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THURSDAY. DECEMBER 26. 1912 Caicrad at the JPott Offic at New Yark Sacand Claaa Matter. PubHafced on Thursday ai crery waek Fred R. Moorm, 247 W.

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One of the most hopeful things in the South is the new syirl; among large employers of Negro labor as to the general welfare of such labor. This fact 'has been recently emphasized in the Far South by an advertisement issued by the Kirby Lumber Company of Houston, Tex. The advertisement is of a character which we think deserves a much wider circulation than it has had in Texas, and we are for that reason, reprinting it just as it appears on the large-sized placards which have been sent by thousands throughout the populous Negro centers of Texas and Louisiana: Wanted by tbe Kirby Lumber Co. One Hundred and Fifty Colored Families At tbe Kirby Lumber Company's Mills. Tbe Company prefera men who are Sober, Industrious and who will fcsve their wages.

Tbe Company pays off once every month la Cash. For Unskilled Labor, 91.60 to $1.75 per day of 10 boars. For Skilled Labor, $1.70 to 50 per day of 10 hours. The Company Mkpg Interest in the Moral Uplift of its Laborers, and Churches of tbe Methodist or Bap tint Denomination are at each Mill Site. I'arenta desiring to give their Children a iod Education will And a School at each Mill.

Water at each Mill Site wholesome and Healthy. Yon can raise Chickens and Hoga and have your Cows and if yon desire, there will be room enough around your home to cultivate a Gardeti. tiood comfortable Houses for each family to live in, Climate healthy and surrounded fey a Quiet Neighborhood. Not only are the wages offered considerably in advance of those usually paid Negro labor in other parts of the South, but the company goes further and emphasizes its interest in the moral uplift of its laborers. It has taken pains to say that churches are established and maintained at each of its mill sites.

The company also emphasizes the fact that Negro laborers nowadays are demanding a better home life, and so it assures its laborers that they will not only have good comfortable houses to five in, but that they will also have ground enough provided for gardens. The company des not fail to recognize the fact that the Negro laborer now usually seeks those locations where his children may be educated, and for that reason, it emphasizes the fact that a good school is maintained at each ai its mills. We hope that throughout the South jjsnething of the spirit of the Kirby v-umber Company will animate other large employing firms, and that they may manifest something of the interest and concern iti their Negro iabor mani- fested by this large employing company. Mr. John 11.

Kirby. the president of the Kirby Lumber Company, the Guiding Spirit of this $40,000,000 enter, prise, is a natixe. Texan, who has never been afraid to the fair and square thing by those who have helped him to create the vast wealth controlled by the company which bears his' honored name. We hope that throughout the South there may be in the future, many more men of the same noble impulse as this master capitalist. The flamboyant Senator Jamea Ell Martins, of New Jersey, who as easily spills over as an uncorked champagne oottle, says that Col.

William Jennings Bryan should not only be Secretary of Stats in the new Cabinet, bat that there Is 'nothing too good for him." That' the sort of hero worship Thamas Car- lyle glorified and Lord Macaulay rid with sarcasm. We also favor Col. ttryan for Secretary of State hut we da it because the Job will keep him so busy looking after our foreign affairs that he will have no ttlme to look and run our home affairs. LOOKING BACKWARD OVER 1C12. year' 1912 has passed into history, with wars and rumors of wars in the four corners of the globe, with realizations and disappointments offsetting one the other in the lives of all, and with the cries of starving millions groaning from.

the underworld of the capitalsand large cities of all lands, while the revellers in the great and the red light districts dance and make merry, deaf to the jangling noises of the skulkers in the streets and alleys and slums. The wail of life is the wail of death, even as the wail of death is the wail of life. The two go together from the cradle to the grave, 'and are always indistinguishable. The cries of the infant and the cries of -old age are much the same, as the pains that gripe the one gripe the other. Nevertheless, the chimes in millions' of steeples and the tongues of millions of people, born of the universal hope for better conditions life, voice the anthem Ring out the old! Ring in the new! Ring out the false! Ring in the true! General Condition of Affairs.

The general condition of affairs of the nation during the past year has been one of great prosperity in all directions. The accumulated wealth available for productive industry, the output of field, mine and factory, the average per capita wealth of the people, as represented by the volume of money, and by the savings in the banks, together with investments in home property values, and the enormous $400,000,000 volume of the export trade, representing the National production in excess of the home needs and consumption, have never in the history of the Nation been greater but, on the other hand, while wages have never been higher, the cost of living has never been greater, and the money actually in circulation per capita' has not been sufficient to meet the every day needs of the average person. The explanation for this condition is that the agencies of production and distribution have gathered together in restraint of trade competition and for the regulation and control of prices, regardless of the interests of the average consumer, and the vast volume of the National money is concentrated in the hands of a small group of financiers who have a working understanding with, if not a money interest in, the agencies of production and distribution of the articles of consumption, of necessity as well as luxury. Taxation, both Federal and State, is preposterously high, due to the extravagance of legislatures in multiplying current expenditures and loading the future with bonded indebtedness for public works which those of the future may not need or want but must pay for as to the face value of the bonds, with interest. What Discontent Has Done.

The discontent produced by this condition of affairs, which was first felt acutely in the winter of 1907, came to a focus in the elections of last November, when the Republican party, which has ruled the Nation, with the exception of eight years, since 1860, was turned out of power in the Nation and the States, only four out of forty-eight States, with twelve electoral votes, remaining true to it. The people hope by the change to get a better condition of living, in a more rigid control and regulation by the Federal Government and the States of the agencies of production and distribution and of money used in the production and distribution. The people laid their discontent upon the shoulders of the Democratic party, which shows how desperate is their discontent, as the Democratic party has never had anything but discontent and troubles of its own all the long years of its existence. Segregation of the Races. The movement begun in the Southern States long ago to separate the races in all the public and private relations of.

life, of which disfranchisement and mob law are coercive agancies, has extended to the attempt to segregate the race in its living in and buying of realty into districts districts in which one may purchase or rent or. live in real property, together with that other attempt to restrict the Negro in his bread-winning occupations lias steadily gained headway, not only in the Southern States but in most of the States of the North and West, including New York. The Negro will be in a hopeless condition in all of the States if the movement succeeds to segregate him in his living districts, to restrict him in his bread-winning occupations and to disfranchise him in his right to vote for others and to be voted for by others. The movement has got a good headway, and the Xegro has got to face it. How It depends upon State and local conditions.

Methods wise and expedient to employ in New York would be disastrous in Atlanta, while those employed in Atlanta would be disastrous in Chicago. It is for the wise men and women in each State and locality to meet their peculiar problem in the way that promises the best results. But the best results will always be got along the line of character and home owning and family building in the Christian virtues rather than in the Christian vices, the two dwelling together in every life and every community and striving always for mastery the one over the other, and in wage saving and business development and expansion. Segregation can be made respectable and to pay, if we will keep our living homes and districts as clean in every sense as others do theirs, and if we will buy and sell among ourselves whatsoever we need or desire to dispose of. We shall have more to say in the future, on how to make the most of segregation when forced upon us or voluntarily resorted to by us for community building, such as Allensworth, Boley" Mound Bayou, Greenwood, North Atlanta, and the like.

We need not accept what others want to force upon us unless we desire it. Business Outlook for the Year. The meeting of the National Negro Business League at Chicago, in August. Jhe jncorporation of the Anglo-American Finance Company at in December, together with the starting of the Cotton Seed Oil Company at Mound Bayou, in November, are the most important business movements among Negroes of the year. The meeting of the Business League was one of the best and most encouraging of the twelve annual meetings that had preceded it, and the reports of the members of conditions in their States and localities indicated that the race has got its business stride in earnest and should have steady and, appreciable growth in the future.

Educational and Church Outlook. The educational work, maintained its steady development in the preparation of our youth for the high duties of manhood and citizenship. The general interest in education, instead of falling away, has shown a healthier growth and enthusiasm than in former years. Reports of Conferences of school groups and summer teachers schools in our great centers of education, like Hampton, Laurenceville, Va. (St.

Paul work). Durham and Tuskegee Institute, bear us out in this conclusion. All our churches of the Methodist group held General Conferences during the year and reported increased membership and revenues as the results of the work of the past four years. Conclusion. In conclusion, The Age staff xtends a Happy New Year greeting to all the host of its readers scattered far.

and wide over the globe. The Age has striven to give the race the best news and opinion during the past year and hopes to do so during the year just U' un. We wot, v.ry n.uai to Lave a Large increase of readers during thi 'string year, five thousand more at least, and we will appreciate iif each reader of The Age will encourage his neighbor who is noV subscriber to become one. Great problems confront the race, and i needs now more than ever before a great newspaper like The AJe to reflect its hopes and its aspirations and to gauge for it the seVtiment for or against it in the Nation that will make for the happins or the woe of the whole race. WAR ON SOUTHERN CONVICT LEASE SYSTEM.

Way back in the early ways of 1880, Mr. George Cable, the popular novelist, electrified tht cointry by an exposure of the barbaric (practices in the convict camps of the Southern states, and for a -long time the flashlight of indignant public opinion was turned upon them mercilessly. But the clamor died away and left the system to grow and fatten upon its own cumulative filth. Occasionally a leg islative committee would pronounce against the system and some effort at reform would be made, but little would come of it, as the leasing of convicts was very valuable and the benefits were enjoyed often by legislators and other state officers. There ate many people who deal in carrion and are not ashamed to live sumptuously the proceeds of it, under which head comes all taxation of vice in the large cities of the Republic.

At he recent conference of gov ernors at Richmond Gov. Blease of South Carolina created a sensation by declaring that he had pardoned hundreds of convicts who had served long sentences, some fifteen and some twenty years, for small offenses. Tu Acs directed attention some months ago to the statement of one of the state's attorneys of Atlanta, who spent some days in the chain gang, among white convicts only by selection, "to see how the system works." His narration of the horrors he saw and experienced read like a canto out of Dante's "Inferno" and helped to create a healthier public opinion in Georgia against the lease system. But the most sweeping indictment of the convict lease system has just been made by Gov. Donaghey of Arkansas in giving a pardon to 360 convicts.

He says he gave a pardon to none of them who was not entitled to it He has fought the system all through his three terms as governor, and as he could not get the legislature to act he has acted himself by the wholesale pardoning, by which three convict camps will be wiped out. He calls the convict camps revengeful hell" It is a hopeful sign when we can have such governors ol the Southern states as Gilchrist of Florida." O'Neil of Alabama, Mann of Virginia, and Donaghey of Arkansas standing up against mob law on the one hand and convict i lease abuses the other. We say it is a hopeful sign. SAD FATE NEGRO IN VENTOR. Men of genius have not always been good financiers.

They have known how in many ways to make fortunes for others unscrupulous enough to steal their ideas or inventions, but they have not been shrewd enough to secure the protective copyright or trade mark and provision for royalty, and so have died and filled the pauper's grave. It is said, for' instance, that the great Thomas A. Edison knew so little about money matters in his early, career that he did not know what to do with the first check he got, said to have been for $100,000, for one of his first inventions. The story seems incredible but may be true. A news dispatch in the Philadelphia Record says that after spending all of his money to buy books from which In train "additional knowledge to fa cilitate his work," John B.

Trusty, aged 44 years, "a colored man of unusual intelligence," has been removed to the poor house, "there probably to end his days." The Record says further: Tpn.tr anlil Ma mntinr la tone and he could not afford a physician or bay medl- rlna ir ne- aia nave a aocior. iww waa aearly exhausted and "be waa facia starvation. Trunty la the Inventor pr numeroua mechanical applianrea now ia In Innl nlanta. All of them are re garded aa moot efficient and economical nuirniDea. The Inventor, however, does not neem to realise what hla invention wouia nc mount to him had he had them' patented.

and he never received a royalty or evrn fair nav for mem. wnne ne wmiw nr pent all hla money, practically, buylnj hooka to help him work, and he had ac pent all hla money, practically, buying hooka to neip mm wora. a quired a considerable library There have been" a great many Negroes in the past fifty years who neglected to protect their rights in their inventions as Mr. Trusty has done. and have died poor and unknown.

The story is often told of one such New Yorker who invented many of the earlier railroad car appliances while employed by a certain railroad, but, fail ing to protect any of them, was defrauded of his rights and died in poverty, auch cases are always trag ically pathetic. Negro inventors should be carctul to patent their work. It is not possible to estimate their value until the de mand for them has 'been measured Some of the simplest inventions, like the bread-saving knife and the hooks snd eyes for dresses, have been the most useful and profitable. If uch inventions are not patented unscrupulous firms and corporations do not hesitate to appropriate them, and while growing rich on the proceeds of them, refuse to give the inventor or author the smallest consideration. WHITELAW reid.

Mr. Whitelaw Reid. the American Ambassador to Great Britain, who died at Dorchester House, 'London, December IS, had actid a very prominent part in Republican politics and journalism since 1856, when he made speeches and wrote editorial articles in support of John Fremont and the new party of freedom. 'His continued service to the Republican party of fifty-six years end ed only with his death and in the year when the party lost its control of the confidence of the voters of 40 of the 48 states of the Federal Union of states. There may be no coincidence in the two events but they are nevertheless not without significance, that one of the party's pioneers and chief orna ments should die in the same year that the party was rent asunder by internal strife and voted out of power in the state's and the Nation, but those who read the signs of the times that make history will see in it both coincidence and significance.

Mr. Reid was born near Xenia, Ohio, October 27, 1837. His parents were poor, but he was ambitious and man aged to secure a liberal education. He taught school a little after leaving college and then entered journalism and remained in it as owner of the New York Tribune. After the impeachment proceedings against President Andrew Johnson Horace Greeley induced Mr.

Reid to join the Tribune- staff. After the nomination and defeat of Mr. Greeley as the Presidential candidate of the Liberal-Democratic coalition in 1872, and the death of Mr. Greeley in the same year, Mr. Reid secured a controlling interest in the Tribune and bent his energies with much success to re build its fortunes, which had fallen away because of Mr.

Greeley's flirting with the South after the war. In 1892 Mr. Reid was the Republican candidate for Vice-President, but was defeated with Gen. Benjamin Harrison. Since 1897 Mr.

Reid has been almost continuously in the foreign service. He was also the author of many books. It is a great and rare distinction to live the age of seventy-five years and to spend fifty-six of them in high and honorable service for humanity and the Nation. Such a life as Mr. Reid's should be an inspiration to all poor but ambitious youths of the Republic, but especially so to Negro youths, to make the most of the splendid advan tages of education and opportunity which are within their reach.

SUFFRAGETTE ENTHUSIASM. Swept forward by what is called en thusiasm for a cause, some of the best men and women in history have done some of the queerest and most foolish things. Take Miss Rosalie G. Jones and the thirty-four woman suffragists who left New York December 16 to "hoof it to Albany, 140 miles away, to present a petition to Gov. Sulzer the day after his inauguration, what a queer lot they must be I It will take them fifteen days to walk the 140 miles and they will be beauts" to see when they reach Albany.

Some twenty-two fell by the wayside tbe lirst day out, and only six are slated to walk the entire distance. Opinion is greatly divided in this country and Great Britain, where the agitation is most pronounced and aggressive, upon the vital question of giving to women the rights of citizenship enjoyed by men, but there is none as to many of the undignified and criminal methods of the women to attain their object, especially in Great Britain. If woman was mentally and physically capable of discharging the full duties of citizenship, and if her interests of every sort were not now adequately protected by law and equity, the neglect of the home and the imperative duty and obligations of motherhood would still have to be considered, along with that ever bothersome question of the enmity the Lord God placed between the serpent, the man and the woman. There is complaint everywhere that the husband and wife and the children have now too much strife among them and keep the courts too much engaged striving to straighten their domestic tangles; when the woman is a full citizen more discord will be introduced into the home and whole families are as liable to be hopelessly divided over political policy and individual candidates as they are to be of one mind. There are already too many provocations to domestic discord without add ing another, but many good men and omen do not look at the situation from that viewpoint.

They may not be )Me to do so is too late to cor--ect the evil. The news dispatches do not state that mere were any iegro women among the pilgrims bound for Albany, but that does cot signify that we have not seme suffragists in New York. Sotnr of them may go by train to Albany, ana be in at the presentation of the petition to the governor; but are we sure they will act wisely if they remain at, home and look after their husbands and chil dren. CAPITAL FOR NEGRO. After a good deal of effort we are gradually getting to the point where the most dignified and responsible publi cations in the United States are begin- I ning to capitalize the word "Negro" just the same as they do the words Jew or Irish.

Both the Outlook and the Century Magazine have recently decided hereafter to spell tht 'word Negro with a capital This we think is a distinct victory. We hope that publl cations like the Independent and the New York Evening Post will soon fol low the Outlook and Century. HEAVEN'S CHRISTMA8 GIFT. Written for The New York Age. Walked the Maater 'mong; Hla flowers, In Hla garden fair and bright; In His beauteoua Heavenly bowers, Wbere they are aglow with light Fair are mine.

He said, moat splendid. Nurtured Irom a rount or love. Pruned and watered, well attended, Kept by Heavenly bands abova. Then He earthward looked, aye, sadly. At confusion here below.

But a thought came to Him gladly, They are mine, yea mine also. And I must reach forth and save them. From Time's ravages: I know It was I who spake and gave them birth. And lo! bow rank they grow! What la best for me to send them. That my love they'll know and fe4T How may I most weu Demeno menu How to them may I appeal? I will give oh! what Is nearest, How may sinners vile won, ril send that which Is dearest, In the gift of My dear Son.

I will give my richest treasure, I will send my best loved one; Yielding full, abundant measure, I will give My darling Son. ARMORELi E. STERNE. EDITORIAL NOTE3. We are to have "a safe and sane' New Tear's In New York, they say, but how they do not say.

The Republicans of New York and New Jersey have begun In earnest to reorganize the party for future victory. "We should continue to be polite to white people," says the Richmond planet. Very good. And white people should learn to be more polite to black people- It Is a poor rule that will not work both ways. The American people drink some liquor and smoke some tobacco every year.

Last year was a record year, the Federal Internal revenue collections be Ing That is big money, and those who spent it have absolutely nothing to show for It. The last session of the Sixty-second Congress opened Monday, December 1, and has but twenty-six days to live. When it dies, March 4, It will probably take some twelve years before the Re publicans will regain the control of the Government they lost November 5, last President Wilson wants a quiet In auguration on March 4, and let the In auguration festivities come on late In April, If they must come. That is the right sort of Democracy to practice for the encouragement of the simple living. It is very much needed.

Tbe Nation has gone far afield In extravagant liv ing and ostentatious display in dress as to have become democratic only In name. President Taft will vacate the White House March 4. President Taft has a slight cold. President Taft will spend the Christmas week, beginning December 19, inspecting the Panama Canal. President Taft will not fill any more vacancies In the public service.

After March 4 President Taft will occupy the chair of Kent professor of law at Yale. So much we gleam from the dally news dispatches. "Sic transit gloria mundl!" Some people have one erase and some another, but all erases are dangerous to have and to hold." A Los Angeles widow's things showed up out there from Atlantic City with sixty-three barking dogs, sixteen trunks, Ave bun dles of golf sticks, a full-grown horse, photographic and tennis equipment and Ave boxes of dog ration a Her name Is Bramber. Wise men will let her live and die a A woman obsessed in that way doea not need a husband but a guardian. The Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia has decided that Thomas A.

Edison Is not the Inventor of the moving picture film, but that It was Invented by a manufacturer of photographic supplies, and that Mr. Edison's "work In the development of' motion pictures lay solely In the camera apparatus." We are all Interested In the moving picture film and show. Mr. Edison need not feel badly over the decision, as he receives a royalty upon one hundred and one other Inventions sufficient to keep the wolf from the door. world's work Is not done by the world's loafers, babblers, robbers and (ramblers, and their parasites, but these keep those who do the world's work busy supporting workhouses, penitentiaries, and an enormously expensive lefral machinery, besides a vast system of charity associations.

In which the church establishments must be included. One real worker, honest and true. Is worth more to the world than a thousand of the choicest parasites that ever fattened on the Industrious and frugal. The Southern Christian Recorder Rives Its readers "Seven Ways to Kill Church." They are summarized: Stay at home: go late; take a back seat and act aa If you were afraid of the front seats; find fault with the service, and particularly with the preacher; don't put a cent on the contribution plate; on leaving the church refuse to shake hands with the pastor or any of the brothers and sisters; go to church alone, refusing to take any of the mem- Ium nf tha fa.ml1v with vnll Seven other ways to kill a church would be -hard to think out President-elect Wilson has returned i1iifl ritvamnr nf Jeraav. Tha newspapers have been unable to get a look at his Cabinet or other slate, and hav An not llk it Governor Wilson knows his own thoughts and how to keep them to himself until the proper time to make public display of them.

He has done this all through his term as Governor. It Is a splendid trait of character and has been possessed In who have ever accomplished anything. The talkers have never been the doers or the wona wora. Maaaaaaaaaaw The good white people of Dalton, are said to have revived the days of the Ku-KIux-KIan recently, when they took John Watklns to the center of the town and, after giving him a severe' nhlnnlni irav film thi-Aft riava in which- to leave the town. He was charged with allowing- some disorderly white woman to occupy one of his houses.

hntilr nt talrlnr tha 1A.W Into their own bands without fear or Deing cauea to account is essentially a Southern whits man's habit which has gradually spread to the other sections of the country, and become a menace to meir Talking about CoL Roosevelt's brutal aA.a.M. a- Daniihllian nartv Isl such that "no honest man can be in It," the New York World says the Progres sive party baa no motive for existence except spite," and that "Mr. Roosevelt's place in history depends upon his abll-itv ta hold tha new natty together." However that may be, Cot Roosevelt, has already been placed la nomination for the Presidency, in lflff, by the enthusiasts of his party. A great many things are bound to happen between now and 1918, as those of ns who get there win sea. With a flippancy unusual in the vast mileage of Texas the Dallas Express says: "Now that politics is over, let us turn our attention to tha guy who puts the heat in the sun." The mystery of the sun and the mystery of man are necessarily the mystery of the Creator of them.

Blasphemy, speaking flippantly or jestingly of the Creator of man and of the Universe, is one of tha crimes of tha age. The Dallas Express is an ably edited newspaper and Editor King should be above such flippancy. What shall we do with our bodies after death? It is an ugly Question and makes the flesh creep to ask or answer it Every race has had its own way of disposing of the dead, but Christian people have adopted that of Abraham, who purchased a burying ground of Ephron the Hittlte of the children of Heth. There is a crematory near New York City where those who desire it may be incinerated after death. Any how, 200 physicians of Brooklyn and Long Island have voluntarily placed their bodies at the disposal of science after death.

"To aid In educating the public in. the neces-f. slty for more autopsies." says the an nouncement and they are urging their friends and relatives to make the same disposition of their bodies. The suggestion does not appeal to us. A man sound of mind does not like to know while living; that he will be carved up like an ox Or hog after he is dead to aid science or to be served for food.

Open a savings bank account if with no more than a dime, with the coming in of the New Year. All of tha large things in life had a small beginning. Announcement Is made of the en gagement of Miss Helen Miller Gould of New York to Mr. Flnley J. Shepard of St Louis, Miss Gould is forty-four years old and one of the richest women in the, country.

She is mora than that; she is one of the most Christian and charitable women In the country. She has felt as kindly for the little black as for the little white wait And she la the only member of the wealthy Gould family that has taken much Interest and spent much time and money in seeking to better the condition and make happier tha unfortunate and the poor "we have with us always." It la no better for a woman than for a man to live alone, and they never seem to grow too old to wed whan they-get to it The Chicago Defender Is outraged to- And out that separation of blacks an whites Is made In tha Cook county Jail and wants tha discrimination dona away with at once. Things are rt what they used to be with the Negro In Chicago. Since 1890 its public opinion has shifted entirely from right to left on the Negro question. The Defender is hammering away bravely at tha unfavorable conditions that have grown up la the past twenty-two years; so are other Negro forces working for good in the Negro life of Chi cago, along with some white forces.

They should be encouraged in the work. Indeed tha necessity for such race work in every section has, as we have repeatedly stated, been forced upon us by the logic of the situation and our men and women have got to meet It Cardinal Farley on Colored. Missions. Speaking of Increased population of the colored race in Manhattan, in a recent interview, Cardinal Farley, who has been named the "Cardinal of tha missions," said: '1 give special support to the colored mission in this country. I have given over the Church of St Mark the Evangelist to the Fathers of the Holy Ghost for the sola use of the colored mission." "I noticed your Eminence's name on the Catholic Board of Missions for Colored People, of which the Rev.

John E. Burke Is tha director-general," said tbe "Father John E. Burke," aald tha Cardinal, "has given up his life to the work. It Is a nobis work. The Negroes make good Catholics, and therefore good citlsens.

There are 60,000 of them in Manhattan, over 10,000 of-them, I believe, in the Paullst parish. I hope to sea them all gathered Into the fold. What we want In America Is good citizens. The country could not have too many of them, be they black or white,".