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The Colorado statesman., 1910-12-24

end we believe that every evidence
of progress and good will should be
given its full value. We believe it to
he the wish of a very large majority
of the whites that the Negro remain
i'll the South, contented and happy.
This result cannot be achieved: "a
by lawless punishment of crime; C2)
BIZ denying him political and civil
rights; (3) by repressive legislative
legislation; "a by neglecting to- give
him the gospel by example as well as
by precept; (5) by proposing exclu-
siye forms of education for any one
race. since in American life the way
is omen for all: the demands are upon
all alike as to economic. intellectual
and moral value and accountability
This result can be greatly fastened;
1. BY giving him larger opportun-
ties for education anu opeuh5 UP
fields of employment.
2. BY according him all citizen
rights. To these he is justly entitled.
3. BY granting him the blessings OF
industrial emancipation.
A. BY paying him just wage for
service rendered.
s. BY giving the protection of the
law as well as inflicting upon him its
renalties- Bradax.
The Colorado statesman., 1910-12-24
NEGRO IN
NEW ERA
George F. Davis tells of the Negroes Condition in the
North and how his Life in the South can be
made more useful and happy

that flowed southwark since the war
through the channels of the church
boards and missionary societies. 1t is
also true that the better class of Ne
eroes who have homes in these cities
have felt most acutely a gradual, and
III some places sudden change OF
sentiment due TO the bad conduct and
criminality of these stragglers.
The result is most disastrous to
10th the social and political status of
the Negro in the northern states. Cut
off from industrial opportunity in
skilled labor he is only tolerated
when he tacitly accepts a position of
permanent inferiority, which dooms
him to a position as mass lower
than that he occupies in the South.
A prominent Kentucky statesman
once declared his opposition to free
ing the slaves because the Negroes
would all leave, and the South would
be ruined.
Mr. Lincoln's rejoinder at the time
Is to-day the watchword of the home
loving Negro: "They will not run
away unless they have something to
run for
They only ask that liberation and
patience be shown to a race just for
ty-five years out of slavery-a race
whose progress towards the heights
OF civilization began at zero; whose
pathway for two hundred and fifty
years led through slavery worse
than barbarism, and whose manumis-
sion and subsequent enfranchisement
found it confronted with so many new
and untried responsibilities.
In taking this favorable view of
the South as the best place for the
Negro, we by no means commit our
selves to the proposition that it is the
Happy Valleydreamed of by Johnson
in his "Rasselas." Too often his days
are filled with unrequitted toll and his
nights rendered sleepless with har-
rowing fears. To-day in far Southern
states he is called upon to listen to
an irony of logic which at once de-
clares him to be inherently incapable
of rising to the heights of citizenship
and then by legislative enactment
raises barriers that make it impossi-
BILE for him to rise; that says he can
not learn and therefore so circum-
scribes his educational opportunities
il the public school systems of the
South as to restrict him to the most
elementary rudiments of learning;
that claims that educating the Negro
produces idleness and asserts that
the majority of criminal Negroes are
illiterate: that teaches him to aspire
and withholds from him the imple-
ments with which to achieve; that
breaches worth and character as the
only true tests of manhood and sub
jects to the most calling humiliation
men and women well up to the stand
ard in both, because their skin is
dark
We do not forget that if education
and character are growth for the
Negro, that justice and fairness to-
ward the Negro must be nurtured and
cultivated in the white man. To this
The Colorado statesman., 1910-12-24

The statement that the South is the
hest place for the Negro as mass
&c NOT made hastily and without some
investigation of his condition. con
dnct and opportunities in the North.
A glance at condition of the masses
there will convince any one that II
were better endure the ills we have
than to fly to others we know not OIL
Some of the best colored people OF
the South have gone into the cities Oh
the North seeking better protection
under the law superior advantages
for their children, and better homes
IN which to live. They have found
unsympathetic judges and hostile 1u-
RES; prejudice and ostracism in the
schools and homes available only IN
noisome alleys and unsanitary quar-
ters of the city where the white
plague walks on stills. They nave
sought honorable employment, only to
find themselves opposed by hordes Oh
recently arrived peasants from Europe
Russians. Italians, Hungarians and
poles-who seeing in the Negro an IN
,dustrial rival, have sworn eternal en-
nifty against him. There are certain
Quarters in New York City where
Naero dare not go alone for fear OF
teing stoned by these barbarians from
the other side of the Atlantic. Dis
oouraged by these unexpected op-
s,acles many of these people drift into
or,r,e The Young girls become a
ready prey to the vultures oil the
tenderloin and sell their virtue as the
price for bread. The young men IN
few short months SOW their crop OF
,,,i1d oats and then come back to the
South to rest upon the charity oil kim
and kin until consumption lays its
CHASTITY banner on their form.
But it is not the better class that
leave the South in large numbers.
The property-holding and industrious
Negro in the South is good citizen'
end the hands of the best white peo-
rle are ready to help and encourage
him. To such as these it is a source
of poignant regret that at the present
time there is an influx of irresponsi-
ble and shiftless colored people from
the South into the larger cities OF the
North. such as Pittsburg, Philadelphia
and New York, and into the smaller
manufacturing towns. Many of these
people are criminal, and others, seek
ing larger freedom.
The results are disastrous to the
hotter class who remain in the South,
hound by family ties, property inter-
ests and real patriotism.
The conduct of these people in the
North has curtailed the benevolences
The Colorado statesman., 1910-12-24

Los Angeles people have just found
out that through the Colorado States
rnan they can hear of their many col
ored friends.
The Colorado statesman., 1910-12-24

Mrs. Emma Hall, nee Sommers, is
spending the winter in Phoenix, Ariz.
Mrs. Jennings of 2S44 California ST.
Denver, is fast improving. She expects
TO remain during the winter.
The Colorado statesman., 1910-12-24
LOS ANGELES NOTES.

Johnny Porter, John Montgomery
and Anderson Shields, Denver boys,
wish to be remembered to their Den
yer friends through the Colorado
Statesman
The Colorado statesman., 1910-12-24

Chicago. Dec. 15.-Pullman
porters have sent ii petition to the
general manager of the Pullman
company asking for an increase in
wages. The petition says: The
growing tendency of the travelling
public either to discontinue alto
gether, or to reduce to one-hali or
less, the gratuities with which they
formerly rewarded Pullman porters
who merited such consideration
and the high cost of living general
ly. baye forced us to come through
you to the Pullman company beg
ging for some relief A porter on
one of the New York Chicago fly
ers, relating some of the hardships
encountered, told an incident
which happened recently on his
train. The professor of the agri
cultural department in IL certain
university" said the porter,
brought 90 of his students to see
the international stock show in
Chicago. The professor told the
students it was against the law of
the state to give tip They
travelled in my Pullman car. II
worked all night scrubbing off the
mud and polishing up the 30
pairs of shoes. In the morning !
brushed the whole party off. Did
l yet anything for my polish and
time? No.
The Colorado statesman., 1910-12-24

Mr.. r. S. Ealy is doing a nice bus
mess on Third and Alameda streets.
His lunches are of the best, and all OF
the Pallman boys know it.
The Colorado statesman., 1910-12-24

coming before it having attained
so high a grade. Among those
examined at the same time was
w. II. Vernon, now registar of the
Treasury at Washington, who will
soon retire from that position, and
is seeking another appointment.
Atlantic City, Nj, December
ia writ of inquiry has been
issued by Supreme Court Justice
Trenchard directing Sheriff John
son to impanel Q Jury of Il men to
determine the amount of damages
to be assessed for an interlocutory
Judgment of 100000 obtained
against Mrs. Catherine E. Carter,
a prominent Philadelphia widow
and heiress to 81 100000, by Mrs.
Jessie Curry, wife of her colored
chauffeur, whose affections Mrs.
Carter is alleged to have alienated.
Mrs. Curry is represented 10y At
torney James M. Sheen. of this
city, and the judgment is one of
the largest Oh record in this city.
Curry, who is said to be remark
ably good looking young colored
man. has been in the employ of
Mrs. Carter for two years. Dur
ing this period, Mrs. Curry alleges
her husbands affections for her
waned and she blames Mrs. Carter
for the estrangement. Suit for
the alienation was served on Mrs.
Carter while she was a guest at the
Hotel on November
IL. and she was ordered to file "a
plea within 20 days or suffer judg-
ment in the sum of 100000 was
taken.
The Colorado statesman., 1910-12-24

Mr.. Garnett Ceases, an old-time Den
verite is now living in Los Angeles.
The Colorado statesman., 1910-12-24

Los Angeles people that have notices
for this paper can leave them with
George Smith, at 7O4 E. Third street
Los Angeles.
The Colorado statesman., 1910-12-24

George Smith, an oldtime Denverite
says if you want to get fat, come to
Los Angeles. George ougth to know
as he is Just as fat as a match.
The Colorado statesman., 1910-12-24
RACE NEWS
GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES


Morristown, n. j.. December II.
A petition signed by about 20
per cent of the voters of this city
will be presented to the Board of
Aldermen this week demanding
the appointment of Negro chief
Of police. The petitioners candi-
date is Oliver Shaw, porter in
drug store, whose name stands
high on the civil service eligible
list.
Montgomery Ala.-Dec, Ia
Four of the most prominent and
wealthy white men in Alabama
have been convicted of peonage,
and since the United States Su-
preme Court has confirmed the
decision of the lower court, it looks
very much as if these people would
have 10 spend period in Jail
George l.. Fox, a Brooklyn, New
York millionaire lawyer, died on
December 14th, leaving an estate
worth 81 100000 to be distributed
among friends and charitable in
stitutions and faithful servants.
Among whom were several colored
His policy was that he recognized
no line of color, creed or race. He
not only talked that. but acted and
lived it.
Supreme Court Justice Martin
j. Keogh did not hold court last
Tuesday, having adjourned his di-
vision to attend the funeral of his
old Negro nurse, Dinah Hicks, who
was with the Keogh family for ov
er thirty years. Dinah Hicks was
bern in Virginia and is said to
have been ITO years old. When
she first came North she worked
for the Church family at Fort
Later she went to live
with the Keoghs. Dinah Hicks
nursed all his children and his wife
and all thought great deal of her.
we're held in the Church
IF the Blessed Sacrament, New
Y. A {.
Cincinnati, Ohio. Dec. II Fred
G. Payne, messenger in the office
If the auditor of state, at Column
bus, has just distinguished him
self in civil service examination
which he took two weeks ago at
The examination was
held for the purpose of securing
q man to fill Treasury position
that is now vacant. The place is
one TO which a colored man is in,
variably appointed, and so It's
foregone conclusion that colored
man will be appointed to it this
time. and for that reason the ap
plicants in the examination were
all colored. Payne secured the
highest percentage 96.4, which
is also new record for the exami-
nation board, no other person ever
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-12
EVEN KANSAS.

Even Kansas is listed among the
states that have either lost or stood
still in rural population during the
decade just closed Oklahoma and
Teas have protited by the continual
westward movement and show heavy
gains in rural population. 1t had been
supposed that Kansas was still near
enough to be benefited by the same
movement, but it appears otherwise
when the facts are known.
In the ten years. Kansas has made
gain of 100000 The Kansas City
Star jumped to the conclusion from
this that there had been no loss on the
farms. The Topeka Capital. however,
says that the facts show otherwise 1t
gives this statement of the case:
Nevertheless the facts show other
wise The cities of the state over 1000
have absorbed 100000 of the 900 in
crease, and if the increased population
of towns under 1000 is included, the
urban population has absorbed prac-
tically the total population increase in
Kansas in ten years.
This illustrates more wildly than
anything else how serious the matter
is. Kansas, compared with Iowa and
Illinois, for example is still a state of
cheap lands Yet during a decade Of
unparalleled prosperity it has no more
than held its own in farm population
The Kansas farmer is not deserving ms
post nowadays TO escape Jerry Simp-
son. other hot winds and the grass
hoppers. He seems to be moving to
town 10 enjoy the sweets of retirement,
the fruits of his toll. and TO give the
children an education We are every
once in a while reminded of that re-
mark Of Uncle Leslie NJ. Shaw's
few years ago. Lord save US from any
more prosperity"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-12


curls deserve to go down In history be-
side the package Of love letters that
according to an old and tender trad1-
ton, stopped the bullet seeking the
soldiers heart In the heat Of battle. we
know that there are unsentimental,
scoffing variants Of the story. In which
other objects are represented as rem
dering the same service. even unto q
pack OF playing cards, but we regard
them as spurious and unworthy OF re-
membrance 1t Is different with these
puffs. They appeal to the imagination.
Were they blond? Were they Dru-
netts? Were they shorn from a fair
Saxon's maiden head to fulfill their
destiny in the new world or did they
once adorn, plated and interviewer
with ribbon, some dark poll in the mid
die Kingdom? Were they cher own"
to employ significant phrase OF fem
nifty? Whatever they were, one sees
the legend growing before his eyes,
with it's international possibilities of
the poesy of modern intercourse, or Its
strictly native fignificance. All hail to
womans puffs! They have proved their
right of being, even when covered by
a weird hat and skewered with steel
weapon that would keep others at
respectful distance, if only the distance
were there to be kept.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-12
Topics of the Times
A legislature like that Of Illinois
covers multitude of state virtues

A legislature like that Of Illinois
covers multitude of state virtues
Washington state fruit men will at
tempt 10 induce middle west college
students to spend their vacations pick
ing and packing fruit on Washington
fruit farms. Now if they could made
fruit picking sort of co-educational.
One of the difficulties about inves-
tigating man like IIorimer is that he
usually knows so much about the in
vest.gators tina. its really dangerous.
Illinois 1t is said had a great state
fair which did rot receive the atten-
ton it deserved from the outside But
his shadow who could see a state fair
from across the boundary lines?
The railroads will soon be explaining
that delay in coal shipments is due to
the impossibility of keeping up steam
in zero weather Better put In few
tons If you have the cash or the credit
The Red Oak democrats who cancel
ed Bryan's engagement because of his
attitude on the liquor question might
very consistently and perhaps agree
ably fl the date with a keg party
Men admire women for their beauty;
women admire other women's clothes.
From the tone of an editorial in a
Sioux City paper 1T might be appre-
hended that the boys" are getting
ready to open up again with roulette
and faro in that city.
The Iowa Constitutional Amendment
Association and the Anti Saloon
League have buried the hatchet-but
it wouldn't be surprising if enough
handle We're left sticking out to serve
as a hand hold in emergency
King Manuel traded his kingdom
for a woman and Ia now TO lose the
woman. What could he expect? There's
a heap Of difference between King
Manuel and old Mr.. Manuel.
Mr.. Bryan feels sure of a democratic
house But then this is the fourth
time Mr.. Bryan has felt sure 1t seems
the part Of wisdom to copper Mr.
Bryan's feelings
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-12
M:h>ze.
What Will Bryan Do?
(Omaha Bee).

What part Is Mr.. Bryan to play in
the national drama this fall? His pc
cuiar shifts and changes Of front, his
recent selections Of paramount issues,
new alignTnents here and there, are
conditions which make his position just
now matter of interest. In his own
state where he has set up county OPP
ton as the chief question before the
people he repudiates the nominee of
his party for governor and yet supports
its equally odious nominee for the SEN
ate, who is in turn supporting the OBJ
iectionable gubernatorial candidate. In
Iowa he supports the party's nominee
for governor, whose position on the
| liquor question while not SO conspicu-
GUS is nevertheless practically the
same as that of Dahlman in Nebraska.
But in Ohio, in New York. in Penn
| sylvania. in New Jersey. in Connecti-
cut, in Massachusetts, what will Mr.
Bryan do? We know what he Will not
do IN Ohio. for Governor Harmon's re-
fusal to prepare to stand aside for
the Bryan dictum has answered that
question in advance. But will he rush
to the aid of Boss Murphy and Tam
many's man Dix. in New York, or does
he still remember Murphys snub of
him at Denver and in Lincoln? Will
he help DR.. Woodrow Wilson, the init
mate friend Of the late Grover Cleve-
land, for governor In New Jersey? VIII
the democratic reactionaries in Con-
necticut and Massachusetts be given
his assistance?
The question remains. Is this ava
lanche Of democratic votes, about
which we hear so much, to tumble
down upon US without SO much as a
tiny shove by Mr.. Bryan? Is he not
going to get in on the ground floor, af-
ter all these years Of successive de-
feats? Perhaps Mr.. Bryan Is just wise
enough to know that there Is more talk
| than truth in this democratic landslide
idea to remember that his experience
has proved that noise Is not necessarily
| votes
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-12
soBER,NG.up.

At the age Of IT Dennlan Thompson
has revived his great play The old
Homestead" with himself as Josh
whitcomb. And from newspaper re-
ports OF Its reception it could run a
year in any large city to standing
room only.
A few plays and a few actors have
won the hearts and hearthstones OF
all American families. They belong TO
the family circle. friends and init
mates. Joe Jefferson and Rip Van
Wrinkle were one OF these. Herne and
Shore Acres another and Thompson
and tho Old HON estead equally or even
more welcome than they.
These plays are 80 clean and true.
they are the simple JOY and hope of
life lived over in Its elemental sim
ipIicity. They are home folks. the love
and sorrow. the tender helpfulness and
common hopes. disappointments and
successes Of clear hearted hopeful folk.
the life which goes on in most homes
and that philosophers and simple men
and women know are the essentials of
true happiness.
1t Is good that Uncle Josh and the
Old Homestead and kindred plays
should come back. The stage has brok-
On away from the freshness Of decency
and has been for months on one Of its
periodical debauches. There has been
much that was unclean much that was
Its opportunity and its duty. Occasion
Rllyy it loses the one and forgets the
other. Perhaps the revival OF The Old
Homestead" with its freshness and
purity is the beginning Of the end of
the filthy period.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-12
LA TOILETTE VS.. CUMMfNS.
CNanobaSter Press

1t is announced that Senator La
Toilette is to be candidate for the
presidency in 1912 and that campaign
committees will be formed in all the
states for the purpose Of boosting the
Wisconsin radical. There will be no
use in La Toilette attempting 10 land
the vote of Iowas delegation. The
chances are that Iowa will present a
candidate of its own in the person of
Senator Cummins. who can get three
votes for La F'ollette's one in every
insurgent state except Wisconsin. La
Toilette is not in the same class with
Cummins in point of ability and force
as an organizer, The Wisconsin man
would appeal only 10 the extreme So
cialist element of the insurgent fol-
lowing. while Senator Cummins is rec
ognized as much more conservative
The danger to insurgency lies in the
rival ambitions of its leaders.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-12
THE LODGES.
MASONIC NOTICES,
Hol1 nrs~s. 1AE ~ Uy~~e n4~e-

MASONSC NOTtC8&
XHHaN over 1o5-1o7 West Main.
~AVlSitors always wsleonA. ),
MARSHALL LODGE. los. A. r. q
A. M. Stated communication Friday
Oct. II, at 1870 p. IN.
r. W. Chamberlain, W. n.
III. 8. Lawrence. Secrstafy.
SIGNET CHAPTER No. 80. n. A. u!
Regular convocation Monday evening
Oct. IT. 1880 p. m. :
George H. BoExle. b. q. 2. {
L 8. Milla-d. Secretary. n 80
KING SOLOMON Council, No. Co. Il
{ 8. NJ. Stated assembly. Monday:
Oct. II. 1880 p. m.
l. T. Forbes, Recorder. /.
A. d. Meeker. r. I. ~.
Sc. ALDEMAR COMMANDERT. No.
80 K. T. Stated conclave for business
and work. The Order OF the Temple
Tuesday evening. Oct. Is. 1910, at 1880
sharp. Visiting Sir Knights always
welcome
r. NJ. wilb7z. =. G.
Fred Wallace, Recorder.
CENTRAL CHAPTER. Nc 81, O. 4.
S.-Regular meeting Wednesday even.
Ing, Oct. IL. p. m.
Mrs. George Downing. W. n.
Edna c. Fuia-ton. aecretaTy.
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DAWN THE COUNTRY.

[Des Moines Register and Leader.l
If you are out of sorts. if YOU are
a bit pessimstic, if YOU are tired of
politics, if you want rest from your
work, if you seek new inspiration =
in short, if you want a general uplift-
ing and refreshing, physically, mental
ily and spiritually. take day off this
week, hitch up old Dobbin and take
leaSurely drive straight out into the
country fifteen or twenty miles and
then come back by still another route.
That will cure YOU of all your all
ments of flesh. mind and spirit
AS you drive you will find your
self in the midst of sights that will
soul. AS far as you can see and
much farther are marvellous fields
of corn cleaning under the October
sun with a golden yellow that is sug
gestive of their enormous riches.
Here and there in the midst of the
corn are fields of stubble which have
already yielded up their harvest to
the husbandman. IntersperSed in all
this scene and adding to its beauty
ARE patches of deep green meadow
dotted with contented grazing cattle.
In the midst OF it all are well built
homes and their barns and granaries
nesting in the groves
Stop occasionally as you drive on
and talk with the farmers. One will
tell you that his oats yielded sixty
bushels an acre. Another will de-
clare with pride that his wheat went
thirty-five bushels. Another will tell
you that he believes his lowland field
Of corn will yield not less than eighty
| bushels.
Let all this beauty of farm land
scape. let all this suggestion of pros
perity, let all this hopefulness and
contentment of the men You meet
soak in. deeply 1t will transform
you and make another man OF you.
You will come back home to town
with heart full of thanksgiving for
all this plenty and prosperity and
with voice attuned to sing praises to
the Great Oliver of it all. You will be
refreshed and strengthened thru and
thru.
There is nothing else quite so good
for soul and body and mind as
whole day spent in the midst OF
Iowas wonderful out doors in
october.