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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." ESTABISH ED 1882. Phenomena Incident to Racial Relations Cover the World. MANY THEORIES ADVANCED. Practical and Philosophic Analysis of the Vexed Question of Racial Maladjustment by Horace J. Rollins, Who Believes In According to Every Man Fair Treatment. Troy. O. — From the inception of the abolition movement through the great civil war, up from slavery, on through the reconstruction period, the colored race in America has had severe struggles and mighty difficulties to hinder its progress, yet there is encouragement in the fact that history records the rise of no race or individual achievements which have come without strong effort, ambition and persistence in the face of oppression. We give below the first of two articles from the pen of a white man who has been a firm friend of the colored people for more than half a century. Horace J. Rollins of Troy, O., is one of the old guard, who knows the ordeal through which our people have passed, their present environment and the attitude of those who would hinder rather than help the cause of justice and equal rights for all American citizens. Of nature's answer to man's race question Mr. Rollins writes the following: The whole world continues to be disturbed by certain phenomena incident to racial relations. Countless people—many of them classed as philosophers—speak and write of the "problem;" there is no end of utterances that are misleading and harmful, yet now and then an observer notes facts that are impressive, and good suggestions are sometimes offered. However, almost invariably these are fragmentary and as discon- J. HORACE J. ROLLINS. nected as stray segments of a circle. They fail to indicate a symmetrical system. Recently a professor of the London university declared that, as the Caucasian cannot thrive in the hot countries and as the natives of them do flourish in the north, the white type, being less prolific, will be pushed to disappearance. This is interesting and if it were true would be quite startling. Nature (waiving her artogant egotism and destructive selfishness) appreciates the white man and will use him rightly. The gloomy groping has various aspects, an instance of which shows wonderful contrast to the above, especially as to complexion. It is the promulgation that pictures the advent of a big, strong, unscrupulous blond, who, as a superman (or a superhog, for apparently there is small difference), is to destroy all other citizens, the good, the true, the beautiful, not caring even Department of Archives, Ch ington, W. Va. HALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE MARTINSBURG, W for the lovable and useful brunette, whose milk is said to be exceptionally rich. His prognosticated portrait is not pleasant, and we will not have him. Some time ago a writer of international fame in earnestly denouncing race prejudice declared of it, without offering radical explanation, "It is a monster begotten of natural instincts and intellectual confusion." In the varied forms of it there certainly is such confusion. It is obvious in the presence of the strange and multiform manifestations and persecutions, even destroying life as an imagined duty, which mark the new century, in Europe and the United States, districts where education, legal questions and Christianity are much discussed and where the inference would naturally be that justice and kindness are what each one owes to all others. Such obscurity must be cleared and also the foggy conclusion that this prejudice is from "providence." But in order to classify this intellectual confusion truth so that it becomes available we must consider the disquieting fact that the monster is "begotten of natural instincts." Let us see how it came about that a force so ugly sprang from a normal impulse. Primitive man, like other promising animals, developed a necessary caution as to contact with people queerly and mysteriously unlike himself. This was protective, and rightfully so. The infant in its cradle today is typical of the child-man and shows unmistakable fear upon the intrusion of strange faces into the nursery and in its feeble way attempts to avoid them Property, welfare and life itself have been conserved simply by the "offish" instinct. It has also had temporarily a wonderful use, pertaining to certain values acquired in the condition of racial integrity, which we will consider presently. Therefore we do not think of shyness in general as being a bad or mean quality. However, it is an involuntary acknowledgment that intelligence is lacking requisite to right conduct of life. It bars the reciprocal relations necessary to growth of civilization. So primitive shyness or avoidance cannot always remain commendable. With general development it either takes an advanced form—as, for instance, just circumspection—or, with changing relations, it readily becomes pernicious. The biologist knows that when normal conditions are exaggerated or strained they must become abnormal. In a similar way a racial distrust, once temporarily useful, drifts into unwarranted obstruction or ruinous antipathy. The egoistic tendency, encouraged by sickly intelligence, invites prejudice to come in and expel reciprocal justice. While this may be due to mistake on the part of some, it really is a phase of selfishness. There is, of course, monstrous selfishness not identified with prejudice and not involved with racial relations. It distresses humanity today in the forms of official betrayal of trust, child labor schemes and monopolistic greed. Like race maladjustment, such manifestations begin in unreasonable extension of natural impulse and result in degradation. This particular perversion, we believe, as are those, is now in the climax of its ugliness. Such phenomena constitute the moral interregnum which now shamefully and fatally afflicts this country. True civilization seeks the balance between egoism and altruism. In view of certain facts, some of which we briefly indicate, and of significant typal manifestations universally evident, "intellectual confusion" is no longer pardonable. The popular movement for education is on a surer footing than ever before, doubtless because of increasing interest in the philosophy of evolution. In its light, racial phenomena must be observed. As for general safety—walving the idea of non-natural assistance and that of human reason—there is remedial action in Nature herself. An instance of this truth is the spontaneous movement of racial convergence, which proceeds as surely and about as quietly and safely as does the working of the law of gravitation. The result is publicly commented upon by some who do not understand it. A magazine writer has noted the increasing number of people of mixed type, declaring that it is not much matter if THE AGONY TO DECIDE. Two brothers, soldiers in the army of a tyrant, were, for some cause or other, condemned to be shot. The father went to the agents of the tyrant, and offered, as a ransom to surrender his own life, and a large sum of money. But the officers informed him that the equivalent would be accepted for only one of his sons. He might therefore choose which he would redeem. Anxious to save even one at the expense of his own life, he was yet utterly unable to decide which, and remained in the agony of suspense so long that his sons were both shot. Two Of Them 'I want a hatpin' said little Mary of four years, as she gazed eagerly at the cushion full of sparking ornaments on the milliner's show case. "How much is it?' she asked, after making a deliberate choice. "O nothing," said the milliner, "your mother is one of my customers." "Then I'll take two," said the little one most eagerly. WEATHER CHANGE The days grow shorter, so now the evening meal must be eaten by handmade light, and crispness in the night air foretells the coming cold. The fields, though not vibrant are still green. The trees yet offer to view leaves of variegating colors. THE BURNING QUESTION. The question—"What shall we do with our boye?"—seems to be satisfactorily answered in the following advertisement which appears in the window of a butcher's shop; "Wanted—A respectable boy for beef sausages." KEEP SILENT. Pa—"Well what's the matter?" Sonny—"Ma says I mustn't say a word while she's in the room." Ma—"Why no, I didn't dear, I said you mustn't interrupt while I'm talking." Sonny—"What's the difference?" OBEYED ORDERS. The managing editor wheeled his chair around and pushed a button in the wall. The person wanted entered. "Here" said the editor, "are a number of directions from outsiders as to the best way to run a news paper. See that they are all carried out, and the office boy obediently gathered them all into a large waste basket, and carried them out. WHIPPING THE OAT. Ma—"Eddie, I am shocked to hear that your playmate, Will Smith whipped the poor cat. You couldn't do such a thing, I know. Eddie—"No indeed, ma." Ma—Why didn't you stop him? Eddie—"I couldn't Ma. I was holding the cat." scholarship can offer no explanation of this, as it will presently explain itself. Long ago the writer entered this field, and in 1898 a monograph appeared, "Nyetta Segal" (Dillingham). At least a few called it radical and adequate as a pioneer sketch. These claimed for it priority as to identification of the phenomenon with evolutionary laws, for there was dearth of the pertinent in textbook and cyclopedic. VOL. 30. It is doubtful that the student episode has had one thing to do either way with the present fortunes of the school. An institution that has done as much good in the southland as Morris Brown college has done will not be wrecked in a moment. Its memories will live, its precepts will live, and no man is surer to carry them out to successful conclusions than a man who was brought up within its walls and breathes day in and day out for several years its kindly and beneficent spirit. Dr. Fountain has retained practically the same faculty and a high grade of work is attempted in each of the departments—namely, theology, science, preparatory, collegiate, academic, English, music, industrial and nurse training. The Georgia conferences in the first session since Dr. Fountain's presidency have expressed satisfaction over the work, and the entire board of trustees seems to be with the management. There is no reason why Morris Brown college will not now take the place in educational circles to which it is entitled, and all indications point to that end now that bickering and strife are over. A visit through all the departments of the institution and in all the classrooms will show absolute contentment on the faces of the more than 800 students, while in every respect the teachers show considerable devotion to the work they have in hand. CONGRESSMAN USES HIS Washington, D. G.—Representative Kendall, of Iowa, was kept busy by friends who commended him for his gallantry in recently knocking down a white hoodlum who had attacked an aged colored woman. When Mr. Kendall alighted from a street car at a busy corner, he saw two white men addressing profane language to the woman, who was carrying a basket of freshly laundered clothes. Presently one of the men struck the woman, felling her. The contents of her basket were scattered in the snow and slush. Mr. Kendall landed his flat squarely on the jaw of the assailant and laid the fellow motionless in the snow, afterward assisting the unfortunate woman in restoring the clothes to the basket. CODE OF ETHICS BY CRISIS. Influential Publication Issues Broad and Manly Declaration of Principles. In the January number of the Crisis Magazine the following editorial for the new year occurs under the caption "I Am Resolved." It reads thus: I am resolved in this new year to play the man—to stand straight, look the world squarely in the eye and walk to my work with no shuffle or slouch. I am resolved to be satisfied with no treatment which ignores my manhood and my right to be counted as one among men. I am resolved to be quiet and law abiding, but to refuse to cringe in body or in soul, to resent deliberate insult and to assert my just rights in the face of wan-ton aggression. I am resolved to defend and asses the absolute equality of the Negro race with any and all other human races and its divine right to equal and just treatment. I am resolved to be ready at all times and in all places to bear witness with pen, voice, money and deed against the horrible crime of lynching, the shame of jim-crow legislation, the injustice of all color discrimination, the wrong of disfranchisement for race or sex, the inquity of war under any circumstances and the deep damnation of present methods of distributing the world's work and wealth. I am resolved to defend the poor and the weak of every race and hue and especially to guard my mother, my wife, my daughter and all my darker sisters from the insults and aggressions of white men and black with the last strength of my body and the last suffering of my soul. For all these things I am resolved unflinchingly to stand, and if this resolve cost me pain, poverty, stander and even life itself I will remember the word of the prophet—how he sang: "Though Love rejoice and Reason chase There came a voice, without rest. 'Tis man's reedition to be safe When for the truth be ought to do WORK OF MORRIS BROWN COLLEGE WORK OF MORRIS BROWN COLLEGE The New President Has Proved His Worth as an Educator. WON SUCCESS BY PERSISTENCE Results of the First Year of the Administration of the Rev. W. A. Fountain at Well Known School Are Refutations of the Theory Held by Hi Numerous Critics. Atlanta, Ga.-The remarkable success of Morris Brown college during the first year of the presidency of Rev. W. A. Fountain, D. D., seems to emphasize as rather absurd and silly the little resentment manifested by some of the higher class students at the beginning of the year. As a matter of fact, that episode seems now in the light of calmer reason to have been as false in its contentions as it was silly and absurd in its foundation. It will be remembered that some of the higher class students in a letter to the board of trustees pointed out that Dr. Fountain, while a good man, a minister in the African Methodist church of first rank, and while he held a hard earned reputation for honesty, sobriety and learning, he had never graduated from a college and was therefore not fit for the presidency of Morris Brown college. As a matter of fact, all this contention was basically wrong and, as the strenuous one would have said, "absolutely false." Dr. Fountain is a graduate of Allen university. He is also a graduate from the collegiate department of Morris Brown college, class of 1901, and from the theological department, 1902. Thus it would seem that the satisfaction would have been keener in the honor which had come to one of the institution's own sons. In addi- A. PRESIDENT W. A. FOUNTAIN. tion to this preparation, Dr. Fountain also holds two diplomas from the Central Indiana university. Dr. Fountain is a mild mannered, conservative Christian gentleman. His former success in the pastorate throughout the state of Georgia and the host of friends he has throughout the connection assure him of a following loyal, sincere and capable, and there is no doubt but that much of the present progress shown at the college this year is due to his personality and his remarkable popularity. To be sure it would be a poor sort of man at any rate whose whole life work could be wrecked by one little show of opposition. NO. 46 FIST ON RUFFIANS. AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN- RY. Rates of Subscription: 1 year ..... $1.50. 6 months ..... 75c. 3 months ..... 40c Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the advertiser pays every three months. Advertising 1 inch one time 75c. Standing ..... 50c. J. K. Clifford, Editor; & Proprietor Drawe: 869, and Bell Phone, 60K Marsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, JANUARY 27. 1911 The sensible people will be as glad to get rid of Mr Hitchcock as they will be of Mr. Taft, and especially the newspaper men. The most scholarly and non-contentious organization of the race is the "American Negro Academy," fathered by the race's richest and rarest scholar, the Right Reverend Dr. Alexander Crummell. Dr. DuBois, the top-notcher and one of the foremost Negroes of America, is always cracking some hard nuts in order that Negro editors may eat the fruit of profit to them and their people. After that writer of writers, Mr. F. H. M. Murray, gets through with his Washington write ups for the Boston Guardian, not a thing is left undone or unsaid. He is one of the keenest and most exact word painters in the capitol city of the nation. Why can't Berkeley County send man to Congress? and why can't that man be the Hon. Stuart W. Walker? We would like to see the firm of Faulkner, Walker and Woods broken up, with one in Congress and the other on the bench. Much talk is going the rounds relative to England's conduct toward Persia. So far as we can see, she has everlastingly disgraced herself, and the boomerang will, in time, be as harmful to her, as the Philippines and Cuba will be to America. As we see it, there is but one great force, politically, to be reckoned with in the Republican party, and that is Theodore Roosevelt. He is not our choice, but if the common people clamor for and will have him, he is better than Taft, and will not do as he has done. After more than nine weeks in doors with aches and pains, we are able to get out, and feel all right except an uncontrollable nervousness, which we hope will in time leave us. For the extension of our life and feeling a debt of gratitude to the skill and kind attention of one of the best doctors in the state. S. N. M. It is with great pleasure that we call the attention of our readers to the announcement, which appears elsewhere in these columns, of the candidacy of Mr. L. O. Wilson, of Weston, for a place on the Republican State Committee. Besides being principal of the Weston Colored School, Mr. Wilson is Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of West Virginia, and a man of his stamp could not fail to attract and hold the attention of his colleagues were he to secure a place on the committee. He is able, brainy, resourceful and manly, and if he is successful in his efforts towards self and race elevation, Negroes all over the State can pride themselves with the thought that their representative on the committee is a man in every sense of the word. Prof. Wilson, you have our unqualified endorsement, and we wish you success in your effort. --- Judge E. Boyd Faulkner after occupying the bench for twenty years, has concluded to step down and out, and Mr. J. M. Woods has entered the field. A good man has declined to run again, and no better one could have aspired to the place. Laurels to the outgoing, and a glorious victory to the incoming, is our earnest wish. Peace in Japan and Persia seem to be the feeling in this highly religious country, where six families—men, women and children have been killed in the past year in Louisiana, and nearly a hundred Negroes lynched during the last twelve months, ought not only to close the mouths of the maudlin bowlers, but shame and bring every foreign missionary home, where the worst deeds on earth are done, and where more heathens live than in India or Africa, all things considered. It is all right for the South to cry out and aloud about being the Negroes beet friend, and tries to prove it by bragging on their wealth. If by toiling under peonage, disfranchisement, lynchings, lease robbery, jimcrowism and official robbery, what would they have had had they been treated as men and brethren? Every advanced step the Negroes have taken and progress made, has been done in the face of the bitterest opposition, and the South is entitled to no credit for it. The Democrats are busy in getting ready to prove their long contention that protection does not protect, and to do it systematically, they are going to do it by piece meals. As a poor man, we have never been able to see the real blessing of protection to poverty, from the fact, it has only managed to get its bread and butter scanty, while on the contrary, the employers have become millionaires, frequently having but one or two children to support, while the poor working man has a half, or a dozen, and homelers at that. It is this revision of the tariff that has split the Republican party into a progressive, and what may be called a non progressive party. Recently four drummers were talking about their territory and financial success. One had not so much to say till the others had about talked out. Then he said: "My territory is short—from Baltimore to Wheeling. I get home the latter part of each week; have no trouble to sell my goods for they are waiting and watching for me. I take hundreds of dollars out of every town I go into, but my best towns are Harper's Ferry, Martinsburg, Cumberland, Keyser and Wheeling, where I never get less than $2,000 cash. For its size Keyser beats any town I ever struck. "What do you sell?" asked one of the four. "Coca cola," was the answer, and the people are crazy for it and will have it at any cost. One man in Wheeling planks down five hundred dollars at a time for his supply. You can't beat the drinking people. The confab occurred on a railroad train. Judge Winslow of Wisconsin has handed down one of the best decisions this country ever had, so far as labor is concerned. Labor is the bone and sinew of this vast country, hence it needs protection. In this state for instance, think of a poor hard working man with a large family, being forced to enter into a contract with wealthy corporations, to work five weeks without getting a dollar, and at the expiration of this time, pay him only for four weeks, keeping one week's pay back, to hold him, and during all that time, a company store is furnishing him the necessaries of life; yet should he want and must have a few dollars in cash, the company store charges him ten cents on the dollar. Why don't these firms do as the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad does, organize relief funds for sick benefits, and the payments of thousands of dollars for injuries and death? If they won't, then why not the law making power of this state make them do it? --- Mr. Tabt's politics toward Negroes is like "Binky Dinky" and "Bath House John wore to Chicago. --- We hate crime, in several Negro papers where J. S. Noel, the colored member of the State Committee, has been referred to as "National Republican delegate from West Virginia". Such distorted statements as the one above referred to, do the race no possible good, and only make us appear ridiculous, because all people who know anything at all, are well aware that the election for the purpose of sending delegates to the National Republican Convention at Chicago, has not been held, so it is absolutely impossible for Mr. Noel or Mr. Anybody else, white or black, to be called the "National Republican delegate from West Virginia" at this time. Has Taft Bowed the Knee to Baal? We cannot understand why any colored man should leave the Republican party to join the Democratic party. All he has to do is to remain long enough in the Republican party under the Taft leadership and he will really be in the Democratic party, or, rather, he will be paying allegiance to Democratic principles under the name of Republicanism.—Richmond ... Planet. Hon. Norman E. Mack, Chairman of the National Democratic Committee, has appointed Hon. John T. McGraw, the Grafton banker, lawyer, politician and capitalist, as a member of the Committee of Arrangements for the Democratic National Convention which meets in Baltimore June next. A good selection, and Colonel McGraw can be depended upon to discharge his duties in a manner that will admit of no possible criticism. ENTER: A NEW CHINA. The premier of the great empire of China is a virtual prisoner in Peking, the target of the bitter hatred and deep suspicions of the present Dowager-Empress and the Manchu princes. His very life is in danger every waking and sleeping moment. He sleeps and eats but little. He goes about unshaved. Who or what has put him where he is? His own well-nigh miraculous shrewdness, nothing else. Thus the world at large is given a fine chance of seeing what human cunning and that at its wiliest, amounts to in the eternal scheme of things. What is the meaning of it all? It is an old, old story and simple as a, b, c—the old is passing away and the new is coming into its own. The fall or rise of Yuan Shih-kai or any other individual means but little. Even the rise or passing away of a nation usually finds its mausoleum within a few pages of history. It is the passing of an ideal that is so pregnant with significance. In China to-day the old ideal of a mandarin—the peerless master of the gentle art of squeeze—the moss-grown ideal of statesmanship represented by Li Hungchang and by his even abler pupil, Yuan, who out-Lied Li, is passing away. It means that the ideal of government represented by the Manchu and the forbidden City is obsolete now; to be labled quite out of tune with the times, that Yuan Shih-kai or one million Yuan Shih-kais can no longer command the sun of Manchu absolutism to stand still upon the far Eastern hills, The Shanghai Republic and Dr. Sun's Nanking may or may not endure. But that the new China is here, that much as is apparent as are the heavens and the earth.—From "Yuan Shih-kai and the Closing Days of the Manchu, by Adachi Kinnosuke, in the American Review of Reviews for February, WILBUR P. THIRKIELD, D. D. PRESIDENT. Located in Capitol of the Nation. Campus of over twenty acres. Advantages unsurpassed. Modern scientific and general equipment. New Carnegie Library. New Science Hall. Faculty of over one hundred. 1882 students from 37 states and 10 other countries. Unusual opportunities for self-support. No young man or woman of energy or capacity need be deprived of its advantages. THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. Devoted to liberal studies. Courses in English, Mathematics, Latin, Greek, French, German, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, history, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences, such as are given in the best approved colleges. 16 professors. Kelly Miller, A. M., Dean. THE TEACHERS' COLLEGE. Special opportunities for teachers. 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I have been a life long Republican, a staunch and consistent supporter of the party, and ever a firm believer in the ultimate triumph of the doctrine of Republicanism as enunciated by Lincoln, advocated by Grant and Garfield, and championed by the beloved McKinley and the courageous Roosevelt. I, too believe thoroughly in the primary plan of selecting candidates for all elective offices, for in this way only can the will of the people be unquestionably known. If honored by you with election to membership on said Committee, I shall at all times, in the discharge of my duty, think, act and vote for the best interests of the party and the common good. Very sincerely youre, J. O. Wilson. Weston, W. Va, Jan. 22, 1912 PROTECT Pope's Herb is prepared to provide a dependable household remedy, based upon the principle of purity of blood insuring freedom from disease. 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NOTED QUARTET OF PUGILISTS Champion Jack Johnson Is Matched to Meet Jim Flynn, His Most Formidable Opponent, In July—Events In Which Langford, Jeannette and Sam McVey Have Taken Part. By N. BARNETT DODSON. New York.—It is a fact worthy of note that in most walks of life in which individual achievements stand out boldly and above the ordinary the Afro-American is to be found among the foremost. Some have won fame in literature, some as educators and others are noted for special skill in the various professions. For the opportunity afforded to engage in business along many lines a large majority are successful. But the specific purpose of this comment is to call attention to a quartet of men whose physical prowess has placed them in the lead of all others in their profession without regard to A. Photo by American Press Association. CHAMPION JACK JOHNSON. race or creed. They are Jack Johnson, Sam Langford, Joe Jeannette and Sam McVey. These four men are the leading characters in the heavyweight division of pugilism. In the common commercial parlance we would say they have cornered the market. Jack Johnson, the acknowledged heavyweight champion pugilist of the world, is the center of attraction at the present time in view of the fact that he is matched to fight Jim Flynn some time in July. Flynn is said to be the champion's most formidable white opponent who has the nerve to sign articles of agreement to face Johnson in the ring. Jack Johnson was the first of his class among the colored fighters to appear upon the scene after the passing of Peter Jackson. His career as a prizefighter began in Chicago in 1899. He has had a most interesting career. His physical strength, coupled with his knowledge, experience and skill, makes all aspirants for the heavyweight championship title stand in fear of him. He is yet young, ambitious, artful and fearless. 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