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booker Washington : And The Negro' (t/ontinued from 1st page.) TIIK DANOKR OK A NATION WITHIN A ?S NATION. The trouble with Mr. Booker T. Wasington's work is that he is silently preparing us for tlic future heaven of Amalgamation?or he is doing something equally dangerous, nalhely, he is attempting to build a ! nation inside a nation of two hostile ' races. In this event he is storing dynamite beneath the pathway of our children?the end at last can only Is- in bloodshed. Mr. Washington is not training negroes to take their place in any industrial system of the South in which the white man can direct or control him. He is not training his students to be servants and come at the beck and call of any man. He is training them all to be masters of men, to be independent, to own and operate their own industries, plant their owji fields, buy ami sell their own g<x>ds, and in every shape and form destroy the last vestige of dependence on the white man for anything. 1 do not say this is not laudable ?I do not say that it is not noble. I only ask wliat will be its end for the Negro when the work is perfect? Every pupil who passes through Mr. Washington'8 hands ceases forever to work under a white man. Not ohly so, but he goes forth trained as an evangelist to preach the doctrine of separation and independence. The m gro remains on this Continent for one reason only. The Southern white man has needed his labor, and therefore' has fought ev cry suggestion of his removal, But when he refuses longer to worl^for the white man, then what? Mr. Booker T. Washington says on page Go of his book: "Tho negro must live for all time Inside the Southern white man." Oil what sort of terms are they to live together? As hanker and borrower? Hardly, if the negro is the banker. Even now, with the white man still hugging the hoary delusion that he can't get along without the negro, he is being forced to look to the Old World for labor. The simple truth is, the South will lag behind the world industrially in just so far as she depends on negro labor* The idea that a white man cannot work in the fields of the South is exploded. Only one-third of the cotton crop is to-day raised by negro lalior. Even now the relations of the races, with the negro an integral part of the white man's industrial scheme, lieeome more and more difficult. A ttl'LF THAT CHOWS WIDK. Professor Kelly Miller says: "It is a matter of common observation that the races are growing further and further apart.'' Mr. Washington says on this point: "For the sake of the Negro and the Southern white man there are many things in tike relations of the two races that must soon be changed" (page 65). The point I raise is that education necessarilv ^ drives the races further and further apart, and Mr. Washington's hrand ' of education makes the gulf bc tween them if anything a little deeper. If there is one thing a Southern white man cannot endure it is an educated Negro. What's to he the end of it if the two races are to live forever side by side in the South? Mr. Washington says: "Give the black man so much skill and brains that he can cut oats like the white man?then he can compete with him." And then the real tragedy will lngin. Does any sane man believe that when the Negro ceases to work under the direction of the Southern white man, this "arrogant," "rapacious" and "intolerant" race will allow the Negro to master his industrial system, take the bread * from Ins mouth, crowd him to the wall and place a mortgage on his nousc'f competition is war?the most fierce ami brutal of all its forms. Could fatuity reach a suhlimcr height than the idea that the white man will stand idly by and see this performance? What will he do when put to the test? , He will do exactly what his white , neighbor in the North does when the Negro threatens his bread?kill him! Abraham Lincoln foresaw this 1 tragedy when he wrote his Emanci- I pation Proclamation, and he asked 1 Congress for an appropriation of a < billion dollars to colonize the whole 1 Negro race. He never believed it i possible to assimilate the Negro into ] our n;U^onal life. This nation will , yet como back to Lincoln's plan, still so eloquently advocated by the Negro Bishop, Henry M. Turner. It is curious how the haldheaded assertion of a lie can l>e repeated 1 and repeated until millions of sane people will accept the bare assertion (, !\s an established fact. At the close of the Wrvr, Mr. Lincoln, brooding over the insoluble problem of the Negro's future which his proclamation had ereated, , asked General Benjamin F. Butler to devise and report to liim immediately a plan to colonize the Negroes. General Butler, naturally hostile to the idea, made at once his famous, false and facetious report, "that ships could not be found to carry tho Negro babies to Africa as fast as they are born!" The President was assassinated a few days later. This lie is now forty odd years old,- and Mr. Booker T. Washington actually repents it as a verbal inspiration though entirely unconscious of its historic origin. We have spent about $800,000,000 on Negro education since the war. One-half of this sum would have been sufficient to have made Liberia a rich and powerful Negro state. Liberia is capable of supporting every Negro in America. Why not face this question squarely? Wo are temporizing and playing with it,. All our odiiontinnnl snlmmna arc compromises and tempororay makeshifts. Mr. Booker T. Washington's work is one of nohle aims. A branch of it sho ' l>e immediately established in . .onrovia, the capital of Lilxwia. A gift of ten millions would do this, and establish a colony of half a million Negroes within two years. They could lay the foundations of a free black republic which within twenty-five years would solve our race problem on the only rational Imsis within human power. Colonization i > not a failure. It has never been tried. We owe this to the Negro. At present we are deceiving him and allowing him to deceive himself. He hopes and dreams of amalgamation, forgetting that selfpreservation is the first law of Nature. Our present attitude of hypocrisy is inhuman toward a weaker race brought to our shores by the sins of our fathers. We owe him a square deal, and we will never give it to him on this Continent. LIGHTNING AND ITS DANGERS. Law First Established by Franklin Still Holds Good. Violent discharges of atmoppherlc electricity generally follow a law which was first established by Benjamin Franklin, and which suggested the dt-vice of the lightning rod. Sometimes there were apparent variations from the rale, bat not of a character necessarily to prove an exception or impair the force of the general law. The experience and observation of a hundred years, the advance of scientific knowledge and the practical exploitation of the field of electrical energy all go to strength en in a general way the truth of the old theory, and the shocking fatilities from lightning on the Long Island shore below New York city Sunday afternoon are, like so many others of the kind, in full harmony with that theory. The five persons killed by a single bolt at the Parkway baths. Brighton Beach, stood in immediate proximity to a flagstaff feet high, sunk deeply Into a damp soil, thus making the besf kind of a lightning conductor short of a metal nolo. H?/l i.Ii# been of metal, possibly the discharge might have passed off quietly and harmlessly, except for persons actually in contact with it. As it was, the dry wood gave resistance enongh to cause a violent discharge of the accumulated energy and divert some of it to the better conductors formed by damp human bodies clothed in wet bathing dress, stauding by the foot of the pole. The persons who sought shelter there courted what befell them?death to five and injuries to nine others. Had they ever paid any attention to the results of human experience in relation to the lightning, a knowledge available to all who read the newspapers, that would have been the very last place they would have fled to>for refuge. At about the same time one man was killed and three injured at Qravesend Beach, near by. But they had also taken refuge where they should not?under a tree, which, true to the theory of the lightning rod, forms an excellent conductor for bringing together the electricities of the earth and cloud. Every few days during bhesummer we read of fatilities from lightning to persons standing under trees to esoape the drenching rain. In one of the Brooklyn parks only the >ther day several persons were thrown riolently to the ground and injured From the striking of a tree which ;hey had chosen for shelter. One nan was killed and another severally turned in South Carolina a week or 10 ago in the same way. If yon hear of a death frpm lightning oat of doora, it will be found that the rhanoes'are the pers-io was tinder a tree; If pot there, then the likelihood in that he was by a wire fence or reaching up to a wire olothes line, or holding a plow with metal sinking Into the damp earth, or In touch with the large damp bodies of horses or cattle. If in the house or barn, the victim will usually prove to have been by an open door or window, where pass ourrents of damp air, forming an electrical conductor nearly as good sometimes as one of more substantial character, or by a chimney sinking to the earth and rising above the building, and full of dampness usually in summer; or near a sweating haymow or load? which does much to explain why so many barns are struck. Out in Ohio last week the news records the killing of a man and serious injury of a child from lightning when tbey were within the shelter of the house. But it appeared frofa a more detailed ac count that they were sitting by an open window Occasionally we read ot deaths from lightning where the person was cl.arof trees and currents of Air nnd other conditions of danger mentioned, but these cases aro very rare; we seldom hear of such On the other had, and.in further exemplification of the truth of the lightning-red theory take the experience we are huving with the electric car. These vehicles, with thnir metatto equipments and trolley pole reaching upward, are now running nil oyer the country and seem to invite particularly the destructive wrath of the lightning; but we huve yet to hear of an authenticated case of death from the electric stroke to any one on them. They aro frequently struck, but just as frequently the disuhnrge passes (IT through the pole ' with no more effect, at the worst., than to produce a blinding Hash and a shock which sometimes is violent enough to throw people out of the car. One car was struck Sunday near tho scene of the Coney Island disasters, and two or three people thrown out, hut without injury, except from the fail. Another car was struck in Manhattan borough, producing a flash which frightened several passengers into jumping This frequently happens, but never anything worse, so far as we have beeu able to observe. Danger from lightning is small in any case. It causes more terror to humankind, with less reason, than all other powers of earth and air put together; but danger is reduced to a negligible quantity by simple avoid* ance during a severe storm of the points of a possible danger which have been Indicated. Meantime, danger or no danger, there remains a vast body of weak and timorous humanity, unublo to explain its terrors, but none the less experiencing them with every appearance of an electrically-charged atmosphere, which anxiously awaits such a possible development of applied electrical science as will enable man to harness and lead quietly and harmlessly to earth for his own help ful uses the energy carried about in the thunder cloud.?Springfield Republican BOOKER ROASTED BY ALABAMANS. In Dining With Daughter of Wanamaker, the Negro is Strongly Condemned. Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 17.?The men of Birmingham, of high or low degroe, have been almost unanimous in their condemnation of the action of Booker Washfngtbv in dining with the daughter of Mr. Wanamaker at Saratoga. Expressions - gathered at random here today from among the best known men of the community were, many of them, well nigh unfit to print, so violent were they in their denunciations 01 tne man formerly the most popular and most respected negro in Alabama. The general trend of publio sentiment here is to the effect that the Degro president of Tnskegee institute has destroyed his usefulness. Among those who have come out in violent condemnation of the negro are Lieut. Gov. R. M. Cunningham, Dr. J. W. Stagg, who delivered the noted address at Auburn university, Alabama, in which Washington was held up to the world as "the greatest fraud that ever lived:" L. P. Hill, the well known editor, ex-Mayor A. O. Lane, Aetlng Sheriff Albert Stradford. Frank Deedmeyer and John London, two of the beat known attorneys of the local bar, and others too numerous to mention. Booker T. Washington has lectured in Birmingham on numerous previous I occasions and has always had a goodly proportion Of white hearers. Some of the beet known conservative men in the Oity are unanimous in the opinion that he will not again be allowed to come to Birmingham and that he had made up his mind to leave Alabama before he ever dined with Mrs. Washburton.?Atlanta Journal. RAILROADS KUJLED THOUSANDS IN YEAR Records for 1904 Shows That 10,046 Perished in Accidents on Roil. Washington, Special: The Inter btate Commerce Commission gave oat on Aog. 17th very interesting statistics in reference to tho railroadf of the United States. The casualties during the jenr end log June 80, 1901, numbered 91 201 The persons killed numbered 10,010 and the injured 84 155 There wen 2,114 trainmen killed and 29,276 in jured; switch tenders, crossing tend ers and watchmen, 229 kill?d, 86 721 injured; casualties to em|.l'>ycs coup ling and uncoupling cars are assignee as follows: Trainmen klllpd, 209 injured, 8,500; switch tenders, cross ing tenders and watchmen, 28 killed 120 injured ; other employes, 15 kill ed, 98 Injured. Passengers killed in 1901, 411; in jured, 94111. In the previous yea: 865 passengers were killed and 9,28 injured.-. Of these, 2.622 were killer and 4,978 injured because of oollislot and derailments. The number o persons other than employes aui passengers killed, was 5,973. and in jured 7,977. In 1904 one passenger was killer I lor every i ozo.viw persons carried and one injured for every 78,">23 car ried. For 190)3 the figures show tha 1,057(441 passengers wore carried fo one killed and 81 424 passengers fo OD6injured. During the year' 715,410.682 pas sengers were carried, an increase o 20,529,147 for the year. The pass^n ger mileage, or the number of pas sengers carried one mile, was 21,026, 218,596, having inoreased 1,007,440, >65, The Life; Worth Living "The life which is truly worth llv ing," says Tom Watson in his mag azlne for August, "has not alway led to ease, worldly succeess, happi ness and earthly honors. "Too often the man who conse cratos h'mself to the nobler purposi has been what the world oalled i failure, has been led away into cap tivity by pitiless foes, has died at th< stake amid tortures. ? t Ti ? 4. Ill-- Al T_ - cut, use tne inaian Drave, sucr a warrior has never feared the staki nor the tortures. "Like the Indian brave, such i warrior despises those who torment him, and amid the flames in whicl he dies his death song rises to thril the world. 41 *1' have fought a good figtyt Never once did I lower my flag. T< the right, as Qod gave me to see it, ] was always trne. Not once did ] bend the knee to the wrong, con soiously. 4 4 4 AU my life I fought for the bet terment of humanity. Here are th< scars to show it. Defeat has rollec over me, but no dishonor. 4 4 4 To no man or woman have 1 knowingly done hurt. If I have nol done some good it is not because 1 failed to try. 44 *On millions of my fellow men I found the chains of.a bondage more galling than slavery. I did my utmost to show them how to be free. 44 'Millions I found hungry, naked, homeless. I did my best to point the way out of poverty into plenty. 44 4 I found the old foes of the human race winning ground day by day; iL. .UL ?- ? i 1? 4L. * * - liid noil inbu Knuuiug wit) men 01 tne poor; the tyrant using law and government to rob the people; the priest again spreading the eloud of ignorant fhlth over the sunny fields of Godgiven reason; the churoh and the state once more uniting to plunder the human race and to divide the spoil. " 'Against these ancient devourers of men, against these relentless foes -of the fredom and development of humanity, I raised the cry of defiance, fought them with ail the power that was within me, doing what man might do to arouse my fellow man to a sense of the peril whloh was comlog upon him. " 'Yea! I hare fought a good fight. Here are the wounds, No white flag flew over my citadel. It J ; held out to the last. j " 'Loneliness pained, but did not , subdue me; persecution saddened hut did not conquer me; friends deserted me and foes multiplied, but I was not utterly cast down. The sacrod torch of human progress I held aloft, even as better men had done ' In the ages of the past. " 'Its light will not fall. Others . will seize upon it and bear it on. I Some day the night will pass and the human race will no longer grope in gloom. ! " 'In that my faith Is strong. For that I have never ceased to watch i and pray and work. | " 'And now my part is done. The shadows gather about me?but I am not afraid. The voices from the . darkness call for me?-and without . regret I go. , " 'Duty grants me her honorable , discharge; conscience acquits me of her service; the boon of peace within . settles upon mo with the caress of Infinite calm?and so I pass down into tho turning of the darkened road, ? with no pang of remorse in ray heart . and no chill of doubt or fear on my . ?onl.' , > * * * * "Thus ono will havo lived the life j worth living, whether he dwells In log hut or stately mansion. "While It is yet day and he can work he works, unhasting and un' resting At the loom of timo he toils persistently, weaving into his life-garment threads of gold. r "The creed of such a man is an inl spiration; his life a call to duty. I His tomb becomes an altar; his death l a song of triumph. Neither rust nor f time shall dim the splendor of his j effort, and the influence of his thought and his example shall not be lost upon the world as long as duty has a j devotee and truth a holy shrine." , Is It Rigrht? Ih it right that a property-owner t should lose 14.20 to let a dollar make 50 cents? A dealer makes 50 cents more on fourteen gallons of rendy-forr use paint, at $1.50 per gallon, than our agent does on eight gallons of L. & M. paint and six gallons of linseed oil, which make fourteen gallons of the f best paint in the world, at $1.20 per gallon ; the property-owner losses just $4.20. Is it right? It only requires 4 gallons of L. & M. . and 3 gallons linseed oil to paint a moderate sized house. Ten Thousand Churches painted with Longman & Martinez L. A M. Paint. Liberal quanity given to to churches when bought from Union Hardware Company, Union, S. C. ! Union & Glenn Springs s Railroad Co. Time Table Effective Aug. 1, 1905. Leave Union 7. a. m. 1.00, 4.00 and 0 $8.10 p. m. 1 Arrive Buffalo 7.15 a. m. 1.15, 4.15 and $8.25 p. m. Leave Buffalo 8.15 a. m. 1.45, 5.00 and 0 $8.30 p. m. Arrive Union 8.30 a. m. 2.00, 5.15 and $ 8.45 p. m. Leave Union 9.00 a. m. and 5.25 p. 111. 9 Pass Neal Shoals 9.50 a. in. and 6.10 p. m. Arrive Pride 10.15 a. m. and 6.35 p. m. 1 Leave Pride 10.35 a.'in. and 6.50 p. m. t Pass Neal Shoals 11.00 a. ni. and l 7.10 p.m. Arrive Union 11.50 a. m. and 8.00 p, in. All trains daily unless otherwise noted. Week days only. $ Saturdays and Sundays only. ) Connection made at Pride with Sca[ board Air Line through trains South r l>ound in the morning and North bound 1 in the evening. Interchangeable mileage sold by the Seaboard Air Line will be honored bv the U. A G. S. It. R. M. B. SUMMER, ) Gen. Pas*. Agent. I Agonizing Burns [ arc instantly relieved, and perfectly healed, by Bucklen's Arnica Salve. ' C. Rivenbark, Jr., of Norfolk, Va., [ writes: "I burnt my knee dreadfully ; that it blistered all over. Bucklen's Arnica Salve stopped the pain, and 1 healed it without a scar." Also heals t all wounds and sores. 25c at Dr. F. 0. Duke's, druggist. Notice of Meeting of Stock Holders. Notice is hereby given that a meeting ' of the stockholders of Union & Glenn Springs Railroad Company will be h6ld , at the oflice of said company in the town of Union, South Carolina on the 6th day of September, A. P. 1905 at 10 , o'clock a. m. That the purpose of said stockholders meeting is to increase the capital fltock or tbe said Union & Glenn Springs Railroad Company, three hundred and tifty thousand dollars, so that the capital stock of said Union & Glenn Springs Railroad Company shall be i four hundred thousand dollars. Ry order of theRoard of Directors. T. C. Duncan, President, Gbo. M. Wrioiit, Secretary. 31*6t. SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE, 1805-1905. Four Schools: Arts, Law Sclenoes and Teachers System of Wide Election. Expenses Moderate. Opens September 27th, 1905. =??=rr* T H E t ' * Cash Bargain Store IS SELLING lo Indigo Blue Calico-atAc^t; The latest patterns of our 10c Lawns at 8c. * A selection of 6, 7, 8 and 10c Embroidery to be sold at 5c. 2 spools sewing machine cotton for 5c. i Nice grade of Needles, per package, lc. Mennen's Borated Talcum Powder, per box, 15c. ^ New Goods arriving every ^ . day, so come and get first choice of the latest at MRS. D. N. WILBURN. Get One Pound of BEST ^ BORATED TALCUM for 25 CENTS at DUKE DRUG CO. Under Hotel Union. Union, S. C, T THEY HAVE CONE! ??J . I I always made special preparations for the summer months, for I know that almost everybody has to buy hot weather specials this time of the year, so I ask you to come and look through my lines, which are complete. JUST RECEIVED lots of real good things in r\ r CLr\r\r!<-> C i I^7iy \-hju\uz>, MULiuilb, DI1UOS, I*"* Hats, Clothing, Hosiery, Underwear, etc,: All of the above mentioned are correct in style, best in quality and low in price. So trade here, save your coupons and get a Tine set of dishes free. GEO. W. GOING. Drugs, y Medicines, * Chemicals. . > < WE GUARANTEE ^ -y' H Personal attention to Prescriptions. Only the purest drugs used. I n-J? A ? m-^VS TT VOL ri iwcs, vumity considered. We deliver goods to ^ part of the city at ah^KraT time. Our phone is No. n Palmetto Drug C0,, || Huiot <fc Remvick, Owners. *$r- 9