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THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY General Luke E. Wright, the Ex-Confederate Soldier of Tennessee TO BECOME CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT. HIS HOSTILITY TO THE CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS OF THE NEGRO, UNFITS HIM FOR THAT HONORED AND EXALTED POSITION. JACOB M. DICKINSON, ALSO AN EX-CONFEDERATE SOLDIER AND A TENNESSEE DEMOCRAT IS A MEMBER OF PRESIDENT TAFT'S CABINET. FRANKLIN MacVEAGH, OF ILLINOIS IS THE SECOND DEMOCRATIC MEMBER OF THE NEW PRESIDENT'S CABINET. Vol. XIV General Luke the Ex-Con- Soldier TO BECOME CHIEF JUSTICE SUPREME COURT. HIS HOSTILITY TO THE CITY OF THE NEGRO, UNFIT AND EXALTED POSITION. JACOB M. DICKINSON, ALSO DIER AND A TENNESSEE OF PRESIDENT TAFT. FRANKLIN MacVEAGH, OF DEMOCRATIC MEMBER CABINET. On the retirement of William H. Taft, as Secretary of War, July 1, 1908, he was succeeded to that office by General Luke E. Wright, of Tennessee an Ex-Rebel Confederate Democrat, who had fought to the best of his ability, to destroy or to burst up the union and to perpetuate slavery in this country. He was the first Southern Democrat and disunionist, to be selected chief of the War Department, since the days of Jefferson Davis, in 1857, who was selected Secretary of War by President James Buchanan. President Roosevelt, prior to selecting General Wright, as Secretary of War; appointed him Governor of the Philippine islands. On arriving on the shores of that country, General Wright, let the natives know, that, "they belonged to the black or dark races, and should be classed as Negroes. That they were inferior to the white man in every respect; utterly incapable of governing themselves, and that by divine right, the white man, was sent from on high to rule over them." He was so bitter, and displayed his race prejudice so strongly against them and made such a blank failure in administering the affairs of the island, and governing its natives owing to his color prejudices; that President Roosevelt, was forced to recall him. For a long time General Wright controlled The Commercial Appeal or The Mirror, of Memphis, Tenn., and his newspaper was one of the most, rabid Negro hating sheets in the South. In 1897, it unmercifully scored Col. William J. Bryan, for attending the Thomas Jefferson, silver dollar a plate banquet, in new York City, that year, and sitting at the same table with Negroes; General Wright's paper claiming that Col. Bryan could never THE EDITOR OF THE ADVANCE, ST. LOUIS, MO., EATS BLACK CROW. During the presidential campaign of 1808, the editor of the Advance, St. Louis, Mo., frotted and foamed at the mouth, like a Southern mad dog, of the Ben Tillman stripe, in its condemnation of self respecting Colored men, who absolutely refused to be whipped into line; for Taft, Roosevelt, Lake Wright and company. And in each issue, this class of Colored men were held up as enemies and traitors to their race. But the editor of The Advance, started in to eat black crow, and he and his sheet, are very much displeased with President Taft, and his Southern policy, in relation to the Negro, and his civil and political rights. It is no use, for editor Murray, to HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY be elected President of the United States, as long as he was willing to put himself on social equality and eat at the same table with "Niggers." It is our honest opinion; that General Luke Wright, should not be selected by President Taft, as Chief Justice, or as a member of the United States Supreme Court. For no man, who holds bitter and hostile views against any race of people, and who is not backward in giving expression to such views; should be elevated to that exalted position, for he has never hesitated in declaring that "the Negro should not be permitted to enjoy the same civil and political rights which are enjoyed by the other citizens of America. Col. Jacob M. Dickinson, who also fought in the Confederate army, an old time Mississippi and Tennessee Democrat, but he has never voted for Col. William J. Bryan, has been selected Secretary of War by President Taft, and we verily believe that Col. Dickinson will always be ready to strike at the Colored soldier with his heavy hand and keep him and all Negroes in the back ground with their hats under their arms, when white gentlemen are in evidence. Franklin Mac Veagh of Illinois, is the second Democratic member of the new President's cabinet. With General Luke Wright on the Supreme bench and with Justice E. D. White, of Louisiana already there, both unconstructed Democrats, and with two Democrats in his cabinet, the one hailing from the South, Secretary of War, and with President Taft, calling on the people residing in the Southern States, to enact disfranchising laws to square with the fifteenth amendment. It is beginning to look as though the Negro supporters of President Taft, will receive more than a square deal in the house of their friends. do any kicking against President Taft, for he closed his eyes, and blindly supported Taft, and his followers, and now, he should take his medicine like a man. NEGRO PAPER SUSPENDS. Christian Recorder Falls. Philadelphia, Pa., Tuesday, March 3—The Christian Recorder, the oldest Negro paper in the United States has been declared insolvent. Editor Johnson and Mgr. Collett are sick, liabilities are $10,856.31, assets $10,000. The bench of bishops has appointed a committee to run the paper until general conference. In the failure of the Christian Recorder, shows that the so-called Christian Negroes, are no better than the rankest sinners, when it comes to supporting their own newspapers, even here in this city one of the Church CHICAGO, MARCH 13, 1909. Organs, recently went to sleep for three weeks at one time. It is a lamentable fact that with few honorable exceptions the Negro from the highest to the lowest, considers that he is wasting his money, when he pays it out for newspapers, and other periodicals published in the interest of his race, but on the other hand he takes great pride in spending his money for newspapers which are doing everything in their power, each day in the way of manufacturing a strong sentiment against him. It will not be in our time but some day in the remote future the Negro may be able to learn this undisputable fact, namely, that no race of people will ever amount to anything in this world of thought and action, until it above all things else, learns to cultivate and heartily support its own literature.—Editor with it, driving a part of the lens into his left eye, destroying its sight entirely. Dr. Robson, was removed from the cafe in the midst of all its gaiety to a hospital, where the injured eyeball was removed and the chances are ten to one that his right eye will never be any use to him for the Doctors state that it is in a serious condition." Dr. Robson on returning to his South Carolina home after assisting to inaugurate William H. Taft, President of the United States should by this time have this one impression firmly rivited in his narrow mind, namely: "that all Colored men do not look and act alike." RESULT OF RACE PREJUDICE. Despite the envious record of splen WHITE DOCTOR IN TROUBLE White Doctor from Charleston, South Carolina, while attending the inauguration, called one of the Colored waiters in a fashionable restaurant a "Nigger," and in return the waiter put one of his Lights Out. It will be recalled that while one of the lilly White Republican delegates from Louisiana, attending the Republican national convention held in this city last June, which crushed out with its big machine, all other candidates and nominated William H. Taft, ran into a Colored man at State and Washington streets, and the White Republican from Louisiana brawled out here "Nigger" how dare you rub up against White ladies and gentlemen, you keep yourself in your proper place and walk out in the roadway where "Niggers" should walk." At that the Colored man death the White Republican from Louisiana a hard blow in the jaw and made his get away. It seems that while Dr. Loomis, Robson of Charleston, S. C., who is prominently connected with the German Fusleer Company of the National Guard of South Carolina, was eating his supper last Thursday evening in one of the most fashionable cafes in Washington and wanting to show off to the other guests that he hailed from South Carolina, where the White know how to handle 'Niggers,' Dr. Robson called one of the Colored waiters a 'Nigger' and as quick as a flash of lightning, the Colored waiter heaved a plate at him, striking Dr. Robson's eyeglasses with it, driving a part of the lens into his left eye, destroying its sight entirely. Dr. Robson, was removed from the cafe in the midst of all its gaiety to a hospital, where the injured eyeball was removed and the chances are ten to one that his right eye will never be any use to him for the Doctors state that it is in a serious condition." Dr. Robson on returning to his South Carolina home after assisting to inaugurate William H. Taft, President of the United States should by this time have this one impression firmly riveted in his narrow mind, namely: "that all Colored men do not look and act alike." RESULT OF RACE PREJUDICE. Despite the envious record of splendid achievements in building up business for the government in the South as collector of customs at the port of Charleston, S. C. Dr. William D. Crum was forced to resign Thursday merely on account of race prejudice Wm. Howard Taft, who was inducted into office March 4, is in a measure responsible for renewing the fight against Negro office holders in the South, inasmuch as he had promised during his recent Southern tour, not to make appointments in the South except by and with the consent of the commercial clubs or representatives of the respective communities. There is not a single community in the South that will assent to the appointment of a Negro to any office, matters not what his qualifications or moral character. When Dr. Crum went into office six years ago the annual收件 were less than $20,000, but we are happy to state the receipts now increased to $80,000, under a Negro's administration. Taft, in one of his recent speeches South, confessed that there was a "race feeling" then. If such a thing is true, it will cut a big figure. He Taft's Southern Negro policy. He will refuse to appoint Colored men to office for fear of race feeling. He is President of the whole people, as he claimed he would be in his notification speech at Cincinnati, he should not cater to Southern sentiment, but should appoint worthy men to office without regard to race or color. If he is President, he should be President, and not a puppet in the hands of designing politicians of the Pitchfork type. What need he to care about sentiment, since he has the army and navy to back him up in the enforcement of the Federal laws. No State has a right to The Afro-Americans and the Roman Catholic Church THAT CHURCH IS ACCOMPLISHING A GREAT WORK ALONG EDUCATIONAL LINES FOR THE NEGRO. HIS EMINENCE CARDINAL GIBBONS AGAINST THE CONTEMPLATED ING LAW OF MARYLAND. At this time, because of the stand taken by His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons relative to the disfranchisement of Maryland Negroes, the Roman Catholic religion among the race is freely discussed. But very few of the Negroes in America are fully conversant with the work done among them by the Catholics. While The Advocate is non-secular, and in regard to its publication favorably inclined to no one creed or sect, still in a spirit of fairness and justice it strives to give full credit where credit is due. The stand taken by His Eminence, Cardinal Gibbons, but brings to the general public a view of the work done through the efforts of the Catholic Church. It is doubtful if ten per cent of the population, outside of a narrow radius of the following mentioned place, is aware that there is such a settlement as is found on the Fowl river near Mobile, Ala., and known as Mon Louis Isle. Yet it cannot be gainsaid that this little town, composed entirely of Negroes, maintained by their thrift and energy, with a notable school system which cultivates the heart and mind of the children as well as develops a manual ability, is doing a great and honorable work in that locality. Each year finds new residents settling in this little town. This is a Roman Catholic priest, acting with the full consent of his church started the movement. Little is mentioned about St. Joseph College, near Montgomery, Ala., which, almost within the very shadow of Tuskegee is doing a work which, though on a smaller scale, is wielding an influence for the uplifting, upbuilding and progressiveness of the Negro race. Yet, hidden as it is from the eye of the general public, struggling against numerous odds, it sends out each year a batch of mentally trained students to, in turn, use their ability in the mental development of make a law to abridge the rights of any citizen on account of race or color. Taft should see that the amendments are enforced to the letter.—The Bluff City News, Memphis, Tenn. INTERMARRIAGE OF THE RACES. OPPOSED BY PRESIDENT ELIOT. Montgomery, Ala., March 8.—"There should be no admixture of racial stocks," declared President Elliot of Harvard university tonight in an interview. "I believe, for example, that the Irish should not intermarry with the Americans of English descent; that the Germans should not marry the Italian; that the Jaws should not marry the French. Each race should maintain its own individuality. "The experience of civilization shows that racial stocks are never mixed with profit, and that such unions do not bring forth the best and strongest children. There is no reason, however, why the races cannot Americans the Roman Catholic Church EMPLISHING A GREAT WORK SOL LINES FOR THE NEGRO. AL GIBBONS, SPEAKS OUT TEMPLATED DISFRANCHIS- the ignorant of their race. This, too, is a Catholic effort for the uplift of the American Negro and was begun in 1901. Little mention is made of the school in connection with St. Peter Clavier Church, at Twelfth and Lombard streets, where it is intimated that several thousand Negro children receive instructions daily. This last mentioned school is, perhaps, the foremost as well as the most recent. Situated in a section of Philadelphia known as the Seventh ward, in which ward alone there are 10,000 Negroes. The Catholic Church, under the direction of the rector of St. Peter Clavier Church, purchased a half block on Lombard street, west of Twelfth and adjoining the church edifice, and built of fine gray stone structure, and its doors are open to any and all children. St. Peter's is a Colored Catholic Church, and the greater per cent of its students are Colored children. Who shall say that these institutions are not doing a great work? And who shall say that the stand taken by Cardinal Gibbons will not go a long ways in showing to the world that there is something well worth developing beneath the darkened hue of Afro-American skins? Now tomorrow the Catholic Churches of the country take a collection for Negro Missions, and in years to come, when the Negro race stands upon the summit of the highest mental development and truest moral principles, and of efficient manual ability alongside of the Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Episcopal and other religious creeds who are doing much to wipe out the line of prejudice and inequality, and leading all mankind to a full acceptance of universal brotherhood, the Roman Catholic Church will stand strongly silhouetted against the disappearing clouds of ignorance and undeveloped mentality.—The Advocate, Portland, Ore. live together side by side in perfect peace and amity. "In the case of the Negroes and the whites, the races should be kept apart in every respect. The south has a wise policy. I believe that Booker T. Washington has the right ideals." The broad history of the world proves that President Ellot, is simply talking through his hat, when he states that "racial stocks are never mixed with profit." The truth of the matter is, that it is right to the reverse of the proposition laid down by the Ex-President of Harvard; for by the mixing of the races, is the only thing which has maintained, the slightest semblance of civilization in the world for the past two thousand years. President Ellot strayed far from the path of truth in order to strike the Negro over the head, with a club of race prejudice, and to please the Southern people. As Booker T. Washington's ideals are all based on greed and gain, or commercialism; they are not worth discussing at this time—Editor. --- THE BROADAX Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholics, Protestants, Priests, Inclides, Single Taxa, Republicans, or anyone else can have their say, as long 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 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 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 5038 Armour Avenue, Chicago. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered as Second-Class Matter. Alg. 19, 1902 at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879. CHINESE COLLEGE INTRODUCES EDUCATION IN FORESTRY. China, often called the most backward of nations in the care of natural resources, is to be the scene of a vigorous campaign in the interests of the forests, according to plans for a series of meetings which will be held under the auspices of Boone College Wuchang, China, at Hankhow, Wuchang, and Hanyang. Later there will be meetings in all the large cities and important ports both on the coast and in the interior. Mr. Howard Richards, Jr., the representative in this country of the Chinese college, has been collecting material for these courses, and has just started to China. Several of the photographs showing the effect of deforestation in China, which accompanied the President's last annual message to Congress, form a part of a set of stereopticon views which will be used in illustrating these lectures. China has probably taken less care of her forests than any other nation of the earth, and this movement to awaken in its people a realization of the importance of the forest comes at an opportune time. Many parts of China are practically desert wastes as direct result of the destruction of its trees. On account of the erosion which has followed the removal of trees from the slopes, farmers are compelled to terrace their hillsides, in order to hold enough soil in place for farming, and to build little walls across the valleys to catch the silt which the annual floods deposit. Two centuries ago, many regions of China which are now barren, were paying revenue to their owners. Now the wood supply is so scarce that little poles are used for building houses, and roots and saplings are burned as fuel. Over three hundred Chinese students from eleven provinces are being educated in Boone College for the uplift of their country, and it is expected by those in charge of the proposed course of lectures, that a movement started there will in time spread throughout the Empire. INSTITUTIONAL A. M. E. CHURCH. Sunday morning, March 14. Subject The Modern Sodom and Christ's message. Sunday night, March 14. Subject A Living Message For Living Men. The adult Choir led by Mrs. Jessie Smith will sing at the evening services, the same choir will give a Sacred Concert at the Church Sunday afternoon, March the 21st. Jephthah and His Daughter will be rendered Monday night, March 15 for the benefit of the Church. A coming event which is looked to with much interest is the Cantata Joseph's Bondage which will be given at the church March the 25th. The Pastor of the church has arranged a series of illustrated services which will be given at the church every night during the week prior to easter. This is something entirely new. There will be no charges at the door but a silver offering will be taken 5-10 in Christmas with God. These are pictures that preach and will be of great benefit to all who shall see them. Beginning Sunday night, April the 4th, and continuing up until Easter Sunday. The last illustrated sermon to be given Easter Sunday at 5 o'clock a.m. which will give the recurrection and ascent. H. B. STEWART, Minister, "S." Tall and straight as a northern pine, Grew as tendrils around him twine, Pushing his way as he was sent, Never breaking but often bent. Thinking deeply of what should be, Believing all men would free, Swore with hands uplift to God That he would free the common clod. As Moses had been he would be; He'd stretch the rod across the sea Until a mighty nation cross, From under the lash of the cruel boss. At bitter "Marah" he made it sweet, He killed the serpents at their feet, He fed them "manna" from his hand, And he gave the world this command: No longer shall this people be One half slave and one half free, And with a mighty giant's stroke He broke the bow of slavery's yoke He emancipated Black and White, In doing what was just and right, And wrote without a single flaw The amendments to the General Law. That all men have a right to be, A citizen a voter, and ever free To think, to act as a human should, In doing his duty as he could. On Pisgah's heights, he finally stood, The champion of true brotherhood. Before the assassin struck him down, The world had made for him crown. O sons of Africa, take your stand, With heart to heart and hand to hand And shout aloud this Jubilee, CHATEAU RINK NOTES. Mrs. Galloway of Kansas City, Mo. guest of Mrs. S. Watt and Mr. and Mrs. McDonald, visited the Chateau last week. All spent a very delightful evening. Call again. Meet me at the Chateau, Wednesday, March 17th and have a good time. Mr. James Carter of Hot Springs, Ark., was among the many visitors at the Chateau last week. Mr. Harry Mason, recently of Chicago but now of Oklahoma City paid a visit to the Chateau last Sunday eve. --- Come out and see the potato race, March 17th and have a hearty laugh. March 17th at the Chateau De Plaisance, 5324 State street, will be the scene of gala affairs as on this date there will be held in the Rink a Potato Race and One Mile Handicap and a Drill by the Chateau Cadets, and the appearance and introduction by T. A. Stowers, Earl Wilson, the only Colored contestant in the Race around the world. A good Picture Show will follow. All good people are invited. FORAKER GETS LOVING CUP: Negroes of Washington Give Senator Token of Appreciation. Washington, D. C., March 6.—Former Senator Joseph B. Foraker was presented tonight with a massive silver loving cup, the gift of the Negro residents of Washington, in appreciation of his fight in the United States Senate to have the battalion of the Twenty-Fifth infantry, which was discharged "without honor" as a result of the "shooting up" of Brownsville, Texas, restored to the Army. The presentation was made at the Metropolitan A. M. E. church, and was followed by a reception. The cup is nearly two feet in height and weighs 100 ounces. Engraved inside the bowl is the following quotation from one of the Senator's speeches: "They ask for justice, not because they are Negroes, but because they are men." DRAW COLOR LINE IN MARYLAND Republican Leaders Will Request That No Negroes Be Appointed to Office in That State. Baltimore, Mr., March 7.—Taking their cue from President Taft's inaugural address Republican leaders of Maryland are considering the feasibility of requesting that no Negroes be appointed to federal offices in this state. A resolution to effect may be considered by the next Republican state convention. A fight on the Democratic disfranchising constitutional amendment has begun. By assuring the people that no Negroes will be appointed to office Republican leaders believe they will be able to defeat the amendment. J. President and Treasurer of the Cary Brick Co., and the advance agent of Carter H. Harrison's boom for Mayor of Chicago in 1911. TARDY JUSTICE FOR THE NEGRO SOLDIERS. By passing the bill for the relief of the discharged Negro soldiers of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, the Senate has performed an act of tardy justice in behalf of men punished indiscriminately by Mr. Roosevelt after the Brownsville affair. But no bill can completely make amends for an executive act of gross injustice to innocent men.-The New York World. Col. John R. Marshall, and Maj. R. R. Jackson, who attended the inaugural of President Taft, will meet the members of the Club, Saturday evening at the Club Parlors and informally review their experiences while in the Capitol. The Board meets Monday, the 15th. The President and his Cabinet can be found at the Club Parlors every Sunday from 5 to 7. Mr. Harry Jones, popular in post office circles is very ill at his home. Mrs. O. Beecher, 3337 Wabash avenue is confined to her bed with La-Grippe. Col. and Mrs. Benjamin Johnson, the past week, moved into their own home at 6318 Champlain ave. Mr. Wm. Kelly has returned from New Orleans, La., where he attended the Monta Graw festivities. Mr. Geo. Sisco, 327 Dempster street, who recently met with an accident is again able to be about. Maj. John C. Buckner entertained twenty friends at a royal banquet while in Washington, D. C. Mr. Sherman Sharp, 6612 Vernon avenue, who has been confined to his bed for the past two weeks is improving. Miss Pearl Wilson who has been making New York her home for the past six months is in the city visiting her mother at 3211 Wabash avenue. Dr. and Mrs. D. H. Anderson, 3018 State street after a pleasant visit to Washington, New York and Bridgeport, Conn., arrived home Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. M. Salter of Cambridge, Mass., was entertained at the Douglass Center last Tuesday evening. A large number of the members and friends of the center turned out to meet them. William D. Neighbors & Co., the hustling real estate dealers, 95 Washington street, are offering several mighty 'good bargains in twp flat buildings, well located on the south side, which they will sell on easy payments. Former Alderman Thomas Carey, 4427 Grand Blvd., who for a long time was the political boss of the Stock yards district, struck the city Thursday morning from Southern California, where he had been resting up for several months and getting himself in trim to lead Carter H. Harrison's room for Mayor of Obtcau in 1911. APPOMATTOX CLUB. CHIPS THOMAS CAREY. Attorney Walter M. Farmer, arrived home Wednesday morning, from Washington, D. C., where he had the honor of shaking the hand of President Taft. While absent, Mr. Farmer, hobbled with the leading men of the nation. Monday evening, Mr. and Mrs. William Johnson, 2714 Wabash ave., gave an elegant luncheon, in honor of eight lady friends of the hostess, and Mrs. Ed. Nixon, 2827 Wabash ave., was among the ladies who assisted to enliven the occasion. Ex-Congressman, Geo. W. Murray will address the Bethel Literary Society, Sun. at 3:30 P. M., on the subject, "Mr. Taft and the Negro." A lively discussion is expected to follow the address. A good musical programme is also promised. Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Carter, 168 E. 32nd Street, are at home again to their many friends, after spending one month in traveling through Alabama, Louisiana, Florida and other Southern points. They greatly enjoyed their trip. William Loeb Jr., who was President Roosevelt's private secretary, has been chosen by President Taft, to succeed Charles W. Anderson, as Collector of the Port of New York. Mr. Anderson was the only Colored man occupying a position of that kind in any northern city. Mrs. William Emanuel, 6352 Rhodes ave., has spent the past two weeks in the east. She was in Washington, D.C., during the inauguration of President Taft. She has familized herself with social settlement work in Washington, Baltimore, New York City and other points. Mrs. Emanuel arrived home yesterday morning. Jackson Gordon, who assists to manage the Cook County Board of Assessors office, returned home Tuesday morning from Washington, D. C., where he shook hands with President William H. Taft, and he thinks Mr. Taft is a bird, and that he will make a great president. Harry Hildreth, Democratic candidate for City Treasurer of Chicago, and Alderman Francis D. Connery, candidate for City Clerk; have opened up joint headquarters, on the parlor floor of the Sherman House, and both gentlemen who are eminently qualified to fill the positions sought by them, are confident of their election to the respective offices. It is practically understood, that States Attorney, John E. Wayman, has decided to retain F. L. Barnett, as one of his assistants. That is very gratifying to Mr. Barnett's many friends, which proves that his services must be thoroughly satisfactory, and that the many other Colored candidates anxious to feed at the public crib, were unable to roll him out of his place Rev. Father F. L. Reynolds, who was for a long time assistant pastor, of St. Annes church, Garfield Blvd., and Wentworth ave., and who has for quite a few years been in charge of the Holy Angels' Parish in Anorra, ill, will in the near future return to this city, and be permanently connected with one of its Catholic Chicago was well represented in Washington, D. C., at the inaugural ball. Among those present were: Miss Debora White, Mrs. Birdie Parrish, Mrs. Wm. Emanuel, Miss Blanch Wright, Miss Cora Hawkins, Mrs. D. H. Anderson, Miss Lola Johnson, Mrs. Will McCard and Miss Mabel Wilson. Mr. Ted Jones, Geo Chiveas, Maj. J. C. Buckner, Mr. Farmer, Dr. D. H. Anderson, Maj. R. R. Jackson, Col. Marshall, Setto Shorter, Dr. A. B. McKissack, Mr. Thos, Brown Mr. A. Barnett, Mr. O'Nell of Fort Russell. UP THROUGH DIFFICULTIES How D. H. Robinson Worked His Way to Membership In "Big Six." The union labor question, like politics and the temperance question, always affords ammunition for ready argument, and in each one of the three subjects every citizen who has the welfare of the workingmen at heart should be interested. To what extent the Afro-American has given his attention to the first question may be interesting at the present time. That he is not largely enrolled as a member of the many labor unions throughout the United States accounts for the strong color prejudice which has long existed against his admission as a member. The union shop of today, however, is not the same in personnel as that of twenty years ago, where fitness and quality of work are shown. If a man has the right kind of ambition and perseverance he will eventually overcome prejudice by making himself a necessary factor to the success of business establishments where skilled workmanship is required. Donald H. Robinson, who came to the United States from Bermuda, British West Indies, about thirty years ago, represents the qualities about which we have just spoken. Mr. Robinson after working in various printing houses finished his apprenticeship with John Polhemus, then on John street near Nassau street, New York city. It is M. B. D. H. ROBINSON. needless to say that in those days it was a curiosity to see an Afro-American setting type in a union shop. From the time Mr. Robinson completed his course as an all around printer he began to attract the attention of men high up in the printers' trade. He finally went with the Blanchard Press as head stone hand, and in this position he displayed both native and acquired skill, his color being no barrier. Illness, however, befell him after a few years, and he was compelled to give up his trade for a year or more. A trip to Europe regained him his health, and on returning to New York city he worked for awhile for the Federal Press and then went to the New York Evening Post job department, where he works at the present time. Mr. Robinson is a member of Typographical union No. 6 ("Big Six"), and when "Big Six" goes out on public parade his tall, dignified and impressive figure is sure to be seen. He believes that the way to success is up through difficulties, and by his genuine ability and loyalty to the principles of union labor he has won for himself a host of friends. During his fifteen years as a union man he has assisted a large number of Afro-Americans to membership in union labor or organizations. N. B. DODSON. Maine Rubber Chewers. The sailor, taking a fine, new rubber band from the stationery display, began to chew it with vigorous enjoyment. "What are you up to there?" snarled the druggist. "Just rubber chewin'," said the sailor. "It's a habit with all us navy fellers. Keeps off gun headache. "Of course you, a landlubber, don't know nothin' about it. But let me tell you, mate, when a sixteen inch gun goes off aboard ship the jank shatters winders, splits planks and brings your lower teeth up against your uppers like a straight left from old John L. "The result is a gun headache—such a headache! But if you chew rubber in firing time it eases off the shock and you don't suffer none. I been chewin' it steady ever since Manila Bay." "Rubber chewing—what a nasty habit," said the druggist. saw the dragger. "Rag chinw's worse." was the sailor's reply—New Orleans Times-Democrat. Hewitt—Green has been arrested for being a deserter. Jewett — Wife or army?—New York Press. They conquer who believe they can.—Verdi. EQUALITY IN EDUCATION Negro Girl Deserves Consideration. Merit, Not Color, In This Case. The following communication was recently addressed to the editor of one of the influential daily papers by Brooklyn and was answered by the school editor, who is an authority on the matter complained of: Will you kindly answer the following question? If my child is placed under a colored teacher in the public school against my wishes and the principal refuses to transfer this child to another class, will it be of any use for me to apologize to the teacher, or can it take her out of the school entirely? The are other classes of the same grade in this school ANX-OUS It would be no use to appeal to the board of education. The Negro teacher was appointed by that body to the school in question after she had been licensed to teach by the city superintendent, and she had to previously pass all the examinations required by the board of examiners. She was rated as being equal to the white girl who took the same examinations, and her license to teach is the same as theirs. The Negro girl who passed through our elementary schools, high school and training school for teachers handcapped by her color deserves consideration. The Negro is free to enter any public office if he is qualified for it. The question for parents of white children to ask is not as to the color or race of a teacher, but rather as to his or her qualifications as such, and that the board of education passes upon. Any parent can take his or her child out of a public school and send it to a private school, but the law provides that all children under fourteen years of age shall go to some school. MASONIC SPLIT OVER NEGRO Mississippi Grand Lodge Refuses Fellowship With Alpha of Newark. The admission of Afro-Americans to membership in Alpha lodge of Masons at Newark, N. J., is no new thing. The question as to its validity came up some thirty years ago. Alpha lodge was formed by members of St. John's lodge of New Jersey as far back as 1871, and when it first admitted Afro-Americans to membership its charter was revoked. But upon investigation it was restored by a majority vote of the grand lodge. Since that time the matter had not caused any serious discussion until in August, 1908, when Grand Master Martin tn asked for confirmation of the report that Alpha lodge admitted Negroes to membership. Grand Master William D. Wolfskell of Elizabeth N. J., replied that the report was true and, further, that there was no Masonic law denying Negroes full recognition as Masons. The grand lodge of Mississippi in its recent session at Meridian, however, voted to sever affiliation with Alpha lodge. No. 116, of Newark, N. J., because it admitted Negroes UNION-OF NEGRO CLERGY. Grand Social and Literary Function Given by Jersey City Pastors. The second annual reception held at the Monumental Baptist church under the auspices of the synod of colored clergymen in Jersey City was one of the most interesting and successful affairs in the life of Afro-American church circles in that town. The idea had its inception in the thrift and industry of the Rev. W. S. Smith, pastor of the church at which the entertainment was held. Mr. Smith communicated his plans to his neighboring ministers, who took kindly to his suggestions, and the result is that in Jersey City there is a stronger bond of friendship among the clergy and parishoners of the various denominations than has ever before existed. Each pastor was represented on the program, which consisted of solos. P M 88 DESSIE THOMAS. quartets, addresses and recitations the quartet in which Revs. D. E. Land, J. C. Butler, A. Mark Harris and J. Horsey took part, the vocal solo by Rev. C. H. 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"Typographical errors," said a writer, "are continually cropping up. I called for a magazine editor the other day to take him out to luncheon. As he was getting gratefully into his coat a man entered. "Do you read your magazine? the man asked. "I do,' replied the editor. "Have you read the new number, the one that came out yesterday?" "I have.' "Have you read my poem, "To Gabrielle," on page 117? "N-no.' "No! Well, in that poem I wrote the line, "I love you better than I love my life.'" "A neat line—neat and well turned,' said the editor soothingly. "And one of the professional humorists of your composing room set it up to read. "I love you better than I love my wife.'" "How—er'- "Than my wife—precisely that. And my wife knows nothing of composing room comedy, and she thinks the line was printed exactly as I wrote it.'" China's Four Religions. China has four state established religions, and in each the emperor exercises sacerdotal functions. Twice a year the emperor as "son of heaven" worships before the tablet of Shang Ti or supreme heaven in accordance with the ancient imperial monotheism. Twice a year he burns incense before the tablets of his ancestors in accordance with Confucianism. Twice a year he sacrifices to the gods of Taolism and twice a year to the image of Buddha. The ancient and primitive religion of China is monotheistic, but this direct worship was regarded as too sublime for the people, so that it became reserved for the emperor alone as the "son of heaven" and as priest of the nation. The people on their part wrestled their ancestors, and it was this ancestral religion which Confucius identified himself with and reformed. The old superstitions rejected by Confucius were absorbed by Taolism, which is polytheistic and the religion of the populace. Then Buddhism came into China about 65 A. D. and, like the other three religions, became state supported and state endowed. Squeezed the Squeezers. It is said that when Mr. Yerkes began to make money some of the banks from which he had borrowed thought to "squeeze" him by demanding instant repayment or a large consideration for further time. He was invited to call on one of these "bankers" and there met the others. Their demand was made, and their victim seemed at their mercy. They did not, however, know the resourcefulness of Mr. Yerkes, who retaliated by remarking: "Well, I owe a lot to all the banks here, and I will just publish a statement tomorrow in the papers, giving the full amounts and stating my inability to pay. This will make such a run on the banks that they will soon be as broke as I should, and therefore I shall not be the only sufferer." The "squeezers" recognized the truth of this and so withdrew their demand. Mr. Yerkes, however, refused to withdraw his threat unless they lent him another $50,000. They did so. Making an Acquaintance. In illustration of the ways of the east side of London the following true story is told. A certain club for working girls in the east end of London had recently elected a new member, and one day the secretary happened to look out of the window and was surprised to see the new member rush up to a strange lad in the street, punch him violently on the head and then run away. The secretary remonstrated with her sharply, to which the new member made reply: "I'm very sorry. I won't do it no more if it's agn the rules, but perhaps you won't mind telling me, then, how am I ever to get engaged?" Knew Their Ways. Walter, aged seven, is a wise son who knows not only his own father, but his mother as well. "Now, Walter," said the teacher, "if your father can do a piece of work in one hour and your mother could also do it in one hour, how long would it take both of them to do it?" "Three hours," answered Walter, "counting the time they would waste in arguing about how it should be done."—Chicago News. Exclusive Mabel—I seldom see the handsome young Mr. Richerly. He doesn't appear to care much for society. Ethel—Oh, I don't know! He seems to want my society about six evenings in the week—Chicago Times John J. Dunn Wholesale and Retail Dealer In.. COAL WOOD Fifty-First St. and Armour Ave. RAIL YARDS: 1st St. & L. S. & M. S. RY. 2nd St. and Armour Ave. CHICAGO A Pleasant Winter Evening. ARE YOU IN SEARCH OF ONE? Then Visit the "Chateau," 5324 State Street, Tonight. There is a fine Picture Show, Roller Skating, Dancing and superb music, refreshments and a jolly good time for good people. No proSCRIPTion. Special prize program every Saturday and Sunday. Admission, 10 cents--one dime LELAND GIANTS' BASE BALL AND AMUSEMENT ASS'N. TO DEFEND NEGROES' RIGHTS. Conference to Take Up Question Includes Many Influential Citizens. In the call for a Lincoln conference on the Negro question recently issued by influential men and women of both races this question occurs: "How far has the nation lived up to the obligation imposed upon it by the emancipation proclamation?" It deprecates "the spread of lawless attacks upon the Negro, north, south and west," and says, "Silence under these conditions makes tacit approval. "If Mr. Lincoln could revisit this country in the flesh," continues the call, "he would be disheartened and discouraged. He would learn that on Jan. 1, 1900, Georgia had rounded out a new confederacy by disfranchising the Negro after the manner of all the other southern states." "He would learn that the supreme court of the United States, supposedly a bulwark of American liberties, had refused every opportunity to press squarely upon this disfranchisement of millions by laws avowedly discriminatory and openly enforced in such manner that the white man may vote and the black man be without a vote in their government. He would discover, therefore, that taxation without representation is the lot of millions of wealth producing American citizens, in whose hands rest the economic progress and welfare of an entire section of the country." Among the signers of the call are Miss Jane Addams, Chicago; Samuel Bowles, Springfield, Mass.; Mrs. Ida Wells Barnett, Chicago; William Lloyd Garrison, Boston; Professor W. E. B. Dubols, Atlanta; the Rev. Francis J. Grimke, Washington; Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch, Chicago; Louis F. Post, Chicago; William M. Salter, Philadelphia; Mrs. Rodman Warton, Philadelphia; Miss Susan Warton, Philadelphia; Professor Charles Zueblin, Boston, and many prominent New Yorkers. "ran sovereign title of king has generally been supposed to be derived from the old British word "gyning," signifying "wise." But the Hebrew term "rosch" is doubtless the root of all the present titles denoting kingly power, including the Punic "resch," the Scythian "relx," the Latin "rex," the Spanish "rey" and the French "roi." The German nations styled their monarch according to their different dialects—"konig," "kuning," "koning," "king." Time's Changes. The captain was receiving, the new milddy. "Well, boy, the old story, I suppose-- fool of the family sent to sea?" "Oh, no, shr," piped the boy, "that's all altered since your day."—London Woman. "It takes a neap o' determhismon, son," said Uncle Eben, "to have yuh own way in dis life an' a heap o' brains to know what to do wif it after you gits it."—Washington Star. A Wireless Operator. Uppson—You have a new baby at your house, I hear. Downing—Great guns! And we live four miles apart! I had no idea any one could hear him that distance—Judge. "What can I do," roared the fiery orator, "when I see my country going to run, when I see our oppressors' hands at our throats, strangling us, and the black clouds of hopelessness obliterate the golden sun of prosperity! What I ask—what can I do?" "Sit down!" shouted the audience—New York Times. PATRICK H. O'DONNELL WILLIAM DILLON CLARENCE A. TOOLEN Tel. Central 4660 O'Donnell, Dillon & Toolen ATTORNEYS AT LAW Suite 1218-1219 Ashland Block RANDOLPH & CLARK STREETS CHICAGO JAMES J. GRAY ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 1518 Ashland Block RANDOLPH AND CLARK STREETS CHICAGO Tel. Central 4723 Bouldence 57 Macallister Place Telephone Ashland 363 Office Telephones Central 1239 Automatic 5940 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 318-320 Reaper Block CLARK AND WASHINGTON STS. CHICAGO. 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Martin, maker of fine cigars, and news stand, 342 31st street, near State. Mrs. Nellie Phelps, cigars, notions and news stand, 131 W. 51st street, near Dearborn. W. S. Cole, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 354 31st street. J. R. Peters, cigars, tobacco, laundry office and news stand, 238 27st street. T. B. Hall, laundry office, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 231 29th street. Mrs. A. E. Baker, notions, cigars and news stand, 419 39th street. B. Davis, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2532 State street. B. D. Burt, cigars, notions and news stand, 2636 State street. B. A. Jones news stand and harber shop, 4487 State street. Optimistic Note Struck by Speakers at a Lincoln Centennial Celebration in Yonkers, N. Y.—Sacrifices of Frederick Douglass an Incentive. Of the many celebrations held recently in honor of the one hundredth anniversary of Abraham Lincoln and the ninety-second of Frederick Douglass perhaps none surpassed in quality and variety of speakers the one held at Yonkers, N. Y., under the auspices of the Westchester County Negro Republican league. The upward struggles of Frederick Douglass in his daring dash for the freedom of his people should ever be an inspiration to the younger generation of Afro-Americans who study the results still flowing from the sacrifices of so useful a life as that of Mr. Douglass. Seldom has a more intelligent body of repre- A. sentative men of both races met in one place at the same time to do joint honor to two great Americans, one white, the other black; one a free man, the other a slave, and yet their interest and aims were one and inseparable. The souvenir program bore pictures of Lincoln and Douglass, with these inscriptions: "Our Lincoln, 1809-1865." "Our Douglass, 1817-1855." The dominant note struck was an optimistic one, and all the speakers held up to the members of the league the promise that the Negro, if he will hold up his head and do his work, must eventually overcome every prejudice and in the strength of his own manhood take his place in the nation unchallenged and respected. Paul H. Bray, chairman of the league, acted as toastmaster, and when the coffee cups were put aside he arose and in a few brief words introduced as the first speaker the Hon. Leslie Sutherland. Mr. Sutherland spoke briefly, paying a high tribute to the Negro race, which, despite its handicaps, was working out its own destiny, and then gave way to the first formal speaker of the evening. Maror Nathan A. Warren. Mayor Warren on behalf of the city welcomed the league to Yonkers and took occasion to express the pride he felt in addressing such a splendid body of intelligent citizens as he saw represented before him. He said that men of discernment and worth now see no color or creed and no nationality when measuring men, but that the test was simply the amount of honesty and industry displayed, and in this regard his observations convinced him that the Negro race was quite as worthy of regard as was any other. The mayor took occasion to remark upon the movement which is under way to erect in Yonkers a monument to Lincoln and asked the members of the league especially to do all they could to assure the success of the project. In closing Mayor Warren said: "Clivic pride bears no superficial distinguishing marks of race or color. Honesty of purpose and intelligence of execution are, the only standards we proclaim, and I feel it is high time that you realized just how anxious we are to look upon you not as a race apart, but as men like ourselves, whose advice, we seek and whose co-operation we require to raise the banner of clivic purity and with the strength of our arms keep it from ever being trailed in the dust of municipal dishonor." Postmaster, Parsons, the next speaker, was assigned the toast, "Lincoln Had He Lived." The speaker said he had only one excuse for his presence, and that the fact that Lincoln's first public office was the postmasterhip of New Salem, Ind. Lincoln, he said, was the first to express the belief that the foundation of our national integrity rested largely upon universal education, having fought for his beliefs in the legislature of his own state before he made the issue a national one upon his entrance into the larger arena. The postmaster called attention to Lincoln's pride in his origin and said one of his claims to greatness was his intense love for the common people, of whom he never forgot that he was one. Lincoln said the speaker, must have had some definite plan for the future of the people he freed, and the speaker was inclined to believe that Lincoln would have the Negro educate himself along industrial lines and take his place in the industrial marketa of the world. In closing the speaker said it was no part of Lincoln's plan to deprive the Negro of the protection of the strong arm of the law and that some man will arise who will take up the uncompleted work of the emancipator and show the Negro his star of destiny. "Lincoln's plans must be carried to their conclusion by the Negro himself, and it behooves you to fit yourselves for the splendid gift which was purchased for you by his blood." Professor L. B. Moore of Howard university spoke of the meeting as a prophetic one in that it displayed the possession of the race in this vicinity of intelligent leadership and the germ of power which the race must cultivate in order to succeed. He spoke as a Negro optimist and as one with a high hope of the ultimate triumph of his people. Douglass, according to Professor Moore, was one of the greatest educators the world has ever known, for, although he had no class room or listed pupils, yet the world was his schoolhouse and all mankind his scholars. "He had," said the speaker, "the greatest attributes of the teacher, an abiding faith in justice and the eternal hope of the triumph of the right. He knew that once the soul is free the body cannot be held in thraldom, and when the appointed savior who was to strike the shackles from his limbs was too-long in arriving he had the manhood to cast off his bonds and emancipate himself." ELIOT ON RACE PROBLEM. Harvard President Thinks Assimilation Will Solve It. Much interest is being manifested by educational and political circles in the declaration made by President Elliot of Harvard university in his recent speech at the Goodwyn institute while in Memphis, Tenn. President Elliot said that education on a newer and broader plan will eventually solve all the race, industrial, governmental and sanitary problems of the country. "The democracy of education," he said, "has made it the means whereby the race problem of the south and the race problem of the nation will be solved. Its ultimate end will be the assimilation of all the races, and it is by education alone that this can be accomplished. By education we shall create a number of trained professional citizens of the highest grade from each of the races, and these men will lead their races in the proper channels." AFRO-AMERICAN'S VICTORY. Miss Booker Champion of Class In Typewriting by Accuracy. We note again with pride the rapid advance of some of the young Afro-American men and women who are striving to equip themselves in the higher branches of literary and industrial training. In the contest recently given by the commercial department of the Young Women's Christian association in Brooklyn to decide the class championship for speed and accuracy in typewriting there were three Afro-American girls among the scores of white girls who entered. No. 6 went in to win by accuracy rather than by speed. When the pa- MRS. DENNIE E. COSTIN pers were examined and corrected the next day by the teachers No. 6 proved to be Miss Ruby K. Booker, an Afro-American young woman of 1085 St. Marks avenue, Brooklyn. Miss Booker is one of the leaders in the younger social circles and is also deeply interested in church and Sunday school work, being musical director in the primary and the 'beginners' department of the largest Sunday school among her race in the borough of Brooklyn. Afro-Americans Uphold Law. The better class of Afro-Americans of Gary, Ind., held a mass meeting recently to suppress the lawless element among them who are constantly committing crimes. Robert W. Johnson, editor of the Colored Press at Gary, presided. Mr. Johnson said: "These men must be driven out of the city. They are creating a sentiment against our race, and they are a disgrace to the decent element of our people." Bishop's Good Advice. The people of Worcester, Mass., were greatly encouraged by the recent visit of Presiding Bishop Alexander Walters of the New England conference of the A. M. E. Zion church, who delivered an instructive lecture while in the city on "What the Negro Should Do to Be Saved Materially." 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