The Broad Ax

VOL. V. THE POLITICAL PARTIES AND THE NEGRO. The great political struggle of 1848 is remembered even until this day, as the most remarkable and exciting contests ever witnessed in this or in any other country. The immediate annexation of Texas, and the slavery question were the leading and the overshadowing issues during the presidential election of that year. The friends and adherents of Ex-President Martin Van Buren were committed to the policy of the Wilmot proviso, and naturally refused to aid or support Gen. Lewis Cass, who received the nomination for President by the Democratic party, to run in opposition to Gen.Zachary Taylor, who was nominated for President by the Whig party, who was a Louisiana planter and the owner of three hundred slaves, and he was the last slave holder to be thus honored by either political party. Notwithstanding the fact that he firmly believed in the divine origin of slavery he received the warm support and the unqualified endorsement of such great leaders of the Whig party as Abraham Lincoln, Wm. H. Seward, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and many other Whig statesmen. But as we have strongly intimated before that Ex-President Martin Van Buren, John P. Hale, David Wilmot, John Van Buren and Benjamin F. Butler, of New York, who were Democrats, refused to lend any encouragement to Gen. Cass, or Gen. Taylor. Mr. Van Buren addressed a very patriotic letter to the Free Soil Democrats, which created a profound impression. The venerable chief of Democracy set forth in his letter that he was firmly convinced that "Slavery was the only subject that would endanger our blessed Union." But he declared that he would go no further as the national convention had rejected the time-honored doctrine of Democracy, he should not vote for its candidate Lewis Cass. He concluded by saying that "If our ancestors, when the opinion and conduct of the world about slavery were very different, had rescued from slavery the territory now making five great states, should we, in these later days permit it to entrench itself in new territory from which as many new states might be made. He counseled moderation and forbearance, but still a firm resistance to injustice." The Free Soil Democrats, Joshua R. Giddings, Joshua Leavitt, and other abolitionists who were delegates to the Free Soil convention which was held at Buffalo, N. Y., August 9, 1848, were swept clear off their feet by this very strong and powerful letter or declaration. Benjamin F. Butler drew up and read the resolutions of that convention. He said that they had assembled "to secure free soil for a free people," and remembering the example of our forefathers in the first declaration of independence they now, putting their trust in God, planted themselves on the national platform of freedom in opposition to the sectional platform of slavery; they proposed no interference with slavery in any state, but its prohibition in the territories then free, for Congress, they said, had no more power to make a slave than to make a king." There must be no more compromises with slavery and their calm and final answer was, "No more slave states and no more slave territory." At the close were these soul-inspiring and memorable words: "We inscribe upon our banner free soil, free speech, free labor and free men, and under it we will fight ever until a triumphant victory shall reward our exertions." When Mr. Butler had finished reading the resolutions Joshua Leavitt, the great abolitionist who was sitting beside a Negro minister by the name of James Ward, arose and nominated Martin Van Buren for President of the United States. The nomination was enthusiastically made by acclamation. In his short letter of acceptance he declared that "the exclusion of slavery from the territories was an object sacred in the sight of heaven, the accomplishment of which is due, to the memories of the great and just men long since, we trust, made perfect in its Courts." Samuel J. Tilden, Preston King, Jas. W. Nye, David Ludley Field, United States Senator John A. Dix, who exclaimed while a member of James Buchanan's cabinet, "If any man attempts to haul down the American flag shoot him on the spot." And the immortal Charles Sumner raised their voices in behalf of Martin Van Buren. In a burst of eloquence Mr. Sunner exclaimed, he was not asking or urging his friends to vote "for the Van Buren of 1838, but he desired them to vote for the Van Buren of today, the veteran statesman, sagacious, determined, experienced, who, at an age when most men are rejoicing to put off their armors, girds himself anew and enters the arena as one of the greatest champions of freedom." That great political battle came to a close by electing Zachariah Taylor president, and Millard Fillmore, vice president of the United States, and the longed coveted prize was snatched from Lewis Cass, 291,263 votes were recorded in favor of Martin Van Buren that great and patriotic statesman, who was contending for free soil, free speech, free labor and free men. (To be continued.) READ AND DIGEST An encouraging political sign is the increasing interest of colored men in current issues. The Imperialistic question especially appeals to the colored man. Imperialism, or the course of this administration toward the brown race, would have riveted the chains on the black race. Too long have the latter blindly followed the Republican party, and also, it must be said, all too coldly has the Democratic party seemed toward that race, or at least seemed remiss in aiding the black people to see how they were being used for mere partisan benefits by the party that led in the destruction of slavery. All over the land intelligent and patriotic colored men are leaving the Republican party and joining in efforts to overthrow it, and several very able journals conducted by black men are hitting McKinleyism hard blows.—The Democratic Press Bulletin, St. Paul, Minn. To a large extent, it is true, that in the past the leaders and managers of the Democratic party throughout the nation, have not endeavored or put forth any effort to induce or encourage the Afro-American voters to aline themselves with the party of Jefferson, although we can account for this in several ways. In the first place the leaders of the Democratic party assume, that all colored men are Republicans and that it is hard to change them, or appeal to their reason, and that only characterless Negroes without influence, honesty or integrity, proclaim their adherence to the Democratic faith. Broadly speaking, this was true years ago. The class of Negroes who then espoused Democracy did it for a monetary consideration and many of them made no bones in so declaring, and their actions and conduct left the impression upon the minds of the managers of the party, that all Negroes looked and acted alike, and when it was left to them to select a Negro to perform a piece of political work, they were sure to choose the fellow with the glib tongue but who possessed no other qualifications. But there are brighter prospects ahead for the Democratic party in this direction. Such men as Col. W. J. Bryan, Mayor Carter H. Harrison, John R. McLean, and many other eminent Democrats are fully convinced that the best and only way to secure the Negro vote, is to make overtures to them. They are doing this, and as a consequence many of the best Negroes are beginning to learn that it is all folly for them to stand in their own light politically or otherwise. Let the leaders of the party in each state, and the other national leaders pursue the same course. Let each state convention which convenes between, now and the national convention follow in the footsteps of the Ohio convention of 1839, and express their disapprival or opposition to mob- and lynch-law, and when the national convention assembles, let it embody in its platform the same sentiments and if this can be accomplished, we feel assured that colored Democrats will be thicker than hairs on a dog's back. Unless the party makes an effort HEW TO THE LINE. on their part to secure a large per cent of the Negro vote, it cannot reasonably expect to be successful or victorious, for it is the balancing power in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and Illinois. In this state there are 30,000 Afro-American voters, and it behoives the leaders and managers of the party to awaken from their stupor and shake or throw off their old fogy ideas in relation to the Negro and endeavor to capture a large portion of this vote. It can be accomplished by using wisdom and descretion, and distributing literature freely among them, which after all accomplishes more to change the political opinions of men, black or white, than all the oratory or spasmodic efforts or any other methods which may be resorted to or employed. MRS. L. A. DAVIS VERY ELOQUENTLY DILATES ON THE NECESSITY OF ORGANIZING CLUBS AMONG OUR AFRO-AMERICAN WOMEN. Colored women of the 19th century have made a wonderful progress despite the greatest obstacles. Women are awakening the world over to a sense of their responsibilities and are making the most of their opportunities. They have always done their share of the world's work, and borne their share of the world's burdens. For M. B. MRS. L. A. DAVIS, STATE ORGANIZER OF THE N. A. C. W. AND PRESIDENT OF THE PHYL LIS WHEATLEY CLUB OF CHICAGO. years they have realized the value of effective organization and have been slowly but surely rising in their might to meet the need of the hour, and have sought in their club life the means to achieve the best results. Early steps toward organization were naturally slow; ten years ago club life was a thing unknown among our women in this grand old prairie state, now nearly a score have sprung into life. Though much has been accomplished it is as nothing to the possibilities of the future. Our work is yet in its infancy. The best women of the race are actively engaged in hos pital work homes for theaged and infirm,orphan asylums. domestic science classes, mother's meetings, sewing schools and at the same time looking after the menal culture through the various departments of their respective clubs. Home is an ever will be the chosen kingdom of woman; she became the home-maker of the race from the time mother Eve set up house-keeping in the garden of Eden. Less than half a century ago thousands of our women were forced by their unfortunate environments to bequeath such a legacy of endless anguish to unborn generations that in many localities the earmarks are still visible in the lack of clinging home ties and an absence of the sacredness of domestic life: "Out of such a beginning, out of the deepest and darkest depths, out of the most hidden recesses of barbarity and degradation, out of the bowels of ignorane and superstition has been the rise and development of our colored women who stand defined against a past as dark as midnight as the highest and best types of what refinement,culture education, respect, and recognition may produce." Our home-makers today, thirty odd years after the log cabin days, are better educated, broader in their views of life, and are earnestly striving to keep pace with the many avenues of usefulness opening to women. We have a gigantic work before us owing to all those dark days of no home training behind us. Believing that in union there is strength, and desiring the harmonious cooperation of every helpful woman in the state, a number of clubs were federated over a year ago, under the name of the Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, having for its motto "Loyalty to Women and Justice to "Children." The federation hopes to have every city, town and hamlet represented at its annual meeting; each woman to report the work of her club, to discuss important matters relative to our interests—to devise ways and means for the betterment of our race to bring the matured fruit of her best thought for our help, to work with unselfish interest toward the development of the home and the school; each club in turn to be enrolled as members of the National Association of Colored Women, and together with that magnificent organization shall reach out for broader fields of thought, and lifting as we climb, will bring all women to the higher planes of a tenderer humanity, and a nobler womanhood. It is true our busy club woman has her hands filled with the work that lies nearest her and there is no phase of it that appeals more directly to her than the boy and girl problem. What shall we do with our daughters and our sons, is a question which arises at our club meetings, in our mother's meetings, in fact everywhere and demands an answer. While the kindergarten is hailed with joy by many a weary motner whose bright, inquisitive tot is not only amused and instructed therein, but the foundation of right training is also laid. The older boys and girls claim their share of her tenderest care, they must be guided with such watchfulness and so wisely that they will never suspect the hand of steel beneath the silken glove. All that is noblest and best in them must be aroused and developed with patient love, until they shall realize that a happy-go-lucky life without aim or ambition is not for them, but that the boys of today are to be our future business men, and the girls their wives and home-makers. Teach them that it is better to be a good mechanic than a professional failure. Train the girls thoroughly in domestic economy; let them learn some useful vocation if they never have to follow it, they will be none the worse by knowing their independence. Teach them that there are other things of more importance than fine clothes, and that their brains are not located in their heels. Our young people can learn the responsibility awaiting them only by precept and example. We have no fortunes to give them, but we can leave them the priceless legacy of an untarnished name, and the best training that reading, study and practice can give them. Every race derives its strength from the home. Children who are born in this home shall be in all their lives what this home makes them. The home never dies; strangers and friends come and go and carry out its influences; all the energies, the industries, the inventions of the world, have really their centre, their inception in the home. How important then is every home? What a responsibility surrounds its founding? How needful to be careful of the training of our children. Let me emphasize that our women make their homes beautiful in their neatness and order, sending forth a christian influence, which shall surround their children as they go forth into other homes or make homes for themselves like a halo of brightness. Homes in which economy is the rule, where the fragments are gathered up and saved, where homes are bought and beautified, where intelligence re reigns supreme. From such homes shall our future generations come independent, self-supporting, dignified and commanding the respect of all nations. Here again we see the value of organization, for through the clubs can this result be brought about when each member realizes the fact that no race suffers more from neglected home training than ours, and by living broader better and nobler lives shall make our homes centres of all that is grand, uplifting and soul-inspiring. Lizzle A. Davis. THE MOTHERS' COUNCIL The Afro-American Mothers' Council of Chicago reorganized at the residence of Mrs. S. J. Hart last Monday afternoon. Much enthusiasm was manifested and the mothers have entered into the work with more zeal and energy than before, and will do all in their power to cultivate all that is high and noble into their own sons and daughters, as well as into the sons and daughters of others. Mrs. L. A. Davis talked on the "Fireside Schools of the South," inaugurated by Misses Watts and Rhodes, and the vast amount of good they had performed in the South through these schools. The topic of amusements in the home was also elaborated upon by Mrs. Davis an animated discussion followed on this topic in which every lady took a part. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Mrs. Julius F. Taylor; Vice President, Mrs. Eliza Harris; Secretary, Mrs. S. J. Hart; Treasurer, Mrs. M. B. Jackson. Advisory Board: Mrs. Fannie Jones, Mrs. Lizzie White and Mrs. Anna Dunmore. The next meeting of the Mothers will be next Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 7, at 2 o'clock sharp, at the Phyll's Wheatley Club rooms, 5058 Dearborn street. The Misses Watts and Rhodes will address them on the "Fireside Schools" referred to. All ladies and especially mothers are cordially invited. DR JOHN L. ELLIOTT Sunday morning past Dr. John L. Elliott of New York addressed the Ethical Culture Society, Steinway Hall, 17 E. Van Buren street on "Ethical Work in Tenement House Districts." He was listened to with raptured attention. He contended that it was a sad commentary on our boasted nineteenth century Christian civilization to think that it was necessary to maintain a society for the prevention of cruelty to children in the great city of New York and Brooklyn, the city of churches, and that within the last year over two thousand people were arrested for burning their children with red hot pokers and horribly torturing them in many other ways." The Doctor's address contained many other good points which space forbids us to mention. CHIPS. The South has spent $10,000,000 in public education for Negroes.—Ex. There has been 58,960 Negroes lynched in the United States since 1865.—Ex. Mrs. Eugenia B. Tyler left the city Sunday to join her husband at Springfield, Ill. Miss Berenice Spradling and Mrs. Beulah Mack of the Phyllis Wheatley Club are on the sick list. Attorney W. G. Anderson accompanied Booker T. Washington on his western trip and acted as his secretary. Our home-makers today, thirty odd best types of what refinement, culture, education, respect and recognition may produce." Mrs. Lottie W. Jackson, the talented artist of Bay City, Mich., is expected in the city soon to pursue a special study in her chosen profession. Mrs. Malvina Stacks, President of the Peoria Woman's Aid and Mrs. Sidney Wagoner, secretary of the same, spent several days in the city this week among relatives and friends. Many of the best colored people will make long-winded speeches on race pride and race unity, and yet you cannot find in their house a paper or book or periodical published by colored people.-S. M. Hill, of Faison, N. C., in N. Y. Age. The Phyllis Wheatley Club will entertain its friends at an open meeting next Wednesday night, Feb. 7. Lincoln's anniversary will be celebrated on that evening and a good program is being prepared, and the club hopes to see the rooms crowded with gentlemen and ladies. Professor Booker T. Washington passed through the city Wednesday from his lecturing tour in the West, on his way home to Tuskegee. In conversatio with him a few moments, he NO. 15. informed us that he had met with great success and was royally received and entained by his Western admirers. The Polish Democratic Club, of the 30th Ward have indorsed Frederick A. Hart, for alderman, and the Tammany Society of the 30th Ward, have indorsed Chas. J. Boyd for alderman. So there you are and at the present writing it looks as though Alderman Boyd and friend Hart have broke off about even. The Washington, D. C., Bee announces that for the first time in twenty years a colored Republican has been promoted from a clerkship to the position of assistant assessor. The promotion was made by a Democratic assessor. It is very properly enquiring as to what is the matter with the Republican commissioners. Frank J. Ryan, President of the 31st Ward Democratic Club, Financial Secretary of the Tammany Societies of Chicago, has assumed the presidency of the Montgomery Magnesia Spring Water Company, with offices and depot at 4506 Dearborn street. Their goods, for purity and superiority, cannot be surpassed, and many cool, light and refreshing beverages are especially prepared for family use. Miss Stella Hart, daughter of Prof. Henry W. Hart, Indianapolis, Indiana's most accomplished Afro-American musician, has accepted a position as teacher at Hampton, Va. Miss Hart is a young lady of fine intellectual attainments and engaging qualities, and will surely make a brilliant success in her new field. For some months she served very efficiently as stenographer and typewriter on the Chicago Daily Record.—Ex. The attempted assassination of State Senator Goebel by some of the supporters of W. S. Taylor should forever put the ban on the Republican party of Kentucky. Senator Goebel is not without his faults but be it safd to his credit he was bitterly opposed to the passage of the Jim Crow car law, while Taylor, who is the lackey and the tool of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad worked to secure its passage. A white man of Lexington, who has had many kind words for Negroes, and often taken their part against carping critics, says that it is not so much the "color line" as it is the "odor line" that causes him to hold aloof from the race. Some Negroes stink—yes, that's the word—and some do not. Those who do should not be sparing of soap and water. Wash well, wash often, or get somebody to scrub you. Therein much of the virtue lies. If all else fails try neutralizing perfumes and keep cool.—The Standard, Lexington, Ky. In presenting The Broad Ax with Coin's new book, on "Money, Trusts and Imperialism," Dr. Howard S. Taylor Prosecuting Attorney of Chicago said, that "The Broad Ax is a great credit to the Afro-American race. It is intelligently edited and very readable, and its articles would do credit to a much larger paper." Doctor! We heartily thank you for speaking in such complimentary terms of The Broad Ax, and we do not hesitate in saying that no citizen of Chicago has more friends, or is held in higher esteem by the Afro-Americans than yourself. The Negro who thinks he is "actin" like de white fo'ks" and who refuses to patronize Negro establishments, is a fool. A white man patronizes his own race first. Who ever heard of a white woman talking about not allowing a white dressmaker to sew for her, or a white shopper refusing to buy at a white store, or a white teacher refusing to read a white newspaper? Nobody, and nobody ever will. White people have sense. They know blood is thicker than water, and so knowing they act along this line. The Negro does not need to talk so much of race love; he needs to shut up and work, and subscribe for his race paper.—The American Guide. The report has gone out that John R. McLean, late candidate for governor of Ohio, is desirous of succeeding United States Senator James K. Jones, as chairman of the Democratic Na- (Continued on page 4) Deep Water Ports The growing interest in deep water seaports and cheap transportation by water, gives added importance to the building up of the city of La Porte Texas. The high, dry ground of La Porte is in direct contrast with the greater portion of the Mexican Gulf Coast. Marshes, malaria and fevers are unknown. La Porte is to be formally "opened" and introduced to the public February 14 to 17, when it is expected a great crowd of Northern and Texas people will be on hand to inspect the much talked of new seaport of the Gulf. So great is the interest shown that the American Land Co., 188 Madison St., Chicago, acting as Northern Manager, is deluged with letters of inquiry. How He Got Well. A Portland invalid called on a local physician for an examination. The doctor made the diagnosis and gave the sufferer a prescription, charging him $10. Some time afterward they met on the street. "Well," said the doctor, "you are looking a hundred per cent better. That medicine, though a little expensive, was just what you needed." "Doctor," replied the patient, "after I paid you $10 for the prescription, I couldn't afford to have it filled, so I didn't take any medicine."—Portland Oregonian. LUCAS COUNTY, Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. The Newsboy's Enterprise A wizened-faced newsboy climbed on a Detroit street car the other evening and, worming his way past the conductor, walked down the aisle yelling, "Las' edition—all about Sigler brudders findin' de tray of dimons!" He sold several papers, and when he was passing out a man looked around and asked, "Say, boy, where did they find that tray?" The youngster paused in the doorway. "In a pack o' cards," he shouted, and disappeared.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Try Grain-o! Try Grain-o! Ask your grocer today to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who try it, like it. GRAIN-O has the rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains, and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. One-fourth the price of coffee. 15c. and 25c. per package. Sold by all grocers. Thorne—Jack Glaohand says he has sworn off borrowing money. Bramble—He had to. All his friends have sworn off lending him money.—New York Journal. Coughing Leads to Consumption Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at once. Go to your druggist to-day and get a sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and 50 cent bottles. Go at once; delays are dangerous. If some men owned the earth they would spend all their time throwing mud. My Hair Was Coming Out "About a year ago my hair was coming out very fast. I bought a bottle of Ayer's Hair Vigor to stop this. It not only stopped the falling, but also made my hair grow very rapidly, until now it is 45 inches in length and very thick." — Mrs. A. Boydston, Atchison, Kans., July 25, 1899. It Feeds the Hair Have you ever thought why your hair is falling out? It is because you are starving your hair. If this starvation continues your hair will continue to fall. There is one good hair food. It is Ayer's Hair Vigor. It goes right to the roots of the hair and gives them just the food that they need. The hair stops falling, becomes healthy, and grows thick and long. Ayer's Hair Vigor will do another thing, also: it always restores color to faded or gray hair. $12.00 a bottle. All droughts. Write the Doctor If you do not obtain all the benefits you desire from the use of the Vigor, write the Doctor about it. He will tell you just the right thing to do, and will send you his book on the Hair and Snip if you request it. Adress: Dr. J. G. Ayer, Lowell, Mass. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Farmers, Catholics, Protestants, Knights of Jabor, Infidels, Mormons, Republicans, Priests, or any one else can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communication will have attention; write only on one side of the paper. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. CURRENT TOPICS ROBERT BURNS DAY. Robert Burns died 104 years ago, and yet people are still keeping his birthday as one of the great feasts of the year. There is no other poet who is so remembered. On its face, this immortality of Robert Burns in the popular heart is a strange thing. There have been other poets far greater than he, though he is, of course, one of the foremost representatives of English literature. He was neither a warrior nor a statesman. He had no influence, as the world measures influence. Poor, obscure till his work brought him to public notice, not even master of himself, a man who violated most of the conventions of his day, he is, nevertheless, held, more than a hundred years after his death, in affectionate remembrance by millions of people, many of whom have probably not read a line of his poetry. THE CARTER CASE AGAIN. The United States Court of Appeals of New York has just refused to interfere in the Carter case, and dismissed the petition for a writ of habeas corpus. This ought to end the effort to save Carter from punishment for the crimes of which he has been found guilty by military tribunal. The court holds that the court-martial had jurisdiction, and decides that "it is not the office of a writ of habeas corpus to perform the functions of a writ of error in reviewing the judgment of a court-martial." Capt. Carter has already paid the fine imposed upon him. Now he will have to submit to an imprisonment of six years, unless, indeed, some other scheme can be devised for thwarting justice. VOTING IN CUBA. The approaching elections in Cuba, the first steps toward self-government to be taken, lend special interest to the views expressed by Gen. Ludlow, whose ability has been demonstrated by his administration of the city of Havana. The general sympathizes with the Cuban aspirations, and believes that in the course of time that island will have as stable and responsible a government as any country in the world. But he holds that this condition cannot be reached in the immediate future. The percentage of illiteracy is too high, being estimated at 75 to 80, and the people are not habituated to self-control and a reign of law. END OF ROBERTS CASE By the overwhelming vote of 268 to 50 Representative-elect Roberts was excluded from the house of representatives. The resolution of the majority of the Tayler committee was adopted, and it read as follows: "That under the facts and circumstances of the case of Brigham H. Roberts, representative-elect from the state of Utah, ought not to have or hold a seat in the house of representatives, and that the seat to which he was elected is hereby declared vacant." Mr. Roberts is probably without remedy. The long contest is over, and the case is settled. THE WEATHER BUREAU BILL A bill has been introduced in congress providing for the reorganization and improvement of the weather bureau, which has many admirable features. It places the bureau entirely on the merit basis, provides for permanency of tenure, for the creation of a retiring fund, and for the compulsory retirement of men in the service attaining the age of 65. The weather bureau is a most valuable feature of the government service, and the men that give their life to the work are entitled to recognition. TO BE REVIVED. The so-called "national democratic" committee has been called to meet with a view of setting a date for its national convention Leaders of the party are talking of making a campaign, and S. H. Bashor of Iowa claims that Mr. Boles will be the party's nominee. Palmer of Illinois and Buckner of Kentucky were the candidates in 1896, when the party polled 131,000 votes out of more than 13,000,000 that went to the republican and democratic parties. Now that the announcement is made that Aguinaldo is writing a war history one can readily see why he has kept up the fight against American authority. He was merely endeavor to acquire the reputation and notoriety that would make him acceptable as a contributor to the magazines.—Chicago on Post MANUFACTURED BY THE REPUBLICAN EDITORS. His Drawing of the Line Between "Imperialism" and Legitimate Expansion Has Brought Out a Fresh Crop of Miropresentations. All of the Republican organs take special delight in misquoting and misinterpreting the language used by Democratic leaders on every occasion. As we move along further in the campaign, there will be enough scripture misquoted and falsehoods uttered under the guise of truth, to deceive even the elect. Mr. Bryan is a man who has been more misquoted and deliberately lied about than any other man in the country. The fact that nothing can be urged against him, either as a statesman or a man ought to be conclusive evidence in his favor. Referring to this matter the Buffalo Evening Times says: "Some of the Republican papers are seizing upon Mr. Bryan's latest utterance declaring that he is for a certain kind of expansion, an expansion that has no elements of imperialism, as an indication that he is "hedging," so to speak, on this issue. There is nothing new in what Mr. Bryan has recently said. He has declared himself in the same way upon many occasions before. He is perfectly consistent in the matter. He never was an anti-expansionist in any proper sense of the word. But he always has been and always will be an anti-imperialist. And it is where expansion takes on the form of imperialism that he draws the line." A REPUBLICAN SCHEME Senator Jones of Arkansas, in a recent interview, alluding to the duplicity of the Republican party, says: "Democratic leaders do not expect to see any anti-trust legislation put through the present congress. According to the lights before them, the Republican program seems to be to quietly suppress all efforts toward substantial anti-trust legislation, or, if anything at all is put through, to enact some meaningless bill just before adjournment—something they know will not stand the test of the courts and will, therefore, satisfy the trust people, but which cannot be passed upon by the courts until after the presidential election. It is more probable, however, that they will do nothing in congress, but will fortify themselves for the campaign by putting into their platform the strongest kind of an anti-trust declaration. They will, if they can find the language to frame it, have a plank more strongly anti-trust than that of the democrats themselves. "The utterances of Republican leaders in the house—Grosvenor, Hepburn and others—indicate a purpose to claim all the credit for the Sherman law and to attempt nothing in the way of further legislation. Any effort on their part to legislate would, they fear, stir up strife among their own forces. It is their policy, therefore, to let well enough alone and trust to their platform declaration to carry them through the campaign that is sure to be waged against their party as the party of trusts." GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP. By government ownership is not meant here that the government owns anything, for it does not. On the contrary, everything practically owns the government. This is the difficulty and it is the problem to be solved. Before the government can own anything, it is plainly necessary to get it away from those who do own it. We do not agree with the Los Angeles Herald that "the Republican party is not only in possession of all the machinery of government, all the great corporations, all the great moneyed institutions, all the powerful agencies which have fastened themselves upon the people, but it has the army, which it will not scruple to use if it finds itself driven to the last ditch by an indignant, outraged people." All these things own the Republican party, and the Republican party owns the government as above specified. There are some things which the Republican party are ashamed to own, but they assume the control of them for the purposes of user only. The Herald furnishes a list of these easements: "The Republican party has most of the great newspapers, which are subsidized to advocate its revolutionary measures. And still worse and more humiliating to us as a people, the administration has the British government as an active and open ally in its 'criminal aggression' and colonial policy, as well as in its financial policy." REPEATING HISTORY. President Jackson opposed a national bank that would stand between the people and the national treasury; the issue of paper money as currency and the control of the government deposits. He deemed the bank unnecessary and a power dangerous to the independent action of the government and of the people. He insisted that the transaction of the government be in gold and silver as the only constitutional money. He withdrew the government deposits from the banks and placed them in the subtreasuries which congress created. The money power was beaten at every point. But Jackson warned the people that it would again come to the front, and his warning has been verified. national administration is favoring a law which will place the currency-issuing power in the hands of the banks. A "pet bank" has been designated to receive government funds on deposit. This bank is to be enlarged and placed on intimate relations with the federal treasury, while a movement is on foot to repeal the law under which United States subtreasuries exist, and thus compel a return of all government deposits to the banks. In brief, the money power, now after the lapse of sixty years, hopes to accomplish under President McKinley almost precisely what it attempted and failed to do during the administration of Andrew Jackson.—Denver News. "EEMOCRACY WILL WIN." "It is Democracy's year to triumph." Wherefore not? Listen to the Verdict: "Think what the trusts have done? They have closed mills. They have thrown men out of work. Notably—and disastrously for McKinley hopes to come—they have cast idly loose, as commercial help not wanted, an army corps of 37,000 commercial travelers. Think what a thunderbolt of political war these 37,000 "drummers" are like to prove against Republicanism! The trusts have pared wages to the laborer. They have put up the prices to the public. Not one man in the land but has felt them gnawing at his substance. Look about you and behold in sundry instances the work of trusts." "Standard Oil outrages in Coeur d'Alene gave Idaho to the Democracy. The Standard Oil bribe of $400,000 offered Monett; Standard Oil defeats Monett for renomination as Ohio's attorney-general; Standard Oil closing the door of Cooper Institute to prevent Monett's denunciation of trusts; bribes, gags, lawlessness, in the name of the law, and free speech murdered. Are these not due to have effect for Democratic good?" TRUST GREED. "The rapidity with which the trusts are strengthening themselves and absorbing the wealth of the country will soon place them beyond the reach of the people. They now add hundreds of millions to their wealth every day, and make presidents, for none can doubt, in spite of McKinley's mild disapproval of the trusts in his message, that Mr. Hanna, who made him president, is the agent of the trusts and put McKinley in the White House because he thinks he can use him there. The trusts are rapidly strengthening their grip on the money power of the government, and, as they very recently have shown, can now cause panics that will crush their enemies and sweep out of existence all who dare oppose them. They are a hundredfold more powerful than they were two years ago, and a hundredfold more grasping, arbitrary and tyrannical. It will be no easy matter for the people to crush them now. It will be well nigh impossible to do so by the ordinary process of law two or three years hence."—New Orleans Times-Democrat. JOHN HAY. Secretary of State Hay is a misfit. There is nothing of the American about him. He is all English, although he came from Pike county in this state. He is ashamed of the fact that he ever lived in Pike, and so are the Pike county people. He has held office all his life, married a fortune and apes the English aristocracy. While he has been a steady officeholder, it has always been by appointment. He never lived in a community that would have elected him constable. He represents nothing on the earth, in the earth or above the earth. He has no more conception of what Americanism is than does the sultan of Sulu. He never hustled at the polls, never carried a torch, never participated in an ejection row. He never did anything, in fact, to bring him in contact with the people and never examined the springs that move men. His political ideas were gained first as flunky to the great, next as an associate of foreigners. Such is the man in whose hands the foreign affairs of the great American people are placed. DEMOCRATIC PHILIPPINE POLICY. It has often been asked, "What is the policy of the Democratic party on the Philippine question?" It ought not to be difficult to discover that policy, for it has been stated again and again by the Democratic leaders in congress and elsewhere. The Cairo Argus says the sentiment of the Democrats in congress is shown in the fewest words and in the clearest language in the resolution offered by Congressman McRae of Arkansas, and which reads as follows: "Be it resolved, etc., that the United States hereuy declare that their purpose in acquiring jurisdiction and control over the Philippine islands was, and is, to secure to the inhabitants thereof, as soon as practicable, after the suppress.on of the existing rebellion therein, a free, independent, stable government, republican in form, and that the United States guarantee to said inhabitants protection against all foreign invasion." Ex-Senator Edmunds, although an anti-expansionist, says he recognizes the fact that the United States has expanded, but suggests that it shouldn't do so any more. No, it will not—that is, not until the next time, and then Senator Edmunds and the others will all shout: "Well, it is done and can't be helped." Nobody seems to be aware that there is a preventive remedy. USELESS CONDEMNATION. It is useless and absurd for the Chicago Tribune or any other McKinley organ to cast any blame upon or impute any wrongdoing to the acts of Secretary Gage in turning over the contents of the United States treasury to a pet bank. The whole and constant aim of the Republican press has been to bring about just such a condition of affairs, and now that it has been accomplished they feel aggrieved, not because it is wrong and a deliberate embezzlement of the people's money, but because it furnishes the Democratic party with campaign ammunition. "There was a disposition in many quarters to let the curtain fall upon the acts of the treasury department with reference to the recent stock panic in Wall street, and to draw the mantle of charity around Secretary Gage's official measures with reference thereto. Whatever opinion the people may have had as to the wisdom of those measures it was admitted by candid men that Mr. Gage had been actuated by unselfish motives. That opinion remains unchanged. Mr. Gage's personal and official integrity in private or public acts cannot be assailed successfully among the people who know him. "It must be said, however, that in responding to the Democratic resolution calling for information in regard to the relations of the treasury department to the Standard Oil bank, he has put some ugly weapons in the hands of his enemies." In other words, "Mr. Gage is a good man, but gave up too much to the enemies of the administration when he told the truth." We do not believe that Mr. Gage is a common hold-up,or even a magnificent train robber, but nobody can be made to believe that he was suffering from "unsophisticated guilelessness," as the Tribune puts it. We have too much faith in Mr. McKinley's common sense to put a confirmed idiot in the treasury department. REPUBLICAN OBJECTS. The average American citizen is, when he contemplates the plans of the republican administration, astounded at the innovations it proposes to make in our system of government and can hardly believe that President McKinley is in earnest in the policy which he openly advocates or secretly inaugurates. He proposes the following: First-A large standing army. Second—An alliance with Great Britain. Third—The encouragement of trusts. Fourth—The abolition of all money but gold and national bank notes. Fifth—The holding in subjugation by military force a foreign nation whose people desire their freedom. Sixth—The abandonment of the Monroe doctrine. Seventh—The sanction of slavery and polygamy in the Philippines. Eighth—The payment of the national debt in gold in spite of the contract on the face of the bonds. Ninth-The aiding of England in her efforts to make the Transvaal an English dependency. Tenth-The controlling of local elections by use of the military. All these objects on the part of the administration are either openly declared or are being quietly pushed forward, and cannot be denied. It seems hardly worth while to mention that they are all contrary to the spirit of the constitution and to the teachings of the fathers. They are not in harmony with a republican form of government and are in opposition to fairness, common sense and good government. Will the American people submit? We shall see.—Illinois Press Bulletin. TO COERCE THE GERMANS. Henry Wolf of Havana, a prominent German-American, writes to the Democrat of that city that the Republicans are furnishing money for the purpose of establishing new German newspapers as rivals to those which will not indorse McKinley's military policy, and are using other and unfair means to force the German speaking citizens into line for the Republican ticket. In concluding his letter, Mr. Wolf says: "When the time comes to cast our ballot we will serve notice that we Germans will not be coerced to sustain a principle contrary to our convictions. We came here to find a republic, and we will guard it with the ballot, that it may so remain, and not become a country of imperialism and military despotism.—Illinois Press Bulletin LIKE M'KINLEY. "Yes, sah," said the porter of the sleeping car, "I keep de train on time. I been on dis train two years and it always been on time. Befo' I come it used to be late two or tree times ebery week. I been like President McKinley, when I am around eberting goes right and eberybody prosperous. I ought to keep my job." The great objection to discontinuing war is the fear that the multitude engaged in fighting and manufacturing war material will be thrown out of a job. This is also the great objection to the destruction of trusts—love of the workingman. 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As far as the Broad Ax is concerned, it believes that Mr. McLean is the proper person for that responsible place. Not that we desire to cast any reflections upon Senator Jones, but Mr. McLean is much younger in years and his political training and experience gives him a great advantage over many elderly men. Then again, he believes in encouraging Negro Democracy, and that is the kind of a man we want to see at the head of the National Committee. Notwithstanding the intense cold, a large number of ladies were present to listen to an excellent program prepared by Mrs. Bundy, Chairman of the Home Section of the Phyllis Wheatley C.ub last Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. R.v. Tillman of Englewood read a splendid paper in which she referred to economy in the home duty of women in club life, and closed with an original poem, from her own pen, in memorium of Phyllis Wheatley. Dr. Jeffery gave a lecture on the "Organic, Inorganic and the social and moral phase of life, which was very deep and which could only be appreciated by the highly educated and students of nature. Mr. B. F. Nash, rendered some classic music on the piano and Mrs. Julius F. Taylor gave a recitation, "Home, the Kingdom of Love." Miss Clara Green read her chronicle, concluding with "The Psalm of Life," from Longfellow. Dainty refreshments were served at the conclusion of the program. NOTICE All friends and readers of The Broad Ax, who have relatives or friends visiting them, or if you give or attend social functions either at home or abroad. If you journey to other towns or cities on business or pleasure. If you know or hear of a marriage, birth or death. Or in short, if you know anything of interest pertaining to the doings or the movements of the people adduce such facts and figures as briefly as possible on postal cards or letters, and address them to The Broad Ax, and all such news items will find their way into its columns. But do not send us anything in reference to cake walks or Jim Crowism. If you give swell parties and receptions and desire that the same should receive mention, send invitations or tickets and a representative of The Broad Ax will endeavor to be on hand, otherwise no one should, marvel, if they fail to observe a notice in The Broad Ax. LETTERS OF COMMENDATION. Chicago, Sept. 16, 1899. Mr. Julius F. Taylor, Editor Broad Ax. Dear Sir-I am glad to learn of the work that is being done by your paper in behalf of Chicago platform principles. That platform stands for such a government as Jefferson and Lincoln favored, namely, a government of the people, for the people and by the people, and I believe that such a government will prove a blessing to the great majority of the people. Yours truly, W. J. Bryan. July 15th. 1899. Julius F. Taylor, who comes to this city well recommended, has begun the publication of "The Broad Ax," which, I am informed, will disseminate Democratic principles and contend for the higher intellectual development of the Afro-American race and mankind in general. While he is thus engaged I bespeak for him the hearty support of all loyal and true friends of Democracy. Respectfully. Carter H. Harrison. Headquarters of Democratic State Central Committee of Illinois, Sherman House, Chicago, Oct. 5th, 1899. To whom it may concern: This is to certify that Mr. Julius P. Taylor, editor of The Broad Ax—a publication of this city devoted to the interests of the democratic party, and an able exponent of democratic principles—comes to us highly recommended, and I therefore take pleasure in commending him to the favorable consideration of democrats with whom he may come in business contact. Chairman Democratic State Central Committee of Illinois. A young man's best girl is never too good to be true. A lofer never allows himself to get out of practice. The man who pays as he goes sometimes goes broke. Most things come to those who hustle while they wait. Contentment is the feeling that things might be worse. Two heads may be better than one but not in the same family. CHURCH AND CLERGY. The Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman is to write the life of D. L. Moody. Bishop Edsall has just completed a highly successful mission at Jamestown, N. D. Tomkins Avenue Congregational church of Brooklyn raised over $27,000 for missions during the year. The death roll in the Congregational ministry in Great Britain was unusually heavy during the year 1899. A congress of the history of religions will be held at Paris, France during the first part of September next year. The receipts of Plymouth church, Brooklyn, for the year make a total of $38,000, of which $17,000 is from pew rents. The annual council of the South African churches was held at Graaf Reinet, and owing to the preoccupations of the war, only thirty-eight delegates attended. Since his resignation from the Church of the Pilgrims relief from care has conduced to a marked improvement in the health of the venerable Dr. R. S. Storrs. As evidence of the increasing influence of the sultan in Central Africa the London Chronicle alleges the fact that he is prayed for daily in Bornu and Wadai as the true khalifa. Countess Miranda de Canavarroo, the California convert to Buddhism, has left the San Gamita convent in Ceylon and appealed to her American friends to return home. The Right Rev. Louis de Goesbriand, bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Vermont, during his life possessed large wealth, but avowed it his wish to give it away and die a poor man. He left only $2.12. AS TRUE AS GOSPEL. There is always compensation. Our angels go out that our archangels may come in. Unhappy is the man for whom his own mother has not made all other mothers venerable. It is poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mein, inventions and actions of others. What an absurd thing it is to pass over the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attentions on his infirmities. Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest, manly principle will daily accumulate. A greater value should be set on having received instructive and useful lessons than of possessing great store of wealth; for the latter is transitory good, the former is durable. There is scarcely a generalization for one sex which does not apply equally to the other, so perfectly alike in nature are men and women. 'the difference is only in circumstances. It is better to be generous than selfish, better to be true than false, better to be brave than to be a coward. Blessed beyond all earthly blessedness is the man who in the tempestuous darkness of the soul has dared to hold fast to these venerable landmarks. Thrice blessed is he who, when all is drear and cheerless within and without, when his teachers terrify him and his friends shrink from him, has obstinately clung to moral good—thrice blessed, because his night shall pass into clear, bright day. SHORT SERMONS. For its exercise or manifestation trust demands an object or being to be trusted.—Rev. T. Jefferson Danner. Better a very little real faith straight from the heart than a vast amount of vague belief.—Rev. D. C. Garrett. A secret of blessedness in work is the conviction that we are doing the work that God wishes us to do.—Rev. R. J. Kent. The Bible exhorts us to that patient continuance in well doing that is necessary to the building of Christ-like character.—Rev. J. R. Shannon. Progress is not blind, and now, more than ever, the evolution of the race should be guided by intelligent foresight.—Rev. G. D. Smith. With the right conception of man's being here, not for happiness but for worthiness, suffering itself is an angel in disguise.—Rev. Ira Billman. All human law is based on the conviction that the punishment should fit the crime. The common sense of justice requires that.—Rev. Dr. Crowe. God and right must conquer. No great reform is born and grows to full stature in a night. Morals are subject to the laws of growth.—Rev. G. Lee V. Roberts. Expansion is the one idea of the Christian religion. Christ came as the embodiment of the idea of expansion, but he came to a people who must be educated up to the idea.—Rev. J. L. Barton. AFTERTHOUGHTS. Many a man wouldn't be nearly so lucky if he depended on luck. One's admiration for oneself is largely due to the limitations of mirrors. It is when we become rich or famous that we find out where are the friends of our youth. Don't abuse the world because it abuses you, because the percentage is always against you. The shrewd man does not openly condemn another for being an ass; nor does he cry him down; nor yet shun him; for he knows that the ass, though a little slow of movement and comprehension, is a very convenient beast of burden, and, reremembering work of his own that should be done, he profits by his knowledge. CANDY.... Try the inimitable fine and pure candies, the best in the city for 15c., 25c. and 40c. per pound. All put up in beautiful boxes suitable for presents. GUNTHER'S CONFECTIONERY 212 STATE STREET. ALBERT B. GEORGE LAWYER. 423 Ashland Block, Chicago. Tel. M. 2625. W. W. JOHNSON. LAWYER, 125 Clark Street, - Chicago. .....Room 53.... Tel. Wentworth 516 Office Hours: 8.30 a. m. to 8.30 p. m BEAUREGARD F. MOSELY LAWYER BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS A SPECIALTY. SUITE 1 AND 2 6256 HALSTED STREET CHICAGO COR. HALSTED & 63RD STS. MRS. LAURA DAILEY. MRS. LAURA DATLEY. FURNISHED ROOMS FOR STRANGERS & TRAVELERS THEATRICAL HEADQUARTERS. Cheap rates and good accommodations. 506 State St., 2d floor, Chicago, IJ Room 23. P.J.FLYNN Wholesale and Retail Dealer in HARD and SOFT COAL WOOD AND KINDLING YARDS, Cor. 47th and Wabash R. R. 67th and Eastern Ill. R.R. Branch Office, 5301 Wentworth av. TELEPHONE 813 YARDS. DR. JOSEPH JEFFREY, Physician and Surgeon, 4858 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO Hours: 8-10 a. m., 2-4, 6-8 p. m. DR. WM. H. DAVIS, Chiropidist, Promp Attention given to Calls at Your Residence or Place of Business. 5012 Fifth Avenue, Chicago FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE Forty acre chicken farm, 27 miles from Chicago, 1/2 mile from railroad stations. Fine grove 15 acres surrounding buildings, which consist of 8-room hous, frame, 2 barns, chicken house and poultry yard. Fine hog house and other outbuildings. 25 acres in crop this year. Hay, corn, oats, potatoes and beans. Price clear of incumbrance $4,000. Buildings alone cost $2,500. Will exchange for clear property in Chicago. If you have anything to offer, call or address The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour avenue. 94 ACRE FARM FOR SALE. Three miles from Geneva Junction six miles from Lake Geneva. 94 acres in Walworth county, lies all in cultivation, good house, barn and outbuildings. 20 head milch cows. 20 head hogs. 500 chickens, 100 turkeys, 50 ducks, 3 hear horses, all farming tools and this years crops. Price $75 per acre. Crops last year over $1,200 net. Crop this year over $1,500. Sell cream $5 per day now. If you desire to purchase this elegant farm so indicate by addressing The Broad Ax. FOR SALE. A lovely six-room cottage, modern improvements, lot 25 by 125, located on Elizabeth street, near Sixty-Seventh. Price, $1,200. $150 cash, balance to suit purchaser. This is a bargain. Any one desiring to secure a cosy little home should avail themselves of this opportunity. For further information address Julius F. Taylor, 5040 Armour avenue. AGENTS WANTED. The Broad Ax desires to secure active agents and correspondents in all sections of the country. Liberal commissions will be paid. For terms and further particulars address The Broad Ax. 5040 Armour avenue, Chicago. Poverty may be a blessing, but only when it clings to our enemies. The more a man tries to prove that I.e. isn't a fool the more he proves he is. 51st Street and Armour Avenue... Residence, 5045 Michigan Boul., CHICAGO. C.J.BOYD, Practical Plumber and Gas-fitter Steam and Hot Water Heating, Iron and Tile Drainage . . . Telephone Yards 914. 709 WEST 47TH STREET. Telephone Yards 797 Residence, 113 Garfeld B4 JOHN FITZGERALD JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 4787 S. HALSTED STREET, .....CHICAGO M. C. McINTOSH, COOK COUNTY JUSTICE... OFFICE, ROOM 616, ASHLAND BLOCK, Telephone Main 2711. HENRY STUCKART HARDWARE, STOVES and FURNITURE 2511-2519 ARCHER AVENUE. ONE BLOCK WEST OF HALSTED ST. JOBBING A SPECIALTY. THE FALSE STAR The agitation of the Mormon question has naturally aroused some interest in the minds of all classes of people throughout the United States, and much has been written lately, both pro and con, on Utah and the Mormons. The latest literary contribution in that di- THE FALSE STAR By A.D. GASM rection is "The False Star," by A. D. Gash, which deals with Mormonism in all of its ramifications. We will send this wonderful book, which is printed by the W. B. Conkey Company, and sells for $1.25, and The Broad Ax for one year to any address in the United States, for $2.50. Agents wanted everywhere. Address all communications to Julius F. Taylor, Editor and Publisher of The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour avenue, Chicago, Ill. GOLD WATCH FREE. Anyone sending us ten yearly subscribers to The Broad Ax, or 20 subscribers for six months, we will present them with this beautiful goldfilled watch, fitted with New York standard movement, and warranted for five years, either ladies' or gents'. NAPOLEON This is a splendid opportunity to catch on if you desire to obtain a gold watch free. In all cases the cash must accompany the list of subscribers. Send for sample copies of The Broad Ax, go to work and earn a watch. Address The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour ave., Chicago, Ill. This is a splendid opportunity to catch on if you desire to obtain a gold watch free. In all cases the cash must accompany the list of subscribers. Send for sample copies of The Broad Ax, go to work and earn a watch. Address The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour ave., Chicago, Ill. Hon. W. J. Bryan's Book Hon. W. J. Bryan's Book ALL who are interested in furthering the sale of Hon. W. J. Bryan's new book should correspond immediately with the publishers. The work will contain An account of his campaign tour . . . His biography, written by his wife . . His most important speeches . . . The results of the campaign of 1896. A review of the political situation . . Mr. Bryan has announced his intention of devoting one-half of all royalties to furthering the cause of bimetallism. There are already indications of an enormous sale. Address IF YOU are a business man and are ex- pecting your share of the public's pa- tronage you'll be sadly disappointed if you DON'T ADVERTISE That's the best method yet discovered to bring the buyers in. Some people don't believe in advertising, but OTHERS DO! Remember that this office is fully prepared at all times to turn out on the shortest notice, in the most artistic and workmanlike manner, all kinds of... Job Printing such as letter heads, bill heads, posters, programmes, invitations, announcements, bills of fare, pamphlets, and anything in the line of job work. See Our Samples = = Get Our Prices. Verbally made to a deaf man, has no effect. But a properly written advertisement placed in these columns, backed up by honest goods and right prices, will surely prove a paying investment for modern merchants. A. B. Mr. Bryan has announced one-half of all royalties in bimetallism. There are a mous sale. Address W. B. 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Get the Original OX MARROW, as the genuine never fails to keep the hair valuable and beautiful. A toilet necessity for ladies and gentlemen. Elegantly perfumed. The great advantage of this wonderful pomade is that by its you can straighten your own hair at home. Owing to its superior and lasting quality it is the most original. It is not possible for anybody to produce a pomade equal to it. Full directions with every bottle. On request. Sold by dealers or send us $1.40 Postal or Express Money Order for $ bottles, express paid. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., y6 Wabush Ave., Chicago, IL. A man reading a newspaper. YOU ARE READING This "ad." this very moment, are you not? You KNOW it is an advertisement, yet you read it; we all read it. If YOUR "ad." occupied this space it would be read and bring you good results. Try it and be convinced. When two women are said to resemble each other both are secretly versed. tional Committee. As far as the Broad Ax is concerned, it believes that Mr. McLean is the proper person for that responsible place. Not that we desire to cast any reflections upon Senator Jones, but Mr. McLean is much younger in years and his political training and experience gives him a great advantage over many elderly men. Then again, he believes in encouraging Negro Democracy, and that is the kind of a man we want to see at the head of the National Committee. Notwithstanding the intense cold, a large number of ladies were present to listen to an excellent program prepared by Mrs. Bundy, Chairman of the Home Section of the Phyllis Wheatley C.ub last Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. R.v. Tillman of Englewood read a splendid paper in which she referred to economy in the home duty of women in club life, and closed with an original poem, from her own pen, in memorium of Phyllis Wheatley. Dr. Jeffery gave a lecture on the "Organic, Inorganic and the social and moral phase of life, which was very deep and which could only be appreciated by the highly educated and students of nature. Mr. B. F. Nash, rendered some classic music on the piano and Mrs. Julius F. Taylcr gave a recitation, "Home, the Kingdom of Love." Miss Clara Green read her chronicle, concluding with "The Psalm of Life," from Longfellow. Dainty refreshments were served at the conclusion of the program. NOTICE All friends and readers of The Broad Ax, who have relatives or friends visiting them, or if you give or attend social functions either at home or abroad. If you journey to other towns or cities on business or pleasure. If you know or hear of a marriage, birth or death. Or in short, if you know anything of interest pertaining to the doings or the movements of the people adduce such facts and figures as briefly as possible on postal cards or letters, and address them to The Broad Ax, and all such news items will find their way into its columns. But do not send us anything in reference to cake walks or Jim Crowism. If you give swell parties and receptions and desire that the same should receive mention, send invitations or tickets and a representative of The Broad Ax will endeavor to be on hand, otherwise no one should, marvel, if they fail to observe a notice in The Broad Ax. LETTERS OF COMMENDATION. Chicago, Sept. 16, 1899. Mr. Julius F. Taylor, Editor Broad Ax. Dear Sir-I am glad to learn of the work that is being done by your paper in behalf of Chicago platform principles. That platform stands for such a government as Jefferson and Lincoln favored, namely, a government of the people, for the people and by the people, and I believe that such a government will prove a blessing to the great majority of the people. Yours truly, W. J. Bryan. July 15th, 1899. To whom it may concern: Julius F. Taylor, who comes to this city well recommended, has begun the publication of "The Broad Ax," which, I am informed, will disseminate Democratic principles and contend for the higher intellectual development of the Afro-American race and mankind in general. While he is thus engaged I bespeak for him the hearty support of all loyal and true friends of Democracy. Respectfully, Carter H. Harrison. Headquarters of Democratic State Central Committee of Illinois, Sherman House, Chicago, Oct. 5th, 1899. To whom it may concern: This is to certify that Mr. Julius F. Taylor, editor of The Broad Ax—a publication of this city devoted to the interests of the democratic party, and an able exponent of democratic principles—comes to us highly recommended, and I therefore take pleasure in commending him to the favorable consideration of democrats with whom he may come in business contact. 11 CHURCH AND CLERGY. The Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman is to write the life of D. L. Moody. Bishop Edsall has just completed a highly successful mission at James-town, N. D. Tomkins Avenue Congregational church of Brooklyn raised over $27,000 for missions during the year. The death roll in the Congregational ministry in Great Britain was unusually heavy during the year 1899. A congress of the history of religions will be held at Paris, France during the first part of September next year. The receipts of Plymouth church, Brooklyn, for the year make a total of $38,000, of which $17,000 is from pew rents. The annual council of the South African churches was held at Graaf Reinet, and owing to the preoccupations of the war, only thirty-eight delegates attended. Since his resignation from the Church of the Pilgrims relief from care has conduced to a marked improvement in the health of the venerable Dr. R. S. Storrs. As evidence of the increasing influence of the sultan in Central Africa the London Chronicle alleges the fact that he is prayed for daily in Bornu and Wadal as the true khalifa. Countess Miranda de Canavarroo, the California convert to Buddhism, has left the San Gamita convent in Ceylon and appealed to her American friends to return home. The Right Rev. Louis de Goesbriand, bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Vermont, during his life possessed large wealth, but avowed it his wish to give it away and die a poor man. He left only $2.12. AS TRUE AS GOSPEL. There is always compensation. Our angels go out that our archangels may come in. Unhappy is the man for whom his own mother has not made all other mothers venerable. It is poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mein, inventions and actions of others. What an absurd thing it is to pass over the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attentions on his infirmities. Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest, manly principle will daily accumulate. A greater value should be set on having received instructive and useful lessons than of possessing great store of wealth; for the latter is transitory good, the former is durable. There is scarcely a generalization for one sex which does not apply equally to the other, so perfectly alike in nature are men and women. The difference is only in circumstances. It is better to be generous than selfish, better to be true than false, better to be brave than to be a coward. Blessed beyond all earthly blessedness is the man who in the tempestuous darkness of the soul has dared to hold fast to these venerable landmarks. Thrice blessed is he who, when all is drear and cheerless within and without, when his teachers terrify him and his friends shrink from him, has obstinately clung to moral good—thrice blessed, because his night shall pass into clear, bright day. SHORT SERMONS. For its exercise or manifestation trust demands an object or being to be trusted.—Rev. T. Jefferson Danner. Better a very little real faith straight from the heart than a vast amount of vague belief.—Rev. D. C. Garrett. A secret of blessedness in work is the conviction that we are doing the work that God wishes us to do.—Rev. R. J. Kent. The Bible exhorts us to that patient continuance in well doing that is necessary to the building of Christ-like character.—Rev. J. R. Shannon. Progress is not blind, and now, more than ever, the evolution of the race should be guided by intelligent foresight.—Rev. G. D. Smith. With the right conception of man's being here, not for happiness but for worthiness, suffering itself is an angel in disguise.—Rev. Ira Billman. All human law is based on the conviction that the punishment should fit the crime. The common sense of justice requires that.—Rev. Dr. Crowe. God and right must conquer. No great reform is born and grows to full stature in a night. Morals are subject to the laws of growth.—Rev. G. Lee V. Roberts. Expansion is the one idea of the Christian religion. Christ came as the embodiment of the idea of expansion, but he came to a people who must be educated up to the idea.—Rev. J. L. Barton. AFTERTHOUGHTS. Many a man wouldn't be nearly so lucky if he depended on luck. One's admiration for oneself is largely due to the limitations of mirrors. It is when we become rich or famous that we find out where are the friends of our youth. Don't abuse the world because it abuses you, because the percentage is always against you. The shrewd man does not openly condemn another for being an ass; nor does he cry him down; nor yet shun him; for he knows that the ass, though a little slow of movement and comprehension, is a very convenient beast of burden, and, remembering work of his own that should be done, he profits by his knowledge. CANDY... Try the inimitable fine and pure candies, the best in the city for 15c., 25c. and 40c. per pound. All put up in beautiful boxes; suitable for presents. GUNTHER'S CONFECTIONERY 212 STATE STREET. ALBERT B. GEORGE LAWYER. 423 Ashland Block, Chicago. Tel. M. 2025. W. W. JOHNSON. LAWYER, 125 Clark Street, - Chicago. .....Room 53.... Tel. Wentworth 516 Office Hours: 8.30 a. m. to 8.30 p. m BEAUREGARD F. MOSELY LAWYER BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS A SPECIALTY. SUITE 1 AND 2 6256 HALSTED STREET CHICAGO COR. HALSTED & 63RD STS. MRS. LAURA DAILEY. FURNISHED ROOMS FOR STRANGERS & TRAVELERS THEATRICAL HEADQUARTERS. Cheap rates and good accommodations. 506 State St., 2d floor, Chicago, 11 Room 28. P.J.FLYNN Wholesale and Retail Dealer in HARD and SOFT COAL WOOD AND KINDLING YARDS, Cor. 47th and Wabash R. R. 67th and Eastern Ill. R.R. Branch Office, 5301 Wentworth av. TELEPHONE 813 YARDS. DR. JOSEPH JEFFREY, Physician and Surgeon, 4858 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO Hours: 8-10 a. m., 2-4, 6-8 p. m. DR. WM. H. DAVIS, Chiropidist, TREATMENT PAINLESS. Promp Attention given to Calls at Your Residence or Place of Business. 5012 Fifth Avenue, Chicago FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE. Forty acre chicken farm, 27 miles from Chicago, 1/2 mile from railroad stations. Fine grove 15 acres surrounding buildings, which consist of 8-room hous, frame, 2 barns, chicken house and poultry yard. Fine hog house and other outbuildings. 25 acres in crop this year. Hay, corn, oats, potatoes and beans. Price clear of incumbrance $4,000. Buildings alone cost $2,500. Will exchange for clear property in Chicago. If you have anything to offer, call or address The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour avenue. 94 ACRE FARM FOR SALE. Three miles from Geneva Junction, six miles from Lake Geneva. 94 acres in Walworth county, lies all in cultivation, good house, barn and outbuildings. 20 head milch cows. 20 head hogs. 500 chickens, 100 turkeys, 50 ducks, 3 hear horses, all farming tools and this years crops. Price $75 per acre. Crops last year over $1,200 net. Crop this year over $1,500. Sell cream $5 per day now. If you desire to purchase this elegant farm so indicate by addressing The Broad Ax. FOR SALE. FOR SALE. A lovely six-room cottage, modern improvements, lot 25 by 125, located on Elizabeth street, near Sixty-Seventh. Price, $1,200. $150 cash, balance to suit purchaser. This is a bargain. Any one desiring to secure a cosy little home should avail themselves of this opportunity. For further information address Julius F. Taylor, 5040 Armour avenue. AGENTS WANTED. The Broad Ax desires to secure active agents and correspondents in all sections of the country. Liberal commissions will be paid. For terms and further particulars address The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour avenue, Chicago. Poverty may be a blessing, but only when it clings to our enemies. The more a man tries to prove that I.e. isn't a fool the more he proves he is. Telephone Yards 792. Established 1877 JOHN J. DUNN, Wholesale and Retail Coal - and - Wood. 51st Street and Armour Avenue... Residence, 5045 Michigan Boul., CHICAGO. J. F. KENNY, 5533 Green St. Tel. Yards 668 KENNY & CO., Undertakers and Livery, Open Day and Night. Lady Assistant . . . 5438 SOUTH HALSTED ST. Estimates and Specifications Furnished . . . Prompt Attention Given to Jobbing C. J. BOYD, Practical Plumber and Gas-fitter Steam and Hot Water Heating, Iron and Tile Drainage . . . Telephone Yards 914. 709 WEST 47TH STREET. Telephone Yards 797 Residence, 113 Garfield Bd JOHN FITZGERALD JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 4787 S. HALSTED STREET, .....CHICAGO M. C. McINTOSH, M. C. McINTOSH, COOK COUNTY JUSTICE... OFFICE, ROOM 616, ASHLAND BLOCK, Telephone Main 2711. HENRY STUCKART HARDWARE, STOVES and FURNITURE 2511-2519 ARCHER AVENUE, ONE BLOCK WEST OF HALSTED ST. JOBBING A SPECIALTY. ...TELEPHONE SOUTH 382... THE FALSE STAR. The agitation of the Mormon question has naturally aroused some interest in the minds of all classes of people throughout the United States, and much has been written lately, both pro and con, on Utah and the Mormons. The latest literary contribution in that di- THE FALSE STAR BY A.D. GASM rection is "The False Star," by A. D. Gash, which deals with Mormonism in all of its ramifications. We will send this wonderful book, which is printed by the W. B. Conkey Company, and sells for $1.25, and The Broad Ax for one year to any address in the United States, for $2.50. Agents wanted everywhere. Address all communications to Julius F. Taylor, Editor, and Publisher of The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour avenue, Chicago, Ill. GOLD WATCH FREE Anyone sending us ten yearly subscribers to The Broad Ax, or 20 subscribers for six months, we will present them with this beautiful goldfilled watch, fitted with New York standard movement, and warranted for five years, either ladies' or gents*. NAPOLEON This is a splendid opportunity to catch on if you desire to obtain a gold watch free. In all cases the cash must accompany the list of subscribers. Send for sample copies of The Broad Ax, go to work and earn a watch. Address The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour ave., Chicago, Ill. ```markdown ``` Hon. W. J. Bryan's Book Hon. W. J. Bryan's Book ALL who are interested in furthering the sale of Hon. W. J. Bryan's new book should correspond immediately with the publishers. The work will contain An account of his campaign tour . . . His biography, written by his wife . . His most important speeches . . . 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