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THE NEGRO SHOULD MAKE IT A POINT TO STRIVE TO APPEAR IN THE MARKET REPORTS, RATHER THAN IN THE POLICE COURTS. THE FREEMAN AND ETHIOPIA SHALL STRETCH FORTH HER HAND Public Library 1-08 A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOLUME XIX NUMBER 44 THOMPSON'S WEEKLY REVIEW ENCOURAGING OUTLOOK FOR AFRO-AMERICAN COUNCIL BATTLE FOR RIGHTS OF NEGRO Unsellishness the Watchword-- Dr Jordan to Devote Entire Time to Work--Two New Books By Dr Washington. Staff Correspondence. As has been stated in these columns, the addresses of Bishop Alexander Walters and Dr. Booker T. Washington and the report of Corresponding Secretary L. G. Jordan were among the strongest features of the late session of the National Afro-American Council in New York, especially as far as the contributions of our people to the program went. Comment upon the sentiments uttered by the white speakers have been widely distributed, and, without exception, they won unstinted praise at the hands of our race journals everywhere and exerted a helpful influence within the charmed circle of their own race, from which substantial aid may be expected, because of the hearty endorsement their trusted men have given our plans. The outlook is most encouraging. The several wings of the working forces among the Negroes seem to be flapping together in harmony. As Dr. Jordan happily says: "Among the most honored guests of the Council were leaders of the Constitutional League, the Suffrage League and the Niagara Movement. Each delegate seemed to realize that the time for fighting each other had passed and we were in the thickest of a grave battle where any detraction from the real issues involved would be treason against the amendments to the Constitution which made us men and citizens of this great country and an unpardonable sin against a stricken people." With this broad spirit uppermost, the Council can go forward to battle for the rights of the whole people, feeling that it has the entire race at its back and that substantial assistance will not be denied when liberal donations of money are demanded—for it will require money, and plenty of it, to secure the legal talent and to defray the expenses incidental to carrying to the Supreme Court of the United State test cases involving the validity of the disfranchising acts of the Southern Constitutions, the jimcrow car laws and other discriminations that weigh heavily upon the progress of the 10,000,000 Negroes that have their abiding place in this land. As suggested in the corresponding secretary's report, the Council adopted the following, which we may describe as the "Enactments of 1906." Read them carefully: 1. The Council a law establishing permanent headquarters at Washington City, where a secretary and organizer are to have charge and by every reasonable means urge our friends in Congress to speak out and thereby destroy the influence of arch enemies to good government and the American Negro; to keep our own people posted and with pen and voice organize and cry aloud against every injustice aimed at us. With determined will and keen foresight the Council has set its face to give battle to the Tillmans, Vardamans and Dixons and all who oppose our political and civil rights. 2. The selection of the One-cent Savings Bank at Nashville, Tenn., R. H. Boyd, president; J. C. Napier, cashier, and the True Reformers' Bank, located at Richmond, Va., W. L. Taylor, president; R. T. Hill, cashier, as repositories for the funds contributed by the masses to carry on the work of the Council. 3. In future, annual sessions of the National Council shall be held in the month of June, the place to be selected by the Executive Committee. 4. The Council unanimously voted that the corresponding secretary should proceed at once to publish the minutes of the New York meeting, giving these enactments, the Address to the Country and extracts of the various addresses delivered during the session, for the information of the general public. It is hoped to have these ready some time in December. 5. That we call upon our people everywhere to make the first day of January in each year a special holiday, because of the going into effect of the Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Lincoln in 1863. That we celebrate by song, prayer or any other worthy way the day of our race's deliverance from bondage—indeed, our Fourth of July. Unselfishness was the watchword of the meeting. Pastors of the several denominations, laymen, bishops, journalists, business and professional men and workers in every walk of life vied with one another as to who could do the most to promote the aims and ends of the great organization. In a small company of the Executive Committee $1,200 was pledged on the secretary's salary. Men like Editor Calvin Chase, Dr. John R. Francis, Rev. G. W. Lee, Recorder Dancy and others from Washington pledged their moral and financial support to the establishing of creditable headquarters at the capital of the nation, where the Council may have influence with other reform agencies of the country and come into direct contact with the men who have to do with legislation for the nation. It is expected that Dr. Jordan will resign his present position as corresponding secretary of the Baptist Foreign Mission Board and open the Washington office of the Council shortly after the first of January. He has for years been an indefatigable worker for the Christianization and material uplifting of Africa, and he gives up the post, not that the Dark Continent has been redeemed beyond the danger point, but because he realizes that "charity begins at home," and before Africa can hope to receive at our hands a salvation that will endure, the poor heathen on these shores must be taught to heed the commandments of the Lord, or the messages they attempt to carry to the benighted ones across the sea will be feeble and ineffectual—mere sounding brass and tinkling cymbals, as it were. Dr. Jordan has energy, experience, confidence and natural capacity for evangelical work, and had the country been searched from one end to the other with a fine-tooth comb, a better selection could not have been made for this particular mission. In connection with the officers on the ground, Dr. Jordan is planning to have a monster Emancipation Celebration in Louisville on the first day of January, and some of the most distinguished speakers of the country will be invited to take part. The officers of the Council—President Walters, Secretary Jordan, Chairman of the Executive Committee Steward and others—have received so many letters from the well-wishers of the race commending the admirable tone and substance of the address to the country that they unite in regretting that the Washington Bee should feel moved to sound a discordant note as to its strength and directness of statement. The Bee endorses the action of the Council, praises Bishop Walters and Dr. Washington for their valuable services, but denounces the declaration of the body as "weak." The officers express great surprise that such a charge should come from Editor Chase, for he himself was a member of the committee that drafted the document, and his name, in connection with those of such virile race factors as Dr. W. M. Sinclair, Rev. C. S. Morris and Prof. Kelly Miller, was signed to it, thus giving it his approval. The appropriate place for objection to any paragraph or to suggest an amendment that would have brought it in the Chase standard in the committee room—not in a newspaper week after. It is our opinion that if Brother Chase would read the address a second time and read it carefully and reflectively, he will find his allegation of "weakness" will fall to the ground for want of a leg to stand upon. The absolute truth is, the paper is as strong and comprehensive as the strictest constructionist of the rights of citizens could reasonably desire. To be sure, it does not thunder, it does not vociferate, it does not deal in abuse or vituperation, but in dignified language and with the moderation that comes from a sober conception of the demands of a critical situation, it covers the Negro's case thoroughly, and its requests are kept within the range of the practical and expedient. The document is the production of a scholar and it reflects credit upon both his judgment and his mastery of the King's English. Editor Chase means well, no doubt, but he, like thousands of other well-meaning members of our race, has been living so long in a super- INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1906. WILL IT BE TOTAL? MOB RULE THE LAW C. HAYWOOD heated atmosphere and have so frequently indulged in the highly-seasoned flights of impassioned rhetoric, that their taste for a plain diet has been blunted. They mistake violence of language, extravagance of statement and oratorical pyrotechnics, fired off amid a shower of volcanic diction, for strength, for courage, and honestly feel that anything short of this fails to impress upon the other race the fact that we are in earnest and doubt if our manhood is in assorted with the positiveness and emphasis that commands respect. On the contrary, Congress and the ruling element of this country have reached that stage in their intellectual development when they can easily differentiate between the calm, sober-minded and well-digested statement of a people's grievances, and the flamboyant, incoherent and sensational diatribe of the dreamer, doctrinaire or demagogue. The address of the Council touches every vital subject, asks for everything we can justly claim as citizens and bespeaks race manhood in every paragraph and in every line. It will attract the best consideration of the thoughtful leaders of the nation, and to them, only, can we hope for relief from the oppressive conditions under which we labor today. --- There are in the ranks of the so-called intelligent Negroes of the country a class which makes its living by trading upon their opportunity to pose as martyrs to the tyranny and brutality of the opposite race. Not infrequently they force themselves into an undesirable prominence and precipitate the very conditions of which they complain, primarily for the purpose of getting into trouble and thus having an excuse for parading up and down the country and telling the story of their wrongs—at so much "per." When the aforesaid story is worn threadbare and the box-office receipts fall off, they are obliged to think up a new fake with which they can fool the confiding public and "get by" for another period. When a fellow is on his last legs in a community, by virtue of his own indiscretions, he invariably seeks a plausible reason for decamping. Local race disorders are always "good picking," for our sympathetic people never refuse to help one of their num- ber who is in trouble for exhibiting his "manhood," and who has been obliged to flee from his home because of his "loyalty" to his race. Apropos of this reprehensible practice to which too many of our bright men are addicted, the Atlanta correspondent of the New York Age publishes in his current letter the following more or less interesting bit of news, which we take the liberty of quoting for the edification of our readers: "I must say," remarks the Atlanta scribe, "that Mr. J. Max Barber made a serious blunder by leaving here. When a prominent Afro-American leaves a community it encourages the lawless white element to make other prominent Afro-Americans leave, and when they do it is very discouraging to those remaining. The facts are these: A white man called Mr. Barber to his office and advised him to leave the city. Without further ado, he left on the first train leaving Atlanta. There were other and equally prominent Afro-Americans whose lives were in danger, but they chose to remain and face death rather than show the white feather. Our people here are rather surprised at the sudden leaving of Mr. Barber, in view of the fact that he has been advising the race to stand up for its rights, face death, and, if necessary, die for the race. Naturally, your readers can imagine our surprise to know that he is the first and only one to leave the city. Acts of violence an dwrongs were done to a number of our people, but he is the only one to run away, and had the least cause for doing so. "The running away of Barber," continued the Age's correspondent, "has another demoralizing influence—it discourages the masses, who for a number of years have stood by these leaders here. Now in the hour of trial and danger, one of them fees to the North. We presume that he, like others in the North, will write articles advising us in the South to stand up for our rights, and even die if it becomes necessary. It seems incredible to people here that this can be the same Max Barber who only a few weeks ago was marching around the grave of John Brown at daybreak, bare-footed, resolving to imitate John Brown's bravery and death for the race. Had men like Dr. Bowen and SINGLE COPY-SIX MONTHS, 850; ONE YEAR $1,50. Dr. Crogman, whose lives were in real danger, left us for a season, we should have felt that they were justified, but there was absolutely no excuse for Max Barber's leaving. A gentleman on the street not long ago remarked that for the first time he understood just what the Niagara Movement meant. 'It means,' said he, 'to move' in case of danger.' Mr. Barber justified this description by his action. We understand that Max Barber is now preparing to play to the galleries and assume the part of a martyr. If so, it is a cheap martyrdom, cheaply bought. We venture the assertion that not a dozen white men here knew that he was the publisher of such a journal as The Voice of the Negro." Two new books by Dr. Booker T. Washington have appeared. The first is a beautiful little volume, bound in red cloth, gilt top, and illuminated on title page and throughout with orange side-titles. A new steel engraving of the author serves as a frontispiece. For several years Dr. Washington has been in the habit of giving Sunday evening talks to the students in the chapel at Tuskegee Institute, touching upon various subjects and treating them in the plainest and most practical manner possible. In this new volume, "Putting the Most Into Life," the principal of Tuskegee Institute has gathered six of the best of these heart-to-heart talks, enlarging them in such a way that they appeal not only to the student body at the school, but offer a rich fund of instruction and deep inspiration and encouragement to the general reader of any race. The subjects which Dr. Washington presents touch vigorously the physical, mental, spiritual and racial aspects of the problem and are arranged as follows: (1) "Health a Requisite for Effective Living;" (2) "Some of the Qualities Essential to the Most Successful School Life;" (3) "A Word to Prospective Teachers About Putting the Most Into Their Work;" (4) "Industrial Efficiency an Aid to the Higher Life;" (5) "Making Religion a Higher Part of Living;" (6) "On Making Our Race Life Count in the Life of the Nation." The book would make an ideal souvenir for the holiday season, (Continued on Page Four ) THE NEGRO AND THE SOUTH THEOPINION OF INFLUENTIAL WESTERN DAILY PAPER CORRECT ANALYSIS OF CONDITION Lynch Lawa Reversion to Savagery--Eyes of the North Opene to Situation--Country Owes Negro Reparation. The Freeman cheerfully yields space to the subjoined editorial from the Portland Oregonian, easily the most influential and representative daily newspaper published on the Pacific Coast. As an analysis of the reprehensible attitude of the bourbon South on the Negro question, it is clear, explicit, incisive and conscientious. As a statement of what must be done by the States and the nation to ameliorate the deplorable conditions which threaten the very foundations of our Republic, it is clean-cut, candid, courageous and absolutely correct, and leaves nothing o be desired. It is worthy of a careful reading by every citizen of this country, white or black. It contains food for much sober reflection. It fearlessly diagnoses a terrible disease, frankly indicts the people of both sections as particeps criminis in a monstrous wrong, and fearlessly points the nation to its plain duty in the distressing premises. The race congratulates itself that at last the eyes of the indifferent North have been opened to the most exasperating problem with which this country has to deal. Says the Oregonian: The South and the Negro. "To say that for the troubles between the Southern whites and the Negroes the whites are themselves to blame, would be a harsh judgment and not wholly true. The blacks are guilty of grave offenses, but in dealing with their colored neighbors the members of the more advanced race have exercised little forbearance. Southerners have claimed that they should be permitted to settle what they call 'the Negro question' without interference from the North, on the grounds that it is a domestic concern of their own, that they understand it better than outsiders, and that their feelings toward the blacks are kindly. This claim rest the of the country has of late years been disposed to concede. In dealing with the blacks the South has had a free hand. "It has nullified the enfranchising amendments to the Constitution and deprived the Negroes of the right to vote, so that the Southern whites have almost doubled the proportionate representation of the North in Congress. It has put them on the footing of a servile race on the railroads, in school, everywhere, without protest from outsiders. In short, the South has had its way with the Negro, with the result that the question does not approach a settlement but grows daily more perplexing while the feelings between the two races are becoming envenomed. "It is a mistake to concede to the South that the Negro question is local and not national. The original wrongs of the Negro were the guilt of New England no less than of Virginia. He was set free and enfranchised by the act of the Nation. The whole country owes him reparation for the wrongs of centuries. Moreover, if it is the duty of the Federal Government to keep the peace and see justice done to the lower races in Cuba and the Philippines, it is a strange distinction which abjures all such obligations toward the Negroes. The existence in this country of some eight or ten million people who are practically without the protection of law is not a matter of local interest merely. "Considered as a lower animal, Southerners lige the Negro. They pet him, as they would a dog and suffer his caresses without disgust so long as he does not aspire to human dignity. In this way the Southern whites are as fond of the Negro as Englishmen are of horses; but when forced to count him among human beings they despise him. They sneer at his humble essays in literature, which are like the first uncouth achievements or a growing boy; they scornfully belittle his half-developed intellect; they sneer at his servile traits bred in slavery, and punish his crimes with relentless cruelty. 'Some Southern writers say that the (Continues) on Page Four.' FOR THE IMPROVEMENT AND ADVANCEMENT OF THE NATIONAL BENEFIT ASSOCIATION OF HEAD, SECOND AND SIDE WAITERS "For the man who works with brain or hand." W. Forrest Cozart, Editor. EASTERN 17 N. Kent Atlantic 10 Louis H. Porter has resigned his position as headwalter at the Hotel Albert, Seima Ala , and is spending a few days at Pensacola, Fla , previous to moving to Jacksonville, Fla. The Kidd Key, Cole at Sherman, Tex. (white) has the following employees in her culinary and dining rooms department: ts Jno Batsell, chef; Louis Ham Josie Mibam, assistance: Joe Batsell, head watter; Will Payne, Jesse Hunt, Alfred Ryan, Jas Orenshaw, Andrew Stevenson, Herman King, Oscar Bruce and Harry Whitney. Something like two months ago, Propritor Howell Cobb of the Yarborough hotel in Raleigh, N. C., dismissed all his Negro waiters in the dining room and substituted white girls. He now makes the announcement that he finds that the experiment is a complete failure and that he will return to the employment of the Negro waiters. He says that he is convinced that it is not at all practicable to use white girls in positions of this kind. One of the most popular hotels in New York City is the Maceo, at 218 West 83rd street, Mr Benjamin Thomas, proprietor The Maceo is patronized by the business men, politicians and clergy. Mr. Thomas has as his assistant his wife, a very businesslike woman who is ever watchful of her husband's interest. Mr. Thomas g'vea you a first- INDIVIDUAL HOTEL DIRECTOR [One address line $4.00 per year; including subscription to The Freeman. in advance,] HOSTWATERS, J. W. Redmond, Headwaiter of The Carroll, Vicksburg, Miss. 10-06. C. W. Dwyer, headwaiter Commercial Club Minneapolis, Minn. 8 105 C. H. Plummer headwaiter Hotel Brunswick, Uniontown, Pa. 10-05 R. H. Bradley, Headwaiter Menger Hotel, San Antonio, Texas. 3-06 G. W. Bland, Headwaiter of The Olive, South Bend, Ind. 12 06 HOTEL DIRECTORY This colony used exclusively for the addresses of hotel restaurants, lodging and boarding houses and club rooms throughout the country, and intended as a guide for the traveling public—your business solicited. Dotwier 'Europaean C. W.' bwveter proprietor, c. rsa cars room, monthly house, electric light and bath, 224 Washington Avenue, South M nsgasl, Minn. The dakar 1930s-1940s bath J. W. 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It is situated on one of the most popular streets in the city of New York. HOT SPRINGS HOTEL NOTES. Mr. Clarence H Mason, was appoint- headwaiter at the Park Hotel, Oct 9. and is giving first class service. Mr Mason is a Hot Springs man, and is among the leading headwaiters of the South and is eminently qualified for the position. His line up is as follows: O. H. Mason, head waiter in charge of both American and European plans; Grill room waiters, Geo. Cox Horace Price Geo Montgomery, Eugene Hobson American plan waiters: P. Hutchinson, aptain, O. A. Morgan, seety; Fred Barnett, A. R Bennett, Peter Wells, Doe Smith, Will Nelson, Jas Williams, D C. Harris, F. Hutchinson and M. Ransom. Mr. Will Brumington is now in charge of the Rockafellow dining room. Robert Buck succeeded C. P. Thompson as head waiter at the Milwaukee Hotel, Oct. 8th. * * * Wm. Aere is still in charge of the dining room at the Arlington Hotel and continues to make good. * * * L. D. Montgomery, ex-headwaiter at the Park Hotel left Oct. 17 h for Dallas, Texas to take charge of the Cafe at the Oriental Hotel * * * It is rumored on the streets that L. A. Waiser will return to the Hotel Eastman for the season of 1907. * * * Ike Early, J. Fletcher and M. Retherford left for Little Rock a few days ago where they will be employed at the Falstaff Cafe under the supervision of John Hanna. The Freeman in Chicago. Ed. Felix, 368 Thirtleth street. Louis Love, 2720 State street E. H. Faulkner, 3104 State'sreet. H. S. Winston, 280 Tweney ninth. Richard Webb, 2640 1-2 State street J. P Winstead, Shining Parlor, 391 Thirty-first street. Snipe—Jasper Johnson—5c Naomie—Splendius--- Brunswick---10c WM. M. GALES, Cigar Manufacturer, 1929 MARKET ST., St. Louis, Mo M 11 Orders So Leftei. For Good Meals at all hours go to Bryson's Cafe. REGULAR 25c HALF 15c MEAL WAY Soda Fountain in connection. CHOICE CIGARS and TOBACCO. 222 Rightor Street, Helena, Ark. VICTOR TALKING MACHINES. The Victor is so perfect it is often mis aken for the human voice. It is proving a never ailing source of DELIGHT Thousands. COME IN. ND LET US THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER EASTERN BRANCH 17 N. Kentucky Ave. Atlian is City, N. J. If Your Stomach Complains it is probably getting unfair treat your selection of food and see how once a day,—for breakfast—eat Malt it is probably getting unfair treatment. Just discriminate some in your selection of food and see how much better you feel. At least once a day,—for breakfast—eat Malta-Vita Always Ready to Eat--No Cooking This advice is right. Your doctor you so. For Malta-Vita is so now the same time so easy to digest active digestion, makes rich, red body and mind alike. That's be whole-wheat. Malt extract, mix This advice is right. Your doctor, if you asked him, would tell you so. For Malta-Vita is so nourishing and strengthening and a the same time so easy to digest. It tones up the stomach, restores active digestion, makes rich, red blood and gives new vitality to body and mind alike. That's because Malta-Vita is pure malted whole-wheat. Malt extract, mixed with the cooked wheat, turns the starch of the wheat into maltose, or malt sugar, most wholesome food and easily digested even by the weakest stomach. Malta-Vita is the perfect food for men and women. It makes little children sturdy and strong. Always wholesome fresh, crisp, appetizing. Get some today. All Grocers, Now 10 Cents THROUGH THE GLIM BYR H The Higginsville (Mo) Advance published a statement, recently made by At- souri. After reading this article over we find that Hadley only speaks of law regarding trust; but, we fail to see where in he speaks about laws that will directly benefit the condition of the Negro and prevent such unspeakable occurrences as that at Springfield in his "own believe state"—Missouri. We wonder how he can so quickly lay this scene aside, and also when he is advocating his idea of law over that state and leaving the Negro out if his conscience does not punish him? The mournful ories of dying men and women at Springfield during that riot should be enough to make any man advocate a law to protect the lives and property of a race that has laid down its life on the battle field without a murmur to help hold up Old Gloyd. Says the Attorney General: "In Missouri we need a law that will send the trust barons to jail when they violate the laws. The Missouri legislature has done nothing in the last twenty years towards the enactment of such a statute." This may be true too and we have not the least doubt that such a statute is in vry bad need and that its passage would prove a blessing to the people of that state. But since the said Attorney General seems to be so well versed on laws that are needed in that State, we would like to ask would it be out of order to ask that the legislature pass a law that would severely punish rioters and lynchers? They are, in our estimation. a greater blot on our Government and Christian civil zation than all the trust combined. And has that state had a bill that was directly in favor of the Negro in the last 40 years? We would ask Attorney-general Hadley to include a bill to protect the Negro citizens at the same time he advocates his trust bill. A few Southern so-called up to date newspapers seem to delight in calling our women of respectability and redemption "negresses." We cannot account for this unless it is because they have not grown out of their old styles of slavery days, when this indecent term was applied to a female slave in the auction block. But slavery has been abandoned so long ago that we thought all sensible people would take in the m dern air and respect women of every race, and call g Negro women for this vulgar term sets a very poor example for a so-called "inferior" race. White men should respect colored women as well as women of their own race. We respect white women and we expect white men to do the same to our women. "Better be alone than in bad company."—Covington (G4) Advocate. Yes, this is, indeed, true and the sooner we get rid of some of this "bad company" the better off the race will be. We have no place in our best circles for the empty-headed head-strong, loud-mouthed, shiftless and trouble-unting Negroes. Although we would plea ed to reform him, if they are redeemable and not already lost. But treatment. Just discriminate some in see how much better you feel. At least -eat ta-Vita y to Eat--No Cooking r doctor, if you asked him, would tell no nourishing and strengthening and a gest. It tones up the stomach, restores h, red blood and gives new vitality to it's because Malta-Vita is pure malted t, mixed with the cooked wheat. turns the starch of the wheat into maltose, or malt sugar, most wholesome food and easily digested even by the weakest stomach. Malta-Vita is the perfect food for men and women. It makes little children sturdy and strong. Always wholesome. fresh, crisp, appetizing. Get some today. All Grocers, Now 10 Cents in their "rough state" we cannot accept them until they have been finely polished. America cannot point the finger of scorn at any country, because of their out-breaks nor can she give any advice as to how to prevent them. Although we look at Russia and Belgium as being cruel to their citizens or subjobs; but, when we look at our own stains of innocent blood upon our garments it seems that Christian America is lost in defeat and almost controlled by infidels. At a recent meeting of the North Carolina State Board of Education at Raley, the "History of the Negro Race" by Prof. E A. Johnson, was adopted as a supplementary reader for use in the public schools of the state. This speaks well for Prof. Johnson We are glad to note that it was the state board. The board was all white men. News comes to us that Louisiana' State University has refused admission to three Filipino students brought to America by the United States Government to be educated in American institutions Color and race prejudice being the cause Still the South is the Negro's "best friend" While murdering the innocent Negr and while trying to keep him down, it is well to remember that the good of all is never served by the downfall of any individual race, under the flag of the nation; but, the good is served by the uplift of all races under r that flag. The Southern whites watched with keen interest every movement of the National Afro American Coun. We hope that the Council will do business with them by securing our franchise. Government ownership and government supervision seem to be the leading topics of the day. But when they come—if they ever do—no doubt they will be the topics of the hour. "The Volos of the Negro" published by the Volos Publishing Co. form-rly with headquarters in Atlanta, Ga. has moved to Ohioago We hope for them continued success. The South's id us—the race problem and State's Rights—are about to be trampled upon. We cannot have too much respect for law and order and our women. REV. J. M TOWNSEND AND THE BISHOPRIC. Your journal is neither slow nor backward in expressions of honest convictions and sentiment respecting men and affairs of the race generally. Your policy seems to be, the best men for general leadership in church and state. Among the many able and useful characters prominently mentioned from time to time is that of the man whose name heads this article. We note that you are inclined to believe that his friends have abandoned the dea of his elevation to the bluest air. We think you are mistaken. Doctor Townsend is one of those individualities --- ```markdown ``` if such a personal vitality, mora' strength and such like, that he is not easily vanished. His friends are still true and faithful: they believe him to be a worthy man who has served his race and church well and is deserving of distinctive recognition. They do not care to save their time and chaplet flowers for the casket which shall finally enclose his then inanimate frame: they would do him honor now. We learn that at the Pittsburg Conference the other day, a resolution was offered by one of the members, while the bishop was absent, in favor of the temporary incumbent of the chair. Its adoption was urged on the ground that the other conferences had adopted similar resolutions: such was an untrue assertion based on viler politics, for the other conferences had done no such thing. The associate bishop, coming in, to his surprise, found the conference considering the resolution which was a divertance from the business left for the direction of the temporary chairman. He promptly advised against the proceeding saying, "We should leave some things Lr God." But the conference had been given such an impetus and had so far injudiciously committed itself that the resolution was adopted. However, it will evenually prove a misspent shot, for such advantages taken have Bishp Derrick to combat. The "freeman need not cease its good words in favor of Doctor Townsend, for that old soldier of his country and his church is far from being dead or religit ed to the scrap pile. He will get a stronger vote for the episcopacy than any man in this district. We are glad to record the fact that cheap politics are more and more becoming despicable to the loyalists of African Methodism Good, clean, since-are men are wanted and not the wire-pulling politician. "We want to leave some things for God." That candid date who must resort to every scheme of underhand work, with no faith in God, is not the man for a bishop. Do you know any reason why J. M. Townsend should not die a bishop when that time comes? REV. R. R. DOWNS. Cincinnati, Ohio When you are in Louisville, call a S. G. Baker's shop, 611 Ninth street and secure a copy of The Freeman on sale every week. ALWAYS TAKE MONON ROUTE TO Chicago. Fast Trains Leave INDIANAPOLIS 4 4 2:48 a m., 7:00 a. m., 11:50 a. m., 3:35 p. m. Parlor and DINING CARS on Day Trains. SLEEPER on Night Train ready for occupancy after 8:30 p. m. Ticket Offices: Union Station, Massachusetts Avenue, Twenty-Second St., and 8 N. Illinois St R. P. ALGEO, D. P. A. DIVORCE LEGAL. 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INDIANAPOLIS, - INDIANA. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1906. WHY THE NEGRO SHOULD CON TINUE TO VOTE. Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 22, 1906 To the Editor of The Freeman: It is near voting time again, and I am asking myself, "Why should I vote any more?" I voted for General Grant for President, and have voted at every election since. If you can convince me that I can derive any benefit from voting at the next election, maybe I will put in another ballot; but when I reflect over the cruel treatment our good colored citizens are receiving throughout the country—noting, for instance, the riots at Atlanta, in Ohio, in Missouri and many other places, I am not a little discouraged and am compelled to ask, "What protection does our vote guarantee? Why are not our lives, property and civil rights more zealously guarded by the minions of the law?" Why, last Monday I was on a car with a man accused of murder. He was in charge of officers, and they called themselves "spiriting" the prisoner away to avoid any possibility of violence at the hands of a mob. He was being slipped back to some place for trial. The car was full and it was known from one end to the other that the man in custody was a murderer and that the people were apt to make an attack on him at any moment, because of the heinous nature of the offense charged against him. It is needless to say that the prisoner who was thus so "carefully protected" was a colored man. Since the villainous Atlanta News has been permitted to offer a reward of $1,000 for the lynching of a Negro without rebuke from any official source, North or South, and with the undisputed assertion of Tillman that a race war is imminent, with the annihilation of the black man as a probability, I cannot but wonder if there is anything to be gained for myself or the race by voting at the coming election. The men we are sending as our representatives to Washington are indifferent to our welfare, and are letting our sacred rights slip away from us one by one. They permit the South to ride over them rough shod on the race question, without making any effort to answer their charges against us. Protection in body or reputation is a thing of the past, and no voice is raised in our behalf when our citizenship is in the balance. Please publish this, and underneath it give me some good reasons why I should vote, and oblige --- The above letter is from one of Indiana's most industrious and worthy colored business men. He is of the class that is building up something for the permanent glory of the race and nation, and as such is entitled to a respectful hearing in any court of inquiry. Mr. Turner is asking questions that have often occurred to every other colored man in this state, and, for that matter, in the nation, and they are queries that some abler authority than The Freeman ought to be called upon to answer. They are especially pertinent just now—on the eve of a general election, when state and county tickets are in the field and the fate of a member of the national Congress is in the balance. Should the Norwegian continue to vote? To this broad question our answer is emphatically—Yes! The black man, more than any other class of citizens, should be sure to cast a ballot wherever he is permitted to do so, and let the weight of his influence be felt for or against every issue that arises, local or national, whether we THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER receive an ounce of patronage or recognition of any kind at the hands of the party managers. We should express our preferences at the ballotbox, independent of them or of any promises they may make. The ballot is the weapon of civilization, and the right to vote marks the dividing line between the citizen and the serf. The citizen, armed with the ballot, participates in the function of government; the serf or subject, denied the ballot, has no voice in the selection of those by whom he will be governed, no redress against the tyranny or misrule of his governors. We are sure Mr. Turner would not wish to surrender his freely acknowledged right to say who he prefers for President of the United States or assessor of Marion county? The right to vote, even though it fail to secure all that we would ask, is better than disfranchisement. The ballot is the shibboleth of liberty, the insignia of self-government and is the boon for which wars of the bloodiest type have been waged and countless lives have been offered up. Today it is the issue which overshadows all others in the Southland and all the riots to which our esteemed correspondent so pathetically refers are directly or indirectly traceable to the problem of the black man's citizenship. With our noblest Afro-Americans and our truest Caucasian friends laboring daily and nightly to regain the franchise for our people in the South, we think it ill becomes one of us in the North to speak lightly of the suffrage, even though the situation, at a superficial glance, seems shrouded in gloom. Now, the truth of the whole matter is that Mr. Turner and other men of the race are placing the blame for our poor results on the wrong shoulders. If, with the right to cast a free and untrammeled ballot, we allow men to continue to misrepresent us in Congress, or to hold office in Marion county, or the State of Indiana, after they have proven recreant to their trust, with respect to us and our rights as citizens, we have only ourselves to blame. Public officials are the servants of the sovereign voter. They must do as they are expected, or it is the voters' privilege to oust them when they again offer themselves for election. We complain on the curbstones and rail from the house-tops, but the proper place to register your kick and make your anger felt is at the polls on election day. It is the duty of every citizen to express himself one way or the other upon every candidate and upon every public measure submitted for popular approval. If the man or measure is a good one, you do wrong when you withhold your approval. If the man or measure is inimical to the general welfare, or if opposed to the best interests of the race, you are negligent of your plain duty when you fail to cast a vote of disapproval. We say vote, Mr. Turner, and keep on voting. If you vote only for men who are worthy and who have kept the faith with the people, you will not always have reason to complain of the things enumerated in your bill of grievances filed herein. If the Negro votes independently of the bosses and resists the blandishments of the corruptionists, who buy our votes and then graft the people, we shall not always be ignored, either by those who distribute the patronage or by those who make the laws that protect the citizen. Yea, the Negro has voted since the days of General Grant, but in most instances he has voted for the interest of the white man, and not for his own benefit. He has not really voted—he has been voted. We say to the colored men of Indiana and the nation: Next Tuesday vote for yourselves and families, and not for the enrichment of your oppressors. Repeat this operation for a few seasons, and we venture the assertion that neither Mr. Turner nor any other Negro will ever write another letter in the dismal strain that marks the effusion that has brought forth these "scattering remarks." Of course, the colored man should continue to vote—but he must cease to be voted! Mr Hearsts' Plan. Mr. William Randolph Hearst, candidate of the Independence League and democratic party for Governor of New York also, says some good things about governmental reform, rights and duties of the plain citizen, etc. Here is a fair sample of one of his speeches: "And if you do not have equality before the law, or a free government, or a representative government, don't you think it is about time for democrats and republicans and prohibitionists and independents to stop disputing about insignificant details and get together and put this government back on a solid foundation?" This is, indeed, a pertinent question, and indicative of a broad spirit in political ethics; but does this propaganda and that of President Roosevelt include the black man as a factor in the work of civic reform? Will the President state directly that his policy of nationalism is undertaken with any notion of benefiting the darkhued millions to whom the doctrine of States' rights means little short of slavery? Will Mr. Hearst, in view of his reputed aspirations for the democratic presidential nomination, dare to make a specific declaration for equality before the law and for representative government, applicable alike to white and black, with John Sharp Williams, Jim Vardaman and Joe Bailey within hearing distance? Is the Negro's interests included in the statecraft of the white man of this day and generation? Negro Labor For The Panama Canal. The decision of the Government to have the Panama Canal completed by contract does not make it less important that we insist upon the use of American Negroes as laborers on the Isthmus, rather than the hordes of Chinese coolies, advocated by the unions, who are hostile to the ambitious, high-priced and less tractable black man. Many of the contractors themselves have declared in favor of the Negro, for they know by experience that unintelligent labor is the costliest labor in the long run. Mr. G. H. eller, representing one of the Chicago firms, which has contracts to do a large share of the excavating on the Canal, is now visiting Southern cities, looking for "likely" colored boys, between the ages of eighteen and twenty years. They are wanted ride mules drawing dump carts, and little difficulty has been found in getting signers among the enterprising element of the race. The employing agents have been having no end of trouble in keeping white boys on the Isthmus, because of the prevalence of malarial fever there, and the companies have adopted the expedient now of making contracts with the boys for services of at least a year. Healthy colored boys, it has been found, are not nearly so susceptible to the malarial fever as those of the white race, and they will thrive under conditions likely to be fatal to the latter. Mr. eller signed a dozen colored boys in Louisville last week, and is continuing his journey southward, planning to stop at Nashville, Atlanta, Birmingham, Montgomery, Mobile, New Orleans and other Southern cities, gathering up boys to help on the work. This is an entering wedge, and our boys who are in a position to go, should not hesitate to take advantage of this golden opportunity to have a part in the construction of the greatest engineering enterprise of the century. Is The Negro In This? Is The Negro In This? In pleading for the enlargement of the powers of the General Government, to the end that many abuses permitted within the States may be corrected, President Roosevelt is in line with the best thought of the times. It is presumed he is broadly hinting at Negro disfranchisement, "jim-crow" cars, farcial trials of lynchers, toleration of mob rule and discrimination generally against our citizens by business establishments operating under a public license, when he gave expression to this grand sentiment in a recent address: "The several States must be influenced to do their duty, or our citizenship can never be put on a proper plane. I am a Nationalist. Only the Nation can do this work." The Atlanta Georgian, edited by the malodorous John Temple Graves, is "up in arms" about the strong and manly declaration of Bishop Walters at New York, that "There never will be any peace until the Negro has been accorded the rights given to other citizens of the Commonwealth. Our struggle is for equal rights, and we are determined to rise or die in the attempt." Graves says that this and kindred language is "incendiary," and intimates that in any other country, the Bishop would be arrested for sedition. These Southern yawpers of the Graves, Dixon, Vardaman and Tillman stripe, reserve the right to say all sorts of treasonable things about Negroes and their civil rights, but when a Negro ventures to retaliate in kind, he is instantly charged with circulating "incendiary" sentiments and denounced as a dangerous character. Why isn't sauce for the goose a lubricant of like nature for the gander? Gambling and intemperance are sapping the vitals of the young Negro. Some of our most promising young men, who have the capacity to be useful factors in the community, if they would only devote themselves to a legitimate calling, are frittering away precious time and energy shooting craps, playing poker and picking the ponies, and some actually depend for a livelihood upon these precarious games of chance, where the odds are 100 to 1 in favor of the professional sharks who operate the trap, which they set daily to catch suckers. Can't our young men get their eyes onen to the painful fact that they can not win out against the "bookies" and professional touts who have the game "cinched" from the beginning? David Rankin, who is rated as a millionaire, has decided to give $2,000,000 to found an industrial school in St. Louis. The school is to be run principally for children of people in moderate circumstances, and its object will be to fit the youth of the city to work intelligently with their hands, without first receiving apprenticeships at meager wages. We do not know whether provision is to be made for colored children or not, but the gift and its object emphasize the potent fact that industrial training is not regarded—outside of the charmed circle of Boston fanatics—as the exclusive property of the Negro, nor is working with the hands a badge of eternal degradation. This nation wants no Chinese coolies to dig the Panama Canal. Gov. Magoon says they can not be depended upon nearly so well as the native American Negro or the black laborers of the West Indies, nad will not do any more work than they are driven to do by contractors, under a system of peonage which the United States could not afford to tolerate. Gov. Magoon knows what he is talking about, and the country will do well to listen. Let the contractors employ Negroes of the Sunny South to dig the canal, and give it the true American stamp—and "local color." The visit of Dr. Booker T. Washington to Atlanta to lend his personal presence and weighty influence in behalf of his outraged race, stamped him as "every inch a man." His prompt and courageous action is in brilliant contrast with the absenteeism of certain loud-mouthed pretenders, who are always "brave"—until the hour of trial comes. Dr. Washington is stronger than ever with every element of his people by reason of his magnificent handling of the distressing situation at Atlanta. He is indeed our ambassador at the court of Good Sense. The esteemed Florida Sentinel pays us the high compliment of reproducing in full, with favorable comment, The Freeman's recent editorial, "Dr. Washington's Sane Counsel," which reviewed sympathetically the statesmanlike utterances of the "Wizard" on the Atlantic riot. Brother Lewey invariably carries a level-head into his discussion of men and measures, and is never taken off his feet by the superficial clamor of the hysterical or impractical. (CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE) and many will doubtless find their way into the hands of many young people during the gift period. The publishers of the book are T. Y. Crowell & Co., New York. The second work by Dr. Washington 1 s "The Life of Frederick Douglass," issued by George W. Jacobs & Co., Philadelphia, and is one that the great educator has been planning for some time to place before the public. Dr. Washington is an intense admirer of the character and work of the Negro's "Great Commoner," and in this book he has given himself full rein and from cover to cover it is replete with vivid descriptions of scenes and incidents in the life of Douglass that came under the direct observation of the painstaking author. These two books show Dr. Washington at his best as a writer and thinker, and they will doubtless enjoy the wide sale that their transcendent merits entitle them. The Jamestown Exposition will have an elaborate display of the resources and products of the Negro people, and the building in which they are to be shown is to be one of the handsomest on the exposition grounds. After severe competition, in which some of the best architects in the country participated, the drawing of the plans for this massive Negro building has been awarded to Mr. W. S. Pittman, of Washington, D. C., a graduate of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. The recent session of the National Grand Council, Order of Good Samaritans, held at Knoxville, Tenn., was a highly prosperous one and indicated that the order had reached a commanding position in the fraternity life of the race throughout the United States. One hundred and fifty delegates were present, representing more than thirty states and acting for a constituency of not less than 100,000. Conspicuous among the delegates were capt. I. D. Oliver, of Baltimore, and Dr. W. H. Chambers, of Indianapolis, Past Noble Fathers, and Past Grand Chief Rev. C. C. Vaughn, of Russellville, Ky. Officers were elected as follows: National Grand Chief, Dr. E. W. B. Curry, Urbana, O.; Rev. J. E. Wood, deputy Grand Chief, Danville, Ky.; Delaware James, of Baltimore, Vice Grand Chief; Mrs. E. P. Diggs, Leesburg, Va., National Associate Vice Chief; Grand Secretary, Rev. S. E. Smith, Lexington, Ky.; Grand Treasurer, Mrs. Mary E.; Grand President, New Albany, Ind.; National Superintendent of Juveniles, Mrs. M. A. T. Leggett, Dewailer, O. It is thought by some that Mrs. Leggett's advanced age will preclude her serving out the two years' term, to which she was elected, in which event there is a feeling that the mantle will fall upon Miss Arletta Vaughn of Russellville, Ky., whose remarkable record as superintendent of juveniles for the State of entucky will place her directly in line of promotion. The next meeting of the Good Samaritans win be held in Baltimore, Md., in June, 1908. Mrs. M. E. Washington, who, besides being Grand Treasurer of the National body is Grand Secretary of the Kentucky Grand Lodge, says the order never was in such excellent condition, nor has the proportionate increase in membership of the local councils ever been so rapid. Since the meeting at noxville Deputy Chief J. E. Wood has set up two lodges in Kentucky and other organizers make reports equally satisfactory. R. W. THOMPSON. THE SOUTH AND THE NEGRO (CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE) Negro is reverting to barbarism. If they are right it is exactly what might be expected from the system of social, educational and legal outlawry which he lives under. If he offends, the rights which belong as a matter of course to the white criminal are denied him. For the Negro there are no courts, no law, no right to be heard. Suspicion is conviction. Accusation is proof. He is hunted down like a wolf and the ingenuity of race hatred is taxed to make him feel his death. On the side of criminal justice the failure of the South in the Negro question has become the scandal of the world. Nothing like it has been seen since the eRomans put down the rebellion of their slaves. Indeed it almost seems as if the Southern whites looked upon the Negroes as a service class in insurrection against their lawful owners. "In the Atlanta riots the blacks showed a certain spirit and vigor in self-defense. Whites were slain as well as Negroes. This was, of course, regrettable; still, to gain respect the blacks must learn to defend themselves. The cry that the crimes against white women can only be prevented by lynch law is a confession of weakness. It is the plea of a community maddened by hysterical race hatred. Lynch law is not only a reversion to savagery, but it is utterly ineffectual. The particular crime which is said to justify it increases rather than the contrary, while the relations between the races march steadily toward civil war. The whites become more cruel and less discriminating in their punishments, the blacks bolder and more united in resistance. A mounted rural police like that which has long and so admirably kept order among the desperate characters of Western Canada would do as much to save civilization in the South as any single thing that could be suggested. But the first real steer toward the solution of the Negro question must be the admission by the Southern whites, however reluctant, that the Negro is a human being with human rights and aspirations." You can find The Freeman on sale very Sunday at the Palace Barber Sh 14 North Hutton street, A. L. Farmer, Oklahoma City, O T. HIGHER WAGES FOR NEGRO LABORERS Powerful Labor Organization Will Protect Colored Working- men and Women. Every colored citizen who has the in- terest of the race at heart, will rejoice to learn that a great Labor Union is using its strength and influence to secure higher wages for the negro laboring men and women. This is the first labor organization in this country to take up the battle in behalf of our race. This Union proposes to see that the colored people are given their proper place in the work of this country, and accorded equal opportunities to work with other workmen and receive Union wages and hours. They will extend full protection to their negro members, and insist upon justice being done them. The negro has an equal standing in this union with his white brother, and is eligible to hold any office in the organization. When a member dies, $100.00 is paid to his beneficiary, this being one of the beneficial features of this Union. If a leading negro of each locality will become a Deputy, and help extend this Union by forming new Lodges, he will uplift our people and do grand work for the race. He may continue his regular employment, forming the Lodge during idle moments, and receive good pay for his efforts. Those of our readers who desire to take up this work should write THE INTERNATIONAL LABORERS UNION, DAYTON, OHIO, and request sample Journal, Constitution and By-Laws and instructions about becoming a Deputy Organizer for this progressive Union. Be sure to mention this paper and enclose 10 cents to pay the postage. Also give reference as to character and honesty. THE FOUR CROWNED = Gold Medal = GOLD MEDAL, Paris. GRAND PRIZE, St. Louis. GOLD MEDAL, Belgium. GRAND PRIZE, (Cross of Honor) France :- Duesseldorfer:- Purest, Richest, Most Palatable, Most Satisfying BEER In the WORLD. The only BEER for the Home, the Club, the Cafe, and the Bar. Order a case to-day; Phones 578 or Prospect 100. Also "Progress Brands" Beer, Ale and Po ter. Indianapolis Brewing Company Sole Producers. WHAT THEY SAY OF US. The Indianapolis Freeman is one of our most valued exchanges. Its editorial utterances may be accepted as a text-book FOR THE RACE. by the rank and file of the race of this country. Every policy put forward for the guidance of the masses suggests brains manly independence and ample information - Kentucky Stahdard, Louisville, Ky. * * * One of the most sane and plausible editorials appearing in the Negro press, was the editorial in the SENSIBLE Indianapolis Freeman of UTTERANCES. last week, discussing "Dr. Washington and the Mob." If we compare the wealth numbers and public authority of the whites with similar attainments of the blacks of South, the sensible utterances of The Freeman outweigh any of the criticisms anent the recent Atlanta horrors.—Florida Sentinel, Pensacola, Fla. * * * Dorothy, the young ambitious writer for the Indianapolis Freeman is doing good work for her people. DOING GOOD WORK. Her articles on the stage women and do- ing the right thing at the right time, should be copied by every colored newspaper. Dorotny says our people do not know what to wear and when to wear it, and sh is right. How often do we see see white shoes and black skirts and what looks worse? Dorotny does not paint the stage women as scarlet. In fact the good qualities that these stage women have would be of great benefit to our women —The Columbian, Louisville, Ky. TOFIGHT NEG O PYTHIANS. New Orleans, Special.—The Knights of Pythias have determined to fight through the courts the organization recently formed by Negroes in Georgia calling themselves the Supreme Lodge. Knights of Pythias of North America, South America and Australia. ```markdown ``` The St It is given out that B. F. Keith's new theatre in Jersey City will open November 5. Twenty-five states are represented at the P kin Theatre, by the sixty seven persons employed. Carter & Bluford, in their "The Act Beautiful" will be seen at the Grand Opera House, Indianapolis, next week. Thomas Williams, at Havana, Cuba will employ a number of the leading colored stars of the United States for the coming winter season. At Keith and Proctor's Union Square at New York this week, the Meredith Sisters, dancing comediennes have been adding to their excellent reputation as artists. Jack O'iver, John Carson, George Jones and J. D. Williams opened with Sammy Rivers' Quartet at Portland, Ore. They are the hit of the West. Regatds to all friends, Sam Gordon and Emma Chacon appeared at the Gayetty Theatre the first-three days of this week with the Jersey Lily Extravaganza Company. Their act will be reviewed in next week's issue. James E. Simpson, the monologist opened a five weeks engagement on the Julian Young Circuit at the Bout, Salt Lake City, Utah. While there he was made an I. B.P. O. E. of W., by James Ed. Hood, the bass singer formerly o the Kemp Comedy, who is the Exalted Ruler of Unitah, Lodge No. 56. Hood and Simpson serds regards to all friends. Blordy Robinson, John Vaughner and the rest of the bunch crop a line, but not a fish line. Charles DeGraw's 'Darkey's Dream' Company will be seen in a short time presenting the following people: Jackson and Goode, back and wing dancers; Odie Bransford, the clever scubet; The Carlands, Fred and Hattie, trombonist and soubret, late of Allen's New Orlans Minstrels; Roh Johnson, Indianapolis' youngest comedian, late of the 'Hoosler Amusement Company:' Arthur and Evaline Dunham, entertainers; Nettie Mosby, the contralto solo The Dixie Minstrels are yet in the South meeting with unprecedented success and his ghostship never fails to perambulate weekly. We have met all of the big circuses in Texas and entertained royally by the Quail Clark Aggregation with Sells-Forepaugh Shows. Also the vaudville show with the Sells-Floite Show Mrs. John Rucker prepared an elaborate spread for the entire company in Houston. During our stay there Bennie Jones was tendered a swell reception by the waiters of the Rice Hotel, Mr. Pratt headwaiter. George Rhone purchased a HAYWOOD BERT WILLIAMS. The Great Comedian Star With "Abssinia. The part that's liken to himself, No too' durst play the r le. For such, a man of brain and brawn, An act and learned soul. —GARFIELD T. HAYWOOD. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER TO THE PROFESSION - Actors and actress seize me my latest photo today! Address E wood C, Knox, Man'gr The Freeman, Indianapolis Holton trombone. Wallace Bailey a conn and Thomas Siddon a courtos. Bunk Campbell is singing Rucker's song, "Get Your Face on a Dollar Bill," with success. Roland Meaux presented himself with a new Basson cornet at Galveston. Dennis Johnson, trap drummer mystifies the audiences with his eccentric drumming. The culinary department is under the supervision of F Thomas and no complaints are heard from this quarter. Best wishes to the entire profession. A LETTER FROM ENGLAND. Bil y McClain wr tes from Southampton, Oct ber 19—I sail for Paris tomorrow night, Saturday October 20. I am booked solid until October '07, and have some time in '08, and refusing further time. I have just won a big law suit and it was a close shave for me but merits alone won. I have been studying law the last three months. There are a good many colored performers in England some doing well and others are not. I see George Walker is an advocate of my scheme mentioned a year ago regarding a colored theatre, and that Gus Hill has my "Black Poli ican." After reading mine he writes me that he bought it of Billy Johnson. Bob Cole tells me and so does Irvin Jones that they knew of mine but that must have been something that Johnson hatched up. Well I don't care so long as it is a co ored man getting to play the star part and hope he will make good but I don't like the idea of a white man receiving the financial benefit. There is just as much prejudice here in England as in America and you will find it out if you stay long enough but I have made my personality win with all by manhood. An Englishman beloves in fair play and an Ameriobn doesn't. I am very busy. The show is playing one house and I am staging a pantomime at the Folle Bergere as I did last year. RUFUS RASTUS COMPANY. Abbie Mitchell Cooke is doing nicely. * * * Big Chief Angle Housley is still tenting out, * * * Will Wilkins wants to hear from Ollie Shelton. * * * Henry Troy is singing more tenor than ever before. * * * Herbert Sutton is suffering with a sprained ankle. * * * Tom Logan is sill on deck and doing "pretty weeil, thankee, sir" * * * Allie Gillam is giving instructions in ground and looty tumbling. * * * Beverly Housley is getting fat and wishes this fact generally known. Billy Moork got so lucky In Cleveland that he wanted to celebrate with a pink tea. * * * * Jinny Worles, like Gen. Grant smokes his regular cigars and declares that he is not bothered yet. * * * * Charles B Foster is holding down a chorus of forty voices and playing-a really tough policeman. * * * * Loretta Turner is still counting the days and hours before we reach New York City. We wonder why? * * * * Happy Al Johns is nicely positioned with this show, and from appearance is "getting his'n daily." Georgia Mickey is as usual "first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of her country women." Yes? Madge Gans is laying off this week and incidently paying a visit to friends at Cincinnati and Columbus, O. Billy Moore is still handing down "Pitch Decisions" and is the admitted authority along that particular line of affairs. The Brothers, Gillam while at Cleveland last week had a beautiful marble shaft placed on the grave of their mohter. Harry Fidler, the man of many faces has gotten out some new billing matter, and it is safe to presume that his name will be in everybody's mouth and his picture in everybody's hand are long. NOTICE. Sylvester Russell's Review will probably not be issued for several months owing to business transactions in favor of its future success. Parties whose mail was returned during Mr. Russell's illness will plea e write again. All standing subscribers will be given a new subscription or bala ce returned in money or Ru sell periodicals should the new magazine project be abandoned. SPORT GANS AND HERMAN NEXT. At the last moment of their meeting in Chicago Joe Gans and Billy Nolan, Nelson's manager, held out to their own ideas as to how the terms of a light-weight championship battle should be. Gans found out that Nolan would not come to his terms, so Gans hastily turned his back upon him and commenced to talk to Herman's manager, who was standing near by. Herman's manager agreed upon Gans' terms without one word of argument, so articles were signed to the effect that each fighter weigh in at 133 pounds two hours before the fight, the winner to receive 65 per cent, and the loser 35 per cent. of the purse. The bout is to be pulled off before the first club offering $20,000 for apurse. In asking this amount Gans goes rather high, but he does so to protect his theatrical engagements. He is busy fully three months on the stage, where he is making $1,200 a week. The bids for the fight will remain over thirty days. At the end of that time, should no offer of $20,000 be received, Gans declares his willingness to hold open his offer to meet Herman, and as soon as his theatrical engagements are completed he will fight him before the club offering the largest purse. Gans is anxious to give Herman a chance to earn the title before he is capable of defeating him. Gans said: "Herman has worked hard to get a chance for the championship, and since he is as good a boy as is in the ring today, I believe it is only human to give him an opportunity. When I demanded $20,000 I asked for a large amount, but I was offered that to meet Britt and certainly ought to get it with Herman. "By signing with the Kid I am in no way getting out of a match with Nelson. I believe Herman will give me just as tough an argument. Should the offer come I will cancel all my engagements and start training at once." Say what they will, the sporting writers have got to give it to "Gentleman Joe" for his fairness in all things. It must be seen that Gans is not after humbugging any one and in turn will not stand for any one humbugging him. With all the nerve of an African lion Billy Nolan thought he would run up to Chicago last Friday, October 26, and frighten Joe Gans into agreeing upon any terms that he might make. But Gans could not be frightened, as Billy soon found out. Joe didn't get the least bit nervous, only in the quiet way of turning his back on Nolan, just as if Nelson's manager had never existed or as if he did not know he was present, and began to talk a $20,000 proposition with Kid Herman's manager. What did poor, bull-dozing Billy do? Simply tucked his tail and sneaked away to the tall timbers to try and begin life over again. Kid Herman, as a fighter, has a splendid reputation and ought to be a good drawing card. He has not been in the business a very long time, but has done much creditable fighting. Today Herman is every bit as good a pug as is Nelson, and to those up on boxing is more scientific than Nelson. It is possible that this match will be jumped at by the Manhattan (Nev.) Athletic Club. ON THE GRIDIRON Some dispute has been aroused from the results of the game between the Indianapolis Herculeans and the Richmond (Ky.) Champions, which occurred at Cincinnati, O., on the 21st of October. Of course every one admits that the Richmond lads won, but every one does not agree upon the score. Some are saying that the score was 10 to 0 and still others say it was 15 to 0. The Herculeans refuse to listen to a score of 15 to 0 and the Champions will not regard anything like a score of 10 to 0. So the gridiron fans are saying that the only way to settle the argument is to "have it over again." David C. Gilbert, manager of the Richmond Champions, writes that they have met the Indianapolis Herculeans and have defeated them by a score of 15 to 0, but Coach Wilson of the "Herks" cannot see it that way, and by way of explanation says: "Sporting Editor of Freeman: "In order that the public may know the truth concerning the football game between Richmond, Ky., and Indianapolis, I desire to cite my friends of Kentucky to some violations of the new rules. Your first touchdown was a touch back (see Guide, p. 125, rule 16, exception 2), and so also was the third touch down a touch back. Indianapolis scored on a forward pass, which was lawful, but was robbed out of her points. Mr. Taylor, one of the officials, allowed the touch down, but the other team would not stand for it. After much delay the game was continued. "Again on the line of scrimmage each man must stand with both feet outside of the player next to him. Both teams errored here. Furthermore, no formations are allowed before the ball is put in play. Richmond charged time and again on our full-back in catching punts, which is unlawful. "In conclusion, will say that we demand another game with this team. If you should have officials who know the new rules and can keep the crowd off the field, we will assure you what we can do if we get a square deal. Again, I commend both teams for their sportsmanlike conduct during the game, no unusual roughness or slugging being engaged in. We are ready and willing to play another game at any time suited for same conditions as last game. 'Be game,' Richmond, and give them a return game. Yours very truly, "TUGE" WILSON, "Of Indianapolis Herculeans." Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 25. From the above lines it may draw one to believe that there may be a flaw somewhere. Of course there can be many sides to most anything, and as Manager Gilbert has not seen fit so far, to tell his side of the story it may not be worth while to come to any conclusion. It looks as though Coach Wilson has put up a very strong defense, but how strong we cannot say until the other camp is heard from. But in case both sides be left in doubt we would consider it to be the proper thing to have a return game. The Hoosier Tigers are out with a challenge to any 140 to 145-pound team in the country. They are very anxious to hear from the Richmond, Ky., Champions or the Cincinnati football squad. Write their monster. Will Bottoms, 502 North Senate avenue, Indianapolis, Ind. The Hoosier Tigers challenge any 150-pound team in the country. For further information write Manager Will Bottoms, 502 N. Senate avenue, Indianapolis, Ind. * * * * How about another battle between the Indianapolis Herculeans and Richmond (Ky.) Champions, Manager Gilbert? * * * * Manager Bottoms, awake and see if you can't get the Richmond Champions to go up against the Tigers. * * * * When will that game be pulled off between the Y. M. C. A. and Flanner Guild at Indianapolis? * * * * The "Herks" are now in good form and are ready to meet any 150-pound team in the country. * * * * What has become of the Cincinnati boys who played such wonderful football last season? Indianapolis has the best gridiron in the country. * * * The Richmond (Ky.) Champions hold the championship of the Middle States. * * * The Hoosier Tigers are now the champions of Indiana and Ohio. LITTLE SPORT TALK. Terry McGovern was a familiar figure in Washington Park, the home of the Superbas, for some time last spring. Clad in an old baseball suit, much the worse for wear, and evidently not on speaking terms with the wash tub, the little featherweight used to chase flies and thereby manage to get in the way of the ball players. One day President Ebbitts—it was right in the middle of the Superba's worst losing streak and the Brooklyn magnate was a little more irritable than usual—took it upon himself to tell Terry that his absence was preferable to his company. "McGovern," said Mr. Ebbitts, "you will have to keep off this field. This place is for ball players, not prize fighters." Just as quickly as he used to counter his opponents' wallops, Terry replied: "Huh, ball players, you say? Why in the deuce don't you get some, then?" Eddie Stern, the Noblesville pug, who received a decision over Battling Nelson about two years ago at Michigan City, desires to meet Billy Mayfield, the local 138-pound boxer, at any place or time. Joe Thomas knocked out Fitzpatrick in the sixteenth round at Colma, Cal., Wednesday night, October 24. The Californian outclassed his man from the start and won as he pleased. Matty Baldwin of Charleston and Rouse O'Brien of South Boston fought fifteen rounds to a draw at Chelsea, Mass., Wednesday night, October 24. Tommy Murphy will challenge Spike Robson when the Englishman returns to this country. They are still a good card. Eddie Stern, of Noblesville, will meet Jimmy Ryan in a ten-round bout at Shelburn, Ind., in about two weeks. * * * * Some well-to-do young colored girls of Canton, Ia., have organized a champion basket ball team. Dave Barry of California and Hugo Kelly have practically been matched to fight fifteen rounds before the Ozark Athletic Club of Davenport on November 6, at 165 pounds, weigh in at 4 o'clock on the afternoon of the battle. The pair have been haggling over the weight for some time, Barry holding out for three pounds more and an earlier hour to weigh in. but Kelly, who can figure at the middle-weight limit, set the figures and Barry was compelled to knuckle. Marvin Hart versus Mike Schreck, for ten rounds, before Pickel's Kala-amazo Athletic Club, will be the offering for October 29, provided Hart's consent to the match can be secured by Matchmaker Jack Curley. Billy Hogan, manager for Mike Schreck, has already accepted the club's terms and affixed his signature to a set of articles. The main terms for the match are the same that prevailed at Terre Haute. As Hart has announced his willingness to meet Schreck at any time or place there is no reason to expect a refusal from him. * * * Now comes the news that the same ```markdown ``` Philadelphia promoters who got McGovern and Young Corbett together last week are making every arrangement for another affray between these two has-beens for a purse of $10,000. It is now planned for them to go at least fifteen rounds and furnish poor sport for these two former idols. There probably are fifty second-raters in the country who could whip either Terry or Corbett. Matches of this sort are just what cause our law-makers to become disgusted with and put a stop to the business in many States. The Harvard Tigers have organized with the following lineup: W. Ewards and V. Brown, ends; Barnett and Harrison, tackles; Barbor and Walker, guards; Smith, center; O. White, quarter-back; H. Ebbit, full-back; H. Humble and C. Brown, half-backs. Games are desired with any 128 or 130-pound teams in the city or State. Address Chas. J. Brown, 706 West Tenth street, Indianapolis, Ind. Old phone, Main 3775, 4 rings. NOTICE TO MAC A SLACK WIR Will close in New Orleans to complete his new act a May 30, 1907. 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A. 7601 THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER the checker-board, portraying logical consistency in methods of fair play is invitation enough to all other races to meet us half way. --- Uncle Sam is flirting in real good fashion with Cuba. If there is to be any wedding between him and the black child of the Antilles, Maceo, Quentin, Bandera and other true men of the race set the example of dissatisfaction at small favor to the hosts who follow. If in any case our Constitution should swallow Cuba, it would not be given the yellow fever only in the mildest form, but it would suffer a severe stomach-ache till the great day of judgment. Cubans are men. * * * In Chicago a few Sundays ago an ex-congressman exile and exhorter was given an X-Ray definition by Dr. Majors as an example of the exemplary qualities of the exquisite soul of Dr. Booker T. Washington. The definition was: Greatness, without any qualifying adjectives, magnanimity, leader and dictator and exalted friend, whose life is given to teach by example and simple philosophy people who have more learning than they can ever be expected to use. It has been only two weeks since Mr. Washington received a donation of a half million cash. The South and the North, too, feel that his good counsels entitle him to anything he wants. Mr. Watterson classes Washington with Bryan, Roosevelt and Christ * * * Patrick Henry said "Give me liberty or give me death." That does not count any more. The Niagara people who believe so much in Patrick wouldn't know liberty if they were to see her in New York harbor. The kind of liberty they'll get is death **** ****** Incidentally, let us remember to support our own enterprises and subscribe and pay for our own newspapers. The Freeman is always the one great Negro paper from which weekly perusals more than bring the worth of your money. ```markdown ``` There's not an ounce of powder laid by for a rainy day, nor a gun to shoot as insignificant a thing as a groundhog, and there are numbers of helpless, woe-begone, peanut-headed Sunday school dudes who want to fight. 清 肃 厉 The Negro is now growing into a vast era of business. We are beginning to sell as well as buy. It is certain that ere long we will control some of the wealth of the country if we go on as rapidly in the coming years. * * * Tillman has professed religion, but it came too late to save his soul from hell. Dixon is already damned and Vardaman and John Graves are drying out for hell's kindling wood. *** "Here's $4.75, Mr. George. I want that horse with the white mane and tail, red-wheel buggy and the lap robe striped on one side and red on the other." * * * Here is a blooming candidate for the Niagara organization. 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Remember that FORD'S HAIR is the signature, Charles Ford, Press, on each with every bottle. Price only 50c. Sold by her cannot supply you, he can procure it from one bottle, postpaid, or $1.40 for three. We pay postages and express charges to all our customers and mention name your name and address plainly to DOW CO. COLLEGE III. B. SQUARE'S BLUSTER Intolerance, toleration and retaliation are three words recently added to the Negro's vocabulary. * * * John B. Foraker of Ohio looks good to me. What say you all? B. SQU BL In a recent issue of the New York World, a Democratic sheet, we find the following editorial: Who Is to Blame? Strict consistency is too much to expect, perhaps, from any Southern politician who undertakes to discuss the race question. Senator Tillman, who believes the South is on the verge of a great race war, lays down six propositions "which cannot be disputed." It may be worth while to compare two of these propositions: Firs—The white men of the South are united and determined as never before to maintain white supremacy, politically and socially, in every part of every Southern State. Fourth—Lynching for criminal assault will continue as long as the crime is committed. The escape of guilty men inflames the whites, precipitates riots and causes innocent Negroes to suffer. Senator Tillman's logic leads straight to the conclusion that white men's government also is a failure in the South. It may be a failure, but it need not be a failure. The whites of the South are united, as Senator Tillman says, and they control the government. It is white sheriffs who administer the law in the counties, white judges before whom Negroes charged with criminal assault are brought for trial, white juries who pass upon the guilt of the accused and white Governors whose duty it is to see that the law is faithfully executed. If "the escape of guilty men inflames the whites," as the Senator says, who is to blame for this escape but the white men who are in control of the government? Mr. Tillman insists that the white men of the South shall do what they believe to be right in this matter regardless of "all the Yankees between Cape Cod and hell." Then why not begin by vigorously administering the law? ☆ ☆ ☆ The spirit of prejudice is disappearing, like the morning mist, as the sun of civilization rises towards its zenith and as men (even Democrats) learn, with the aid of a broader education and more enlightened mental vision, that we all have a common heritage of virtues and vices no matter from what race or class we may descend. ```markdown ``` Some people "kick" when their coffee is cold. A certain Negro editor "kicked" a few days ago because his coffee was too hot, and drew (so the papers say) his gun to shoot the waiter. You can please all the people sometimes, and then sometimes you can't please any one. 雍雅 A good workman knows a good job or a fine piece of work, even if it comes from his own hands or brains, be he a doctor, lawyer, undertaker, snow shoveler, author, editor or poet. I am no exception to this rule. * * * I have over a hundred and nine good articles which appeared in the "Bluster" column over ten years or so ago, all of which I can not duplicate and all of which are full of meat. I have a scrap book full of them and it is my intention to republish one or two every week, marked: "From B. Square's Scrap Book." Here is the first: Don't. Don't be a fool. Don't be a Negro pessimist. Don't preach what you do not put into execution. Don't make the mistake of last year during 1906. Don't be a thorn in the pathway of the race's progress. Don't be a cipher in the solution of the "Negro problem." Don't borrow The Freeman. Subscribe and pay for it. Don't fail to push your pound to launch the ship of civil rights. Don't spend all your earnings this year. Save a dollar for hard times. Don't think the race will not advance if you withdraw your mighty (?) aid. Don't die and leave your son poorer in this world's goods than your father left you. Don't get angry at the appointed SPORT By John L. Footslug. Some one tell Jack Blackburn and Jesse Clark to wake up and get in the game. There's plenty doing. * * * The Hyland-Thompson fight did not come off at Colma last week because of Thompson suffering from a high fever. * * * Jimmy Potts of Minneapolis and Clarence England of Omaha fought a fifteen-round draw at Davenport, la., October 12. * * * Harry Lewis, who defeated Willie Fitzgerald last Saturday in two ```markdown ``` When in Louisville call at Mrs Jackson's restaurant, 408 West Green street and secure a copy of The Freeman. The Freeman is on sale at the East En Music Store in Louis M. ARE'S USTER task of letting you see yourself as others see you. Don't copy the white man's vices. Copy his money-getting methods when they are honest, business-like and legitimate. (From B. Square's Scrap Book.) * * * * Things That Cannot Be Explained. —Questions.— Why the "Four Hundred" of Afro- American society in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Indianapolis and, in fact, all the cities of the United States, do not give charity balls this winter, and, "after the ball is over," take the receipts thereof and buy coal, wood and provisions for the worthy colored poor of their town? Why you will sit in the barber shops and take a free read out of The Freeman instead of buying a copy and taking it home to the family? Why church and society members who live in glass houses are always throwing stones at other sinners, against the laws of God and man? Why is it that colored political clubs are like a hydra? Why is it that we always "point with pride" to our one-half or one-tenth of white blood and hardly ever to our African fluid? Why is it that a great many white folks prefer going to colored watch meetings. New Year's eve, than the theater? Why is it that nine-tenths of our people—men and women, high and low—try in vain, day after day, to storm the citadel of fortune by the way of the policy shop? Why is it when a beautiful young woman decides to take a toboggan slide from morality she selects as her male companion a—well, repulsive nondescript? Why is it that the colored people of the South did not "fight with fire." Why is it that the fond mother who says, "Oh, I have not lost all pride, if I am poor; I would not think of letting my children go to Sunday school until they get new clothes," will let those same old, worn and sightless duds to be seen upon her children as they play all day Sunday upon the streets in full view of everybody? Why is it that we, as a rule, wear more expensive clothes than our employers? Why is it that society admits young gentlemen (?) whose only qualifications are the knowledge of dancing and the ownership of two or three fine suits of clothes, when it excludes their female peers? Why is it that some of our colored friends of wealth do not build factories, open stores and thereby give employment to the colored girls and young men, instead of letting their money rust in the banks? Why is it that you will find in every town in the United States with an Afro-American population gangs of over-dressed young men, not worth the powder and shot it would take to kill them, standing on the street corners, who for a change transfer their sidewalk obstruction to the church doors Sunday nights and pass unmanly remarks about the fair devotees who enter? Why is it that certain men about town can live upon the wind? Have they mastered the problem of how to live without eating? Why is it we do not take the same money we pay for the house rent in large cities and purchase a home of our own in some of the little towns just outside? Why is it we will not patronize colored merchants and shop keepers whose goods and prices are just the same as the other fellow's? Why is it not just as easy to give an old chum ten cents to buy a beef stew as to blow in ten dollars with him? Why is it you do not, now and then, send a few dollars "down home" to help your aged father and mother along, instead of throwing away all your pennies upon dress, balls, parties or with evil companions? Why is it that with all our mistakes, imperfections and short-comings, we are, as a race, marching onward and upward? B. SQUARE. rounds at Philadelphia, has issued a challenge to fight Joe Gans. * * * Ambrose McGarry, the New York lightweight, knocked out Red Sullivan of Washington in the fourth round of their fifteen-round bout at Baltimore Thursday of last week. ```markdown ``` Jim Coffroth has jumped from the fight trust and will hold the Kaufmann-Berger bout in a new pavilion and skating rink on the last day of this month. The new place holds 6,000 and the former can accommodate but 2,500. * * * John Horgan, champion continuous pool player of the world, has surrendered his title and returned the diamond championship trophy. Horgan's interest in billiards caused him to give up the pool title because of the Profitable Employment :--: FOR YOU :--: [Picture of a man with a mustache and a suit]. J. G. McPHERSON. do not mean business. I mean business and writing me for contract and full particulars. Write me to-day; to-morrow. Address J. G. Mc P. O. 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If you are not satisfied bring the bottle back and get your money refunded. SANOL IS PUT UP IN TWO SIZES 35c. & $1.00 PER BOTTLE. THE SANOL MED. CO. FOR SALE BY—TOLEDO, OHIO. BLEACH Acts directly on the ptiment in the skin which makes it perfect, without inju- tory to the most deli- cate complex on WILL REMOVE Freckles, T, n Sun burn and Pimple. We will mail you a box prompt upon receipt of 25 ENTENTS. WHILES Specifie Co- Union and Summer S., Nashville Teen fact that he could not get the necessary time for practice. * * * Billy Roche, the San Francisco fight promoter, has wired Benny Yanger's manager, asking for Benny to fight Lew Powell at San Francisco November 7. On account of Yanger's engagement at Davenport with Steve Kinney on October 24 and another offer from Miah Murray of Boston for the week in November, Roche's offer was declined. * * * There is nothing worth mentioning in Jack O'Brien's double victory at Los Angeles, because his opponents were just a couple of "slobs" out for quick money. O'Brien should have been ashamed of himself for doing such business. Simply robbing the public was all there was to it. In a way he shows himself to be a wise lad. No wonder Johnson will have a hard time getting on a bout with wily Jack, for he figures out the people he fights. Walcott showed some very remarkable work in his battle with Mellody that occurred several days ago at Chelsea, Mass. Walcott, although very much handicapped by his right hand, which was injured by a pistol shot two years ago, showed up well. In the very first round Joe sent Honey to the floor by a right hook on the jaw and that blow came from a disabled hand. This shows that even in the very poor condition that he was more clever than his opponent. It is stated by very good authority that Tom M. Donnellly, a Chicago loan office man, has in his possession the diamond-studded championship belt of John L. Sullivan. It is not the Richard K. Fox belt, which John used to call a dog collar, but the great world's championship belt given John so long ago by the sporting men of more than twenty cities. The belt, which is estimated to be worth anywhere from $10,000 to $25,000, has John's name on a great center plate, surrounded by an immense amount of chasing and etching, while it fairly sparkles with diamonds, sapphires, emeralds and rubies. The Donnellly people will not reveal at present where and how they got possession of the historical belt. --- BEFORE USING M. *** * * * *** and will gladly send to any person dollars. borrow you may forget. McPherson, O. Box 14, Dorchester, Virginia. DLIVER, KIDNEY, & BLADDER CURE. ILL CURE AND STOMACH DISORDERS. CHE IN 24 HOURS Nijper Berries, Pareira Brava, Stone Root, Combined in a pleasant tasting Elixir ach. SANOL. ● A Guaranteed Remedy. Try a bottle on our guarantee. If you are not satisfied bring the bottle back and get your money refunded. ES 35c. & $1.00 PER BOTTLE. SALE BY— Your lexicon," AFTER HARRIS HAIR STRAIGHTENER IT TAKES OUT THE CURL This is the renowned Harris Hair Straightener which does such effective work and is in demand from all parts of the country. Try one—its a good thing. This instrument surpasses everything of its intent or purpose now before the pupil. Your hair will look more stable for months after this most stable need for the beautifulness of your appearance. The Hair Straightener Co. 1120 Earhart St., Indianapolis, Ind. AGENTS WANTED. THE MAGIC SHAMPOO HAIR DRIER For sale by toilet article dealers. By mail, price $1.00. Agents wanted. "Here," The Shampoo Primer is used in my pay ocr with perfect satisfaction."-Madame Cozart, 17 Kent- tucky Ave., Atlantic City, N. J. Magic Shampoo Primer Mfg. Co. 407 Century Blvd. Minneapolis, Minn. WANT for my Fall and Winter work the services of FIVE HUNDRED reable colored men and women living in towns having a population of two hundred or more intelligent people of our race who can spare an hour or two of their time a day taking orders for our goods and distributing our advertising matter. The work is easy and pleasant, and any honest person willing to work and follow my instructions can earn from $150 to $3.50 per day. We furnish you everything at our expense and give you an opportunity to clear from $25 to $100 per month without it costing you one cent to engage with us, besides you will have an opportunity to win one of the forty-three CASH PRIZES, the first prize being $60. We offer the opportunity to honest people in every State in the Union who are willing to work. We have no time for triflers or curiosity seekers who ```markdown ``` AFTER MABEL MAITLAND After a father shampoo the hair can be DIRKED and STRAIGHT it is the only device which will Straighten entirely hair without stimulation will stimulate its growth and make look natural and beautiful, which is the best. LACES you want, too-wide edges and insertions of heavy imitation Cluny that are now so much used for fancy work, curtain edgings and petticoat trimming. They were bought at a decided bargain and are to be sold likewise. At 5c Imitation Gluny edges and insertions, such as would regularly cost you from 8c to 15c a yard. At 10c Handsome limitation Cluny edges and insertions, when you will do well to duplicate under 20c and 25c a yard. Altogether there are 120 places to sell quite a lot—but don't wait long, they'll go in a hurry. Basement, East Alsle. L.S.Ayres&Co. Indiana's Greatest Distributors of Dry Goods. CITY AND SOCIETY. Beecher Mitchell has returned from Ludlow, Vc. Meet me! Where? At Tomlinson Hall without fail Dr. G. Parker, of Chicago was in the city recently. Look for the girl in black at Tomlinson Hall, November 12 Mr. J. H. Jackson, of Cleveland was in the city last week. Do not fail to meet the girl in black at Tomlinson Hall, November 12. Bert Mitchell's orchestra will furnish the music for November 12. Nuff Sed. Peter Postell and William Hoosler, of Hopkinsville, Ky., were in the city last week. Mrs. Rosa J. Allen of Hopkinsville, Ky., will spend the winter with her sister, Mrs Lottie Ballanger. The Ladies Sooal Club will meet next Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Hollis, 1412 Street. Woodbine Perfume. Oh! how fragrant, exquisite, enchanting, bewitching. Only at Bicdau's Drug Store Mrs. Delia Pettis. of St. Paul, Minn., who has been visiting friends in the city for some time returned home Tuesday The Woman's Club will give their seventh annual Charity Ball at Tomlinson Hall, Monday, November 5, 1906 Admission 000. Bert Mitchell will furnish the muso. Ben Baker, a well-known young man died Friday of last week at the City Hospital. His remains were shipped to Paris, Ky, where his mother resides His widow survives him. Dr. D. P. Seaton, pastor of Bethel A. M. E. church in this city some thirty odd years ago was married recently to Miss Lettitia A. Brown, ol Wilkesbarre, Pa. Dr. and Mrs. Seaton are residing at Washington, D. C. LADIE3.—If you want better and longer hair, go at once to your Drug Store and ask your druggist to get you a box of Taylor's Hair Grower and Dundruff Cure (pomad.) Price 25 cents. Made by Taylor R-mady Co., Louisville Kv. Agents wanted everywhere; $2 to $5 per day. Write at once for full parishors. THE PARKER HOUSE Doubtless you feel fine in this splendid weather. You will feel better still if you drop into the Parker House and get sustaining things for the inner man. Remember that this is turkey month. Get yours at the Parker House and don't be worried. You do not have to take a whole one Excellent service. Excellent table, good sleeping rooms, bath, etc. J. W. Hollman Prop 817 821 W. Michigan street. Phones New 4972; Old 651 The Freeman is on sale at Springfield, Ill., at 804 and 812 East Washington street and 121 South Fourth. E. L. Rogers, agent. CENTRAL Second Floor, Room 203, State Life (Formerly Stevenson Front Room 15 E. Washington THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER COLORED Y. M. C. A. MONSTER MEETING. WILLIAM P. BUELL upon "Purpose, Progress and Power." The newspapers of this country speak in glowing terms of him as a speaker and an evangelist. Hundreds of men should turn out to hear him. The monster meetings will be held in the Odd Fellows Hall until further notice. All men are invited. Doors open at 3 p. m. Elias Winston, soloist. same, making a very creditable aver age. The advisability of having an Afro-American truant flier has at last been augged by the Judge of the Court of Probation. The proposition only needs the support of the colored people. The one lacking quality about the people of Louisville is that they do not ask for things that are du them. It is hoped that a unsorted effort will be made to have an Afro-American truant flier to bring in the 500 boys and girls that are now out of school and roaming the streets. The Neighborhood Home and Training School opened here last April is being given great encouragement by Afro-American and white friends. The character of work done at this place is so useful to the young boys and girls the industries taught so practical and the cooking department so valuable that it has the hearty support of such white women as Meedames Homer Stucky, Carl J Mittler James Buchan an and Mises Lillian Hadfield and Jennie O Benedict Captain Robert Wood, of the constable bully at Manilla, P I, and Mr. Quanda of the same place have been in Louisville several days. While here the Kentucky people extended the ex-soldier and citizen warm greetings. They visited the public schools and State University and gave intesesting talks about the islands. THE FREEMAN POSTOFFICE. Bostwick, Mrs Marie Brown, Mrs Pori Beavers, Miss Sible Onn, Mrs Pori Dehn, Mrs Pori Gurra, Miss Minkle Gentry, Mrs Minnie Iv r, Mrs James Joseph, Mrs Emma Moore, Mrs Fortes GENTLEMEN'S LIST. Allen G W Armstrong, Roy Armstrong Thos Armstrong, Roy Bell, Jeroy Ick, Jeroy Brown, WC Beauregard Happy-2 Bundy, Geo Bundy, Thomas Bryson's Musical Family Carer, Paul Craig, Frank-2 Collins, G C Dud y, E B Den is, John Dewson, Jones Devine, Isaac P Dick on, W Thomas Edwards, Hoe Edwards, Frank H Edwards, Chas Fisher, Wm Helms, Buddle Holt, G H Helms, Billy Hilard, Walter Perry, Mrs Lizzie Russel I, Mrs Emma Roberson, Miss Ada Roberson, Miss Ann Lodge, Miss Lodia Smith, Mrs Eliza Wilson, Mrs Margret Williams, Mrs EO Woods Mrs Annie Williams, Mrs E-2 Mazwell, Arthur McQ,ley, M H Mier, Frank Garre, James Reed, Edward Reed, Frank J J W Smith, Henderson 2 Simons, Rich Steve, B W Neilson, Jim Smith, Harry C Strand r & trander Simms, Sink-2 The Joey Prices Thompson, A B Wilson, Thas Williams, John H Williams, Cha Williams, JH-2 ▲ Rabbit's Foot Company y Kosotonko, Miss Brown's Foot Company y Tupelo, N Okona Jones y West Point, J. Bilvir Korsands' Minstrels: Muskogee, Ind, Ter, Nov 5; oust 10-aiBter, @ jeQueen, Ter, Nov 5; oust 10-aiBter, @ jeQueen, #, # Williamus and Walker in Abyssinia: St. Louis, Mo, Nov 4 to 10. Back Pat 1 Troub dour: Springdle d, Mo, Nov 5, Auor 4, Eureka vrk, Vrk 7, Fayetteville, 8; Fort Smith, 8; Mouroe La, 0, S. H. Dudley in the 'Smart Set': Racme, S. H. Dudley in the 'Smart Set': Racme, Rockford 7; Egin, 8; Ot wa, 8; Joie, 10 Ereel bogan in Rufus Rasius: Rocaest r, N. Y., Nov 5, 6; S.racuse 8, 9, 10 Jones & Raymond: Olympic Theater, South Bend, Ind, Nov. 10 to 10. Hill & Ingram: Poll-Theater, Bridgetown, Conn., week of Nov. 5. The Fourteen Black Hussars: A hambra Theatre, New York City, N. Y, week of Nov. 5. Luke Pulley's "Five Black Americans" with the Charleston Charity Trust, Tresco Theatr. th, ch, cag, ii, week of Nov. 5. J. Kedwa d Simpson: Empire Theater, Boles, Idaho, week of Nov. 5. Wm Motabes' Georgia Troubadours: Prairie Lake, d; narrow, d; Turie Lake, 7; Clinton, 8; week of Nov. 5. Bly McClinti & Co.: Casino-de-Paris, France, Nov. 1 to Dec. 1. Glideon' & Ferdon' Hottest Out Dixie In Newton' , 7; Bristol' F. 8; Cushman' 8, 9 The Y. M. C. A are fortunate in securing the services of Mr William P. Buell as speaker for the Monstar Meeting Sunday. Mr. Buell was born in Siam and lived among the Siamese for many years and is rich in knowledge of the peculiar costumes and characteristics of this remarkable people. Mr. Buell will give his very telling address LEWIS' LOUISVILLE LETTER CURRENT EVENTS OF THE FALL CITY. The largest and handsomest colored Y. M. C. A. building in America is located in this city, having recently been purchased by Afro-Americans with the assistance of the white coor. The purchasing of the building has been the cause of more solidarity on the part of Louville people than any other recent event. Last week the citizens of all denominations joined hands in giving a four nights' carnival wagon was the most successful ever attempted. The people are enthusiastic in their praise of the work of the ladies assistants Prof Meyzeck, Secretary Bullock and Mr D L Knight deserve the palm. The affair was a crowning success. ```markdown ``` Rev. J G Robinson D.D., whom at moo of forty "prominent citizens" of Decatur, Ga., run one, is in this city to be permanently located at Young's Chapel A, M. E. onchro, by appointment of Bishop Shaffer. Rev. Robinson says he was waited upon by the county superintendent, banker, and is is said by a white Mistress preaches with others at midnight, and told to leave as his presence would not be tolerated-d. He published articles in The Ereeman about the Atlanta riot which were referred to in the Atlanta con-stitution, thus giving rise to the dead), admonition to leave immediately. --- Dr. L. G. Jordan, speaking to a representative of The Freeman on the address to the country by the afro-American Connell, said. "The criticism of the Washington Bee was unwarranted, as some of the strongest men in the country were on the committee. Among them were Dr. William Sinclair. R-v C S Morris and Editor Chase. It seems that with these intelligent men the address should have been so strong that Editor Chase would not have criticized the address as being weak. Why did he agree or sign the report if he were going to criticize it?" * * * Word comes from Palestine, Tex. that Miss Nannie H. Burroughs made the m st elquent address before the Baptist Woman's Convention that have been heard in that section. It I said that strong men shouted and crid and women wept like babies Dr Jack son, a leading divine made a motion after the address that the president miss Burroughs for the entire convention. The act was performed amid shouts and cheers Miss Burroughs has made such a strong impression that she is to return in February. --- Miss Ether G. Irving, formerly of Cleveland O, but for the past year employed as stenographer and privt t secretary in the office of Miss Nannie H. Burroughs Corresponding Secretary of the Woman's Convention, have received word of her appointment to a position in the departments at Washington D. C. Miss Irving took the civil service examination for stenographers and type-writers held here last April, and successfully passed the SECRET New Phone 427 --- --- --- C. B. Lewis. LADIES' LIST: ROUTE. BUSINESS INTERESTS. Everybody is going to Tomlinson Hall the evening of November 12. The Johnson House; first class rooms and board 322 Capitol Avenue. Coal by the ton or basket. Bennett Bros, 331 Indiana ave. New 'Phone 2977 Indiana Fish and Oyster'-Company, 626 Indiana avenue, Phone 5661. William Leonard, manager. Furnished rooms for gentlemen Special rates to theatrical people. 607 West Eleventh street. Dr Langston, dentist at 404 Indiana avenue, New Phone 1693, makes a specialty of plates, crowns, bridges, repairs and regulating children's teeth Short Talks on Tailoring RIGHT HERE is where a poor tailor is never right and some b-ter ones are often wrong. The skirts may split because the waist is too long, or because the seat is cut too small, but usually it's because the tailor in putting in the skirt pockets stretches the edges so they aye to split to lay flat. Suits Tailored to Taste $18 to $50 Deutsch Tailoring Co. (!incorporated.) TAILORS, 41 S. Illinois Street. WHY THE Welsbach Gas Arc IS POPULAR BECAUSE: 1. It saves Gas—using only 16 feet an hour, at a cost of one cent and a half. 2. It lives a larger candle-power light than any other lamp. 3. It illuminates by a pure white light, which is the best for the display of goods. 4. It costs, full nickel-sled, on'y $8 00 (without maintenance) or may be had on twelve monthly payments of $1 25. Including weekly inspection, cleaning and all maintenance The Indianapolis Gas Company, 45 S. Pennsylvania Street. EVERYBODY Indiana Ave., and Michigan reet, for everything usually kept in a first-class drug store. Prices are the same as in all CUT RATE Drug St rees Only registered clerks employed. Sole agents for Ford's Hair Pomade and Hair Straightener. The Palace Roaming House. Where rooms can be had by respectable ladies and gentlemen. Everything first-class. No beer or liquors of any kind allowed Roomers to e joy home privileges. A clean place for clean people. When visiting the city, gives her a call. Mrs. Moore proprietor, 321 121 Indiana avenue. LAST GRAND BALL Will be given at Tomlinson Hall, Monday evening. Nov. 12, 1906, from 9 to 2 o'c ook, by Joseph S. Bau,hman, under the management of Harry Wyat. The music will be furnished by Bert Mitchell's orchestra. Refreshments will be served by the Episcopal Church. Admission 50 cents. WANTED The Atlanta friends would like to know the wherhabouts of Ecdie Morrison, the prize fighter. Important news awaits him. While in Paducah Ky, call at 627 South 8th street and secure a copy of The Freeman, on sale there each week. TABLE Vote Joseph REPUBLICAN C She ELECTION TUES JUST A MINUTE! Eureka S Fancy Groceries, Smoked and Fresh prices. Prompt delivery of all orders. 1202 N. W Old Phone Main 5474 LADIES' EXCHANGE THE FAVORITE REFRESHMENTS, ICE With Good THE CAFE DEPARTMENT pleases all OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. BA Joseph Clay, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR Sheriff. ELECTION TUESDAY, Nov. 6, 1906. Fancy Groceries, Smoked and Fresh Meats butler Edge at the bottom rock prices. Prompt delivery of all orders guaranteed Don't forget the number 1202 N. West Street, Old Phone Main 5474 Old Phone Main 5474 INDIANAPOLIS, IND LADIES' EXCHANGE== MORE POPULAR THAN EVER THE FAVORITE PLACE FOR REFRESHMENTS, ICE CREAM and SODA With Good Fruit Juices THE CAFE DEPARTMENT pleases all. Best Meals and Lunches 15 and 20c. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. BATES & YOUNG, 534 Indiana Avenue. Vote For Leonard Quill, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR County Clerk, ELECTION TUESDAY, Nov. 6, 1906. Leonard Quill, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR County Clerk, ELECTION TUESDAY, Nov. 6, 1906. Tools Ask any mechanic where is the best place to buy them. Nine out of ten will say VONNEGUT'S. We handle the best makes of tools for all mechanics. Our line is absolutely comp.e. Vonnegut Hardware Co., 20-124 E. Washington St. INDIANAPOLIS. PICTURE FRAMES AT PICTURE PLACE, 223 Indiana Avenue (S.iel Bloch) Indianapolis, Ind. R. E. WELLS, Proprietor CHAS. W. MOSBY, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Notary Public, UNITY BUILDING, 142 E. Market St., Room 209. Indianapolis, Ind. Shank Furniture & Storage Co. 339 E. Washington St. Best facilities for moving, packing, storing and shipping Furniture and Household effects. Phone 202 Phone 2028 PAINTS, OIL AND VARNISHES. TIN AND GALVANIZED IRON WOBK FRANK H. PRUNK Hardware Pumps, Pipes Etc. 522 INDIANA AVENUE. Telephone 1188. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA ```markdown ``` H. L. SANDERS. ESTABLISHED 1889. Send Us Your Order. WE ARE HEADQUARTERS FOR Waiters' and Cooks' Outfits, Barbers' Coats Dentists' and Physicians' Operating Coats and Butchers' Jackets. All Mall Orders receive prompt attention. Write for our 1006 Catalogue and Price List. Store 296 Indiana Ave. Factory 08, 110, 113 W. Ohio St Phone 2561. Note For Joseph Clay, AN CANDIDATE FOR seriff. TUESDAY, Nov. 6, 1906. Have You Heard of The Supply Co. Fresh Meats under Edge at the bottom rock orders guaranteed Don't forget the number N. West Street, 4 INDIANAPOLIS, IND CHANGE-- MORE POPULAR THAN EVER FAVORITE PLACE FOR S, ICE CREAM and SODA With Good Fruit Juices Deases all. Best Meals and Lunches 15 and 20c. BATES & YOUNG, 534 Indiana Avenue. ard Quill, AN CANDIDATE FOR ty Clerk, TESDAY, Nov. 6, 1906. 'A Friend in Need Is a Friend Indeed." Nathan T. Ward, PROFESSIONAL BONDSMAN Room 1 Wilson Block, 12 N. Delaware St., Residence 507 Hiawatha St., Indianapolis, Ind. OFFICE New Phone 3458 RESIDENCE New Phone 2666 JAMES N. SHELTON LUCAS B. WILLIS Old 1694 Main-Phones-New 3068 Shelton & Willis (Licensed Embalmers) FUNERAL DIRECTORS & EMBALMERS Best Service. Lady Attendant Prices. 418 Indiana Ave. Open all Night. FISH. OYSTERS. C. A. DUNCAN, Formerly of 626 Indiana Ave. Now at 506 Indiana Ave. Will be pleased to m et his many FRIENDS A full line of Fresh Goods. Lowest prices. FRESH OYSTERS DAILY. Phones—Ne 5104; old. 4091, main. MRS. WHITTEN, Millinery Special sale all next week of Tailored and Dress Hats. We also do exclusive ORDER WORK. Give us a call; we will convince you; our time is entirely yours. 335-337 Indiana Avenue. 3 PER CENT. INTEREST Paid on saving accounts' can be drawn anytime with interest. No account too small. THE RICHCREEK BANK 106 N. Delaware St.