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KlJUAL JUSTICE TO AIX.

lere is much need for improvement pre years which follow. It isdoubt-

[true that advancement has been it, inventions many and hundreds

t. cijrnnJg 11 vx to be

Is statesmen, orators and lehd-et few there are that take a de­

mand on the Negro question. j of our most famous men are

Lt and deaf to the appeals of the ro for justice. If the falling of as Attuck in the first firing at

Hill, the first battle of the lionary war. does not merit the leasing efforts to bring justice to ?ro, we ask what does? It may [of that brave Negro, Crispin

that he cried "make way for -made way for liberty and The Negroes have played .a

Important part in the history <>f nited States. They liave ma-le

[ill continue to make a soldiei-lv , second to none. Under the ln,\vs

ire rightfully entitled to justice. Ido they not receive at the hands lis government, which they %ave fed, enriched and defended, vhat jtion from mob law for aUt'ged

Is to which the constitution tjf the Id States provides? As the Ignited

i government protects her white is let her protect her black ones, any foreign powers invade our

^waters illegally, without delay rint them "obey our laws or ulow you up.-' Is hot the

|rn Negro entitled to Ireceive protection at the hinds of

[rnment? Is not a hui'an life Is our fisheries or lrnil pro-The Negroes are determined

le justice. Sectionalism should |onsidered when a human life is

not considered /when the .j that of a white person.

(in these United State:j remain so • nted when her loyal black

daughters'are ^ot. burned led for some allege crimes of ley have not beei lawfully milty? You must :id cannot It you can unlawf.ly attack Fder a Negro citizen. Our gov-

, must live, was'il' all-inspir-Juglit to our brave leroes who

so gallantly to -otect our Sow that sueli a kge number

1)0—Negroes took pit in the war • protection of th it union, will

1,000,000 who eomp<e our pop-fn, see Negroes peris while inno-

efore the law?

1894. The article we published several weeks agqfwas reproduced by leading papers of the stato and was the cause of special dispatches being sent to newspapers in Iowa where any colored boy or girl had graduated from school. Tiik Iowa Statk By.stani>ku goes to every count]/in the state. It will be noticed that nine of the graduates are girls. This leads us to ask: What are the boys doing? The opportunity for employment for girls is not "so great nor so remunerative, and yet we find them seeking an education with com­mendable zeal and great success. Some day a call will be made for young men with education and the boys will then realize what they have done with idle moments and good opportunities, and the girls will be competent to fill the places because they have taken advan­tage of the present and laid away knowledge tor use when chance pre­sents the occasion. Boys, you will have to improve or be lost sight of.

IOWA MlXEItS' .SITUATION".

The union coal miners of Iowa are still in hot water. Many of those who were prominent in the late strike find themselves without jobs. Many of the operators refuse to sign the compro­mise contract, and as a result some of the mines in this district are still idle. Just what the outcome will be is hard to guess. Before another year passes by there will be f>00 more Negroes dig­ging coal in Iowa than ever before. The operators are satisfied that they make the. safest and best miners, all things considered.

The Hatch anti-option bill passed the house last Friday by the decisive vote of 141) to ST. This bill has been before the country for a long time, and it is hoped the senate will be mortj expeditious. There is something wrong with a sys­tem of so-called speculation that allows a few men to ''corner" the products of this country and make the mass of the people pay for it A poor woman who

fcvashes to support her family is forced to pay tribute to these speculators every time she buys a sack of flour. The question of supply and demand has nothing whatever to do with the mat­

ter. The intention of the bill is to put a stop to "puts" "calls" and "options," and make sales and deliveries actual. Many good men have been led astray by this form of gambling. There is actually no difference between one who deals in options on the board of trade and one who "speculates" with cards 4nd dice. But socially one can hold a position while the latter is not counted

even respectable.

Mr. George S. lledhead, of our city, purchased for a big price the 'World's Fair champion Hereford bull, Anvert Britton. This noble animal is four years old, weighs 2,000 and is doubt­less the finest specimen of his kind in the world. He also purchased Bright Duchess 15, the champion Hereford calf at the World's Fair. These beau­tiful animals, together with others nearly as good, can be seen at the Hazel Dell farm, just east of the Iowa State Fair grounds. Mr. lledhead is one of the leading- stock men of Iowa. He has secured these animals at a round sum and they will be a great

benefit.

t»HAOlfATES OF K<>4.

S. Mills, valeditorian, Sioux

|o William Drain Keokuk, la Brown Bentliui, Keokuk, train, lveokuk. Ba Smith, Des Amines, ay F. Kuii, misical depart-jlighland Dark Jormal College, tes. (Brown, OttuAva.

JBasant.

A brief history of the First Parish church at Portland, Maine, informs us that in the 169 years since that church was established there have been but seven ministers. Surely the people of that parish appreciated a good minister when they found him and weren't often disappointed in their choice. The first pastor, Thomas Smith, remained with it 09 years. Rev. Samuel Deane, who followed him. was colleague and pastor for five years, and his successor, I lev. Iehabod Nichols, was colleague and and pastor for .">0 years.

The new Iowa code commission, ap­pointed to revise the code of laws of the state, has organized by selecting Judge 11. S. Winslow as chairman and Charles K. Baker as secretary. The members are Hon. Horatio F. Dale, of Des Moines, and Judge Winslow, ap­pointed by the supreme court of the state; Chancellor MeClain of the State University, appointed by the senate; and Hon. Charles E. Baker, of Iowa City, and Attorney General John Y. Stone, of Glenwood, appointed by the

house.

A Kansas editor says hay fever is caused by kissing grass widows. A Missouri editor says it is caused by grass widows kissing a fellow by moon­light. An Illinois editor says it is caused by a fellow kissing the hired girl while she is feeding hay to the milch cow. Perhaps after kissing the grass widow he thought he was "in clover" and liked it so well that lie staved too long and caught cold.

There is a deficit of over £73,000.000 for the unexpired eleven months of Democratic administration, and cutting down or cutting off the pensions of union soldiers seems to be the only thing Democracy is doing to make it good. Even the sugar trust is given

|i*to import its stock rLy on it, It is a clear

In some parts of the state the owners

will have to be "touched up" with a live wire or the license fees won't be­gin to go around among owners of dead sheen.

What a great deal of time and ease that man gains who lets his neighbor's words, thoughts and behavior alone, confines his inspections to himself, and takes care that his own actions are honest and righteous.

John Brown, of Osawatomie, whose soul goes marching on, would have been ninety-four years old had he lived t'll now. He was a descendant of the Puritan Peter Brown, who came over in the Mayflower.

The A. P. A. is illegal in New Jersey. A new statute has been added to the state code.

AS OTIIKUS SEE I S.

From the Indejwndenee, Iowa, linllet'm-Journttl.

Charles and Thaddeus Huff and John D. Reeler have started at Des Moines Tkk Iowa Statk Bvsta.vdek, which proposes to be an exponent of the col­ored men. We have no acquaintance with the last named gentleman, but have known the Ruffs since their boy­hood. Charles was in our employ for seven years and we know him to be a. man of ability, a first-class printer and a hard worker. We sincerely hope the venture will be successful.

COME AT liAST.

Front the Onkalooxa Negro Solicitor.

Tiik Iowa Statk Bystandeu, a neat, clean, well made-up sheet, published at Des Moines, jumped into existence the 8tli day of this month. The day was Friday, it is true, but the boys at the helm of this craft are not ignorant bipeds who believe that one day is worse than another.

The editors, Charles and Thaddeus Ruff, have brains and character, push and ambition, and unless we miss our guess, they will dig up a stump labeled on the bottom "success."

The business manager, John D. Reeler, though unacquainted with the complex intricacies of journalism, is a clear headed man and a hustler.

Associated with the above are Messrs. T. E. Barton, Win. Coalson, Jefferson Logan, James E. Todd, Jos. 11. Shep­herd, B. J. Holmes and E. T. Banks, all Des Moines gentlemen of good standing. The Negroes of Polk coun­ty and in fact the whole people of the county and state ought to appreciate the efforts of these gentlemen and en­courage the enterprise.

Boys, work hard and be loyal to your patrons and true to yourselves. We welcome you into the fraternity.

Old Glory.

From the Xeic York Sim.

The United States flag was. 117 years old yesterday. If any national colors are entitled to the designation "Old Glory," those adopted by Uncle Sam 117 years ago certainly are. The flag of the United States is older than the majority of the flags of European nations living to-day. The flag of Great Britain was adopted in 1801, or twenty-four years after that of the United States. The flag of Spain was adopted in 1785, while the tri-color of France, also the red, white and blue, took form in 1794. The flag of Portugal was adopted in 1S30, that of Italy in 1848, and that of the German empire in 1871. so that the starry banner of the United States may well be called the "Old" flag. The Stars and Stripes also have been through more battles and have waved over more victories, both on the seas and the land, than any other flag Hying in any part of the world to­day. Its nearest competitor is the flag of Great Britain, but since 1800 British victories on land and sea have been in­considerable as compared with those of the United States. More lives have been given up and more limbs sacrificed in defense of the Stars and Stripes than for any European flag. Over a million men have died in order that that pretty bunting might remain unsullied, and an army of 25,000,000 nnenlisted men stands ready to-day to see that no dis­honor befalls Old Glo'rv.

CONDENSED HISTOKY

Nuremberg Ehtrs .

Watches first came into fashion in the year 1477. at Nuremberg, and on that account and because of their peculiar shape they were known as "Nuremberg eggs." The}' were not all egg-shaped, however, some being made in imitation of pears, gourds, acorns, bird's skulls, etc. Morgan, the English curiosity collector, has an old-time watch in the shape of a cow's horn, which discharges a tiny pistol at the end of each hour. The Earl of Stan­hope has one shaped like an egg, cut in jacinth and set with diamonds. About the year 1020 watches began to assume the shape now generally worn: in the seventeen century, however, it, became the fashion to make them in the form of a cross.

Congressman Cousins' Oratory. From the hit/Ion, D. C. 1'o.it.

Representative Hepburn, of Iowa, declared that the oration of his col­league, Congressman Cousins, at the Soldiers Home in this city, was by all odds the best delivered anywhere in the United states on this occasion. Representative Hepburn is a judge of good oratory, and his tribute to his young colleague was prompted by a sincere admiration of his effort. Cousins is one of the youngest members of the house. He left college but a few years ago and is not more than !!,'i years of a<re.

Johnson for (iovet iu:r of Malno. Lkwirton, Me., June 28.—At the

democratic state convention yesterday Charles F. Johnson of Watervilla was nominated for governor. Resolutions were adopted expressing sympathy for France, favoring the election of United States senator by popu-

OF THE NEGRO SINCE THE WAR OF THE REBELLION.

He I'rayed for Jubilee During Two Hun­dred Years of Slavery anil Has l'rayod Twenty-live Years for .Justice. i

From the, Rochester Herald.

Rev. E. Iluntling lludd of Albion, then announced that fJudge Tourgee had taken a severe cold consequent upon exposure in the flood which re­cently took possession of his Chautau­qua property and was unable to be present. The hush which fell upon the audience as they heard the words of the speaker showed plainly :how great was the disappointment, lsollowing is a copy of a letter the judge fcent to the Rev: G. 1!. F. Halleck, chaivlnan of the local commtttee of arrangements:

"My Dkak Silt: A curious mistake led me to accept an invitation for a 20-minute talk on 'What the Negro Has Done Since the War.' Of course, in that time I could have said nothing of serious importance and probably would not have said anything along the line I was expected to descant. I am not weak enough to suppose my coming or speaking would be a matter of material consequence, but merely to show that I am not unmindful even of an unin­tended pledge, X send you 'some hints of what seems to me to be the most noted achievements of the colored peo­ple since their emancipation.

"First. The colored main patiently endured being called a ffreedman,' though the legal estate of thefreedman was at an end when on the 20th day of July, 1808, the XIV amendment of the constitution of the United States pro­claimed: 'All persons born or natural­ized in the United States shall be citi­zens of the United States and of the state in which they may reside.'

"Second. He has demonstrated that I 4,000,000 of colored slaves can be trans- « lated into 4,000,000 of colored citizens j of a republic under circumstances of j the most irritating and depressing pov­erty and the most exasperating denial of common rights, without a single in­stance of riot, resistance to law or re­quiring the firing of a shot or the ex­penditure of a dollar to repress his lawless inclination. It is a record of good citizenship never equalled by any people subjected to such sudden and radical change under circumstances of such difficulty and provocation.

"Third. He has demonstrated ex­clusively that the 'work' really re­quired to solve the 'race problem' in our Christian civilization is some ac­cess of divine grace which will enable a white Christian people to deal justly with a colored Christian people.

'•Fourth. He has been deprived of his rights as a citizen by white Ameri­can Christians; is burned, flayed, hang­ed and beaten, without judge, jury or testimony,! and on the most flimsy and absurd pretences; his rights of life, of person, of domicile and family are in­vaded in open defiance of law and with absolute impurity; after givinghim cit­izenship, we refuse him any protection by law, though more than 20,000 of his people have been murdered in as many years in the states of the south by the white men only three have ever been executed for such crime. The state has given him a 'Jim Crow car' and Christianity has provided him a "Jim Crow' church. Yet he still be­lieves in Jesus of Nazareth and longs for eqnal rights and liberty as a citizen of the United States.

"Fifth. He has prayed for justice as patiently and confidently through a quarter of a century of half freedom, as he prayed for jubilee during 200 years of slavery.

"Sixth. In return for the lessons we have taught him from the printed page, he is teaching us a greater and more precious one. that duty is the keynote of Christianity, justice the highest phase of duty and security of life and equality of right and opportunity the only secure foundations of self gov­ernment.

"Not the least valuable of the results of 'work among the freedmen' is the influence it has had in widening and deepening the sense of the common fatherhood of God and the common brotherhood of man among our North­ern churches; an influence so deep as to encourage the hope that after some centuries more the color line may dis­appear from the Church of Christ and be remembered only with that sense of shame we now have when we contem­plate that most infamous of human in­stitutions, American slavery, which hardly half a century ago the church defended, excused or hopelessly be­wailed.

"May (iod guide us to better things and add to our charity that justice which is the crown and witness of the love of Christ in the heart and the part­nership with Him in advancing the 'Kingdom of God on earth.' Sincerely yours, "Ai.mox W. Toukgkk."

Mayvitle, N. Y.. June 4, 1894.

PAKXEtX CITY EXCntSIOX.

The excursion to Parnell City, Tues­day, June 20. for various reasons will long be remembered. In the first place the excursion was very large and the management had so perfected arrange­ments as to call forth the admiration of all. The day was a typical picnic day and at an early hour, cscarcely dawn, many happy parents and chil­dren moved hastily about their homes getting in readiness to retreat to the sylvan woods and drink in the hap­piness of strange and fascinating scenery. Down the various highways leading to the Wabash depot the sound­ing of fleet-footed pedestrians and of merry voices seemed to say, on to the picnic let joy be unconfined. Shortly after 7 o'clock there was the ringing of bells, the go-a head signal, as the brakeman climbed on deck, and soon the train sped swifcly along, carrying eight coach loads of happy and con­tented people to their destination. The pleasure of riding an^l the beautiful

•rerv incident to th^Hourncv caused

"mighty i nell City a! sojourners like a'nimaJ into Noah's^ mittee rece audible for freshments an' friends a sele gram was rende! anguished spe: talent and eloquei Rev. R. D. Turn! Johns, Parnell City? Joe; L. E. Perry, St. Des Moines; J. F. Pec" gentlemen need no wol tion as to their ability thinkers. No little int< fested in the base ball g'UlllU UlllUil W suited in a victory for Des Moines by a score of 18 to 9. Thus it was that some three thousand whites and one thou­sand colored, enjoyed a day's outing long to be remembered.

THE WHUMGOF TIE. Wendell Phillips' Remarks on the First

Colored United States Senator, in Boston, May, 1870.

Twenty-five years ago Senator Revels, a colored lpan, took his seat as a sena­tor of the United States from the state of Mississippi, to fill a place made vacant by Jefferson Davis, who with­drew to become the president of the so-called Southern Confederacy. In May, 1870, this magnificent represen­tative of a cruelly wronged race re­stored to the full rights of citizenship by the fortunes of four years of bloody war, delivered an address to an im­mense audience in the city of Boston. At the conclusion of the address Wen­dell Phillips was called out, and spoke as follows:

"You remember when we were chil­dren and read the Arabian Nights, that after some gorgeous description of crests of light and scimetars of gold and crowns of jewels, the caliph clapped his hands and the dream all burst. We were sitting on cold ground. I felt, as I sat behind Senator Revels, like clapping my hands to see if the scene would change, whether it was all a fairy mistake, whether he would van­ish as the scene did at the caliphs. I could not realize that thousands of men had come into Tremont Temple to see a senator of the United States from that race which has been so long victimized. I was in western New York when the secretary of state published his procla­mation ratifying the fifteenth amend­ment. The journal that contained it came at night. We read it over; we rejoiced; we commented; we speculated; and then we went to sleep. And with the gray light of the morning I sprung to my feet again and searched for the paper, to see whether there really was a proclamation, whether it was not a dream. It seems to me I should like to feel of the senator and see if he is flesh and blood. It seems hard to realize. Why, I remember at the second anti-slavery meeting that I ever attended, the attorney • general of Massachu­setts (and still he breathes) said the idea of taking the chains off the black race, these Negroes, it was like letting loose the hyenas. Mr. Chairman -and gentlemen of Boston, 1 introduce to you a hyena. This is the man, the danger of unmuzzling whom the attorney general so eloquently de­lineated. Well, then, later. Tombs told us that if we ever dared to fire a gun he would go over the roll call of his slaves under the shadow of Bunker Hill. Well, this is the first one that answered. A Senator of the United States! How absurd it was then. Too silly to be tveii fanatical, too absurd to be even treasonable! Years ago Charles Sumner said: 'I hope to see the day that I shall sit under this roof by the side of a black senator from one of the United States.' He has not reached his three score yet, and his hope is fulfilled. It is not so short the interval. Burke once said that the years of a single life would cover ours. I can remember the day when at the lecture delivered in this very hall, a colored man was not permitted among the audience, and actually organized another lyceum in another part of the city, in order that that portion of Boston might not be de­prived of tne pleasure and instruction of a lecture room. And all of you re­member how late it is when we owed it to the bold and brave James W. Stone that a colored man, much to, everybody's amazement, was permitte to speak in a course of lectures, was hardly believed that it could tolerated, and the next year he further and introduced a woman.

And now we crowd here to-nigi

listen, not to a colored man but ed senator of the United States. you go to the Rocky Mount j see the lowest tier of the grq makes up the very base o shoot its peaks up to heave est. To-day the race that in the. catalogue, shoots into the great council oj Some of us doubted whe, race would quite realizj use economically this franchise. Men said people, an over-gentj of a forgiving moot; avenues of these intrigue, and thtj despotism of the and only make \\4iile we speciij our glass do\vi

that they hatj ernor into t! had put o bench of crowded with a so

luuuey i jaiwci metropolis of the ^BP^hlic.

It is a proud a great epoch. It is the consummiafWiaof the grandest crusade which the worTH has seen sirce the days of Luther. We are too near to measure yet the majesty of the grand culminating success of the Saxon race learning to do justice to a race that it hated and despised. But after all. it is only the, multiplication table. It is on ly the recognition of another truth. We lift our brows, noble men, into the face of the world to-day and repeat, with something of pride, the sublime pledge of our fathers that all men are created equal. They said it in 1776,i and yet while the words lloated on tire summer air, so many years ago, they were riviting the chains of this race whose emancipation we now rejoice over. We put the same great truth, with aided guarantee and explicit wording, into the constitution of the nation. It is there. But the only question is for this generation and the next to apply it. With infinite toil, at vast expense, with such a sac­rifice of blood, sealing the charter with five hundred thousand graves, we have made it true of the Negro. With what cost, at what toil, how much blood, with what sacrifice and devotion you will make it true of the Indian and the Chinese remains for the next twenty-nine years. We summon you to the conflict, we welcome you to th^ crusade, the stamping out of another line of prejudices and enlarging the a.ationai heart, when, with a true Christianity and a real civilization, it shall \know fitly nothing of race before the law, and when that is done we shall have a right to rejoice, not only that this one victim race has taken its place among the recognized elements of civil \*nd political life with us, but we shall \go further and enact that in sacred l^w America has her fillet, and henceforth knows no distinction among races that God created with one blood, with equi rights before him and before tin nation."

SPEAKS IN HIS OWN BEHALF.

race, an

broader the foundation for building up a high moral and intellectual charac­ter. Children being kept in school until they begin to realize the worth of an education is very necessary. Parents should be responsible for them until they reach their majority. They should know what is best for the chil­dren's good and should carry out every purpose.

The greatest good can be obtained by honest effort. Dishonesty cannot longi succeed. Do not depend on others foj your learning or success. Think yourself. Take time to meditate study the. difficult problems which t front you. Give everything youij interpretation and hold that it until proven wrong. Read the which demand the attention more elevated classes of peopl is no surer way o£ get thoughts than by reading noble men and women.

—o— It is very essential thg

made out of our boyj has something that distance in advanq grabble. It is qj his mastering one/ conception of aj He is not subjec place to plac^ kinds of rout unskilled If a i beti and WorH

Atlantic, la., June 1, 1894.—To the Republicans: I came into the Republi­can party at its birth, have never slackened or faltered in my adherence to the principles it has espoused. Ii have obeyed every call from "Shilohj to the last campaign. Have never he an elective office. Have asked for two offices and neither of them wi| the gift of the state convention. a right to suppose my candidacy rest simply upon its merits inafij contest between other equally ing men. but this has not beeni ted. I am attacked openly aj early date, through a local sided over by a late school ij his last Friday's paper he intimation as lo who his are: He says:

"Previous to the camj had been sick a good de was short, very short./ tion (of Mr. Crawfor^ came. An old Chieaj 1» UHLISIIKH, ADVANQ WHICH TIIK CAMl'Al same parties are^ him with the fin me. He further FEBEl) TIIK MO^j he would runj

This attac\ port in my not meet a|

If to be j poration^ biddings can, th^ tion. self-ci herij thei

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