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THE MONTANA PLAINDEALER Vol. 'i" Helena, Montana, Friaav, JLz rk/i ;, 1909 No. 46 Pablitedl Weekly by The Montana Plaindealer Company. 1; BASS, . ... EDITOR. Subscripfion $2.00 per year, Strictly in Ad yance. *Advertising Rates on Application. Entered as second-class matter April 12, 10, 2 the Post Office at Helena, Montana, under the:Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Address all Communications to The Montana plaindealer, 19 South Main Street, Helena, Montana. PEACE ! PROSPERITY I UNION!!! Montana has jcined the Jiu Crow Colony alongside of Mis sissippi, South Carolina, Texas and Arkansas. God help us! Ahffly, of Jim Crow fame, can now go back to Broadwater and say to his constituency, "I have saved our race from being devoured." Senator Anin of Yellow stone, Republican Jim Crow statesman, along with Sykes, Alibi ight, Sanders, et al, have done more harm to Republican zsm than all the democrats in Montana, and will rue the day that they were a party to enacting laws which are clear ly class legis ation a dcontrary to the letter and sp rit of the fourteenth and fifteenth amend mnent. The Treasure Stale in a long editorial of last week seeks to justiYy Jim Crow law, and reassuringly says to the race that even if you are Jim Crowed, if you deserve it you shall rise. Just as well to tell us even if you are in prison, if yon deserve to be free you shall be. Why give to us this great handicap in the race of progress. In this issue this people frown on miscegenation, but object to being singled out for class legi dation, even tho ugh amalgam ation was inaugu rated under the lash bi' the slave trader, the love for rce' by 1i//, regardless of Laucasian rein/orcement is such that we are not afraid of being de voured and losiug our identity as a race. Hon. M. A. Witmer is making an enviable record (is repr, sentative, and may be found at all times represent nga th; real interest of his constituents. -lf. Harry Hall, although he got his picture into the pa er, has been noted as a misfit in the Lewis and Clark delega ison, and showed his ant:pa thy to cur people by his vote, iiI also has run wild on scV iral propositions, which he ound were live wires instead of insulated During Address Given by Book er T. Washington at Wal dorf-Astoria WELL-KNOWN LAWYER CHUM OF SLAVERY DAYS During the Lincoln Dinner of the Republican Club at the Wal a dorf-Astoria last Friday evening, Booker T. Washington, who was a guest of the occasion, figured in a highly dramatic incident. While addressing a large and select gathering in response to the toast, "Abraham Lincoln," Dr. Washington turned impressively to A. H. Burroughs, a well-known , New York attorney, who sat at the President's table, and said: s "There sits a man who is the grandson of Joseph Burroughs, who was my owner down in Franklin County, Va., when I was ra slave. He and I played together I as children, fought and wept, Q laughed and sobbed together. i1e was the white boy, I was the black boy, on that old plantation. "He liked me then, and he likes me yet. I liked him then and I r' like him now. But until this 'C week I have not met Abe Bur - roughs since one day away back n in 186; it came to my frightened e ear.i that old 'Massa' Burroughs, 'o his grandfather and my owner had - been killed. "There was a skirmish, and the Federal troops, I was told, had shot him. I was frightened. I rushed home and told Abe, and he and I cried together. Our hearts were broken. That is a long while ago. But here is Abe and here am I; and we meet tonight at a banquet board in the greatest city in the world, to celebrate the Con tennial of the birth of the man who set us both free, I mean that. Abraham Lincoln set Mr. Burroughs free when he set me free. During his speech l)r. Wa,;hing ton was applauded time anl time again, and keen interest was shown by all throughout his entire ad dress. W'h n he concluded his hearers arose and cheered. Following is Dr. Washingt(n's address: "Yon ask that nhicli he found a piece of JlplertY. oil turned into a free Aut ricn ititt/n, to Sspeak to y'oiu tonight on Alu liani Lincoln. I .ini not titt .1 by an cestrv or trijining to h your teacher tonight, for, as I have stated, I ntas borh ni -lave. -My first knowledge of Alraltam Lincoln came in thi- way: I was awakened iarly cue mi ning be fore the (i wn of di;y a- I lay wrapped in a handlo of rai on the dirt floor 0f our Slanv cabin by the pray1'r, of my tm otlir. just before leaving for her day's work, as site was kn-eioinC over my body earnestly praying that Abrah tnm Line ,in mi 4ht nucceedl - and that on' lay she anal hi r 'boy might be fre. Yinu .i'. moe 'the opportunity herl this even ing to celebrate with V u 10d the nation the answer to that prayer. "Says the Great Book some where, 'Though a man die, yet shall he live.' If this is true of the ordinary man, how much more true is it of the hero of the hero of the hour and the hero of the century,-Abraham Lincoln? One hundred years of the life and influence of Lincoln is the story of the struggles, the trials, ambitions and triumphs of the people of our complex American civilization. Interwoven into the warp and woof of this human complexity is the moving story of men and women of nearly every race ;ind color in their progress from slavery to freedom, from poverty to wealth, from weakness to power, from ignor ance to intelligence. Knit into the life of Abraham Lincoln is the story and success of the na tion in the blending of all tongues, religions, colors, races, into one composite nation, leaving each group and race free to- live its own separate social life, and yet all a part of the great whole. "'If a man die, shall he live?' Answering *his question as ap plied to the one martyred Presi dent, perhaps you expect me to. confine my words of appreciation to the great boon which, through him, was confered upon my race. My undying gratitude and that of ten millions of my race for this and yet more! To have been the instrument used by Provi dence through which four millions of slaves, now grown into ten millions of free citizens, were made free, would bring eternal fame within itself, but this is not the only claim that Lincoln has S upon our sense of gratitude and appreciation. IIncoln Lives Today "By the side of Armstrong and h Garrison, Lincoln lives today. In the very highest sense he lives n in the present more potently than b fifty years ago, for that which is e temporal, that which is unseen is e eternal. He lives in the thirty- t two thousand young men and c women of the Negro race learn- s ing trades and useful occupations; s in the two hundred thousand farms acquired by those he freed; in the more than four hundred thousand homes built; in the forty six banks established, and ten 1 thousand stores owned; in thei $55o.ooo,ooo worth of taxable property in hand: in the twenty eight thousand public schools eN r isting, with thirty thousand teach ers; in the one hundred and sty cnty industrial schools and col 3 leges: in the twenty-three thou sand ministers and twenty-mex -thousand churches. But above all this. he lives in the steady anrd unalterable determination of tL 1 millions of black citizens to con tinue to climb year by year ti ladder of the highest useful" r and to perfect themselves strong, robust character. I rmaking all this possible Abr ii Lincoln lives. "But again, for a higher rva he lives tonight in every L. I of the Republic. To se: physical man free is much. i set the spiritual man tree is more. E So often the keeper is on the in side of the prison bars, and the prisoner on the outside. "As an individual, grateful as I am to Lincoln for freedom of body, my gratitude is still greater for freedom of soul,-the liberty which permits one to live up in that atmosphere where he refuses to permit sectional or racial hat red to drag down, to warp and narrow his soul. "The signing of the Emancipa tion Proclamation was a great event, and yet it was but the sym bol of another, still greater and i more momentous. We who cel - ebrate this anniversary should not forget that the same pen that 3 gave freedom to four millions of - African slaves at the same time struck the shackles from the souls of twenty-seven millions of Amer icans of another color s "In any country, regardless of t what its laws say, wherever peo ple act upon the idea that the dis advantage of one man is the - good of another, there slavery exists. Wherever in any country the whole people feel that the n happiness of all is dependent 1 upon the happiness of the weak est, there freedom exists. "In abolishing slavery, Lincolni proclaimed the principle that even in the case of the humblest and weakest of mankind, the welfare of each is still the good of all. Tr re-establishing in this country principle that, at bottom, the interests of humanity and of the individual are one; he freed men's souls from spiritual bondage; he freed them to mutual helpfulness Henceforth no man of any race, either in the North or in the South, need feel constrained to fear or hate his brother. "By the same token that Lincoln made America free, Ie pushed I back the bounderies of freedom everywhere, gave the spirit of lib s erty a wider influence throughout - the world, and re-established the d dignity of man as man. By the - same act that freed my race, he said to the civilized and uncivilized I world, that man everywhere must be free, and that man everywhere (I must be enlightened, and the Lin coln spirit of freedom and fair play will never ceace to spread and p grow in power till throughout the world all men shall know the truth, and the ti uth shall make them tree. Lincoln ini his day was wise enough to recognize that which is true in the present and for all time, that in a state of slavery and ig norance man renders the lowest and most co4tly form of service to his fellows. In a state of freedom and enlightenment he render, th highest and modt helpful form o service. Slavery to Col.'r P.ejudice "The world is fast lcar!in, that of all forms of slavery there i - none that is so hurtful and degrad ing as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of hv race or color. One man cannot hold an lother man down in the ditch with out remaining down in the ditch The New York Orb eood tore. Helena, Mont. SPEQIAL NOVEMBER FTTRP SALE Our Redoubled Efforts Make this the Most Exceptional Money Saving Fur Sale Ever Offered the Discriminating Fur Buyer. CARACUL FUR SETS Large Muff and Stole. Regular $lo.oo Values 6.50 MISSES' FUR SETS Sets Made Imitation Ermine 6.50 CHILDREN'S FUR SETS Of Brown Imitation Squirrel 3.75 BABY FUR SETS Angora Fur 1.60 with him One who goes through life with his eyes closed against all that is good in another race is weak and circumscribed, as one who fights in a battle with one hand tied behind him. Lincoln was in the truest sense great be cause he unfettered himself. He climbed up out of the valley where his vision was narrowed and weak ened by the frg and miasma, onto the mountain-top where in a pure and unclouded atmosphere he could see the truth, which enabled him to rate all men at their true worth. Growing out of this anni versary season and atmosphere, r may there crystallize a resolve throughout the nation that on such a mountain the American people 3 will strive to live. fe; "We owe, then, to Lincoln, phys- a ical freedom, moral freedom, and tri yet this is not all. There is a debt in of gratitude which we, as individuals, an no mater of what race or nation be must recognize as due Abraham Lin th coin, not fur what he did as (hief Ex m ecutive of the nation. but for what lie did as a man. In his rite from the most abject poverty and Ignorance to a position of high usefulness aud power, he taught the world one of the! greatest of all lessor . In tidyti n{ t his own battle up irm ui .- i urity and squalor. he fuuiht ilb 'iatic of icry other indivilual and rn, e that I if down, and -uo iie!iud to pull up ivcry ti other huimin i who was down. People th ,so often fir e t that by eterV inch of that the lowest man crawls uo he makes it ca-icr fir icery other utman ti get up. Tolay thirouiihout tii rat 1 world, iecausi 1.n. n se -t ru gied and tr au i itd, cviry 'oy who -i f ignorant, who is in poi.ety, - di spiled o: dsc urag i, 11mi .- oran a 11tt:l h.ghcr III- heart iat- .a t ..tt: fa-tri. 6.- am' t n ito "I ":-i oo thnfg aid ni -ian rt}.ng .- a --tr- rng r, ",,t ..u-t' n us e n a tn J toe }1 ,tay. rt 'u my race , .tie fr of : % rat.aul ,r Lncoir 1 - t- -pt,.a i'lln at thlm. 1- p ;it :in Our career Ir uo far as 1. - miha-' paternce, ing surY-r h :n -incerity\ naturafnel, dogged le termination and courage,-courage to avoid the superticial, courage to persistently seek the substance in stead of the shadow, it points the road for my people to travel. 'As a race we are learning, I be lieve, in an increasing degree, that the best way for us to honor the mem ory of our Emancipator is by seeking to imitate him. Like Lincoln the Negro race should seek to be simple, without bigotry and without ostenta tion. There is great power in sim plicity. Great men are usually aim I ple men. Great races ate those that strive after simplicity. We, as a race, should, like Lincoln, have moral courage to be what we are, and not 1pretend to be what we are not. We should keep in mind that no one can e can degrade us except ourselves; that if we are worthy no influence can de feat us. Like other races, the Negro wail meet obstacles, often be sorely d tried and tempt:d, but we wubt keep t in wind that freedom, in the broadest and highest sMnsc, has never been a n bequest; it hitas bu a c onquibt. In the final te't, the -ucce of our race x aill he in toIp'rtion to the .crvice e that it sndle to tic worid In tie long run, tic '..dge of ,crvice i, the o bldall of -o1. ci glity, The Limncola Courage "With all his other elements of strength, Lincoln poso, sed in the highest degree patience, and, as I :have sai'l, courage. The higest form of courage is not always that exhib ited on the battleflleld in the midst of the glare of trumpets and the waving of banners. The highest courage is of the Lincoln kind. It is the same kind of courage made possible by the new life and the new possibilities fur nished by Lincoln's proclamation, dig played by thousands of men and worn len of my race every year who are going out from Tuskegee and other Negro institutions in the South to lift up their ftellows. When they go, Ioften into lonely and secluded die trLcts,with ittle thought of salary, with little thought of personal wel fare, no drunims beat, no banners By, no friends stand by to cheer them on; but these brave young souls who are r erecting schoolhouses, creating scbhool le (Conc\uded on last page)