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The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19
M. w. Grand Lodge, A. F. & A. M.
Holds Its Twenty Annual Session in Leadvlle COO
Reports Show Much Progress Made During
the Past Year.

carded Masonry. and refused to ac-
cept its principles and teachings
are today barbarians or semi-civi-
lized, their people oppressed, de-
graded and reduced to the condi-
of peon or serfs.
"a comparison of the conditions
thus stated establishes the fact be-
yond question that the founders
and orginators of the Masonic or
der did as much or more for the
world, in the way of building up
government and improving the
people and developing the Arts
and Sciences, as any institution
formed by man.
I'm Europe Masonry knows no
distinction of color or race; but in
tie United States the distinction
of slavery having been thrust or
forced upon the colonies, tended
to and did degrade both the slave
and his master or owner. This
condition of race tended to and
did create a prejudice between the
two classes; and like all prejudices
it will take time to remove it.
But as the master and his descend
ants and the slave and his des
cendants (who are now freemen)
become educated and enlightened
in higher and better degree, this
prejudice will be gradually obliter-
ated
"The obliteration of this preju-
dice will depend largely upon the
colored people themselves. If
they become industrious, economii
cal and frugal in their habits; law
abiding and moral in their con-
duct, they will attain to the same
degree of respectability and stand
ing as is accorded by peoples and
nations to the white race. The ac-
QUESTION of homes and wealth
compel business contact with
other peoples. Honesty in deal
ing gives respect to the man or
woman. Obedience to the laws
ranks them as citizens entitled to
sovereignty; moral habits; a res
pect for the opinions and feelings
of others, compel respect from all
substantial people in return.
"The man or the woman who
spends his or her time in CON-
planning never succeeds; it is the
man who accepts the conditions
as he finds them, and makes the
best of them, and uses his best ef-
forts to improve those conditions,
and make them better for those
who follow after him who succeeds.
~
again rendering you the best
wishes and kindly feelings of the
Masons and people of Leadville
for your success in the laudable
enterprise you have undertaken.
On behalf of the Masons and
the people of Leadville, 1 bid you
welcome.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19

The twenty-ninth session of the
Most Worshipful Grand Lodge A.
F. & A. NJ, convened in Leadville,
Col, last Monday morning.
The session was called to order
by Grand Master, F. T. Bruce of
Denver. After the preliminary
work the reports from the grand
secretary and treasurer showed a
gain over that of last year to be
so per cent. which was very graft
flying to the grand body.
The bulk of the business was
completed tuesday.
Pythigoras Lodge No. 7. A. F.
& A. M. of Leadville rendered a
banquet for the visiting delegates
on Wednesday night. AS social
event it proved to be one of the
best in the history of the Cloudy
City.
The address of welcome by
Mayor HI. 9. Rose to the Grand
Lodge was one of the best, or per-
haps the best that has ever been
delivered before that body. 1t is
as follows:
"F. T. Bruce, Grand Master of
the Grand Lodge of A. F. and A.
M. and the Delegates of the Grand
Lodge.
"On behalf of the City of Lead
vile I express to you their kind
wishes in the accomplishment of
the great work for which you are
assembled.
"There is no order established
among men that is as old as the
one you represent. The Masonic
order had its origin in India; and
from thence it moved into Syria,
Egypt and GREECE, thence into
central and western Europe, and
with the western emigration to
America it was organized and es-
tablished in the colonies of what is
now the United States.
1.-The peoples and nations which
have endorsed and supported the
tenets and ideas and principles of
the Free and accepted Masons are
today ruling and controlling the
world. They are the nations in
which human rights and liberty to
man are extended in greater de-
gree to all the people than any
other institutions have been able
to confer. Upon them the growth
of Masonry marks the growth OF
civilization and governments OF
law. Where the institutions
which you represent are found,
and their principles are generally
promulgated and endorsed, there
you find the peoples and nations
governed by law, and the business,
industries and commerce built up;
also provision for the education
and enlightenment of the people
is provided for by law. The peo-
pies and nations which have dis
The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19

Here is the amazing blindness
of our critics. The section which
is dead against social equality is
the same that practices it most.
Every small Southern city has its
district where these permanent re-
lations are carried on; for we are
not talking of promiscuous immor-
ality, but of unwedded wifehood-
in not a few cases unwedded solely
because the law forbids. And
what is the result? The gradual
and somewhat rapid bleaching
out of the Negroes color. Thous-
ands have already passed the line.
They have become pure Caucas-
ians. The process will go on, and
the farcical thing about it is that
the section which pretends to stand
most in terror of social relations is
that which most supports them.
Meanwhile the white race is not
being darkened, and appears to be
in no danger of it, while the black
is steadily whitening, and is likely
to whiten more and more by the
preference of darker women for
lighter men, until in time the
black race will be eliminated from
the continent. The present efforts
of the South to attract European
immigrants, especially from Italy,
will increase this effect, for they
have not learned to pretend a race
antipathy. There never has been
in the history of the world any
race antipathy such as would pre-
vent material relations. White
men have shown no such antipathy
in the United States or in Latin
America, whether with Negroes or
Indians, and equally in India,
China, Japan, or the Philippines
do the multitude of mestizos and
other half-castes support our cas-
ual remark that race antipathy is
cultivated vice.-The Independent.
| ATLANTA Ga.)
The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19

On the charge of having Ne
gro member, Freedom Lodge, K. of
P, of Worcester, Mass, is on trial
before the grand officers of the Or
der. Leander S. Gillian, who was
appointed to district Office a few
weeks ago is the member who is
objected to on the allegation that
he is not white man.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19

A great legal battle is being car
ried ON in New York City, all on
account of Williams and Walker,
the comedians, between Hurtig
and Seamon sues to prevent Will
Jams and Walker from appearing
during the coming season under
the management of Lew Dock
stadter. The first named firm
claims to have a contract with
them extending to September 1908.
In the litigation it develops that
Williams and Walker have been
paid salaries of 500 per week each
and SO per cent. of the profits.
But Mr.. Dockstadter proposes to
do better than that. The out
come of the battle will be watched
with much interest. Mr.. Dock
stadter is several times a million
aire and he proposes to spend
quite sum to carry his point.
Learn to do something better
than any one else, or as well, and
your services will always be in de-
mand.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19

AT Chicago last week, colorod
Dowie minister, in his curbstone
sermon, told colored men that they
were all bound for hell. He used
the low, hatred word, "nigger,"
which provoked the direct ire of
colored men standing near. These
jolly fellows at once resented the
insult, got a rope, put in around
his neck and dragged him block.
This happened at 29th and Dear
born.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19
DENVER, COLORADO SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1905.

three times today, first in the
Presbyterian church, then in the
Baptist church and late in the ev-
ening in the American Methodist
church.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19

Worcester, Mass, Aug. 14.-J.
j. Feeley of Boston, counsel for
Victor Breyer, manager of bicy-
Gle track in Paris, attaches the
property of Major" Taylor for
$4,000 today. The property is sit
uated on haywood street, and is
owned by Mrs. Dora Taylor, the
wife of the bicycle rider. The
land is valuable and the beautiful
residence has just been finished.
"Major" owns magnificent ZOO
and this is also ON the estate.
The attachment is placed for the
Partisan race track owners, as
major" signed a contract last
year, saying that he would ride on
the track this year. Since that
The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19

New York, August S.-A cable
to the Sun from Antwerp says:
Passengers from the Congo Free
State who arrived by steamship to-
day state that report is current
in the colony that a tribe of canni-
balls known as the Mons have
killed and eaten 1000 Negroes and
eight German colonists.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19

Omaha. (Neb J, August 9.-Col-
ored cooks have been displaced by
white men on all the dining cars
on the Union Pacific. Criticisms
have been made that, while the
colored mans cooking might be of
a superior quality, he was not SO
cleanly and painstaking as the
white man in his travelling kitchen.
Other roads which have at times
adopted white cooks say they have
been found satisfactory. The mat
ter is partly an experiment with
the Union Pacific. A deputation
Of fifty colored walters, which
waited or the dining-car depart
ment today, were informed there
was no present intention of dis
placing the colored walters with
whites.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19
NO. Az.

time Taylor says that he has been
sick and could not do himself JUS
tice in the race, and this is why
he refused to ride at the track.
The case is one for alleged breach
of contract.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19

In cutting affray at Columbia,
Mo, Sunday, August 9th, a Negro
was stabbed in the breast, the
The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19

The srm Of Windham Brothers,
colored, Of Pine Bluff, Ark, has
received the contract for the erec-
ton of $4,000 brick structure
in Columbus, Ohio.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19

Luther Biglow shot and serious
ly wounded Rev. Pink Wesley of
the Sulpher Springs, Texas, Bap-
tist church. Both are colored.
Bigelow claims Wesley was paying
too much attention to his wife.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19

Dallas, Texas, Aug. I4.-Be-
cause of the recent lynching at
Sulphur Springs, Tex, the Negro
Baptist Sunday school and Bap-
tist Young Peoples union state
convention will be held here in
stead of at Sulphur Springs. This
descision was reached at a meet
ing of the executive board of the
two bodies held here today. The
statement was made that Sulphur
Springs was not a safe place for
Negroes at present, because of the
feeling engendered by the burning
of Negro there few days ago.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19

In Baltimore a Negro was fined
fifty dollars for beating mule,
while a white man who beat
his wife was set free. Now you
can figure on whether this is race
antiparhy, Southern chivalry or a
native love for the great American
mule.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19


A penitentiary guard at Walla
Walla, Wash, lost his job because
of his love for one Flora Ferguson,
a female ex-convict, who happened
to be colored. For the love of this
woman the guard made great
sacrifice. First he robbed his
wife of all the money she had and
then deserted her. next his job
and what little honor he ever pos
sessed has gone. And yet she was
only colored woman of the very
lowest type. But why murmur?
Human nature is human nature all
over the world.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19

weapon piercing the lung and leav-
ing the heart exposed to view. The
Negro was taken to the hospital
where his wounds were dressed,
though there was little expectation
that he would recover. Since that
time, however, he has been steadi-
ly improving, and the physicians
say he is likely to live.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19

At Tempis, Tex, all the freight
handlers at both the M. X. & t.,
and the Santa Fe depots are color
ed men.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19
RACE NEWS
Gathered from Various Sources.

1t is said that Booker T. Wash
ington now owns the farm on
which he and his people were
slaves.
Evening star., 1905-11-11

Aero Club is not learned society as much
as 1t Is a club of live, practical balloon
sports. At once Prince Roland began fra
ternizlng with them, with the tastes OF the
traveller, the theoretical aeronaut and the
habitual joiner of societies. While he has
never owned his own balloon nor taken
out pilots certificate he has become a
considerable ballooung tourist, and his
pretty daughter Marie goes up with him
on many an afternoon trip. This charming
young lady goes almost everywhere with
her father and scarcely anywhere without
him.
How he can bring himself to let her out
of his sight long enough to visit her cou-
sins. the Bonapartes of Washington, Is just
now a question in the minds Of those who
know them. STERLING. HEILIG.
Evening star., 1905-11-11
Proof Positive.

From the Chicago News.
Prospective Purchaser-"You say this IL
a healthy place. yet the man next door is
confined to his bed. How do you account
for that?'
Real Estate Agent-"oh, he's a doctor
and is slowly dying of starvation"
Evening star., 1905-11-11

Algeria has q river of genuine ink.
caused by the joining OF two streams, one
OF which comes from an iron region. while
the second stream flows from q peat
swamp. On meeting. tho acid OF one
stream blends with the iron solution Of
the other, and Ink Is the result.
Evening star., 1905-11-11
A Far-Fetched Joke.

From the Los Angeles Times.
yes, sir. I clipped that funny para
graph out of paper In Chicago. and car
ried 1t clear to Los Angeles to show you"
Don4 you think that is carrying Joke
too far?v
Evening star., 1905-11-11

A meeting of the Water Color Club was
held last Saturday afternoon in the studio
shared by Miss Perrie and Miss Solomons.
Twenty-ors members were present, and
plans for the coming years were discussed
with much enthusiasm. 1t was the first
meeting of the year, and consequently
summer experiences were Interestingly ex-
changed The approaching exhibition also
came In for share of consideration. and
among other topics presented was a sug-
gestion Of Informal loan exhibitions to be
ings
Evening star., 1905-11-11

The second meeting Of the National So
ciety of the Fine Arts is to be held on
Thursday evening, November q, at y
o'clock in the Hubbard Memorial Hall.
Mrs Charles j. Bell is TO be the hostess.
and the principal address Will be made by
DIR. George L. Raymond, formerly professor
of esthetics at Princeton. This society was
organized last spring for the purpose of
arousing interest in the fine arts and diff
fusing knowledge concerning them It has
already about two hundred members, and
an interesting program Is planned for the
coming winter.
Evening star., 1905-11-11

An article by Mr.. Glenn Brown on
'Washington-A Logical Art Center" pub
lished last month In the Inland Architect.
has been reprinted, in pamphlet form and
widely distributed among the newspapers
of the country. 1t recounts the history of
federal and municipal art, chronicles Inn
provements and outlines present conditions.
1t is not universally complimentary nor al
together encouraging, but IL is IN the main
correct and should arouse timely interest.
Evening star., 1905-11-11

A statue OF Won Moltke by Uphues, who
was the sculptor of the statue of Frederick
the Great In the arsenal grounds of this
city was unveiled IN Berlin on October 20
as the gift of the German army
Evening star., 1905-11-11

ed with the apartment house craze al
though I am told some large fats are In
contemplation.
Evening star., 1905-11-11

Miss Gloetzner who has been studying in
Munich and Berlin for the past three years.
has returned to Washington this fall ana
opened a studio on 18th street with Miss
Thompson. She has brought back with her
some commendable examples OF student
work LEILA MECHLIN.
Evening star., 1905-11-11

week from tonight the tenth annual
exhibition OF the Washington Water Color
Club Will open with reception and pri-
vate view I'm the hemicycle OF the Corr
coran Gallery. For several successive sea-
sons these exhibitions have been ef a note
worthy character including not only the
best local work In aquareles. but examples
OF the foremost out-oftown water color
lists, and that the present one should be
well up to the standard there !s every
reason TO believe.
Evening star., 1905-11-11

The tenth annual exhibition of the Car
negia Institute at Pittsburg, which is now
in progress, comprises about three hundred
canvases and is said to be even more I'm
portant than usual. The first prize, a gold
medal and $500. has been awarded to
Lucien Simon for his Evening in Studio"
which is described a characteristic scene
of Partisan artist life: the second. a silver
medal and 81 COO to f. w. Redfield for a
winter landscape called THE Crest" and
the third prize, a bronze medal and $500,
to Childe Hassam, for a composition in his
usual style entitled June" These are
among the most coveted honors annually
hssfowad I'm
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-05-25
Island and Hale of Maine.

Besides these, of course, there
are a number of senators of con-
siderable wealth, like Senator
Warren of Wyoming, Senator
Willard of Nebraska. and others,
while the number who owe their
election to railroad support is still
greater.
1t would be considered almost
an attack on a senator to call him
a railroad attorney, but the large
incomes of many United States
senators who are lawyers, will
warrant the belief that many have
other sources of income besides
their senatorial salaries. Indeed,
it will be remembered that when
Senator Burton was charged with
acting AS attorney for certain cor
porations before the departments
in Washington, he said, by the
way of extenuation, something to
the effect that most of the senators
that he knew had independent in
comes as attorneys for various in
terests. orld-Herald.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-05-25

The Nebraska Independent is
making a good fight against the
pass grabber and all good citizens
will wish the editor final success.
1t will be a long fight and hard
one, but the pass grabber must
finally 60 out of business in an
official way. 1t is almost impossi-
BILE to remedy this evil under our
present system of doing business.
The pass holder usually gets cleo
ted to all conventions and conse-
quently get nominated for all Off
ces. Our law makers are made up
of those who accept the pass and
as long as the republican party
stays in power it will be the same.
The pass must be killed and the
pass grabbers left to stay at home
or the people must expect to suffer
the consequences. The only rem
edy is in the government owner
ship of all public utilities and it
does not take a wise man to see
TINT this remedy is not so very far
off. When the people once awake
to fact they will adopt it in spite
of any political party.-O'Neill
Independent.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-05-25

THE DEMOCRAT expects to join
the editors of the E. V. E. A. at
Rushville June 3 for reunion to
talk over this and that of interest
to newspaper men, and 90 from
there to Hot Springs, S. D. One
of the topics of interest we should
like to hear discussed is the print
ing of ads free of charge as a
matter of news. Each of us are at
present getting letters about the
Lewis & Clark exposition at Port
land, Ore, requesting us to print
as a matter of news. which in
reality is principally beneficial to
the railroads and the exposition
people. They are interested in
creating an interest in the expo
sition but as yet we have not been
offered transportation or fair re-
turn for printing this news. 1t
costs money to print this news and
put it before our readers the same
as an advertisement. 1t is not of
sufficient importance to US to ex-
clude home matter to 60 into the
details of preparations and build
ings without some consideration.
Will we get it? Every worthy
enterprise, circus, opera, expo
sition or place of amusement de-
ponds upon the newspaper for
publicity and popularity to the
great extent of making it profit
able to the manipulators. We do
not share equally in the proceeds
and in many instances we receive
nothing for our work in promoting
the success of an undertaking.
We are not even credited COM
plimentary in many cases, but
rather we are criticised for not be-
ing public spirited enough to COM
mend the worthy, at an expense
that threatens destruction to our
business as financial concern.
Unanimity of opinions on this line
will put every newspaper in the
state on a paying basis, sharing in
the prosperity of every financial
concern.
FOR SALE; City Hotel, lot
and building. Price $1,000.
Is G. H. CORNELL, Agent.
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Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-05-25
STRENGTH Of Railroads i'm Sen
ate.

The following letter expresses a
thought and propounds an inquiry
which have, no doubt, frequently
occupied the mind of the public:
Cheyenne, Wyo May 13.-To the
Editor of the World Herald: In or
der to settle friendly controversy
that has arisen among few of US
here, will you kindly give me correct
information as to how many United
States senators, now serving as Sena-
tors. are attorneys for railroad cor
porations: Also, who they are:
The statement was made that
large number of senators are attOrn-
eys for some of the railroads, or allied
corporations; and that for this reason
they will more or less oppose the
presidents idea as to changes in rail-
road tariffs and rates: the statement
was positively disputed by partisan
republican, who asserted that not one
of the present senators is attorney
for a railroad; and that Senator
ThurstOn of Nebraska some years
ago, resigned as attorney Tor the
Union Pacific before taking oath as
United States senator.
Is not this last statement incorrect?
Was not his resignation refused, and
did he not continue to act as Union
Pacific attorney long after he quail
fed as United States senator?
Kindly give me all the information
you can on this subject, or suggest to
me where can get it.
Very truly yours,
WALTER l.. LARSH
1t is not possible to definitely
settle the controversy which our
correspondent cites. 1t would be
a good thing if senators were re-
quired, under oath, to state what,
if any, employment they have.
Unfortunately, however, there is
no such law, and half the members
of the United States senate might
be the salaried attorneys of cor
porations and trusts without the
fact becoming public. 1t might
be difficult, as the matter stands,
however, to prove that any par
ticular senator is the paid rep
resentative of a railroad or other
corporation interested in national
affairs. 1t is common knowledge,
nevertheless, that a very large
proportion of the members of the
United States senate are men of
large wealth, and that most of
them have derived this wealth
from railroads, railroad invest
ments, tariff-protected industries,
or trusts. Some of them, who are
lawyers, are undoubtedly retained
as the paid attorneys of railroads;
but this retainer and this employ
ment are not made public, but are
kept secret.
Perhaps the most powerful man
in the senate is Aldrich of Rhode
Island. He is a man of great
wealth and his daughter married
the son of Rockefeller. This last
fact speaks volumes for Standard
Oil influence in the senate.
Other men of great wealth and
close relation to the corporations
are Alger of Michigan, Clarke of
Montana, Dephew of New York,
who represents the Vanderbilts,
Dryden of New Jersey, Elkins of
West Virginia, Foraker of Ohio,
Kean of New Jersey, Knox of
Lodge of Massachu-
sets, Plat of New York, Scott of
West Virginia, Wetmore of Rhode
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-05-25
Thursday, May 25, 1905.

The Gordon Journal has been
sold again and will come under a
new management by the first of
June. The purchaser is Rev. S.
G. Stanhope who came here last
fall to take tie pastorate of the M.
f. church. lie suffers a great
deal from throat trouble and on
the recommendations of his ply
stefan he will give up his charge
at the end of his year and devote
his time to the Journals work.
Gordon Journal.