Some of the Local Officers of the United
Brothers of Friendship and S. of M. T.
UNITED BROTHERS OF
FRIENDSHIP HERE
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lodge, the bulk of the work has natur
ally fallen upon Mi’s. L. B. Burton,
general manager; H. A. Chiles, who is
past mater of the lodge and a
grand oflleer, and who by his work
last year at Keokuk succeeded in
bringing the grand lodge here; and
Mrs. Ray, the secretary. Mr. Chiles
is assistant manager and treasurer.
The official program is as follows:
Public meeting Tuesday at 2 p. m. at
the Douglas county court house:
Welsome address by Mayor James
C. Dahlman. Respone by Dr. J. T.
Caston, M. W. G. M.
A welcoming on behalf of the Min
istry by Rev. John Albert Williams.
Response by Rev. H. W. Botts, M. W.
G. Chaplain.
Welcoming on behalf of Fraternity,
Charles W. Dickerson. Response by
Nelson C. Crews, M. W. G. M. of Mia
sonic jurisdiction.
Welcoming on behalf of the U. B. F.,
Rev. W. F. Botts. Response by C. H.
Calloway, grand attorney.
Welcoming on behalf of the S. M.
T., Sister L. B. Burton, D. D. Re
sponse by Sister Ida L. Garrett, M.
W. G. P.
Public Banquet in honor of the
Grand Royal House, at Washington
hall, Eighteenth and Harney streets,
Tuesday at 8 p. m. Program by Oma
ha’s best talent. Desdunes’ full cr
ch<*stra.
Memorial services, Wednesday eve
ning at 8 o’clock, at the Douglas Coun
ty court house. Everybody welcome.
Music by Zion Baptist church and St.
John’s A. M. E. choirs.
Grand parade and picnic, Friday,
August 20th, at 10:30 a. m. oF grand
lodge and grand temple, starting at
the county court house, through prin
cipal streets to Rourke park, Fif
teenth and Vinton streets, lei by
Faithful lodge No. 250. Music by K.
of P. Military Band; U. B. F. bands of
Kansas City, Hannibal and St. Louis.
Bro. C. G. Garrett, marshal of the
day.
Attractions: Competitive drill by
Knights of Friendship from Kansas
City, Hannibal and St. Louis. Base
l*all game between Omaha Owls vs.
Council Bluffs Giants; also band con
certs. We will have all the delicacies
of the season, including barbecue
meats.
Grand Public Installation at the Au
ditorium, .Fifteenth and Howard
streets, August 20th, 8:30 p. m. The
grand procession will be led by worthy
princesses in full uniform. From 10
o’clock p. ni. until 2 a. m. Prof. Dev
erreaux’s orchestra of twenty pieces
will entertain the young people.
VOTES FOR TEACHERS.
(By Miss Maria L. Baldwin, Principal
of the Agassiz Public School, of
Cambridge, Mass.)
Women teachers in those states
where school suffrage has already
been granted them have found out
that even so meagre a share of vot
ing power has given them a definite
influence, and has biought about a
few notable results. In several cases
local schools have been kept, by the
women’s vote, from the control of
persons who threatened all that was
best in them. Candidates for elec
tion to school boards reckon early
with the “teacher vote" and hasten to
announce their "rightness” on this or
that issue supposedly dear to teach
ers. It is wholly reasonable to infer
that, the extension of the suffrage will
enable teachers t"> secure more con
sideration for themselves, and to have
an important influence on the quality
of the persons chosen to direct the
schools.
At the outset teachers will be con
fronted by the temptation of power—
the temptation to use it for personal
OUR DEBT TO SUFFRAGISTS.
(By Hon. Robert H. Terrell, Justice of
the Municipal Court, District of
Columbia.)
Of all the elements in our great cos
mopolitan population the Negro would
be most ardently in favor of woman
suffrage, for above all others, he
knows what a denial of the ballot
means to a people. He has seen his
rights trampled on, he has been hu
miliated and insulted in public, he
has brooded over his weakness and
helplessness in private, all because he
did not possess the power given by
Mrs. Leona Burton, District Deputy.
of selfish ends. What, as a class, will
they do with this temptation? What
motives will lie behind their advo
cacy of men and measures? What
tests of fitness will they apply to the
candidate for their votes? Will they
decline to recognize fine qualities for
school service in one who may hold
heretical views about increase of sal
aries, or length of vacations? These
questions, which would test any
group of workers, I cannot answer. 1
can only submit what seems an ear
nest that this fcroup may stand the
test.
The profession of teaching has a
rich inheritance. These convictions
were bequeathed to it to have and to
hold: that the dearest interests of life
are in its keeping; that its peculiar
service to society is to nourish and
perpetuate those noblest aspirations
called its ideals; that to do such work
one must be devoted and unselfish.
This tradition still inspires the
teacher. Some of the unrest, the dis
satisfaction with conditions that are
everywhere has penetrated her world,
but probably no other work is done
less in the commercial spirit nor any
service more expanded beyond what
"is nominated in the bond.” Many
school rooms are moving pictures of
this pririt at work.
One is warranted in thinking that
teachers will transfer to their use of
the ballot this habit of fidelity to
ideals.
the vote to protect himself in the
same manner as other classes of cit
izens defend themselves against
wrong and injustice. To those who
oppose the right of women to vote it
may be well to quote the stirring
words of Benjamin Wade, of Ohio, ut
tered on the floor of the United
Senate, when he was advocating Ne
gro suffrage. He said: “I have a
contempt I cannot name for the man
who would demand rights for himself
John Davis, M. N. K.
that he is not willing to grant to ev
eryone else.”
Finally, as a matter of sentiment,
every man with Negro blood in his
veins should favor woman suffrage.
Garrison, Phillips, Frederick Douglass
and Robert Purvis and the whole host
of abolitionists were advocates of the
right. I often heard it said when 1
was a boy in Boston that immediately
after the Civil war Susan B. Anthony,
Julia Ward Howe, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton and other leaders of the wom
an’s rights movement at the request
of these men devoted all of their ef
forts towards obtaining the ballot for
the Negro, even to the neglect of
their own dearly cherished cause,
hoping, indeed, that the black man,
who would be in some measure the
beneficiary of their work and sacri
fice, would in turn give them the aid
they so sorely needed at that time.
Now what our fathers failed to do
for these pioneers who did so much
for our cause before and after the
great war, let us do for those who
are now leading the fight for woman
suffrage. I believe that in supporting
them we will render our country a
great and much needed service.
Small Josnny was wriggling and
twisting in a vain endeavor to put
his arms through the sleeves of an
undergarment and then get it over his
head. After several futile attempts
he called out to his mother:
“Say, mamma, when 1 get to be an
angel, and have wings, I don’t see
how I’ll ever get my shirt on!”
NEGRO CIVILIZATION
IN WORLD’S HISTORY
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have been hewers of wood and draw
ers of water. On the contrary,
through long periods of time there
were powerful black nations who
have left the records of their achieve
ments and of which we are just now
beginning to learn a little. This lit
tle, however, which we have learned
teaches us that the Negroes of today
should work and strive. Along their
own peculiar lines, in their own pe
culiar ways, they should endeavor to
make contributions to civilization and
to world progress.