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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 e the Fi Y Whe Pioneer Wress AN LNDIPENDENT WAHKLY NSWSPAPER DEVOTED TO TASMORAL, RELIGIOUS AXD Forascia® DaveLOPM NT oF HUMAN- irr. Rates of Subscription: VVOnrasvvereemereesesnee ene eee BL 59 © month ices cssscceeeeeeee TEC. GS MONNG-coccsn seesseseersssescwseren AUC. Pay foralladvortinemesis 14 due ix e@dvance auless odvertisiny fe run by yearly contract, in Which tave the ae Vertiser pnys cv ory three months. Advertising Linch ono time Ze, Btauding —- Buc Bedaced Rates to Calbs Bend for Sample opis $89. R. Clifford, Bdwor & Propreior Drawos 869, and Gail Phoue, CK Liar Wasbarg, W. Va. ss SATURDAY, SEPT. tr, f912 ree A CHALLENGE. The editor of this paper challengesany Negro ‘Tatt- ite— oflice holders preferr- ed,—meant for Johnson, Tyler, Napier et al; the andience to act the part ofa 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 andall incidental expens- es thereupon. Subject: Resolved, That, Theodore Roosevelt is a better man for the Amer- ican Negro to sup- port in the pending con- test for Chief Executive than William Howard Taft, or any of the other candi. dates, JR, Clifford, President o The National Independent, Po. litical League. Hearst bailed the fie and Arch: bold wilts, Good for Teddy, Governor Wilson ie gaining in weight—Philadelphia Laquicer, Yee, it always incrensy it, Tt wasa calamity to give the Ne- groes ths right of franobise.— Woodrow Wilson. Toe West is going to cut « dido on’ November 5, for ono million, two hundred and ninety six thous and nie tusdred vad sixty Beven women Wil! vote. Every Negro should vote tor Cleveland Seibert, for although a Democrat it was he who dc feated the jim crow bill in our Jast Levislature, The Negro who froths st ths mouth because others side with Rovecwolt, ie very light in tbe upper story, for itis the properthing for eensibi ones todo and we pity those volt thelle on the other aide, We ibe Boll Moosers are going (0 win, and when we ato in the kingdoa, be men end don't ssk favors of ne —_—_——— The National independent Polit- joo] Leegue, of which the editor of this poper is president, rejoices to tell the world that the Kxecative Committee which met in Pbiladel- Pbia last Saturday unavimguely en dorsed the Progressive movement, It repreeente, or sbould, five bundred thoasand voters, every ove of wiow onght to vote with we, ‘Phat wil! not be, but our word for is, the ws pority will Sipe op with oy for Ved dy, | Ne mortal anen coud mak2 tue editor of thia paper believe thet oi- ther John Mitchell, Jr, or the Hon. H.C. Smith bes a drep of felae biocd fn their bodies, Both have partially worn out their activo lives for a clang which paye# in Qamns for tusir devo- tion, Batile on yon Leave race leaders sod adyucates, certh bas a haven ef reat for each of yuu,anda heresfiir beaven of plory Peorose spd ail che osbers whe are trying to blacken Theodora Rooeerel’s chersoter on the groand uf « slash fund politlealiy gotten, onir bixeken their awn trom the foot they too, need it co be elected andore vow cnly tghting him be- suuse Shey ere, palitioslly one foot in she grave, koock oecd and dying, and on miesr? likes comnany, they ere éituply trying to kill) Teddy, but Teddy doo’s die 60 evsity, eh? Do you boasting white people, whoee vanity begailae you, ever atop to read the eigna of the times? Do you know tau! thealr prokee, and 34 wore importean’ parents are the resaltofa Negro’o brain? Do you kuow or top to think oecr the fuct, tbat tbe two racea of all othera, the most bratelly treated by yon end yours, beve produced two masters of tbe world—ove a Negre in the fiatic srepa, and the other ea Indian, in Atbletics? ‘Trae. Tuink, for these are eigne of the times, Let os from how, preach and practice the golden rule; the orotherbood of men and the Fatberbood of God,—live pesoefolly and bappy bere,—the only gateway to the other ubode, The 42 congressmen who re- fused to be renominated had enough sense to have séen the handwriting on the wall. The result in New Hampsire must have given Mr. Taft 2 pain, for it's an index finer to his end. ing, If Teddy thils to win, he will have killed, embalmed and shrouded the rotten old party that has outlived its days of usefulness. The very fact that 80 inany office holders and seek- ers and their papers are ar ray- led against the Progressive Par- lay ix evidenca the best that sheyavo call seared. Cortaitas 3 8 3 is six, Theodore Koose- , itis going to be elected— Ged so deerces is and it must COME to pase No diference what tie Notions Bar Association say against the Ta sitiativa Referendues and ween} tore nee evile tony, whiea it and it slnse can oaly evireci. ‘Cry ity sad Wie proves Weone and burtiul try something elso and keep on tryic until the rigat remedy obtains. ‘Ine solution of this problem ia in your wands, You, the votiog bread aad butter brigade wear the koverciguty under your own bats ‘Po poorest, lowest of white and black mon have rights is eon with the richest, and the forwer erc imposed upon ten times ta ove in comparison to the latter, and since tholuborers ere the bony and sinew of thts comutry and its prosperity, Cortnin ib is that they oushs to have their juet day in court, and the wethod advoosted will give it. It isctainsed it will cost too much: What about the coer of selecting juries for rich litigante? Weeks and months are often required, where- in were they poor people thimy or sixty wioutes would be the limit, aod Hf a duy were consumed, pine teolus of the judges would complain Ruseality io courts is what caused tue Court douse of Cincivnat: to ve burned a tew years ugu. Try the recall, | Rigbs never fuila to win— hence do it, etand eli v bick meane firvo, and eee the birssinga of God to mon, A rotten gems is going on here again, ‘ond since the courts will knowiagly si it, don’: *» Ged will mach longer, Wie ia Pinta, Deorn nd indartrions Negroey wert and a puvg of eran shooters ond cid pleyers won't. ‘Uhe Hotter lice by oricke pnt ap to them es @ certain ted Siotes cftieral, pho wus pit oo of office by the Da- Fpurtunent of tlee and pat beck t Meade Baines t aa. When he azreated & man not jong age, hi hime oat to crn y Ultford, end teat he bad better Stoore Walker’ if iSocet Bim: » beadred doilary, pe the Negro knew ble friend and hiced Oiford. Woe asked one of these pimps ences Whar do you de for a living? and hia reply wos, with motiong of bis bands -shufla cards, and then said: ©L am 9 crook.” How mach do sce maker weet, lucked him, and be suid come times a hundred dollar: end in the face of bis corfeesed dev. Hing, wiz olient wea beld and thet black scovadrel went bo Parkersburg, getting tea oants per mile Cor going tbere to tie and so mach per das,— meiiag him about $40 for tbe trip— pie for afew black and white Blas gere | Will “Beiato” waa arrested by W. D. Brown on bia way from work | leet week on the oathe of two white] fellows,who were afraid to go before the people of thie town, but went = Parkersbarg to indict other innocent. mea, swore to lies and indicted wit “Briato.” : Why have a United States Gourt building hero acd bold two terme of Court here yearly, ond drag poor herd working people to Parkersbarg, Olarkeborg, Wheeling and Philippi, pus them in jail, where they keow no cne, and allow a certain uct of U, fe Merohele to persuade them to plead gnitts, for na other parpece than to make money? Rotter, and Wilbar 8B. Thomns, whose veths are among the arohives uf tic Dopart- ment of Jostioe about Brown, Lemen sod ‘Tutt’a rottenneas ie going to be looked up sud a tavelution be made. Will all deoent pocple belp stop it? Help, Aimights God belpt LIFE’R A FUNNY YROPOSITION AFTER ALL Did vou ever sitund ponder. sit and wonder, sit and thick, Why we're here and whet chiw life in all about? It's 9 problem that bac driven many brainy mento dviak It's the wiordest thing they ve ciod to figure ont, Abowes thousand dilermet thaories all tho ssientists eau show , But never have proved » reason why With all wo've thought and sil wave taveht Why «it we seem io know is we're horn ond five awhils and then we die. Life's very fanny proposition, efter atl. Imeginatiog, joalousy, bypocriay aud gall Three meals aday,a whole lot toiny When you haven't got the coin you're Biwayain We way Everybody's fighting se wa wend our way clong, Ev'ry fellow claims the othor’ fellow'y in Jue +rong Hurriod and worried until vo're buried nud there's ae curtain coll Life's n very funny proposition ater all. Whon all things ore coming easy are whon Iuck is with a rast Why then life to hita ie sunehine ev'ry - where Thon tho fates blow rather breezy and they quite npset a plan: Thon he'll cry that life's a buiden hard to bear. ‘Though to-day may Loa day of smiles, to- morrow's sti!l in doubt, And what brings mo joy muy bring you care and wos Were born to aio, bus don’t kao why, , $ fo leare th hings the tes we know. Life's a very funny proposition, you en bet And nu one’s ever solved the problem properly as yet Young fors dey, then old and gray, Like tho rose that buds and blooms and fades and falla nevay , Lown: health to gain ovr woaith os to shis deoam we tour, Ew rything’s © guess and nothing abso- Battio’s exciting and tates we re fight- uy until the curtain’: fall Life very funny prop wition after ~ By George Mi. Cohan P - 3 ep FN Far oF ry ek ~ 7 * Prue : a3 @ ayyal, A son South America oGlin AMeige [ode a moct misecaule botch in the Jeyea ot any really intelligent person, | becunss he tells us pleainty tust he ie jaNevro,and then paints hia rece with junsperkabie fib, eglecting that he laa informed us thet he was himself la Negro, Again, he eayo, “we white j People;” very untiike Miss Hemmings, jof Boston, Mage. who, after passiog jturough snd geiniag the higbest jhonors of a female college which wae | Orever opposed to the Negro race iwithout even being suspected, had to [scenonioiges at the commencement | tbat she wes greteful for the favors shown ber racc, meaning tho Negro ea But there was another funny Hteature about that Thomas episode, (ud that wae, the iret person affected by bis cussednove was the daughter ef Dr. Booker T. Wesbington at | Wellesly Colluge, is Massuctusrts. ‘Chia should bave been ® lesson to pny other class but these follows who thought that they could fool ali the people all the time snd escape. Ob! may the heavens ever rain bless- ings upon itie headj of Miss Hem- linings, snd fis sbould give some levidence toy that New England Jholds soma gi tbe fairest minds and | Geateot friend te tho Negro race ss pee saeto tint of suciel progress. { Watwithenading all the insults | whicd coma of the Southern Negroes try to wurew at them in praigo of I shate white Southern friends. Hie- [tory Speake piainer in favor of Bos- {ter clone ass Negro heaven than it {uoas forall che Southera etates out joe hor £m only looking, listen- {ing ead pisyivg that you will seme ian, ohio io the preper concinatons [oc true sociulesy. Youll ery thet {yore Southern friemda arg renily uns {folis, bat whon in distress you rua jto Boston, the fountais of your lib locty, Therefore } shonld adviae y jul: be cerefal ai? not deive away t! Phioly: opivi wey Lave aot lyach fie Now England yeu. iG bad a mau Jie tre try to toll we sbour haw bad tue Leghoh Jawa are ta Negros i Ian yews Cat Mat person ka Hees shen! the Bagliat laws than ee edie nob suspect hhew {rub Tknew, Therefore I bey to [tanow ot ‘at potwitketandiog la Negeo in Bagland is stil # long Voy # aven, I nai caudidlir i it vy place in Atacties, and i ttle sips as from a 2 who keowe whet he is teiking vou wave you de 3. F do nut bold to a'l of Kay ‘ ales, bus ertainly teate ben ibs noder ebaiiar cond I uave noticud many of Book wT. Washington's criticioma about Vilngiond, but he osm never find the j porter riy in America which hy jis assured in Kogland, or any other [conniry under the same conditions, lana with ali your Southers Nagro |wenlth you hava not the freedom of la New Kogland Negro, so let you ‘honceforti he wien, Now Haatand Amerios i@ tho closest approach Jia u {uountry ia boty blood and r “ ‘ you people ip en , whercio. Ther sis no fag Of carl were che oitizone are ent cc! te the eame treatment ae { those of the Negro race are in Amer= ‘ies, exeept in Americu, and with the | Negro rece in comparison to other citizens of vo better qualification, |! am your friend who have put my- Iself to come trouble to find out and wouta vot bave you blinded. Sie! |For Gord's eats wako up before you fare forrsor inet. Some of you may be gaite satisfied to become elaves for vour white brothere, bet 1 will finforia you right here that if ali the Neueves of the world offered them- eves in clavery at once they would net be neccpted, The echems ie quite dterent with those who know, ‘You did not free yourselves and Aue youesn not reenslave your- selves, You can conscat to be alk slaughtered, but not enslaved, note Withetending some of your people are ready to sell you while otuere sie willing tobo sold. {: is land which the thinking people of the worid want to control. Oceans of poor white and atber people bave not a place to lay their heads. Some tell you about the lazy man, ButI tell you that your greatest trouble te thatthe ingy man has learned to do without ihe thrifty one te such ap extent ibat you are not much Wantec upov earth, Bow abcut Porto Rico? Are they slaves there? itis indeed very smazing to know that Mr. Jobn D. Rockefeller, who never bed ou education and is mak- Ing ($60,000,000) sixty millions of doilars per year, while Dr. Booker ‘Tr. Wasbiogton, in reminding you of your wonderful opportunities in America, tells you that his graduates, afteraseven yeacw course in the Tuakegee Institute can uverage tho great sum of ($600) six bundred dollare iu tae eeme time and oltizens of tbe same country, That is fine, sure, and when we think about the advertieements of both his school and pupila be gives in euch beautiful comperiaona, it aukes one shudder at the freedom of his eacrifice, when tha world is reading daily what ad- vantages the Northern schools are hultieg ont fa Ubeir students, for monch lese time, and will place them into positions efter they have grad- uated, and many of their schools are correspoading schools at that. It would seem very enticing indeed for # Negro hers ia Brazil to send bie ebild to Amorica to become thus gabeou? for the rest af his life be- Gounaued on fourth page, WOMEN IN UPLIET WORK. muxitbary ks Maw Englasd Oonventtoa Acts testitutions and indiwkwela Pho ovomnen's evstilary te the Mew. Puyehiad Toptteh missionary couvention: Yeperiwd omeetpts for the year of BGST at the recent enmual weoting in Ovo, NL J. Tia work of the Gren Leven pider the pole leadership of fhe posite, Mes. VB. Hotes], for the post bu yeara has stendt grown he wo tery, Dewees neststing the geverd convertion in various ways, Goes a large missionary and edneee Mouul work. The instiowions to wbted toe onomlstivn pave Snoncial asstet YL foo cereni meeting wen the Virgiss. Seminary and Collezo fm Lyoehbura, Vas the Watchman Indue fill whool, Providence, HL bt the Hownrd Orphanage ond Indvetrial saboul, Wines Park, NM. Y¥., and two fn atifuoss visintnines for “working girls. Phe Dopist intaion work In A frice, vid given the sum of 325 ond the gem eo! convention towsrd tts intastonary and educntional work 260. Tewo wide ows wen: iiven ¢5 each. The mem. bers are loynl to the work, and eack yeur aa tnererse is noted in Individual Achiever sts. ‘The election of offteere fe he enrutug year resulted as fob jus Protdent, Mrs. 6. BL Holland of Providence, TR. 1; Brat vice president, Mm. Wiley Seay of Brooklyn: second vice president, Mrs. Christina Harrte of Stamford, Conn.: recording socre- tary, Mrs, Margaret L. Shepard oft New York: corresponding secretary, Bits. Mo. J. Giascoe of Providence; treasurer, Mrs. 8. A. Harrie of Brooke lyn: executive board, Mra. M.S. Tribe bett and Mrs. A Tribbett of Philadel pata; Mrs Micpird ond Mrs. Mattle V. Eis 9? Uartford, Conn: Mra, Bl ina W ton of Roston, Mrs, dalle, isa of Now York and Miss Lueg Wasbington of Oraves 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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In addition to bicycle repair, I also repairing of all kinds, and since only man in town who repairs bicycles. Z. V. Spell, of Hague, N. C. I health, and was not able to I still my Carder and soon able to be up and help do my like the medicine, and now I and to care for my children, never praise Cardui enough ed." South America Continued from second page. cause it is a big Negro who runs it. 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. He is kind and courteous and never misses an opportunity to do a good deed and to serve his fellow-man. I can freely lend my support to any man with a life and character like Dr. Hatfield, stamped with honesty, uprightness and devotion to the interest of the people, and I can, as a Christian citizen, commend him to my brethren, with the utmost confidence that he will carry out to the letter every promise made to the electorate. Cordially yours, W. F. HAMPTON, Pastor Crumple Methodist Episcopal Church. For cleaning, dying and pressing clothes. Mr. C. E. Cordner has one of the best outfits and does the finest guaranteed work of any one in the state. Place of business. Winchester Ave., P. C. 609.—Both Phones. WHY OWN WEBSTER'S NEW INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY THE MERRIAM WEBSTER? EACH OWNER and district to ride and exhibit a sample Latest Model "Rangar" bicycle furnished by us. Our agents everywhere are making money fast. Write for full particulars and special offer atonces. NO MONEY REQUIRED until you receive and approve of your bicycle. We ship to anyone anywhere in the U. 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