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The Colorado statesman., 1905-05-13

to prepare for war All persons
are warned against entering these
premises after dark, and whosoever
does SO it is at his own peril
Gray says: mo man is requir-
ed to go on his knees and beg the
privilege of living from another
man. l had two uncles and a faith
er who lost their lives in the Civil
War, and / shall never be driven
alive from any place beneath the
folds of the flag they fought to
uphold
Gray is an attorney, and a grad
uate of Columbia University, New
York Ohio Standard.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-05-13

work he will not be discharged be
he black or white" replied the
lawyer.
This is an outrage" said Pres
ident Shea. You have brought
these Negroes here to fight us and
we answer that we have the right
to attack them wherever found. "
Then do so at your peril re-
torted Mayer.
Shea said that the union wanted
the strikers reinstated, after which
the employers would be asked to
arbitrate the underlying differen-
ces which brought on the strike.
The reply of the attorney to this
was
The Colorado statesman., 1905-05-13

"a crowd of excited white men
and boys came near dealing rough,
ly with a Negro youth at Grant
park yesterday afternoon says
the Atlanta Constitution of a few
days ago. THE Negro had been
guilty of no misconduct. A crowd
of boys in play, tried to push him
into the lake, and from that a
crowd of disorderly men organized
and became so greatly excited that
they were more like panicky luna
tics than sane people, The more
the Negro rand and the greater the
crowd of chasers became, the more
the excitement spread, until the
situation became serious. 1t look
ed as though tragic affair was to
be the end of a little rough play
on the part of lot of thoughtless
boys. The police-there are only
two at Grant park-were for a
while powerless to check the
crowd. They finally got the Ne
gro inside the cyclorama building,
where the crowd was kept at bay
until Sergeant Frank Whitley and
Call Officers Hulsey and Cham
bers came up as reinforcements.
The Negro was freed by the Off
GERS while the crowd was kept
away from him. Fully 1000 men
and boys chased the Negro and
the run was all over the park, from
one end of it to the other. The
Negro seemed afraid to leave the
park limits, trying all the while to
keep somewhere near Officer Cor
nett and Dukes, who were running
after the mob who were running
after the mob trying to hold the
infuriated men and boys in check.
No arrests were make, because it
was impossible to ascertain who
wore the leaders in the crowd. The
Negro's name was not learned, for
) nobody had had any time to talk
to him
The Colorado statesman., 1905-05-13

Under no circumstances will we
discharge any of the men brought
here to take the place of strikers.
We have nothing to arbitrate We
assert our rights to use the public
streets for the transaction of our
rightful business and the right to
employ teamsters, black or white,
at our discretion.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-05-13
Education Of Colored People.
Educators and Phanthropss Hold Session in Columbia,
South Carolina--NegrO Education Discussed. New
Age Comments EditOrially.

fling or mischievious, if not vici-
GUS lot of people, whose apprciable
elevation and advancement, even
gradually, were both impossible
and undesirable; Lut most of these
estimates are made by the class of
white people first mentioned in
this article, and from observation
of exceptional cases rather than
from scrutiny of the whole race.
OF course in so large population
there are many worthless or worse
Negroes, and too often these are
held up by Southerners and
Northern visitors as samples of
the whole race. But it is proven
by abundance of other testimony
and admitted by many Sou thern
whites, that a reasonable amount
of education is good for black as
well as for white people, and must
and does ultimately benefit both
races.
1t being granted that education
is a good thing for the common
people, for farmers and merchants
and workers of all kinds as we'll as
for professional men, and it having
been demonstrated in numberless
instances that Negroes are capable
not only for obtaining but of using
properly an education, it fol
lows the theory that the ed
ucation of colored people is
either impossible or undesirable
has nothing left to stand on.
We think, however, with Booker
Washington that as rule Negroes
should only claim for and desire
only common and not higher
education, and especially one along
industrial lines, one that will be
practical. But the same rule ap-
plies to white people for that mat
ter. The masses of them do not
need and cannot proftably use a
professional or even higher edu-
cation. There are many excep-
tions among the whites and not
so many among the Negroes, but
the latter have only had a little
over a generation in which to gain
or manifest attainments, while the
white race have had centuries in
which to envolve. We do not say
/ that there are no racial differences,
but do not maintain that neither
these differences but do maintain
that neither these differences, such
as they may be, and still less the
color of the Negroes, should not
prevent them from encouragement
and aid in gradual evolvement and
advancement through the process
of education, and also through a
reasonable degree of common con-
tact with the at present admitted
ly superior race in attainments.
The Negro is a citizen, a man or
The Colorado statesman., 1905-05-13

The movement on the part of
the congregation of the Sixth
Mount Zion Baptist church of
Richmond, Va, to place a suitable
monument over the last resting
place of the late Rev. John Jasper
their first pastor, is highly COM
mendable. The Reverend Jasper.
was power in Isreal in his day
and time.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-05-13

San Francisco. May THE
board of education has taken a
determined stand against the adj
mission of Chinese and japanese
pupils to schools where white
children are being educated. The
board unanimously adopted reso-
lutions declaring itself opposed to
the promiscuous association of
white and Mongolian pupils, and
declaring its policy to favor in fu-
ture the establishment of separate
schools for Chinese and Japanese
pupils.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-05-13

woman. a taxpayer, almost invari-
ably an intelligent worker in some
way, and can no longer be consid-
cred as "a poet said ancEnglishman
considered his wife, IA little bet
ter than his dog, Il little lower than
his horse"
The Colorado statesman., 1905-05-13

A large number of educators and
philanthropists have been in ses-
sion during the week in Columbus,
South Carolina, in the eighth an
nual convention of tbs Southern
Educational Society, whose object
is largely the forwarding of the
work of education among the col
ored people of the Southern states.
Report made of the work are en-
couraging, and great faith is felt
that the condition of the Negro
race in the South will be gradually
much improved by education.
There is yet IA large and proba-
bly, a predominating portion of the
well-to do and industrial white
people of the South who do not
believe in and will not encourage
the education of the Negroes; who
believe and teach that education is
not beneficial but on the contrary,
injurious to the black people; that
they thereby get false ideas of
their Importance and vainly and
disasterously seek to get out of
their proper sphere, and that edu-
cation of the colored people only
causes trouble between the races.
These white people are those who
think that Negroes, merely on ac-
count of their race and color, can
not rise and should not be encour-
aged or permitted to rise above
the status of menial service, or to
become to any extent independent
and responsible citizens. On the
other hand, however, there is an
increasing number of influential
Southern whites who are disposed
to encourage Negro education, at
least to limited extent and es-
pecially along industrial lines, and
we think it may be safely predict
ed that this sentiment will grow in
the South until, perhaps, in the
Somewhat distant future, it will
be generally acknowledged that
the education of Negroes to a con-
siderable extent will be beneficial
not only to them but to the whites,
intelligent labor is always the best
and cheapest labor, even if higher
wages have to be paid for it, and
there is no reason to assume that
colored people furnish an excep-
ton to this rule, and if far larger
proportion of Southern Negroes
should become workers in many
ways for themselves, independent
of employers, and householders
and business men, surely that
would be no detriment to the peo-
pie of either race in that section
of the country.
Some writers, among them w.
FL. Curtis, in the Chicago Record
Herald, have recently represented
the Negroes in the South as tri-
The Colorado statesman., 1905-05-13

Cotton, California, April %
Cotton is mourning the death of
old Ben Miller, a Negro who for
twenty years has personally man
aged the swell banquets of the
town, cared for the gardens of res
idents, and assisted matrons in
housekeeping. The fact that the
wealthiest business men will act
as pallbearers and Rev. j. H.
johnson, D. D., bishop of the
Episcopal church of Los Angeles,
will officiate, make the circum-
stances unusul. Miller was a for
mer slave of Senator jackson OF
Mississippi, appointed TO the
bench of the Supreme Court of the
United States by President Harri-
son, and until the day of his death
revered the memory of his former
master, having received many let.
ters from him, even after jackson
assumed the ermine.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-05-13
RACE NEWS.
Gathered From Our Exchanges.

Says the Los Angeles Times:
when race, creed or color are
dragged into politics it is time to
sit down bard on those who do the
dragging. 1t doesn't matter who
they are-sons of Erin, sons of
Aaron, sons of Ham, or sons-of-
guns the big stick is the thing TO
swat them with
The Colorado statesman., 1905-05-13

About half of the white race
are nothing more than Ne
groes with a white skin, if we are
to believe a recent discovery made
at Oxford University. In the
The Colorado statesman., 1905-05-13

mo wealth. material we'll being shall avail the nation where
class has flourish where looks his brother with
and hatred with and contempt according to his position
the fails that the supreme for
the granting him the opportunity training him to the
ageTheodore Roosevelt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-22
THROWS NAN UNDER CAR.
AssaiIant Escapes-Injuries May
Prone FataI-CrOzCd Sees Deed.

An unknown man is at the point Of death in
the Williamsburg Hospital from injuries re-
ceived by being crushed under a streetcar at
the Brooklyn Plaza OF the Williamsburg Bridge
last night Fully FIVE hundred men and women
returning from various pleasure resorts. and
waiting for cars, saw another well dressed man
deliberately lift the unknown and throw him in
front Of &, car of the Broadway line The man
turned on his heels after the deed and tore
madly through South 5th-st., with a mob Of
enraged men and women at his heels.
He succeeded IN outwitting his pursners by
darling into dark street, where he was lost to
sight His victim was ground under the car be-
fore it could be stopped and when he
dragged out Ambulance Surgeon ReIcb. of the
Williamsburg Hospital found that his skull
fractured. five ribs broken. his left arm
broken and his legs crushed almost to a pulp.
The hospital authorities stated that he could
not survive.
George Miller. the notorman locked up
in the Williamsburg station a charge Of
criminal negligence.
The injured unable to speak, but
from the condition Of his apparel and various
things found on his person he is believed to be
q well to do person. He is described as about
and weighing 145 pounds The men were over
heard talking in heated manner and later
locked together in terrific struggle. Before
any one could interfere the dying man was
thrown the tracks. The police have a de-
scription Of the assailant and are securing the
neighborhood for him
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-22
WENT TO SEE THE GRASS.
Manhattan Tenement House Tots
Walls to Prospect Park.

Having heard of the beauties Of Prospect Park.
with its green grass and its flowers. three little
children OF the tenement houses on the East Side
in Manhattan ran away to find that wonderful land
yesterday.
Weary, footsore and dusty, the girls. the oldest
only nine years old, found in Washington
ave. near the Eastern Parkway, and taken 10
the Grand-ave station last night One clutched a
bunch OF posies in her hand and another held a
cookie tightly grasped in grimy little fist They
We're happy but tired. and were ready TO cry when
a kind hearted patrolman. seeing their distress.
took them to the station.
How they had got from their homes three miles
distant. where they had been. the children were
unable to tell in their broken English. They had
no money. of that they sure. and they had NOS
ridden on the cars. so Sergeant Knox decided they
must have walked. The children were sure they
had seen the flowers and the grass. and seemed IN
able TO talk about anything else
An italian interpreter was brought in, but the
girls seemed frightened and he unable TO get
them 10 talk Of their experiences. The oldest girl
told him she was eight years old and that her
was Minnie Lea. Her home was at No. Is Forsyth
81 her companions said they were Lucy CalibTesa.
seven years old, and Katie Santalina, five years
tell the number.
Sergeant Knox made them comfortable in the
SectlOn room, where they Curled and
sleep He communicated with the 18th Precinct
IN Manhattan, which takes in the address at No
IL Forsyth-st. Several hours later word was re-
ceived from there that Dominic Lea. father Of
Minnie. would go after the children. Before mid
Elght they We're safe home again.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-22
SUNDAY BALL.
filth Good Players Brooklyn Team
Would Not Need 1t, Says Minister.

Declaring that the officials Of our great cities
to-day are either "enascuIated or mendacious''
in permitting violations OF the law. the Rev. Dr.
Charles Edward Locke. in the Hanson Place
Methodist Episcopal Church. Brooklyn. last
night protested against the playing OF profess
sional baseball on Sunday, which, he said, was
a national calamity" If the Brooklyn CLUB
would only get some better players he said, they
would have such big crowds on week days that
they would not have to play Sunday games
DR.. Locke was talking before Clinton Com
unandery. Knights Templar, who came to the
church in full uniform. Are the Days OF
Chivalry Passed." was the subject of the ser
mon DR.. Locke said in part:
For instance professional ball playing on
Sunday is clearly illegal. And yet, the Brooklyn
hall club is permitted to conduct its games on
sunday Large numbers of people pay money
10 see our local aggregation regularly defeated
nv better players It is argued that without the
Sundav games the club cannot be made to pay
and may lose its place in the National League
The simple truth is that better playing by better
PLAYERS is all that is needed TO attract large
week day CROWDS.
The Pittsburg club does not play Sunday
games on their home grounds, and stock IN that
club has been considered a good investment
for years Has it never occurred to those who
urge the Sunday games that the players them
nothing less than inhuman to require of those
splendid fellows that they should work like
slaves during the ball season at the expense OF
body and soul. 1 protest as a lover Of fine
sport against our national game being made a
national calamity.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-22
7. u. c. Il. IS CRITICIZED.
Refusal to admit actors Is UncEris-
tan. Said lLr. WiZZiams.

The Y. II. c. A severely criticized last night
from the pulpit Of the Church Of the Heavenly
Rest, bth-aTe. and +5th-st, by the Rev John Will
fans, who addressed the May gathering of the
Actors Church Alliance. He declared that the
action Of the association in debarrng actors from
membership was unchTistian The church was well
Glled. many Of the congregation being members Of
the Alliance.
The Rev. Mr.. Williams began his address by cit
<ng the words Of St Paul that the actors gift and
calling was from God. and when used in the right
way just as much a divine gift as any other
calling BE said he rejoiced that last the church
Eas coming 20 realization OF this fact and trying
70 make amends for years OF unjust criticism and
abuse. BE said n part:
It is an exhibition Of ignorant bigotry and a
FharaseeIc attitude which should attract only our
should cast all dramatic literature out Of their
libraries. They should throw out Shakespeare
and the Bible rs well. account Of the dramatic
masterpieces OF dramatic art The stage com
mands and must have the consideration and re-
sDect Of the church
On next Thursday evening the May reception OF
the alliance will be held tn the hall OF the Church
Of the Heavenly Rest. and on May 81 the sixth
annual convention Of the alliance Will open a. St
Chry-sostoTn's Chapel 3Sth-st. and 7th-ave.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-22
ONLY PART OF GOODS RECOVERED
Many Objects Of Mrs. Bakers Collection
Still Missing.

Regarding the arrest of Frank Mccarthy. an eIo-
vator boy in the Seymour, an apartment hotel AZ
no. - 70 80 West 45th-st. on Saturday night on a
charge Of stealing IN the hotel valuable antioues
ana art objects owned by Mrs. Guy f Baker.
daughter Of the late General Louis p. di Cesnola
director Of the Metropolitan Museum OF Art De-
'ective Summers. Of the East 57st-st station said
last night that only part Of the property had been
recovered.
Sir Summers said that in addition TO the prop
fTty found At AcCaTthy's at No. III sth-
ave there were many other objects of ar missing
when II was hoped 10 trace as soon rs Mrs
I5aEe- arrived In town 10 give a description of
lleil. Moreover. other articles Of value had re-
Gently been stolen from guests the hotel among
mem a diamond pin belonging 10 q lawyer
AcCSTthy held IN the YorkvilIe court VOC
tefcay for examination tomorrow
Ar- Summers said that the property recovere7 En-
5ar comprised seven paintings including a MurlIo
~ ne AnnEnciation" and an etching The Kiss OF
Feace, tIty first editions Of books a massive
gold card holder. three candelabra a porcelain
jar, a jewel box and fancy ornaments.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-22
MOSS AFTER JEROME.
54ttacEcs Lanaty Of Excise Enforce
u,ert at Temperance Meeting.

z,s,k.,y IN the same pulpit IN which Dr. Cuyler;
ID held his audience spellbound with his elo1uence
b. the cause OF Temperance. Frank Moss charged
District Attorney Jerome with being derenct in
xha discharge of his duty. The addresses were
made at the annual meeting Of the National Tenn
perance Society IN she Broadway Tabernacle, 56th-
De- and Broadway.
Dr. CuyIer said be attended the meeting in 1854
q the Cause Of prohibition which resulted in the
placing Of a prohibition Governor in the Capitol
at Albany. Temperance embraced two great pTin-
C5ples that Of personal duty and political duty.
+lSo nan" he continued, needs alcohol for the
best purposes of head, heart or hand have not
tasted Hquor and I have not been a single day in
o sIck bed in ffty-nine years. Let those who be
aeve IN "a little wine for their stomach's sake
produce a like example"
The speaker said there growing tendency
On the part OF corporations to insist that temper
Acoe should be sine qua non OF employment He
related incident IN Andrew Carnegie's life when.
on being asked why he did not drink wine the
fronmaster had replied that he preferred TO wear
Dis glasses above his nose and not below it.
Dr.. Cuyier said he believed in the legal sup
preston OF the liquor traffic. He had made his
first temperance lecture in Glasgow sixty-three
years ago under the eye Of the great temperance
advocate. Father Matthew.
M. Moss took the place Of Bishop ]. N. Fitz
Gerald Of St Louis, whose absence was due TO
illness.
Mr. Moss said he had lately been engaged in
defending q young man accused Of murder who had
strayed into a saloon and thus got himself into
trouble. He referred to the case Of the juryman
who was found intoxicated in the jury box and
who was fined By Recorder Gof-
He told of a woman who year ago had lived
So the Savoy Hotel and who had become tramp
within the year and had been to his house asking
Sor aims. The love OF manhood was the key TO
temperance
we have never he continued. had an abso-
Iuteiy strict enforcement of the excise law The
only approach TO il was under Police Commissioner
Roosevelt, but that was but mere spasm and
lasted only for few weeks. The District Attorney
could make dozen excise cases q week if he
wanted TO. City officials fear the,r usefulness would
he gone II they enforced the excise law. I believe
that on popular the people would vote
sEa-nst the opening Of saloons Sunday, and I
believe that Mr.. Jerome believes il, too"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-22
YOUNG GIRL KILLS BABY.
Kidnaps Child after Seeing Play
ThrozcS It OUer Cliff.
10y TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE. J

Toronto May 21.-Josephine Carr, thirteen
years old, has been arrested a charge Of
killing Mrs. Murray's ntne-months-old child
whose body found yesterday. According to
her confession to Detective Forrest to-day. she
caught the idea Of kidnapping by seeing the
play kidnapped in New-York," produced in the
Majestic Theatre here last week. On Friday
evening she kidnapped the child with it's go
cart from lane beside T. Eatons store while
the mother was shopping inside The girls idea
was to get a reward for finding a kidnapped
child. but as evening came on she found out
that she had helpless charge, and to get it out
OF the way tossed it down a railway embank-
ment nearly one hundred feet high. By the time
the child reached the bottom 1t was bruised and
dead.
Josephine then took all the clothing from the
little dead form and hid them about mile
distant, after putting the body under culvert.
Next morning she told a man passing that she
had found dead baby in the culvert, and as a
result of an investigation which followed she
was placed in jail. Josephine is an ignorant
girl without a mother and has had hard bring
ing
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-22
BUILDING TIE-UP THREATENED
Excavators Order More Strikes-Contracto
VIII Declare Lockout.

Unless something unforeseen happens, the gen
eral lockout of the 5000 members Of the Rockrnen
and ExcaVators' Union threatened by the Contrac-
tors Protective Association will take place this
week. A meeting Of the general strike committee
appointed by the unions to take charge Of the fight
Of the roclImen and excavators was held vester-
day 1t was decided unanimously that the fight
should continue. Tito Pucelh president of the
Rockmen and Excavators' Union. announced later
that more strikes would be ordered this week
As the Contractors Protective Association has
decided to order general lockout Of the rockmen
and excavators as soon as they later order more
strikes. this action is fiat defiance of the assoc
citation by the union. According the contractors
a general lockout will put a stop to work on all
new buildings. but it would not be long until a
full force OF work again. The Con-
tractors Protective Association is watching the
situation. ready to take prompt action as soon as
the new strikes ordered.