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The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-29

ferred to the way in which the or
binary little two-wheeled carts,
which take the place of the ordi-
nary farmers wagon in this coun-
try, are decorated. 1 have seen in
Catania men at work practically
hewing these carts out of the log.
1 do not know to what extent the
frame of the wagon is hewn out
in this way, but, at any rate, the
spokes are. Every detail is work
ed out with the greatest possible
skill, even to the point of carving
little figures of faces at the ends OF
the beams that make the frames.
Likewise the harness of the dom
keys that draw these carts is an
elaborate and picturesque affair
which must require vast amount
of patience and skill to make. The
point wish particularly to empha-
size here is that all this skill in
the handicrafts, which has become
traditional in a people, is the best
kind of preparation for every kind
of higher education. In this re-
spect the italian, like the Japa-
nese and Chinese, as we'll as every
other race which has had centur-
les of training in the handicrafts,
has an advantage over the Negro
that can only be overcome when
the masses of the Negro people
have secured a training of the
hand and a skill in the crafts that
correspond to those of other races.
Not only are children, especial
ly boys, employed at a very age in
all the trades 1 have mentioned,
but young boys from fourteen to
sixteen perform, as 1 have said,
in the mines and elsewhere an in
credible amount of crude, rough
work of the community.
I remember, one day in Palermo,
seeing, for the first time in my life
boys who we're certainly not more
than fourteen years of age, engag-
ed in carrying on their backs earth
from a cellar that was being exca-
waited for building. Men did the
work of digging, but the mere
drudgery of carrying the earth
from the bottom of the excavation
to the surface was performed by
these boys. 1t was not Simply the
fact that mere children were en-
gagged in this heavy work that i'm
pressed me. 1t was the slow, drag
gipg steps, the fixed and unalter-
able expression of weariness that
showed in every line of their bod
les. Later 1 learned to recognize
this az the habitual manner and
expression of the carusi which is
the name that the Italians give to
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-29
THE MAN FAR
THESI DOWN
CHILD LABOR AND SULPHUR MINES. FIFTH ARTICLE
BY BOOKER 7. WASHINGTON.

These instances of skilled labor
among children are by nc means
exceptional. at another time L
remember stopping to look at a
little boy who, it seemed to me-
could not be more than eight or
nine years of age, working side
by side with man, evidently MS
father, together with several other
men, all of them engaged in build
ing a boat. The boy l speak OF
was engaged in finishing of with
a plane the hardwood rail of the
sides of the boat, and as L watched
him at his task 1 was again COM
pelled to wonder at the ease and
skill with which these little fellows
use their tools.
All these thi ngs, as l have said,
gave me an idea of the manner In
which the trades were carried on
before the extensive use of machi-
nery had brought the factory vs.
tenn into existence. 1t showed me
also the easy way in which, in
those days. the industrial educa-
ton of children WAS carried on.
When the work in the handicrafts
was performed in the house, or In
shop adjoining the house, it was
an easy thing for the father to
hand down to the son the trade he
himself had practiced. Under
the conditions in which trades are
caoried on in Sicily today children
are literally born to the trade
which their fathers practice. In
these homes, where the shop and
home are crowded together in one
or two rooms, children see their
fathers and moth ers at work from
the time they are born. AS soon
as they are able to handle tool OF
any kind the boys, at any rate,
and frequently the girls also, are
set to work helping their parents.
AS the father, in his turn, has
probably inherited the accumula-
ted traditions and skill OF genera
tions that preceded him in the
same trade, his children are able
to get from him, in the easiest and
most natural way, an industrial
education such as no other kind OF
school can give.
Whatever may be the disadvan-
tages of the people of Sicily in
other respects, they have an adj
vantage over the Negro in learn
ing the skilled trades, the value OF
which it is difficult to estimate.
Everywhere one sees the eviden-
ces of his skill with the hand, not
only in the public buildings, but
in some of the common objects
of daily use. I have already re-
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-29
DENVER. COLORADO, SATURDAY, JULY 20 1911.

that the mines had been in the
past the refuge of debased and
criminal population, whose vices
made the bleak, sulpur smitten
region where the mines are located
as much like hell as it looks.
(To BE CONTINUED
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-29
NINE HACKLEYS
~ NEW SCHOOL

Madame E. Azalia Hackley is
in New York City during the
month of July conducting teach
er's vocal institute of two daily
sessions at 81 West bath street.
The pupils in this interesting in
stitute are Miss Marjorie Groves,
of Boston, graduate of the New
England Conservatory of Music,
who. has been in charge of the
Music Department of Livingstone
College. She will become princi-
pal of the Music Department OF
the South Carolina State College
at Orangeburg.
Miss Bessie Patterson, piano
graduate of the Washington Con-
servatory of Music, and a teacher
in the public schools of Austin,
Texas, will teach and organize vo-
cal classes in Texas.
Miss Sue Ella Brown, of Hen
derson, KY, a student OF Walden
University is also preparing her
self to teach voice culture in a col
ored college. Miss Brown is a
niece of Bishop and Mrs. Walters.
A public demonstration and re-
cital of the work of these three
young vocal teachers will be given
at the end of the course, which
closes the last of July. They will
have worked twenty-five hours the
first week and twenty hours each
succeeding week during the month.
The studies embrace physical cul-
ture, psychology of singing, vo.
cal mechanics and course OF
teaching. Each will commit
different repertoire, which she will
teach to the other two, thus OBJ
tanning three times what she learns
alone.
Madame Hackley expounds the
new theory that to become sin
ger one must have first brains;
second, breath; third, a voice. In
the demonstration these young
ladies', two of whom have never
tried to sing, will prove what
brains, education and will power
will accomplish in developing a
voice.
Madame Hackley has visited
seventy colored colleges since Feb
ruary. After retiring during the
summer season she will organize
vocal institutes in different sec
tions of the country to train vocal
teachers for colored schools. All
this time she could place thirty
vocal teachers if they were pre-
pared.
Madame Hackley's tour this
year was a phenomenal success.
Her demonstration song recitals
and lecture musicales caught the
public fancy and she gave a real
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-29

course L shall care IOr our O-"eSh
old baby" Clamorgan's son is
said to have courted white girl,
while one daughter, Blanche, who
is a reader in the Christian Science
church at Maplewood, is betrothed
to white man. He says he will
not break the engagement.
Quincy, Ill.-The Color ques-
ton in the public schools is again
up before the supreme court. Re-
preventative George Wilson of
Quincy yesterday filed motion
for leave to file a petition for writ
of mandamus in the case of the
people on the relations of Aaron
Brown, colored, against the Board
of School District No. 172 of
Adams county, to compel the
board of education 10 admit his
children to the white school, known
as the Dewey school in the neigh
Dor. hood of the home. Brown has
two children, aged nine and twelve
years, respectively. The board of
education of Quincy built school
known as the Lincoln school,
for the colored children of the city,
but as it is one and three-fourths
of a mile from Browns home he
refuses to send his children to that
school, and the board of educa-
ton will not admit them to the
white school near Browns home.
In consequence the board of edu-
cation has prosecuted Brown for
not sending his children to school.
The bills in the Sixty second
Congress concerning the Negro are
a curious assortment. Byrd, of
Mississippi, has a bill pending,
designed to make it crime for
whites, Negroes and Mongolians
to intermarry in the District of
Columbia; Clark, of Florida, has a
measure providing for ''jim crow"
street cars in the District; Hard
wick, of Georgia, wants the Four
teenth and Fifteenth Amendments
abrogated, and Roddenburg, of
Mississippi, will endeavor to re-
strict the congressional restaurant
to white patrons. There is no
chance that any of these bills will
become law. They are brought
forward merely as proof to the vot-
ers at home that their promoters
are 'sound on the question"
Roddenbury, by
the way has joined the ranks of
Congressman who have assaulted
colored men, a society adorned by
Senator Stone, who slapped a
waiter some time ago, and Con-
Hehin, who shot a Ne
gro in Washington. The Georg-
ian recently fought a colored pass
enger in a crowded street car be-
cause the man jostled him more
than he thought uecessary.-The
Crisis.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-29

A rather significant statement
was made in a request to the Gov
ernor last Monday to increase the
reward for R. T. Hill, the abscond-
ing cashier of the True Reform
ers' Bank, of Richmond. In a
communication signed by j..
Thomas Newsome and W. r. Grit
fin, asking that the State supple
ment the sum of $500 offered by
the Order and by citizens, it is
said that Hills apprehension will
doubtless lead to our getting a
number of others associated with
him" The Governor directed that
the State offer 5000, making $7OO
IN all. This increase, which was
granted at the request of j. Thom-
as Newsome, W. R. Griffin and
w. P. Burrell, will hold good for
four months.-Richmond Times
Dispatch.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-29

those boys who are employed in
the sulphur mines to carry the
crude ore up from the mines where
it is dug and to load it in the cars
by which it is conveyed to the sur
face.
The work in sulphur mine is
organized in many respects, L
learned, like that of coal mine.
The actual work of digging the
sulphur is performed by the miner
who is paid by the amount of crude
ore he succeeds in getting out.
He, in his turn, has man or boy,
sometimes two or three, of them.
to assist him in getting the ore out
of the mine to the smelter, where
it is melted and refined. AS L
myself had had some experience
as boy in work similar to this in
the mines of West Virginia, l was
interested in Learning all 1 could
in regard to these boys and the
conditions under which they
worked.
In the case of boys employed for
this work, the Sicilians have a
custom of binding out their chill
dren to the miner, or picconiero,
as he is called. Such boy is
then called, in the language of the
country, caruso. AS matter OF
fact, a picconiero who buys boy
from his parents to employ him as
caruso actually purchases a slave.
The manner in which the pur-
chase is made is as follows: In
Sicily, where the masses OF the
people are so wretchedly poor in
everything else, they are neyerthe-
less especially rich in children,
and, as often happens, the family
that has the largest number OF
mouths to fill has the least to put
in them. 1t is from these families
that the carusi are recruited. The
father who turns his child over to
miner receives in return a sum
of money in the form of a loan.
The sum usually amounts to from
eight to thirty dollars, according
to the age of the boy, his strength
and general usefulness. With
the payment of this sum the child
is turned over absolutely to his
master. From this slavery there
is no hope of freedom, because
neither the parents nor the child
will ever have sufficient money to
repay the original loan.
Strange and terrible stories are
told about the way in which these
boy slaves have been treated by
their masters. Before coming to
Sicily [ had met and talked with
persons who described to me the
PROFESSIONS of half-naked boys,
their bodies bowed under the
heavy weight of the loads they
carried, groaning and cursing as
they made their way up out of the
hot and sulphurous holes in the
earth, as they carried the ore from
the mines to the smelter. All
that 1 had heard elsewhere was
confirmed later by the details
furnished by official reports and
special studies of conditions in
the mining regions, made at diff
ferent times and by different per
sons. In these reports L learned
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-29

message and inspiration. The
daily and colored press and colored
management have We'd with each
other in enthusiastically commend
ing her work, which they have
pronounced original, unique and
instructive Amsterdam News.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-29

st. Louis, July Cora Clam
organ Collins, of 1922 Marie Ave,
whose 20 year old husband filed
suit today to annul their marriage
on the ground that she is negress
declared she will fight the suit to
the last resort. The woman, who
is one of an accomplished family,
is silent as to her lineage, but both
her father and mother stoutly
maintain they are defendants of a
noble Spanish ancestry. MY
husband did not learn of this aw-
full accusation until last night,
when he left me-" she said. "Of
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-29

Alexander Bay, Thousand Is
lands. In the death this week of
All. Berry, colored, u porter for
thirty-tive years at the Pier here,
a familiar figure in this region, has
passed away. Berry was strong in
voice and size, making himself
easily heard above the score of
other porters that throng the pier
with the arrival of each steamer.
Berry left an estate of about S1O,-
600, which he had obtained by
saving his tips and investing
them.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-29
RACE NEWS
GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

London, England. July SACK
johnson and wife were the special
guests of Lord and Lady Hedwich
and were presented to the king
and queen at the ball. All Of Lon
don are still wild over Jack. Jack
will give special exhibition be-
fore the king and queen on the
lawn at Buckingham palace on
Saturday afternoon.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-01-19
THE POOLING OF Us.

When the Democrats in congress
marched TO the support Of Speaker
cannon's decision which they had
unanimously voted against only last
sprine, they added insult to injury
by announcing that they knew then
they we're wrong and Cannon was
right, but they considered the revolu-
tionary vote a political advantage at
the time.
To those Of US who-get our wash
ington news from the Kansas City
star and the Chicago Tribune this
win come With dull slcksning thud.
we thought that the Democrats In
congress were battling for the right,
for the overthrow Of car rule and
for the interests Of the people. Now
that Mr.. CLARK and bis associates
laugh and say 4 was only . good
Joke. we wait With anxiety the en-
PLANTATION that does not explain How
are We to tell uhan We are following
the glorious buzl Wagon end When q
Is q paper creation q eongrspslenal
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-01-19
THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1911.
wnEN "CANNoNIsM rs GOOD."

II is one thing to howl against
.pCannonism" and denounce It as the
monumental evil Of the day 1t Is
cutie another thing to conduct q leg
,sIatiye body without the kind OF
rvIee which will enable 1t to 40 ousi-
ness. A long political campaign,
,asting through the summer anu
autumn, was filled with the howl
ing. The time Is now at hand wnen
legislating begins. What DO we see!
In congress the Democrats VINO
howled are supporting Capnons pos
Mon in order that Champ Clark
when he becomes speaker may Dc
consistently supported in his efforts
70 do business. In Kansas, Wnere
the howl originated, the legislature
Il proceeding on the cannon plan
because 1t wants to do business Ine
conclusion is unmistakable. In poll
tical campaigns "cannonism" is the
arossest outrage. In legislative SEES
a,ons It is so valuable that 1t can
not be dispensed with. "Czarism' II
the summer and autumn becomes
craftsmanship in the wlnter'-han
Nas City Journal.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-01-19
HARRY C. LIFTS

We Joined in that
loud cry against Cannon thinking It
was the shrek Of anguish from the
people and now discover it was only
a Democratic joke.
We are glad the insurgent Repub-
licaus stood firm and cast their few
votes the same in January that they
aid in May. They may not have been
right. at least the Democrats say
they we're not. bur they we're fooled
like the rest CT is and propose to
stay fooled.
The future looks dark for the
Cause The Democratic congress VIII
be controlled BY these Democratic
leaders who thas triflsd with our
feelings. They worked Us up 70 the
lot pitch Of indignation and nov
they propose to cool rs off By plung-
ing Us into tho cold water Of re-
mmse. II the voters had known this
state Of affairs The primaries and
election Of last fan would havs gone
differently and NJ. Clara would no.
b naming Ne comniilee 81 VAN
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-01-19
THE PRICE OF BUTTNR

The discussion given to tue SUD-
ieet Of cost Of living has directed
more or less attention to the federal
oleomargarine tax and the price OF
hitter. People who are In favor OF
repeating the present oleomargarine
law have taken advantage OF the ST.
nation to loudly condemn as "undem-
oeratic and un-American" this bur
densome tax on a pure, wholesome
and nutritious food product"
They conveniently forget to explain
that over 81 per cent of the oleomaF-
garine put upon the market Is taxed
At only one-fourth cent per pound
They do not explain that only that
oleomargarine that is artlhciaIiy col
ored is taxed at ten cents per pound
Even If 1t were all taxed at ten
cents per pound 1t would have ALSO
lutely nothing to do with the price OF
butter after the latter reaches thirty
.ents pound retail. 1t costs about
fourteen cents a pound to produce
very best grade of oleomargarine'
Add to this a ten cent tax and the COST
Of production would be twenty-four
cents, The product could be retailed
Al thirty cents at a handsome protlt
70 manufacturer and retailer.
Looking at the question from any
View point It is clearly seen that tpe
nothing to do with the price Of bug
ter.
The dairy interests Of the country
are not enjoying any benefit through
oleomargarine legislation except as
the integrity Of the industry Is main
tanned. In this every honest citizen
ahould feel keen interest. He
should also understand that the effort
mt forth by the manufacturers OF
Oleomargarine TO secure legislation
which will make 1t easy for men TO
commit fraud in selling oleomarga-
pine is not inspired by love for the
'.poor man who wants a cheap SUD
stitute for butter"
The whole proposition may be thus
summed up: oleomargarine Is now
made to taste and smell something
ike butter. The manufacturers and
few retail dealers want the privi-
lore OF making It easy 70 commit
fraud.
Every good citizen should be inter
ested in effective pure food lesisia'
tion and the oleomargarine law II
Just such legislation--no more. nc
less.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-01-19
little sermon

A little sermon on local
loyalty from the Leavenworth Times;
abilene lost the Parker factory be-
cause It didn't appreciate It. Leaven-
worth got the Parker factory and
knows better than anyone else except
Abilene what Abilene lost. The Par
ker factory is big thing In Lea
venworth even among the other big
industries and enterprises In Lea
venworth. The experience both Of
LeaVenworth and of Abilene should
convince the people OF this town
how essential II IL that We stand
BY home institutions. and help to
make their business profitable and
spread their reputation"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-01-19

Wichita Beacon: Hadley Of Mis-
souri, is certainly a governor with
IDEAS. He proposes to abolish the
governors message auG substitute
res by experts to the legisla-
ture. For instance. leads Of state
institutions will appear and tSl
their troubles and suggestions. Had
ley says nobody pays much attention
to q Iong-winded governors mes
sage, but that lawmakers win listen
to men who know precisely what
they are talking about. And there's
a whole lot in It, too.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-01-19

Western School Journal. The leg
islature will be asked to increase
the appropriation for normal train
,ng courses from $4,000 per year
20 100000. Ninety-five high schools
are now receiving aid from the fund
but there are about forty more that
are ready to put in the course when
money is granted. A number Of
schools have carried on the work
1t their own expense but the time
has nov come when ever high school
which is properly equipped should
receive its share Of the fund. We
hope the increase win Be granted By
\ unanimous vote.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-01-19

Although the petitions for a spec
ial election to vote on the commits
sion form of government have been
in three banks in salina for month
only forty-six have signed. salina
is rather slow. why do not the pro-
motors hire some boys and give
them four cents a name to get sign
ers as was done in Abilene7 ANY
proposition can get signers by that
plafl,