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The Colorado statesman., 1913-04-05

seldom takes your part because you
are a small advertiser. The policy
of reciprocity is never applied in
your case and paradoxical as it
may appear to you, your color is
one of the least of your troubles.
Let me explain what 1 mean, is the
color of black-'unpopular among
Caucasian peoples? Is black oak
less desirable than golden oak; do
we regard the black bear as low
er specie than white bear? Is a
black garment less popular than a
white one; dosen't the man who
wears black, inspire us with more
veneration than the one who wears
other colors? Is Othello, the
black Moor lower in Desdemona' s
estimation, and would she love a
white man more? Dosn't the
dusky Arab display physical man.
ly beauty as the white man? Isn't
the dark complexioned Italian
handsomer than the blond Swede
Among our people the jewish
maiden will more readily fall in
love with swarthy faced young
man, than with pale face. A
I, black mustache and eyes will kindle
stronger fire in her womanly
heart, than would sandy hair and
light eyes, and if this is not true
with all peoples, it dosn't prove
that my theory is wrong, but that
is matter of personal taste or
geographical environments, or art.
ifically adapted standards. For
instance, fat woman is the most
sought for by a Turkish male,
while in this country, she is only
fit for caricature. Again, slim
girlish figure is the American IDEAL
While figure with considerable
curves is the Frenchman's or the
European jews ideal.
Thus we see that there is no COM
mon accepted standard of bodily
attraction or facial beauty. Even
facial features, la-ge or small,
prominent or delicate, have no
accepted standard of beauty,
and when we take the Negro in
consideration, the same rule must
be applied. 1t is not your color
nor your features that is response
BILE for the many ills you suffer
from, but the lack of prestige you
command in the eyes of the white
man.
And above all, you must not for
get that in spite of your hundreds
of years sojourn in this country,
You are looked upon as foreigner.
The Italian. whe inhabits the man.
sions of Naples, Florence, Milan,
or Rome, with the glorious history
The Colorado statesman., 1913-04-05

Slowly-very slowly, it may
sometimes seem to the black race
the practice of lynching in this
county is dying out. According
to the Chicago Tribune's figures,
the total number of lynohings last
year was Ga, the smallest actual
number in one year, with a single
exception, and in proportion to
population fewer than in any prey;
ious year. In 1886 the number of
lynchings was 1S5, a rate per mil
lion of 1926; in 1912 the rate was
was 81. Florida in the years
ending with 1912 had 40 lynchings,
rate OF 1868 percent, while 9TH
er Southern States show totals of
over 20 for the five years. But as
the years go by the dreadful in
justice is becoming moro abhorred,
even in those States a part of
whose people still defend it. Gov
ernors and officers of the law are
setting their faces against it in
increasing numbers and with NOR
authority. The feeling that any
accused man should have chance
to defend himself, no matter what
his skin, is strengthening, and will
one day, let us hope, rule in every
State of the Union.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-04-05

The Pecan Grove Dairy Farm
of jefferson Parish, La, is one of
most thriving of its kind under
Negro ownership. 1t is valued at
$4,000. 1t has 9S COWS, of which
an average of 10 is MIXED daily.
1t runs two regular wagons and
special, selling fsom 125 to lao
gallons of milk per day at 30 cents
a gallon.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-04-05
OF
THE NEGRO
STRONG ARGUMENT OF THE RACE QUESTION DELIv-
Erred BEFORE THE SUNDAY FORUM AT COLORADO
SPRINGS, MARCH End BY l. POLANT.

Has the United States a Negro
problem or has-the Negro in the
United States a problem to solve?
1 have chosen this question to
discuss with you for | know it is
close to your heart. Undoubtedly
there are other problems in this
country that may be of sufficient
interest to you. AS citizens of the
United States, you are surely con-
cerned about the tariff question,
the labor question, the trust ques.
ton, the finance syndicate, and as
readers of newspapers you may be
interested, about the hookworm,
the divorce problem, the Mexican
revolution, and some of you are
interested in the bond issue our
City Council contemplates giving
out. Yet however interesting those
questions may be to you, | am full
ly aware that you have more
weighty problem that is hanging
heavily on your troubled souls, ex-
Guiding all others. and as long as
that problem remains, you'll never
feel yourself the equal with your
white neighbors in this country.
Our Courts of Justice will con-
tinue to wink at outrages perpe-
trated against your race. Laws
will continue to be enacted to dis
franchise your race of American
citizenship; your children will
continue to be Disseminated
against in public schools, in public
offices, and in commercial institu-
tions.
Is there a wonder that poverty
is YOUR lot, is there wonder that
Won inhabit the slums in every
citv, and that your prosperous
white neighbors look down upon
YOU? Our quack reformers ascribe
your poverty to -laziness, false
economists may blame you for
shiftlessness, lack of ambition to
accumulate property, or desire to
live beyond your means, in fact
tbeyll lay at your door every crime
in the calendar.
Yet any one who is sympathetic
with YOUR cause and who cares to
oct acquainted with people of your
race. will find that most OF the
charges are fundamently false.
But why that calumny? The rea-
son is simply this, those charges
are made not by your friends, but
by your enemies.
A STORY.
The white man is not very much
in love with you, because you are
small in numbers, he fears you not.
Because you are poor, he expects
no favors from you. The press
The Colorado statesman., 1913-04-05
Daily Reminder.

Know thyself! If you are mediocre
take your medicine. In human af-
fairs no Legislation will ever make
1t possible for the tail to wag the
dog.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-04-05

Cleveland, Ohio, March Is
The author of the "Jm Crow
bills, who lives in the flooded dis
trict, has lost his entire family in
the horrible disaster this week.
AS this information is sent none
of the bodies had been recovered.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-04-05

ing, managed and conducted by
the race people of this city. These
people also decided not to be be-
hind the Japanese, and also pro-
vided money for scholarships at
Tuskegee.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-12-12

to Sal per 1000 for both diseases and
accidents.
His methods in the main have been
twofold. First, clean up the cities !;
and second. kill the mosquitoes and
enforce rigid quarantine.
To the passage Of the first ship In
October 571S employees have died.
OF that total 1892 have been killed
by violence.
Eleven Killed Every Month.
An average of II employees has been
killed every month since American oc
cupation.
The worst accident was at Bas
Obispo on December IL, 1908, when 2f
men were killed and 40 injured by q
premature explosion of % tons of dy
Mantle.
The largest number killed in one
year was ITS.
Smallpox, the plague and other vir
ulent diseases have been banished.
Each employee is entitled to 80 days
sick leave on pay, with free medica
attention.
About "a out of every 1000 employees
are constantly sick, and the hospital!
have a capacity of 1900 patients.
The department of sanitation hal
1900 employees.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-12-12
SPORTING COLUMN

Shortstop Butler of the Memphis
Spokane Northwestern league re-
Gently.
The Sailor" Petroskey- Benz fight
will be staged at Butte December II.
The men will fight over the 12-round
route.
Bob Leighton, the famous race horse
starter, was knocked down and slightly
injured at Vancouver, B. c.. by street
car last week.
Packy Mcfarland outpointed his old
enemy, Jack Britton. in an unsatisfac-
tory 1O-round nO-decisiOn boxing con
test before $500 spectators at Mil
waukee Monday.
Perry McGilvray. aged %. who was
one OF the American Olympic swim
ming squad. set a new indoor record
at Chicago recently for the 88O-yard
swim. Of 1923 Is.
The chamber of commerce of Occur
d'Alene has announced the dates for
the 1914 regatta on July 2, and 4,
and the publicity committee has start
ed on its work for the second annual
event.
The Irish-American Athletic club OF
New York has decided to send at least
10 men, headed by Melvin w. Shep-
pard, the hero of several Olympic
series, to represent 1t in the Athenian
Olympic games to be held in Athens
during May Of next year.
The National league averages for
the season of 1918 show Konetchy OF
St. Louis in first place, his average
as first batsman being 1896. Tommy
Leach of Chicago leads the outfielders
with $50. Grover Alexander of Phila-
delphia Is given first place among the
fielding pitchers of the league with
perfect percentage for AZ games. In
the club fielding Philadelphia is ranked
first, with 1858, and st. Louis comes
second, three points below them. Pitts
burg is third with 1854. and New York,
Cincinnati and Brooklyn are all tied
Cor fourth place with .961.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-12-12
ON PACIFIC COAST

The four four-masted schooner
ashore on Destruction island. Puget
Sound, has been identified as the
Aloha. All on board were saved.
Employees of the Post Publishing
company, which publishes the San
Francisco Evening Post, have been no
titled that the paper has been sold.
The Pacific Telephone & Telegraph
company has been ordered by the rail-
road commission Of Oregon to inter-
change calls with the Home Telephone
& Telegraph company.
The Baker bill, giving San Francisco
water supply and power rights in the
Hetch Hetchy valley, Yosemite Ma
tional park, passed the senate Satur-
day night. The bill had previously
passed the house in identically the
same form and goef to the president
for signature.
It is inferred in official circles at
Washington, D. c., that the channels
Of diplomatic correspondence between
Japan and the United States over
the California land law have been ex-
hausted without results and any action
looking to an adjustment of the tangle
must come from a new move by one
power or the other.
Hindus can not gain entrance to the
United States by reason of their hav-
ing been duly admitted to Manila. de-
spite the fact that the Philippine
islands are an American possession,
according to recent ruling at San
Francisco by Federal Judge M. T.
Dooling. The decision is considered
by immigration authorities to be of
| far-reaching Importance.
The victory for San Francisco ends
fight that has been waged in con-
gress for several years, in which con-
servatiOnists and nature clubs took a
conspicuous part. The bill gives San
Francisco authority to erect dam in
the Hetch Hetchy valley, creating a
storage reservoir, authority to flood
the necessary part of the floor, to
create electric power and sell it under
the local regulations of California and
to construct conduits and canals
through public lands where necessary
as part of the city's water supply
system.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-12-12
LOS ANGELES EXCURSION
Reservations Rapidly Filling Up for
Annual Pleasure Trip.

January 18th, at II p. m, the Spo-
kane and Inland Empire California ex-
cursion will leave the O.-W. r. C N.
depot at Spokane with one of the fin
est and best equipped special trains
possible to get together. Elegant
standard Pullman sleepers, two fine
diners, a perfectly appointed observa-
tion-buffet car and special baggage
car, all electric lighted.
This is the seventh annual excursion
to California arranged by the O.-W.
R. & N. Co., and each one has been
more than successful from every
$1,000. This includes separate berth
with each ticket, all meals on diners
and at the highest class hotels en-
route, all side trips, in fact, every
expense on the going trip. and the
ticket back to Spokane. Stops will
be made at Portland, San Francisco,
Santa Cruz (where visit to the BIG
TREES will be made), San Jose, Del
Monte, Santa Barbara and Paso Ro-
bles. After reaching Los Angeles the
part will be taken over the Inside
Track Trip" through the orange
groves, Riverside, Redlands, ETC., in
Guiding trip up Smiley Heights, all
included in the excursion ticket.
The resort places where stops are
made vie with each other to show this
excursion party "the best they have"
Every arrangement is perfected in adj
vance for the comfort and convenience
of this party. Automobile and carriage
rides, sight seeing trips without extra
expense.
While in San Francisco the party
will take meals at the est. Francis"
hotel, San Jose at the "Vendome," Del
Monte at del Monte" hotel, Santa
Barbara at the Hotel Potter" and
Paso Robes at the "Paso Robes ho-
TEL" all the very best, at the points
named.
Only a limited number are taken on
this excursion so sleepers and diners
cannot be crowded. This is a feature
which was much appreciated by p
vious years excursionists, so vastly
different than the ordinary excursion
The trip will be personally conduct
ed by an experienced man in this line
OF work whose duties shall be to tell
the people what to see and how. Res
ervations are already being filled for
people from Spokane, Occur dAlene
City, Wallace. Moscow, Lewiston. Col
fax, st. John, Tekoa, Pomeroy, Colville,
Walla Walla and towns of central
Washington as well as western Mon
tana points.
Reservations may be made by writ
ing C. w. Mount, d. f. and p. A.,
O.-W. R. & N. Co., COL Sprague ave.
nue., Spokane, Wash. A complete it.
inerary Of the trip will be furnished
on application to the above named
gentleman.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-12-12
WAY TO ACQUIRE 800 ACRES.
Procedure Under the Enlarged Home
stead LaW.-Entrymen
Coached

The 320-acre homestead law, or, as
it is often called, the enlarged home
stead law, has made possible the en-
try of many millions of acres of dry
land in the western states in tracts
J double the size now allowed under the
original homestead law. Only land
which has been designated" by the
secretary of the interior as 'nonirri-
gible" can be entered under this act.
More than 2O0,O0O,OOO acres have been
thus designated, but petitions and
sworn statements requesting further
designations are constantly being re-
ceived.
In a recent interview Secretary
Lane calls attention to the fact that
there appears to be considerable mis-
understanding among western home
steaders as to the procedure neces-
sary in order that enlarged home
stead designations may be made.
The secretary states that only the
simplest and most direct action by
the settler is required and that it is
wholly unnecessary for him to incur
the charges now made by attorneys
who draw up formal petitions that are
in fact no more effective than the
homesteader's own letter would be. On
this account brief statement of the
essential facts relative to the enlarged
homestead law Is timely.
The first enlarged homestead act
was approved February 10, 1909, and
later amendment provides that In
the states of Arizona, California, Colo
RADIO, Idaho. Montana, Nevada, New
Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah,
Washington and Wyoming any person
who is qualified to make entry under
the homestead laws may enter as
much as 800 acres of public land
which is in reasonably compact body
and is non-mineral, non-irrigible, un.
reserved and unappropriated and does
not contain merchantable timber.
Before such entry can be made,
however, the land must be designated
by the secretary of the interior as not
being, in his opinion, susceptible OF
successful irrigation at reasonable
cost from any known source of water
supply.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-12-12
NOTES ABOUT CANAL
MOST INTERESTING INFORMA.
rIoN ABOUT THE WORLDS
GREATEST WORK.
pacific COAST Gets THE ADVANTAGE
Get Lower Rates on Wheat, Lumber
Wool and Minerals-Cost $4,000, 900
Year to Operate Canal-lnter-
state Commerce to Control.

A writer gives the following infOr
nation concerning the Panama canal:
Time required to go through the
canal, from 10 to IL hours.
Freight will be charged $1.2O ton;
passengers are free.
American coastwise ships may pass
through free Of charges.
The canal will save 5000 miles be
tween New York and San Francisco.
New York is brought 5000 mile!
nearer Valparaiso and the west cOas
of South America.
Our Atlantic seaports are 1000 miles
nearer Australia.
The distance to the Philippine
islands is not reduced materially.
Bulk products like wheat. lumber
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-12-12

Gently, when notices were sent to col
lectors Of customs that the retaliation
duty on wheat and it's products must
be enforced against Argentina and
most of the other nations Of the world.
Under the new tariff law, wheat and
its products are to be admitted free
from countries which admit such prod
ucts free from the United States.
Argentine imposes a. duty on semo-
lima, a product Of wheat, and, although
the president and congress of that ma
ton are understood here to favor a
repeal of this provision of the tariff
law, such action has not been taken.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-12-12
minerals, wool, hides and wines will
get lower freight rates through the
canal from Pacific ports

minerals, wool, hides and wines will
get lower freight rates through the
canal from Pacific ports.
Eastern machinery, textiles, manu-
features and finished products will en-
joy cheaper rates to Pacific ports.
Staple products of the south-cot-
ton, iron, coal, lumber and ship sup
plies-will have similar advantage to
the Orient and Pacific ports.
immigration will be DETECTED in
large numbers from New York TO Pa
cific ports.
The cost of operating the canal will
exceed $4,O0O,0O0 annually.
About $500 employees will be re-
Quired
To pay interest On the investment
and operating expenses approximately
$15, 000N00 revenue per annum will be
needed.
viii Not Pay at First.
Traffic experts estimate that for the
first few years the average annual ton.
mage will be 100000, not enough at
the $120 rate to make the canal self.
supporting.
The rates charged vessels are the
same as those at Suez.
The government will monopolize the
business of supplying coal and provis-
ions and operating repair facilities.
Great dry docks, wharves, ware
houses, repair shops and other facili.
ties to cost $20,000,000 are under con.
struction
All permanent buildings will be of
the Italian Renaissance style of archi.
lecture. The route of the canal will
be beautified with trees, etc.
Storage for 100000 tons Of coal,
maximum capacity, is provided. Nor.
NAL storage capacity, $4,000 tons. Oil,
10000 barrels.
Monster 270-ton floating cranes will
handle wrecks or accidents in the
canal or locks.
War ships of all natiors may pass
through the canal, but can not linger
more than "a hours at either end in
time of war.
The interstate commerce commits
sion has jurisdiction over canal traffic
Known As Death Hole.
Panama, prior to American occupa
ton in 1904, was known as a death
hole, says current magazine.
Colonel William C. Gorgas Of the
army medical corps was appointed by
President Roosevelt to clean up the
isthmus.
When he began work the death rate
in the canal zone, Colon and Panama
was 1924 per 1000 Of population.
In 1913 for the same places it was
81 Is or cut down more than one-half
Among American employees the death
rate of 1906 was 814 per 1000, and IL
! 1911. an average year. 1t was reduced
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-12-12
AVERT BRITISH POSTAL STRIKE
Thousands Of Employees Demand IS
Per Cent Waco increase.

Leicester. Eng.-The threatened
strike ut Christmas of the govern
ments 100000 postal and telegraph
employees probably will be averted, but
the movement will only be postponed,
as a result of the action of recent
conference in which 200 delegates,
representing $4,000 members of the
postal organizations, participated.
The delegates pledged themselves to
push their original demand for a Is
per cent increase Of wages throughout
the service.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-12-12
DATED WHITE HOUSE FUNCTIONS
Eight Affairs Planned for the Winter
Season.

on.-Announcement is
made at the White House of the dates
on which official receptions and din
ners will be given by the President
and Mrs. Wilson during the coming
winter season. They are:
December 10, dinner to the cabinet.
January 6, reception to the diplo.
matte corps.
January 10, dinner to the diplomatic
corps.
January 20, judiciary reception.
January q, dinner to the supreme
court of the United States.
February 3, congressional recep.
ton.
February 10, dinner to the speaker
of the house.
February II, army and navy re.
ception.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-12-12
Use OIL on Navy ships.

Washington.-Early abandonment OF
coal as fuel for the battleships OF the
American navy and the substitution
OF Oil Is foreshadowed in the annual
report of Rear Admiral r. 8. Griffith.
chief of the bureau Of steam engi-
neering.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-12-12
Iowa Cashier browns Self

Des Moines, Iowa.-After hours of
dragging, police discovered Tuesday
in the Des Moines river the body Of
M B. Wheelock. cashier of the Citi-
zens' State bank Of Colfax, who has
been missing since last Tuesday.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-12-12
news Of THE WORLD
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FRESH FROM OUR DAILY
NEWSPAPER SERVICE.
GATHERED FROM BOTH CONTINENTS
Happenings National, Historical and
Political and Personal Events
Herewith Selected for Our
Many Readers.

Denver, Colo, was covered with
four feet of snow in two days last
week.
The republican New York state con-
ference forced through an approval of
. statewide primary law.
The British cabinet has passed an
order prohibiting the further impor-
cation Of arms into Ireland.
Bmployers having signed a union
agreement, one-third of the 5000 strik-
Ing Transfers resumed work at In
0ianapoiis.
Cardinal Oregiia, dean of the Sacred
College, died of pneumonia Saturday.
His death makes Cardinal Gibbons OF
Baltimore dean.
Representative Johnson of the state
oe Washington has reintroduced the
Dillingham; immigration bill. emitting
the literacy test.
The London board of trade returns
Tor November show a decrease of $12,-
$4,000 in imports and an increase OF
t5.o00.000 in exports.
One hundred persons were either
killed or seriously injured in col
lision between passenger and freight
train near Coleshti, Roumania. Sat
urday.
The grave of ]. p. Morgan in Cedar
Hill cemetery, Hartford, Conn, Is now
q 1t has been from the day of inter.
ment. closely guarded, particularly at
night.
Tirty-six lives were lost recently by
the laundering of the Swedish steamer
Malmbergel off Bodo, Norway. The
steamer left Narvik, Norway, Nov. 81
Tor Rotterdam. The Malmbergel was
Of 1908 tons.
/ A painstaking statistician has esti
mated that tips of one kind and an
other paid daily in Paris to walters
janitors. cabmen and the thousand ant
one others whose income is largely de
rived from this source, amount tt
al, SOC.
New York authorities are working
upon the peculiar case of Mrs. Mar
1orie H. Graft, handsome youni
woman, into whose arm was driven
Ayp0dermic needle while she sat in
theater box. She later tainted in
waiting room. It is believed tina
white slavers are using this mean
Of securing victims.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-12-12

Casey" said Pat, chow do yez tell
tn age of tu-u-rkey?"
"Oi can always tell by the teeth,
said Casey.
by the teeth" exclaimed Pat. "But
a turnkey has no teeth"
mo-" admitted Casey, "but o.
have
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-12-12
Roosevelt at Asunclon.

Asuncion, Paraguay.-Colonel Roose-
welt arrived here Sunday and was CIV
en- a hearty recention. Quarters had
been prepared for him at the residence
OF the ex-provisional president Of Par
aguay, Pedro Pena.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-12-12
rexa. Floods XIII Fifty.

Bryan, Texas,-The known death
list in Texas floods has increased to
more than SO. At least rs OF the VIC
tins were white persons.