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The colored American., 1904-02-13
DON'T BE CLANISH.

Two newspapers st. Luke Her
aid and The Advocate-published in
Richmond, Va, are taking The Colored
American and the Chicago Conservator
10 task for venturing to suggest an
opinion as to the policy of the National
Negro Suffrage League. They are Op-
posed to outside criticisms and want
to make the League strictly a Vir-
ginia affair They forget that the
name National means more than one
State, and they also forget that if the
National Suffrage League is to succeed,
it must operate in nearly every State
in the Union. Efforts to disfranchise
the coIored people are being made in
nearly every State and if the League
is to be National" it should operate
in these States. Besides in the West
ern, Northern, and Eastern States,
where there is a free ballot and
fair count, colored voters should be
educated through the League, the
proper use of the ballot. There is no
doubt but there is plenty of work for
Lne League 10, DJlI II HluSI OpeIdtC
on a platform broad enough to hold
every movement and measure which
has for its purpose the carrying out
of the mission OF the Leagu 1t does
not matter whether The Colored Am
erican or the ConservatOr has con-
tributed one penny or not, it is
fact that a great deal of money has
been raised for the League outside OF
| the State of Virginia. 1t is also i'm
material as to whether we like or dis
| like the wizard
Mr.. Hayes and his little clique can
not succeed with narrow principles
| and narrow policies. The race is al
ready afflicted with small bore lead
ers.
The colored American., 1904-02-13
THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT IN
MARYLAND.

With the defeat of Mr.. German, in
Maryland as to his choice for Senator
to succeed Hon. Louis E. McComas by
the unanimous election by the Demo
Gratis in the Legislature of Isidor Ray
ner, whose election Mr.. German so
strenuously opposed, it is believed that
the German idea of the elimination of
the colored vote in Maryland will also
be defeated.
1t is incredible except to actual OBJ
servers that a man of Mr.. Germans
intelligence and prOgressiveness. would
more than thirty years after the en-
franchisement of the colored man in
Maryland, inspire a proscriptive, unjust
and diabolical piece of legislation sole
ly for the purpose of depressing the
weak and yet loyal race in America,
such as the following:
1. Those who can read a section of
the constitution of the State which
registers shall submit to them and give
a reasonable explanation of it.
2. Those who were prior to January
1, 1869, competent to register under
the laws of this State or any other
State
3. Lineal descendants of those quail
fled to register and vote under the
preceding section.
1t was painful to us to see that
Maryland too was willing to engage
in the small ignoble business of en-
faithful people of their God-given
rights of American citizenship, secured
to them by the sacrifice of millions of
lives of the best blood of this country
and billions of its precious treasure
The colored American., 1904-02-13
THE coLoRED AMERICAN.

and tears of hundreds of thousands of
colored people who fought for flag
which at that time did not protect
them in their manhood rights and for
a country which sanctioned their physi-
eel enslavement.
That Mr. German, who we under
stand, was not born with a silver
spoon in his mouth, who knew what
it was to be poor and needy, should
now attempt to out-Herod Herod in
trampling upon the rights of defense
less people, in our mind, shows him
wholly unfit to be President of the
United States even if it were possible
for his party to elect it's candidate.
1t is pleasing to note that the large
majority of intelligent progressive
Democrats of Maryland turned from
the narrow and contracted German in
disgust and are repudiating his plans
to eliminate the colored vote in Mary
land by aid of the "Grandfatber's
clause"
To limit the colored vote in accord
ance with the measures above set
forth would be as much in accord
with the Constitution and its amend
ments as it would have been had any
one of the thirteen states, just after
the adoption of the Constitution, en-
acted a law to the effect that any man
who was not born in America, or whose
father was not born here, or who did
not fight on either side in the Revo-
lutionary War, or whose father did not
so fight, or who was not a vote at
the time of the adoption of the Con
stitution, should not vote nor should
his linea1 descendants.
Several Southern States have set the
pace for Maryland in their attempt to
disfranchise the colored vote, but we
venture to assert that there is not an
honest man in either one of those
States who participated in enacting
disfranchising laws, but feels deep
down in his heart of hearts that he has
committed high crime against nature
and natures God in his attempt to take
from his weak fellow-men those rights
for which he himself would suffer
death before surrendering.
The colored American., 1904-02-13

Gov. Vardaman of Mississippi, is re
ceiving a great deal of unpleasant at
tention through the Negro Press of
the country, and very justly so. But
after all that he bas said, it is not
Vardaman nor Tillman, nor John Tenn
pie Graves, nor German; but it is the
Negro himself who stands in the way
if his own progress. No people on
earth are so bitter toward each other
as Negroes. They are more jealous of
each others success than the people of
other races. The Negro who succeeds
in any undertaking is apt to be more
hated in the community in which he
lives than the worthless fellow who
makes no attempt to accomplish any
thing. A house divided against itself
cannot stand.
The colored American., 1904-02-13

tion consisting of sometimes. the mo-.
respectful ladies of the communir,.
Restrictions are but words of enconr
agement' and the peaceful citizens de-
nounce them as a savage gathering &c
far from intelligence as we are from,
the long sought north pole.
The colored American., 1904-02-13

The Virginia Republicans should see
to it that Mr.. James H. Hayes is seLt
to the next National Republican Con-
vention. Here is a case where race
harmony will bring about the desired
result. Lay aside jealousies, gentle
men, and elect your man
The colored American., 1904-02-13

The advanced prices in cotton means
much to the Negro farmers of the
South and Southwest, and yet there. are
some people who believe the Negro
should flock to the great cities for
the purpose of obtaining higher edu-
cation.
The colored American., 1904-02-13

Sensible colored men in every COM
munity are realizing every day that one
of the great agencies or race advance
ment is business tact and business en-
of an education a man has, if he has
business sense, and employs it, he will
be useful man in the community in
which he lives.
The colored American., 1904-02-13

The st. Joseph Spectator should en-
gage the services of an editor and
a proof reader before it attempts TO
discuss the methods of Booker. T.
washington or anybody else.
The colored American., 1904-02-13

Baltimore City is suffering a great
holocaust; untold millions have been
consumed by the flames and it is
feared that untold suffering will be
visited upon the poor of that city.
The colored American., 1904-02-13

Rev. and Mrs. J. a. Bray of Athens
Ga, announce the birth of their first
born. ELLA Church. on Monday, Feb.
/, 1904.
The colored American., 1904-02-13

The Republican politicians of South
Caroline are gradually moving towards
the center of the stage.
The colored American., 1904-02-13

Editor T. Thomas Fortune has just
made a swing around the loop. Civ
ing lectures in the interest of the
National Afro-American Council.
The colored American., 1904-02-13

The disfranchising law and the Jim
Crow car bill that were to come up
before the Maryland legislature this
week, have been postponed indefinitely
The colored American., 1904-02-13

The Indianapolis World has come to
life again; it is an old but welcome
visitor to our sanctum.
The colored American., 1904-02-13
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.

The Crum case still hangs fire.
The colored American., 1904-02-13
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY Is, 1904.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-01-16
MISPLACED PHILANTHROPY.

Record Herald.-A very estimable
lady who has recently gone to New
York to live, wanted to see the tene-
ment districts Of which she had heard
all her life, and so she and some
friends did" the East Side. She took
a lively interest in the people and
their lives, but the dirt and degrada-
came over her in waves when she was
shown one room which was the home
of three families. The very thought of
it was horrifying but the sight Of the
place almost overcame her.
The lady was from Boston and nat
urally she felt it her duty to set things
at rights as best she could. SO she
called the best natured of the tene-
ment women into the hall.
my good woman she began, "how
can you live this way? Why don't you
clean up this room? Why don't you
go to work and try to make money
enough to have roon-or better still,
two or three rooms. by yourself, where
you and your children can live like
Christians? Why, it is simply appall-
ing to think of all of you people living
in one room-it is Notwithstanding
indecent"
The little daughter of the poor
rested her hands on her hips, and her
great frame shook with amusement as
she looked the intruder over, and made
answer:
Now be aisy, darlinI There is no
since in your gettin' mad, over things
that's none of your business There is
only three families of us in that room
ye that now. We have always got
on grand-just elegant-that is mum
til the O'Hannigans began takin' in a
lot o. dirty Dago boarders!''
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-01-16
THE SPIRIT OF JAPAN.

Seattle Post -Intelligencer. - The
Japanese as a people are generally ad-
mitted to have the keenest and subt-
lest appreciation of any of the ma
tions. This characteristic and their
unfailing and winning courtesy have
become so well known as to obscure
that other side of their character
which is really dominant-their love
of their country and their almost wor-
ship of their emperor. No country has
more intensely loyal and patriotic cit
lzens. Skeptical and careless as to
religion, their passionate enthusiasm
lcenters about the person of the en-
peror and the integrity Of the nation.
The Shintoists, who believe in the
semi divinity of the mikado, are not
more fervently loyal than the agnos.
tic ruling classes. How fully this idea
of patriotism permeates all ages and
classes is shown strikingly by the
poem sent by the children of the Mo-
temachi public schools to the officers
of the United States ship Oregon af-
ter reception to 1000 of them or
board. When the children of nation
exhibit such a spirit as this. when
officers commit harakiri at what they
consider national humiliation, when
the soldiers Of the line break into
songs of rejoicing; in receiving orders
TO move to the front, that Is not ma
ton with which it is wise to 70 to
war. IT Russia persists in forcing hos
tilities she will find that she has war
on her hands which she can win only
by prolonging, and which is bound to
cripple her seriously whatever the out
come. 1t is to be hoped that she will
recede from her untenable position;
but II not, here's to Japan!
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-01-16
THINGS MEN SAY.

p. j. McCumber, United States SEN
ator from North Dakota.-Roosevelt
suits us and he's our man. We are
out of the swirl of Wall street in
fuences, and look at the presidential
situation from the point of view Of
plain farming and village people. In
President Roosevelt we recognize a
man who is earnestly striving to en-
force the laws of the country. In what
ever he does he stands by the peo-
pie. We haven't any particular grudge
against Wall street, but we don't agree
With many people whose activities are
confined to the handling of money, who
seem to think that President Roose-
welt is against them. We look upon
Senator Hanna as a big man. and we
love him for the good he has done.
Probably he Is the best campaigner
in the country. We would like to see
him retained at the head of the ma
tional committee, as his experience and
the support of his particular friends
would be just what we need to make
success doubly sure. ! am in hopes
he will be prevailed upon to keep the
craftsmanship. AS q presidential can
didate. however, think he is general
ly regarded as much weaker than
President Roosevelt. He is not SO
much man of the people.
General James b. weaver of Iowa.
General Miles is receiving a great
deal of favorable comment as a pres
idential possibility, because of his un-
exampled military record and broad,
democratic principles. Mr.. Hearst al
SO has very considerable following.
AS far as / know there is no Cleve-
land sentiment in the state Qowa)--
nor. in fact, anywhere in the west. AS
for Mr.. Bryan, he is the Pericles of
the democracy. and has the support
of the democrats everywhere, al
though it is thoroughly understood
that he is in no sense a candidate.
Iowa, of course, is a bedrock republi-
can state, and SO far as l have been
able to see. Mr.. Roosevelt is certain
Of the support of the republican ele-
ment.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-01-16
MILITARY CONTRASTS.

While France is purifying herself in
the retrial of the Dreyfus case. Ger
many imprisons Lieutenant Bilse for
criticising the army In his novel, THE
Little Garrison Town." although at
the same, time the government adj
mits the truth of his exposures by
Furnishing the officers whom he at
tacks. Lieutenant Bilse may have de-
served his fate. but the incident is a
reminder of the happenings not long
past. which point the difference be-
tween country in which, in spite
of military needs, public opinion is
in ultimate control and one where,
although the people are liberal and
enlightened, the system of government
is despotic If we knew only of the
military ethics of Germany, of flag
rant murder because of failure to
salute, of the emperor's encourage
ment of dueling and coarse barbaric
honor, we might think poorly of the
German peoples progress. Their ac-
complishmentS, however. in the realms
il industry and intellect. would make
such a Judgment absurd. and the rap
id gain of the liberal party or social
ed socialists, in the fact of firmly es-
tablished absolutism, upheld by a
monarch of great ability, points to a
time, not far off, when the army will
be no longer the sacred tool Of sa-
cred emperor, but a servant of the
state, with obligations, among its in
dividuals, like those of other citizens.
Public opinion became free in France
by a portentous revolution which
mains of German despotism will van
ish, without doubt, by the peaceful
pressure of the peoples will-Collier's
Weekly.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-01-16

years. daring which time as much as
$50, ,c00,oun has, according to some
estimates, gone out of Iowa, A con-
siderable but far smaller amount of
Nebraska money has gone in the same
direction,
Of course it will not do to saw that
this Investment is a loss. Doubtless
some have made money quickly.
Those who got in on the ground floor
and We're wise enough to unload
promptly upon others almost invaria-
is gravely to be doubted whether
those who only got into the second or
third story have been so fortunate
these. too. constitute the great ma
iority.
The land boom in the Canadian
northwest is not as buoyant as it was
1t will he a lorg time before many
will he able to sell for what they
paid. Probably in the long run the
investors, as a rule, will get their
money back, but the conservative
Judgment is that most of them would
have Gone better in investments near
er home.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-01-16
GOVERNOR cuMMINs, MESSAGE

The message of Governor Cummins
to the legislature yesterday sets forth
a number of questions that are of i'm
portance to the people of the state,
and worthy of consideration. 1t will
be we'll, therefore, to note the recon-
mendations made by him, among the
most important of which are:
That insurance affairs be under the
management of special bureau,
which shall be directed by the auditor
of state.
That there be no board of pardons
established.
That all fees in pharmacy, bank ex-
aminers, dental, veterinary and other
boards, be paid directly to the treasur-
er of the state
That the inebriate law should be re
vised, while keeping the principle of
that statute.
That a primary election law should
be passed.
That subject of good roads should be
locally under the management of the
county supervisors.
That some method be adopted for
the better preservation of state doc
uments.
That the state educational institu-
stions be treated literally.
Revision of the drainage laws.
The erection of a state arsenal with
headquarters for the adjutant general.
1t is improbable unat. all the recon-
mendations made by Governor Cum
Minis will be acted upon by the leg
islature, indeed it would not seem ad-
yisable,, inasmuch as on many of these
points there is difference Of opinion.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-01-16

despised and neglected by that sec
tion for which he fought SO valiantly,
while Gordon passed away more loved
and regretted in that section than any
other general excepting Robert E..
Lee. The north, which he attacked so
skillfully, alone mourns for Long
street.
Longstreet, a graduate of West
lawyer when the civil war broke out.
Both rose rapidly to high commands.
Both were early distinguished for per-
sonal bravery, for the accuracy and
celerity of their maneuvering, and for
the affection in which they were held
by their men. At the end OF that long
and bloody struggle both men accepted
the result in philosophical manner.
However, they took different ways of
showing their change of views, and it
was this that caused their careers
later to diverge.
Gordon gathered his followers about
him, and in an eloquent speech, urged
them to return to their homes and by
their thrift and loyalty attempt to re-
pair the ravages of war and build up
their own fortunes and that of the
common country. Shortly thereafter
he entered the democratic party, in
which he speedily becamei leader.
AS such he was opposed to the repub.
lican reconstruction policy. Twice he
was elected governor of Georgia, and
three times sent to the United States
senate from that state. There he was
brought prominently before the public,
q n hi 1otn ! lrnf
during which time he visited all parts
of the country, combined to make his
name secure.
Contrasted to Gordon, Longstreet
cast his fortunes with the republican
party. He accepted appointments
from that party, and though he served
in all positions with signal distinction,
nothing could atone in the south for
his riding in the procession to cele-
brate the enfranchisement of the ne
groes. So bitter did the feeling in
the south become against him, that
his former friends lately questioned
his loyalty to the confederate cause
during the war, and his ability as a sol
dier and commander.
The south has done full Justice to
General Gordon. If not more. 1t has in
contrast done less than justice to
General Longstreet because he follow
ed politically the course he believed
to be right. Whatever may have come
to these heroes in other days, his
tory may be depended on to render a
right verdict and give each one the
high place among the able men of the
nation, which their services and abili-
ty vouchsafe to them.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-01-16
WHERE THERE'S a WILL.

+, Spirit Lake Beacon.-The Beacon is
familiar with the circumstances Of a
man ma Who' ABOUT WE'VE years ago, pur-
rie near Spirit Lake on which to make
a home. He had $500 or $500 and paid
$18 an acre for the land. Wiseacres
winked and said that he was "goner,'
that he could not give the price for
the land and pay for it. However, he
went at it, and in six or seven years
had the land paid for and we'll stock
ed. This man has money laid by, a
large, comfortable home, all the stock
a quarter section farm will maintain
and has invested about $4,000 in other
property. He had to work like a Turk
to do this, but the results of his la
bors are an evidence of what can be
done on an Iowa farm where there is a
will
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-01-16
a FEATURE OF CONSERVATISM.

Kansas Citv Sts".- The curtains of
all the theatres in st. Louis were
tested recently and found to be fire.
rccof. This discovery should hold
Chicago-which is much given to
chatting at ST. Louis--until the con-
ditions are corrected which render
most of the theatres in the Lake City
fire traps. st. Louis may be "slow''
as compared with Chicago, but the
sort of deliberation that implies de-
cent and Civilized regard for human
safety wears. quite asawell, in the long
run, as the impetuous enterprise and
"dashing activity" that laughs at dam
ger and trifies with death. The bump
tious argument that Chicago is in too
much of a hurry to observe the 'sfussy'
precautions that other cities regard as
important, does not alter the fact that
when people are killed they remain
dead for an indefinite period.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-01-16
MR.. TONNES DEcLINATloN.

Kansas City Star-Charles A.
Iowne is referred to by the Saturday
Evening Post as "the man who de-
clined to be the running mate of Will
lam Jennings Bryan in his second race
tor the presidency" Mr.. Towne de
clined" the honor in the same spirit
wnlch prompts a clerk to quit work
when his salary has been cut off. He
was nominated by the silver republi-
cans for vice president while the
populists endorsed him. but left it to
their committee to name the same
candidate whom the democrats might
choose. He was an avowed aspirant
for the democratic nomination, but
that convention selected Adlai E.
Stevenson as a sop to the eastern dem
ocrats. That's how come it was,,, that
Charley" Towne declined to run
with William Jennings Bryan.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-01-16
TAKE OFF YOUR ovERcoAT.

New York Sun.-''It is the man who
keeps his overcoat on, not the man
who takes it off, who is most likely to
take cold these days." said physician
who has been treating great many
cases of influenza in the past few days
II always feel that I am losing a pa
tient when see man go into a store
and take his overcoat off. He will not
become overheated and take cold when
he goes into the street again. Nor will
the man who takes off his overcoat
in the elevated train and anywhere
he may happen to be where the steam
heat is enough to throw him into O
perspiraticn. Nine colds out of ter
begin in this way, and they can all be
avoided by the little trouble that
it requires to take ones overcoat
-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-01-16

General Wilson says that during the
battle of San Juan General Wood was
in the rear looking for ammunition
Upon this point General Wilson differs
from some other high authorities
However, if General Wilson'S testi
mony is true, it is a safe bet that the
finding of ammunition was the most
vital thing to be looked after at that
particular time Sioux City Journal
Right. OF what use would the
whole army and it's generals be with
out the stuff to shoot?
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-01-16
HARMONY IN NEBRASKA.

Fremont Tribune-The Jacksonian
harmony banquet has provoked just
about the kind of harmony Jackson
himself stood for. 1t has stirred up
the sixteen n-to-wunners lat Lincoln,
and they advertise another banquet
which shall be to those olly who swore
by a sacred ratio and 1the great horn
spoon, through thickIand thin. They
hurl a few anathenaas at the Jackson
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-01-16

ians and in this manner are standing
up for the party in Nebraska. Some
body ought to admonish them not to
feel worried over it, because fusion
carried the state in 1896, one of the
times when the gold democrats re-
fused to fall in line. The reason they
didn't carry it in 1900 was because the
silver democrats got away in large
numbers. They are the fellows who
stood between Bryan and victory in
Nebraska that wear,