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a oT —;~ : {NE TOPEKA PLAINDEALAR. PY igre CH NEEDED ORGANIZATION cates cere eo ANC AS CLUR WOMEN Paul Bray Writes About the Colored Men of the North, East and West Organizing in Washington. | MEN OF NOTE DINE TOGETHER. Some of the Toasts—Hon. John P. Green and Robert H. Pelham Make Good Speeches. Wastuxcroy, D. C. June 1.—The political and social caldron of colored Washington has reached the boiling point. At the club, the literary, in the barber shops and on the streets, groups of colored men may be seen and heard discussing the significance of the Green banquet. It was indeed unfortunate that some persons before acquainting them- ‘selves with the facts, gave it out that this banquet was intended by its Promoters to be the entering wedge to a sectional division along social and political lines, between the colored men from the North, East and West and those frora the South located in Washington. If such was the intention it failed to find ex- pression from a single individual on that occasion. The Southern colored men employed here in the various Aspartments of the government, greatly outnumber those from the. North, East and West. The colored contingent from Texas has organized a “Texas Association” for their’ political protection, as well as social enjoyment, and those from Alabama, Georgia, Virginia and other sections have done likewise. There has been no protest from friends of the North against these associations. as far as wecan learn. Why should there be? They have the right to “peacably assemble” for their own social or political welfare, That is just what the representatives of the North, Ae Re ee om » Leys A | a \ me? \\ East and West did on the evening of May 24, when they gathered around the festive board in the banqvet hall of Gray Bros.,to honor one of the only two members of the race from their section who have received presidential recognition at Washing- ton, and at the same time to form an organization . The gathering was sectional in its personel, but not in spirit. Our brethren from the Southland must not overlook the important fact that as the South has practically elimi- nated him asa political factor by denying him the right of suffrage, he can accomplish but little through erganization now. Since the Ne- Broes of the North, East and West are still factors in the political equation, they may be able by united effort to do not only much for them- selves but for their colored brother in the South, = There are not enough colored men are: oa a Es aes a Bet : Bey | ‘ «Gy | oe | ‘a ; “ss | Pe: i a YE Seepee Vee eee ON awe nnn menage ne) ae West, to form a state association hence the idea of getting altogether under one banner, suggested by Dr George H, Richardson, of Ohio, met with favor and took definite shape atthe banquet table. A more aus- Picious uccasion to accomplish this result could not have been chosen, | A mote congenial and enthusiastic assemblage would have been difficult ‘to muster. Everybody, from the honored guests to the tcast maste, was in a happy mood. Promptly at 8.30 p. m.,a dis- astrous onslaught was made on the following toothsome menu: Tomato Soup—Soft Shell Crabs Roast Spring Chicken, Boiled New Potatoes Cream Sauce~Lettuce and Tomatoe Salud, Romas Punch—Coffee Can The following is a list of those who sat at the banquet table and the states represented: Conn.—Joseph H. Hannoe and Edward Webster. Colorado—J. H. Paynter. Deleware—J. S. Goage. Illinois—Chas. E. Hall, Dr. A. M. Curtis, W. A. Joiner, Walter S. Crouse, C. J. Pickett, indiana—Geo. W. Jackson, Frank W. Pettiford, £. E. Cooper, R. W. Thompson. Towa—Fred. M. Sims. Kansas—Arthur S. Gray, Geo. W. Ellis, Eli Freeman, Paul H. Bray. Michigan—Robert Pelham, Jr., Will Q. Attwood, William A. Robin- son, Wellington H. Johnson. Mass.—Dr. Hamilton §, Smith, E. M. Hewlett, Dr. E. D. Scott. Missouri—James H. Harrison. Nebraska—George W. Parker. New Jersey—E. M. Gregory, E. F. Arnold, James L. Tyree, J. W. Mayers, New York—Charles R. Douglass, Lewis H. Douglass, Parney McKay, W. H. Grimshaw, W. D. Montague, C. C. Tebout, Penn.—E. D. Bassett, Jr. U. S. Ge Bassett, W. J. Currey, P. W. Frisby, R. DeVenning, H. Eugene Wilson, Chis H. Wilson, James F. Alston, Ohio—Hon. John P. Green, Dr. Geo. H. Richardson, Henry Y. Amett, Rev. J. S. Johnson, W. s| Blackburn, W. 1. Board, ‘T. Bliss (ireen, Walter Franklin, Hon. J. 4 Brown, Chas. W. Filmore, WH. ! Fossett, P A. Gifford, W.C. Gordon, Dr. C. S. Harrison, R. P. Hender- on, T. J. Howard, Jr., Geo. E. Jack- on, Frank Hughes, W. H, J. Malvin, David Messer, W. G. Smith, Nevil H. Thomas, Edward Brooks, John Glover, Paul Laurence Dunbar. The name selected for the new organization was the North, East and West Association. ‘he officers chosen were: President, Hon. John P. Green, Ohio; V-President, Chas. R. Douglass, New York; Sec., Will Q. Attwood, Michigan; Treas., Chas. E. Hall, Illinois; Chairman Execa- tive Board, Dr. Hamilton S. Smith, Mass. A vice-president for each state and an executive board of ifteen, including Chairman Smith are yet to be named. The following gentlemen had charge of the banquet: Chairman ry ‘\ as A Com. of Arrangements, Dr. Hamilton S. Smith; Sec, John H. Paynter; Treasurer, Geo. W. Jackson; Execu: tive Com, W. Q. Attwood, chairman; W. L. Broad, U. S. G. Bassett, E. M. Gregory, W. J. Currey; Com. on Speakers, Dr. Geo. H. Richard. son, chairman; L. H. Douglass, John H. Paynter, Rev. J. S. Johnson and George W. Jackson. In order that the sentiments ex- pressed on that occasion may be made known to the public, we send The Plaindealer the speeches pf the toasters in full iu the order of their appearance on the program. Pau. H. Bray. Pau. H. Bray. Toastmaster Dr. Hamilton §, | Smith remarked; Gentlemeh!—Anticipating to some eatent the tenor of the remarks that will be made by the gentlemen who have been selected to respond to the several toasts, it is both fitting and proper that I should in view of the fact that this gathering is composed only of men from the North, East and West; state that there is in this movement no antagonism to our brethren of the South, on the con- trary it is hoped that it will inure to their benefit. We are in sympathy and accord with them in the conflict now waging against their rights as men and citizens, and recognize that the same spirit that is crushing them is fast creeping past Mason and Dickson's line, and we know not how soon an attempt may be made to deprive us of the highest right and privilege of Amcrican citizen: ship, the ballot. We are willing and ready to stand shoulder to shoulder with them in their fight for personal liberty and manhood, but we are unwilling to follow the leadership of any man or men whose first thought is office, the welfare of his race a secondary matter. The time has now come: for united action and the laying aside of petty jealousies, and follow the leadership of some manly and intelligent man of our race, no matter from whence he comes and show to the world that we are men, not serfs, ‘The undenied statements which are constantly appearing in the press from the mouths of Southern white men of prominence, tending to show that the race to which we be- long are shiftless, indolent and unhappy, even when educated and affluent and which all honest men know is untrue; must berefuted, and the only way any good can be accomplished in this line, is for the intellegent men of the race from all sections to meet from time to time and show to the country by their actions that they are all that can be desired, that goes to make up good citizenship, in which movement we take up the iniatory steps tonight, It is not platitudes that we want, nor is it oratory of the pyrotechnic kind. Unfortunately we have had too much of that meaningless chaff already. We want plain, ungarnished truths as to our worth as men and women, showing the rise that an outraged and despised race have made since their manumission. The condition that surrounds us is a sesious one— calling for immediate action. A reversal of public sentiment must be had and now is the time to strike before the iron cools. THE NEGRO AS A CITIZEN. In speaking of “The Negro as a Citizen,” William L. Board said: Mr. Toastmaster and Gentle. men:—Man is born a citizen,” says Aristotle, but the Negro born in America shed his blood upon a hundred battlefields, showed his yalor in every great war of the country, and contributed years of unrequited toil the nation’s growth and development before the great boon of citizenship was granted him to follow ever afterwards as his birthright, To be a citizen implies that one is a member of a nation, or a sovereign state; that he owes allegiance to a government and is entitled to pro- tection from that government. Ii means that there is incumbent upon him industrial, political, legal, social and moral duties; that the state has @ moral right to expect him to pre form these duties, that he in turn has no less. moral right to expect the state to aid and protect him in the performance of these duties. The Negro as a citizen expects no more asa citizen, he can be content with no less. , Among the inherent rights and studies of citizenship are the in- dustrial. Every citizen basa right to secure such training and edu- cation as will equip him for some necessary and useful work. This he owes to himself and those depen- dent on him that he may provide against poverty and distress. No Icss is an exercise of these rights and duties beneficial to the state at large. It is the only safe guard against idleness, crime, and pauper- ism that must necessarsly follow an ignorant and improvident citizen snip. With this fact in mind I cannot see why any state would be so short sighted, so suicidal to its own interests, as to even think of cutting off the educational facilities of any part of its citizens, to limit their opportunities to better their con- dition. This, however, I understand isto be one of the purposes of 2 Fea e Xx See) / bap IY | oe 7 = D> PL = — ws [Fe Le 3 AT cag ; \ gee = oer saul HON. JOHN P. GREEN. convention soon to be called in a state that reposes in the shadow of the Natioual Capitol. It is certainly to be hoped that the mother of states, who for nearly two hundred and fifty yegrs enjoyed without recompense the fruits of the Negro’s toil, will not be the first state in the Union to deliberately and purposely cripple him in the race of life, In as much as the Negro has in- dustrial rights to be maintained, it Ps : ; | -— oo - follows that he in common with other citizens has legal rights which should, be jealously guarded by the laws of the land. He has shown himself to be in the main a law abiding citizen. He is never found in the ranks of the anarchist, the nihilist or other disturbers of social peace and order. His disposition is to conform to existing circumstances rather than to over turn things. Even the records of the criminal classes show that the crimes for which he is generally convicted are of a petty nature. Of the graver crimes of which he is accused and often executed without process of law, we need not presume his guilt betore the courts so find him. In this connection, 1 cannot for- bear mentioning the fact that there are those who would divest the Ne- gro of his friends by giving him a most revolting and hateful reputation, by painting him a moral monster to be hated and execrated wherever he shows his head. It is significant that this attitude toward the Negro has been assumed only since he became acitizen—a thing which if we would believe his caluminators, has changed his whole moral nature, has in the short period of thirty five years worked in him the most stupendous degeneration. Prepostercus! Equal- ly significant is the fact that rarely ‘have these crimes urged Against him ‘been proved, and too often when ‘investigated have they been found to be baseless fabrications intended lonly to rob him of the rights and ‘of citizenship, and at the same time ' divorce from him the moral sympathy of his friends at the North, | Unfortunately, there are bac black citizens as there are bad white citizens. With slavery’s fruitful pro gency of special vices, with the comon human depravity whice ii the heritage of all the rest of mankind clinging to him, it cannot reasonably be expected that thirty five years 0 American freedom, to say nothing of adverse circumstances, would de- om him into a paragon of perfec: tion when four hundred years o! American endeavor has not effected the same for his white brother. Time forbids usa just observation ofthe Negroas a political citizen. However, it must be observed that no race or people can properly maintain industrial, legal, and moral rights as citizens without the privilege of exercising political rights and duties. Our demo- cratic form of government demands this expression from the people, and to deny this privilege is to strike at the vitality of the nation, If it be maintained that the Negro has not acted wisely in his faithful- ness and devotion to one party, be it saidin his favor that he did so out of gratitude for favors recieved, and in the belief that the tenets and expressed principles of that party were for the best interest of his country. But that party should not at this late day be deceived into the belief that the Negro’s cupidity will hold him in line while the party is seeking strange gods, forgetul of, or indifferent to its old and faithful sup- porters. While it gains strength in the South to the Nego’s discomfi- ture, beware it does not lose ground in the North, East and West where the Negro holds the balance of power between thetwo great parties, The Negro as a citizen has com. pelled a favorable opinion in many fields of activity. Heis acquiring wealth and property, and that makes responsidle citizenship; he is secur- ing education and experience, and that makes intelligent citizenship; he is gaining morally and intellectu- ally. and that makes good citizen- ship. The Negro desires from his country nothing more than right and justice, and does not wish to see citizenship divorced from its respon- sibilities and privileges. Lam either a citizen or I am not a citizen. If I am a citizen, I should be accorded the right to en- joy all the privileges and immunities of citizenship, and that form ofgov- ernment, State or national, that de- nies me that rightis encouraging a species of tyranny. IfI am nota citizen, I have no just claim to the ights and privileyes of citizenship | and that government isnot dealing squarely by me that uses me to fos ts battles, to share its obligations under the false notion thatI ama part of it. State legislature and judicial de- isions may for a time defeat the spirit and purpose of the constitution as applied to the Colored Citizen, but in time that Corstitution must ail, or its mandates be respected: This Government is too great to. ive alle; too wise to deceive itselé HIGHER EDUCATION. E. M. Gregory spoke as fol- lows: After years of perserving toil in the Northern states from whence we hail all of us gathered around this board tonight have acquired the higher education which it has pleased some to say has made us dissatisfied and unhappy. It would seem clea: that we who have received this training and have put it to the test for various periods of years can better testify as to its effect upon us than those who observe from a dis- tance and do not know our lives and inward feelings. We can tell better than they whether our labor has been in vain, whether we are dis- satisfied and unhappy and would gladly tear from our minds our hard earned learning and sweat out the rest of our lives at the trades. Oure very presence here this eve. ning signifies that we have benefitted, for it was our fitness due to higher education that caused our states tc send us, or the district or national government to invite us here to the Capital City to fil! the various re. sponsible positions that we hold. A‘ ‘teachers, clerks and professional mer we receive greater returns for labor congenial to our tastes than we wonld have received had we chosen to follow pursuits requiring a lowe! (Continued on Page 4) KANSAS CLVB WOMEN State Federation of Art Clubs Will Convene at Leavenworth June 19 and 20—Large Attendance Anticipated. CLVBS THROVGHOUVT THE STATE Will Be Represented—Mrs. Martha H. Townsend, Chairman Executive Committee, is An-Active Worker. Mrs. Martha H. Townsend, wifefof theclubs now on roll, their presi- of W.B. Townsend, was raised in}dentsand secretaries. Leavenworth, Kas., where she mar- ‘TOPEKA, KANSAS. ried quite young. Mrs. Townsend] Oak Leaf Club—Mrs. N. Chiles, is of a quite and easy temperment, | president: Mrs. Maggie L. Manning, possessing the facultyof making) secretary. x : . friends out of all persons with whom| Oriental Club—Mrs. Susie Martin, 4 president; Mrs. Maggie Payne, secre- she comes in contact. She has many | Pity graces and accomplishments, but} Golden Rod—Mary Jordan, presi- owing to her modest and retiring! dent; Lily Phillips, secretary. disposition, these qualities are not Be te es Thon p0y A ‘i . president; Nora Smith, secretary. imposed upon the lotce'ot ore Victoria Art Club—Susie Pace, she dislikes notriety and is of a] president; L. M-Carson, secretary. domestic turn, but finds time to| Dumas Club—Mrs, Matheny, pres- divide from her home affairs witht ident; Mrs. Teat, secretary. chasleable woke, | Rote Bud. Clab—Mrs, Brashears, A .| President; Mrs. Lina, secretary. Mrs. Townsend is one of the pro. St. Elmo Club--Mis- M. D. Jones, moters and directors of the Home| president; Sadie Harker, secrelary. for the Aged and Orphans, located LEAVEN. ORTH, KANSAS. in Leavenworth. She has often! Blossom Art Club—Kate Barbee, been selected by the county com-| president: Miss Ecnanola cecretara., | SS ie Bf ; ad ee” : . Ses MRS, MARTHA HC TOWNSEND. missioners of Leavenworth to assis! in looking after and disposing of the county's goods, food and other sup plies issued to the poor during the winter seasons Mrs. Townsend isa lover of art and has taken much interest in the sub. ject among colored ladies of the state. She was the first president of the rgoc Art Club of Leavenworth and has assisted in instructing the members ‘of the different clubs along the line ofart Mrs. Townsend is chairman of the executive committee of the Federation of Art clubs organized in Topeka last year, having for its purpose the extension and cultivation of art more generally throughout the state. She has labored incessantly with others to make the annual session of the Federation a success. The Woman’s Federation of Art clubs will convene in Leavenworth Kansas, June the 19th and 2zoth, The sessions will be held in the G. A. R. Hall. Mrs. Washington, the president of the Federation, will spare no pains in making this one of the mest inter- esting sessions since its organization. A large number of talented women from all parts of the state will be in attendance and reveal to the public the many beautiful designs of artis- tie work. The purpose of this Federation is to elevate our women toa higher standard in the art and musical world, and it is also a lesson that we must educate the hand as well as the brain. An excellent program will be ren- dered at each session by representa- tives of the different Clubs, consist- ing of papers and general discussion on topics of interest to our ladies. The number of Clubs enrolled is seventeen and it is hoped that next year the membership will be greatly increased. ‘The following is the list ic AN : V SN VAP a MR. GEO. W. JACKSON. oftheclubs nowon roll, their presi- dentsand secretaries. ‘TOPEKA, KANSAS. Oak Leaf Club—Mrs. N. Chiles, president: Mrs. Maggie 1.. Manning, secretary. Oriental Club—Mrs. Susie Martin, president; Mrs. Maggie Payne, secre- tary. | Golden Rod—Mary Jordan, presi- dent; Lily Phillips, secretary. | Ne Plus Ultra—Mrs Thompson, president; Nora Smith, secretary. | Victoria Art Club—Susie Pace, president; L. M. Carson, secretary. | Dumas Club—Mrs, Matheny, pres- ident; Mrs. Teat, secretary. Rose Bud Club—Mrs. Brashears, president; Mrs. Lina, secretary. St. Elmo Club—Mrs- M. D. Jones, president; Sadie Harker, secretary. LEAVEN. ORTH, KANSAS. Blossom Art Club—Kate Barbee, president; Miss Espanola, secretary. 1900 Att Club—Mrs. Bruce, presi- dent; Miss Evelyn, secretary. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. Junior Art Club—Mrs. A. J. Goth- ard, president; Mame Bradford, sec- retary. a Alphia Club—officers unknown. LAWKENCF, KANSAS. Imperial Art Club—Mrs. Fitzhugh president; Lois Smith,secretary. ARKANSAS CITY, KANSAS. Mrs. H. M. Pettit, president. ATCHISON, KANSAS. Primrose No. 1—Kate Fletcher, president; Bert Ingralian, secretary. Eureka Clab—Mrs. M. Hudson, president; Myrtle Pennel, secretary. PROGRAM. } ee eee fe Me Instrumental Solo, Miss Hattie An- derson. Invocation, Mrs. F.E. Conley, To- peka, Kas. Report of Committees. WEDNESDAY, 2 P. wt, Instrumental Solo, Miss Lucy J. Bledsoe, Topeka, Kansas. | Welcome” Address, Miss Everlyn. . Wake, Leavenworth, Kansas. Response, Mrs. L. T. Green, Kansas City, Kansas. Vocal Solo, Mrs. J. M. Wright, To- peka, Kansas. Paper, Mrs. Jas. Martin, Topeka, Kansas. Instrumental Solo, Mrs. M. C.Math- ews, Kansas City, Ka Paper, “Asthetic Elements in Na ture,” Miss M. Ellison, Paola- Kansas. Instrumental Solo, Mrs. W. A. Jor- dan, Topeka, Kansas. Paper, Mrs. M.A, Hudson, Atchi- son, Kansas. Business Session. ‘THURSDAY MORNING, Instrumental Solo, Mrs. G. Over, Galena, Kansas. Roll Call, Chaplain. Instrumental Solo, Miss Ella Bra- shers, Topeka, Kansas. “The Power of Music,” Mrs. D. Ware Topeka, Kansas. “Art,” Mrs. Martin Graves, Kansas City, Kansas. Vocal Solo, Mrs, L. Brown, Topeka, Kansas. “Negro Women in America,” Mrs. L. Skearce, ‘Topeka, Kansas, Recitation, Miss Myrtle Pennel, Atchison, Kansas. THURSDAY, 2 P. St. Instrumental Solo, Mrs. K. Teate, Topeka, Kansas. Annual Address, Mrs. L. Washington Topeka, Kansas. Paper, “Power of Ideals,” Miss G. Solomon, Topeka, Kansas. . Recitation, Mrs. M. E. Young, To- peka, Kansas. Violin and Piano Duet, Misses, Philip Topeka, Kansas. Paper, Miss Ollie Henderson, Leav- enworth, Kansas. “Ancient and Modern Art,” Mrs. Wim. Sharp, Topeka, Kansas. Instrumental Solo, Mrs. 1. F. Brad- ley, Kansas City, Kansas. Election of Officers rae MR. ROBERT PELHAM, JR. --- Topeka Plaindealer. published at Topeka, Shawnee county, KS, every Friday morning by the Plaindealer Publishing Co., 114 E 7th st. NICK CHILES - BUSINESS MANAGER J. H. CHILDERS - EDITOR SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year by mail..... 41 Six months by mail..... 750 Three months by mail..... 500 Entered at the postoffice at Topeka as second class mail matter. FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1901 [In order to insure publication of matter in the current issue, correspondence must be in this office no later than Tuesday] Topeka is still electing a mayor! The continued dry weather will not effect the great wheat crop of Kansas. This state will have its usual large crop. "Uncle" Cy Leland is not dead by any means. He knocked out "Farmer" Smith for department commander at Junction City last week. The movement to have a Negro department at the St. Louis fair in 1903 should be encouraged. Let the Negro put his best foot where people can see it. We know some Negroes in Topeka who prefer to eat in a white restaurant kitchen than in a Negro restaurant or boarding house. Just keep an eye on them. The St. Joseph Daily Radical is the latest aspirant for honors in Negro newspaperdom. Kansas' prince of pungent paragraphers, Will Harris is the whole cheese. We admire his nerve and wish this venture the success it merits. T. P'. Mahammitt has enlarged The Omaha Enterprise from a seven column folio to a six column quarto. Mr. Mahammitt is making a strong paper and the people of Nebraska should give it their heartiest support. The coming convention of Ladies' Art clubs at Leavenworth will be the second gathering of such a nature by the colored women of Kansas. It is to be hoped that out of this gathering will grow one of the strongest organizations of our women found anywhere in America. The most potential factor in any community for good is women. Into the various avenues of the race's life they enter and their influence is always present. The colored men of Kansas should be proud of the work of the ladies and lend to them encouragement. Through this state organization every neglected phrase of the race problem will receive consideration. Among these ladies will be discussed questions of home development and child training. The name is hardly sufficient to tell the public the great good it can accomplish. McIVOR The Hambletonian Stallion, Time 2.24. Will make the season at the Fair Grounds. McIVor is the handsomest troting stallion in the West. Call at the barn a.d. see nim. HENRY HATCHER, Manager. TERMS, $10.00 TO INSURE. 112 W. 7th St. OFFICE HOURS: to 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. O. A. TAYLOR, M. D PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Calls answered day and night. Tele home, 696. 226] Kansas Ave A NEEDED ORGANIZATION grade of education. It is a very important ingredient of happiness to be thus enabled to supply ourselves and our familiies with the comforts and to a degree the luxuries of life. Nor are we surprised that our positions penerally are so remunerative, for it is only natural that the trained intellect should be sought and well paid to do the higher kinds of work. Not only does the fact that our positions are more lucrative, afford us a source of content, but we have, as others have, reasons more elevated and noble. For us our education has opened a world of interests that engage our minds. Where without schooling we would have a single interest, now we have a hundred, and they to radiating out into still others. Our thoughts being associated with many others of kindred nature according to our knowledge, one thought awakens the other and it in turn another, so that we are supplied with an inexhaustible fund of amusement, distraction and interest. Nature and art tell us a longer and more entertaining story. We see not only the outward glory of the beautiful flower, but we read within its delicate folds its relation to other flowers and the processes of its marvelous growth. The face of the grand cliff made of many layers of stratified rock tells us of its ages of checkered geologic history. Standing in the presence of a magnificent piece of architecture, we note not alone the graceful lines, but we have the satisfaction of knowing the gradual stages of its development and wherein the wondrous beauty lies. When visiting some historic spot, how our hearts throb as the past crowds in upon us. More than a dozen nations and centuries pour into our laps the wealth of their literature. And with what a keen delight do we read the masterpieces of prose and poetry. In truth the pleasures of the highly educated are innumerable. But perhaps we are unhappy because we are educated above the caste within which some of our well-wishers would confine us. That any one in Democratic America should voice the sentiment that a certain class of people should be forced within a caste, an unchageable condition, to be forever debarred from the privileges of other citizens seems strauge indeed. Such sentiments are wholly inconsistent with the American political system and cannot generally thrive. We have reason, then, to be pleased that there is no such caste new, that we have risen above the possibility of being thus hemmed n, and that equipped as we are, we are better able to check the growth of such notions poisonous to the theory of American government. To be sure it is not pleasing to be subject to the discriminations and prejudice that we meet, but we are gratified to feel that we are stronger to beat them down by voice, pen and example. With ability to expose the false, with courage and skill to contend forcibly for truth, we must be of service to ourselves, our race and the community. Even in silence our education and our culture must speak out eloquently to those with whom we come in contact. Further, it is a source of comfort for us to be able to look down from our vantage positions with some degree of pity upon those who are so narrow, so "gangrened with prejudice" as to vilify and calamiate us without cause. Then, too, we are happy to believe firmly that in the light of the past prejudice must give way in the end, if slowly, to reason and justice. Higher education, therefore, having fitted us for lucrative positions, having magnified the interests that sweeten our lives, having armed us to contend for our rights and having given us such an understanding of the conditions of the present that we are inspired with hope for the future, has made us satisfied and happy.—While we do not disparage the importance of the trades which, perhaps, are better for the vast majority, we would urge upon the youth who have the inclination, the ability and the means, to acquire higher education. Hon. John P. Green,—Gentlemen: In some respects this is the most pleasing and significant tribute ever accorded to me; for notwithstanding the fact that, at my home, where I was reared and am well known, I have been time and again honored, by the suffrages of my fellow citizens, of both races; yet, this is the first time, during my thirty-five years of political activity that any considerable number of my friends have made me their guest, on an occasion of this nature. I regard this honor as being especially significant; for the reason that in your personnel you represent all sections of the North, East and West, and include in your numbers, what may consistently be termed the intellectual and social elite of the colored race in America. I am especially pleased with the sentiment assigned to me,—"The President;" for, if there is one person in Washington for whom I entertain a more lively and wholesome respect than another; if there is a man connected with the government of this mighty Nation who is more worthy of the respect, honor and love of all the people of the United States, than William McKinley, I would like to know his name. We must never forget that, the President stands for all the people, not for a fraction, as some seem to imagine, and that President McKinley not only appreciates this fact, but is striving to make it manifest, goes without saying. For instance, where, in his Inaugural Address, he rebukes lynching and bespeaks "the preservation of public order," he says: "The constituted authorities must be cheerfully and vigorously upheld. Lynchings must not be tolerated in a great and civilized country like the United States; courts, not nobs, must execute the penalties of the law. The preservation of public order, the right of discussion, the integrity of the courts, and the orderly administration of justice must continue forever the rock of safety upon which our Government securely rests." Or, if we take one of those latest noble utterances by him, when addressing an audience of colored people in Texas, although speaking to them directly, yet his sentences are so framed that, they apply to any other race as well as to the colored race. Listen: "What we want more than anything else, whether we be white or whether we be black—what we want is to know how to do something well. If you will just learn how to do one thing that is useful, better than anybody else can do that one thing, you will never be out of a job. And all employment is honorable employment." It is needless perhaps, to say to an intelligent assemblage of men, such as this, that, before the conclusion of the President's first term, he, by his stateman-like conduct, answered all the foregoing objections, and gained for himself the well nigh unanimous support of the colored voters of the North, at the last election to say nothing of their cordial good will which animates their bosoms to-day. He reiterated, in his second Message, what he had said in his inaugural Address against lynching and mob-violence generally, and added materially thereto. 2. By ordering the recruiting of two regiments of volunteer Infantry, for service in the Philippines, which he officered largely with colored men, he disposed of the second objection. 3. His noble effort to apprehend and convict the murderers of Baker and his babe, at Lake City, South Carolina, where his interest was so manifest that, his law department reinforced the District Attorney at Charleston with extra able counsel; and also provided employment for witnesses in Washington, who did not dare return to Lake City after testifying in the case, proved conclusively, that he was stretching his constitutional authority to its utmost limit, in his endeavors to mute out punishment to those fiends incarnate. Nor would he consent to the re-establishment of postal relations between the Government and that disgraced town, until every resident, in the place, both white and colored, had petitioned for such action. 4. Subsequent developments in the Philippines have proved the war in those islands to be both judicious and popular. The principal objections raised against our occupancy of those islands, spring from a fear that the constitution will not follow the flag; that martial law will continue to supersede civil law; that the islanders, contrary to the Declaration of Independence, will not be governed by their consent, and that, they will be taxed without any representation, against which our Revolutionary sives fought, bled and died. The appointment of colored men to civil and military positions of honor and emolument, and his utterances and bearing in the South, with reference to our people, during his administration and tours through portions of the South, have raised him to a very high place in the esteem and affections of the colored people; especially when, following that unseemly tirade of abuse and scorn, by the governor of Georgia, he used to a colored audience, al- "I am glad to know that all, over the South, where most of you dwell, the States have provided institutions of learning where every girl and every boy can prepare themselves for usefulness and honor, under the government in which they live. "The thing today, is to be practical. What you want, is to get education, and with it you want good character, and with these you want unfaltering industry; and if you have these three things, you will have success everywhere. God bless you!" I am aware that a person does not need to put his ear to the ground in order to discover sounds of discontent on the part of our people, as well as on the part of white people, by reason of the fact that, patronage is not as liberally disposed of, amongst Republicans as before the advent of the Civil Service Department. However, we must never forget that the National Conventions, both at St. Louis and Philadelphia, placed Mr. McKinley upon platforms both of which pledged the Republican party, if successful at the polls, not only to enforce all civil service laws and orders, but also to strengthen on them. And a National Convention we must never forget, is supposed to voice and does voice the will of the National Republican party. It is true that, during every time of political peril in the North, whether of a national or local character, we are constant, in and out of season; often being found "Faithful amongst the faithless;" and turning apparent defeat into victory, at times when our industrial, financial and other cardinal interests are threatened by a sanguine and reckless foe; yet, we must not lose sight of the fact that, the President is our great party leader, as well as our President, and that the same acumen and judicious management which enabled him to select his able lieutenants and with their assistance, lead us twice on to victory, will avail him and us in promoting the welfare and success of our party in the future. To use his own language, expressed upon an occasion which this speaker can never forget, "The welfare of the Republican party is paramount to that of any individual, whoever he may be." "OUR FRIENDS IN THE NORTH." We have repeatedly advised our people to look not upon the dark side of the picture of their condition in this country, but to try and see the rays of light which occasionally pierce the gloom. Every once in awhile there comes to the surface evidence which shows that, as a race, we have friends who are thinking seriously of our welfare. Some would have us to believe that it is only when political agitation runs high, and the two great parties need our help that we are thought of at all; but such is not the case. Permit me to call the names of Lovejoy, Sumner, Garrison, Lincoln Douglass who were honest and sincere in their advocacy of our cause. Also the names of Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Phelps, Huntington, Ingalls, Fiske who have given large amounts of money for the founding of schools for our race in the South. Among such friends may be named Mr. and Mrs. William Stewart of Scranton Township, near Urbana, Illinois who have just given their 600 acre farm valued at $6,000 for founding of an institution devoted to the education of colored people in the "black belt." This is real philanthropy and speaks louder than all verbal expressions of friendship which may be uttered. I may ask, who are our friends? The thousands of soldiers who breasted the showers of death, that liberty might live in the land, and the sons of those who did that Christ-like act, of dying to up-lift humanity; they are our friends. And the countless growing numbers through the North, who are slowly and surely being freed from the shackles of race prejudice until they can really feel that the same heaven is meant to hold all races; they are our friends. And the increasing number of men and women who have no fear of wrong public sentiment, and meet us as if they had no thought of a difference in race, and their frank, easy, natural communication and intercourse, have its ever widening effect. And the Negro as a citizen has shown his capacity for citizenship by obedience to the laws, and by the vast increase in the ownership of property; by the wonderful increase in churches and church membership, by the constantly growing number in public service, and all without a ripple of disapproval, where three decades ago there would have been a storm. So the mass of the people of the Columbus Buggy Co's Vehicles At Hamilton Hall Carriage Repository, Also Runabout Road Wagons of all kinds, High Wheels and Low wheels, Some with Rubber Tire and some without — at prices to Suit. Come and Look Them over OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT. WARNER AND POTTER, TELEPHONE 186. 526 and 528 QUINCY STREET. United States are slowly moving upward to the high plane of Christian Americanism, a full recognition of the Fatherhood of God and the universal brotherhood of man. But while we see now that there is no color-line in Christianity, none in politics and none in patriotism. And this recognition has not been forced, it never can be, but it has been slowly and patiently earned. But of all our friends in the North or South, the greatest, the strongest, the most potential for good, is the Negro man and woman whose daily lives, earn and compel the respect of the community in which they live But it must be remembered that manners have much to do with the treatment any one receives in the world. So we should be neither impudent nor subservient, but be as a friend of mine once said, in his clear cut way, "If you folks expect others to forget the color-line, forget if yourselves first," and is it not true that we think of it as often as the general run of white men? And we must learn the lesson of patience. It takes the Cypress tree a thousand years to attain its growth then why lose hope at the apparently slow uprooting of a race prejudice old as the pyramids, for it will be remembered that Aaron and Miriam upbraided the Prince of leaders, for having taken for his wife an Ethiopian woman. Read this episode and when you see which side God took, you will not dare let your spirit faint. Then "Lift up your eyes, desponding freemen," the day has dawned and many of us shall live to see the glory of the high noon of the perfect day. Let us not forget our friend, that able jurist who so ably supported the Constitutional rights of the Negro in his decision in the infamous Jim Crow Car System. May we all and our children, and our children's children down through the avenues of time, for ages to come, never forget the hero, the patriot, Justice Harlan. "Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, Yet that scaffold sways the future And behind the dim unknown Standeth God within the shadows Keeping watch above his own." THE NEGRO SOLDIER. In speaking of "The Negro Soldier," Chas. R. Douglass said: Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen:—Five minutes is too short a time to go into the history of the Negro as a soldier. From the beginning of our government to the present time the Negro has figured in our wars on land and sea, and his valor has been duly attested on numerous occasions prior to the war of the rebellion, and the late war with Spain. If the American Negro could measure up as well in every other duty as a citizen as he does as a soldier, there would be no Negro problem to solve. Easily brought under discipline, quick to learn, fond of excitement, and patriotic to a degree bordering on sublime devotion are elements possessed by him that make him the best soldier our country affords, from the variety of nationalities composing our army. The Negro as a soldier must be judged seperately, and apart from the white man as a soldier. The one has no incentive to do and die for his country, except the sentiment of duty or allegiance; the other has every incentive placed before him. Promotions come quickly to him following meritorious services rendered, and oftener through social influence; but the Negro soldier must be content with a few newspaper paragraphs of praise. The negro soldier of '62 to '65 has lived to see stars and bars placed upon the shoulders of men who led rebel host against them and the flag they bore, and who are also responsible for the enormous pension roll carried by the government today. The Negro soldier has never faltered before an enemy. Nothing save almost complete annihilation has ever caused him to retreat. That is the testimony of friend and fee alike. But with all the ingratitude shown him by the Nation, my advice to our young men is to get into the army and navy, learn all you can of the arts of war. Get the benefit of the splendid discipline it affords, and bear up under adverse criticism from prejudiced sources, and live and fight it down. The Nation is slow in rewarding the Negro. In the eyes of the many he is yet an alien, though he has been here many generations. It cannot be said that he is retrograding Notwithstaneing the powerful influences exerted against his every effort to rise, he is steadily advancing along all lines. There must be something good to come to a people with so much forbearance as the Negro. Some may call it servility, but I do not. A servile people would long ago have joined hands with their former masters and supported them politically, but no, the Negro has been loyal to the party of freedom at the expense of his life, and the enimy of his former master, upon whom he is largely dependent. Though snubbed on all sides by those having charge of the entertainment of the command-in-chief of our army and navy during his recent trip through the South, the Negro soldier maintained their respect and loyalty to him and gave him ringing applause whenever he could be seen by them. Gen. Grant, the man of few words, rebuked those who would keep his black allies from him on a similar occasion in South Carolina, by telling those in charge of his tour, "Wherever I am, they can come;" and they did come, and were received by him in the Charleston Hotel, much to the chagrin of the rebel proprietor. Despite all the ills they have borne, the Negro soldier has made for us a name and fame that could not have come to us from any other source. They may discount our intellectual abilities, our capacity for getting together and building up one another, our enterprise, and our frugality, but as soldiers, none others are truer, nobler, or braver, and a race or class of people who can boast such representatives among the nation's defenders need not despair of its future in the Nation. MATERIAL PROSPERITY. The toastmaster introduced Mr. Robert Pelham, Jr., formerly editor of The Detroit (Mich.) Plaindealer, who responded to the toast "The Material Prosperity of the Negro." Mr. Pelham said in part: Mr. Toastmaster and Gentle men:—Yielding to no one in my devotion to race interest, with some slight knowledge of the actual conditions in the North, with an honest pride in the state of my adoption and having looked out from the vantage ground of the "Middle West" and viewed as through vistas much of interest, much of inspiration, much of hope in the ever increasing material prosperity of the Negro, I arise to respond to the toast, "The Material Prosperity of the Negro-North. The actual accumulations of the Negroes of this country are unknown quantities but I am sure were we able tonight to tabulate their actual possessions the aggregate would astonish the world: for in the face of stubborn odds and given less than half a chance the black men of this country have in 30 years advanced as no other people similarly situated have ever advanced. The material prosperity of any people depends upon their landed interest. In the North as else where one can best see and judge of the material prosperity of the Negro, in homes of their own, on lands of their own; in happy homes neatly kept by noble women, who make home life purer by force of their unlaunted efforts; on land of their own, tillied by the most loyal of all Americans, who make good the Negro's claim to the title of producer as well as consumer. To correctly judge of the Negro's prosperity in any part of our common country one must view his actual possessions and progress not solely in the light of what he has accumulated by dint of hard toil; or gained by persistent and honest effort; but by taking into account the rough roads he had to travel and the almost insurmountable ob stacles he had to encounter to reach even the first goal of the prosperous - a home, comfortably furnished and tillily kept. And above all, take into consideration the fact that he started empty handed and in the North unaided by even so much as the inspiration of familiar taces. In many cities of the North the Negro has the credit of knowing that in proportion to population, and despite in many cases his smaller relative wage, he is the home-owning laborer. And greatly to their credit be it said Negroes produce few if any beggars in the North. In Illinois, in the angle formed by the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers can be found many thrifty Negro farmers, 220 of whom own land enough if contiguous to form a tract several miles long by four and one-half miles wide, or completely located from a tract covering thirty-one square miles, dotted here and there with comfortable, well-kept homes, fine barns and many other improvements, the average farm containing eighty-two acres at about $30 per acre or the aggregate of $500,000 for the land alone. Six of these farmers operate on 3,110 acres ranging from 200 to 1000, acres each, on an average of 518 acres. In one county in Michigan with a Negro population of almost 2000, 170 Negroes control farms embracing 1200 acres of land or a tract twenty-one miles square valued at $300,000 and their buildings $80,000 more. Seventy of the 170 farmers own their entire farms, and many cash and share tenants rent from other and more prosperous Negroes. In the villages of the county other thirty Negroes own their homes, all acquired in the past few years. A similar condition prevails in Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska, Ohio and the other states. A list made at random gives eight Negro farm owners of Ohio with 1840 acres of land valued at $2,500, ten acres of which recently sold for $10,000 not including any building. In Arizona, a part of the West that in 1865 did not have any Negro population, there is today about 20000 population with 16 farms containing 2010 acres valued at $33,510 controlled by Negroes who expended for form labor in 1899, $3965. Their buildings and improvements were estimated at $10000 and their stock at $30,500. Not only has the Negro gained a foot-hold in the Agricultural pursuits of the North, built fine homes attained distinction in the profession and inventive world but is also slowly forging his way into the industries. The Negro is climbing, steadily climbing and now and then another cliff of prejudice is scaled. My friend there is a brighter day yet in store for the Negro. Rice Bros. Factory 1303 Kansas Ave. Hatch Etherly, janitor at the state house is ill. Mrs. R. Talbert was visiting in the Territory last week. Miss Byanna Smith has returned from Kansas City. Peter Woodside, of Lawrence, visited in the city this week. Mrs. Nannie Oden departed last Saturday for Kansas City. Geo. Branford and Epp Love Sundayed in Kansas City. Mrs. Mary Matheny, of Newton, is is in the city'en route to Chicago. James Guy, the att'y for Slick Slater has argued for a change of venue. Mrs. O. A. Taylor and sister, Miss Bertha Horlan are visiting in Leavenworth this week. Hester Hawkins left last Thursday for Emporia where she will take a Normal course. Sunday being Children's Day, appropriate exercises were held in St. John's A. M. E. church. Mrs. N. Hunter and baby, of Pamonia, Kas., are the guests of her sister, Mrs. John M. Brown. Misses Mary Jordan, Lena McNeil and Maggie Vault have returned from a visit in Lawrence. Mrs. Emma Wright, of Centerville, Iowa, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Henry Smith in North Topeka. Miss Carrie Pheonix, of Emporia is in the city visiting her sister Mrs Reynolds at 1165 Buchanan street. Mrs. Harrison Jones, of Quindaro, who had been visiting friends in this city, left last Saturday for her home. Henry Bockman, of St. Louis, Mo., is visiting the Carsons this week. He is mail carrier in the exposition city. The Golden Rod Club will entertain Friday evening at the home of Miss Rosaline Rice, 1211 Kansas Ave. John McBee, Topeka's veteran hackman, will go to Guthrie Okla. in search of a new field for hacking business. We received the sad intelligence of the death of Mr. Felix Hudson, of Atchison, Kas. the father of Dr. Hudson. Mrs. J. H. Hare will sing "The Holy City" at Shiloh Baptist Church on Sunday at 3 p.m., this week, sung by request. Harry Robinson, Jr., of The Plain-dealer, is visiting his wife and son in St. Joseph this week. He will return tomorrow. Misses Gertie and Nellie Richardson left Monday night for Oklahoma where they will be at home with their mother. Miss Lucy Pullin left Sunday for Sisseton S. D. where she will accept the position as matron in the Indian School. John Russell, of Edwardsville, and Henry Smith, Jr., of Kansas City, were in town last week visiting their sick father. Messrs. Jas. Page, Jno. Harrison, Fred Roundtree, Wm. and Jno. Wright spent last Thursday at Big Muddy, fishing. Miss Alberta and Hattie Caldwell have returned from Emporia where they attended the graduation exercises at the Normal. Henry Smith, of 101 Laurent street, North Topeka is seriously ill. He is a member of Fort Pillow post and his old comrades will please take notice. When in need of Ice Creams or Ices of any kind call on Rice Bros. Factory, 1303 Kansas Ave. Wholesale and retail, our prices low and goods, the best. The Arden Club met at the residence of Miss Mary Jamison last Thursday night. Act III of Henry VI was read and discussed. They meet this week with Miss Lena Thompson. Rev. W. H. White, pastor of the B Street Baptist church deserves much credit for the grand work he has accomplished during his three months pastorate. He with the members, say they will cancel the debt this year. Cards are out announcing the marraige of W. M. Hopkins, son of Albert Hopkins, to Miss Jessie Randath. Mr. Hopkins is one of Topeka bright young men and his bride "elect" is one of the prettiest young ladies in the city. The Shamrock Club met June 4th with Mrs. M. L. Leonard on Van Buren street. The Ladies spent one hour discussing various arts. The Club partook of an elegant 2 course lunch, and adjourned to meet with Mrs. Clifton Meaux June 18th. The "I and U" social club met last Sunday at the residence of Miss Ada Clark 1155 Lane street. The club was organized to promote the social interest of the young people and will meet next Sunday at the residence of Mr. Charles Black, 135 West Railroad street. The members of the Board of Trustees of the Orphan's Home are requested to meet on next Monday evening, June 17, at St. John A. M. E. Church at 7 P. M. sharp. The members of the association will meet at 8 P.M. to transact important business connected with the association. Friends of the association are kindly invited. The 2nd. annual tour of the Lawrence Students at the St. John's A.M. E. Church, Tuesday June 25. An elaborate musicale and dramatic program will be rendered in which Mr. P. Ellwyn Del Orme, the celebrated Shakespearean Reader of Chicago, will take part. Admission 15c and 25c. A most delightful affair was the party given at the home of Miss Bettie Abrams, 1163 Lane on last Friday evening. It being her birthday many tokens of respect was received by her. After a most elaborate spread prepared by the assisting ladies, the evening showers prompted a speedy departure. Miss Abrams has been for years the bread culinariest at the Spivy Boarding house and will shortly take leave for a short vacation in Denver, Manatou and Colorado Springs. Mrs. Brown, wife of Rev. J. M. Brown, will accompany her husband t) Leavenworth where he will hold his quarterly meeting Sunday. Mrs. Brown, who is a member of the Shamrock Art club of this city, will take the advantage of visiting the Association. From Leavenworth they will go to Kansas City Kans. and Mo. for a two weeks stay. Their District Conference and Sunday School Convention convenes in the latter place June 26-30. Bishon Issue Lane of Jackson, Tenn. will preside over the District Conference. INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE NOTES. Miss Gertrude Richardson, one of our Normal teachers, has accepted a position in Oklahoma, for the ensuing term. The Sewing and Millinery departments will continue throughout the summer. Students may enter at any time. Assistant Principal Graves, is making quite a success at gardening. He hopes to enlarge the agricultural course for next term. We are very grateful to our many friends who rendered so much valuable assistance during the closing exercises. The ladies committee did its work nobly. Do not forget the rally at Shiloh Baptist Church Sunday afternoon. The school needs your help. Try to give as liberally as you possibly can. All persons having coupon book will please report Sunday afternoon. Arrangements have been made to accommodate a limited number of pupils in the boarding department, for six dollars a mouth for next term. This covers the entire expense. Parents wishing to place their children in school should write at once. For further information address. WM. B. CARTER, Principal. Saturday, June 22. Saturday, June 22. TOPEKA BUSINESS MEN'S ASSOCIATION The Topeka Business Men's Association met in regular session Tuesday evening, et their hall 429 Kansas Ave. Membership fees and dues were collected from those present. Some time was spent in discussing the future usefulness of the Association. Decided to have a call meeting next Tuesday evening, June 18th, to discuss the advisability of sending delegates to the National Colored Business Men's Association, which meets in Chicago in August. Regular meetings the 2d Tuesday in each month. All colored business men are requested to join with us to make this move a success. G. W. Guy, Prest. NOTICE. To the parents of the children of the City of Topeka; Please send your children to the Auditorium to practice next Saturday evening, June 15, at 4 p.m., for the 4th of July, at the Fair Grounds, GEO. W. JACKSON. W. P. GREENE NOTICE We the officers and members of the 2nd Cumberland Presbyterian, 13th and Quincy streets, solicit the aid of our friends in our rally Sunday, June 16th, 1901. We are preparing for our Minister who will be with us in a few days, and will appreciate your help. Rev. Moppins will preach at 3 p.m., assisted by others. Good singing by the choir. NOTICE. Leavenworth, Kan. June 11, 1901. Notice C. M.'s, H. P.'s, Q. M.'s and P. P.'s, Delegates and Visitors. Rates of one and one-third fare to the Kansas-Nebraska Grand Temple and Taberusacle which convene in Leavenworth July 9th, 1901, and remain in session July 9, 10, 11 and 12. Read careful and obey this notice as the grand session place a severe penalty, on all who fail to obey these instructions. Please don't buy round trip tickets. Just buy your through ticket to Leavenworth. You can buy your tickets not earlier than three days before the 9th, and not later than three days including which will be the 11th. All parties that can not come until the 12th, please get your tickets on the 12th, as they are very positive on this question; and in all cases when you buy your tickets do not fail to get your certificates, and where you have to buy, tickets over more than one road. Be sure and get a certificate with each ticket you buy, and when you get to Leavenworth place your certificates in the hands of Sir A. W. Hopkins, C. G. S. so he will have ample time to meet the joint agent. Remember that it takes one hundred certificates to get the one and one third fare. All members should work to that end. Signed and sealed this 11th day of June, 1901. Sir Frank Wilson, C. G. M. Attest; Sir A. W. Hopkins, C. G. S. Topaka Educational and Industrial Institute. Non-sectarian, co-educational, practiced edu- cation of the Negro youth. Courses: English, Normal, Industrial, Music and Business Tuition, $10 per month each department; $50 per month Literacy and Industrial courses combined; room, room, light, fuel and tuition; $50 per month. For Further Information, address W. K. CARFER, Principal. O BE NOT DECEIVED TO THE COLORED PEOPLE OF AMERICA. King of all Hair Tonics, "OZONO." BEFORE. AFTER. Recognizing the fact that there are many SO CALLED hair growers and hair straighteners now on the market, and knowing to make a certain that many of these are frauds pure and simple, we wish to make a straight-forward, honest statement to the colored race through this great paper. In the year 1571 our late secretary, Mrs. S. M. Moore, through a fortunate circumstance, acquired the receipt for OZONO. It was not offered for sale or purchase to any extent until 1875 when it was put upon the market and met with marked success. After a throught beat by the colored people of that time it was pronounced an honest, legitimate remedy, true to all that was claimed for it, and worthy in every respect of the confidence of every member of the colored race, because they found it to cause the hair to grow long and straight, soft and fine, and as beautiful as an April morning. Now whenever a genuine article appears upon the market there are always a number of people who imitate and make capital out of the merits of other people's goods. Seeing our marked success, numerous firms have entered the market, offering hair-growers and hair straighteners, many of which are worthless, causing the hair to fall out and doing great damage to the hair and scalp, and the colored people are buying these spurious compounds, which are filled with animal fats, and do the hair more harm than good. To these let us sound a warning—be careful what you use on your hair. Do not be deceived by flaring advertisements and big words. Buy the King of all Hair Tonics, OZONO. which is sold with an iron-clad guarantee, we will forfeit $50.00. Now, we ask you lately agree to forfeit $50.00 if you are a if they were not true to all we claim for several years under this guarantee, and who has used Ozone has been satisfied in 20,000 people are to-day using our recommendations Ozone as the King of all Hair take the Kinks out of Knotty, Kinky, H some Hair. It will make short, harsh hair your head of all itching, worrying scalp and Scurf can not live after Ozone has been from falling out. It will restore gray hair hair long and soft. Now, right here, let us make a statement remedies to straighten hair, but when the you to use hot irons. Friends, do not use life of the hair, and cause it to drop out outside assistance. Nothing but Ozone straight forever. You can stop the use the hair are seen in a day or two after the. The price of Ozone is 50c. a bottle—this liberal offer, which is good at any time, enclosing it with the sum of One Four large boxes of Ozone and one large which makes black skin bright, rough skin diseases. Also removes all facial in small pox pits. We will also include one Food—Nature's great beautifier—removes and all facial blemishes; makes the older younger. We will also include one package of O absolutely CHEMICALLY PURE, and with an iron-clad guarantee to do all that is $50.00. Now, we ask you a plain question: do you forfeit $50.00 if you are dissatisfied with not true to all we claim for them? We have this guarantee, and we are glad to offer Ozoo has been satisfied in every respect. Apples are to-day using our preparations, and Ozoo as the King of all Hair Tonies, Ozoo is out of Knotty, Kinky, Harsh, Curly. It will make short, harsh hair long and strong itching, worrying scalp diseases. Itch, it does not live after Ozoo has been applied. It will. It will restore gray hair to its natural soft. At here, let us make a statement. Many first braighten hair, but when they send the projections. Friends, do not use hot irons; they cause, and cause it to drop out. Ozoo straighten. Nothing but Ozoo is necessary, and you. You can stop the use at any time. Then in a day or two after the first application of Ozoo is 500, a bottle—4 boxes do the matter, which is good at any time: Cut out this wick with it the sum of One Dollar, and we wipes of Ozoo and one large bottle of Electric black skin bright, rough skin soft and pliable. Also removes all facial imperfections, and we will also include one fancy jar of our's great beautifier—removes wrinkles, mothblemishes; makes the old look young and also include one package of our celebrated SOEMICALLY PURE, and no soap but a pur which is sold with an iron-clad guarantee to do all that is claimed for it, or we will forfeit $50.00. Now, we ask you a plain question—would we absolutely agree to forfeit $50.00 if you are dissatisfied with our preparations, if they were not true to all we claim for them? We have advertised for several years under this guarantee, and we are glad to say that every one who has used Ozone has been satisfied in every respect. 20,000 people are to day using our preparations, and every purchaser recommends Ozono as the King of all Hair Tonies. Ozono will positively take the Kinks out of Knotty, Kinky, Harsh, Curly, Refractory, Troublesome Hair. It will make short, harsh hair long and straight. It will cure your head of all itching, worrying scalp diseases. Itch, Eczema, Dandruff, and Seurif can not live after Ozono has been applied. It will stop your hair from falling out. It will restore gray hair to its natural color, making the hair long and soft. Now, right here, let us make a statement. Many firms are advertising remedies to straighten hair, but when they send the preparation they tell you to use hot irons. Friends, do not use hot irons; they will burn up the life of the hair, and cause it to drop out. Ozone straightens without any outside assistance. Nothing but Ozone is necessary, and the hair stays straight forever. You can stop the use at any time. The good effects on the hair are seen in a day or two after the first application. The price of Ozono is 50c, a bottle—4 boxes do the work. We make this liberal offer, which is good at any time: Cut out this coupon and send us, enclosing with it the sum of One Dollar, and we will forward to you four large boxes of Ozono and one large bottle of Electrical Skin Refiner, which makes black skin bright, rough skin soft and pliant, and cures all skin diseases. Also remove all facial imperfections, and actually removes small pox pits. We will also include one fancy jar of our Electrical Skin Food—Nature's great beautifier—removes wrinkles, moth patches, freckles, and all facial blemishes; makes the old look young and the young look younger. We will also include one package of our celebrated Scalp Soap, which is absolutely CHEMICALLY PURE, and no soap but a pure soap should ever Try a Bottle of Kohl's Cough For Coughs, C Sore Throat, H Price 25 Cents CARY SAFE Mhl's Cough Mixtu For Coughs, Colds, He Sore Throat, Etc. Since 25 Cents per Bottle SAFE COM Price 25 Cents per Bottle. CARY SAFE COMPANY BUFFALO, N. Y., U. S. A. ...Manufacturers... Fire and Burglar VAULTS, LO Contracts to United St GET READY .....FOR..... OMAHA AND Burglar Proof FAULTS, LOCKS, ETC. to United States Gov READY FOR..... AHA Fire and Burglar Proof Safes VAULTS, LOCKS, ETC. Contracts to United States Government. The B. P. A. will run an Excursion to Omaha turday, June 2 turday, June 22. Train leaves Kansas City at 9.30 p. m., arriving in Omaha at 6.30 Sunday morning. A Grand Street Parade, Base Ball, Boating and all kinds of outdoor amusements. Mr. Ben McRay, president of this organization, has made elaborate preparations to make the trip pleasant. Remember the date Saturday, June 2 June 22. TRADE-MARK. BEFORE. AFTER be used on the skin. And, lastly, to prove our liberality, we will put in a pint package of Anti-Oil, a positive care for Sore Throat or Mouth, all forms of Womens Diseases, Chibblains, Sore and Frosted Feet; also removes all smells and colors arising from the human body, such as feet, arm pits, etc. The actual value of this Grand Aggregation is $100, but we let you have it for $10, simply to introduce honest goods. In order to protect the public in general from imitations of our goods, and to avoid mistakes, we have placed upon our coupon the Trade-Mark, one head showing Short Hair and the other head Long Hair. The U.S. Government has granted us this trade-mark, and it is registered in the Patent Office at Washington; so if the coupon has this trade-mark on it, you will make no mistake. Use only the coupon having the two heads on it. As to our responsibility, we refer to the Editor of this paper or to the Metropolitan Bank of Richmond, Va. We have then ends of testimonials we have not space to publish. Here is a sample of one: Fenton Chemical Company: Dear Sir,—You are at liberty to state in any newspaper that I have used OZNO, and give it my most hearty recommendation. I have been used often, it does me good to recommend honest goods. A last word. OZONO is absolutely guaranteed to straighten hair and cause a beautiful and luxurious growth. If your hair is already straight, you can use it to secure a glossy long growth. Buy only the genuine "OZONO." Send us $1.00 at once, and the goods will be sent the same day we receive your order. 4 Boxes of Ozono, worth $200. 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Refiller, worth $0.00. 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Food, worth $0.00. 1 Package (1 pint) Anti-Odor, worth $0.00. 1 Package Scalp Soap, worth $0.00. Total, $4.00. If you want 4 lots like above, send $3.00. If you have a friend who has no coupon, let her write her name on a piece of paper and pin to coupon when you send your order. Special Prices For MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY. Miss Etta Lacey, 104 E. Sixth Street. LARGEST AND MOST COMPLETE BUGGY FACTORY ON EARTH WRITE FOR PRICES AND CATALOGUE OUR GOODS ARE THE BEST OUR PRICE THE LOWEST PARRY MFG. CO. Indianapolis, Ind. UNION LOCK POULTRY FENCE. For Poultry, Rabbits, Orchards, Gardens, etc. Stronger and closer spacing than any other make. Our Union Lock Hog, Field and Cattle Fence, Union Lawn Fence Gates, etc., guaranteed first class. Your dealer should handle this line-if not, write us for prices. Catalogue free. UNION FENCE CO., DE KALB, ILL., U. S. A. SAMUEL EASTER 1870 the following goods: 4 Boxes of Ozom worth 50c. I Box (1 pint) Anti-Oz Total, $4.00. Name. Street ..... County ..... If you want 4 lots l no coupon, let her write when you send your orc Just Received A LINE Special Prices For LARGEST AND MOST OUR GOODS ARE OUR PRICE PARRYMFO UNION L For Poultry All main strands are two wires twisted together. Stronger and Our Union Lock Fence Gates, etc. Your dealer s prices. Catalogu UNION FEN All main strands are two twisted together. it. If you will enclose only vassing book. We allow b Write at twice! Boston Chemical Co., 310 East Bread Street, RICHEOND, VA. I enclose you $100, for which please send at once Pickets 3 in. apart. Cables 1/2 in. apart at bottom. IS AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. Principal of Tunkerque Normal and Industrial Institute, and the greatest living Negro of our times. The book is published in one large volume of over 400 pages and beautifully illustrated with over 50 photo-engravings of Tunkerque and its people in cloth, $1.50. Here indeed is a life-story stranger than fiction. It is a recital of the most thrilling experience, heroic struggle and remarkable achievement ever written. Ask for a free copy of our booklet "GLARRING THE WAY" to learn more about Tunkerque. Send us your name and address and we will immedi-ately forward our free offer of a volume of the $1.50 book. We want you to have a copy to introduce it in your community. We will send you a free copy of the book and we can enclose it we will also send our magnificent agnata' canshest commissions, pay freight and fill orders on thirty days' credit.