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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-01
MR.. ROOSEVELT'S 7
NEGRO" POLICY
Is it Noble Human Sympathy,
or Plain Politics?
(The New York Evening Journal.)

(The New York Evening Journal)
Mr.. Roosevelt, President of the United
States, has declared himself the negro s
friend. That is very noble declaration,
The negro has a hard place to fill in this
world. His education began many thou
sand years later than that of the race
with which he completes. He is in a very
weak minority-not only in numbers, but
in equipment. He suffers the disadvant-
age of having filled place of confessed
and helpless inferiority. His present So
called equality is the result of CONNER
cial war and territorial rivalry-not of
human justice fully developed.
Therefore he who, sincerely and distin-
terestedly. hefriends the negro is a real
man, unselfish and humane.
Mr.. Roosevelt acts-when he does act
-aggressively and nosily. He has de-
clared himself the negro's friend and
protector He declares that negroes must
and shall have their share of offices Tin
the South where the objection to negro
equality is strongesD. The Presidents
attitude is noisy and aggressive as
usual. He appointed as postmistress in
the South n certain colored lady. She
was in every way respectable, and worthy.
But the people objected and made their
objection apparent. The lady-with a
tact which Mr. Roosevelt perhaps does
not quite understand-refused to oppose
her interests to the wishes of an entire
community and abandoned her post.
Thereupon the President abolished the
post office absolutely. He said to the OBJ
jecting whites, You decline to accept
my appointee. You set your ridiculous
prejudices of race against my will You
shall have no post office" That COM
munity actually has no postoffice and
the business and social life of the place
suffers in consequence. That seems a
little like Russia. and little unlike Am
erica-but that is-not the point
In another Southern community, of
large business interests, the President has
appointed negro as collector, a place
most important to all the mercantile in
terests. He has put a colored man in q
place which compels all the white mer-
chants to meet that colored man on
terms of absolute equality. That seems
very fine and democratic thing-superfi-
cially. But let us look at the matter
from various sides.
We must be guided in practical life by
practical conditions. We must pay at
tention to what actually exists.
Mr.. Roosevelt says in substance: "The
law declares the negro the equal OF any
mans equal. 1 refuse to recognize any
distinction of race or color"
II that We're true, it would be fanatic,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-01
NURSING MOTHERS

A mothers poor health is bad
enough 70 the mother but
worse still for the nursing
baby.
Mothers find Scots Emul
sion a nouris h ing and
strengthening food. If The
breast milk is scanty or thir
SCOTS Emulsion will make ii
rich and more abundant.
When mothers take Scott
Emulsion the babies share in
the benefits. Thin babies grow
fat. Weak babies get strong.
We1lsend you little to try II you Ike.
SCOTT & BOVINE, 4o9 Pearl street, New York
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but interesting and onorable-however
impractical. But is it true?
Suppose that female member of Mr..
RooseveIt's family became engaged TIC
marry a negro. Would Mr.. Roosevelt re-
member his views in regard to absolute
equality? Would he apply to case near
to himself the fine generalities which he
applies to white men in the South?
Everybody knows that Mr.. Roosevelt
would absolutely forbid a marriage en-
gagement between a negro and men,
Der of his own family. He would not for
one second hesitate to admit that his op-
lection to the match was based upon race
prejudice You might remind him OF hu-
man rights. You might praise the negro
fiance, you might even prove that negro
to be the moral equal of Abraham Lin
coin and infinitely superior, mentally, to
Mr.. Roosevelt. Yet Mr. Roosevelt would
say: Il forbid the match because he is
a black man"
Does any friend of Mr.. Roosevelts
doubt this statement?
If the statement cannot be denied-and
it cannot-will it be said that Mr.. Roose-
Welt is sincere in his attitude toward the
negro question in the South, in his re-
fusal to recognize race prejudice?
Perhaps you will say: eff there does
exist a prejudice against the negro, all
honor to him who begins the task of
wiping it out" But Mr.. Roosevelt's at
titude does not promise to wipe out race
prejudice. 1t promises-if it promises
anything-to wipe out certain number
of negroes. Mr.. Roosevelt is deliberately
accentuating prejudice against the ne
groes in the south. And he knows it..
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 handful-were going to rule here,
despite any efforts of the Indians. The
negroes can get decent treatment only
by the development of good feeling II
there shall occur now, in the South, q
series of outbreaks against negro ar
rogance-Mr. Roosevelt will be respCn-
siple
1t seems appropriate for those who
understand the feelings of the South to
ask Mr. Roosevelt a few questions.
Are you aware, Mr.. Roosevelt, that the
Republican votes from the South 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 negro equality?
Have you been q conspicuous friend CT
the negro in the South, whence no negro
delegates are sent to the Republican
convention?
In California there exists, against the
Chinese, a prejudice most 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 very intelligent law
abiding citizens. Which of them have
you selected for public office? Their
rights under the constitution are the same
as those of any negro. A Chinese born
here could be President.
All the Republican delegates from Cali
fronia are white, and all OF them are
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-01
"sREETER" BECOMES AJ0CKEY.
A Wilmington Boy Of Nerve Strikes August
Belmont for JOB.

The New York Evening World presents
a double column half-tone picture of
Master George l.. Shepard, late of Will
mington, N. c., who created his latest
sensation in the metropolis by boldly
walking up to Mr.. August Belmont one
day last week and asking him for a job
as a jockey. Young Shepard, who has
his nerve with him at all times, got the
job The World thus speaks of Shepard's
first interview with the great capitalist,
and owner of fine horses:
"I'd like to have job at your stables
Mr.. Belmont" said the boy.
Mr.. Belmont gazed down at the eager
face of the boy in front of him.
"You would like job, "eh? Well, you
come down to my office at % Nassau
street. and I'll see what can be done for
YOU Then the millionaire handed the
boy his card and walked away.
Say" said Shepard today II was
awful sorry [ didn't have a card to ex-
change with Mr. Belmont. I've got them
now, though, and when l go to see him
about the job / will send my card in"
He handed the writer his card, on
which was printed, George L. Shepard,
New York"
Where are you living, George"
ooh, I'm round at the Newsboys' Home,
just at present"
If he had said the Waldorf Astoria it
would have been no surprise.
I'm not modest about being in print -
he said. "Ive been there before. Down
in Wilmington, N. c.. where l came
from, they hade a convention of the
Daughters of the Confederacy. 1 was
sort of page there, and presented the
president with a souvenir book. Every
one hollered speech, so | gave them
something like this:
Ladies and gentlemen: 1 see that the
Governor of North Carolina has asked for
an appropriation to build monument for
William Mckinley. 1 don't see why he
can't ask for appropriation to build a
monument to our beloved President, JEFF
ferson Davis"
Say, that speech made hit. The pa
pers gave me bully send off. A lot of
people came to me after that. One man,
a Northerner, was very nice and l told
him one day:
81 like you first rate, but don't like
your politics. He was a Republican. A
lawyer named Lyman A. Warren heard
me say that, and it tickled him to death.
He gave me S. and said:
"'Boy, if you ever come to New York,
come and see me. I'll look after you
Young Shepard then detailed the his
tory of his voyage on a schooner from
Wilmington to New York and his meet
ing his friend Warren in Tammany Hall.
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greatest annoyance because they are
so persistent and unsightly and de-
tract from ones appearance.
Middle aged and old people and
those whose blood is contaminated
and tainted with the germs and poison
of malaria or some previous sickness,
or excessive use of mercury, are the
chief sufferers from chronic sores and
ulcers. While the blood remains in
this unhealthy, polluted condition
healing is simply Impossible and the
sore will continue to grow and spread
in spite of washes and sa1ves or any
superficial or surface treatment, for
the sore is but the outward sign of
some constitutional disorder, bad
condition of the blood and system,
which local retndies cannot cure.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-01
= or Sale.

For division of the estate
of the late VIM. G. StrOn-
aCll, offer for sale BEAU
tiful building lots situated
i'm the northern part Of the
city; also a farm in high
state of cultivation and
we'll stocked, situate d
about two miles from Rail
eigh; also property in east
Raleigh.
For Information apply
at w. 6. StrOnaCh's Sons,
Fayetteville street.
Alexander Stronach,
Executor.
Raleigh, n. G..
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Sores
Eating Ulcers, Sps s'' s5s sy sts'"

trouble those
particularly located the lower where
weak sluggish eating ulcer upon the
and the continues almost the sh
running and deep offensive ulcers often develop from Simple
gland, threatening danger
because while all such not great many are s
cause
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-01

valdosta, Ca, September, 1900
Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Sirs:-Something like a r1s1ns
came on my instep, very small at
first, not at all painful, but as It
grew larger and began to pain me
consulted doctor, but in spite OF
all he could do the sore got worse
and began to discharge; then other
sores came until the whole top OF
my foot was one large mass OF sores
and could not walk. Then my hUs"
band, who had been cured OF Sorof"
ula by the use Of s. S. s., said he
believed it would cure me. began
taking it and eight bottles cured
me; my foot healed up nicely. be-
lieve + would have been cripple
for life but for S. S. S.
MRS. G. 81. KING.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-01
RAILROAD NOTES.

A freight department on large scale is to
be added to their Brooklyn Rapid Transit sys-
TEN next spring. - =.
The Great Northern will soon inaugurate a
color blindness.
The Chicago Great Western has opened an of.
nee In Buffalo in charge of ". H. Ward, travel.
ing passenger agent, and J.. T. Douglas, trav.
cling. freight agent.
A meeting Of the St Paul and MINNEAPOLIS
Rate association has been called for Jan. 6. to
be held in the rooms of the association at the
union station in ST. Paul. .sa.y s...5' -
W. R. Galloway, general passenger agent Of
the Soo who sent out novel Christmas greet.
card with neat designs in gilt bearing this
motto: :
"our; lives enriched with. gentle thoughts.
And loving words may be -,
AS streams that. nobler grow
i. The nearer to the sea-
The record of the year in car and locomotive
building, according to statistics, of the Railway
Age of this week, is nearly equal to that OF
the previous year, when records were broken
The records show that during 1902 orders were
placed for 1S5. 600 freight cars. 4,7oo locomo
corresponding record published by the Railway
| Age a year ago showed totals Of 10000 freigh,
cars, 4,34O locomotives and 2sI9 passenger
cars. 49, -
The following Illinois Central changes are an.
| nounced: John A. Scott to be assistant genera
passenger agent for the southern line. vice W
A. Kelland, resigned: office transferred from
| Louisville to Memphis: F. w. Harlow, division
louisville; William Murray appointed freigh
and passenger agent with headquarters Mt New
Orleans; 4. j. McDougall. division passenge
! assigned to other duties: A. Q. Pearce. travel
| ing passenger agent at Memphis vice John R
Hollis, resigned: John Briggs. division passenge
/ agent at Cincinnati. andsW. J. Mclean genera
| eastern passenger agent at New York, Vice 4
| j.. McDougall, promoted. = 81 ~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-01
A BLOW AT. THE GouLDS
Railroad Man Thinks Frisco Expansion
Is for That Purpose

Railroad Man Thinks Frisco Expansion
Is for That Purpose.
A prominent railroad man of the twin
cities said yesterday that he believed
the rumored entrance Of the Frisco into
this city and New Orleans was scheme
Of the Pennsylvania to get back at the
Goulds for trying to get into Pittsburg.
The. Goulds have been trying to get
into Pittsburg for months, but the Penn
sylvania has them blocked. AS further
retaliation the Pennsylvania has, ordered
the Western Union Telegraph company to
remove its wires from the Pennsylvania
right of way, and that matter is now in
court.
1T seems to me that this activity of the
Frisco, the requirement of the Chicago &
Eastern Illinois and the sPere Marquette
lines is a. Pennsylvania. move to harass
the Goulds in their own, territory. The
stronghold Of the Gould properties is
southwest Of ST. Louis and in Texas. The
Frisco crosses and recrosses the Gould
properties dozen times in that territory
With the Chicago & Eastern Illinois con-
trolled by the Frisco, the Wabash will
have. plenty Of competition between st.
Louis and Chicago, and with the Pere
Marquette controlled by the same com
pany the Wabash will have competition
|, from Chicago to Detroit, Toledo and Buff
falo.. 1t certainly 'looks to me like a
Pennsylvania move, and it is a good one,
too" -5.s,r,.-... =-..r- +
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-01
RAILROAD. zRUMBLEs \:
TO OFFSET WAGE ADVANCES
Railroads Raise Freight - Rates-some
...-..,.:- :. LARGE Eiuures, ~


F. Chicago. Jan. There seems to be-
general disposition In. railroad circles to
advance freight rates in order to offset
the increased cost Of operating expenses
An authority on this: subject is quoted
as follows: ~ 60 . : .:&.".- ~
THE operating expenses of the rail-
ways of the United States in 1901
amounted (roughly) to two thirds Of the
gross receipts. The compensation paid
in salaries and wages to employees was
about 500 700, 900. or about 60 per cent of
the total operating expenses. The en-
ployesS numbered about 1000. 000" The
general advance in wages upon the many
lines where an advance has been agreed
to has been 10 per cent. President Ram
say of the Wabash is quoted as saying
the general advance the country over is
not likely to go above per cent. This
would mean an increase of over $4,000. :
900: The total freight revenue last year
was over s1,126.OOO. 900, SO that an in
crease Of: nearly 4 per cent in freight
rates would be required to. offset this
item Of increased cost. But rails, fuel
and other supplies have also advanced
heavily, while rates have remained sta
tionary or gone down. It is not fair that
the railroads should bear all the burden
of these large increases in cost OF oper-
atiOn." - 49, ~. T.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-01
MICHIGAN
GERMAN BEET SEED -.
Ninety Tons to Be Imported for Northern /
-, MIchldan Growere =, J.

Ninety Tons to Be Imported for Northern
Michigan Growers.
MENOMINEE. MICFf-The Menominee
River Sugar company, whose SS50,000 plant
is to be erected next summer, has ordered
ninety tons of sugar beet seed from Ger
many. The seed will be packed in no.
pound bags, and it will require five cars
to transport the shipment from New York.
The seed will be distributed in March to
the farmers in Menominee and adjoining
counties who have contracted to culti-
vate beets for use at the factory.
A. Alison, local agentafor the Ann Ar
Dor road. says there are about $50 cars
loaded with coal at Fra nkfort ready to be
shipped to this city for local firms. The
coal is being rushed here as fast as pos
sible on the carferry Ann Arbor No. 8,
but it Is probable the boat will be unable
to get it all here before it is. compelled
to stop running in Gren bay on account
Of the ice. In that case the coal will have
to be taken around by way of ManitoWoc
at an advanced freight rate of about rs
cents a ton. 49,
extensive lumber manufacturing firms in
the city had just beer effected, the newly
organized A. Spies Lu1n Der and Cedar
company absorbing the Harding Shingle
company and the A. Spies Lumber com
pany. August Spies was elected presl-
dent of the new concern. with Frank A
Spies as vice president, and general ma
ager. D. G.. Boutwell, secretary and E. j
Brady treasurer. 1890 IL.
| The Il months old son of Mrs. Mamie
Mcclure was badly burned. The child was
in the kitchen with other children when
one of them set 1t on Stlle stove, think
ing the stove was not hot. i. r.. ...~. .
.HoUeHToN, Notwithstanding Of a
r.o15 e-I,i,,
by =. the. action: Of LfeelYYtenant' Governor
Robinson in seeking the removal from
office Of two justices. Of the peace. John
! Madden and, Albert Poisson. Mr.. Robin
son. who is also supervisor of the town
Ship. charges the officials with -incom-
potency and e2tortionate 5. and illegal
charges; The petition for removal is ad-
dressed to Governor Bliss and was filed
with the prosecuting attorney, who in.
dorses it. With the inquiry ordered by
the state executive. testimony will be
taken before the judge, of probate, con-
Quoted by the prosecuting attorney, and
the evidence will be forwarded to the gov
ernor for decision and review.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-01
Northern Securities Stock Called.

New York. JAM. IA considerabl
amount of Northern Securities stock was
called yesterday by foreign holders of call
options expiring with the year. 1t will be
shipped at once. This is considered pretty
good evidence that foreign interests are
bull1sh on Northern Securities The hold
ers of the expiring calls might have re-
covered what they paid for the options
with a small profit besides by selling the
stock, but they. chose to call it and hold it
for a. rise = - r -' 80
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trary to the usual belief that rabbits are
aSpest. that the wild shares are steadily be-
ing exterminated by being lured into
snares, one cabbage and several traps be-
ing sufficient to catch all the rabbits in
one swamp in single night Rabbits
are about the only species Of game that
can be" hunted throughout the year. and
it is the desire of sportsmen that they be
preserved.-W. c. Brandon who recently
opened a campaign against the wolves in
Algera. county, with headquarters near
Deerton, writes that he has bagged seven
to date. Poison is his method of killing.
Each wolf will net him, with the. bounty
over $40. III He~says the wolves are trav-
cling In packs Of ten or a dozen, and that
they are killing deer. In one day he
founa five deer carcasses in the vicinity
of his camp. e :
IRON MOUNTAIN, MIcH.-The Oliver
Mining company has commenced work at
the Chaplin mine on what will be the lar
gest and most modern shaft in the Lake
Superior district. It will be sunk to a
depth Of 1,165 feet before any crosscut-
ting is done, and will be equipped with
the latest improved labor-saving and life
saving devices. The size OF the shaft
VIII be % feet 1 inch, by 10 feet inches,
inside measurements, and will contain
four compartments. The shaft will be
lined with steel frame from the surface
down and on the outside will be lathed
with heavy planking that will be >brolzen
at Intervals. thus avoiding a continues
sheeting of combustible material and max
ing the whole a. nearly fire-proof as pos
s1ble. A big. Cornish pump the largest
In the United States. will be installed al
the bottom. At a depth of 1165 feet con.
| nection will be made with the Hamilton
and Ludington mines, adjoining the
Chaplin. -. .. -. - ." :.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-01
MINNESOTA :

:BREckENRlD MlNN.-Deeds were
filed with the register of Wilkin. county
Yesterday, transferring: the Childs place Of
1.10S,, acres. to Ii F: %3urkhardt and nam
ing the, consideration at ,$3s;1so, arid the
Richardson farm Of $50 acres to Henry
L.. Wilson for consideration Of s2e,o0o-
Real estate dealers expect a. large, influx
of Iowa and Illinois settlers the coming
spring.-One property owner has had four
applications In the last three days for
storeroo1n from outside persons, who con-
template starting in business at this point.
m. Ness, postmas ter at Dwight N. D..
has been received at the hospital. He is
:threatelled with an. attack Of typhoid, fe-
ver.-Rev. Robert l.. Jones. the evangelist,
who is holding revival services at, the Bap-
fist church, Is having large houses. The
meetings will continue through the coming
week.: ''.'' -
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Down on pouble-Headers.

Austin, Texas jan. lit is said here
on high authority that a strike of the
conductors and brakemen on every rail-
road west of the Mississippi river. on
which double header trains are operated,
is imminent. The exact demand is that
not to5exceed thirty cars be hauled with
two engines, which is equivalent to
abolishing the practice, as that number of
cars is easily hauled with a single engine.
An exception is made Of the mountain di-
visions of the roads, where the grade is
heavy, and two engines to. each train are
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TO oPPosEsTAx INCREASE
Milwaukee and North Western VIII Make
Fight at Madison >

Milwaukee, Jan. 1.-The Chicago. Mil
waukee &. ST. Paul and the Chicago q
Northwestern railway companies VIII
make a. vigorous defense; at Madison
this winter against the plan to increase
their taxes. bringing figures into play TO
nrovet that a larger sum per mile is paid
in wisconsin than in almost any other
state in the union; that the Wisconsin
roads pay more than is: paid in Colorado
and Nebraska. where the railroad taxes
have been increased the past, few years
and that in fact. the Wisconsin roads
nav about 5000 a mile. except on ,%1oo J,
miles Of logging and other unimportan =
branches that do not pay'%or WHICH, =, =
+ha,, AZ nav. do not pay. we'll. and there
a,ra & 0oO miles Of road. in the state. 5Ihe
"a i,roads have made plans for literary
and statistical campaign. The services
Of 4 taxation expert Of national reputa-
ton have been engaged.
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tically IN line with the schedule of ad-
vances made by the North Western and
the Milwaukee roads. = ~.
The employees of the Jersey Central rail-
road have just been pleasantly surprised
at the announcement that dating from
Dec. 1 their wages will be increased.
Beginning to-day new schedule Of
wages goes into effect on the Delaware.
Lackawanna & Western that will increase
substantially the pay of a large percentage
of the employees In all departments.
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Baltimore & ohio Holds up Grain,

The Baltimore & Ohio railroad issued
the following order yesterday: Until
further notice we cannot accept carload
freight live stock and perishable products
for points east of Pittsburg, Moundsville
and Parkersburg. We will continue to
accept our own empty cars and empty for
e1gn cars en- route home. This. action
means temporary halt In grain ship
ments. The object of the order is to re-
lteve the coal famine along the line.