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The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-11-23

AS the Chicago Conservation
SAYS: A lesson is to be learned
from the Republican victory just
won in Kentucky, namely that
patience and endurance, when
you are for the right, need not
ever be abandoned. The color
ed people, our contemporary says,
in the south, will get justice by
a continuation of their advocacy
for their rights, We believe that
Has not the prophets said before
one jot or title of His word shall
fail, heaven and earth would BAN
ish.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-11-23

They are forcing Yates up
again as candidate for govern
or. Yates will not likely be
candidate, bat # he does, it will
be on terms amicable to Deneen,
and such com binatiOn will be as
unalterabe as the laws of the
Modes and Persians. Yates and
Deneen are the strongest men
politically, in the state.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-11-23

DR.. John A. Wheeler is one of
the leading Republicans and if
he is the candidate for sheriff of
SangamOn county. two and one
half years hence, he will be
elected. The democrats cant
find a man strong enough to boat
him. If he is d candidate for
some higher state Office four
years hence, he will, in all prob
ability, be elected.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-11-23

What the people want, as Dr..
b. Il. Washington says, are men
and women who can do things
and produce results. That para
Bile he gave relative to Mckinley
wanting "a man to take the mes
sage to Garcia without asking
a question. is the finest and most
timely and applicable we have
seen or heard.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-11-23

One thing is certain and cred
table: Gov. Deneen is not pur
suing any "undue METHODS" to
get the nomination he is simply
a candidate on his merits The
small! fellows feel the good in the
governor already, he having
raised their salaries to good pro
portions.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-11-23
CONSOLIDATED STREET CAR
ROUTE.
Points of Interest
Springfield's Attractions and How tc

Springfields Attractions and How to
Reach Them.
Lincoln home-Corner Eighth and
Jackson streets-take South Eighth
car.
Lincoln Monument, Oak Ridge Gem
etery-take North Fifth street cars at
Fifth and Monroe streets.
Parks and Pleasure Resorts.
Washington Park, southwest of city
take South Second or Lawrence ave-
nue. cars. Reservoir Park, northeast
of city-take North Seventh cars.
Camp Lincoln. The permanent
camp grounds of the Illinois National
Guards. Take Rutledge or Camp
Lincoln cars. State Fair grounds,
north of city. Take North Seventh
cars. White City Park east of the
city. Take East Capitol avenue cars
at Fifth and Monroe.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-11-23

W. A. Calhoun, colored mu.
iscian, has been appointed perma.
nent musical director at the new
opera house at Chattanooga.
Tenn. Mr. Calhoun has appear
ed in piano recitals for the white
Y. NJ G. of that city, and also a.
the German r lthskeller, and
was received with much favor
The Freeman.
This shows what ability does
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-11-23
St. Ausustine's Mission.

vices every Sunday. Sunday School,
4 p. M; Divine services. 7:45 p m.
All are invited. Conducted by Rev
Jefferson.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-11-23

ut is no benefit to have given me
something, but it is a benefit to have
enabled me to obtain something for
myself."-Emerson.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-11-23

No responsible, honest, hard
working colored man will griev e
when a loafiug. criminal Negro
i. put in Jail Or the work house.
In fact, that the place for him
Richmond, Va. Planet.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-11-23

Are all the able men in the A :.
M E. church, not already bish-
ops to be candidates for the
episcopacy?
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-11-23
$50 yslSTSI In "a q lSlaxIkzEss
The Forums staff.

The Forums staff.
E. L. Rogers, Editor-in-C and
Business Mgr.
Will H. Barbour, Asst Editor.
Proof Reader and Stenographer
v Office Clerk, Book
keeper and Collector.
Springfield.
Mrs. e. l.. White, Contributor.
Miss Mamie Davis, Petersburg.
Y. \. Donegon. Lincoln.
MISS BLANCHE HOAGLAND,
Agent and Correspondent.
MISS JESSIE NJ. WATKINS,
Villa Ridge.
Address matter for the paper to The
Forum, 305R So. Sixth st.
Matters of business or information
to E. L. Rogers, Mgr.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-11-23

"Oh, Douglas! Thou hast passed BE-
yond the shore,
But still thy voice is ringing DER the
gale
Thou'st taught thy race how high her
hope may soar,
And bid them seek the heights, nor
faint nor fall"
Paul Laurence Dunbar on Fred
Douglass.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-11-23

Parties will please enter into ne
business transactions for this paper
with anyone save authorized agents
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-11-23

Andrew Russell may have an
opponent, but he will be the nom-
inee beyond all peradventure.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-11-23
PRICES FOR POLITICAL
ANNOUNCEMENTS.

State and National Offices. $1,000
County Offices ................ 500
Mayor of Springfield .......... 500
Regular write-ups, 10 cents per
line. Ten-line notice one time, with
announcement, free.
your paper in the afternoon on Sat
urdays.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-11-23

We want 1T always distinctly
understood that we take no per
son S nor set of persons private
d differences up through this
paper.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-11-23
Institute

The Fall Session of Am
bideXter Institute opens
on Monday, Sept. 3, '07.
Ample room TO: BOARD and tut
ton moderate. Pupils from
outside city room in In
stitute Building.
Dr.. J. H. Magee. president.
P. O. B,x7l Springfield. LII.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-11-23

Forum promises to be one Of the very
best advertising mediums
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-11-23

Bell Telephone: Northwestern University Medical
Main 337.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-11-23

This shows what ability does
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-18

the part of the residents of the District
1t is undeniable that since the river water
was subjected to an expensive process
of sand filtration there has been not
only no diminution, but an actual Increase
in the number of typhoid cases here. This
phenomenon means either that the river
water has nothing whatever to do with the
general spread of the disease and that Its
sources lie elsewhere and are increasingly
virulent, or that the typhoid germ Is not
removed from the water by sand filtration.
If the former is the case the problem re-
mains urgent and perhaps even more diff
ficult than though 1t were established that
the river water Is the chief carrier of the
disease element. If. on the other hand,
all or large proportion of the 81 per cent
of untraced cases of the investigation just
finished may be attributed to the river
water as a result of later examinations the
District will be confronted with question
of immense Importance and difficulty.
Pending the ascertainment of the rivers
degree of responsibility, If that should
prove possible, it is unquestionably incum-
bent upon the local authorities to bend
every energy to the cure of the palpaby
evil conditions in the business of supplying
milk to the people of Washington The
present laws are not wholly satisfactory,
but much can be done under them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-18
LaWson's Hard Luck.

Mr.. Thomas w. Lawson just missed. by
narrow margin. sensational advertisement
for his first novel. which is now the
cause of much transforming on the part
of the literary critics. Last weeks panic
in Wall street occurred on Wednesday. the
18th, and Thursday, the 18th. while the
sharp recovery in prices came on friday,
the 18th. If the calendar had been little
more kind to this budding author the world
would have been treated to the spectacle
OF genuine bear raid, with tremendous
consequences, on Friday the 18th, and
Mr. Lawson would have had a gilt-edsed
chance to scream in exultation just little
louder than usual. This year will yield Two
thirteen Fridays, which is the usual num-
Der. They will occur in September and
December. The earlier of them will per-
haps find a tickle reading world altogether
oblivious of the frenzied efforts of the Bos-
ton financial gymnast to attract attention.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-18
A Brownsville Fake.

Further statements from Galveston ex-
planatory Of the exploded sensation in the
form of confession by an ex-soldier of
the 10Th Infantry now in order Who
Planned and executed this fake? What was
It's object? If il was bit of newspaper en-
terpriSe down there it was very stupid If
some practical joker has been PLAYING a
prank on credulous reporter or editor no
harm has been done. But if somebody has
been at work deliberately trying to dis
credit Senator Foraker's efforts TO get at
the bottom of the Brownsville affair it is
important To ascertain who is who in fake
dom. senator Foraker announces his inten-
ton I" follow up this fraudulent confession
and get at the truth of the matter. His in
qulrics may produce some entertaining re-
suits
Even if this had been a genuine confess
sion and the facts stated in it had been ac-
curate. the necessity of a full. in partial in
quirS into the Brownsville affair would have
been demonstrated The discovery and
punishment of the guilty. whether soldiers
or civilians, would indicate the elemental
injustice Of the wholesale discharge with
out honor of the entire battalion. because
The government had failed To lay its hand
on the few Culprits
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-18
The Typhoid Report.

While il offers some tangible proof of
sources of the typhoid fever which has been
So prevalent in the District for several years
past. the report submitted to the Com
uissioners by Surgeon General Wyman
leaves open a wide field of further investi-
cation 1t is reassuring to learn that 1t is
net the intention OF the Marine Hospital
authorities to allow the matter to rest.
but that they are even now conducting a
further inquiry which. II is hoped will
clear away some of the doubts still exist
Ing to the part played by the Potomac
~a,cr in the health of the community.
Tie report reduces the equation to lower
tcr1's t3an it presented previously. OF the
81; cases investigated IL was found with
reasonable certainty that 10 per cent were
imported from beyond the District, 10 per
cent were attributable to the milk supply
and per cent to contact. This leaves 81
per cent still to be accounted for with
the water supply a constantly present
possibility.
The disclosures as to the manner I'm
which milk is supplied to consumers in
the District are far from reassuring. They
are. indeed. OF nature to Justify de-
mand for a thorough overhauling of all the
sources OF supply and agencies of dis
tribution in the interest of the public
health. There is carelessness. according
to this report all along the line. Even
when the milk is handled according to So
called sanitary methods the percentage of
danger is excessive. II is asserted. for
instance that even In some establishments
where bottles are washed BY improved
processes the water is not heated. Again,
1t Is asserted that there is gross care
lessness in keeping and handling the paper
bottle caps. In small retail establishments
the milk Is doled out in fractional quanti-
ties without precaution against Infection
In the homes. too, the milk is carelessly
treated and the danger of infection from
this source Is multiplied in consequence.
Until the true relation of the Potomac
river water to the typhoid infection is es-
tablished there win be great unea s.ness on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-18
Government Sweat Shops.
From Leslie's Weekly.

Is this treason? Is there another mis-
sion to perform for the university settle
ment worker and Prof. O'Neil, the cham
pion of labor at Washington? Has the
President further use for his big stick
after the manner of the packing house
raid? Are there sweat shops under the
very nose of the chief executive that he
has overlooked while casting his eyes to
other points of the compass? We have the
official statement of Secretary Shaw, in a
letter to Speaker Cannon, that the building
in Washington occupied by the bureau of
engraving and printing is little worse than
a public nuisance. His precise and en-
phatic language is as follows: Il doubt If
a worse sweat shop exists on the earth
than the factory in which the government
manufactures it's money, its bonds, it's in
ternal revenue and post office stamps. The
condition of the employees, especially in
summer is wellnigh unbearable, and every
consideration pleads for Improvement -"
While We are washing our dirty linen in
public, to the great detriment of industrial
and financial interests, Secretary Shaw no
doubt feels that he is justified in getting
out his dashboard AT Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-18
The south's Labor Problem.

The following bears New Orleans date
line:
After a quarrel between negroes and
Italians at Monroe La. last night, mob
of 300 negroes marched through the part OF
the town inhabited mainly by negroes,
shooting at Italians. two of whom were
shot through the abdomen and fatally
wounded Several Italian fruit STANDS
We're raided.
THE feeling against the negroes is high.
Instructions have been issued to the police
to arrest all strange and suspicious negroes.
The Italians are excited and threaten
vengeance There has long been ill-feeling
between the races. due to the ltaiianS
crowdng the negroes out of many small
trades.
Everybody familiar with the conditions
sympathizes with the souths movement
for importing a good grade Of white labor.
If all the negroes residing there were
competent and Industrious there would still
be room for a large number Of workmen
both on the farms and in the towns. But.
unfortunately for the general welfare, there
are many incompetent negroes and many
idle and thrftless ones, and this makes the
labor needs of that section large and press
ing. The land is rich, prices for the
south's products are high, and every effort
is made to improve the opportunities. Not
improbably, therefore, the south's labor
supply will be largely increased within the
next few years from foreign sources.
But the problem is not as simple as it
looks, and certainly not without grave
risks which this Louisiana episode sug-
geSts. When the shoe begins to pinch, the
more reckless and least deserving of the
negroes are sure to grow ugly in their
bearing toward the newcomers. Collisions
will take place and the peace of commune
ties will be disturbed. The burden Of prop
erty holders will be increased. because it
will lie with them to protect the imported
white labor. and the government itself may
become involved, because the newcomers,
for time at least. will bear allegiance to
foreign powers.
The worthy and Industrious negroes are in
no peril on this account. No foreign labor
ers can displace them. They are well ap-
preciated where they live, and their oppor-
tunities will increase with the growth of
the country. They have always made good,
and the relations between themselves and
their white employers or white neighbors
have never been better than they are to-
day.
More than ever. then, should the work
in which Booker Washington and other
Such negro ieaderS are ehsaseu pe eicouF-
aged and rewarded 1t means results of the
highest value to both races. and in the mat
ter under discussion in particular it means
the lessening of the dangers inevitable from
the rivalries of labor where competent men
are introduced to take the places of incom-
petent ones. Tuskegees in every southern
state would soon be among most valua-
BILE institutions in that section. ministering.
as they would. to the south's greatest ne
cessity
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-18
Woodruff,

When Timothy l.. Woodruff sailed for
Europe six weeks ago the gossips had it
that he was taking a header to escape
the coming storm at Albany and would re-
appear when the sky cleared. Maybe they
did him an injustice. At any rate Mr..
Woodruff will land at home Wednesday,
and the situation at Albany is more COM
plicated than when he left. Gov. Hughes
has outlined his policies, but the republic
cans in the legislature are moving with
extreme elaboration. There may be no
break but If one comes Mr.. Woodruff will
be within the reach of its influence. In
such an event, will he side with the gov
ernor. or wi the old leadership? r:are Is
seldom a clear political sky in New York.
and never a time when an old campo igner
like Mr.. Woodruff is entirely free from
care.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-18
Whats All the Stir, Kimmer?"

The more il is considered the more ex-
traordnary appears the stir over the pro-
posed visit of prominent railroad men to the
White House Ii has swelled almost into an
hysteria. If our government were an abso-
lutsm and the President an ogre with 4
club. and the railroads had all been form
ally certified for destruction. the matter
would scarcely bear a different aspect
Politicians sometimes lose their heads,
but business men of high grade not often.
And yet the initiative in this business was
taken by the most conspicuous captain of
industry in America. Pierpont Morgan
came TO town. apparently with credentials,
talked with the President behind closed
doors. drove back to his train, handed out a
brief statement for the newspapers. and
was off to take ship for Europe. People
Jumped to the conclusion that he had fixed
things" that the Presidents wrath had
been appeased. and that the worst was
over.
But how stands the real case? Congress is
not in session. and there has been no talk
of an extra session The President can
neither add to nor suspend the laws relating
to the railroads His only authority is to
see that they are enforced. If there are
roads so managed that the enforcement of
dent is not at fault. nor should he be exer-
Cised about it. The laws were enacted for
that very purpose.
As for the future, and especially re-
spects the next Congress. if the coming
eight months should show that the laws
need strengthening such action presume bly,
will be taken. 1t will not rest solely with
the President. II he should make rec
Ommcndation on the subject in his message,
II would yet be In the power of Congress
to address itself to the question and legis-
late according to it's own views The rail-
roads not likely to drop out of view.
If their management should show improve
ment because of this agitation so much the
better for them and for the country.
Meanwhile II will not be possible for the
President or anybody else to hold down"
Wall street. People who enter there do SO
at Their own risk Many of them leave all
hope behind. If a man understands the
game he may play for awhile with success.
hut even he has occasion to be wary. The
bumptious novice is of course in the
tolls. and, in the memorable phrase of jim
FISK. goes up the spout" Why mourn for
him? But nothing of this has anything to
do with the railroad problem as presented
To the national government
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-18
The High Finance "Panic.

From the New York Press.
To the shrieks of the stock gamblers that
legisla ton in behalf of the cardinal rights
of the public and the fundamental prin-
ciples of civic decency will bring panic and
ruin to the country, we answer again that
If all the high finance bubbles burst, If
all the water be let out of fraudulent secu-
rites and all the gas escape from initiation
balloons. nevertheless while the crops grow
and are harvested while the mills and fac
tories are running. and while the people OF
the United States are busy in producing the
wealth that this land bears for them, the
collapse of the paper values-by tens,
hundreds or thousands of millions-of the
speculative green-goods operators will have
about as much effect on the true prosperity
of the nation as a police raid on bucket
shop in the Tenderloin.
This. of course. unless the banks have
become an intimate part of the counter
feiting game. something we do not believe
Don't forget it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-18
The Rhode Island Deadlock.

The Rhode Island senatorial deadlock drags
on without change and without prospect of
a break. There is. however, no time limit
10 the length of the session of the legisla-
ture. so that there is no immediate appre-
hension that the final adjournment will
leave the senatorship vacant. Doubtless the
contending forces are taking advantage of
the lack of time limit to postpone the ne
gotiations looking to a combination, and
there may be no sign of ettlement until
after the houses vote to end the session. 1t
Is to be hoped. regardless of fractional or
party politics. that Rhode Island will elect
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-18
Incarnation.

Hyah dem frogs a talkin' funny
Yonder by de crick?
Dem is all magicians, honey,
Practicin' a trick.
Dey is conjurin' out de bloomin'
An de butterflies,
Things new shapes will be assumin'
Right befo' yo' eyes!
Mutterin' singin'. scoldin, screamin'-
Hahd to understand
But dey'll have dis oil place seeming
Jes' like fairy land.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-18
Tuskegee's Accounts.
From the Springfield Republican.

FrOM SrrlhgutIu RtpuDICdh.
Tuskegee Institute energies with flying
colors from the inquiry into it's financial
management by an expert employed by the
state government and acting under the au-
thorization of the legislature. In his report
to the governor the expert says that the
Tuskegee system of accounts is the best he
has ever known. and he failed to find the
slightest sign of extravaganza, except in the
5000 spent last year in entertaining Presi-
dent Roosevelt. But this is rightly excused
on the ground that President Of the United
States does not often visit Principal WASH
ingtons school.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-18

GyIn order to avoid delays on account OF
personal absence letters to THE STAR
should not be addressed to any individual
connected with the ONCE. but simply to
THE STAR, or to the Editorial or Busi-
ness Departments, according to tenor or
purpose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-18
Destroying the Forests.

From the Baltimore News.
The estimate of Pittsburg flood losses Is
now advanced to $5O.O0O.OOO. And that Is
but one point where floods are playing
havoc in western Pennsylvania. Sknniny
the country of forests so that water runs
off the land as from a tin roof is a costly
business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-18
Destruction.

"a modern battleship is capable of ter
rife destruction e.
Yes, the only question is as to whether
it will deal out that destruction to an enemy
or blow up its own crew."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-18

a senator. thus keeping the membership of
the upper house intact. A failure to elect,
causing a vacancy, would Immediately sug-
gest that possibly Rhode Island had started
in on the Delaware course, which resulted
in broken membership in the Senate for
number of years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-18
Not an Expert Opinion.

what is a brain Storm
WELL" answered Farmer Corntossel, AS
near as 1 kin make out, it's somethin' like
sayin' appendicitis std o stomach-ache.
It's an expensive name fur mighty COM
mon complaint"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-18

An appointment to the Panama canal
work seems like so desirable a position as
described in print, that it is hard to under
stand the frequency with which designations
occur.