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The Montana plaindealer., 1906-08-24
BRAZEN |NPUDENCE

Win hasen fmbudence the officers aOhOSe
duty 1t IS to Brese'0e Aa0O and order, absolutely
Reg7ect and refuse to berform their duty; and
GALNbLLNG is, 7Olth equal immunity, going
on IN all the usual places on MAN Street.
There is not even a SeUl6Iance Of effort TO con-
ceaL or any precautions taken to KEEP out Of
sight Of the AaaO; the games are Vide ObenI
WHY IS THIS? Is there a iaclt unaer-
sfand,ng that they qOiH not be mterterrd a0lth,
and If so, BY 70hat authority rs that uRdey-
standlng glOen? And as the city is recef0lng
no pr0enue, qOhO rs Broftfng By tie same?
In the language Of the immortal Lincoln,
"Yon cannot fool all the people all the ti1ne."
The ones 0OhO are responsible for these cOndl-
items shall get hare the mask Of Hypocrisy
Snatched from their JaceSI
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Dem ands are Clear

'In detail our demands are clear
and unequivocal. First, we would
vote. With the right to vote goes
everything, - freedom, manhood,
the honor of your wives, the chas-
tity Of your daughters, and the
right to work and the chance to
rise, and let no man listen to the
liars who deny this. We want
manhood suffrage, and we want 1t
now, henceforth and forever.
Second, we want discrimination
in public accommodations to cease.
Separation in railway and street
cars, based simply on race and
color, is un-American, undemo-
cratic and silly. We protest against
all such discrimination.
Third, we claim the right OF
free men to walk, talk and be with
those who wish to be with US. No
man has a right to choose another
mans friends, and to attempt to do
so is an impudent interference with
the movements of the privileged
person.
Want Law Enforced
Fourth, we want the laws en-
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we may vote, by persistent, unre-
lcnting agitation, by hammering at
the truth, by sacrifice and work.
We don't believe in violence, but
we do believe in John Brown, and
here on the scene of John Browns
martyrdom, we reconsecrate our
selves, our honor, our property, to
the final emancipation of the race
which John Brown died to made
free"
The address closes with an APP
peal to the young men and women
Of the nation, and asks: Cannot
the nation that has absorbed 10,
900 foreigners into its political life
without catastrophe absorb IO,Ooc
Negro Americans into that same
| political life at less cost than theil
unjust and illegal exclusion will
| IinvOlve?"
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Strong WORDS FROM
NEGROES
Alleged Wrongs Of Race Set
Forth by Niagara Movement
ADDRESS TO THE NATION
Suffrage Laid Down as Chief Right
Discrimination in Public Travel
Law CI IN d-Republican Party
Standardization Insisted Upon

HARPEK's FERRY, w. Va, Aug
10 The Second Annual Meeting
of the Niagara Movement came to
a close today with religious exer-
cises and a sermon by Rev. G. Fra
zier Miller At the conclusion OF
the sermon an address to the coun-
try was read. 1t said, in part:
Address to the Country: The
men of the Niagara Movement
coming from the toll of years O.
hard work, and pausing a moment
from the earning of their daily
bread, turn toward the nation anc
again ask in the name of ten mil
lion the privilege of a hearing. In
the past year the work of the Ne
gro has fourished in the land
Stripped of subterfuge, and in its
naked nastiness the new American
creed says: Fear to let black men
earn their Way,-to rise or to be-
come equals to the whites.
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The best investment a colored
man can make is in a good farm.
A farmer creates a commodity that
we cannot do without, and hence
its value. Man can do without
almost everything but food and
clothing, and these cannot be
made in large cities or a fat
When you have something that
the other man needs, your article
possesses value. Cooperate bust
ness benefits the people VINO own
the business. The thing we need
is something that will benefit the
masses. But the masses must get
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PEACE !
PROSPERITY !!
UNION!l!
Deserve Credit.

At least one good act for which
+be Police Department deserve
credit is in ridding the town OF
|tbst gentry which will not work
md have no visible means Of sup
hort. In their efforts along these
Zines they will have the earnest
support of all good citizens. For
sucb are the leeches on the body
bOolitic, and should be forever kept
I'm the move. We hope that the
warfare against idlers and hangers
on will be carried on to the limit
and that anyone who will not work
or enter the avenues of business
activity will find a resting-place in
Helena, and that all who come
under this head will be given a
Aoater regardless of race, color ol
prevous condition of servitude.
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Helena, Montana, Friday August Fl, 1906.

forced against the rich as well as
the poor, against capitalist as well
as labor against whites as we'll as
against blacks. We are not more
lawless than the white race, but we
are more often arrested, convicted,
and mobbed. We want Justice
even for criminals and outlaws.
We want the Constitution of the
country enforced. We want Con-
gress to take charge of Congress
sional elections. We want the
fourteenth amendment carried out
to the letter, and every state dis
franchised in Congress which at
tempts to disfranchise its rightful
voters. We want the fifteenth
amendment endorsed, and no state
allowed to base its franchise simply
on color.
"The failure of the Republican
Congress at the session just closed
to redeem its pledge of 1904 with
reference to suffrage conditions in
the South seems a plain, deliberate
and premeditated breach of prom
Use, and stamps that party as guilty
Of obtaining votes under false pre-
tense.
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ticular Lumber Dealers Associa

, ViNuial LuiiiOCl DSdlGlS ASSOCld-
ton.
The lumber business is, Of course,
exceedingly good in San Francisco
now, and while prices were high
enough before, since the fire they
have advanced three dollars per
thousand feet on an average, and
another contemplated advance is
rumored. This is what first
aroused the curiosity of the Off
cials, and since they have made
certain discoveries involving the
Lumber Dealers Association, the
United States District Attorney
is directing some pointed questions
to the members of that Associa-
ton.
For instance, che District Attor-
ney wishes to know why members
of the association are reduired to
give $500 bond when they join.
| He is DESTROYS of knowing what
this bond is for.
He is also asking why independ-
ent lumber dealers have to pay
dollar more per thousand for their
lumber than do the members of
the Association, aud also why GER
tain contractors are able to buy
lumber much cheaper than others.
As a result of the information he
is getting District Attorney Dey-
lin intimates that there may be
something doing in the courts that
will interest the members of the
organization.
If it is true that the price of
lumber has been thus greatly in
creased in San Francisco simply
because the dealers, by means of
an organization and $500 bonds,
are able to act together in forcing
up the price, inasmuch ss there is
now dire need of lumber there, it
looks as though the continuation
of matrial law in San Francisco
would be a good thing. When a
baker who happened to have a
supply of bread after the earth
quake put up the price to ten
cents loaf, he was compelled at
the point of the bayonet to put it
down again.
1t is entirely in accord with the
grasping nature of trust to take
advantage of want and necessity
to advance the price of what 1t
sells, or lower the price of what 1t
buys in order to increase its own
profits. John d. Rockefeller and
Standard Oil are not the only
ones in this country who are con-
trolled by greed. It's the way OF
the trust.-Er.
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The Way of the Trust.

ou' IN California, around San Fran
lS'O' there is an organization
Ilo"n as the Lumber Dealers
a,s' 'latI II. There is nothing re-
'i'rkable about this, for such or
sanila'Ions S exist in other places
oO' but certain antics of the
p''Oe !. OF lumber in San Francisco
!, l' The hre and earthquake made
necessary to rebuild the city,
fss '' aroused the curiosity of the
''"l officers regarding this par
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Want Children Taught

fifth, we want the national
government to wipe out illiteracy in
the South. We want our children
trained as intelligent human beings
should be, and we will fight for all
time against any proposal to edu-
cate black boys and girls simply
as servants and underlings, or SIM
ply for the use of other people.
"These are some of the chief
things which we want. How shall
we get them7 By voting where
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Spirit Of the Negro Press.

A big parade of White Elks
was held in Nashville, Tenn, sew
eral months ago, in which trade
display formed a prominent part
of the procession. Among the
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ing state, and has begun to boil.
The Republican County Central Commit
tee will meet Saturday to set the time for
holding the County primaries, ETC.
From what we have seen and learned of
the Hon. H, c, Smith, Judge Of the District
Court of Lewis and Clark County, the Repub-
licans of Montana would look long time
4. find better material for the supreme bench,
There will be quite contest we under
stand, for the nomination for County Attorney
at the Democratic primaries, with Spauldlng
and Wood as leaders, and poor old LaCroix
bringing up the rear,
There are seven representatives to the leg
islature to be elected at the coming election
They will all have a vote for Montana's next
u. S. Senator.
With twenty four nominations at their dis
posaI the Democratic and Republican patriots
who are anxious to serve the dear people will
have a good run for their money,
State Treasurer Col. J. H. Rice has re-
turned from a visit to Yellowstone Park; he
reports an elegant time,
The members of the City Council have
certainly earned the salaries during the hot
season this year, as they have met every Mon
day evening this summer, not to mention the
committee meetings, etc.
After the Central Committee Meeting Sat
urday candidates are expected to come out
of the bush,
In Montana at least, campaigns of educa-
ton do not seem to meet with any degree o;
popularity, judging from the short session ol
their schools of politics.
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something, and the Negro Problem
will solve itself.-Quiney Adams.
Knocks of a Newspaper Man.

Knocks of a Newspaper Man,
"If newspaper man knew how
many knocks were given him be-
hind his back he would adopt
another calling" remarked a citi-
zen the other day. The citizen is
mistaken. The newspaper man
who has the elements that make
success to him expects to be ma
ligned by every law breaker, swind-
Ter hypocrite, and carping critic
who loves notoriety, and is ignored,
in fact, by all who do not agree
with him on public and private
matters. The newspaper man who
expects to go through life without
being misrepresented and unjustly
censured should make arrange
ments to die young.-Er.
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many banners bearing inscriptions
was one that adorned a laundry
wagon, which bore the legend,
" Laundries Run By White People
Not Chinese, and No Negro's Wash
ing Taken" and now the Negroes
of that city have banded them
selves together and opened up one
of the finest steam laundries in
town, and are doing double the
business that their white traducers,
cheap discriminators and competi-
tors are doing. Negroes in other
localities would do well to emulate
their action. Sitting down whin-
ing, singing and praying over the
unjust discrimination perpetuated
by the ignorant whites, and some
of the crazy fool Negroes will not
help matters. Makeup! Bestir
yourselves and do something! ~
Portland AdgOoate.
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The Twenty-fourth Infantry de-
ieated horde of vengeful Pulu-
James few days ago in the Philip
pines. The colored soldiers were
attacked while on the trail between
the towns Of Toloss and Damani,
Isle of Leyte, and a desperate bat
Tie took place, resulting in the rout
ol the fanatics, with a loss of fifty
Killed and more than sixty wounded
While on the Afro ro-American side
only one sergeant Of the constab-
ulary was wounded. The Negro
Gan be depended upon to give d
good account of himself whether
III war or peace.-Freenlan.
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Portland Ad1Ocate.
Peter S. Barrow, a well-knOwn
Afro American, died in Tacoma
last week from the effects of hav-
ing been thrown from a street car
while attending a Baptist associa-
ton in that city, Mr.. Barrow had
been a resident of Spokane for
nearly twenty years, and for a
number of years was a conspicu-
GUS figure in the Populist political
d 4rty both of the state and OF the
county. He was a candidate for
Presidential election in 1896, and
subsequently was the recipient OF
small political favors at the hands
Of his party. Peter Barrow hailed
from Vicksburg, Miss, where be-
fore the War he was a slave. In
reconstruction days he entered the
political arena and was elected to
the legislature from Warren Coun-
ty, in which County Vicksburg is
situated, and according to news
paper clippings relative to the do
ings of that legislature, found in 6
scrap book, the property of another
prominent Negro politician of thai
state, he made a splendid record
1t was Mr.. Barrow's boast in life
that he was the first representative
in the United States to cast vote
for Negro United States Senator
The names of the members being
arranged alphabetically, and nc
name beginning with the first let
ter, Barrow was the first to be
called, and he voted for the Hon.
Hiram r. Revels, who was elected
on first ballot, and served the fous-
years of Jefferson Davis unexpired
term. A copy of said record is in
the possession of the editor hereof
and bears out the statement made
| by Mr.. Barrow. Only two admit
ted Negroes ever served in the
United States Senate, viz: Hon
Hiram R. Revels and Hon. B. K
Bruce, both from Mississippi; the
former serving four years, while
the latter served six years.-.Seattle
ReDu6licdn.
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The coming State Convention
will be short on offices and long
on candidates therefore.
The need of the hour in select
ing public servants is to centre on
those who are void Of hypocrisy,
that when they hold up their hand
and solelmly swear that they will
support the Constitution of the
State and the United States, they
mean it, and are not at the outset
committing perjury.
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The Republican County Central Commit
tee will meet Saturday to set the time TO
holding the County primaries, etc,
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Political Snapshots.

The political pot is now past the simmer
ing state, and has begun to boil.
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We read in a Kansas paper that
in a Democratic Convention the
mention of Roosevelt's name was
Enthusiastically h ere d. After
thinking, however, it is nothing
strange, as the broad-gauged and
liberal Democrats of Kansas ad-
mire Roosevelt just the same as
other people do.
The recent failure of the Mil
waukee St. Bank in Chicago, has
left not only financial ruin in its
wake, but death and destruction
as well suicide and insanity have
been rampant among its sufferers
there is no punishment too severe
for those who were the cause OF
this financial disaster.
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In Montana at least, campaigns OF educa
ton do not seem to meet with any degree O
popularity, judging from the short session o
their schools Of politics.
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After the Central Committee Meeting Sa
urdav candidates are expected to come OF
of the bush,
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Want Law Enforced
Fourth, we want the laws en-
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"ANh AaAAAi vi 'obAA~ RAA'eAN~
matters. The newspaper man who
expects to go through life without
being misrepresented and unjustly
censured should make arrange
ments to die young.-Er.
A Second Daniel Unto Judgment.
Even if we are a trifle late in
getting around to it, our hat is off
to Judge Wofford of Kansas City!
Jurists there may have been
more learned in the law than this
son of the prairie, but no member
of the Supreme Court of the
United States has ever handed
down a decision so redolent with
the milk of human kindness, or
fot which a certificate of immor-
tality was half so richly deserved
as the deliverance of Judge Wof-
ford, in mercifully pronouncing a
sentence of mere Imprisonment
instead of the death penalty upon
forlorn Negro who had been con-
victed of the murder of another
Negro in a bar-room alteration.
Here is what this modern Daniel
said,-and his words burn into the
Courts of this whole land as a
stinging rebuke to the practice of
making justice mean one thing to
the criminal with long purse and
another ITO the wretch who hath
not a place to lay his head.
Listen:
"Well," said Judge Wofford, "You
are guilty of murder alright, but
you're a poor ignorant black man,
and l don't want to hang you.
You have no friends. You have
no one to plead that you were in
sane when you killed this man. If
7 sentence you to hang, you will
hang, Just as sure as there's a God
in Heaven. There will not be
whole lot of women circulating
petitions to save your neck.
There will not be a lot of fool men
writing letters to the Governor to
save you. No one will send you
flowers. You'll just be forgotten
until the day set for your hanging,
and then they'll hang you. I'll
sentence you to thirty years in the
penitentiary."
What an indictment of the con-
ditions with which this country is
burdened from ocean to ocean
T.
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ident. Mr.. Foraker secured such a
proviso in the Porto Rico bill, n a
number of senators are in favor of
territories .Hin which the people are
not competent to govern themselves
and they contend that some of the
work of the last legislature puts
New Mexico in that class. 1t might
be prudent for the gentlemen who
are to compose the next legislature
querque Daily Journal.
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THE STATEHOOD CAUSE.

From Albuquerque Journal.
In conversation with Senator
Spooner a few days ago, a citizen of
New Mexico, speaking of the state
hood matter, admitted that Arizona
would probably defeat the pending
proposition, but expressed the hope
that congress would admit the terri
tories separately, to, which the Sena-
NIT you as soon as you are fit, but
neither of your territories is fit now,
and will not be for a good many
years" Another Senator, referring to
the same point said, IF the pending
joint statehood proposition shall be
defeated, as now seems probable. l
think congress will likely make cone
territory of the two, and when you
shall have lived together un-
der n territorial government long
enough to become well acquainted
with each other. there will not likely
be any objection in either territory
to coming in as one state" C%ontinu-
ing on the same subject, he said:
sYour people will have TO admit that
it would not be fair to the rest of
the country to admit you as more
than one state, because the
of the country embraced in the two
territories are not of a character to
enable you al any time to support
a~-population greater than that of the
average state"
There is something in the forego-
ing opinions for people of both terri
tories to think about seriously before
statehood.
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nomination of Republican candidates.
A handful of town bosses hold a con-
vention at night and cut the country
districts out of even the p%retense OF
representation. On the other hand,
the Democrats hold primaries at
which every Democratic voter in the
county has a voice in the nomina-
ton of candidates.
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We have 1000 acres Of fine land.
il shallow artesian belt, near rail-
road, which we can sell at a bargain.
For full particulars, see or write to
Carlton & Bell, No. 303 N. Main St,
Roswell.
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Texas State Fair.

Dallas, Tex, Oct. 18th. to Goth,
1906. For this occasion rate of s22
will be made for the round trip. Tick
cts on sale daily Oct. 18TH to Oct. 27.
Final limit Oct. 18th. Children at half
rate.
NJ. D. BURNS. Agt. P. v. & N. b.