Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 July 1899 — Page 2

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SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1899. EDITORIAL

Action must take 4he place of theory in the battle of the races

Th* b st citizens of Georgia have a-g-ain demonstrated their growing- civilization bj cutting another victim into small pieces for distribution among the mob

The convention of colored men in this city on last Tuesday and Wednesday, will, we believe, be productive of much good. While the pulpit and the press of the state are continually pressforth our needs and seeking to soften existing prejudices, yst in a convention composed of the leading colored men, new thought on the questions of the day is presented, which undoubtedly gives an impetus to the work in hand and moves us nearer the goal.

The Folly of Lynehinge. Of course the lyching of five Italians by a Louisiana mob was wicked and outrageous, no matter what the offense of the occused. But it would seem that h ose who are not deterred from participation in lynching affairs by the wickedness of the act would at least be restrained by the foolishness of that method of meting punishment. From every point of view it would have been better if the men under accusation, if guilty, of trying to kill a prominent physician had been condemned and punished according to law, instead of being murdered by savage mob. The effect even upon the criminals would have been much more wholesome. As it is, those pose as avengers have become more despicable lawbreakers than were the affenders whom they murdered They have caused the nation’s institutions of justice to be brought into contempt. In this case the folly of lynching is very clearly apparent, because it has raised thosed who should have been treated merely as criminals to the position of wronged subjects of a friendly power, for the mistreatment of whom cur government will be called upon to render an explanation Those Louisiana lynchers have placed the authorities of the nation in an embarrassing position. Now that the United States has aquired great prominence in the eyes of the world such evidence of senseless savagery on the part ot Americans are especially humiliating —Chicago Record Is it not passingly strange that any time the exchequer of the American nation is placed in jeopardy by the rashness of some individual or set of individuals, that the pulpit and press of the dominant race will speak in no uncertain tones, condemning the wrong and counseling moderation. Since January 6, 1897 up to the present time there has been 360 human lives sacrificed upon the altar of “Judge Lynch”

in this country, but even this great ughter has not caused such tren--t editorials as the recent lynching five Italians in Louisiana. It is e 'true that “in the eyes of the • -cn beetJ 1 e Vidences of senseless savby Mrs part of Americans are esMitchel.iiating.” continue^

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Spirit of The , Press. Most white papers run columns of the Negjoes faults aqd demerits and nothing of his worth and achievements yet there are Negroes who pay them before they do Negro papers.—New Idea. If the Negro possessed half the patriotism and loyalty for his own race, in reality as other nationalities, the problem would-be easy ol solution. Our hinderance consists mainly in not being master of the possibilities within our reg^h — Colorado Times. When you think the other fellow is mean and low, think soberly of your own black heart and try- to strike a happy medium. The last angel seen on earth disappeared 1900 years ago.—Boston Courant. Goldsmith in one of his famous writings, said, “The loud laugh showed the vacant mind.” If this be true there are a great many ot our people who have many rooms to rent in their upper stories.— State Capiltal. It has taken 19 centuries to teach the Christian world that persecu tion of any kind, is wrong, and to establish the era of tolerationand reason, for since fires of the inquisition have been extinguished, there have been other fires of persecution The lynching and burning of Ne groes at the stake for imaginary offenses for instance.—Lexington Standard. The white people of the South have seemingly gotten ashamed at seeing so many reports going abroad of their brutality and bar baritp, and are now putting their meanness and general cussedness off on the Negroes by laying their crimes to the action of the blacks. All such reports can be relied upon to be falsehoods of the first water. Let the whites bear the.r own dis grace, or lay still and saw wood.— Omaha Progress. The time will come when the young Negroes will get together for their own common good, and that of their race upon higher plane of sociability and intelligence, they would be regarded more as men in' the advocacy of the laws that help to govern the people as well as the nation. The trouble is the Negro has been waiting for the white man to advocate the cause and especial ly their rights, too long. We should work out our Own salva tion by demanding equal justice and the rights that is guaranteed to every subject upon the face of the earth.—Kanas City Observer.

tically made and highly appreciated and received. The treasury showed $18700. The following officers were: Revs. J. W. Carr, president, Indianapolis; C. C. Goines. vice president. Rockport j Miss Mary Dehoney, secretary Seymour; Mrs. J. C. Patton, v assistant secretary, New Albany; Revs. John J. Blackshear, A. M., corresponding secretary, Indianapolis; J. F. Lewis, treasurer, Jefferson ville. The convention gave $25 00 to the Rushville Baptis church. This has obtained recently $25.00 from the Baptist Womens’ convention and the same amount from the Marion county Sundayschool Union making a total of $75.ot>. The next session will be held at Lafayette. The Baptists are yet alive.

General Race News An agent of the Tuskegee Insti tute is securing Cuban boys and girls for students.

Baptist Meetings at Noblesvllle. The B. Y. P. U. and the Indiana Baptist Sundayschool convention mer with the Fiist Baptist Sunday school of Noblesville, July 18-23, Rev S. C- Manuel of New Albany, president of the B. Y. P. U. called that convention to order Tuesday morning. He was reelected president. The meeting was a good one. Subjects pertaining to the B. Y. P. U. work were disci.ssed by the delegates and much good is the result. Rev. S. C. Manuel preached Tuesday night in the church. The next night the authorities allowed us the use ot the court room where Rev. C. C. Goines preached. The Sundayschool convention opened Thursday morning, July 20 In the absence of the president, T. Y. Watson of Evansville, R|;v. J W. Carr, D. D., called the convention to order and we proceeded to work. Rev. J. C. Patton preached the introduction sermon at 11 a. m. Fine sermon, well arranged, well delivered. The convention set about its work and under the very efficient rulings of Dr. Carr order and harmony prevailed. The most of the sessions of the convention were held in the court house, this through Bro B. Stone. The executive board made reports through its secretary, Rev. John J. Blackshear, A. M. The report was enthusias-

The Catholics at Leavenworth, Kan., have eriven the Colored Or phans a farm worth $8000. j Mme. Sisserretta Jones, operatic vocalist has been divorced from her husband, David Richard Jones, The National Association of colored Women will meet in Chicago, August 14-17 and promises to be a very notable gathering A London correspondent is loud in praise of the native African woman. She is kind hearted, shrewd and capable of quelling the tyrant man, black or white. St. Louis, Mo., has a new high school building, 12 district schools and employs 135 teachers This is a fair representation of what the Negro ol St Louis is doing. Sidney Woodward, the noted tenor, is singing before largo audiences in Moscow, Russia In Germany he received a diploma for proficiency in the art of singing from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Dresden. The A. M. E church has a membership of 650000, with 4,000 churches. 52 colleges and schools, representing a cost of $S,000,000 This great organization will meet in general conference at Columbus, O , m May, 1900. A Negro community three miles south of Anniston, Ala , has filed with Probate Judge Brook a petition asking that an election be or dered to determine w hether or not the community ihall be incorpo rated as a town. There are about 600 Negro inhabitants in the pre scribed territory and only two white men. The elect on will probably be ordered The Negroes propose Jo have strictly a Negro town and a Negro government^ The catalogue of the Louisville Colored Fair Association, which will hold its annual meeting August 22 to 26, inclusive, has been issued and is being distrbuted Isaac Curtis, president of the asso ciation, has devoted a great deal of time and work to the preliminary arrangements and the .catalogue shows a greater number of interesting features and better list of premiums than any previous meet ing. Among the events announded are baby shows, dog shows, cake walk, horse races,and bicycle races. The colored people are exhibiting much concern in the lair, and it promises to be the most successful one yet held.

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STAGE GLINTS. Clyd* Fitch, after a brief Journey In Italy, is now in Paris. Mine. Rejane is to act in Paris in an .adaptation ot Pineid’a’"The Gay Lord Quex.” Mrs. Langtry has definitely decided to return to the stage. She will be her own manager and use a society melodrama. To get even with the music halls where dramatic sketches are presented, the managers of the Loudon theaters threaten to permit smoking. The gross receipts of the music halls and theaters of Paris for the past year amounted to $*>,228,107, an excess of $79,G3*> over the receipts of the previous year. When Sardou is composing. It Is said he shouts every sentence aloud as he dashes it on the paper and raves, whines, laughs, according to the emotions he depicts. I -j Ernest Hogan, the negro singer and composer, heads a party of 2T> black and yellow boys that has started for a tour of Australia. {China. Japan, Manila ami thence to the Paris exposition. James A. Herne will stage the production of Israel ZabgwiH’s "Children of the Ghetto,” which will lie given its first presentation at the National theater in Washington early in September. Mr. Herne’s starring season will begin later. Sidney Drew and ins wife, Gladys Rankin Drew, have been playing in vaudeville in New York, employing a sketch. "Diana of the Chase,” which they used previously as a means of Introducing themselves to the London music halls.. B. P. Cheney, Julia Arthur’s husband. has had a new steam yacht built which lie has christened the Jule. He will use it for Ins daily trips between The Brewsters, where lie has his summer home, and Boston. At the launching Julia Arthur christened the vessel ip traditional style.

THE TROTTING CIRCUIT. Pilatus, 2:00t4. is nearly to an edge,, recently going a mile in 2:12, last halt in 1:05. The old mile track at Niagara Falls is to be rejuvenated and racing held thereon. In the 2:20 pace at Hartford there were seven starters, five of which wore hopples. George H. Roeekel, Foster’s Meadow, N. Y., will put Kiug Chimes to pacing next year. The gray gelding Chejsea, who won the 2:12 pace at Dover NYU., is going without the straps. Nick Hubinger lias decided to retire Grace Hastings from the turf and thus be rid of all worry about her in the future. Oudray, the hay stallion that won the three minute trot and pace at Lancaster, is by Pedlar, out of Helen Iloughtou, 2:20^4, by Happy Medium. In the sixtli aud final heat of the 2:17 trot at the Hartford meeting the black mare Directina. by Direct, broke down and w^ll likely never be seen on the turf again. When the bay pacing horse Hal B stepped the second heat of the 2:0!) pace in 2:o7Vi at Windsor, he not only set a new track record, but reduced his owu from 2:09 1 / 4Dcmarcst wore a green cap and jacket when he won the 2:04 pace at Hartford with Prince Alert, aud at theclose of the race the band playeti “Wearing of the Green.” Speaking about speed enthusiasts, G. W. Bird, Tacoma, recently brought his black pacer Davis Buy, 2:1944, away across the continent to drive him on the New York speedway. The excellent showing .of Glory, 2:19*4 at Dover, N. H., brings to mind that his dam, Harebell, was the first Maine bred trotter to take so low a record as 2:43V.. as a 2-year-old.— Horseman. ITEMS OF INTEREST.

No flags but Turkish are to be seen In Constantinople. Emperor Charles V carried a watch in 1530 that weighed 27 pounds. Wellington, New Zealand, has been visited by an epidemic of somnambulism, says a Sydney paper. On a recent scientific test a worker in metals succeeded iu drawing a copper cent out Into 5,700 feet of wire. The highest mountains of the Philippine Islands are Halcon (Mindora)8,808 feet, Apo (Mindanao) 8.804 feet,. Mayou, active volcano (LuzonV 8,283; feet and San Cristobal (Luzon) 7,375. feet. A Swiss recruit was asked the otherday who William Tell was and could! not say. Another on being asked who Bismarck was replied, “A preacher,” aud a third said he was "emperor of France.” A Berlin physician has written an article on the dangers resulting from what are considered insignificant wounds. For instance, in 13 Injuries to the thumb, permanent disability followed in 00 per cent.

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