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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." Department of Archives, Char- lton, W. Va. "HERE S ESTABLISHED 1882. ORATORICAL GEYSERS There are some public speakers who have the bad habit of gushing, at making wild and extravagant statements in their public utterances which will not stand critical analysis, nor look well when hitched along side of the truth, "as she is spoke." It paints us greatly to read these flowery and untruthful masterpieces of perfervid oratory of budding "ciceronians", accomplished phrasemakers who play to the galleries for the applause which their well rounded periods always receive. These gentlemen sacrifice truth to sound and seem to forget or to ignore the fact, as Defoe says: That when flatterers meet the Devil goes to dinner, and that Swift has somewhere said of flattery: "Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery is the food of fools, Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit." Flattery is always embarrassing to a sensible and sensitive man, and always welcome to a weak man. The expert purveyor of oratorical caloric makes his greatest hits and bunches them oftener when thundering to an audience in which weak minds predominate. His stock of superlatives is inexhaustible and he burls them with reckless abandon, and to the great injury (temporary only of course) of recorded truth. The oratorical geysers sometimes find it necessary when they think it is safe, to assassinate every great leader, every great poet, every great publicist, and author who has lived or still lives—in order to give their favorites for the moment the proper setting and coloring. Dr. Washington for instance who is admittedly a great and good and useful man a successful educator and an astute politician, when referred to at a New York dinner recently by an oratorical geyser, was made the equal of Moses, and as a great leader might well be compared with him. We doubt very much whether Dr. Washington likes this kind of flattery for he is naturally one of the most reserved and modest and retiring of men. The history of Moses refutes this fulsome laudation of Dr. Washington and does not detract anything from the well earned laurels which he has won in his struggle to rise in the scale of being, and to lift as he climbs. When the great Oliver Cromwell sat to a painter for his portrait he told him to "paint me as I am, mole and all," Cromwell had a mole on his face which did not add to his beauty. Now if these oratorical geysers—word painters—gushers who spill themselves before the public would paint their demigods—their idols as they are we would all have confidence in their statements, and a little bit more respect for the men whom they attempt to make supermen MOSES was the greatest and wisest leader of men the world has ever known, and it were a profanation to link with his name that of any leader of any race in this generation or of any other generation. Moses was "learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians," to begin with. He was a GREAT constructive leader; so Mr. Washington though in a less --- MALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE MARTINSBURG, W. er degree. Moses anticipated Public ownership of the Land, and all public utilities, the Pure Food Law, and a great many other laws which moderns have imitated but cannot improve upon for the wisdom of Moses was no ordinary wisdom. He was God inspired, and learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and united to great piety was his great intellectual ability—his all pervading knowledge of men and of their needs, not only for time in which he lived but for ages yet to come. It was Burk who said "Great men are the guide posts of a nation." Moats is a Guide Post who will endure to endless generations. Therefore to say of Mr. Washington whose GREATNESS I admit is phenomenal when we remember the depths from which he has risen and the heights which he has attained that he is "the most resourceful leader any cause or any race in any time or land has claimed since Moses held audience with glory's Kings on the mountain's smoky crest and planked from the evening stars his title and commission of leadership written with the pen of power dipped in heaven's dew, &c., &c." I must protest and with energy, and characterize this description of him as rhetorical rhodomontade, as free from truth as void of and as impossible of proofs, as the identity of the fellow who struck "Billy Patterson." It does Mr. Washington no good whatever to be called the greatest leader of men since Moses. No man who knows history will believe it, not even Mr. Washington himself and it reflects no great credit of his eulogist and kineman to knock down from their pedestals all the other great leaders of men, of all the ages to set up his idol, and say of him as Webster said of Massachusetts, "There he is; look at him!" It is time to stop this indiscriminate flattery of men. The Negro race has produced great leaders, great scholars, great thinkers, any one of whom, if, had they been placed as Mr. Washington by a fortuitous chain of circumstances has been placed would not suffer by comparison with him, if their positions were now reversed. Mr. Washington has enjoyed what no Negro in public life has enjoyed, the practical support of a race, which held our race in contempt, which tolerated it and coddled it, and pitied its helplessness, but hesitated for reasons of its own to open to it the door of hope and of opportunity—of a race which could accept an exceptional Negro on terms of equality with it, but balked at giving the rank and file the same opportunities. Mr. Washington's greatness consists in having overcome in a measure this national aversion to our race. It is his own secret. To him be all the honor and the glory of it. The difference between Moses whose commission was written with a pen of power dipped in the dew of Heaven, &c., and our modern Moses is that the ancient leader preferred to suffer affliction with his people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. This is the essence of true leadership. Much of the antagonism to Mr. Washington's leadership which is now we are told secure—invincible and invulnerable to attack is largely due to the oral gymnastics of his over zealous admirers, who The Jackdaws Of The Senate The defeat of the Sulloway pension bill in the senate was not in line with the generous treatment that Civil War veterans have received in the past. The objection in the main appeared to be the $50,000,000 increase in the pension appropriation for the current two years. If the Register is not mistaken, it was Representative Tawney, chairman of the ways and means committee, who declared that the cost and maintenance of two of the dreadnaught class of battleships, now building, would cover the increased amount of the pension appropriation insist on making him a demiged with a halo and supernatural powers. This came gaeous after dinner speaker dug a trench and consigned all the poets of the XXth century into it and covered them up with the ashes of the 25 cent perfectos which the gentlemen who were at the obsequies smoked. Byron, Shelley, Keats, Cowper, Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier, Relf and all that goodly company who sustained in their day and generation "a commerce with the muses" were said to be mere pigmies beside Paul Lawrence Dunbar who was proclaimed to be the greatest poet of the XIX Reference was made to the fact that it took England a thousand years to produce a Shakespeare. But not so with the Colored American, He gets there quicker. Paul Dunbar was the "ripe fruit" of 45 years of freedom and stood out preeminent as the greatest of the great. Paul Laurence Dunbar, like Mr. Washington, was as modest as a woman and if he were now in the flesh and could have heard this awful noise from the oratorical geyeer he would have blueheed for shame that a man in reputation, for good judgment, modesty and clear thinking and accurate statement should make such a wild declaration to any body of eane men. The New York Age calls it oratory. We call it philimimated rot If one star differeth from another in glory, and they do—so too are men different in the qualities of mind, in the powers of thought, in the ability to do some things better than others. But to say of any race having only 45 years of advantage that the exceptional men it has produced in there 45 years are the "greatest leaders," the greatest poets or the greatest anything else ever produced by any other race at any time is to declare one's self a garrulous Aes. We dismiss the subject from our mind and repeat that we regret having had to call attention to a dangerous and hurtful tendency on the part of some public speakers to indulge in extravagant and fulsome laudation of ordinary men, the creatures of extraordinary circumstances, whose greatness has been thrust upon them, and which they carry with becoming dignity. These only appear ridiculous when their fool friends magnify it, strew greatness out of all proportion. " 'Tis true, 'tis pity, and pity 'tis, 'tis true." John E. Bruce Gritt. Yonkere, New York VOL. 30. Anecdotal Literature Anecdotal Literature One day the long-billed, long-necked and long-legged Heron was walking on the banks of a river, whose water was clear as crystal. The carp, the pike, the trout, were swimming playfully up and down the stream. The Heron might easily have caught these; but he thought it better to wait till his appetite was more keen, and he could make a good choice, as his appetite was fantastically nice. But unfortunately he waited till not so much as a fish appeared, and he had to be satisfied with a poor snail. The Fable teaches that many suffer by neglecting to avail themselves of the advantagees that the future offers, until it is too late. A Boston lawyer relates the following:— I was called upon by a close fisted old merchant to draw his will, which was as follows: "To each and every clerk who has been in my employ for 10 years I give $10,000 dollars. This seemed like a considerable sum, and I ventured a slight protest as he had a number of children, and his entire fortune was not very large. "Oh that is all right," he said with a smile, "You know people have always said that I was close and hard, and I want them to think well of me when I am gone." When it was finished and I was about to leave, the old fellow smiled again, and said: "About those $10,000 legacies—there isn't a clerk in my place who has been with me over two years—but it will look well in the papers." Mietress—Why, Lizzie! Now you have broken another valuable vase! You have done more damage than your wages amount to. What shall I do? Champion Jack Johnson, at Baron Wilkins' supper, in his honor, in New York, said of the Reno fight. "Jeffries is a gentleman and a square fighter, but he didn't land a whack that hurt. I'm pretty near unhurtable. I'm like the bricklayer's helper." "A bricklayer, you understand, once hired a new helper. This chap was renowned for his hard head. The bricklayer thought he would test him. So the first morning, while the helper was filling his pipe at the bottom of the ladder, the bricklayer up on the eighth floor flicked a bit of mortar down on his pate. The helper never noticed it at all. "The bricklayer took a brick and dropped that down. Bang! it landed square on the helper's skull." The helper took his pipe out of his mouth and scowled at the bricklayer. 'Sayl' he growled, "be careful where you drop that mortar!" required by the Sulloway bill; the purpose of which being to more liberally provide for the rapidly dying off of Civil War veterans. If congress is bent on an expenditure of from eleven to twelve hundred millions annually, would it not be a grateful as well as a sensible act to divert a few millions annually from the navy and army bills for several years to the pension appropriation in order that the Civil War veterans, most of whom are past earning a dollar, might have enough simply to live? Surely $30 to $35 per month would not enable an old soldier to dissipate much, or spend his nights at theatres, or indulge in frequent expensive dinners or railroad or steamboat trips or other extravagant and scandalous carousals. A little figuring is essential to confirm the lightness of the burden upon Uncle Sam's shoulders by the passage of this bill. It will also serve to show what trick tumblers there can be under the cloak of statemanship. Lant year the deaths of Civil War pensioners aggregated 36,000—100 per day. Certainly each succeeding year must largely increase the ratio. This year may swell the last roll call to 40,000, perhaps more. Next year it may touch 45,000 and so on until there is not a single soul to tell the tale of his life and death struggle in defense of the Union. According to life insurance mortality tables a man at 70 yrs. of age, which is about the average of the Civil War veteran on the pension roll, has about eight years and a fraction before the final vintoo sounds. Figuring the average service pension at say $16 per month, and the death rate at 40,000 for the current year, there would be at the end of 1911 a drop in round numbers of $8,000,000 in the amount of the pension appropriation. In 1913 the drop would be $9,000,000; the year following at at least $10,000,000, and so on until eight—or nine years from now there would be few (if any) Civil War pensioners above ground to disturb the economic conscience of the jackdaws of the senate.—Wheeling Register. Wanted—Cosmopolitan Magazine requires the services of a representative in Martinsburg to look after subscription renewals and to extend circulation by special methods which have proved unusually successful, salary and commission. Previous experience desirable but not essential. Whole time or spare time. Address, with references, H. C. Campbell, Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1789 Broadway, New YorkCity. The best place to get your watch clock or jewelry repaired in this town is at Mr. J. W. Bratt's. His prices are very reasonable, and his workmanship the best. THE REV. IRL R. HICKS 1911 ALMANAC. The Rev. Irl R. Hicks Almanac for 1911, that guardian Angel in a hundred thousand homes, is now ready. 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The call for an International Conference to be held at Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee Alabama, in the year 1912, appears in another column. It is issued with the idea in mind of causing a better understanding to exist among the various races, and if generally heeded, some good may result therefrom. The New York State Capital, located in Albany, which cost twenty seven million dollars, was partly destroyed by fire on Tuesday. The fire is said to have been caused by an electric wire, and damaged the capital to the extent of possibly ten million dollars. Many priceless records, and much state property that cannot be replaced went up in smoke. "Bert" Williams, the inimitable comedian who is playing with "The Follies of 1910," continues to win praise for himself and his company. His acting is unsurpassed by any character on the stage today, and the great successes he has scored should prove to other Negroes that somewhere in the future, a career awaits them along distinctive lines if they will only determine to reach them. The Philadelphia Record is authority for the statement that there are fifty thousand applications on file for the five hundred positions which the Democratic Congress will have to give away. This being true, it is plainly evident to everybody that there are bound to be forty-five thousand disappointed Democrats in this country after the spoils have been distributed among the portion known as "the faithful." There is some talk of Hon. A. B. White, former governor of the State, and one of the brainiest men within our bounds, being selected to lead the Republican forces to victory in 1912. In this connection, it might not be amiss to state that a man of Albert Blakeslee White's stamp is needed to straighten the Republican party out in this State, and if he can be prevailed upon to run, backed by a united party, he is bound to make it interesting for his Democratic opponent. As a speaker, he is hard to beat, and never fails to convince his hearers that he means what he says. In short, we are confident that he can again be Governor—that is, if he wants to be. Elsewhere in this paper is to be found a most excellent article which we chipped from the Wheeling Daily Register. The article in question is noxible in two ways. First it emanates from the leading democratic daily paper of the state and second, it is unequivocally in favor of the United States Government granting liberal pensions to the veterans of the Civil War. The premise taken by the Register is an absolutely correct one, and the arguments presented by it in support of the position it maintains are unanswerable. is highly commendable in the Register to say a kind word in behalf of the poor old soldiers, and we are sure they would personally thank it in a body if they had the opportunity. The situation in Mexico is somewhat calmer than it was ten days ago. This condition has been brought about through the efforts of tactful persons who occupy prominent places in Mexican affairs. They and prominent Insurrectos, scenting possible danger to their country by way of foreign invasion or intervention, have determined to adjust their own affairs, and are making heroic efforts to bring about a cessation of hostilities as speedily as possible. This, to us, seems the part of wisdom in the wise men of our sister Republic, because there is not much doubt in the minds of persons who have paid particular attention to her rebellion, but could foresee disaster to the country and its inhabitants if chaos was not replaced with order. To show that trifling is to be no part of the proposed program, President Díez's old cabinet has resigned, and a new and more popular one has been named in its stead. In addition to this, many reforms have been promised, and all parties to the controversy seem well satisfied that the day is not far distant when Mexico will be making greater progress than ever before. Throughout the whole of the revolution there is one man who has loomed bigger than any other Mexican. His name is Limantour, and even the Maderos, leaders of the revolt, consider him of unimpeachable integrity, and are loud in their praise of his ability as a statesman. On the editorial page of the current issue we publish an article from the pen of John E Bruce, the celebrated writer, historian and ripe scholar of Yonkers, New York. The article in question bears the caption, "Oratorical Geysers," and is a most exhaustive and comprehensive study of conditions as they affect many of our men who bear the reputation of orators, but who should be styled flatterers. Mr. Bruce does not make any effort to be easy on those whom he has censured, and in this we think he is wise, because his subject is one that will admit of no trifling, but must be treated in accordance with the importance demanded thereof. If there is any one thing that needs the attention of the wise ones of our race, it is a general discountening of the ever-present tendency on the part of certain of our speakers to be invariably indulging in laudation to a ridiculous degree of men in the public eye. Now, we don't want any one to become imbued with the idea that jealousy or envy has inclined us to express our disapproval of giving praise where it is due, for we plead not guilty to an indictment of that kind and hope never to be. At the same time, we do believe that overrating any man, or men, does more harm than good. It is much better, when speaking of anybody to state the simple and exact truth, because it is rather to be chosen than exaggeration. We could go on to an indefinite extent relative to this most important matter, but Mr. Bruce has treated the question in an incontrovertible manner, at the same time adding to his lustre as a literary expert. It will be well for persons who enjoy an article of merit to give Mr. Bruce's production a most careful perusal, and they will feel amply repaid for so doing. United States Court copies here next week. Judge Alston Griison Dayton, of Phippiup, presiding. In addition to Judge Day on this court will also be to Martinsburg Hon. H. Roy Waugh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia, United States Marshal Doyle, Clerks Kefauver and Morris, Assistant District Attorney Marshall, numerous other attahees, and scores of visitors. CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AT TUSKEGEE For some years past I have had in mind to invite here from different parts of the world—from Europe, Africa, the West Indies and North and South America—persons who are actively interested, or directly engaged as missionaries, or otherwise, in the work that is going on in Africa and elsewhere for the education and upbuilding of Negro peoples. For this purpose it has been determined to hold at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, April 17, 18 and 19, 1912, a little more than a year from this time, an International Conference on the Negro. Such a Conference as this will offer the opportunity for those engaged in any kind of service in Africa, or the countries above mentioned, to become more intimately acquainted with the work and the problems of Africa and these other countries. Such a meeting will be valuable and helpful, also, in so far as it will give opportunity for a general interchange of ideas in organizing and systematizing the work of education of the native peoples in Africa and elsewhere and the preparation of teachers for that work. Wider knowledge of the work that each is doing should open means of co operation that do not now exist The object of calling this Conference at Tuskegee Institute is to afford an opportunity for studying the methods employed in helping the Negro people of the United States, with a view of deciding to what extent Tuskegee and Hampton methods may be applied to conditions in these countries, as well as to conditions in Africa. It is hoped that numbers of people representing the different governments interested in Africa and the West Indies, as well as representatives from the United States, and the countries of South America, will decide to attend this Conference. Especially is it urged that missionary and other workers in these various countries be present and take an active part in the deliberations of the Conference. It is desirable, in any case, to have any suggestions as to what might be done to make the work of the Conference more helpful to all concerned. The names of persons who would like to be present, with whom you are acquainted, will be appreciated, and through you they are invited to be present and take part in the deliberations of the Conference. Those who come to Tuskegee properly accredited will be welcomed and entertained as guests of the institution and will be under no expense during their stay here. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Principal, Tuekegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuekegee Institute, Alabama. DO GHOSTS HAUNT SWAMPS? No Never. Its foolish to fear a fancied evil, when there are real and deadly perils to guard agents in swamps and marshes, bayous, and lowlands. These are the malaria germs that cause ague, chills and fever, weakness, aches in the bones and muscles and may induce deadly typhoid. But Electric Buters destroys and casts out these vicious germs from the blood. "Three bottles drove all the malaria from my system," wrote Wm. Fretwell, of Lucama, N C, "and I've had fine health ever since." Use this safe, sure remedy only 50c at all drug gists. Mr. William Wilson and his mother, passed through here on route to their old home in Bunker Hill on Saturday. They have been living in the first named city for about one year, and while Mr. Wilson will return to Sewickley, we are informed that his mother will remain at Bunker Hill. AVERTS AWFUL TRAGEDY. Timely advice given Mrs. C. 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It has been intimated that aside from charging fraud in Mingo and McDowell counties, counsel for Rankin Wiley, who is contesting the election of Congressman Hughes, will set out and contend that Mr. Hughes is not a citizen of the United States; that he was born in Canada; that Mr. Hughes claimed that, he was one time naturalized in the city of Ashland, Kentucky, but that the records there do not show that he was naturalized; and that, having mislaid these papers, he secured others from Judge Doolittle, which, counsel claim, are of no legal standing; in short, the allegation will be that, Mr. Hughes not being a citizen of the United States, he cannot be a congressman. This action is merely a repetition of a baseless charge which has been raised biennially ever since Mr. Hughes became active in politics, and his friends know that it will cut no more figure this year, notwithstanding the fact that the house of representatives is Democratic, than it did on the other occasions when it was raised.—Huntington Herald-Dispatch. IT'S EQUAL DON'T EXIST. No one has ever made a salve,ointment or balm to compare with Bucklen's Aronia Salve. It's the one perfect healer of Cuts, Corns, Burns, Bruises, Sores, Scalds, Boils, Ucers, Eczema, Salt Rheum. For sore eyes, Chapped Hands or Sprains its supreme. Unrivalled for Piles. Try it, Only 25c at all druggists. It is marvelous to go to Thompson & Thompson's immense clothing house and see the wonderful stock they carry. 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