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TAFT 111 TUSKEGEE
BANKS Oil BOOKER
A MEMORABLE ADDRESS AND
THOUGHTFUL ANENT THE
NEGRO.
A Review of the Situation to Date.
Subetantial Progreso Made —The
Intelligent South Has Eyes—Taft
la no Pessimist—A Review of the
Constitutional Amendments.
Special to The Light.
Tuskegee Ala. April 4. —Secretary
Taft is here in attendance <»n the ex-
ercises of the institute and delivered
the following address this morning
to an enthusiastic and appreciative
audience:
"latdies and Gentlemen: This great
seat of useful learning was founded 25
years ago to elevate a race. No topic
would be appropriate on such an oc-
casion ns this which did not relate to
its welfare and tuture. Care should
be taken in discussing the issues
which the subjects 1 propose suggest
lest one may uselessly stir up the em-
bers of a controversy that has serious-
ly affected the welfare of the whole
aouth. I shall hope to avoid this as
much as possible by dealing only with
present conditions and by not seeking
to place the blame for the evils that
have had to be meL
"The thirteenth amendment which
abolishes slavery needs but little dis-
cussion. It gave to the negro the boon
of freedom but left four or five mil-
lion of people not five per cent of
whom could read or write and all of
whom had been dependent upon oth-
ers for what they ate and wore and
did. as children turned loose in the
world. Enactment anti enforcement
of this amendment was. of course es-
acntial to the progress of the negro.
It is true that in some parts of the
south a system of servitude for debt
has been creeping into vogue but the
decision of your own able and up-
right judge. Jones of the Federal
court and of the highest tribunal of
this country that peonage may be
reached and suppressed by the en-
forcement of Federal ;>enai statutes
has made its continuance an itnpos-
sibilty.
"The fourteenth amendment se-
cured to the negro the equal protec-
tion of the laws of thd state in which
he lived and due process of law in any
deprivation of his life liberty or prop-
erty under state law. This is the
amendment which becond to* his
emancipation has become the most
important in his new development.
With the lack of providence and with
little understanding of the rights of
projierty we find the negro after his
emancipation in much the condition
with res|iect to self-supiiort and self-
elevation that the primeval man was.
“The many movements to confer on
the negro the higher academic and
literary education which were inaugu-
rated after the war were not well
adapted to securing the proiier foun-
dation for the upbuilding of the race.
The homelier virtues must be instilled
in a people before they are ready to
result. The opportunity of the negro
lay. first in the skill of his hands ns
n laborer and in <ils Industry as a til-
ler of the soil: and second in his car
pacity to save from his earnings suf-
ficient to enable him to accumulate
capital to buy land and establish his
economic independence. In those ef-
forts he would encounter little if any
opposition from the southern wlffte.
"When the struggle of the negro in
the-decade following the war was go-
ing on. there was growing to man-
hood a leader of his people who saw
more clearly than the rest of his race
that the negro could be one of the
greatest factors in the development of
the whole south if only he could be
led itUo habits of Industry and saving
if Hampton school had never done
anything but graduate Booker T.
Washington it would have justified
its existence. He saw clearly that the
only hope of his race was economic
independence and he projected in his
mind the establishment of an institu-
tion in which there should be com-
bined in proper proportion the men-
tal education and the education of the
hand. Booker T. Washington with the
3000 graduates of this Institution who
are now spreading the lessons which
they have learned here among his
people in all parts of the south glo-
riously vindicate his marvelous fore-
sight. He bus put himself In a posi-
tion where he may well preach an
evangel and enforce truths he ut-
ters by the work whicE he has done.
“It now is the habit of many con-
templating the condition of the two
races in the southern states to shake
their heads and say that the negro
problem is far. far from solution and
that the future in this respect is dara.
Plans have been suggested of a mi-
gration of the negro race to some
other country where they would live
by themselves and grow up by them-
selves and have a society by them-
selves and create a nation by them-
selves. Such a suggestion is most
chimerical. The negro has no desire
to go and the men of the south would
seriously object to his going. It‘makes
no difference how the negro came
here: it makes no difference how im-
ixwsible and objectionable the amal-
gamation of the two races mav be; it
makes no difference how impossible
ft may be for them to come together
socially; the negioes are here In this
country aq. a part of our people and
are bound to continue to be a part of
our people. They are entitled to the
unceasing effort of our whole people
in their struggle for better things both
because it .is our duty and our inter-
est. Whenever called upon the negro
has never failed to meet death and suf-
fer for this the only country he has
and the only flag he loves. The ne-
gro's chief hope of progress is by mak-
ing his labor and husbandry valuable
to the country.
“With deference to those who have
looked more into the question and who
differ on this |»olnt from what I Mn
about to say it seems to mo that In-
stead of affording ground for discour-
agement in the solution of the so-
called negio problem a review of the
history of this race since the war jus-
tities the statement that great pro-
gress has been made. Not only has
there been a movement by the negro
race itself along similar educational
industrial and economic lines but
there is much encouragement in the
attitude now taken by the leading
men of the aouth who see the (Jifll-
cutties of the problem with great
clearness and welcome and sympa-
thise with the efforts of Mr. Wash-
ington in which he is doing for bis
race
£The wdtlte men who can do the
most good for the negro who can aid
him In bis toilsome march tn better
material and intellectual conditions
are the southern white men who are
his neighbors. It is one of the en-
couraging signs of the lime that there
Is giowing up in the south a body of
leading white men who feel that the
future of the negro race affects the
future of the south and that both self-
interest and humanity require them
to lend all the aid they can to thia
people In the throes of a burdensome
effort.
“Of course there is much to dis-
courage in the shiftless and trifling
character of so ninny ignorant ne-
groes who. knowing no useful trade
are attracted to the southern cities
but finding nothing but menial occupa-
tions in which they can be employed
or for which they arc adapted.
Equally discouraging another way is
the helpless condition of mind and
body in which a bright young colored
man finds himself with merely a lit-
erary education and inability to over-
come his repugnance to v.hat he has
taught himself to believe is tip- hu-
miliation of manual service.
“It in said that only the picked ones
of the race are educated at Hampton
and Tuskegee and therefore we mav
not infer from their character a* de-
veloped by these Institutions and their
qualification for success in life what
will be the result of the extension of
the industrial education to those of
their race who are less qualified than
they were to receive the benefit of
; such education. It seems to me that
this is a most pessimistic view to
take. But say the pessimists ‘what
of the political future of the negro?’
And this brings me to the considera-
tion of the third great war amend-
ment —the fifteenth--which forbade
that any state should deprive the ne-
gro of nis vote on account of his color
or previous condition of servitude.
; When we regard the history of th**
forty years through which the negro
I of this country has been obliged to
struggle the progress which I have al-
J ready alluded to. material and educa-
| t lona I. is wonderful. Consider the
conditiort of things immediately after
the war. Here were a brave warlike
and masterful people who had been
used to a social condition in which
the negro occupied a servile status
brought by law to face the prospect
i of sharing |>olUlcal control with the
1 poor ignorant’bewildered and Irre-
। sponsible people who but yesterday
I were their property.
"Declarations of equality and pop-
i ular rights and universal suffrage of-
fer but a feather's weight against the
Inevitable impulse of human nature.
It was impossible that with the ele-
ments 1 have stated there should not
have been disturbance and fraud and
i violence and injustice and illegality
and oppression. The negro's vote af-
| ter a long struggle the history of
| which I shall not recall was made to
I count for nothing Then the leaders
I In many states came to realize the
1 dreadful demoralization of all society
1 if law was to be flouted and fraud was
' to constitute the basis of the govern-
ment. So they cast about to make the
' law square with tho existing condi-
tion by property and educational qual-
ifications. which should exclude the
negro. The very desire to avoid the
fraudulent and violent methods which
were wont to overcome the colored
vote in the south Itself Indicates a
turn for the better. It is impossible
to frame a law which will on Its face
stand the test of the fifteenth amend
ment and which will not ultima My
operate no matter w*hat the qualifi-
cation or present effect to permit a
certain class of the negroes to exer-
cise the ballot. It is true that some
state constitutions or laws with the so-
called ‘grandfather’ clause may oper-
ate temporarily to exclude him but
as thev expire in effect the limita-
tions on adult male suffrage must be-
come nothing more than educational
or property qualifications applicable to
white and negro alike.
"When a class of persons Is so ig-
norant and so subject to oppression
and misleading that they are merely
political children not having the men-
tal status of manhood then it can
hardly be snid that their voice in the
government secures any benefit to
them. Therefore it seems to me that
a |>olicy of the southern people In
adapting laws which exclude impar-
tiality both the black and white Igno-
rant and irresponsible could not b*
criticised. But it Is said and with
what truth I do not now discuss these
laws are intended to be enforced by
means of the discretionary power
vested in election and other state offi-
cers so as to exclude the colored vot-
ers with rigor under their provisions
and to allow the white voters who
ought also to be excluded to enjoy
the franchise. Assuming this to be
true still the situation is by no means
a hopeless one. for tlfr negro agd the
political power that he may in the fu-
ture exercise.
"In the first place if he continues
to increase in Intelligence by the ac-
ceptance of the educational opportuni-
ties which are being offered him un-
der ths influence of Mr. Washington
and ff. r lndustrially he becomes a |>ow-
er and this gradually increases the
nu tn bur of his race who are eligible to
vote In acc-rdance with law he Intro-
duces Into the electorate a body of
Individuals well qualified to act with
common sense and judgment and who
by their verv position in the commu-
nity give weight to the vote they cast.
Coming to the ballot box In small
numbers as compared with the total
When Our Clothing Hand Is Flush g “ SS
—As it Is now end at every season's beginning—is the time to mako a suitable sele:tion. The Paschal season Is but a and correctly design) d priced 01113 so low that she can eusl-
few days distant and the anniversary of the bright event can be best commemorated by your entire rehabilitation. The md tailored and come in ly procure om urn very preV
requisites are black Alice and gray An ty; good qualities bl»ck and brown
New Suit New Skwh Now Bat. Now Underwear. New Neckwear etc SSX« 35 £ “*
Select your Foster .Suit from our up-to-tlatc lines. They fit ami hold 11 ’ deep to do it. When you »ee a real
their dtapc arc hand-finished by thorough tailors and arc filing at Wash Shirts $5.00 Silk Pettlc> n for $2.75 an $Mn»
pficcs that will make a customer of you. We have everything in this We offer you now a comprehensive on( > f or $4.95 or .1 liouo one for $5.94
season's materials —worsteds checks steel grays serges and a variety H’* of Bi ‘ rs *■* I>er ’ you will buy one of them.
of mixtures; thev are made on the newest sack and sriuare-cut m<»hls TXW cul ’’* •** color.) with plaits. straps or _________
Your attention ta directed U> . Blul Liwn WtUU
a s|»ccial value for 12.00. uiavu waists
- ■ «... . Properly fashioned .1 nd made of aplcn-
Man'e Faatwe Ft win’s MISS©® OKirtS did materials. They conn in Mvural
® rixin s roaster Millinery / ' special lot of very pretty goods .... Ml .i„ ni) i v.iu.. tnr th.
To meet the views of the dressy man Discriminating women who are not of mohair. Panama and light-weight ‘
are here in profusion. We cun sell low lo n . cognltl . valuea< wm Im . lnler . r s< ; . plaited and plain In latest de- P rt< *’ Trimmed with tucks and In-
you excellent Light-Weight Inder- ~„( ed |n otlr Trimmed Hata f6r tho 11 fr ” m 26 ”1’ •“ »5. A very sertion and plain |1.75 to 75c
garments for 22' 2 c and 37' c and Baiter trade. Very choice patterns F * Ino resting garment worth 14.50 for 1 1 .
superior Otis goods for 98c ar „ limong lh m and monov c..n be vAt •’ SO ' ' ‘ mercerized black Lwn
per garment; fine Neckwear all st) I- hßVed here In buying a pretty Hat y U ————__ Waist handsomely trimmed for E2.UO.
l»h sha|»es. 25c; Suspenders all prices. Scnu . gwcU modelM an hn<Bto : WAS cut W.l.a 1-1.
OUR NEGLIGEE SHIRT stock Is that were I'. 4.00 will buy a f 1 On ODITt nnQ W&tSt SpeCltlS FUwr...
endless In pattern and grade. Includ- Hat. the 87.00 ones go for |5.00 and I s A P r ’”y Sicilian Skirt cream with /\rl!llCiai Flowers
Ing a special value for 50c. The Gold the $lO for $7.00. "f Une •»*”. handsomely st>e<Ma’tv stores and ne‘v‘
and Silver brands. $1.50 values go for nMTmuMcn uat® u embroidered front and plaited back; }
96c UNTRIMMED HATS A big line of JI; j SkX a very ttyllsh combination fot $6.48 big prices for Hat Trimmings when
seasonable shapes have b)*en greatly f 1 Black Skirt of fine grade Sicilian money can be saved here on each in
kA • w a jcl f "‘ I plaited ..nd button trimmed. Including dlv idual item. Our line Is new fresh
Men 9 Hats and Shoes l-’.OO ones for sl.ot». / \gm a fine white lawn nhirt waist plaited . .... hMrm „ nr wilh h J
All the best shapes for spring tn / and trimmed with fine embroidery an< * ‘ y
Burt & Packard's $3.50 and $4.00 Shoes q c C u j I I ' IwW - for I®- 95 ‘h® l cadln K <> e »‘« T “‘ rs -
are kept in every size we also stick **SfB&>nB in oun Shades / .*
to the 01. l reliable Tulane line which Yotu will need a new I \
has always given eminent satisfuctlon opening season and we can save you / r See A
( |.- Win* IB H H H ’
dows H B
hut commendable Shoe’s for work-day such as a genuine Pongee Silk Para- JK. V V AL BL
wear complete our stock. so) fancy dr sign? easily worth $3.50 l
Genuine Stetson Hats all shapes for $225. White China Silk Parasol. ••J’M t v _
$3.50 up. and many ctylcs of new self-trimmed with pretty ruffles value and wAk BV' a
spring Hats from $3.00 to $1.50 13.00 for $2.25 PriCOs B
number of the race so as to relieve
the fear that an ignorant majority
will lake over the government their
votes and their supitort will ultimate-
ly prove attractive to the parties into
which the white race must inevitably
divide. If then with the independ-
ence of thought and action which
economic Independence will surely
give them they divide their votes be-
tween contending parties their votes
will be sought instead of suppressed.
Snch a gradual acquisition of politi-
cal power and ability to help the ne-
groes in their development will count
for much more than when their
light of suffrage was unrestrict-
ed. I cannot put myself among those
pessimists who regard the settlement
of the political question in the south
as beyond ho|>e."
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Mrs. Martha A. Cox to Lecadto Ap-
olinar. lots 13 and 15. block 17. sec-
tion 5 Grand View addition; $lOO.
Alfred Hauboid to Fred Blhl lots
1 to 11 8 to 19. Inclusive in block 2
and lots 16 to 18 in block 1. in Hau-
bold's subdivision. Josephine street;
$lO ami other valuable considera-
tions.
Axel Meerscheidt to Fred Blhl.
1004 acres of C. Ogden survey 86 and
paiu of B. B B. & C. R. R Co-
f “rvey &>5 and 386 and Sarah Taylor
survey *47| two horses and two
mules and irdMGad half interest in
sixty head of cat”*. «tc. $12000.
Estate of T. M. Briggs deceased
bf administrator to A. H. Bock all
interest in lot 6. city block 174. on
Dwyer avenue; s'looo cash.
By separate instrument of April 4.
1906 A. H. Bock conveys above prop-
ertv to Fred V. Small; $3OOO
Max Kaliski to Mrs. Belle Kaliski
undivided one-half interest in lot 16.
block 2. city block 743. on King Wil-
liam street; $l. love and affection
and other valuable considerations.
.1 A and M. E Cunningham to
Hugo Schuetz lots 23 and 24 In block
26. city block 116 East End addition;
$2OO.
Edgar Schramm to Adolph Weilba-
cher. 1115.31 acres of land on Cule-
bra road out of James Conn survey
48; B. Montalvo survey 18%: James
V. Dignowlty survey 49; Carlos Es-
palier survey 48%. and M Ortiz sur-
vey 48%. all of old city lots 16 and
17. range 1. district 4. and part of
old city lot 9 range 3. district 4;
$23379.50. «
Adolph Weilbacher to Ed Wolff
518.65 acres out of Juntas Conn sur-
vey 48; 88469.55.
Fred Blhl to Axel Meerscheidt lots
1 to 6. 8 to 19. inclusive in block 2.
and lots 16 17 and 18. block 1 of
Hnubold s subdivision on Josephine
street; $6006.
Edward Hoyt to Gertrude Woolley
135% acres out of survey 30. patent-
ed to William P Delmour. assee.
Manuel Leal also 8-10 of an acre of
land adjoining above; $9OOOO.
Agnes pfeuffer to Will J Arm-
strong to .1. A. Appleby lots 30 and
31 in block 2. city block 2961. Mis-
sionfield addition: $2OO.
Charles M. Blydenburgh to Louise
Diener lots 3 to 6. Inclusive block
20. city block 1456 East End addi-
tion; $3OO.
Stephen and Liza Hesklns to H. B.
SaUiway and D. A McAskill. lot 14
block 10. city block 581. on Center
street; $lO and legal services.
James and Nancy Hesklns to H B
Salliway and D A. McAskill lot 8.
block 10 city block 581; $lO and le-
gal services .
MRS ALFORD WILL LECTURE
FOR FREE KINDERGARTEN.
Mrs. Lida B. Alford who Is deliver-
ing a series of lectures at the Wom-
an's club will speak on Saturday on
"Spring in Palestine and Syria." The
lecture promises to be an interesting
one. as Mrs. Alford has visited the
Holy l>and and other sectionr and
will relate her personal experience.
In her lecture she will also fbuch
on Constantinople and also on early
Christian art. The program will close
with Holy Week music such as Mrs.
Alford heard In Rome The lecture
will be for the benefit of the fref'
Kindergarten There will be no ad-
mission charged but a free will of-
fering will be taken. The lecture Is
open to everybody.
•AN ANTONIO DavLY LIGHT SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS THURSDAY APRIL*. 190$
THE FATE OF THE
SHIP SUBSIDY BILL
UNCLE JOE CANNON CONTROLS
Deity of Action Is Due to Desire to
Trade This Bill for the Statehood
and Other Bills and Give the House
Advantage In Its Dealings With the
Senate—lnfluence of Washington
Correspondents.
Special Correspondence.
Washington. D. C„ April *1 —A
bunch of writers with disorderetl
livers have been enlightening (?) the
great American public this winter on
the habits actions anti thoughts of
| their representatives at the nation's
capital. Washington cot respondents
of years' standing take off tneir hats
to these modern knights of the pen—-
the Dou Quixotes of newspapetdotn —
for they realize their Inferiority.
: Formerly a Washington corresiKindcnt
spent years in forming personal
friendships with prominent men that
he might gain their condfience. or
was sent here by a paper with par-
ticular relations with tho members or
senators from its state. Thus by
slow degrees they came to be of use
to their newspapers and the reposi-
tories of state secrets. But before
the onslaught of the “exjiosere" the
justly fafiicd Washington correspond-
ents have melted like a wall of grass
before the heat of a prairie fire;
withered and shriveled into nothing-
ness. The wonder of it all is that
any remain! For years of service
honorable and upright patient insis-
tcnce and skilled endeavor have fall- 1
cd to win for a single one of them
the intimate knowledge of prominent
men. the comprehensive grasp of pub-
lic affairs that the wlclders of the
"search-light'' have accumulated in a ।
few days or weeks. It has been a
great thing for the nation a most 1
fortuitous circumstance Indeed that I
these keen minds have finally turned I
their attention to Washington and
have exposed to the world the seeth-
ing mass of corrpution which they
claim to have found beneath its placid
surface. Yet a word of exter.nation
of apolog; even should he said In lie-
half of the Washington correspond-
ents who have for years trodden Ihe
grassy fields of this treacherous bog
without suspecting the mass of un-
derlying filth. They have been unac-
customed to delving in sewers for in
formation of interest to the public.
Not that they have hesitated to treat
unsparingly lapse from virtue on the j
part of public men. Sometimes. In- i
deed their pens have been perhaps |
too trenchant. But they arc more .
concerned with reporting events and ;
in an effort to keep the public meas-
jireably Informed as to the signifi- I
cnnce of what is happening than In
discerning or revealing the piradiloes I
of this or that public character. Nor |
arc they equippe*! for the task! It ;
takes a master to tell at a glance the ।
workings of the innermost mind of I
an Aldrich a S|>ooner. or an Allison j
It is only those whoso nostrils have I
been long familiar with the stench of '
corruption who can scent from afar i
that these and others like them are
theives or imbeciles. Details matter
nothing to them and should be of no
concern to the public. Our Don Quix-
otes have pronounced the senate rot-
ten and corrupt—the house imbecfllc.
Like Caesar they came they saw and
they admit they conquored. There-
fore let them pass on to fresh fields.
The capito! still stands and congress
is yet doing business. I'nlikc Joshua j
they have blown the trumpets seven
times around tho walls of Jericho but [
instead of falling the walls have mere- I
ly returned n hollow mocking echo. |
Speaking of those gentlemen who j
acquire in a fortniglF tho wisdom of]
years my attention was attracted to
an article in un entertaining and in- |
THE DESTINY OF THIS IM-
PORTANT MEASURE
structive weekly of wide reputation
in which a new representative was
■ tempted to sell his vole in favor of
the ship subsidy bill to save the job
of his prospective father or grand
father-in-law. Grandpa had reached
the age of senility and occupied a po-
sition which really never existed und
the counterpart of which was long ago
abolished. The young able and hon-
j est representative—he must have
been tiie hero of a Washington politi-
cal storj — was unalterably up|>osed
to the shipping bill and the j rice of
his vote was to be grandpa’s job. But
he stuck nobly to his opinions and
voted against th)' Iniquitous measure.
Presumably grandpa lost his place
but the hero won the girl. All this
would bine been highly entertaining
for the author is one of the best of
modern tictionlsts. wera it not for the
ludicrous fact that he hit ui>on the
ship subsidy bill as the measure
'where his hero was so powerfully
tempted. He had a caucus of sixty-
nine or so western members meet-
ing and pledging themselves to stand
to the last against the hill and then
brief!) sketch how they were nearly
all won over by the pressure fiom the
• white house the senate and. mirabie
dictu the speaker The idea that
j Speaker Cannon Is exerting great
' pressure to get the ship subsidy bill
through Is so ridiculous as to destroy
the illusions o.* an otherwise enter-
taining story. As a matter of fact
ever) one who knows anything about
the situation is well aware of the
fact that if Speaker Cannon merely
gave th)’ nod the shipping bill would
go through the house with no oppo-
sition worthy the name. Whether he
will give the word this session next
session or at $ll is a matter of con-
jecture. At present tho popular belief
is that he is holding the bill up for
trading puriaises. That is to say he
thinks he can trade that bill against
the statehiHMi ami other bills anti
thus advantage the house in its deal-
ings witli th)’ senate. He knows the
senate and the administration favor
it ami is credited with the hope of
Staining concessions for letting it
pass the house At his direction the
house committee on merchant ma-
rlio w’fll give a series of hearings on
the subject next week. Not that any-
one wants to know anything mor)’ on .
the subject but It consumes time and ;
delays the passage of the bill Then
if we are all good. “I'ncle Joe" will
let us have an American merchant
marine.
• • •
A congrcHsman. with a niece In
school recently thought to flatter her
KJ CLOWER’S
MKB ' We offer you Bargains on all Goods.
I own an d a a Week
Opens an Account with Us.
CASH OR CREDIT.
From 50c Up
FREE CREDIT We Take you. Old
FURNITURE Wfl
is PAYMENT
Ca " Us Up t 1 ’
PHONE 114 I V
Call and let u$ show them to you. Will Call and Make SEE OUR LINE OF
CASH OR CREDIT . PRICES. CENTER TABLES
by sending her a package of free gar-
den seeds He received the following
reply:
Do you think I resemble a farmer?
Or mayhap I look “seedy'' to thee.
For today there came a neat packet
Of various seeds for me.
How cunning I'd |pok in a garden.
With my seeds a rake and a hoe
But I get sufficient to eat here
So mv garden's unlikely to grow.
WILLIAM WOLFF SMITH.
THE REASONABLENESS
OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
To The Light:
That women should have equal suf-
frage with men seems so reasonable
to the unprejudiced mind that it has
no need of argument The burden of
proof surely ought to be with the
denier of this contention.
It is a universal proverb that no
great man has ever been born who
did not have a great mother And
yet the wisdom of the centuries must
find its Waterloo wfion the ballot
. takes this field
The old stock argument that wom-
| an ought not to have the joint privi-
lege with man of making the laws
which govern them both because at-
-1 ter these enactments have been made
i she has not the power to bear her
1 part in their enforcement and de-
-1 fense has reached such a condition
I of senility as to be listed along side
of Kipling's "Man Who Was."
When Madame de Stael was ban-
ished twice b) the haughy Napoleon
because her pen was mightier titan
his sword; when Harriet Beecher
Stowe cauld say the last word in her
immortal "I’ncle Tom's Cabin” that
was vltnUy instrumental in changing
the civilization of centuries freeing
both slaves front their masters and
masters from their slaves; when that
great martyr to the cause of vice an-
nihilation anti race emancipation.
Frances E. Willard could accomplish
what no man has been able to ac-
compHsh. a world federation for
righteousness. It is too late in the :
day to talk about the helplessness of
reminfnlty
With women predominating in our ।
high schools und hinting at It in ouf j
colleges it is high time to allow the j
educated mind without reference to 1
physical markings to rule in the
realm of government.
EVERETT M HILL.
Who mad.? Atting uniforms po-
lie? ever had Riedner. Why don't
you get a fitting suit from $l7 up.
For cabs carriages and livery rigs
ring up 21!.
PREPARING FOR
THE EXPOSITION
Special to The Light
Rome April s.—The duke of th#
Abruzzi has almost completed his ar-
rangements for his attempt next July
to make the ascent of Mount Ruwen-
zorl in Equatorial Africa. In view of
the experiences of Douglas Freshfield
and other explorer* the duke con-
siders that the time he bal selected
is the most propitious s< asdn for the
attempt. Ruwenzori which has an al-
titude of about 17.000 feet is between
the lakes Albert Nyanza and Albert
Edward Nyanza and is identified by
Stanley as one of the "Mountains of
the Moon.” the range where Ptolemy
the Greek geographer of the second
century believed was the source of
the Nile.
The duke and the Italians who will
accompanx him will probably land at
Mombasa and will travel by train to
Port Florence on Lake Victoria where
the ex|M*dition will embark and cross
the lake in order to reach the west
shore. It Is here that the real exitedi-
tion will' be organized. Resides the
Italians it wjjl consist of about 100
natives to be employed in transport-
ing the baggage of the expedition.
Leaving Lake Victoria the expedi-
tion will cross that part of Uganda
which Iles between the lake and the
outlying spugs of Ruwenzc. I. ls
expected jjr take fifteen days. As this
region launder the British protecto-
rate it is not expected that the expedi-
tion will meet with any difficulties.
The duke will take with him a number
of the newest scientific instruments
which have been tested in the meteor-
ological obuervatory here. The duke
is confident that he will succeed in
his attempt unless heavv Tains or
mists should interfere. It is stated
that only one man. a German mem-
ber of the Alpine club has even suc-
ceeded in reaching the top of Ru-
wenzori.
Don't Complain.
.If your chest pains and you are an*
able to sleep because of a cough btkv
a bottle of Ballard's Hoarhound Syrup
and you won't have any cough. Get a
bottle now and that cough will not
last long. A cure for all pulmonary
diseases Mrs. J—. Galveston. Texas
writes: "Ican't say enough for Ballard’s
Hoarhound Syrup. The relief It has
given me is all that is necessary for
me to say.” Sold by Bexar Drug Co.
Otto Riebe. undertaker ohones 341.
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