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The Washington bee., 1910-02-19
IS LIBERIA A FAILURE?

The little republic of Liberia is
very much in the lime light these
days. This is accounted for largely
by the recent visit of the American
Commissioners to that country and
more recently by the announcement
that the State Department at Wash
ington would recommend substantial
financial and moral help to this
struggling nation. The Times-Dem-
ocrat in opposing what seems to be
the policy of the government to aid
Liberia says: Talk of the regener-
alton of Liberia is something of a
joke. An experiment from the be-
ginning, it was long ago pronounced
a failure"
Is Liberia a failure? We admit
that the growth of the country has
been quite slow, that the resources
have remained undeveloped, still
there is much in the history of Ii
IBERIA which shows strength of char
acter and prophecy of success. Ir
the first place Liberia is a fairly
stable government. 1t has stood foI
three quarters of a century inzspite
of the false prophets who said il
would not stand. During all these
years of its national existence Ii
IBERIA has not hadarevolutiOn.ItS gov
ernment has changed hands many
sin theregular constitutional way
Even one President was impeached
without any serious upheaval And
there has been no blood shed except
in war with aggressive natives. That
this body of men have been able to
make and repeal laws and elect 5nen
to succeed others in an orderly way
is most significant. Liberia lives
within her income and the national
debt is not the result of extrava-
gance but that of avaricious credi-
tors. Liberia has maintained a pub
lie school system. While not as gen.
eral as one could wish it has been
able to produce its educated men ir
public affairs and thereby perpetuate
the national spirit in morals, pa
triotism and in intelligence.
The regeneration of Liberia is not
Joke. Liberia is a mission post. Il
is a post where Christian civilization
may land day or night and find 3
cordial welcome. Liberia is essenti-
ally a landing place for an attack
upon heathenism and herein lies Ii
beria's greatest service to civiliza-
ton. Liberia is a demonstration OF
self government on the part of the
Negro which may be pointed to with
pride.-S. w. Christian Advocate.
The Washington bee., 1910-02-19
PARAGRAP|Hlc' NEWS
BY Miss Gonevia B. Max6eId

1t has been said by one of the
leading New York papers, that the
old time Negro melodies, were got
ten up by white men. The idea
What white man in the South could
spare the time from the cruel lash
of the slave, to teach him those soui
stirring anthems, appealing to the
Heavenly Father for freedom. What
else does the white men want credit
for?
Miss Estelle E. Gibbs, the little
colOred girl, who won the first prize
among 10000 white pupils attending
public schools and fifteen cOlored,
will not enter the high school as she
is afraid they would not permit her
to teach at her home in HobokeA,
N. J., owing to her color. She has
decided to take up music.
There are two colored students
who are members of the senior class
at Bowdoin College in Brunswick,
Me-, they are Herman Dreear, of this
city, who was a graduate of M St
High School, in 1907 and Arthur
Madison, a graduate of the Alabama
State Normal School. These are the
only colored students, who have at
tended the school since John Brown
RuSswurm, who was graduate
eighty-four years ago and was an
honor to the Institute, as we'll as TO
the colored American Race.
James K. Vardaman, we'll knowH
for radical views on the "Negro
question" knows by now that his
day has swiftly glided by, 50 far as
returning to the Senate is concern.
So busy was he stirring up racial
prejudices and digging pits for his
black brother, he failed to set him
self on a solid foundation.
Since the election of Mayor Her
man c. Baker, a Republican in Cleve-
land, Ohio, twenty-three colored mes
have been appointed to positions.
Does it pay to stand by the grand old
party that Lincoln represented?
Prof. Kelly Miller, in his address
before the Y. M. c. A., of Baltimore,
said, "The colored young man and
woman must have a we'll developed
body in order to compete successful
ly with other races" What more
can be said?
The Afro-American Ledger comes
out in an interesting article saying
"The Negro churches could accom-
plish much good by deciding to have
a field day, to discuss social purity,
or moral regeneration of the race.
No pastor is ignorant of the great
need of a hand to hand conflict with
the forces of sin if we are to save
the benighted and besotted element
of our race" Pastors take heed, the
blood of your flock is upon your
heads, if you neglect your duty.
President Taft will assist in the
dedication of the new $4,000 Car
negie Library at Howard University
1t is hoped that the great benefactor,
Andrew Carnegie, will attend The
date is set for March 10.
The Mu-So-Lit Club, of which
DR.. A. NJ. Curtis is president held
appropriate and interesting exercises
in honor of both Lincoln and Doug
lass. last Friday night, at the Con
servatorv of Music. oO2 T street, n.
The Washington bee., 1910-02-19
SALE OF LINCOLN TAGS
Committee Raising Fund for Nation
al Training School.

Lincoln tags were sold throughout
the District by a committee of fifty
colored women for the benefit of the
National Training School at Lincoln,
D. c. A generous harvest was reap
ed from the sale of the buttons bear
ing the picture of Abraham Lincoln,
all of which will 60 to aid the school
which was opened last October by the
colored Baptists Of the United States.
Miss Mamie H Burroughs IS
president OF the school, whose mis-
sion, it is stated, is to train women
and girls for all kinds of work.
Each student must take up the study
of a trade along with her other stu
dies at this school, and two-thirds Of
the students time is given to the stu
dy of that trade. The other time is
given to the study of English. The
school has a good enrolment.
The Washington bee., 1910-02-19

The African Miniug and Real Estate
Company is offering an unusual OPP
portunity to Investors. You should
look up their advertisement on page
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-04-28
TUESDAY, APRIL %, 1910.


If it be true that the membership OF
the house of representatives is largely
against the establishment of postal de-
positors, it is an illustration of the
lack of respect for party pledges by
men who were elected to carry out
those pledges. If republican represen-
tatives are unmindful of the unqualif-
ed promise of postal savings banks
legislation put in the party platform,
the people are not. A failure to keep
the promise would be an act of perfdy
for which the pledge breakers would
be called to account at the primaries
or the polls.
The house committee on postofhces is
hostile to postal repositories. While it
will not dare to report back the bill
with recommendation that the enact
ing clause be stricken out, it will sub
init amendments. Some of them will
limit the scope and usefulness Of the
proposed legislation. Others may be
designed to make the bill unconstitu-
tional. The senate bill takes in every
postoflice in the country. 1t is the SEN
timent of the committee that the num-
Der should be greatly restricted. 1t
would leave out all the small Offices
where the postmaster has no safe in
which to lock up temporarily moneys
deposited with him. The committee
also thinks the amount of money which
any one should be allowed to have on
deposit should be limited to $500 in
stead of $500.
a measure thus limited would be
much better than none. Even if 1t
were to cover only a thousand post.
offices, it would secure for the postal
savings plan q fair trial. That is all
that would be needed to convert most
of it's opponents. Hence the import
ance of making a beginning, no matter
on how small a scale. 1t would not
take long to show that there was a
large clientage for the postal deposit
tories and that the banks would not be
hurt by them.
Therefore, the friends of the measure
in the senate and house, while fighting
to the end any amendment to the SEN
ate bill which would make it uncon-
stitutional and thus destroy it, should
not endanger it's passage by a pro-
tracted and probably unsuccessful con-
test against limiting and restricting
amendments. Once get a chance for
the postal savings banks to assert them
selves and it will be an easy matter to
get rid of those amendments.-Trib
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-04-28

damage brought upon us by reckless
ness and greed.
The establishment of forestry depart
ments in many states, and the decision
of courts of last resort to the effect
that private owners of timber land can
not denude it of its trees so as to
cause soil erosion or interfere with the
navigability of streams, are evidences
of progress that augur well for the
future This subject is worthy of the
most serious thought of all our people,
and l trust that the citizens of this
commonwealth will continue to lead in
all movements that make for the pub
lie welfare.
In testimony whereof, | nave here
unto set my hand and caused the great
seal of the state of Wisconsin to be
affixed. Done at the capitol, in the
city of Madison this sixteenth day of
March, in the year of onr Lord, one
thousand, nine hundred and ten.
By the governor:
James O. Davidson.
James A. Frear,
Secretary of State.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-04-28
City League Wrought Up
Over Internal Dissentions
Will Give Up the Ghost
RREEN MAY ORGANIZE TEAM

Internal dissentions and bad weather
have wrought havoc with the infant Ke-
nosha City Base Ball League and as
result it is declared today that the
league is tottering and that there is
little hope of the schedule arranged be-
ing played out The managers of sew
eral of the teams have announced their
intention to withdraw from the league
and the officials have given up hopes of
keeping the teams together for the
season.
With the announcement that the city
league is liable to fail comes the an
nouncement that the Kenosha team has
been offered a place in the Chicago
Park Owners League and it is probable
that the city will be represented in
that league. Peter Breen who has
managed a team in Kenosha for the
past six years still has the lease of the
park at the west end of the city as it
was understood that the lease should
not pass to the city league magnates
until after the first of May and Breen
may re-organize the Kenosha team and
put it in the field as one of the teams
in the Park Owners League. This
would bring to Kenosha the usual list
of Chicago teams including the Gun
theirs, Fosters Leland Giants, Roster s
Colts, and probably the Cuban Giants.
Breen has as yet taken no steps to
sign a team for the season and the
playing of the picked up team from the
city league teams has not proved a big
drawing card at the two games played
in the city 1t is certain that if
the venture is to be paying one that
the manager must get a team largely
made up of out of town players. 1t
is said that many of the men who play
ed on the Kenosha team last year are
ready to come back to Kenosha if ar
rangements can be made to get team
into one of the Chicago leagues. 1t is
expected that the team would play a
majority of its games away from home,
but at that there would be enough
games played in Kenosha to keep up
the interest in the sport.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-04-28
Committee in Fight Against
tuberculosis Would Aid
Pupils in Contest
WILL FURNISH BOOKS At COST

By special arrangement with pub
fishers of the best works on tuberculo-
sis, its care, prevention and cure, the
Wisconsin NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Associa-
tion is able to offer authoritative books
to all persons interested in the crusade
against consumption. There is no
profit to the association in this distri-
button It is a part of the educa-
tional campaign.
The Wisconsin Free Library Com
mission is already pushing the circula-
tion of these and other books through
out the state To I'll further needs
and give readers an opportunity to hold
books permanently and pass them on to
others, the association is pushing the
circulation of such volumes. The ac-
eepted list contains the following:
Allen-Ciyics and Heath.
Brewer-Rural Hygiene.
Fisher-The Modern Crusade Against
Consumption.
Francine Pulmonary tuberculosis;
It's Modern and Specialized Treatment.
Frost-Tuberculo or Consumption
With Special Reference to Wisconsin
Conditions.
Huber = Consumption and Civiliza-
ton.
Hutchinson = Conquest of Consump-
ton.
/: Jewett-The Body and It's Defenses.
Jewett-Town and City.
Otis-The Great White Plague.
Modern Woodmen of America S War,
the Campaign Against tuberculosis.
"The Crusader the monthly pub
LEGATION of the Wisconsin Anti-Tuber-
culosis Association.
The works of Frost, Fisher, Modern
Woodmen and single copies of the CRU
sader in this list are distributed free
on application. The prices of the
other works are at publisher S rates
and will be sent postpaid to any ad-
dress. Application should be made to
Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Associa-
ton, Goldsmith Bldg, Milwaukee, Wis
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-04-28
MEET THURSDAY NIGHT
Conley and Webster to Meet Before
Pacific Athletic Club at Maud

Kenosha sports will be turning their
eyes toward the Pacific slope again on
Thursday evening when frankie Con-
ley Of Kenosha will meet Danny Web
ster in limited round bout before the
Pacific Athletic Club at Maud June
ton. The fight is to go for but ten
rounds and both Webster and Conley
have been in training for over a week.
Conley is a big favorite for the fight
but the friends of Webster claim that
he is lot better than when the two
boys met at Portland few months
ago. The fight has nothing to do with
championship honors as Conley consent
ed to give Webster a ten round bout
after the latter had refused to keep
his agreement to fight over the Mara
thon route. Conley has declared that
he is confident that he will be able to
knock Webster out in less than ten
rounds and the men at his training
camp at Vernon declare that he was
never in better condition. It is ex-
pected that 1000 people will witness
the meeting between the two bantam
weights.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-04-28

The rules and regulations as to
what must be done by the people of
any section of the city before they
will be given free delivery are laid
down by the department at Washing
ton and are not subject to change or
revision by the local authorities in any
way. After all of the preliminaries
have been complied with the inspectors
of the department go over the propos-
ed routes and until they are salts
fed the free delivery will not be
granted. About all the local post.
master can do is to ask for additional
carriers, but the people along the pro-
posed routes have to do their part be-
fore the service is given them and the
postmaster cannot be held responsible
for any failure on their part to com.
ply with the regulations.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-04-28

He grew to manhood in Michigan re,
ceived academic education, studied law
and was admitted to the bar in ST..
Joseph county, Michigan, in 1878. In
1891 he removed to Superior, Wis,
where he engaged in the general
practice of his profession. In 1905
he was appointed law examiner in the
attorney generals department at Madi-
son. He was speedily promoted to the
position of assistant attorney general,
which position he continues to hold.
He has had charge of many important
matters for the state and has been quite
uniformly successful.
Mr.. Titus is a progressive Republi-
can. He will make further an
nouncement and declaration at the
proper time.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-04-28

The hydrophobia scare out in the
county will remind the dog owners of
the city that dog licenses will soon be
dle. The thorough canvass of the
city made by the police force last fall
on the threat of the council to repeal
the license law unless it was properly
enforced will make the work of col
Letting the fees much easier this year
and the police should be able to add
a considerable sum to the pension fund
without too much exertion. There is
now and always has been considerable
opposition to this law on the part of
many dog owners, but their principal
source of complaint was removed when
the law was enforced impartially on
all alike and the good effects of the
law are so apparent that the great ma.
jority of the people of the city would
oppose its repeal.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-04-28
osMoND CAPRoN DEAD
Former Kenosha Veteran Passes Away
in Milwaukee Monday

Osmond Capron, a former resident of
Kenosha and we'll known to the older
generation of Kenosha people, died at
St. Mary's Hospital in Milwaukee on
Monday from the shock following a sur
gical operation. He was born in Mary
land and was about Sc years of age.
He was son of General Horace Cap
ron and a nephew of Madam Theirs
of this city. When mere boy he en-
listed in the 14th Illinois cavalry, a
regiment raised by his father and serv-
ed all through the war. After the
war he return to Kenosha and engaged
in the flour and feed business in com
pany with his brother. In the early
seventies Mr.. Capron lost his eyesight
in the burning of the Durkee Hotel and
shortly afterward he went to the
Soldiers Home in Milwaukee and had
resided there ever since.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-04-28
SCHOOL BOARD WILL help
Trees and Flowers to be Planted in the
Various School Grounds of the City
Governor Davidson Issues a Proclau1a-
ton

Teachers in the city schools this
morning received from State Superin-
tendent G. p. Cary the annual program
for the observance of Arbor Day in
Wisconsin and elaborate preparations
are being made for the celebration of
the day by the school children of the
city on Friday, May 9th provided the
snow is off the ground by that time.
The board of education will encourage
the children in the celebration of the
day and to this end will provide trees
to be planted in the various school
yards of the city, Plans are being
made to have the day observed as a
general cleaning up day among the
school children and it is expected that
the grounds about all Of the schools
will be cleaned up and on many of
them plants and flowers will be planted
and the grounds beautifed. In con-
nection with the annual program the
superintendent has sent copy of the
annual proclamation of the governor
setting aside the day. The proclama-
tion follows:
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-04-28

Even if Mr.. Taggert does run for the
senate in Indiana, Illinois papers will
not be expected to make any scurrilous
remarks or point the finger of scorn,
etc. With the "blond boss" repre-.
senting the great state of Illinois in
the ''highest deliverative body on
earth" it is pretty nearly case of
"hoss and hoss' as they say at Mr..
Taggert IS French Lick resort.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-04-28
FirstAssistant Attorney Gen
eral Out as a Candidate to
Succeed Frank Gilbert
TO MAKE DECLARATION LATER

First Assistant Attorney General A.
G. Titus has made formal announce
ment of his candidacy for the Repubi-
can nomination for the Office of attor.
ney general to succeed Frank L. Gil
bert. No statement or declaration of
principles accompanies the declaration
which is brief as follows:
Madison, April %, 1910.
~ hereby announce myself as a can
didate for the Republican nomination
for attorney general,
"a. 9. Titus.
A. G. Titus was born in New York.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-04-28
CITY WORK NEARLY COMP ETED
Census Enumerators Find That Foreign
Population in Kenosha is Greater
Than Native Bcrn-Some Big Fani-
lies Here

| Supervisor Of the Census d. Elmer
Roberts of Racine, has met with new
| difficulty in connection with the max
ing of the census for Kenosha county
and this comes from the unwillingness
of farmers in all parts of the county
to fill out the census blanks sent to
them some time ago. The farmers
seem to be of the opinion that the cen
sus blank is an official document to be
dreaded and they have in many cases
resented the action Of Uncle Sam in
attempting to pry into their private
business. The enumerators who are
in charge of the work in the rural dis
tricts have notified the supervisor that
they have been unable to get the
blanks in many farm homes and the
farmers either consider the matter a
huge joke or they profess to be unable
to fill out the blanks.
With two of the four weeks past
the trouble is getting to be serious
one and it may be necessary for the
supervisor to take the bull by the
horns and cause the arrest of couple
Of farmers before he makes it possible
for the enumerators to get the informa-
ton desired. Complaints Of this
nature have been received from every
town in Kenosha county and the super
visor this morning sent out letter
demanding that the farmers comply
with the demands Of the government
at once.
The work of taking the census in
Kenosha has been completed in four
of the city wards and it is expected
that the other enumerators will com
plete their work by tomorrow night.
The enumerators have taken no steps
to count up the population of the city,
but the blanks have been forwarded
to Supervisor Roberts just as rapidly as
they are filed out and he is the only
man who can give out the facts in
relation to the count. It will, prob
ably, be more than a year before the
detailed facts in regard to the census
are given out and five years before
the final statistics in regard to this
and other counties are sent out from
Washington. The local enumerators
have found many things Of interest in
Kenosha, one OF the most interesting
being family consisting of the
father, mother and sixteen children, all
Of whom were still living under the
parental roof. The records for this
city will show terrific increase in the
foreign population and it is declared
| by enumerators who have made close
study of the conditions that the final
report from Kenosha county will show
that the population of foreign born
citizens will be far in excess of the
native born.
When the census was taken ten years
lago there were few of the Russian ma
tionality in Kenosha, but the figures
this year will show that the Russians
and those classes Of citizens who have
been under the rule of the Car are in
greater numbers in Kenosha than The
representatives of any other foreign
country with the exception of Ger
many.
Under the regulations of the census
all of the figures from the city Of Ke-
nosha must be in the hands of Supervi-
sor Roberts by Friday evening. The
enumerators in the farming regions
will be given two weeks more in which
to complete their work.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-04-28
DEATH OF MRS II. GUNDERsoN
Well Known Pleasant Prairie Woman
Died this A. M. After Short Illness.

Mrs. Mary Ida Frances Gunderson,
aged "a years, wife of Harry Gunder-
son died at the family residence in the
village of Pleasant Prairie just after
two 'clock this morning after short
illness from complication of diseases
The deceased was a daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Mcneil and was born
and raised in Pleasant Prairie. The
husband and one son survive.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-04-28

Frederic Thompson elaborate pro-
duction of "Polly of the Circus" with
Fay Wallace in the principal role, will
be the offering at the Rhode Opera
House next Saturday night. In addi-
ton to large company of well known
players, number of circus people and
circus acts are required for the proper
Interpretation of the piece, as well a.
carload of trained horses.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-04-28
DEATH OF FRED NEuBERT

Fred Neubert, aged 46 years old,
son of the late Bernhard Neubert, one
of the pioneer residents of Kenosha,
died at his home in Waukegan, on Mon
day night. The deceased was born
and raised in Kenosha and for years
resided with his parents on Washing
ton Island He is survived by a wi
dow and seven children.