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The Little Rock reporter., 1904-02-27
Ashley County Burning

Some days ago a Negro IN A,h'
ley County, Arkansas became IN
volved in a personal difficulty
with a white man. As a result
the latter was shot and instsStly
killed. Forthwith a mob vas
formed, the Negro captured ,nd
burned at the stake. From the
evidence at hand, the Negro was
at fault, but the crime did not
warrant the procedure and han
ncr of his punishment. rhe
white man cannot afford to
teach the Negro a lessony 1t
such fearful cost to his own leo
pie. The man who particif htcs
in mob that takes human life
is criminal, and no prete II OF
lesson teaching and female
defense" can wipe away the
stain from his'hand. Tie tFand
of Cain is upon him and n,p t be
accounted for before the 9roue
of Jehovah. The people wig gaze
upon a human being writing in
flames and rejoice at his gony
IL the best evidence that}thosc
people have become BEAST allied
to that extent. Tho that Negro
took the life.of white a ~ fNvsth.
out provocation 1t did mol help
the matter by burning him It
the stake. The laws y this
country made by the white
man-entitled him to a fair and
impartial trial. TheAnglprSaxon
is drifting towards barberity
despite his great strides Upward.
Years ago he was content TO
whip an undesirable Nekro aud
Danish him from the com munity
He tired Of that and resbrted TO
lynching. Now lynchirg has
lost its charms and like the
savage Of the jungle, he enjoys
nothing more now than to see a
human writhing and screaming
in agony as his life Is goingvp In
flames. st
The daily press OF this city
denounced the Ashley County
The Little Rock reporter., 1904-02-27
NEGRO CARRIED OFF
HONORS.

A varied programme of athletic
events p,ad~ ~r tis inuoor car
nival OF sports, which was held
in the Madison Square Garden
at New York ,sccntly.
The intercollegiate contests
were chief features of the
occasion. Some very close
finishes resulted in these relays,
the last being of a sensational
character when the mpeting
teams representing the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania and Amherst
The last two men in relay, which
was distance of mile, bore the
same name, Taylor. But the
Pennsylvania was a Negro.
When the Negro won, by barely
3 inches, gaining the honors for
Pennsylvania, the applause
which greeted him was vocif-
erous.
The Little Rock reporter., 1904-02-27
Scandal

There is nothing that is more
distressing or damning than thf
forked tongue of the slanderer.
The Negro race seems diseased
with it. From every hill and dag
comes some foul slander assas5
mating the good name of some
of man or woman. IF
bad Characters should be
found out and shown up but the
slanderer never gets after any
BODY but the men and women ot
reputable standingIt isa terrible
thing to attempt to destroy ina
few days what man has beena
life time securing. The slaI-
derer does not seem to knov
that he is preying upon mans
yitals when he is attacking his
good name. May be he does net
know that he is burying the mat,
tearing up the foundation of his
home, breaking the heart of his
wife and setting his children Il
drift in a rudderless ship. \
slanderer starts his tale and
leaves it for a curious public II
circulate, good men and womet
are often thoughtless enough y
give ear to it and repeat it, AMI
thereby assist in the dirty affaii.
Trace it? Just as well bark at the
moon or grab at the Jack-o-lat-
tern. Everybody heard it btt
nobody told it. The scandal
monger's mission is destruction
without personal gain. Be
who filches from me my goo'1
name robs me of that which nSi
enriches him b ut makes me
poor indeed The best people
of every community should risf
and oust the scandal peddler. 4
low, vile reports generally have
their origin from a. a..similar~spilr-s
On the topof the mountain yol
find birds of beautiful plumagt,
pure air and water. In the bos osk
you find venomous Svrptile
stagnant pools and deadly nh
mi. The mind of pure though
will proclaim all men innocer
until they are proven guilty, Z
will live and think above the hlth
of the alleys. When an indlvid-
ual is down then scandal is forL-
most to pounce upon him, whiin
is evidence Of a degraded charaf-
ter. When Promethius Wis
bound to the rock the vuiturts
preyed upon his vitals; but tte
Eagle, that noble bird of the foi-
est, sailed away to the Sunlit SKY
The Little Rock reporter., 1904-02-27
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The Franchise Decision.

Giles b. Jackson, of Ala, made
a gallant fight for the manhood
rights of his race in his recent
case before the U. s. Supreme
court at Washington, d. c. At
this time the associate press has
circulated the decision of the
court and ere this the readers
of the race are conversant with
the findings of the chief Tri-
bunes of the nation. We have
carried the battle to the last
ditch and lost thus the Negro
finds himself living in and sup
porting country in which he
has no more redress than so
many swine. 1t is clear to the
most obtuse that the suffrage
laws of the South were meant
to affect the Negro and
and the Negro only, yet the
Supreme court Of the United
States has not jurisdiction when
laws are passed guaranteeing the
ballot to the white man and taxi
ing ii from the Negro. The 14th
and 18th Amendments say it
shall not be done, yet the SUI
preme court has no jurisdic-
tion." To whom shall the Negro
look for succor? He has supported
the Republican party, yet in
cases of great moment II leaves
him high and dry. He has made
the South and is today its most
reliable labor yet in many ways
the South is trying 10 crush him.
II is said where there is life there
is hope, but if we have hope left
It is feint.os es,
The Little Rock reporter., 1904-02-27

The first Farmers Congress
of Williams Industrial College
convened February II, Is and ~.
Notwithstanding the inclemency
of the weather, the meeting was
largely attended.
Rev. r. S. Stout outlined the
work of the Congress in his OPP
ening address. He pointed out
the value of Industrial training
az well az the cooperation OF all
classes Of labor.
Agriculture was the leading
topic of the Congress. Cotton
raising, Marketing; Gardening
and Fruit raising were discussed
BY able men. Legal questions
such as the Farmer has to deal
with, were given considerable at
tention. Mortgages; De e d s;
Right of Innocent purchasers
Right of Redemption, etc. were
discussed by leading lawyers ct
the state.
BY unanimous vote, the Con-
gress was made a permanent Or
ganization and willconvene annu-
ally on the 2nd day of January:
commissioners were appointed
TO gather statistics on Agricul-
turc and other industries and re-
port to the Annual meeting OF
the congress. Friday was the
closing day and the meeting adj
journed to meet January End
1905.
The management Of Williams
Industrial College is to be con-
graduated on pulling off such a
successful meeting during its
first year of existence. For
downright progress this school
is Conner. Though only six
The Little Rock reporter., 1904-02-27

We are in receipt of a very
handsome and elaborate program
and invitation issued by the
faculty of Walden University,
Nashville, Tenn, announcing
the Twenty-Eighth Anniversary
of the Meharry Medical College,
Eighteenth Anniversary of the
Dental College and the Fifteenth
Anniversary of the College of
Pharmacy that institution. The
graduating exercises will take
place March LIST. The class in
medicine is very large having 50
in number, the dental class 9 and
the Pharmaceutical class s.
The citizens of Little Rock are
especially interested in the
classes of this year from the fact
that two Of the graduates are
from this city. DR.. Calvin Nc
David who graduates in medicine
and DR.. Frank Goodwin, who
graduates in Dentistry. These
Young men are deserving of the
popularity they enjoy.
Mr.. B. II. Willis, the stepfather
OF DR.. McDavid, will witness the
exercises.
The Little Rock reporter., 1904-02-27
BISHOP BROWNS TALK
ON LYNCHIN
Causes Comm otioa at Episco.
palian Meeting.

oh, God, Fathet in heaven,
why did you not tell me l am not
the brother of the white rIian?
Oh, church, why did you ever
allow me to call you moth
Did God place us colored men
among the brutes? Are we not,
after all, human.
With his hands raised in ges-
ture of despair, his eyes stream
ing tears, a Negro clerg yman,
the Rev. David X. Wallace,
assistant pastor in st. Augustine
Episcopal Church, jumped to his
feet and asked these questions
in the Diocesan House yesterday
afternoon at the conclusion of
a critism on the Negro race,
delivered by the bishop OF Ark,
the Rev. DR.. William NJ.
Brown, a guest of the Clerical
Association.
The lecturer represented the
Southern Negro as a creature
impossible to raise morally and
socially, and declared that lynch
ings were justified, and that
all Southern Negroes should "be
forever deprived Of the right to
vote"
Commotion followed the re.
marks Of the speaker. Both
white men and colorcd sprang to
their feet, and clamored for a
chance to returned the attack.
Tears ran down white checks
and black, and two whitespcakers
were so overcome with emotion
that they sat down with SEN
tences unfinished. Others de-
Tended Bishop Brown. One man
said that the Episcopal Church
in the South amounts to just
about nothing
u am sorry that Rev. Mr..
Brown is a bishop of our church.
This is a most horrible attack
on an inotfensive people. ! have
never heard anything like it
since the days of slavery said
the Rev. Ebenezer Thompson,
OF woburn, who with his face
flushed aud his eyes, running
tears, told Of the good qualities
of the Negroes as he knew them
during his II years residence in
the South.
The Little Rock reporter., 1904-02-27

Bishop Brown at this point
coolly defended himself,' saying:
Il have not slardered the black
race. Every good white man
who ever lived in the South
agrees with me-
The Rev. Frank A. Paradise
of Medford said: II rise to show
you man, formerly ofthe South,
who disagrees with you. You
represent a small minority. sir. y
The colored lawyer, Butler X.
Wilson, shouted: IF we can't
have sanity let us have facts
Mr.. Wilson showed that only
one-fifth of the lynchings in the
South were occassioned by the
commission of the "abominable
crime"
Chairman Allen then got con-
troll of the meeting. and said that
it was shame to represent the
Negro as unredeemable."
DIR. Brown is misunder-
Stood" cried out one white man,
I've lived in the South, and
there is much excuse for lynch
ing"
Bishop Browns argument y
said the Rev. DR.. Field of st.
Augustine Church, rs the most
hollow | ever listened to. 1t is
contradictory and alb bsurd."
The colored men and women
talked excitedly with
one another. IF that sky pilot
goes into the street now," said
one colored imam, I'll hit him, :"
BISHOP BROWNS INDICTMENT.
Some of Bishop Browns epi-
grams were: Lynching is the
only remedy for attacks on
women.
Lynchers are justified in the
sight of God. because lynching
is form of self protection.
The South is obliged to lynch,
because women could not appear
in court
The Negroes salvation is in
leaving him to the management
of the whites.
The Negro should forever be
eliminated from politics.
The Negro race is hopeless.
s. Southern colored ministers
havc lots of religion, but are
grossly immoral. They lose no
Only a few of the
women save themselves from
bad white men.
Negroes in the black belt are
50 degraded thar rney!eat swine's
lcsh raw.
With one exception, the Negro
has never produced a statesman
Of pure blood; yet this race is
10000 years old. They have not
had even a poet.
The attempt to transform the
black man by culture is futile.
All that he has ever learned is
that it is unfortunate to be found
,ut A convict is a hero. --Ex,
The Little Rock reporter., 1904-02-27

months old the school now has
an enrolment of l46 pupils, two
buildings complete and large
dormitory in course of erection.
When it is completed the school
will have at its disposal 80 rooms,
? Railways and one dinning hall.
Several well equipped industrial
departments are running and the
literary work is thorough.
The Little Rock reporter., 1904-02-27

crime in unstinted terms. AS
yet the Governor is silent-so
busy in his campaign he has not
probably heard of it? When will
he actor surely he would not
offer a reward for a criminal
wanted in the state of MISSOURI
and leave those in his own state
at large to continue their cam
paign of rapine and plundei?
The Little Rock reporter., 1904-02-27

All bills coming from outside fthe
city should be made payable to Mrs,
A. NJ. Singfleld, >5o3 West Ninth Street
Advertising rates furnished on spph-
acrion
The Little Rock reporter., 1904-02-27
3ishop Brown.

wonders. monstrosoties, ETC., in
other lands and climes, but
when one breaks loose right at
ones door or iri>ene's own city
then excitement reaches ITS
highest stage. If B&hop brown
were not of Arkansas and Little
Rock particular-deputiAed to
watch over and aid in uplifting
the Negro-his recent attaSt
upon the race would not cut So,
deep. Bishop Brown is a bold
asserter but a poor logician.
For want Conformation or cheap
notoriety, he has hied himself to
the North and piled up a lot of
charges against the Negro with
out proving anything. 1t is too
bad that a man clothed in the
livery of heaven should be so
completely etHel0ped by the
devil He may bGa minister,
but not of Christ. DeHpite his
efforts. his wolf feet Il stick
out from beneath his sEeAp skin
covering. He is passing Ndge-
ment on a people that he has bad
no chance TO study. During y ne
years in the South he has learnNi
thingsabout the race that nobod y
else has heard of. Some of the
Bishops charges are unworthy of
note hence we take notice of only
few. He says:
LyNcHERs ARE JUSTIFIED IN
THE SIGHT OF GOD, BECAUSE
LyNcHING IS FORM OF SELF
PROTECTION"
II self protection justify crime
then the Jews were justified in
crucifying Christ, because his
teachings ran counter to many of
their laws, manners and customs
and the establishment of his
doctrines meant the annihilation
or destruction of most of their
weather-beaten hobbies. Nero
= and other rulers saw that the
propagation of the Christian
religion meant their undoing
hence they were justified in
prosecuting the Christians-ac-
cording to the Bishops logic. He
says:
THE NEGRO RACE IS HOPELESS;
ALL NEGRO MINISTER'S ARE I'M
MORAL"
If Bishop Brown meant what
he said in these charges, then he
is the Arch hypocrit OF Christen-
dom. Below we publish a letter
of the good Bishops that does
not read like a man who has no
hope in race or deems all Ne
gro ministers immoral.
January 81, 1904.
To the Citizens Of Little Rock, Ark.
Greeting:
This Is to certify that the bearer,
the Rev. D. L. Ferguson, 10 " charge
Of 81. PHILIPPE oolored congregation,
which Is sadly, In. need Of new
church building. am assisting Mr..
Ferguson and ny people all ! possibly
csh, andI shall be greatly obliged TO
members Of the episcopal church and
citizens of Little Rocx for any assls-
tance they may bc able and willing to
give them.
VIM, NJ. Brown,
Bishop Of Arkansas.
If the Negro is hopeless why
ask the good white people OF
this city to squander money on
him? Why spend his time in
assisting a hopeless cause? II all
Negro ministers are immoral,
then what does the Bishop mean
by putting recommendation
into the hands of a Negro I'm
moral" minister that will give
The Little Rock reporter., 1904-02-27

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TO THE PUBLIC.

Kh tly send us card telling US OF
gJur visiting friends, Of your enter
tainments, marriages, and sickness and
deaths; we will publish it free when
cot more than three or four lines.
The Little Rock reporter., 1904-02-27

him access to the best Anglo
Saxon homes? We pause for
reply. He says:
THE NEGRO, WITH ONE Ex'
cEPTIoN HAS NEVER PRODUCED A
sTATEsMAN."
So far as Africa is concerned,
the history of that country, is
unknown, and if,the Negro had
produced 10000 statesmen, in
America, they would have had no
chance to demonstrate thierstates
manship. However the good
Bishop cannot point to move
ment of great moment since the
Negroes freedom wherein he has
not filled his place. 1t took
America a hundred and fifty
years to produce a Blaine and a
Hay, but the Bishop expects the
Negro to prodnce them in forty
years. He says:
THEY HAvENoT EVEN APoEr. y
Here the gentleman shows
ignorance that would disgrace a
Kentucky Mountaineer. He
should read the history of peo-
pie before he attempts to criticise
them. Phyllis Wheatley, Dun
bar, Daniel Webster Davis and a
host of others will stand the test
when it comes to poetic trend.
He says;
FEW OF THE woMFN SAVE
THEMSELVES FROM BAD WHITE
MEN,"
Had the Bishop made this
charge IS or 80 years ago, he
would have had ground upon
which to rest his arguement. AT
that time the Negro woman was
not far enough from slavery to
know her duty to herself and
society-hence she was an easy
prey for the white mans lusts.
No class of people in America
has undergone such an evolution
as the Negro women. All things
equal, the per cent of bad Negro
women is about the same as any
other race. The mulatto baby
is about as scarce in these times
as the proverbial hen teeth. He
work on his bad white
men" and civilize them to such
an extent that they will not
clamor for the division of the
,Shites and blacks in the day
and quietly seek to force their
company, upon some Negro
woman afteS dark.
Bishop Brown has disgraced
his church by his ignorance,
much less heretical utterances.
If he wants to know something
about the progressive Negroes
and is too high toned togo among
them 10 find it out, the Arkan-
sas DSmocrat or Gazette will
gladly louchsafe the information.
Had u not been for a Negro,
the Rev. Mr.. Brown would not
he Bishop today. His own
people did not want him (and
they were right a Negro detec-
tive of this city, who was dele
gate to the meeting cast the vote
that elected him.
Rev. d. l.. Ferguson, the Ne
gro rector of st. Philips Episco-
pal church, this city, protested
against some of the Bishops
assertions some months ago.
The Bishop was questioned in
Boston the other day concerning
the protest. He replied that
Rev. Ferguson withdrew the
protest. A query to Rev. Mr..
Ferguson brought forth the
answer that he did not withdraw
the protest, so there you are
again.
The first thing that Bishop
Brown needs is religion. for it is
going to take hard work for him
to miss hell.
The Little Rock reporter., 1904-02-27
FARMERS CONGRESS

Williams Industrial College holds
a great meeting ng-evidences OF
progress.
The Little Rock reporter., 1904-02-27

him access to the best Anglo-
Saxon homes? We pause for
reply. He says:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-21
COL. WALKER SELLS STRIP
OF CANAL LAND AT CHICAGO

Col. {. l.. Walker, attorney for the
Illinois & Michigan canal, the appro-
priations for which have been cut off
through a decision of the state SUI
preme court. yesterday i'm Chicago Of
ficiated at the sale of the triangular
strip of land in Chicago which was set
apart as part of the canal lands and
which the city of Chicago has
been keeping up as park.
The price bid for the land was 81, 100.
This sale is one of several that the
canal commissioners have decided up
on as a means or raising revenue to
keep up the canal till the case involv-
ing the state appropriation can be
carried up to the United States SUI
preme court. The city of Chicago will
probably resist the sale of the strips
of ground, which generally have been
used for parks, on the ground that the
canal commissioners cannot show n
valid title
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-21
TEST CASE AT MONMOUTH
DECIDED AGAINST WOODMEN

The appellate court has returned
verdict against the Modern Woodmen
in the Dell Castor case originating at
Monmouth. which has been fought in
the courts for some time and which
is an important one from the stand
point Of fraternal insurance societies.
Castor. who carried policy in the
WCodmcn. disappeared several years
ago. Two years ago Mrs. Castor sued
the society which set up the defense
that Gaston's death had not been
proved and further that the action
was not begun within year after the
alleged death of the insured. The
plaintiff has triumphed on the plea
that the rule requiring the filing of
claim within a year was not in force
at the time that CASTOR Joined the
Woodmcn. The case will be retired
in the circuit court.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-21
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-21
LONGFELLOW PUPILS ARE
TO HAVE ENTERTAINMENT

The pupils of Longfellow school,
Seventh avenue and Forty-second
street, are to have musical at the
school building tomorrow afternoon,
to which parents have been invited.
The program arranged is as follows:
Song-The class.
Piano duct-Mary Burke, Minnie
Hedberg.
Piano solo-Alta Robinson.
Piano solo-May Kirkhove.
Recitation-Nellie Christensen.
Piano solo-Anna McElroy.
Piano solo-Ada Hinckley.
SCng-The class.
Piano SolO-5eSsie Olson.
Piano sOlo-Minnie Hedberg.
Vocal duet-Ernest Henning, Bessie
Bisbing, Stella Nuttcr.
Piano solo-HaZel Dooley.
Piano solO-Mary Burke.
Piano solo-Clara Ackerlnd.
RecitatiOn-Helen Penrose.
SCng-The class.
Piano solo-Agnes Johnson.
Piano solO-Stella Nutter.
Piano sOlo-Ernest Henning.
Vocal duet-Stella Nutter, Bessie
Bisbing.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-21
DUST FROM DIAMOND.

The Western league will get into
action next Sunday.
The ax is being welded at lively
rate all around the circuit.
DuChien. Dolan, Painter and Curtiss
have been Topped off by Manager Hill.
Davenport defeated Boone yeStcr-
day on the grounds across the river
S to ..
Jack Carr is showing class at In
dianapoIis and promises to be a
fixture.
Frank Dillon has reported to Brook
lyn. Dillon will play first, Doyle be-
ing shifted to second.
Giersch. one of Manager Hayes new
twirlers, is said to possess a voice as
Il coacher that puts Con Strouthers in
the shade.
Decatur made 10 errors i'm a recent
game with Bloomington. Even good
ing like that.
Bloomington and Decatur are al
ready indulging in all sorts of excuses
for the beatings the teams received at
the hands of each other.
Lee Hopkins. last year with the Gin
ton Independents. was in center yes
terday for Rock Island, Thornton GO
ing To second ON account of Rebscher
being out of the game.
Duggan. pitcher for Franklin Und.)
college. struck out Il men yesterday
i'm game with Indiana law school.
The score was 80 to o i'm favor of Dug
gan's side. That's what Duggan did
To them.
Guy Dickey. star first baseman for
Rock Island last year. made his initial
appearance in an indianapolis uni
form yesterday. He got hit and
seven put-outs. His team trimmed
Kansas City to ;.
President Holland, of the Thres-I
league. stated that il is his opinion
the rules issued by the National
league will I've changed somewhat af-
ter the opening of the season. He is