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DECEMBER 6, 1912
individual, especially one who has
made his money as has Mr. Carnegie,
to do it."
Several members who did not want
to be quoted declared they were un
alterably opposed to the idea chiefly
because the money Carnegie pro
posed to pay to ex-presidents would
coine from the income of bonds of
the United States Steel corporation.
Some time in the future, they said,
the government might want to lower
the tariff on -steel products and the
cry might be raised that it would
interfere with the pensions of several
ex-presidents. Representative Robert
L. Henry of Texas said:
"The idea of pensioning ex-presidents
does not appeal to me greatly.
I am certainly not enthusiastic about
its being done by Mr. Carnegie.
"His offer is vulgar and insolent.
Perhaps the government ought to
grant them an annuity, but I refuse
to get greatly excited even about
that. I don't think an ex-president
is ever going -to suffer for want of
the necessities of life."
Mr. Henry refused to look on the
matter seriously. He added: "Why,
if necessary, we can put them in the
soldiers' or sailors' homes. Those
that have gone up Salt river, I sup
pose, ought to go into the sailors'
home."
Representative Burke of South Da
kota (rep.) said: "I am opposed to
the principle of a private individual
pensioning men who have been presi
dents of the United States. I think
every . citizen of this country will
take the same view of it too."
Representative J. C. Needham of
California (rep.) said: "The idea
is all wrong. I believe Mr. Carnegie's
offer will result in the granting of an
annuity to ex-presidents by congress.
This great nation should not let Mr.
Carnegie or anybody else take care
of its ex-presidents."
Congress never has voted a pen
sion to an ex-president, but it has
many times pensioned the widows of
presidents. Mrs. William Henry
Harrison was granted $26,000 by
congress Mrs. Polk, Mrs. Tyler and
Mrs. Garjield got $5,000 a year each.
Mrs. Lincoln was given a pension
of $3,000, which was raised to
$5,000, -and at one time she was
voted $25,000 in a lump sum, and
at another time $15,000.
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison never was
given a pension, but was given the
franking mall privilege. Mrs. Cleve
land was given the franking privi
lege, but no pension.
THE COMMONER-AS A VOTE
MAKER
Democratic County Committee of
Potter County, Coudersport, Pa.,
Nov. 21, 1912. Editor The Com
moner: It is my purpose to have
your paper placed In the hands of
as many voters as possible during
the next three or four months, as 1
believe it is the best vote maker of
anything which can be-done.' We
also wish to show Mr. Bryan that we
appreciate what he has done for the
democratic party in the past six
teen years arid especially at the
Baltimore convention.
I propose to have the organiza
tion in each township obtain as
many subscribers as possible and
forward to you as fast as they come
in. Will you, therefore, kindly ad
vise me your best terms, so that I
can put tho matter up to each com
mitteeman? Herewith enclosed find copy of
resolutions passed at the last meet
ing of the democratic county com
mittee in this county. Yours 'truly,
H. A. AVERY,
Chairman.
"We, the members of the Demo
cratic County Committee, in meet
ing assembled, as a token of our
high esteem, and in full apprecia
tion of the great services rendered
the cause of progressive democracy
The Commoner.
S.tt.LdBri.!l!!?.Pially
fested at th , ' !?' Ul ?in .InanI"
nrentinn whToT. "uul "auonai con
vention, which gave us our splendid
progress nint f -., i'.uuiu
JtionalUCiC::
iz:ct Tho,nas u- m.
"Resolved, That a vote of thanks of
the democracy of Potter' county bo
and is hereby tendered William J
Bryan for the groat service rendered
tlal appreciation of what he has done
rocracy, we, each of us.
Pledge ourselves to subscribe for his
excellent paper, The Commoner, and
also-promise to obtain as many sub
scribers for the same as can be se
cured in our several districts.
Resolved, That this resolution be
adopted and spread upon the minutes
of this committee, and that a copy
of the same be forwarded to Hon.
W. J. Bryan, at Lincoln, Neb.
"H. A. AVERY,
Chairman.
"S. M. SIEBERT,
Secretary."
DEBASING NATURE AND
DESPISING GOD
From tho Fort Worth Record:
Shocking and sickening as is tho
Chicago story of a young white girl's
infatuation with Jack Johnson and
the black animal's brutish insistence
upon holding her within tho toils of
nis power, it snouid not surprise any
man who has the slightest ken of
racial instinct or tho faintest appre
ciation of the philosophy of social
consequence.
The only wonder is that an intel
ligent people have permitted associa
tions that make the least compromise
with fundamental principle.
to put it in a paradox, this de
velopment is the natural result of an
unnatural contact of whites and
blacks tolerated for gain, or for sport
or for convenience. When white
men meet negro men in the prize
ring, wnen tney riae together in
street cars, or railroad cars, or
when they meet upon any com
mon plane, they stand upon a
footing of equality for the occasion,
and repeating the occasion estab
lishes a status which has no limita
tion or differentiation In the mind
of the heedless white or the covetous
and lustful black.
There is no culture of mind or
heart or uplift of soul of the indi
vidual black man that warrants social
equality with the white man. That
is a hard saying, but it is tho decree
of nature and God, and to ignore it
is to debase nature and despise God.
May not the black man aspire?
Yes, as high as tho heavens. May
he not expand? Yes, throughout the
whnl wWIr universe. But aspiration
and expansion aro not hindered by
confinement within the association
of his own race. By and of himself,
among his own, he must pursue his
own way and he may not be per
mitted to pursue any other without
consequences revolting to the white
man and ultimately destructive to
himself, for such instances as this
repeated will provoke revulsion and
antagonism merciless and far-reaching.
They play with fire who venture to
cross tho line of racial separation by
so much as the slightest step or in
the faintest degree. It is not because
the individual white man is injured
by the contact of the moment, or that
the individual black man may not be
bettered by the association. If that
were all there would be no race prob
lem and the rule would rest upon
in unseem y prejudice. President
Roosevelt was not hurt by the din-
swEBs&f.-as
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Jons equal; and since Washington
was made equal with Rooseve t tho
lowest black became equal with
chiefest of the white race! That is
the philosophy of the black man's
reasoning; that is tho corollary that
nnds unconscious lodgment in the
uhite mind moved to an association
oy whim or temporary advantage
Jack Johnson had a whlto wife
who is now dead, and nothing ill may
ho said of the dead. But the example
has borne fruit in the weak brain
of this poor child of passion who
would give her birthright for the
gratification of a diseased or insane
fancy. Tho suicide of tho other one
iMuvunuu pernaps iy a belated reali
zation of her racial debasement, is
no warning to the younger victim
lured by notoriety and intoxicated by
adventure.
And that isn't all. "Oh, some of
tho best white women in Chicago
ride in this car," said Johnson to
the girl's mother when she shrank
from being seen in his automobile.
Of course "the best white women"
in Chicago do not ride in that car,
but Johnson sees no rnnn ii
they should not; other brutish ne
groes there and elsewhere see no
reason why they should not; nnd
thus In millions of negro minds is
born the purpose of impudence and
insult and outrage to be visited upon
white women any time and any
where. What have we of the south to hn
concerned about in this unspeakable
infamy which the undisceruing North
tolerates? May wo not be content
to preserve our own standards, main
tain our social integrity and lot
others indulge animalism and amal
gamation to the utmost of their bes
tial bent?
No, for we have knowledge they do
not know; we have experiences which
should teach them to beware, and
we aro not faithful as our brothers'
keepers if we do not cry aloud and
warn them ot their peril.
Besides, they can not conceal these
exploits from the knowledge of our
blacks, and our blacks will be
tempted to more wicked deeds. Quick
and sure vengeance awaits the least
encroachment hero, but it would be
little less than criminal not to en
deavor to prevent tho occasion for
vengeance.
Thousands of black brutes all over
the land will be moved by this cir
cumstance to entertain the nameless
desire which always 'lurks in the
mind of tho low and lustful.
Wo may not calculate how many
white women must suffer tho conse
quence of such example nor how
many black men -may be destroyed to
hold tho others of tho race in leash.
Will men never learn that nature
can not bo mocked without punish
ment? That the God of Heaven Is
the God of races? That the pigment
of the skin, while not a badge of
dishonor, is an outward and visible
sign of a status decreed from over
lasting to exerlasting? Association,
dalliance or trespass, by whatever
action or custom, is outlawry which
invites tho wrath of the Most High.
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The banquet hall was adorned
with many beautiful palntlng3, and
the president of the little college was
called upon to respond to a toast.
Wishing to pay a compliment to the
ladies present, he designated the
paintings with an eloquent gesture
and said:
"What need is there of these
painted beauties when we have so
many with us at the table?" Ladies'
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have got to get out. Port Press.
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