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"HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." Portmanet of Archives, C W. Va. THE P HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE 2. MARTINSBURG, W. --- ESTABLISHED 1882 Blyden On Roosevelt. Blyden On Roosevelt. A Letter Written to John E. Bruce, of Yonkers, N. Y. No Higher Tribute could have been lavished on a man than the following:—What the late Dr. Edward Wilmot Blyden the world's famous and best known scholar said of Theodore Roosevelt.—Read it. Elysee Palace Hotel, Paris, France. My Dear Mr. Bruce:— Many thanks for your very interesting letter of July 28, I think I understand something of the anomalous and unsatisfactory position of the Negro in America, which you so pathetically describe. But a subsequent letter, which I have just received from Mr. A. A. Schomburg, dated Aug. 1. the anniversary of Negro Emancipation in the West Indies, has brought a gleam of relief to the dark picture drawn in your letter. From Mr. Schomburg's letter, I learn that it is proposed to celebrate the 30th anniversary of your entrance on the field of journalism by some substantial expression of the appreciation of your labors for the Negro, by the multitudes who have profited thereby. The move is entirely appropriate and praiseworthy. I congratulate you and wish it complete success. It will not only be giving honor to whom honor is due, but it will give inspiration and encouragement to many good, brave unassuming young Negroes who everywhere in the United States, are working towards the solution of a problem the nature of which, it seems to me, neither whites nor blacks in America have yet fully grasped. Two things in your personal career excite my astonishment and admiration. (1) That you for the past thirty years should have been persistently striving to uphold and further a cause which everything in your surroundings discredits. (2) That your services in behalf of this unpopular, subordinated, subjugated cause should be recognized to the extent of suggesting to some who have watched your apparently hopeless and unprofitable labors the idea of a substantial testimonial. I am sure that in getting up this testimonial three classes must participate. (1) the class who understand you and are grateful for your work, (2) the class who do not understand you, but admire your intelligence, courage and perseverance, (3) the class who misunderstand you, but who will contribute so as not to be ostensibly out of harmony with the other two. Your career furnishes an illustration of what St. Paul means by being "more than conqueror." I again congratulate you. But why should the cause of the Negro be discredited in America? What has he done to deserve such treatment? What has he not done to merit better? It is consolatory to know that all the greatest minds, who have ever lived in America, and now live there, (I say the greatest minds) have given him and do give him, the credit he deserves, but they are comparatively few. These few, however, knew that the Negro was at the bottom of the civilization of the Southern States. This is obvious at the first—the most superficial glance at his history there. Africa furnished the men without whom the vast industrial and agricultural work in the early days would have been impossible. But the so called dark continent also furnished the women without whom the still more important work of producing the physically and intellectually strong men could not have been accomplished. The greatest statesmen whom the United States have produced were produced in the South—men who chiefly governed the country until the great Civil War—George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Munroe and all that followed including Jefferson Davis, John C. Calhoun and Robert E. Lee. These men all had black "mammies;" and to this day in the South the traditions of the Auntia bigger as among the most cherished memories of the aristocratic families. The title is still sometimes addressed to colored women by Southerners, but it has not the same significance of tender relationship, nor is it used in the same affectionate spirit by those who knew nothing of the indescribable patriarchal past. But since the black Auntie has disappeared from her post in the great families, and has ceased to preside at the cradle and in the nursery of the South, no such men have appeared as distinguished the history of that Country before "the late unpleasantness." The secret of this deficiency is known to the African. In Geography Africa has been called Arida nutrix Leonum—the dry nurse of Lions;—so in the early political history of the United States the same description is applicable to "the grey haired mother of civilization" Lions in church and state were born out of her struggles and sufferings. It is impossible to write on this subject without thinking of President Roosevelt and the new leaf he is turning over or rather the new chapter he is writing in the history of his Country, so far as the Negro is concerned. He seems to be recognizing, not only as a humanitarian, but as an enlightened American citizen, Africa's services to the United States. You have had Washington, you have had Jefferson, you have had Lincoln, you have had Grant, and now you have Roosevelt—last but not least when compared to his great predecessors; if he does not stand at their side, he stands but a little lower than they, and it strikes me that if he lives long enough the course of events may eventually bring him up to their level, if it does not raise him above them, as the chief glory of American Statesmanship. To resemble Christ to whom President Roosevelt has been not rashly compared is to rise above all merely political or military preeminence. If Justinian's definition of justice is correct, viz. "the desire of rendering to every one his due" then Roosevelt like Aristides, stands today before the world as the "just man of America"—a king by truly divine right. In the years to come when the spirit of Christ shall have spread more generally among the children of men, it will be considered one of the most glorious facts in the history of American civilization, that the Chief Magistrate of the United States, in the opening year of the XXth Century, should have put himself squarely forward as the protector of the rights of the weak, of whatever race or color, and as the champion of the peace of the world. The whole world is grateful to him for the note of protest and animalization which two months ago he addressed to the belligerent powers, and for the brief but impressive and admirable speech which he recently made to the Piempotentiaries on board the Mayflower. No words will ring down the ages with greater or more upifting forces. They have not only profoundly touched the two nations concerned, but have moved the whole of humanity, wherever man can read or think or feel. Let us hope that these sentiments shall give the keynote to the whole of the New Century upon which we have entered, there are words that are deeds and deeds that are words. Tennyseon says: "The song that nerves a nation's heart, is in itself a deed" and one of your own poets has said: Whence'er a noble deed is wrought, Where'er is spoken a noble thought Our hearts in glad surprise To higher knowledge. And lifts us unawares Out of all meener cares Honor to those whose words or deeds Thus help us in our daily needs And by their overflow Raise us from what is low. If the arbitrament of brute force cannot yet be dispensed with owing to the hardness of men's hearts, still it is encouraging to know that the teachings and example of President Roosevelt will tend to introduce that era towards which, as all the greatest poets have seen "the whole creation moves;" when the spirit which will not break the bruised reed nor quench the smoking flax shall dominate the affairs of men, when Righteousness will govern as Conqueror and Might will disappear as an arbiter in human affairs. The little child shall lead and dust shall be the serpent's meat. The attitude of the President of the United States is bound to exert a wholesome influence upon the spirit and methods of those who having partitioned Africa in the name of God and of Humanity are devoting themselves under varying and various victitudes of righteousness and unrighteousness to its exploitation, and it would be a grand thing if, as suggested by the New York Sun, an alliance could take place between the three great powers having the largest interests in Africa—England France and the United States. If these three nations agree that there shall be no more war, that men must in future act as intelligent and rational beings, and not like eagles and vultures and tigers, whence will come war? Whence? On the very day August 10th that President Roosevelt was pleading with the Plenipotentiaries of Russia and Japan, drinking in solemn science to the Goddess of Peace, the London Times published a striking leading article giving the molancholy results, thus far of the great war between the two nations, showing that during the 18 months Japan has lost in killed and wounded 566,000men and Russia 320,000 nearly half mile in swept off the face of the earth—a sacrifice to human passion. So far as you are concerned Mr. Bruce, so far as the Negro race is concerned—there is no reason for discouragement. We have confronted worse things and yet survive. We shall please God, over come our present difficulties. This is not the Negro's day in America. Yes, it is his day the Eastern horizon gives indication of the coming morn. It is the dawn of his day. The spirit of Roosevelt is not a dying spirit, his influence is not a decaying influence. It is the spirit of the years to come. Yearning to mix itself with life, Yours faithfully, (Signed) Edward W. Blyden, From Far-Off South America From Far-Off South America Dear Editor:—I am heavy and worn, not with the struggle I have with the world to gain a living personally, but with thoughts of the ways of the world and the misery unnecessarily heaped upon the weak. I should not feel so heavy, however, if this was all. But after some reflections, I feel that I might call myself an observer at the least, and as such I can see no reasons for all this mercilessness from man to man, only in a very technical way. I find that troubles commonly felt among men are like a phenomenal hammer, welded by some mysterious band, to weld the much divided humanity into a solid mass of mutual love and fellowship. For these last few days I have been constantly annoyed with these words echoing and recoiling in my mental care. Congress has been asked to dispense with the national constitution while they (certain of the people) strike terror to the Negro race. Arms and accommodation were sent to the people who are to do the work under the guise of supporting authorized government. This authorized government is to annul its own constitution, (mind you,) in order to do this, so (that, as confessed.) citizens can not ask protection according to the laws of constitutional government, which is now to be especially empowered to strike terror to the hearts of certain of its subjects because of such a race's difference in color. This and all such misery as I now feel can never reach the senses which lay dormant in an ignorant, brutal, lozy Negro. Nor does it touch those of that class of a white man, because it is mostly the low minded, dumb sensed or unsympathetic, barely educated men who promote these things. They are unable to feel the pain of their weaker brother. This is not a strange nature or condition of feeling to the lower animal by any means, but is rather more like one not to feel the social pain of his fellow. True education and Godliness make a most tender and sympathetic being, but brutality is and always was the greatest evidence of an unrefined brain. "Father forgive them, for they not what they do." were not the words emanating from an ignorant, unrefined brute in human form, but to the contrary, it is what came from a most elevated concience, and it expressed the highest degrees of refinement, even in prayer, for those which David, the prophet to king, oblessed as "Bulls of Bashen," whatever that meant. I have been informed by a white gentleman of America, that this was not done to offend the rich and educated Negroes of America, but the lazy, ignorant ones instead. He says that he has often invited Negroes to his house to repete with him. I asked this same gentleman was that what he thought I meant by social equality? I informed him that according to the spirit which he seems to demonstrate by this very statement is the greatest evidence that it was just to the opposite, as he thought that he had done some Negro or Negroes an honor by inviting him or them to his private places as his guest. This too, proved his judgment of social etiquet, as the honor is rather to the host that one should allow him to be the host, and I told him so in plain words after quoting Emerson to him. Emerson is quoted as saying, that "When I am visiting my friends, I do the bidding of my friends; but when my friends visit me they must do my bidding." Thus the guest is rather servient to his lord and host; while such relations remain between them. Therefore I always ask for the honor of being host of any one whom I invite to be my guest. And I deem it such too if he or she accepts. Thus it is that a man should ask a woman for the honor of being her lord. And should she accept, he at once becomes her master. Thus while such relations exist between them, she is his servant and not his equal; therefore her name is at once ab sorbed into his; likewise her individuality and independence. I told my white American brother that no Negro with an ounce of intelligence would for a moment deem it an honor or to be his or any other man's guest. But if he permitted the Negro to be his host, then the Negro had been honored. But this did not reach my idea of social equality, as man can be the social equal to man and yet never speak to him; while seeing him every day. Social equality means equal recognition and equal rights to make one's self happy in every possible way while duty respecting those same rights of all of his social neighbors. Weighing all of these things in my mind at one time I feel myself particularly heavy and bowed, and do not know that had my conception of the truth not been so keen I should not feel this pain any more than the unrefined white man or ignorant stupid Negro, who can wade lengthily through the blood of his dying brother while listening to his agonizing death groans. I say then with great emphasis, that this burchery will never have the same effect upon the ignorant, stupid, brutal Negro, as it will have upon the most delicate mind, even of those of the other races. It hurts the sensitive white man or woman far more than it does the most ignorant Negro, although you had killed his mother. A hero word, a cross look or the neighbor's discomfort, is more severe to an educated brain than the fire torch is to the skin of the ignorant. Thus it is the intelligent and refined persons which you are burting with, this burchery, and they exist equally in all races. How often is it that the pain of sympathy is greater to the friend of intellect, than to the wounded soldier upon the field or battle? How many persons are there who would suffer any kind of bodily pain to ease that of the mind? I think upon these things when I remember publications such as one which now lays before me, written by Clarence A. Bryan, and published in the Florida Reporter, in Tampa, Florida, U.S.A., April 6th, 1912, entitled, "Are All Men Born Equal?" I admit that the gentleman must be wonderful at attempt at sequence VOL. 31. NO.27 Anecdotal Literature BY W. G. PRAYERS FOR LUCY GRAY. A young minister, somewhat shy and bashful, came into a pastorate in which there were a number of persons who breed horses, and sometimes rode them steeple chases. One day the deacon said to the minister, "If you please, sir, the prayers of the church are desired for Lucy Gray." The minister thinking the deacon asked for prayers for Sister Lucy Gray, said "very weil" and in every service Lucy Gray was remembered, until one morning the deacon rushed into the vestry, and said, "you needn't pray for Lucy Gray any more, she's won the chase." "Have I been praying for a horse?" exclaimed the astonished and mortified divine, "I shall leave the place." You'll do nothing of the sort" said the deacon, "you got the hearts of them all in the parish by praying for the horse." ABSENT MINDED. John Bendon Sanderson sat at his desk in the University College lost in thought. It was noon. Beside him lay his frugal lunch, a sandwich, next to the sandwich lay a frog, not dead, but motionless—it had been the subject of a curious experiment in the lecture room half an hour before. At noon the assistant left the professor meditating before the sandwich and the frog; and at one o'clock, when the assistant returned the professor was meditating still. The sandwich was untasted, but the frog—the frog had disappeared. MORE BUSINESS Client,—(To Lawyer) "you may not get any more business from me. I've bought a law book." Lawyer;—"I won't worry, for in that case I shall probably get more business than ever." THE CHAUFEUR Pat—The next won 'o' them chauffeurs as runs over me will be sorry for it." Thoma—"And why's that?" Pat—I've got a ton of nitroglycerine in my pocket." A MUMMY'S TOY. There is a doll in the British Museum that is more than three thousand years old. When some archaeologists were exploring an ancient Egyptian royal tomb they came upon a sarcophagus containing the mummy of a little princess seven years old. She was dressed and interred in a manner befitting her rank, and in her arms were found a little wooden doll. It was tightly clasped in the arms, and it was evident that the child died with her beloved doll in her embrace. The doll occupies a place in a glass case in the Museum, and many children go to gaze upon it. Son—"Ma, what is a heirloom?" Ma—"It is something handed down from father to son, and in some instances, is highly prized." Son—"I'd prize these heirlooms I'm wearing a good deal more, if they wasn't so long in the legs." from a display of having read certain books, but from a logical standpoint, he minds me of a graphaphone or some such machine, and when I think of certain other men of color in the U. S. A., who are not worthy of their places in society, much less their citizenship, I am blocked. Such a man as Wm. Hannibal Thomas, that mulatto one armed ingrate, who, as he says, was a school teacher, writing such a hideous mess about little babies who were entrusted to his care, only shows the baseness of his own mind even had such been ever so true. What if such a man had been your family phybician, instead of a teacher of your children? You know the rest. But he tries to get on the other side of the fence and close the bars behind him, though I can in-form the one armed Judas that he AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN ITY. Rates of Subscription: 1 year.....$1,50: 6 months.....75c. 9 months.....40c. Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the ad- vertiser pays every three months. Advertising 1 inch one time 75c. Standing.....50c. Reduced Rates to Culbs. Send for Sample Copies. S.J. R. Clifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer: 869, and Bell 'Phone, 60K Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, SEPT. 7th., 1912 A CHALLENGE The editor of this paper challenges any Negro Taftite—office holders preferred,—meant for Johnson, Tyler, Napier et al; the audience to act the part of a jury, decide which has the better of the contest. And, be it understood that the defeated party is to pay rent of hall or church and all incidental expenses thereupon. Subject: Resolved, That, Theodore Reosevelt is a better man for the American Negro to support in the pending contest for Chief Executive than William Howard Taft, or any of the other candidates. J. R. Clifford, President of The National Independent Poli- tical League. Hearst nailed the lie and Arch- bold wilts. Good for Teddy. Governor Wilson is gaining in weight—Philadelphia Inquirer. Yee, it always increase it. It was a calamity to give the Negroes the right of franchise.—Woodrow Wilson. The West is going to cut a dido on November 5. for one million, two hundred and ninety-six thousand, nine hundred and sixty seven women will vote. Every Negro should vote for Cleveland Seibert, for although a Democrat it was he who defeated the jim crow bill in our last Legislature. ```markdown ``` The Negro froths at the mouth because others side with Roosevelt, is very light in the upper story, for it is the proper thing for sensible ones to do and we pity those soft shells on the other side. We the Bull Moors are going to win, and when we are in the kingdom, be men and don't ask favors of us. The National Independent Political League, of which the editor of this paper is president, rejoices to tell the world that the Executive Committee which met in Philadelphia last Saturday unanimously endorsed the Progressive movement. It represents, or should, five hundred thousand voters, every one of whom ought to vote with us. That will not be, but our word for it, the majority will line up with us for Teddy. No mortal man could make the editor of this paper believe that either John Mitchell, Jr., or the Hon. H.C. Smith has a drop of false blood in their bodies. Both have partially worn out their active lives for a class which pays in damns for their devotion. Battle on you brave race leaders and advocates, earth has a haven of rest for each of you, and a hereafter heaven of glory. --- Peorose and all the others who are trying to blacken Theodore Roosevelt's charakter on the ground of a slush fund politically gotten, only blacken their own from the foot they too, used it to be elected and are now only fighting him because they are, politically one foot in the grave, knock need and dying, and on misery like company, they are simply trying to kill Teddy, but Teddy don't die so easily, eh? Do you boasting white people, whose vanity beguiles you, ever atop to read the signa of the times? Do you know that the air brakes, and 34 more important patents are the result of a Negro's brain? Do you know or atop to think over the fact, that the two races of all others, the most brutally treated by you and yours, have produced two masters of the world—one a Negro in the static arena, and the other an Indian, in Athletics? True. Think, for these are signs of the times. Let us from now, preach and practice the golden rule; the brotherhood of man and the Fatherhood of God,—live peacefully and happy here,—the only gateway to the other abode. --- The 42 congressmen who refused to be renominated had enough sense to have seen the handwriting on the wall. The result in New Hampshire must have given Mr. Taft a pain, for it's an index finger to his ending. If Teddy fails to win, he will have killed, embalmed and shrouded the rotten old party that has outlived its days of usefulness. The very fact that so many office holders and seekers and their papers are arrayed against the Progressive Party is evidence the best that they are all scared. Certain as 3 & 3 is six, Theodore Roosevelt is going to be elected—God so decrees it and it must come to pass. ```markdown ``` No difference what the National Bar Association say against the Initiative Referendum and Recall, there are evile many, which it and it alone can only correct. Try it, and if it proves wrong and hurtful, try something else and keep on trying until the right remedy obtains. The solution of this problem is in your hands. You, the voting bread and butter brigade wear the sovereignty under your own bats. The poorest, lowest of white and black men have rights in common with the richest, and the former are imposed upon ten times to one in comparison to the latter, and since the laborers are the bone and skin of this country and its prosperity, certain it is that they ought to have their just day in court, and the method advocated will give it. It is claimed it will cost too much. What about the cost of selecting juries for rich litigants? Weeks and months are often required, wherein were they poor people thirty or sixty minutes would be the limit, and if a day were consumed, nineteenth of the judgee would complain. Rascality in courts is what caused the court house of Cincinnati to be burned a few years ago. Try the recall. Right never fails to win—bence do it, stand still which means firm, and see the blessings of God to men. A rotten game is going on here again, and since the courts will knowingly allow it, don't believe God will much longer. What is it? This. Degent and industrious Negroes work and a gang of crap shooters and card players won't. The latter lire by tricks put up to them by a certain United States official, who was put out of office by the Department of Justice and put back by means unknown to na. When he arrested a man not long ago, he told him not to employ Clifford, and that he had better get 'Stuart Walker' if it ooc him a hundred dollars, but the Negro knew his friend and hired Clifford. We asked one of these pimps once: What do you do for a living? and his reply was, with motions of his hands—shuffle cards, and then said: "I am a crook." How much do you make a week, I asked him, and he said some times a hundred dollars; and in the face of his confessed deviltry, my client was held and that black scoundrel went to Parkersburg, getting ten oats per mile for going there to lie and so much per day,—making him about $40 for the trip—pie for a few black and white niggers. Will "Bristo" was arrested by W. D. Brown on his way from work last week on the oaths of two white fellows, who were afraid to go before the people of this town, but went to Parkersburg to indict other innocent men, swore to lice and indicted Will "Bristo." Why have a United States Court building here and hold two terms of Court here yearly, and drag poor hard working people to Parkersburg, Clarkeburg, Wheeling and Philippi, put them in jail, where they know no one, and allow a certain set of U. S. Marshals to persuade them to plead guilty, for no other purpose than to make money? Rottan, and Wilbur H. Thomas, whose oaths are among the archives of the Department of Justice about Brown, Lemen and Tutty's rottenness is going to be looked up and a revelation be made. Will all decent people help stop it Help, Almighty God help! LIFE'S A FUNNY PROPOSITION AFTER ALL. ```markdown ``` Did you ever sit and ponder, sit and wonder, sit and think, Why we're hers and what this life is in all about? It's a problem that has driven many brainy men to drink: It's the wierdest thing they've tried to figure out. About a thousand different theories all the scientists can show, But never have proved a reason why With all we've thought and all we've taught, Why all we seem to know is we're horn and live awhile and then we die. Life's a very funny proposition, after all, Imagination, jealousy, hypocrisy and gall: Three meals a day, a whole lot to say; When you haven't got the coin you're always in the way. Everybody's fighting as we wend our way along. Ev'ry fellow claims the other fellow's in the wrong. Hurried and worried until we're buried and there's no curtain call. Life's a very funny proposition after all. When all things are coming easy and when luck is with a roan, Why then life to him is sunshine ev'rywhere. Then the fates blow rather breezy and they quite upset a plan: Then he'll cry that life's a burden hard to bear. Though to-day may be a day of smiles, to-morrow's still in doubt, And what brings me joy may bring you care and woe; We're born to die, but don't know why, Or what it's all about, and the more we try to learn these things the less we know. Life's a very funny proposition, you can bet. And no one's ever solved the problem properly as yet: Young for a day, then old and gray. Like the rose that buds and blooms and fades and falls away. Losing health to gain our wealth as thro' this dream we tour. Everything's a guess and nothing absolutely sure; Battle's exciting and fates we're fighting until the curtain's fall. Life's a very funny proposition after all. Framed Fay, 60 South Rimington Continued from first page. made a most miserable botch in the eyes of any really intelligent person, because he tells us plainly that he is a Negro, and then paints his race with unspeakable filth, neglecting that he had informed us that he was, himself a Negro. Again, he says, "we white people;" very unlike Miss Hemmings, of Boston, Masa., who, after passing through and gaining the highest honors of a female college which was forever opposed to the Negro race without even being suspected, had to acknowledged at the commencement that she was grateful for the favors shown her race, meaning the Negro race. But there was another funny feature about that Thomas episode, and that was, the first person affected by his cussedness was the daughter of Dr. Booker T. Washington at Wellesly College, in Massachusetts. This should have been a lesson to any other class but those fellows who thought that they could fool all the people all the time and escape. Oh! may the heavens ever rain blessings upon the headj of Miss Hemmings, and this should give some evidence too that New England holds some of the fairest minds and closest friends to the Negro race as well as to that of social progress. Notwithstanding all the insults which come of the Southern Negroes try to throw at them in praise of their white Southern friends. History speaks piainer in favor of Boston alone as a Negro heaven than it does for all the Southern states put together. I am only looking, listening and praying that you will some day come to the proper conclusions of true sociology. You all cry that your Southern friends are really the folks, but when in distress you run to Boston, the fountain of your liberty. Therefore I should advise you all, be careful and not drive away the holy spirit. They have not lynched in New England yet. I had a man try try to tell me about how bad the English laws are to Negroes. I am very sure that that person knew less about the English laws than I did, or also he did not suspect how much I knew. Therefore I beg to ramid you (that notwithstanding a Negro in England is still a long way from heaven, I can candidly say that we far surpass the land to conquered he is far more respectable than in any place in America, and just take my little tips as from a man who knows what he is talking about and would not have you deceived. I do not hold to all of England's rules, but she certainly treats them all alike under similar conditions. I have noticed many of Booker T. Washington's criticisms about England, but he can never find the perfect liberty in America which he is assured in England, or any other country under the same conditions, and with all your Southern Negro wealth you have not the freedom of a New England Negro, so let you henceforth be wise. New England in America is the closest approach to the old country in both blood and manners. Now let you people investigate and if you find that I why these show me where there is no flag on earth where the citizens are subject to the same treatment as those of the Negro race are in America, except in America, and with the Negro race in comparison to other citizens of no better qualification. I am your friend who have put myself to some trouble to find out and would not have you blinded. Sicil For God's sake wake up before you are forever last. Some of you may be quite satisfied to become slaves for your white brothers, but I will inform you right here that if all the Negroes of the world offered themselves in slavery at once they would not be accepted. The scheme is quite different with those who know. You did not free yourselves and thus you can not reenslave yourselves. You can consent to be all slaughtered, but not enslaved, notwithstanding some of your people are ready to sell you while others are willing to be sold. It is land which the thinking people of the world want to control. Oceans of poor white and other people have not a place to lay their heads. Some tell you about the lazy man. But I tell you that your greatest trouble is that the lazy man has learned to do without the thrifty one to such an extent that you are not much wanted upon earth. How about Porto Rico? Are they slaves there? It is indeed very amazing to know that Mr. John D. Rockefeller, who never had an education and is making ($60,000,000) sixty millions of dollars per year, while Dr. Booker Tr. Washington, in reminding you of your wonderful opportunities in America, tells you that his graduates, after a seven years course in the Tuskegee Institute can average the great sum of ($600) six hundred dollars in the same time and citizens of the same country. That is fine, sure, and when we think about the advertisements of both his school and pupils he gives in such beautiful comparisons, it makes one shudder at the freedom of his sacrifice, when the world is reading daily what advantages the Northern schools are holding out to their students, for much less time, and will place them into positions after they have graduated, and many of their schools are corresponding schools at that. It would seem very enticing indeed for a Negro here in Brazil to send his child to America to become thus gaucoed for the rest of his life be- Continued on fourth page WOMEN IN UPLIFT WORK. Auxiliary to New England Convention Aids institutions and individuals The women's auxiliary to the New England Baptist missionary convention reported receipts for the year of 1738.87 at the recent annual meeting in Orange, N. J. The work of the organization under the noble leadership of the president, Mrs. E. B. Hobard, for the past two years has steadily grown. The auxiliary, besides assisting the general convention in various ways, does a large missionary and educational work. The institutions to which the organization gave financial assistance at the recent meeting were the Virginia, Seminary and College in Lynchburg, Va.; the Watchman Industrial school, Providence, R. L.; the Howard Orphanage and Industrial school, Kings Park, N. Y., and two institutions maintained for working girls. The Baptist mission work in Africa was given the sum of $25 and the general convention toward its missionary and educational work $60. Two widows were given $5 each. The members are loyal to the work, and each year an increase is noted in individual achievements. The election of officers for the ensuing year resulted as follows: President, Mrs. B. B. Holland of Providence, R. L.; first vice president, Mrs. Wiley Seay of Brooklyn; second vice president, Mrs. Christina Harris of Stamford, Conn.; recording secretary, Mrs. Margaret L. Shepard of New York; corresponding secretary, Mrs. M. J. Glascoe of Providence; treasurer, Mrs. S. A. Harris of Brooklyn; executive board, Mrs. M. S. Tribbett and Mrs. A. Tribbett of Philadelphia; Mrs. Shepard and Mrs. Mattie V. Ellis of Hartford, Conn.; Mrs. Elvina Washington of Boston, Mrs. Julia Olligan of New York and Miss Lucy Washington of Orange. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg V. Va., as Second Class Matter Mr. Samuel Reefer visited his mother and father in Fauquier Co. Virginia during the past week. Mrs. Richard Reed visited friends and relatives in Hedgesville during the past week, and we understand she enjoyed her stay immensely. Miss Beatrice Lanier, a pleasant young lady from Washington, is the guest of Mrs. Virginia Oliver, at her home on Martin Street. The Stauston District Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, has been in session at Winchester this week, and quite a number of Martinaburgers are in attendance. Mrs. Charles N. Johnson, of Washington, and her bright little daughter, are visiting Mrs. Phyllis Carter, at the latter's Burke Street home. Mr. and Mrs. A. Franklin Clifford have returned from a very pleasant trip to Harrisburg, Mechaniceburg and other places in the beautiful Cumberland Valley of Pennsylvania. Mr. Dade Green has returned to Martinsburg, after a visit to the home folks at Elkton, Va. While away, he dug his potatoes, and he informs us that his was a bumper crop. Mt. J. T. Baylis, of Washington, visited his brother, Dr. George W. Baylis, of this city, on Sunday last. He is good company, appreciates thrift, and seemed to enjoy his short stay in our town. An unknown Pole, and Rastus Green, were fatally injured at the West Quarries of the Standard Stone Company on Wednesday last. Green died Wednesday night, and while the Pole is still alive, his death is expected at any time. Mrs. Mary E. Saunders, of Aberdeen, Maryland, visited Mrs. Priscilla Miller and Mr. A. L. Miller on last Sunday. The two first named persons are respectively mother and brother of Mrs. Saunders. Mrs. Miller accompanied Mrs Saunders back to Aberdeen. Mr. James H. Levy, the well known and popular B. & O. dining car waiter, who now runs between Washington and New York, is in this section of the country for an indefinite stay. He is on sick leave, and his host of friends are hoping he will regain his health. Mr. Carl Frick, a gasoline lighting contractor, with temporary headquarters in Chambersburg, was a pleasant caller at our office the other day. Mr. Frick is a resident of Martina Ferry, Ohio, coming from some of the sturdy stock for which that section is famous, and is a mighty fine gentleman. Mr. Chancellor Tolliver, a former Martinsburg boy who now works and resides in New York, circulated among friends and relatives in the old home town recently. He books well, is the same genial, good fellow that he has always been, and is a fine illustration of what a progressive young man, "bred in the country," can do in a large city like New York. Mr. W. T. Ferguson, an employee of the Navy Department. Washington, D. C., was a Sunday guest of the editor of the Pioneer Press. Mr. Ferguson is a close student of affairs, knows the race question from any angle, and is as companionable an individual as one would wish to meet. His presence here was so enjoyable to those with whom he came in contact, that any future visits he may make to our city will be appreciated. Follow the crowd to Fletcher's West End Grocery. Everything nice and in a sanitary condition. Phone 287K. P. R. Fletcher, Proprietor. SPECIALOFFER The New York Tribune Twice-A-Week 64 Mouths for 35 Cents Presidential Campaign THIRTY-FIVE CENTS Paye for the New York Tribune Twice-a-Week from NOW until after election (up to November 15.) This period (will cover the entire Presidential Campaign and extend over the election several weeks. THE TRIBUNE issued on Tuesdays and Fridays contains ALL the latest cable and telegraph news of the world up to the hour of going to press, as well as all the latest reliable POLITICAL and general news. It is a complete and satisfactory newspaper for the busy man. 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No, but I know of men of colored blood who are going annually into the U. S. A., to get their educations, but they seldom stop south of the Mason and Dixon's line for it. They are going from both sides of the Atlantic, too. Thus you can easily imagine how he in such statements is wilfully tabooing both his school and his students. But as he is making his money by so doing it serves the purpose nicely, this may also serve you as a hint to be very careful and not taboo. Those men who permit such tabooing in their form of education can never hope for equal recognition by men who hail from other schools whether they be Americans or not. Thus to clinch the matter he tells you all to leave the cities and flee to the woods. Most beautiful advice in these days of light and progress. Behold the great difference between his leadership and that of Johnny Mitchell, Jr., of Richmond, Va. A man need not be ashamed of his identification with anything that Mr. Mitchell does, and further, behold the way Mr. Mitchell speaks for his race in every way. This proves that he is not a compromise, and has not accepted any hush money. What a great difference, Hey? Mr. Mitchell has even gone to the rescue of Hon. Wm. H. Lewis, whom the Dr. Washington is credited with locating, and say, is Mr. Mitchell not respected by his white fellow citizens? If you only do right you need never fear. But if you do wrong you may always expect trouble. Now just a little more about the lazy man. It was the lazy man who became and generally is the great inventor of the world. It was Edison's laziness which first made him think, and to protect it he put his thoughts into actions, and behold, what is the result? And so it is on down the line. Now I remember one woman who was industrious to a fault. This woman's kitchen floor was always cleaner than the tables of most other women. She actually worked too much, and she would rather scrub a floor than to read a letter. She would rather cook than sew. She could drive a nail in greater pleasure than write numbers. She was always in a hurry. So she did not have time to read books, yet she greatly admired the learnings of others. And the worst part of it, she was always in such a hurry that she never raised any children and this seemed the sadtest of all. I learned too, that she liked to work so well that she could hardly be kept in school long enough to obtain the grammar school gradation. I wonder would such a woman have pleased those American idealists had she been a Negress and lived in America? I wonder if some great rich man would take compassion on her? I wonder if Mr. Washington would divide his wealth with her? Hold right here. I want to point out the truth to you. Robert Charles, of New Orleans, La., U. S. A., was an educated lawyer who lost his life because he resented the club of a policeman while standing talking to a friend, and did not run away at the sight of the buttons. Baker was assassinated for the serious crime of serving the people in a little post office. Booker Washington, the chief of industry was fiercely beaten in New York. And what more? Yet there may be some truth in all they say, only I cannot see it. You follows with your leather lawyer bags, you doctors, you store keepers, and you editors are really the lazy men, and still worse, your musicians and scientists. This all makes me sick. Still I am your most humble servant. I. S. Moore. Bahia, Brazil. THE CLERGY ON DR.H.D.HATFIELD What the Ministry Thinks Of Him As A Candidate For Governor HIS STANDING IS EXCELLENT Expressions Obtained Upon Inquiry Mado By Rov. F. G. W. Ford, of Grafton, and Reproduced Here- with By Permalon Rev. F. G. W. Ford, of Grafton, has some very interesting letters from West Virginia ministers touching upon the standing of Dr. Hatfield. We use them with his permission. Rev. W. F. Hampton, Pastor M. E. Church. Crumpler, McDowell County, W. Va. April 15, 1912. Rev. F. G. W. Ford, Grafton, W. Va. Dear Brother Ford: In reply to your inquiry in reference to the candidacy of Dr. H. D. Hattfield of this county for the office of governor of this state, I am pleased to give you the reasons why I think the good people of the state should nominate and elect him. I have taken points to make an investigation as to his character, qualification and fitness for the office before making up my mind or committing myself, and the result of my investigation is such that I feel it is my duty as a Christian minister to give him my hearty support, and I feel that his candidacy should appeal favorably to the best citizenship of the state. Dr. Hatfield has for many years been recognized as a very strong and worthy leader in this section of the state; he is clean, honest, upright and absolutely reliable. He always takes a determined stand for whatever he considers right, and he never vavors in the discharge of what he conceives to be his duty. He is a thoroughly honorable man and has the respect and confidence of the people in all this section of the state in the highest degree. Dr. Hatfield has done probably more for suffering humanity in this vicinity than any other man, he having for the past several years devoted a great portion of his time, absolutely without charge, to the relief of unfortunate miners, railroad men and others injured in the mines, on the railroad and in lumber camps in this community. The record of his work along this line at the Minera' Hospital, at Welch, is well known, and for this work, as well as his many other good qualities, he is very much beloved by the people in all this section. I understand that reports are being circulated in some sections of the state by opponents of Dr. Hutfeld to the effect that he is an undesirable citizen and not a law abiding man, but I wish to say that it is only necessary to investigate his standing in this community to verify the fact that such reports are false and slanderous. I can not understand why any one would knowingly circulate a report detrimental to the character, reputation or good name of a man of Dr. Hutfeld's standing, and am indeed sorry that his opponents should resort to such. If it is true that they have done so. I want to assure you that in my opinion the affairs of this state could not be entrusted to a sater man than Dr. Hatfield, and I feel sure that the moral standing of the people will be elevated by his influence as governor of the state. He is temperate and soer in habits and his pleasing personality is most attractive. 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