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NATIONAL DIRECTORY. Race Prejudce in the Philippines. THE KANSAS WATCHMAN, A weekly newspaper devoted to the interests of the Negroes of Kansas and the country in general. Western States and Territories. Rouse.

President. Evansville. Ind. Vice President for each state, fcJev. A.

EL WiJsa. Recording Secretary, Kansas City, Rev. C. Douglass, Assistant Secretary, Gales burg, 111. Rev, J.

B. Winrow, Corresponding Secretary, Independence, Mo. Kev. P. H.

Kennedy, Field Henderson, Ky. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Published at 833 North Kansas Topeka. Shawnee County, Kansas, Every Thursday by G. W.

HARTS, Editor. PAUL JONES Associate 1 Business Manager Editor P. D. Skinner. D.

Coffeyviile. SUBSCRIPTION, per year. $1.00 Entered at thepostoffice at Topeka as 8econd class matter May 28, 1904, under act of Congress, March 3, 1879. THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1905. The St.

Baptist church, corner of B-St. and Western North Topeka: Preaching every Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. Preaching at 8 p.

m. Every one invited. G. W. Harts, Pastor.

W. T. Turner, Supt. "Willing Workers club, Miss S. A.

Barker, meets every Thursday night. Shiloh Baptist church, corner 12th and Buchanan Sunday school 10 a. m. Song services 6 p. m.

by B. T. P. U. Preaching 11 a.

m. and 8 p. m. Every on invited. C.

G. Fishback, Pastor. W. T. McKnight, Supt.

First African Baptist church, corner 3rd and Quincy: Sunday school 9:30 a. m. Preaching 11 a. m. and 8 p.

m. The C. E. meets every Sunday at 7 p. m.

All are invited. C. H. Duvall, Pastor. Third Baptist church, corner 11th and Washington streets: Preaching at 11 a.

m. and 8 p. m. Sunday school at 2 p. m.

B. Y. P. U. at 6 p.

m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening. Young Men's Forum Tuesday night. W. P.

Banks, Pastor. East Hill Baptist church: Sunday-school at 10 a. m. Preaching at 11 a. m.

and 8 p. m. B. Y. P.

U. at 6:30 p. m. Prayer meeting Tuesday nights. Rev.

A. C. Baker, Pastor. charges made by the Cablenews, and made the following discovery: The brothels referred to, in the barrios adjacent to Fort McKinley, are run by white men, every one of them, although they are patronized by the rough men, black and white, from the Fort. The editor of the Cablenews refused to correct the error.

Furthermore, it was shown that every black man in and around Fort McKinley was employed on the construction works thereabouts. The charge that these people are deserters or dishonorably discharged men from the black regiments which did service in the Phillipine war is a studied lie. There were bad men discharged from those regiments at the expiration of their enlistments, but that was equally true of the white men. Some of both sorts remained in the Phillipine Islands, and have made conditions repugnant to the decent men of both races and to the Filipinos. Many oi the most trusted employees of the civil service of the Phillipines are ex-soldiers of the black regiments, but they get no more consideration from the white American newspapers in the Island than the black toughs.

The editorial conclusion of the Cablenews, that, "as a rule, the American Negro will not make a desirable resident for the Phillipines," is not worth the paper it is printed on. As a matter of fact, they are the only sort of Americans out of which "desirable residents" for the Phillipines can be made, as the climate suits them and as they affiliate and assimilate naturally with the Filipino people. It is so rare to find a white man in the Phillipines broad enough to discuss this question with any degree of truth and fairness, that we reproduce, in another column, from the Philipines Gossip, an article which is illuminating. That white Americans in the service of the Government should deny to black ex-soldiers work as common laborers and that in some of the departments of the civil government the chiefs of bureaus refuse to accept black men when sent to them by the civil service board such departments as the Customs, the Fire, the Police and the like, is a notorious scandal in the Philipine Islands, against which the writer protested when he was there, and has protested here, and he still protests. And the more use there is for such protest because the War Department at Washington, or the Department of Insular Affairs in the War Department, aids and abets this exhibition of wrong and outrage, by persistently refusing to assign Afro-Americans to the Philipine Civil Service, when known to be such, although There should be no race prejudice, that is, prejudice against Afro-Americans, in the Philipines, but it is a notorious and scandalous fact that there is plenty of it there, that it went there with the white American and has grown in extent and intensity ever since.

The American news papers in the Philippines, especially those' in Manila, and the American administrators of the government of the Phillipine Islands, including the army, have done all that they could to disparage and discourage the Afro-American in the Islands. This thing was carried to such an outrageous extent when the writer was in the Phillipine Islands that he was compelled, in association with reputable Afro-Americans in the Islands, to establish a news-paper in order to defend himself from the attacks and misrepresentations of the white American press of Manila. And it is worth while to say that they let him alone when he had an organ through which to answer their villainous attacks, and that soon after the writer left the Islands the publishers of the paper got a hint they could not ignore that it would be wise and safe for them to discontinue the publication of the newspaper, the Phillip-pines Weekly. When the writer was in Manila the white American newspapers constituted the vilest and most abandoned lot of malicious traducers and villifiers of the Government of the Philippines and of the Filipinos and of Afro-Americans that it was possible to bring together or to tolerate. The Manila Cablenews was the best and the Manila Freedom the worst of the putrescent aggregation of infamy.

One of these editorial vipers recently finished a term in Bilibid prison. And the Cablenews has passed into hands as malignant as those of the dead Manila Freedom. February 12, the Manila Cablenews contained the following article: "The conduct of the disreputable class of American Negroes who have settled in the vicinity of Fort McKinley has made is necessary for the commanding officer at the post to put a guard at the Pasig ferry to protect citizens crossing the river. The Negroes, who are of the most vicious type, have completely terrorized the people of the barrios and conduct gambling games, fight cocks and enter into still more disreputable schemes to READ AND REFLECT. Every man and woman who makes any pretensions of being cultured and refined should devote one or two hours each day in reading and study of some good book or newspaper.

As a race, we have neglected too long the cultivation of those habits which are so essential to a people who desire to live upon a high social plane. Since there can be no progress without work, there can be no thought without leisure; therefore, every moment of leisure should be given to reading, study and reflection. We live in a country, in a civilization and in an age of thought, of action and of master mind; and in order that we as a race may be able to cope with the age in which we live and the environment, we must read, study and reflect. It is true, however, that in the struggle for existence but little time is afforded for reading, for study and reflection. This is THE -National Rescue-Home Association Has fo jits object three great aims in view, wnich wfe shall endeavor to carry out, with the assistance of the loyal friends of the race.

Hi it Pirct hi Art is to establish andmain-UUI DIM vTUJCCltain a home for the aged and ex.slaves of our race. Secondly To provide a rescue and refuge for orphan childaen. ThirdTo extend a helping hand for the uplifting of those who have unfortunately fallen. We therefore appeal to the many friends to assist us in this great effort. Our three great objects are enough to bring the best re- 5 suits without any longprogiam outlined.

You May Become a Member? This Question may be asked and it will be well for you to know it. You may become a member of the association by donating one dollar and then contribute to the Home as may be required, or as your ability may allow you, and when you become unable to care for yourself you will be cared for as the Board of Managers shall provide. You cannot afford to stay out of such an association, as it will reach you, if no more than to help some other poor person who is worthy. For further information write G. W.

HARTS, Isat'l Sec'y 833 N. Kansas Topeka, Kas. manifestly so in all large cities where we see the activity of the great surging mass of humanity coming and going as their daily vocations may demand in the office, in the store, in the shop and in the factory. Yet, beyond the C. A.

Snow Co. Patent Lawyers of Washes ington, D. have sent us a Handy Vest Pocket Diary Memorandum and Account Book for 1905. It contains calendars for 1905 andl90t, a census of cities and states.common buisness laws, court decisions in patent cases and other valuable information. It is such a book as every man needs all the time.

C. A. Snow and Co. will send itjo any address on receipt of actual postage, two cents. This pocket diary would cost elsewhere from 10 to 25 cents and is indispensable to those who know how to use it.

pale of the superficial mind is the mystic power that molds and debauch soldiers and quartermaster em guides the great minds which will shape the destinies of this great nation. otherwise qualified. President this condition possible by filling the civil and military departments of the Philippine Government with Southern white men, and President Roosevelt has not only perpetuated the evil but accentuated it by appointing The statesman, living amid the I Can Sell Your Real Estate or Business NO MATTER WHERE LOCATED ployees. Hold-ups of men made drunk in the brothels conducted by these Negroes and of innocent passers-by are frequent. The respectable element living in and near Fort McKinley are very anxious to see these disreputable Negroes properly dealt with.

Most of them are deserters or dishonorably discharged men from the Properties and business of all kinds sold Quickly for cash in all parts of the United States. Don't wait. Write to- black regiments that did duty here dur tranquilizing and peaceful influences of his country villa, undisturbed by the din and turmoil of the great cities, depicts in his own mind the wants and necessities of the struggling masses which he afterwTards enacts into law. The great forces which govern and control the world have come to us by thought, study and reflection. ing the insurrection, or are ex-quarter Luke E.

Wright of Tennessee to be Governor of the Islands in succession to William H. Taft. At least two capable Afro-Americans should be appointed by the President to responsible positions in the Philippine Government. There is no reason why Afro-Americans should be barred out of the Insular civil service, and an issue Ilgdaydescribingwhat you havp fn anrl trivft master employees and are a disgrace to the organizations that did good service cash price on same. in the islands and from which they were ignominiously expelled as unworthy.

A. P. Tone WILSON, Jr. Heal Estate Specialist 413 KANSAS AVE. TOPEKA, KAK.

Several reputable Afro-Americans in of it should be made N. Y. Age. Manila personally investigated the.