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The Washington herald., 1907-04-13
Conditions vs.. Theorles.

The Charleston News and Courier seems
10 have scored rather material point
against the Springfield Republican im
the matter of the employment of negroes
in various lines of endeavor. The Massa-
chusetts paper recently published a letter
from a man described as William n.
De Berry, a much-respected colored
clergyman Of Springfield" in which the
writer related the sad experiences of a
young negro who lost the position of
elevator tender he had held four years.
After devoting two weeks 70 a vain
search for new employment, he asked
the minister 10 assist him. De Berry
exerted himself, but, because the young
man was d negro, failed to secure for
him even the opportunity 10 perform
b such services as driving a laundry wagon
or delivering goods for a grocery store.
Similarly a negro student at the In
ternationaI Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation Training School was refused even
such menial labor as washing windows
and scrubbing floors purely because of
his color. A young negress who gradu-
ated from the business department Of the
Springfield High School and then took
q postgraduate course in stenography
and typewriting, was denied employ
ment wherever she applied, simply be-
cause she was not white In one in
stance a young woman who objected to
serving in the same establishment with
her was shown 10 have been one of her
former schoolmates
The Springfield Republican commented
on the Rev. De Berry's disclosures in
the manner which has ever been charac-
teristic of New England 1t feared that
the De Berry letter would give Spring
field much undesirable advertising in the
South, ard declared. among other things.
that the situation outlined by the negro
minister was shameful TO the last de-
gree. and wholly at war with any pre-
tensions We may have to the possession
cf d Christian civilization"
All this so interested the editor of the
News and COURIER that he asked New
England friend 20 ascertain the number
II negroes employed by the Republican.
The friend replied as follows
$50 far as / can discover our Massachusetts, eon-
Temporary has had up 10 recently two negroes in
is employ. one IN the stereotyping department and
one in chore work about the Office
Thus. We repeat, the South Carolina
paper seems to have scored a material
point against our highly esteemed Massa-
ehusetts contemporary. Like practically
every other publication or individual who
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Gaines and Hls CIothes.

The Hon. J. Wesley Gaines escorted TO
the White House yesterday bevy Of
Tennessee beauties, who came away de-
lighted with the Presidents gallantry
A friend Of the Tennessee statesman
made bold to tell him that for man
whose sartorial adornmeut was always
so neat and attractive, DE had committed
peculiarly atrocious mistake on this
particular occasion by wearing his silk
hat
II kBew," asscnted Mr.. Gaines. that
the rule here Is against wearing the taH
hat ln the forenoon. but had / worn my
sloueh hat / would not have looked au
fait, as ! heard 'em say over in Paris
once So what rs s fellow TO dc ia such
"a case2 / refuse 20 wear that abOmina-
tion of denominations. the stiff derby, aud
"A slouch hat which I much prefer 10 any
other. would not have suited this occa-
sion Hence, Z defied all the law and the
prophets this morning by donning my silk
hat
But Mr. Gaines went on 20 say, Il
am not as particular about my clothes
as you seem to think. not nearly so par
ticular as a lot of folks in Congress.
Why, do you know, my clothes don't ccst
me more than 500 a year? In point Of
fact, my laundry bill is greater every
year than my tail0r's DiH- Here. for ex-
ample, is the third pair OF breeches /
have bought this year. and they didn't
cost much.
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POLITICAL LYNCH Law.
J. II. Graves suggestion Thus Char
RcferfEed-N0t Taken Seriously.

acteriEed-N0t Taken Seriously.
From the New York Evening POST
John Temple Graves proposal that
". J. Bryan should nominate Roosevelt
az the next Democratic convention illus
trates clearly how. BY means OF his trip
South. the Brownsville affair. and other
methods, the President has won the
South, When the most rabid anti-negre
editor in Georgia thus aecisims the man
who asked Booker Washington 10 lunch,
the hatehet is indeed buried and the
solid South" in the greatest danger. But
there is something eminently fitting that
this advocate Of lynching should mako
the proposal he does, for it is lynch law
that he would thus apply 20 the Demoe-
racy. To turn IL over to the Republicans
bodily would, however, net mean the de-
livery Of its true soul-of the soul which
inspired 1t In the days Of Cleveland. and
long before. An era of good feeling for all
save railroad men and corporation man
ayers this may be, but that fact leaves
few political questions still unsettled
individualsm as opposed 10 State and
national management and supervision. the
rights Of the States, and the iniquitles
of the tariff In other words the Demo-
cratic or some other party still ought to
continue the fight for justice and equality
as against pTerOgatiye, special privilege,
and the partnership OF the government
with certain individuals for the iatters
enrichment It mag be that a new party
viii carry on this old contest. II, 50. Mr..
Graves proposal is perhaps as good a
way as any of Fastening its formation,
Unfortunately for him. his reputation 10
such that few VIII take him seriously.
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SATURDAY. APRIL l8. 1907.
Up to the standpatters.

Senator Lodge and other statesmen who
let Il would wait on II dare not are
respectfully asked 10 ponder the practical
completion. by Secretary Root. of nego-
tiatioHs for q new treaty settling all the
principal minor questions at issue between
the United States and Canada. The stand
pattcrs, of whom the Massachusetts Sena-
tor is an inustrious exemplar. have based
their opposition to the demand for reci-
procitV with Canada on the ground that
the brushwood should be cleared away be-
fore a new commercial treaty with our
neiGhb0r and great customer to the north
could be considered. They have pointed
80 The water boundaries on the St. Johns
River. the Great Lakes. and the Milk
River and Rainy Lake regions 10 say
nothing of the sealeries and fishing ques-
tioRs, together with the Newfoundland
dispute. as among the chief difficulties in
the way.
Mr.. Root upon the occasion Of his trip
to Canada gave out that his mission
was strictly social and personal: that he
had been invited by the governor general
10 pay him visit at Ottawa, and that
was all. il now develops that the questions
above enumerated were taken up by Mr.
Root while at Ottawa, and that a basis
of settlement was agreed upon, for quickly
following the recent visit of Ambassador
Bryce 10 Ottawa il is announced that
these old-time issues will soon be settled,
and thus viii be removed virtually all of
the smaller causes of irritation between
the Dominion and the United States. Our
so per cent tariff wall along the border
will of course. remain. Until that is
shaved down, our relations with Canada
cannot be what they ought to be. What
excuse the standpatters will ind with
which longer 20 bolster up their position
is not now apparent but that they viii
hnd one We have no doubt Mr. Root and
Mr.. Bryce have paved the way for the
renewal of reciprocity negotiations. Freer
trade cannot be obtained, however, with
out the Senates assent. Undoubtedly,
Canada is willing tc make any reasonable
concessions. Its 25 per cent tariff barrier
is not sacrosanct to Canadian statesmen
as is our Dingley wall To our standpatters
Mr. Lodge much lamented after the
Alaska boundary dispute was settled TO
our advantage, and his increased renown,
that until the smaller questi0ns-those we
have enUmerated-were out of the way
reciprocity could not be considered. These
smaller questions soon will be removed,
thanks To Elihu Root. 1t is now up to"
Mr. Lodge and the other guardians Of
Dingleyism in the Senate TO say how soon
we shall have reciprocity with Canada.
The Washington herald., 1907-04-13
THE APPOINTMENT OF TYLER.
Paper Says IL Can Only
work Mischief.
FT5m lie PittsbuTg Sun.

From the PittsbuTg sun.
President RooseveIt's appointment Of an
Ohio negro 70 a Washington routine de-
partmentaI position, where he viii have di-
rection Of many white clerks, and not a
few Of them women. is unfortunate in that
it viii stir ID and intensity bitter race
prejudice. Organs Of the Presidents own
party admit that this appointment is a
slap at Foraker, since the appointee comes
from Ohio. II is also said that this sop
is intended TO Dlacate the cOlOred race
for the wholesale discharge OF a negro
battalion for the Brownsville affair. But
one s8000-a-year job is q poor return for
the throwing of hundreds of men out OF
their life work and the retirement beEe-
TITS some Of them were near 10 achieving.
The Senatorial investigation into this mat
ter has brought out facts in extenuation
that were not made public when the Pres
ident issued his basty and unusual order
of wholesale discharge. This appointment,
coming under the circumstances IL does.
can only work mischief to all concerned.
If the President had wanted 10 benefit
and compliment the colOred race. he could
have done so more effectively but he
couldn't have slapped Foraker. too.
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inconsistency.

Prom the Norfolk VirgHisu-Pilot.
Those persons who most angrily re-
sent any suggestion that Mr.. Roosevelt
could have pracuced the least shade OF
dissimulation about the transactions OF
1904 arc the most anxious that he should
violate his solemn and repeated pledges
not 10 accept another nomination. They
would prove his chcrry-tree resemblance
10 George Washington by committing him
TO a deliberate unJruth, which should also
do violence to that unwritten law which
he has declared TO be binding
The Washington herald., 1907-04-13
Taft and the Church.

Ministers of the gospel here and IN some
other places where Secretary Taft Is
well known. aim at him a curious crid-
cism. They say that he does not often
attend church. and that he does not seem
10 care for conventional religious forms
and ceremonies. They do not say that the
Secretary is irreiigious in the broad sense.
bat merely that he does not comply with
the usual rule of men in high public
station in the matter of attending divins
worship regularly. For example, when
DE was on his way to Cuba the last
time he had to spend Sunday az Charles
ten. S. C., where the old custom of going
10 church Is rigidly adhered 70 by all the
better class OF citizens. Ii was noted that
the Secretary did not go to church there,
and one or more ministers Of that city
have since then made Inquiries Of men
of the cloth 81 Washington as 10 the Sec
retary's church connection and habits in
this city. Some of Judge Tah's friends
here say he Is = Unitarian, and others
that he is an Episcopahan, but nobody
seems clear as 10 how often he goes 10
church when in Washington. Wthal,
however, the Secretary's life is singuiaTly
pure. even though he may not regularly
attend divine worship.
The Washington herald., 1907-04-13
Indiana tn the Frnnt.

From the indianapolis Star.
Does not official Washington show itself
in a state of unnecessary perturbation at
the prospect of Miss Stephens, of Linton,
Ind. becoming a rural mail carrier? Is
the physical prowess of modern woman
unknown along Pennsylvania avenue and
in the purlieus of the Congressional Lii
brary and the Senate restaurant? Does
the shadow OF the Washington Monument
fan upon persons still ignorant Of the
change that has come over the once so
called gentler SEX
The Washington herald., 1907-04-13
THINGS MORE ExCELLENT.'

As we wax older on this earth,
Til many toy that charmed MS seems
Emptiod Of beauty. stripped Of worth.
And mean as dust and dead as dreams
Fer gauds that persisted. shows that Passed,
Some Fccompeuse the Fates have sent;
Thrice loFelier shine the things that last
The things that are more excellent
Naught nobler is than to be free
The stars Of heaven are free because
In amplitude Of liberty
Their JOS is 10 obey the laws
From servitude 10 freedom name
Free thJu this mind in bondage pent;
Depose the fetich and proclaim
The things that are more excellent.
To dress. TO call. to dine, TO break
No canon OF the social code,
The little laws that laekeys make,
The futile decalos Of Mode
How many a soul for these things lives.
With pious passion, grave intent
While Nature. careless handed. gives
The things that are more excellent.
To hug the wealth ye cannot use.
And lack the riches all may gain-
Oh blind and wanting VIII 20 choose,
Who house the chat and burn the srainl
And siiH doth life with starry towers
Lure TO the bright. divine ascent
Be yours the things ye would: be ouTs
The things that are more excellent
The grace OF friendship-mind and heart
Linked with their fellow heart and mind.
The gains of science, gifts Of art;
The sense Of oneness with cur kind:
The thirst 20 know ard understand
A large and liberal disconteut-
These are the goods in IFS rich hand
The things that are moIs excellent
In faGltiess rhythm the ocean rolls
A raptHrous silence thrills the skies;
And un this earth are lovely souls.
That softly look with aidful eyes
Though dark, o God, Thy course and track,
! think Thou must at least have meant
That naug3t which lives sho8ld wholly lack
The things that are more excellent
William Watson
The Washington herald., 1907-04-13
FLEETINC FANCIES.
From the Milwaukee sentinel
An Appeal.

From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
An Appeal.
The recently organized Lemon Club. OF
Milwaukee, is composed only of girls wh1
have been squeezed.
Ia going through life I have yearned
For things l could never attain;
Long since the height / have spurned,
For the crest / shall never quite gain.
But a longing, just one. fills my breast,
TO get it-ah, there comes the rub,
Ia Ike 10 get in-it's no jest
With the girls ia that new Lemon Club.
OF course. / have never been squeezed
No no. for I'm overly shy:
But it's possible ] could be teased,
II d member was anxious 10 Try.
I wish that these maidens would take
Me iu-Im a poor wand ring dub
/ think that their rules they might break
Please, girls, let me into the club.
The Washington herald., 1907-04-13
Lese NIajeste.

From the Springfield Republican.
John II. Thurston's portrait has been
turned TO the wall by the Fontelle Club.
of Omaha, because the former Senator
from Nebraska was so severe on the Pres
ident in his late speech in Philadelphia.
All Thurston's Ions service to the party
amounts to nothing in view of his lese
ma iesfP
The Washington herald., 1907-04-13
DiatantIy Related

From the Chicago Chronicle.
Paul Morton expresses the belief that
shippers are not back of the public clamor
for railroad legislation. but that poll
ticians have caused it from questionable
motives. He says that, "of course. as be-
tween the President and Hartman
would stand by the administration" Mr.
Morton did not say these things in the
same breath exactly, but somehow they
seem .. be dIstantly related
The Washington herald., 1907-04-13
Rnsse Family PonnInr

FTOn The Illcag0 Ihr0nlcle.
1t is astonishing how there are fashions
in everything and how as soon as some
thing is successful it is initiated all over
the country No sooner was Fred A
Busse elected mayor of Chicago than the
county board must have William Busse
for its president. and even the Demo-
cratic IrOquois Club had TO 20 and elect
William r. Bussey for its president. Very
well, there cannot be too much Busse in
this toMn
The Washington herald., 1907-04-13
A LITTLE NONSENSE.
A CHEERFUL CAROL.

Bumluck has the gambling itch;
Has II bad
How to suddenly get fic;t
Is his fad.
When with any little stake
He doth meet,
He must needs a flyer take
In the Street.
Bumluck picks a gamblers life
As his lot
Hungry kids and fearful wife
Move him not.
Apprehension, want, and woe
Dog their feet.
And some day they all will go
In the street.
The Washington herald., 1907-04-13
Our own limitations.

Following is a correct imitation of a
syndicate j0kesmith:
say, old man. what do you do for
Jokes when you cant think of any 10
4rite2'
S"Oh, then Z just write some jokes that
amt jokes. replied the jokesmth
+. S.-lmltations like this six for q
quarter
The Washington herald., 1907-04-13
No one Doubted His Position.

From the Baltimore News.
son-in-law Longworth. within few
hours after his arrival home from Wash
ington, issued a statement declaring in
favor of Taft and stating that approval
Of RooseveItism is the issue. There was
no need for him TO be in any rush as no
one doubted where he would stand.
The Washington herald., 1907-04-13

why shouldn't Hartman be a Senator
If he wanted to be-" asks the New York
World. Considering the material the leg
islature seemed determined to operate
upon at the time we don't know why.
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Sons of Great Eaitor..

Joseph Pulitzer, vino Tehabilitated the
New York World after ne had built up the
ST. Louis Post-DisDatch into one Of the
most influential newspapers In the West,
has placed his Sons al the head of those
two great properties. Ralph Pulitzer, the
eldest son. has been intrusted with the
management of the World. and Joseph Pu-
liter. jr.. has been made responsible for
the continued success of the St. Louis
paper Both sons have been very carefully
trained by their father, and each has
taken hold of the task set by the father
with vim and vigor, Ralph Pulitzer mar
ried into the Vanderbilt family not long
ago. Whitelaw Reid, who succeeded
Horace Greeley as editor of the New
York Tribune, was approached about
year ago with a proposition 10 sell that
newspaper for "a large amount His reply
was that while, perhaps he should not
again undertake the active management
of the property. he had determined to put
bis son at the head of it as soon as the
young man had finished his education and
had acquired some experience with large
practical affairs James Gordon Bennett
succeeded his father as the head Of the
New York Herald, son Of Henry Willard,
who at one time was the chief owner of
the New York Evening Post is now the
managing director Of the Post. while a
grandson of Joseph NJ Medin founder OF
the Chicago Tribune Is now the publisher
of that paper.
The Washington herald., 1907-04-13

Possibly to prove that they were not
mollycoddles, a party of Harvard stu
dents peited the actors in a recent per-
formance Of Brown of Harvard" with
ancient eggs, potatoes, cabbage. and other
things of like nature. And that wasn't
all they proved.
The Washington herald., 1907-04-13
Sour

Says Hartman, sadly, at dinner one day:
1T hurts me TO think / was treated that
way.
Please pass me the sugar. and pass me a
lot
l want IL to sweeten that lemon I got"
The Washington herald., 1907-04-13
What Else Could &c nonef

what was the charge against him."
Using profsne language in a public
place"
was he acquitted
sure. At the time he used It he had
just paid his gas bin"
The Washington herald., 1907-04-13
OF Cour.e

From the Omaha Bee
The funny thing about it is that the two
rival telegraph companies should select
tho same date for announcing a boost in
rates. Coincidence, of course.
The Washington herald., 1907-04-13

Secretary Taft is said to have lost over
100 pounds during the past year. The Sec
retary is probably training for long and
steady race.
The Washington herald., 1907-04-13
CuIberson SIN Shy.

Senator Culberson at last has spoken
out publicly on the subject Of the Demo-
cratic Presidential nomination He told
his constituents AT the Texas capital the
other day that he was not candidate,
that Bryan would be nominated. and that
not unit! the Northern Democracy turned
10 the South for national leadership
would the time be propitious for his party
10 urge the nomination of a SOutherner.
a movement OF promising strength was
quietly started for Senator CuIberson I'm
Washington and New York last winter.
but the Texan did all he could 10 dis
courage H. lie refused point blank 10
meet in conference "a crowd of loyal
friends who wanted frankly 10 discuss
the subject with him, aud in other ways
showed a determination not 20 lend any
sort of aid 10 the movement Although
news Of the effort 10 induce him to per-
mix his friends 70 sound the country on
his availability was broadly published.
the Senator declined 10 authorize one
word for publication. Whether the Texas
Senator's attitude is cue TO timidity or
to suspicion, his friends are unable to
judge. Mr.. CHlbers0n is one Of the most
cautious politicians in the country.
Throughout all his career he has been
governed by caution which at times
has tried sorely the patience of his sup
pOTters. He is one OF the hardest men ia
public life from whom TO secure an in
terview for publication. Genial, com
panionahle, and accommodating at all
times. still. when asked 20 permit his
name 10 be used as authority for any
public statement. he hesitates 3 long
time, if he does not refuse on the spot.
The Washington herald., 1907-04-13
C0nafnr.

Draweth nigh the time when kids.
BarefoOted win get hence
To ball parks-there 10 find a knot
Hole IN the high board fence.
And exc the yells that we shall hear
They neer shall be forgotten
When from the crowd comes 20 our ear:
DE umpire's gettin' rotten.'
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Never Recover.

"skribbler is going to write a poem on
the railway eating house sandwich
Has he ever eaten one?'
mo. But he intends to-
''Then he'll never write the poem"
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Such is Notoriety.

what do you think Of this man HarIi-
man, anyhow?
Hartman. Hartmann Never heard OF
him. What club did he play in last sea
son?''
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Cold In Indiana

From the indianapolis News
Nor does the fact that they have ceased
to heat the street ears make it seem a bit
more like spring.
The Washington herald., 1907-04-13
HAD YourHs

"The President distributes the plums.
believer"
quite So"
What are Secretary Loeb's functions? %
''He hands out the lemons"
The Washington herald., 1907-04-13

dorsed Theodore Roosevelt and all that
he has done The President, however,
has not, up to this time, returned the
compliment
The Washington herald., 1907-04-13

Editor John Temple Graves has advised
MT. Bryan to get in line for Mr. Roose-
velt in 1908. Mr.. Bryan, however, may be
as hardheaded about taking newspaper
mems advice as Mr.. Roosevelt is.
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may. as Mr.. Mccall suggests, turn out
commercial disappointment But that IS
another story
The Washington herald., 1907-04-13
The April Program.

A little snow. a little rain,
A little sleet.
Then run the gamut DER again.
Encore! Repeat
The Washington herald., 1907-04-13

A Guatemalan editor complains that he
was imprisoned. beaten, starved. and
finally banished because he printed the
Presidents message on the fourth page
of his paper instead of the first We pre-
sumo that it isn't eveh safe in that coun-
try to make sighting or sarcastic re-
marks concerning the Guatemalan Con-
gressional Record.
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Perversity,

i wanted to name the kid Henry
James, but my wife objected"
"Well?"
We compromised on James Henry.
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In Brooklyn.

Mrs. Flatbush looks like a motherly
old soul"
''She is That woman has brought up
seven rubber plantsr
The Washington herald., 1907-04-13

The weather conditions have been very
depressing on the spring poetry crop
There is always a silver lining. you know.
The Washington herald., 1907-04-13

Chancellor Day intimates rather point
edly that his university is the only good
one in this land. Somehow, we rather ex-
pected him to say that before he got
through.
The Washington herald., 1907-04-13

A Washington correspondent says the
President expects Mr.. Hartman 10 flood
the country with lies Naturally, II ne
puts them out at all, they viii be well
Watered.
The Washington herald., 1907-04-13

Honduras navy has been warned not to
lombard cities along the Central Ameri-
can coast. The order must have lifted a
weight of apprehension from the hearts
of the crew
The Washington herald., 1907-04-13

Pride and ignorance prevent US from
gaining common knowledge" says the
Baltimore American. But do they cause
us to get uncommon knowledge?