres
ent- The colored people of Arkansas
take the lead when it comes to en-
gaging in and operating business en-
terprises-
The colored American., 1903-12-19
CoLoRED MEN FOR CONGRESS.

The Republicans in the lower branch
of Congress have at this time a splen-
did opportunity of showing the color
ed people how much they think of
them and how willing they are to give
them their rights. Two colored men
from South Carolina are contesting for
seats. They come from districts over
whelmingly Republican, and where the
blacks outnumber the whites, and yet
look at these figures: First district
George S. Legare, Democrat, 3,794
votes; Aaron P. Prioleau, It's votes
Seventh district, Democrat, 4.220 votes
to 167 for A. d. DantZler, Republican.
No sane man doubts the election of
Messrs. Prioleau and Dantzler. The
administration is Republican; Con-
gress is Republican by good working
majority and if civil and political JUS
tice is to be given the colored voter,
now is the time.
The colored American., 1903-12-19
THE SUFFRAGE LEAGUE.

The Suffrage Convention, which re-
gantic failure from every view point.
The factions within and without con-
spired TO make it the laughing stock
1T became, when it essayed to deal with
great questions with which it had no
acquaintance, except in a superficial
way The most of its readers were im-
practical and hot-headed politicians
with no standing at court and with no
clear or intelligent ideas as to what the
convention had met to accomplish.
The question of suffrage was lost sight
of and the convention adjourned in a
disgraceful wrangle upon question of
endorsement of the President. We had
expected to have heard detailed state
ment of organizer Hayes work for the
cause showing the amount of money
collected and disbursements made
since the suffrage agitation began, but
no such thing was done. We are in
formed that over s1,4OO has been col
lected in New Jersey alone by Counsel
lor Hayes, to fight disfranchisement.
If other states have done half as
well, it will soon be time to stop the
collections and proceed to count the
gold.
We have no sort of ideas that the
lines along which the suffrage fight is
proceeding will avail in securing to
the Negro his political rights. We do
not take the idea of John Carlisle being
the Chief Counsel in causes which in
volve the Constitutional rights OF
black men Mr.. Carlisle is Demo
crat, those who have disfranchised the
The colored American., 1903-12-19

Subscription may be sent by post
Office money order, express or regis
tered letter.
should be accompanied with the name
of the writer, not necessarily for pub
lication but as a guarantee Of good
faith.
We solicit news. contributions, opin-
ions and in fact all matters affecting
the race. We will not pay for matter,
however, unless it is ordered by us.
All matter intended for publication
should reach this Office by Wednesday
of each week to insure insertion in the
current issue.
Agents are wanted everywhere
Send for instructions
The colored American., 1903-12-19

1t is not necessary for a convention
of colored men called for the purpose
of discussing the rights of the race to
endorse anybody. Nor is it necessary
that they condemn anybody with Jim
Crow cars, Jim Crow Legislation, dis
crimination on account of race and col
or at every turn of the road The col
ored people have plenty to do without
fighting among themselves and abusing
one another.
The colored American., 1903-12-19

The Suffrage League did not endorse
anybody, nor accomplish anything~but
it succeeded in bringing to the ma
tion's capital very fine brand of or
atory. The speeches of Messrs. Hayes,
OConnell, Drs. Harvey, Johnson, Geo.
w. Lee, S. L. Corruthers and a num-
Der of others were finished efforts, and
were replete with the witchery that
wins in oratory
The colored American., 1903-12-19

The much talked William Monroe
Trotter, spoke at the Suffrage meeting
one evening this week. AS a reasoner,
as thinker. and as an orator, he is be-
low mediocrity. He didn't class ct all
with the young men, who came from
Pennsylvania, New York, New Jei sey,
and other states unhearlded.
The colored American., 1903-12-19

Mr. John Edward Bruce. the wall
known writer and newspaper CORR
pondent Bruce Grit is spending
few days in this city. Wasbinetoa
is his old home, and he counts bin
friends here by the score. He waS ms
kept busy shaking hands and raro'I-
ing the acquaintance of old friends
Hon. Walter L. Cohen of the O.,
enral Land Office, New Orleans To
returned to his Southern home last
Thursday. 9'
The colored American., 1903-12-19
The most Worshipful Grand Iodgt

The most Worshipful Grand Lodge
OF a. r. Nj. met at the Ma
sonic Temple on Clay St, Tuesday in
its 9th annual session The following
officers were elected for the next term:
j. b. Evans, of Lynchburg, Grand Mas
ter; w. H Gaskins, of Accomac:
Deputy Grand Master; Harris BARRETT
OF Hampton, Senior Grand Master;
George w. Ramsey, of Norfolk, Junior
Grand Warden; Douglass johnson, of
petersburg, Grand Treasurer. DR.. H.
L. Harris, Richmond, Grand Secretary
colonel Benjamin Boulding, of Nor
Iolk, Grand Lecturer; ]. C. Carter, of
Houston, Grand Senior Deacon; Rev.
P. F. Morris. Grand Junior Deacon;
Prof. d. Webster Davis, of Richmond,
chaplain. .t,4
The colored American., 1903-12-19

Mr.. William Calvin Chase 'eserves
great deal of credit for his endorse
ment of President Roosevelt We
knew all along that he was an origin
al Roosevelt man. Mr. Chase's in
iuence will count for great deal at
the Chicago Convention, to which we
understand he will be a delegate
perhaps.
The colored American., 1903-12-19

The Colored Communicates of the
Methodist Episcopal Church are clam
oring for bishop. The most promi-
nently mentioned in this connection
are Drs. ]. w. E. Bowen, G. B. NJ Ma
son, and Editor 1. B. Scott of The
Southwestern Christian Advocate
The colored American., 1903-12-19
If rumors are true after the first of

If rumors are true after the first of
January of our Lord, 1904, colored
passengers will not be allowed to pur-
chase tickets on Pullman sleapers. We
live in a strange age. The son of the
great war president who signed the
Amendments to the Constitution and
the Emancipation Proclamation will
sign the bill denying to twelve million
Of American citizens the right to ride
Abraham Lincoln, the father and eman-
cipator
The colored American., 1903-12-19

Here is sample of the indictment
that is being rendered against us in
Kentucky, preparatory to a rape upon
our suffrage: ''The Negro must be
eliminated from Kentucky political
He pays no taxes, he regards no law,
he knows no justice, reveres no ideal,
and votes like a machine"
The colored American., 1903-12-19

The friends of Col. Perry H. Carson
are urging him to make the race for
delegate to the National Republican
convention, from the District. Col
carson held this position for many
years. and filled it with great credit
to himself and to the race.
The colored American., 1903-12-19

Mrs. VIM. Murrell, of 1885 L St. N
W., is the authorized agent and reDre.
sentative for the M. & F., I. & A.
School for the colored people at Mont.
rose, Ark Those desiring to contrib
ute anything for the benefit of this
school will please notify Mrs. MurreU
The colored American., 1903-12-19

Mr.. P. S. Blackwell, editor of Tho
Steelton Press, Steelton, Pa. was An
active conventionite this week and
was one of the biggest men on tbe
floor, physically.
The colored American., 1903-12-19

The National Negro Suffrage League
had a mission to perform, and the
program would have been carried out
TO the letter, had the leaders of the
movement possessed cool heads.
The colored American., 1903-12-19

Unquestionably the two characters
who have made the deepest impress
upon this decade are Theodore Roose-
yeit and Booker T. Washington.
The colored American., 1903-12-19

A large number of our school teach-
planning to spend the holidays out u
town, as the Christmas guests OF Tel''
tives and friends A number OF oui
subscribers have the same plan =
mind and are already giving our cor
leetors the old stereotyped phrase -
you after the holidays" which frViD
experience We know doesn't get u9
The colored American., 1903-12-19

Mr.. William Monroe Trotter. editor
of the Boston Guardian, is in the city
and is stopping with Mr.. H. r. Clark
OF the Treasury Department.
The colored American., 1903-12-19

The Colored American is still rA.
garded regarded by the people as the
leaolng Negro journal in the country.
The colored American., 1903-12-19

People who patronize slot machines
have precious little business with saw
ings banks.
The colored American., 1903-12-19

What will poor Senator Hanna do
now, that Calvin Chase has come out
for Roosevelt?
The colored American., 1903-12-19

Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis. is rest
Ing in Memphis, Tenn, preparatory 10
a series OF engagements in Louisville
and several points in Indiana and III
nofs. Miss Davis is proving a drawing
card everywhere.
The colored American., 1903-12-19
CITY PARAGRAPHS.

Mr.. Paul Lawrence Dunbar reads in
indianapolis, Ind, this week. He is
greatly improved in health.
The colored American., 1903-12-19

Mr.. A. ". Bowman and wife, one OF
the best known merchants of WOrces-
ter, Mass, are visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
VIM. Beckett, or 1923 NJ ST., \. W.
The colored American., 1903-12-19

Miss M. E. Gray, sister of Nine.
Smallwood, of 1913 Madison ave, is
confined to her home by sickness.
The colored American., 1903-12-19

Mrs Tilgman, of SOC NJ ST., \. W..
mother Of the well-known singer and
composer, is very i'll.
The colored American., 1903-12-19
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Display advertisements, 50 per square
inch, per insertion. Discounts made
on large contracts.
Entered at the Post Office as second
class matter.
ALI letters, communications, and bus
iness matters should be addressed to
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The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-20

botanist."
Andre himself, in 1901, tried in vain
to scale the mighty nights of Mount
Amelia, on the River Merevari in Ven
ezuela. This mountain has never been
climbed, nor have it's companions,
Mount Arichi and Mount Arawa. The
country al around them is unknown.
and so are the more distant Parime
mountains, which are said to be the
home of tribes of Indians utterly unlike
any of those already known in South
America.
Why Explorers Fail.
Speaking from the depths of his
own bitter experiences, Andre ex-
planned why this vast region is still
an unsolved riddle.
three centuries have passed away"
ne said, since the first Adventures
tried to reach the golden land sun
posed to exist somewhere near the
sources of the Caroni and the Caura.
and yet our knowledge of the far in
terror of the Guianas remains shadowy
and indefinite.
1T was not until the beginning of
the eighteenth century that Humboldt
finally dispelled the mythical beliefs
which chung to the Eldorado of the
'conquistadores. The veil of the en-
chantment which shrouds the unex-
plored interior of Guiana has, it is
true, been torn aside. In place of the
fairy city cleaning with gold and
precious stones, we now know that
there is an immense stretch of impene-
trable forest, interspersed here and
there with open savannas, with noun
tains of fantastic shape and surpass-
ing grandeur, rising abruptly from the
surrounding country region of
abundant rains and rapid rivers, thinIy
peopled by small tribes of Indians.
who for centuries have carried on a
series of cruel bloody feuds with their
neighbors-a region rich in bird, in
sect and vegetable life but difficult of
access and deadly in climate.
Beyond this our knowledge is
vague and uncertain, and is likely to
remain so for some time to come. The
difficulty of navigating rivers which
consist of a series of rapids and falls;
the utter absence of population for
considerable distances on their banks,
the almost impossible task of trans
porting a sufficiency of provisions
where only boats of no great size can
quent portages, make the exploration
of these regions an undertaking re-
plete with danger and hardships.
Added to these natural difficulties
there is a rooted Discrimination on the
part of the natives to undertake long
and arduous Journeys outside of the
immediate district with which they
are familiar
TIL nativs know that when they
venture far from their home with an
exploring party. it is an even chance
whether they will return. On Andres
last expedition six men persisted of
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-20
INDIANS OF THE LITTLE EXPLORED INTERIOR

America. Little or nothing is heard of
these expeditions, except, in social and
commercial circles in cities like Car
acas, Bogota, Sucre and Port Spain,
Trinidad; but each of them would fur
nish material for thrilling book if the
Adventures cared to write about their
experiences. Usually they do not. They
have other fish to fry. They are orchid
hunters, gold prospectors, diamond
seekers or government officials engaged
in delimiting boundaries between the
various republics and colonies of
South America.
Three months, six months, a year,
perhaps three years after they left the
last settlement on the fringe of the
unknown, half of them return, tanned.
haggard, half starved. fever stricken.
The rest have been lost in the jungle,
to perish miserably of hunger and
thirstor drowned in the rapids of some
mighty river, or killed by hostile In
dams jaguars, or sting rays. The
South American explorer lives in the
midst of alarms. and there are a thous-
and ways in which he may meet a sud
den and violent death.
The survivors always tell the same
story:
I'VE have seen some wonderful
things, but they were not even the
thousandth part of that which lies be-
yond. We climbed such and such a
mountain, assembled such and such a
river, dwelt among such and such a
tribe; but we heard of other noun
tains, other rivers, other tribes far
stranger and more interesting in the
remoter regions to which he could not
penetrate
Take, for example, the immense range
of unknown mountains which runs
along the hinterland of the three Gut
anas.
THE best known of these so-called
inaccessible mountains is undoubtedly
Roraima,' said Eugene Andre of Trim
dad Colombia, and the Guianas.
'Since the Spectator for April. 1877,
wrote, 'W|l1 no one explore Roraima
and bring us back the tidings which it
has been waiting these thousands of
years to give us?' the mountain has
been assembled and the secrets of It's
summit laid bare. To the Quelch-M Nc
Council expedition is due the honor of
having performed the most valuable
scientific work in the exploration of
this interesting mountain.
Considering that Roraima is only
one of a whole series Of such masses.
the existence of some of which may
not even be suspected, we can form
some idea of what remains to be done
in the exploration of this little known
part of South America. When we con-
slider, moreover. that the SUBMITS of
these mountains are plateaus isolated
from the surrounding country during
countless ages, we cannot help thinking
that each of them must be a field of
absorbing interest to the naturalist and
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-20

ings. that crossed their path. The Ger
mans asserted that the only way to
: escape from these beasts was to get
! into running water, where they would
not follow you"
Mr.. Quelch's expedition was under
taken on behalf of the British Mu-
scum. He discovered several small
mammals hitherto unknown to science,
] including a new kind of guinea pig and
! a new adouri, an animal of the rabbit
tribe. He also discovered a number of
new orchids of wonderful beauty But
what have found" he told his friends,
lis nothing when compared with that
which remains undiscovered in those
regions. They are an inexhaustibe
mine for the botanist, the zoologist and
the anthropologist."
Unknown Brazil.
The great republic of Brazil. with it's
area of nearly three and a quarter
millions of square miles-almost as
big as that of the United States-is
! largely unexplored. Its very boundary
! line is in dispute with most of the
ten contentious republics and colo
MES.
The vast valley Of the Amazon and
it's affiuents. as we'll as those of many
: other great Brazilian rivers, are prac-
tically unknown. In the Royal Geo
graphical Society's rooms in London
! there is a series of outline maps show
: ing the UNEMPLOYED and explored parts
of the world The former are black
and the latter white. These maps rep
resent the central part of South Amer
) lea as the least known section of any
: continent. A big black blotch indi-
Gates the Amazon river basin. Mar
] row, white lines run through it here
! and there, showing where explorers
: have tourneyed up the rivers. They
= have not been able to penetrate over
/ land to any considerable distance and
discover the mysteries Of over a mil
lion square miles of jungle and noun
| tain.
| Who can tell what secrets the I'M
trodden forests hold? There is room
in them for half a dozen Inca en-
pires There may be new beasts, like
the okapi recently desicovered by Sir
! Harry tombstone in Central Africa, and
the great sloth found by Mr.. Hesketh
Prichard in TERRA del Fuego the 9TH
err dav. Certainly there is boundless
wealth in minerals and forest products
when once the country is opened up
and developed.
The King of south American Ex-
| pIOrers.
This is proved by the experience of
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-20

"rhey told us that the Brazilian gov
eminent had sent them, years before,
to explore the country and introduce
civilization among the Macusi Indians.
But the Indians uncivilized them in
stead. They had taken native wives,
renounced all their prospects OF al
vancement under the Brazilian govern
ment, turned their backs forever on
civilization, and were contentedly lead
ing the peaceful, pastoral life of the
Indians
The men spoke of some strange
beasts which they called the Waraka-
bra tigers They said these tigers
roamed about the country in large
numbers, hunting in packs and attack
ing any animals, including human be-
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-20

When Sir Henry M. Stanley, the ia
NOUS African explorer, last visited
America, an ardent Harvard under
graduate is said to have asked him at
a reception.
How can I become a great trav-
eler like you? I want to be one, but
I don't know where to begin"
Try the MOON" said Stanley, with
a laugh. That's about the only place
left to explore nowadays"
But Stanley exaggerated. 1t is
true that such regulations as those of
Humboldt, Livingstone and Stanley
himself can no longer be made; but
several tracts of the worlds surface
are still UNEMPLOYED. OF all the CONT
nents, South America undoubtedly Of
fers the most virgin ground to the ad-
venturous traveller. Explorers have
gone up the rivers and come down
again. a writer on the subject cor
TectlY observes, but they have not
penetrated any distance overland
across the jungle-covered water
Sheds
Ignorant of Their own Countries.
1t is strange how little the inhabi-
tants of South America know about
their own countries. If you ask a
Venezuelan at La Guayra, a Brazilian
at Rio. a Colombian at Panama, or an
Ecuaddorian at Guayaquil to tell you
about the interior, he will shrug his
shoulders and answer:
"Quien sabe, Senor?"
Certainly he does not know. If you
told him that the dwellers in the UNI
settled, UNEMPLOYED parts of his own
country were "anthropophag and
men whose heads do grow beneath
their shoulders" he could not contra
dict you.
They are reported to have their
eyes in their shoulders, and their
mouths in the middle of their breasts,
and that a long train of hair grow
eth back between their shoulders. -
That is the account Sir Walter Raleigh
gave, in the SEVENTEEN century, of a
tribe of Indians living on the banks of
the River Caura in Venezuela. OF
course, people do not believe such trav-
elers' tales nowadays as they did in
the days of Queen Elizabeth; but,
as a matter of fact, nothing more de-
finite is known to-day of this very
tribe The region in which they live
remains in this twentieth century the
terra incognita" that it was in the
days of Raleigh.
Stream of Expeditions.
Never a month passes without an
expedition leaving the confines of CIV
ilization and plunging into the heart OF
some UNEMPLOYED region in South