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The Colorado statesman., 1905-03-25

The most unique and tragic fig
ure in history is the American Ne
gro. No other race has plunged
so deeply in despair, or been exal-
ted to such heights of hope; no
other race has viewed so black a
night, or leen dazzled by such a
flash of promise; no other race
has grasped so eagerly the prize,
to see it's substance turn to. ashes.
s'The bright ideals of the past
physical freedom, political power
both these in turn nave waxed
and waned, until even the last
grows dim and overcast" Thus
has ended the Negroes dream of
freedom. Yet it was not dreamed
in vain; it served to Tighten the
task of the tired slave and to bring
hope to his aching heart-it did
more than that; it gave place to a
'dogged determination, based upon
knowledge of reality, to somehow
somewhere, find something lin this
world akin to the visions of the
pasta background darkened by
slavery: foreground clouded by
prejudice; in the center, a weary
people, struggling on, their gaze
fixed far in the future. A path
that is dim; way that is steep
and stony. But over all, lighting
up the dusky faces of the plodders
darting its rays here and there
through the clouded foreground
silver cords of promise reaching
out into the future-Hope shines
like the sun. And through it all,
the mystery of struggle, inspiring,
uplifting, ennobling.
Why has the Negro failed SO
miserably in the realization of his
ideals? What is the nature of the
force that binds him still to the
lot of an inferior? 1t is the gulf
between the races-the twofold
difference of race and culture.
The ages past, so crowded with the
land marks of Caucasian progress,
still stretch before the Negro, a
vast, unexplored wilderness.
Through two centuries of bondage
the Negro learned to regard slavery
as the source of all his woes, free
dom as the fount of perfect joy.
Emancipation came at last-in
holocaust of blood and war Since
then forty years have passed
the dream Of freedom is still.
dream, and the Negro rests under
the shadow of great disappoint-
ment. That gulf between the
races, emancipation could not
bridge; the ballot could not span
its yawning depths. Standing on
its verge, striving with longing
eyes to pierce its mysteries, is
man. AS he looks and wonders,
he has strange vision-a cloud
The Colorado statesman., 1905-03-25

izen. And though many in their
weakness have fallen; though
many have been crushed under
their burden of passion and pre-
judice, and have gone astray, yet,
/ say it with mead bowed IN hu-
initiation, and with the blush of
shame burning my cheek, the
hand that lights the match of hell
ish revenge, the hand that prosti-
tutes tie very name of civilization
and brotherhood and even man.
hood turn away your faces, ye
seeing nations-that hand is white.
The facts that prove the necessary
inferiority of the Negroes are not
in. When their civilization has
been weighed in the BALANCED for
over three centuries and found
wanting: when, after two thousand
years of Christ, they on utrage the
name, not alone of civilization but
of God and humanity, planting the
seetsTof murder, anarchy, and he'll
in the hearts of their children, if
then they be charged with the
possession of an inferior manhood
they may well stand dumb before
an indignant age, from whose
stern lips falls the verdict, Guilty!
guilty! guilty!
There is that in an immortal
soul which defes limitation. T.
come with no theory of equality
other than the inborn right of
every human being to the fullest
development possible of every God
given power. There are those who
looking into the future, imagine
night when two racial giants shall
stand face to face on American soil
and struggle fer the mastery.
Prompted by some such dread
fear, weak men would sacrifice
principle and justice and continue
to blur with the masks of ignor-
ance and degradation the image of
the Almighty, stamped in inefface-
able outline, on nine million souls.
How mean philosophy! How
narrow policy! Close your eyes
to it if you will, rail against it as
you will, cali it mischance or call
it Providence, the fact yet remains
that the future of the black race is
indissolubly linked with the future
of the white. Their country is
our country; their growth, our
growth; their sin, our sin. Weak,
they limit us diseased, they pollute
us ;degraded, they lowerus; virtuous
they ennoble us. Leave the brod-
er plane of human rights, and JUS
tice to the Negro becomes simple
question of expediency. The Ne
gro race exists today as the test
and measuse of the moral strength |
of our civilization. She stands as
an orphan child trembling before
great Americas power. With no
father nation to protect her; weak,
ignorant, debased, yet feeling
within herself the nobler prompt
ings of a true womanhood, she
stands in the full light of Ameri-
can principles, in the sight of all
the nations, pleading for the right
to live, to strive, to hope. Let us
then pursue broad policy, one
that, holding the races as separate
socially as the castNs if India, will
still give this people every oppor-
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ington and host of others names
that stand for ability industry and
worth-and the better element is
already building the foundation
for a new, fit, enduring Negro race,
and even now the listening ear can
catch the changing of their ham,
mers and catch the buzzing of
their saws echoed back from the
walls of Tuskegee, Howard, Allan
ia and hundred similar institu-
tions, and the feeling soul may
count the heart beats as they throb
their hope and yearning to the
One Kind Tender Heart above,
which answers throb for throb for
every pain and every striving of
the human breast. Oh, the Ne
gro is human; he is human in
that divine element of yearning
for something better which separ-
ates him from the beast, and links
his heart of desire to the great,
overruling Heart of Pity above
A son of the south, a United
States senator, holds up the shrink
ing form of Negro civilization
more sinned against than sin
ming g-and in a spirit of derision
compares it with the manly beauty
of our own; then tramping it in
the dirt, and standing with his
foot upon its neck, calls upon it to
instantly arise and prove its fitness
or forever concent to grovel in the
filth of slavery-this he does in
the heart of the North-and a
maudin people applaud his spirit.
| would ask this gentleman, what
is it you compare? You point to
the highest civilization that the
world has yet produced, the pro-
duct and pride of all ages. and
compare it with the civilization of
an infant race. How old is the
civilization of America? Over
three centuries. Who fathered it?
The proudest blood, the sturdiest
sinew of Europe. What sought
they thus afar? Freedom. Who
now comprise it? Americans.
How old is the civilization of the
black Americans? Forty years.
Who fathered it? A savage. How
came he here? In chains. Who
now comprise it? Negroes-de-
moralized by over two centuries of
slavery
In the light of these facts, my
hand would wither in the writing
and my tongue in the speaking,
had l to confess that our civiliza-
ton was no further advanced than
one conceived in injustice, and
thrown out 40 short years ago-a
very child--to battle with an un-
kind world. All praise to that
race who, simple and unversed in
the ways of the world, unused to
the powers of freedom, given thus
the choice of good or
evil, have so largely chosen the
better part. Small wonder. if, un.
der the conditions which surround
ed its first taste of the sweet cup
of freedom, it drank too deeply of
that intoxicating cup. Small won
der that many have in the face of
opposition and injustice and pre-
judice failed to measure up to the
standards of the average white cit
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RACE NEWS.
Gathered From Our Exchanges.

The race generally will be proud
to learn that of the 300 successful
candidates before the Missouri
State Board of Medical Examin-
ers, in 1904, DR.. r. A. Henderson
of Springfield, stood second, being
exceeded by only one per cent. in
all the differcult subjects present
ed. DR.. Henderson is of Meharry
Medical college, and has done his
Alma Mater inestimable credit by
his pre- eminence.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-03-25

Washington, March 13.-In the
peonage case of Samuel M. Clyatt
VS.. the United States, the supreme
court of the United States today
reversed the decision of the circuit
The Colorado statesman., 1905-03-25

Washington, March 22.-The
president has appointed Sergeant
George S, Thompson, of the Twen-
ty-fifth infantry, to be a second
lieutenant in the Philippine scouts
thus adding one more Negro to
the commanding forcs of the ar
my. Lieutenant Thompson was
appointed on his merits, having
received high commentator for
heroism and efficiency during the
insurrection in the Philippines.
He is on of the crack shots in the
army and has received several
medals for rifle and pistol shoot
ing. He is now stationed with his
regiment at Fort Niobrara, Neb.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-03-25
NO. 26.

court of appeals for the Fifth cir
cult, in favor of Clyatt, who was
charged with returning to invol-
untary servitude two Negroes
named Gordon and Ridley" The
opinion was handed down by JUS
tice Brewer and while it upheld
the constitutionality of the law for
the punishment of peonage it held
that as the record failed to show
that the Negroes had ever before
been in custody, the charge of
returning them could not be sus-
tanned.
THAT a high school teacher
makes mistake when he attempts
to criticise President Roosevelt"
says the State Republican of Lans-
ing, Mich, was impressed upon
Charles Barber, teacher of history
in the high school. He was dis
cussing the various affairs of the
present administration, and made
the statement that Teddy had
made one mistake, and that was in
entertaining Booker T. Washing
ton at the White House. Several
of the presidents supporters i'm
mediately y arose to his defense, and
a hot debate was started, which
was brought to a climax when the
instructor asked if any of the class
would be willing to eat with
niger The class answered yes
in ii body"
Information from Vicksburg,
Miss, states that on last Wednes-
day two Negroes committed suicide
by drowning. The first one was
young man confined in the State
Charity Hospital for insanity.
Shortly after dark, he escaped from
the building and removing his
plunged headlong into
a nearby cIstern and was drowned
before he could be rescued. The
other was San Dolan who while
being chased by officers who were
to arrest him upon
charge of chicken stealing, fled
to the river into which he waded
up to his arm pits. He refused to
heed the officers calls to surrender,
but backed further on into the riv-
er and was swept away and drown
ed. His body was not recovered
Lansing, Mich.-Colored citi-
zens demand apologies or the re-
tirement of Charles Barber. in
structor in Langsing High School,
who is said to have told his his
tory class last week that President
made the only mistake
of his administrator in entertain
ing Booker Il. Washington at din
ner. Seventy-fve colored residents
meeting few nights
ago, when a committee was ap-
pointed to appear before the school
board At the time of the alleged
statement Barber was reported as
asking his class if they would "eat
with a niger" whereupon all re-
sponded Yes The teacher is
said to have continued by saying
that the Negro race should be
shipped back to Africa, or kept at
work in the cotton fields, but he
now declares thet he was merely
telling what Southern opinion was.
The Washington times., 1905-01-19

STATEMENT of the Acme Manufacture
ing Company.-We, the president and
ma ajority of the board of trustees of the
Acme Manufacturing Company, of the
District of Columbia, do hereby certify
that the authorized capital stock of said
company is $50, ,0o0o0, of which $13,500 90
has been paid in, and that there are
debts of said company amounting to
s., ,000-00. c. B. JAMISON, President. c.
B. JAMISON. CHARLES GILLETTE,
f c. BERENS, Trustees /, Charles
Gillette. Secretary of the Acme Manu-
featuring Company, of the District of
Columbia. do hereby swear that the
facts stated in the above certificate are
true to the best of my knowledge and
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
18th day of January, A D. 1905. EARN
EST SHAW, Notary Public for the
State of Missouri. 1t
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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.

STATEMENT of the Columbia Mining
and Milling Comparative, the presi-
dent and a majority of the trustees of
the Columbia Mining and Milling Com
pany, a corporation of the District of
Columbia. do hereby certify that The
authorized capital stock of said com
pany is one and one-half million dollars
tSI, ,.o0 uU1. 08D), and that no part of the cap
itaI stock has been paid. and that there
are no debts of the company DR.. W.
Z. FLEMING, President; DR.. w. E.
FLEMING, FREDERICK R. AUSTIN.
a majority of the trustees. State of
Michigan, County of Wayne, S.: DR.. w.
f. Fleming being duly sworn. deposes
and says that he is the president of the
Columbia Mining and Milling Company
a corporation of the District of Column
bia, and that the facts stated in the
above certificate are true TO the best of
his knowledge and belief DR.. w E.
FLEMING Subscribed and sworn to
before me this 17th day of January, 1905.
fNotarial SeaD GEORGE w COOPER,
Notary Public. Wayne County. Mich
My commission expires February I6,
1905. 1t
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WASHINGTON STOCK MARKET

MetropoHtan Street Railroad Is, $l,000fD
11S24, $1,010G11S%4.
Capital Traction, 20G144
Washington Street Railway preferred
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Union Trust and Storage, 10G2365s 100
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Washington Gas SG631h
Lanston. 10001Sss 100Q135s 160G135s,
Io04 1895. 1000 1855. 100d1S5s, 100d13ss. 1000
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Greene Copper, 100Q2S (buyer 60), 1900
277s.
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After all-Mergenthaler. 1041921s
Washington Street Railway As, s., 900
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Mergenthaler. 5d192k
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National Safe, 501S71k.
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ANNUAL REPORT of the T.. B. Pat
ent Shoe Company.-In compliance with
Section 617, of the Code of Laws of the
the District of Columbia, the L. B.
Patent Shoe Company hereby reports
that the amount of capital of said com
pany is one million ($1,o00, 000) dollars.
and that the same has been paid in in
money or property, and that the COM
pany has no existing debts. E. w.
CREECY, President: C. E. CREECY
JOHN c. FAY, G.. Y. AT LEE, Trustees
District of Columbia, S.: Edward w.
Creecy. president of the L. E. Patent
Shoe Company, being duly sworn saws
that the foregoing report signed by him
and a majority of the trustees of the
company is true E. w. CREECY
President Subscribed and sworn to be-
fore me this 18th day of January, A. d.
1905. G. Y AT LEE, Notary Public.
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District of Columbia ss-
I, j. GALES MOORE. Cashier of the above
named bank. do soleTlnly swear that the
above statement is true to the best of my
knowledge and belief. J. GALES MOORE,
Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn TO before me this 18th
day OF January. 1865
ALFRED B. BRIGGS. Notary Public
Correct-Attest:
E sCUTHARD PARKER,
THOMAS R JONES,
E. FRANCIS RIGGS,
GEO. H. HARRIES,
DAVID MOORE,
JACKSON H RALSTON,
CUNO H. RUDOLPH,
WOODBURY. BLAIR,
NJ NJ. PARKER,
CHARLES JACOBSEN,
GEO T'RUESDELL-
JOHN B. LARNER
W. S. KNOX,
S. w WOODWARD.
1t Directors
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ANNUAL REPORT-THE CoRPen-
ATE TRUST C0MPANY-Capita stock
SO 600: 15fo paid In. No existing debts.
w l.. THOMAS. President E LON
BARD WOODWARD. Trustees Sworn
to before c. f. M1ERS, Notary, jan
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STATEMENT OF THE AMERICAN
COTTON GROWERg UNION'-The un-
dersigned, being the president and ma
jority of the trustees of the "AMERI-
CAN COTTON GROWERS UNION" "
incorporated In 1904, pursuant to acts or
Congress, hereby report that the amount
of capital of said corporation is one hun
dred million dollars. that no proportion
thereof has been paid as yet, that there
are no outstanding debts against SAID
corporation, and said corporation is not
authorized to begin the transaction Ct
business for which il was formed until
10 per cent of its capital stock has been
paid. This January Il, 1905. f p
KOONCE, President. B. E. HARPER,
r d. KOONCE, JR-, O. d WILkER-
SON, R. H. McNEILL. i, OLIVER D.
W1LKERSON, general secretary of the
American Cotton Growers Union" do
solemnly swear that the foregoing re-
port is true to the best of my knowledge.
information. and belief o. D. VIII
KERSON Sworn to and subscribed be-
fore me this 18th day of January, 1896
(SeaD W. E. MATTRESS, Notary Pub
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Many Estates
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EDWARD j. sTELLwAGEN, Pres.
GEORGE E. FLEMING, See'y.
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COMPANY'S STATEMENT-Statem
of the Southern Mining and Milling
Company OF the District of Columbia
We. the president and a majority of the
board of trustees of The Southern Min
ing and Milling Company, Of the Dis
trict of Columbia, do hereby certify that
the authorized capital stock of said
company is s30e 00o.o0 and $3.50. .ooo0o has
said company. j. JEROME LIGHT
FOOT, President; J. JEROME LIGHT
FOOT. JOHN II. SNYDER. JAMES l.
CRAWFORD, Trustees. /. James L..
Crawford, Secretary of the Southern
Mining and Milling Company. of the
District of Columbia. do solemaly swear
that the facts stated IN the above GER
tificate are true to the best of nay knowi-
edge and belief JAMES L. CRAW-
FORD. (SeaI) Subscribed and sworn to
before me this 18th day of January, A
D. 1906 FRANCIS S. MAGUIRE, No
tary Public 1t
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Street Members New York Stock Exchange
Chicago Board Of Trade. and Washington
Stock Exchan.e.l
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STATEMENT-We. the president and D
majority of the board of trustees OF tht
H. c. CRAGG MANUFACTURING
COMPANY, of the District of Columbia,
do hereby certify that the authorized
capital stock of said company is $4,000
that there are debts of said company
amounting to 81, 800. H c.. CRAGG.
President n. s. FAUCETT, CHARLES
ID. PARKER. IRA j. MEAGLEY, Trus-
tees. l, CHARLES d. PARKER, seerc-
tary of the II. c. Cragg Manufacturing
Company, of the District of Columbia.
do hereby swear that the facts stated
in the above certificate are true TO the
best of my knowledge and belief.
CHARLES D. PARKER. Subscribed
and sworn to before me this 18th day of
January, A D. 1905. KENDALL Z.
CASTLE, Notary Public for the County
OF Monroe, State of New York. (Notary
Public SeaI.) 1t
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The Safest
Investments

Are those that do not depend upon the
financial responsibility or the stability Of
any Individual or corporation First deeds
OF trust Crnortgage, notes Hberaiiy Sc
cured on good real estate IN the District
OF Columbia constitute 'igflt-edged'' IN
vestments- These are the only kind we
make and supply to investors They bear
interest. payable semi-annuaIly. at the
rate OF Five per cent per annun. and
may be had OF Us in amounts from $500
and upward at par and accrued interest
Send for booklet. Concerning Loans and
Investments
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NEW YORK COTTON MARKET.

NEW YORK, Jan. 1a.-The following
are the quotations on today's exchange:
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Home Building Association
LOANS ON REAL ESTATE

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ON EASY MONTHLY PAYMENTS.
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for loans from agents solicited.
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THE INVENTORS TRADING COW

THE INVENTORS TRADING COM
PANY, Of Washington, D. C.-CapitaI
stock. $4,000; amount paid in cash and
property, 81. $50; no debts The above is
a true statement of the Inventors Trad
ing Company, on the 18th day of jan
Cary, 1905. (SeaI) NJ. d. ELLIS. Pres
ident: ALBERT W. CARDOSA, VAN B
NORWOOD. Trustees District of CO.
lumbia City of Washington, ss: T. M
d. Ellis, President of the above named
company, do solemnly swear that the
above statement is true to the best of
my knowledge and belief Ii D. ELLIS
President Subscribed and sworn TO be-
fore me. this 18th day of January. 1865
{Seal) CHARLES 3. STRONG. Notary
Public 1t
STATEMENT of Columbia, to
wit: We, the president and al majority
of the trustees of THE HOME TIT, r
INSURANCE COMPANY of the Dis
trict of Columbia. do hereby certify that
the capital stock of said company IS
one hundred thousand dollars. fully paid
in, and there are no debts Witness our
hands this 18th day of January, A. d.
1905. JUDSON T. GULL, President;
ARDSoN. VINCENT A sHEEHY!
JAMES, HARVEY T. WINFIELD, J.
c. WELDON District of Columbia, to
wit. Subscribed and sworn to before me
by JUDSoN- T. GULL, President. this
18th day. Of January. A D. 1906 (Nota-
rial Seal.) GEORGE S. KING, Notary
Public, d. C. 1t
STATEMENT of the Novelty Vending
Company-We, the president and a ma
jority of the board of trustees of the
Novelty Vending Company. of the Dis
trict sof Columbia, do certify that the
authorized capital stock of said COM
I pany is $500, 600. of which $500, 900 mas
been paid in, and there are no debts OF
said company r CHESTER FROST
President: r. CHESTER FROST. j
c. WOODWARD, II. SELLEG. Trus-
tees I, j. c. Woodward, Secretary OF
the Novelty Vending Company. hereby
swear that the facts stated in the above
certificate are true to the best of my
knowledge and belief. J. c. WOOD
WARD. State of Illinois. County OF
Cook: Subscribed and sworn 10 before
me, this 18th day of January. A. D.,
1893. tSeaI-D PAUL e. BUEDEFELDT
Notary Public for State OF Illinois. It
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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.

COMPANY'S STATEMENTS Statement
of Tampico Cattle and Agricultural
Company.-We. the president and 9 ma
iority of the board of trustees of the
Tampico Cattle and Agricultural Com
pany OF the District OF Columbia. do
hereby certify that the authorized cap
ital stock of said company is $50, 900. 90
and $4S, 10000 has been pail and there
are debts of said company amounting
to s., 600. CHARLES F. LINSCOTT,
BTsR.esH BERENs q q !" wERIE sLEHr9 Tr1stees I.
o. c. Hall, Secretary of the Tampice
Cattle and Agricultural Company. of
the District of Columbia do hereby
swear that the facts stated in the
above certificate are true TO the best Of
my knowledge and belief. o. c. HALL.
Secretary (SeaI) Subscribed and
sworn to before me this 10th day of Jan
uary, A D. 1905. j. r. TRAISE, Notary
Public for the State of Illinois. 1t
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ANNUAL REPORT-We, the undersign-
ed, being the president and majority
of the trustees of the United States
Medical Dispensary hereby certify that
the capital stock OF the said company
is 81 coco, and that the proportion there
OF actually paid in is s., 90, and fur
ther. that the present existing debts of
this corporation amount TO nothing H
C. BRADFORD, President; HOWARD
CAMPBELL BRADFORD, CHARLES
w PIMPER, CHARLES P RAVEN
BURG, Trustees. I, Howard Campbell
Bradford Secretary of the United
States Medical Dispensary, do solemnly
swear that l have read the foregoing
OF my knowledge and belief. the mat
ters and figures therein stated are true
HOWARD c. BRADFORD tSeal)
Sworn and subscribed to before me the
18th day of January. 1905. DANIEL s.
DECKER, Notary Public. 1t