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The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-05-18
PEACE I!
pROSPERITY!!
UNION!!!
The Progress of a Race

r,om nothing which The Negro
aid call his own, i'll forty years
.Ecording to the lateststatistics the
'bIored brother owns $780, 900 farms
banking institutions, 4 street
In wav systems and pays taxes on
.Dorlv sSooooo.ooo worth ofproP-
.ttv; aside fromthis the illiteracy OF
4. race has been reduced from 100
4 20 per cent. $1,000 teachers are
aiming the Negro youth and %
kegro college presidents with many
ober educational leaders are doing
Heir part in the continuedprogr
q the race.
Can it be gainsaid that a people
abo has made this remarkable pro-
sress are unworthy of the respect
sbd admiration or this great and
slorious country?
Is it any wonder that even in the
darkest hour and under the most
living ordeals which we pass, that
Ne have the support and sympathy
II America best citizenship?
Those who depreciate the efforts
6f the race in their onward march
Ire the rabble and monstrous
teaks who with the beating of
bm toms and pyrotechnical dis
play essay to gain the attention of
the nation. Ifthere is no other
Eay for them to gain notoriety,
hey raise hue and cry and seek
b gain fame at the expense of the
Negro.
The rabble is represented by the
Southern cracker, who is illiterate,
nncouth and revolving; the freaks
. re represented by Tillman, Rev.
Dixon, Vardaman, ct al, whose
only claim to fame or brains is
heir ability to denounce a people
Who are not looking back but are
marching ever forward to the very
hlghest goal of citizenship.
The progress of the race will
pever be stage by these prenicious
Influences, but we shall be on and
about our mission of PEACE, Pros
PERITY and UNION.
In forty years more with the en-
fouragement which is ours from
me best citizenship of the domi-
pant race, we shall scale the walls
p race hatred and prejudice and
peep pace with the mighty progress
p this mighty nation.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-05-18
POLITICAL SNAPSHOTS.

The PLAINDEALER man last week
in making his daily rounds in
quest of business and soliciting
subscriptions, dropped into the
office ofCounty Attorney LaCroix,
and to our pleasantest good
morning" we got in brusque and
sonorous tones:
"What is it?"
Although with a varied expert
ence in meeting all kinds and CON
ditions of people, we were nearly
taken off our feet and stammered
for words in reply. We however
managed to tell this official who
we were and what we wanted was
for him to subscribe for the PLAIN
DEALER. Almost before we got
the words out of our mouth, he
snapped out coldly, cruely. and
forclbly:
81 don't want it.
Now this is nothing in itself but
the way he said it almost chilled
the blood in our veins.
1t would be necessary to look
a long time in any state or cline
for a man holding public office
such as his, who would withhold
his support from struggling and
rising journal. 1t would in most
cases be a compliment to the Of
fcer to go on record as one who
was broad gauged enough to assist
an enterprise on its mission of
good will and prosperity, therefore
the actions of this diciple of (?)
Blackstone in the premises, put
us to thinking and the
ton we could find was by referring
to our files and we found there, the
probable cause of his antipathy for
the PLAINDEALER.
In our issue of March 80 tn, we
had the temerity to critiCise his
speech to the jury in which we
commented on it in a very conscr-
vatiAe manner, but used very
prominent headline.
OF course if the gentleman win
ces under criticism,we have no
balm for his lacerated wounds, be
cause when we see a man IN public
life do what we think is unfair
let him be our best friend or worst
enemy-we reserve the right at all
time to criticise him.
In doing this we realize now that
we lost his support but in themean-
time the PLAINDEALER will go on
in the even tenorof its way, and
if our doughty county prosecutor
will only keep his ears to the grass
roots he will hear and find other
things transpiring which are equal
" as potent in disturbing his tran
quillity of mind and equilibrium
asthe criticisms of the PLAINDEAL-
Err.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-05-18
GOOD. SOUND DOCTRINE.

mo White Man can harm the A0qOeSt Ne
gro 7O1th0ut the test blood IN the 7Oh1te rare
being agg17e0ed. No aOhite man can aid
Negro 70ltl0ut eNabl1ng his race
II don't knOaO 9Ohat yOnr girl IS going TO do,
6ntlfshe cooks for qOhfte family or a Negro
family, yen MouH make her tit for the 9oOrk.
1t IS no disgrace.
"Ow people are a great people for thinking
and talking about the nert aOOrld Let as
STOP agesting in co6fns and INVEST IN
HOMES. STOP Halng IN Jflthy alleys and
6nlld n1cc comfortable hOmeS.'
Booker 7. Washington.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-05-18

this journal to merit the approval
of our best citizenship, and we have
an abiding faith that if we do that,
The PLAINDEALER will continue to
grow like a green bay tree.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-05-18
sba PIaindeaIer Would Like To X = Ow
WHY

Ehe PIaindeaIer Would Like To K"ow
WHY
Some people get so sore at the
truth.
The u. S. Senate failed to pass
the Foraker amendment to the rate
bill.
The Jamestown, Va, exposition
Co.. run over our friend Trotter
and the people whom he represents
in the grand old bay state.
Parties having news items do not
bring them direct to this office
without sending them in a round
aqout way,
Fort Harrison backed out OF its
proposed game with Helena Giants
Frank Mitchell is so quiet lately
Our foresgn friends do not &C
knowledge the receipt of the Mon
tana PLAINDEALER.
The Smelter Co. at east Helena
do not get people who will work
The gambling and all other laws
are not enforced.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-05-18

iHE PLAINDEALER is unde many
pOilgatons to the people of this
lcihlty for their cordial support
fild we shall DO our utmost to merit
thelr continual support. We have
iad many obstacles to surmount
fnu we could only have accom-
PilShed what we have by the pat
image OF our progressive citizens
'no when they realized that our
Efforts to publish a newsy journal
Or all the people was commend
''e one, came forward, grasped
'ur hand and showed us that they
appreciated our efforts and that we
D'u rely on their support. Our
UiSe IN the matter of not truck
I"s to some organization and
iS our business over to be run
y ,nem' was heartily commended
4; me people and gained us many
we shall always and at all times
n I1e Tor a greater Montana and
'eieha and endeavor to so conduct
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IT MONTANA PLAINDEALER.

-, weekly by The Montana
'iO''' pIaindeaIer Company
o.ec EDITOR.
b p'''
...;or g.. 90 per year, Strictly in Adj
O'''' Advertising Rates on Application
.oond-cIass matter April II,
Ln'''t .hs Post Office at Helena, Montana
'oo' ., A. ~ Act Of Congress Of March s. 1879
II Communications to The Montana
'''I9. plaindeaIer, 10 South Main Street.
Helena, Montana.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-05-18

]
American Elks at all, and that the
Afro-American Order of Improved
Elks is spurious. The result of
the case is awaited with interest.
The Grattan bill was introduced
by Assemblyman w. H. Grattan,
of Cohoes, and was aimed at our
Elks. They, however, made no
effort to fight it before it was
adopted.
Middletown, Conn.-James A.
Wilson, of Calhoun Ala, a full
blooded African Negro, has been
chosen as one of the speakers at
the Wesleyan University COM
mencement exercises this June.
Mr.. Wilson was selected because
of the excellent showing he has
made in the English and declama-
tion departments throughout his
college course. The honor confer
red on him is regarded as greater
this year because in June Wesley
an is to celebrate its seventy-fifth
anniversary, When his appoint
ment was made known to him Mr..
Wilson said;
ut will be the happiest day of
my life if | can win the commence
ment prize from six other class
mates who are to speak"
The south's bid for reputable
white immigrants is not received
with shouts ofjoy by the foreigners
who flock to this country in search
uf freer government end better OPP
portunities of gettiug on in the
world. The social, political and
economic conditions which preva-
il in the southern states are not
such as desirable settlers are seek
ing for, and they do not take to
them. The federal statistics show
this to be so.
]. K. Wilson, at Chicago has op-
ened steam laundry. tbs equip
ped with the latest and most inn
proved machinery and is now in
operation. 1t is known as the Pro-
gressive Laundry, Mason and Ma
son, proprietors.
James Williams, Io2 years old
died recently at the St. Clair CO.,
Ill.,, poor farm, after a brief illness.
He claimed to be the first Negro to
cast a vote for Abraham Lincoln
for president. He was born in
Tennessee and has no living rela-
.tives.
The attention of Gov. Vardman
is respectfully called to the dis
tressing fact" that Olathe, Kans.,
has a Negro chief of police.
Mississippi's loud-mouthed brag-
CART and bully will doubtless "cut
out" Olathe, should he do any
iunketing in that neck o the
woods, for fear of running the risk
of deing placed under arrest by
black limb of the law.
We often hear the statement
that "our people will not follow
their leaders" Now why is this?
We will tell you why. 1t is because
not one out of a dozen of "our
leaders" can be trusted. No peo-
pie have ever been defrauded by
their own leaders as have the col
ored people.-FreemGH.
Three hundred aud thirty-two
white-cappers, indicted for intimi-
dation III the counties of Amite,
Pike and Franklin, Miss, have
pleaded guilty before tho United
States district court at Jackson,
Miss, and have been sentenced to
three months imprisonment and a
fine of SIS each. The outrages
occurred in 1902.
At first it was found impossible
to suppress the whitecaps or get
evidence against them. The Wig
orous policy of Gov. Vardman,
however, succeeded in getting at
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-05-18

Chicago, Ill.-The four year
term class in composition at the
Chicago musical college numbers
OF. Prof. N. Clark Smith is one of
the best six composers in the class
whose compositions furnished the
program for a recent entertain
ment. Two of his efforts we're
sung by a member of the college
faculty. This is the first time in
the history of the institution that
an Afro-American's music has been
presented and accepted. Professor
Smiths graduating certificate was
marked 100, the best average OBJ
tainable. Three of his new plan
tation songs have been accepted
by one of the largest music pub
fishing houses in the city. He is
the leader and director of our
finest band and orchestra.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-05-18

IF this country is to continue to
be Republic its task will never
be completed as long as seven or
eight millions of its people are in
a large degree regarded as aliens,
and are without voice or interest
in the welfare of the government.
Such a course will not merely in
fl!ct great injustice upon these mil
lions of people, but the nation will
pay the price of finding the genius
and form of its government chang
ed, not perhaps in name, but GER
tainly in reality, and because of
this, the world will say free gov
ernment is a failure. Booker I.
Washington.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-05-18

Elyria, O.-Mr. ID. c. Fisher, of
Lorain, last week brought suit for
$500 under the Hon. Harry {.
Smiths Ohio civil rights law
against George Schwert, a restau-
rant owner here. Mr.. Fisher who
is leading real estate dealer,
claims Schwert refused to serve
him and Rev. A. +. Simmons, also
of Lorain, some weeks ago. Elder
Simmons will sue later on. The
lesson needs to be taught prompt
ly, as often as possible by our peo-
pie when refused the free exercise
of their civil rights, and thereby
insulted and humiliated in public
places by prejudiced persons. Let
there be more $500 suits and a
more determined effort generally
to compel all to recognized our
citizens rights in public places
under the law.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-05-18
Race News.
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Subscribe for the PLAINDEALER
and keep posted as to the news.
Atlanta, Ga.-Bishop Turner has
received a letter from President
Roosevelt asking him to state
reasons why he should not be ar
rested for treason, because he said
in a speech delivered at Macon,
Ga, that "the American flag was a
dirty rag so far as the Negro is
concerned"
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-05-18

New York City-Recently O..
X. Johnson was arrested for wear
ing on the lapel Of his coat an en-
blem of the Order of Elks. The
arrest wasmadc under section 674
A of the penal code, otherwise
known as the Grattan bill which
makes it misdemeanor for any un-
authorized person to wear the in
sigma of an order which has ten
years standing in the state.
Johnson claimed that he had a
right to wear the pin as he was an
Elk in good standing in an Afro
American lodge. But the white
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-03-15
Preferred Locals.

We are having numerous inquiries
for houses to rent. Call and give us
description of your houses. We will
| place them for you. Large list of prop
erty to sell or easy terIs.
Carolina r. l.. g. d. Co.
w. F. Edwards. Pres.
See the $l.O0 clocks now IS cents at
GlaZener's.
When we promise a job of printing
we deliver it then, lot nextd day or next
week. Don't send out-of-town, if you
want first class work. Give us a chance.
We "know how" Nothing TOO large
or too small to receive the best atten-
tion of the HUSTLER Print Shop, the
home of fine printing.
A big March shoe sale is raging at
Shepherds.
DR.. Carson will be absent from bis
Office from the 18th to the Doth of March
For FINE printing, the HUSTLER,
of course.
Don't for get to attend the big shoe
sale for March, at Shepherds.
. Security and Highland Calf school
shoes are the best in town.. Prices $1.0O
to $3.50, at Shepherds.
NOTICE-I am 10Y located next door
norGh of the Commercial Bank, with
a full line of groceries, vegetables, can
dies, elders, soda waters. c~Ococola, fruit
etc. Your trade will be appreciated.
is j. STRONG.
Better shoes for less money a Shep-
herds.
See the big assortment of silks on
sale at half price at Glazener's.
~ 1o--o I@1- ala kho ITTIOTT " D &c
turning out the best Job work ever seen
in this city. That does not satisfy us.
We intend doing some of the best work
ever seen ANYWHER E!
BIG BARGAIN IN POULTRY
Outfit, One Ideal" Incubator, 200 egg
capacity, Six fine Barred Rock Hens and
Feed Bin, About 200 feet wire poultry
fencing, Three sanitary metal drinking
fountains, One bag, about 60 lbs, crush
ed oyster shells, One bag, about 2 bush
els, shredded Glover, One bag, or bush
ell, suitable charcoal, Actual value,
S40.0 90 my price Fob. Forest City, $500.
Write me for full information az once.
E. j. BARNETTE,
Forest City, N. G.
Now is your time to buy heavy cloth
ing, over coats, dress goods, shoes and
other winter goods. Is to so per cent.
discount at G. M. G~iazener's.
Active man wanted il each county to
exhibit, demonstrate and advertise
staple line; salary $l8 weekly, 50 per
day for expenses. No capital required.
Honesty and sobriety nor essential than
experience. National Co., 720 Chestnut
St., Philadelphia,
Wanted Lead or Tale. deposits
Devenny, Hostetter Bldg, Pittsburg, Ia
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-03-15
Board Of Trade Meeting

Judge Justice and Solicitor SPAIN
hour, at the last meeting of the Board
of Trade, made characteristic and in
teresting remarks concerning local con
ditions. Judge Justice said North Caro-
lima was the finest state in the Union,
and that Henderson county bad some OF
the best men and undoubtedly the pref
tiest women in it. He advised unity OF
thought and action, persistent adver-
Using and TALKING of Henderson
Vile. 1t will not be long before the
possibilities .of~our soil and climate will
astonish ourselves, remarked his Honor.
Take your own state and county papers
and become identified with every move
ment tending to advance Henderson
vile and Henderson county interests.
Be progressive. Don't live in the past.
Sam Jones said ''that these people who
live on their past and their ancestors
are like potato vines, the best part OF
them are under ground"
Solicitor S~painhour said that if North
Carolina was the finest state in the
Uuion, the western part was the best in
the tate. He advised unity of action
and thought in reference to the city's
progress. Unite in talking Hender-
sonville. Cited High Point rs a shining
example of what may be done by the
citizens of a town simply developing
their own resources, with little or no
l outside oonifo1 Tt hoe nnNU ohO,rt Inn
furniture factories, and their best lum-
Der comes from right here, then they
| ship the furniture back and sell it to us.
You can kill any town by talking it
down, He remarked recently to Locke
Craig, of Asheville, that Henderson
vile was the finest town in Western
North Carolina. eyes, said Mr.. Craig,
Except AsheviIle." Show the same
spirit here. Except HENDERSON,
VILLE!"
The more enterprises you can bring
here, the better for the town. A city
was never built by boarding houses and
stores. Instead of saying $50 many
miles from A~sheville." say Baskerville
is so many miles from HenderSonville."
John Wanamaker said the mountains
here were more beautiful han those of
Switzerland. Advised strong, persist
ent advertising. Said n northern man
told him, 81 am astonished at your
beautiful country. I always thought
you had but three things here: Hot
weather, niggers and cotton, but l find a
paradise" Quoted Pinehurst and other
places, with their climate which we
would not endure, a. being results of
properly directed efforts in advertising.
The two speeches were most interest
ing from start to finish. and held the
close attention of the audience to the
last. 1t is a pity a larger crowd was
not present to get some valuable COM
nonsense pointers how to advance
their towns interests. and their own.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-03-15

There is an old story they tell on
Jim Case, so old tits almost new. Jim
was on the platform before some debat-
ing society, and was drawing an i'm
pressive word picture of modern life.
Waving his arms in the air, he cried,
dramatically, ''and there is the great
locomotive, laundering along, over
mountains, over rivers, and through
valleys, taking to market our pertaters,
our perturnips. and percabbages!"
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-03-15

William e. Curtis,' the famous news
paper correspondent, who was in Ashe-
vile the other day. remarked to The
Citizen that the people of this city did
not realize the great boon which nature
had conferred upon it. "Your climate
is a panacea for all ills" said this bril-
liant writer, rand that fact should be
advertised from one end of the country
to the other. Spasmodic advertising
can bring no result, you know that.
Keep hammering your advantages into
the minds of the great American
people and you cannot fail to prosper"
Mr.. W. F. Edwards, of the Carolina
Real Estate, Loan & Development Co.,
on seeing the above clipping from the
the Asheville Citizen said: eff this is
true of Asheville, how much more so of
He~ndersonvills, with it's absolute free
dom from all contagious diseases. it's
mag nificent scenery, it's ample and mod
ern hotel accommodations, its hospitable
people, it's beautiful streets, and many
other advantages Advertising is as
necessary to a town as it is to a success
full merchant. People cannot know of
the advantages of Hendersonville unless
it is told to them, O once, not twice,
but over and over. Advertised prop
erly, and HendersonYille would in time
become the resort of the South"
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-03-15
No Advertisement
is 50 good as a well pleased customer

:KeaEzeg the nuthfulness # this assertion, " e are striving BY all fair and le-
umale means 20 please our customers w e want more OF your business and assure
GU IN dealing With u you nil receive courteous and attentive treatment We are
M cereal values in several lines. All our heavy winter goods we will close
oH at greatly duce prices % the i'm etos secure q good overcoat at your W
leather shoes at $3.50 while they last. Many bargains in dress goods, clothing,
furnishings, ETC.. Our grocery department more complete tbs ever We are
q position t. offer vol a fair grade of flour. best patent, at $5 the very best at
2; Mocha ad Java C flee at Zoe h.; delight at 16c best green coffee It IL 1-2c;
sugar, 10 lbs, 81; best rice 7c; three h. .cnt tomatoes at 1O. Give us our orders for
groceries, W wilt fill them accurately and deliver them promptly We wish to call
the special attention of farmers and truck growers to our line of high grade ferifzers
W would K to have you get our prices or anything you ave to buy. We are con-
hdent our prices and qualities can't be duplicated elsewhere. What re- advertise e.
sell; what re sell adveiss u.s.
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Last Call For Taxes.

FAIR WARNING-All persons who
have not paid their taxes before April
lst, 1906, will have their property ad-
vertised for the same, thereby adding
cost. This is absolutely necessary in
order 20 make settlement with county
Treasurer. Please call and settle at
once and save your self this cost.
G.. E. BROOKS,
Mar. Ii, '06 Tax Collector.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-03-15

The best way to rid the system OF a
cold is to evacuate the bowels Kenne-
dy's Laxative Honey and Tar acts as a
pleasant, yet effectual cathartic on the
bowels. 1t clears the head, cuts the
phlegm out of the throat, strengthens
the bronchial tubes, releaves coughs,
colds, Group, whooping corgF etc. Sold
by f. V. Hunter.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-03-15
Judge Justice said:

There is an old conundrum, "Why is
a widow like a baby?" Because she
cries a good deal the first six months,
then she begins to take notice, and it's
hard to pull her through the first sum
mer. Sometimes they act differently.
Mrs. Alice Sewell, of Swainesboro, Ca,
on her way home from burying her hus-
band, met an old flame of hers, Robert
s. Mcdaniel and they we're promptly
married before returning to, her resi-
dence.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-03-15

Don't frown-look pleasant. If you
are suffering from indigestion Or sour
stomach, take Kodol Dyspepsia Cure.
Hon. Jake Moore, of Atlanta, Ga, says
81 suffered more than 20 years with in
digestion. A friend recommended Ko-
dol. 1t relieved me in n day and
now enjoy better health than for many
years" Rodol digests what you eat, re-
iieves sour stomach, gas on stomach,
belching, etc. Sold by F. v. Hunter.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-03-15
Cure a FeIon,,

says Sam Kendall, of Phillipsburg Kan,
s'just cover it over with Bucklen's Arni-
ca Salve and the Salve will do the rest"
Quickest cure for Burns, Bolls, Sores,
Scalds, Wounds, Piles, Eczema, Snult
Sheam, Chapped Hands, Sore Feet and
Sore Eyes. Only Csc al Justus Phar-
macy. Guaranteed.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-03-15

Bernhardt drew from 80 t 40 people
from Hendersonville, at a cost of from
three to five dollars apiece to those who
went, Yet the Choral Society, worthy
of support from every man, woman and
child in the city, had some few seats
not. occupied at the ir recent concert.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-03-15

Judge Justice says the dialect writer's
are wrong when they accuse us of say
lag ''we'uns. he says we do use the ex-
preston ''you'uns," and claims it is cor
rect, dramatically but pleads not guilty
of the first.