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ftf I fH I ITHE THE COLORED AMERICAN AA A1n11RI 1 BICbN AN WASHINGTON WASTC TORT 3 BISHOP GRANT SPEAKS SPEAKSEnthusiastic SPEAKSEnthusiastic SPEAKSEnthusiastic Enthusiastic Public Meeting MeetingUnder Meeti MeetingUnder gUnder Under Auspices of Afro American Ameri American American can Council CouncilThe The Negro Firm Firmfor Firmfor Firmfor for His Rights RightsJohn RightsJohn RightsJohn John Wesley A AM Zion Cburob CburobConnection ObnrobC ChurobWnnecticot Connection avenue was wa 1 fi led to over overfliwing overfl overfiawing fliwing fl win Monday evening of last week weekIt weekit weekIt It was a spontaneous answer answ to the thecall thpcaB thecall call of the AfroAmariaan ArroA1D 1i an Council to torally torally torally rally a 8J one man against the infamous infamousdiscriminations infamr infamousdtscrimnations uB uBdisCrimin1t1olls discriminations that are sapping the Bishop Abram Grant Grantlifeblood Grantllr Grantlifeblood llr lifeblood blo of the rused citizanship The Theriens Thenei lnene11 nei riens ne11 Hltv uty for action has been made madeaopireui madeJiP madeaptren aopireui JiP reu 1 to taj tu UHS9J3 m8933 8S through rit rti rfl ti reut ait aittion a ititlOn tton aui i thi th people are arestirred areBUrrell arestirred stirred i i they have noi no baen bafore in inje inetrl inearl je earl etrlH earlEi ri riH 11 a Giorejo mr orge White bi presided an and andmade 1 1made 1mafle made several veal rm uin Iin tn snaeahea BPee he3 The ThepruVipa1 Thtpru Theprntpa pruVipa1 pru Pl arifirea ad iresa w9 byBUUop Abram AbramGrant IbrsU1lrltorlt Abrambent Grant ladinntpnUs Iudin pflis Us II 3 urged In Inhis InhlB inhis his foruola for tle way waytht that wa agitate itlte el elu eluOAtn eluct uo OAtn ct ROll cio cr eate ate until every right Rev Walter Brooks Brooksguaranteed BrooksKuaranteed Brooksguaranteed guaranteed us is accorded and that what whatwe whatwe whatwe we havo shall be Baft earFguarded guarded guardt as a pre Jrecims frect precious cious ct ins treasure He advised agiinst agiinstcrime 8 agalnecrime lnB lnBcrime crime and excesses on our part argued arguedsgUnstoaki arguedfig sgUnstoaki fig lust oak wlk dk3 i and ragtime ut ra tfml3 maMo maMoani mu muaio muaioand io ioan and an counselled counsell home building and andh rabla rabl coidnct In a1 a ai things Hi HFwarnd Hwarned Hiwarnd warnd the government of the danger dangerof of selling our principle for gold and andn ped for a return to the doctrines of ofrigit ofrlgt ofrig rig rigit it and justice He closed with an anel anequ anebquent el equ ebquent quant nt outbaist outb ust declaring that the theN theN theNgro Ngro gco is hare to stiy t1y along with hiebre his hisbrethren hisbre brethren bre hren and immigrants Im igunts from foreigu foreigushorea forelgushores orelgoSbOrlB shores shoreaRev SbOrlBRev shoresRev Rev Walter Brooks delivered a as as 1 end art address shower that no pur purPise purplSe pnrpine pine waver sacred had been aocom aocomplis aocomplls aeeomIIi plis IIi ed without bard fighting and anddividual and1t1divrdual andirdividual 1t1divrdual dividual sacr fice Assisted by Rev RevB RevB RevB 1 But Hug tin th pastor he did yeo yeoman yeomsn yeoman man seivice in lifting the coll collction collctionwhich cOllCUODwhich ctlon ctlonwhich which amounted to X50 50 5084 S4 This goesto goes goesto gOESto to swell the fund to test the Lousisna suffrage law a hic bicl is row ow In a fat faiway falvay fatway way to tr reach the an preme Court here hereO hereo who ho spoke were Rev JBoiling JBolrtmgt JBollwg Boiling Prof Jesse Laws LawsQ in and Ex ExQ ExG ExG vernor ernor Pmcbbaok The Uuncil Uuncilreels mncil mncilfeels nuncilfeels feels grebteiy ei courage by the popu popuI I ar support snppoIllba iha is be ng give vl nMr nMr nMr Mr Pou Not a a HyprocriteTne Hyprocrite Tne Hon Edward W1ou Pou I ou of Northltroilaa North NorthJiroliaa Nor bItol1na Jiroliaa Rita t3 to tie core of the he matter matterwhen matterwnen matterwhen when he speaks on thepop thepropiaed thep op1s6d sed reduo reduoing leduoi1g rednoig ing of membership in the House fro fron fronthe nthe nthe the South on account of the disfrau disfrauJhlsement dlsfranhIgementor disfranrhisementof Jhlsement hIgementor of the Negroes Re say the thepeople t1epeople tiepeople people of his State are willing to submit submitto to the Ius js of representation rather ratherthan ratherthan ratherthan than allow the Negroes to vote That ThatIs ThttIB Thatis Is straightforward and manly It con concades conc9des concsdes cades that men ought to tike the con conseq conseq conseq seq fences of their own acts that th they theyoanc theyoln theycant cant oln eat their oaks oak and andhave have it too tooThe toohe tooThe The he pitiful whine set up by other rap representatives rapreentatives rapresentatives resentatives from the South that the theare they theyare theyare are about to be deprived of some nat natural nat natural natural91 ural ural91 pr vested right because there is a apoposal a apopoJal ap poposal popoJal opo3at to hold them them to the rule of the theConstitution tbeUoa theOon Constitution Uoa tftutlon is both hypocritical and anduumauly andunmanly andunmanly unmanly Either the Negro go is entitled entitledto to political rights Ilg ts in the tSoith or ha hais bHI heis is not if be is it 1t110 so entitled he la entitled entitledti ti vote if he is nut the whites are not notentitled notentit1ad notentitled entitled to representation on his ac acu ace ace unt Common mmon reason rea on coincid with withthe withthe wIththe the Constitution in this and it is tiresome tire tiresome tlredome some to near the wails of the despoil despoilers era because their assumed right to de destroy destroy destroy stroy and at the same time to enj fDJy is ischallenged fsohallenged isuhallengedSalt uhallengedSalt challenged Salt Lake Tribune TribuneHonors TrIbuneHonors TribuneHonors Honors for a Colored Musician MusicianProf MusicianProf MusicianProf Prof Albert Alt ertF Mando musical di director dlrector director rector of the New York Mozart mservatory mservatory mservatory servatory of Music 2105 2 2105 05 Madison Ave Avenue Avenue Avenue nue fur his long standing as a music musician mU musician lc lcfan ian of the classic art and subscriber o1the ol olthe 01the the Grand tirand rand Opera and Symphony Con Concerts Conc Conoirtq certs rt by special request of i Mr Ir Maurice MauriceGrau MauriceGraa MauriceGran Grau manager of Grand Opera and andAmerican andAmerican andAmerican American representative raprefen ative of The So Societe Societe Soclete ciete Universal Lyrique Ly iqu6 of Paris ParisMian ParisMl1an ParteMilan Milan Load Londo rlin and New York Yorkfrom Yorkfrom Yorkfrom from a list of fifty fty six selected se ectEld white whitemusicians wbltemu whitemusicians mu musicians cianB has had conferred upon uponihlm uponihlman him himan himan an honorary membership membershipthe the only onlyo onlyolored olored ilored musician muaicI in ttUlJlttd tt TJuittd States Statesso Statesso Statesso so selected selectedThis selectedTnls selectedThis This includes five descriptive and 11 11lUtrative illutratlve 11lu4rative lUtrative books on the standard operas operascf operast operascf cf the German French ieDch and Italian Italianschools italianechoo18 Italianschools schools arid free admission to All musi musical musicAllectures musical cal cAllectures lectures on all of the operas during duringthe dnringthe daringthe the Benson in this an 1 all the aforesaid afore aforesaid aforeaald said countries The broke Joks are valued at 160 and the admission to all lectures lecturesI I 95 5 00 a ticket ticketSurveying ticketBurveylLg ticketSurveying Surveying the Fields FieldsC FieldsWatesviite Watesviite ateaviile Pa Special Sp SpecialJ claIJ Henry HenryNutter HenryNutter HenryNutter Nutter a graduate of Howard Univer University Univeriity Univerilty sity Law School has just juetr returned returnedfrom returnedfrom turned turnedtrom from his southern trio After visiting visitingsiverlof visitingtJ visitingeweralof siverlof tJ veral of the southern towns incud incudn incudngo ngo Savannah Ga Mil Miami mi and Key KeyWest KeyWest KeyWest West Fla be visited Bahama Isles IslesHavana laicsHavana 18168Havana Havana NV Nt Pinar Del RIO Izla Izlaif Ial Ialf Istossf if the Pinna Mitanzas bI taDZlfl Cab CuL and andMexico andMexico andMiexieo Mexico He is 1 now traveling through throughche throughcbe throughthe the towns of Pennsylvania Pannsylv uia Hahas Hahasbeen Hahasbeen If has hasbeen been and ia surveying the diff rent rentfields rentfields rentfields fields for the colored professional men menJ menJ menJ CARTER CARTEIIOn OARTEUOn CARTEROn On May 12 Dr Sumner Wormley Wormleysings WormleyisiD Wormleysinge isiD sings 8 in grand concert in Baltimore as asprincipal asprincipal 9 9prlnctpal principal support to lime fme Azalea AzaliaHackley Azaleaf AzallaHackley Hackley ackley of Colorado Mr Wr frft Wtber Wtbermanaging ber 11ermanaGing berm managing paglDi the t1e tf t4iri lr rl 1 MUSICAL MATTERS MATTERSMrs MA MATTERSMrs TTERS TTERSMrs Mrs Lillian Geen Bryant is ispianist a apianist apianist pianist of ofexcep exceptional lnal talent and Is Isscoring Isscoring IsScoring scoring a success as a teacher teacherMiss teacherMias teacherMies Miss Berlin Bsrttna Masoaa l3oas cultural so soprano sopranovolce soprano prano pranovolce voice is heard to marked advan advantage advantage advantage tage in the Asbury church choir choirThe choirThe choirThe The opera Faust was given a fine finepresentation flnepresentation fineoresentatlon presentation in New York last evening by the Theodore Drnry Opera Com Company Company Company pany panyMr panybIr pany panyiitr Mr Tompkins has resigned resigntdthe reafgnt resignedthe dthe the post 0 of choir oh lr mabter at the Second SecondBaptist SecondBaptilt SecondBaptist Baptist church Prof McKinney McKiuneyis is temporarily In charge chargatW chargeW chargeW Stanton Wi raileys leadership leadershiphas has made a vast va9 improvement at the theSecond theSecond theSecond Second Baptist Lyceum The HI seectiora seectiorat selecttoLsare sare are sprightly End give a lively tone to tothe tothe tothe the exercises exercisesQate exercisesQa1te exercisesQte Qate a number of interested visitors visitorsare vfs1torssre vlsltorsare are on hand every 1 uasday sday evening at atLincoln atLincoln atLincoln Lincoln Memorial Tempi mpl i to listen to tothe t3the tothe the rehearsal of the 8 Coleridge Tayfor Tay Taylor Taylor lor Choral BOwlety SotietyOurleading So BOwletyOur Jety JetyOur Our Ourleading leading artists like A A Mando RfandoWalter MandoWalter MandoWalter Walter Craig Jjseph oJ Jseph Djnglass DjnglassClarence ngla89 ruglasslareuce ngla89Ularence Clarence White Madames Az AZllia AZlliaBaolilav lia iliaHacklav liaHaoklav Haoklav Sissieretta Jones Flora Ba Bal Bason BaBon Bason son Misses Harriet Gibbs Lola John Johnson Johnson Jobneon son etc have set the ban of their sapproval sapproval sapproval approval upon rag time music It ItI Itdemordllzes Itdemoralizes I demoralizes true musical taste tasteTae tasteTae tasteTae Tae critiques on Coleridge Tay Taylora Tay10r3 Taylore lora sublime Hiawatha published publishedin in the Hartfod Connecticut ConneotIcutOonrant ConneotIcutOonrantand Courant Couraniand Courantand and Times drawn out by an anexquisite anexquisite anexquisite exquisite interpretation by the Hos Hosmer ROBmer Hosmer mer Hall Choral Union alon and allied alliedsocietitSj alliedBocletit alliedsocietit Bocletit societitSj 5J Wtra ra the mosb entbuei entbueiastio entbuliastio enthueiaslie astio tributes to the Anglo AngIoAfrlciln AngIoAfrlcilnoomposerJA AngloAfricancomposers African Africancomposers composers musical genius that have havecome haveoome havecome come to our notice They were sincere sincereunreserved sincereunreserved sincereunreserved unreserved and and spontaneous spontaneousProf spontaneousProf spontaneousProf Prof Hamilcar TurlEY the energetic energeticchorister eneTgetIoohorlfiter energeticohorister chorister of Plymouth Congregati nl nlo nsIo nilo lurch promises a special program of ofhighgrade ofhlghgracie ofhighgrade highgrade music at tomorrow morn morni morolngs morninga i inga services Mr Ir Saunders ofPhiladelphia Of OfPhiladelphia ofPbUadelpblo Philadelphia a tenor of national re repute repute repute pute will render an offertory ofI rtory solo The Thechoir Tbechoir Thechoir choir now numbers num era twenty voices and andProf andProC andProf Prof Turley is winning praise for the theexcellent theexcellent theexcellent excellent results he is achieving achievingthrough achIevingthlo achievingthrough through thlo through them themColored themOolored themColored Colored musicians have been barred barredfrom barredfrom barredfrom from companionship with their white whitefellow whitefeUcw whitefellow fellow workers by a decision of the theChicago theCblcago theChicago Chicago Federation of Musicians The Theunion Th Thunion Theunion union refused to admit the Negroes Ne roe to tomembership tomembership tomembership membership urging instead that they theyform theyform theyform form a new organ nation of their own ownwhich ownif ownwhich which if effected wi 1 be the first ex exclusively exclusively oxclusively clusively colored body in the country countryto to be recognized recogniz by the American AmericanFederation AmerlcsDFederation AmericanFederation Federation of Labor 16 li by no means meanscertain mesnsoertain meanscertain certain that the colored musicians will willaccept wdlaocept willaecepi accept the Invitation The Tl Th colored mu musicians musicians musioians sicians are already organized pro provisionally provlBlonaI1y provisionally visionally and have upward of sixty sixtymembers slxt slxtmembers sixtymembers members In their theiraBsoclation theiraBsoclationOn association associationOn associationOn On account of a strike among the thechoir theoholr thechoir choir boys there was one black face faceauong facea auong a Tong the cherubim In the choir loft of ofSt ofSt ofSt St Clements Episcopal church inEast In InEast InEast East New York at the Easter Eastermorning Easterm Eastermorning morning rnlng service and from between the therows therOW5 therowe rows of ofwhite white teeth which gleamed in inthe inthe inthe the midst of it came a voice of such suchpurity suchpurity snohpurity purity and sweetness that the heart of ofthe oftbe ofthe the organist swelled with pride and andhe andhe andhe he made le up his mind there and then thenthat thentba thenthat that tba the strike strike Has at an end The lib lible libIe litle le Negro soloist had been taken intothe into intothe intothe the choir by the organist as a subati subatitute SUb3tJtute subittute tute for one of oftbe the strikers The congre congregation congreatton congregatlon gation atton was charmed The black blackthrush blackthrush blackthrush thrush is the tobriqnet by which 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