The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. Memorable Peace Meeting, Held In Bethel Church, Bishop Samuel Fallows Presiding IT WAS ADDRESSED BY SOME OF THE MOST EMINENT AND ELOUENT DIVINES AND LAYMEN IN THIS COUNTRY. HON. WILLIAM DILLON FORMULATED AND READ RESOLUTION, HIGHLY COMMENDING THE COLORED PEOPLE FOR THEIR ORDERLY CONDUCT DURING THE PRESENCE OF BENJAMIN R. TILLMAN IN CHICAGO. THE DAILY PAPERS IN THIS CITY AND MAYOR DUNNE HIGHLY PRAISED FOR TURNING THEIR BACKS ON THE SOUTH CAROLINA ANARCHIST. Vol. XII Memorable Peace In Bethel C Samuel Fallo IT WAS ADDRESSED BY SO AND ELOUENT DIVIN COUNTRY. HON. WILLIAM DILLON RESOLUTION, HIGHLY ORED PEOPLE FOR THE DURING THE PRESENO MAN IN CHICAGO. THE DAILY PAPERS IN THIS HIGHLY PRAISED FOR THE SOUTH CAROLINA The Peace meeting held in Bethel church last Sunday afternoon was the greatest meeting of its kind ever held among the Afro-Americans in the United States, and it was a history making epoch, for the good influence which radiated from it will be felt for many years to come. Long before three o'clock the church was crowded to its doors, and a great overflow meeting was held down stairs in the lecture room which was also addressed by some of the leading speakers. Rev. A. J. Carey, called the meeting to order and introduced Bishop Samuel Fallows, who is one of the loyal friends of the Colored race, presided as chairman of the meeting, and his manly bosom swelled with pride as he expressed himself in the following manner: Dr. Carey and Beloved Friends: I have always endeavored to heed the call of duty; and when the trumpet call came to me a day or two ago to be present at this meeting I at once responded because it was not only a call of duty but a call of privilege; and I am glad beyond expression to be able to be here this afternoon and to do what I can in the way of presiding and introducing the eminent and eloquent speakers who are to follow me and to say just a word as I have been requested to do, although it may be a little out of the ordinary custom for a chairman to take up the time of others who are to follow him. You notice that I wear a decoration on my coat. I put it there purposely this afternoon; in fact, there are two decorations; one I think you may not see, but it is this bronze button which all the wealth of Mr. Rockefeller and Mr. Carnegie and of all the multi-millianaires the world has ever produced or may ever produce could not buy. (Applause). And because of this intimate connection of this button with this meeting, or with the purpose for which this meeting is called, I take great pride in wearing it at this time; and the other decoration is the one which represents the organization of the officers of the army and the navy of the United State who led to such glorious victory, under God's guiding hand, the armies of union and liberty. (Applause). I took occasion this morning in a brief prelude to say to my congregation—I wish to repeat it—that when Mr. Tillman said in his attempted criticism of Mayor Dunne, who never did a nobler事 in his life than to refuse to preside (Applause) he threw the fling at the mayor: When the vice president's gravel shall sound next Monday (which means to morrow) and shall call the senators of the United States to order, my name will be called as it has been called for many successive times. I want to say to the whole United States today if it had not been for 240,00 blacks in blue who by their bravery equal to that of the bravery of the white soldier of the Uniop Mr. Tillman would not be a senator of the United State (Applause). No United States would there have been for him to disgrace in the senatorial chamber. And suppose that our senior senator from this state whose name is a house hold thought should have gone down to Charleston, S. C., to make an address for a benevolent organization and should have undertaken to say to those people some of whom may have been those whom Mr. Tillman called baboons and barbarians and have undertaken to tell to those people the reason why there are six millions of the African race who are Colored because of the impurity—not always of the worst but of some of the best people of the South; where Negro womanhood entirely at the mercy of these men were forced (Applause). I will not use the terms Mr. Tillman used; and if any of you were there (I was not thank God) (Applause) but I know some who were there and they told me how Mr. Tillman told the reporters, "You put down now exactly what I'm saying;" and he used the strongest terms in the English language to express the act of coercion of white womanhood by Colored people. But I say if our senator were to have gone there and undertaken to tell the simple truth, why it was that there were six millions or more of African descent who Colored, most of them having more than half white blood in their veins (Applause) I wonder when he got through if they would have given him a ticket on a Pullman car? We have had one Civil War and we have had enough of it. (Applause) Only let me say as I close if Mr. Tillman were to be in that kind of a war and were on that side of my friend—not of the Afro-American but of the American-African race and were on the other he would be on the side perhaps of fathers who would be arrayed against their sons and the children of brothers who would be arrayed against their brothers—one perhaps purely white, the other Colored, but Mr. Tillman and all the race he could summon would have to fight not only the black man but the white man in the black man (Applause) and he would find such an unhappy combination in that white blood of persistence and insistence perhaps coming up to the surface in view of the circumstances prevailing of the ancestral African savageism of these his companions and that combination would make Mr. Tillman wish he had never been born. Theres going to be no race war. (Applause). This is only rhetorical that I'm saying no race war, no race war. Sober common sense sentiments are going to prevail. We are going to live together side by side; we are going to fulfill the destiny, the destiny, des- CHICAGO, DECEMBER 8, 1906. [Name] An Open Letter to the Editors and Representatives of the Daily Papers of This City—To the Associated Press and to the Daily Newspapers Throughout the United States It is beyond our ability to muster together sufficient words in the English language to express our everlasting gratitude to the editors and representatives of all the daily newspapers in this city, the Associated Press and many of the other leading daily papers throughout the United States for the many courtesies extended and the more than high considerations shown us during our great contest with Senator Benjamin R. Tillman Almost every day bright and gentlemanly representatives of the great Chicago Tribune, the Inter Ocean, the Chronicle, the Journal and the Examiner called at our home, for the purpose of enabling us through their great engines for scattering news far and near to present our side of the fight on Senator Tillman On Sunday morning, November 25th, the Chronicle, the Tribune, the Inter Ocean and the Examiner, their combined circulation running into a million and a half which reached millions of people throughout all sections of tiny. Under God we are going to work out the problem to the satisfaction of oursviles and the nation and the whole world. Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, was the first speaker and he proved himself to be a live wire right from the start. He began as follows: "Friends, brothers, and sisters, the history of man contains no parallel to the advancement of the black man since the civil war. TAKES FLING AT WOMEN. "I have nothing but pity for Tillman, that geographical anachronism, that sole representative of an old order of things which is fast passing away," "but I do regret that the fabric of our brotherly love which is being woven in the loom of Chicago has been menaced. That was not done by the man with the pitchfork, but by the women of the leisure class, who make a business of peddling tickets. To say the least, it was ungracious, unseemly, and unpatriotic to bring this man here. I arrange these women, some of them high in the social scale. Who lent their names to the world, freely quoted from the issue of The Broad Ax of Nov. 24th and all the daily papers in this city gave the editor of this paper the credit for first inaugurating and leading the fight on Senator Tillman and his shotgun policy for Colored men, women and children. The Associated Press took up the fight on our behalf and flashed it to all the world that "The Broad Ax was the organ for more than 40,000 Afro-Americans residing in Chicago, that it was the first newspaper to wage an unrelenting warfare on Senator Tillman and so on. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, the Enquirer, Cincinnati O.; the Picayune, New Orleans La.; the Banner, Nashville Tenn.; the Post, Washington, D.C., and in fact, all the leading daily newspapers throughout the United States joined in the fight. But all of them treated us with fair consideration, and without the great assistance of these mighty mediums, which are potent in shaping or moulding public opinion or sentiment, either for or against any proposition, our fight on Senator Tillman would not have been near so effective. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor The Broad Ax. Dec. 8th, 1906. an affair of this kind, and brought among us this representative of profanity, ribaldry, and vulgarity to raise money for a hospital." Besides the "anachronism" other epithets were applied to Tillman by Rev. Jones. An incomplete list reads as follows: A ribald ranter. A survival of the unaltruistic age. A back number of unhonored memory. A shriek from the old regime and a freak in the new. A demagogue who will never succeed in turning a pitchfork or a plow-share into a torch of civil war. A bigot who falls to see the vision of the open door of a human soul in any face but a white one. Uses Same Weapons. "I take no pleasure in calling hard names, but this man who has been stirring up the caldron of demoniac hate in this community can be fought only with the weapons of his own choosing" said Rev. Jones. "His prophecy that we will have a race war in (Continued on Page 2.) Many of the Leading Divines In This City Fired Into Sen. Tillman On the "Negro Problem." REV. WILLIAM E. BARTON IN AN ELOQUENT SERMON SHIFTS THE BURDEN TO THE WHITES AND DECLARES THAT WHITE MEN IN THE SOUTH ARE THE DESTROYERS OF THE VIRTUE OF COLORED WOMEN. BISHOP SAMUEL FALLOWS AND REV. JENKIN LLOYD JONES TAKES FLING AT THE SOUTH CAROLINA ANARCHIST AND PROVE THAT AMALGAMATION BETWEEN THE TWO RACES HAS BEEN BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE WHITES. SEEMINGLY THE WHITE LADIES IN THE SUNNY SOUTH DO NOT OBJECT TO THEIR HUSBANDS HUGGING, KISSING AND MAKING LOVE TO COLORED WOMEN. The fight which was started in the columns of this paper against Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, November 17, has been far reaching in its effect, and as stated before all the leading newspapers in all parts of the United States, have freely commented on our onslaught on him for he is, the greatest anarchist in this Country and owing to our efforts in calling the attention of the whole world, as it were, to this fact, causing millions and millions of people in every section of the universe to line up anew on the "Race Problem" which has been created by those composing the so-called superior race for the sole purpose of keeping the Negro down. As a result of our memorable fight against Senator Tillman, the bloody advocate of the shotgun policy for Colored men, women, and children in the South; last Sunday morning the majority of the leading white divies, in this city boldly thundered forth in their sermons, against Benjamin R. Tillman and his anarchistic teachings. Rev. William E. Barton, the eloquent and fearless pastor of the First Congregational Church of Oak Park declared that "instead of Northern influence making the Negro a ravisher of white women, slavery and its sequences had made the white man a destroyer of the virtue of the black woman." Rev. Barton concluded as follows: "The Ethiopian has changed his skin, and that very perceptibly," he said on "The Leopard's Spots." "It has been changed for him. He is now a mulatto, made so by the people whose one most constant fear is of amalgamation. "It is easy for us to ask ourselves when some terrible lynching occurs. 'What would you do if your daughter had been ruined by a black wretch?' Now and then we ought to ask the question. 'What would you do if you were a black man, educated, Christian, and your wife, your daughter were never safe from danger from those who assume that all black women were unchaste? What would you do when neither court nor public sentiment nor God above spoke out to protect your dear ones from outrages?' "I utterly deny Senator Tillman's statement that northern influence has made the Negro a ravisher of white women, but I affirm that slavery and its sequences made the white man a destroyer of the virtue of black women, and in vastly larger numbers. "Unless we recover from our caste spirit we shall meet worse dangers than we are fearing. We shall have a mob of 9,000,000 people, of whom we have crushed the soul, rising up with torch and brand. And we shall have China and Japan, armed and No. 7 mighty and like the sands in number, hammering down the Golden Gate. "I do not plead for social equality. I do not want to marry a Negro woman. I have lived in the South and appreciate the problem of the South. And I say there is but one solution of the Negro problem, and that is to let the Negro become as much of a man as his own ability and character will permit." Forgets Help of Blacks. In his prelude to his morning sermon at St. Paul's Reformed Episcopal Church Bishop Fallows said: "Mr. Tillman has forgotten that it required 240,000 blacks in blue, commanded by white men, to help save the Union and make it possible for him to tell his audience 'that on Monday next, when the gavel will fall in the hand of the Vice President of the United States and a roll call will be called, my name will be on that roll, as it has been for twelve years.' "Mr. Tillman forgets that before the war the awful shadow of the white man's impurity was over countless homes in the South, causing sorrow inexpressible to wives and mothers, because of the continual lapse from virtue of their husbands and sons with helpless Negro women. The women of the black people in his audience whom he grossly insulted by calling them 'baboons', and 'barbarians', were civilized enough to transmit much of the bluest as well as of the vilest blood the South could furnish to the veins of their offspring. "Mr. Tillman forgets that as there are far more than 1,000,000 out of the 9,000,000 of the African race who have white progenitors, he can never, by his belief in 'shotgun practices and assassinations to maintain white supremacy,' either shoot or assassinate the white man in the black man or keep him down. The white man has forever lifted him out of the 'baboon' or 'barbarian' state, and in so doing his receptivity and capacity for the white man's endless progressiveness. If there is to be a war of races, which Mr. Tillman is doing all he possibly can to bring about, let him not forget this fact. "But there will be no such contest. One civil war is enough for the United States. The best southern sentiment is utterly opposed to Tillmanism. Rational and-not rabid words and deeds will solve the difficult problem. But let Mr. Tillman not forget that in the settlement he can no more send the fourteenth and fifteenth constitutional amendments to hades than he can upturn the Capitol at Washington with a one-timed pitchfork." Rev. J. L. Jones of All Souls' church spoke of "the rantings of the profane. (Continued on Page 3.) Will nominate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catolics, Protestants, and some Enlightenmentists, and Enlighten of Labor, or any one size can have their say, soiling as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad is a newspaper whose platform is broad surpassing that ever claiming the editorial rights of the own union. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year. $2.00 Six Months. 1.00 JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered at the Post Office at Chicago, IL, as Second-clam Matter. PERSONAL MENTION. Walter M. Farmer, for 16 years an honored member of the bar in St. Louis, Mo., is now engaged in the general practice of Law. Suite 708, 171 Washington street, Phone Main 4153. Residence 4856 Langley avenue, Phone Drexel 6302. TILLMAN'S FALSE PRETENSE If there was any point or purport to Senator Tillman's harangue at Orchestr hall the other night it was that the Negro is seeking social and political rights which render him dangerous. This is Mr. Tillman's favorite man of straw. First assume that the "Nigger" wants to eat and sleep with the white man besides exercising political domination over him and then point out how necessary it is for every white man to buy a shotgun and go gunning for "blackbirds." The whole thing is, of course, false pretense. Senator Tillman knows as well as anybody else that no Negro, north or south; so much as dreams of social equality with the whites. He knows that in the south, where he lives, the Negro has practically abandoned any idea of insisting upon his political rights. The one thing that Negroes, north and south, hope for is the concession of their legal rights—that though they are inferior to the white man socially and politically they shall be his equals before the law. Surely this is no extravagant nor offensive aspiration and Mr. Tillman himself recognizes it when he proclaims that he would protect his old Negro servant with his own life if necessary. But it will be observed that Tillman proposes to do the protecting. He would take his trusty shotgun and defend his servant, but he would not concede that the law should defend him, much less that the servant should defend himself. Senator Tillman, in other words, would defend his Negro servant as he would defend his horse—not because the servant has any rights but because he is Senator Tillman's servant. And this is his attitude toward the whole question. He seeks to raise a false issue by prating about the Negro's pretensions to social and political equality, but in the final analysis it develops that Senator Tillman wants to deny the Negro the rights of a human being when any white man is concerned. That is why he breathes threatenings and slaughter and predicts race wars in the near future. It may be that the Tillman doctrine will find favor in the north as it is accepted pretty generally throughout the south. There is undoubtedly a growing tendency in the northern states and especially in the northern cities to spell Negro with two g's and to raise the lynch cry whenever a Negro is involved. If it be held, however, that a white man has the right to kill a Negro without process of the law the doctrine ought to be openly avowed without any subterfuge and humbug about social and political equality. That is mere evasion.—The Chicago Chronicle Nov. 30. To our way of thinking there is nothing in that part of Senator Tillman's rot, wherein he states that "he would protect the life of his Negro servant at the point of his gun. All the slave holders before their rebellion advanced the same argument. It is more than enough to give an old black cat the belly ache to listen to such debased creatures as Benjamin R. Tillman, and his crowd relate how they in their boyhood days sucked milk from the tits of their black mammies, and then turn around and advocate the shotgun policy for all Colored men, women, and children. Prof. W. Kemper Harreld, who puts in much of his time in hanging around the Frederick Douglass Center, is too dishonest to turn over to us the five dollars, which no doubt he spent to get his washing out of the laundry. 1 any state of this union is absurd. It is an idea that never would have entered his head if he had been a soldier of the civil war that he is trying to have fought over by our citizens. "To my mind the most shameful part of the whole shameful affair was the action of the women, whether patronesses or promoters, who brought among us this exponent of the miscalled gospel of Tillman—profanity, vulgarity and ribaldity. The role played by those women was unugracious, unseemly and unpatriotic. They now are looking for another sensation with which to raise more money. I suggest that they find out who is the best prize fighter of the time, and with him for a lecturer they can raise a good fund without doing violence to the sanctities and proprieties of our city of peaceful homes and peace-loving citizens." Walter M. Farmer spoke as follows: "It has been a matter of much surprise to me that the people of the North, East and West have allowed themselves to be deceived into believing that there is a Negro Problem. Even some of our leaders have fallen into the mistake of accepting for the race the responsibility for the so-called Negro Problem. But there is no Negro Problem and certainly none of the Negro's making. * * * * * * * * The only serious problem confronting the race, is the universal problem of mankind. How to become all that God has created us capable of becoming. As American Citizens our greatest concern is how to live up to the highest possibilities of that citizenship. The South indeed has a problem, grave, serious and dangerous. It is how to disfranchise four million American Citizens without coming in conflict with the Constitution of the United States. And further, how to deprive the Negro of his civil rights and reduce him to a state of Serfdom without offending the spirit and genious of our republican institutions. * Social equality has no part in the consideration of this question. Out of a population of nearly eighty million people, there are about ten million Negroes. Just how it is possible for ten million "Inferior Negroes" to force social equality on eighty million "superior Whites" has never been demonstrated. This social equality cry is a mere subterfuge, resorted to by the demagogue to terrify the unthinking and to arouse race hatred. It may worry the White man of the South, but it claims a very small part of the Negroes' reflection. His position on the social equality question is aptly illustrated by the remark the goose made to the horse; finding themselves together in a narrow stall, the goose said: "See here old fellow I'll promise not to step on your feet, if you'll promise not to step on mine." * * * * * * * * In his speech at Orchestra Hall, Mr. Tillman uttered a base slander on Negro Womanhood. You no doubt know to what I refer. I wish here and now to pronounce it as false as it is vicious. The Gentleman the cavaller has his right hand ever ready to defend a lady whether white or black nor would he utter one word inconsistent with his acts. * * * * * * Hon. William Dillon spoke in part as follows; "I did not expect to be called on to speak when I came here this afternoon. I came at the request of my friend, Mr. P. H. O'Donnell, with whom I have the honor to be associated in professional relations, and I came mainly with the object of hearing Mr. O'Donnell speak. I shall therefore not detain you more than two or three minutes. I have watched this Tillman incident with very great interest from the start. I knew, as most other people knew, that all the enemies of the Colored race here and elsewhere were extremely anxious that this matter might lead to some outbrust of violence on their part, which would have seriously prejudiced them and greatly aided their enemies. In the result I am happy to know that the Colored people of this city have exhibited an admirable self restraint and moderation which cannot fall to raise them in the estimation of every fair-minded man, and to refute many of the clumbles which have been uttered against them. Mr. Tillman says that he can see in the future a terrible race war between the white and the Colored races in this country. I imagine that I can see a far different and, as I believe, a nobler vision. I can see the two races, the black and the white, living together side by side in peace and amnity, showing to all the other nations of the civilized world a remarkable example of how far it is possible for these two races to live to gether in the same community without race hatred or race violence. I can see them vying with one another only in the legitimate pursuits of peaceful rivalry; in their common loyalty to their common flag, and in their devotion to the great republic, which will ever continue to be as it ever has been, the refuge of the oppressed of every race, of every color, and of every clime." Patrick H. O'Donnell, gave expression, to these noble words: Friends: We were told when we came here today that this meeting would close at 5 o'clock or thereabouts. The hour has come; there is more music on the program; theres' one or two more speakers. Therefore I'll not occupy much of your time—if I don't get warmed up a little.(Applause). But I want to make one comment that has not been made to-day, that this meeting should not adjourn until it volces a universal sentiment of Thanksgiving and gratitude to the Chicago Daily Press who, after the Tillman meeting stood out editorially for the rights of the black man (Applause), and were bold enough to call upon him and ask that he do not return (Applause). This meeting, ladies and gentlemen, is unique and perhaps the most unique thing in it is to have an Irishman at a peace meeting (Applause and laughter). This is far from being a peace meeting in behalf of the black man. I am not here to boast, but I am here to offer an apology. The tremendous turmoil that shook the foundation of our social fabric in Chicago during the last two weeks was not inaugurated—was not advanced—by the Colored men of this city (Applause). What- HON. WILLIAM DILLON. Master in Chancery of the Circuit Court, and a patriotic citizen, a lover of humanity, who formulated and read the Resolution Commending the Colored people, for their orderly conduct during the presence of Benjamin R. Tillman in Chicago. Master in Chancery of the Circuit Court, and a patriotic citizen, a lover of humanity, who formulated and read the Resolution Commending the Colored people, for their orderly conduct during the presence of Benjamin R. Tillman in Chicago. ever injury may have been done, whatever wrong may have come to Chicago, whatever criticism may be heaped upon us has not been augmented by the black faces of our citizenship (Applause). There has been some criticism that the Negro should have borne with patience and looked with complacency upon the stream of slander that has been poured out against his people. I belong to a fighting race (Applause, and I say to you that the Negro who would be complacent and at his ease while his people were being denounced, his wife dishonored, his children disgraced, is not worthy of wife or children, home or country (long and continued applause). That you did issue a universal protest, that you did stand like heroes, maybe like martyrs before your homes, demonstrates that the life of John Brown and of Abraham Lincoln, was not lived in vain—that you are the kind of men that fill armies with valiant heroes; that build republics and holds the flag in the sky that protects men fighting for liberty (Applause). I shall not trespass upon your time (Cries of go on! go on!) but I want to say this to-day to you, Tillman may voice the sentiment of much of the South; he may voice the sentiment of much of the North; he may have meant what he proclaimed, but I say that my people found this their home when they had no other home; they have not undertaken to oppress the black man; in Ireland they gave a welcome to Fred Douglass (Applause); they carried the arms of the North and wore the color of blue Benjamin Tillman does not speak for a single Irishman on the American soil. Gentlemen, this land is a land that has won its place in the world because it is built up of men who have stood for liberty. We have all fought together; we fought because we loved liberty and not because we were white or black (Applause). We stand here to-day as brothers, as patriots, as men, and Benjamin Tillman or all the tyrants like him cannot shake our faith in each other, or weaken our fealty to this great nation, (Tremendous applause). Rev. Austen K. DeBlols had this to say in behalf of the Negro race "What shall he say, what can he say who comes after the King!" I was not born in the North nor in the South, nor in the West, nor in the East, but I was born eventually after the war was over and I came to this country having been a British citizen a good many years, later so that it is impossible for me to speak with such impassioned eloquence and such fervid patriotism as have those grand old men and heroes who have spoken to us in the early part of this afternoon. At dinner time to-day I turned to an old gentleman who is a member of my home circle and who is bound by very intimate ties of kinship to myself, and I said to him, "Father, what shall I say this afternoon at the meeting?" and the old gentleman looked over his glasses thoughtfully as is his custom, and then bringing down his hand gently (he does all things gently, he doesnt understand the pitchfork method); bringing down his hand gently, he said, "Tell them that the progress of the Negro in the United States of America during the past forty years has been unexamined and without precedent in the history of the human race," and that is all my message. I trust this message answers once and for all, and absolutely all the Tillmans in Christendom. I am unique among the men on this platform, I believe, in the fact that I did not read Senator Tillman's speech, or the account of it in the paper, for I had no time, except that part of it, where he referred to the gospel according to Senator Tillman and in comparing his gospel, with the gospel of Jesus, Rev. DeBlois placed the South Carolina Anarchist in a mighty bad light. Just one word more. I was in the city of London some years ago. There was a great religious convention at which men of a certain denomination, (I will not name it) were gathered from the ends of the earth. It was a splendid convention. There was a company of Negro Ministers from the South that stopped at the same hotel. There were some white ministers at the hotel that went to the proprietor of the hotel and said to him, "See here, you must send away from your hotel these men, or we will not stay." Ten of them went to that hotel proprietor. He straightened himself and looking them in the eye said, "You are at liberty to leave this hotel, if you wish, but these other gentlemen are my guests, and they remain in this hotel just as long as they wish." and every newspaper in the city of London next morning endorsed the stand of the hotel keeper. My brothers and sisters, in all hope and in full courage, let us look to the future, for it is bright with blessings. May God in his grace bring you all the blessings of life. Rev, M. C. Hartzell, pastor of the South Park Av., M. E. Church, covered himself over with glory in his short and sensible talk to the vast throng of people who warmly greeted him as he rose to pour out his words of eloquence, he related how he had journied to the South in the early years of his manhood, and that the first money he ever made in his life he earned by teaching school among the Colored people in that section of the country, that he can never forget how eager the old Colored men and women were to drink in a little learning, that many of those old people would walk for many miles in order to attend school with the children. Among other things Rev. Hartzell said that the men in the North who make the eagle scream, for the purpose of electing bad Republicans to office, and the men in the South who play upon the race question for the purpose of electing bad Democrats to office, are the very worst enemies in American politics: that the Negro braggart, and the white braggart ranked next, and that while the deportation of the Negroes sounds very well from the platform, but he declared that United States Senator Tillman would be among the first to take up arms to keep the Negro in the United States, as he was a necessity to the upbuilding of the South. In closing his long to be remembered talk, in glowing terms he predicted a bright future for worthy Afro-Americans on this continent! Rev. J. F. Thomas, was the last speaker, and these were his words: "I'm not here to make a speech. I prefer sitting down and listening at those who never mingle with us as I mingle with you; but I'm here simply to clear my own record. I want to make it as briefly as possible that I endorse with all my heart, with all my power and with my small church behind me all the work of Dr. Carey, Mr. Taylor and others in bringing about this Peace Meeting, the result of their work so quietly and gentlemanly done against Tillman coming to Chicago. Any report to the contaray notwithstanding seen in the paper of any one speaking for the Baptists, is false. Some men can talk for themselves. I don't belong to that kind of cringing Negroes that's afraid to look a man in the face because he's on the other side of Mason & Dixon's line. I want to make this statement: That the Baptists in Chicago do not endorse Dr. E. J. Fisher's remarks as printed in the news of last Monday evening. We are to loyal to our people; we think too much of the dignity and the character that the Negro has built up for himself. That libery loving patriot William Dillon, brother of John Dillon, the world renowned advocate of Home Rule for dear Old Ireland, who is at the present time a member of the British Parliament, formulated and read the following resolutions which were adopted by a rising vote: "Resolved, That this meeting desires to express its satisfaction that the effort of Senator Tillman to light the flame of race animosity in this city has so signally failed, and to stigmatize the action of those who brought Mr. Tillman here as mischievous and uncalled for, and which action, but for the self-restraint displayed by the Colored people of Chicago, might have led to disastrous results. Resolved, Further, that, we thus publicly thank Mayor Dunne for his noble stand in refusing to preside at such a meeting.' An amendment was also adopted praising the daily newspapers in this city for so nobly contending for the right in relation to Senator Tillman. Subscription Dancing Party a Brilliant Success. On last Monday evening; Rosalie Hall, 57th Street and Rosalie Court, was a scene of beauty; the occasion being the Subscription Dancing Party, given under the personal management of Mr. Julius N. Avendorph, which proved to be one of the most successful of the five subscription parties that have been given. The grand march, which was arranged especially for the occasion, was led by Mr. and Mrs. Avendorph. Everybody present expressed themselves as having had a most delightful time. The subscribers were, Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Lawrence, Dr. and Mrs. George C. Hall, Prot. and Mrs. Wm. Emanuel, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Ayers, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Brent, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Carter, Mr. and Mrs. Phil. Green, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hudson, Mr. and Mrs. J. Gray Lucas, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Moseley, Mr. aid Mrs. James Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Smiley, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Warren, Dr. and Mrs. A. W. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Miller, Mr. and Mrs. John Morton, Austin, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Eaves, Mr. and Mrs. Jos. B. Crum, Mr. and Mrs. James Madden, Dr. and Mrs. D. H. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Bolden. A. R. Brodie, J. N. Blackshear, Mr and Mrs. D. P. French, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bell, Geo. Bond, W. C. Casey, DeWitt Curtis, Isaac Dunlop, John Fry, Dr. and Mrs. W. F. Garnett, Frank Hamilton, G. B. P. Hancock, Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Kelly, Dr. J. W. Lewis, John Leftet, Mr. and Mrs. David Manson, Samuel McGowan, W. D. Moore, A. P. Perry, Dr. W. A. Richardson, W. Rawlin, W. R. Sobers, C. H. Smiley, Dr. A. L. Smith, Alex. Taylor, John Trott, Noah D. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Wilson, James Newsome, J. Housen, Henry Cole, Dr. A. W. Mercer, A. A. Wells, Mrs. M. Manning, Mr. and Mrs. Delbert D. Lee, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Henderson, H. K. Herrelds, W. Roane, Lester Pollard, A. John Thomas, J. S. Logan, Mr. and Mrs. John Gilligan, Mrs. Drisham, of Den- ver, Colo.; Miss Thomas, of Detroit, Mich.; Mrs. Bell Patton, Miss Essie Arnold, Mrs. George Blackwell, Miss Edith M. Madden, Miss Lena Pickett, Miss Daisy Hoggett, Miss Margurret Bell, Miss Johnson, Mrs. Rosa Lively, Miss Vergia Lively, Mr J. B. Ford, of Atlantic City, X. J.; Miss M. Bowser, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Miss Griffett, Smiley served—"D. N. T." CHIPS Mess. John Leflett and W. R. Sobers will spend a portion of the holidays in the east. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Hardy 1438 West 59th st., will celebrate their china wedding Saturday evening December 15th. Mrs. Moses Ratcliff 4850 Dearborn st., Thursday evening November gave an old fashioned quilting party in honor of her many friends. "President Roosevelt's Message" it applies to the Negro, will be the topic for discussion at the Literary, 30th and Dearborn st., at four o'clock Sunday afternoon. Mr. C. D. Higgins, dramatic reader will give a sermon in recitations at the Institutional Church Sunday evening 7:45 p. m. Rev. H. E. Stewart will preach at 10:45 a. m. A large number attended the 16th anniversary of "The Workers of The King" at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Stewart 3234 Vernon ave., last Friday evening. Miss Myrtle Hart who returned to Chicago from Indianapolis Thursday morning was in the evening entertained with a small party of friends at dinner by Mr. W. R. Sobers 5606 Lake ave. It was indeed very distasteful to us to have Dr. Charles E. Bentley, who seems to act like a coward and trimmer tagging around after us during the last days of our fight on Benjahin R. Tillman. While the Peace meeting was in full blast in Bethel Church Sunday afternoon Dr. Bentley, wanted to know if "we had a copy of the last issue of The Broad Ax in our pocket, as though we were so poor that we had to paddle papers on an occasion of that kind like some of those connected with the Old Harlot Church Organ. The home of Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Barnett 3234 Rhodes ave., was the scene of a brilliant reception last Sunday evening from 4 to 8 where a large number of folks had been invited to meet Mr. S. Colridge Taylor and Mr. Harry Burleigh who starred at the Pekin Theatre, Monday and Tuesday evenings. In honor of Mrs. Eliza Dishman of Denver, Colo., Mr. and Mrs. Clarence R. Brown 6640 Evans ave., entertained at the residence of Mrs. J. W. Lyons 3329 Vernon ave. A large number of friends, with music, cards, and dancing Thursday evening, the 6th Mrs. Dishman and her hostess were formerly of Kansas City, Mo., where they hired with each other in leading the "social smart set." The Sunday morning prior to calling on Mayor Dunne, Dr. Bentley who labors under the impression that "he is the boss of all the common Colored people in town" severely condemned us right in the lecture room in Bethel Church in the presence of J. Max Barber, for devoting so much of the space in the columns of this paper to Senator Tillman, all the time claiming that "he, Little Boo. Taylor, who misrepresents the Colored people in the office of the Board of election commissioners, and an old rotten skunk from Baltimore, had a secret understanding with Mrs. C. P. Woolley, Mrs. Keeler, and several other ladies connected with the Chicago Union Hospital to the effect that "Senator Tillman would not touch on the Negro in any manner, shape or form in his lecture on Cuba in Orchestra Hall Tuesday evening, November 27th." who, said rats! but during the meeting in Bethel Church Sunday afternoon, Dr. Bentley who is not half as wise as he thinks he is, made more noise and shouted louder and longer than anyone else on the platform, as the various speakers heated up his blue blood! Furnished Room to Rent. NICELY furnished room to rent to two gentlemen; gas; bath; telephone service. 3420 Prairie Ave. 500 Beautifully furnished rooms to rent on any street and in any section of the city you desire to locate. Information given Free of charge at the First National Roaming Association, 3159 State Street. a a ee ee ee SENATOR TILLMAN’S LECTURE IN ORCHESTRA HALL, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 27TH, Ax REPORTED BY L. W. WASHINGTON. RC eee ee ee a monkey, from a creature to a beast, from something to nothing, from the heights to which we have attained, to the deepth of de pravity, from a Chris- tisn gentleman to a ravisher of women, from a vallant soldier to a dismal coward, from an obediant ser vant of the law, to a destroyer of the moral code, from a rational being to a demon or a devil, from a burden bearer, toa burden to be carried, from an American citizen to an enslaved ba- boon, slandered, vilified, criticized, be- lied, dishonored, degraded, made in- incorrigible, characterized as vicious, corrupt, depraved, lost, with not a ray of hope for redemption and that by a Senator of these United states of civilized Christian America, all for the sake of “charity,” We listened with shame for our country to a sworn pro- tector of the law; openly acknowledg- ing the fact, of his being a violator of the legal status of the constitution; because it gives the Negroes the right of citizenship. And then we thought as we sat their noticing with eager- ness, the actions of those, who gave applause to the sentiments expressed by this enemy of the race, that ours as a people was a forelorn hope. But the spirit reminded us that :: I am the God of the oppressed” as we thought about the purpose of the event, and that for “charity” and to aliow the Senator to “make a little money honestly” we were reminded of a truth that money was the root of all this evil: “As we sat there hearing the Senator demanding his right of free speech. We were reminded, that the shoe was on the other foot, and was pinching him who was attempting to wear it, wrongfully. And then we noticed some vacant seats, a small number of ladies, a few socialists, a number of detectives and the audience nustly of Southern men, and that the eflort of my people was not in vain; We also saw the platform or the stage upon which the Senator sat was void of ladies only one standing. The tick- et we purchased gave us a good view of the entire hall, and yet hid us from the sight of the Senator for he seem- «2 to have sTiacked every Negro pre- sent but us, just a few seats in front of us we noticed a countrymen of the Japanese government silently though earnestly listening to the speech of a white man against the black, with a thrust of the Chianese position in it, And the question of the future pre- sented a different phase of the situa- tion and then the musical strains of Master Wood broke upon us and we thought; cursed be the man who ‘ould contaminate that mind with evil, when Jesus bade him honor his God, and the nation. While waiting with patience to hear our doom pronounced from the lips of this patrfof, this defender of the con- ttution, this protector of the rights of ail the people” as proclaimed by the chairman of the evening Mr. M. S. Macon we were gratified if not satis- fled to see, and hear the Senator of Scuth Carolina for ourselves. The following are the remarks of him who spoke for the sake of charity, whether :t was the charity, tfiat means to love relations and “neighbors, and one's self, in subordination to God,” or the sracious habit, principal, or disposi- tion, wrought in the soul by the spirit @ God, by which we esteem, desire, and delight in God in Christ, as our chief good and sum of all perfection and excelllence and the fountain of all blessings, and take pleasure to obey his laws; and by which we are inclined and unable to esteem, desire, and delight in spiritual fellowship in such as bear his image and to do good to all men even to enemies. This love or charity, is of great impor- tance; without it no gifts can be truly | valuable; where it is not, there can | be no true afith. Love continues for- |, ever, when once implanted; and tt |, renders us patient under trouble, slow | to anger, Ready to forgive injuries, | and inclines us to deny ourselves; to |, help our neighbors; makes us mourn |; for his faults and afflictions, and kind: | iv bear with his infirmities, it is the /, bond of perfection:~ and, in fine, if |, ST mn Wes mee (the Kipg of Dohomey Village blush for shame this this intelligent superior creature, of mixed blood, we must con fess, that this man if he is a man, || and if we judge the situation through the intelligents conveyed to our minds by the eyes’ and ears, we must con- fess the truth, that the speaker him- self, was a brute; A man who says, that he has been patient with us, that he knows our weakness, that be be Ueves in giving us justice, life, liberty, and the pursuits of happiness, that we ‘ought to be left alone. That the pos- fontous sting of equality had been sown in our bossom which was caus- ing all the trouble, is a wanderer of the trust imposed upon him by the de- fenders of American citizenship the constitution and the flag. He is at- temtping to save others without first saving himself. We must confess that he has no power, because his knowl- edge is limited. The speaker, Mr. Macon in his in- troduction said: “Ladies and gentle men if I may be pardoned for mak. ing a personal referennce upon an oc- casion like this, I have known but one country, but one flag. This our flag which floats over all of our American states, is a flag that has never waved over-an enemy and whose glittering stars bedecked her azure blue. May I remind you. Coming from one of the 13 original states whose history Is written upon her bosom of the Revolu- tionary War, never to be erased, gives ime pleasure to present to you the fruit of South Carolina, who is brave enough to be true, and trug enough to |e brave, who in the American Sen- = has stood for constitutional lib- | erties, for all of our liberties, freedom ‘of the press, and a defender above all of free speech I present to you the greatest of Americans, I repeat it I present to you the greatest of Ameri- can statesman Senator Benjamin R. Tillman.” Ladies and gentlemen, will you par- don me for a few brief personal re- marks, before I enter upon the matter of the evening: (Applause) “I have been trying to make a little money honestly; and when I received a let- ter from your ladies, I expected to come into your city, a8 I have always done. Imagine—then; my surprise, (Laughter) I say imagine my sur prise, I know, nor care less what oth- ers may do, I stand with my fellow citizens to uphold these ladies in this noble work for charity. We will set- tle these questions with justice; (In- terrupted by being questioned what do you know about it?) I know as much about it as any man in this hall. (Cheers.) I don’t see what I have said yet, a voice in the audience said goon (Cheers and laughter) If you will wait, I don’t know that I have touched the raw, I will get to It, (Cheers) I wonder what all this news- paper Hallabaloo was about, you would have thought I was an anar chist, why one would think that be- cuse of the racket of a portion of your citizenship that you was in Rus- sia instead of America. It was to me lke an opera buff, like the story of mother goose. “Fe fy Fum, 7 smell the blood of a southern dead or live you must have some, then this buying off somebody to gag me, and then T learned the Mayor, bad snubed | me. I have never met him, I never wrote to him I never asked any body to write to him never knew him and where does the snub come in at. (AD- plause.) At 12 noon the first Monday | in next month when the gavel falls | in the U. 8. Senate I will be there to take aay seat representing the people where does the snub come in at. (AD- | ; i Mien view of the fact that I could not auscane that qwation without discur | sing the Negro question, I prefer to) discuss it like a man, I prefer to dis-| cuss it from an American point of view, I lay claim to be as well quall- fied, if not better qualified, than any man in America, I have studied, I have had more experience than any man in ‘his house, I don't see what I have | said yet, if you will wait, I don't know hat I have touched the race( let me | we ee ee ee ee ‘Negro (applause) God never made him Out of as good clay as he made me. What is your African ever done? What ia his achievements? What has he dene! Absolutely nothing. He has -been a burden of the white man since 61, he has never wrote a language, he has never built a city, accept of bam- boo and straw. This people has been Picked out by the fanatics of the north, with the attempt to make them our equal; what excuse for it why deal with this man different than the other three races. And {t has been left to you smart elicks to discover that this African is the equal of a white man. Booker T. Washington, he is not a black man, he had a white father you have read his book, un- derstand me, I am not advocating sla- very, for when a boy I saw $100,000 worth of Negro slaves march off from our plantation. If I could get back all by singning my name to a piece of Paper, I would refuse; slavery is dead, and it ought to have died, I am glad of it. When you talk about Book- er Washington's up from barbarism through slavery; did the idea dawn on you then, these four million king @ baboon. And that Charles Sumner dia Rot go to Africa to bring them here. These ships were fitted out in the new England States making traffic for dlood, putting the money in thelr Pockets and still they claim the right of a white man’s emancipation and a white man’s civilization. The Negro can do a great deal to relieve the sita- ation, he can take hold in a rational way, he should unite to control this younger generation. I simply tell you of it and if you dont Ike it you don’t lke it. The “Nigger, never will ex- ercise his franchise in the south, and as far as we know he never will ex- exercise it. I suggest that you settle this question by immigrating a million or more among yourselves. And you northerners will repeal. The 15 amendments, yourselves, I will give you in exchange 3 Niggers for one German, Irishman , Sweed, English- man or any old white man, we don’t do as you dirty politicians do stoop to the infamy of putting a Nigger on the ticket and then counting him out. As to burning, I am against any man being burned, but when our wo- men are attacked, as was done in At- lanta, the beastly nature just peals off. I don't know but too burnings, in the country. I have three daugh- ters, I would rather hear the story of their destruction by some wild beast than to know thgt their virtue had been destroyed by one of these de- mons, we loose all semblance of civi- lization, become close kind to the orig- inal type. You must think what you would do, Instead of lynching inno- cent people for the crimes of the guilty, I would give the Negroes and the white man a passport, so if he could not give an account of himself, I would put them on the chain gang. I recognize the ‘Nigger’ when let alone, is alright. I wan't to give him life, love, and liberty. T recognized his weakness. We disfranchised 120,000 of them in South | Carolina by simply proceeding that no man shall vote unless he has $300, worth of property, and shall be: able to read a clause in the constitution, 1 will be honest with you, I have told | this in senate. Now we have about | 120,000 white men that can’t read the | clause. You suppose that we were go ing to disfranchise those; would you fo it, (cries no) they have the imper- a1 blood of the occasion in their veins you tell me that education make the | man. I can assure you that some of he most infernal scoundrels are edu- mated, manhood character, patients, ind integrity, is what makes the man, t seems that more Negro children ave been going to school in South Sarolina, since their disfranchisement, han before, but we have never sank 0 the low degredation as you in this tate, of allowing your little white jaughters, to sit beside your little Nigger’ boys. You might as well take our medicine, I have got you (speak- ae Mary had a little lamb, its fleet is as white as snow.” the white man get through the hole while the door is shut to the ‘Nigger.’ We took this baboon, this lowest type of men, we taught him to be honest, “to be true, to distinguish those things, we taught him so well, that there were 4 million, more or Jes than all Africa-could show, a big- ser clviization, we gave him the foun- dation of right living, he had his les- ons so well learned, that when the Confederate army was battling for their homes when all the men from 16 years to 60 years, was loyal to ce. cession, when 4 1-2 millions were batt- Ung against 22 millions, that instead of the South being conquered, it wore itself out whiping you, we left our wives and our daughters with the Ne- groes who performed their duty faith- fully, some of them went and pick- ed up the grains of corn that fell from the Yankee soldiers horses’ mouths, taking them in to be parched to feed the hunger of their mistresses. If they had attempted to use the torch they could have disbanded the entire confederate army, in an hour. We gave them an oath of obligation, and they keeped it to the death. But you by your equality have ruined him you have made him a ravisher of our wo- men. a demon. (Right you are). He will lle in the bushes like a goat, hav- ing no restraint, no control, and per- petrate his filendish acts. (What about the white men and Colored wo- men). Yes the white men has commit ted the sin and your Negro woman thinks it an honor to be with him you take a white man his lust is raught up by the Negro woman, but the white woman will not accend to the level of this beast. She will not suffer the shame of holding in he- arms, her ginger cake skinneg and kinky haired baby, white men should keep away from Negro women, as we demand ‘Nigger, men’ to let our wo- men alone. Senator Tillman delivered himself of much more vain and silly talk which had nothing to do with the “Negro Question” nor with the Cu- ban question, and he wound up his dtsjoined lecture by exclaiming! “We will not submit to Necro dom- ination regardless of all the Yankees between “Cape Cod and Hell.” MANY OF THE LEADING DIVINES IN THIS CITY FIRED INTO SENATOR TILLMAN. (Concluded from page 1.) the vulgar anachronism from South | Carolina, a belated fireeater, the van ishing end of the old regime.” Pastor Jones’ censure, also was di rected more particularly at the womer [who induced the senator to lecture here. He said They “lent the'r names Influence, and their presence to that ‘shameful vulgarity, the undignified unacademic, immoral, irreligious dis ‘play of rant and passion—all for ‘sweet charitys sake.’” In Class with Anarchists, Rev. M. B. Williams of the First Methodist Church of Oak Park, in his sermon on the prayer, “Thy Will Be ‘Done, As in Heaven, So On Earth,” said. ‘They who so pray must set thelr faces against the ractical athe'sm which treats the divine will as chim. erlcal, distrusts the potency of spirit ual forces and counsels a regime of force and mob law, of shotguns and lynching, and deserve the donm of those who sleep under the anarchists’ monument at Waldheim. They are as guilty of inciting to anarchy, as if actull bomb throwing took place as the direct result of their incendiary ut- terances. The world is not going to be renewed by the man with the pitch- fork any more ffian by the man with the bomb. Both are enemies of the noblest life.” Rev. A. Arnold Ross of the Wood- lawn Park Universalist Church referr- ed to the presence of Senator Till- mén In the city in the following lan- guage: “The only reason why the southern senator was invited was that he was considered a ‘drawing card.’ He is chiefly noted as a rabid Negrohater and his toting was a gratuitous in- sult to our Colored citizens. Those who are ‘responsible for his coming have disgraced tliemselves and would have injured the cause for which they labored were not that cause sacred in itself, Dr. Joseph Stolz disgressed from his at Isaiah Temple to criticize a ‘Tillman's utterances in his Orchestra Hall speecK, and Rabbi To- pias SchaMfKFber of Kehilath Anshe Mayriv temple, were among the other able pulpiteers in this city who in ieir Gunday morning discourses re- ferred in no complimentary terms to Senator Tillman. ‘The whole ground has been covered 'y Bishop Fallows, and Rev. Barton, n relation to the responsibility of ‘the amalgation of the races in the South, they have clearly set forth the fact that “practically all the race mix ing in the South has been brought about by the so-called leading white men in that section of the country co liabfating with Negro women, and at the same time these same men, are continually raising the hue and cry that “the Negro is seeking social equality with the whites” and they are ever ready to mob, lynch and burn at the stake any Negro who at- Tetapts to consort with a low white female strumpet. ‘The whole truth and nothing but the cold truth ig proclaimed by Rev. Bar ton, when he declares that “white men in the South always have been and are at th epresent time the destroyers of the virtue of black women, and that there fs no court, law nor nothing on this side of high heaven, to protect the wife, or the daughter of the Col- ored man in Mie South against white ravishers, Who pose as Christian gen- tlemen. A wide awake man up a tree natur- ally arrives at the conclusion that many white ladies in the South are perfectly familiar with the fact that “their husbands dearly love to consort with Colored women,” and seemingly they do not object to them hugging, and kissing them, for it is seldom that we hear of those high strung ladies obtaining divorces from their hus- bands on such grounds. Possibly they are not adverse to having their husbands to spend much of thelr time with Colored women, for Tien they might be relieved from performing some unpleasant family duties. This seems to indicate that decency, morality and high ethical ideals are not at a high premium among some of the prominent white ladies an gentlemen throughout the Southland. - John T. C-rmobell Paints > True Picture of th: Horrors and the Terrible Destriction, which ‘Will Fall Upon the South in the Event of a War Between the Races. Julius F. Taylor, Editor of The Broad Ax: Well, the great Southern Blackguard Tillman has come to Chicago, had his course, brutal say, and gone. Now—if some Chicago Nero could go to ‘Charleston, S. C., and reply to him, we might feel that honors were even. But no. “Teddy” would swing his “big stick” across his path, and drive him ‘back north, and if, perchance, he ‘should evade the “big stick,” the shotguns of South Carolina would convert him into buzzard food: not worm food—for he would not get decent burial. Why should the Negroes of Chicago be restrained from treating Till- man in Chicago as he would treat any of them in Charleston on a similar mission? Tillman and his ilk denounce Booker T. Washington, assert- ing that he is secretly striving for Negro equality. Prof. Wash- ington is striving to make good selfrespecting, law-abiding men and women of his students. But he is, unwittingly producing— not Negro equality, but Negro superiority ; for every one of hes students who graduates from his school and goes back is the su- perior of all the “white trash” of the locality from whence they come. That is what hurts. Mrs. Adele J. Keeler, the finan- cial agent for the Union Hos- pital perhaps thinks she has made herself famous by her part in the Tillman blackguarding exhibi- tion; but she will learn later that she has only made herself notor- ious. She said to the committee who requested her to cancel the Tillman lecture that she was the daughter of a soldier who fought to free the Negroes. She does not confer any credit on her father by bringing to Chicago « pronounced enemy and brutal murderer of Negroes. Better for the memory of her father had she said, “I am a descendant of Ju-| das Iscariot.” It was not money for the Hospital she was really working for. It was “lighning bug glory” for herself. She is now a good running mate for the Indianapolis chambermaid who won (no—merely received notor- ety because she was supposed to have refused to make up the bed that Booker T. Washington slept in at the Hotel English, when in fact she had not been required to make it up, but was lischarged from the hotel be- -ause she was objectionable. But he southern shot guns sent her sundreds of dollars as a reward| ior the supposed insult to A Washington. Let this iy woman go arm in atm with Mrs. Keeler on a tour through the | fools and their little money will '|soon be parted and these hero- | ines will get it. | The Tillman fund to the hos- pital will be very sacred. An atom of the dust from his shoes sprinkled on the pillow of a pa- tient (some of them) will work a miraculous cure like a relic of the saints. < It is hard to treat any part of this Tillman affair except in terms of contempt. In his bru- tal paukness, however, he has declared one thing I fear is true; that the greatest race war of modern times is imminent. It is much closer to us than the thoughtless are aware. Little did the white slave owners of San Domingo in 1793-4 dream of what a volcano was under them w burst forth suddenly as it did. They went on heaping outrage upon outrage—regardless of jus- tice till at last the patience en- durance of the blacks turned to the most destructive fury that ever returned to punish tyranny. ‘The exploits of the Negroes there is the surprise of history. They are the only people who ever bounded from slavery to nation- ality without help. ‘They com- mitted awful barbarities, but they were in retaliation for worse ones. Why does Ben. Tillman seek to precipitate this race war on the country to the destruction of both races largely? Let us hope he may be an early victim. Let us look at the possibilities of the situation. The Negroes every where are armed. Whatever else they lack—they have arms, and know how to use them. The Ne- groes in this vicinity knew ot the proposed mob of Tillman be- fore it was announced in the pa- pers—a hundred and fifty miles from the field of action. This means something. They are nu. numerous in the north, but they are strong enough to repel the ettacks of thier active _ haters. The great majority of the pe-- ple in the North would take the side of the Negroes as against Negro hating mobs. How would it be in the South? The whites there who would befriend the Ne- groes would be borne down at once, as it was when secession ‘was being inaugurated. Then all the whites against all the blacks. ss the whites would conduct none but a savage warfare they could not expect the Negroes to do otherwise. Then what? Burn all dwellings, burn railroad bridges, dynamite, depots ,cu. telegraph wires, poison the springs and wells, poison the food. This was done in Sar Domingo. It is what all people will do in a death struggle. Who can longest survive the poisoned food? Those who have always eaten the poorest food. Who can longest live in woods and swamps? They who have always lived in the poorest houses. Who are these longest survivors? The Negroes. The issue is not that the Ne- groes want to pull Tillman down, but that he don’t want to let them up. His hatred of Booker Washington lets the whole cat out, claws, tail and all. Washing- ton’s teaching Tillman thinks tends to make the Negroes think they are as good as the whites, and will want to associate witn whites. It would be a “bad Nig- ger” indeed, who would volun- tarily associate with Ben Tillman. Booker T. Washington is an edu- cated gentleman and has shown himself such wherever he has been placed. Tillman has shown himself a dirty blackguard at all times \and places. Washington can calculate an astronomical eclipse. Tillman can’t disting- uish between an eclipse and the shadow of a soaring buzzard. Great God blct him out! I am not a degenerate daugh- ter of a soldier who a to free the slaves like Mrs. K., but THE GREATEST VIOLINIST OF THE RACE!! Mr. Alfredo Vialet, of Havana, Cuba, ‘will appear in a Violin Recital, Mon- day evening December 17th, at Bethel Church, Assisted by Mr. George W., Bainbridge, (Leading Tenor of St. James Episcopal Church.) Admission 36 cts, Jullus N. Avendorph, Manager. 500 Rooms wanted at once in improvements in city and suberbs by the First National Rooming Association. 3159 State Street. _ Fifty-First St. and Armour Ave. Rail Yards: 51st St. & L. B. & M. B. Rd. Sand St. and Armour Ave. CHICAGO Tile and Slate Hauling a Specialty. COAL J. H. COLEMAN & CO. Express & Van Moving TRUNKS EVERYWHERE. 2840 State Stree Tel. 699 South CHICAGO Phone Oakland 1828 F. A. Rawlins The Modern Embalmer UNDERTAKER AND FUNERAL DIRECTOR When his work is finished you have no displeasure. 4834 State St., CHICAGO Phone Douglas 1550 ICE CREAM CIGARS, TOBACCO SHIRT WAIST$ KIMONA8 MRS. A. E. 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While in Kokomo, Ind., recently he undertook to locate the grave of the Miami chief Kokomo in order that the residents of the city might erect a monument in memory of the noted chief for whom the town was named. Godfrey had a number of relics, including a dress 125 years old that was worn by Frances Slocum, who was stolen when a child from Susquehanna, Pa., and was known as "the White Rose of the Miamis." Is This So? The average magazine is a literary swill barrel, and the man who conducts it enjoys no acquaintance with real literature or he would not occupy his position. To know literature would destroy his taste for trash, and trash is what he has to purvey in order to retain his constituency. — Chicago Chronicle. EMANUEL'S WONDERFUL. Foot Lotion—Ointment cures corn and perspiratolin. Sore feet, etc. Ask the druggist, ointment 50 cents, per box. Lotion on bottle 50 cents. A Good Home for Children. 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News items and advertisements left at these places will find their way into the columns of The Broad Av. --- SELECTIONS LONDON MUSIC HALLS. W. T. Stend Calls the Performances "Drivel For the Dregs." "If I had to sum up the whole performance in a single phrase I should say, 'Drivel for the dregs'-only that and nothing more." In this terse sentence W. T. Stead, writing in the Review of Reviews, condenses his impressions after witnessing a full performance at a London music hall. "My first impression," he says, "was one of unutterable boredom. For three and a half solid hours I sat patiently listening to the most insufferable bannality and imbecility that ever fell upon human ears. "My second impression, which naturally followed upon the boredom, was one of wrathful indignation. It seemed intolerable that in Anno Domini 1906 the heirs of a thousand years of civilization and the product of thirty-five years of the education act should relish this inane drivel. "It was not the immorality of the thing that roused me so much as the imbecility of it all. Unlettered rustics at country fairs used to find it amusing to grin at each other through horses' collars. It would be more appropriate if the audience of last night had been fitted with the headgear of a humbler and less intelligent congener of the horse. "My third impression was the absence, with one or two exceptions, of anything beautiful or melodious. There was not a haunting melody or a simple air in the whole jingle-jangle of vain sounds. And always, with one great exception and two small ones, there was a positive reveling in physical ugliness and ungraceful motion and poses. It is not funny. It is simply disgusting." Colns of Gilded Glass. Forty members of a large coiners' syndicate have been arrested in Paris. Hotel clerks have been their special prey. Dressed as well to do foreigners, they sometimes walked boldly into a hotel, tendered spurious gold for exchange and not infrequently complained of the rates of exchange. It was the practice of the gang to offer genuine French gold with the spurious, three or four counterfeits being mixed up in a handful of genuine coin. The spurious pieces are mostly 1856 and 1857 ten franc pieces, with the effigy of Napoleon III, and also the latest type of 1906 Republican twenty franc coins. These are admirably made. In fact, never before have spurious coins been produced to such perfection. They are made of crystal, heated to 900 degrees and cast in molds. Then by a galvano-plastic process they have been covered with a thin coating of real gold. They have the appearance, finish, weight and sound of real coins if thrown on wood or marble. The fraud can be detected if the coin is sounded on a brass or metal counter. The Magnetic Needle That Columbus was not, as is popularly supposed, the first to note the declination of the magnetic needle has recently been graphically demonstrated by the discovery of the sun dials, dating from a time anterior to Columbus' first voyage and bearing on the compasses accompanying them lines indicating the declination of the needle. One of these, found at Innsbruck, was constructed at Nuremberg in 1451. Not only has it an engraved line indicating the declination at the time of its construction, but other lines showing the changes of direction undergone by the needle in subsequent years. Who first noted the declination of the needle is still an unsettled question. — Youth's Companion. Chinese Paper Fans The almost universal use of fans in many parts of China gives rise to an important industry. In Nanking some 60,000 or 70,000 people are employed in the work of making paper fans. Hardly any machinery except that of the simplest kind is used at present, but enterprising foreigners are investigating the possibility of supplanting hand work by machinery. Doubtless machines would reduce the demand for fanmakers to less hundreds than there are now thousands employed in Nanking, but what would happen to the displaced thousands? That is the burning question in China.-San Francisco Chronicle. Roosevelt's Strenuous Life. If the account is correct, the strenuousness and the abounding vitality of President Roosevelt have been expressed by no one with more aptness than by his own wife. A man in Washington was trying to secure a plaster cast of the president's face. "How long would it take to make the cast?" Mrs. Roosevelt asked. "Twenty minutes." was the reply. "That settles it." answered Mrs. Roosevelt. "No human power could induce my husband to remain still for twenty minutes."—Leslie's Weekly. The Obstinate Poles German authorities are finding the Polish school children in the eastern provinces to be more than their match. Those children who resist the efforts of the teachers to compel them to speak German during religious instruction are hailed as heroes, and other children are fired to emulate their example. One little fellow who was laid over a chair by two teachers and soundly "strapped" for disobedience cried out, "You may whip me as much as you like, but you will not force me to pray in German" HILLMAN'S STATE & WASHINGTON STS. J. J. Bradley BRADLEY & REAL ESTATE, AND INSURA 709 S. Halsted Street Sandy W. Tripp 2918 State St New Department Why don't you get in the habit of doing you are? Every Tuesday and Friday special sales Stamps with each 10c purchase. We carry a swell line of Ladies' Shirtw s. A spendiid assortment of Shoes. 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See our Novelties in Jewelry, Watch-chains, Fobs, Cuff-buttons, Studs and Safety Pins. Boys' Suits, Pants, Hats, Shoes and Shirts. American Br President and Treasurer, THOMAS S. Vice-President, JOHN SE Secretary, WILLIAM MANUFATURED Common and Sev Office and Yards: 45th and Rol Yards running winter and sum with the latest improved Wolf out of Winter Yards out of Summer Yards. Telephone Yard ILLINOIS BR American Brick Co. Common and Sewer Brick Office and Yards: Fine Stock of Cigars. 3842 State Street. CHICAGO. Phone Douglas 7434. Over Montgomery's Drug Store. 45th and Robey Sts. Output of Winter Yards ..... 1,000 o per day Output of Summer Yards ..... 3,000 o per day ILLINOIS BRICK CO. Special Hours by Appointment. 3432 STATE STREET CHICAGO Medical Examiner and Court Physician for the Foresters No. 7895. Phone 194 South 94 N. Western Av 1994 N. Western Ave., Chicago. unk's Bro Junk's Brewery M. JUNK, Proprietor JOS. P. 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Strict Attention paid Ladies' work WHERE EVERY PATRON Saves ON EVERY PURCHASE Jacob Feinberg Wholesale and Retail MARKET AND GROCERY TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 565 81st and State Streets Telephone Yards 693 BADLEY & FIELDS REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE Estated Street CHICAGO Dy W. Trice & Co. 2918 State Street Department Store If you get in the habit of doing your trading in the New York Tuesday and Friday special sales-day and two of Fish Trad- with each 10c purchase. By a swell line of Ladies' Shirtwaists, Underwear and Cor- nidid assortment of Shoes. Hosiery, Gloves, Belts, fine Purses, Ins, Gowns, Bracelets, Millinery and everything you wear. A specialty of Men's Balbriggan Underwear, Hosiery, swell rants, Shoes, Fedora and Derby Hats. A line of soft Percale Negligee Shirts and Suspenders. Line of Neckwear and Hardkerchiefs. Novelties in Jewelry, Watch-chains, Fobs, Cuff-buttons, Stude ins. BRADLEY & FIELDS REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE American Brick Co.. 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