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(In A fro-American Newspapers
1898-1901, no. X.4. .)
THE REPUBLICAN COURIER.
■0i. I—NO 3i
NEW ORLEANS, SATURDAY, JAN. 27, 1900.
PRICE, FIVE CENTS
.'orrespi
>ndence.]
lOiTESES™ SKETCH
:tj,e civilized Condition of
the I'liillippinos.
rorre>pon<l<*nt Writes Inter
est ingly.
ODD FELLOWS' NOTES.
• ,v—ic's Republican Courier.
jYA ' E LIC A £ WORK.
ipevanp'liZ'ttion, therefore, of
ph'ii!»l»i'i»*s was not the work
,E„r„|.e!Ui Spanish friars,
■ thatnf tin' native monks and
V, regular clergy, so loyal
'lf,,-j]r, always 011 the side of
J 1,1 v and the legitimately
L;,n,„l authorities. The rise
|.j,^ natives to the Roman Cath-
!-,ji»'stho.»«i was the seal of the
of Spain and the
jlinpines, and a conclusive proof
iIht. <•..mpeteiiee and civilized
Lotion «»t the Philippines from
jit time.
MORI' RELIGIOUS ORDERS.
r^ter on, the Brothers of Sr.
ut'fiit <!«•* Paul, the Capuchins
j tbf H'*i)«*!li(rtilies likewise went
filie I'hil i>pi?n-s, but did not take
laetive part in the conversion of
j.el.s tin-rein. The Capuchins,
,.6(. provincial headquarters are
|)l;inil;i, called themselves Mis-
Luie.s t'"r the Caroline Group,
■ have dirccled all t heir efforts
1 re verse and undo the praise-
|rt),y results of the mission
Lb tIi>' American Board <»f For-
|l Missions founded there since
til; and these relentless Spanish
Jars succeeded in obtaining in
fejthat tin* venerable Mr. Do,me,
fiican citizen and head of the
Ij.ion,should he imprisoned, sent
Manila and never permitted
Jaiu to return to Ponape, under
jwal false pretences. These
IcDisaie known at Washington
the "Caroline Island Incident"
liriirefers to the payment of an
ldemnity hy Spain to the said
pneiic 10 Hoard, upon a demand
111 the United States govern-
int.
IV.
THEIR INSTRUCTION.
FIRST COLLEGE.
|Sn<-h was the intelligence,
Irewdness and advancement of
BePliilippin<»s. from the arrival of
in Si'ainanis, that the Jesuits
pshlered ir advisable to open in
Ittila in laS2 a college for the
(tttatiou of 1 he natives.
ST. JOSEPH.
JAhighly respected and generous
laniard named Guerrero endowed
8College and University of St.
fcepli, which he entrusted to the
^siid tuition of the order of St.
patius in 1(501.
ST. THOMAS.
I The first bi shop of Manila, the
p.v Uever tul Domingo Salazar,
pat lied ins property for the
jdownieut of a college in Manila,
rilif tuition of boys 5 and the
riarclitiishop, the Most Rever-
pl.Mifriif! iit. iionavides, founded
Nemlowed the University of San
pnnas ui Manila in 1008 for the
l?^!' edueation <>f the young of
r Elands, without distinction of
ftw.
ST- Jf'AN DE LET RAN.
I The Ttdlo^e of San Juan de Le-
r!u|:ts aiso established and en-
r^d for tIn* secondary and high-
'Wucation of the natives in 1620.
SEMINARIES.
Ijri1T11',' tlve dioceses the
^•^te f.»ui"l«»«l their respective
u~',^lnes. to which outsiders wei e
' f !. -tin 1 where regularcourses
*("!|d try education and divinity
f ^ given.
• admitted, who, for the
^'udyinir, consented to be
Monastery classes.
Jq tK
^monasteries already men-
^ • a eec'ain number of young
I'le vvei i
ki' of
F < y V aru's ai,d servants of the
L',' uil1^ 'he term of their ed-
r as likewise those who be-
Nl, :'>tans .ind choristers.
^t'SIC AM) SINGING.
the
r®1^ s.i
an a
K»Uf Pagsanj
^!iu 1I!U^<; and singing, and a
||L °'' European musical in-
Tr . 1,f>' weieestahlished in 1592.
[ "Uni in next week's Courier .J
I ~ " —* ■ - m
r E r,>n'SI'l!.l;l Conference of the
Nrs r'""'"'1 i'1 session at Wi-
rKaik ('orner First and
face u S"eets- Bishop Isaac W.
» 18 pitbiUiug.
The following appeared in City
and State of January 18, published
in the city of Philadelphia. The
many members of the fraternity in
Louisiana will, no doubt, be pleased
to Lear of Bro. Asbury's candidacy
for magistrate of one of the courts
in Philadelphia. Bro. Asbury is
the editor of the Odd Fellows'
Journal, and should he be elected
to the office which he seeks, it
would give recognition to 60,000
negroes in America:
''AN EVEN CHANCE."
" Mr. J. C. Asbury has been
nominated as magistrate for the
Seventh Ward by the Prohibition-
ists, and we trust that the Muni-
cipal League may determine to
give him a place on their ticket
also. Mr. Asbury is a colored man.
He is known to us on the best au-
thority as a man of excellent char-
acter and attainments in his pro
fession, which is that of the law.
Mr. Asbury has already had a
valuable experience in a public of
fiee. He has served as District
Attorney in Norfolk, Virginia, to
which position he was nominated
and elected on the Republican
ticket, aided by Democratic votes.
There are several reasons why we
believe that Mr. Asbury's nomina-
tion by the Municipal League and
his election by the voters of the
Seventh Ward are desirable. We
have reason to fear that in Phila-
delphia there exists a form of
prejudice against the negro race
which is decorous in form but very
injurious in its results—a prejudice
more extreme and unreasonable,
though covert, than that found in
other Northern cities. We do not
lynch negroes here. We have
never known of a case where a ne-
gro criminal, or supposed crimiual,
was either shot, hanged, burned,
or otherwise maltreated. But we
put various effective obstacles in
the way of his gaining a livelihood
excepting in some of the humbler
and less remunerative walks of
life.
The evil deeds of negro crimi-
nals we are apt to lay mentally on
the shoulders of the negro race in
a way that we do not follow in
thinking of white criminals. This
is a grave injustice to an undoubt-
edly respectable minority of the
colored citizens of Philadelphia,
and it is one which they feel very
keenly. We would feel it also were
we in their place. We are credibly
informed of one instance where an
educated and well-equipped young
professional man, who came of ex
cellent parentage, was refused em-
ployment for which he was well
fitted solely because of his color
and of another case where a re-
spectable colored man was refused
office room which he proposed to
rent upon objection of other ten-
ants for the same reason. These
are evidences of a race prejudice
unreasonable, cruel, and hurtful to
the morals of the community. The
colored race is taught the lesson
that industry, and character with
it, cannot compete on even terms
with the same good qualities in the
white race. The colored man, in-
stead of finding help in overcom-
ing the faults of his race,—faults
partly the heritage of slavery, and
partly the outcome of an imperfect
or primitive development of morals
and mind,—has a heavier burden
placed 011 him at the moment when
he is least fitted to bear it than
rests on his white competitor.
The incentive to despair, to a low
or at least a most meager life, is,
therefore, almost irresistible. Ne-
gro criminality in Philadelphia is
reinforced by this condition; also
corrupt politics, in its appeal to
the negro illicit service, is greatly
st rengt hened. The machine at least
throws the negro a bone—though
it be a picked one; but the Chris
tian citizen at the political table
denies him a crumb of bread.
Were the Municipal Leage to of-
fer a place on its ticket to an hon-
est and competent colored man,
such as we believe Mr. Asbury to
be, it would extend a ray of hope
to our colored population, showing
its members that merit in them
would receive recognition. It
would tend to free the negro voter
from a corrupt subserviency to the
machine. Race prejudice is the
hardest of ail tilings lo overcome;
but this gives all the more reason
why each of us set about the task.
This is not the question of social
equality, but of the opportunity to
ail men to earn an honest living.''
Frank Farbell
The Airfcan Methodists Adjourn.
The African Methodists, who
have been in session at St. James
Church since last week, closed their
annual session last Tuesday. The
conference was well attended
throughout, and unusual interest
was manifested. The last day is
generally given over to appoint-
ments and Bishop Handy, who has
presided with such dignity and
ability, read the list of appoint-
ments for the ensuing year. The
sessions were characterized by
great harmony, and adds another
chapter of pleasant reminiscences
ot African Methodism in our city.
Resolutions were passed thanking
Gov. Longino, of Mississippi, for
the expressions against lynching
contained in his inaugural address.
The following are the appoint-
ments:
Greensburg district, J. D.
Haynes, presiding elder; Greens-
jurg. Prince King; Tangipahoa, J.
B Bell; Clear Creek, A. S. Lanj;
Amite City, David Ardd; Osyka, 1.
H. Hunter; Ruddock, F. J. Pen-
nington; Rocky Hill, Frank Ca-
pers; Crystal Springs, H. Brown;
Kenr,wood, P. H. Brown; Mount
Everett, A. W. Wheeler; Livings-
ton, O. McGhee; Black Creek, P.
J. Rogers; Canton, S. Garden:
Johnson, C. Gordon; Natalbany,
W. E. Hall; Hammond, C. E.
Brooks.
New Orleans district, A. M.
ijreen, presiding elder; St, James,
!*ew Orleans, L. H. Reynolds;
Union Bethel, New Orleans, T. A.
Wilson; St. Peter's, New Orleaus,
J. W. Willard; Morris Brown, New
Orleans, John Baptiste; Embry
Mission, New Orleans, H. Will-
Slidell, W. S. Sanderson;
Covington, L. C. Carter; Suddsville,
W. S. Coffee; Madisouville, H. W.
Cheeks; St. John's, Algiers, F. A.
Rylander.
Baton Rouge district, J. H. Har-
per, presiding elder; Baton Rouge,
J. H. Steptean; Angola, W. W.
5EMT0BJ6EIIERY
Gives His Views on the Race
Question.
Discusses the Southern Negro
Before the Senate.
Hunter; White's Chapel, J. W.
Washington; Harper's Temple, A.
Rogers; Brusle Lauding, David
Fields; White Castle, J. D. Miles;
Bell Grove, J. W. Gordon; Douald-
sonvillc, A. Singleton; Plaquemine,
W. James; Friendship, J. H. C.
Mean; Bagley Mission, I. C. Kelley;
Bayou Sara, T. G. White; Jackson,
F. L. Logan; Slaughter, Sim Wil-
liams.
Thibodanx district, A. J. Le-
Boeuf, presiding elder; Thibodaux,
A. H. Mitchell; Lee, D. Burrell;
Oakville, Frank Scott; Mount
Oram, W. W. Sheridan; Frauklin,
S. J. Channell; Brusle Geriot, A.
T. Haywood; Bayou Boeuf, W. A.
Easton; Morgan City, A. Coleman;
Pattersou, G. B. Billups; Center-
ville, G. B. Brown; Napoleonville,
F. James; St. Joseph, S. A. John-
son; Baldwin, D. B. Brown; Jean-
nerette, L. H. Holmes; Moss Point,
C. Morrison: New Iberia, Thomas
Pye.
Mr. Cohen Surprised.
A very pleasant and agreeable
surprise was tendered Mr. W. L.
Cohen, Registrar of the U. S. Land
office, at his residence, Bienville,
near Prieur street, last Monday
night, in honor of his 40th birth-
day. The affair was rather an im-
promptu one, those participating
being a few, the select frieuds of
Mr. and Mrs. Cohen. The party
proceeded to the residence of Mr.
and Mrs. Cohen, who were really
surprised, as the intention of the
participants was kept profoundly
secret. Soon, however, they were
made welcome, and a merry time
was enjoyed. Tables groaned un-
der the load of luxurious dainties
which the guests had provided,
aud were enjoyed by all. Many
were the expressions of delight at
Mr. Cohen's success, and the wish
that he might long live to enjoy the
success he has so nobly attained
was responded to by every one
present. Some presents were also
donated to commemorate the aus-
picious occasion. It was quite late
when the merry crowd, obout tode
part, wished Mr. Cohen many re-
turns of his natal day and depart-
ed for their homes. Mr. Cohen, by
his genial disposition and sterling
character, has endeared himself to
all who know him, and his host of
friends throughout the city join in
the sentiments expressed by his
many surprisers.
During a recent speech before
the United States Senate, Senator
McEnery discussed the Southern
race question as follows :
'Mr. President, the solution of
the race question in the United
States i< one of the mast serious
problems that ever confronted a
nation. It is confined to no local-
ity. Every state is affected by it.
The social, political aud industrial
welfare of the south have influ-
encees on other sections of the
country. We are but on the thres-
hold. No man can predict what is
beyond. So far the best intellects
of the south have endeavored to
find some remedy to make the
south prosperous, notwithstanding
the presence of a vast number of
ignorant blacks, to make her social
position clear and defined in the
separation of the races, and to
place her on a political basis that
will insure stability to her iuititu-
tions; make the ballot box the sac-
red depository of the liberties of
the people, instead of the charnal
house where, under negro domina-
tion the people broke into fierce
energy and overthrew the negro
carpetbag domination. At its end
the state was in a pitiable condi-
tion. Tax collectors had stolen
the collections they had made. The
state treasury had been looted and
the auditor's books made way with
in order to prevent prosecution.
Levees which had been built for
$1 per square yard, when they
ought not to have cost more than
19 or 21 cents per square yard,
were found to be full of barrels in
order to give them bulk. State
credit was at the lowest ebb; war-
rants on the state treasury went
begging on Carondelet street at 20
ceuts on the dollar, state bonds at
>0 cents on the dollar. Demorali
zation and distrust were every
where.
"The opportunities of the South
are those of the nation." Let her
alone, and her possibilities for the
uture can only be conjectured.
They are limitless.
"The rapid industrial progress
of the South was impossible under
negro domination, Restore to the
negro indiscriminately the ballot
aud invest him with power, aud
there will not only be a check to
he progress of the South, but the
advantage gained will be lost
'•There can be no admixture of
the races. This is a law of nature.
They must work out their destinies
on parallel lines, which cannot
come together. The Anglo-Saxon
blood aud brain will always be the
superior, and cannot be subordina
ted to the negro.
"The negro, unfortunately for
the country, is here to stay. His
deportation is impossible. He has
strong local attachments which will
ceep him in the South. He must
move along in his own line of de-
velopment, directed, encouraged
and assisted by the Anglo-Saxon.
He will become more intelligent,
more self-sustaining, and better
aiapted for work along all lines of
industrial development. Since the
supremacy of the white people has
asserted itself the negro is becom-
Messrs. Edward Andre and Rev
Levi Leech, both prominent in the
parish of St. Bernard, and friends
of the Administration, were in the
city a few days ago aud callec
upon Mr. E. L. St. Ceran, at the
Custom House.
ing more tractable, a better labor-
er, a better mechanic, aud in some
instances has attained respectable
standiug in the professions. These
intelligent negroes are iu the elec
torate, and are helping to shape
the destiny of the State. It would
be a cruel wroug to again throw
them back iuto race hostility and
prejudice and to consign those who
have the opportunities for advance-
ment to again possess the idea
that they are "wards of the na
tion," better than a white man
and are entitled to government
support, and to live in idleness and
dissipation.
" We of the south are making
the negro's condition better every
day. He has been treated so as to
destroy, to a great extent, the An-
tagonism engendered by carpetoag
government. He is regarded as a
factor in the south's future de-
velopment. He is not debarred
from work because he is a negro.
The fields, the workshops, the fa«-
tories and the professions are open
to him for his development. We
do not deny his political rights be-
cause he is a negro. We regulate
his suffrage because he is ignorant,
and at present the majority of the
negro race has no electoral ca-
pacity.
" The course of civilization has
been in the supremacy of the white
race. The physical properties of
soil and climate have had less in-
fluence than intellectual superior-
ity. In every climate on every soil
where the white man has appear-
ed. he haa asserted supremacy.
The African and the oriental fall
under his domiuion, and the popu-
lations are moved and controlled
as he directs. It is so to-day in
India, in Africa, and is rapidly
crystalizing iuto a fact in the fr.r
east, in China, and in the islands
of the Pacific. The conception of
this power and strength iu the
white race, whose distinction is in
the separation of the races, is the
hope of civilization and the en-
lightment of the world. Language
and art and science and architect-
ure aud all modes of culture will
bear the impress of the white
mau's supremacy. It is a universal
law. It is present here and every-
where, and no act of congress can
suspend it.
"The greatness of a republic con-
sists in the representation of per-
sons. Political power in a repre-
sentative government must be in
the organization of electoral action,
so that there may be an express-
ion, a realization of personality in
the government.
"There is no basis for electoral
rights where there is no capacity
::or electoral actiou." In the im-
»ersonal mass, where there is an
absence of individuality and per-
sonality aud an absence of electoral
capacity, it is the duty of the state
to lift the individuals composing
he mass from an iudifference to
electoral power and to educate
them for its exercise. It is the
duty of the state to develop iu each
member of thecommunity personal
lower as an elector. This is what
the state of Louisiana is accom-
plishing. It provides for the negro
aud the ignorant emigrant schools
where they can learn the elements
of an education. The state is try
ing from among this class "the for-
mation of an independent man
hood, so that he who has reached
his majority in years is always iu
his political majority.' When this
shall have beeu accomplished the
voter can exclaim: 'I have not
gone with the multitude to do
evil.'
"It is thus also that Indians are
excluded from voting; not because
they are not taxed, but because
they are subservient to the will of
a chief, and absolutely controlled I during a session of the legislature
by it, they are without freedom. The minority take the opposite
They also exist in a tribal relation, view; and quote Sec. 3, Art. 1, says
the organization of a race which "that the failure of the governor to
isolates them from the organic and call the legislature together to elect
moral being of the nation; but in a senator does not deprive the gov
withdrawing from the tribal rela- ernor of the right to appoint. The
tion they come upon a national | minority re{>ort, which is quite
leans last Tuesday, but was reti-
cent so far as particulars were con-
cerned.
Senator McEnery took occasion
during the week to air his opinion
concerning the suffrage clause in
the recently amended constitution
of the State of Louisiana. The
senator, in contradiction to already
expressed views on this same sub-
ject, before the Lonisiaua Conven-
tion had met and adopted the
present suffrage laws, seems to
hatre undergone a change of senti-
ment, and is now attempting to
defend what he thought he had
every reason to denounce a short
while ago. It will be remembered
by Louisianians that Senator Mc-
Enery warned this constituency
one year ago that the adoption of
the suffrage clause into the consti-
tution of Louisiana was not only
illegal, but unjust, and must result
in detriment to the State. He now,
however, defends North Carolina's
proposed amendments; and in ex
pressing his views on the race
question in the South, declares the
Negro incapable of self-government
aud compares him with the Filip
pinos, and declares neither capable
of self-government. These utter-
ances seem strange on the part of
Senator McEnery, who has all
along been rather conservative in
his views as regards the benefits to
be derived from equitable govern-
ment.
The report of the senate commit-
tee on privileges and elections in
the case of Senator Quay was pre-
sented last Tuesday. The major-
ity report favoring the seating of
Senator Quay was signed by Sena
tors Caffrey, Pettus, Turley, Harris
and Burrows. The miuority re-
port bears the signatures of Sena-
tors Hoar, Chandler, Pritchard and
McComas. The majority report
denies the right of a governor to
appoint a senator in cases wherein
the legislature fails to elect, de-
claring that such appointment does
not represent the wishes of a ma-
jority of the people of the state,
and declares that a senator who is
appointed by the executive is fre-
quently only the personal or poli-
tical favorite of the executive. The
report even goes back to the year
1794, and quotes the case of Johns
of Delaware, and concludes with
that of Corbett of Oregon, in 1898,
and declares that these cases show
"from the beginning of the govern-
ment down to the present time the
senate has never recognized the
right of a state executive to make
a temporary appointment where
the vacancy happened or occurred
position and should be regarded as)
members of the nation."
The population in the Philip-
pines, as we learn from the junior
senator from Indiana, are wanting
lengthy, cites instances in support
of their opinions. This case seems
likely to engage the attention of
congress for sometime, and its set-
tlement will no doubt be regarded
in personality and fall under tie as a precedent for future congress-
control of some superior mind, and I es.
are not fit to be iutrusted with
electoral power. And this may be
truly said of the mass of the negro]
population in the South. Every
person should have representation
in the state, but this means every
actual person, one who is possessed
of sufficient intelligence to separ-
ate himself from the mass and who|
is invested with a personality,
showing a capacity for electoral
action.
The gubernatorial contest in
Kentucky is still attracting atten-
tion here. It is said nearly two
weeks more are required before
any definite conclusion can be ar-
rived at. Churches iu Frankfort
are said to have held prayer ser-
vices on last Sunday during which
fervent petitions were offered for a
speedy termination of Kentucky's
political troubles.
The sixteenth annual report of
the Civil Service Commission was
presented to the President last
Saturday. The report is especial-
ly interesting, and deals with a
number of subjects of especial in-
terest. The importance of the
merit system in our new possess-
ions; the need of making some dis-
position of our superanuated em-
ployers and other things being the
chief features. The report also
shows that there are 107,000 un
tion with the various questions I classified positions and 75,000 class-
agitating the public's mind all over ified, and that 71,000 of these posi-
the country. tions are held by fourth class post-
The case of Mr. Calhooa Falter, ^"Vi0"'8
which haa been engrossing atten-1that the expenditures of both class
tion for several weeks, has finally i
been decided in favor of the deputy j
collector, ' the secretary of the
treasury holding that the charges!
had not been fully sustained. The Missionary Baptist State
When the report of Special Agent ] Convention is in session at the St.
Smith was presented sev^^'days J Mark's Baptist Church, Rev. Wil-
ago. Mr. Fluker demanded a hear-lliams, pastor, corner Rampart and
ing, which would have Iheen grant. I Toledano streets, having been call-
ed had it not been conceded that led to order by Rev. J. H. Fleming,
the circumstances did/not wurrant I Rev. Francis J. Davidson, acting
such a useless expeMiture 0f time I secretary. The session will con-
Mr. Fluker departed New Or ltiuue till Sunday night.
Our wasMon Letter.
Washington, D. C., >
Jan. 23, 1900. )
Both branches of Congress have
been quite busy during the past
week, and many senators and rep-
resentatives possessed of oratorical
ability have taken occasion to give
vent to their sentiments in connec-
ified and unclassified services dur-
ing the war with Spain amounted
to $104,000,000 per annum.
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