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-51 - Jtl"T iBE WASHINGTON BEB. a? t EI a tv Ivl & I' I ill ' '! I Published every Saturday at 1109 1 Strrc .forth west, Washington. D. C. Entered at. the Post Office at WasnlngtoD eciua class mall inatter.l W. CaLVIN CHASE, Editor. terms of Subscription. One copy per year 82.00 Six months 1-00 Three months -60 City subscribers.ruonthlv 20 -SPECIAL NOTICE. 2 There are regular Authorized Col lectors in the employ of THE BEE Printing Co.. and when they call to see delinquent subscribers they are re quested to pay the, and not give tht excuse that "they will teethe Editor." The Editor has no time to see the sub scribers t and it is oped that his friends and the patrons of THE BEh OUR NEW LEADERSHIP. Well we have our new leadership? We asked for it and we have re- ceived it. It is nn aphorism old and ancient, "ask for "what you want in My name and it shall be given to you' This new leader ship that we have asked for is a band of apologists and trimmers. We are also confronted with a new office hunter, the political agitator and dissatisfied politician. He is dissatisfied because the negroes have been discriminated against. So much dissatisfied is he that the leadingnegroes in this country have decided to join in a call for the organization of an Afro American League. This political agitator and organizer, wants to be appointed one of the Industrial Commissioners. Should he be ap pointed a commissioner what will become of his non political leagae? It has been our experience in life, no matter how much indifference a negro shows, he becomes intox icated by the blendishment3 of of ficial power. He becomes stupified which terminates into a disease of perpetual office-seeking and office holding. Negro leadership goes up like a bubble and bursts in the atmosphere sixteen feet high. There is as much vigor in negro leadership as there 13 ' in a soap bubble. President McKinley has given us a new leadership which is no more help to the masses than the eloquence of a stump speaker dis cussing the elements of vinager to cattle drivers. We have enough of this new leadership. SANTIAGO. It is unfair and unjust to the Cuban negroes in Santiago to charge that they would be unfit for self-goverLment if the United States were to turn that country over to the Cubans. That the Cu ban nngroes are vicious and vindi cative. It is quite evident that the United States lean more toward the enemy than they do toward their friends. The Cubans have cause to compiain when they see with what consideration this government treats the enemy and with what little respect the friends of the re public are treated. There has been an effort and a disposition to ignore the negro in this fight, notwithstanding the valor he displayed at Santiago, whe the Rough Riders made their charge to death President McKinley is in duty bound to call his subordinates to a halt and see that they treat the negro with more consideration. The treachery of the Spaniards is too well known to this government. Their butchery of innocent and helpless Cubans makes them want to resent not imaginary, but real wrongs. The administration may not be a party to the acts of discrimination on the part of their subordinates, but they are so glaring which makes us believe these injustices are not perpetrated without the Knowledge of some one. The colored democrats have is sued a call for a convention. Mr. Manning, asserts that the negroes have been badly treated. Notwithstanding the bravery of the negro at' Santiago, not one has been promoted as yet. HENRY DEMAS'. The people of this country are j anxiously waiting for the re appointment of Hon. Henry Demas as naval officer at the Port of New Orleans, La, We understand that Ex-Governor Kellogg has as Eared the President that no more opposition will be made to any more Louisiana appointments. The appointment of Mr. Wimberly is no surprise to us, because it is un derstood that a compromise ha3 been made by the appointment of two of the opposition faction. The charges against Mr. Wim berly were more serious than those against Mr. Demas, not saying thai; any of them are true. Mr. Kellogg, we are informed, has with drawn the charges against Mr. Wimberly and his confirmation is assured. In view of this we be- "eve Lxmt tue ''- r POut Mr. Demas and see that he is confirmed. The President has a precedent for this to wit, in the case of Hon. James C. Matthews of Albany. He was rejected by the Senate and then renominated by Mr. Cleveland. We believe that the President will stand by Demas. PINICHBACK IS MAD. From the Atlanta Age. 1422 Bacon Street, Washington, D. C. July iS, 189S. W. A. Pledger, Atlanta, Ga. Sir: A friend has just shown me your paper, the Age, in which you giye me a dirty dig. In view of the long years of our acquaintance and the unbroken profession of friendship you have manifested for me I am com pelled to exclaim et tu brute ! Your unfriendly action is the more surprising becau.-e the least expected and I frankly confess, pains me be vond expression. You ought to be ashamed of ytfurself. Very respectfully, P. B. S. Pinchbak. The jrovernor is off the track. We are his friend. We would tie glad to see him in the U. S. Senate Indeed we would be glad to see him Presi dent. We are not in the habit how ever of recommending one of our friends who is a carpenter for building brick houses. We say now, as we said before that old men like Pinchback, who knows nothing about these latter days milita ry tactics, have no business trying to secure the command of a brigade where the lives of so many men would be at stake. It is almost like giving a child a razor, recommending him as fit to take charge of a chair in a barber shop. Ex-Governor P. B. S. Pinch back is no older than many others who have been appointed in the army. He is just as competent. If what the Age say3 be true, The Bee would have the same reason for saying that Col. Pledger was turned down because he is an old mossback and anti bellion politi cian. Gov. Pinchback has as much right to aspire to a generalship in the army as M. C. Butler of the Hamburg fame, Wheeler and other copper-head democrsts had to be appointed. Gov. Pinchback know as much about military tactics as many who have been recently ap pointed. The independent ticket in Vir ginia is growing to an immense size. The white politicians in the State of Virginia, have ignored every negro. Mat Lewis, James H. Hayes, John Mitchell, jr., and others haye been systematically ignored and still some of them are singing the prises of some of these republicans. COLORED DEMOCRATS. A CONVENTION CALLED TO MEET IN NEW YORK PRESIDENTIAL DISCRIM INATION THE ISSUE. Mr. A. E. Manning, Editor of the Indianapolis, Ind., World, and presi dent of the Negro National Democrat ic League, has issued a call for the meeting of the Negro National Demo cratic Leagu-, to meet in convention in the city of New York, Tuesday August 9th, at, 12 o'clock, noon. In his call Mr. Manning takes exception to the Administration ignoring the appointment of colored men as officers in the army and the enlistment of col ored soldiers. He makes this discrim ination an issue in the coming cam paign. Every State and Territory in the Union will send delegates. The Bee's School of Printing will be one of the best institutions of its States. character in the United THE HAMPTON CONFERENCE. Educators meet. A distinguished gathering present. able ad dreses. Good advice to the RACE. H&mpton, Va., July 23, 1S9S. The second annual Negro Conference held its sessions at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, last week. Fully three hundred individuals, min isters, preachers and teachers, male and female, attended its sessions. Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Maryland, Indiana, Mis souri, Pennsvlvania and the District of Columbia were actively represented in its councils. Among the topics considered were Temperance, by Rev. F. J. Grimke; Remedies for Excessive Mortality, by Dr. F. J. Shadd; The business outlook to the colored people of the United States as affected by the present war, by Hon. John E. Durham of Pa.; Con ditions and needs of the colored min istry, by Rev. J. E. Jones, D. D.; How to hold young people in the church, by Rev. Hutchens C. Bishop; Indus trial schools, by Dr. J. E. Shepard: Cooperation between the industrial schools of the south, by Prof. S. G. Atkin; and Sewing in public schools, Dy .miss u?rne n. yphax. Reports on the condition of the col ored people as to schools, business, their churches and the accumulation of wealth were made from different sec tions of the State. They showed steady growth in all the essentials of progress. Two especially interesting reports were made. Mr. Andrew F. Hilyer, investigated the cases of thirty-five different colored individuals and es tates owning ten thousands dollars and over. Of these 4 are physicians. 5 in gov ernment service, 6 teachers of public schools, 14 are in business, 5 depend on their inheritances and one is retired. The bulk of their investments is in real estate, the entire number have found in enterprises managed wholly by white men, but only twelve of the 35 invest in colored enterprises. Nine of these have received collegi ate instruction, 7 were educated in secondary schools. Seventeen of the thirty five have received ineritances, eleven have added to their heritages, sixteen had educated parents, twenty two had excellent home training and thirteen were self-made men. As a result of his observations Mr. Hilyer has reached the following two conclusions: Wealthy colored men are not disposed to contribute of their means to enterprises orierinatiner among their race. 2nd colored men as a class are not disposea to patronized business establishments of their own race. Sharply contrasting with Mr. Hil yer's observations and conclusions was the report by Mr. Lemon who for several years at Calhoun, Ala., has been remarkably successful in buy ing real estate and dividing it among the mortgage-riddeu tillers of the soil of that section. His report was one of the most thrilling of the entire confer ence, as well as it was the most hope ful indication of the entire situation He had inspired confidence in the illiterate masses and ultimately, secur ed the cooperation of white planters A special session was held by the women at which sundry reports on different phases of women s work in town and country, closely held the attention of the auddiencfs. The principal feature was the address of Mrs. Victoria Earle Matthews, on the Dangers encounter ed by southern girls in northern cities, who are enticed tither by alluring re ports only to find themselves confront ed by conditions that lead to their corruption. After very intensaiy inter esting addresses by Mrs Sarah Titts Mrs. F. E. W. Harper. Miss M. R. Bowen, Mrs. Coleman of the Harts horne Seminary, Mrs. Mebane, Mrs. Bowser and Mrs. Lucy B. Stephens, Mrs. Orra Langhorne, Miss E. B. Krnse of Wilmington, Del., led a practical movement by contributing 5 to help print the remarkable address of Mrs. Matthews and in a very few minutes Prof. Hugh M. Browne and I. C. Walker, had collected 556 towards the result, Mr. Goodrich spoke of the wastes of the southern farming, and gave many practical hints. During the year the work of the con ference will be looked after by sever al committees: Education H. A. Browne, chairman; Domestic Econo my Victoria Earle Matthews, chair man; Religion and Morals Rev. F. J. Grimke, chairman; Business and Labor-Andrew F. Hilyer, chairman;Yital and Sanitary Interests-Dr. F. J. Shadd, chairman; Soldiers Relief G. F.Bragg chairman; and Statistics J. W. Crom- ( well, chairman. The Committee on Resolutions which embodied the work of the con ference were: Kelly Miller, chairman; Hugh M. Browne, R R. Wright, F. J. Shadd, Edmonia B. Kruse and S. G. Atkins. REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTION. EDUCATION. There is need of closed unity and articulation among owr educational institutions, and a sensible adaptation of their courses to the instruction give in the public schools. The industrial schools should adopt, graded and uni form courses of instruction; and it is suggusted that Hampton and Tus kegee be utilized as the basis of this uniformity. The negro teacher needs a complete general preparation in the best ap proved methods of instruction, and beside, a thorough understanding of ana sympatny witn tne peculiar needs and circumstances of negro life, and we need more such teachers. Music education is especially important to the negro child. Our ancestors sang away they sorrow during the dark days of slavary. The cultivation of the melodic gift in their desemdents will not only encourage a cheerfulness of diposition, but will lead to the un foldment of their esthetic capabilities, and the incubation of sound moral principles and patrioic sentiment. The establishment of kindergarten instruction in some of the large cities is high encouraging; and we urge its universal intraduction. The kinder garten must be relied upon to,supply, in part at least, the lack of home in fluences, to extend the benificience of wholesome instruction lower down in the life of the child, and to inculcate cortecThabits and notions of life. In vie v of the short school terms throughout the south efforts be made to have the terms lengthened either by State appropriation or oy contribu tion of the patrons. BUSINESS AND LABOR. The question of labor and trade is one of great importance for upon it de pends the physical and material wel fare of the race, which in turn must lie at the basis of all social, intellectual and moral development. We urge that the manual training feature, as well as the instruction in business forms and methods, be en grafted upon the curricula of all our primary and secondary schools. We olso recommend the establishment of industial high school leading to complete equipment in the various trades and crafts, wherever the com munity is able to support them, as a part of the public system of instruction. It is important that our youth be impressed with the necessity of thor ough pieparation in order to compete with the industrial life of the world. Nothing but the higher efficiency and fidelity to duty cin win in the fierce material rivalry. Men demand the best serve available for their needs, and it is necessary that our schools turn out the workman that maketh not ashamed. We call upon our teachers and prechers in the country districts to advise the people to develop the agri cultural and material resources of their respective communities and not deceived by the glare and glitter of city life. The flocking of the agricultural masses to the cities constitutes one of the great social evils of the period. This evil is especially emphasized in the case of the negro imigrants. They do not form a part of the industrial current, and are ant to drift into the allevs and dens ot squalor and vice, and their last state become worse than their first; and on the contrary, every effort should be put forth to induce many of those now in the alleys and by-way? of the city to seek the coun try. No one should be encouraged to migrate from the country to the city un less he has some definite employment or plan of work previously determined upon. We urge that an understanding be sought with the trade unions and labor organizations, and that they be persuaded to see the unfairness and inpolicy of discriminating against a class ol American laborers who have equal claims as thenselves to a right to work and make an honest living. VITAL AND SANITARY PROBLEMS. The alarmingly high death-rate among negroes threatens the physical continuence of the race. We urge upon our teachers, minis ters, physicians and all who have in fluence with the masses to impress up on the people the importance of exer cise cleanliness ventilation wholesome food, pure water, suitable clothing and personal purity. They should be taught the contagiousness of tubercu lisis and diseases of vic'ous origin,1 and the danger of intemperance, use of tobacco and the excessive indul gence of the appetite and passions. RELIGION AND TEMPERANCE. The mission of the church in the world is to save men. We believe this mission extends to social as well as to spiritual salvation. Our churches should put forth strenious endeavor to reach and to hold the young people of the race who seem to drifting from t lem; and to this end thev should use all means of inducement not lncon sistant with the spirit and teachings of the great spiritual head of the church. The claims of temperance, not only as applied to strong drinks, but also in the broader sense of moderation and self-restraint in all things, should be fearlessly presented to the people. The habits, passions, tastes appetites should be regulated according to the principles of modertion, sobriety, and virtue. DOMESTIC ECONOMY. The greatest evil which slavery in flicted upon the negro race was that it destroyed the home, the natural unit of all social development. Perhaps the chief progress of the race lies in the fact that out of this demoral ized stale of things they have estab lished so many pure sweet homes, whose regime is regulated according to the highest christian standards. And yet the work is only in its incip iency. We urge upon our women to organ ize local, regional and national asso ciations for the purpose of inculcating principles of social purity, domestic econemy and all that goes to purify sweeten and adorn the home. We congratulate the Hampton Nor mal and Aricultural Institute for the complete equipment of a department of domestic science; and and we be lieve that this step js as important as any which it has yet taken to upbuild the negro race. CRIMINAL, DEFECTIVE AND DEPEND ENT CLASSES. The criminal record of the colored race in all parts of the country is alarming in its propotions. We be lieve that this is due largely to indus trial conditions as well as to the evils already pointed out in these resolu tions. Their regularity of employment and the lack ofindustial prospect and vista drive many of our people into criminal and vicious ranks. PATRIOTISM. We take just pride in the fact that in every crisis of our national life the voice of the negro has been on the side of loyalty and. patriotism. We feel sure that this spirit of patriotism will continue and that in evey calami ty the arm of the negro can be relied upon to uphold the national cause. Kelly Miller, Hugh M. Browne, R. R. Wright, F. J. Shadd, Edmonia B. Kruse, S. G. Atkins. J. W. Cromwell, Represented The Bee. Are you ready to save money, if sso call at Adler's Shoe Store, who keeps the larges Shoe Store in the South west, his place is on the corner of AlA and E streets Southwest. SCHOOL OF PEINTING. "We "would re3pectfullly call our readers attention to a new field of lador that The Bee has inaugu rated at Its office, 1109 I street, X. W. a School of Printing for col ored youths. It 13 the intention of the management that any who may avail themselves of tne advantages of this school, shall receive a com plete practical training in the art of printing in all its branches. The instrucnonswill be under the personal supervision of Mr. Chase, member of the Typo graphical Union of this city, and who is without doubt among the best all-round printers in tbecoun trv. Our facilities will be aug mented by an entire new printing outfit, including all the latest styles of type, job presses and cyl inder press, which will give pupib a chance to be up-to-date in the trade. In this connection we would ask our patrons to 3end in their orders for job work of any kind, as we will now be able to fill all orders from the smallesc visiting card to the largest poster, and promise that our prices and work will compare favorab'y with those of any firm in the city. Any young man desiring a trade will do well to write us for terms, etc., or call at this office and look over the establishment. The school will open on July 26th, and those djsiriug tuition will do well to inquire at once, as only a limited number can of necessity be accom modated. For information, terms, etc., Address, TV. Calvin Chase, Manager Bee School of Printing. Thanking you for past favors, and feeling a snred of your sup port in this new endeavor, we are yours, The Bee. JAMES F. GREGORY. Amherst college's class orator won several oratorical prizes the first afro-american captain of an eastern college base ball TEAM. From the Cleveland, (Ohio,) Gazette. Bordentown, N. J. James F. Greg ory, second son of Prof. James M. Gregory, graduated from Amherst College June 29 He was the only Airo-.-merican student in a class of ninety members, was class orator and also chosen as one of eight from the whole class to compete for the Hardy prize in debate. He was captain of the "Varsity" base ball team for '98, and is the first Afro-American to be elected as captain of a base ball team in any of the eastern colleges. In his Sophomore year he won the Kelloge oratorical prize of 550, and in his junior vear won the Ladd and the Hogan oratorical prizes. This is re markable career for any young man, and he has every reason to be proud ofit. His father, James Monroe Gregory, for many years prefessor of languages, at Howard University, Washington, D. C , and now principal of Ironside Normal and Industrial school, this city, is a graduate of the Cleveland, high school, where one or both of his parent still live. The professor is a "Cleveland" boy and stands high as an educator the country over His oldest son, Eugene M. Gregory, grad uated from Harvard University with honor ("cum lande,") and is now a member of the law school of that famous institution of learning His daughter, Margaret B. Gregory graduated from the collegiate depart ment of St. Augustine school and is now a teacher in Ironside school. The Springfield, (Mas ) Republican, which kindly furnished us the above portrait of Captain Gregory, contain ed the following in its issue of March 20: "James F. Gregory, '98, of Bor dentown, N.J.. captain of the Amherst base ball team, has played regularly for two years. He made a splendid record on his class team in freshman year Shphomore year he played substitute short-stop and regularly right-field Last year he played cen ter-field. He is undoubtedly one of the finest fielders Amherst has ever had. A very stong and accurate thrower, he seldom fails to shut his man out at the plate. He is also good batter. Although handicapped by the necssity of developing an en tirely new battery, it is expected that he will turn out a good team this year, FUTURE OF THE NEGRO RACE. From the Literary Digest. In discussing this question, The Med ical Times, (New York July) reminds us that in the days of the Colonization Society which was formed to bettlethe slavery question by removing all the negroes to Africa, Dr. Horace Bush nell,"the eminent New England divine, maintained thrt if the white and black race should continue to live side by side in this country the stronger would inevitably drive out the weaker. Says the writer: "In this connection the mortuary reports of some of our cities are of marked Interest. In March, 1898, the death-rates for whites in Baltimore was 1 to 852; for negioes, 1 to 385. In Nashville, for the month of March the death-rate for whites was 1 to 855: for negroes 1 to 4S0. Statistics of other cities with a large colored population show similar results. It is a question whether, notwithstanding all the ef forts which are being made to improve the condition of the colored race by education and facilities for renumer atiye labor, the colored race, as a race in the United States, is doomed,. by SUMMEE RESORT- THI J JRS !e; GLEN ECHO, Ml A Strictly Firs4-Cls R . Spend a pheasant dky m th 3Ie)3 and Ltmcteser.--afe aM( bourns. Mr. MOSES J'ONESl ro.. m II lit fa When vou want this r .- r :insw;rej Satisfactorily' Daniel s?rxgg's S A L O 0 X 236 Third SlFt, S. U A full Tim of base br Wines Liquors and Cigars, on hand. F. O. YK: 7 TONSOfiiAL AMiST. Children's Hair Cn&ttaS;- TONICS OF ALL KIM Cigars awH Tofecco. 1745LSi.N.W. TVMbwg:.,-..;... X J Duvall's -CAFE- 2027 L Street, N. W. , Is now open to aeGomsMHlat- ! .: e and gentlemen with first-?la LURCHES, ETC. ICE CREAM, CAKES, ClKYIS AXD TOBACCO. THE DELMO- KOONCE, CATERERS Bakers, Confectioners and 1;. cream Manufacturers. Cig' Oysters, Water Ices. I t Cream, 90c, wholesale. Odd Fellows Hall, 1606 M street n . Banquet Hall. Telephone 13:5 Style, Fit and Workmanship GUARANTEED. IMIerciiarLt Tailor. Fine Repairing at Lowest t r Specialty 1755 L Street, N. V.. WaSHIIiNCTO.N, I. ' the working of a natural law t a diminution of its number ti ', the North American Indian only a vestage will be left. "In the present crisis, u e question of protection to th we are setting free froa a d- -; which has shown no impr since the Middle Ages is tr -minds of our statesmen, v.i the solution be found in the ity of the negro for active st-v tropical region of the West Ii'. the Philippines as a soldier ' are now in this country nint of colored people, and in .r five thonsand negro troops, v' shown their bravery in Inu ' and who are immunes to yell There are no braver men th.ir " 'negroes, and under white whom they are accustomed ' none who would do better -a ' tropical regions which are o der our control. Why not r. the five thousand to twety tn a and with them garrisoa our ne sessions?" ' e 32nd NATIONAL E.XCAMi'IENT G. A. R. Of Cincinnati, Ohio Septemb 10th, 1898. Baltimore & 0, in road. ., i For this occasion tickets wil. te ( at the low rate of onk fare r round trip from all points ' - Baltimore & Ohio Railroad e t Pittsburg, Parkersburg and 'ASf? inclnsive, good good going "n tember 3rd and 4th, ahd good r; mg not earlier than Septen : ; nor later than September 15; e . by depositing ticket witn Jr . ai Cincinnatti. between Sspter - t and 9th iuclusive, and on P-O; ri. fee of twentp-five (25) cents, a - c turn limit may be extended t - r Cincinnatti, to and including u. 2nd, 1898. , P Owiug to the great Pa"Jol,'" aweeping. the country at t .e ' time, great interest will be nu , v r at this meeting. Kolid ; n Trains of elegant coaches, 1 - - -;j Sleeping Cars, Observation splendid Dining Car Sen ice r ;. through trains daily fFm e.f. .. Philadelphia, Baltimore an- ington, and two from PttJsfcu.,- Cafe; l PETIT, t f l Lri&3 ?:7JT. r 5- . , .M . . - .-r Z iEJE .-il.. ...fcifi' -rsF: iTit iTiffrflWnMriflffiifli