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DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR ST.PAUL MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY VOL. 7 Single Copies 5 Cents MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. MAY 26 1917. No. 15 GREAT WORK OF C. S. MORRIS, JR. Boy Orator Captivates Great New York Audience. Before artificial teeth were created deficiencies had to be made good by the real article, so body snatchers ravaged the cemeteries at night, breaking up the jaws of the dead to extract their teeth to sell to dentists for insertion in live men's mouths. An array of these ghouls followed Wellington's army. They were licensed as sutters, but once night fell out came their nipers, and they prowled over the battlefield extracting the teeth of the dead or dying.—London Mall. The condor is the only bird which keeps its offspring in the nest for a year. The young cannot fly for twelve months after being hatched. CHRISTIANITY HIS THEME In Matchless Address at the Famous Abyssinian Baptist Church Zealous Young. Collegiate Declares Colored Race Will Never Let the Stars and Stripes Trail In the Dust. Charles Satchell Morris, Jr., the brilliant young orator, in a matchless address at the Abyssinia Baptist church, New York, Sunday evening, May 13, held an audience of nearly a thousand persons spellbound by his magnetic address. The Rev. Dr. A. Clayton Powell, pastor of the church, pronounced Mr. Morris a greater orator than his illustrious father, a deep thinker and an attentive student. His address was on "Christianity and the Race" CHARLES SATCHELL MORRIS. and was declared by many who heard him on other occasions to have been his grandest effort, as he soared high in an oratorical flight and reduced his representative audience to tears. Mr. Morris, who won last year $20 in gold over ten white contestants, who was called a "native born Cuban" by the white press, is the acknowledged leader of the younger set of his race in America by his untiring efforts, his zealous efforts to advance his race in every field of useful endeavor. He said in part: My friends, I wish to say tonight if the colored race in its inner self is pure and consecrated to unselfish interests, if it loves its God, if it remembers the depths from which it sprang, if it knows that "princes shall come out of Egypt and Ethiopia shall suddenly stretch forth her hands unto God," despite what Blease, Vardaman, Tillman, Poe, Dickon or others may say, I want to assure you "that the very gates of hell cannot prevail against us." How proud I am to be colored! How I reclect the deeds of our brave ancestors who lie "moldering in the grave," yet who go marching on in the soul of every ambitious young man and woman! They had the rarest gift of song the world has ever known—yea, their music cannot die while memory holds its sacred station. More solemn than "Almost Persuaded," tenderer than "Nearer, My God, to Thee" and more exquisitely beautiful than "Lead, Kindly Light." Christianity is not a failure. Christianity lives in the souls of men. Thank God for our Christian foreparents, who never saw a school, but "inasmuch as they did it unto the least of their brethren they did it unto Christ." I often think how small man is. I ask myself the question, "Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?" As we look down through the corridors of time mighty men are silenced forever. I think of the mighty Caesar, but Caesar is dead. I think of Alexander, "who conquered the whole world," but Alexander lies buried likewise. I think of the mighty Napoleon, before whom the earth trembled; but, alas, Napoleon sleeps tonight in France! Today, amid the awful curse of race prejudice, we cry again to God, "O God, how long, how long?" God answers in a voice of thunder, "Hold the fort, for I am coming," coming to preach again beside the shores of Galllee the "Fatherhood of God, the masterhood of Jesus, the brotherhood of man," coming to declare "that out of one blood every nation have I made to dwell together on the face of the earth." In conclusion may I say "righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach unto any people." Thank God for the loyalty of my race to its country's flag." It will ever wave o'er the "land of the free and home of the brave" if black hands of iron and hearts of steel can keep it there. From the time we shed our gallant blood in the streets of Boston till we climbed the rugged slopes of San Juan hill, humming "There's a Hot Time In the Old Town Tonight," that emblem of progress and security has "never trailed in the dust." May We Never Forget Memorial Day! May We Never Forget Memorial Day! WE do well to pause one summer day in a year to exalt the martyrs who fell in our civil war, to be bewalf their fate, to cover their humble hillocks with flowers. They died not to protect our land from the profane foot of the foreign invader, nor yet to win the Holy Sepulchre from the infidel, nor yet to conquer a savage wilderness for the great incoming flood of our race. They died because their country could devise in its wisdom no better means of settling a family quarrel than by slaying her sons with the sword. May we never forget to observe our Memorial day! Even now there is scarcely a hamlet in the United States that does not display a tiny flag or bit of bunting on Decoration day. Some years ago I drove through a wild mountain country in West Virginia. Deep down in a narrow gorge—one of those strange fissures where a small stream has cut a mountain in twain—I discovered a wretched hut. Fastened to a pole at the door was a fluttering bit of red flannel. The half naked savages who lived in this hut scrambled up the precipe to beg. I asked the meaning of the red rag and received the surprised answer, "Decoration day!" These untamed, untamable people respected the day.—Mrs. Roger A Pryor. The Mothers Of the Armies The mothers of the armies In churchyards old they sleep, No more to wake and worry, No more to watch and weep, For rust has spiked the cannon And choked the bugle's throat And hushed o'er hill and valley The drum's defiant note. They sent them forth to battle From many a cottage door, The sons they loved and cherished And feared to see no more; They sat by lonely hearth-stones And waited, sick with dread, To welcome back the crippled Or mourn the hero dead. From Maine, with pine trees girdled, To Georgia's cotton snows, The nation's soldiers bivouac Till Gabriel's trumpet blows; On fields that once were crimson The yearly crops increase, And daisies in the trenches Are weaving flags of peace. But when with fragrant blossoms We deck the blue and gray. Oh, twine a dewy garland Upon Memorial day— A tribute to the mothers Who each with bleeding breast Gave freely to her country Her dearest and her best. —Minna Irving in New York Press. Dead Man's Teeth SUBSCRIBE FOR THE STAR ADVERTISE IN THE STAR MINNEAPOLIS. MINN. MAY 26 1917. ATTITUDE OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO In Scholarly Address at Washington Prominent Educator Enlightens Country on Colored Americans' Position In Nation's Great Crisis—Do Not Need Watching, but Want Square Deal. Washington. — Speaking under the auspices of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People at a meeting held in this city on the evening of Wednesday, May 18, on "The Attitude of the American Negro," Professor William Pickens, dean of Morgan college, Baltimore, in part said: "There is no question as to the Negro's patriotism or loyalty. But the mistake is being made by a misinterpretation of the mind of the Negro which is back of this patriotism. The last year or two of the great war have discovered an unprecedented thing—unprecedented except by the spirit of the Negro himself during the civil war—namely, that America's least privileged and most persecuted class proves to be in a critical time its most dependable citizenship. For several seasons now every white man in America has been watching every other white man, but nobody has felt the need of watching the American Negro. To be sure, a false alarm was recently started in the south about German plotting among Negroes, but those of us who know the south knew at once what that alarm meant. It signified not a fear of Negro disloyalty, but a real and genuine fear of the Negro's growing industrial and economic opportunities which the great war has brought him. This alarm, which is the most treacherous thrust that has been made at the Negro in recent years, failed. It failed against the solid fact of the Negro's loyalty, past and present. The south, which has fooled the world about the Negro in almost every other particular, which has made the north believe that he is a characteristic libertine, that he is an unprofitable laborer, that he is unreliable as a machine operator and that he is an undesirable in almost every other capacity—this historic traducer of our race, after being backed even by high official "confirmation," failed utterly to stir the blood of the nation with the scarecrow of Negro disloyalty. Such is the universal and unconsciously acquired confidence in the Negro as an American. But, singularly enough, the peoples who have been highly favored above the Negro are the classes who are now deemed worthy of suspicion—those who have been permitted to buy a house on any corner, who have been permitted to live in any part of our cities, who have been admitted to work in any business or industry, who have not been disfranchised, but who have been jubilantly naturalized as fresh recruits for the ghost or fetish called "white civilization," the people who have not been jimcrowed or hanged without trial or burned at the stake (behold, ye gods!)—these are the peoples whom the nation watches when the nation's security is threatened. But the Negro, whose ancestry, by the way, was American long before that of the great majority of our white people and whose record of loyal service has been uniform and unvarying, is the only class upon whom all of these abuses have been heaped, and yet by the reluctant confession of his worst enemies he is the class of all classes not needing to be watched. Although the Negro's dependableness is the best attested fact in America today, he is the one man not enthusiastically welcomed in all our great preparations for war. We wish to get along without him if we possibly can. To be sure, we have left the door ajar so that the colored brother can be called, as usual, when sorely needed. Meanwhile some of us are between the devil and the deep blue sea. We must either send the Negro, to the glory of the trenches in France or we must permit him the gain of becoming further intrenched in our home industries, and we feel that either trench will have a mighty elevating influence on the American Negro's status. What could be more effective than the Negro in Europe, freeing big souled France, glorifying America and establishing democracy in the world? On the other hand, what could be of more solid gain to the Negro race in the United States than to be permitted by the incident of war and the iron law of necessity to work in the great industries of America and prove that he can do satisfactorily: the very things which his enemies have for fifty years shouted and maintained that he could never be relied upon to do? For the Negro it is a case of "heads I win, tails you lose!" What the Negro's real enemy fears is not the race's fondly catalogued vices, but its virtue. We repeat that, although there is no question as to the Negro's loyalty in the present crisis, those are in wide error who are taking his loyalty for blind impulse or unthinking docility, like the loyalty of the dog or the horse. The masses of the race are thinking as they never thought before, and they are loyal only for the same reason that any other group of men in the world is loyal to anything, because they think that their best group interests are bound up in the thing to which they are loyal. As to whether the Negro would be loyal if he were absolutely convinced to the contrary must be answered in hypothesis by the same answer which would be given for any other group of normal human beings. The Negro is certainly not loyal to disfranchisement, "jimcrowism" and lynch law, but he follows the star of America in spite of those evils and with the deliberate intention and fond hope of overthrowing them. In such a situation the Negro must of course continually face dilemmas. He has had to be a strike breaker to get a job, he has had to flee to a separate and inferior school system to escape ignorance, and he has had to dissect the body of Christ in order to enter the church and the kingdom of heaven. In the same spirit he would accept a separate military training camp that some of his college trained men might get commissions in the army and serve their country more effectively than as mere "cannon fodder." It is not strange that in the last named dilemma the majority of his leaders and friends indorsed the camp idea, but it is significant that, while some of his leaders and friends conscientiously opposed it, all of his worst enemies consistently opposed it. Those who favored it do not favor discrimination, but they seized that horn of the dilemma which would lend a future advantage—to gain a height from which they could deal segregation a heavier blow. His enemies also saw this and opposed it unanimously. This explains the frequent appearance of a lack of union among American Negroes. It is plain to an Insider. They are perfectly united in aim and ambition, and they differ only in method and policy. This difference is due to their peculiar situation. No other group of people in the round world is brought oftener face to face with a dilemma, where the choice is not between an evil and a good, but between two evils. A choice between evils is a more disintegrating question than any choice between an unmixed evil and a definite good. "Which is the lesser evil?" This puzzling dilemma is at the bottom of many of the apparent differences among Negro leaders, whose hearts and souls are perfectly united in ambition and aim and object. The only solution of this difficulty is conference, frequent and widely representative conference. HAMPTON BOYS TO SERVE. Trio From School In Virginia Joins Fifteenth Infantry Band. Sergeant Major C. M. Hooper of the Fifteenth New York infantry, national guard, has sent these telegrams to Hampton institute: "Heywood B. Hill has recommended William McK. Hubbard, Leslie E. Booker and John H. Watkins for the Fifteenth infantry band. They are to receive $40 a month in addition to all expenses." "Am sending transportation from Hampton to New York, including sleeper, for W. McK. Hubbard, L. E. Booker and J. H. Watkins to leave by the Cape Charles boat to join the Fifteenth infantry band." The Hampton institute faculty have granted permission to these students to leave school and report for military service in New York. Heywood B. Hill was a Hampton senior. Fifteenth Infantry Regiment In Camp. The Fifteenth infantry regiment, New York national guard, of 1,200 men under command of Colonel William Hayward, is in camp. The First and the Third battalions, composed of Manhattan troops, were in command of Majors Edwin W. Dayton and W. A. Pickering. The Second battalion, from Brooklyn, was in command of Major Monson Morris en route to the camp. Kentucky Minister Eager For Action. The Rev. Robert Quarles of Paris, Ky., has offered to recruit 1,000 colored men for service in the present war with Germany. The Rev. Mr. Quarles says that he can easily enlist this number from the four counties bordering the town of Paris and that he will lead his men to the front at any time President Wilson commands their services. SMOKE "SIGHT DRAFT" THE BEST 5c. CIGAR BAPTISTS VISIT FOREIGN FIELD HAD THRILLING SEA VOYAGE Representative of National Baptist Convention Describes Conditions as They Exist In Senegal and Gambia. French Colony Furnishes Great Number of Black Troops to the Allies. By N. BARNETT DODSON. The Rev. Dr. L. G. Jordan, corresponding secretary of the foreign mission board of the National Baptist convention, has returned from West Africa, whither he went in January to visit the several mission stations and schools fostered by the convention. Dr. Jordan was accompanied by some of the new workers under the auspices of the board, among whom are the Rev. and Mrs. Horton and Dr. Sykes. The trip was one of great profit to the denomination, especially at this crisis of our national race. Describing some incidents of the trip to Dakar, Senegal, and to Bassa, Secretary Jordan said: "We were at sea four days on the steamer Egorl, and to say they were days of great anxiety is putting it mildly. Reading of war and being in the zone of warfare are two different things. In Liverpool we paid 60 cents for one egg, a cup of tea, small piece of ham, bread and butter; $6 per day each for lodging. Thinking it better to go on to some African coast town and catch our ship possibly a week later, we boarded this ship Wednesday night, Jan. 24, but remained in harbor till Thursday noon. Our tickets to Bassa cost $615.04. "On boarding the ship our party got together in my cabin and read Phil. iv. SECRETARY L. G. JORDAN. 5, and Matt, xxviii, 20, and knelt to pray, thanking God for his care thus far, for the friends who sent us out, for his continued care and protection, that the people to whom we go may receive us and our message be a blessing to them and the kingdom. Then we went apart to meditate, reconsecrate ourselves to God and to sleep. "All we ever heard about 'God will take care of you' comes up fresh in our minds, and we believed all of it. So in his great name we went forward. To avoid raiders and submarines we went 1,000 miles or more out of our course. The weather was bad, and we were all poor sailors. By wireless we learned a submarine was behind us some distance and that a ship off to our left had struck a mine and was sinking rapidly. It cried for help, but we were too far away to go to her rescue. We were called on deck, each coming with his life belt; they were tested and tried on. Each was then shown the boat to make for in case of need. The signal for 'ten minutes' was given and the signal for 'at once,' so we would understand. "We arrived at Dakar, Senegal, safely. Here is a city of 25,000 and a colony with more than 2,000,000. In the city only a Catholic mission and one little Protestant mission with less than fifty persons—all this land left to Mohammed and the devil. Oh, for one good man to settle here and peg away for Jesus until he is introduced to at least a few. The French have been at Dakar for 300 years, introducing many useful things and many hurtful and damaging things. "It is possible this colony has given more black troops to the allies than all the other parts of the world combined. We saw quite 1,000 take ship from Dakar for some other points on the coast. The colony is represented in Paris by a colored man. France is not ashamed of her black colonies." The Rev. Dr. Jordan also says that he met many noble men and women at Bathurst, in Gambia. The population of Bathurst is 7,000, and in the whole colony of Gambia there are more than 7,000,000 people. There is one Catholic mission, one Anglican and three Methodist missions. A strong Baptist and an African Methodist to inspire these people would be a godsend to this town and colony. There are no societies or lodges save a little Y. M. C. A. organized one year ago. The need of a religion that deals with heart and life is seen everywhere. Walt Whitman and Memorial Day EACH year as the end of May approaches and illacs in the door-yard bloom the personality of Walt Whitman, singer of the illacs' song and of all outdoor sights and sounds, is tenderly recalled by an increasing number of people, for Walt Whitman's birthday is on May 31. It is the custom to hold then an all day Whitman convention in New York to celebrate it. In some places, when weather and inclement are propitious, lovers of Whitman are wont to picnic, more or less formally, on Memorial day, and at such times persons who really knew Walt are in great demand. Persons who were friends of the good gray poet are more and more rare as the years go by. It was only choice souls who could appreciate what he was trying to do, and they have almost all joined him now in the great beyond. It is perhaps fitting to celebrate Whitman's birthday on May 30, Memorial day, since he was a friend of the Union soldier and served as a volunteer nurse in Washington and Virginia in 1862-5. His fatigue and night watching brought on a serious illness from which he never recovered fully. Describing his nursing, a friend said: "Walt, you should know, seemed intuitively to do the right thing for those poor suffering fellows. To one he would give an apple, to another an orange or tobacco. But he never gave the wrong thing. He told me of finding some soldiers from the west who had never before seen an orange. He said also that the aroma of a lemon held in the hand was often most grateful to the fever patients he there encountered." THE REMEDY FOR CRIME. Fair Attitude of a Northern Publication Toward Our Race. Under the caption "Education and Crime Among-Negroes" the American Review of Reviews in a recent issue gave this remarkably fair and logical comment on the subject: "Certain mistaken deductions from statistics of crime and education in the south are discussed by Judge Gilbert T. Stephenson of Winston-Salem, N.C., in the South Atlantic Quarterly. "In the first place, it appears that the amount of crime for which the Negro race is responsible has been considerably exaggerated. For example, if one counts the inmates of the prisons of this country on any given day he finds that the Negro race, constituting only one-tenth of the total population, is penalized for nearly one-third of the crime, but if he counts the number of commitments for crime during any given period he finds that the Negro race furnishes only about one-fifth instead of one-third of the convictions. This difference arises from the fact that the terms of imprisonment of Negroes are, as a rule, longer than those of white people. "All the available statistics and the unanimous opinion of men in a position to know the facts would seem to be proof that education—elementary or advanced, industrial or literary—diminishes crime among Negroes. The alarmingly high rate of Negro criminality is as much a condemnation of the community in which it exists as of the offending Negroes themselves. "Having discovered that the Negro school is at least one institution which successfully combats crime, the community cannot afford to withhold its active interest in and generous support of its Negro school. The more money spent in making such schools responsive to the special needs of the race the less will have to be spent on crime. "And if it comes to a question of cost it is cheaper in the long run to maintain and equip schools—Negro schools even—than police departments, courts, jails, penitentiaries and reformatories, for the school properly conducted makes the Negro a greater asset, while the court finds him a liability and nearly always leaves him a greater liability of the community." SUBSCRIBE FOR THE STAR. Send your notes to us by Wednesda y A. M. GREAT REVIVAL SERVICES Crowds Attend Bethesda Church Dr. Robinson's sermons cause im mense religious awakening. minsee religious awakening Minneapolis is benefitted by the visit of Dr. J. C. Robinson of Monticello, Ark., who is conducting a Revival at Bethesda Baptist Church after a two week's meeting in St. Paul. He is drawing large crowds each night and many persons are becoming members of the various churches. He is one of the greatest evangelists. His logical and impressive sermons have aroused the people of this city. Special talks have been given to men, women and children, with good results. The Twin City Ministers and the visiting evangelists, Rev. Chas. S. Morris and Dr. J. C. Robinson deserve great credit for this great religious campaign. They have been liberally rewarded financially and the public greatly benefitted by this spiritual revival. MRS. WITHERS RECEIVES ALIMONY. Mrs. Mary Withers, the wife of Rev. W. M. Withers, pastor of Zion Baptist Church, was granted alimony by Judge Dickinson in the district court this week. She has possession of her home and about $10 a week in cash and rentals. Rev. Withers can not occupy their residence. Mrs. Withers will continue her divorce action, and sensational charges have been made against her husband. Atty. R. A. Skinner represents her. Mr. Shelton Brooks and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Bowen are in the city. "FALLEN HEROES" Is G. L. Morrill's subject at the People's Church, New Garden Theatre, Sunday 10:30 A. M. HONDU RAS views, travel movies, organ. Mr. Benj. H. Richardson of Chicago, is visiting relatives in the city. He is a guest of Madam Hart, the milliner. Mr. Andrew Lawrence, the artist, has moved into his new Studio at 624 Lyndale Ave. No. SATURDAY NIGHT SERVICES. SATURDAY NIGHT SERVICES. Dr. J. C. Robinson will hold services at The Peoples' Christian Assembly SATURDAY NIGHT, MAY 26. ALL ARE INVITED. Mr. Jordan M. Morris and Atty. W. R. Morris have returned from attending the meeting of the Scottish Rite Masons in Philadelphia. They report a pleasant trip and splendid meeting. Mr. W. H. Jenkins has secured a position as janitor at 1915 1st Ave. So., where his family will reside. Mrs. F. C. Walker of Cleveland, O., is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Ford, of 1205 6th Ave. No. Mrs. J. M. Mask, is visiting in the city. Mr. Jordan M. Morris, arrived home on Monday from the East where he attended the Supreme Council, Northern jurisdiction, Scottish Rite Masons, in Philadelphia, on May 14th. He also visited New York, Washington, Pittsburgh and Chicago. Mrs. Mamie Lewis, of Elliot Ave. was on Monday granted absolute divorce from Calvin Lewis of this city. Also permission to in the future use her maiden name of Smith. The May Ball, given on Monday evening by the Usher Girl's Club, was a Grand Success. Mrs. W. Ellis Burton is rapidly improving. She will spend the summer at Anoka, Minn. A Farewell Supper was given in honor of Mr. John W. White by his fellow workers of Carlings Café, at the Cosmopolitan Grill, 40 E. 3rd St. on Tuesday night, May 22. DR. ROBINSON'S SPECIAL MEETINGS. Woman's Meeting, May 27, at Bethesda Baptist Church at 3:30 P.M. REVIVAL NOTES. The old time customs are revived. People are feeling the Spirit—"Getting Happy." It is Fashionable now to Acknowledge God, Repent of Sins and Join the Church. Follow the Fashion! The Negro newspapers have liberally supported the preachers in their revival services. Before this revival is over, the Judas preacher may hang himself. Dr. Robinson unmasked the professional men, who should be among the leaders in the Spiritual advancement of the church. A Clean up, in the official ranks of the churches, is badly needed. The Lord can afford to Forgive your debts, but newspapers need the money dus them by many of the most enthusiastic religious workers. ATTY ERVIN'S LATEST VICTORY. Gets Verdict for $4,350.00. Attorney J. Louis Ervin, of St. Paul, who defended Wesley Gresham, and secured an acquittal on the charge of murder in the first degree, a short time ago, has secured a verdict of $4,350.00 on the 17th of May, 1917, for Mrs. Elizabeth Kaufman, (German), 1030 Manvel street, in the district court of St. Paul. Mrs. Kaufman was injured by Josiah Colman, proprietor of an automobile livery. Mr. Colman was driving a heavy automobile on University Ave., near Cromwell, October 25th, 1914, when his car struck Mrs. Kaufman, who was crossing the avenue. Mrs. Kaufman suffered severe injuries to her back and left knee. Rev. Chas. S. Morris of Norfolk, Va., is having great success with his Revival Services at St. James A. M. E. Church, St. Paul. A DESPERATE SOLICITOR Detective J. C. Black Captures a Notorious Crook at the Risk of Detective J. C. Black on last Friday captured another dangerous criminal in the person of Henry Foster, alias Wm. Johnson, alias Harry Evans, alias Geo. H. Harding and how many other aliases the Lord only knows. Foster is one of the despicable crooks who go from one city to another and impose upon philanthropic or generous persons or business firms and by some smooth story or claim succeeds in obtaining money which the donor believes is to be devoted to the benefit of some worthy institution for colored people. St. Paul has been worked to a frazzle by these unscrupulous scoundrels and it is very gratifying to the good people of the city that at least one of this ilk has been caught "with the goods on him," and it is sincerely hoped that he will get the limit of the law. The arrest was made at the corner of Third and Wabasha streets and Foster pulled a gun and leveled it at the brave detective, who was working alone, his partner, Detective Mitchell, being at work on the other end of the job. Fortunately the gun missed fire and Black soon took it from the murderous villain, who was then taken to the lockup, charged with attempted assault with a dangerous weapon and also of obtaining money under false pretenses. At the time of his arrest Foster attempted to destroy a memorandum book, but Black got possession of some of the leaves from which the names of 53 individuals or firms were taken showing they had given Foster from $5 to $50. Further investigation led to the belief that Foster had gotten nearly $2.000. Hearing of Foster's arrest a number of his victims went to the jail and identified him and then he began to act as though he was crazy. Monday he was taken before the municipal court but his case was continued. His actions caused the city physician to order him to be taken to the city hospital; and while enroute he jumped out of the wagon and tried to escape, but was soon recaptured, taken to the hospital and put in chains, where he still remains.—St. Paul Appeal, May 19, 1917. Mysterious Harry was seen working in Minneapolis, collecting money for a school connected with Zion Baptist Church. He was identified in the St. Paul Hospital by Editor Smith. Detective Black continues to make good. The police of St. Paul hope to secure a long term for this old offender, who has served prison sentences for similar offenses. BUCKNER'S GRAVE MARKED. The Comrades of Chas. E. Bond, Camp No. 9, United Spanish War Veterans have placed a government marker over the grave of their deceased Comrade, David R. Buckner, a Negro soldier in their lot in Lakewood Cemetery. Comrade Buckner was wounded at San Juan Hill and was well known in this city. He died at the Soldier's Home, at Minnehaha Falls. ST. THOMAS' BAZAAR. Decoration Day. Admission Free. The Ladies of the Parish Aid of St. Thomas Mission, 27th St. and 5th Ave. So., will give a Bazaar on Wednesday afternoon and evening, May 30th. Excellent program. Green Dinner served, and many other good things to eat. THE TWIN CITY ENTERTAINERS Last Dance of the Season PRIZE SHIM-ME-SHA CONTEST MONDAY NIGHT, JUNE 4 Music by Prof. Earl Blevens Peerless Orchestra. ADMISSION 35c. T THE TWIN CITY STATE ADVERTISE HERE, IT PAYS. ANNOUNCEMENT. John H. Hickman, Jr., attorney, hereby announces that on and after Monday, April 23, 117, he will be engaged in the practice of law, associated with Attorney Hammond Turner. Offices, 321 American National Bank Bldg., corner Fifth and Cedar streets. Mr. Hickman will be pleased to consult and advise with any who desire his services. General In War "I RECEIVED a letter from General War," said the Mrs. Loulsa Bogga, ""They discussed in wife, children and I AUTOMOBILE LESSONS GIVEN. Young men! Learn to earn $100. per month. I will teach you to drive and operate any make of automobile within five weeks. Apply to M. BROWN, 2313 Park Ave., Phone Main 5040. Contractor People's Latest Offer. Contractor Frank Peoples will let the new apartments at 409 E. 39th St. to responsible Negro families with references. Eact apartment contains 4 rooms, including bed room, sun parlor, living room, wall bed, bath, kitchen, electric light, gas range, and janitor service. Located one block from 4th Ave. So. car line. Rent $23.00. Ready for occupants June 1. See F. Peoples.-Advertisement. FOR RENT.—Six Room Modern Flat. Apply to J. S. Wright, 2737 11th Ave. So., Minneapolis. EVERY DAY is BARGAIN DAY at the ROOT & HAGEMAN STORE, 407 Nicollet Ave. DENTIST'S NEW LOCATION. Dr. W. H. Wright wishes to announce that he has secured offices at 521 Marquette Ave., second floor. He will be pleased to meet his former patrons and those desiring first class Dental Work. Appointments made by phone. Call Nic. 6951. DR. WRIGHT, The Dentist, 521 Marquette Ave., Minneapolis. THE ARCADIA RESTAURANT Starts Summer Service. Mr. W. S. Simmon has started his Summer Service at the Arcade Restaurant, 500 Fourth Ave. So, Refreshing Tonics, Brazilla, Lemonades and Ice Cream Soda, will be served. Patrons will find this the best place in the city to enjoy clean food and delicious soft drinks. THE SUNDAY FORUM THE SUNDAY FORUM. The last meeting of the Sunday Forum was fairly attended. The program was excellent. Rev. A. H. Lealtad delivered a splendid address on, "The Spirit of Optimism," which should have been heard by a larger audience. He pictured a glorious future for the Negro and his remarks were of great benefit and encouragement in the present crisis. Mrs Harvey Poor sang Tosti's "Goodbye" in her usual sweet voice and won applause which she appreciated with an encore. Miss Marienne Jeffrey accompanied her. The election of officers will be held next meeting at St. Peter A. M. E. Church. A BOGUS AGENT. Harry Underwood has received money from subscribers for The Twin City Star and issued receipts, but failed to give account of his collections. He was an active worker in The Forum and was its Critic. Underwood has not been located. It is reported on good authority that he served in Leavenworth prison for deserting the U. S. Army. He formerly resided in Omaha, Neb. Our old friend Jas. R. Charleston, formerly of St. Paul, writes, from Portland, Ore., that he receives the Star regularly and its like a letter from home. He sent the annual subscription price in advance and we will send The Star Many thanks Jim. WAITERS' AID DEFENSE FUND. Mr. Pinkston, a waiter at the Andrews Hotel has, collected a considerable sum which hesent to Indianapolis to assist the prosecution of Danny Shay, the ball player, who murdered Clarence Buell, a waiter. About $700 has been raised in Indianapolis. The waiters of the various hotels and other citizens contributed to the fund. Mr. Pinkston has promised to publish the names of the contributors. The N. A. A. C. P. found out that the Defense Fund was a reality, after an investigation. The Mr. Pinkston's honesty was not questioned, it was necessary to see that the money was sent to the proper authorities. General Grant In War Time "I RECEIVED a number of letters from General Grant during the war," said the general's cousin, Mrs. Louisa Boggs, several years ago. "They discussed in a loving way his wife, children and his friends in St. Louis. He never went into detail concerning the great work in which he was engaged. For all an outsider might know he was quietly working out some ordinary business matter. In one of his letters to me he closed by remarking that he had a 'big contract on hand,' and was looking forward with pleasure to the family reunion when he got through. The 'big contract' was the annihilation of Lee's army. The letter was written during the terrible campaign in the Wilderness. "General Grant's letters were in harmony with his social life. When he was home on a visit he rarely discussed the tremendous problems that were confronting him. He took the greatest interest in the children, and would devote most of his time to discussing with them how they were getting along in school and other matters connected with their progress. Of course, there were during these times great numbers of visitors constantly calling to see him, but I rather think these visits bored him. Not far from our house was a large, rather imposing three-story building. Most people who came out in search of General Grant would select that at a venture, because it was much larger than our house. The lady, a Mrs. Taylor, over there told me one day that she had a good mind to put up a sign something like this: "General Grant doesn't stop here." "General Grant never told any of us what he hoped to do, not even when his largest campaigns were under way. We gathered our war news from the papers, not from what he told us. I do not recall that he was ever visited while in our house at St. Louis by a news reporter requesting an interview. He may have talked with some newspaper men, but doubtless they got very little from him if he did. He was one of the closest men concerning the war that you could imagine. You mustn't get an idea that General Grant was morose in those days. He was kind and courteous to all, and enjoyed social intercourse with friends in his quiet way. I never heard him use an oath or slangy expression, nor have I heard men who knew him to say he did. "If there was any particular subject upon which General Grant could have been said to be deeply interested, aside from his military career, it was his family. He was the most devoted man I ever met, and as loyal to them as he was to his country." Every year they're marching slower. Every year the flags above them Seem to bend and bless and love them As if grieving for the future when they'll never march again! --- SEVEN CORNERS' SHOE REPAIR SHOP. 1424 Washington Ave. So., Minneapolis. BELL'S BARBER SHOP CLARENCE W. BELL, Proprietor. BATHS, BARBER SHOP, POLITE BARBERS POOL AND BILLIARD HALL CIGARS, RACE PAPERS, SHOE SHINING 244 THIRD AVE. SOUTH ..MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Phone Northwestern, Main 2511. CHALMERS LIVERY SERVICE WRIGHT AND SHEPARD, PROP. TOURING AND LIMOUSINES DAY AND NIGHT OFFICE AND GARAGE: 244 2ND AVE. SO. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN N. W. 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Choice Property for Sale or Rent. 2814 10th Ave. So. N. W. South 5250 Minneapolis N. W. Phone Nic. 1873 J. M. MORRIS Real Estate Broker Loans Collections 506 BOSTON BLOCK MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Office Phone N. W. Main 625 GALE P. HILYER ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW With Hall and Tantges 722 New York Life Bldg. Minneapolis, Minn. Res. N. W. South 3347 Peterson, The Druggist 1501 Washington Ave. So. TOILET ARTICLES, DRUGS PRESCRIPTIONS. He Sollicits You Paironage. Phone Hy. 3605. DR. ELLIS BURTON 715 Sixth Ave. No., Minneapolis, Minn. DENTIST. Graduate Northwestern Dental School of Chicago. INSTRUCTION ELOCUTION and SPANISH Taught by PROF. J. W. BUNDRANT 3616 Fourth Ave. So., Minneapolis Tel.: N. W. Colfax 4835. WHITING-CHARLTON SHIRT CO. Established 1870 Custom Shirts and Underwear 314 SOUTH FOURTH STREET All Measures Kept On File MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. B. H. H. MINNEAPOLIS. JOSEPH DAHL, Prop. BARBER SHOP BELL, Proprietor. POL, POLITE BARBERS MILLIARD HALL ERS, SHOE SHINING MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. tern, Main 2511. N. W. Main 5244 VERY SERVICE HEPARD, PROP. N. W. PHONE MAIN 3487, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. REGULAR DINNER 25 CENTS W.F.S. SIMMONS, Prop. ½ Price On Unclaimed Tailored Winter Suits and Overcoats $30.00 Suits or Overcoats $15.00 $35.00 Suits or Overcoats $17.50 BROWN BROS. MERCANTILE CO. Tailors and Furriers. 21 South Sixth Street, Minneapolis. B. B. Do you dread the summer with its hot, tiring days and the big problem of keeping the children happy without letting them run the streets? Let us offer a suggestion: will be the center of life for the little ones all summer long, the best playground they could ask. You will have the comfort of knowing they are safe at home, and when the household duties are completed, you, too, will have the rest that is to be found only in a comfortable garden swing. The Star tries to publish the news of Negroes entirely. We know the "war news" is interesting, but Negroes read and pay for the daily papers, which carry the current news. We have the exclusive right of the plate service edited by N. B. Dodson, a Negro, which gives us the best side of Negro publicity. Every week the Star has in its columns articles of the race, which will never appear in the white papers or some Negro weeklies. Read the Negro Papers. Peoples Christian Assembly. ELDER G. W. MITCHELL, Pastor Assisted by Mrs. G. W. Mitchell. Comel and Serve the Lord. 1204 Washington Ave. So. Services Sunday—11 A. M. Sunday School—1:30 P. M. Praise Meeting—3 P. M. Preaching—8 P. M. IMPORTANT NOTICE. The publisher of The Twin City Star urgently requests that subscribers send in their dues, or ask for a collector to call. The cost of publishing a newspaper is increasing, and it is important that subscriptions conditions improve The Twin City and ads be paid for NOW. CARD OF THANKS Wewish to thank our many friends for their kindness and sympathy to us during the bereavement of our father, Benj. Taylor, and also for the beautiful floral tribute. Mrs. Evalyn Taylor Walls. Miss Lillian Taylor. HON. F. B. SNYDER APPOINTED CHAIRMAN. Notice of Meeting to Organize "Hennepin County Public Safety Association." Under and by authority of the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety a meeting is hereby called at the Auditorium in Minneapolis on Monday, May 28, 1917, at 8 o'clock P. M., for the purpose of adopting "Articles of Association of the Hennepin County Safety Association," and organizing the Association by the election of a President, Secretary and Treasurer and certain Committeemen, to be determined by the meeting but "not less than one from each township, incorporated village or city in Hennepin County," such officers and committeemen to constitute an "Advisory Council," and the transaction of such other business as may come before the meting. Voters will meet Saturday eve. May 26, at the polling places in the various precincts and elect three delegates to the Auditorium Meeting. Hon. Fred B. Snyder has been appointed County Chairman by Gov. Burnquist. Negro voters are requested to attend both meetings. REMEMBER THIS. The J. & H. Laundry is owned and operated by the Gibbs Boys, sons of Mrs. Ione E. Gibbs. We mention this because many on the north side patronize other firms. This is the most modern wet wash laundry in the Northwest. ADVERTISE HERE - IT PAYS THE TWIN CITY STAR Boys of '61 Were Real Boys SURPRISE is often expressed that there are so many veterans of the civil war still living. The fact is that the war was fought, at least on the northern side, by boys. Of the 2,159,798 enlisted there were only 46,626 who were over twenty-five years old. The official figures of the age at enlistment in the civil war were read in the house of representatives by Joseph G. Cannon, and they are as follows: It will be noticed from this statement that the greatest number of enlistments were of boys eighteen and LIEUT. CUSHING, ONE OF "THE BOYS OF '6!" [Lieutenant William B. Cushing, the hero of the torpedoing of the Albermarle, was only eighteen years and five months' old when the civil war began and twenty-two when he performed his famous feat.] under. In a great number of cases these boys became officers before they were twenty, some of them even reaching the rank of captain. The methods of war have so changed that in future armies there must be a far greater portion of mature men. There must be a large number who can handle the intricate, complex and death dealing machinery and engines of destruction. But as far as the civil war was concerned the fighting was done by boys, and the phrase "boys of '61" is a literal expression of the truth and not metaphorical. There are still 400,000 of them alive. Memorial Day Sentiment MONUMENTS perish, and their dust is blown upon the "broad bosomed air," but sentiment lives forever. The magnificent material of Greece tumbled away, but her fancies are alive. Strife, battle, bittersweet, are forgotten; love is eternal, and glory lies in the grave of the vallant. Yesterday the country was a great commercial giant, conquering new territory. Today it is a sentiment, scattering flowers upon the graves of its heroes. On the sidewalk, viewing the Memorial day parade, stands an old woman, dim eyed and tottering. Her young heart futters with the thrill of the scene, and her poor old mind gropes back to a day years ago, when she saw her son, glowing, handsome, proud, marching beneath that same flag. One night a neighbor came and, stammertug, told her that he had fallen with the brave, and to her the world was blotted out. She heard the shout of victory as her heart beat low, and, sorrowing, dead years fell upon her, and to God she cried for mercy and for consolation. Today she places a flower upon the grave of a stranger, the son of some other poor old woman and in her heart she says: "It was well. Our loved ones saved the country." No, of Memorial day you can say nothing new. But of eternal truth and beauty should we expect that any thing new should be said? We hear the music, we see the flowers, we inhale the perfume—we know that the country is immortal—Oule Read. THE BRAVE THAT KNEW NO FEAR BY FANNY CROSBY Three cheers, three cheers for the olden time And the brave that knew no fear; They stood erect as the giant oak, And laughed when the storm was near. Like them we'll boast of the land we love And her proud flag streaming high; We'll sing aloud for the bright green hills, While the ocean waves reply. Like them we'll boast of the land we love And her proud flag streaming high; We'll sing aloud for the bright green hills, While the ocean waves reply. They dared to look in the flashing eye Of the storm king when he passed. A shout went up and a peal of joy Rang out on the wintry blast. The grass is green where they calmly rest, Those veterans true and brave; Their memory shines like a radiant star O'er the land they died to (2) To Impress the Young. It is a beautiful thought that at five minutes to noon on Memorial day all work shall cease and all flags be lowered. For five minutes of grand silence, in prayer and thought, let the living pay devotion to the dead. Let comrades and the people remember during those five minutes that for the preservation of our beloved country more than 550,000 patriotic Americans gave up their lives in the great struggle fifty years ago. This observance will mean much to the young and the coming generations, impressing upon them the duty of honoring the dead who gave up their lives for their country and their flag and teaching them annually a lesson in the fundamental truths of virtue, liberty and independence. "Honor the Knightly Dead." The honor, strength and safety of a nation depend upon the martial spirit of the people. To cherish and perpetuate this is our sacred duty. To place flowers upon the graves of the brave men who fell in battle is a privilege which the living should proudly claim. We thus honor the knightly dead and instil a knightly spirit into those who still live.-General Joe Wheeler. Still Able to Uphold the Flag IN MEMORIAM: THE G. A. R. BY LOUISE DRISCOLL To them who came a year ago And do not come today— Hear the bells toll, Hear the drums roll, Hear the fifes play! To them who came a year ago, With halting step and slow, Now we bring an offering And lay it low— UNITED STATES OF AMERICA They have found their comrades. They march on other ways; Bent backs straight again, They go like young men. Oh, the ways of death are strange, still ways! Year by year the ranks grow thin, Year by year they go, Slower and more slow; Oh, the ways of death are strange, still ways! Year by year the ranks grow thin, Year by year they go, Slower and more slow; Death's the last commander— The one that all men know! Hear the bells toll, Hear the drums roll, Hear the bugles blow! —New York Times. True Observance. Memorial day in the town, with its marching veterans, playing bands and flying colors, new and old, is not so much of a tribute to the soldier dead as perhaps the processions of two and three in the country that go solemnly over the hills to where the grave is under the butternut or oak. Those of the country move without music or the cheers of watching thousands. It may be that in many ways they must understand better than those of the town why the flowers are now laid upon the graves of the gray and the blue; why a flag of one set of stripes and one group of stars is placed at the head of each. The town forgets; slurs over the true significance of memorial days—the country never. Lest We Forget: Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided republic.—General John A. Logan. On Line Memorial Day THE WOMAN WHO WAS THE LADY OF THE WORLD MADAME M. HART, The Reliable Milliner. BARGAINS IN MILLINERY. MADAM HART, 1215 Washington Ave. So., is having her ANNUAL SPRING SALE of HATS of the LATEST DESIGNS. No two Pattern Hats alike. A choice stock to select from. ATTENTION! LADIES. ARTESIA CREAM. Handled past ten years. Removes Liver spots and black-heads. Bleaches the skin and renews its natural color. ELECTRIC HAIR GROWER 50c. Overton's High-Brown Powder. Testimonials. Mrs. Essie Taylor, 633 Mississippi St. St. Paul and Mrs. Nancy Wade, 1403 Fifth Ave. So., Mnneapolis and others have sent testimonials recommending Madam Hart's Preparations and Hair-work. MADAM M. HART, 1215 WASHINGTON AVE. S. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. YOUR PUBLICITY PAYS. All persons interested in the progress of their lodges, churches, societies etc., should value the power of printer's ink. They should see that their secretaries SEND ALL NOTICES to the newspapers in proper time. They think the Editor should attend every affair, whether invited or not, and should know "What is going on?"—without being informed. Many exchanges clip from our columns, and often things done in Minneapolis get national publicity. LIBERAL SUBSCRIPTION OFFER. We offer a Combination Subscription to our readers for 1917. We will give you your choice of any Negro NEWSPAPER or MAGAZINE, and THE TWIN CITY STAR, mailed to your address anywhere in the U. S. for THREE DOLLARS. Cash in advance. Get your home paper sent direct to you. Forward all orders to THE TWIN CITY STAR, ..... 305 So. 5th St., Minneapolis. Room 302. PITY THE CHILDREN. Pity the poor children of many families. It is hard for many a hard working parent to support a family. Under the high cost of living these innocent sufferers are denied the necessities of life. We have a Belgium within our borders. NEGRO PRESS IS ACTIVE Millions of black men are watching national legislation and regulation. The recognized press of the race is doing its duty. There are a few slackers, but the vanguard is on the firing line fighting for their rights. Article 1, of the Amendments to the U. S. Constitution is a sacred safeguard for all loyal citizens. The free exercises of religion, speech, press or peaceable assembly and petitions for redress of grievances constitute the fundamentals of this great Republic, and are intended to give all men equality before the law. The Negro press stands for love of country and duty to their race. Whenever duty calls, they will not falter. If the Negroes were so void of manhood as to forget the injustice of the present, administration against them, they would not be possessed of that loyalty to the American Flag which they have defended with honor in all of this Nation's conflicts and always respected in times of peace. This is the only home of the American Negro and he will defend it, tho denied his rights. Do not waste your time making promises to our agents. Send your money by Express or Post Office, Order or in cash or postage stamps. Dr. W. Sampson Brooks, formerly of Minneapolis, is the new pastor of Bethel A. M. E. Church in Baltimore, Md. 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Write all Checks payable to Address all mail to Twin City Star 303 B. 5th St. Minneapolis, Minnesota The Twin City Star stands for equal rights for all American citizens. Negroes are not wanted as cooks at the Ft. Snelling Training Camp. Writing Their Own History. The dailies, which have published an extensive account of the Memphis lynching, have shown to the world the savagery of our citizens of the supposed superior race in that locality. It is a sad commentary on the white man's civilization and adds another blot of shame on another page of American history. Our sympathies are with the people of Atlanta, Ga., who are suffering from a recent calamity. Lynchings and calamities seem to go hand in hand. Peculiar co-incidents; but God's ways are mysterious. CONG. SCHALL INVESTIGATES. More Ratings for Negro Enlistment in the Navy. When it was generally known that Negroes were wanted "For Mess Attendants only" at the Naval Recruiting Station in Minneapolis, the Editor of the Star asked if that was "a local or Federal order," and was accused of "Looking for trouble". The matter was placed before our Congressman, Thos. D. Schall and we received the following reply: Thomas D. Schall 10th Dist. Minnesota HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Washington May 17, 1917. Mr. Charles Sumner Smith, Minneapolis, Minn. M. deane Admiral Palmer advises me that the enlistment of Negroes is open in the rating of mess attendants, cook and steward, for qualified men. Men who are not qualified need a necessary physical development may also enlist as firemen second or third class. The Bureau states that they appreciate the patroltiam of the Negroes; suggest that they be trained for colored rigments, as the navy is what is receiving over-attention at present, while the army is not coming up in such large percent of the time. This answer the question you Does this answer the question you asked me? There are many subterfuges by which Negroes cannot "have the necessary physical development," but they are assured of the privilege of a trial. Cong. Schall cannot change the discrimination program of the Navy department now, but he has done much for the Negroes. The Bureau of Navigation suggests that "there is need for colored regiments." We will have "colored" regiments and The Star suggests that Rear Admiral Palmer show his practical appreciation of the Negroes by a recognition of the Negroes of the Danish Islands, our latest acquisitions, many of whom are efficient in every branch of naval service, also by giving American Negroes a chance to demonstrate their patriotism as other American citizens. Cong. Schall has shown that the local recruiting station denied us the ratings allowed Negroes by the Bureau, and it is proven that Lt. Comur. Willson, of St. Paul, a Naval Reserve officer, is responsible for the local order. Negroes who want to enlist in these ratings should apply now. We have inquired, "if the orders were local or Federal." The Negroes know that the great patriotic parade in Congress was halted long enough for Cong. Vinson of good old Georgia to read into the Record his bill to Jim-Crow the Negroes in the District of Columbia. They hear that Gen. Joffre sat in the Supreme Court of the U. S. when the Louisville Segregation case was being argued. They know that the leading Negroes who attended the hearing were not allowed to eat in the public dining room in the Capitol. They want to know whether this All-American program includes or excludes the Negro Above all, they want friends at court in this trying hour. They want Congressman Schall and all red blooded Representatives to do their sworn duty. They expect those Negro haters from the Southland and their Northern colleagues, who barter pork barrel patriotism, to strip from the Negro every human right and if possible reduce him to worse than his former bondage. The Minneapolis Tribune celebrated the 50th anniversary with a facsimile edition of May 25, 1867 issued as a supplement to its regular edition. We re-publish the following extracts from REMARKS INTRODUCTORY Politically the Tribune will yield a hearty generous, unwavering support to the Republican party—the party represented by the majority in the 39th and 40th Congress—the party which, during its brief history, has done so much for human progress, and been instrumental in abolishing one of the worst forms of ple, and through whose policy milple, andd through whose policy millions of chattels have been converted from mere pieces of property into free and independent American citizens. Nor will the Tribune by content to stop with what has already been accomplished, but having inscribed "progress" upon its banner, it will labor to secure all the rights and privileges of citizenship to every native born citizen irrespectively of caste or color, and to every alien settler upon our soil on his compliance in good faith with the liberal provisions of the laws of the land. Popular edupress, the fullest religious liberty and press, the fullest religious liberty and impartial manhood suffrage, are among the cardinal objects embraced in the mission of the Republican party, and until these are secured that party will not have accomplished the results which the "logic of events" and the "signs of the times" clearly indicate have been committed to its special custody and fostering care. During the continuance of the bloody struggle forced upon the country by rebels at the South, a struggle which cost a million of lives, filled half a million of graves with household jewels plucked from Northern loyal homes, and imposed upon the country a debt of two thousand millions of dollars, there was little danger that Republicans would disagree on questions of duty. To make contribution of blood and treasure, even to the last drop and the last dollar, was the recognized standard of duty in all Republican councils, from the National Conventions of the party assembled for the nomination of presidential candidates, down to the primary meetings in the humblest caucus room, where dielegates were to be selected or candidates nominated for the least pretentious duties. With the closing of the war and the quenching of the fires of open rebellion, many new issues came to the surface, some of them scarcely less important than those decided by the sword, and yet demanding by be considered, and to be adjusted by peaceful methods. Many of these issues have already been virtually settled, and but for the sad defection of the man whom Republicans trustingly placed in the next place to the head of the Government, it is confidently believed all or nearly all of the issues referred to would ere this have become obsolete, and that our once united country would have become thoroughly re-united, with all its States restored to their former relations in the Union, and their people—all free independent and enfranchised—would now be fairly entered on the highway of material prosperity and a higher plane of civilization than was possible under their old but now obsolete regime. Among the issues not yet fully settled is that of the reconstruction of the late rebel States, but under the liberal provisions of the laws enacted by the last and the present Congress, the indications are that wisdom will prevail at the South, and before many months shall elapse that the people of those anomalous States will heartily accept the situation, close in with the overtures of Congress, do willingly justice to those whom they have heretofore oppressed, and, by deeds worthy of men who have foolishly appealed to arms and been fairly conquered, give satisfactory evidence that their readmission to representation in Congress, and the re-possession and exercise of their forfeited privileges will work no mischief to our common country. As we have intimated above, this consumption, so devoutly to be wished for by all true men, would have been secured before this time but for the new yet fallacious hopes created in the minds of rebel leaders by the defection of the President and his affiliation with the Northern Democracy, that, by holding out a little longer, they might secure by the ballot what they signally failed to accomplish with the bullet.—Minneapolis Tribune, May 25, 1867. Returning Battle ON a number of ooc papers have an turn to the surv federacy of flags which during the war bet The condition of the Negro remains the same today and they hope that The Tribune "will labor to secure all the rights and privileges of citizenship to every native born citizen, ir-respective of caste or color, and to every alien settler upon our soil on his compliance in good faith with the liberal provisions of our government." The Tribune has not accomplished its purpose, as many other leading newspapers and for that reason Negroes today are not free and independent citizens. The re-publication of this 50th anniversary edition is an admission of a broken promise and it is not too late for The Tribune to make good to a people who deserve its protection now, even more than they did fifty years ago. NEGROES SPECIALLY IDENTIFIED BY GOVERNMENT REGISTRATION. "If person is of African descent, tear off this corner." This statement appears on a lower corner of the U.S. registration card for selective draft service. Why such special consideration should be given persons of African descent, is causing much comment. Negroes should not worry. If this is to deny them the privilege of war service, they must await the inevitable under a policy of watchful waiting." Such discrimination will prove a boomerang to the Southern wing of the Administration. If the Negroes are drafted for the farm, they cannot avoid service and will make the best of it. It is probable that they may be called later for war service, and will have a greater share and honor in their Country's defense than those who planned to deny them that right. There are more than 20 million persons of African descent within the confines of the United States and its Insular possessions. They are willing to "do their bit," but are not wanted now. While party politics is being played and proven patriots like Roosevelt must fight for a chance to serve their Country; it is more than foolish to expect that a Democratic administration will regard the rights of black men. Negroes should be consoled with the knowledge that "There is a Divinity that shapes our ends," and it will come to pass that the stone which the builders rejected has become the keystone of the arch. Remember the words of Harriet Tubman, the Negro abolutionist, to Frederick Douglass; "God is not dead." The South in the Saddle. The farm enlistment project of the Southerners is another victory for them. The bloody battle of the Civil War was caused by Southern supremacy, because of free labor. They may now regain their "lost cause" a hundred fold by Federal labor. Are we drafting for the National peonage of black men? Human nature gives answer, and today the voice of the South is the voice of the Nation. Negro press-agents flood our office with their copy but fail to enclose the necessary insurance for publication. Copy "for the good of the race" is oftimes personal or commercial advertisement and must be paid for. The colored people of Ohio have called a State Convention to meet in Columbus on the 3rd day of July next. The object of the Convention is to ascertain how the colored people can best assist in having the word white stricken from the Constitution of that State.-Minneapolis Tribune. May 25, 1917. BUNDRANT'S VOLUNTEERS. BUNDRANT'S VOLUNTEERS. The members who have enrolled under J. W. Bundrant, have not been drilled and even a temporary organization has not been effected. If these volunteers do not get in before conscription begins they will not be rated as volunteers. Mr. Bundrant has had every support, but failed as an organizer. He will have a division in the Memorial Day Parade, but parading is abstract patriotism. The military honor of the Negro citizens depends on the volunteers. It is hoped Mr. Bundrant may yet make good, and every assistance will be given him. He has not made a good impression among the boys and it takes a popular man to organize. It is up to Mr. Bundrant to organize Now or Never. Are you a delinquent subscriber? If so, why not send your subscription? Returning the Battleflags Returning the Battleflags ON a number of occasions the newspapers have announced the return to the survivors of the Confederacy of flags which were captured during the war between the states. The passing of more than fifty years since the close of that tremendous struggle has quenched the animosities which it had engendered, and the people of the north have many times stretched forth a fraternal hand to the people of the south. The hand has been grasped in the same spirit in which it was extended, but there have been rather few instances where captured northern flags have been returned to the survivors of the Union cause. Now comes an inspiring illustration of the growth of this spirit of fraternity on the part of the boys who wore the gray. Recent dispatches announced the return of the battle torn flag of the Seventy-sixth Ohio Volunteer infantry, which was captured in a sanguinary engagement at Ringold Gap, Ga. The Ohio regiment held its annual reunion at Newark, and one of the pleasing features of the occasion was the presentation to the regiment of the captured flag. There is not an American worthy of the name who will not feel a warmer thrill of Americanism as he hears of such instances as this, which set a new seal upon the reunion of the once divided sections. The bitterness which was aroused by the action of President Cleveland when his first official act was an attempt to return to the ex-Confederates some captured battle flags has long since died away. That was thirty-two years ago, a generation of human life, and opinions have undergone a most gratifying change during those years. There is no dishonor in these exchanges of fraternal amenities, which should go on until the last vestige of intersectional feeling has been wiped out. The time must come when there will be no more "trophies" of the victory of one section of Americans over another. A Truly American Day An English officer viewing the ceremonies of Memorial day turned to a Chicago mayor and thus remarked: "Not in all Europe is there a ceremony so impressive. Here it is not only a beautiful tribute to brave men, but commemorative of the fact that the country passed through a great crisis and was saved, disproving the world's assertion that a republic could not live. The healing of that breach made America immortal, eternal. And the sign of this immortality is a rosebud, tenderly dropped upon a grave." How We Honor the Dead. How We Honor the Dead. We honor our heroic and patriotic dead by being true men, as true men by faithfully fighting the battles of our day as they fought the battles of their day.—Rev. Dr. David Gregg. Whiter the snow on the brow of the brave, Brighter the freedom of him who was slave, Deeper the rust on the sword in its sheath, Steeper the pathway, more faded the wreath, Dearer the names on the annals of fame, Truer the friendship of those who remain; Painter the colors of blue and of gray, Painter the drumbeats as years roll away. "But the star spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave." Over the battlefields of northland and south Song birds are nesting in dumb cannon's mouth; Corn grows and wheat waves where vast armies trod. Flowers have beautified battle tramped sod. Silent the bugle and silent the drum, Where bullets whistled the honeybeers hum; Let loose the white dove, war's thunders cease. Unhotted cannon proclaim a wide peace. "And the star spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave." P. J. Buford, W. W. Humphrey, Not the biggest but the best. Our prices as low as the rest. We deliver to all parts of the city. Call N. W. Main 2515 or Res. Nic. 2421 and the Cut-Rate People will give you prompt service day or night. The Waiters' and Porters' Club GLOVER SHULL, PRES. 311 HENNEPIN AVE. MINNEAPOLIS EDDIE BOYD, SECY LEE WHEELER, MANAGER F. PEOPLES HOME BUILDING CO. 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