The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1905-10-26
THURSDAY OCTOBER 1905
not seem to become deeply aroused over
the large percentage of assertions

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not seem to become deeply aroused over
the large percentage of dessrtions.
I'm order to reduce assertions to
minimum, l asked the Governors of all
the States last Winter II they would
recommend to their respective Legisla-
lures the enactment OF a law disfran-
chising any man who left the Army
before his term of enlistment expired.
By making 1t q reproacl1 fer q private
to desert, l thought that an effectual
stop could be put to the practice. Many
Governors approved the idea, but sew
eral wrote that such law lcould never
be enacted in their States, which is an
indication Of what popular sentiment is
n this subject" 81
81
Germany is boiling over the nick
name which it is reported over there
President Roosevelt has bestowed on
Baron Speck Won Sternberg, German
ambassador. 1t is said that he refers
to him as SPECIFY" which would seem
ridiculous. but after all isn't for he is
such a pocket edition Of a man. scarce
~ over five feet four. But the Presi-
dent. who is personally very fond of the
Baron, does not call him anything Of
the kind.
Pension Commissioner Warner is GER
tainly ION the Lords business" so to
speak. He is determined that the Pen
sion Office shall be purged of loan
sharks He has run to earth nearly all
those who were fattening off the mis-
fortunes of others, and has found that
several of them were getting as high
as 90 per cent on their loans. He says
that he will wipe out the vicious money
loaners if he has to discharge every
mothers son of them. He found that
some of these Pension Office money
sharks were doing business right in the
Pension Office during Government
hours.
The Car of Russia has honored
Brighten. Thomas H. Barry, U. s. A.,
who has been on duty in Manchuria,
with the decoration of the Stanislaus
Order. and the General has cabled to
Washington for permission to accept 1t.
This seems to be getting along to-
ward a Government by proclamation.
The President has issued an order
which is as follows:
mo officer or employe of the Govern
ment shall directly or Indirectly in
struct or be concerned in any manner
in the instruction Of any person or
classes of persons with a view to their
special preparation for the examina-
IONS Oh the united states ClVll service
Commission.
1.-The fact that any officer or employe
is found SO engaged shall be considered
sufficient cause for his removal from
the service"
No explanation of the underlying
reason for this order accompanied its
issuance. and everybody is in the dark.
1t is almost inexplicable to the public,
for why 1t should be a crime to impart
no one can understand. 1t
puts spoke in the wheel of good
many deserving low-salaried clerks who
were eking out a living by teaching
classes of young men and women at
night who were endeavoring to take
the Civil Service examination. Good
ness knows little more knowledge
wouldn't hurt some Government clerks,
and then it is positive fact that ex-.
pensive examinations have frequently
to be held because there are no eligi-
bles on the list from which to draw
clerks
The Navy Department has assigned
the cruiser Columbia as the vessel to
be placed at the disposal of Secretary
Taft for his trip to the Isthmus of Pan
anna, where he goes the last of the
month. i1rH
Associate Justice Tucker, of the Ter
ritorial Supreme Court OF Arizona, has
been requested to resigns"
Several months ago charges were
preferred against Justice Tucker in
Der OF the Territorial Judiciary. These
charges We're presented to the Presi-
dent, and were referred by him to the
Of Justice for inyestiga-
ton. The request for the resignation
was based upon the findings of that in
vestigation.
Gen. Luke Wright, General
Of the Philippines. will probably retire
from that office I'm December. The
General and Mrs. Wright will return
to this country near Christmas time.
1t is said that Gen. Wright has been
with his surroundings ever
since he went over. and that he is not
in hearty accord with the plans for the
Of the Islands. 1t is his
purpose to resume the practice of law
at his home in Nashville. on his return
to this country
United States, is the largest negro city
I'm the world. Washington has negro
of 10000, Chicago Of 5000,
New York of 10000, and other large
cities of the world have under this
considerably.
Through the cooperation of DIR. Du-
Bots, Of Atlanta University; Booker T.
of Tuskegee, and other
leaders Of the race. together with slch
agencies and investigators as Green
witch House, New York; South End
House, Boston; the Frederick Douglass
Center, and Trinity Mission, Chicago,
and the like, general survey of the
has been gotten together in a
special number of Charities, a New
York periodical Of philanthropy and so
cial advance.
Certain features of these studies
stand out clearly, 1t is shown. They
may be grouped about two words. "op-
portunity" and responsibility" In his
deprivation of one or the other. or both,
lies the explanation of much of what is
called the negro problem. When the
negro is excluded from Industrial OPP
portunities. we have the Clark street
strike breaker: when kept from de-
cent streets and obliged to live beside
the worst of his own race, and of all
races, We have the breeding of negro
when earning only the wage
of menials, we have the working moth
er and the broken homes whose cost is
paid in disease and shiftlessness.
On the other hand. the studies show