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The Commoner.
11
White and Black
1
The President Outlines
His Position on tho Raco
Question.
Washington, Nov. 27. Tho presi
dent has sent the following communi-
cation to a well known man of Charles
ton, S. C:
"Porsonal. White House, Washing
ton, November 2G, 1902.
"My Dear Sir: I am in receipt of
your letter of November 10, and of
one from Mr. , under date of No
vember 11, in reference to the appoint
ment of Dr. Crum as collector of the
port of Charleston.
"In your letter you make certain
specific charges against Dr. Crum,
tending to show his unfitness in sev-
. eral respects for the office sought.
. These charges are entitled to the ut
most consideration from me, and I
shall go over them carefully before
. taking any action. After making these
charges you add, as further reason for
. opposition to him, that he is a colored
man, and after reciting tho misdeeds
that followed carpet-bag rule and ne-
' gro domination in South Carolina, you
say that, 'We have sworn never again
to submit to the rule of tho African,
and such an appointment as that of
Dr. Crum to any such office forces us
to protest unanimously against this
' insult to tho white blood;' and you
" add that you understood me to say
that I would never force a negro on
such a community as yours. Mr.
puts the objection of color first, say-
' Ing that, first, he is a colored man. and
' that of itself ought to bar him from
office. In view of these last state-
Jtnen'ts I think -I -ought to make clear
. to you why 1 am concerned and pained
by your making them, and what my
. attitude is as regards all such appoint
ments. How anyone could have gained
the' idea that I had said 1 would not
"INCURABLE" HEART DISEASE
SOON CURED, '
During the last two or three years very great
improvement has been made in the treatment of
the different kinds of disease of the heart. Cases
formerly considered incurable now rapidly re
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Miles, M. D.,IvIy. H., of Chicago, will send his
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This liberal offer is for the purpose of demon
strating the great uperiority of his new system
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The treatments are carefully selected for each
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of each kind of heart disease. All afflicted per
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No death comes more unexpectedly than that
from heart disease.
Rev. J.' W. Stokesbury, of Fallport, Mo., had
head, heart, stomach troubles, and nervous pros
tration. Three physicians failed to help him.
Be writes:" "I regard myself cured."
The eminent Rev. W. Bell, D. D., of Dayton,
Ohio, General Secretary of Foreign Mission",
writes editorially in Tlic State Sunday School
"Union: "We desire to s'ate that from personal
acquaintance we know Dr. Miles to be a most
skillful specialist, a man who has spared neither
labor nor money to keep himself abreast of the
greut advancement in medical science."
A thousand references to, and testimonials
from H shops, Clergymen. Hankers, Fanners, and
their wives will be sent free on request. These
include mnny who hnve been cured after from
five to fiftc n physicians and profevors had pro
nounced them "incurable." Anions them arc
II. A. Groce, 504 Mountain St., Elg n, 111.; Mrs.
Sophia Snowberg, Io. 282 ait Ave., S. Minneap
olis, Minn.-Mrs. A. P. Colburn, Blessing, la.;
Mrs. M. n. Morelan' Rogers, Ohio, and the pres
idents of two medical col-ege?, etc.
Send at onco to Dr. Franklin Miles,
201 to 208 State Street, Chicago, Illinois,
for free troatment before it is too late.
appoint reputable and upright col
ored men to office when objection was
made to them solely on account of
their color, I confess I am unable to
understand. At the time of my visit to
Charleston last spring I had made,
and since that time I have made a
number of such appointments from
several states in which there is a con
siderable colored population. For ex
ample, I made one such appointment
in Mississippi and another in Ala
bama shortly before my visit to
Charleston. I had at that time ap
pointed two colored men as judicial
magistrates in the District of Colum
bia. I have recently announced an
other such appointment for New Or
leans and have just made one irom
Pennsylvania.
"The great majority of my appoint
ments in every state have been of
white men. North and south alike
it has been my sedulous endeavor to
appoint only men of high character
and good capacity, whether white or
black. But it is and should bo my
consistent policy in every state where
their numbers warranted it to recog
nize colored men of good repute and
standing in making appointments to
office. These appointments of colored
men have in no state made more than
a small proportion of tho total num
ber of appointments: I am unable to
see how I can legitimately be asked to
make an exception for South Carolina.
In South Carolina to tho four most im
portant positions in tho state I have
appointed three men and continued in
office a fourth, all of them white men
three of them originally gold demo
crats two ot tUem, as I am informed,
the sons of confederate soldiers. I
have been informed by tho citizens of
Charle 11 whom I have met that
these four men represent a high grade
of public service.
"I do not intend to appoint any un
fit man to office. So far as I legiti
mately can I shall always endeavor
to pay regard to the wishes and feel
ings of the people of each locality, but
I cannot consent to take tho position
that the door of hope tho door of op
portunityis to be shut upon any
man, no matter how worthy, purely
upon the grounds of race or cdlor.
Such an attitude would, according to
my convictions, be fundamentally
wrong. If, as you hold, the great bulk
of the colored people are not yet fit in
point of character and influence to
hold such positions, it seems to me
that it is worth while putting a
premium upon the effort among them
to achieve the character and standing
which will fit them.
"The question of 'negro domina
tion' does not enter into tho matter
at all. It might as well be asserted
that when I was governor of Now
York I sought to bring about negro
domination in that state because I
appointed two colored men of good
character and standing to responsi
ble positions one of them to a posi
tion paying a salary twice as large as
that paid in the office now under con
sideration; one of them as a director
of the Buffalo exposition. The ques
tion raised by you and Mr. in
tho statements to which I refer is sim
ply whether it is to be declared that
under no circumstances shall any man
of color, no matter how upright and
honest, no matter how good a citizen,
no matter how fair in his dealings with
all his fellows, be permitted to hold
any office under our government, T
certainly cannot assume such an atti
tude, anrl you must permit me to say
that in my view it is an attitude no
man should assume, whether he looks
nfit frnm the standpoint of the true
interest of the white man of the south J
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or of tho colored man of tho south
not to speak of any other section of
the union. It seems to mo that it is
a good thing from every standpoint to
let tho colored man know that if he
shows in a marked degree tho quali
ties of good citizenship the qualities
which in a white man we feel are en
titled to reward then he will not be
cut off from all hope of similai re
ward. "Without any regard as to what my
decision may be on the merits of this
particular applicant for this particular
place, I feel that I ought to let you
know clearly my attitude on the far
broader question raised by you and
Mr. , an attitude from which I
have not varied during my term of
office. Faithfully yours,
"THEODORE ROOSEVELT."
A New Scheme.
Exchanges all agree that the Vene
zuelan affelr suggests a new way to
collect old debts. When tho sheriff
goes out to tho farm to levy an at
tachment or execution his proper
course will be, after seizing tho live
stock, to knock the horse on the head,
scuttle tho cow and throw tho pigs
down tho well. If he regards tho
claim as still unsatisfied despite those
rtclfic measures, ho will proceed to
burn the barn and haystack and punch
the farmer's head. The program is so
beautifully simple and effective it is
a wonder no debt jollector ever
thougnt of it before. Dallas (Tex.)
News.
Too True.
If Clara Morris had worked hu
manity for all there was In It for her
self, instead of working herself for all
there was for humanity she might
have won gratitude and riches, Instead
of having her home sold on a mort
gage. Kansas City World.
