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scomm uiccum Ccmscrimtor. , VOL ' V1: ' . SEDALIA, MO.; MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1908. ' ri No, 27 i 9 'f- n Bishop W F. McDowell President of the Central Missouri Conference, of the M. E. Churchthat closed a brilliant session at Union Memorial, St.' Louis, on the 30th ult. AFTERWARD. DcaiCHt when I lie asleep, Will you co.nc? Not, perchance, to sigh or weep. Over dust that liethdumb: Hut remembering how wo' met In the sun-tiJej that have set Though you think that I forget, Dearest, cornel Where the. tangled. grosses blow . IntKo wind, Come aa in the long ago, Sometimes vexed and sometimes kbid. Come for just a little space To that solitray place, With tho sunshine of your fnee, Dearest cornel Leaves shall rustle a reply At your feet; . Love nhall answer, though'not I, When the past and present meet Recollecting words once spoken Ere companionship wan1 broken Just to bring and take a token . Dearest, comet litfltimoic Sun. For headache Dr. Miles Antl-Paln Pills. Established in May 1903. o Established in May 1003. , Don't Fail to Remember That The Sedalia Weekly CONSERVATOR W. H. HUSTON, Editor and Publisher, Is a Constant Advocate of Progress, Intelligence, Industry, Race Pride and Ag gressiveness. 1908. For the Year, 1908. , We shall have Contributions from some of the Lead- ing Negroes of this state. v ; Subjects that interest the Public Mind will be conservatively treated. ' ' ' Subscriptions, On account of the great increase in the cost ' of the production of a Nevvsv Race Paper, such as The (CONSERVATOR, ' the subscription prices for the year 1908 will bevas,follovvs: One Year, ' : $150 Six Months, ; : . $1.00 Three Month 1 : - $.65 Subscriptions are always Payable in Advance. Let Your News Come to Us. tfielieying a Newspaper.to. be. a Medium for the. Reflection, of. Public Thought, the Management of this Publication has decided to grant spapetoany pbe desiring torbe heard upon. t . ' Public, Propdsitiousj" provided, each con itributor;iloytthis,nmetp be.us; ' : -' eJ. The right is reserved . to reject, object- , v f " lonablc, . ... ADDRESS TO OUR COUNTRY THE NATIONAL NEGRQ-AMERICAN POLITICAL LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES, IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED, SENDS GREETINGS TO THEIR FELLOW-CITIZENS THROUGHOUT THE NATION. Asa peoph we arc facing a serious political crisis, and it is time for us to be alert to resist injury and to grasp advantages. Our civil and political rights.con trary to the fundamental law of the nation, have been ruthlessly taken from ut- in the South land. A new slavery ha3 arisen in that section in the form ot peonage, tobich is almost as vicious as the old slavery. The army record of our soldiers, unsullied for a hundred years, and of which every Negro is proud has been disregarded and 167 brave soldi ers have been arbitrarily dismiss ed from the service without hon or and without trial. As citizen of the Republic we come baclc to Philadelphia, the Cradle of Liberty, to try to gene rate a sentiment that will clasp .into unity the scattered force of the Nation that are trying to beat back the rising tide of con tempt for the Constitution. We come to issue another Declara tion of Independence. The spir it which- brings us together here in the City of Philadelphia in 1908 is the same spirit which brought the singers of the Declaration of Independence here in 1776. If taxation without representation was unjust in the days of Patrick Henry. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, taxation with out representation is unjust now If it was wrong to condemm and punish men without trial then, it is wroug now. If it was true in those days that all men were born free and essentially equal in hu man attributes and possibilities it is true now. Class distinctions are jtfst as invidious now as they were when brave little America struck for her freedom. Tyran ny has not lost qne iota of its hate fulness and men will still sacri fice their property, their honor, their liyes, their all, that the cause of liberty might live and that their children might be free. We are fighting laws and exe cutive rulings that discriminate against a man because of .his race or color. We are fighting the sentiment that apologizes for or justifies such lws and rulings, We ought to be nble to count on every Ntgro leader with a spark ot self-assertion in him in Ameri ca for support. We are in the midst of a perilous crisis and the Negro who does not come for ward and call for justic for his people at this time is a soulless, ( unimaginative creatuie whom no crisis would arouse and no duty inspire, We have had enough of the dreary drip of doleful declama tion about the Republican party treeing us. We have long ago paid them with interest the debt we owed them. Wc have come to the years of manhood as a peo ple. Herealter let it be under stood wt will support the Republi can party when it p'lts tip fit can didates. We will not support any man who justifies or apolo gizes for Southern, disfranchise ment. It t9 right1 that we use ballot AS a weapon of pro jection. The dejper the research es ot history are pushed, the more irresistibly emerges the broad conclusion that the world respects a mm or a.- race that cannot be imposed upon with im punity. He who scrapes aud .kowtows to please his unreason able ncigbors will forever be re garded by his neighbors at the lackey and the lick-spittle that he is. Some say that if wc do cur duty our rights will come to us. A lie with less justification in history was never told. In a He public rights arc not ornamental not unnecessary, not subsidiary, in tjje march of progress. Wc must have our rights before we can as citizens do our duty. In America self-respect is sustain edby being kept on a plane civilly and politically with all other citizens. Secretary Taft sees a turn for the better in our Southern (lis franchisement laws. He has justi fied President Roosevelt's rash outrage in discharging our sold iers without honor and without trial. Our Southern disfranchise ment laws arc bad all of them. There is not one single praise worthy section in any of them. They disfranchise 95 per cent of the colored race in the South re gardless of qualifications. They are all pernicious in principle and mischievous in operation; and ought to be condemned without mercy or quibble. To make steal ing legal doss not mike stealing moral, as Mr. Taft seems to think, and the man hasn't sound national ideas who look at things in this way. For these reasons we cannot support President Roosevelt or Secretary Taft if either one gets the nomination; for we see little difference be tween a democratic nominea and a republican nominee of an ad. ministration in open alliance with our enemies. We heartily endorse the candi dancy of Senator Joseph Benson Forakcr for the presidency. He is a brave, true-hearted Ameri can citizen whom the American people would do well to honor by making him their chief executive He is the Negro's friend and h is the man best suited to conceive 'and execute a policy to preserve our free institutions. If Senator Forakcr quits the race, which wc hope will not happen, wc will support au v other genuine Ropub lican who has not shown himself inimical t our rights. We demand that our soldiers be reinstated in the army and re stored to their ranks without prcd Judice and without loss. To the end of th: chapter we are going to fight the men who are re sponsible for their discharge, We want Congress to pass the Foraker Soldier Bill. We want the electoral tyranny of the white south dragged from-its palsied bauds. We will fight anybody who apologizes for or justifies. Southern disfranchisement, We want to smash Jim Crow Cars. If we cannot smash them' we will undertake to smash the party which being in power, tole rates them. Wc want the Negro boss'-sliop which deprecates progressive movements among Negroes over turned; and we are ag:iinst any administration that encour 'go and gives influence to sycophancy in order to crush out Hulf.iiKer tion in the Negro Hacu. Wc want to see a strong Re publican Party built up in the South, but we are unalterably op posed to "Lily 5V Mteism." as a njeans to that end. The men who have been staiwm and loyal 're publicans for a halt century at great risk and sicii'i.-e otirjht not to ha brushed aside to encourage the "Lily-White" movement. We protest tliu scallm; of delegates in the National Republican Conven tion elected by conventions which drew the color line. We demand that peonage be wiped out in the South. We beg to call tho attention of the Repub lican Congress to the fact th.it the black man :n the South is a peon as u;U as the foreigner and we feel that we are at least enti tled to as much consideration as the man who has only recently come to our shores. Wc oppsc the policy of a presi dent dictating his successor in of fice, and the domination of the judicial and legislative branches of the government by the Execu tive. Wc must insist that no alliance be made in this campaign save an alliance of freedom and equality and no peace that does not rest or. r'je.rofr. and peri.ianea;. bis of equal and exact justice between man and man. We want all that belongs to full-lledgcd American citizens. We are in earnest. We rn n tint lin linll lnvfrt Wn ..mm not be bought off. And undcrj God, wc will be heard! Signed by the Committee on I Address to the Country. Adopted at Philadelphia, Pa., April, 8th l'JOS. Officers of Union Memorial, M C. Church, Trustee Board, St Louis, Missouri. 'til. n v. (A .T ic . L. E. SIMMS, Presidtnt. v,, 3 H. W. LAWLESS, Secretary. Help Wanted and Boys can make Big Money by selling our Toilet Articles. Write quick for our t erms and full particulars. Addrn-s. TAYLOR REMEDY Co.. Dept. 11, Louisville, Ky. Miss Eldora Williams is mak ing quite a record ss superinten dent of the C. M. E. Sunday School, Parents and children are pleased with the work. L. R. WILLIAMS. Treasurer. I'" ion Memorial is reputed to he the mos influential Negro con .Tcgation West of the Mississip pi river. Her "Sphere of Influence" is greatly augmented by the loyalty, integrity and intclligonce of her various boards and committees. Eacn of her boards re compos ed of conservative, i aggressive and constructive mcthodists. MONUMENTS! ma THE EE ST PROPOSITION IN THE MONU MENT LINE AT HEINEN'S The Latest Designs and a Large Stock to Select from 28 YEARS CORNER OHIO AND PACIFIC Sts. SEEDS, PLANTS, ROSES HULUS, VINES, SHRUBS, FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREES. Sweet l'cas, Pansies, Nasturtiums and o Other Choice Flower Seeds. LAWN GRAS3 AND LAWN FERTILIZER. "lOG-108 B. Main St., SEDALIA, MO