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Vol. XII President Roosevelt and the Three Discharged Companies Of the 25th Rewnt Are Occupying the Billboards In the United States Senate. Senators Foraker, Patterson, Nelson and Spooner Fire Into Benjamin R Tillman, the S. Carolina Anarchist. Last Saturday the fight on Pres ident Roosevelt, was renewed in the United States Senate, and he and the three discharged com1mles or the 25th Regiment nave continued to oc cupy the billboards In the upper branch of Congress each day from that time to this. On the day men tioned Benjamin R. Tillman, the South Carolina Anarchist, who is one of the most destestable and repulsive creatures In this country, who re flects no honor upon the proud and haughty Anglo-Saxon race, attempted to join In discussing the acts of the President, in dishonorably discharg ing the three companies referred to, and while attempting to talk on Presi dent Roosevelt assuming power and authority not invested in him in such matters by the Constitution of the United States, as usual he went off half cocked on the "Race Question," in his long rambling unintelligent talk he utterly failed to set-forth or to make one single point in discus sing that "Question," and It is a gross insult to the entire Colored race to have such a cut-throat and it might be said, red-handed murder as Ben. Tillman to raise his half drunken voice in behalf of the Afro-American race, as against President Roosevelt, on any proposition, or question, for there can never come a time in this country when the Colored people will need such untamed savages and wild eyed Anarchists as Benjamin R. Till man to defend their civil and political rights. The President has "made a mess of it," brawled out the misshapen thing who claims to represent the unpro gressive people of South Carolina In the United States Senate. His ac tions he shouted like a low bred bar room loafer, has "brought nearer to a crisis the race feeling which is now sweeping the country," he continued "shall the Caucasian races disappear from the earth, would President Roosevelt accept as a daughter-in-law a Chinese, a malay, an Indian or a Negro?" "What have these questions got to do with President Roosevelt and his discharge of the three com panies of the 25th Regiment, absolute ly nothing yet this is a sample of the rot the rattled-brained hydra-headed South Carolina monster dishes up while laboring under the impression that he Is talking on the right of the President to discharge the Colored troops. Senators Foraker, .Nelson, Bever age, and Patterson, in the running debate handled the cornfield South Carolina Senator without gloves, who hates the Negro, because Ms father tost all his slaves at the close of the slave-holders rebellion, and as we have said a thousand times this hor rible thing half made up In the shape f man, connot talk on any subject so that anyone can understand what be is driving at, again flew the main track, and when Senator Nelson wan ted to know the reason "why the Col ored soldier. If he conducts himself 33 a white soldier, should not receive the 6ame consideration," in attempting to reply to t simple Question Senator Tillman be gan to run off at the mouth like a mad dog, and in his prize fighting way he exclaimed that he Is bitterly op posed to extending the same privileg es to Nesro soldiers that white sol diers enjoy. "For the simple reason that God Almighty made him Colored, that He did not make him white, that is the milk in the cocoanut it is "Just this sort of stuff that put into the head of the Negro soldier that he was entitled to demand social equality," he snorted. Old Ben continued his railing off at the mouth as follows: "Are- men to be made over and the caste feeling and race antagonisms of centuries to disappear in the univer sal brotherhood of man? Are there any senators in this audience who subscribe to this doctrine who would have the Caucasian, highest and nob lest of the five races, as is attested by history .descend to the level of the others and share his birthright with them, with the inevitable result that pure white blood will disappear from the face of the earth and after the mixing of centuries shall have com pleted the amalgamation all men shall be of one skin and one type " This is a mighty simple question for a backwoods statesman like Anar chist Ben to ask, when we take into consideration the fact that for the past two hundred and fifty years, the vast majority of the most eminent Christian white gentlemen in the South have put In most of their time In assisting Negro women to fill the southland full o fhalf-breeds and bas tard children, that the so-called best oi pure white blood which Ben shoots off his mouth about flows through the veins of thousands of the very worst class of Negroes in the South. There may or there may not be a Supreme Being called God who rules over the Universe with an iron hand, but if there is a living God, which we seroiusly doubt, then all we have to say is that He Is in mighty poor busi ness when He selects such critters as Ben Tillman ,to proclaim His power and wisdom, plans and purposes in His dealings with the various races here on this earth. But If there is a God who mixes up in the affairs of men here below, then it Is not unreasonable to assume that He choose the broken down white Christian gentlemen throughout the South to lead off In the amalgamation business. For In that section of the country the races are so mixed up that it Is very hard to tell who is who, and to distinguish the whites from the blacks, yet notwithstanding this undisputed fact Ben Tillman has become so drunk with his own importance that he is continually wasting the time of this great Nation In whining about the purity of the white blood In the South. It remained for Senator John C. Spooner to pluck all the plumes from the Sonth Carolina Anarchist, and Senator Spooner hurled it In his teeth, that "President Roosevelt requires no defense from the attacks of Senator Tillman whom, he declared had fre quently witnessed and participated, In lynching bees of Negroes." Senator Spooner continued to fire Into Ben Tillman and In doing so, ne H k -v t o rr CH1CAG . .TA.PTITA.'RY 1 O. 1 07. GEORGE MILLS ROGERS. Master In Chancery of the Circuit Court, who would make an ideal Can didate to succeed the late -Joseph E. Gary. as Judge of the Superior Court. j held him at bay, while severely ar ranging him in the following lang uage. "I have been shocked," he said, "by the attitude of the senator from South Carolina on more than one occasion when he has spoken here in justifica tion and support of the continuance of lynching, if there is one man who ought not to encourage it is the man who sits here as the maker of laws. "Any man who encourages lynching, murder and lawlessness will have much to answer for and the higher his position and the mightier his in fluence the more will he have to an swer for. No man can come here with good grace to impeach the president for his dismissal of men because they were not Identified as criminals who comes to that accusation from a lynching bee or who justifies one." Senator Spooner also quoted from a newspaper report of one Anarchist Tillman's lectures, in which he referr ed to Negroes as "baboons" and said when asked "How about the law?" Re plied "to hell with such laws." Senator Spooner contended that "he knew of no better way to perpetuate the struggle between the two races, than to be constantly and violently declaring that such trouble to be emi nent and unavoidable." It was the first time in many a day. that the bloodthirsty South Carolina Anarchist was completely choked off and shown no quarters and that hon or belongs to Senator Spooner, and we believe it is only a Question of time until the Northern Senators both Democrats and Republicans will mus ter sufficient courage and back bone, to nab Benjamin R. Tillman by the nap of the neck and hurl him head long out of the United States Sen ate. For he is an unregenerated ex rebel an enemy to society law and order and the most dangerous Anar chist living today, in his preachment against the American government and its institutions as founded by the fath ers of this great and glorious Repub lic! The committee having charge of dis bursing the funds realized from -the Grand Charity Ball, recently given at the First Regiment Armory under the management of that great and noble woman, Mrs. Porter Palmer, have sent a check for $500 for the benefit of the inmates of the Old Folks' Home,. 610 Garfield Blvd. The County Democracy Marching Club under the leadership of CoL Robert E. Burke, will start on its annual trip to New Orleans, La, Friday, February a Some of 'the most prominent Demo crats in this city will be the honored guests of the club on its tour through the South. , Bpsrw-' ii re i . i iv re . SENATOR ALBERT J. HOPKINS 1C.LEANED UP IN HIS ABLE AND " LOGICAL DEFENSE OF SENATOR REED SMOOT. The latter part of last week Sena tor Albert J. Hopkins, covered him self with glory during the delivery of his able and logical speech in the Senate in favor of permitting Reed Smoot of Utah to retain his seat In that body. When Senator Hopkins finished his memorable oration which was full of clean cut chunks of logic nothing more could be said on the subject. He clearly demonstrated the fact, that the fight had been waged against Senator Smoot, simply on account of his religious views, or for the reason that he is a member of the Mormon Church and not that he had one or two wives and had conducted himself iu the past in an immoral manner. This has been the whole controver sy in a nut shell. Senator Hopkins, clearly established the fact, that. Senator Smoot. was only marired to and living with one wife, and many of the prominent members of The Wo- i man's Christian Temperance Union and of the various women's clubs throughout the country, are now ex ceedingly hot In their collars at Sen ator Hopkins, for having the courage, to rise above religious bigotry in his able defense of Senator Smoot. These dear ladles, who delight to pose as the white winged angels, of peace and purity, can render their country a far greater service, if they will refrain from exependlng their val uable time, in a vain endeavor to con tinue their fight on Senator Smoot, and they can engage In no nobler work, than In working up a strong sentiment against Christian white gentlemen consorting with Negro wo men in the South and in other sec tions of the country, defying all the laws of morality and decency, in their beastly conduct towards all women old or young they come in contact with. Let these good ladies, cry out against mob and lynch law and other forms of lawlessness and robbery which Is -stalking throughout the land, and contend for the plain sim ple life, virtue and honesty In deal- ins with each other, aud then they will fill their mission on this earth. It Is high time that the fight on Senator Reed Smoot Is pulled off, simply because he is a member of the Mormon Church. The Carter H. Harrison Business Men's League have opened up head quarters in the Palmer House and Todd Lunsford will be in charge of the brainy work of the Harrison "movement' and extend the glad hand to all comers. - rr' ;nir wt --tr-tr vr - cT"ik - What lay Result If the Per sedition If the iepes Continues There are about nine millions of Ne groes and mulattocs, now generally tak ing the designation of "Afro-Amcri- J cans' in the United States. The great I bulk of these arc in the middle, south ern states. They are the descendants of wild Africans who made war on each other and made and sold their prisoners as slaves. The whites in Eu rope were doing the same thing at the same time. The Romans had but few. it any black African slaves. The world! claims to have grown better than i; was in the dark ages. The European whites thought they had moved up a long way in morals when they dropped white slaves and took blacks instead. Think of it! The United States claim ing to be the freest country in the world, was almost the very last to give up the worst slavery that ever afflicted mankind. White must be close to black to make the white look whiter :.nd the l.Iack look blacker. The white is coolest in summer and the black warmest in winter. Both serve their purpose. When Lee surrendered to Grant and Johnson to Sherman, the rebels ah! we must call them confederates now. were completely whipped; vc could have done what we pleased with them. We could have banished them from the country as the Revolutionary pa triots did some of the tories. We could have sold them into slavery if any body would have bought them, and an earlier age would have done so. But, instead, they were given the most lib eral terms ever offered a people who had wantonlv forfeited cverv claim to forgiveness ; 'a liberalitv thev have ncv- cr dulv appreciated. Thev were vcrv wc wm th,s hM' 'ou snaU havc iMor" anxious to be forgiven for 'their treason' i,,a- South Carolina. Georgia. Alabama, and rebellion, but as soon as thev were! Mississippi, including Governor Varda oWf nt of firmer of i.; J,,,,! i r-an. Louisiana, Arkansas, and maybe as traitors, they turned on the Negro and persecuted him for being made free, and every contrivance anil subter fuge has been resorted to "to down the 'Nigger' and keep him down." I am sor ry to know that some Union soldiers who were helped to escape from rebel prisons by Negroes now join the crv for persecution and jump on the un der dog. Such a man mav have stood in the firing line while a corporal heli a bayonet at his back, but he is devoid of moral courage, the highest of all courage. As the Negro gains in knowledge, he becomes harder to hold down; and that knowledge is increasing steadily and it will be too great to be held down some day. I ask the leading Negroes to be patient with Booker T. Washington. He is creating and scattering knowledge. Never fear, that knowledge will find a way to take care of itself. If he should offend that murderous Tillman, Varda man, Hoke Smith clement, his great school would go up in smoke and down in ashes, and it might be hard to re build it Now let us contemplate what may occur. The world is now and then treated to great surprises. Nations, states and individuals likewise. The world was not expecting the fall of Na poleon III an hour before he wantonly provoked a conflict with Prussia. But in a few months a great war was fought, Napoleon was banished, a re public was born of blood, almost stran gled at its birth, but has grown to strong manhood. The day before our battleship Maine was dynamited in Ha vana harbor, we were not expecting a sudden war with Spain, if at alL Cleve land came near precipitating a war with England by giving that power the ultimatum about encroaching on the Monroe doctrine in theVenezuela boun dary. We escaped a war with England by a scratch during our civil war for taking Mason and Slydel off of the English ship Trent; a practice the Eng lish had long indulged, and against which we had long protested. Lin coln's tact saved us 1y giving the men "' - ,s - " - ' - s- - No. 13 up on the condition that it should be a governing precedent for the future. With the surprises of the past we should not be surprised at the "sur prises" the future may have in store for us, but we will be. We made a treaty with Japan at a time when it was not expected that some of our citi zens would demand a "Jim Crow car" for the Japanese dwelling in our coun try. This treaty contains 'the most fa vorcd nation" clause, that is, that the Japanese subjects shall have the same rights while sojourning in our country that we grant to those of the most fa vored nations. Our most favored na tion is Great Britain. A treaty with a foreign country is part of the supreme law of our land says Article VI, sec 2 of our Constitution. Yet California ! proposes to nullify that treaty. Japan is a nation not to be lightly dealt with. She could seize and hold the Philip pines and Sandwich islands and give San Francisco more than an earth quake. In a certain contingency Great Britain is an ally of Japan. Suppose that con tingency should develop soon after Ja tai -may- haw -locked horns 'whh us. and Great Britain should take a hand in the war, what would almost certain ly follow? Britain would arm our southern Negroes as she did the Indians. Who can doubt which side the Negroes would take, and who could blame them? We put 1S0.000 Negroes in the Union army; how many could Britain put into the British army out of double the population? What would logically follow the fore- oing? Britain would say "Boys, if Texas and Porto Rico, and we will pro tect you as a British dependency, and while wc are about it, wc may as well take possession of the Panama canal. Suppose another possible case. Sup pose a great number of our intelligent Negroes should go to Canada and Ja maica and become British subjects, and in time return to the United States with British passports, suppose while here a At,an,a mob shall kill or maim one or more of them, and that without any just cause as is often done, the British lion would show his teeth and there would have to be an accounting like there was when the Italians were lynched in New Orleans. Great Britain once declared war against Spain about Jcnkin's car.which had been cut off thirty years before. If she should get a little huffy about something else, she would declare war for the lynching of a subject "Yes, but," says the boaster, "we can lick Great Britain." Perhaps; it will be easier to do justice and avoid a fight JOHN T. CAMPBELL. Old Soldiers' Home, La Fayette, Ind. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON PRAIS ES THE ELEVENTH ANNIVER; SARY EDITION OF THE BROAD AX. The following letter speaks for it self: Tuskegee, Alabama Jan. 10, 1907. Julius F. Taylor, Editor, The Broad Ax, Chicago, Dear Sir: Although you have not agreed with; me at all times in the past, and I do not know that you will agree with me. in the future, nevertheless, this dis agreement does not permit my send ing you my most hearty congratula tions upon your ability to get out so good a paper as your Anniversary is sue of December 29, Is, it reflects credit not only upon yourself but up on the race. Such tangible demon strations of our ability to succeed- In given directions will prove our salva tion. Yours truly, BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. i ;