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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-15

ton became normal, the backache ceas-
ed and my health is now unusually
good"
Sold by all dealers. 80 cents box.
Foster -Milburn Co., Buffalo, y. \.
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nrvan an Unsafe Reasoner

one of the favorite and familiar ar
puments of Bryan is that his renomina-
ton by the party after two defeats is
evidence that they still believe in and
endorse "the principles that | have
been advocating" Well, What are the
principles that Bryan has been advocat-
ing? Certainly there is none that he
advocated so strenuously as free coin
age of silver at the ratio of 10 to /.
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HoW'S This :?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward Tor
any case OF Catarrh that cannot be cured oy
Halls Catarrh Cure.
r. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, 9.
We, the undersigned have known +. J.
Cheney for the last Is years and believe
him perfectly honorable In all business trans
actions and financially able to carry out
any obligations made by his firm.
wALpIxG, KINSAS & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. u.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally.
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces OF the system. Testimonials sent
free. Price IS cents per bottle Sold "
all Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
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Ioafera mt the Pool Table.

The best pool players in any town are
generally the young fellows who never
hang onto one job very long at a time
Kansas City Journal.
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In both his first and second battles
Mr.. Bryan polled much the largest to-
tai vote ever cast by the Democratic
party. The Republicans won by in
creasing their own vote immensely
over their former greatest effort. If
they had not done this they would
have lost. An examination of the fig
ures is instructive for they have dis
tinctly a present bearing. Mr.. Bryan's
total vote I'm 1896 was $500, 925, and i'm
1900, 1888, 1873. The largest previous
Democratic vote, In 1892, was $685.
91S. Bryan broke the Democratic rec
ord by over 100000. If the Republi-
cans had failed to offset the big in
crease they would have been defeated.
Republican apathy would have been
fatal in either the first or second
BRYAN campaign In the Parker slump
of four years ago the Democratic to-
tai sank to 5,0S2, 754. But that is not
a mark to be considered by Republi-
cans this year. In both his former
campaigns Bryan was stronger than
Parker bv ABOUT Il million and a quar-
ter votes. and stronger than the Demo
cratic party had previously been by
100000.
In lighting Bryan in 1896 and 1900
the Republican party rose to the occa-
sion. It's highest vote before was
5.44o.216, in 1883. In 1896 it went up
as result of the most vigorous effort
to 7.1O4779. 1t increased to 1,2O4,2s
I'm 1900. and to 7,624.4s9 in 1904. But
what would happen IL the Republicans
should be apathetic this year? 1t Is
true that Bryan does not get votes IL
proportion to the crowds he draws in
travelling throughout the country. But
ct the same time, he has polled 500
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-15
DRAGs you DOWN.

Backache and Kidney Trouble Slow
~ Wear One Out.
Mrs. r. Grouse, Fayette St, Manches-
ter. Iowa, says: "For two years my
back was weak and rheumatic Pains
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-15
they would 90 to if Mr.. Bryan should


apply his revenue tariff no man can
ell, but we should soon find that the
American farmer was getting the
worst Of it. Mr. Bryan is very fond
Of giving out the impression that
manufacturers and the great organ
lied business of the United States are
the only beneicIaries of protection.
Yet practically everything that grows
or is produced On the farm Is pro-
tected. The list, which is formidable
Includes cattle, swine, horses, mules.
sheep, barley, barley malt, buckwheat,
corn, cornmeal, macaroni, oats, oat-
meal, rice, rye, wheat, wheat -four, but
ter. cheese, milk, beans, cabbage, CT
der, eggs. hay. honey. hops, onions,
peas, potatoes. commercial seeds,
straw, vegetables, sugar, wool, hides,
leaf tobacco, fruits, nuts, bacon, ham,
fresh beef, veal, mutton, pork, extracts
of meat, lard, poultry, and tallow. So
It will be seen that, If Mr.. Bryan's
great scheme for scaling down the
tariff until there is no protection, but
merely revenue, becomes a reality, the
farmer will have to take his medicine
along with the manufacturer, for we
have the assurance Of the Democratic
party that it plays no favorites.
Let the farmer who contemplates
voting for Bryan ponder on these
things. Let him remember that it was
Mr. Bryan who drafted the free wool
clause In the Wilson bill and that it is
this same Mr.. Bryan who "denounces
all protection as vicious, including
protection for the American farmer
-Pittsburg Gazette-Times.
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In Tune.
Political Manager-Are you feeling oh
right to-day?
Spellbinder-As fine rs q fiddle.
Political Manager-Good! You may
20 ahead and sound the keynote.-Chi-
ago Tribune.
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at the front, and is admirably well
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-15

So many peanuts are eaten In this
country that the native supply is not
sufficient for the demand and about
$1,000 worth of the African nuts were
imported from Marseilles In 1906 and
over $4,000 worth In 1907. The west
coast of Africa produces quantities Of
neauufs
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Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Chill
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Isn't it terrible to think of that Fan
Billiwink was hurt in that street car &C
cident this morningY
why, she was only slightly injured"
Eyes, but all the papers, Of course, win
publish her age"
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FACTS FOR SICK WsomEN.

For thirty years Lydia K. Pink
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from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
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Why don't you try it? !
Don't hesitate to write to MRS.
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about your sickness you do not,
understand. She will treat your
observation-disclosures and advise you
free. No woman ever regretted
writing her, and because of her
vast experience she has helped
thousands. Address, Lynn, Mass
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After suffering for seven years,
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Compound. Read her letter.
Mrs. Sallie French, of Paucaunla,
Ind. Ter, writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
II had female troubles for seven
years-was all rundown, and SO ner-
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doctors treated me for different troubles
but did me no good. While in this con-
dition / wrote TO Mrs. Pinkham for adj
vice and took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound, and am now strong
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Eight Gored skirt

This skirt is novel, being closed
by means of buttons and buttOn-holes
at the front, and Is admirably well
The Colorado statesman., 1908-06-06
Continued next week.
AMERICANS TO LIBERIA,

On the Hamburg American Line
steamship Kriserin Augusta Vic
toria, from Europe, which came in
May 23rd, were five members of
the Liberia Commissions that come
here to urge the American Negro
to emigate to the African west
coast. The party consisted of
Thomas Faulkner, DR.. Garret w.
Gibson, former President of Lii
IBERIA; Charles Dunbar, James Dos
sen, vice president of the republic,
and Charles Branch, secretary of
the commission. DR.. Gibson is
the only American of the party. he
having been born in the South
and emigrated TO Liberia some
years ago.
According to this interesting
group of colored men Liberia holds
out wonderful opportunity to the
Negroes of America if direct line
of vessels can be organized to
bring Liberian products directly to
this country.
"There are $4,000 square miles
of territory in Liberia" said DR..
Gibson, land there are 5000 votes
of coast population of about 40,
600. The interior contain 1850,
600 savages which are being grad
ually civilized. While the soil is
not particularly fertile the china
tic advantages of Liberia are such
that good crops would ensue if the
right men were there to till the
ground. Railways and a steam
ship line would help Liberia i'm
The Colorado statesman., 1908-06-06

'slave" to freeman" but not
changed in nature. 1t found the
poor whites still poor whites; and
the aristocrats, although they had
lost both property and position,
were still aristocrats. For values,
after all, are not outward, but in
ward: not material, but spiritual.
1t was as impossible for the Negro
at that time to be less than a slave
as it was for the aristocrat to be
less than an aristocrat. And this
is what SO many legal. minded men
will not or cannot see.
What happened?
Exactly what might have been
predicted. Southern society had
been turned wrong side up by
force, and it righted itself again
by force. The Ku Klux Klan, the
Patrollers, the Bloody Shirt move
mens, were the agencies violent
and cruel indeed, but inevitable)
which readiusted the relationships
put the aristocrats on top, the poor
whites IN the middle. and the Ne
groes at the bottom. In short,
Society instinctively reverted to
its old human relationships. L
once saw a man shot through the
body in a street riot. Mortally
wounded, he stumbled and rolled
over in the dust, but sprung up
again as though uninjured and
ran a hundred yards before he fl
nally fell dead. Thus the Old
South, though mortally wounded,
spang up and ran again.
The Colorado statesman., 1908-06-06

sis received in our Church who
does not pledge himself to abstain
from intoxicating liquor and who,
if he has been a polygamist, does
not pledge himself to give up all
axcept one wife. 1t is a pathetic
thing to stand in the midst of a
crowd of ignorant and degraded
human beings and hear them beg
for preachers and teachers as they
would beg for bread, and not be
able to give them to them"
DR.. Scott's appeal for more mon
ey and more workers was a stirring
one, and he likened himself to a
young native who could and who
was thrown out of boat into the
Nile with his hands tied behind
him
Unite my hanbs," he urged,
land let me do the work l can do. ="
Baltimore Sun.
The Colorado statesman., 1908-06-06
NEGRO STIRs CONFERENCE.

Il beg you to forget the color of
my skin and the past history of
my race. Remember only the cry
of the Master and give me the
money and equipment to carry on
His work in the field to which you
have sent me"
These words from Rev. DR.. 1. B.
Scott, missionary bishop to Africa
who is considered one of the ablest
colored men in the Church, aroused
more enthusiasm than anything
else at the session of the General
Conference of the Methodist
church at the Lyric yesterday.
The whole gathering spontaneous
ly responded to the appeal of DIR.
Scott, and when he concluded a
few of the delegates audibly voiced
their views by saying to each 9TH
er: HE ought to be made a
bishop"
DR.. Scott made a better impress
ion than any colored man who has
vet addressed the Conference.
Modestly, but graphically, he told
of his work in the Republic of Lii
IBERIA for the last four years. He
spoke of the "raw heathen" with
whom he came into contact and of
their tremendous desire for preach
ers and teachers and his utter ina
bility to supply this demand. He
told how he travelled hundreds of
miles in canoes and on foot to
reach these ''raw heathen" and of
visit paid him by the old king of
an inland tribe that had never
seen missionary to beg OF him to
send them one. All ne could do
was to promise to. do so at the
first opportunity.
The progress of Christianity in
Liberia was sketched interestingly
by DIR. Scott, who declared there
had been 2,191 conversions in the
last quadrennium, the total num-
Der of Methodist Episcopalians in
the republic now being more than
1900, which figures were applaud
ed by the Conference.
mo one in Liberia" he said,
The Colorado statesman., 1908-06-06
DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1908.

mensely. We are here to interest
capitalists and we are also here to
enlist capitalists and we are also
here to interest capitalists and we
are olso here to enlist the interest
of President Roosevelt in Liberals s
future There is gold in the inter.
ior, according to Sir Henry John
son, the British explorer, and we
want the American Negro to come
to Liberia and make a strong ma
tion. Liberia is the smallest of
the republics. 1t has been an in
dependent country since 1S47, and
has been recognized by America
since 1865. The only thing we
lack is intelligent men and the
proper facilities to market our
goods"
The Liberian delegation was
met down by the bay by L. G..
Chamberlain, president of the
United States Evangelical ALI
anee, DIR. Chamberlain is white
man. He will introduce the visi-
tors to the President.-N. Y. Age.
The Colorado statesman., 1908-06-06
RACE PATRONAGE.

The jew is for the Jew, the Ger
man for the German, and so on.
Every race contending, fighting,
dying for his fellows. No race
makes so much fuss over heaven
as the Negro, and no race catches
quite as much sheal. The Negro
loves Christ a mysterious future,
deals in large churches of that
kind of stock and hates his broth
er. He'll work, make money,
make fuss, spend it with the
white man whom he knows hates
his race worse than the devil hates
holy water, and sometimes makes
light remarks about Negroes in
business. If there ever were men
sacred to the cause of our poor,
foolish acting race, they are the
ones who have gone into business
risking their money on the respect
and confidence they have in one
another.
The Negro who works and
makes money, if he will persistent
ly spend it recklessly, he ought to
pick out some colored business
mans place and spend it, then the
race is not loosing it in so great
degree. The Jew and German set
a good example for the race to
emulate in the respect of patron
izing their fellows.
1t is not all ignorance that
makes the Negro do many foolish
things, or things which seems that
only fool would do, nor are they
all fools or foolish who do such
unreal things SO injurious to our
people. Often such mistakes are
made in high places. There will
always be things that seem right
to some of our people that appear
dreadfully wrong to others, who
see things from different view
point-Ohio Conservator.
The Colorado statesman., 1908-06-06
she received the burns. The
grating is a success.
The

Washington, D. G. May 81
Justice Anderson in Circuit Court
No. recently handed down a de-
cision declaring that a theatre
proprietor has the right to refuse
anybody admission to his play
house, even if the ticket has been
purchased. The court further held
that theatre proprietor can re-
woke the ticket even after the pur-
chaser has taken his seat, and
that the patron can be elected, pro-
vided no more force is used than
is absolutely necessary. The de-
cision was rendered in the case
brought by a white machinist.
The color line was not brought in
to the proceedings, but as Chase's
Theatre was the theatre in dispute
"a house which refuses to admit
colored people to any part of it
the decision favors the Chase anti
Negro policy. 1t is not likely that
the theatres that have been more
liberal with their colored patrons
will take advantage of the courts
decision.
The Colorado statesman., 1908-06-06
RACE NEWS
GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

Among the enterprising bust
ness women of Colorado is Mrs.
Minnie Geesman. who owns fine
ranch three miles West of Cripple
Creek. She also runs milk diary
and has about thirty head of fine
cattle also a good bunch of hogs,
etc. In managing her own bust
ness, Mrs. Geesman has proved
herself to be an astute business
woman. Besides modern resi-
dence and out buildings the ranch
is well equipped with the latest
farming impliments.
The Colorado statesman., 1908-06-06
THE NEGRO
In Politics BY Stannard Baker in June Number of Amer
ican Magazine. What Slavery Did.

Whatever their momentary
names have been, whether Fedora
list, Democratic, Whig, Republi-
can, Populist or Socialist, one of
these parties has been an Aristo-
cratic or Conservative party, the
other Democratic or progressive
party, the other a Democratic or
Progressive party, The political
struggle in this country land the
world over) has been between the
aristocratic idea that a few men
Cor one NAM should control the
country and supervise the division
of labor and the products of labor
and the democratic idea that more
people should have a hand in it.
1t has taken various forms and as
sumed many faces. Religious, Soc
ial, Industrial, but it is all a part
of the fundamental social conflict
between the Few and the Many.
The abolition of slavery in the
South was an incident in this
struggle. Slavery was not abol-
ished because the North agitated,
or because John Brown raided or
Mrs Stowe wrote a book, or for
any other sentimental or superficial
reason, but beause it was undemo-
cratic.
This is what slavery did: Item
ables comparatively few men ION
ly about one in ten of the white
men of the South was a slave own
er or slave renter) to control eleven
states of the Union, to monopolize
learning, to hold all the political
offices, to own most of the good
land and nearly all the wealth.
Not only did it keep the Negro in
slavery, but nine-t -tenths of the
, white people (the socalled poor
whites" whom even the Negroes
despised) were hardly more than
peasants or serfs. 1t was in mary
ways charming aristocracy, but
was doomed from the beginning.
If there had been no North slav-
cry in the South would have dis
! appeared just as inevitably. 1t
was the restless yeast of democracy
spreading abroad upon the earth
lin Europe as well as America)
that killed slavery and liberated
both Negro and poor white man
Revolutions such as the Civil
War change names: they do not
at once change human relation
sL.iips. Mankind is reconstructed
not by proclamation or legislation
or military occupation, but by time,
growth, education, religion and
thought.
When the South got on its feet
again after Reconstruction and
took account of itself, what did it
find? If found 100000 ignorant
Negroes changed in name from
The Colorado statesman., 1908-06-06

The discussion of the Negro in
politics will of necessity deal
chiefly with conditions in the
South: for it is there, and there
only, that the Negro is, at the
present time, great political prob
lem. Negroes in the North are in
deed beginning to play a con-
scious part in politics; but they
are only one element among many.
FlIv take their place with the
Il rish vote" the German vote, :"
the aPolish VOTE" the "labor vote" "
each of which must be courted or
placated by the politicians. L
have looked into Negro political
conditions in several cities, notably
indianapolis and Philadelphia, and
/ cannot see that they are in any
marked way different from the con-
dition of any other class of our
population which through ignor-
ance, or fear, or ambition, votes
more or less en- masse. Many Ne
groes do not vote at all; some
are as conscientious and incor-
ruptible as anywhite citizens;
but large proportion, ignorant
and short.sighted, are disfran-
chised by the use of money
in one form or another at every
election. One of the broadest OBJ
servers in indianapolis saidto me-
The Negro voters are no worse
and no better than our foreign vot-
ing population"
Mayor Tom Johnson, himself
Southern by birth, writes me re-
garding the Negro vote of Cleve-
land:
Il dc not believe their is any
larger percentage of unintelligent
or dishonest votes among the col
ored voters than among the white
voters in the same walks of life.
| wish here to emphasize again
the fact that the Negro is not a
sectional but national problem.
Anything that affects the South
favorably or unfavorably reacts
upon the whole country. And the
same latent race feeling exists in
the North that exists in the South
(for it is human, not Southern).
The North, indeed, as l have
shown in previous articles, con-
fronted with large influx of Ne
groes, is coming more and more TO
understand and sympathize with
the heart breaking problems which
= beset the South. Nothing short
of the patient CO. cooperation of the
entire country, North and South,
white and black, will ever solve
the race question.
In this country, as elsewhere po-
litical thought divides itself into
two apposing forces, two great par
ties or points of view.
The Colorado statesman., 1908-06-06

A post graduate student at Y ale
has just completed an exhaustive
Investigation into lynchings in the
United States for the last twenty
four years. He finds that the
total for the period is 3,233, of
whom 1872 were Negroes and,
1856 were whites. There were
sixty-one women lynched in that
poriod, twenty-three of them white
woman, of whom nine were lynch
ed for murder. In the South,
l,00l Negroes and 593 whites were
lynched. Statistics cannot be
made to show more than thirty five
per cent. of Negroes lynched for
crimes against women.
The Colorado statesman., 1908-06-06

Philadelphia, May 27.-Bertha
Reed, Negro child, will have a
partly white face when she leaves
the West Jersey hospital, Camden.
She was badly burned at her home
in Palmyra while playing near a
bonfire, and the physicians at the
hospital for time feared her life
could not be saved. They then
called for patches of skin to graft
on the child. Several of the
nurses volunteered and large
patches of white skin now cover
the child's face. The physicians
are interested in the case, especial
ly in noting whether or not the
white skin will ultimately become
dark, as that of the child before