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The Washington bee., 1908-08-15

resolutions viii say Aye" Loud
cries from the crowd say "Ayep
Whereupon DR.. Corrothers cried out
''No! No!w 4 faint response from
about fifteen voices responded to his
cry, 90"
The resolutions we're not adopted
Notwithstanding the enthusiasm of
the audience, in response to the
speeches of Revs. Corrothers and
Wa1dron.
Attorney Thomas L. Jones, during
the delivery of Rev. Waldron's
speech, arose and asked him a ques-
ton, but he became exasperated and
declined TO answer his question.
REPUBLICANS ORGANIZE.
Tn colored voters OF the State OF
New York have organized the En-
pire State Republican Club, the OBJ
ject of said club being for the mu-
tual benefit and protection of its
members, the promotion and cultiva-
ton of social relations between them,
the exchange and discussion of po-
litical opinions and ideas, and the
promotion and success in New York
and elsewhere in the United States
of the principles and doctrines Of
the Republican party. The Empire
State Republican Club is the first
one of its kind to be organized by
or people here in the District of
Columbia, and it is to be hoped that
every colored citizen of the State of
New York will avail themselves of
the opportunity to join the organiza-
ton, thereby paving the way for
powerful allied organization of the
United Colored Republican Clubs of
the United States. The officers of
the Empire State Republican Club
are as follows: President, Walter
A. Pinchback, of the office of the
Recorder of Deeds; vice president,
Edward @. Nalle, of the Government
Printing Office; secretary, Thomas
Carter, of the Treasury Department,
and treasurer, DR.. Charles l. West,
of the faculty of Howard University
Medical School.
The club has its Office at 494 Lou
isiana avenue northwest, and holds
weekly meetings at the residence OF
DR.. Charles l. West, ga NJ street
northwest, every Friday evening at
8 pm. All persons eligible to mem
bership in the organization are re-
spectfully requested to attend one of
the meetings or communicate with
one of the officers above named.
From the personnel of the officers it
is readily to be seen that the club
will be of great help, not only TO
themselves, but to the colored cicti-
zen generally. In talking to Mr..
Pinchback he gave me to understand
that the club is not a graft" or
ganization, and under no circum-
stances will it tolerate the methods
which have been pursued by some
of our so-called organizers during
the past campaigns That Mr. Pinch
backs efforts have been appreciated
by the Republican party is evidenced
by the number of congratulatory let
ters he has received from certain
members high in the councils of the
present administration.
The Washington bee., 1908-08-15
DR.. WALLER AND SELF
DEFENSE NO 2

DL1 LIN IL W. -
One of the most remarkable dec
lantions made and definitions Civ
en- of self-defense was in a speech
delivered by DR.. o. NJ. Waller al
a meeting held under the auspice;
of the National Independent Po
litical League held in Galbraith A
NJ. z. Zion Church Monday even
ing, August 3. The distinguished
doctor, among other things, admit,
ted that the Democratic party dis,
franchis6d colored Americans, es.
tablished the Jim Crow car sys.
tem,, and did many other uncon,
stitutional acts, but they were com
mitted in self-defense.
These acts are criminal and un.
constitutional. The Bee will dis
cuss again the alleged self-defense
Of the Democratic party which are
endorsed by DR.. Waller.
"Self-defense Tin criminal law
The protection of ones person and
property from injury" This is the
definition given by Bouvier. a
man may defend himself, and ever
commit homicide, for the proven.
ton of any forcible and atrocious
crime which, if complete, woulC
amount to felony. II Ala. U. S
587; 5 Ga. s.; etc"
A respectable and highly cultur,
ed colored American citizen who
purchases a frst-class ticket ir
Washington for Atlanta, Ga, is
prohibited from riding in a first
class coach after he crosses the
District line. He is elected in Vir-
ginia because he is a colored Am
erican citizen, and by such election
under the laws passed by a Demo
cratic Legislature of the State OF
Virginia it is justifable, according
DIR. Walters definition of self-de-
fense.
A oolored American who votes
against a Democratic candidate for
the Legislature, or any other candi-
date whom he knows to be inimical
to him and his constitutional rights
must be disfranchised, according to
the doctrine of self-defense enun-
ciated by DR.. O, M. Waller.
He further asserted that the
Democratic party is right in com
hitting these offenses for its own
protection. Certainly a colored
voter knows for whom he wants to
vote. Who gave him the privilege
to vote? The Democratic party or
the Republican party? Which par
ty is actign in self-defense? The
party which gave the colored man
the privilege of voting, or the par
ty which, by Legislative enact
ments, that deprives the Colored
voter of the privileges given hin
BY the Republican party?
What does Mr.. Taft repre-.
-vnt. The colored voter should ask
himself the question. What does
Mr.. Bryan represent?
Mr.. Taft in his speech of accept
ance declared he stands by the
18th, I4th and 18th Amendments
to the Constitution.
The platform Of the Republican
party declared for equality OF cit
izenship and particularly named
the rights of colored Americans.
The platform Of the Democratic
party IS silent and gives colored
Americans no assurance whatever
The platform Of the National In
dependent League says nothing.
And how can it when John Tem-
The Washington bee., 1908-08-15

PIC vi dNOS - Oli IilC Ldii-C4lu u llat
ticket? John Temple Graves de-
clared in his paper that the Negro
had no rights that the white man
should respect."
The Socialist-Labor party favors
equality Of citizenship, irrespective
of color or condition.
Now here are three parties:
First, one that gave the colored
man his freedom and the right TO
vote.
Second one that deprived him of
his freedom and reafhrms its past
brutalities by continual unconstitu-
tional enactments.
Third. The other that stands
for nothing except a greed for
power and to satisfy a selfish am
bition.
Further discussing Dr.. Walters
doctrine Of self-defense, it is laid
down in law books that "a man
may repel force by force in defense
of his person, property or habita-
ton against anyone who manifests
intends, attempts, or endeavors, by
violence or surprise to commit
forcible felony, such as murder,
rape, robbery, arson, burglary, and
the like In these cases he is not
required to retreat, but he may re-
sist, and even pursue his adversary
until he has. secured himself from
all designs" I East, Pl. Cr. 2zI;
4 Blackstone.
DR.. Waller holds, in contradis-
tinction to the definition cited
above, that the Democrats ofNorth
Carolina that has as their adversary
the Prohibition and Republican
parties, was justified in stealing the
State and disfranchising peaceable
colored Americans because they
would not vote for its Democratic
candidates.
DR.. Waller justifes the Demo
Gratis of West Virginia in adopting
a disfranChisement plank against
colored Americans because they
vote with the party that permits
them to enjoy the rights of citizen
ship. The plank calls for Jim
Grow" cars, and the enactment of
laws to prohibit 'colored men from
voting. The Democratic party of
West Virginia is only acting in
self-defense, according to the the
ory of DR.. Waller.
The Bee only wants to lay be-
fore the colored voters the doctrine
that is being taught by DR.. Waller
DR.. Corrothers, Bishop Walters,
Prof. Dubois and others.
ell,suppOse colored Americans
North, where they are treated with
by the Democratic
party, vote for Mr.. Bryan. In State
elections North the colored man
should vote to his best interest, but
in national elections there is diff
ference. The standard-bearers of
these parties represent different in
terests and principles. The princi-
pies of the Democratic party in
State elections are entirely differ
ent. The North may declare equal
ity of citizenship, and recognize
the merits of colored Americans
The South has made a record for |
murder, disfranchise-
ment, and assassination.
In this election the cOlored Am
erican does not need so much
teaching as to how he shall vote.
He is emotional, it is true, but now
is the time for him to use common
sense.
The Washington bee., 1908-08-15
COMMITTEEMAN BIEBER

Mr.. Sidney Bieber, Nationa
Committeeman for the District OF
Columbia, will go to New York
next month in the office Of Nation
al Chairman Hitchcock. Mr.. Bic,
Der, who has defeated his enemies
an dtraducers, will spring a sur,
prise in few weeks. In speaking
to a Bee representative Mr.. Bieber
favors the reappointment@of Com
missionerWest in the event of Mr..
Taft's election.
The Washington bee., 1908-08-15
GILT EDGE

Elsewhere in TheBee will be seen
and read with interest a letter from
Major Charles w. Fillmore, of this
city, who will resign his position in
the Treasury Department and en-
The Washington bee., 1908-08-15

ter upon an investment business
that will benefit his people. This
is the first opportunity the colored
Americans have had to invest in
gilt edge" property.
The Washington bee., 1908-08-15

ness people Of my race by house Of
the standing Of the one I will be
associated with, and / sincerely hope
| may hear from you with a promise
OF your help, cooperation and BUSH
ness, when you are prepared TO give
any.
Yours very fr1,tv
The Washington bee., 1908-08-15
PUBLIsHB

100 Eve ST., N. W., washington. D. c.
The Washington bee., 1908-08-15

w. CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-03-03
CIR SnprFntary nf
Matt
BY H. PEARL HUMPHREY.

admit that things we have These
two subjects specially within the womans domain their
higher aspects she content to be led by strange at
first sight Indeed has been used reproac after ALL there
number of that make quite affairs It
still true Burton said in his Anatomy of Melancholy that "Coo
is become art, noble science; cooks gentlemen"
womans knowledge Of cooking almost entirely knowledge
of how to things that will taste She every dish
entity and she seldom considers the courses that
precede and follow it
As for DRESS the for the supremacy of the $50 far
easily found Men have always been the artists they inherit
the talents of the Womens instinct been cultivated to
the same extent They love pretty things but they study them
selves The French knows about appearance than the
English about hers but not much the knows about
the appearance of all In the external picture
called woman the has the advantage of from his sub
ee whereas has hundred prejudce rule woman
falls In love with froc hat purely its merits and not
because 1T will suit her admirably The facy that know
how woman dressed bubble enough that
they may not know what she has but they always how she
dresedwe or Ill too much too brightly The what
clothes the other the knows whether picture successful
and harmonious not this cultivated eye whole the cu
ed palate for the whole which makes supreme artist
dress and in food will women make nm some Of te
hme and education they have lost during centuries
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-03-03

ence of the official commission of ~,
Aero club of France he made sevar.,
Intellectual trials to arise, but 6nsnv
appeared to be in clear flight TN
fortunately some of the ropes cor
nected with his aeroplane grazed tbo
soil, and the commission found it I'm.
possible to make the award
Another attempt was made Alto,
Santos-Dumont had a trial, when NJ
Farman succeeded in making numer
GUS flights of from about 1000 feet IN
about half mile. However, on each
occasion he failed to achieve the prizs
because he did not succeed in coming
back to the point of departure. The
consistency of his results. however
has been regarded as remarkable
putting him at once in the front rank
of the few who have obtained even
creditable flights with aeroplanes.
In order to dispute the prize with
M. Farman, M. Santos-Dumont has
constructed a new aeroplane mum.
bered 10, for in this way he dis.
tinguishes his airships and at the
same time confesses his enormous in.
terest in the sport, for probably no
person before the time of Santos-Da
mont has built so many aerial ma.
chimes.
With this machine he succeeded in
covering about $50 feet, or less than
half the required distance, to say
nothing of the demand that the con-
testant shall return to the point of
departure. AS the case now stands it
is generally believed that Henri Far
man has the better chance of win.
ming the grand prize, which really
means more than the acquisition Of
$4,000, for it will be an achievement
which may have far reaching effects
on the problem of aerial flight.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-03-03
A woman,a Trlumpb.

Another triumph for woman. The
United States attorney general has ap.
pointed as his special assistant, at a
salary of $4,000, Mrs. Mary Grace
Quackenbos. who is an expert in Ger
tain lines. She has particularly dis.
tinguished herself as an investigator
Of peonage abuses, line of wrongdo
fng with which It is often dificult to
deal, owing to the cunning of the Of
tenders and the ignorance and timid.
ity OF the victims. Peonage is some
thing little If any different morally
and In effect from slavery, that form
OF bondage In which actual ownership
lie asserted. Mrs. Quackenbos has
done good work In ferreting out these
wrongs and In helping to bring the
lawbreakers to punishment, and 1t is
evident the department of justice APP
preciates the value of her services and
her ability TO do still more in the
cause of humanity--a function to
which woman of mind and heart is
well adapted.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-03-03
An unrefIned Lannuans.

Esperanto is gaining ground. 1t has
entirely superseded Volapuk, and has
other victories yet to win. 1t may do
service in the business world. and It
may serve as medium OF communi-
cation between members OF different
nations who have no other common
tongue. But, remarks the Christian
Register, that It will ever become a
literary language seems to us more
than doubtful, We do not believe that
It is mere stupid conservatism that
makes us recoil from 1t as a medium
for transmission of the higher forms
OF thought In Esperanto "bulbo"
means bulb. but 1t may mean an
onion. Such language does not pre-
serve the nice distinctions which
mark the work OF refined thinker
and expert writer.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-03-03
GEOFFREY DILLINGHAM'S
:. AWAKENING :.
BY SUSAN HUBBARD MARTIN
Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles)

you'd better go upstairs, Lizzie
he said, tenderly.
They put her to bed shortly after
that, but before morning sharp pains
set in and doctor was hurriedly sent
for.
AS the fever rose she grew light
headed and babbled on about rather,
and Andy, too. She thought she was
at home again, living again her sim
pie, humble life.
what is it, doctor?" her husband
whispered a great fear Juggling at his
heart.
inflammation of the lungs" the
doctor had answered briefly.
So, in the luxurious room, the strug-
gle began. the life and death angel
closing in combat Godfrey billing
ham, in the terrible, trying days that
followed, bending over that slight, be-
loved form, realized for the first time
what his sin had been; the misery he
must have caused his wife, the pride
that had blinded him to all parental
claims. With old Martin Chuzzlewit.
he could but exclaim: "Self-self-
self" And now she would die and
leave him.
He walked to the window and look
ed across the bare and frozen fields.
"And they have loved her. too" he
murmured. "Oh, Elizabeth, my wife,
only live, and l will make it up a
thousand times"
He would send for them now, he
whispered AS if in answer to his
thoughts, the kindly physician raised
his eyes.
Better telegraph for her parents"
he said. "She will reach the crisis
before "a hours, and-she may not
pass it,"
Ephraim Tracy was in the back
yard divesting his plump turkey of
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-03-03

Health officials Of New York city
have been making tour Of investiga.
ton In territory from which large
quantities of milk are supplied to the
metropolis, and report that they find
sanitary conditions all that could be
desired. This is complimentary to the
farmers who furnish the milk. and
suggests that less credit may have
been given them for care and consoi-
entiousness than they were entitled to.
The average farmer undoubtedly is
honest and DESTROYS OF dealing Justly
with his patrons AS has been
abundantly demonstrated OF late, de-
clares the Troy IN, " Times, he has
many difficulties to contend with. and
he sorely needs encouragement That
he does so well In the face OF the
problems he has to confront is proof
Of his integrity and sound judgment.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-03-03

feathers when the telegram came.
Mrs. Tracy came out and held UP the
yellow sheet.
Father, father" she cried, tremb-
ingly, "a dispatch has come from
Dexter, and Elizabeth is dangerously
sick"
Jim and Andrew went too.
They reached Dexter that night. but
she did not know them. All that night
Jim and Andrew walked restlessly
about, but Ephraim Tracy sat. a pa.
thetic, bowed figure, by his daughters
bed. His son-in-law had asked him to
his house at last, but alas-for this.
But 1t was the fathers hand that adj
ministered the needed nourishment
the fathers hand that smoothed the
damp and curling hair, the fathers
hand that held the pale and wasted
one, and Godfrey Dillingham;, as he
watched, too, for the first time in his
life saw, in the despised old man
something to revere.
Night passed and it was the dav he.
fore Thanksgiving. The doctor came
and with his practiced eye detected
change. He looked across to where
hiizabeth's husband stood, gray and
haggard, awaiting his verdict,
Dillingham;" said he, gently. "to.
morrow will be THANKSGIVING dav
Thank God for your mercies, for your
wife will live"
"A low sobbing broke in upon them
IL was old Ephraim Tracy, down upon
MS knees, his face hidden in the GOV.
erlet Though the tears were raining
down his face, Godfrey Dillingham;
Went over to the old man and lifted
MIN as he would child.
Come, father" he whispered brok.
emily, come" On
The afternoon of Thanksgiving dov
hiizaoeth lay on her pillows exhaust
ed worn, but at peace with all the
world. i 'ne
And you're all here" she wbis.
pered, happily ooh, I've been 60
SICK but this repays me for il all
que smiled at them, her old, sweet
smile, and then she murmured: kiss
me, all of you, for l am so-hannv
Ihey kissed her, as she asked with
Iull and thankful hearts, and ouiatIv
went away. N'e'i'
me room was quiet now, with onlv
ner husband beside her. Elizabeth
turned her eloquent eyes to his. Those
eyes, that he had feared might never
of pearl. 'iie gates
iouve been good to me in everv.
r ling put one, Godfrey; you won't
reIuse me now?" she said.
sr tle understood, for he bent over her
lay against her own. ' 'neeA
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-03-03
PASSING Confederate Money.


1t seems strange that, more than 40
years after the civil war and with the
confederate states of America only a
memory, every now and then some
one turns up with a confederate bill
and finds no difficulty in passing it
No properly informed person needs tc
be told that such bills represent the
value only of the paper on which they
Are printed, and as the quality Of the
material then obtainable was not of
the best that value may be counted as
a negligible quantity. It is astonish
ing that anyone can be deceived in
this way, for the confederate notes In
their best estate are so widely differ.
ent and so inferior in appearance com.
pared to any of the currency of the
present time that suspicion should be
aroused in the mind OF the least wary.
Yet the bills pass. Not SO very many
years ago one of large denomination
was received and change given for II
by business establishment In this 10
cality, says the Troy IN. " Times
A few days since down the river a
800 confederate note was offered in
payment Of purchase, and the seller
did not discover the truth until he
took the bin 10 his bank There must
be considerable confederate money in
existence, for It was very cheap after
Appamattox and thousands of bills
were carried home by union veterans
as souvenirs. But no one need be
fooled by dishonest use OF the worth.
less paper if he will take the trouble
to read the inscription in big lettering
which tells how the Confederate
States of America promise to pay"
something they never can pay.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-03-03

was born in Washington, February -
1852; was educated at Oberlin cone5 s1
and in 1873 was made secretary o. NV
United States legation at Toxic -. -
years later he was made advisel oO
the Japanese embassy at Washihe'0l
and afterward became diplomauo ~ ~.
wiser to the Korean government lss
acted in similar capacities lot .s
mikado in connection with Japan
treaties relating to the PhlhppiSso os
and the Hawaiian islands anu 0r
been decorated twice by the elpe,l
of Japan. He has an intimate knO"
edge of diplomatic affairs.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-03-03


The most enthusiastic
believer in the superior
ity of woman does not
pretend that she is per-
feet and unapproachable
at all points. While the
most famous dressmakers
and the most famous
chefs are men, we shall
have, sad as it NAV be.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-03-03
BUILDS NEW AERoPLANv
Henri Farman, Frenchman -
for $4,000 Prize NOn'sa

Paris.-Henri Farman tbo
man. who recently achieved 90 ,encA
oessful a flight in his aeronlan ~ sue
formally entered to contest wits mas
tos-Dumont for the Deutscb. AL w. san
con Grand Aviation Prize. In ors
win the prize, which is valued %
about $4,000, the amateur must .. at
free from the ground and in arse
flight from the line of denart,,nse iear
termined by two posts abont te ie ae-
apart fly around a post erected ~ ,eet
distance of about 1000 feet At
turning to the point of departure re-
On the first attempt made hr
Farman to gain the prize in tba NJ
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-03-03
Greatest Use of Brass.

According to the American MaONi
list the greatest single consumptiolat ls
brass is for condenser tubes, a pa nds
ship alone having from 10000 pou sIur
to 10000 pounds of condenser 'u' j
in it, and, owing to the CORROSIVE ,,nst
feet of sea water, this TUBING .aal
continually be replaced. The nla 0tal-
used is usually either Muntz l'I ,nc->
so per cent copper, 40 per cen. 1' s,rc
or else mixture of "copper" :"
29 and tin 1.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-03-03

A GREAT philosopher
who had lost his beloved
wife after SO happy
years, and who was in
c ms o | a b lie, s i d /:
wherever she was there
was home, and to me
home was heaven"
1t is from such homes
are graduated the good
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-03-03

boys and girls and men and to work off their
i'll humor after trying to keep polite and courteous
outside 1t should be the school where fes sweetest
lessons are learned the lessons of gentleness, kind
ness, forbearance and humility.
There should be freemasonry among the men,
bers OF home to bind them together in the strongest
bonds and there should be religion with an enthusiasm
that should never weaken
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-03-03

A French scientist has produced sea
urchins without stomachs. II he could
turn out line of land urchins with
similar lack Of the usual attachments
he could show many a struggling fam.
lily how to save money.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-03-03
MAY ADVISE AMBASSADOR.
Mikado Likely to Select American for
Washington Post.

Durham White Stevens, who may
be selected by the mikado to advise
the new Japanese ambassador to the
United States, has had much dipO'
matte experience in the far east He
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-03-03

A policeman in Long Island City
shot at cat and hit an editor. Jour
nalism seems to be leading the strenu-
GUS life Just now in the Empire state,
but amid all its blows from fate this is
the unkindest cut Of all.