The Kansas Elevator du lieu suivant : Kansas City, Kansas • 1

m. i 4 THE ELEYATOR y(C NEGRO DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL OF NEWS AND OPINION KANSAS CITY. KANSAS, SATURDAY JUNE 17, 1916 Volume I No. 19 i tauons," said a commission house em- ploye. "I believe that a man should tit aa am lTATir JW IXMh AND NOW ability, Mr.

Fitzpatrick unselfishly places his services at the disposition of better schools next year and if this will not prove a blessing to the Negro children? "BLIND BOONE" COMING TO KANSAS CITY AGAIN. contentions do not do more harm than good, and If the white peovle will not win out in the end? CALL FROM HAITI Schools That Will Give Ignorant Lower Classes Education Will Help the Whole People. FARMERS ARE WELCOMED Trained Agriculturists From the States Can Secure Land Con-, cessions at Little Cost. From the New York Age. Haiti's greatest need just now, according to Dr.

Raymond Vilaire Ca-beche, formerly a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Haiti, can be provided for by the settling In that country of American Negroes with sufficient capital to develop the agricultural resources, and by the establishment of schools for industrial education. Dr. Cabeche declares that the native Haitian will give a cordial welcome to the American Negro, realizing that there is a kinship through color and blood admixture. Haiti's agricultural possibilities are unlimited and the man with a knowledge of modern methods of cultivation, possessing sufficient capital to install modern machinery, can lay the foundation for wealth. The land is rich and there is no need, says Dr.

Cabeche, for fertilizer of any sort. Cultivation of crops is of the crudest kind. Cotton matures quickly, and corn peas and potatoes make two crops a year. The islanders know nothing of plowing. Corn is simply dropped on top of the ground and the grain comes to maturity in four months.

The only cultivation it receives is the cutting away of the grass, when the corn is twelve or fifteen inches high, and for this the natives use the machete and hoes. Land can be easily acquired under lease, and if naturalization papers are taken out, the land can be purchased. Dr. Cabeche believes that the Haitian government will give to the American Negro the most favorable terms of lease, probably not making any charge at all in consideration of the development of the country's resources. Then, too, says he, labor is very cheap.

There are at present in the island, white men enjoying concessions under ninety-nine year leases. The establishment of schools for industrial education will be of immense benefit to the lower classes. The upper class Haitian is highly educated, having, as a rule, graduated from the leading colleges of Haiti and the universities of France. He has not enough points in common with the lower class Haitian. As a consequence the Haitian of the lower class remains ignorant and undeveloped.

An industrial school, smaller than Tuskegee, but modeled along similar lines, will help to raise the masses and develop their ability to take advantage of Haiti's natural opportunities. Dr. Cabeche says it would be necessary for a native Haitian to be at the head of such an institution, that the government might be induced to grant necessary concessions, but the faculty should be composed of trained American Negro teachers. Haiti's main products include coffee, cotton, cocoa, large quantities of which are exported every year. There are many varieties of native hard woods, mahogany and lignum vitae among the others, and there are opportunities for mineral concessions also.

Some white men are owners of concessions now by which they have I 5 TZ -t vw.in.uv. jivsibivu bliv BtV Vi, his pocketbook and should not be led to adopt standards of living which are above his income. If you are earning 112.60 per, don't bolster up the appearance of a John W. Gates. Cut out your allwise and omnipotent air.

Don't look as if you were going to tumble out a dozen universities and three score libraries from your sleeve. Leave that to Carnegie and Rockefeller. Try to appear what you actually are, no more, no less. "But never mind that. The clerk who will do that is probably earning less than you are.

And if he manages to dress sporty, you can be sure that he does this at the expense of other and better things. If you will inquire closely, you may find that this 'sportsmanlike' clerk who taunts you with being cheap, is far from being 'sportsmanlike' to the woman who does his washing, or he may be behind with his rent "I was in the loop district the other day, when I found that I had lost my handkerchief. I went into a haber? dasher's to buy one, specifying that I wanted one for 10 cents. The clerk informed me, with an air that he thought would awe me, that they did not handle any handkerchiefs which were below 25 cents each. He thought that this would impress me into pulling out my quarter and paying.

But did nothing of the sort. I turned around and left the store. "I did not feel a bit cheaper than oes my boss when I ask him for a aise and he refuses to give it. If my miployer does not think it cheap to lay more than he can or is willing to pay for the work he gets out of me, I ought not to think it is cheap not to be induced to buy things wfilch are beyond my pocketbook, which are too high for me. "I do not for a minute mean to say that I am not entitled to a 25 cent handkerchief or to a suit for $25.

These things are intended for me as much as for anybody else. But I simply haven't the price, and I might as well admit and ask for cheaper goods, rather than keep up my reputation in the eyes of the clerk, and then try to squeeze off a cent from the woman who does my washing or go for weeks without the paper or magazine I am accustomed to have." Aggressive Salesman Responsible. "Aggressiveness of salesmen is per haps as much responsible for this keeping up of the false standard as the weakness of the customer. It is the salesman's business to sell and he tries his best, using every available means. Sometime this aggressive pol icy of the salesman leads to his and his boss' destruction.

It simply drives customers away. "There was a grocery store in our eighborhood where we all liked to buy," said a woman on the south side. It was a select sort of a place and the man had good trade." Then he got a new salesman, a salesman from downtown store. The man knew his business, but he knew a little bit too much. Thus a woman who came in to buy a soup bone went out with two porterhouse steaks, simply because it would look cheap not to take the porterhouse steaks, after the clerk had been kind enough to run to the icebox and to show them to her without her asking.

Prosperous Negroes of Missouri and Kansas. One of the best evidences of the on-ard and upward march of the West ern Negro is seen in the prosperous Negro farmers of Missouri and Kan sas. One has but to drive through the farming sections of those two states to be convinced that here is to be found the best examples of wealthy, ihrifty Negroes in the United States. In Missouri, the counties of Saline, Cooper, Johnson, Jasper, Carroll, Cal loway, Clay and other river counties are to be found any number of wealthy Negroes who own from sixty to fifteen hundred acres of the best land under cultivation in the state and whose income exceeds $5,000 and above all expenses. 4 Many of them live in farm houses that would be regarded as mansions in either Chicago, Washington or New York and many of these houses are strictly modern in every respect These farmers are well stocked with blooded horses, hogs, cows and sheep, for which they find ready sales in the markets of Kansas City and St Louis.

If the Negroes of the great cities could nav a visit to some of theBe farms they would not hesitate to oe come farmers. What is true of Missouri is also true of Kansas. In the Kaw Valley mere are hundreds of farmer princes who own thousands of acres of land and who fill the markets of Kansas City with products therefrom. These farm' ere of Missouri and Kansas ride about their exeat estates in $3,000 automo- anil educate their sons and daughters in the best schools and uni versities of America. If the other states of the Union could show the same evidences of race dto press as are to be found in Missouri and Kansas that "Nightmare" known aa the Nesro problem would soon dis appear.

All honor to the Negroes of 1 Missouri and Kansas. the general public, and uses his important office as a means towards much good in alleviating labor diffi culties, and bridging over dangerous situations. He is recognized as a fair man by those who stand on both sides of the question, and he is respected as a man honest opinion. WHAT THE ELEVATOR WOULD LIKE TO KNOW If Kelly Miller will ever be made president of Howard University, and his election thereto would not be most acceptable to the Negroes of the United States, and if his long and faithful service does not merit this re ward? If in mentioning the ten greatest Negroes in the United States the leav ing out of the name of Dr. Dan Williams was not a mistake, and if he is not one of the greatest surgeons of the world without regard to color? If the King of Spain will confer a title upon Jack Johnson, and if Jack will make better use of his honors won Spain than he did of those won in the United States? Again the If the Negro will be given the prom inence by either party in the coming campaign fhat he deserves and if both parties wiL have Negro auxiliaries, if for no her purpose than to catch the Negro vote? If the bonders of Negro towns did not draw a sigh of relief when they received the news of the death of the late A.

D. Griffin, and if time will not prove the wisdom of the coon that if coi.dng grand sessions of the teveral fraternal organizations will vA spring some surprises upon those who think that ftey nave a "cinch" on i comber of the "big" paying offices, ind If It Is not tbout time for certain itn to quit living off the lodges? If the Pullmari Palace Car Company vQI ever promote Ha Negro porters ho have eerveJ so many yean with out a blemish, and if there ia really ixj seed for a conductor oa a Pullman car, and If the average porter is sot far more Intelligent than the eoodoe- tvs asder whom they serrel If the Negroes of Galena an not ssndmg in their wm light by insist-1S that their fcOdrea attend the sebflofe Oat etty. so Showing How Col. Little Knifed Republican Party. CHARGED IT WITH TREASON Ottawa Paper Quotes From K.

K. Man's Address in Con demning McKinley and Boosting Bryan. Some of the Republicans of the Second District, who fight Roosevelt the most bitterly because they say his Republicanism is not sound, are loudest in boosting Col. E. C.

Little as the Republican candidate for Congress. The Ottawa Guardian, has looked up this phase of the situation and says: In a speech before the Silver convention, E. C. Little said the following, as reported in the Topeka State Journal of July 16, 1896: "Columbia has reached her majority. She now proposes to conduct her own affairs without dictation from foreign financiers or suggestions of foreign parliaments.

At St Louis they abandoned the traditions of the American people and declared in favor of the Gold Standard. They put William McKinley on the ticket and Gro-ver Cleveland in the platform. The St. Louis convention may have changed its mind, but the American people have not altered their opinions." Speaking of Kansas Republicans who have bolted he said: "They have no occasion to defer to the arrogant assumption of those whose financial policy leaves the Treasury unarmed, unguarded and unpicketed against the raids of Wall Street highwaymen. The Parable of Talents teaches that when the Kansas politician comes to say, 'Lord, you gave me such poor brains that I was afraid to use them and trusted to John he will be told, 'Very well, get in the same oven with Speaking of McKinley and the Republicans, he said: "They have thrown down the gauntlet and we cannot honorably avoid the conflict Within the last twelve months we have been told fhat we hold the right of trial by jury at the suf ferance of Federal judges.

King Charles lost his head for less. Within twelve months they suddenly discover that the great fortunes of millionaires cannot be taxed to sustain the Repub lic. King George lost his head for less reason." Referring to Bryan when nominat ing him at St. Louis he said: "Civilization oscillates like a pen dulum, from Solon the lawgiver to Alexander the conqueror; from Romulus the wolf-reared to imperial Caesar; from Charles Martel, who saved, to Louis Capet, who squandered Christendom; from George Washington to Jefferson Davis; from Abraham Lincoln to Grover Cleveland. At the end of each epoch stands a Demosthenes, Brutus, a Hampdon, a Mirabeau, a John Brown of Kansas.

In a few days "WILLfilM JENNINGS BRYAN "will stand in Madison Square "Garden the Champion of at the gates of Dives. We are assembled in assured con viction of the ultimate and I believe the immediate triumph of the people's cause. To doubt it is to impeach the intelligence of the American people. To deny it is to question the justice of the Great Creator." Whose speech is that? Why, bless you, that tne way Jml Little talked way back in 16-to-l days, when Bill Bryan tried to turn this nation upside down and the Pops and Democrats were shouting: Through the days so mild and mel low, While the leaves were growing yellow. They did bellow loudly bellow For Billy and 16-to-l." We don't believe the Republicans of the Second District want such a man as their candidate for Cengress.

This year a genuine Republican should be sent to Washington to represent the people of our district The Guardian believes that U. S. Guyer, ex-mayor of Kansas City, Kansas, would poll more votes than any other man. Give the nomination to Guyer He's a sure winner. The Outlook in Kansas.

Democratic victory in Kansas next November will depend largely upon the character and ability of the state and local nominees. They, not Mr. Wilson, will win or lose the state. There are men is the Democratic party who could swing the state in the Wilson column. The nomination of Bailey Waggener of Atchison for the governorship would give the G.

O. P. the hardest fight that they ever had in Kansas, with splendid chances of a complete Democratic victory, and it remains to be seen if the party will take advantage of this opportunity. Judge James W. Orr is another colossi figure in Kansas politics whose presence upon the ticket would be a tower ef strength to the same.

If there is really going to be a great ehakeup in political circles in Kansas City, and if the charges that are being whispered around are really true and if so, will those who are making them come up to the rack and take their medicine, and if so, will the colony at Jefferson City be increased by the addition of a few distinguished Kansas Citians? If the present is not the most remarkable age in the history of the world, an age when criminal notoriety serves the same ends as the noblest efforts that a human being may put forth? If this is not the best time to begin preparation for winter, and if by doing much misery and pain will be avoided, and if most people do not wait too long before beginning to prepare for winter? If "Regnant Populi" is not fast becoming a misnomer, and if we are not indebted to the political bosses for the same, and if the time will ever come when this boasted declaration will become a fact? If Northern agitators are not re- Democratic Nominee for the sponsible for much of the ill feeling manifested by the "White Man of the South" against the Negro, and if the Negro leaders of the South are not the willing tools of those fanatics who are constantly stirring up strife between the two races? If any Negro would be censured for voting for a Democrat like Governor Ferris of Michigan, and if the whole zzi aim in the White House If It would no a godsend for Kansas City to Job great army of the "Drys" and if this would not mean better homes, better schools, better churches, better men and better women, lea czhaa, less hanger and more happineJ in this old town? If the Kansas City Star should not be boycotted by every self-respecting Negro in Kansas City, and if the sup port given this paper by the fifty thousand Negroes at the mouth of the Kaw is not a reflection upon the Intel ligence of the race, and if it ia not the duty of the pulpit c7 004 against this sheet that never speaks of Negro only connection with crime If tha "shaken? by the Board of 3otS tm sister eity viO mean of of If it is not high time for the "big" race leaders to recognize their own professional men, and if those who refuse to do so are worthy to lead the race, and if this is not especially true our teachers and preachers If the boys who charged up San Juan hill will go into political retire-fen with their "chief" who fell at Armagedon? If there will be many faces now in the Sixty-fourth Congress that will be missing in the sixty-fifth, and if this will not be cause for great rejoicing? If the wouldbe Negro political "bosses" of today should be mentioned with the "old time" leaders of yesterday and if any white man's political lackey is to be compared with such men as Bruce Langston, Douglas, Elliott and others of that noble band who fought the battles of the race in the early morning of Negro freedom? It is predicted that the coming session of the Negro National Business League, under the direction of Mr. Fortune J. Weaver, will be a meeting far reaching importance and that it Presidency will bring to Kansas City a large num ber of men and women who are en gaged along the various lines of com mercial life. It is hoped that the citizens of Kan sas City will use every effort to make the stay of the delegates pleasant and agreeable. The Elevator will give a full account of the proceedings of the meeting.

VALUABLE HINT TO NEGRO Should Establish Standard Living Not Above Means. False pride and the desire fe, ap pear richer and more important than one actually is are the cause of nu merous little tragedies in Uie lives of the man and woman. Sometimes this false pride leads one behind the bars for having forged checks with which to keep op the station. Sometimes the MI false pride 01 tne young woman wm lead to the divorce court or will drive the man to drink. If false pride on the part of the and hus band does not go that far, it generally goes far enough to make their lives miserable in their homes and torn their "heaven" Into an inferno.

I beJtov ri one knowing IV Bml it Thirty-Seven Years Before the Public. The Blind Boone Concert Company will be in Kansas City at the Second Baptist Church Thursday, June 22, and at the Centennial M. E. Church, Friday, June 23. This company is beyond doubt the most famous organization of Negro talent on the road at the present day.

Mr. John Lange is one of the greatost Negro concert managers in America. In addition to Blind Boone, who is the central figure in this remarkable company, and whose fame and ability is known and recognized throughout the world; Miss Marie Jackman and Miss Marguerite Boyd are his able asistants. Both are young ladies of fine ability, striking personality and rare culture. To hear them once only increases the desire to hear them again and the public is truly thankful to Mr.

Lange for the opportunity of hearing this company at this time. We predict that both churches will be crowded to their fullest extent and a return date will be imperative. Mr. Lange is a gentleman of large fortune, being, perhaps, the heaviest taxpayer of any Negro in the state of Missouri and has given more mone. to churches, lodges, orphan homes and other Negro institutions than any colored man in the United States and, too, without brag or bluster.

Blind Boone is also a man of large means and gives freely to charity. Mr. Lange sees to it that each member of his company lays up a dollar for a rainy day and provides themselves with homes wherein they may rest when old age overtakes them. Lange is really a benefactor of the race, and one of the greatest men that the race has produced. He and his good wife are loved and honored by Negroes throughout America.

John T. Fitzpatrick, of Jefferson City, Mo. Is the state labor commissioner, and in that important office bends his ef forts towards creating conditions for laboring men and women that wi' lighten the burden of those who b-to earn their subsistence by brai' brawn. Mr. Fitzpatrick is thoiv it sympathy with that part ir population that has most 'wbribnted tt America iiiuuatiiai vivauivoo, uu behalf of the downtrodden.

tv it V. has lon bef FWf" erielle those lir a. Job-j, Fttzpatric: was bora In Le? venworth, Kas and with his par ents removed to Kansas (Sty when he was an infant. There he began his education, which he conipleted in Washington Terri- Rm0Ted Western commonwealth. Mr.

Fitm.trick subseouentlv returned to wit Bjuaaa structural iron trade. Mr. Fit patrick represented the state federa ti chairman of the legis- ti committee and was also the representative of different labor or- conizations of Kansas City. His ability to readily grasp labor situa- ti0M was soon recognized, and he be- eame force for E00" ln tn labor world. It is largely due to lus enorts ma we woman.

law was passea ana uauiiu 1.. wr. CUUTWIi UMV SBV www I 4A1 x. vuiv tv. labor I there Is dosbiWT no man more iiwea 1 fo trice.

Mr. Fitzpatrick is not 1 prejudiced ei Aer against labor or cap- I mm itaL He ia square and impartial, it but Mtarkj his sympathy I incline more towards those wio have been ruthlessly exploaM for many rears by conscienceless. Fitzpat- I rick is married and has one tMkL He is a member of the Masoi. be Wing to the Blue Lodge, and is vttl I known in the Loyal Order oi Aioost. I and the Woodmen of the World.

I As able nan of bo mean oratorical of if in the alleys be enlisted on per, u. Dr. Cabeche says that these men have oeen aniens 'T silver Inland are to be furi M. silver, I Cuai, 11U11 aim vviiw and the American Negro would be gladly welcomed and granted conces sions. The improvement of Haiti's condition can be brought about, says Cabeche.

by a coimnaiion oi Haitian and American influence. He 1 I gives certain requirements, embodied in the following statement. 1. A rood and patriot's presiaeui, it assisted Dy ministers to work for the Denwi ana of the Haitian peoj 2. A Chamber of and Sen ate composed cf patriv.de members.

9 TTnnest tn.n hi the financial ad- ministration and the head of the Customs House (thero are many such men in the country). nank hero the owner of lands. tr 1 O. A gooa ana urumi jnu.v JL The lower class peopie inusk uc S. L.

-educated and trained in industrial and sgncuiiunu wwi 7. Freedom of the press to criticize very wrong thing in the administra 1L l.Ani tion, and to advise concerning; uic interest of the country in everything that pertains to ita advancement Tii. Kpirroea of Kansas City, Mo, Mavor Edwards to see that umi nlace was prepared for the ae of NeBToes who do busi- Bess at the City Market and would Mmc convenient place thev could set a lunch. I 1. I I I I 1 I i I.