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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." ESTABLISHED 1882. Dr. J. Milton Waldron AN OPEN LETTER TO MR. J. ELLIS BARKER, OF ENGLAND. Dear Sir: I have just seen in several of the newspapers of my race a brief account of your views relative to the colored man in this country. I rejoice that you have been enlightened relative to the condition and character of my people in America and have thereby become a friend to the colored man and anxious to help set him forth in his true light before the British and European public. As a means of assisting you in your good work and of provoking other members of my race to aid you in your very noble undertaking, I take the liberty of addressing to you this open letter. I take it that you are a widely traveled man, and that you have studied human nature deeply. This being true you will readily understand that the colored man of America, like all other men, is a many sided creature. Aside from the accidents of color, previous condition of servitude, locality of birth, etc., the colored American is like other human beings similarly situated, and requires the same kind of training, environment and hereditary influences for his proper development as are required by other men—nothing less and nothing more. It is a mistake, it seems to me, to argue that the colored American is different from other human beings, and is therefore to be dealt with in a way contrary to that pursued in developing other members of the human family. And yet this mistake is indulged in by almost every white American and by many colored men in discussing the socalled "Race Problem," and, sad to say, the majority of the white people of this country regard the colored man of America (and of all other countries for that matter) as not being really a man—most of them admit that she is a human being but of a low order—an inferior, and destined to forever remain less than a Man. You will readily admit, I believe, that the spirit of the present jage is materialistic, and that there is great danger of measuring every person and everything by the utilitarian standard. The question with seventy five per cent of the people is not how they can help to make the colored American a real and a true man worthy of the image of God, but how can they make him a useful factor in developing the material resources of this country? Shall the colored man in America be permitted and assisted to rise to the full stature of noble and heroic manhood and be allowed to enjoy all the rights, opportunities and privileges accorded other men in this country? Or shall he be forced into the position of a serf, and be permitted to live in peace and safety only so long as he serves the material interests of the white man and subordinates himself to him in every walk of life? These two questions divide the white philanthropists of this country and also place into two different and distinct schools the colored men and women of America who are laboring for the uplift of their fellows. Those who look upon the colored man "as necessary" only to the physical and material development of the United States say that the "Race Problem can only be solved by teaching the colored man to work; to regard himself as a necessity to the white man's business, and not to complain at his lot [however hard, unjust or inhuman it may be]; to get money and property, and his manhood, political, civil, social and economic rights will finally come to him of their own accord." Those who believe that the colored man is destined by God to be a man and to enjoy all the rights, opportunities and privileges as any other class of men in the country, and that he has an important part to play in the development of America and the world, take the position that "The Colored American is not only entitled to a trade, a common school education and money and property, but he needs, and ought to have whatever is required by any other race for its highest development in all spheres of life, and the colored man will never secure these things without aspiring to the highest standard and contending with all his might all the time for everything which any other man is entitled to, and he must not be satisfied with anything less." Most white persons and numerous colored as well—who have written or spoken upon the socalled 'Race Problem' have made the sad mistake of setting too low a standard for the dark skin American, and have forgotten that the colored man in this country is as much a man, per se, as any other human being on this or any other continent. It seems to escape the attention of the majority of the students of the "Race Problem" that the colored man of America is not only "needed by the white man in his business" but is needed by him in every sphere of life. These would-be solvers of the "Race Problem" also forget that this country is destined to be the meeting ground of all the races of the earth, and on these shores is to be born the ideal man. The ideal, or future man, is to be neither distinctively Shematic, Hamitic or Japhetic, but an admixture of all the races of the world. This being true, the white people of this country, and those who are yet to come to these shores, owe it to the colored man, who is already here or who may come here in the future, to see to it that he is afforded the largest opportunity for the highest possible development along all right lines in order that he may contribute, unimpaired and unhindered, his share to the formation of the ideal or future man. In your travels in this country I hope you will not allow the glamour of material success or the magnitude of materialistic Institutions for and among the colored people to lead you to forget these facts. Those of us who are contending that the colored man in America be regarded as a man in the full sense of that term and be treated as such are not "whiners," nor "theorists" but advocates of the highest and best things for our own people and for the hundreds of millions of people who are yet to Aneodotal The origin of this term is interesting. After a very exciting political campaign in Massachusetts, early in the past century, the senatorial districts were recast without reference to their contiguity. One of the principal papers of the state was the Colombian Herald, a staunch Federalist organ. One day Gilbert Stewart, the famous artist, entered the editor's room, and observing a map, was impressed by the peculiar outlines of the towns forming the district. He added a head, wings and caws with his pencil, and, turning to the editor, he said, "How's that for a salamander?" "Better say gerrymander," returned the editor, alluding to Elbrige Gerry, the Republican governor, who had signed the districting act. And the name gerrymander was applied by the paper, in its columns, to this odious act. The term came rapidly into use and has remained in the political nomenclature ever since. Indeed a huge cut of the monster was prepared, and the next year was scattered as a broadside political electioneering factor, over the commonwealth, and so aroused the people, that in the spring of 1813, despite the gerrymander, the Federalists recovered control of the Senate, and repealed the law. ONLY A CHECK. "A woman is a better talker than a man," said Harry Lehr at a dinner in Newport. "A woman can say in one neat, graceful phrase great deal more than a man could pack into a paragraph." I stood in a railway station the other day and on all sides wives, about to start for the seashore were taking leave of their husbands. I heard one charming wife say as she held her husband's hand, "Good by dear. Don't forget to write." "No, no, I'll write often," he replied earnestly. "Yes, do, if its only a check," sald she. THE CHALLENGE ANSWERED. A well known French actor became involved in a discussion with an inhabit this continent. We know that America cannot abide as a government of, by and for the people and fulfill the end of her being while she illtreats and regards as less than men any large part of her population, and we would be untrue to our country, untrue to ourselves and to our God if we did not in every way in our power resist the wrongs done the colored man, and the darker races generally in this country, and contend with might and main that the colored American and all other oppressed people in this country be given the same opportunities, rights and privileges accorded any other element of the Nation's inhabitants. I am, Yours, For Equal Rights and Opportunities For All American Citizens. J. Milton Waldron. Washington, D. C. American, grew beated, drew a card from his pocket, threw it on the table with a tragic air, and stalked out. The American deliberately picked up the card, regarded it for some moments,then took his fountain pen, and wrote above the enagraved line; "Admit the bearer" and went off to the theater. Its PURPOSE. Howard—That's a bad cough you've got, do you do anything to cure it? Coward—Nope; It's this cough that wakes our cook in the morning. His CHOICE. Yes" said the specialist, as he stood at the bedside of the millionaire, I can cure you." "But what will it cost?" came feebly from the patient's lips. The specialist, after a mental calculation, said "one hundred dollars. "Can't you shave your figures a little?" wailed the patient. "The undertaker's bid is much less." In addition to drawing a much higher salary than he could obtain in the United States, the Panama employee finds his lines cast in pleasant places. The Government looks upon him as a ward. He is provided with quarters, a modern house in the case of married men; his house is furnished, he receives free medical attendance and medicine, free fuel, free water and light, and ice is delivered at his door at cost, and free hospital service. He is eligible to membership in any of the social clubs, the Government furnishing the clubhouse with bowling alley, pool and billiard tables, superintendents and stewards, for which he pays $10 a year, the money being used by the club for the purchase of books, magazines, and other appurtenances. If he belongs to a church, he finds the church furnished and the preacher employed. He has free books, free schools and free school supplies. His children are taken to the schools and returned to their homes in conveyances. If they attend the high school, they are given montqly trip passes over the Panama Railroad to the high schools at Ancon and at Gatun. Through the commissary department, the high cost of living is eliminated. The American employed on the Isthmus eats beefsteak of a finer character than is usually obtained at home, and at less cost. The commissary department, under the management of Major Wilson, runs special trains across the Zone, carrying fresh vegetables, fresh meats, fresh eggs, and at a lower price than would have to be paid in New York or Chicago.—From "Realizing the Dream of Panama," by George F. Authier, in the American Review of Reviews for January. The suggestion is made that a good way to conserve the forests would be to use cement and steel to build with instead of lumber. This might conserve the forests, but it would not conserve either the iron ore and coal supplies or the builders' bank accounts. Honesty is the very best policy, and has always been. NO.45 Some Question Should not laborer and capitalist work in harmony? Yes, both should work. Drink is what keeps the people in poverty. Rather poverty is what makes the people drink. Why don't you shut up and go to work? Because monopoly has shut up the opportunities to work. What do you think of the two great parties? Just the same as they think of each other. You can never change human nature. But we can give human nature a chance to change itself. Do you think it is good to stir up class hatred? No; but it is good to stir up hatred of class. Is not the country all right? Yes, the country is all right; it is only the ownership of the country that is all wrong. You are a lot of dreamers. Yes, we dream of a time when the laborer shall get his whole product. You radicals want us to divide up. Yes, we want to divide up the work. Won't your ideas break up the home? Yes—the Homes for the Friendless, the Orphan, the Insane and the Magdalen. But will your plan work? Yes, and it will make the land owner work too.—Bolton Hall in Ariel. WHAT IS HOME WITHOUT A FATHER? We happened in a home the other night, and over the parlor door saw the legend worked in letters of red, "What is Home Without a Mother?" Across the room was another brief, "God Bless Our Home." Now what's the matter with "God Bless Our Dad?" He gets up early, lights the fires, boils an egg and wipes off the dew of the dawn with his boots, while many a mother is sleeping. He makes the weekly handout for the butcher, the baker, the grocer and milkman, and his little pile is badly worn before he has been home an hour. If there is noise during the night dad is kicked in the back and made to go downstairs and find the burglar and kill him. Mother darns the socks but dad bought the socks in the first place, and the needles and the yarn afterward. Mother does up the fruit, well, dad bought it all, and jars and sugar cost like the mischief. Dad buys the chickens for the Sunday dinner, carves them himself, and draws the neck from the ruins after everyone else is served. "What is Home. Without a Mother?" Yes, that is all right; but "what is home without a father?" Dad, here's to you—you have your faults—you may have lots of 'em—but you're all right and we will miss you when you're gone.—The Earth. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg W. Va., as Second Class Matter Mr Richard Reed is erecting three new houses on his lot near where he lives for the purpose of renting. Mr. P. R. Hatrison, the well known insurance and bonding agent, has our thanks for a very handsome calendar. Circuit Court begun Tuesday last, with Judge E Boyd, Faulkner presiding. This will be a busy term of court, there being a number of civil and criminal cases to be heard. R L Snodgrass & Co., the well known prescription druggists of North Martinsburg, have our thanks for an attractive Anti Kappa calendar for the year 1911. The Pioneer Press is greatly indebted to the National Benefit Association, of Washington, D. C., for several pretty calendars. 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Williams, who presided at the formal opening of the conference, at which exhibits were shown. Monday night's meeting was conducted by public school teachers, who had associated with them the teachers of the various Sunday schools. Professor A. J. Gossin presided. Tuesday evening, Dec. 13, was woman's night, and the presiding officer was Miss Aranla Williams. On Wednesday evening the Rev. Gustavus Tuckerman delivered an instructive lecture to the students of the Summer high school. The meeting was presided over by Mr. George C. Poag. On Thursday evening there will be an oratorical contest, open to pupils of the Summer high school, for a prize of $10, offered by Edward F. Goltra, chairman of the municipal commission on tuberculosis, for the best ten minute oration on "The Prevention of Tuberculosis Among Colored People." The conference will close with a talk on "Tuberculosis and the Colored Race" by Professor Edward S. Williams, a stereopticon exhibition and the appointment of permanent committees. There was a stereopticon lecture every evening during the conference, and the tuberculosis exhibit was open daily from 9 a. m. to 10 p. m. HIGH HONOR FOR DAVIS. Made One of King's Counsel by Attorney General Foy. Under the caption, "Ontario Leads Michigan," the Detroit (Mich.) Informer says: Attorney General Foy of the province of Ontario, Canada, has included the name of Delos R. Davis in a new list of king's counsels for that province. Mr. Davis is a colored barrister before the Amherstburg bar of long standing and will do honor to his new title of K. C. King's counsel in Ontario corresponds to prosecuting attorney in Michigan. No election or appointment to the office of prosecuting attorney has ever been accorded a colored attorney in Michigan, and hence it appears that Ontario leads us in this regard. Hon. Samuel W. Burroughs, had he been elected, would have made such an appointment. Holiday Basketball In Brocklyn. The crowning event in athletic circles for the holidays in Brooklyn will be the Christmas inattice basketball game and dance by the Laetitia Atbletie club seniors at Avon hall on Monday, Dec. 26. The seniors will play the St. Cyprians, and the juniors will have a tryout with the St. Christopher juniors. People Final Arbiters In a Republic. The insurrection in our sister republic, which seems to be reaching such large proportions, should teach the lesson that in a republic sooner or later the people will rule despite the efforts of dictators to the contrary, says the Los Angeles (Cal.) New Age. The cause of the Mexican revolution is a just one and if not now will at some future time triumph. ```markdown ``` for twenty-eight Years THE PIONEER PRESS Has been the leader in this State and Nation for the grand and noble fight that is being waged for the amelioration of the condition of the Negro. 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