The Afro-American

THE AFRICAN AMERICAN VOL. XX NO. 10. GETTING IN LINE FOR GENERAL CONFERENCE Some Men In the A.M.E. Church Who Are Slated For Ad- REVS. HURST, BECKETT AND ALLEN FOR BISHOPRIC Attends Meeting of Tennessee Conference and Hears Many Things. Nashville, Tenn.—I am down in the South as you will see from this letter, and I will be' down in this part of the world for a few months to come. I am sure that this information will delight you and since it will I am delighted to give it to you. I think I was in Lexington, Ky., or Louisville, when I wrote to you the last time. I attended the Kentucky Conference of the African M. E. Church in Lexington, and had a fine time. You will recall because I told you about Dr. T. T. Wendell and his wife, and then I had a few things to say about some of my friends I met while there. I am glad to say that I found my way from Lexington to Louisville, Ky., going to the home of William H. Seward. There I was joined by N. B. Allen and in company with him and Miss Carolyn Steward, I went out to the state University where I made a few scattering remarks myself. I was indeed delighted with the thought of being there, and had a fine time while there. I have told you about the State University before, and it is one of the schools, in this country that is doing something to train our young people. Dr. Amiger, who is the president is a strong man, one of the strongest in the state. It took me but a little time to see what was going on and then turn my attention to other things. The Lord has been doing great things for me, and I am delighted with the thought. I have been doing some riding since I wrote to you. I just started to tell you about Louisville and the things around about there. The congregation of Quin chapel has just bought a new church at a cost of $17,000 and they are now going to work to pay off the indebtedness. I hope it will not be long before all will be paid and then we will have smooth sailing. Our people have purchased some good churches in this country during this year and it will stand to thier credit. It means a whole lot for a people to turn their attention to the service of the Lord. From Nashville, I found my way to Bowling Green, Ky., where we had many nice things to say. I had the pleasure of visiting the public school, and then went to another school where I met a most learned professor, a professor teaching German, and it was fine to hear theose young people as black as I am talking German. I did not know just what they were saying, but they were saying something. While in Bowling Green, I was the guest of Rev. Robert Mitchell, D. D., auditor of the National Baptist Convention, and a man of great attainments. He was there and took active part in the work as was carried on in the town. If I just had the time I could tell you more things about Dr. Mitchell, but since I have not you will have to excuse me and I will tell you the rest another time. Bright and early the next morn- [Picture of a man in a suit and bow tie]. ling I was up and ready for Nashville, reaching the city on time. Getting here I found my way over to St. John A. M. E. Church, and there I found them waiting for me. Bishop Parks held a great conference and many things took place. The conference passed resolutions indorsing Rev. J. R. Ransom for the position of financial secretary, and Rev. J. A. Jones, for position of editor of the Southern Christian Recorder, Columbus, Ga. I am of the opinion that this will take place and the good man will be elected editor, and then Rev. G. W. Allen will be elected one of the bishops. All the getting together looks like this, and I am pleased to see it. I am sure that Dr. Allen will make a good Bishop and will be kind and loving to his men. He is an honest upright man, a man who has made his way up to where he is now, and he is going up higher. Give Dr. Jones the Southern Christian Recorder, and I am sure that he will take it right along and will not think of letting it stop where it is today. Rev. John Hurst, D. D., financial secretary was here and made a big speech, and he won for himself 10,000 AGAINST RECEIVERSHIP Application Made By Creditors of True Reformers Bank For Appointment of Receiver Richmond, Va., November 1. Judge Waddill, sitting in the United States District Court decided yesterday to hear further argument next Monday morning on the petition for receivership made by a number of those who have claims against the Grand United Order of True Reformers. A petition for a receivership was filed in the Chancery Court last week. The hearing yesterday came up on the filing of a new bill in equity. The new bill was filed as the court refused to appoint receivers upon the pleas in the old bill. The new bill was filed-and is more sweeping than the first, states that as a number of claim holders reside in other States that they have right under the federal statutes for a lien on the funds of the order. Chief Walter R. Griffin, was in court armed with a petition signed by 1,000 members of the order in the District of Columbia asking that a receivership be not granted. The claims against the order are said to amount to $140,000. J. Thomas Newsome, chief counsel for the Order states that the assets of the order are nearly $125,000. Claims are not being paid he says because of pending litigation. IGNORANCE IN WAY OF NEGRO'S PROGRESS Bishop H. B. Parks Presides At Educational Mass Meeting In Nashville, Tenn. SHOULD NOT BE ASHAMED OF OUR ANCESTRY Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 28—"Ignorance is the thing in the way of the Negro's progress in the United States," was the sentiment expressed in the educational mass-meeting at St. John A. M. E. Church last night, presided over by Bishop H. B. Parks, and the people were urged to put forth every possible effort to wipe it out and to go to the front. The usual interest was manifested by the colored people of the city, who turned out in large numbers. Music was rendered by the choir under the direction of Prof. D. A. Hart. Rev. J. R. Ransom assisted in the opening, and then came the report of Rev. J. A. Jones, D. D., President of Turner College, Shelbyville, Tenn., the institution supported by the church in Tennessee. He showed how the Negroes with their nickles and dimes were supporting a great school from which their boys and girls were being trained for Christian usefulness. TWO HEAVENS. Prof. H. T. King delivered an address and was followed by Dr. W. D. Chappelle of Columbia, S. C., President of Allen University. He spoke of his visit to the Ecumenical Conference a few weeks ago, and how he went loaded with a speech which he did not make because others made it for him, but if he had it in his power to-day he would pray God to make two heavens, one for the white man and the other for the Negro. "Our Christianity is a failure," he said, "or we haven't got it. I am of the opinion that we have not got sense enough to have Christianity as taught by Christ. Can you have one to strike you on one side of your face and then turn the other side for another Blow? I cannot do this, hence there is something wrong with my Christianity. Education is the thing that we need, and education leads to Christianity." Following the address of Dr. Chappelle, the Commissioner of Education, Prof. Hawkins of Kittrel, N. C. spoke on "Heroes of the Negro Race and Some of the Agencies That Make Them." He showed that the Negro Race has produced men who have dared to take the lead in every great movement and help to make for righteousness and peace. One of the greatest agencies in producing heroes among the Negroes is the educational department of the A. M. E. Church. Since slavery this church has established and is now successfully maintaining twenty schools and colleges with 220 teachers and 5,217 pupils. The property valuation of the schools is $1,500,000. The amount of money raised annually for the support of these schools is now about $3800,00. This is regarded as a splendid showing for a race so young in freedom. "I believe", said Prof. Hawkins, "that this evidence of self help by the Negroes is the greatest proof of their willingness and fitness to participate in help- ing to solve all the problems of the age. The Negro thus shows his willingness to join hands with the white man in making America one of the greatest nations on earth. Need Not be Ashamed. The Negro need not be ashamed of his ancestry. He can and must shape his own destiny and must not rely too much on others to shape things for him. No race with fifty years of freedom can expect to be credited with prestige and influence as long as it is satisfied to lean and depend on another race. Show the spirit of self-reliance and ask for no special legislation in your favor. On the other hand let the world know that you are not satisfied with any thing less than what is meted out to others. "Seek for higher ground. Live up to the highest ideals. Set a standard of righteousness and make your influence felt for good in every community. Do your duty to your family, your state, your country, and God will bless you." PASTOR CELEBRATES EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY Bav. John B. Reeve Has Been Pastor at Central Presbyterian Church Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 2—Central Presbyterian Church was the scene of a big gathering of prominent clergymen and laymen Monday night, when the eightieth anniversary of the pastor Rey. John Bunyan Reeves, was observed. Dr. Reeve has been the pastor of Central Church for the past 50 years, with the exception of several years in the early seventies, when he served as organizer and the first dean of the theological department of Howard University. He is very active for his age. His education was obtained at Geneva College and the Union Theological Seminary, New York. The funeral of "Pop" Fry, one of the first colored policemen in the city, was held here Tuesday. He was a native of Baltimore. Prominent Speakers Suffolk, Va, November 2—The annual Nansemond County Fair was the occasion for a great gathering of the farmers of this vicinity last week. The exhibits were many, and consisted mainly of specimens of farm products and livestock. During the fair addresses were delivered by W. H. Lewis, assistant attorney general of the United States; Major R. R. Moton, of Hampton Institute; W. H. Crocker, president of the Fair Association, W. H. Hand and others. Pastor Martin Surprised Atlantic City, November 1—The parsonage of St. James A. M. E. church was suddenly filled Tuesday with a throng of members of the church, who called to surprise the pastor, Rev. A. L. Martin. They brought along a lot of good things and present Mrs. Martin a purse. The recent rally for the new building fund netted $1,500. The erection of a new church will be begun within the next few months. President Taft In Chicago Chicago, November 2—President Taft addressed a large audience at Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church Sunday afternoon. He spoke encouragingly of the work that the colored people had done for the building of the Colored Y.M.C.A., and advised that they get industrial and higher education. PRICE THREE CENTS NEGROES MUST HELP TO SUPPORT SCHOOLS Must Supplement Funds Provided By State In The Rural Districts. HAVE NOT KEPT PACE WITH THE TIMES (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Utica, Miss., Oct. 27—The second annual Negro Fair, held under the auspices of the Utica Normal and Industrial Institute, came to a close here to-day, the exercises on the last day being attended by about 2,000 persons including farmers from the surrounding neighborhood, visitors from various points in Hinds and Copia counties, and the entire student body of the institution. Competitive games, races, and a barbecue furnished the entertainment and much interest was manifest in the exhibits. Walter S. Buchanan, president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Normal, Ala., made the principal address. He was introduced by Prof. W. H. Holtzclaw, who gave some advice to the farmers present on saving money. "Most of us have been living on credit," he said, "and it is well to have our attention fixed on the matter of saving a little money. After all debts have been paid, see that the family is made comfortable for the winter. See that the wife and children have plenty of good warm comfortable clothing for the winter. Buy books for the children to use in school; buy some newspapers and magazines for the home; give some money to the minister; to the church, and to the neighborhood school in order that a better house may be erected for the term extended." Prof. Buchanan urged the people to build up good schools in the remote rural districts. "If the Negro," he said "through his own efforts does not supplement the public school funds and provide better schools for his children in the remote rural districts we shall eventually lose our hold upon the soil and let slip away from us forever the opportunity to gain a firm and lasting foothold upon the agricultural resources of the South. It is very plain today that the Negro is losing ground in the various mechanical pursuits because his industrial training has not kept pace with the growing demands of many of the trades in which the black man formerly held a monopoly. "Negro teachers must still be imbued with the missionary spirit; they must be willing to sacrifice salary and pleasure and go out into the backwoods where they are needed and teach he people how to make a better living on less acreage. Our teachers must learn. scientific farming and teach it in the country schools. In this way, we can keep our people on the farms for which they have peculiar adaptability, and where they can make a sure and welcome place for-themselves in the Ameriolan industrial system." An unusually good line of exhibits was placed by farmers and their wives and the students from different industrial divisions of the institute. The exhibit stands/ were made out of the 12,000 bales of hay grown and bailed on the institute farm; and included everything practically from farm machinery W. H. HOLTZCLAW. to the most commonplace handi-craft. COLORED CHAUFFEURS DISCRIMINATED AGAINST Whites Practice Mean and Dirty Methods Trying Make Colored Men New York, November 2-That there has long been a systematic campaign against colored chauffeurs of this city waged by the white men employed to do some class of work has been brought to light within the past few days. Whites have been banded together for the past four years, and have succeeded in getting a number of accomodations for machines-run by colored men. Many a colored chauffeur has brought his employers automobile in at night in first class condition only to find in the morning it has been tampered with. To meet the prejudice conditions, four colored men have opened garages in this city. The white chauffeurs allege that colored men work for less money and that they also performed household duties. This allegation is emphatically denied by those in a position to know, and it is pointed out that the 200 colored chauffeurs of New York receive from $80 to $125 a month. J. Albert Roberts, who has trained several hundred men as chauffeurs was the first colored man to open a garage in this city. He has accommodations for about 50 cars, and says that a few of his patrons are white chauffeurs or are white men who own and run their own cars. He says that the same conditions obtain at the three other garages run by colored men. J. W. Hudspeth, an instructor in an automobile college, told a representative of the Afro-American Ledger that automobiles had often been tampered with because their drivers were colored. Southern white visitors who have brought along their colored chauffeurs have been surprised to meet this hostility. They have been grossly overcharged by white garages for gasoline and other supplies and forced to leave their machines in these garages until the excess charges were paid—all because the drivers of the cars were colored men. Will Deliver Oration Boston, Mass., Nov. 2—Hon. Archibald H. Grimke, former consul genreal to SanDomingo and president of the American Negro Academy, will deliver the oration at the celebration of the centenary of the birth of Wendell Philipps, the great champion of the abolition of slavery. WORK OF NOTED E TEXAS SCHOOL Progress ot Wey University «Seen in New Light = It Would be Interesting to hear Mr. Loden’s answer to these questions ABLE CORPS OF INSTRUCTORS, ‘Ono of First Institutions of Learning \ Managed! by the Freedmen Aid So- ciety to Be Placed Under Manage- i ment of Ajro-Americans—Highly Re- garded by State Board of Education. Marsball, Tex—In a peculiar way the work of Wiley university, an insti totion of learning maintained by the ‘Metbodist Episcopal church for the training of Negro youth, is striking at the root of racin} elevation in’ the south. ‘The training given the young men and women who attend this well known institution is of. the gilt edge variety, and its graduates are to be found in every walk. of life, It was. one of the first institutions managed bs the Freedmen Aid society wt the Methodist Episcopal church to be: placed solely under the manage Sment:of Negroes, and the wisdom. with which Dr. 31. W. Dogan has managed ‘and controlied its affairs bas proved that the experiment was more than a satisfactory one. ‘The success of Wiley graduates dls- poses of the criticism that most all the educated Negroes go north, for in Mezas, Arkansas and Louisiana are ‘eny nomver of its graduates teaching school, preaching tbe gospel, practic- ing the professions and making suc- “cesses out of their business ventures, It's work is academic, collegiate, in- dustrial, and, above all, great stress is uid upon the moral and religious train- ing of the boys and girls, It 18 one of the few schools where to. a large extent the students are self governing. The Y: M. 0. A. exercises a salient fofluence. upon’ the boys’ moral. and physical life. In its work, whicb ts more than ordinarily thorough, it ts one. of the. only two schools in’ the country whose diplomas are. recog- nized by the state board of education. ‘The faculty for this year comes up to the standard of former years and swith a few exceptions, stands as that of the previous year, As an example ‘of the thoroughness. of its work, one trould only heye to point to the suc- “The Negro question has'come up again, and let me tell you the Negroes are getting mighty bold. | have evidence of this for Tam forced to give some of them -demerits. ‘The only place for a nigger is the jail. ‘They can educate him and all that, but it doesn’t amount to much.’” A DISQUALIFIED'JUDGE. (This communication was addressed. to the Balimore Sun, in answer to Mr. Loden’s speech: which appeared in an issue of that paper.) Since the above appeared in your paper, we deem it fit- ting to reply to it through thefsame medium. Under ordinary cireumstances; we would. pay-no .atten~ tion to the utterance. If Mr. Loden were a. plain citizen, we would pass his ravings un-noticed, but Mr. Loden is a magistrate in the city of Baltimore, and chairman of the Democratic .City Committee. His utterance, therefore, viewed from these two. points, makes it significant and worthy of attention. If he has been correctly quoted in-your paper the 26th nst., his uterance has disqualified him to be a judge. He has outraged public opinion. and-has cast suspicion upon the integrity of his court. 7 The Governor of the State, whose appointee he is, ghould immediately demand his resignation, asa fitting re- bukefof an unwarranted attack upon a helpless people. Such a demidiid for his resignation; would be in keeping with the principles of civic justice and righteousness. Mr. Loden would never have dared to make a state- ment concerning-any other element of the population. Had he made that statement against the. Jews or Italians, the Democratic Party, in whose interest the statement was made, would have immediately demoted him; but that party still. believes that the Negro has no rights, which its’ political agents are bound to respect. Loden.errs when he says, that the only place for a “‘nigger’’ is the jail, and that education does not improve his condition. In making this statement, he not only dis- plays racé prejudice, but utter ignorance of the’ progress of the Negroes in the city. and state, and for that matter, throughout the Nation. We are supicious that this appointment to the impor- tant position of Magistrate of the city was not made upon the grounds of any legal and educational fitness. ts This statement. also gives-us the explanation for the large number of colored men who are‘now behind the bars. 1 Mr. Loden,believes that the ‘‘niggers’’, as he calls them are only. fit for the jail, then their going to jail would not be a question of crime, but it would only be a. question of their arrest, whether justly or unjustly, whetherguilty or innocent. His arrest would mean, according to. Mr. Loden’s judgment—jail. Without wishing to reflect upon Mr. Loden, as he has reflected upon us, as a race, we might ask what record has Loden made for goodness and righteousness in this city that would entitle him to be:an exhorter to the Negroes for civic righteousness?) And on the other hand, what evidence have we that he, Mr. Loden, is an eduaated man? © What schools did he attend? 17 any, did he remain long. enough to get credentials certifying the-completion of any regular eurric- ulum? Does he mean to say that the lawyers of the race, who practice in the honorable courts at the Baltimore Bar,. by the permission of the honorable and learned Judges,are only fit for the jail? : The colored people recognize their weakness in. the body politic, and that the forces are-against them; but he can resort and will resort to the honorable method of pro- test against the unwarranted statement and to appeal to the enlightened judgement of public opinion. The Negro mightJask why has not Mr-Loden surrendered his position as Magistrate, for the. position of Collector of Water rents, to which he has been appointed by Mayor Pres- ton, and which. position he has accepted. We may also ask, is his hold-over policy a scheme to put a sufficient number of Negro voters, where he says they belong—in jail—so as to-deprive them. of their vote on No- vember 7th? The answer to these questions might be interesting. By authority of the Republican Auxiliary Committee. F Ernest Lyon, Chairman, A. L.-Gaines, Treasurer, © WOA. ©. Hughes, Secretary, |“ © W. M. Alexander, H. S. Cummings, 7 / H. M. St. Clair; . &:. S. Jolly, ; Solomon Houston, : C._H. Fowler, : S - €.H. Steptean. pe See aes a Te ae a ae oes es CA Peek ee Ces ny rusia weneclkas.” ty ‘ess of many of the men who have’ “won thelr spurs. In such a list, taken at random, we Ond as principals: of ‘achools’ H. B, Pemberton, Marsball, ex,; T. J. Dovgless, Hubbard City, Wex.;'T. B. Mitchell, Kendleton, Tex.; William Daniels, Longview, Tex.; A. M. Salome, Stamps, Ark.; T. 0: Comp- ton, Junction City, Ark.; J. H. Roberts, Mansfeld, La.; J. B. Fos, Fort Jessup, La. As heads of college departiments we have'S. 8. Reid, history, Wiley: uni- versity; R. E. Brown, sclence, Wiley university; A. M. D. Langrum, mathe matics, Tesas college, Tyler, Tex: J. ‘W, Frazier, Sam-Houston college, Aus- tin, Tes. ‘Wiley university stands not only for the higher education of thy Negro, but also for thorough training in the indus- tries,” Both are regarded not, only as ‘mportant, but in many respects abso- lutely necessary for Sitting members of the race for higher usefulness. Ip many. a Wiley graduate the: two are combined. It is therefore not unusual to see. a young man who bas taken the full.collegé course having also a trade which he bas mastered in the indus- trial department, One young man who recently grad- uated: from the college department helped build the schoolhouse in the community where. he is engaged in tFaining his°people. Another yonng ‘man who graduated with honors from the: college department took at the enme time the bighest.honors. in the department of electrical: engineering ‘and is,now superintendent of the elec- tric Mghting department of an entire, elty., rae :'Moré. nnd more schools. ike Wiley. ehow the possibilities of the Negro race... Leaving. out the painstaking care of the: teachers and the sacrifices ef President-Dogan and bis good wite, ‘ene is'compelled to admit that a great future: awaits this “institution when ‘the fact is Known that within the’ past, ‘few years the ministers .{a.the Texas conference ‘have raised for Wiley unt: ‘versity mote. ‘than::$50.000'-and_ that “within ‘the: last year’ they ‘have reso: Jately. det, themselves: to. the task. of -raising an ‘endowment fund. of '$100,-. (900, ®-To:this’also'in to -be added a con: tribution ‘of $15,000'for the erection’ of “the new dormitory. for-boys:. 00. Pe Soanlony ari] Vg eyed Pole eg nn wisi en pie pee tea THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEDGER: JHE ArROsAg ESS ee MISS SUSAN GLASPELL’S DOG . vin. st S | " iss Susan Glaspell, the. author, has a: dog, which fact is of more impor- tance thau might at first appear. For in her new novel, “The Visioning,” aro introduced two frollesome pup- pies nained Pourquoi and N'est-ce-pas. ‘And there are no two mare real: char acters In the whole book than Why vand Ain't Tt, to use their names tn ‘English form. "It was Miss Glaspell’s own dog, a Vohemian beast, that Inspired the creation. of “The. Vistoning's” twin ‘puppy clowns. ‘The real dog also. bas a French name, Viola. When its own- cer bought it, over in Paris, she want- ‘ed at first to name it Raspail, both In memory of the boulevard on which ‘sho lived and as a sympathetic cog- nomen for a sensitive souled Parisian dog; But her family objected. They ‘could not see their way clear to shout- ing; "Come, Raspail! Raspail! Ras* pail!” So Miss Glaspell compromised ‘on Voila. Voila has. vagaries, It is a wan- derer. It fs @ collie, and a collie, it evidently thinks, ought to be afield. ‘Whenever it feels that way, away Vo- ila goes. Fortunately, it wears a col- lar with Miss Glaspell’s name and address. She has come to think noth- ing of such @ phone message as this: “Hello! Is dis Miss Glaspell? Vell aig is der bartender bei Hans Bum- melransen’s saloon, No, no, vait! 1 dide't got der wrong phone number. T choost vant to say I got here your ‘tog. Vill you. come for him?” ‘The the author of “The Visioning” has to drop chapter plans and seek out Herr Bummelransen's place with sorrow—and a doliar, But were it not so there might never have been a ‘Nrest-ce-pas and a. Pourquol. HAD HIS REVENGE PLANNED Editor Who Was Cut by Plain but Successful Author Knew How ” to Get Even. | ‘The editor of a newspaper’ having ‘been. cut at Brighton by a plain little ‘man, said to his wife, in explanation: : “Well, why shouldn't he cut me? He has.produced a novel that actually ‘sells, and all great men are ~ vain. Lock at Gibbon. "Gibbon, you know, wrote in his ‘diary: ‘lam the greatest bistorfan ‘that ever lived. No one can equal me in this direction.” “Victor Hugo wrote to Bismarck: "The giant greets the giant; the foe -the foe; the friend the friend. I hate thee furiously because thou hast hum- ‘bled, France. I loye theo because 1 am greater than thou art’ “And Wordsworth said of the Swan of Avon: ‘There is an immensity of triek in all he wrote. If I bad a mind I could write exactiy like Shakes peare. “No wonder, then, the weedy little chap cut me,” the editor concluded. “But I'll get even with him. I'll snap- ‘shot him in his bathingsuit and send ‘the pleture to the illustrated papers | read by ladies and children, This will cauge bis sales to fall of at Teast 80 “per cent.”"—London Tit-Bits, ———— | Tiwermeol:, The population of Liverpool is miz- ed, At the 190i census the pop ulation was 685,000, Of these 55,- 000 were Irish, 20,700: Welsh, 17,000 Scotch and 12.000 foreign (3,000 of whom were “naturalized residents). The foreign residents. consist of wealthy mercbants and _representa- tives of foreign firms; a Jewish quar- ter engaged chiefly in the chothing and furniture trade; a Chinese quar- ter, and a little patch of Scandinav. fans. Liverpool is the stronghold of the Roman Catholics in England, one quarter of its citizens being mem- bers of that body. The Low Church party is algo strong, and between a certain section of that party—the Or- angemen—and the Catholics a bitter feud exists. Of tae other religious bod- Jes. the Unitarlans are strong, not nu- merically, but in influence, The cor poration has 13 parks and 50” open spaces laid ont as gardens or recre- ation’ grounds—in all about 1,069 acres.—Westminster Gazette. ‘Hicecuen Galera tha Wee: Tn removing the debris from the cel- lar of the old Riggs house, which bas been torn down, a number of Washington workmen the other day discovered a big, fat ‘possum, which they mistook for an enormous rat, and fied precipitately. The: effects upon the negro of the refiuements of bigh- er education and the white man's cl¥- lization may well be challenged when it destroys the nature of the race to the extent that {ts members fail to recognize a fine, fat ‘possum when they see it, says the Baltimore Sun. About one more generation of progress along the same line and we will see a color- ed man and brother shying at the watermelon arid running from the yel low-legged pullet. 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You usually pay frem three to four dollars for enlarging pictures and then you do not always get good: work. See thé'portrait: in our’ show. window: and you. will see: the kind of work we do. This offer will last’ only a short time, and if you:want to take advantage of it you must'get a move on’you, If youcannot come, send. the picture and $1.50 by mail, add- ing 10 cents for mailing, and when the picture'is fimshed we will mail it to-you. Better take advantage ‘of this offer for we cannot afford to yeep it up for along period. s a i THE AFRO-AMERICAN ‘LEDGER, : . po 650. Rutaw: Street, Baltimore,:Md.' Trouble. With Ladies’ Watches: “We always have a vast deal: more trouble with wonien than with: men about the’ watches they carry,” sald a Jeweler. "Ne matter how expensive a lady's watch or how ‘correctly made It seems. to need regulation and. repair about twice as often as a man's. watch: Of.course most women forget to wind thelr watches, but aside from that they wear them so frregularly that the watch bas the same environment about three days in seven.” | The Italian’ Treatment: The Italians. resort. to a ery simple method when they wish to obliterate the injurious. effects of salt air’ and sunshine. after a yisit'to:thelr villas, the shore -of the Adriatic, the. Tyrrhen- fan ea or the lakes. They. bathe the face with the. white of an. egg, well beaten, let:it'dry on. the -skin “and rinse {t off In°soft water after fifteen minutes. The treatment -is. repeated three or four times; and always at night just before retfring. Rev. W. E. Williams. Says They, and Not The ‘Illiterates Are The Ones Aimed At. SOUTHERN {WHITES WOULD -PERPETUATE INSULTS ‘The Afro-American Presbyterian Church Hold Annual Session In Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 1—The work of the Presbyterian church among, the colored people, as_ well as suggestions for extension of the same were discused at the eigh- teenth annual session of the Afro- American Presbyterian "Council, which came to an end at_ Berean Presbyterian’ Church last } Sunday night. PPh oe" Ee. Prominent among those to take part in the various discussions were th Revs. Francis J. Grimke, Wash- ington: Mathew W. Anderson, this city; George S. S. Stark, Princeton, N. J.; Perry W. Sew- ell, Washingtonville, N. Y,; H. G. Miller, New York: John B. Reeve, Newark, N. J.; W. A. Alexander, Brooklyn, N. Y.:; L. %. Johnson, Baltimore, Md.; and W. Edward Williams, of the same city, who read an interesting paper on “Jim-crow Cars and the Federal Constitution.”” Declaring at the outset of his address ‘'that jimerow car laws requiring separate accomodations etre eS EES eR GROSS OS Taso ee GP hNG. ceo N pee Ra eee ctantel ae pos n ieee ce bata Coe ee ea Pree tie ts Smee Fee rien es Beat ee Toes Tama Riri etirmaNeatiy is Caer Rasa e (MMR e 2 Remante Vea ee sy Bee NG toes REV. FRANC A. GRIMKE for white and colored passengers in public conveyances are the most degrading humiliating, and cruel of all the legislation affecting our people,”’ the speaker traced the history of class legislation. in the period directly following the Civil War, when many of the Southern Legislatures enacted laws against the Negro. After stating that the intelligent men and women of the race were the ones aimed at. citing the enactment of a separate car law in the North Carolina, after Sena- tor Bacon, of Georgia. had raised a hullabaloo because Booker T. Washington and a party of friends took a meal on a dining car, the speaker went on to say: “*On.the face of the law these Jim Crow laws of the States of the South go against the liberty and rights of every colored Amevican who finds as a citizen of one state he is not entitled to all the privi- leges and immunities of citizens in the several states. Why these Jim Crow Jaws. and all of the other forms of segregation and humilia- tion to the Negro? And what must ‘be the attitude of the Negro in. the face of it? “T hold that the cause lies in the unreasoning prejudice of the white man, prejudice growing out of his egatism, his eupidity, in the sense of his desire to have and to hold the best in place, power and wealth, ‘There are those who say it is the Negro’s lawlessness and crime which bring about these laws. If that were true, it would certainly be both unjust and a, violation of the federal constitution to take away the rights, privileges and munitien of millions. of lawabiding citizens because a small percentage of their nyimber are: lawless and criminal. “Lhold all the manifestations of prejudice, Jim Crow laws, disfran- chisemnt and segregation grow out of the white man’s determination to:keep the Negro in a place of in- feriority. and nothing that the Ne- gro can-do, save to cease to” strug- gle to-be a man, will satisfy that} element of whites, “All of us know that there is. an. active propaganda being carried on by the whites to bring the rest of the whites te their position, They ave succeed. ing. to an alarming extent. and al- ready have President Taft, the Su- fo # Oe ya poo ae oe fs — a a Ve 7 REV. W. 5. WILLIAMS preme Court, the Democratic party, Dr. Booker ‘T. Washington, as wel as many Republicans on their side. “They tell the rest of the whites to say to the Negro: ‘You are: an American citizen, and as such. you desire your political privileges from the state in which you reside. You have been the object of congres- sional solicitude for 50 years and it has profited you nothing; take up the matter with the white people of your respective state and see if you cannot come to terms at home!"’ Taking up the question of letting the South settle the race question in its own way, he continued: ‘‘And strange to say, the American peo- ple seem to be heeding this advice and many Negro leaders also. ‘They say, ‘Do not agitate this question; do not contend for your civil rights; ‘make friends with the Southern white man; get houses and Jand and fit yourself to be a good workman; all will be well after a while.’ ‘Some white men spoil all. this by saying: ‘Two races cannot live side by side unless one is the acknowl- edged superior and the other the willing inferior, and. the inferior can never hope to rise to the equal- ity of American citizenship civil and political.'.. “Thank God many white. and col- ored refused ta accept this. Wedo: not believe that there is any innate racial superiority and that it is not the eternal decree that the: black race individually and collectively is always inferior to the _ whites. We also believe that it is possible and, already obtains to some ex- tent for white and black men to live together on civil and politi- cal equality. Let us deny racial superiority based on race or color alone. Let us accept no diserim- ination and no place or condition of inferiority.”” The next session will be held at Newark N. J. ‘The following offi- cers were elected: J. G. Carlile, Troy N. Y. president; T. H. Amos Patterson N J.. vice president: Ry H. Armstrong Philadelphia Pa., re- cording secretary; Perry, S. Sewell, Washingtonville N. Y. and J. W. Lee, Philadelphia treasurer. NO NEW TRIAL FOR MRS. LOMAX Only Chance Left for Mur- deress Is That Presi= dent Taft Will In- tervene. Washington, D, C., Nov. 1—The Court of Appeals has ruled adverse- ly on the application of Mrs Mat- tie Lomax fora new trial. She is under sentence ta. be hanged No- vember 20. Her attorneys have prepared a paper asking that the President commute the sentence to life imprisonment, and it is expect- ed that he will do so. Public sen- timent is strongly against hanging a woman in the District of Colum- bia. A petition was sent in last summer asking for executive clem- ency, and it bore 50,000 signatures. Mrs. Lornax is said to be in a dy- ing condition, from acute tubercu- losis, and it is doubtul whether she will live until the date set for her execution. The woman was con- vieted of killing her husband, Cecil Lomax, last winter, following a quarrel over money matters. in the Misfit Halo Region, “T believe,” sald a wUllville author, “that If we finally reach Paradise we'll worty about having to fly too high aud sing (oo often, aad some folks will’complain about the streets of gold because.the hard pavement may aurt their feet."—Atlanta Constitution. Explained, Small Robert did not know the meaniug of death, so when he was told that a man across the street was dead 12 asked hls five-year-old sister what it meant to be dead. After.a moment's hesitation she answered: “Why, to bx dead means that—that you are-all fo.” THE: AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER WILLIAM PICKENS'PLEA | ie ARVO SRE | Says. Same Sei low x Against The Negro Is oe f | Used Against The | Dee (ge af In plea for woman’suffrage: pub- lished: in the Colored Alabamian, of Montgomery, Ala,, Prof William Pinkens, of Talladega College, says in part: “{ must acknowledge that ail the auguments { have ever read against the voting of women prov- ed upon refiection and: examination to be far from conclusive if not positively shallow and absurd. One of those arguments is that it will ‘break up the home: Amen! I told you so: the identical argument is used against the Negro; ifthe Ne- gro is allowed to come up, it will destroy the white man’s home, and if woman comes up, it will destroy the white man’s home, too. Thus does an unreasoning argument ever seize upon some powerful passion or prejudice to sustain. itself by. As if women were not even more interested in the home than men are. (gy! Sings Gogg SNE ‘‘And if womenshave and should have more interest in the home it is one of the strongest arguments for a share in the power that .pro- tects and defends, and in its turn is conserved hy the home. ‘Another argument is that polities is too cor rupt.for women. ‘That is the exact converse of the argument in the Ne- gro’s case: that the Negro is too corrupt for politics. Both state- ments support quite a different ar- gument: in the case of the woman, it is a good reason for cleaning out politics and making it fit for wom- en, perhaps by the assistance of, women,—and in thé case of the Negro it is a good argument for helping hini to grow in fitness by giving a perfectly just deal to those who are-fit. To say that politics is corrupt, it seems to me, is the best possible argument that the men could put into the mouths of women; that. is an indirect acknowledge- ment at least that women are not likely to lower the standard of our politics. The,say that. politics is too corrupt for woman,—implying that woman is. better than man’s politics,—and would not woman’s: politics also be better than man’s? Like father, like son;¥like ae like issue: like spring,‘likestream.”” Hagerstown News Hagerstown, Oct. 31—Miss Em- ma Scott died on Monday morning October 30, after a lingering illness of tuberculosis at3the home of her mother, Mrs. Hannah Scott. She is susvived by her mother and sis- ter Annie, Mrs. Katherine Watson has re- turned home: after spending the summer at Atlantic City. Mr. Walter Harris is now. om- ployed in Washington asa chaffeur. A kitchen shower was given Mrs, Emma Gross (recently married) on October 16th. | Much interest is being shown in the coming election, and the voters fare hard at work. Rev. A. L. Gaines of Baltimore made. a fine address before a large audience on last Friday night. His remarks were very instructive. Mr. J: W. Williams has started a foundation for a two story frame house on North Street. St. Michaels, Oct. 31—Mr. Sam- uel Wittendon is visiting friends here and is stopping with Mr. -Jo- seph Nichols. Mrs. E. Hopkins, who has a tem- porary position on the.'Cambridge”” was in town this week. Rev. A.J. Ward of Ivy Town visited the Preacher's. meeting at the Union M. E. Church and made a good impression for African Methodism. Mrs, Clasphenia Smith President of W. H. and . M. Society gave an entertainment Monday night the 30th. It was a delightful affair. Mr. Joseph Hopkins is visiting friends in Easton. Mrs. Carrie Caldwell has return- ed from her visit to Philadelphia. Mrs. Josephine Roberts is on the sick list. Mis. Hester Hall cut her finger accidentally, which is very painful. Rev. H. W. Smith of Trinity: preached for Rev. Ward last week. | The annual fair will begin No-| vember 6. Mr, M. J: Nichols pre-| sident. Miss Adeila Moore was shot in! the hand and knee by her step-fath-| errecently. She is improving rap-| idly. ma Mrs, Emma Keiser‘ fs having: her| dwelling repaired. | Mrs. Louisa Cromwell of Balti- more is visiting Mrs: Keyser. | 1.2 BHEY'RE OBFNE 2 BOYS - GIRLS. a es Are U Working 4a Prize? — _ THE CONTEST IS ON You will have until the -first of January to-help boost ourcirculationand WIN ONE OF THESE PRIZES First Prize, Five. Dollars in Gold Second Prize, ” Three Dollars Third Prize Two Dollars Fourth Prize One Dollar The First Prize;Winner will also be Presented: with ~ a Medal and will be known as the Medal Winner of the Afro-American Ledger. . The terms are easy; Whoever gets the. most new customers gets the “bacon” REMEMBER THE SLOGAN 2000 New Subscribers by 1912 A PRIZE OF $2,50 will be piven to. the Agent that akes the Largest Increase in sales. PERRIER SCNT oe eo ad eee Oke GN ae ie rae Bee | eee Reena lay nee Se aa i ee a) aces Eo SU Rene ee pee eee Noi mee een ead REY. W. M. 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Churches and others having news notices will please have the same in the office by Thursday to insure publication in the week's issue. Correspondents will please have all communication, in one office by noon on Wednesdays. All communications intended for publication should be addressed to THE AMERICAN LEDGER, 623 North Eutaw Street, Baltimore, Md. Advertising rates made known upon application. All Checks, Money Orders an Drafts should be made payable to THE AFRO-AMERICAN CO. BALTIMORE, NOV. 3, 1911 OTHERS SUFFER WITH YOU Except for the social compact, which ties hman beings together for weal or woe, no man would need to look beyond himself for the result of his action, and might reasonably be let alone in any course of action which he might be willing to follow. But the stubborn man faces us every where that no man lives alone, or to himself, but our actions are touching and influencing others all about us. The scientist tells us that the pebble dropped into the lake starts a circle of waves whose influence does not cease until the furthest shore has been reached. So with the actions of men; the influence of a single act may bless or blight a life. We are now coming up to a most important election and we must be sure that what we do will not work ill to the cause of civilization and our people. Many and varied temptations will be placed before the Negro voters. The first effort will be made to get you to vote the Democratic ticket, but of course you will not do that unless you have lost your respect for decency and honor, for no man can follow and support the dishonorable without becoming like those whom we follow, for birds of a feather still flock together. The next thing they will do will be to try to get you not to vote at all, and in order to accomplish this end, they will lead you to some hall or house where they will provide you with drink and food and so house you in all day, and cause you to lose your vote. To do this is only another way of selling your vote, and this is the cheapest, easiest, meanest, measliest way of doing it. To go to some house or hall and imbrute yourself with intoxicants all day and throw away your franchise is as shameless a way as any man could well spend the day. The men who allow themselves to be used in this way are despicable and are to be pitted, while the men who arrange for and carry out this henious business, ought to be coronated on the summits of hell until the last arrow of divine wrath pierced their infernal souls. The Negroes who go into these traps and take a handin thus nulling the effective value of each voter is unworthy of the citizenship granted by the Constitution. The Negroes who allow themsele to be shut up like cattle all day and refuse to go to the polls are unworthy of the blood of the soldiers who died for the cause of liberty. The Negroes who do and submit to such things are the Negroes who vitiate and darken the entire social problem surrounding us as a people. Thus it happens, that the actions of the men who do not care for personal honor and uplift throws him- self, a chock before the wheels of the racial chariot of progress. No man goes down by himself; others go down with him. The men who disregard their own honor, dishonors others almost without knowing it. For the sake of others, for the sake of your wife and children, ifor the sake of the race struggling for a footing, try to make something of yourself. Do not let political tricksters point you out as a man of no honor who can be controlled by the flowing bowl. When you cheapen, yourself, you cheapen every other member of your family and your race. Remember, a man was worth a thousand dollars in the days of slavery, so don't sell yourself in the days of freedom for a few dollars or a few cents.. DO A MAN'S PART Next Tuesday, the seventh of November will determine several important matters in reference to our state and the race. No more important election has been upon us and every voter ought to do a man's part. If there is an ounce of patriotism in our bodies, this is the time to show it. If we have any regard for that common honor, which holds men together, making society possible, we ought to show it by taking a manly stand against such corrupt practices as have been and are THREE AMENDMENTS. Upon your ballot your ments to be voted upon generally conceded that the ought to pass but one ought Look over your ballot amendment marked "Cha- diges amendment and s amendment stands at the corner of the sample bar. This is the amendment ca- the Negroes, poor white p if a man does not own five of property he must stand. How many laborers have to the value of five hundred The effort of the De- more and Maryland is to garchy, and establish the the few. The people of Ma- and they will not have it, against it. Upon your ballot you will find three amendments to be voted upon on November 7. It is generally conceded that two of these amendments ought to pass but one ought to, and will be killed: Look over your ballot and you will see the amendment marked "Chapter 253." This is the Digges amendment and should be killed. That amendment stands at the top of the right hand corner of the sample ballot for Baltimore city. This is the amendment calculated to disfranchise the Negroes, poor white people and foreigners. For, if a man does not own five hundred dollars worth of property he must stand aside for he cannot vote. How many laborers have real or personal property to the value of five hundred dollars? the effort of the Democratic ring in Baltimore and Maryland is to set up a governing oligarchy, and establish the rule over the many by the few. The people of Maryland do not want that and they will not have it. Let every voter stand against it. still in vogue among the Democracies of Marvland. We have read of the Ku-Klux-Klan of the South and all the insufferable and detestable methods of those days of reconstruction, but those days cursed by every honest citizen were but a trifle darker than these days of Democratic rule in the State of Maryland, rights are regarded, his vote is made to count the wrong way and the election is carried by the poll clerks and judges of election and not by the voters. Such a condition is too loathesome to be described in words, suitable for polite literature. Yet with such unsavory revelations as have been brought to light by the Grand Jury, the followers of "Sonny" Mahon are trying to hoodwink the people and fasten again the grip of the nameless ring on the people. The Democratic Party of Maryland and Mahon's ring are all in open disgrace before the whole nation and yet with hardened faces and seared consciences, made so by long continued practices of sin, they go out before the people of the great state of Maryland and ask for endorsement. Will you as a man, a citizen of Maryland, lend your vote to an honorless gang of men who with malace and forethought, nullify the votes of the free electors of Maryland? Do a man's part on Tuesday, and no matter what your past party affiliations may have been, rise up in your power wipe out the ring which usurps the rights of the voters making the poll books declare what the votes did not say. Your ballot is your leverage of power, yea it is your scepter, so long as you have it you are a ruler, for you elect men who make and administer the laws, but when you lose the ballot or another man refuses you the right to have it counted, you are left only a subject and are no longer a governor but fall to the rear among the governed and the ruled. Do a man's part and demand your right to vote and have it counted. The only way to accomplish this is to vote for Goldsborough and honest elections. Do a man's part! Down with the ring! Down with fraudulent returns! Down with the Digges Amendment. TRY TO HOLD IT We have walked abroad in city and country and have had shown to us in different sections large tracts of land and numerous city lots, and have been told that twenty or thirty years ago, those broad acres were owned by Negroes. But today those same tracts of land and city lots, are owned by other races and nationalities while the sons and daughters of the Negroes who once owned them, are living the life of renters, and not a very comfortable life at that. We talked with a man a few days ago who told how nearly five hundred acres of as fine land as ever grew wheat, slipped away from the children, when the old father died. We have run down so much of this sort of thing among our people, that we felt it worth while to investigate the cause of such slipping away of property and add a line of advice. The reason for such slipping away of property from our people, is found in three things: Prodigality, The Demand of the Prodigal, and Lack of Family Pride. Look first at the demand of the prodigal. The father has finished his work and lies down in his last resting place. The funeral wreathed have scarcely faded, before someone one in the family roughly says: "I want My share of father's estate." How can he get it? There is not enough cash on hand to give such an one his share in cash and the persistent demand leads to a sale and may be a lawsuit, and the old farm home is sold, and passes into the hands of strangers all because you will find three amendments on November 7. It is two of these amendments ought to, and will be killed: not and you will see the chapter 253." This is the one should be killed. That the top of the right hand ballot for Baltimore city. calculated to disfranchise people and foreigners. For, five hundred dollars worth and aside for he cannot vote. be real or personal property saved dollars? Democratic ring in Baltimore set up a governing olio rule over the many by Maryland do not want that. Let every voter stand of the demand of the prodigal for "His Share." Together they might have lived on in the old home in happy contentment, but divided they lose it all. Again prodigality pure and simple has wasted city homes and country farms for our people. The children of the old father did not learn sobriety so when the father died, the children took to the social whirl in the city, and finding it easy to get money on the old home, very soon borrowed more than they could repay and after a few years began to pay rent for the house they once owned, and later on gave it up and moved away. Thus for the sake of having a good time and enjoying the social swirl of the city, the home was lost. Finally, the lack of family pride. Many young people seem to be devoid of any family pride. For they say: What's in a name? No son or daughter is worthy of the father and mother, unless they have pride in the family name. In some way fathers and mothers ought to try to stimulate their children to have pride in the family name and defend it in every possible way. Let the young men and women to whom mothers and fathers are leaving their estates, realize the importance of the home, base, and hold on to it, rather than fritter it away for social pastime and cheap popularity. Those who will pat you on the shoulder, eat and drink at your festive board, will call you a fool when your money is gone, and will not give you one dollar with which to pay rent or buy food for your wife and baby. Try to hold the old home. News From York, Pa. York, Pa., Nov. 2—A recital was given at the A. M. E. Zion church tonight by Mrs. C. A. Foster. An excellent program was rendered by the Sunday School of the church last Sunday in honor of the birthday of the superintendent, Mr. Aquilla Howard. The recent rally at Bethel A. M. E. Church netted $300. Dr. G. W. Bowles will be the speaker at the A. M. E. Zion Forum this Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Nancv Wood, 17 Baptist avenue, is recovering from a severe illness. A donkey party will be given at the home of Miss Amanda Scott, South New Berry street. A unique hallowe'en social was given at the residence of Mrs. W. L. Harr, 332 E. King street. GOLDSBORO MARYLAND CLEAN ELECTIONS FRANCHISSE CORRUPT DEMOCRACY MK Gorman Says the Republican Party is a "Stick to Beat a Dog With," But All Honest People Know it is a "Club to Kill Snakes With." Maryland—Mr. Goldsborough please take this "stick" and protect me and my child from this venemous reptile. Twenty Negroes Strickon From Registration Books—A Lively Campaign in Philadelphia (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 2—The general opinion here is that George H. Earle, the Republican mayoralty candidate, will defeat Rudolph Blankenburg, the candidate of the Democratic and Keystone parties. Mr. Blankenburg is assured of good vote by many who are tired with gang rule, however. Earle was a national democrat in 1895, while Blankenburg has always been a Republican in national campaigns. The former is 56 years ago and the latter is 71. The names of 20 colored men were stricken from the registration books Tuesday. One of them is said to have told the election officials that he was 37 years of age last year, while this year he said he was 60 years old. Another swore last year that he was born in Maryland, while this year he claimed South Carolina as the land of his nativity. R. A. Cooper, secretary of the Keystone Aid Society, will be re-elected to Common Councils from the Seventh ward. Everett J. Waring, recently appointed attorney for the State Factory Commission, has been one of the busiest of those speaking in the interest of Mr. Earle. Women Elect Officers Following the discussion of plans for the enlargement of the work of the Federation of the Christian Women of Maryland elected Mrs. Mary F. Handy as president last Friday afternoon. The remaining officers are: Mesdames Melissa Minor, Estelle C. Young, E. J. Cummings, Helen A. Cooper Rachael Taylor, vice presidents; Mrs. Emma J. Truxon, recording secretary; Miss Annie Frances, fin. sec.; Mrs. Susie E. Ross, treas.; Mrs. Mamie E. Jones, chair of executive board; Mrs. Louise Jones, chair. of the committee on ways and means; Mrs. A. R. H. Miller, organizer; Mrs. E. J. Cummings, and Jennie H. Ross, delegates to the next sessionh of the National Association of Colored Women; Mrs. Mary Galloway and Mrs. Helen A. Cooper, alternates. Harrisburg, Pa., Nov. 1—Governor John K. Tener has appointed the following commission to arrange for the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, which will be held in Philadelphia in 1913; State Senators Wolf, Crow, Wilbert; Representatives Cox, Ulrich, Alter and Harry W. Bass. Mr. Bass is the first colored member of the Pennsylvania legislature, and it was largely through his efforts that $15,000 was appropriated to aid the celebration. ULRICH'S TRIAL TO COME UP MONDAY Daughter of Secretary of Missions Beckett Marries,—Other News From Gotham New York, November 24—The case of Henry A. Ulrich, who is charged with assaulting Dr. Booker T. Washington here last March is expected to come up Monday in the Criminal Court. Ulrich had the case postponed two weeks ago, thereby causing the distinguished educator to cancel a number of speaking engagements. Miss Essie A. Beckett, daughter of Rev. Dr. W. W. Beckett, missionary secretary of the A. M. Church, and Mr. Frederick Lopez were married at the residence of the bride's parents, 378 Cumberland street, Brooklyn, last Saturday evening. A reception followed the ceremony after which Mr. and Mrs. Lopez left for a visit to the groom's mother in Norfolk, Va. The groom is employed as a clerk in the Brooklyn office of the Standard Oil Company. Dr. W. W. Beckett, secretary of missions for the A. M. E. Church has left on a visit to Southern conferences. He has received many assurances from various sections of the country that he will be supported for the episcopacy. A new book entitled "The Quest of the Silver Fleece has been issued by Dr. W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, author of the "Souls of Black Folk" and editor of the Crisis. The book contains 38 chapters and 434 pages and is written in the usual scholarly style of the author. Third Quarterly Meeting Unionville, Md., Nov. 2-The third quarterly meeting was held at the A. M. E. Church last Saturday. The reports show that over $600 had been raised in the past quarter. The presiding elder, Rev. P. J. Jordan, preached Sunday morning. Funeral services for Mrs. Lydia Mooney, who died in Baltimore were held at St. Stephen A. M. E. Church, Tuesday, the pastor, Rev. H. H. Fitchett, officiating. The public school opened last week. Miss Etta Hawkins, of Anacostia, D. C., is the principal, and Miss Gordon, of Baltimore, assistant principal. The colored voters of Talbot county are enthusiastic for the election of Phillips Lee Goldsborough and the reaminder of the Republican ticket. They are also working for the defeat of the Digges bills. Mr. Charles E. Blake is conducting a well patronized grocery store. (Continued from first page) some more new friends. He is getting his ducks in a row, and I tell you they look like they are going to march in the right direction although I am not prepared to say. He addressed the conference, made some people know him, and then he left for another conference. He is just a man who is interested in the development of his race, and I am proud of him because he is. Interest means so much for us. Turning from Dr. Hurst, I did not get to see Dr. Beckett here, but President Chappelle of Allen University, Columbia, S. C. was on hand and delivered an address. You know that he knows how to make a speech and he made one. I had the pleasure of hearing Prof. John R. Hawkins he is perhaps the most prominent layman in the A. M. E. church. He is pushing things, and you need not be surprised if you should hear that he has been elected to the position of financial secretary. He is going to give Dr. Ransom some run, and I will not blame him if he can get it. I will not get in his way nor put one straw in the way of his progress. He shall go up. He is speaker of the church. You will be interested to know that Prof. H. T. Kealing is no longer a layman but a full fledged elder in the church. He was ordained an elder last Sunday, and now he has the same functions that all the other elders have. He was made an elder by Bishop Parks, and then returned to his school work in Quindaro, Kans. He is making friends and making the school work go. I wish that I had the power to make you see what he is doing. Now this means that some day he will be one of the bishops of the African Methodist Church. I will have a few more things to say to you another time and I hope you will wait to hear them. Halloween Night One of Gayety All kinds of fantastic costumes, frolicking and a general good time marked the observance of Hallowe'en Tuesday. Along Pennsylvania and Druid Hill avenues and side streets, women in pantaloons, some in satin bloomers, excited the interest of pedestrians. One girl dressed as a man was seen to dive awkwardly for her nickel, as she boarded a, Pennsylvania avenue car. Boys dressed as girls and smoking cigarettes took off the advanced of the feminine sex. "Women" with bass, voices and "men" with a decided switch to their walk caused much amusement, as the did the doorbell-pulling small boy, with his lively sack of flour. THE AFRO=AMERICAN LEDGER IN THE CITY. Allen Locke Lectures Alan Leroy Locke, the only colored manwhohas held one of the Rhodes scholarship at Oxford University, delivered an interesting address on "Race Contrasts" at Bethel A. M. E. Church Thursday evening. The speaker was introduced by Bishop Coppin, who paid a glowing tribute to his scholastic attainments. Mr. Locke pointed out that race contrasts are not all different in kind, and that all social contrasts originate generally in a healthy instinct. These contrasts, he said become obnoxious when they become intolerant and unjust. "The Negro race" he continued, "needs to draw its own distinctions and to make its own contrasts. It is unfortunately necessary for us to break down existing conditions and to unmake some contrasts that already eixst. But, in that event, we must have something to substitute for them, and we can in most instances only supplant them by redeeming them." He ended by contrasting the Jew and the Negro, and claiming that the colored people could legitimately claim all of American and European civilization, provided that the Negro had race tradition to contrast with it and an organic sense that would use it to the best and most farsighted end. Mr. Locke was born in Philadelphia, September 13, 1886. After graduating from the Central High School and School of Pedagogy, that city, he entered Harvard University, receiving the degree of bachelor of Arts in 1907. The same year he won a Rhodes scholarship from Pennsylvania, and last year completed a three year course at Oxford. He is now a student in philosophy at Berlin University. Templars Elect Officers At the annual meeting of St. Andrew's Grand Commandery, Knights Tepmlar of Maryland and Jurisdiction held Wednesday night of this week the following officers were elected for the ensuing year. Sir Thomas H. Smith, R. E. G. I.; Sir Joseph Jackson, V. E. G. D.; Sir David T. T. Harrod, G. Generalisimo; Harry Franklin, G. Captain Gen.; J. Murray Ralph, G. Prelate; Sir Nelson Walker, G. Treasures; Sir S. George Wesley, G. Recorder; Columbus Gordon, G. S. W.; Sir William Mason, J. W. Meeting of S. S. Union The Sunday School Superintendents Union of the Baltimore A. M. E. Conference held their first monthly meeting after the summer recess at the residence of Mr. Howard D. Brent, 806 George street, last Friday evening. Mr. James J. Baker, of Bethel Church, read a paper on "The Senior Class." A collation followed the meeting. Those present included Messrs. George Summer Whyte, Herbert Frisby, Thaddeus Copeland, Samuel Torsell, Samuel Ewell, Harry W. Hiner and Mrs. Annie Stafford. Celebrate!Wedding Ahniversary Mr. and Mrs. Madison Fenwick, of 6 E. Hamilton street celebrated their 20th anniversary, Monday, October 30. It was a brilliant affair and largely attended by many of their friends. The house was wastefully decorated. The evening us spent in music and dancing which a collation was served afters, everone present expressed them- selves as having enjoyed themselves usely, while the couple were immersed with such a large at- highly of friends. Many hand- attendance were received includ- some pres-silver, cut. glass, china ing gold, and linens. Griffin Here Rev. Griffin, pastor of Rev. W. E. pastorian Church, En- Bethany Presbyterian Church, was in the city glewood, N. J. of his father this week the grin, the well- Mr. Charles E. employee, at known Customhouse Argyle av- the latter's home. 1061 was in enue. Rev. Mr. Griffin attend Philadelphia last week to resby- the annual meeting of the house of terian Council. Heil's a nati- he this city, and was educated in local public schools, and later fin- ished the college and theological courses at Lincoln University. The monthly meeting of the institute of the teachers in the colored public schools of Baltimore county was held at Bethel A. M. E. Church alst Friday. A number of papers dealing with the work of teachers were read, after which a general discussion took place. The Walters Public Baths, 1016-1022 Argyle avenue, had 2297 patrons during September, divided as follows: Men, 1091; boys, 72; women 84; girls, 129, and laundry, 621 CAUTION - In loving remembrance of our daughter, Mary Elizabeth Caution, who died Oct. 30th, 1910, one year ago. The month of October once more jis here. Our dear daughter one year ago coday. You are not forgotton naughtier, dear. naughter, memory last, ther, a S. Fisher. Terms 50 Cents a Month The Class in Embroidery will begin November 8th, under the direction of Mrs. Kate Brown Instructors—Miss Emma Bright Miss Elvira Molson Miss F. L. Murphy By her loving mother, Mrs. Dydia S. Fisher. "Hairdresser to Society" FIRST, LAST and ALL THE TIME EXPERT MASSAGING AND MANICURING And with joy in Heaven greet her, Where no farewell tears are shed. Her loving sister, Mrs. Geneva R. Howard. The month of October once more is here, To me the saddest of all the year Because it took from me away, My darling niece one year today. God called her home it was his will But in my heart I love her still; Her memory is as dear today. today. passed away. her, to greet her s are shed. Combings made in pins and nails Madame J. CREDITT'S Hair Dressing, Face Massage and Manicuring Parlors 1129 Druid Hill Avenue As in the hour she passed away. Yet again I hope so meer her, The day of life is fled; When'n heaven with joy to greet her Where no farewell tears are shed. By her loving aunt, Sarah E. Booze MACK-In loving remembrance of my wife, Olivia Mack, who departed this life suddenly, Nov. 3rd, 1910. At the close of the evening dorn, My dear wife bade good-bye; She only left my home awhile, In my arms to die. For she who left me full of life, Soon edtered into eternal rest. WARNER—In sad but loving remembrance of our dearly beloved husband and father, Rev. John Branch Warner, who departed this life October 29th, 1910. Twelve long weary months ago, God called his servant to his throne, How sad has been our hearts since then, Oh, how lonely has been our home. Tis hard to break the tender cord, When love has bound the heart, Tis hard to speak the words Must we forever part. By his wife and children. LL venue: Repairing. All: orders. Main Office: 949 Druid Hill Ave. Office Hours: 8 to 10 a. m., 1.30 to 3 p. m. 7 to 8.30 p. m. Branch Office: Orleans and Spring Sts. N. E. corner Office Hours: 12 to 1 & 5 to 6.30 p. m. C. & P. Phone Mt. Vernon 2249-M 9-30 1336 Druid Hill Avenue. Piano tuning and Repairing. Cleaning and Polishing. All orders promptly attended to. All Instruments Orchestra Music for sale. Nathan Naviasky 940 Druid Hill avenue. Call and see about it. tf ...WANTED... ...Women and Girls Paid while learning. Persons having exp Apply from 8 A At S. W. Cor. Biddl Baltimore S and Girls to Strip Tobacco... warning. Can make good wages. having experience preferred. ly from 8 A. M. to 5 P. M. Mr. Biddle St. and Park Ave ore Stripping Co. ...Women and Girls to Strip Tobacco... Paid while learning. Can make good wages. Persons having experience preferred. Apply from 8 A.M. to 5 P.M. BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH, Druid Hill Ave. and Lanvale St. BY THE COMBINED FORCES OF THE CHURCH Will begin Monday, Nov. 6th, and continue until Friday, Nov. 10th The booths will be beautifully decorated and abundantly supplied with all the various articles desired. A program will be furnished each evening by a Special Committee. Season Tickets 25 Cents. Single tickets 10 Cents. Mr. John T. Williams, President. Mrs. Lydia Burke, Vice President. Mrs. Grace Wescott, Secretary. Mrs. Annie V. Grant, Asst. Sec'y. Mrs. Isabella White, Treasurer. REV. D. G. HILL, Pastor. and friend of the St. Lukes Order is invited to come, see noted speakers of our race, Mrs. Maggie L. Walker, theident of a Bank. Other prominent speakers will be Address by the State Deputy, Rev. J. T. Carpenter to the St. Lukes work in this city and State. Aceed the lecture. To us the sadness of the year, Because it took from us away, Oh how I loved my sister, No heart on earth can tell, But Jesus loved her better, And called her home to dwell. Yet again I hope to meet her, When the day of life is flec, BASIL POWELL The Weekly Meeting of the Art Class of the Y.W.C.A. WILL BEGIN Wednesday evening, October 18th 7.30 to 9.20 p. m. Courses of Instruction will be given in Leather Work, Burnt Wood, Pierced and Hammered Brass, Stenciling and Embroidering, Darning and Button- holeing. The Ladies are for POINDEXTER 831 DRUID HILL AVE. I LEAD-OTHERS FLLOOW I carry a full Line of Colored Human Hais Goods Room for rent—Furnished room for settled young man—Apply J. T. R. Afro-Amercian Office, 628 N. Eutaw street. Cooking Class The Cooking Class of the Colored Young Womens' Christian Association will open October, 13, at the usual place Park Ave., and Franklin Street, at 7:30 p.m. All information may be obtained from Miss Sadie Chew, at the C. Y. W. C. A. 1200 Druid Hill Ave., from 9 a. m. to 4 a. m daily. EDUCATION Instruction given in Hair Work, Facial Massage and Manicuring. Also making of Puffs, Braids, etc. Madam M.A. Hunter 737 George Street DR. JNO. H. TOMPKINS 949 Druid Hill Avenue Haltimore, Md. WATNED—Intelligent man to sell Building Lots, good money to the right man. Apply 463 Calvert Building, City. RETURN ENGAGEMENT of the Matchless Young Artists, the famous Juvenile Tronbadors. Mr. L. E. Toomey, instructor. At Allen A. M. E. Chrsch; Thursday, November 9th, 1911, 8.15 P. M. St. Andrews' Male Beneficial Society will have their annual sermon preached at Bethel A. M. E. Church, cor. Druid Hill avenue and Lanvale street on Sunday evening Nov. 5 at 7:30 P. M. All members and friends are cordially invited to attend. The officers are: Chas. F. Woodland, president, Samuel Mason, secretary. There will be music by the choir. Ten Thanksgiving and Christmas Post Cards Free. Send only four cents to pay postage. Just say you want an offer on selling beautiful art Negro pictures. Men, women and agents are conning money off of the pictures and post cards. Send for terms and start making Christmas money. You are cordially invited to attend The Allen's C. E. League of Water's A. M. E. church Sunday Nov. 5th 1911 at 5.45 P. M. Brilliant programme will be rendered by the Alphian Male Singing Society and other noted Talent. Every Body Welcome, Mayme Woolford Pres. C. A. Carey Sec. Rev. M. F. Sydes Pastor. First-class Barber Shop, 901 DRUID HILL AVE., One door North of Biddle-Street. All of the latest appliances-known to the barber business. Electric Massage a specialty. Shaving 20c. Hair cutting 15 and 25c. Charles E. Griffin, Prop. 11-4-1m Let me repair your boots and shoes. W. H. TRUSTY, EXPERT SHOEMAKER, 933 Druid Hill Avenue, opposite Union Street. Come here first and you will not go elsewhere. FOR SALE. FOR SALE—100 block Perry St. near Camden, Station, four small houses, city sewer, expense only 83 cents a week. Price $350.00 each. Terms $50.00 cash, balance $1.95 a week. These houses rent for $2.50 a week and is now occupied: Apply W. R. PARKER., 917 Druid Hill Avenue. SALE Now going on BUILDING LOTS Terms; $10.00 down and $1.00 per week, or 10 per cent off for cash on Sparrow's Point Electric Line near Baltimore: electric cars steam railroad, county road, telephone, telegraph, mail service, water, fishing, crabbing, healthy location and the right place FOR YOUR FAMILY You can raise chickens, vegetables, fruit and anything else; church, schools all right at STEELTON PARK Lots 35ft front by 125ft deep. We can arrange to build for you. Salesman at park daily from 1 to 5.30 p. m.. Take trolley on Sparrows Point line get off at Park at Turner's Station. City Office 468 Calvert Building. REALTY SALES COMPANY George A. Finch, Pres. Building Lots FOR SALE SteeltonPark Sparrows Point Electric Line Near Sparrows Point at Turner's Station 10% off for Cash. Ten Dollars down and One Dollar per Week. We give you the Deed whether you pay Cash or Installment. Salesman at Park daily North Point C. & I. Co., Andrew J. Evans, Pres. Henry J. Lowers, Sec. CITY OFFICE- 463 CALVERT BUILDING BRING THIS AD WITH YOU PAYNE MEM. A. M. E. CHURCH Laurens and Calboun St. 3.30 p. m., Visit from Trinity A. M. E. Church, Rev. A. L. Gaines will preach the sermon 7.00 Allen C. E. League. 8.00 P. M., The Hod-carriers will turn out. Sermon by the pastor Subject; "The Stone Cut Out of the Mountain," or "The Kingdom of Christ" Strangers always welcome. Andrew Gassaway, Supt. T. Andrew Moore, Pres. A.C.E.L. Carroll St. near Carey Rev. Wm. A. Harris, Pastor 11 A. M., Sermon by Pastor 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. 3.00 p. m., Rev. C. H. Murray, Choir and Congregation of Grace A. M. E. Church, Catonsville, Md will worship with us 6.30 p. m. Christian Endeavor 7.30 p. m., Sermon by pastor or stranger ST. JOHN'S A. M. E. CHURCH, Lexington St. near Pine, Rev. L. S. Flagg, Pastor. 11 a. m., Sermon by Pastor. 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. 6 p. m. C. E. Meeting 7.30 P. M., Holy Communion. Monday evening beginning of two weeks revival service. H. W. Ebb, Supt. HANDY A. M. E. CHURCH Baker and Bruce Sts. nr. Fulton av Pake, Preston srs. cars. 1514 Druid Hill Avenue 11 A. M., Communion. 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. 3.30 P. M., Special Sermon by Rev. L. S. Flagg, D. D., also choir and congregation St. John's A. M. E. Church. 7.30 P. M., Baptism. Nov. 12th, Woman's Day Rally. Special program 11 A. M., 3 P. M. and 7.30 P. M. All invited. Rev. J. W. Norris, Pastor 11 A. M., Sermon by Pastor; communion. 2.30 p. m., Sunday School. 3 P. M., Rev. Mrs. Ivy will preach to the Stewardesses and Auxiliary. 6.00 p. m. A. C. E. League. 7.30 P. M., the trustees of the church will hold a coal and political service. Rev. Ernest Lyon, D. D., pastor of John Wesley M. E. Church, will preach a political gospel. The pastor and members of Ebenezer A. M. E. Church raised at their annual October rally $890.00. They will make it $900.00. Herbert Frisby, Supt. John Murray, Pres. TRINITY A. M. E. CHURCH, Linden Ave. and Biddle St. Rev. A. L. Gaines. D. D., Pastor. 11 a. m., Sermon by the Pastor. 2:30 P.M., Sunday School. 6:30 F. M., A.C. E. League. 7:30 p. m., Sermon by the Pastor. T. L. Holliday. Sunt. BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH Druid Hill Ave and Lauvale St. Rev. D. G. Hill, Pastor 11 a. m., Sermon by the Pastor. 2.30 P. M., Sunday School, S P. M., Sermon by the Pastor, Thaddens Copeland, Supt. Monday evening, Oct. 30th, Moving Pictures. C. Y. W. C. A. You are invited to hear Mrs. Ruth Collett, who will make an address on Sunday, Nov. 5th, 1911, at 5 P. M Solos by Miss Nannie Gaskins and Miss A. E. Goldman. Aseociation Day. Mrs. M. E. Murphy, Pres Miss E. E. Bright, Sec'v. .....Grand Echo Meeting John A. Holmes Chapter Epworth League and Metropolitan M. E. Sunday School... ...E. Sunday School... Thursday, Nov. 9th, 1911, at 8 P. M. In the main auditorium of Metropolitan M. E. Church, Good spelling. Good music. Come every one. Rev. J. A. Holmes, Pastor. Mr. James A. Harris, Pres. Mr. George A. Owens, Supt. THE Stewards of Whatcoat M. E. Church, Pine and Franklin Sts., will pay a visit to the W. C. Thompson Chapter of the Epworth League, Sunday, Nov. 5th, 1911, at 4.30 P. M. Services in the lecture room of the above named church. Stewards from other churches are invited to attend this meeting. M. E. Cooper, Pres. of E. L. Duncan, Young Pastor. ASBURY M. E. CHURCH, Lexington St. and Rogers Avenue, Rev. C. G. Cummings, B. D., Pastor. 9.30 A. M., Bible Class. 11 A. M., Sermon by pastor, sub- ject: "Life of Noah" 2.30 P.M. Sunday School 5 p. m. Epworth League 8 p. m., Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. CENTENNIAL, M. E. CHURCH Cor. Caroline and Bank Sts. Rev. Daniel W. Shaw, D.D., Pastor 11 a. m., Sermon by Pastor 2.30 P. M., Sunday School Mr. Wm. L. Gibson, Supt. 5 p. m. Class Meeting. Mr. Joseph Cooper, Leader LOOK out for Billy Day, NOV. 12 WHATCOAT M. E. CHURCH, Franklin and Pine Sts. "King's Hill" 2.30 P. M., Sunday School 5.00 P. M., Epworth League 8 P. M., Sermon by pastor to the Eastern Star Chapter and the Heroines of Jericho and invited guest. W. C. Tongue Supt. Miss M. Eeyth Cooper, Pres E.L. GREEN SPRING M. E. CHURCH Chattolance, Md. Rev. R. A. Green, Pastor. 11 a. m., Preaching by Rev. White 3.00 P. M., Sunday School 8 P. M., Sermon followed by Holy Communion. Mr. S. S. Oliver, Supt. Mrs. J. R. Milligan, Pres. E.L. Mrs. Nellie James, Pres. L. Aid Carey and Baker Sts. Rev. D. D. Turpeau, Pastor. 11.00 A. M., Sermon by Pastor. 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. 5.30 P. M., Epworth League. 8 P. M., Sermon GILLIS MEM. M. P. CHURCH Stockton Street near W. Baltimore Rev. B. H. Knight, Pastor. 10.00 A. M., Class meeting 11 A. M., Rev. Dorsey 2.00 P. M., Sunday School. 6.30 p. m. C. E. D. 8 p. m. Pastor and Communion J. W. Fowler, Pres. C. E. SOCIAL FREE BAPT. CHURCH Parrish St. near Riggs avenue Rev. C. A. Belt, D. D., Pastor, 11 A. M., Rev. M. Bishop 2.20 P. M., Sunday School 7.30 P. M., Pastor Revival Meetings going on during the week, conducted by Rev. Mrs. Nelson. CHRISTIAN CHURCH, Carrollton Ave., corner Riggs Ave. Sunday, Nov. 12th, 1911. At 8 P. M., Special Musical and Song Services, given by Mrs. L. G. Marshall. C. Millard, Clerk. Rev. R. J. Curtis, Pastor. HEAR DR. W. H. SHEPPARD tell of his thrilling experiences in Central Africa, Sunday, Nov. 5, 1911, 3.30 P. M. Grace Presbyterian Church, An offering will be taken to help the Thousand Dollar Whirlwind Campaign now waged by the Colored Empty Stocking Circle. NOTICE! The Grand Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star of Maryland and jurisdiction, Adopted Rite of Mason, will hold their Chapter of Sorrow of their deceased members at Sharp St. Memorial M. E. Church, Sunday afternoon at 8 o'clock. All Masons, friends and the public are cordially invited to be present. The Grand Chapter will convene in its 16th annual session at the above named church, Tuesday, Nov. 14th, at 12 o'clock. Mary E. Thompson, G. R. Matron. Maggie C. Upsher, G. Sec'y. 11-4-2t NOTICE! Second Annual Woman's Day of Gillis Memorial M. P. Church on Stockton St., near Baltimore. Sunday, Nov. 12th, 1911, under the auspices of the Mite Missionary Society and the Steward Board of the said church. 10 A. M., Class lead by Mrs. Leaner Rubbottom. 11 A. M., Preaching by Rev. Mrs. Beatrice Deborah Coles Spriggs. 3 P. M., prominent speakers, papers and solos. 8 P. M., Preaching by an able divine. Please at all services return your envelopes. Rev. B. H. Knight, Pastor. Mrs. Lula McGowan, Pres. of Mite Missionary Society. Mr. John Mitchell, Pres. of Steward Board. Leaders In The Fight Against the Digges' Disfranchising Amendment [Picture of a man in a suit and bow tie]. REV. A. L. GAINES Treasurer of the Auxiliary Republi- can Committee HARMONY OF ALL RACES IN ARIZONA Dr. Washington Talks of the Progress of the Negroes ARE TAKING PLANS TO PROTECT THEMSELVES Prejudice Has Not Yet Become A Fixed Institution In This Dr. Booker T. Washington has an interesting article in last week's issue of the New York Independent, in which he speaks of the condition among the Chinese, Mexican and Negro population of Arizona. Dr. Washington recently delivered an address at the emancipation celebration held in Phoenix. Ariz., where he was royally received by the white and colored people of that section of the country. The article follows in part: "Sometimes people in this country speak of the Negro as an alien race, and frequently the suggestion is made that the country would be better off if the black man could somehow be shipped back to his fatherland in Africa. No one has suggested however, that the Negro, while still living in the midst of the white civilization was so much of a foreigner that he could not be tried by the same law and in the same courts and according to the same moral and political standards as the white man. "In the first place the Negro is so interwoven with all the interests, traditions, hopes and inspirations of the white man that it will be impossible to separate them in the way I have suggested, even were it desirable. In the second place, no matter how much he may fall below the standard of the white man, the Negro has and desirous other law than that with which the white man has taught him to severe and love. However different the Negro may be in the color of his skin, he is not an alien in this country and has no interests and no ambition which in the last analysis, are not identical or in harmony with those of the white people by whom he is surrounded, "The Negro, in the progress of adjustment between the races, is getting into other kinds of labor. Several of them own large plantations in the rich soil outside of Phoenix. One of them is engaged in running a hand laundry, in which he employs, however, Mexican women to do the work. One of the three wholesale fault merchants in Phoenix is a Negro, another is making money running what is known as a "post" store on the edge of the Indian reservation, a few miles outside of Phoenix. Another colored man is running a restaurant in competition with the Chinese and has succeeded largely, as near as I could learn, from the fact that he was able to furnish what the Chinese could not furnish—home cooking. A considerable number of colored men have made money in real estate. Negroes have pretty near a monopoly on the M. B. DR. ERNEST LYON Chairman of the Auxiliary Republi can Committee DR. ERNEST LYON Chairman of the Auxiliary Republi can Committee barber business in this city. There are fivecolored barbers in Phoenix; one off them is to be located in the Magnificent Adams Hotel. "What is even more important to my mind than the successes of the few individuals that I have named is the general disposition among the leaders of the Negro people to consider the needs of their little community and take measures to protect themselves against the danger which is likely to them from the drifting class, who are a greater menace in the case of colored people than that of any race in this country. "Arizona has, in one respect, all of the advantage of the new country It is not troubled by tradition. It has no past to live down. Its people have no fear of doing or attempting to do something that was not done or attempted in some other time or place. I would not have people to believe that there is any racial prejudice in Arizona, as elsewhere in this country; but as yet such prejudice as exists has not fixed itself in institutions, and the result is that black man, yellow man, and red man have in Arizona an opportunity which. If they use it properly will keep that state a free country in the broadest sense of that word for all time to some." Notes From Easton (Special to The Afro-American Esdger.) Easton, Md., Oct. 31—Rex. Jacob Agusta of Salisbury preached at Bethel A. M. E. Church on Sunday. Presiding Elder P. J. Jordan preached Sunday at Bethel and held the third quarterly conference on Monday night ending with an excellent report having collected this quarter $521.24 Mrs. Mary Kelson is visiting friends here. Mr. Charles Jenkins and sister Daisy are home for the winter after spending the summer in Philadelphia and the Catskill Mountains. Mr. and Mrs. James F. Turner of Philadelphia have returned home after a pleasana visit to Mrs. Turner's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jenkins. Mr. and Mrs. John Matthews were in Easton, Friday. Miss Gertrude Parson has returned after spending a week with friends in Faltimore and Washington. Mr. William Henry Anderson died at his home on Tuesday evening. Funeral services were held at Bethel A. M. E. Church on Thursday. Notes From Snow Hill Special to the Afro-American Ledger.) Snow Hill, Md., Nov. 1—Mrs. Mary Berry and Mr Henry Smith were married Wednesday night quietly by Rev. E. J. Henry. Mrs. Queen Henry took Miss Carry Bishop to Salisbury Wednesday for medical treatment. Mrs. Lavenia Jewett, who has been away for some time has returned home. Rev. I. L. Paine, who has been out of town, has come home. Mrs. Clara Manuel, of Berlin, has been here this week visiting her sick mother, Mrs. Leah Harman. The Harvest Home at the M. E. Church was a success. A. REV. W. A. C. HUGHES Secretary of the Auxiliary Republi can Committee AN APPEAL TO VOTERS FROM ATLANTIC CITY Rev. A. L. Martin Urges Colored Men to Vote For Goldsborough. Atlantic City. N. J., Oct. 30.--Mr. Edior: Please allow me space in your valuable paper to bear loving testimony and hearty indorsement with the many thousands of my race respecting the moral worth and fitness of the Hon. Phillips Goldsborough of Cambridge, Md., to be Maryland's next honored governor. Having spent twelve long years as pastor of Waugh M.E. Church his city, I humbly feel in position somewhat to know something of his worth and work. I feel Maryland will make no mistake in handing over to this good man its royal seepure etc. I believe him to be stricly honest a wise, safe and prudent leader. Fully competent in every way to execute right the duties of any office or interest in the favor of the country or estate to commit to his sacred trust or keeping. I allow truly believe like people to a man will find in Mrs. Goldsborough "The Man For The Times." I have no ax to grind and have am had, my heart and motives are pure, knowing as I list of Mr. Goldsborough's faithfulness to his fellow men regardless of race, color, or creed. Out of pure graditude, although now in Atlantic City, I feel it manly on my part to set wait unclea laid to rest like many of us do to speak but speak whilst living. Yeah, whilst he is living in act and truth to dare and to do, not for self, but for the chief good of others and his God. He is the right man, therefore let us crown him. I wish for him a complete landslide and triumph. Yours very truly, ADAM LEONARD MARTIN. Pastor of Asbury M. E. Church. CURIOUS BITS OF HISTORY CURIOUS BITS OF HISTORY When William of Normandy was a youth of nineteen he fell violently in love with his cousin Matilda, daughter of the Duke of Flanders. The young lady, however, did not recognize his affection with equal ardor, though she seems to have entertained a kindly feeling for him. She kept him waiting for seven long years, and would not give him a final answer. The suspense was very trying to one of William's impetuous temperament, and he finally decides to bring matters to a crisis. Meeting her in the street one day, in company with some of her friends, he seized her and threw her in the mud, with disastrous results to both her dignity and her fine clothes. So humiliated was she, so the story goes, that she consented to become his wife without further delay. IN FINANCIAL CIRCLES. Eureka Co-operative Bank Holds Annual Meeting and Electa' Officers. Boston.-At the annual meeting of the Eureka Co-operative bank of this city gratifying reports were read, which showed the institution to be in a sound and healthy condition. A pertinent feature of the reports was the vast amount of work done by individuals toward securing a large number of new depositors for the bank during the fiscal year. On account of not having sufficient time to give to the duties of his office President George F. Betts refused a renomination. A vote of thanks was extended to Mr. Betts for his faithful services in the administration of the affairs of the bank during the year. Officers were elected as follows: President, Gilbert C. Harris; vice president, Robert G. Smith; secretary-treasurer, David E. Crawford; members of the board of directors, George N. Rainey, chairman; James E. Atus, Dr. L. M. Holmes, Rev. C. A. Ward, G. F. Betts, F. F. Smith, Edward Winston, S. L. Merchant, C. J. Johnson, J. A. Crawford, Stanbury Hoxer, A. G. Watson, G. W. Brown and W. H. Hemingway. Gilbert C. Harris, the new president, is one of the best known business men of the race. As an evidence of his standing among our people he has been the treasurer of the Ebenczer Baptist church, the largest church organization in New England, for many years; also treasurer of Boston lodge of Odd Fellows and treasurer of the National Negro Business league for twelve years. He has handled many thousands of dollars for these organizations with entire satisfaction. That the Eureka Co-operative bank will make rapid strides under his management goes without saying. He was from the first one of the largest depositors in the institution and has constantly said that it was one of the best and safest institutions ever organized in Massachusetts. George N. Rainey, the new chairman of the board of directors, is one of our most energetic and progressive business men and has the reputation of carrying to success everything to which he puts his hand. The entire list of officers presents a set of men worthy of the confidence of the people. The next meeting of the bank will be on Monday, Nov. 6, at which time the public is invited to attend and take out a book and become a member of the foundation of the real forward movement among our people in this city. The doors are open to all races and creeds. Mr. David E. Crawford, the treasurer, is one of the wealthiest colored men in Boston. He owns more modern apartments than any colored man or company of men in Boston. He is a lawyer with a large and lucrative practice and has the confidence of the people. THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN BISHOP SMITH'S THEME Lewily Nazarine Never Boasted of Racial Superiority, He Says. Terutoo...Among the many able addresses delivered by delegates to the fourth ecumenical conference recently held in Toronto, the one delivered by Bishop C. S. Smith was traught with a number of very salient points. The bishop's subject was "The Brotherhood of Man." Bishop Smith said in part follows: I wish to speak of the spirit that should possess the propagandist of the Christian religion as he goes out among the non-Christian races. What is the Christ spirit? What is the Christ idea of the brotherhood of man, his idea as it relates to the commonwealth of mankind? If the propagandist of the Christian religion goes out among the non-Christian races asserting the spirit of race superiority he finds himself at once handicapped. And from my observation in foreign fields I am confident to confess, if I do it regretfully, that there is many instances, is too much exaltation of race superiority and too little exaltation of the life and spirit and purpose of the Lord Jesus Christ. Point to a single utterance of the Master wherein he boasted of his social lineage, wherein he emphasized or held stress upon the mere incident of race superiority. I say "more incident" because there are four things for which no man is responsible of whom he was born, when he was born, where he was born and how he was born. I know that there is no reason for God and the saintship of Christ, but there is a wretful lacking of stressing the brotherhood of man, not as white, black, red, or brown men, but as men. Now, I postulate that if the brotherhood of man is not one of the cardinal and fundamental teachings of the New Testament then the whole scheme of the Christian religion is but a cumulatively devised table, the azony of Calvary the echo of a deceiving dream and the reputed vicious death of Christ a mere form of the intaguarial man, and the reptile all men are to me." "All ye are brethren." "Love one another, even as I have loved you." "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." 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PRICE 25 CENTS DOUBLE SIZE 40 CENTS Forsale at all Drug Stores GREAT CENTER OF EDUCATION President Joseph A. Booker Strikes Optimistic Note In Address Opening the Twenty-eighth Scholastic Year at Well Known School In Little Rock. Many Industries Taught. By N. BARNETT DODSON. Little Rock, Ark.—The Arkansas Baptist college recently opened its twenty-eighth annual session under very favorable circumstances. Dr. Joseph A. Booker, who is just entering upon his twenty-fifth year as president of the institution, was never more highly encouraged at the beginning of a school year. This was manifested in his opening address and in the announcement of new plans for running the institution another year. Besides many of the old teachers who have returned to resume the work with President Booker, several new officers and teachers from other states are enrolled. Professor M. L. Calloway, a graduate from the science course at 27 PRESIDENT JOSEPH A. BOOKER. the Knoxville (Tenn.) college, we have charge of all the sciences to taught. This is the first year that science department has had a spec teacher and a particular chair. Professor Calloway will fit the place well, for he is making science a life study and has done some good postgraduate work at Muskingum university, Muskingum, O. Miss Adilina Saunders will be preceptress this year. She comes from New Haven, Conn., from under the very shadow of Yale university. She has lots of bright ideas not only for housekeeping and for governing and caring for girls in the boarding department, but she has talent for elocution and fine needlework. She will give some extra time to this for the benefit of the girls and others who may desire these two fine arts. Miss May L. Smith of Virginia, recently from Hampton, will have charge of the boarding department and domestic science work. She comes full of Hampton ideas as to work, cleanliness, economy and good order. Miss Grace J. Thompson, who taught literature last year, will teach higher Latin and some literature, while Mr. M. H. Eldridge, one of the best graduates that the institution here ever sent out, will teach Greek and elementary Latin. Besides the foregoing list of college, academic and industrial teachers, the grammar school department will be cared for by Miss S. A. Jordan, eighth grade; Mrs. Bessie R. Ashford, seventh grade; Miss Laura Plnule, sixth grade. Professor J. A. Hibbler, the secretary of the institution, will have charge of the commercial department, and Miss Mattle A. Booker, who is now in the Chicago Musical college, will have charge of the music, as heretofore. During her six weeks' absence her sister, Miss Carrie Isabel Booker, will fill her place. Professor R. X. Hansen, a product of the institution, will resume the work of higher mathematics, and Professor J. Frank Jones will do the Bible work and history and also have charge of the registration. Mrs. Joseph A. Booker will teach millinery and dressmaking. The theological department will be taken care of by President Joseph A. Booker, Dr. J. P. Robinson and Rev. R. M. Caver, A. M. Already the graduating classes for next spring have begun to file in and along with them many old and new students. The outlook for the institution, therefore, is exceedingly promising. Great effort is being put forth by the trustees to cancel the mortgage debt this year. With the mortgage debt out of the way, President Booker will have more time to devote to the real needs of the institution and will thus be in better position to raise funds for the many new improvements which he contemplates making in the near future. It is Mr. Booker's aim to have a greater school than ever before in the advantages to students and equipment teachers. The college has H. C. Smith Delegate to Ohio Constitutional Convention. Over 2,000 signatures of voters have been secured indorsing the candidacy of the Hon. Harry C. Smith of Cleveland, O., as delegate to the state constitutional convention to be held in 1912. Realizing the necessity of having a member of the race in such an important convention, about fifty of the colored voters of Cleveland volunteered to secure the proper number of signatures to nominate Mr. Smith for the position. They had but a short time in which to accomplish the task, but they went about it with a determination to succeed. The signatures were secured from among both colored and white citizens. In speaking of the phenomenal success of this voluntary movement to nominate Mr. Smith one of the canvassers for signatures said: "We did not even have to ask or urge the men to do the work. As a matter of fact, we who were at the head of the movement did not think the necessary signatures could be got in so short a time. The result was an agreeable surprise, which seidom fails to the lot of an individual without some effort on his part." Disfranchisement has grown in the south until nearly every state in that section of the country has disfranchised its Afro-American voters. The race needs an able and experienced statesman of its own, such as we find in the Hon. Harry C. Smith, to champion its cause. We are taking time by the forelock. Color prejudice should not have any influence with those who make the laws by which all citizens of the United States are to be governed. Mr. Smith has served three terms as a member of the Ohio legislature. SUFFRAGE LEAGUE NOTES. .Militant New England Organization Holds Big Meeting in Haverhill. Haverhill, Mass.-The eighth annual meeting of the New England Suffrage league recently held in this city was by far the most interesting and helpful of any in the history of the organization. The delegates were numerous, and all of the speakers seemed to be imbued with new thought, vigor and determination to continue the campaign of sene agitation for justice according to law for the race against the wicked, cowardly and barbarous institution of mob law. The league intends to lay the matter of disfranchisement and jimcrow segregation before congressmen and senators throughout the country and ask that they use their influence with state and national legislators to break down the enormous unconstitutional enactments against the colored citizens of this country. The next steps are work at home in congress and senatorial districts; vote only for such men as pledge to do their duty toward bringing about equal franchise and equal justice, by which all citizens of this government may exercise their God given rights. A pertinent feature of the session was the activity of the women members of the league, many of whom delivered stirring addresses. A strong set of resolutions were adopted condemning the Contesville (Pa.) lynching and other recent outbreaks of tob violence in which human lives were sacrificed for the sake of the personal gratification of the lawless element in such communities. The election of officers resulted as follows: William M. Trotter, president; vice president at large. Mrs. Cravat Simpson; first vice president. Rev J. L. Davis of Malden, Mass.; second vice president. J. F. Slaughter of Portsmouth. N. H.; third vice president. Rev S. W. Smith, Providence; recording secretary, E. P. Oliver of Providence; corresponding secretary, Handy Duncan, Haverhill; treasurer, Mr. Joshun Crawford, Boston; chapain, Rev J. D. Corrothers, Haverhill, Mass.; sergeant at arms, S. T. Gains, Newport, R. I.; executive committee, Rev W. J. Smith, Fall River, Mass.; Rev Walter Gray, Hartford, Conn.; Rev D. S. Knug, New Haven, Conn.; Rev H. Conway, Worcester, Mass.; William D. Johnson, Winchester, Mass.; J. A. Atus, Brockton, Mass.; Dr. Henry Lewis, Chelsea, Mass.; J. A. Hagan, New Haven, Conn.; Rev B. W. Swain, Hartford, Conn.; Rev A. W. Adams, Norwich, Conn.; E. J. Jourdain, statistician, New Bedford, Mass.; Rev W. A. Lynch, Pittsfield, Mass.; George Clarkson, Pittsfield, Mass.; Rev C. H. Miller, Haverhill, Mass.; W. T. Ward, Lawrence, Mass.; Mrs. L. A. Nelson, Mary A. Battle, Mrs. V. Trotter, Mme. Parrish and Mrs. Annie Simpson, Boston. Law Enforcement a Dead Letter. The question is now being discussed very largely among the best white and colored people as to which is the greater menace to the morals of the youth of today, the crimes or alleged crimes committed by the colored people or the lawless acts of those lawless whites who constitute themselves the law and lynch and burn human beings accused of crime without regard to their innocence or guilt. One thing is certain, and that is the enforcement of law by those whom the people elect to enforce it is a dead letter in this country. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. THE AFRO=AMERICAN-LEDGER Encouraging Outlook For Larger Equipment For Indianapolis Branch. Indianapolis, Ind.-Six rooms in a small business block at North and California streets is the home of the largest colored men's branch of the Young Men's Christian association in the United States. From this small building the work among more than 400 members is conducted, although half that number cannot be crowded into the structure at one time. Despite the inadequacy of the building and equipment the members have organized debating, literary and glee clubs, gymnasium and basketball teams, a band and orchestra, while the boys have formed a club and organized a troop of boy scouts. Besides these organizations, several of the members meet in the small rooms each night and engage in checker contests, the only other form of amusement open to them. During the last few years the building has become too small to accommodate the members, and whenever special programs have been arranged no announcements have been made beforehand, the officers knowing that the rooms would not hold all who would attend. Now the committee of management and leading colored business men of the city are considering a new Y. M. C. A. building which will not limit the colored men's branch in this city and which, they say, will offer unusual possibilities. Nine years ago the branch of the association was first organized for the colored men of Indianapolis. After two years of work it had only seventeen members. Since 1904, however, the association has grown until it now includes one out of every seventeen colored young men in the city. The growth has been so rapid during the last few years that every available place about the building has been taken, including the coal shed, which was made into a locker and shower bath room. The growing membership also demanded a gymnasium, and the largest room on the first floor was fitted up for the physical culture work and gymnasium classes. IMPORTANT POSTS HELD BY HOWARD GRADUATES. Dean of Teachers' College Tells Where They Are Laboring. Washington--Dr. Lewis B. Moore, dean of the Teachers' college of Howard university, has made his annual report to President W. P. Thirkield, D. D., LL. D., on the distribution and location of the graduates of the Teachers' college, class of 1011. He says, among other things, that the demand in the modern school for professionally trained teachers in the pedagogical and practical sciences and arts is so great among the colored people that it is not possible to supply the demand made by superintendents of education and principals of high schools and college presidents. "Were the classes in our Teachers' college much larger than they are they would readily find positions of importance and large service." The following is the roll of the class The following is the roll of the class of 1911 with their present positions: Olla V. Albert, teacher in State Normal school, Bowie, Md.; Evelyn Addison, pursuing further studies; Ida M. Allan, teacher in Paine college, Augusta, Ga.; Franklin V. Childs, mail clerk, Washington; Emma R. Clarke, teacher in public schools, Washington; Mary E. Clifford, teacher in public schools, DR. LEWIS B. MOORE. Miss Halsey to Teach I: Cincinnati. Much to the regret of the management, Miss Grace Halsey, head worker at the Lincoln Settlement home in Brooklyn, recently resigned to accept the position of instructor of music in the city schools of Cincinnati, O. Esther Pleading For Her People Sunday School Lesson for Nov. 5, 1911 Specially Arranged for This Paper LESSON TEXT--Ester 41-53. MEMORY VERSES--113, 14. GOLDEN TEXT--The Lord preserveth all them that love him."-Psa. 15:20. TIME-Accession of Nexes, B. C. 480. Nexes conquers Egypt, 1st and 2d years, B. C. 455. 4. He prepares to invade Greece, 2d to 5th years, B. C. 451-451. Vashti deposed in his 2d year, B. C. 453. Invades Greece, B. C. 451. Defended at Thermopylae and Salamis, E. C. B. 480. Ether becomes Queen, E. C. 478. Heman's plot and defeat by Ether (occupying nearly the whole year), B. C. 474. PLACE-Shusan (Susan) the winter capital of the Persian Empire, about 260 miles southeast from Babylon and 125 miles north of the Persian Gulf. There are two principal theories concerning the historical nature of the Book of Esther: one, that it is a veritable history; the other, that it is a historical romance founded on fact, like Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Henry VIII., or like Scott's novels, or Horner's great epics. While there are a number of serious difficulties, yet there are few if any unanswerable arguments against its being a true history. Xerxes is the Greek shortened form of the Ahsuerus of Esther, as York, for instance, is a shortened form of the Latin Eboracum. He began to reign B. C. 485 and ruled for 20 years. We can best understand Esther by means of those parts of his history which reveal his character. Xerxes at the very beginning of his reign completed the conquest of Egypt which his father Darlus had begun. On his return he immediately began to prepare for the invasion of Europe, and especially of Greece. Xerxes sought a queen in place of the deposed Vashti. The one selected from the most beautiful women of the empire was Esther, a charming Jewess, a descendant of one of the exiles, her great-grandfather being among those carried captive to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar in 598. Her Hebrew name was Hadassah, the myrtle, a beautiful and favorite shrub in the east. "Esther" means "a star," and many think it the same as Ishtar the Babylonian equivalent of Venus. She must have been quite young at the time of her marriage, not over 15 years. Four or five years pass, and then begins the tragic story of Haman, his rise as a king's favorite, his pride incensed at the conduct of Esther's cousin Mordecal, his attempt to bring vengeance upon the whole Jewish race on Mordecal's account, his success in obtaining a decree from the king, throughout his empire, "to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish all Jews, both young and old, little children, and women, in one day." Great mourning and terrible distress came upon the Jews all over the empire as they learned of the decree. Mordecai sent word to Esther, now about 20 years old, asking her to go to the king and request the deliverance of her people. Esther replied "Whoseever shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death. Except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden scepter." There was, therefore, a possibility of Esther's receiving the ears of the king, but with the greatest uncertainty as to how such a capricious king would not, especially as his love for her had cooled. The mission Mordecai committed to Esther was one of great danger and difficulty. It required the utmost heroism. Esther put on her royal apparel. She was a sensible, practical woman, and used her beauty and charm of person and of dress to accomplish her object. She waited for the fitting time. The king held out the golden seeple. The sign that he received her, and that the most dangerous part of her mission was over. Instead of asking her favor, where she would be surrounded by spies and possible enemies, she invited the king to a banquet in the seclusion of the Harem gardens. She invited Haman her enemy to join with the king and thus ward off all suspicion, and at the same time have him where he could not escape. Esther presented her petition in wise words and pointed out Haman as the enemy who was seeking her life and the life of her people. The king was very angry and immediately deposed Haman, and had him hanged on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecal. The result was a counteracting decree, permitting the Jews to stand up in their own defense, and large numbers of their enemies were slain. The Jews were saved from destruction, and exalted before the people. Mordecal took Haman's place in the government. The feast of Purim was instituted with great feasting and joy, and has been celebrated annually ever since on the fourteenth of Adar, February-March, one month before Esther. One of the most interesting studies in the story of Esther is to trace the ways of divine providence, and see how God makes all things work together for the good of his people. God's sovereign grace and man's free will are here seen in perfect harmony. 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Church, corner Sharp and Montgomery streets Thursday night, when every seat in the edifice, capable of holding 1200 persons was taxed to its capacity. The Commonwealth Brass band added to the enthusiasm of the crowd by discoursing patriotic airs. Dr. Ernest Lyon, chairman of the Republican Auxiliary Committee, with headquarters at 414 W. Hoffman street, called the meeting to order and introduced Harry S. Cumimngs, City Councilman, as chairman of the meeting. Among the chief speakers of the evening were J. B. Hanna, chairman of the Republican State Central Committee; John J. Hanson, Chairman of the Republican City Committee; W. F. Broening, candidate for States Attorney; counselors W. Ashbie Hawkins, and Warmer T. McGuinn; Dr. S. S. Jolly, of Cambridge; Levy Thompson, candidate for Clerk of City Court and others. The contribution of $200 which was made by the colored people to assist the Committee in its fight against the Digges Amendment, and thus save themselves from political bondage is unusual. The following resolutions were adopted as an expression of the meeting:— WHEREAS, the people of Maryland are called upon again for the third time, to defeat a measure proposed by the Democratic Party, which has as its veiled object the disfranchisement of the colored people of the State, but which really and truly means the political enslavement of the white people themselves; and WHEREAS, the Democratic Party in order to carry out this programme of disfranchisement of the one, and enslavement of the other, has again appealed to race prejudice by the false and absurd cry of "Negro Domination," and WHEREAS, the Democratic Campaign speakers have been most pronounced in their utterances on the stump against the colored man and his liberty, emphasizing their purpose and intention to rob him of suffrage right, as expressed in one of their public utterances, namely, "We want to take the power from the Negroes in election, and we hope finally to do it." RESOLVED, therefore, that we regard these utterances of these distinguished leaders of the Democritic Party against the colored people of the State, not only as unfortunate, but as unusual in the conduct of great statesmen; RESOLVED, further, that the resort to such methods as the false cry of "Negro Domination" and the appeal to race prejudice, not only reflect upon the intelligence of the white people of the State, whose right to dominate, the colored man has never been questioned but it also raises the question of the sincerity of those who raise the cry of "Negro domination" in that nobody believes that these leaders believe themselves that there has ever been, at any time any hope of domination by Nergoes; RESOLVED, further, that this false cry of "Negro Domination" is intended to obscure the real issue of this pending campaign to stir up bad blood among the lower element of the population and thus by an appeal to prejudice, blinding their eyes to the question, and so prevent them from preforming their plain duty in the premises; RESOLVED, further, that we regard the utterances of Police Magistrate "Danny" Loden, made in a speech at Lehman's hall on the 25th ult., not only as unfortunate but contemptible, and he is in our opinion, hereby disqualified, by prejudice to be a judge, and his Excellency Governor Crothers is requested to demote him, by demanding his resignation, unless he can satisfactorily explain the charge against him, as a judge should not only be an intelligent man but should be free from prejudice, which qualities Magistrate Loden seems to lack; RESOLVED, further, that in our opinion the Democratic Party is inconsistent, when it declares that the Republican Party seeks to win by aid of Negroes, when it is known that the Democratic Party seeks by questionable methods to corral Negro voters in every election not only for their candidates, but to aid in the passage of measures, detrimental to whites as well as blacks. Rev. S. S. Jolley, of Cambridge, Md., spoke as follows: "The popular expression of recent American diplomacy has been, 'does the constitution follow the flag?' If persistent Democratite prefidly continues disfranchising the electorate; denying well tried principles, robbing the right of public expression by vote, it will soon have to be asked, 'can the constitution continue under the flag?' "Every American, without regard to party, is proud of this republic, and boasts of the preferment which patriotism and power give, but I declare, certain of my prophecy, that our nation can never be corrupt and at the same time compact, never be unfair' and at the same time favored by destiny. "I claim that the right of my people to vote, even granted by the 13th and 4th amendments is supported by a higher law than the instrument to which these amendments belong, and that is the inherent justice, which is a Provident demand for success in civilization. The claim that the people of my race are venal, ignorant, the superstitious tool of ring Republicans, is not only false, but cant. The most superstitious man in the world is the Democrat of Maryland, who feels that 50,000 colored men, a mere minority, not even a balance of power, can dominate his destiny when he has the wealth, power and numbers to honestly get his wish or will. I am amazed that any party will rob, cheat, pervaricate and trucualte by self-imposed notions that are the merest superstition—the commonest scare-crow of the most foolish sort. "I am more than amazed that men of this party will stand trembling as if scared by a ghost at night, to have their ballots robbed, their public will bent, and distorted by cellar conferences to have their treasuries sacked to pay a needles army of non-efficient office holders, but a party oligarchy to make slaves of their own people, scared by fake stories of a "Negro Domination" rather than rise to the manhood courage and true vision of their public duty. "I am afraid that my race does not see that they must be in the vanguard in this fight, not merely for themselves as a race, tho, circumstances have made class cleavage and thus our fight is in a sense as of a clan, but it must be as American citizens fighting for the recognition, which we have bought with a price of blood and toil as well as fighting for the perpetuity of our commonwealth, in which we have homes,'farms, where we labor and where our dead are buried. "I plead with the people to withstand the evil one, and that preachers, people, all classes and all kinds combine throughout our state and see that our interests, our manhood privileges, our rights in all things shall not be crowned with the thorn of democracy, crucified on the cross of the Digges Amendment, nor buried in the tomb of our carlessness and negligence. Mr. Cummings spoke as follows: "Never was there a more sacred duty to be performed by the colored voters of the State than on November 7. His right to vote is at stake, and the defeat of the vicious Digges amendment must be accomplished by his united stand against it and by his vigorous effort to see that every member of the race turns out and votes against it. "Along with the defeat of the Digges Amendment, should come the defeat of the party which has for the third time endeavored to disfranchise the colored citizens of this state." Phillips Lee Goldshorough and the state and city Repub- THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER M THE METROPOLITAN M. E. SUNDAY SCHOOL WILL REPRODUCE "A NAUTICAL KNOT, or THE BELLE OF BARNSTAPOOLE" An Operetta in two acts, with the same inimitable cast, including Mrs. L. S. Johnson, Mrs. L. B. Hicks, Miss L. M. Hebron, Miss I. V. Kess Miss M. M. Cheetam, Miss B. Smith, Mr. S. Palmer, Mr. B. J. Smith, Mr. W. Warnock, Mr. F. Flaney Stewart, An. A. Richardson IN THE SUNDAY SCHOOL AUDITORIUM, Orchard St. nr. Druid Hill Ave. MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 13th, 1911..... REV. S. S. JOLLY. lican ticket should receive the united support of every colored voter in the state. In my experience I have never seen our people more united and men and women so earnestly working for the defeat of the amendment and instructing the voters to mark properly evrey candidate on the ticket—Goldsborough and the entire ticket must and will be elected and any colored voter who dallies or is led astray or for any reason fails to come out and cast his vote for the entire Republican ticket and against the Digges Amendment is a traitor to his race and an ingrate to the party which gave him his suffrage and which has at all times by legislation and judicial opinion protected him in that right." ..Africa's Distinguished Missionary and Explorer.. AT SHARP STREET MEMORIAL M. E. CHURCH Dolphin and Etting Streets Sunday Night, Nov. 5th, and Monday, Nov; 6th, 1911 A To Organize Literary Society A meeting to form a permanent organization for a literary and historical association will be held at Bethel A. M. E. Church, Druid Hill avenue and Lanvale street, next Friday night. 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