The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-23
THE COLOR LINE IN WASHINGTON.

10 take part in the parade of the men
Bible classes The colored minister
Joined in an open letter to the dele
gates protesting against the discrimi
nation. They wrote a very good let
ter; but is 1t not strange how the col
ored people will persist in forcint
themselves into company where the,
| are not wanted? Did anybody ever
hear of white people protesting tina
they are not permitted to take part ii
any of the affairs of the colored people
| why is 1t that the colored people in.
sist upon advertising their inferiority
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THE COLONEL Is UNPURCHAsABLE
There are some critics in Whose
hands no reputation is sacred, nc
name unprofaned. They besnirch til,
| pulpit and they cast their muck upor
I the altar They invade ttle ranctity ol
the home and array the mother gainst
the father. They SKATER the idols OF
| generations and ruthlessly destroy the
| sacred monuments of the ages. From
'''SAi SpoiiihS touCi no purity IL
safe: from their besmirchlng grasp
no honor escapes-not even that of
the Colonel
When the Colonel lectured at the
sorbonne and before the Academy OF
Moral and Political Sciences. we re-
1oiced at these signal honors 10 the
first American citizen; when the en-
thusiastic Partisan populace bowed
down before him, we felt pleased that
our own Idol should be worshipped at
foreign shrines; and when he declared
on the rostrum of the Academy that
that was the "proudest moment of my
literary career" we, too, fel. GLAD and
proud at heart. When he sped away
from Paris to, conquer other Courts we
felt relieved, for we knew the Parisians
Of old and remembered that with
them the idol of esterday is the vic
tim of the morrow; STILL when the
Colonel had been away from Paris
for three weeks and no scandal had
been linked with his name, VIC be-
lieved that his immaculate worth had
escaped even their abuse.
Now it turns out that Paris was
Paris and attacked even the Colonel.
While his lecture is reported to
have been selling on the streets
of the city at rate that. showed
its worth, and while the Colonel
was receiving a royalty from It's
circulation which but i'll repaid the
labor 1T cost even his fertile brain.
some scandal monger in Paris spread
a rumor that the Colonel was paid
$500 for his lecture at the Sorbonne.
Think of the impertinence! He: the
Colonel. the Champion OF the J'oor.
selling his speech for six hundred
petty dollars to the savants OF a
great foundation whose fame is for
ever safe because tho Colonel has
spoken from it's platform. The daring
of a people that overthrow Royalty
in the days of the Revolution, that pro-
claimed the rights of man and then
approved a constitution that violated
them. that deserted a Napoleon and
VIA A1oii5 LIiNc llIe hiilS III Il petty
Bourbon-this daring sinks into moth.
ingness beside this attack on the
Colonel
The story is false on it's face, ard
false because if the Colonel wanted
to sell his lecture $500 would no. buy n
stick OF it. That speech for less than
one cent a word? Those references to
good citizenship and the common peo-
pie and the duty of child be getting for
less than Ella Wheeler Wilcox gets for
her poems less than Beatrix Fairfax
receives for advising the lovelorn? Had
the Colonel wanted to sell that speech
Scribner's would gladly have bought
1t for dollar the word, or Brother
Lyman Abbott would have taken it in
lieu of an editorial article from the
Colonel.
No, the Colonel was not paid. and
the Colonel could not be paid All the
honors that France might heap upon
him and all the degrees that tho sor-
bonne could give him could not pur-
chase him or his words or his thoughts
or his brooches or his presence. The
Colonel Is of the unpurchasable sort,
and he never sold out to anybody.
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