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-it- il if II HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY Vol. XVUL1. CHICAGO, JANUARY 18, 1913 No. 16 Woodrow Wilson President-elect of the United States, Sounded the Keynote of His Forthcoming Administration a most I AND MATTER OF PACT SPEECH DELIVERED BEFORE THE COMMERCIAL CLUB IN THIS CITY. IN NO UNSTEADY VOICE HE WARNED THE GEEAT CAPTAINS OP INDUSTRY; THE GREAT COMMERCIAL KINGS AND THE BANKERS THAT NO LONGER "WILL THEY BE PERMITTED TO RUN THIS GOVERNMENT.

POR THHIK OWN PERSONAL BENEFIT; THAT THE MANAGERS OF THE GIGANTIC TRUSTS AND MONOPOLIES -WILL NOT BE PERMITTED TO RUN THKIK, AFFAIRS IN SUCH A HIGH HANDED MANNER SO AS TO OVERRIDE ALL OF THE RIGHTS OF THE COMMON PEOPLE. REV. DUNCAN C. MTT.NER, Eminent scholar, classical writer and the eloquent and manly pastor of the Ravenswood Presbyterian Church. Rev.

Duncan Chambers Milner, Pastor of the Ravenswood Presbyterian Church ELOQUENTLY THUNDERS FORTH FROM fna FUXPIT IN BEHALF OF THE CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS OP THE AFRO-AMERICAN. HE RIGHTFULLY CONTENDS THAT THE WHITE RACE WILL NOT BE FREE ITS SELF UNTIL rT wattes UP -ITS MIND TO ACCORD BETTER TREATMENT TO THE NEGRO. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON THE GREAT AND ONLY INFALLIBLE LEADER OF THE COLORED RACE VERY RELUCTANTLY ADMITS THAT HE 18 FORCED TO RIDE IN FILTHY JIM CROW CARS WHILE TRAVELING THROUGHOUT THE SOUTHERN STATES. HE MADE AN EARNEST PLEA IN FAVOR OF FAIR TREATMENT FOR at.t.

AMERICAN CITIZENS AND THAT WHEN HE WILL ASSUME THE DUTIES OF THIS GOVERNMENT AS ITS PRESIDENT; HE WILL KNOW NO EAST, WEST, NORTH OR SOUTH, NOTHING BUT ONE UNITED COMMON COUNTRY. PRESIDENT ELECT WILSON CAN RIGHTFULLY BE TTATTiTTO AS THE 5EC0HD THOMAS 3EPFER50N OP AMERICA. Last Saturday evening, President elect "Woodrow "Wijson, delivered a most remarkable and matter of fact rpeeeh, before the commercial club of this city; in which he very clearly and in no uncertain tones sounded the keynote of his forth coming administration. Every word nttered by him sank deep into the hearts of the best business men in this city who were seated around the banquet tables at the Blaekstone Hotel. It was his first attempt to define his policies and the attitude he will assume in relation to dealing with the select few or with the great mass of his fellow countrymen since his election as president of the United States.

Bight at the very outset he plainly let it be known that no man or no set of men it made not the slightest difference how much wealth they owned or controlled or how many hundred i millions dollars worth of business they transacted each month or year; that they should not be invited by him to assist in helping to conduct or manage the affairs of his administration or any part of the affairs ofthis government unless they first cleaned up and put their own household in first class shape or words to the same effect; that they most first manifest a disposition to keep step with the progressive 'spirit of the age, before he can treat with them or invite them into his inner-eirele. In no unsteady voice he pointed a finger of warning at the great captains of industry; the great commercial kings and all the bankers of this country and with his band enclosed in a iron glove in a very nice and soft manner he batted them between the eJes at the same time plainly inform ing them that no longer will they be permitted to run this country for their own personal benefit; that the managers of the gigantic trusts and monopolies will not have the right to conduct their business affairs in such a high handed manner, thereby placing themselves in a position to override all of the rights of the common people, as well as the government itself, and force it to borrow money from them and the bankers whenever it needs tide it over, like it was com pelled to do late in the fall of 1907, when the government officials including President Roosevelt stood with their hats off and implored J. P. Morgan and Co. and the other money sharks of Wall street, who regulate the price of money the same as they regulate the price of pig iron and the prices of all food products, to loan the government 30 to 40 million dollars at the very highest rate of interest, so that it would be in a position to promptly pay some of its pressing accounts, thus showing that at the present time that J.

P. Morgan and his other associates in the dishonest banking business throughout the country are at all times far more powerful in every way than the government itself. President elect Wilson made an earn est plea in favor of fair treatment for all American citizens and declared that when he assumes the duties of this government as its president; he will know no east, west, north or south, nothing but one united common country which will be administered in the interest of all the people. Without the least aide stepping he rightfully can be classed or hailed as the new or the second Thomas Jefferson of America. MONDAY, JANUARY 20TH, THE FORMAL OPENING OF THE SOUTH SIDE BRANCH OP THE AMERICAN BANKING ASSOCIATION.

Heartily Greet His Many Friends And Patrons, The new American Banking Asso-ejation, win -throw the doors of its th Side branch, located at the Southeast corner of 31st and State et, open to the Monday, January 20th. and its cashier "William gnbors, will wear his long- Jim slnSEer Sunday go to-meeting coat or South East Comer of 31st and State Street "Win Occur. Jts Cashier, Wmiam D. Neighbors Wll Be On Hand All Day To Receive amilhana and assist to receive the visitors He will be on hand bright and early to cordially greet and extend the right hand of fellowship to his hosts of friends and patrons, while they being invited to inspect the new banking rooms. Mr.

John "Wbrthington, President of the American Banking Association 117 N. Dearborn street, will also be on It may bo interesting at this time, to give a short sketch of the busy life of Bev. Duncan Chambers Milner, who is one of tho strong and uncompromis ing champions of, the civil and political rights of the Afro-Americans. He was born in Mt. Pleasent, Jefferson County, Ohio, March 10th, 1841.

His parents, David and Mary Chambers Milner, were of tho best stock in that section of the country and they always firmly believed in freedom and justice. At the breaking out of the Civil War, in 1S61, he became a sergeant-major first and then adjutant of the 98th Ohio Infantry. He was severely and dangerously wounded at the mem orable battle of Chickamauga, September 20, 1863. At the close of the war, or in 1866, he received his degree A. B.

at tho Washington and Jefferson Colleges and' at the Union Theolbgieal Seminary, 1866 to 186S degree of College of Emporia In 18S3 he became united in marriage, to Miss Lucie M. Beid, of Mt. Pleasent, Ohio. May 19, 1868, he was ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church; in 1868, became pastor at Osceola, 1868 to 1871; pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church, Kansas City, 1871 to 1875, pastor at Ottowa, 1875 to 1882, pastor at Atkinson, 1882 to 1887, pastor at Manhattan, conduct or transact a large banking business. The American Banking Association, trill make a special effort to force to tho front, stocks and bonds, of first class Afro-American business a prise.

Avreai estate ana an insurance department will be run in connection with the bank. The new phone number of the bank will be Douglas 3L from 1887 to 1892 pastor at Armour Mission, Chicago; from 1S93 to 1898 pastor at Jolict, I1L; from 1899 to 1905, pastor of the Logan Square Presbyter ian Church, Chicago. At the present time, he is the eloquent pastor of the Ravenswood Presbyterian Church. Ep.as served as a delegate to the U. S.

Christian "Commission. He was President of the Ottawa Chautauqua Assembly from 18S2 to 1SS9. Was President of the Kansas State Temperance Union, from 1893 to 1894. Mod erator of tho Synod of Kansas in 18S3 and editor of the Kansas Presbytery of that same year; was Chaplain of Illinois Commandery of the Loyal Legion from 1902 to 1903.. Rev.

Milner, is a frequent contribu tor, to many of the best magazines and newspapers. He resides with his family, at 4332 N. Hermitage avenue. Bev. Milner has tho following en- obling sentiments printed on a beauti ful card which he gladly sends to his friends and to those who need some thing to cheer them on to perform noble and generous deeds: "I expect to pass through this world but once.

Any good thing, there fore, that I can do, or any kindness I can show to any fellow human be ing, let me do it now. Let me not de fer, nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." Fifty years ago Abraham Lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation.) We should not forget that many people in the North, even those who were in the Union Army, were opposed to it. I was a soldier in the Army, under General Buell, encamped in front of Louisville in the autumn of 1862, with General Braggs' army in front. When the announcement of the coming proclamation was made in September there was intense excitement among the soldiers. Many rejoiced, believing that emancipation was not only a military necessity, but was right.

A good many were angry and declared they "did not enlist to ficht for 'Nippers' and threatened to throw down their arms and go home. A good many desertions were charged to the emancipation idea. This discontent was encouraged by disloyal people in Ohio who told the men that they were released from their obligations because they had enlisted to fight to save the Union and not to free the slaves. A few months after Mr. Lin- the Whites.

Poorer buildings, poorer teachers and shorter terms are given to the Colored children, and considering their limitations, their progress is amazing. The notorious "Jim Crow" car system in vogue on most of tho Southern railroads, is a disgrace to a civilized nation. Booker T. Washington recently stated: "I pay the same money, "but I cannot have a chair or a lavatory, and rarely a through car. I must crawl out at all times of night, in all kinds of weather, in order to catch another dirty -'Jim Crow' coach to makn mv (nnnnr.tinns.

Ann't. nV ride with White people. I do ask for equal accommodations for the samel money." Race Not Free. The Negro has no chance for justice in the courts and Negro convict labor is bought and sold by contractors and conditions are often shameful. Outside of the convicts in many places there is actual peonage that reproduces condi tions like the worst forms of cruelty coin issued tho proclamation a regi- of old slavery days.

The disfranchise ment of Negro soldiers fell into- linejment of Negroes in the South, while and the public at large. The fixtures and furnishings are up to snuff in every way; Aside from a constructed, heavy steel lined vault, with the latest combination, of time locks, which is strong enough and large enough, to a whole wagon load of money, there wffl be well on to three Inndred safety deposit boxes and other fatalities in equal proportion, to CONSCIENCE VS. CONTAGION. "Where there is a lack of community conscience theTe is certain to be a plentiful lot of community troubles. Es pecially is this true in the existence and spread of tho contagious diseases, bo common to child life.

0e of the most important services which the De partment of Health can render is that of controlling or preventing the spread of the dangerous contagious diseases. But to do this work effectively it must know where theeontagion is, and this knowledge depends upon the department being able to get prompt notification of every case of a communicable disease at the earlist possible mo ment. A concealed ease of contagion is a menace to the community. The Department of Health can only fight con tagion where it has roll knowledge of location of existing eases. It can only obtain this knowledge with the earnest and cordial co-operation of the citi zens.

In no other way can there be any such thing as community protection from contagion. In other words, if any one person feels that the re quirements of the department as to reporting the existence of contagious dis ease, do not apply to him or his family he is not. giving to his neighbors and their children tho protection he would I demand that they give to him and his children. Isn't this true! Think it over for just a moment and it is easily seen that community protection and safety are dependent largely upon what may well be called community conscience. This means that each one of ns must live up to his civic responsibilities and be willing always to do the things that nake for community comfort and safety.

Section 1194 of the municipal code makes it the duty of every person who has knowledge of any person sick with a contagious disease and which he has reason to think requires the attention of the Department of Health to report such facts to the Commissioner of Health. The law also provides a penalty of not less than ten dollars nor more than two hundred for failure to comply with the provisions stated. of battle on the right of my regiment and were received with enthusiastic cheers. The men opposed to freeinz the slaves agreed that "a Negro could stop a bullet as well as a White man." Better Schools Asked. I confess that it was with deep emotion I saw these black men just out of slavery, with their new uniforms of blue and their shining bayonets ready to fight for the government that had sanctioned their slavery.

Mr. Lincoln's proclamation, the vic tories of the Union Army, the civil rights bill of Charles Sumner, the Four teenth and Fifteenth Constitutional Amendments and the marvelous progress of tho Negroes have not yet brought to the 10,000,000 Colored people of our country their rights as free citizens. The White race is not giving the Negro a fair chance or a square deal as to education in most of the Southern States. Many eminent Southerners recognize the facts and plead for better schools and admit that in many places the Negroes pay more than their share of school taxes and get less benefit than good citizens. 1 those of voting age are counted to swell political power, has no sufficient justification.

If ignorant Negroes and. ignorant White men were put on the same platform and a standard of intelligence was demanded of all voters in the uso of the ballet, no proper objection could be made. Mr. Lincoln said: "A house divided against itself cannot stand. This na tion cannot endure half slave and half free." Can this nation continue as a Republic while a large proportion of its citizens are deprived of their rights The dominant White race owes a still undischarged duty to this weaker race.

A great deal of time and effort are spent to restrict, humiliate and to oppress the Negro. Part of the terrible lawlessness all over our land can be traced to the breaking down of the laws for the protection and up lift of -tho Colored people. The White race is not really fxee as long as it withholds freedom from the Black race. The disrespect for laws meant to protect the weak is a great peril and should seriously concern all GROGAN'S "PAL" GUILTY. FOUND Thomas Hawley, Found In West Side Politician's Bars, Gets Twenty-five Years.

CHRYSANTHEMUM TEA AND GUESSING CONTEST. Robert E. Burke who has for many years been the head and the front of the Cook county Democracy and its famous silk-hatted marching-- dub, has brought suit against the organization in the Circuit Court for $20,000 claiming that it is indebted to liim for that sum of money which he has advanced for lo these' many years in order to support or sustain it. Mr. Burke is entitled to every cent of the money honestly coming to him from the organi zation.

Thomas Hawley was found guilty of the murder of Joseph MeNair by a jury in Judge George Kersten's court Tuesday. He was sentenced fo twenty- five years' imprisonment, Barney Grogan, west side politician, was accused of sheltering Hawley in his barn following the murder, Hawley was arrested there. Hawley shot MeNair dead in the saloon of Enright and Thompson, 763 West Van Buren street, on July 21, 1912. Will Mayor Garter H. Harrison, who is a warm political friend 'of the Hon orable Barney J.

Grogan, please stand up and say Amen! Amen! Editor. Yesterday afternoon from to 1 to 5 o'clock Buth Division of Princess Hagar Chapter, No. 7, O. E. S.

gave a chrysanthemum tea and guessing- contest at the Appomattox Club, 3441 Wabash avenue. The guessing contest was held at 3 o'clock. Tea was served free to all who joined in the highly delightful affair, and an attractive pro gram was rendered. Mrs. Martha B.

Anderson very charmingly served as chairman, Alicia Lewis, secretary. The Phyllis Wheatly Woman's -Club win give a charity dance at Masonic Hall, 3956 State street, on Monday evening, February 3ra. for the benefit of the Colored girls home which is esn- dueted by the club. Admission 35 cents. Music by Garfield Wilson's orchestra..