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The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-08-10
Foreign

The revolution in Haiti has tri
umphed. President Antoine Simon
fled the capital and took refuge on
board the Haitian cruiser Seventeenth
OF Decembra. With him are his wife
and children and number of his fol-
lowers.
Mexico faces new revolution. Mar
tial law has been proclaimed in the
City of Mexico and 5000 mounted
police are patrolling the streets. Ten
thousand armed troops are sleeping
in the barracks ready for a call to
field service. The Maderists declare
they will open fire on the city unless
Emilio Vasquez Gomez is restored to
office as minister of the interior.
A girl was born to Mrs. Angelina
Napolitano at the General hospital
at Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. Mrs. Napol
itano was sentenced to be hanged for
killing her husband. Owing to wide
spread interest manifested in her
case the sentence was committed to
life Imprisonment.
The return of Emperor William to
Berlin has not affected the Moroccan
negotiations, contrary to limitations
in the Paris papers that he would
change Foreign Minister Won Kiderlen
Waechters policy,
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-08-10
Personal

DR.. George Rambeaud, the director
of the Pasteur institute in New York
is lying at the point of death in the
Vassar hospital at Poughkeepsie as
the result Of an automobile accident
His wife, Nine. Gerville-Reache
who was prima donna of the Manhat-
tan Opera company, is badly injured.
The engagement of Col. John Jacob
Aston to Miss Madeline Force, 8
younger daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
William H. Force of New York city,
wao announced by the parents of the
young woman. No date has yet been
set for the wedding.
Clara Morris, the actress, at Yonkers,
N. Y, that under the treatment of a
famous European specialist she is
gradually regaining her eyesight.
Seven hundred retail jewelers. as
sembled in Richmond, Va, for the an
nual convention of their national as
ISOLATION.
The yearly convention of the
knights of Columbus opened in De-
troit, delegates being present from
every state, Porto Rico, the Philip
pines, Cuba, Canada and Mexico.
About twenty leading publicity men
from England were the guests of
honor of the Associated Advertising
Clubs of America whose annual meet
ing began in Boston.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-08-10
Domestic

The Vlcksburg park commission is
appealing to the relatives of the Off
GERS who took part in the famous
siege Of Vicksburg to contribute por-
traits in bronze for the establishment
of the park.
Joseph Clary, twenty-five years old,
was rescued from the White Oak mine
near Joplin, Mo-, after being buried
u hours 80 feet below the surface.
Clary, who is son of prominent
water up to his neck, and although
weak will recover
The coffee trust, the steamship trust
and other concerns charged with max
ing illegal trade agreements abroad
will be prosecuted by the United
States under the antitrust sections of
the Wilson tariff act Of 1894.
H. c. Folger, secretary of the Stand
ard OIL company, announced in for
NAL statement to stockholders the
plan of distribution of the stock of the
subsidiary companies to comply with
the rule of reason" laid down to the
trust recently by the Supreme court
of the United States. The dissolution
of the trust will take place about De.
cember l.
Every person in the United States
sixty years of age or older, who has
been a citizen 16 years, who has an
income of less than six dollars week,
and who has not been convicted of a
felony, would be put on the pension
roll of the United States If congress
passed a bill introduced by Repre-
sentative Berger of Wisconsin,
Three masked men robbed the First
National bank of Harlem, Mont, but
the man who had the booty in his
possession was killed and the money
recovered. The other two bandits
escaped.
The Connecticut legislature will be
asked to change the date of election
In the state this year because it falls
on the same day as Yom Kippur, one
OF the most important holidays in the
Jewish calendar.
Rev. Dr. Willard Francis Mallalieu.
bishop OF the Methodist Episcopal
church, and probably the oldest minis.
ter in point of years of service In the
denomination, died at Auburndale
Mass, after a months illness, He was
eighty-three years old.
Dorothy Arnold, the missing New
York girl, is living and safe, accord
Ing to a statement made at Biddeford
Me-, by woman who is intimately ac-
quainted with the Arnold family. She
said the young woman would be found
by October J..
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-08-10
Sporting

Miss Stokes, owned by w. E. D
Stokes Of New York, won the honors
in the three-year-old futurity trot at
Detroit. She lost the first heat but
took the next two, and under the con-
ditions pulled down $4,000. To Justice
Brooke went $1,000 and to Main Leaf
$500.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-08-10
REINFORCEMENT
BILL IS PASSED
MEASURE PROVIDES 433 MEMBERS
OF CONGRESS AFTER
MARCH 3, 1918.
ALSO PASS COTTON TARIFF Bill
Senate Amendments to Be Conside cree
in House-Then to Preaidert-
Rider to Prevent Gerry
Wandering Defeated.

washington, Aug. 4.-The amended
house congressional reapportionment
bill, providing that after March 3, 1913,
the house of representatives shall con.
sist of 433 members. exclusive of Arr.
IONA and New Mexico, an increase of
AZ over the present membership. was
passed by the senate without roll call,
The bill now goes to conference be-
tween the two houses for agreement
as to the senate amendments before
going to the president for his an.
prevail.
With the admission of Arizona and
New Mexico to statehood, with one
representative each, the membership
under the present bill would advance
to 435.
An amendment by Senator Burton.
of Ohio, to prevent gerrymandering in
the redistricting of congressional ter
ritory was agreed to, 80 to %. An
amendment offered by Senator Root
to leave the house membership at 391
was defeated 46 to %.
An amendment by Mr.. Reed of Mis-.
souri,, providing that in case of an in
creased membership from any state
such representative or representatives
shall be elected by the state at large
until redistricting of the state by the
legislature or people of the state, was
lost by a vote of 80 to 20. An amend
ment by Mr.. Burton, of Ohio, provid.
ing that representatives at large be
nominated in the same manner as the
governor, was adopted without a roll
call.
Washington, Aug. 4. - Supported by
all the Democrats and by 80 insurgent
Republicans, the Democratic cotton
tariff bill, the third of the big tariff
revision measures brought forward by
the Democratic house of Representa-
tives. passed that body by POP to 81.
The bill cuts the average tariff on
cotton manufactured goods from 4S
to ~ per cent ad valorem, Fl per
cent reduction in duty that the Demo.
cratic leaders estimate to reduce rev.
enue by about 100000.
Not an amendment was offered to
the bill, although the Republicans at
tackled it vigorously on account of
alleged increases in certain items over
the rates of the Payne-Aldrich tariff
law.
Scarcely had the cheers that greeted
the passage of the cotton revision bill
subsidized when Democratic Leader I'm.
derwood, calling up the free list bill
as it passed the senate few days ago,
accomplished strategic move which
surprised the Republicans.
Asks for Conference.
He asked for a conference on all
the amendments to the free list bill ex-
cept that of Senator Gronna, of North
Dakota putting cement on the free list.
He urged that the house accept that
amendment, adding to it lemons. Pa
cific coast Republicans made ineffec-
tual attempts to stop this sudden and
unexpected putting of lemons on the
free list, but the amendment carried.
The change gave the house Democrats
what they claimed to be an added ad.
vantage in dealing with the senate
in the conference committee.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-08-10

Robert Cole, the negro song wrltes,
author OF THE Girl With the Dreamy
Eyes" and other popular melodies,
committed suicide at Catskill, N. Y.
The population of New York city
passed the 100000 mark on August l.,
according to figures prepared by the
health department.
The Southern Pacific railroad is put.
ting into effect rule that hereafter
no women arc to be employed as
clerks or stenographers in the com.
pany's passenger department..
Mrs. Kettle Coombs, who was at
tackled and shot by whitecaps at her
home near Rockport, Ind, on the night
of July 20. is dead. Although several
warrants are said to have been issued,
no arrests have been made.
Andrew 10th, poor laborer OF
Pittsburg, Pa, who served over TWEEN.
ty years in prison for a crime of
which ne was innocent, has been placed
on Andrew Carnegie's pension list by
an order of the steel master. 10th
and his family will receive $40 a
month. 10th was sentenced to hang in
March. 1889, for murder.
Miss Harriet Quimby of California
was created the first American avia.
tress when the officials of the Aero
club Of America awarded her an lair
pilots license at the Hampstead
Plains, IN. W. aerodrome. She is
the second woman in the world to get
a flying license.
Seven persons were drowned in the
st. Lawrence river when the ferry
steamer Sirius struck shoal eight
miles below Massena, N. Y. capsized
and hurled Its rs passengers in to the
river.
Acting Fire Chief John Kenlon was
appointed by Fire Commissioner John
son to succeed Fire Chief Croker of
New York, who recently resigned.
The police are searching for James
H. Gore, chief clerk of the National
Sugar refinery at Yonkers, n Y, on
a warrant which charges him with the
theft of more than 1000 barrels OF
sugar, valued at nearly $4,000.
Two persons are known to have
been killed, a score are injured and
practically every business house IN
Abilene, Texas, is more or less dam
aged as the result of storm of wind
and hail which swept over that region.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-08-10

Two persons are known to have
been killed, score are injured and
practically every business house IN
Abilene, Texas, is more or less dam
aged as the result of storm of wind
and hail which swept over that region.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-08-10

The police are searching for James
H. Gore, chief clerk of the National
Sugar refinery at Yonkers, N. Y, on
warrant which charges him with the
theft of more than 1000 barrels OF
sugar, valued at nearly $4,000.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-08-10

Seven persons were drowned in the
st. Lawrence river when the ferry
steamer Sirius struck a shoal eight
miles below Massena, N. Y. capsized
and hurled Its rs passengers in to the
river.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-08-10

The Southern Pacific railroad is put
no women are to be employed as
clerks or stenographers in the com.
pany's passenger department..
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-10-26
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE, HARLAN

IN the passing, Saturday morning.
OF John Marshall Harlan, associate
justice Of the United States Supreme
Court. the Negro people lost the best
friend they ever had in that august
tribunal. One is almost tempted to
say, recalling recent decisions Of that
body, that he was their only friend.
Justice HARLAN never overlooked an
opportunity to so on record as a
Staunch advocate Of manhood rights,
through the claimant was OF the dcs-
pissed. There does not occur to the
writer a single instance Of his fail
ure to apply the rule Of reason where
the civil or political status Of the Ne
gro was an issue, Frequently his was
the only dissenting opinion. one among
nine. but he ever remained Steadfast
to the belief that a mere technicalitv
should not invalidate a plea for JUS
tice, that the enactment of a State
law in words not conflicting with the
letter Of the Constitution does not
square it with the laws Of God.
Judging from the tread Of the times
IL "oulu iOl DC lar anllSS TO say that
we Shall not soon see his like again
on the Supreme bench. Men are not
so much these days concerned with
human as with property rights. They
can not take up time now with liber-
~ when capital knocks at the door.
brnationS of wealth and restraint
OF trade take precedence over life,
liberty and the pursuits Of happiness
The granting Of mining rights in
Alaska is Of greater moment than the
refusal OF the right to vote to q mil
lion citizens. The right of a railroad
TO charge its passengers three cents
lor each mile Of transportation over
shadows the injustice of giving some
or these passengers accommodations
lar superior to those given the Others
Tor the same fare. The taking of the
lives OF one hundred citizens without
que process Of law does not demand
the consideration of the lvnchine of
one ahen' <AA&9
Yes, We shall miss Justice Harlan
more and, more as the years roll.
around.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-10-26
DEAD OR SLEEPING.

Down in Durant, Oklahoma, a few
weeks ago, an unknown Negro, ac-
cused of crime, was shot to death by
a white mob and his body burned.
A coroner's jury, sitting in the
case, rendered the verdict, death at
the hands Of parties unknown"
There is now in circulation in that
section Of the country post card
showing the dead Negro dashed TO a
board and surrounded by Il large num-
Der OF white men and boys, the feat
ureS OF all Of whom are clearly dis
tinguiShablc.
The photograph was taken shortly
before the fagotS were hcaped about
the corpse around which the drunken
mob danced in ghoulish glee.
And yet. he came to his death at
the hands of parties unknown"
Yea, verify. Justice is blind, and it
may be THAI she is also dead
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-10-26

not be probated until December, when
the executor, Bishop J. Albert John
son, will arrive in this country from
South Africa. The estate is said to
be worth $4,000 and the bulk of it
will probably be left to the bishops
widow, Mrs. Mary f. Handy.
Colored Catholics were represented
to the number Of 500 in the parade
which was held here Monday in honor
Of the jubilee for Cardinal Gibbons
Revs. G.. Randolph Uncles and J. j.
Plantevinge were the only -colored
priests in line.
Rev. DR.. William A. Credit, Of Phil
adelphia, delivered am address at Grace
Presbyterian Church Monday night.
Matt Henson, Dr. William A Sinclair,
of Philadelphia, and Rev. w. A. G.
Hughes are among the others to de-
liver lectures here this week.
a. G. Faulkner and Winfred Carpenv
ter have taken over the Crescent The
alter, which they will run as a vaude-
Vile house.
Happy Howe, formerly of the Rab-
bits Foot Company, was on the bill
at Days Theater, Baltimore, last
week A stock company is on the
boards this week
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-10-26

In the matter Of recognizing the
worth Of trained colored men, Score
tary MacFeagh seems to have the
cage on his associates in the Cabinet.
1 ne Treasury Department is the veri-
table Mecca Of Negro opportunity
There are more high-salaried coloreG
men under MacFeagh than under any
other branch Of the federal service.
Mr. MacFeagh is the Kind Of a man
who believes in giving merit its due,
whether it is surrounded by a black
Skin or white one. He is an ideal
American statesman.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-10-26
Haitian Minister
Gen. M0ROS Arrives
REPRESENTATIVE OF BLACK
REPUBLIC HAS FIELED MANY
POSITIONS or IMPORTANCE
IN OWN COUNTRY.

Washington, ID. c., Oct. 25.-uen-
eral Solomon Mcnos, the ncwly-ap-
pointed Haitian Minister has arrived
in Washington. He succeeds Monsieur
II. PauleuS SannOn in that capacity
lie absence Of President TAFT will
make it necessary for him to delay
the presentation Of his credentials.
Secretary Knox has agreed, howerer
to recognize him as authorized to do
business with the State Department.
1t is understood that the negotiations
beWeen Haitian and Dominican lega-
lions here for settlement Of the
boundary dispute will be resumed.
Gen McnoS has filled many. posi-
lions Of Importance in his own coun-
Try, having been secretary Of state,
secretary Of commerce and minister
Of Justice. lie has also been president
Of the Legislative Society Of Port-au-
Prince, and is a brther-in-law of the
present Minister Of Foreign Affairs,
J. y. Icgcr, who was formerly min
lister At Washington. Gen Menos is at
the Haitian Legation at 1929 Rhode
Island avenue, where he is the head
Of an interesting family. He is a
gentleman Of pleasing personality, and
Nine, NcnoS; is said to be quite fond OF
society. Mir. Price is secretary OF
legation and receives callers affab1y.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-10-26
Election Officials
MUST SERVE ONE YEAR IN PR
son AND PAY n FINE or 500.
FOR DENYING NEGRO RIGHT
TO VOTE, IS OKLAHOMA DE
tiSION.

Enid, OKLA, Oct 17.-Onc year each
in prison and 500 fine each were t1e
penalties imposed by United States
District Judge Cotterall today on !.
J. Bcall and Frank Quinn, election III
spcctors, convicted yesterday Of con-
aDiracy to deprive Negroes Of the right
Of voting in the congressional cleo
ton in 1910. They were released on
$1,000 bonds pending an appeal to the
United States circuit court.
The case involved the SO-called
"Grandfather clause Of the Oklahoma
statute Phoenix.
The above shows that right and
justice will no permit such outrage
as the Grandfather Clause" to be
imposed upon citizens Of Oklahoma.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-10-26

Muskogcc, Okla, Oct 16.-In ac-
cordance with previous arrangements,
Solicitor Lehman, on behalf of the
Cherokee Nation, and the United
States, Appellants, on last Monday,
motioned in the Supreme Court to ad-
vance the Moses Whitmire case YER
sus the Cherokee Nation, and the
Chited States, covering the citizenship
and allotments Of 1000 Cherokee
freedmen, whose names appeared on
the kcTn-Clifton Freedmen roll. 1t
Is expected now that this legal con-
troverSy will be entirely settled In
favor Of the Cherokee Ereedmen, rot
later than the first Of next January
The Court Of Claims5~ rendered a le-
cisic1 last spring, in favor Of these
Freedmen. There are several million
dollars involved in this suit.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-10-26

DR.. Washington pleased his friends
and hurled confusion into the camp
OF his CHemies by courageously facins
the music at the recent hearing In
New York City. The thug who as
saulted him is shown to be IA Wife
dcserter, an adultcrer, i liar and a
coward. He is Il man absolutely un-
worthy OF belief. Dr.. WASHINGTON
has never needed vindication. No
body OF any sense nus ever bei;tv. d
nm guilty OF any Improperly IN
connection with this unfortunate cpl
sode. The only thing at stake now is
TO find satisfactory punishment for
his assailant The critics will now
find themselves in the fix of one
"Othelio occupatiCA will be
GONE,
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-10-26

Wv ~ hL>'nI - LAW lNOfEttA 1--WE
Optimistic as We wish to be, the
two decisions in Ohio and Illinois, In
Glcatlng drift of judicial interpre-
tatlon against the purpose Of the civil
rights laws, are discouraging. At
Columbus, Ohio, a decision was rem
deTed to the effect that a soda foun-
tain IS not "a place Of public accom-
lAodation,' and thus a drugstore pro-
Erletor is not liable under the civil
rights act for refusing to serve Negro
customer a glass Of soda water. In
Chcago, an automobile livery COM
p2ny, which declined to rent a machine
10 Negro, escaped punishment by
making the same defense. The civil
rights laws were designed to protect
Negroes, primarily, since they are the
only class against which diScrmina-
tons are practiced 1t looks now as
II the laws are to be nullified by local
Judicial Interpretation, and it is doubt
ful II there is any redress to be had.
A law is as strong as the public CEN
timent Of locality, and no stronger
l he whites are determined to segre-
gate the Negro in the matter of homes.
and drive him out of the places of
pnblic accommodation that once were
considered open to ALL Now and then,
Ter violation Of the civil rights laws,
bit in the main the courts are up
holding the notion that business places
that cater to- the inner man or offer
enjoyment and social intercourse, are
private 1nstitutiCls, open alone to
those who may be desirable to the ele-
ment the owner wishes to please. Ire
civil rights laws are growing more
and more to be imperative and use
les.
DR.. Booker T. Washington offers
as a solution Of. caDitaliZing race pre-
jtdice by providing places Of amuse-
m2nt, refreshment and public accom-
notation Of our own, where the color
line cannot De drawn. The race can
thus profit by the white mans mean
ness. Negro restaurant or theatre
can now thrive where ten years ago
they would have been ignominious
failures, because the white man had
an open door, which has since been
closed. We are being driven together
by the aversion Of the other race, and
are becoming real factors in t. busi-
ne IS life Of all the communities where
We live in large numbers.
VINO knows buet that, after al, The
hand Of God is working for our ulti-
mate good in this mysterious manner?
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-10-26
ANER1'S AWFUL TRAGEDY.

Timely advice given Mrs. G. Will
loughby, of Marengo Wis, Or. No. u
prevented dreadful tragedy and
saved two lives. Doctors had said
her frightful cough was a "consump-
ton cough and could do little to help
her. After many remedies failed, her
aunt urged her to take DR.. Kings
New Discovery. II have been using
for some time,' she wrote land the
awful cough has almost gone. It also
saved my little boy when taken with
severe bronchial trouble" This
matcbless medicine has no equal for
throat and lung troubles. Price SOC
and 800. Trial bottle free. Guar
anteed by all druggists. 10-5-4t.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-10-26
LET'S STAY AT \ WHILE.

A CORRESPONDENT up in Lawrence
Mass. has written asking The Adyo-
cate TO call conference Of Negro ed
itor in March, 1912, ito consider the
beS! steps to settle the future troub-
les If the race. Sorry, brother, but
The Advocate cannot accommodate
you Our reasons lor refusing the re-
que, arc few but, We think. potent.
The would seem to have been enough
con rences held in the past year to
set any question which can he set
tle1 y this method. There have been
an International Races Congress, Ma
tio!' Il Negro Business League, Nation
al ! >achers Association. National Ed
itor il Congress, National Medical AS
SOC. ton, National Baptist Conven-
ion National Negro Press Association
sim: AZ organizations Of Bankers, Tn
der llers. Pharmacists, Dentists. DR..
She ard has called the preachers of
the nation in conference next year.
FOl 1913 DR.. Washington asks a con-
gro Of the forces Working for the
uplift of the Negro people.
w y in the name Of heaven call
anC Ter conference? Is the list given
abo not sufficient to satisfy any reas
ona 9 man? There might be some eX-
Gus. for the suggestion of our friend
DO east" if these congresses and
con! renceS did not meet annually as
mos of them do, or if the list hero
Civ, were complete but this is not
hal! Of them. The A. NJ E.'S and A.
M: Us will hold their Quadronnial
con. renceS next year at which time
the. may be expected to have some
thin to say about the race problem.
Ana lg the Baptists there will be in
the AeighbOrhOOd Of three hundred
and eighteen associations and conven-
tioh to whereas" and "thereforc-be-
lt-r' .olvcd" on the much discussed
QUE ion
a Roland for his Oliver, the Ad-
VocH suggests to it's correspondent
thai stay-at-home movement be
sta cd. We have had years Of coll
gre es and conventions from which,
tnei IS a pretty we'll grounded sus-
pic: 4, the railroads were the largest
ben Charles. Suppose we try the sill
emf treatment awhile.