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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-09-03

From every state in the Union
comes the glad news that the mem
bers Of the cold Guard' are awaken
ing and renewing their struggle for
Populism which they had well nigh
won twelve years ago and would have
won long before this time had the
fusion serpent not tempted some Of
It's trusted leaders and induced the
party to attempt flank movement.
This move well-nigh wrecked the
splendid army Of Populism; but not
the spirit of Populism, which still
lives and breathes stronger in the
breasts of Americans than in 1896.
The army can be modified again.
The great Napoleon was defeated and
exiled; but he still lived and breaking
away from his exile fastened to re-
turn, trusting that his "Old Guard"
would flock to his standards again,
and when the members of the Old
Guard saw Napoleon they deserted
their leaders and rushed to him and
carried him in triumph to Paris.
When the members Of the Old Guard
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-09-03
GEORGE z. MILLER

come to believe that the mail order
houses would sell them out in less
than no time if the government we're
to make communication between the
city and the farm any easier.
"But,' said a man, not long ago,
in discussing the question with a
country merchant in Iowa, call you
have to do is to sell the same goods
at the same price. If you do that
the people will not send their money
to the city for the purchase Of their
necessities. "
II do that" replied the merchant,
"but the people would rather buy
from the pictures in an illustrated
catalogue than to come into my store
and see exactly what they are buy
ing"
II can hardly believe that
81 will prove it to you," replied
the merchant with great emphasis.
"Just read that" and he handed
his caller copy Of a publication pub
hshed under railroad backing in Chi
cago, in which the mail order houses
and the parcels post were certainly
given fits.
"You ought to have more sense
than to believe the stuff in this ar
ticle, " remarked the visitor. "It
says here that many of the transac-
tions of the mail order houses verge
upon swindling; that often the goods
are not at all as represented; and
yet that the people will insist upon
flooding these mail order fellows
with millions a year. Why, this is
nothing more than a charge that most
of the country people of the United
States are plain idiots. If that is
the way the mail order houses con-
duct their business they will die of
their own rottenness and you need
not worry about them. Common
sense will teach you that.
Advantages and Disadvantages.
Now, what are the advantages and
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-09-03

disadvantages of the parcels post?
The advantages can perhaps best be
illustrated by reference to the work
done by the parcels post abroad.
There, especially in Germany and
Great Britain, this great modern con
venience has been brought to the
greatest perfection. And there it is
worth studying.
In the first place, it has been dem
onstrated there that the parcels post
is the greatest stimulant Of domestic
trade ever devised by man. In the
next place, it has made life in the
country, in both Germany and Eng
land, as comfortable and convenient
as in the city. And lastly, it has
proven so great a blessing in the
cities, towns and villages that in many
instances merchants have disposed of
their delivery wagons and they de-
pend upon the parcels post exclusive.
ly for the delivery of merchandise to
their customers, except In the matter
of goods of too much weight or bulk
to go through the mails
In London the government runs
motor wagons in all directions
into the country for many miles for
the delivery of parcels, and this SER
vice is being extended until presently
it will cover the country. Parcels up
to the weight of eleven pounds are
carried through the British mails,
while in some other countries the linn
it is much higher. Italy, Chile, Gu.
ba, the Netherlands and New Zealand
are the only other countries holding
the weight to the same maximum as
Britain. In Germany and Austria
packages weighing one hundred and
ten pounds are received, and in Bel
GUM the limit is one hundred and
thirty-two pounds. In France it is
thirty-two pounds. In the United
States alone the limit is as low as
four pounds, while the rate with us
Continued on Page Fourteen.)
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-09-03
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
THE PARCELS POST" GEORGE y MILLER

Undoubtedly the most skillful, con-
sistent, persistent and successful lob
bying ever done in the United States
is that by which, over long series
of years, the extension of the Amer
lean parcels post has. been defeated.
For years upon years this lobby has
held a seat in the United States SEN
ate for its leader, in the person of
Mr.. Plat of New York, and he has
there kept patient vigil for the pro-
lection Of the various express COM
panies Of the country.
The unbroken line of victories
achieved by this lobby has been the
marvel Of all who did not understand
the magnificent backing it has en-
joyed, and still enjoys. Time after
time the attempt has been made to
give the people of the United States
a measure, . at least, of the comfort
and convenience derived by the peo-
pie Of Germany, Great Britain and
other countries from their parcels
post, but each time the effort has
failed with emphasis. An insidious,
yelled influence has ever stood at SEN
ator Platt's elbow, ready, prepared
and competent, to aid him in the rout
of those who would shake loose the
grip of the express companies from
the package freight business of the
great American republic.
And while Senator Platt has be-
come so old and feeble as to be an
object of pity as he daily totters to
his seat in the senate chamber, guild
ed and supported by an attendant, it
has become apparent that his mystic
rious hackers are as lusty and full Of
vigor as ever.
But what is this potent influence
which has enabled Senator Plat to
accomplish such remarkable results
as the opponent of constructive leg
islation? Constructive legislation
asked for by a majority of the people
of the country, and by the inhabitants
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-09-03

Of the rural districts solidly. 1t can
not be that the express companies
have the vast power needed to ac-
complish so many victories, congress
after congress. And it is not the
express companies, as such. But if
the reader will take the trouble to in
form himself as to the ownership of
the various express companies, he will
see a great light.
Where the Opposition Begins.
1t has been asserted that there is
hardly director of a railroad in the
United States who is not stockhold-
er in an express company. And, GER
tainly, there is not an express COM
pany In the country that is not in
part owned by directors Of railroads.
This, then, is the seat Of the aston
ishing power welded for so long by
the senator from New York in head
ing off any encroachment by the mail
service into the field so closely monop-
olized by the express companies.
The ingenuity with which the par
cells post has been fought by these
people is worthy of admiration. Tt
is reliably asserted that there is not
a village in the United States which
does not contain at least one man who
has been employed in spreading the
gospel of opposition to this reform.
And today this propaganda has been
so successful that there is hardly a
small merchant in any Of the country
towns who does not believe he would
be utterly ruined if congress should
pass a parcels post law. 1t has taken
years Of effort to create this condi-
ton of opinion among the country
merchants, but that it now exists is
beyond doubt.
The mail order houses are the bug
aboo held up before these merchants
to enlist their support in aiding the
express companies to retain their hold
upon the business they have so long
enjoyed. And these merchants have
The Washington bee., 1908-05-23

w. CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR
The Washington bee., 1908-05-23

himself, and for his future. Well,
what of it? Has not a man a per
feet right to regard his own in
terests some and especially after
he has made the sacrifices that the
Senator has made.
Single-handed and alone Senator
Foraker has made a mastery fight,
and had he had with him, intimate
ly associated in the work of prop
agating his cause, a band of un-
selfish Negroes willing to labor out
of gratitude, and for love - and
there are thousands of them -
instead Of some Of the Hessians
that hung on his hip, old barnacles
to impede the progress Of the ship.
he might have triumPhed at this
time.
The Washington bee., 1908-05-23
DUTY OF COLORED AMERI-
CANS.

Jacksonville, Fla, May II, oS.
Editor Washington Bee:
I have just finished reading your
splendid editorial upon why the Ne
groes should support the nominee
whoever he may be, of the Repub-
ilcan party. The reasons have been
so plainly and convincingly set forth
until it seems that no further argu-
ment is necessary. AS yoE have
said, the Democratic party has al
ways been the party of disfranchise-
ment and proscriptive laws; in fact,
everything that tends TO humiliate
the colored citizens throughout the
country. II is inconceivable how any
intelligent, self-respecting Negro can
overlook this fact and propose COM
promise with any such party.
Their leaders and public men and
such papers as the Atlanta Journal,
Constitution and many others, have
boldly proclaimed that their party is
a white Mans Party" and will
forever remain such. How can we
expect anything like fair treatment,
especially when their candidates run
ming for such offices as governors
and senators (U. S. chose Negro
disfranchisement as their surest
claim upon the Offices sought, and
having become so emboldened of late
through their continued and open de-
fance of the Constitution, so far as
the Fourteenth and FifteenthAmend-
ments are concerned, until they have
had teh .audacity to ask the Congress
of the United States to pass a Jim
Crow" law right in the city of Wash
ington. This alone should cause ev-
cry Negro to become more resolute
to do everything in his power TO de-
feat any national ticket named by
the Democratic party. It is, there
fore, the plain duty of all our people
to Danish all feelings of resentment
at real or fancied wrongs, and sup
port the nominee of our party, who
ever he may be. As you have said,
the political signs point unmistaka-
bly, to the nomination Of Secretary
Taft, let US cease this useless denun-
citation of him and President Rose
welt and give them our answering
support. Those of US who through
circumstances are living in the
North, where all those rights vouch-
safed for us under the Constitution
are accorded to them, should remem-
Der their less fortunate brothers in
the South and remember that to even
The Washington bee., 1908-05-23

ton of Taft on the first ballot Il
even to the Washington Herald,
which has been strongly anti-Taft.
Every United States Senator, and
every member of the House OF
Representatives comedies Taft's
nomination on the first ballot. All
the other presidential candidates
concede, and the country comedies
it, there now being now power but
death that can prevent it.
Two months ago The Bee point
ed out that this would be. It an
nounced that Taft had the call,
and that he could not be beat for
the nomination. The Bees pre-
diction has come true, for all is
now over save the shouting.
The Bee predicts that Bryan
will be the Democratic nominee as
easily as Taft will have become the
Republican nominee, and the con-
test will be between Taft and By
an for the presidency Of this cOuH-
cry.
And The Bee further predicts
that Mr.. Taft will receive the sol
id Negro vote of this country; thar
is, the solid Republican Negro vote.
OF course this does not include the
half-dozen Negro Democrats and
the two distinguished Negroes OF
Georgia, who do not vote because
they never pay their poll tax.
When The Bee makes a predic-
ton, watch confirming develop
ments.
The Washington bee., 1908-05-23
EASILY FOOLED.

ColOred people are prone to be
influenced by flattery. A few days
ago a Negro messenger called at
this office and stated that he was
employed in the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing; that ]. E.
Ralph had already promoted some
colored employees; that he wanted
nothing said about it; that he was
a man who did not like notoriety.
The Bee Investigated the alleg-
ed promotion and ascertained that
a few colored girls had been trans
ferred from the machines to night
work in another division.
The Bee is of the opinion that
this man Ralph is no better than
Sullivan, his predecessor. That
white women are being promoted
without question. Sullivan did
make the woman in the miscella-
neous division know Ser place. I'm
less Secretary Cortelyou takes a
hand in the promotion of colored
employees in the Bureau, The Bee
is confident that old conditions will
continue.
Negroes are easily fooled.
Next week The Bee will show
the real conditions in. the Bureau
and just how colored employees are
treated and what they have. Col
Ored men in the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing should be
more manly and cease playing the
toady to poor white trash who may
be elevated over them.
1t is believed that the President
or Mr.. Cortelyou would remedy
any and all determinations in this
branch Of the general Government.
The Bee has in its possession
numerous complaints against this
institution.
Let us see what we shall see"
The Washington bee., 1908-05-23

I endorse the spirit of the Cosmo-
politan Club: First, because it rec
ognizes the fact that of one flesh and
blood God created all of mankind.
Second, its object is to instill into
the hearts not only Of the Negro Of
this continent, but the white man as
we'll, and more especially the white
people of the South, that this most
wicked, ungodly sin which has been
in practice principally in the South
ern States for nearly three hundred
years, to wit: .fornication, ,adul-
terry and incest. These enormous
sins seem to be the highest estimate
Of Southern morality.
| believe in the purposes of the
Cosmopolitan Club, because it wages
war against the awful sins of baS-
tardy, fornication, adultery, incest,
and racial hate, generated and nour-
ished in the hearts of the so-called
Anglo Saxon race, more especially
in the South. Behold the mixtures
and admixtures of the people of the
Southern States, and tell me that
the white people do not associate with
the blacks! You might as well tell
me that darkness is light. But how
do they associate? Like the beasts
of the field.
The Cosmopolitan Club declares
that to be sin before God and man,
almshouses and the jails are filled
with the offspring of such ungodly,
sinful association between the whites
and the blacks of this country, prin-
cipally in the Southern States.
Why, then, should we not praise
the efforts of the Cosmopolitan Club
in its Christian endeavor to blot out
and destroy forever such doctrines
as are taught contrary to the brother
hood OF man, and the laws OF God /!
How nauseating it was to me when
| sat in the gallery of the United
States Senate a few weeks ago and
heard, coming from the lips of a
member OF the grandest and most
learned body of lawmakers on the
face of the earth, the most blasphem-
Gus, disgracefful unjust and infa-
nous abuse against ten millions of
brave, loyal and patriotic citizens of
the greatest and grandest govern
ment on the face of the civilized
earth, supposed to be the land of
the free, the home of the brave, and
the asylum for the oppressed of all
nations of the earth! Righteous
ness exalteth a nation, but sin is a
reproach to any people
John A. Moss.
The Washington bee., 1908-05-23
SENATOR FORAKER'S SUR
RENDER.

There are some who are Charg-
ing that Senator Foraker made an
abject surrender when he arose in
the Senate and moved to lay the
Brownsville matter over until next
December. But was it a surren-
der? The Bee emphatically states
that it was not. Senator Foraker,
like a valiant knight, he fought to
the last ditch, and there, turning
around and finding all his follow
ers gone, save the Hessian crowd
of Negroes who would fight only
for pay, and seeing that the oppo-
sition, Overwhelming in strength
and numbers, and perfectly equip
ped and disciplined, Senator For
aker simply withdrew, only to re-
new the fight when he shall have
recruited his disseminated army,
and when the time will be more
propitious for victory for him.
He could not win now. He
knew it. The country knew it.
He does not abandon his conten-
tions. He simply asked for a
change Of venure, as it were, or
moved that the case go over Until
the next term Of court.
There are some who charge that
the Senator was looking out for
The Washington bee., 1908-05-23
COLONEL MORROW.

The Engineer Commissioner,
Colonel Morrow, has a right 10 de-
fend his department and any man,
in his opinion, he believes to be
innocent.
If The Bee were Colonel Nor
row and he The Bee, the latter
would remain a member of the
Board of Commissioners, notwith-
standing the objection of counsel.
The Washington bee., 1908-05-23
MATCH THE BEES PRE-
DICTIONS.

Every State and Territory has
held its convention and selected
delegates for the Republican Ma
tional Convention, and Secretary
Taft has clearly a majority of fully
one hundred on the first ballot. Ev-
cry big white daily in the country.
and all the little white dailies and
Meeklies now concede the nomina-
The Washington bee., 1908-05-23
WILL OPEN

The Bee is pleased to note that
Prof. L. B. Moore, of Howard
University, will open his summer
school July I and will continue un-
til the 3Ist. Those who have at
tended his summer school in the
past know that it rendered them
valuable aid.
Professor Moore is an educator
and a man of ability, and his school
is a great benefit to the teachers.
The Washington bee., 1908-05-23
TWO OF A KIND.

Put a poor white man and a half
educated colored man in a big po-
sition and they both will turn
fools.
A poor white man has a great
deal of prejudice, while a half-edu-
Gated colred man has not sense
enough to reason.
The Washington bee., 1908-05-23
Bishops Meet
Continued from page I.

Continued from page I.
law, Of the courts, of public officials
in regard to life and property.
We can unite upon the idea that no
group of people shall be more loyal
to the interests of this nation than we
are, and that it will be bitter and
unfortunate day for US if the white
people should ever get the idea that
the Negro race in a large degree is
against the government, is an enemy
The Washington bee., 1908-05-23
ESTABLISHED 1880.
MR.. MARSHALL'S EXCUSES

4fI4Ns W. A4NLJ4A l. IL ~ Ia - - 4~NJ
Mr.. Napoleon Marshall, he of
Texas melodramatic fame has been
for the past two weeks, it is said,
making unsolicited efforts to eX-
plain away his recent call on Sec
retary Taft, accompanied by Reg
lister Vernon. One of the reasons,
il IS alleged, he assigns for calling
on the Secretary was to find out
where he (the Secretary stood on
the color question. Now, in view
Of the fact that the brieflless law
yer has, for the past year, been 60
ing up and down the country de-
nouncing the Secretary as an enc
my Of the race, and calling on the
race to do likewise, it seems pass
ing strange that he would now Of
fer this flimsy excuse for calling
on Mr.. Taft. Such an excuse is
on a par with the sentencing Of
a man to prison and then investi-
eating his life, a year later, to as
certain if he was guilty of any
crime.
Another reason, it is alleged,
Marshall assigns for his visit to
the Secretary was to ask him if
he proposed to permit DR.. Booker
Washington to suggest or dictate
Colored men for offices, if he Taft)
was elected, as he (MarshalD was
opposed to DR.. Washington exert
ing any influence. Now Marshall
never propounded any such imper-
tinent question to the Secretary,
and the Secretary never made the
answer that Marshall alleges was
made to it. No one knows this
better than Marshall.
Another reason, it is alleged,
Marshall assigns for his visit to
Secretary Taft was to inform the
Secretary that Register Vernon is
the biggest and ablest Negro in
America, and that all the other
Negroes, big and little, were jeal-
Gus Of Mr.. Vernon. Since that
visit was made in company with
the Register, he may have so ad-
vised the Secretary, but we even
doubt that. In fact, 1t is twenty
dollar gold pieces to spurious
nickle that Marshall was simply
ushered into the Secretary's pres
ence, received an introduction,
spoke a complimentary word as to
the Secretary, gave the usual Me
phisto cross between a smile and a
grin, and then withdrew - the
whole visit and conversation con
suning less than two measly min
utes Of sixty seconds each.
Mr.. Marshall, who, it is alleged
is no longer connected with the
Constitutional League and Senator
Foraker's managers - the sepa.
ration being enforced - simply
called on the Secretary in an at
tempt to catch on, somewhere and
somehow, the Taft band wagon
Now, what's the use of lodging be
hind lot of increditable excuses
Why not Tess up, like any Negro
Democrat out of a job?
WATCH THE BEES PRE-.
The Washington bee., 1908-05-23
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE?
To the Editor:

N14-A4 IL ILL LII -AN4@@N ~
To the Editor:
The Negro is opposed to social in
equality, he believes in social equal
ity to this extent: that is to say, re-
ligious, moral and educational equal
ity, without regard to the national
ity or the color of the skin of his as
sociate. God created mankind of one
flesh and blood whoever charges God
with being so unfair as to have ere
ated either of the races superior to
the other in every particular IS a
blasphemer in the highest sense Of
the term.
I deny most emhpatically that the
God whom l worship is guilty of any
such wrong; the fact of the matter
is, from my standpoint, that God
never made any man or race Of man
kind - He created man and gave
him dominion over the whole earth,
and all that is in it. Man makes
himself. The Constitution Of these
United States guarantees to all OF its
citizens the rights of life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness. / maintain
that it is nobody's business if choose
to invite Prof. Booker T. Washing
ton to dine with myself and family,
provided however we are both sat-
isfed with the situation. Suppose
Mr.. Tillman or Mr.. Vardaman both
object, what have either to do with
our social relations? Absolutely
nothing. Intermarriage is another
piece of foolishness. Intermarriage,
as l understand it, is civil contract
between two families, where each
takes one and gives another. The
prerequisites are simply that their
tastes harmonic, that is all; the col
or Of the skin has nothing to do
with the matter. If an Irish lady
agrees TO mary a German gentleman,
what has anyone to do with ii? Abb
solutely nothing. If an English gen.
t!eman agrees tc marry d French
lady, what has anyone to do with
| it? Nothing whatever. If l choose
to sit down to a table and dine with
black lady, what has anyone to do
wi;h il, if we are satisfied? ! think
it all nonsense for anyone to meddle
you might as well try to dip all the
water out of the Atlantic Ocean with
tin cup.
I have nothing TO say against the
Cosmopolitan dinner because It in
dicated absolute freedom and good
will unto man. No man is superior
to another because he IS white OF
black; he is superior because he will
be superior. Neither is any man
good or bad because he is black or
white, but because he will be good
or bad. No man is honest, virtuous
or great because he is white or black.
The Washington bee., 1908-05-23

countenance such a wicked PROPOSE
ton would surely initiate against all
of us. Trusting that you will con-
tinue in your chosen position, I am
Very truly yours,
c. Frederick Douglass.
The Washington bee., 1908-05-23
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