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Busi ness letters of all kinds must be written on separate sheets from letters containing news or matter for publication. Entered as second class matter June 6, 1885 at the post office at St. Paul, Minn., under act of Con gross, March 3, 1879. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. Treat each man according to his worth as a man. Distrust all who would have any one class placed before any other. Other republics have fallen be cause the unscrupulous have substituted loyalty to class for loyalty to the people as a whole, President Roosevelt's speech at Little Rock, Ark. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1908. WESTERN CIVILIZATION. The New York Tribune is worked up over the prevalence of lawlessness in Japan. It draws the following pic ture of the situation: Cases of as sault and battery are becoming alarm ingly common. Crimes resulting from indulgence in debauchery, for merly almost unknown, are now num erous. Highway robberies, even in the outskirts of large cities, are of not infrequent occurence. Blackmail is practised. There are reports of open attacks upon dwelling houses by mobs, while strikes and labor riots attain menacing proportions and are marked with criminal and sometimes deadly violence. Along the coasts and on the Inland Sea piracy is prac tised, cargo vessels have been looted, and women have been abducted from passenger ships. Strange to say, the Tribune is not delighted with this evidence of the rapid progress .of "Western civiliza tion" in Japan. That country has taken the United States, as a man takes a wife, for better or worse, as a model. The worse and the better are bound to go together, and, there limn* uvo weeu.s prior 1,0 expiration,, so mart. Tr,-, ,.i*,r -,,u +1, /~i j_r. gii 33S3agKaa^1 is .reason to suppose that in due time Japan will develop a Thaw case. A TEXAS BRAINSTORM. Texas has beep exasperated into a brainstorm over the discovery that Whittier's Barbara Frietchie appears in. some of her school text books. The offensive production is to be at once eliminated in order that the tender minds of Texas youth may not beorers contaminated with such rot. Where- Copyiight, 1908, Harris $ Ewirg, Wash.. I C. 611 Pr t* ^47- HON. WILLIAM H. TAFT Next President of the United States. "Every good citizen in the country must.deplore the fiendish, work of the disgraceful mob that has brought the city of Springfield to sorrow. Sucn an outbreak of lawlessness and "bitter race prejudice makes the lover of his country sad."William H. Taft. KENTUCKY CIVILIZATION. Seeking in vain for some way to check the outrages, Gov. Willson let it be known that any one convicted of shooting or killing a night rider in defense of his property or his family would promptly be pardoned. This meant that where the county or State officials proved too weak or cowardly to enforce the law, the governor thought that individuals had the right to take the law into their own hands and defend themselves. It does not speak very well for the amount of civilization existing in be as the paper stops Kentucky, when the Governor is thus compelled to encourage and sanction lawlessness. But it goes to show that any one form of lawlessness which is not merely tolerated but excused is a direct incentive to every other. While the outrages upon Afro-Americans were being perpetrated during the Springfield mob, the property of white men was recklessly destroyed and the goods in their stores stolen to the amount of thousands of dollars. The lesson is simply that-it does not pay to tolerate any. species of lawless ness. upon the AVashington Post is moved to comment thus: In the first place, to contractors is confined to Demo-' Barbara Frietchie did not wave a flag cratic States HON. JAMES S. SHERMAN. Next Vice President of the United States. "As a Nation our duty compels that by every constitutional and rea- sonable means the material and educational'condition of the Afr^Am^icIn be advanced. This we owe to ourselves as well as to them ABtte^SSE a course of eventsS thait, can never be reversed^, they a?e a part of^ur our' SSriune pr at Frederick. In the second place, her grandson was one of Stonewall Jackson's "ragged rebels" that day. In the third place, she was in sym pathy with the South, and if she had waved a flag at all that day it would have been the stars and bars and not the Stars and Stripes. THE APPEAL hopes that the Texas legislature and the Post together will next investigate the truth of the statement that "Little Jack Horner sat in a, comer eating a Chi-istmas pie for if it cannot be shown that the incident actually occurred as stated it is "manifestly improper that the minds of our youth should be fed with such slush. THE FRIEND OF LABOR. Any workingman who is inclined to give credit to Mr. Gompers' attack upon the Republican party, would do well to consider the attitude of the Democratic party *is a friend of labor as summed up the Ne York Mail: spei Per "The Republican party, thereiore^will offer everv encouraeem#mt t the thrift, industry and intelligence that will better^tSeir Sospfc^o? hi? rttainment."James S. Sherman. *vw.i oi mgner the Re- "All the labor legislation on statute books of the nation is publican legislation. Practically all the labor legislation on the statute books of the States (three or four Commqjiwealths ex cepted) is Republican legislation. "The .States that have resisted legislation prohibiting or restricting child labor are Democratic States. "The States where child labor is most widely employed are Democratic States. "Peonagethe legal slavery of lab in debtis confined to Demo cratic States. "The farming out of convict labor debasement wouMoe gne 3A DEBATABLE PROPOSITION. *-'4A. prominent citizen of Springfield, 111., recently said: "Everybody knows that the mob has made our families safe." We suppose that' there are ""many persons who are tolerant of mob-law because they feel the same -way. We, however, think that the idea is an egregious error and do not believe that $11 the lynching that has been:\ done in this country has had any such effect. We regard the citi zen's remark as a doubtful, debatable proposition. On the other hand, it is a sure thing that the immense ex pense of the. troops, the grand'juries and courts must be borne by the tax payers as under the law of Illinois, the state, city and county are liable for the property destroyed and there is no possible way of evading the payment -of the penalty. (A commun ity is certainly in a bad way when it looks for protection from thieves, drunkards and harlots to the thieves, drunkards and harlots themselves. Bishop Derrick of Brooklyn and Bishop Caldwell of Philadelphia called at Republican national headquarters in New York this week and speaking for the Afro-Americans said: "Our people have always been Re publican, since that purty was first or- Since all distinctions' are odious it is with profound satisfaction we note that Judge A. H. Huston of the Dis trict Court of Guthrie, Okla. on last Tuesday declared the separate school law of the state to be unconstitution al. All honor to the upright judge who puts principle above prejudice. HON. FRANK H. HITCHCOCK. Chairman of the Republican National Committee, Who Will Lead the Re- publican Party to ictory in November. HON. CHARLES Illinois' Fearless Executive Who ganized and we see no reason for change in the coming campagn. The rank" and. file will, stand by the Re publican party. AmOng the bishops of three Afro-American Methodist churches in America, I know of but one inclined towards Democracy. These twenty-five bishops represent active Methodists throughout the country." And these reverend gentlemen know whereof they speak. According to Ex. Gov. Terrell, the political situation is a little peculiar. The law is that in order to secure the electoral vote a. candidate must carry a majority of the votes cast failing in which, the election is thrown into 'the legisla-ture.. Mr. .Terrell sajrs: "Tom Watson, the populist candidate, will poll probaly 30,000 votes. 'The Independence Party, because of the personal following of John Temple Graves, will get a vote of 5,000 more perhaps, while the Republican party will poll its usual vote. iis^:, As goes Vermont so goes the Un ion, and she^ went Republican last Tuesday. EQUAL RIGHTS PLANK. "The .Republican party has been for more than fifty years the consistent friend of the Afro-American. It gave him freedom and citizenship. It wrote into the organic law the declarations that proclaim his civil and political rights, and it believes today that his note worthy progress in intelligence, industry and good citizenship has^ earned the respect and en couragement of the nation. We demand equal justice for all men, without regard to race or color we declare once more, and without reservation, for the enforcement in letter and spirit of the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution which were de signed for the protection and ad vancemnt of the Afro-American, and we condemn all devices have for their real aim his dis franchisement for reasons of color alone, as unfair, un-Am erican and repugnant to the supreme law of the land." Republican Platform, 1908 S. DENEEN. Put Down the Springfield, Riot. RIGHTS OF AFRO-AMERICANS. "The republican platform refers to these amendments to the Con-1 stitution that were passed by the republican party -for the protec tion of the Afro-American. The Afro-American, in the forty years since he was freed from slavery, has made remarkable progress. He is bceoming a more and more valuable member of the com munities in which he lives. The education of the Afro-American is being expanded and* improved in every way. The best men of both races, at the rrbrth as well as at the south, ought to rejoice to see growing up among the southern people an influential ele ment disposed to encourage the Afro-American in his hard strug gle for industrial independence and assured political status. The republican platform- adopted a Chicago, explicitly demands jus tice for all men without regard to race or color, and just as ex plicitly declares for the enforce ment, and without reservation, in letter and spirit of the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amend ments to the Constitution. It is needless to state that I stand with my party squarely on that plank in the platform, and believe that equal justice to all men and the fair and impartial enforce ment of these amendments are in keeping, with the real Ameri can spirit of fair play.Hon. Wm.'H, Taft's letter accepting Republican nomination for Presi dency.- v-,.v'-3,: "JV -t tV tV J* .,/irVr*- A ?i- *K Vice"res?den Defective Page Ssla HON. JOSEPH G. CANNON Speaker of the'House of Representatives, Who Will Stump the Country For Taft. The important news that Belgium has annexed the Congo Free State and thereby put an end to the atro cous cruelties of that abominable old wretch old King Leopold, cheering to every lover of mankind. We are not sure that Belgium was actuated merely by humanitarian motives we rather suspect that a fear of Great. Britain had no little to do with the ac tion taken. Nevertheless its a good thing that the annexaton has been accomplished for any government can not help being better than that of the horrible old monster who once tyrannized oyer the helpless natives legislature will put a stop to the atro- of the Congo Free State. I cious system. HON. FRANK O. LOWDEN Popular Illinois Congressman, Who Has Endeared Himself to the Afro Americans of Country By His Stand For the Supremacy ofthe Law. Twenty thousand people assembled af. Freeport, Illinois, on the exact spot on which the famous Lincoln-Douglas Freeport debate took place fifty years ago, at exactly the same time, and in almost the same manner the semi-centennial was observed. So engrossed was the audience in the old issues that it was a bold speaker who had the temerity to introduce topics of the day into the addresses delivered before it. This feat was accomplished successfully, how- ever, by Congressman Frank O. Lowden, who praised Gov. Deneen's use of the "iron hand" in quelling the race riots in Springfield. The mention of Gov. Deneen's name in this connection was sufficient to call forth sucn 'enthusiastic applause as to leave no doubt as to the attitude of those who heard the remarks. "In very civilized government there must be something which is abso- lutely supreme," said Mr. Lowden. "In a despotism it is the will of the monarch. In a republic it is and must be the law and the law alone. It is tlie worst form of treason in a republic to offer the lightest Violence to tne supremacy of the law. Whenever any set of persons put themselves above the law, of whatever class, whether rich or poor, they are in open rebellion against the only earthly master we may know, the sovereign law which we have crowned supreme. "I realize that the race problem is a grave one. I appreciate the fact that primitive passions when once aroused make us forget the nineteen centuries of Christian civilization of which we are heirs. I don't know what the solution of this problem will be. But I do know that if we are to remain a republic there is no solution which a mob can bring. If the history of our country teaches us aught, its lesson is that only by obedience to law, by confessing its absolute supremacy, can any wrong be niet. We have not often been called upon to commend any actions of big Hoax Smith, governor of Georgia, but must do so, if it be true, that he will call the. legislature together to put a stop to the convict system. An investi gation has shown that the convict sys tem of Georgia has resulted in cruel ties which almost defy description that convicts, male and female, black and white, have been tortured and murdered in numerous instances. The same is true of every state in which the convicts are sold to contractors. We earnestly hope that the Georgia of the United States Who Will Stump the Country for TafU s*i p^bii-a A xM 'it. 45 I IB I