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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-15
ANOTHER PROBLEM SOLVED"

n NJ n z n Y nObGCm OOIt LIZ
A writer in the Louisville Courier
Journal believes he has solved the race
problem. Briefly, he proposes to or
ganize an industrial branch of the
United States army. with negroes as
enlisted men. He would officer the ne
sroes with white men and farm out
their labor to such employers as desired
it. the officers acting as overseers. The
plan has many details, but this is its
general scope.
1t does not seem to US that the plan
is practicable In the first place, the
negroes could not be induced to enlist
in sufficient numbers. Although they
would be better fed. better housed and
would earn more money than they are
earning now, the regular hours they
would be required to keep and the reg
ular work they would be called upon
to do would be irksome. They simply
could not be persuaded to join the
army
The race question in the south is not
a question at ali as far as the sober,
Industrious negro Is concerned There
are thousands of blacks who toll hard
every day whose habits are good and
who never make any trouble. These
negroes are contented. They come and
go as they please They are their own
men. OF course they would not enlist
in the Industrial army.
The shiftless kind would not enlist
for the reasons already stated, because
thew manage an existence now by
working two or three days a week.
when they work at all, and they will
not put themselves where they might
have to work continuously. 1t would
SAVIOR too much of slavery for them.
Another point is that the government
would come into direct competition
with the trades unions. and we hardly
believe the government would care to
do anything of that sort. The union
men would raise a protest that would
he heard from one end of the nation
to the other.
1t is quite possible that the industrial
army would be good thing for the
negro and a good thing for the en-
plover of negro labor. 1t would be pos
sibIe for the labOrer always TO find
steady employment and for the en-
ployer to find plenty of workmen. The
labor problem of the south would, in
a measure, be solved.
But the plan as a whole has so many
elements of doubt, SO many points of
attack. that in our opinion it can never
become a reality.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-15
GAN FRANcIsco's TRIUMPH.

Few events in recent years have been
more impressive than the trial and
conviction of Eugene Schmitz, mayor of
san Francisco, on a charge OF extortion
in receiving money from the French
restaurant keepers of his city for pro-
lection in crime The offense of Schmitz
was of itself an ordinary betrayal of
public confidence by a city official; it
was not spectacular and unhappily it
was not new in American municipal at
fairs: but The single offense on which
he was convicted was only a small part
of d most extraordinary carnival of cor
ruption in which Schmitz was one of
the actors His trial was in reality a
test of American institutions; and if he
had been acquitted it would have made
the pessimists doubt whether the peo-
pie of the most cosmopolitan city in the
country were worthy OF self-gOvern-
menJ.
The specific crime on which convic-
ton was secured was sordid TO a de-
gree. The restaurant keepers, under
the guise of their business. We're con-
Quoting vicious resorts. Schmitz knew
it. Ruef knew it, the people knew it
To extort money from these fashionable
criminals. Schmitz and Ruef threatened
10 deprive them of their licenses to sell
liquor, which would mean heavy loss
to The establishments. To secure pro-
lection they retained" Ruef as count
sci. and in the shape of retainer"
paid Ruef thousands of dollars. which
he promptly divided with Schmitz. I'M
mediately the licenses were granted and
the criminal restaurant keepers were
safe from prosecution
This. however, was only part of the
bribery campaign The public utilities
companies of San Francisco, takingNad
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-15
FIXING UP A JOB.

A nice comfortable little job wrapped
up in an ordinance drafted to meet the
wishes of a few men appeared before
a council committee Thursday night in
the guise of a city law for inspection
Of electrical construction work. Not
that such a job is unusual in municipal
laws; on the contrary, whenever d man
or set of men have some special inter
est of their own TO serve they frame
an ordinance. hand it to the council and
too often put it through without re-
sistance from the public or the coun-
ell members, who are supposed to repre-
sent the public
Ii happened in this case that the pub
lie utilities of the city were watching
the measure. because they are affected
by ii, and they We're on hand by their
representatives TO point out the de
fects in the law. A casual inspection
shows that the measure is designed pri-
marily 10 furnish an office for some
hungry place-seeker. Secondarily, it Is
drawn for the special benefit of the
men who furnish electric supplies and
those who do electrical work. Possibly
some of the provisions were intended
to benefit the men who pay bills for
supplies and labor of such construction.
but if there was any consideration for
them it has not been pointed out. As
with building ordinance and the plumb
ing ordinance, and some other special
laws the men who thought they could
make easy money by compelling build
ers TO follow their ideas, inspired the
draft and expected TO have it passed.
Just by way of variety it would be
refreshing to find the council consider
ing the pocketbooks of the people who
pay for these pet laws. Proper restriC-
tons as to construction work are al
right and proper when enforced intelli-
gently; but the average city ordinance
is commonly introduced by some man
with an axe to grind and as commonly
passed because the uninfiuential public
is too indifferent or to-trustful to watch
its own interests and see that it is not
betrayed by its councilmen.
A simple. ineligible ordinance gov
ernlng electrical construction might
not be Objectionable, although there has
been no urgent demand for it except
from the men who would profit by ex-
pensive requirements. The ordinance
in question is badly drawn, capable Of
any Interpretation an inspector might
choose to put upon it, and apparently
meant to mulct house-owners and
builders for the benefit of a few chosen
favorites. III
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Admiral Evans is indignant because
American curiO hunters at a recent re-
ception on the Duke of AbruZzis flag
ship carried off so many trinkets. The
truth is. that it was thievery, pure and
simple. and the people guilty Of 1t de-
serve to be sent to Jail. But, 'eally, the
duke is bearing up well, if only be-
cause he considers himself lucky to set
away without losing a turret or a
twelve-inch gun.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-15

A St. Louis man drew straws with
himself the other day to decide wheth-
er or not he would return to his wife.
The wife won, or lost, as the case may
be. 1t is a well known scientific fact
however, that many women leave their
husbands, not because the latter dldw
straws, but because they draw too
much through straws.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-15

A Berlin professor announces that HI
has discovered a method of making ar
tificiaI diamonds that cannot be tolC
that everybody can have them. The
trouble is that when everybody cai
have thing nobody seems to want il.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-15

Discussing a statement that a GER
tain mining property would be paying
heavy dividends within two years or so
the sage Brush Sage, who has to hustle
for a living, rises TO remark that this
years steer doesn't get fat on next
years grass. Which seems a very rea-
sonable proposition.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-15

While at Honolulu Jack London came
the president doesn't know everything
If Jack ever comes back to this coun-
try he will certainly get his
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-15

King Edward liked "Salome'' so well
that he had a private performance of
ers who pronounced it vile will wish
they hadn't.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-15

oysters. according to a New York de-
cision. are wild animals. Next thing
we know the Roosevelt press agent will
advertise him as choking one TO death
with his bare hands.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-15

Tnese is. none better than Royal
Bread. The crown label is on every
loaf Ask your grocer for IT.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-15
Mrs. John Morton Davis.

Piano instruction. Lesehetizky method
Oxford Flats. 119 w. North Temple.
Bell phone 172G-X.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-15

odd Fellows day. saItair. June IS
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-15
WEATHER FOR SALT LAKE.
Showers.
THE METALS.

Silver. 66s4c per ounce.
Copper (casting). 22ssc per pound.
Copper (cathodes), 231sc per pound.
Lead. 1886 per 100 pounds.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-15
ADJUSTMENTS TODAY.

Orpheum-Matinee and night, "AII the
Comforts of Home.
Grand-Matinee and night East
Lynne"
Lyric-Matinee and night, vaudeville.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-15

Mrs. NJ. Page and daughter Allie left
Yesterday for California and a tour OF
the Pacific coast, to he gone all sum-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-15

Mrs. Arthur ]. Skidmore will enter
tain a few of the friends of Miss Emily
Grimsdell and Of Mrs. Kari Prinz on
Thursday next
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-15

Mrs. H D. Harker and Miss Harkt
are at home at % Nensington apart
mentS.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-15

Mrs w. J. Browning has returne
after a stav of several weeks in Cali
fornia.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-15

Mrs. Horace Cummings entertain
Yesterday afternoon for Miss Gertru
Reilly.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-15
Saturday Candy Specials

35c and soc sponge bags for 19c.
Pyralin soap boxes, soc value, for 25c
Kinds Honey and Almond Cream-prt
-ents sunburn and improves the complexio
regular Soc for 33c.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1907-01-05
COURAGE FOR THE NEW YEAR.

Have the courage to start right and
keep right.
Have the courage to turn from evil
and to cling to that which is good.
Have the courage to prefer comfort
and propriety to fashion in all things.
Have the courage to wear your old
clothes until you can pay for new ones.
Have the courage to discharge debt
while you have the money in your
pocket.
Haye the courage to obey your con-
science at the risk of being ridiculed by
men.
Have the courage to own you are poor
and thus disarm poverty Of its sharpest
sting.
Have the courage to wear thick boots
in winter, and insist on your wife and
daughter doing the same.
Have the courage to do without that
which you do not need, however much
your eyes may covet it.
Have the courage to speak to friend
in "seedy" coat, even though you are
in company with rich one, and richly
attired.
Have the courage to speak your mind,
when it is necessary you should do so,
and to hold your tongue when it is pru
dent you should do SO.
Have the courage to show your re-
spect for honesty, in whatever guise ii
appears; and your contempt for dis
honesty and duplicity, by whomsoever
exhibited.
Have the courage to "cut" the most
agreeable acquaintance you have when
YOU are convinced that he lacks princi-
pie. GA friend should bear with a
friends infirmities, but not with his
vices"
Have the courage to stand by your
convictions. Be both courteous anC
firm, making no compromise with evil
not turning into forbidden or by-paths;
choose the right, reject the wrong; be
good and do good, and then you will
have Happy New Year.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1907-01-05
Emancipation Day Celebration by the Colored
Population of Bay St. Louis.

The representative colored population
of Bay St. Louis celebrated Emancipa =
ton Day on Tuesday, the 1st, at Pro-
mote Hall, with exercises, both musical
and literary, fitting the occasion. The
following is copy of the programme e,
which was successfully carried out:
Music-America.
Invocation-By theRev.J. E. Holmes
Music-"My Country 'TiS of Thee" ="
Reading of Proclamation, e. D. Pru-
deaux.
Why Celebrate Emancipation Day =?
The Rev. J. z. Holmes.
Trio, Prof. G. w. Brown, Miss ANA
Jacob and Miss Helen Jacob.
Our Duty as American Citizens, Miss
Julia r. Moore.
Music the band.
The .; : of the Teacher and Preacher
Miss Maud Sylyest.
Duet-"Red, White and Blue" Misses
Corinne Ivy, Mamie Hall, Margaret Mar
shall and Agnes Ivy.
Woman in the Home, Miss Inez Labat.
Music by the Band.
Spontaneous Remarks.
What Education Has Done for the
Colored Americans, Prof. G. w. Brown.
Music-The Grand Old y. S. A, By
Several Young Ladies and Young Men.
The Negro as an American Soldier,
Miss Nathalie Piernas.
Recitation-The Negro Soldier In 1t,
Miss Lille Holmes.
Music by the Band.
The Fidelity of the Negro Soldiers, DR..
G. G. Ducker.
Recitation-The Traitors Death Bed,
Miss Anna Marshall.
Music-When We All Get to Heaven.
Recitation, Miss Celeste Harris.
The Negro in the Business World, H.
A. Webster.
Bass Solo-The Beacon Light, w. H.
Dennis.
Recitation-The Martyrs, Miss Gle
mentine Barabino.
Our Duty as Citizens, r. J. Squires.
Given under the auspices of the Col
ored Citizens ProgressiveLeague. Prof.
L. Tic, musical director. Committee Of
ARRANGEMENTS: ". H. Dennis, j. Labat,
Paul Benoit, Walter Gilbert, James
Alexis, A. H. Webster and e. D. Pru-
deaux. Master of Ceremonies: Sam
Breard.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1907-01-05
IN MEMORlAM.
Mrs. Heloise Bourgeois. Died December 3, 1906

RESOLUTIONS OF Observation-Disclosures
it has pleased Almighty God to take
from our midst Mrs. Heloise Bourgeois,
of Wayeland, Miss, an active member
of the Ladies' Minerva Mutual &c AID
Assn; Resolved: That, while we de-
plore the loss of our esteemed and
worthy sister member, we humbly sub
nit to the will Of the A&-Powerfull, !,
knowing that He is all-merciful and
knoweth for the best. Be it further re-
solved, that by the death Of this estima-
BILE lady the Association loses one OF its
most valued members. To give to the
needy and assist every worthy cause,
was her greatest pleasure, and in recog-
milton of her many good qualities we
know she is happy. Resolved, that, az a
mark of respect, a page of the minute
book of this Association be set aside foI
these resolutions; a copy be sent to the
family of the deceased, with whom we
deeply sympathize; and that these reso-
lutions be published in The Gulf Coast
Progress and in The Sea Coast Echo.
C. GARDEBLED, President
Z. NICAISE. Secretary.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1907-01-05
THE NEW YEAR.
A friend stands at the door;
In either tight-closed hand

A friend stands at the door;
In either tight-closed hand
Hiding rich gifts, three hundred and
three score;
Waiting to strew them, daily, DER the
land,
Even as the sower.
Each drops he, treads it in and passes by;
It cannot be made fruitful till it die.
Friend, come thou like friend,
And whether bright thy face,
Or dim with clouds, we cannot compre-
hend;
Well hold our patient hands, each IN
place,
And trust,thee to the end;
Knowing thou leadest onward to those
spheres
Where there are neither days, nor
months, nor years.
Miss Mulock, in this beautiful poem,
gives our ideas better than we can ex-
press them. The idea of each day being
gift, hidden from US until it's hour
comes, is a pretty thought. So many
gifts, so much time to use for either
profit or loss, and SO many hands are
held out eagerly for the coming days.
looking for them to bring happiness, or
gain of some kind. The spirit some
times grows faint before the unknown
future, consequently it is enough to
I take one day at time and try to make
that good. One day at a time is the secret
/ OF every noble life. "One day at time,
taken up bravely, with its duties faith
/ fully done as they come, its trials pa
tiently borne, its temptations firmly
resisted, its cross cheerfully carried, its
/ Joys rightly used, and its gladness gath
cred from every hour as it passes on. y
! Instead OF making many resolutions at
the first of the year to be quickly bro
/ ken, let US strive to meet each day
bravely, and take what it brings un
questioningly.
"Oh, hang some lamp-like hope
Above the unknown way,
Kind year, to give our spirits freer
scope,
| And our hands strength to work while
II iC 69v1
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1907-01-05
VISIT YOUR SCHOOLS.

How many of our school children: ,:
parents ever visit the schools, or even
know the teachers wien they meet then
on the street? How many know what
their children are studying, or how they
are progressing Is there any of you
who have a building to make or fence
to build; a dress to make; house to
paint; or, whatever the job may be,
that say to the one you have employed:
"Here are the tools and material, go
ahead and do it to suit yourself, and it
will suit me-" Is not that what many OF
you are doing with your children. You
say by your actions: "Here is my child
with its books, paper and pencil; I've
furnished material and tools, educate
him as you like" Now we hear some
Of YOU say: "The teacher knows better
what they ought to study than | do"
While that may be partly true, the car
penter, or a dressmaker, or painter,
knows better how to do the work than
you do; yet you do not leave 1t all to
them. On the rising generation de-
pends the welfare of this great nation.
and parents, take more interest
in our schools and visit them often, and
by your presence give the teachers more
ask them how your
are doing. Perhaps few min
ltes talk with them villa save trouble
hat years to come can never undo.
Think about this and ask yourself if
ro1l arc doing riCht
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1907-01-05
NEW YEAR NUGGETS.

Start right.
Wind up right.
Keep to the right.
Resolve and right about.
Don't sham; but be real.
Be content with the little you have.
Think evil of none, but we'll Of all.
Keep busy, in order to be healthy.
Consistently add to what you possess.
Undertake something good and stick
to it.
Advertise from the start and make
business thrive,
Have push and get-up and show that
you're alive.
If you break your resolve, don't give
up in despair.
Redouble your efforts, show manliness
there.
Break away from bad habits, evil
companions and vile books.
Cultivate courtesy, kindness, cheer
fulness, carefulness and promptness.
Aim to be something, do something,
get something, and keep something.
Keep your word, keep out OF debt,
keep good company, keep your own
counsel.
DON'T kick, don't grumble, don'i
criticise your brothers. shortcomings,
but smile at your obstacles and be gra-
cious and forgiving.
Accept our reflections, take The Echo
pay for it, read it carefully, send it te
your friends, and may your New year
be happy, and all the year pleasant.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1907-01-05

A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL !

4 happy new year to you, child OF
today May you know more Of sun
shine than Of cloud, and more OF glee
than of sorrow; may your tumbles and
bumps be few, your laughter frequent
and long, your play unrestrained, your
sleep refreshing, your dreams pleasant.
A happy new year to you, bright
youth and rosy-cheeked maiden Of our
city and country-an happiness IN the
ambition, the Joy, the friendship, the
competitions and the rewards Of school
life. Success to you in the endeavor
whereby the firm, enduring basis Of true
manhood and OF noble womanhood are
laid; with what success comes twO-fold
happiness ~ happiness to others and
happiness to yourselves. Go forth gaily
and confidently into the new year, o,
you who are beautiful in the fresh YigOr
of your youth!
To you, whose lives are hallowed with
the grace Of maternity, not one, but
many years of happiness! Live long,
wives and mothers Of this land, to see
the lives you have cherished expand
into beauty and usefulness; live long to
know and feel the sweet rewards OF
gratitude, OF veneration and OF love.
Survive those hours Of pain, Of cruelty,
Of watching and Of sacrifice - live
through it all, dear, patient martyrs, to
share the peace, the repose, the con- |
tentment, the compensations Of the fu-
ture, that surely wait for such as you.
A happy new year, too, to you, grand
mothers and grandfathers everywhere
Look out upon all around you and see
how passing fair the evening is; and all
that is to be heard invites contentment
and repose, You hear voices, too, that
we do not hear-they have never been
quite forgotten, and they speak to you
in the sweetly solemn twilight of the
morning that followeth the evening, and |
of the waking that cometh after the
folding of the hands to sleep.
Yes, to all-the young, the old, the
high, the Iowa happy new year, a
happiness arising from and tempered
with wisdom, faith, hope and charity
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tFor The Sea Coast Echo.)
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO OUR CITY.
Secretary

"A Happy New Year." dear old town
Rejoice in all thy ways;
For happy years have come and gone,
With brief and fIeeting days.
Years we've watched thy growth
In numbers and in wealth;
In lovely homes, and loveier trees;
In cleanliness and health.
In pretty streets and shady parks,
Where birds their carols sing,
And sunbeams play the livelong day,
And joys supernal bring.
The crystal water that we drink
Springs from the heart OF Earth;
AS ceaseless as a woman's love,
Wherever it has birth.
Our men are those of enterprise,
OF gumption, grit and grace,
Who believe that good improvements
Should have no second place.
Our boys will average we'll with boys,
Steady, stald and true;
With tact and purpose well in hand
The right they will pursue.
Our girls! All! heayen bless them,-
No better anywhere
They're the kindliest and sweetest
And fairest of the fair.
Our babies and our little girls,
Our mothers and our wives,
Are beautiful to look upon;
Are lovely in their lives.
Our schools all stand without a peer;
With promise great in store,
Where "Chesterield'' is taught as well
AS Greek, or Latin lore.
This leads to the higher schools;
Our churches, where the soul
Is led from Gods own granaries; :
And broken lives made whole,
The guardian angels of our homes,
Where faith and charity
Are taught to bless and fit US for
A bright eternity, ~