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Defective Page ROOSEVELT FOR RECIPROCITY PACT Three Times Indorsed Canadian Agreement in Public Speeches. No Choice as Between Candidates For Presidency on This Issue—Roosevelt Also Declared Payne Tariff Law Best Yet Passed by Congress. Theodore Roosevelt is on record three times in public speeches as indicating the Canadian reciprocity policy of President Taft. This issue is now dead through the failure of Canada to ratify the trade agreement on the ground that the United States would derive the greatest benefit from its provisions. The fact remains, however, that the farmers of the country are not generally aware that Mr. Roosevelt so thoroughly approved of Canadian reciprocity when it was a live issue. Canadian reciprocity was voted for by Republicans and Democrats alike when it was before Congress, and as between Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Taft in the present campaign for the Republican nomination for president there is no choice on this issue. In connection with his public utterances on the tariff Mr. Roosevelt has also joined President Taft in saying that the Payne tariff law, while by no means perfect, is nevertheless "the best tariff law yet passed by congress" under the old system of making such laws. Of course President Taft and Mr. Roosevelt are both now committed to the tariff commission plan of revising the tariff, and Mr. Roosevelt has given President Taft credit for advocating this commission plan from the beginning." "Uphold the Hands of Taft." Mr. Roosevelt's indorsements of Canadian reciprocity were as follows: In a speech at Grand Rapids, Mich., Feb. 11, 1911, he said: "Here, friends in Michigan, right on the northern frontier, I have the peculiar right to say a word of congratulation to you and to all of us upon the likelihood that we shall soon have closer reciprocal tariff and trade relations with the great nation to the north of us. [Applause.] And I feel so pleased primarily because I wish to see the two peoples, the Canadian and the American peoples, drawn together by the closest ties on a footing of complete equality of interest and mutual respect. [Applause.] I feel that it should be one of the cardinal policies of this republic to establish the very closest relations of good will and friendship with the Dominion of Canada." [Applause.] In a speech before the Republican club of New York city, delivered at the Lincoln day dinner at the Waldorf hotel on Feb. 13, 1911, he said: "I want to say how glad I am at the way in which the members of the club here tonight responded to the two appeals made to them to uphold the hands of President Taft, both in his effort to secure reciprocity with Canada and in his effort to secure the fortification of the Panama canal. "And in addition to what has been said about reciprocity with Canada I would like to make this point: It should always be a cardinal point in our foreign policy to establish the closest and most friendly relations of equa respect and advantage with our great neighbor on the north. And I hall the reciprocity arrangement because it represents an effort to bring about a closer, a more intimate, a more friendly relationship of mutual advantage on equal terms between Canada and the United States." Gives President Credit. At Sloux City, la., on Sept 3, 1910, Mr. Roosevelt said: "I was particularly pleased with what the president (Taft) said in his letter on the subject of the tariff commission. A number of senators and congressmen have for some years advocated this as the proper method of dealing with the tariff, and I am glad that the country now seems awakened to the idea that a tariff commission offers the only solution of the problem which is both rational and insures the absence of jobbery. The president (Taft) from the beginning advocated this commission. * * * "There is another feature of the tariff law, and it points our course in the right direction, the maximum and minimum provision, and here again I wish to point out that the value of the provision has depended largely upon the excellent work done by the administration in the negotiations with the Dominion of Canada, which were the most difficult of all, and yet in my eyes the most important because I esteem it of vital consequence that we should always be on relations of the highest friendship and good will with our great and growing neighbor in the north." At Sloux Falls, S. D., on the same day Mr. Roosevelt said: "I think that the present tariff (Payne law) is better than the last (Dingley law) and considerably better than the one before the last (McKinley law), but it has certainly failed to give general satisfaction." From these quotations from Mr. Roosevelt's speeches it is therefore apparent that there can be no choice as between President Taft and Mr. Roosevelt on these issues. NEW ENGLAND BAPTIST MISSIONARY CONVENTION. Will Hold Thirty-eighth Annual Meeting In Philadelphia June 13. Philadelphia.—The thirty-eighth annual meeting of the New England Baptist missionary convention will be held in this city for five days beginning on Thursday, June 13, at 2 o'clock. The sessions of the convention will be held in the Monumental Baptist church on Ludlow street, of which the Rev. Dr. Alexander Gordon is pastor. The president of the convention is the Rev. William A. Creditt, LL. D., pastor of the Cherry Memorial Baptist church, Fifteenth and Christian streets, this city. The convention comprises within its jurisdiction churches in ten states, Haiti and Nova Scotia, where within recent years churches and missions have been organized and the doctrines and work of the denomination explained and built up. The late Rev. Dr. J Francis Blair of Brooklyn made a tour of Haiti in the interest of the denomination prior to his death about five years ago, which aroused considerable interest among the natives. The work in Nova Scotia is getting well on foot, and the convention is planning to make a liberal contribution to both foreign fields. In accord with the many timely suggestions made by President Creditt in his annual address to the convention at its session in Providence, R. I., in 1911, the convention ordered the appointment of a committee of fifteen, whose duty is to plan for enlarging the scope and usefulness of the convention, so as to more fully develop that part of its territory which has hitherto received but scant attention from committees usually appointed on new fields. For home and foreign mission work the convention has obligated itself to raise $6,000 for the fiscal year which ends June 17. The annual sermon will be preached by the Rev. Dr. William Maurice Moss, pastor of the Concord Baptist church in Brooklyn. The general officers of the convention are William A. Creditt, LL. D., Philadelphia, president; A. Clayton Powell, New York vice president; W. A. Harrod, D. D., Hartford, Coun., corresponding secretary; A. Mark Harris, D. D., Jersey City, N. J., recording secretary, and the Rev. Dr. Robert D. Wynn, Newark, N. J., treasurer. Educated Young Men on the Farm. The colored population of Alabama has increased by upward of 80,000 within the past ten years, according to the latest report. There are 16,200 more farms owned by the race in the state, and the total farm acreage is said to be 3,000,000. The valuation of farm property is estimated at $10,000.00. This remarkable increase is due in a large measure to the more recent improved methods of intensive farming used by the hundreds of educated young men who have gone out from the various industrial schools and are devoting their time to agricultural pursuits. Able Trio of United States Senators. Forty-two years ago the late Hiram Revels, who was a native of North Carolina, was elected to the United States senate by the Mississippi legislature. Mr. Revels was educated at the Quaker college, Liberty, Ind., and at Knox college, in Illinois. In 1860 he went to Natchez, Miss., where he soon became active in politics and was elected to the city council, and the next year he was duly chosen as United States senator. He served as such from February, 1870, to March, 1871. Two other colored men have also served as United States senators—namely, the Hon. P. B. S. Pinchback and the late Hon. B. K. Bruce. They were all able men and filled their station with credit and marked adaptability. Professor J. Melvin Lamb Dies. In the recent sudden death of Dr. J. Melvin Lamb, professor in the medical department of Howard university, in Washington, the institution has been deprived of one of its most efficient instructors. Professor Lamb had served the school for over a quarter of a century. He was widely known, much loved and noted for his close application to the science of medicine in all of its branches. SEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., MARCH 23, 1912. RACE ADVISED TO SPLIT VOTE Book Dealing With Many Phases of Racial Interest Compiled by Monroe N. Work Devotes Much Space to the Arguments Advanced by the Different Political Organizations. The review of the political activities among the colored citizens of the country during the past year as prepared by Mr. Monroe N. Work of the department of records and research at the Tuskegee (Ala.) institute is a timely document. It is especially interesting in view of the present national political situation. The matter is now in press and will be issued in book form. The situation is pretty well covered by the following facts: May 17 the national Negro Democratic convention was held at Indianapolis, Ind. The following appeal was sent out: We, the Negroes in the national Democratic convention assembled this 17th day of May, 1911, desire to appeal to the colored voters of the United States to open check on the condition surrounding as a race and suggest that it is wisdom's way that the Negro should no longer follow blindly one party to its own harm and detriment, as he has heretofore followed the Republican party. We believe that the American Negro should divide his vote the same as the white man and be found in all political parties for precisely the same reason that the white men are found in all parties. Therefore, as we Negro Democrats reaffirm our allegiance to the Democratic party, believing that its principles for reaccentry and for tariff for revenue only are the most conducive for an economical administration of the affairs of the American people, and for the approval of the masses of the common people, we earnestly appeal to the intelligent, honest, law abiding colored citizens of the United States of America to organize and bind themselves together in Democratic clubs preparatory for the war of the ballot in 1912. Remember the ancient adage. The wise man foreseeth the hide and thief himself, but the fool goes out and is overtaken in the error of his way." The National Independent Political Rights league met in Boston in September. In its address to the country it demanded (1) the enforcement of the constitution to stop disfranchisement and peonage; (2) the passage of an anti-filmcrow law for interstate passengers; (3) federal aid to education, with the same schooling for all; (4) restoration of the discharged Brownsville soldiers; (5) legislation making lynching a capital offense under federal jurisdiction. President Taft, on the matter of officeholding by Negroes, said in an interview published in the Outlook: "What I have done in this line (of recognition of the Democracy of the south) has been without sacrifice of any interest of my own party. I have appointed many Negroes to office and have given some of them, like Lewis, Johnson and McKinley, offices of essential dignity at Washington, What I have not done is to force them upon unwilling communities in the south itself. I have appointed none where I knew that the race feeling was strong and have preferred giving large offices to well equipped Negroes of the higher class to scattering a lot of petty ones among the mass of their race. This is not because I lack sympathy with the Negroes, but because I want to see them advance." In California the woman suffrage advocates appointed special workers among the colored people, and it is reported that the Negroes generally supported the suffrage movement. In Illinois 160 delegates of the Coalition league met in Springfield and adopted resolutions in which they declared themselves opposed to all present political parties. The Negro voters of the state were urged to vote independently. In Louisiana there has been a bitter fight against the black and tan faction and the illy white faction of the Republican party for supremacy. The fight was carried before the recent meeting of the national Republican committee in Washington, and the old line Republicans charged the illy whites with not dealing fairly with them. In Maryland the colored voters played a part in the recent state election which was out of the ordinary. They did not ask the white political leaders for money, but organized and contributed funds to carry on the campaign. They placed $500 in the hands of the leaders of the campaign, with the request that the money be used for the election of the Republican governor and to defeat the Diggs disfranchisement bill. Early in December the Taft Colored Republican Association of New Jersey met in Trenton and adopted resolutions indorsing the administration of Presi- dent Taft and pledging allegiance to the Republican party, both national and state. In North Carolina the lily white faction of the Republican party is said to have made a miserable and disappointing show in the state election. In South Carolina it is said that for the first time in thirty years all the colored Republicans are working together and are being supported by the old line white Republicans. The Rev. Richard Carroll, Professor M. T. Frederick, Thomas E. Miller, Henry Toole and several other colored men voted in the South Carolina Democratic primary. Independence in voting seems to be getting more popular. THE NEW YORK MISSION. Needs and Future Usefulness Pointed Out by Dr. John Barten. Out by Dr. J. L. Barton. Speaking of the urgent needs of the New York Colored mission, Dr. J. L. Barton, chairman of the board of managers, said recently: The Negro in the north needs industrial training as much as or even more than the Negro in the south. In the north he must compete with the white man, and unless he can do as well or even better he cannot get remunerative employment. In the cities a large majority of the Negroes are hopelessly submerged. Little can be done to increase the efficiency of the older generation, but an earnest effort should be made at once to rescue the boys and girls from the adverse conditions which surround their parents. The first step to this end is to supplement the knowledge gained in the public schools with an industrial training. The New York Colored mission, an institution founded and managed by white people for the moral, social and religious elevation of the Negro, after a careful study of prevailing conditions desires to establish an industrial farm institute. A farm of 405 acres located in Orange county, N. Y., fully equipped with agricultural appliances, has been offered at a maximum price of $50 per acre. Is there not some one with large means and a larger heart who will purchase this farm and help the New York Colored mission to inaugurate this urgently needed work? Contributions may be sent to L. Hollingsworth Wood, 2 Wall street, New York, treasurer of the board of managers. Further information will be cheerfully furnished and references of the highest character given as to the standing of the institution to those who may be interested. CENTURY OF METHODISM. Te Be Celebrated In 1916—Movement Started by Dr. B. W. Hook Started by D. R. H. W. Leak, Raleigh, N. C.-Rev. Dr. R. H. W. Leak of this city has started a movement to celebrate the centennial of the African Methodist Episcopal church to be held in Philadelphia in 1916. The idea has already been approved by the board of shops of the denomination. It was in Philadelphia in 1816 that Richard Allen and a band of followers who had a few years before seceded from the Methodist church on account of the manifestations of race prejudice met and organized the A. M. E. church. From that time the denomination has steadily grown until today it has nearly a million members, many educational institutions and other interests. Its foreign mission work in West and South Africa has grown to large proportions. Many of the most successful ministers and teachers among our people received their education and REV. DR. B. R. W. LEAK. special training in the schools fostered by the African Methodist church. Dr. Leak's plan will probably be adopted by the coming general conference of the denomination. Dr. Leak is one of the best known men in the connection. Born in North Carolina over fifty years ago, he has long been active in the church, having been a delegate to every general conference since 1880. He is the founder of Kittrell college at Kittrell, N. C., and even mortgaged his home to give this now flourishing school a start. He is prominently mentioned for the episcopacy and has strong backing from his conference, the North Carolina, and from other sections of the country. He is a presiding elder, with headquarters at Durham, N. C. HENSEN AMONG SPRING AUTHORS FOREWORD BY ROBERT E. PEARY Noteworthy Achievement of Foremost Explorer of the Race-Authentic Account of Many Dangerous Adventures and Thrilling Scenes-Illustrations From Photographs by the Author. By N. BARNETT DODSON New York.—Among the many spring publications thus far issued Matthew A. Hensen's book, entitled "A Negro Explorer at the North Pole," is considered by literary critics to be the most valuable contribution to the literature of exploration since the appearance of Commander Robert E. Peary's book, "The North Pole." The foreword is written by Commander Peary and the introduction by Booker T. Washington. In the foreword to the book Commander Peary says: "Friends of arctic exploration and discovery with whom I have come in contact and many whom I know only by letter have been greatly interested in the fact of a colored man being an effective member of a serious arctic expedition and going north not once, but numerous times, during a period of over twenty years, in a way that showed that he not only could and did endure all the stress of arctic conditions and work, but that he evidently found pleasure in the work. "Hensen proved his fitness by long and thorough apprenticeship, and his participation in the final victory which MATTHEW A. HENSEN. planted the stars and stripes at the north pole and won for this country the international prize of nearly four centuries is a distinct credit and feather in the cap of his race." Dr. Booker T. Washington in his introductory remarks writes: "One of the first questions which Commander Peary was asked when he returned home from his long, patient and finally successful struggle to reach the pole was how it came about that, besides the four Eskimos, Matt Hensen, a Negro, was the only man to whom was accorded the honor of accompanying him on the final dash to the goal." The question was suggested, no doubt, by the thought that it was but natural that the positions of greatest responsibility and honor on such an expedition would as a matter of course fall to the white men of the party rather than to a Negro. To this question, however, Commander Peary replied in substance: "Matthew A. Hensen, my Negro assistant, has been with me in one capacity or another since my second trip to Nicaragua in 1887. I have taken him on each and all of my expeditions except the first and also without exception on each of my farthest sledge trips. This position I have given him primarily because of his adaptability and fitness for the work and secondly on account of his loyalty. He is a better dog driver and can handle a sledge better than any man living except some of the best Eskimo hunters themselves." The book is interesting not only because it tells of the extraordinary achievements of a colored man, but the clear and logical manner in which Mr Hensen relates in detail every important feature of the journey to and from the pole, with side lights on Eskimo life and arctic customs. There are seven illustrations from photographs showing Commander Peary in his arctic furs, Hensen immediately after the journey, Camp Morris K. Je- sup at the north pole, taken by the author, and the Roosevelt in winter quarters at Cape Sheridan. Mr. Hensen is without doubt the foremost explorer of the colored race, and the account which he gives in his book of the final conquest of the pole is the only one which will ever be given by a member of the race, for, as he well says, "I went all the way." The book should be in every home for the encouragement and inspiration which it is sure to give to all who may read it and study the methods by which Mr. Hensen made himself useful, honored and respected and, last of all, won for himself world renown. NOBLES OF THE MYSTIC SHRINE ENTERTAIN. Fezzan Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, held a Social Session at Masonic Temple, Western avenue and Charles street, on the 15th, to which all Masons in good standing were invited. More than sixty of the "boys" were present, and judging by the yells of delight which floated out on the mid-night air, they had a "howling good time." There was singing, dancing, music, boxing, and refreshments. During one of the sparing bouts the police rushed in and raided the place, claiming they had been informed that a prize fight was being held. It was difficult to restrain some of the crowd from making use of the fire escape. The boxers were members of the Culture Club, and a strong plea was made to the men for their support towards the Club. The musicians were E. B. James, cello; T. R. Morgan, cornet; Nimrod Singleton guitar; Frank Terry, mandolin. Singers, Clarence McCullough, Edward Davis, George W. Johnson (not the Saint Paul George) Earl Stewart and Fred Gamble. This Temple has the distinction of having three of its members on the Roster of the Imperial Council: Jose H. Sherwood, Deputy Imperial Potentate, James A. Ross, Imperial Oriental Guide; Lawson A. Melker, Imperial Chief of Exalted Pass; no other Temple has more than one, and many of them not any officer, in their membership. Much credit is due to the Committee who had this affair in charge; they were, O. D. Howard, C. H. Robinson, J. H. Sherwood, E. B. James, R. M. Johnson, chairman. VILLARD ON LEGAL RIGHTS. Condemna Color Line Policy of American Bar Association. The action of the executive committee of the American Bar association in withdrawing the name of Assistant Attorney General William H. Lewis from the membership roll has caused much dissatisfaction among fair-minded men of the legal profession as well as among many prominent public spirited men who believe in a square deal From a national standpoint the thing looks bad in view of the high standing and character of Mr. Lewis, and it looks worse when the reputation of the Bar association is taken into consideration. The letter to the president of the Bar association written and sent by Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of the New York Evening Post and chairman of the board of directors of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People, on the subject is well worth reading, the full text of which is here given: New York, March 8. Mr. Lewis Cass Ledyard, President of the American Bar Association. My husband is the board of directors of this association wishes to express to you its profound regret at the action of the executive committee of the Bar association in regard to Mr. William H. Lewis. We believe this action to be illegal and contrary to the principle of justice for which your association must stand. We cannot think that the opinion of high minded, intelligent men who make up your membership. There is a growing criticism today of the attitude of the courts in the United States toward colored men. We ourselves have found numerous cases of discrimination solely pledged to advance the science of jurisprudence, to promote the administration of justice, shows its race prejudice by excluding a man regularly elected into its membership when it finds that he is colored this criticism is applied to men high in the legal profession whom we have had a right to believe stood for the impartial administration of the law to black and white like. We wish to express to you our profound concern that the effort to dismiss from your membership because of his color a man of merit and high attainment is a denial of justice and a blow at democracy. Yours truly. OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People. The Knights of Pythias Sermon, Sunday Evening—Bethesa Church. Smoke the Reliable 5c SIGHT DRAFT CIGAR 5c Defective Page Three Times Indorsed Canadian Agreement in Public Speeches. SQUARE DEAL DUE TAFT. No Choice as Between Candidates For Presidency on This Issue - Roosevelt Also Declared Payne Tariff Law Best Yet Passed by Congress. Theodore Roosevelt is on record three times in public speeches as indorsing the Canadian reciprocity policy of President Taft. This issue is now dead through the failure of Canada to ratify the trade agreement on the ground that the United States would derive the greatest benefit from its provisions. The fact remains, however, that the farmers of the country are not generally aware that Mr. Roosevelt so thoroughly approved of Canadian reciprocity when it was a live issue. Canadian reciprocity was voted for by Republicans and Democrats alike when it was before Congress, and as between Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Taft in the present campaign for the Republican nomination for president there is no choice on this issue. In connection with his public utterances on the tariff Mr. Roosevelt has also joined President Taft in saying that the Payne tariff law, while by no means perfect, is nevertheless "the best tariff law yet passed by congress" under the old system of making such laws. Of course President Taft and Mr. Roosevelt are both now committed to the tariff commission plan of revising the tariff, and Mr. Roosevelt has given President Taft credit for advocating this commission plan from the beginning. "Uphold the Hands of Taft." Mr. Roosevelt's indorsements of Canadian reciprocity were as follows: In a speech at Grand Rapids, Mich., Feb. 11, 1911, he said: "Here, friends in Michigan, right on the northern frontier, I have the peculiar right to say a word of congratulation to you and to all of us upon the likelihood that we shall soon have closer reciprocal tariff and trade relations with the great nation to the north of us. [Applause.] And I feel so pleased primarily because I wish to see the two peoples, the Canadian and the American peoples, drawn together by the closest ties on a footing of complete equality of interest and mutual respect. [Applause.] I feel that it should be one of the cardinal policies of this republic to establish the very closest relations of good will and friendship with the Dominion of Canada." [Applause.] In a speech before the Republican club of New York city, delivered at the Lincoln day dinner at the Waldorf hotel on Feb. 13, 1911, he said: "I want to say how glad I am at the way in which the members of the club here tonight responded to the two appeals made to them to uphold the hands of President Taft, both in his effort to secure reciprocity with Canada and in his effort to secure the fortification of the Panama canal. "And in addition to what has been said about reciprocity with Canada I would like to make this point: It should always be a cardinal point in our foreign policy to establish the closest and most friendly relations of equal respect and advantage with our great neighbor on the north. And I hall the reciprocity arrangement because it represents an effort to bring about a closer, a more intimate, a more friendly relationship of mutual advantage on equal terms between Canada and the United States." Gives President Credit. At Sloux City, la., on Sept 3, 1910, Mr. Roosevelt said: "I was particularly pleased with what the president (Taft) said in his letter on the subject of the tariff commission. A number of senators and congressmen have for some years advocated this as the proper method of dealing with the tariff, and I am glad that the country now seems awakened to the idea that a tariff commission offers the only solution of the problem which is both rational and insures the absence of jobbery. The president (Taft) from the beginning advocated this commission. * * * "There is another feature of the tariff law, and it points our course in the right direction, the maximum and minimum provision, and here again I wish to point out that the value of the provision has depended largely upon the excellent work done by the administration in the negotiations with the Dominion of Canada, which were the most difficult of all, and yet in my eyes the most important because I esteem it of vital consequence that we should always be on relations of the highest friendship and good will with our great and growing neighbor in the north." At Stoux Falls, S. D., on the same day Mr. Roosevelt said: "I think that the present tariff (Payne law) is better than the last (Dingley law) and considerably better than the one before the last (McKinley law), but it has certainly failed to give general satisfaction." From these quotations from Mr. Roosevelt's speeches it is therefore apparent that there can be no choice as between President Taft and Mr. Roosevelt on these issues. NEW ENGLAND BAPTIST MISSIONARY CONVENTION. Will Hold Thirty-eighth Annual Meeting in Philadelphia June 13. Philadelphia.-The thirty-eighth annual meeting of the New England Baptist missionary convention will be held in this city for five days beginning on Thursday, June 13, at 2 o'clock. The sessions of the convention will be held in the Monumental Baptist church on Ludlow street, of which the Rev. Dr. Alexander Gordon is pastor. The president of the convention is the Rev. William A Credit, LL. D., pastor of the Cherry Memorial Baptist church, Fifteenth and Christian streets, this city. The convention comprises within its jurisdiction churches in ten states, Haiti and Nova Scotia, where within recent years churches and missions have been organized and the doctrines and work of the denomination explained and built up. The late Rev. Dr. J Francis Blair of Brooklyn made a tour of Haiti in the interest of the denomination prior to his death about five years ago, which aroused considerable interest among the natives. The work in Nova Scotia is getting well on foot, and the convention is planning to make a liberal contribution to both foreign fields. In accord with the many timely suggestions made by President Creditt in his annual address to the convention at its session in Providence, R. I., in 1911, the convention ordered the appointment of a committee of fifteen, whose duty is to plan for enlarging the scope and usefulness of the convention, so as to more fully develop that part of its territory which has hitherto received but scant attention from committees usually appointed on new fields. For home and foreign mission work the convention has obligated itself to raise $6,000 for the fiscal year which ends June 17. The annual sermon will be preached by the Rev. Dr. William Maurice Moss, pastor of the Concord Baptist church in Brooklyn. The general officers of the convention are William A. Creditt. LL, D., Philadelphia, president; A. Clayton Powell, New York, vice president; W. A. Harrod, D. D. Hartford, Conn., corresponding secretary; A. Mark Harris, D. D., Jersey City, N. J., recording secretary, and the Rev. Dr. Robert D. Wynn, Newark, N. J., treasurer. Educated Young Men on the Farm. The colored population of Alabama has increased by upward of 80,000 within the past ten years, according to the latest report. There are 16,200 more farms owned by the race in the state, and the total farm acreage is said to be 3,000,000. The valuation of farm property is estimated at $10,000.00. This remarkable increase is due in a large measure to the more recent improved methods of intensive farming used by the hundreds of educated young men who have gone out from the various industrial schools and are devoting their time to agricultural pur suits. Able Trio of United States Senators. Forty-two years ago the late Hiram Revels, who was a native of North Carolina, was elected to the United States senate by the Mississippi legislature. Mr. Revels was educated at the Quaker college, Liberty, Ind., and at Knox college, in Illinois. In 1860 he went to Natchez, Miss., where he soon became active in politics and was elected to the city council, and the next year he was duly chosen as United States senator. He served as such from February, 1870, to March, 1871. Two other colored men have also served as United States senators—namely, the Hon. P. B. S. Pinchback and the late Hon. B. K. Bruce. They were all able men and filled their station with credit and marked adaptability. Professor J. Melvin Lamb Dies. In the recent sudden death of Dr. J. Melvin Lamb, professor in the medical department of Howard university, in Washington, the institution has been deprived of one of its most efficient instructors. Professor Lamb had served the school for over a quarter of a century. He was widely known, much loved and noted for his close application to the science of medicine in all of its branches. SEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., MARCH 23, 1912. RACE ADVISED TO SPLIT VOTE Review of Political Life Among Afro-Americans In 1911. Book Dealing With Many Phases of Racial Interest Compiled by Monroe N. Work Devotes Much Space to the Arguments Advanced by the Different Political Organizations. The review of the political activities among the colored citizens of the country during the past year as prepared by Mr. Monroe N. Work of the department of records and research at the Tuskegee (Ala.) institute is a timely document. It is especially interesting in view of the present national political situation. The matter is now in press and will be issued in book form. The situation is pretty well covered by the following facts: May 17 the national Negro Democratic convention was held at Indianapolis, Ind. The following appeal was sent out: We, the Negroes in the national Democratic convention assembled this 17th day of May, 1911, desire to appeal to the colored voters of the United States to open their eyes to the condition surrounding us as a race and suggest that it is wisdom's way that the Negro should no longer follow blindly one party to its own harm and detriment, as he has heretofore followed the Republican party. We believe that the american Negro should not vote the white man or the white man and be found in all political parties for precisely the same reason that the white men are found in all parties. Therefore, as we Negro Democrats reaffirm our allegiance to the Democratic party, believing that its principles for reck-procety and for tariff for revenue only are the most conducive for an economical administration of the affairs of the American people, and for the approval of the masses of the common people, we earnestly appeal to the intelligent, honest, law abiding colored citizens of the United States of America to organize and club themselves together in Democratic clubs preparatory for the war of the ballot in 1912. Remember the anarchy, evil and hidth himself, but the fool goes out and is overtaken in the error of his ways." The National Independent Political Rights league met in Boston in September. In its address to the country it demanded (1) the enforcement of the constitution to stop disfranchisement and peonage; (2) the passage of an anti-fimcrow law for interstate passengers; (3) federal aid to education with the same schooling for all; (4) restoration of the discharged Brownsville soldiers; (5) legislation making lynching a capital offense under federal jurisdiction. President Taft, on the matter of officeholding by Negroes, said in an interview published in the Outlook: "What I have done in this line (of recognition of the Democracy of the south) has been without sacrifice of any interest of my own party. I have appointed many Negroes to office and have given some of them, like Lewis, Johnson and McKinley, offices of essential dignity at Washington, What I have not done is to force them upon unwilling communities in the south itself. I have appointed none where I knew that the race feeling was strong and have preferred giving large offices to well equipped Negroes of the higher class to scattering a lot of petty ones among the mass of their race. This is not because I lack sympathy with the Negroes, but because I want to see them advance." In California the woman suffrage advocates appointed special workers among the colored people, and it is reported that the Negroes generally supported the suffrage movement. In Illinois 150 delegates of the Coalition league met in Springfield and adopted resolutions in which they declared themselves opposed to all present political parties. The Negro voters of the state were urged to vote independently. In Louisiana there has been a bitter fight against the black and tan faction and the illy white faction of the Republican party for supremacy. The fight was carried before the recent meeting of the national Republican committee in Washington, and the old line Republicans charged the illy whites with not dealing fairly with them. In Maryland the colored voters played a part in the recent state election which was out of the ordinary. They did not ask the white political leaders for money, but organized and contributed funds to carry on the campaign. They placed $500 in the hands of the leaders of the campaign, with the request that the money be used for the election of the Republican governor and to defeat the Diggs disfranchisement bill. Early in December the Taft Colored Republican Association of New Jersey met in Trenton and adopted resolutions indorsing the administration of Presi- dent Taft and pledging allegiance to the Republican party, both national and state. In North Carolina the lily white faction of the Republican party is said to have made a miserable and disappointing show in the state election. In South Carolina it is said that for the first time in thirty years all the colored Republicans are working together and are being supported by the old line white Republicans. The Rev. Richard Carroll, Professor M. T. Frederick, Thomas E. Miller, Henry Toole and several other colored men voted in the South Carolina Democratic primary. Independence in voting seems to be getting more popular. THE NEW YORK MISSION. Needs and Future Usefulness Pointed Out by Dr. John L. Barten. Out by Dr. J. L. Barton. Speaking of the urgent needs of the New York Colored mission, Dr. J. L. Barton, chairman of the board of managers, said recently: The Negro in the north needs industrial training as much as or even more than the Negro in the south. In the north he must compete with the white man, and unless he can do as well or even better he cannot get remunerative employment. In the cities a large majority of the Negroes are hopelessly submerged. Little can be done to increase the efficiency of the older generation, but an earnest effort should be made at once to rescue the boys and girls from the adverse conditions which surround their parents. The first step to this end is to supplement the knowledge gained in the public schools with an industrial training. The New York Colored mission, an institution founded and managed by white people for the moral, social and religious elevation of the Negro, after a careful study of prevailing conditions desires to establish an industrial farm institute. A farm of 405 acres located in Orange county, N. Y., fully equipped with agricultural appliances, has been offered at a maximum price of $50 per acre. Is there not some one with large means and a larger heart who will purchase this farm and help the New York Colored mission to inaugurate this urgently needed work? Contributions may be sent to L. Hollingsworth Wood, 2 Wall street, New York, treasurer of the board of managers. Further information will be cheerfully furnished and references of the highest character given as to the standing of the institution to those who may be interested. CENTURY OF METHODISM To Be Celebrated In 1916—Movement Started by Dr. B. H. W. Leak Raleigh, N. C.-Rev. Dr. R. H. W. Leak of this city has started a movement to celebrate the centennial of the African Methodist Episcopal church to be held in Philadelphia in 1916. The idea has already been approved by the board of bishops of the denomination. It was in Philadelphia in 1816 that Richard Allen and a band of followers who had a few years before seceded from the Methodist church on account of the manifestations of race prejudice met and organized the A. M. E. church. From that time the denomination has steadily grown until today it has nearly a million members, many educational institutions and other interests. Its foreign mission work in West and South Africa has grown to large proportions. Many of the most successful ministers and teachers among our people received their education and BEV. DR. B. H. W. LEAK. special training in the schools fostered by the African Methodist church. Dr. Leak's plan will probably be adopted by the coming general conference of the denomination. Dr. Leak is one of the best known men in the connection. Born in North Carolina over fifty years ago, he has long been active in the church, having been a delegate to every general conference since 1880. He is the founder of Kittrell college at Kittrell, N. C., and even mortgaged his home to give this now flourishing school a start. He is prominently mentioned for the episcopacy and has strong backing from his conference, the North Carolina, and from other sections of the country. He is a presiding elder, with headquarters at Durham, N. C. HENSEN AMONG SPRING AUTHORS Makes Valuable Contribution to Literature on Exploration. FOREWORD BY ROBERT E. PEARY Noteworthy Achievement of Foremost Explorer of the Race—Authentic Account of Many Dangerous Adventures and Thrilling Scenes—Illustrations From Photographs by the Author. By N. BARNETT DODSON New York.—Among the many spring publications thus far issued Matthew A. Hensen's book, entitled "A Negro Explorer at the North Pole," is considered by literary critics to be the most valuable contribution to the literature of exploration since the appearance of Commander Robert E. Peary's book, "The North Pole." The foreword is written by Commander Peary and the introduction by Booker T. Washington. In the foreword to the book Commander Peary says: "Friends of arctic exploration and discovery with whom I have come in contact and many whom I know only by letter have been greatly interested in the fact of a colored man being an effective member of a serious arctic expedition and going north not once, but numerous times, during a period of over twenty years, in a way that showed that he not only could and did endure all the stress of arctic conditions and work, but that he evidently found pleasure in the work. "Hensen proved his fitness by long and thorough apprenticeship, and his participation in the final victory which MATTHEW A. HENSEN. planted the stars and stripes at the north pole and won for this country the international prize of nearly four centuries is a distinct credit and feather in the cap of his race." Dr. Booker T. Washington in his introductory remarks writes: "One of the first questions which Commander Peary was asked when he returned home from his long, patient and finally successful struggle to reach the pole was how it came about that, besides the four Eskimos, Matt Hensen, a Negro, was the only man to whom was accorded the honor of accompanying him on the final dash to the goal." The question was suggested, no doubt, by the thought that it was but natural that the positions of greatest responsibility and honor on such an expedition would as a matter of course fall to the white men of the party rather than to a Negro. To this question, however, Commander Peary replied in substance: "Matthew A. Hensen, my Negro assistant, has been with me in one capacity or another since my second trip to Nicaragua in 1887. I have taken him on each and all of my expeditions except the first and also without exception on each of my farthest sledge trips. This position I have given him primarily because of his adaptability and fitness for the work and secondly on account of his loyalty. He is a better dog driver and can handle a sledge better than any man living except some of the best Eskimo hunters themselves." The book is interesting not only because it tells of the extraordinary achievements of a colored man, but the clear and logical manner in which Mr Hensen relates in detail every important feature of the journey to and from the pole, with side lights on Eskimo life and arctic customs. There are seven illustrations from photographs showing Commander Peary in his arctic furs. Hensen immediately after the journey. Morris Morris K. Je- sup at the north pole, taken by the author, and the Roosevelt in winter quarters at Cape Sheridan. Mr. Hensen is without doubt the foremost explorer of the colored race, and the account which he gives in his book of the final conquest of the pole is the only one which will ever be given by a member of the race, for, as he well says, "I went all the way." The book should be in every home for the encouragement and inspiration which it is sure to give to all who may read it and study the methods by which Mr. Hensen made himself useful, honored and respected and, last of all, won for himself world renown. NOBLES OF THE MYSTIC SHRINE ENTERTAIN. Fezzan Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, held a Social Session at Masonic Temple, Western avenue and Charles street, on the 15th, to which all Masons in good standing were invited. More than sixty of the "boys" were present, and judging by the yells of delight which floated out on the mid-night air, they had a "howling good time." There was singing, dancing, music, boxing, and refreshments. During one of the sparing bouts the police rushed in and raided the place, claiming they had been informed that a prize fight was being held. It was difficult to restrain some of the crowd from making use of the fire escape. The boxers were members of the Culture Club, and a strong plea was made to the men for their support towards the Club. The musicians were E. B. James, cello; T. R. Morgan, cornet; Nimrod Singleton guitar; Frank Terry, mandolin. Singers, Clarence McCullough, Edward Davis, George George Johnson (not the Saint Paul George) Earl Stewart and Fred Gamble. This Temple has the distinction of having three of its members on the Roster of the Imperial Council: Jose H. Sherwood, Deputy Imperial Potentate, James A. Ross, Imperial Oriental Guide; Lawson A. Melker, Imperial Chief of Exalted Pass; no other Temple has more than one, and many of them not any officer, in their membership. Much credit is due to the Committee who had this affair in charge; they were, O. D. Howard, C. H. Robinson, J. H. Sherwood, E. B. James, R. M. Johnson, chairman. VILLARD ON LEGAL RIGHTS. Condemns Color Line Policy of American Bar Association. The action of the executive committee of the American Bar association in withdrawing the name of Assistant Attorney General William H. Lewis from the membership roll has caused much dissatisfaction among fair-minded men of the legal profession as well as among many prominent public spirited men who believe in a square deal. From a national standpoint the thing looks bad in view of the high standing and character of Mr. Lewis, and it looks worse when the reputation of the Bar association is taken into consideration. The letter to the president of the Bar association written and sent by Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of the New York Evening Post and chairman of the board of directors of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People, on the subject is well worth reading, the full text of which is here given: New York, March 8. Mr. Lewis Cass Ledyard, President of the American Bar Association. My Dear Sir--The board of directors of this association must express to you the regret of the action of the executive committee of the Bar association in regard to Mr. William H. Lewis. We believe this action to be illegal and contrary to the principle of justice for which your association must stand. We cannot believe that the body of high minded, intelligent men who make up your membership. There is a growing criticism today of the attitude of the courts in the United States toward colored men. Weourseus have found numerous cases of discrimination solely because of color. If an organization pledged to advance the science of jurisprudence, to promote the administration of justice, shows its race prejudice by excluding a man regularly elected into the white collar, colored this criticism will be justified, and it will be justified as applied to men high in the legal profession whom we have had a right to believe stood for the impartial administration of the law to black and white. We wish to express to you our profound conviction that the effort to dismiss from your membership because of his color a man of merit and high attainment is a denial of justice and a blow at democracy. You may wish to ORWILD GARRISON VILLARD, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People. The Knights of Pythias Sermon, Sunday Evening—Bethesda Church. Smoke the Reliable 5c SIGHT DRAFT GIGAR 5c MINNEAPOLIS Rev. A. G. Wilkerson, is an authorized agent in the Twin Cities for the Twin City Star.—C. S. Smith. BETHESDA BAPTIST CHURCH. 1120 8th St. So. Rev. T. J. Carter, Pastor. Sunday 11 A. M. Sub. "The Gospel the Charter of Liberty." 12 M. S. S. Sunda 8 P. M. Pastor T. J. Carter will preach the annual thanksgiving sermon for Nat. Turner Lodge No. 2 K. of P., and Fidelity Court of Calanthe No. 345. The public invited. 12:30 P. M.—Sunday School. ST. JAMES A. M. E. CHURCH. 315 8th Ave. So. 315 8th Ave. So. 11:00 A. M.-Sermon by Pastor 8:00 P. M.-Sermon by pastor. Rev. E. R. Edwards, Pastor. ZION BAPTIST CHURCH. Rev. M. W. Withers will speak morning and evening 11 A. M. Topic, "The Spirit of a Son." 8 P. M. "What is That in Thine Hand." The trustees rally for current expenses was quite successful last Sunday and will be continued through next Sunday and then the amount raised will be announced. The Busy Bee Circle gave a supper and social at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. William Davis, 253 8th Ave. N., Friday evening, March 22nd. Madame Pearl M. Bowie was greeted with a large and appreciative audience at her first appearance at Zion church last Friday night in the musical recital. She proved to be an artist of great ability. None were disappointed in her vocal and instrumental selections. Also the following persons who assisted all seemed to be at their best, Miss Grazia Corneal, Violin selections, Mrs. Hilda Kennedy, elocutionist, Mr. James Burke, vocal solo, Miss Essie Mason, Accompanist, Rev. Withers. We BEG that those who send notes will Write Facts Plainly—on One Side of the Paper—Leave a Space between each item, and Use Common Sense. This is very important. OUR LOCAL TALENT Misses Ada Lewis and Mildred Shull, pianists, and Masters Leon Abbey and Everett Roberts, Child violinists, will make good for Minneapolis on the musical program of the Grand Annual concert by the Knights of Pythias at the Auditorium on April 8th. Chas. H. Miller the General Manager of the K. P. Concert will attempt to equal the success of Mrs. McCullough. To do this is to do much, but he may do it. Mr. F. Peoples, the builder and contractor is remodeling a house for Rev. D. E. Beasley of St. Paul. Mr. Peoples is securing much work and his giving general satisfaction wherever he has secured a contract. K. P. ANNUAL SERMON. Thanksgiving Services. The Annual Sermon to the Knights of Pythias and Ladies of Calanthe will be preached by Rev. T. J. Carter at Bethesda-Baptist church on March 26th at 8 P. M. (Sunday evening). All visiting members are requested to attend. Wear badges and white glaves. Mr. John Hill will soon open his restaurant at the Fair Grounds, which will be a place ti enjoy a lunch after a delightful car ride. THE LADIES OF FIDELITY COURT, 345 will hold a Whist Party at the residence of Mrs. Mattie Darby, 102 Bryant Ave. No., on March 28th. The Final Chances will be sold on the beautiful Shawl. It has been the desire of many to hold the Lucky Number. Take Bryn Mawr car to Laurel Ave. MRS. POPE AND MRS. PLUMMER IN CONNECTION WITH THE FORAKER RESTAURANT WILL FURNISH YOU WITH A FULL LINE OF STRICTLY HOME BAKERY AND DELICATESEN GOODS AT 511 4TH AVENUE SOUTH. If news is not sent to us, we are unable to get it. We do not call to get news. We call to collect your indebtedness to us. Johnson and Dean, of Minneapolis, the International Topliners of Vaudeville, have sailed from Sidney, Australia, for Vancouver, B. C., where they begin the Orpheum Circuit, and will appear in the Twin Cities. A POLITICAL CLUB. Schuyler Phillips is organizing an Independent Political club, called "The Progressives." Their headquarters etc. will be announced later. All copy not inserted will be returned upon receipt of sender's address and postage. ST PETER'S A. M. E. CHURCH. The basement of St. Peters church has been fitted up for a gymnasium with Mr. Noah Stone as manager. Mrs. Stone has charge of the young folks afternoon classes and Miss S. A. Marshall has charge of the Friday evening classes for older girls and women. All are eligible to membership and are cordially invited. A class fee of five cents per week is to be charged. Watch the Star for further information PALM SUNDAY. A special song service will be held in the evening. The Choir will furnish appropriate music. Rev. Lewis will preach at the morning service. The church will be decorated for the occasion. The Helping Hand Society met this week with Mrs. Thornton, 2941 Pillsbury Ave. The attendance and results were favorable and very encouraging to those interested in the work of this society. The trustees will give a dinner at the church on March 26. The Sunday school is making rapid progress. MINNEAPOLIS SUNDAY FORUM. The Forum held a business meeting at Bethesda Baptist church on March 17th, which was well attended. A good program will be offered at St. Peter's church on Easter Sunday. The Social Committee will arrange a program far an entertainment. Proceeds for local charity. A delegate will be sent to the National Negro Educational Congress which which meets in St. Paul in July next Subscribe to the Star. THE WAITERS' UNION. Waiters Local No. 634 met in the banquet room at Dickerson's Cafe on March 19th. Pres P. F. Hale presided. The meeting was an incentive to all members of the craft to get together. Macellus De Vaughan, Geo. V. Holbert, Justin M. Brown, John H. Cooke and O. J. Waller were appointed as a committee to arrange for a public entertainment in the near future. Chas. S. Smith was elected a delegate to the Trades and Labor Assembly. Several new members were received. The next meeting will be held in the parlors of the Porters' and Waiters' Club, Glover Shull, Mgr. 311 Hennepin Ave., on Tuesday, March 26, at 3 P. M. All waiters who wish to join should attend. ORDER OF EASTERN STAR. Dance Well At*anded. The dance of Eastern Star Chapter No. 30 at Dearborn Hall on March 18th, was a well attended affair. Dancing continued till 2 A. M. The committee, Mrs. H. Jackson, Mrs. M. Donaldson, Mrs. Ella Jackson, Mrs Myrtle Judy, Mrs. Louise Donaldson and Mrs. May Taylor helped greatly to make this a grand success. MRS. McCULLLOUGH'S DANCE THE AUTUMN LEAF CLUB MONDAY, MARCH 24. Cecil, the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hudson, 702 E. 28th St., is sick with measles. Mr. Leon Abbey is the only member of his race in the band at the Garfield School. Mrs. Mary Gray of Chicago Ave. is improving after a serious illness. Theodore and Mary—children of Mr. and Mrs. Schuyler Phillips have been very ill with measles. Mrs. Catherine Cannon Copes buried one of her children last Thursday. We claim to be the best advertising medium of the Twin Cities, and when you're not advertised in the Twin City Star, you need not show—that's all. Because the people read the Star for the news, especially in Minneapolis. The day of the Town Crier is be up-to-date, Advertise and Pay for it. A newspaper is the best medium. It reaches the homes and firesides of people who attend public entertainments. These people never go out and loiter around and read hand-bills and hang-up notices. They read the Twin City Star. The Twin City Star Cost less than any other local Negro paper. Then, spend your money as you like. Each issue speaks for its self. RAILROAD EMPLOYEES. Cash Your Checks, No Discount at B. Fink's 3rd and Robert Sts. St. Paul. When in St. Paul don't fail to visit the Waiters' and Porters' free Information Bureau conducted by Johnson & McRay at 45 E. 3rd St. (Up stairs.) Special Sunday Dinner 35c. St. Louis Kitchen, St. Paul. Many notes were received this week too late for insertion. You must pay for use of these columns, if you send your news later than Wednesday. TWIN CITY STAR Miss Sworth Newman will appear at St. James Church in a recital, under the management of Chas. H. Miller. Watch the date—April 11. Rev. I. Toliver, the noted evangelist of Washington, D. C., will conduct a series of Gospel meetings at Pilgrim Baptist church beginning April the 24th, and pastor McDonald is urging his members to prepare for this campaign against sin. Miss Emma Valley fell down the stairs at the Y. W. C. A. and sustained serious injuries. Her mother is very ill at her residence. Mrs. Stephen Harris of Edmunds St., is suffering with La Grippe. Mr. John Thomas graduated from the Minnesota Farm School on March 20th. The funeral service of the late Robert Hatton was conducted at St. James A. M. E. church of which he was an esteemed member on Thursday at 2:30 P. M. Rev. H. P. Jones, pastor, officiated at the service. Remarks were made by Rev. E. H. McDonald. We extend our sympathy to the bereaved. The Social and Literary club of Pilgrim Baptist church is reading "Up From Slavery" by Dr. Booker T. Washington. On Monday, March 25th at 8 P. M., the club will meet at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Durant. 839 Payne Ave. Mr. Henry Johnson, 863 Woodbridge is improving. Mrs. Roach, 920 Park Ave., is suffering from lumbago. Mrs. Mildred Johnson has been confined to her bed during the past week. The friends of St. Paul regret to learn of the extreme illness of Miss Georgia Davis of Duluth. Some will remember that Miss Davis is the granddaughter of Miss Amanda Garvin one of the esteemed members of Pilgrim Baptist church who is now residing at Portland, Oregon. Call at Madame Hart's and see her splendid spring hats. The Zion African Presbyterian church, Rev. E. W. Gilles, Pastor, has moved to 458 Western Ave., St. Paul. 458 WESTERN AVE. ST. PAUL Rev. E. W. Gilles, Temporary Pastor. Attorney J. A. Ross left Thursday for Winnipeg. He will return Sunday. Mr. G. B. Lowe will hold a meeting to establish a young Lodge of Odd Fellows at St. James church on March 24, at 4 P. M. Mr. Nobles Thompson is improving. The funeral of Mrs. Stella Lobbins was held at St. James A. M. E. church last Sunday. Mrs. Bessie Lucas is convalescent. THE RED MOON SHOP. Messrs. Walker Williams, A. C. Lyles and Lincoln Overall are the torsionalists at 124 E. Third St. The Twin City Star is always on sale. Miss Bertha Lewis has returned from St. Louis, Mo., and is living at 540 Rondo St. The residence of Mr. Henderson Perry, 439 Rondo St., was damaged by fire last week. AUTUMN LEAF DANCING CLASS DEARBORN HALL, SO. 5TH ST. ADMISSION 35c. Checking Free McCullough's Full Orchestra. REMEMBER that the sermon to the K. of P.'s will be at 8 P. M, at Bethesda Baptist church. Miss Vivian Hunter entertained last week in honor of Mr. Creighton Thompson of the Aida Overton Walker Co. Miss Florence Utley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Utley, 818 Edmund St. graduated on March 20th from the Class of Domestic Science at the Minnesota Agricultural Society. Mr. William Clayton died at 214 Maple St. after a long illness. His funeral was held Thursday afternoon. He was known as "Poor Bill" and was one of the oldest sleeping car porters in this city. The Excelsior Club was entertained by Mrs. Mildred Sharp at the residence of Mrs. L. A. Melker, 254 St. Albans St., on March 22nd. Mrs. John Davis, 287 W. 7th St., is convalescent after a long illness. The Barraca Club held its first anniversary at the tome of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Wills on March 19th. A musical program was rendered and a delicious dinner was served. Mr. Calvin Buller of Winnipeg spent several days in St. Paul. Mr. Alex. Tucker left for Hot Springs, Ark., on Tuesday evening over the M. and St. L., to improve his health, taking a course of baths. We hope him a pleasant trip, and may he return much improved. ZION'S SONS UP FOR PROMOTION Pastor of Old Ship Church In Montgomery, Ala., In the Lead For Editor of the Star of Zion—Is Well Qualified by Education and Experience For the Position. Montgomery, Ala.—The approaching general conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion church, which will be held in Charlotte, N. C., in May, opens up some interesting questions with reference to the elevation of prominent men to the bishopric and to other high positions in the church. To be sure, he that desirest the office of a bishop desirest a good thing, but from the point of influence and in the matter of gaining a place in the affections of the people no position is quite so desirable as the office of editor of one of the church organs. In the African Methodist Episcopal Zion church the publication that wields the greatest influence and whose appearance is looked forward to weekly with a great manifestation of interest is the Star of Zion, published in Charlotte, N. C., which has been so long and so ably edited by Dr. G. C. Clements, a prospective bishop. Out of the large number of aspirants in the field for the editorship there are a number of men whom the church could well afford to honor, but for special fitness for this particular place Dr. W. A. Blackwell, now pastor of the celebrated Old Ship A. M. E. Zion church in this city, seems to lead. Dr. Blackwell has held a number of important places in the church and has been signally successful because of his fitness, ability and sterling qualities of honesty and integrity. He is every inch a Christian gentleman, a scholar, and has done considerable newspaper work of the class that stamps him as the possessor of the keenest kind of newspaper instinct. While pastor at Little Rock he edited the Western Alarm and at Montgomery the Old Shlp Visitor. He has served as a widely read correspondent for the Star of Zion, for the Boston Advocate, and has done considerable reportorial work on the Elevator as well as serving as a correspondent for the Era, a weekly white paper in South Carolina. Dr. Blackwell is only forty-two years old, but he has done a large amount of work in the Zion church. He has been in the pastorate about twenty-four years, and, besides serving a period as presiding elder, he has been the successful pastor of some of the largest churches in the connection. At Lancaster, S. C.; at John Wesley church, Washington; at the Little Rock church, in Arkansas; the Pennsylvania Avenue church, in Baltimore, and at Old Shlp church, in Montgomery, he has established a record as a pastor that is country wide. In his work he is affable, congenial, yet firm, having but few superiors either as a public speaker or preacher. At three points in particular in the ministry he has erected commodious and worthy structures These places are Lancaster, S. C. Statesville, N. C., and Wilmot, Ark. For sixteen years he taught in connection with his ministerial work. He has an unusual grasp of public questions and often discusses many live subjects from his pulpit here, which is peculiarly regarded as the most attractive in the city among our people. His speeches, addresses and sermons show careful preparation and are always delivered in a convincing and painstaking manner with a thoroughness not academic, but born of a kind of preparation that betrays the man of deep study and research. He is in great demand as a lecturer before schools in the south, and since coming to Montgomery he has been placed on the annual lecture course at Phelps Hall Bible Training school, Tuskegee institute, and has delivered annual sermons or addresses at Tuskegee institute, Miles Memorial college, Corona institute, Lomax-Hanon High and Industrial school, Mount Melgs and the Calhoun Normal and Industrial institute. For the work of editor of the Star of Zion Dr. Blackwell is undoubtedly well qualified. He writes, as he speaks, with thoroughness of detail and candor and truthfulness of statement and is of such a high order of intelligence and dignity that he could easily satisfy the many sided and cosmopolitan readers of the Star of Zion. He thoroughly knows the colored man. He is deeply interested in his people, as his frequent participation in all kinds of beneficent movements will show. His standing in the church and with his fellow ministers is of gilt edge variety, as can be seen in the fact that he has been a member of the general conference since 1892. He was educated at Ablon academy and State Normal school of Franklinton, N. C., and Livingston college. He was ordained a deacon by Bishop Harris at Parksdale, Ark., in 1891, and an elder by Bishop Walters in 1892 at Little Rock. For the consideration of the delegates to the general conference and the members of the church at large Dr. Blackwell has erected a substantial platform upon which he rests his chances for elevation to the editorship of the Star of Zion. CHURCHE5. ST. THOMAS EPISCOPAL SCURCH 5th Ave. So. and 27th St. Minn. Rev A. H. Leaitad, Rector. Service at 8 o'clock. P. M. All are invited. Come. ST. PETERS A. M. E. CHURCH, 223 St. between 8th and 10th Avenues. Services are at 10:30 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. Sunday school at 12:30. Rev. F. M. Lewis, Pastor. ST. JAMES A. M. E. CHURCH, 315 Eighth Ave. A. M. Sunday services at 11 Sunday morning. School at 11 p. m. Rev. E. R. Edwards, Pastor. BETHESA BAPTIST CHURCH, 1120 Eighth Street So. Preaching every Sunday morning and evening. Rev. T. J. Carter, Pastor. ZION BAPTIST CHURCH, 6th Avenue N. and 4th St. Services morning and evening. Sunday. Rev. M. W. Wilbers, Pastor. ST. PAUL. St. James A. M. E. Church, Rev. H. P. Jones, Pastor, Cor. Jay and Fuller Sts. All are welcome. ZION PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 353 University Ave. LODGES. ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR. Deputy, installs and organizes Chapters of The O. E. Star. Pleased to consult any one interested. Residence Mrs. Anna B. Harris, Grand District 285 Rondo St., St. Paul, Minn. BROTHERHOOD. Lo, soul, seest thou not God's purpose? The earth to be spanned, connected by network, The people to become brothers and sisters, The races neighbors, to marry and be given in marriage. A REAL NEWSPAPER. A newspaper isn't simply a bare chronicler of events. It is a personality. It comes into your house almost as a member of your family. What sort of a person do you like to have visit you? He ought to be honest, courageous, no hypocrite, and a gentleman, with a real interest in you, ready to lend a hand if you need help. Cheerfulness and good humor are excellent qualities, and a wide range of interests. What do you find in The Star? It has opinions, of course, and it speaks them out freely. They are its own and they are not influenced by outside interests. The square deal is its platform. In handling news it observes the decencies and amenities of life. It never wantonly brings shame or sorrow to any home. Its advertisements are clean. If the Twin City Star does not bring you something of interest in any particular issue, it has failed by so much that week. It takes of its hat and apologizes for having bored you as a visitor. But it trusts this doesn't often happen. Not often, does it? To subscribe is to pay. Subscribe now. Two Dollars a Year. The sentiment of the American public knows no bounds. They chose any time or place to perform any ceremonies which may appeal to their fads or fancies. — The lynching of Negroes by white men is prevalent, yet the lynching of white men by white men has proven that this lawlessness is not born of prejudice alone, but out of a custom practiced by these public executioners, who disregard the written laws of the land and hold justice as a mockery. DO YOU WANT TO BE WELL DRESSED? THEN I AM YOUR TAILOR Let me make your Spring Suit or Overcoat from my Chicest Stock of Latest Patterns. Perfect Fit. Quality and Work man ship Guaranteed. Reasonable Prices. Special attention given to repairing, cleaning. your Spring Sub or Overcoat from my Choicees Stock of Lates Patterns. Perfect Fit. Quality and Workmanship Guaranteed. Reasonable Prices. Special attention given to repairing, cleaning and pressing. Tel. N. W. Cedar 3488. CLIFFORD A. SMITH. 109 E. 8th ST., ST. PAUL, MINN. DO YOU WANT TO BUY? Real Estate, Farms Lands, Desirable City Property. From 10, 15, 20, 30 and 40 acres and upwards, Ten Blocks from N. P. R. R. Station. 10 acre plots $10 down and $5.00 per month. 40 acres—$25 down and $8 per month. I can give you a safe investment. Call or write for information to, REV. JOS. S. STRONG. R. 27-28 UNION BLOCK, ST. PAUL, MINN. Everybody's News—Everybody's Paper. HEGENER L. I. HEGENER 207 Micellist TWIN CITY RAZORS full hollow, ground, guaranteed, $1.35 each. A full line of Table Cutter, Carvers. Manloure Scissors and Tools Cutter grinding. SYLVESTER W. OLIVER. Working Men's Social Club OLIVER BROS., Managers PHONE: Nicollet 0506 206 So. Second St. Minneapolis, Minn. YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND THE ROYAL DANCING CLUB 1311 Washington Ave. So. CLASSES EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT Refreshments. Admission 250. Newest Dances Will be Featured. DANCING 9 P. M. TO 2:30 A. M. TYLER'S ORCHESTRA. Miss Brightie Lowe, Piano; Chas. Minor, Cornet; Jas. Collins, Collo; John W. Tyler, Traps and Drums. Shirley Reddixx, President, Jno. W. 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Refined Vaudeville Moving Picture Shows Continous Performance Admission 10 Cents Children 5 Cents POPULAR PRICED SHOE REPAIRING WE FIX 'EM WHILE YOU WAIT Men's Sowed Soles, .....75¢ Ladles " " " .....65¢ Men's Nailed " .....90 and 90¢ Rubber Heels, " .....40¢ Ladies and Boys' nalled soles .....40¢ SEVEN CORNERS SHOE REPAIR SHOP 1424 WASHINGTON AVENUE SOUTH Defective Page effective Page "On the 4th of March next I shall have, served three and a half years and his three and a half years constitute my first term. The wise custom which limits the President to two terms requires the substance and not the form. And under NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL I BE A CANDIDATE FOR OR ACCEPT ANOTHER NOMINATION." ELECTION MIGHT STRENGTH OF PRESIDENTAL GOVERNMENT. NOV. 9, 1928. "I WILL ACCEPT THE NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT IF IT IS TENDER ME. T. ROBERTT OFFER BAY NY. FEB 28, 1912. THE RECALL OF A DECISION. THE PRESIDENT'S ECONOMY RECORD Taft Insists That Government Be Run on Sound Business Basis. HIS PROGRESSIVE POLICY His Personal Efforts to Reduce Cost of Effiicient Service Bring Results—Business Methods Applied—Economy and Efficiency Commission Fought by Democrats. President Taft more than any of his predecessors in the White House has given strict attention to placing the government upon a business basis as regards its receipts and expenditures. Economy and efficiency became one of the cardinal policies of his administration as soon as he entered upon the presidency, and it was well for the country that this was so, for his administration inherited a deficit in the treasury of $58,000,000, which has now been transformed into a surplus of $80,000,000. The average citizen and taxpayer will be interested in this fact, because the problem which confronted the president at the outset, although upon a gigantic scale, was similar to that of the ordinary shopkeeper or business man, farmer or wage earner or even housewife who is called upon to make "both ends meet" either in business or in the home. By law the secretary of the treasury is called upon every year to submit to congress in December the "estimates" of governmental expenditures for the next fiscal year, beginning the following July 1. As congress has to provide the money to run the government, the money has to be appropriated for specific purposes before it can be expended, and if this were not done before the beginning of the fiscal year the machinery of government would stop unless emergency provision could be made. How Estimates Are Made. The "estimates" are prepared by the executive departments of which each member of the cabinet is a head. The cabinet officers get the "estimates" in their respective departments from their chiefs of bureaus and then combine them as the "estimates" for the department. The "estimates" from all departments are then sent to the secretary of the treasury to be submitted to congress, and they then become the "estimates" for the cost of running the entire government during the next fiscal year. Upon these figures congress makes the greater part if its appropriations, amounting to more than $1,000,000,000 annually. Until 1908 a more or less lax method of making estimates for the annual appropriations obtained throughout the government. The figures sent to congress each year, instead of showing indications of a careful "pruning" all along the line, showed there was a disposition among the departments to vie with each other in getting as large appropriations as possible without considering whether or not the money demanded could be advantageously expended during the coming year. There was no standardization of supplies, and the various departments were paying varying prices for the same article. What President Taft Did. As soon as President Taft took office this system ceased. At the outset President Taft impressed upon his cabinet officials the absolute necessity of economy and efficiency in their departments. He admonished them that not a dollar beyond what was necessary to run the government efficiently in their departments, including a fair margin for progress, which is a part of efficiency in the program of President Taft, should be asked of congress. The effect was immediate. Every depart- ment began work at once to investigate its own expenditures and to devise ways and means of curtailing extravagances. The result was that congress received the lowest estimates it had seen in years. This was followed by a reduction in appropriations to correspond, always allowing for the natural growth of the government's activities, which represented a net saving to the taxpayers of the country. President Taft was not, however, satisfied that all had been done that could be done. He realized that the departments of the government, like individuals, are naturally prone to be proud of their own achievements and by reason of their familiarity with their own endeavors often insisted that their work was more important than the work of the other departments, relatively speaking. In order to correct that evil he asked congress to give him $100,000 for a commission of disinterested experts to investigate and report on the business of the government, with a view to further economy and efficiency. Thus came into official being the commission of that name. This commission, among other duties, was directed to prepare the receipts and expenditures of the government on a "budget" basis, which is the system followed by practically all the leading nations of the world except the United States. Under this system it is possible for the humblest citizen to analyze the finances of the government at any time and to lay his finger upon the responsible political party in the event of extravagance or of stinginess. The system under which appropriations for the government of the United States have been made has even defied the experts in their endeavors to unravel the tangled skeins of expenditures, so that it is a fair statement to say that no citizen of this country up to the present time has ever thoroughly understood where his taxes were expended. The President's Position. At the present time the Democratic house of representatives is endowing to end the usefulness of the economy and efficiency commission by cutting off its appropriations. In a recent appeal to congress for funds to continue the great work it has begun, which all thinking men and women will approve, President Taft pointed out that the people of the country as a whole are interested chiefly in the following governmental objects: The national defense, the protection of persons and property, the promotion of friendly relations and the protection of American interests abroad, the regulation of commerce and industry, the promotion of agriculture, fisheries, forestry and mining, the promotion of manufacturing, commerce and banking, the promotion of transportation and communication, the postal service, including postal savings banks and parcels post; the care and utilization of the public domain, the promotion of education, art and science and recreation; the promotion of public health and the care and education of the Indians and other wards of the nation. There are many other public questions, of course, but these are the vital and comprehensive ones, and the "budget" is proposed for the purpose of giving information as to the needs of these matters. The president, in order that his policy of economy and efficiency may be concluded and become one of the greatest achievements of his administration—that of placing the government on a business basis—wants congress to appropriate $250,000 more for the support of the commission now doing that work. The economy and efficiency commission has already saved to the taxpayers of the country more than $3,000,000 annually by its suggestions and by the time it has completed its work it is believed ten times this sum can be saved annually to the taxpayers. In the matter of railroad fare for government officials alone it has found that $12,000,000 was expended in a single year at the highest prevailing railroad rates. At least a fourth of this can be saved by the application of business methods such as President. Taft has applied and has insisted shall be applied to all the departments of the government. TWIN CITY STAR SOCIAL SEASON IN WASHINGTON Many Timely Topics Discussed. Race Stands by Lewis. THE POLITICAL SITUATION. Elite Society Preparing For the Annual Assembly of the Monican Club—Taft and Wickersham Being Praised For Their Loyalty to Assistant Attorney General W. H. Lewis. Washington—No city in the world has such a cultured and intelligent population as this city, and in no city has colored society attained a point so nearly approaching the best society of other races as is true of this city. Washington abounds in beautiful maidens and handsome matrons, and their social entertainments approximate those given by the society devotees in the exclusive aristocratic white circles. The homes of the colored people in Washington—that is, many of them—are large, commodious and elegantly furnished, and with the large number of high colored federal officials now in Washington an impetus is given to the social side of life. Just now the ladies are on the tiptoe of feminine expectation and, anticipation in view of the approaching Monican club assembly, which is by far the most elaborate affair in Washington society. The after Lenten assembly of the Monican club is always a perfect riot of beautiful women, elegant gowns and fine looking gentlemen, the very cream of Washington's society always being present. There are few of Washington's colored Four Hundred—that is, the women—who are not now discussing and arranging for the gowns they will wear on this particular occasion. And these assemblies are usually attended by a large number of strangers, ladies and gentlemen coming from a distance to be present at the after Lenten assembly of the Monican club. The invitation list to a Monican club affair is usually limited to 350, and the result is there is always a veritable scramble to secure one of the much coveted invitations. The new president of the Monican club is Mr. Walter Pinchback, a son of ex-Governor Pinchback. The membership of the club itself is limited to twenty-five gentlemen. The regular monthly meeting is always followed by the serving of a collation almost equal to an ordinary Washington banquet. The stand that Attorney General Wickersham took in defense of Mr. William H. Lewis, the colored assistant attorney general, has caused him to be fairlyooded with letters of approval and commendation from colored men in every section and state of the country, and hundreds of white men are also writing the attorney general indorsing his courageous stand for a colored man. President Taft is also being praised in the most earnest manner by colored men, for it is well known here in Washington that President Taft was not only consulted by Attorney General Wickersham in the matter, but he gave unqualified approval of Mr. Wickersham's course. The 100,000 colored population in Washington, men and women in every walk of life, have done nothing for the past few weeks but discuss the defense of Mr. Lewis made by the attorney general. Through it all Mr. Lewis has borne himself with becoming modest and dignity. Many a man, it is said, might have been swept off his feet by the favorable and commendable press reports received by Mr. Lewis, but not so with the brainy Boston man, who so acceptably fills the highest position ever given a Negro by any Republican administration. Capable Men in the Federal Service. Recorder of Deeds Henry Lincoln Johnson, who is just back after a month spent in his native state. Georgia, is so full of political news that you have only to mention politics to start the genial colonel from Atlanta in discoursing on the splendid qualities of his chief, President Taft. Mr. Johnson, it is said, in the man who swung Georgia in line for the president. An encouraging sign of the times is that Mr. Johnson is working loyalty with the other distinguished colored federal officials here in looking after the best interests of the race. A distinguished member of congress the other day in referring to colored federal officials—and, by the way, he was a Democrat, too-said: "The class of colored men now holding office is a big improvement over those who held office some years ago, taken as a whole. And no president ever was surrounded with as many bright, bratty and really efficient Negroes as President Taft has surrounded himself with. It used to be that the average colored federal official simply drew his monthly stipend and permitted the white men of the office to do the work. The bunch of colored federal officials in Washington, and it is the largest number ever assembled at the capitol, are all workers, every man of them knowing his duties and performing them with signal ability. The fact that President Taft has surrounded himself with such an intelligent, capable and efficient corps of colored officials, and so many of them, is response for his (the president's) strong hold on the race." The foregoing from a congressman, from a man who frequently has business with the bureaus over which colored officials preside, is regarded by colored men throughout the country as a high tribute to the race. Judge Robert H. Terrell of the municipal court delivered an address at Harrisburg, Pa., recently before the largest colored audience ever assembled in that city. The reports reaching Washington are to the effect that the judge made one of the finest addresses ever delivered there by a man of any race, and the large number of whites present attested to the popularity of the judge and the good feeling existing between the whites and colored people of Harrisburg. Judge Terrell, like Assistant Attorney General Lewis, is in great demand as a speaker by his race, requests being received by both of these men from every section of the country. Mrs. Mary C. Terrell, wife of Judge Terrell, easily the most brilliant colored woman orator in this country and having few equals among the whites, is also in great demand. The recent appearance in Boston of Mrs. Terrell, when she addressed the girls of two exclusive white schools, was one of the highest compliments ever paid the race, and Mrs. Terrell, according to the white press of Boston, acquitted herself splendidly. But Washington is thronged with colored men and women who are good speakers in public. Oratory is not a lost art among the colored people in Washington. Famous "Black Cabinet" to the Fore. The now famous "black cabinet" is being praised by the race in every part of the country for the effective work it did recently in urging the president to consider the cause of their race in making his appointment of a judge to succeed the late Judge Harlan. The "black cabinet," as it has been styled by a few, is composed of Assistant Attorney General Lewis, Register of the Treasury J. C. Napler, the collector of customs here, Whitfield McKinley; Judge Robert H. Terrell, Henry Lincoln Johnson, Recorder of Deeds James A. Cobb, assistant United States district attorney, and Ralph W. Tyler, auditor for the navy. Mr. Tyler is regarded as the dean of the cabinet. He has been styled by some the "Black Senator Crane" for the reason that he is so quiet, unobtrusive and effective in what he undertakes to do. The pretty thing about this cabinet is the cordial relations existing between them. Hardly a day passes but what these six officials take their noon lunch together, at which time they carefully discuss and plan things for the benefit of their race. Hon. J. C. Napier, register of the treasury, is back at his desk after a trip through Florida with Dr. Washington. Before returning to Washington Mr. Napier stopped off at his home in Nashville, Tenn. Mr. Napier is making a most enviable reputation as register of the treasury, and the treasury department regards him as the superior of any predecessor. Officeholding is a public trust and duty with Mr. Napier, for possessed of much of this world's good he does not need to hold office for a livelihood. Hon. Ralph Tyler Back From the West. Mr. Ralph W. Tyler, auditor of the navy department, is back in Washington after a quick circuit of the west. What he heard and saw no one knows, for, as usual, in political matters he is as uncommunicative as a clam. William L. Houston, ex-grand master of the Odd Fellows and present member of the Odd Fellows' supreme court, is making quite an active and, they say, effective campaign for the grand secretaryship of the order. Mr. Houston is one of the most popular colored men in Washington, liked by every one because of his genial disposition. A friend referring to him the other day remarked that "Bill Houston is a ray of sunshine and a cup of cheer." Most of Washington votes on this. Dr. I. N. Ross, pastor of the Metropolitan A. M. E. church, the largest congregation in this city, is an out and out candidate for a place on the bishopric bench of his church. Reports received in Washington indicate that the eloquent pastor of Metropolitan church has quite a following, and not a few have the temerity to predict that he will be elected a bishop at the next general conference. Prior to coming to Washington Dr. Ross was pastor of Big Bethel at Atlanta, Ga. He has had many charges in many states and has been very successful. As a pupil orator Dr. Ross has few equals in his church. L. B. Lapaly on Ann Arbor Track Team Lorenzo B. Lapaly, student in dentistry at Ann Arbor university, Michigan, is a full fledged member of the college track team. Lapaly is a native of Portland, Ore., where he graduated from the Ladd grammar school before going to Ann Arbor. He is fond of athletic sports and is considered a valuable acquisition to the athletic fraternity of the university. State Federation of Women's Clubs. The annual meeting of the Empire State Federation of Women's Clubs will be held in New York city for two days, beginning on Tuesday, July 2 Prominent clubwomen from many sections of the country are expected to attend, as many of them will be on their vacation and en route to the national association, which meets in Hampton, Va., in August. Political Situation In Arkansas. Political Situation in Arkansas. The colored citizens of Arkansas are organizing to defeat the "grandfather clause" which will come up for adoption at the fall elections. In Little Rock the Hon. John E. Bush is giving the matter of organization much personal attention. The scheme of the author of the amendment is to disfranchise the colored voters of the state. LARGEST SHIP AFLOAT. The Imperator, being built at Hamburg, will be three city blocks in length, and will be completed in 1913. There are nine decks above the water line. She is to have ancient roman plunge baths, in gold and ivory, a tennis court, roof garden, squash court, gymnasium, rathskeller, theater, moving picture show, and buffet service in the style of four countries. In her offerings she will miss the best, if she does not serve golden grain belt beers, which are liked by Americans because of their taste, which is shared by no other brew. WAITERS ORGANIZE A Walters' Local was organized on March 12, at the Porters' and Walters' Club, and the following officers were elected and installed: Pres. P. F. Hale, V. Pres., Al. Moss, Treas. Walter Dodson, Rec. Secy. P. H. Southall, Fln. Secy. Geo. V. Holbert, Chaplain B. M. McDew, Inspector, Jas. Griffin, Inner Guard O. J. Waller. We earnestly request those who receive this paper and WHO HAVE NOT PAID FOR IT, send their subscription or a notice of refusal. The habit of never paying for Negro papers has been cultivated by our people, and we are forced to call the attention of these "Newspaper Parasites" to this fact. It is the boast of a leading Negro of the Twin Cities that he "never pays for Negro papers." Race prejudice in America, while contrary to reason and equity, has accomplished one great and necessary good for the Negro. It has served as a stimulus to more determined effort and is now on the verge of accomplishing race solidarity to a greater extent than has ever before been existent. God moves in a mysterious way. His wonders to perform, and what we consider hardships are often blessings in disguise. It is sometimes wise to punish a man in order to awaken his latent energies and the same is true of races. Those who suffer most become the strongest because they have triumphed over hardships. The rosy path in life is not conducive to the development of latent power and the thorny path of prejudice has done more to stimulate Negro effort than anything else. There will come a time when this prejudice must fall and go the way of all other discarded implements of civilization and that time is not far away. The Negro is making good—Yonkers (N. Y.) Standard. EVENED UP. No change of Fortune's calms Can cast my comforts down; When Fortune smiles, I smile to think How quickly she will frown. —Southwell. There is no people in the world which more quickly recognizes and appreciates the qualities of frankness and sincerity, whether they are exhibited in a friend or in an opponent, in a white man or in a black man, than the white people of the South. I have found that there is a class that has gained a good deal of fleeting popularity for possessing what was supposed to be courage in cursing and abusing all classes of Southern white people on all possible occasions. But as I have watched the careers of this class of Negroes in practically every case their popularity and influence with the masses of colored people have not been lasting. Booker T. Washington in the World's Work. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. We are not "cutting rates" to meet opposition. Our position is secure, yet we offer every inducement to advertisers. You can get a line or a page. We want your ad. You need our space. If you can get cheaper rates in other publications, with equal results, you should do so. Advertising is essential to business—if your business is worth advertising. Your Word is good, but your money is legal tender, and we can use it at all times. WHERE TO TRADE. The honest merchant is a Successful merchant; the Successful merchant Knows the Advantage of Advertisement what he has for sale. Stores and business places advertising in THE TWIN CITY STAR are the best places at which to spend your money and get your money's worth. We therefore recommend to the trading public those business places carrying an Ad. in THE TWIN CITY STAR. ADVERTISEMENTS. Earle Stewart Earle Ihler Phone N. W. S. 1334 T. S. Center 1302 "THE TWO EARLE'S." ORCHESTRA. GOOD MUSIC—REASONABLE PRICES. Pupils of Mrs. N. McCullough. Special Call, N. W. Main 4231. SUITS OR OVERCOATS MADE TO ORDER. LADIES' AND GENTS' CLOTHES CLEANED, PRESSED AND REPAIRED. Called for and Delivered. GOLDEN RULE TAILORS. S. W. Stock, Mgr. 1311 WASHINGTON AVENUE SO. N. W. Phone, Nlc. 3350. The management of The Royal Dancing Club will present a Prize each Friday evening to the lady receiving the lucky number. FIVE CENTS A LINE. Send 25c in stamps with your "Rent ads." and they will be inserted, and a copy containing insertion will be sent to your address. Write plainly. Address The Twin City Star, Minneapolis. RAILROAD MEN'S REST CLUB. 505 W. Madison St., Chicago, Ill. Opp. New Northwestern Depot. Library, Barber Shop, Dining Room. Check Room and Sleeping apartment. Chas. Lytle Pres. B. T. Bibb, Mgr. Rich'd Drew Sec. Tel. Franklin 2839 FOR ABSOLUTE PROTECTION against sickness, (paying for all diseases) accidents, and death see Hustling T. R. Morgan, 27 Union Block, St. Paul. AT TOM'S PLACE. You can Cook, Wash, Iron, Press, and Bathe, These Privileges go with your room—from $150 per week upwards. 1304 Wash. Ave. So., or 15 2nd St. Tel. Nel. N27. 1216. (adv.) AGENTS WANTED:—Male .or .Female, to handle our specialties, $3.00 to $4.00 a day can be easily made. 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"And he will judge between the nations and will decide concerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."—Isaiah 2:1v. ADVERTISE—IT HELPS It is not uncommon for a teacher or a minister to go to some white shop which would go out of business before it would employ a colored person, and have his printing done. After paying the white man for the program, the next thing in order is to send one to us to note in the paper for nothing. Gentlemen, quit doing this way. It dies not show good sense. We called your attention to this before. Stop it now. Dallas Express. They do the same thing down this way, and we have, as you, been bothered with their write ups.—Palestine, Texas Plaindealer. This is a racial weakness. It applies to all branches of business and is usually done by the educated classes of our people, those who are higher up. The best way to break it up is to expose the people practicing it and to force them into the newspaper and job printing business where they can be punished by losing money, time and patience like the rest of us. White printers are kindly disposed towards the colored print-shops and they make little or no effort to secure this kind of trade which these servile people are constantly forcing upon them.—Richmond Planet. They charge admission up this way, and want a big notice after they take your money, also it is often asked, "Where do you get that at — that reporters are admitted free." Many waiters in our city have scorned the idea of unionism. We are free to say that they have not given proper thought to the value of unity. The question is often asked, "What will it benefit me?" Just what you demand of it. The Walters of Local 634 have organized with this purpose, "to better their condition morally, socially and financially." To do this they must co-operate as a unit, along reasonable lines. It is not an attempt to gain recognition by strikes, etc., of to demand immediate increase of wages etc., but to affiliate with all culinary workers, who under the protection of the Allied Trades and Labor Unions get a greater consideration than could be hoped for without such identification. It is a fact that many other fraternal bene fits are derived from such a union. Its object is grand, yet its benefits will never be realized unless each member does his duty as a man, and remains true to his obligations. Wm. R. Morris, a Negro lawyer of Minneapolis is a member of the American Bar Association. We hope that he was not elected to membership under a misapprehension—and we feel that Atty. Morris is always proud of the fact that he is a NEGRO. ADVERTISE—IT PAYS. ACHIEVEMENTS OF TWENTY GREAT MEN OF THE PAST. Society For Historical Research Gives Their Names. If the progress of a race is to be in any wise judged by the capacity of its members to grasp intellectual knowledge, retain it and use it for the common welfare of the masses of its own people as well as to benefit the public generally, then the following list of eminent men selected by the Negro Society For Historic Research, Yonkers, N.Y.) who have won their spurs as authors, scientists, philosophers, statesmen and warlors is a refutation of the charge made by some person that the colored race is incapable of higher culture. The highest of these is Billy Williams, born 1700, poet, graduate University Cambridge. Anthony William Amo, doctor philosophy. University Wittenberg. 1720. Richard Allen, founder first Negro church in America. J. E. J. Capitain, Latin poet, lingery Lyndon Leyden, 1720. Geoffrey Lislet, botanist, member French Academy Sciences. 1700. Prince Hall, founder Negro Masonry in America. Boston. Crispus Attucks, patrol and sol- dier, 1773. Boston. Eustace, philanthropist, winner Monthyn prize of virtue, Santo Do- mite. Benjamin Bannaker, astronomer, born 1732. Baltimore. Touissant L'Overture, soldier and statesman, born 1743. Alexander Dumas, novelist. Alexander Poushikh, poet, Rus- dian writer. Frederick Douglass, orator, diplo- mat and statesman. Brindis de Sala, violinist, deco- rated by crowned heads of Europe (Cuban). Sir Conrad Reeves, chief justice of the Royal Knights of St. Mica- l's and St. George, Barbados. British West Indies. Alexander Petition, civil engineer, Haiti. Paul L. Dunbar, lyric poet. John B. Russworm, editor first Negro newspaper in New York. Bryan B. Taylor, explorer, journal list and physician. Nathaniel Turner, Negro prophet. LYNCHING AND LAWLESSNESS. Letter to the Outlook, by Kelly Miller Feb. 24, 1912 The recent editorial by ex-President Roosevelt on "Lynching and Lawlessness" should center public attention upon the growing evil which is gnawing at the vitals of the Nation. As Mr. Roosevelt says, "when men grow accustomed to lynching men for one crime they speedily begin to lynch them for other crimes." "The usual crome," once alleged as the sole justifiable excuse for lynching, has now become the most unusual cause. Just as lynching and lawlessness cannot be confined to one cause, so it cannot be confined to one race or to one section of the country. Lawlessness is a swift and sure contagion which respects neither lines of latitude nor geographical demarcation. If slavery could have been confined to the South, there would have been no Republican party and no forcible emancipation. As the Nation could not live half slave and half free fifty years ago, so it cannot endure half lawless and half lawabiding today. The calling of a slave roll under the shadow of Bunker Hill Monument then was no more improbable than the burning alive of human beings on Boston Common is likely now. Negroes by the thousands have been murdered, lynched, tortured, and burned alive with indescribable horrors, while the unabashed persecutors laugh with ghoulish glee at the nullity of the law. Immunity from punishment is high license for lawlessness. Gruesome funeral pyres light the midnight sky with their dismal glaire from Texas to Coatesville. The American people look impotently on with a momentary shudder, only to lapse into their accustomed mood, in sure expectancy of another shock. At each horrific happening the press indulges in a heated spasm of righteous indignation, but soon grows cold again. The outlaws are rarely brought to trial, never to justice. The National conscience is becoming sore. Is this the final expression of our boasted American Christian civilization? Are the energies of the American people so focalized upon material values that the moral sense has become atrophied? The righteous enforcement of righteous law is the greatest issue before the Nation today. For in this is involved not only its justification for existence—but also the perpetuity of its life. WHAT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE GROWTH OF SOCIALISM? There are quite a few Negroes, here and there, who are joining the ranks of the Socialists lately. What does it signify? It might be worth while for us to begin to try to locate the cause. "Oscar W. Underwood, Democratic leader, supporting the proposed Income Tax bill in the House at Washington recently charged that the Supreme Court, by its annulment of the income tax in 1895, was responsible for the growth of Socialism in the United States." So says the St. Paul Pioneer Press of March 19th. Wonder if it is true? At any rate they are making quite a stir in the country. Subscribe to the Star. --- TWIR CITY STAR POINTS PATH OF PROGRESS. Booker T. Washington Has Just Written "My Larger Education." Booker T. Washington, the well-known leader of the movement to make the Negro a useful citizen, has just written "My Larger Education," which is a collection of his experiences as a public man and as an educator. It is practically a continuation of his "Up From Slavery" and carries on the story. Everything for Women's Wear Where Fans 403-405-400 The Very Latest I pertains to Women Real Estate In this volume Mr. Washington notes the mistakes that have been made and points to the path of progress in the further education of the black race. As the leading authority on problems growing out of the occupation of American soil by the Negro, all that he says is of interest Numerous illustrations give the book an added value. New York: Double day, Page & Co. WHAT CONSTITUTES A SUB- SCRIBER? A court decision has lately been rendered in Massachusetts on what constitutes a subscriber. The judge firmly believed that a man who received the paper, although he never subscribed for it, is entitled to pay. James Thompson moved, and William Robinson took immediate possession, and received and accepted a weekly newspaper that was delivered to him through the mails every week. The goodnatured editor sent accounts frequently, but no attention was paid to them by Mr. Robinson. Finally there was a day of reckoning. Robinson had received the paper for some time, he informed the collector, but he said that he never subscribed and declined to pay for it. The judge personally questioned the defendant, who said that he read and made use of it and was receiving the accounts, which were frequently enclosed in the paper. Judgment was rendered in favor of the newspaper. The judge was severe in his criticism of people who are receiving papers and do not think it worth while to pay for what they receive and make use of it as an act of dishonesty, he said one should acquaint the publisher and pay for what numbers he receives.—X. It is necessary that the personalis must be sent by Wednesday. Be sure and sign all communications. THE NEGRO'S DUTY. "What the Negro must do is to contend for his rights in the best spirit without losing his head and he will find the genuine white people the world over respecting them. First, let him respect himself and others will respect him."—(Charleston, S. C. Messenger.) Go to Utley's Barber Shop for your Consortial work,—"Your Bath"—and your "Twin City Star." GOLDEN GRAIN BELT BEERS MINNEAPOLIS BREWING CO. EMPLOYMENT BUREAU. Waite:s' and Porters' Free Information Bureau. Help of all kinds furnished. We make a specialty of furnishing waiters for Banquets and Parties. Hotel in connection. Lee Johnson & Ben O. McRay, props. Phone Cedar 8413. 45 E. 3rd ST., ST. PAUL, MINN. EXPERIENCED ARTISTS SANITARY SERVICE WALKER WILLIAMS, A. C. LYLES, LINCOLN OVERALL. 124 EAST 3rd ST. ST. PAUL. PRINTING FIRST-CLASS WORK MODERATE PRICES BRING YOUR JOB WORK TO THE TWIN CITY STAR 1417 Washington Ave. So. MINNEPOLIS, MINNESOTA Phone: T. S. Center 2520 Where Fashion Reigns Pearces 403-405-407 NICOLLET The Very Latest Ideas in all that permits to Women's Wear. F. PEOPLES REAL ESTATE CO. Contracting and Building 236 BOSTON BLOCK. MINNEAPOLIS Office Phone ..... N. W. Nic. 2188 MACEO CLUB C. W. KING Manager 725 WASHINGTON AVENUE SO. N. W. Phone Nicollet 1404 MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Just opened Desirable Location On All Car Lines THE CARVER HOTEL 1308-10'WASHINGTON AVE. SO. 28 Newly Furnished Rooms. By Day, Week or Month. Special Rates to Theatrical People. Mrs. Alice (Mother) Carver, Prop. N. W. Phone Main 863 BARBER SHOP AND BATHS. DICKERSON CAFE 208 Hennepin Ave. Minn. N. W. Nic. 3765 T. S. Center 581 THE NEW HOTEL HOWARD W. L. Howard, Prop. Furnished Rooms—Gas and Bath MESSENGERS and TAXI-CABS At All Hours. SHOE-SHINING PARLOR AND NEWS STAND. 112 WASHINGTON AVE. N. Minneapolis THE BUSY CORNER. is now open for business. 381 RONDO ST. COR. WESTERN AV: ST. PAUL, MINN. FIRST CLASS RESTAURANT A La Carte From 7 A. M. to 12 P. M. Try McMurray's Fried Oysters, Oyster Loaves, Chitterlings or Kentucky Oysters. Try our Colored Messenger Service. Phone Dale 3601. A. J. McMURRAY GROCERY CO. 381 RONDO ST., ST. PAUL. N. W. Phone Dale 3601. High Grade Work Moderate Prices Phone T. S. Center 4085. H. Larson Photo Studio 313 Washington Ave. Se. My Work for the Colored People has Always Given Satisfaction. "Speaks for Itself" Pabst Blue Ribbon The Beer of Quality Loans, & Insurance A Which is solely owned and controlled by PHIL. REED and RALEIGH THOMPSON. They are known for their Choice Wines, Liquors and Domestic and Imported Cigars High-Class Entertaining with such Well known Entertainers as GILLIE and CURTIS Phones Douglas 5938, Automatic 79-366 Beer is Strengthening Good Beer is Strengthening There is strength in a pure beer like Hochsteiner Brewed under sanitary conditions Purest of ingredients The beer without a headache PURITY BREWING CO. The Leading Bottle Beer Brewery BOTH PHONES 66 MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. AIN 537 OPEN FROM 6 A.M. to 9 P.M. M. G. RUTLEDGE, PROP for Foraker's Political Life is an Open book" THE FORAKER CAFE (ESTABLISHED 1908) 511 FOURTH AVE. 80. BEST SERVICE Day Dinner 25c Business Men's Lunch 15c TO 3 P.M. FROM 11 TO 2 P.M. K, Wholesale Dealer in WINES AND LIQUORS Headquarters for Railroad Men Third and Robert St., St. PAUL YellowStone Whiskey (bottled in bond.) Liquors sold the trade. ALL BRANDS OF BOTTLED BEER K. P. Entertainment Monday, April 8th, 1912 UM ANNEX, MINNEAPOLIS ARSHEIM SHOES Not perfection in fine shoemaking Printed with COMFORT and become one of our SATISFIED CUSTOMERS. ILEY SHOE COMPANY 22 NICOLLET AVENUE PURITY BREWING CO. The Leading Bottle Beer Brewery BOTH PHONES 66 MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. TEL. NORTH WEST MAIN 537 OPEN FROM 6:00 "Senator Foraker's Political THE FORAK ELECTRIC LIGHTED (ESTABLISHED 511 FOURTH Special Sunday Dinner 25c FROM 12 TO 3 P. M. B. FINK, Whole FINE WINES A Headquarters for Cor. Third and Robe Sole Agents of YellowStone Whisker at wholesale to the trade. ALL B. U. R. K. P. Easter Monday, AUDITORIUM ANNE FLORSHEID represent perfection Get acquainted with COMFORE SATISFIED C STANLEY SHOP 422 NICOLL TEL. NORTH WEST MAIN 537 OPEN FROM 6 A.M. to 9 P.M. M. G. RUTLEDGE, PROP "Senator Foraker's Political Life is an Open book" THE FORAKER CAFE (ESTABLISHED 1908) BEST SERVICE ELECTRIC LIGHTED 511 FOURTH AVE. SO. Special Sunday Dinner 25c Business Men's Lunch 15c FROM 12 TO 3 P.M. FROM 11 TO 2 P.M. B. FINK, Wholesale Dealer in FINE WINES AND LIQUORS Cor. Third and Robert St.. ST. PAUL Sole Agents of YellowStone Whiskey (bottled in bond.) Liquors sold at wholesale to the trade. ALL BRANDS OF BOTTLED BEER U. R. K. P. Entertainment Easter Monday, April 8th, 1912 AUDITORIUM ANNEX, MINNEAPOLIS represent perfection in fine shoemaking Get acquainted with COMFORT and become one of our SATISFIED CUSTOMERS. STANLEY SHOE COMPANY 422 NICOLLET AVENUE THE SPIRELLA CORSA Miss Cora E. Anderson, 365 Aurora Ave., St. Paul, is the local agent for the Spirella Corset, worn by the best gowned women. "Speaks "Speaks for Itself" Kobstiern The Pride of L.A. Brewed at the Purity Brewing Co. PURITY BREWING CO. PURITY BREWER Order a Case Today A NEW PLACE A NEW SONG A NEW FACE St. Paul Inn 3212 South State Street CHICAGO, ILL. HARRY TAYLOR, Manager 1 N. W. Nic. 1534. T. S. Center 719. WILLIAM H. H. FRANKLIN. Attorney and Counsellor at Law. 1020 Metropolitan Life Bldg. Notary Public. Minneapolis, Minna. Defective Pa THE TWIN CITY STAR Independent Republican. No.31 Saturday, March 23, 1912 Entered in the Post office at Minneapolis, June 23, as second class matter. Published Every Saturday by CHARLES SUMNER SMITH, 1419 Washington Ave. So., Minneapolis, Minn. Subscription by Mail, Postpaid. Advertising rate per inch 50c. Special rates furnished on application Subscribers are earnestly requested to report to the office any irregularities in the delivery of their paper; also any change of address. Subscribers wishing the 'Twin City Star" discontinued at the expiration of their subscriptions should notify us to that effect; otherwise we shall consider it their wish to have it continued. Order for discontinuance must be accompanied by payment of all arrears. All personal advertisements in the local columns must be paid for in advance. All public comment inserted only over the author's signature Unsigned notices will not be inserted in these columns. All matter must reach us by Wednesday for insertion. PAID UP SUBSCRIBERS are our best "Boosters" Are you one? "And he will judge between the nations and will decide concerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.'—Isaiah 2:1v. ADVERTISE—IT HELPS. It is not uncommon for a teacher or a minister to go to some white shop which would go out of business before it would employ a colored person, and have his printing done. After paying the white man for the program, the next thing in order is to send one to us to note in the paper for nothing. Gentlemen, quit doing this way. It dies not show good sense. We called your attention to this before. Stop it now.—Dallas Express. They do the same thing down this way, and we have, as you, been bothered with their write ups.—Palestine, Texas Plaindealer. This is a racial weakness. It applies to all branches of business and is usually done by the educated classes of our people, those who are higher up. The best way to break it up is to expose the people practicing it and to force them into the newspaper and job printing business where they can be punished by losing money, time and patience like the rest of us. White printers are kindly disposed towards the colored print-shops and they make little or no effort to secure this kind of trade which these servile people are constantly forcing upon them.—Richmond Planet. They charge admission up this way, and want a big notice after they take your money, also it is often asked, "Where do you get that at — that reporters are admitted free." Many waiters in our city have scorned the idea of unionism. We are free to say that they have not given proper thought to the value of unity. The question is often asked, "What will it benefit me?" Just what you demand of it. The Walters of Local 634 have organized with this purpose, "to better their condition morally, socially and financially." To do this they must co-operate as a unit, along reasonable lines. It is not an attempt to gain recognition by strikes, etc., of to demand immidate increase of wages etc., but to affiliate with all culinary workers, who under the protection of the Allied Trades and Labor Unions get a greater consideration than could be hoped for without such identification. It is a fact that many other fraternal benefits are derived from such a union. Its object is grand, yet its benefits will never be realized unless each member does his duty as a man, and remains true to his obligations. Wm. R. Morris, a Negro lawyer of Minneapolis is a member of the American Bar Association. We hope that he was not elected to membership under a misapprehension—and we feel that Atty. Morris is always proud of the fact that he is a NEGRO. ADVERTISE—IT PAYS. ACHIEVEMENTS OF TWENTY GREAT MEN OF THE PAST. Society For Historical Research Gives Their Names. The progress of a race is to be in any wise judged by the capacity of its members to grasp intellectual knowledge, retain it and use it for the common welfare of the masses of its own people as well as to benefit the public generally, then the following list of twenty eminent colored men (selected by the Negro Research Yonkers, N.Y.) who have their spurs as authors, scientists, philosophers, statesmen and warriors is a refutation of the charge made by some person that the colored race is incapable of higher culture. The list includes: Francis Williams, born 1700, poet, graduate of Cambridge, Anthony William Amo, doctor philosophy, University Wittenberg, 1720. Richard Allen, founder first Negro church in America. J. E. J. Capitein, Latin poet, linguist, University Leyden, 1720. Geoffrey L'Islet, botanist, member French Academy Sciences, 1760. Prince Hall, founder Negro Masonry in America, Boston. Crispus Attucks, patriot and soldier of the War of 1812. Eustace, philanthropist, winner Monthyn prize of virtue, Santo Domingo. Benjamin Bannaker, astronomer, born 1732, Baltimore. Touissant L'Overture, soldier and statesman, born 1748. Alexander Dumas, novelist. Alexander Poushkin, poet. Russia's "black Byron." Frederick Douglas, orator, diplomat and statesman. British of St. Violinist, decorated by crowned heads of Europe (Cuban). Sir Conrad Reeves, chief justice of Barbados, Knights of St. Michael's and St. George, Barbados, British West Indies. Alexander Petton, civil engineer, Haiti. Paul L. Dunbar, lyric poet. John B. Russworm, editor first Negro newspaper in New York. Martin R. Delany, explorer, journalist and physician. Nathaniel Turner, Negro prophet. LYNCHING AND LAWLESSNESS. Letter to the Outlook, by Kelly Miller. Feb. 24, 1912 The recent editorial by ex-President Roosevelt on "Lynching and Lawlessness" should center public attention upon the growing evil which is gnawing at the vitals of the Nation. As Mr. Roosevelt says, "when men grow accustomed to lynching for one crime they speedily begin to lynch them for other crimes." "The usual crome," once alleged as the sole justifiable excuse for lynching, has now become the most unusual cause. Just as lynching and lawlessness cannot be confined to one cause, so it cannot be confined to one race or to one section of the country. Lawlessness is a swift and sure contagion which respects neither lines of latitude nor geographical demarcation. If slavery could have been confined to the South, there would have been no Republican party and no forcible emancipation. As the Nation could not live half slave and half free fifty years ago, so it cannot endure half lawless and half lawabiding today. The calling of a slave roll under the shadow of Bunker Hill Monument then was no more improbable than the burning alive of human beings on Boston Common is likely now. Negroes by the thousands have been murdered, lynched, tortured, and burned alive with indescribable horrors, while the unabashed perpetrators laugh with ghoulish glee at the nullity of the law. Immunity from punishment is high license for lawlessness. Gruesome funeral pyres light the midnight sky with their dismal glare from Texas to Coatesville. The American people look impotently on with a momentary shudder, only to lapse into their accustomed mood, in sure expectancy of another shock. At each horrid happening the press indulges in a heated spasm of righteous indignation, but soon grows cold again. The outlaws are rarely brought to trial, never to justice. The National conscience is becoming sore. Is this the final expression of our boasted American Christian civilization? Are the energies of the American people so focalized upon material values that the moral sense has become atrophied? The righteous enforcement of righteous law is the greatest issue before the Nation today. For in this is involved not only its justification for existence—but also the perpetuity of its life. WHAT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE GROWTH OF SOCIALISM? There are quite a few Negroes, here and there, who are joining the ranks of the Socialists lately. What does it signify? It might be worth while for us to begin to try to locate the cause. "Oscar W. Underwood, Democratic leader, supporting the proposed Income Tax bill in the House at Washington recently charged that the Supreme Court, by its annulment of the income tax in 1895, was responsible for the growth of Socialism in the United States." So says the St. Paul Pioneer Press of March 19th. Wonder if it is true? At any rate they are making quite a stir in the country. Subscribe to the Star. TWIR CITY STAR POINTS:PATH OF PROGRESS. Booker T. Washington Has Just Written "My Larger Education." Booker T. Washington, the well-known leader of the movement to make the Negro a useful citizen, has just written "My Larger Education," which is a collection of his experiences as a public man and as an educator. It is practically a continuation of his "Up From Slavery" and carries on the story. In this volume Mr. Washington notes the mistakes that have been made and points to the path of progress in the further education of the black race. As the leading authority on problems growing out of the occupation of American soil by the Negro, all that he says is of interest. Numerous illustrations give the book an added value. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co. WHAT CONSTITUTES A SUB- SCRIBER? A court decision has lately been rendered in Massachusetts on what constitutes a subscriber. The judge firmly believed that a man who received the paper, although he never subscribed for it, is entitled to pay. James Thompson moved, and William Robinson took immediate possession, and received and accepted a weekly newspaper that was delivered to him through the mails every week. The goodnatured editor sent accounts frequently, but no attention was paid to them by Mr. Robinson. Finally there was a day of reckoning. Robinson had received the paper for some time, he informed the collector, but he said that he never subscribed and declined to pay for it. The judge personally questioned the defendant, who said that he read and made use of it and was receiving the accounts, which were frequently enclosed in the paper. Judgment was rendered in favor of the newspaper. The judge was severe in his criticism of people who are receiving papers and do not think it worth while to pay for what they receive and make use of it as an act of dishonesty, he said one should acquaint the publisher and pay for what numbers he receives.—X. It is necessary that the personals must be sent by Wednesday. Be sure and sign all communications. THE NEGRO'S DUTY. "What the Negro must do is to contend for his rights in the best spirit without losing his head and he will find the genuine white people the world over respecting them. First, let him respect himself and others will respect him."—(Charleston, S. C. Messenger.) Go to Utley's Barber Shop for your Tonsorial work.—"Your Bath"—and your "Twin City Star." GOLDEN GRAIN BELT BEERS EMPLOYMENT BUREAU. Waiters' and Porters' Free Information Bureau. Help of all kinds furnished. We make a specialty of furnishing waiters for Banquets and Parties. Hotel in connection. Lee Johnson & Ben O. McRay, props. Phone Cedar 8413. 45 E. 3rd ST. ST. PAUL, MINN. EXPERIENCED ARTISTS SANITARY SERVICE WALKER WILLIAMS, A. C. LYLES, LINCOLN OVERALL. 124 EAST 3RD ST. ST. PAUL. Where Fashion Reigns Pearces 403 - 405 407 NICOLLET The Very Latest Ideas in all that pertains to Women's Wear. F. PEOPLES REAL ESTATE CO. Contracting and Building 236 BOSTON BLOCK. MINNEAPOLIS Office Phone ..... N. W. Nlc. 2188 MACEO CLUB C. W. KING Manager 725 WASHINGTON AVENUE SO. N. W. Phone Nicollet 1404 MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Just opened Destrable Location On All Car Lines THE CARVER HOTEL 1308-10*WASHINGTON AVE. SO. 28 Newly Furnished Rooms. By Day, Week or Month. Special Rates to Theatrical People. Maria. Alice (Mother) Carver, Prop. N. W. Phone Main 863 MARBER SHOP AND BATHS. THE DICKERSON CAFE 208 Hennepin Ave. Minn. N. W. Nic. 3765 T. S. Center 581 THE NEW HOTEL HOWARD W. L. Howard, Prop. Furnished Rooms—Gas and Bath MESSENGERS and TAXI-CABS At All Hours. SHOE-SHINING PARLOR AND NEWS STAND. 112 WASHINGTON AVE. N. Minneapolis THE BUSY CORNER. is now open for business. 381 RONDO ST. COR. WESTERN AV. ST. PAUL, MINN. FIRST CLASS RESTAURANT A La Carte From 7 A. M. to 12 P. M. Try McMurray's Fried Oysters, Oyster Loaves, Chitterlings or Kentucky Oysters. Try our Colored Messenger Service. Phone Dale 3601. A. J. McMURRAY GROCERY CO. 381 RONDO ST., ST. PAUL. N. W. Phone Dale 3601. High Grade Work Moderate Prices Phone T. S. Center 4085. H. Larson Photo Studio 313 Washington Ave. Se. My Work for the Colored People has Always Given Satisfaction. "Speaks for Itself" Pabst Blue Ribbon The Beer of Quality PHIL REED Which is solely owned and controlled by PHIL. REED and RALEIGH THOMPSON. They are known for their Choice Wines, Liquors and Domestic and Imported Cigars High-Class Entertaining with suc Well known Entertainers as GILLIE & CURTIS Phones Douglas 5938, Automatic 79-366 Good Beer is Beer is Strengthening Good Beer is Strengthening There is strength in a pure beer like Hochsteiner Brewed under sanitary conditions Purest of ingredients The beer without a headache PURITY BREWING CO. The Leading Bottle Beer Brewery BOTH PHONES 66 MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. IN 537 OPEN FROM 6 A. M. to 9 P. M. M. G. RUTLEDGE, PROP For Foraker's Political Life is an Open book" THE FORAKER CAFE (ESTABLISHED 1908) 511 FOURTH AVE. 80. BEST SERVICE Day Dinner 25c Business Men's Lunch 15c 3 P. M. FROM 11 TO 2 P. M. K, Wholesale Dealer in WINES AND LIQUORS Headquarters for Railroad Men Third and Robert St., ST. PAUL YellowStone Whiskey (bottled in bond.) Liquors sold on trade. ALL BRANDS OF BOTTLED BEER K. P. Entertainment Monday, April 8th, 1912 UM ANNEX, MINNEAPOLIS ERSHEIM SHOES perfection in fine shoemaking Led with COMFORT and become one of our SATISFIED CUSTOMERS. LEY SHOE COMPANY 12 NICOLLET AVENUE PURITY BREWING CO. The Leading Bottle Beer Brewery BOTH PHONES 66 MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. TEL. NORTH WEST MAIN 537 OPEN FROM "Senator Foraker's Politics THE FORA ELECTRIC LIGHTED (ESTABLISHED 511 FOURTH Special Sunday Dinner 25c FROM 12 TO 3 P. M. B. FINK, Whole FINE WINES A Headquarters for Cor. Third and Roh Sole Agents of YellowStone "Whisky at wholesale to the trade. ALL U. R. K. P. Easter Monday, AUDITORIUM ANNE FLORSHEM represent perfection Get acquainted with COMFO SATISFIED C STANLEY SHOP 422 NICOLL TEL. NORTH WEST MAIN 537 OPEN FROM 6 A.M. to 9 P.M. M. G. RUTLEDGE, PROP "Senator Foraker's Political Life is an Open book" THE FORAKER CAFE ELECTRIC LIGHTED (ESTABLISHED 1908) BEST SERVICE 511 FOURTH AVE. 80. Special Sunday Dinner 25c Business Men's Lunch 15c FROM 12 TO 3 P.M. FROM 11 TO 2 P.M. B. FINK, Wholesale Dealer in FINE WINES AND LIQUORS Cor. Third and Robert St., ST. PAUL Sole Agents of YellowStone Whiskey (bottled in bond.) Liquors sold at wholesale to the trade. ALL BRANDS OF BOTTLED BEER U. R. K. P. Entertainment Easter Monday, April 8th, 1912 AUDITORIUM ANNEX, MINNEAPOLIS FLORSHEIM SHOES represent perfection in fine shoemaking Get acquainted with COMFORT and become one of our SATISFIED CUSTOMERS. STANLEY SHOE COMPANY 422 NICOLLET AVENUE THE SPIRELLA CORSET. Miss Cora E. Anderson, 365 Aurora Ave., St. Paul, is the local agent for the Spirella Corset, worn by the best gowned women. "Speaks for Itself" "Speaks Kobbitin The power of beer PURITY BREWING CO. PURITY BREWING CO. Order a Case Today 3212 South State Street CHICAGO, ILL. HARRY TAYLOR, Manager A. RALEIGH THOMPSON N. W. Nic. 1534. T. S. Center 719. WILLIAM H. H. FRANKLIN. Attorney and Counsellor at Law. 1020 Metropolitan Life Bldg. Notary Public. Minneapolis, Minn. Defective Page