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The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-01-24
SOME PERSONAL EXPERIENCE.

I passed not few of my boyhood
davs upon the plantation in Tennessee
in point of fact, upon two planta-
tions in Tennessee-where slavery eX-
listed in it's complete but also under
it's milder aspects and conditions.
From the earliest dawnings of intelli-
gence, which I can remember, the sys-
tenn seemed to me monstrous. III
slavery is not wrong" said Lincoln,
nothing is wrong" So | thought,
and so / think. Thousands OF men
fought and fell on the Confederate side
of the War of Sections, who believed
the same thing; as did Washington
and Jefferson, and the gentlemen of
Virginia who made the first American
Revolution.
When the Second American RevOlu-
tion came to pass liberating, as by a
stroke of the sword, nearly four mil
lion slaves from bondage, my senti'
ment of freedom was in excess OF my
sense of the magnitude and the com
pleXities of the event. | accepted the
situation. The three last Amendments
to the Constitution l declared to be the
actual and final Treaty of Peace be
tween the North and the South. 1
was nv opinion-based on feeling am
not on knowledge or judgment--tha
invested with full citizenship the new
1v.liberated slave would be able tt
work out his own destiny Durint
the ten years of Reconstruction tha
followed. devoted my energies tc
ward the Mobilization of the blac
! man of the South as essential to tn
. pacifcation of the white men of tn
, North and South. There are plenty q
t Continued on Page 3.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-01-24

it profitable. have never heard that
the North failed to put the money it
got for its slaves in its pocket. 1t is
to the glory of our common man hood
that, when Virginia ceded an Empire
to the Federal Government, it was
stipulated that human bondage should
never cross it's border. At last the
Institution of African Slavery precipi-
tated the South into q, ruinous war,
and, after this war, it was discovered
that slave labor had been no more
profitable in the South than in the
North.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-01-24
RIGHTS AND WRONGS.

Many years ago, within the circle of
bay window overlooking one OF the
great avenues of the City of Wash
ington, was dining with a party OF
friends. We had been discussing the
race question, when, as if to punctu-
ate our discourse two men across the
way-a black man and white man
entered upon an alteration which
came to blows. The police were con-
veniently, I might say characteristic
cally. absent. A ring was formed,
and in true Marquis of Queensberry
stvle. the race war upon small but
tangible scale was then and there
fought out. Taking this to illustrate
the interrupted conversation one
among our group asked, apparently
confident of the reply, (which are We
for, the Niger or the Irishman| II
was an eminent statesman OF the
South who answered, "Well, before
decide that I should like to know
which has the right of it,"
My own attitude toward the racla
question has always grounded itsel
in the same principle. want nothlns
for myself, or for my children, whicl
am not ready to give to my colore(
neighbor and his children. | live in
region peopled by many blacks, good
orderly, hard-working folk. The,
know me and they know that, when
declare this, | mean it.
I am, in my own home, served b.
black people, and very well served
having had no occasion to change
serving man or woman in man
years. We go away, and sometime
ale absent for months, returning
find the PLACE as we left it. If the
we're actual members OF the famll!
: they could not be more solicitous fc
, our welfare
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-01-24
ANOTHER COLD
BLOODED MURDER
MIR. William Malone Shot
Down Like. a Dog.
D. W. GRAVES, STABLE BOSS,
COMMITTED DEED.

NO PRoVoCATION FOR BARBAR.
Gus ACT-PERRY TOLIVER
ONLY EYEWITNESS TO TRACE
DY- STATES HE HEARD NO
WORDS BETWEEN TWO MEN,
VILLAIN GRAVES TRIES TO
MANUFACTURE PRETEXT THAT
MALONE WAS ATTEMPTING TIC
ROB HIM-GREAT INDIGNATION
FELT AND MUCH EXCITEMENT
PREVAILS.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-01-24
HIS FIFTIETH
ANNIVERSARY
Bishop G. II. Phillips Sur
priSed by His Family,
WHO WITH FRIENDS ASSEMBLED
TO Do HIM HONOR.

A GREAT LIFE PoRTRAYED-coM-
ING FROM HUMBLE SURROUND
lNes IN CHILDHOOD, HE HAS
sTRNEN TO A POSITION or
HIGH EMINENCE-oNE OF THE
LEADING MEN OF THE RACE
A CHURCHMAN WITH A BRIL-
LIANT REcoRD-FoR EIGHT
YEARS EDITOR OF THE CHRIS
TIAN INDEX, AND ONE OF THE
FOREMOST NEGRO EDITORS.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-01-24
THE NEGRo's CROWN OF GLORY.

During century of angry conten-
ton among the whites about the
blacks, starting with the suppression
of the African Slave trade to culmi-
nate with the Proclamation of Emanci-
patton, it was the black people, not
the white people, who conducted them
selves like Christian men and women,
and if Gabriel should suddenly blow
his horn and the world should come to
an end this blessed instant many a
white man might be found holding up
black man betwiXt himself and the
fire. to plead his case before the Re
cording Angel The black people ought
to be very proud of this. 1t should
constitute their point of departure in
that soul-journey from grace to grace
toward perfection which is the goal o.
those that accept for their rule O.
life and death, the Religion of Chris
and Him Crucified.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-01-24
TIE NEGRo's FUTURE.
MIR. watterson spoke as follows:

Mr.. Watterson spoke as follows:
The most serious problem for the
former slave-holding States to solve
by reflection one of the most serious
problems for the States OF the North TO
consider and help to solve-1s known
as the Negro question. AS 1t, stands,
II is the embodiment of century or
misleading and error. Each side to
the controversy has had it's share in
both the misleading and the error.
not until Heaven raised up in the pro-
scribed race a Mana Leader OF Men
though a Negro-who is with us here
tonight-did single ray OF truth
penetrate the surrounding darkness
Almost despairing, had ceased to
theorize. throwing myself back on a
simnle, childlike faith in Cod when
Booker T. Washington appeared upon
the scene to tighten the gloom and
point the way. 1t rejoices me tC
stand by his side, to hold up his
hands. Nobody can go to Tuskegee
and see what | saw there, and come
away without being impressed. Eve
since | went there, now many years
ago. | have been filed with hope; TO
though the institution of Atrlcal
slavery be dead, and thank the Lore
of hosts for that, the Negro is here
he is here in ever-increas1ng NUMBERS
and he is here to stay. All scheme
for getting rid of him are fantastic
and. if attempted, would prove abol
tive. He must be developed on ne'
lines, educated to an anomalous sltui
tion. and resolved into the body OF 81
ciety, not as an irritant, but as
natural. indispensable component par
That's the problem.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-01-24

that had been paid on the funeral
by the deceased's wife be returned to
her and that Malone be given a first
class burial. The bill was ordered
sent to them, which proved beyond a
doubt that Malone was no loafer and
no ordinary man in the estimation of
the Company.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-01-24
BOTH SECTIONS RESPONSIBLE.

The two sections of the American
Union were in the beginning, as you
know, Jointly responsible for African
slavery. Originally the slave trade
existed both North and South. The
African was brought here in Northern
ships. When the North found slave
labor improbable it sold its slaves to
the South, which mistakenly thought
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-01-24

Prof. A. J. Armstrong of Columbia,
spent several days in the city last
week
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-01-24
MIR. wATTERsoN's SPEECH.

Mr.. Henry Watterson said that
though the white man seemed to have
gotten along faster than his colored
neighbor, all were creatures of evolu-
ton and education, and added:
'We have had no race war or seri-
Gus race conflict in Kentucky The
feudists of the mountains, the night
rides of the tobacco belt are all Whites
not blacks. Reasonable white people
and reasonable black people find 1t
easy to get along much as If there
existed no color line. Each is inspired
by a. sense of duty to the other, under
which the benign influence of reli-
gion and humanity may yet blossom
into the old domestic relations of con
fidence and affection, the man-owner
ship clause succeeded by a manhood
clause at once self-respecting and re
cinrocaIly respected"
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-01-24

On Friday evening, January IL, Mr.
Henry Watterson, of the Courier-Jour-
nal, of Louisville, delivered an ad,
dress on the Future of the Negro,
the needs, aims and hopes of the col
ored race, before a large audience
at Carnegie Hall, in New York
Cardinal Gibbons, Governor Hughes
Ambassador Bryce and Booker T
Washington were among the speakers
Of the evening. The meeting was fol
the purpose of launching a campaign
of money raising for Tuskegee Instl
tute.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-05-04
seherr is silent.

L. y l.
CHARLESTON. May 4.-The news
that nercolated around Charleston
late Saturday evening that VIM. H
Hearne. after wing. had re-en
tered the race for the Republican nom
nation for governor came as a matter
of surprise and many doubted the au
thenticity OF the Information. The
news was received too late to spread
far. When interviewed upon the mat
ter. Auditor Arnold Scherri said he had
no comment to make. Secretary Swish
err went to Huntington where mass
convention for Cabell county will be
held Tuesday next to select delegates
to the sttae convention and could not
be interviewed.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-05-04
Mr.. Hearne's Statement.

Mr., Hearne was notified OF Mr..
Halls objection to his naming the
delegates and said that he was not sur
prised. but refused to say what action
he will take providing the COMMITTEES
does not act according to his state
ment in yesterdays News. He said,
however. that he feels that he will
be able to get together with the COM
mittee In the naming OF delegation
that will be suitable to both himself
and the committee, though 1t may not
be suitable to Mr.. Hall.
In regard to his re-enterlng the race
he said:
II do not intend to make an active
campaign in any OF the counties, for
I do not care to make any more con-
tests like that in Marshall county, but
7 intend TO have my name presented
at the convention in; order that the
friends who have been importuning
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-05-04
|||ON. WILLIAM
RAGE lEIGG l fern OlERlsEIlIIPE


me 20 re:enter ,,se race stli have d
chance 70 vote for me have be
tween SO and 100 q e1eeates and there
lis Al number Or counties which have
name unInstrunte sdele gates. and 9th.
ers OF this kind are to follow In eddi-
ton to the many friends who asked
me to re-enter the race AT Parkernbnrg
and since I returned from there have
-. -'...'s.-'re.' fe I.rse number of letters
from over the state asking me to b
"a candidate again. 81
az have sent a letter similar to that.
In the News to the Wellsburg Herald
1t was the brooke county people who
had good bit to do with my re-enter-
ing the race. AT. Parkersburg there
were several of them informed me
that even f2ISdid not come out again
they would nominate me anyway
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-05-04
Rufus Ross Dead.
MRS. {. H. HouLTs RECEIVES
MESSAGE FROM MISSOURI.


Mrs. Z. II. Ho,lt has received the
sad word Of the death of her brother.
Mr.. Rufus Ross. of Rich Hill. 40. Mr..
Ross was taken sick April s24. anil
died April 20. buried May !. il He was
in his I'D year. Hc leaves wife
and eleven children In the West. and
four sisters in this country.
Mr.. Ross was formerly of this conn
ty. He moved with his family to
Bates county. Mo-. in 1863. The coun-
try at that time was an unbroken
prairie. Later the town of Rich Hill
was built near his home. He has
many relatives in this county to
mourn his death. He visited West Vir-
ginia three years ago and had intend
ed to visit this county again this fall.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-05-04

Everybody. but they are expensive
and hard to make In the old way. You
should try. at once "oUR-PIE" Prep
aration for delicious Lemon MES. II
is made from the choicest ingredients
absolutely pure. Sure to please you
as 1t has thousands OF others. A lady
says: II will never again try to make
Lemon pie In the old way while I car
get ."oUR-P1E Preparation" Each
package enough for two large pies
1oc. Il
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-05-04
Do you suffer from pllea7

A certain cure for all forms OF piles.
blind. bleeding and protruding. has
been discovered. Prescribed for years.
by Its discoverer. an old German scien.
tist-physician. t is said to have cured
many cases. Have your druggist mi1
for YOU. 6 drops Carboltc Acid. dram
Zotan. X OF. Zinc Ointment and ap.
ply night and morning. Quick relief
and a permanent cure is assured.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-05-04

LuCRRTIA:
sifted ten times through faest silk. EuoESIA.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-05-04

iEurHRABIA: Y II ri ts
q: You can't fan with Gold Medal Flour
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-05-04

The Building Committee OF Grace
Evangelical Lutheran Church will re
ceive bids for stone foundation OF a
church building to be built on the
corner OF CASTOR avenue and Sd street
Fairmont. W. Va. All bids must be
by the perch. Bids will be receive!
until o'clock p. m. May Is. 1908
Plans and specifications can be seed
at the office OF Architect w. A. LIE
5eur. Jacobs Bldg. Fairmont. w. Va,
The committee reserves the right to
accept or reject any or all bids. u
e. T. CASSELL. "a.
.;S Sec Bldg. Com.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-05-04

SUNDAY SCHOOL REPORT.
CHURCHES. =
Average Attendance
October 06.07.
Attendance May a..
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-05-04

Our schools for some cause did not
make so good showing as last Sun
day. Every school. however. made n
per cent. Of gain. The attendance was
1852. Il
The First Baptist made rs per
cent, the First NJ. P. 100 per cent. and
the Lutheran &c. The others were
below these.
In the main the attendance was
good. but there must not be any let up
until the 2.ooc mark is reached. This
must be done during this month. or 1t
Will not likely be done until fall, as we
lose the students who attend the vari-
Gus schools.
Panama City pilot. (Panama City, Washington County, Fla.) 1907-19??, 1908-08-20
PANAMA CITY. FLA. AUG. 20. 1908.
Roads and Water Ways.

One hundred years ago the United
States Treasury, under the able man
agement of that wizard of finance,
Albert Gallatin, was in snch com
Portable circumstances" that his at
tention was turned to the wisest way
to care for the surplus.
With Thomas Jefferson, Henry Clay
and others, the developing of the
country through building a public
highway from Cumberland, Md, to
the capitol of Missouri, and the i'm
provement of the inland water ways
along the Atlantic coast of Virginia,
North and South Carolina, and Geor-
gia, seemed to furnish an opportu-
nifty that would be of national benefit,
and furnish the best means of placing
the increasing income of the nation.
The "Cumberland Road was be-
gun, and built as far west as Ohio
through National aid. In the 30's it
was turned over to the various states
through which it passed. But little
work other than preliminary investi-
CATION was made as to the improve
ment of the water ways along the
coast.
A hundred years later and the sub
ject of highways and waterways has
again come to the front, with an in
creased interest equivalent to the
centurys growth Of the country. Last
week saw the commencement of work
by the Government upon the improve
ment of the interior waterways along
the Atlantic coast.
Some of the states are making
strenuous efforts to secure better
roads, and once more that subject is
becoming national. In Jeffersons day
it had become such momentOus
question that he proposed that the
constitution should be amended so as
to permit of the Government building
public highways. How would sub a
proposition strike the political parties
of to-day?
Panama City pilot. (Panama City, Washington County, Fla.) 1907-19??, 1908-08-20
They Want Mail.

The people of st Andrews Boy coun-
try, used to get their mail by star
route from Chipley, and they got il
regular, if it was slow. The carriers
contract expired the first of the
month, and nothing is being done now
in the way of delivering the mail
down in that section. The postoffice
department evidently expects the new
railroad to carry the mail, as it is
anxious to do, when arrangements
have been made. No carrier is put
on the train, and the train crew can
not handle the mails, and wouldn't
be allowed to anyway, until the long
spool of red tape ofthe postotfice de-
partment is unwound.
The people of that section are en-
titled to mail facilities, and somebody
is responsible for this disarrange-
ment, and should lose their job on
account of it,-zDothan Eagle.
Panama City pilot. (Panama City, Washington County, Fla.) 1907-19??, 1908-08-20
The Mails.

The PILOT, of Panama City, seems
some what torn up over the L. $.
mail conditions in the bay country.
Be patient brother West, remember
ing that every thing is new and that
some times, new machinery works
ad.-BlOuntstOwn Democrat.
Patience has ceased to be virtue
in the matter of our mail facilities
brother Wilson. Our people have
suffered from the inefficiency of the
Post Office Department for the past
% years, and from complaints which
the PILOT copied from the st Joseph
Times, of 1910, it appears that similar
conditions existed even then. Sixty
eight years, or even % years, ought
to be sufficient time it which to cor
rect this remiSSneSs in the service.
No there is nothing new about this
utter lack of business methods in
handling our mails.
The Democrat, published but 40
miles from Panama City, reached
here just one week after its publica-
ton. Had it been tied to the back of
a Florida gopher, and headed toward
Saint Andrews Bay, it would have
made the distance in less than half
the time taken by the [. S. mails.
Jacksonville dailies of Saturday came
to hand yesterday, Wednesday
morning. Pensacola letter mail of
the same date made the same time.
Atlanta letter mail of the 18th reached
here on the 10Th. Is it to be Won
dered at that our people complain?
Panama City pilot. (Panama City, Washington County, Fla.) 1907-19??, 1908-08-20
Inviting Outside Capital.

In anticipation of the ratification
by the people of the proposed amend
ment to the Constitution exempting
mortgages from taxation, capitalists
from other sections of the country are
already looking over the field with a
view to making investments. The
press reported a few days since that
a deal involving more than a million
dollars, and conditioned upon the
ratification of the amendment, had
been perfected between one of the
big Eastern life insurance companies
and a large local concern, and a
number of other important transac-
tons have either been arranged or
are being negotiated.
What we need to develop Louisiana
is capital. Our financial power is as
yet not even sufficient to take care of
the business which is already devel-
oped, but every year much money
has to be borrowed to move our crops
and to finance enterprises. The de-
velopment Of our resources has been
held back because of the lack of
moneYwith which to do the work.
Capital from the outside it was diff
cult to get for the reason that the tax
mortgages cOmpels the establishment
of rate of interest so high as to
make borrowing out of the question.
The effect of the law has been
merely to keep capital out of the
State. 1t has added little or nothing
to the revenues of the State, for the
reason that capital simply remained
away and put no money here in mort
cages to be taxed. When it became
apparent that the only effect of the
law taxing mortgages was to stifle en-
terpIise and to prevent the States
development, that it added nothing
in taxes to the revenues, while, on
the contrary, by keeping back deyel
Opment it kept millions off of the tax
rolls, the removal of this obstacle to
the progress of the State was easy.
The recent Legislature submitted
such an amendment to the voters of
the State, and it is the prospect that
this amendment will be ratified that
has caused a revival Ofinterest among
Eastern capitalists in their OppOr-
tunities offered for investment here.
With abundant crops and the pros
poets for easy money next winter
prices ought to be good and period
of prosperity should begin. Our re-
sources are so abundsnt and the OPP
portunities for the profitable invest
ment of capital are SO plentiful that
we may reasonably expect heavy in
vestments in this section as soon as
the bar to its profitable employment
here has been removed by the ratic-
cation of the amendment under CO..
sideration. New Orleans Stctcs.
Panama City pilot. (Panama City, Washington County, Fla.) 1907-19??, 1908-08-20

strated that such machines can be
made and oper lted.
The navigation of the air will set
many wise man thinking. AS the
fight between the Merrimas and
Monitor ended the wooden fighting
fleets of the wtrld, so the successful
flight of machines through the air
may presage an entire change in the
methods of fighting.
The consequence of flying ma
chine moving over the best fortified
city in the world, and dropping into
it intensive explosives, is posi-
bility that one does not like to think
about. But flying machines will be
met with flying machines, and when
they meet great will be the fall
thereof"
Panama City pilot. (Panama City, Washington County, Fla.) 1907-19??, 1908-08-20
Air Ships.

The past week has witnessed events
that may mark an epoch in the worlds
history. We refer to the various
trials of the different mopels of air
ships, those which are lighter than
air, through being floated by gas
filled balloons, and those heavier than
air which are propelled by their own
power. The successful flight of the
Wright brothers heavier than air fly
ing machine, at Paris, has demon