THOUGHTFUL PAPER
BOOKER WASHINGTON DIS
CUSSES THE RACE .
QUESTION; 'l V
Appeals ta the South to Create
a Sentiment in Favor of Law--Shows
by Figures the Extent
of Lynching and That Vari
ous Crimes are - Alleged
Admits That the Negro Race,
in Proportion to Population,
Commit Most Crimes;
Birmingham, Ala., June 21. Book
er T. Washington, president Of the In
dustrial nd Normal school, to-day
furnished the Associated Press ; an
elaborate discussion, of the race ques
tion in the form of a paper. Professor
Washington begins bia paper by say
ing that while it is true that there are
cases of lynching and outrage in the
northern and western states, candor
compels him to admit that by far moet
of the cases of lynching take place in
our Southern States and most of the
persons lynched are negroes.
With ail the earnestness of my
heart," he says, "I want to appeal, not
to the president of the United 8tatesft
Mr. MrtTCiniev. nor to the people of
New York, nor of New England, bu.tl
to the citizens of our -Southern States,
tn uiu in creatine such a public
j sentiment as will- make buniarr'life
I here just as safe and sacred as it isany
! where else. in the world." -!
The paper then offers a review of the
i . . i a . a a mw ana y n mil wr n
i appeal lOal USS UCCU uioue uvwm
I the press $n& prominent men that the
j negro problem be left to the South.
' He recites that the whole country ,from
i the president. down, has been inclined
I to do this. By the policy of non-in-
terference the ooutn nas Deen given a
sacred trust. Professor Washington
continues : , -
- THE EXTENT OF LYNCHING. X
"I fear but few people in the South
realize to what an extent the habit of
lynching or the taking of life without
due process of law has taken hold of
us, and to what an extent it is not only,
hurting us in the eyes of the world,
but injuring our own moral anq ma
terial growth. Many good people in
the'South, and also out of the South,
have gotten the idea that lynching is
resorted to for one crime only. I have
the facts from an authoritative source
that during the last year 127 per
sons : were lynched in the Uni
ted States ; of this number 118
were executed in the South and nine
in the North and West ; of the total
number lynched 102 were negroes, 23
whites and two Indians. Of this num
ber only 21 were charged in any way
with the crime of rape.
"Within a period of six years about
900 persons have been lynched in our
Southern States. This is but a few
hundred short of the total number of
soldiers who lost their lives in Cuba
during the war. If we would realize
still more fully bow far this unfortu-
nate habit is leading us, note the class
es of crime during a few months which
the local papers and the Associated
Press nay that lynching has been in-
mctea lor. rney inciuae muraer,
rioting, incendarjsm, robbery, larceny,
self-defense, insulting women, alleged
poisoning, malpractice, alleged barn
burning, suspected robbery, race preju
dice, attempted murder, horse stealing,
1 mistaken identity, etc. The' practice
has grown until we are' now at the
ed in the South, but white men as
well. Within the last six years at
leaet a half dozen colored women have
been lynched. -
rr.EA .VrtT PAP KVr.Tift ITftVP
"I am not . pleading for the negro
alone. Lynching injures, hinders and
blunts the moral sensibilities of the
young and tender manhood 4 of the
South. Never shall I forget the re
mark made by a little 9-year-old white
boy with blue eyes and flaxen hair.
The little fellow said to his mother
after he had returned from a lynch
ing: 'I have seen a man hanged. Now
I wish I could see one burned Bather
than hear such, a remark from une of
my little boys, I would rather see him
dead.
"There is too much crime among us.
The figures for a given period show
that in the United States 30 per cent
of the crime committed is by negroes
while we constitute only about 12 per
cent, of the entire population. This
proportion holds good not only in the
South, but also In Northern 8tateaand
cities. No race that . Is sdf largely ig
norant and so .recently out of slavery
could perhaps show & batter record,
but we must face these plain facts.
A large amount of the crime among us
grows out of the idleness of our young
men ana women, it Is for this reason
that I have tried to insist upon some
industry being taught our young peo
ple in connection with their course of
literary training."
AROUSE SENTIMENT.
Prof. Washington concludes by ap
pealing to school teachers, ministers
and the press 4o arouse suchji senti
ment regarding the , committing of
crime against women that such a
crime will not be charged against anv
member of the race. He says the ne
gro has among the Southern whites as
good friends as he has anywhere in the
world, and advises him to stay here
and work out his salvation.
Mrs. Bland, widow of the late
Hon. Richard P. Bland, who died
at Lebanon, Mo., a , few days ago,
has long worn a necklet from
which is pendant the first silver
dollar coined under the Bland
Mr. Bland left a large family and
rery little property.
Lel&nd jDtini'crdXInlvcrsity and Its
; Foujadera.
Mrs. Stanford new gift of ex
tensive realty to the Leland Stan
ford Jonior University is notable
W S further evidence of her deter
mination tpjpake that institution
buv mm w mf
h nrinM nai - nenenciarv- oi ucr
v..t oiitth. finch was her hus
hand's desire, and tae wiaow
is
nobly continuing the work bt xnu-
nincence wniea'uau m luspuBHwu
in auch a touching crisis of their
lives. ... In 1884 their sixteen-yearr
old son, aftenwhom the great. uni
WA;airv if thm Pacific elODe was
named, died of typhoid fever, in
FlorenceVItaly. He was the bright,
particular lov-and hope oi nis par
ents. The heartbroken father fell
asleeD durinz his watch by the dy
lag son's bedside, and had a strange
dream He thought that his son
aDDeared to Dim ana saia: "uon
sav vou have nothing t live for,
father : vou have a ereat deal
to
live for. Live for humanity, fath
sr" It was the innate philan
thropy of Senator Stanford which
undoubtedly prompted. tms aream
ancT over the body. o his son be
vowed to fulfill "-bis 'r-impressive
vision.
Before his death the great rail
road kins had established the Le
land Stanford Junior University
on bis ralo Alto estates, twenty
eicrht miles from San Francisco.
with the Lick Observatory oh the
highest peak of the Coast Range.
Beginning witri a gilt oi o,OUU,
000, his endowment grew to $20,
000,000. The question of cost
never arose with this university, as
it has with every other, since the
very first moment tnat ur. uavia
Starr Jordan assumed its initial
presidency. Mrs. Stanford herself
gave the art museum as a special
sift, and it is how stated that she
is to purchase' $1,000,000 worth of
art works rn Europe for it. It is
built of cut stones, in imitation of
the Greek Government Museum at
Athens. Stanford University is
not only, a splendid monument to
Mr. and Mrs. Stanford and their
son, but on its grounds stands the
Stanford mausoleum, probably the
most costly in America. The up-
oer slab of each of the three ear-
cophagi of Carrara marble weighs
a ton. -
' Education in Politics.
In an address to the students of
Cornell University Governor Theo
dore Roosevelt, of New York, re
cently said :
Our country could better afiford
to lose all the men who have
amassed millions than to lose one
half of Its college-bred men.; We
can get along without men of enor
mous wealth, but not without men
of brains."
Gov. Roosevelt then discussed
the desirability cf college-bred
men making themselves active in
the political world. He criticised
the position that because politics
are corrupt good men should shun
them, holding that the very fact
that dishonesty and corruption ex
ist should be an incentive to good
men' participating and removing
evils, v 1 " ' .
The man who holds aloof merely
because of corruption, he said, is
unworthy the blessing of American
citizenship, xA manf should be as
ready to fight for the bost interests
of his country In time of peace as
in time ofwarThe4 duties1 of
peace are nohe
than thosz-of wari 4ahd -he is no
thoroughly good American citizen
who shuns elther." Speaking di
rectly to the graduating class, the
Governor .advised them that they
were no better than the A masses
who had not had their advantages,
except in so far as they utilized
their advantages and proved them
selves so. Collegiate education
did not make them too cultured
and refined for the active work of
life; if it did, It would be a curse
rather than a blessing. Collegiate
training .offered innumerable ad
vantages, but merely of itself, with
out effort, would avail nothing.
Will Eeplace Bubber.
. A new company, which is des
tined to revolutionize the' hard
rubber business,' has been incorpo
rated under the laws cf the state
of New Jersey, the capital stock
being $5,000,000, divided into 200,
000 shares, par $25.
This company will manufacture
"Xelton," a compound which not
fcnly takes the place of hard rub
ber, but possesses many advanta
ges over that article. , The patents
upon which the invention is baseci
have been carefully examined, and
applications for additional collat
eral patents are being made.
The growing scarcity of hard
rubber has for some years attract
ed the attention of the commercial
world, and capitalists interested in
the trade have repeatedly attempt
ed to find a substitute." This subT
stitute is found in Xelton,M which
Hot only replaces it, but which can
be manufactured at about one
fourth its cost, and for certain
purposes possesses important ad
vantages over, it
: - ': 'Adiairal Cshloy's Tribute.
There was a good deal more than
the felicitous compliment of a sailor
to the nonmllitant sex in the words
in which Admiral Schley spoke of
the. women of America, in his .Chi
cago address. In one' place, speak
ingof how this broad land bad
been converted from a wilderness
into a paradise, he. said that "in
its beautiful women Jand strong
men-he could see-why this country
is great." But it was when' he
spoke of the high regard and honor
the' people' of this country have for
women that the Admiral really
touched upon one of the most poten
secrets of American progress. "In
proportion," said he, "as a nation
holds its women in high regard and
develops those virtues to the highest
plane,! in just that proportion is
nation great, it is oecause we
place jour women upon that, high
elevation of virtue that we have
become great.- Poison the source
of a nation's origin and it die.n
There is far more in these words
than lies on the surface. They
touch I the true source of America's
chief claim on the world's admira
tion, envy and imitation. In this
country, where every citizen is
sovereign, all our women are queens.
Here only in the great world does
the woman walk abroad in the free
majesty of man's honor and regard.
No class or station in life monopo
lizes the distinction between the
relation of the sexes here and in
European countries. Even in
England the law and the customs
6f centuries force women into sub
ordinate place: . 5 -
One of the evident results of the
greater respect paid to women in
America than elsewhere is the grad
ual improvement of American wo
men in personal appearance as well
as! mental attainment. Tho young
women of this generation are., as a
rule, taller and' better . developed
physically than their mothers.
The statistics of female colleges
prove this. More attention is paid
to! their bodies, as well as to their
minds. They are being fitted to be
the mothers of Americans. When
cne is seeking for ' the .springs of
American push and progress there
is no need to lo?k beyond the wo
men of America.- Chicago Times
Herald. : . . '
How Good Times Come and Go.
There is a great deal of fiction
inj the distinctions' that men com
monly make between what they call
good times and' bad times. The
really: good times are - not always
recognized or admitted until they
have gone by. The times that men
look upon as the beginning of a
period of good times and as highly
encouraging on that account are
not infreaueritlv the periods of
danger, because they lead to over
confidence, rash investment, and
the undue extension of credit.
Such times are marked by the
floating of ill-considered and over
capitalized undertakings and by
speculations that are doomed to
react i disastrously. v For several
years past the farmers of the West
have j had good prices for their
erobs. and have been paying off
old indebtedness and generally sol
idifying their positions. They
had been compelled for some years
previous to exercise the most rigid
economy under very trying and
difficult circumstances. It will be
well for them to consider that these
more recent seasons of good crops
and good prices have constituted
for them- a period of reasonable
prosperity. "We may hope certain
ly j that no sharp .reaction is to
overtake the business world at
t i. . . ...I. .
once; nevertneiess tcis is exactly
the right time to take account of
stock and, make ready for the worst
that could possibly happen.
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Army Canteen Permanent.
Beer and light wine will still
continue to be sold to the soldiers
of the regular army from the post
canteen, and this adjunct will con
tinue to be a permanent affair, not
witbsanding the controversy which
has been going the rounds of late
days, i Officers at the war depart
ment have become weary of the op
position, and no further attention,
it is said, is likely to be paid to
the matter. " No decision will be
made in the premises, as none is
required, as Secretary. Alger wanted
to know the general opinion of offi
cers on the'question and this has
been obtained.
The expressions of about 600 of
ficers who were addressed on the
subject are now in the hands of
Acting Secretary Meiklejobn, but
it is not thought tbejf will be made
public. As the Attorney General
has rendered the opinion that the
army canteen is lawful under the
act of congress, there is little pros
pect that the matter will again be
taken1 up by the war department.
Washington Post. : ; ,
t A telegram received by the North
China f Daily News ': reports ? that
rioterB killed Bev. H. S, Phillips,
Mrs. Phillips, a lady friend, and
three native converts, while they
were trying to make tneir escape
from Kion Yang.
The Constitutional Anendaent.
' Too much cannot be written con
cerning the momentous question
upon which action: is to be taken
at the polls in August of next yean
The enemies of "White Supremai
cy" are not idle. They are at work
quietly here and there, and are'dil
igent in sowing the seed of (doubi
and" distrust wherever they can
find the chance so to do. j r j t
V7itb like vigor must the friends
of the amendment work, be they of
high or low estate. : - )''
Some of the leading lights in the
Democratic party have given their
views upon the question; and these
have t done immense good. Ioir
the rank and file, the newspapers
and the teachers, the preachers and
the doctors and all other men who
love good government .must take
up the battle and in season and
out of season must set plain and
clear the duty of the white man to
make himself master, for good and
ail, of the destiny of North Caroli
na " 1 '
One strong, heroic fight, and the
victory is won. Make the amend
ment part of our constitution, and
toe troubles of the past will be re
placed by a healthy condition of
political affairs which will react
upon every interest of the state
Such can be done, and! we have a
sublime faith which tells us that it
will be done. Wilson News.
The Waldensian Colony.
The Waldesian colony, located
at Valdese, on the Southern Rail
way, in Burke county, North Card
lina, is one of the most successful
settlements of people in the South.
Of the forty families comprising
the colony thirty-five are engaged
In agricultural pursuits.Tbey
own 3,500 acres of land and are
making great advancement in get
ting the farms under good cultiva
tion. Their wheat crop this year
will average above 15 bushels per
acre. The crops of corn and pota
toes are in a promising condition.
The people have planterd-20,600
grapes vines and 3,500 trees. The
orchards contain peach, .apple, pear,
plum and cherry trees. Each fam
ily appears to have especial inter
est in the further improvement! of
its home. The dwellings and barns
are new and neatly kept. Southern
Field. II-'-.
Cholera Morbus Quickly Cured.
"During the hot weather last
summer I had a severe attack of
cholera morbus, necessitating my
leaving my business," says Mri C.
A. Hare, of Hare Bros., Fincastle,
Ohio. "After taking two or three
doses of Chamberlain's Colic, Chol
era and Diarrhoea Remedy. Ij was
completely relieved and in a few
hours was able to resume my work
in the store. I sincerely recom
mend it to any one' afflicted with
stomach or bowel trouble. C.
Holton, Druggist. '
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The Dog in South Carolina.
The Supreme, court of South
Carolina, at Columbia, on Satur
day last filed an opinion in favor
of the dog. In a Newberry case
it was held by the circuit judge
that the dog .was not property 'and
was. not a subject for larceny.
The Supreme court holds that the
dog is property and can be stolen,
and that a party can be indicted
for stealing a dog, that the dog is
valuable, notwithstanding the com
mon law, which is against the doc
trine of the decision filed Saturday.
The. court held that the old com
mon law is out of date. . -
Sooner or later ev
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with Death. Nature
has provided her with
a set of extremely sensitive organs upon
the condition of which the health of her
whole body depends. She must keep these
distinctly
feminine or
gans fully
protected , j by
the armor! of
health. That
is her best de
fense against
Death at the
time that
Death comes
closest to her
the time
when she ; .
becomes; a
mother, j i
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