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The Washington bee., 1903-02-14
BETHEL LITERARY.
An IncOnslstaut Address.

Rev. B. J, Bolding, pastor of John
Wesley ChurCn was booked to read a
paper before tue Bethel Literary
-ocIety on last Tuesday evening his
subject beng, should the preachers
and educator" take part in politics.
IN one portion of the paper Rev.
BUlding advocated one proposition and
in another paragraph was just TO the
opposite. He advocated such men
as MessTs. Booker T. Washington
and J,SSe Lawson as the best
men to solve the negro question. There
W.re groans at this juncLure. At the
COnclu lOn of his paper, Mr.. K. w.
Laws took issue with him and declared
that such men as Booker Washington
Wele Inj ITlOus to the race He was
followed by attorney I. l.. Jones, who
opposed the paper in unmeasured
letmS.
Mr.. Lawson declared when he dis
cusSed the paper, that 1t was alright.
He attempted TO discuss the conStItu-
uun, state, aud national aud said when
a state pasted a law, the proper place
was TO carry it to the UuiteI States
Supreme Court He attempted to
give a lecture on inter state commerce
law and the resolution that he Clai ned
To have offered in either the Senate or
the House committee. Jesse always
offers something. ither a bill or a
resolution or he IS called TO the exeCu-
tive mansion to be consulted.
Mr.. w. Calvin Chase, followed Mr.
Lawson and lie said, we needed less
Washington and the same number of
LawsOns. The paper of Rev. Bolding
said Mr.. Chase, had no beginning ana
no ending. Ii reminded MIN of a
house that he saw IN course of erection,
WuIle on his way to New York, which
contained all kinds OF bricks. One of
the passengers said the house was
erected by preacher. The byStander
said he thOught SO because the bricks
were all varied colorS. SO was the
paper that hau just been read. 1t con
tanned many Inconsistencies. Rev.
BO ding IN has attempt 10 reply he wang
ed IL shderStOod thar he was lOgician
bot he soon convinced those who un-
derStOod logic that he was neither a
logICian or polite orator. 1t was
soon manifested that he decended from
tue dignity of an orator when ne CO M
pared Lnose who differed with him as
asses. twas disgusting.
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accepted position at higher salary
than he could command here, with the
new Commercial High School, OF New
York City.
During the past year the public
schools of Washington have lost some
of their best qualified teachers, under
present conditions nothing can be done
to prevent other cities from taking
their pick. 1t is not likely that any ac-
ton will be taken other than repetition
OF appeals TO Congress for approprla-
tions sufficient to pay instructors the
salaries which tney can command
elsewhere.
The epidemic of minor contagious
diseases among the school children OF
the city, it was learned last night, has
now become less prevalent, and the
spread of the complaints appears tohave
been stopped The matter was not
taken up officially by the board,
twas decided to give authority tor
the closing of the colOred schools tod ay,
in order Q give the members OF the
Negro race opportunity to celebrate
the anniversary of Frederick Douglass
The following coanges were ordered:
ResignationS-J. S. Mills, head OF
the department of chemistry. WaShlng-
ton High School; Miss NJ. w. Baker,
teacher of Latin in Western High
School.
Promotions-E. L. Newton of West
ern High School,. to head Of the de-
partment of chemistry Of the Washing
ton High schools. High School teach
ers: Miss NJ. w. Weddell, from 81 900
to 81, 200; Miss ]. L. Ditto, from S95e
TO sIooo; Dr. A. l. Howard, from $500
to $3.50; Miss r. E Stanley, from $3.50
to 5000; Mss q. A. Van DOren, from
S8as to $3.50; Miss S. c. Graham, from
$500 TO S825; Mr.. c. s. Edelen, from
$3.50 TO $500.
Appointments Miss Rena I. Jor-
dan, substitute grade teacher; Miss
Catherine Bates substitute teacher In
the Kinderga artens.
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The Thrilling Story of the JOia BrOwH
InsurreCtiOn at Harper Ferry
Re-tOId by the Original
Correspondence
The February Number Book of the Royal
Blue" Presents a Most Remarkable
Document

There are many published accounts
of the John Brown inSurrection at Har-
per'S Ferry, but the most interesting
is probably that published IN the Feb
ruary number "Book of the Royal
Blue" in connection with the authen-
tic dispatches and letters which passed
between the principals engaged in cap
turing Brown.
The details, given step by step, the
unusual prominence of the men con-
nected with the suppression of the in
surrection, and the personality Of the
correspondence, make a most remark
able document. The narrative is fur
ther intensified by o'd-time photo
graphs of Harper's Ferry, showing the
u. s. ATmory buildings as they were
at the time Of The inSurrectior, also the
same views laken during the civil war,
showing the destroyed railroad bridge,
and armory buildings, and the remains
OF pontOOn bridge across the PotO-
mac River Portraits of the men who
were foremost in the great tragedy are
given, including no less personages
than President Buchanan, Secretary of
War Floyd Governor Wise OF Virginia,
President Garrett of the B. & o., W.
P. smith, Master of Transportation of
the B. < o., and Colonel Robert E.
Lee.
The picturesque village of Harper's S
Ferry, thus brought into prominence
In 1859, and later racked and torn by
war, to-day peacefully guards the gap
in the Blue Ridge mou qtains, Where e
the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers
meet. The government armories and
rifle works have disappeared, and a
simple granite shaft marks the location
Of John Browns Fort"
The Story is especially valuable TO
schools and libraries for references
Single pies may be had for five cent
each, on application TO ID. B Martin.
Manager Passenger Traffic, Baltimore
& ONO Railroad, Baltimore. The an.
nual subscription to the magazine is
but fifty cents. ard each number issued
monthly. contains some special article
OF interest,
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the question of the construction and
improvement of the public highways
as now exists. When the first bill
making an appropriation for the Ma
tional road from Cumberland, on the
Potomac, in Maryland, TO Wheeling,
lOn the Ohio, was passed by congress
An 1906, and when the first actual
work of construction began in 1911,
the matter of getting communication
between the Atlantic seabOard com
munities and the Ohio and Mississip-
0pi valleys was a subject of vital con-
Germ to the people of the country.
The steamboat had not been invent
ed at the time when the first bill was
passed. In 1911, when the work OF
building the road actually started,
the first steamboat west Of the AL
leghenies went down the Ohio and
started on its route between New Or
leans and NatcheZ. 1t was a dozen
wears after that time, however, be-
fore steamboats, became in any way
numerous on eastern or western wa.
ters. But the steamboat did not
meet the need of opening communi.
cation between the east and west.
The mountains stood in the way, and
the railroads did not begin approach
5ng the Alleghenies until about the
close of the first quarter of that
century. The National pike was ex-
tended TO the Ohio river, as cOntem-
plated, and was then pushed across
Ohio and Indiana to the Illinois line,
with sections of it built farther west.
.5ut in 1888, when railroad building
had proceeded far enough to absorb
The country's attention to the exclu-
sion Of the construction of turn
pixies, the appropriations for the Ma
uonal road stopped. The imperious
necessity Of improving and extending
The present public highways and of
constructing others, as a matter of
national economy, is forcing itself on
The attention of the United States.
Those who aid in this work, says the
~. Louis Globe-DemOcrat, will de-
serve and receive the plaudits Of the
american people.
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which millions Of white men in the
South are determined to render no
more than a deluSion or an empty form
of law. 1t has seemed to provoke
wholesale crime. But no evil with
which Negro suffrage has been identi-
fed can be weighed against the greater
and more mOnStrOus wrong of declar-
ing, the deliberate judgement and our
pose of the greatest republic of the
earth. that either patriotism nor char
acter. nor yet mental attainments and
worth as a Citiz-n, shall be the test of
fitness for the ballot, but only the acc
dent OF race and the color Of the skin.
Intimidation and fraud in elections,
crime, and laWlesSneSs rampant and
defiant, unpublished and boaStful, are
very bad for any country. They are the
crowning disgrace of America today. 1t
is a lamentable thing 10 quicken race
prejudice and intensity class feeling in
any part OF the country. Danger turks in
wholesale violation or evasion of the
national Constitution. Corruption and
other evils flourish on the conditions
which attended the practically nominal
right of Negro suffrage, in many States
and parts OF States.
But consider the alternative 10 writ
ing Negro suffrage into the statutes
and organic laws of the American re-
public. Now the decrea of the nation
stands for right and Justice. In the
darkest hour of encouragement every
ambitious and aspiring man of Negro
blood knows that the laws of his coun
try are intended to open every door of
advancement 10 him ana place him on
the same foOtIng, as free citizen of
the great republic, with the white man,
native like himself or rforeign-born.I He
realizes that the forces which thWart
his natural desire for ordinary rights
and privileges are lawless forces. He
feels, more or less definitely, that his
fate is linked with that of his country.
He understands that in the degree he
is defuded it is dlshonored. He knows
that lis ideals and The promise of its
past and present can never be realized
until he is given his rights under the
laws.
? II this is on immeasurably valuable
uplifting force. 1t is beacon of hope
and courage. an inspiration and a
Source of al! that is best worth while
in the civic life of ten million Ameri-
cans, The balance is on the side of
right. Negro suffrage wa just and
right. It's consequences, at the worst,
have been less evil than the inevitable
fruits ofdeliberate denial, by the laws
aad the Constitution, OF the highest
rights Of citizenship to a Booker Wash
ington while these priceless privileges
were conferred upon every useless or
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GOOD ROADS NEEDED.
Interest in the Subject Stimulated
by the BrOwnlOw Bill.
sstrzmen Who Aid In Improving Our
Highways VIII DeserVe and Re-
ceive the PIaudFts Of the
People.

N the days of the old National
road, sometimes called the Cumber-
land road, and locally known as the
National pike, Henry Clay could ride
Che whole length of that thorough
fare and be entertained at all the
hotels on its course without the cost
IF a single cent 60 himself. This
honor was extended to him because
# his activity and influence in get
ting the road established and in con-
Ftructing and extending other hiGI.
ways at the nations expense. Wal
Ger p. Brownlow, one of Tenness ee's
members of the popular branch OF
con rress, stands some chance to link
Aia name also with the building and
ampr1vement of highways through
Eae country, and several bodies OF
reprasentative men are working for
Che same object, and will deserve
some Of the same praise.
Mr.. Brownlow's bill proposes to
enlist the general government, in CO.
operation with the states, in the
work of road construction, extension
and Improvement. His measure is
entitled: "A bill to create in the de-
nartmeut of agriculture a bureau to
be known as the bureau of public
roads, and TO provide for a system
Of national, state and local cOOpera-
tion in the permanent improvement.
Of the public highways" 1t proposes
the appropriation of s20,O00,o0O by
the national government, to be used
Eu connection with sums set apart
10y states, counties or towns for
building and maintaining public high
ways State highway commission
ers in many parts of the country are
szpressing their approval Of the
project. Many of the congressman
lEy0r it.
Nobody now alive remembers such
interest in the country at large IN
The Washington bee., 1903-02-14
GENERAL GEO. H. HARRIES
A Man of many parts. Successful and
Energetic in all things.

General Geo. H. Harries a few years
ago was comparatively unknown to
the people in this city. By industry
and attention to business he is rare
among the foremost men in the United
States. Like all men who are success
ful, he has enemies and evil designed
people. Several attempts have bean
made to misrepresentation; For honesty,
integrity and as an educator he has
done more for the public schools than
any one else. He is and has been
particularly interested in the success of
the public school, and it was through
him that the industrial feature of the
public school system has met with
such success. General Harries has no
prejudice which alone makes him popu
lar with the masses. In all the enter
priseS in which he is engaged, he is a
success AMI his one object is to serve
the people and those who have conf
dence in his ability.
The Washington bee., 1903-02-14

while visiting St. Louis. met several
prominent Missouri democrats. With
one accord they began to say nice
things about Judge Parker. They
thought Hill ought to nominate him
for governor, and were positive that
he would be elected. If this resulted
they did not think there was any doubt.
if he were nominated for president in
1904, that he would be elected.
Judge Parker declined to encourage
the movement to nominate him for
governor Democrats now say ii
makes no difference whether Mr.
Parker ran for governor or not, ke
remains the ideal candidate for the
presidency, and energetic work is be
ing done in his behalf in many states.
Friends of David B. Hill are also at
work, but so far the Hill propaganda
has not met with the same success a.
Judge Parker's.
Texas is the latest state to come To
the front in behalf of the New York
popular judge. There is no antipathy
TO Bryan in that state, but leaders
there do not think Bryan can win.
They are looking for some one who
can carry the doubtful states, and
they regard Judge Parker as the man.
Democratic papers all over the state
are making favorable comments about
Judge Parker. Senators Bailey and
Culbertson, Thomas Ball, and many
politicians are of the opinion that
the party ought to take Park
1t is reported that the same ng is
true of Georgia, Alabama, ! 5rida,
Missouri, Indiana and MINES Jta.
Much attention has lately been at
tached to Senator German, of Mary
land, and he has been repeatedly urged
to look favorably on the movement to
get southern and western delegates
for himself. Senator German has re-
fused TO encourage this scheme, PIE
ferring TO remain in the senate.
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PARKER HAS A BOOM.
Many Democrats Would Like to See
Him Run for President.
Leaders Claim TO See a Hope of Vic
tory In I9O4-Others Think New
York Jurist's Chances Are
Very PrecariOns.

Judge Alton B. Parker still hoh
prominent place as a democratic pl -
idential possibility. From east, south
and west come demands that he be
the candidate of his party.
Many thought that because he was
not made the candidate for governor
by Hill last fall he would drop out
of sight. But just the opposite re-
suit has happened, says the New York
Herald. Democrats all over the cOun-
try have apparently made up their
minds that Judge Parker is the leader
for a winning democratic campaign.
They think he can unite all elements
of the party. They believe he can carry
New York, Connecticut, New Jersey
and Indiana.
Democratic leaders all over the eoun-
try are saying that had Judge Parker
been the candidate last fall he would
have been elected governor. They call
attention to the fact that Judge Par
ker is the only democrat since 1897
who has carried New York state in
straight-out contest between the two
great parties. He was elected CHIEF
Justice of the court of appeals in 1897
over Judge Wallace, republican. While
it is true that the Tracy-Low fight
in New York city contributed to Judge
Parker's success, it is believed that he
would prove a strong candidate un-'
der any circumstances.
Democratic members of congress
were hopeful last fall that Judge Par
ker would be nominated for governor.
A campaign in his behalf was carried
on quietly all over the country. IN
the south and west, particularly, steps
were taken to acquaint the democrats
with Judge Parker's qualities as a
candidate.
In the middle of the summer q
prominent New York business man.
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IS ihe problem merely academic, for
while the legal form of Negro suffrage
seems 10 be a fixed fact the actual
privilege or right is so largely denied
and thwarted that there is no question
more vital than the problem of the
Negro vote and its suppression, in re-
sPect to pel hapS a million men, by
fraud or violence, or both.
Many Am, riCans VINO form rly be-
lieved unhesitatingly in 1.-THE justice and
good policy of giving the whole col
.ored population of the United States
the right 10 vote, on equal terms with
white men, have grown weary of the
difficulties attending TO the practical
workings of Negro suffrage. They
are tired of the cheating, the tricks,
and the various crimes by means {
which the highest right of citizenship
IS made farce and a mockery, as far
as the cOlored men of the States most
largely peOpled by Afro-AmeriCans
are concerned. From WEAKNESS and
impatience of very hard problem
spIingS certain relaxing of principles
a willingness, perhaps, to yield the
point of abstract justice for the sake Of
quiet And so Negro suffrage is cues
toned, as punlic policy, where II was
once almost UNANIMOUSLY accepted as
not only right but wise.
This paper had no doubts in the days
when the ballot was given TO ColOred
men. 1t is still true TO the old belief
that race and color could not rightly or
wisely be permitted to be test of fit
ness for the suffrage. Grave ills have
attended the granting of privilege
The Washington bee., 1903-02-14

than the Presidents? viii it not be
better for the whole race to develop a
long own lines? Ii has developed
men "hO have gained the respect of
their neighbOrs. DR.. Crum is one of
these, and It is inevi able thak in time,
If We of the Nor,h do not impede them,
superior negroes will receive that soci-
al recognition in the South which they
receive IN the North. When that time
comes, no southerner will rebel a
gainst the appointment of a negro to
office on the ground of his race.
There are, it will be seen, two sides TO
this question, even among the friends
of the negro.
The Washington bee., 1903-02-14
THE NEGRO IN OFFICE.
From the Boston Herald.


We ought 10 go back little, and to
cease the effort TO treat backward rae
IS, either here or in Asa, as if they
were the equal of the most advanced.
The Presidents theory that black
men should be treated as individuals
sounds we'll, but il does not take the
cal welfare OF the black into account.
The back individual can make his own
way to high IaCes, but when he is put
mo nigh places by the President, he
-, 10 INC southern community, merely
the representative OF the race whose
worst membe are in poliucs for office
and p under. The process keeps the
race down; il does not help it up.
how can 1t help the negro IN the
Outhrrn aIeS to violate this law in
nis beLall? Ought a President TO ap-
poinl a man 10 be cOllec or of customs
Wnu, for any reason, is offensive to the
community with the members of which
ne mast -eaR Would a due egard TO
lnc Il tdoral business variant such an
a.po nment2 Will the superior negro
&c AIDED by bong thrust upon hi'
neIghboTS? vii, h not. TathArs los
what les eel he has gained IN private
ufe, and be clasSed n nceforlh with The
co upI blacks VINO ave W the pOliLi-
ian, of heir racer Is not Booker
WashiUgtOn'S fundamental idea better
The Washington bee., 1903-02-14
1Ol For A Suffrage Convention.
From The Boston Guardian. !

The Guardian agrees with the Wash
ing ton Bee in its advocacy of a suffrage
among colOred people.
The time is now ripe for such a move
ment. Some such concerto ed action by
the thinking men Of the race should be
taken in the very near future to con-
slider "WayS and means" for the recUv-
cry of the NegrO's franchise. The Ne
gro IS all right as far as President
Roosev elt's aciOn goes in a certain
way, but the time has come for the
sacred righ's of this race TO be crystal
lzed and embalmed in law The rights
of II 200, 1000 people cannot be allowed
to depend upon the wishes of one man;
life is too uncertain, and fate too
treacherous.
The thoughtful men of the Colored
race should, therefore, come together
before the passing of another summer
to take action as the best methods
of forcing congress consider tion on
the NegTO'S franchise. 1t might be
we'll to COnfne the conVen ion to nom
office holders and TO the north, SO that
its action may not be influenced by fear
or intimidation. Boston would be an
ideal place for such a meet, but we
stand ready 10 cooperate with our
brethren in other sections, and will,
therefore, agree to any more central
place. Cleveland would not be a bad
place, as it is the most central for the
actual voting strength of the race. Let
the press take this matter up for con-
sideration. 1t is something upon which
the political life of the Negro depends.
How about this, gentlemen of the
mess?
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THE HARVARD DINNER.
Negro AIumulsts Excluded After
fiaVlng Been invited.

Sometime ago a notice appeared in
the daily press inviting All Harvard
X giadudteN to send to a certain address,
given, their names and addresses. A
very prominent ald Well-kuOWu color
Cd phl sician, a graduate of Har-
ward Co lege, sent his name, and in
the leIleT he informed the gentleman
that he was cOlOred. In the Tepiy that
he TeCeil ed, il was stated that it made
no difference; that he would be trea ed
JUS The same as any olher graduate.
lie received another letter taxing him
hve do. lars for a oinner 10 be given in
this city at some future tine named in
the letter, which was promptly sent
Nothing was said for SOM time, or a
little before he time for the dinner to
take p ace. when to the surprise of this
distinguished COlOred Harvard gradu-
ated physician, he was informed that
his presence at the dinner would en-
Darrass the President. hence the invi-
latIUn had been reCa led, nnLwithstand-
ing The fact that the COiored phySician'S S
name was printed on the card, the
fr-sid nl's name appearing just three
names above the cOlOred physicians.
IL is very surprising that there should
be So much discrimination IN this city
and opposition 10 the colored physician
atIen ing this dinner, because it was
claimed tnat the President would be
embarrassed, when this same physician
Was highly entertained in Boston, last
year, at d similar dinner given by the
Alumni A sUCiatlon, at which many
veil known white men attended.
The Washington bee., 1903-02-14
GOOD TEACHERS LEAVING.
Not Enough P.y-Actlon Should be Taken.

The low salaries paid to teachers in
the public schools of Was 1inglon and
the better inducements offered to them
elsewhere are tracing to other cities
some of The most talented. and the
question has now engaged the serious
attention of the board of education. At
a meeting of the board held at the
Franklin School building last Tuesday
night the matter was brought up; when
the resignation OF an instructor in the
high schools was rendered. Mr. !. S.
Mills. head Of the departmen of chem
istry of the high schools, resigned, and
Mr.. Z. L. Newton, of the Yves ern Ugh
School, was las night promoted to the
vacancy Mr. Mills a few days ago
The Washington bee., 1903-02-14
IS NEGRO SUFFRAGE A MISTAKE ?

A reader living in a small town of
this State asks that something more
than bare answer be given ques-
lion which he puts in the following
form:
Did the American people do right
by granting the Negro the suffrage
1t will be seen that the question IS
one Of right rather than expedIency,
bur no doubt it includes, in the mind
of the reader, the whole problem OF
Negro suffrage. II the narrowest sense
or the widest It is one of the most
momentous topics sfthe the time. N o