Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 254, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 17, 1904 Page: 4 of 8
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THE TREND OF INDUSTRIAL COMBAT THE
HOW THE NEGRO WILL BE JUDGED
By BOOKER T, WASHINGTON.
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RAILROAD TIME FOLDERS.
The Naval Supremacy
Of the United States
By Contain THOMAS ALLNUTT BRASSEY. Former Editor of the
British Naval Annual
/7TITHIN TEN YEARS THE COMMAND OF THE
SEAS HAS PASSED FROM GREAT BRITAIN TO
THE UNITED STATES. THE LATTER COUN-
TRY IS NOW BUILDING MORE BATTLESHIPS THAN,
ENGLAND IS, AND ITS RESOURCES ARE GREATER
THAN THOSE OE GREAT BRITAIN. " Our only hope of main-
taining our supremacy on the seas is a federation through which the
colonies will aid in the building up and maintenance of the navy of
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By C. E. ELIOT of HARVARD.
HE actual industrial organization in the United States la
in large measure A DUAL ORGANIZATION FOB
COMBAT, Within the last two years this industrial com-
bat has become more intense,, though less violent, through
the firm organization of many associations of employers,)
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Iti was soma time in the year 333 B. C.
when Alexander the GSreat in the pomp of
a world conqueror entered Egypt’s capital
and received the glad homage of a people
released from the oppression of a Persian
despot. This great fact of the arrival of
Macedonia’s king in his triumphal car
was duly set down in stone hyerogliph,
and from that incident probably dates the
beginning of the railroad time folder. Cer-
tainly there have been modifications and
rearrangement in design and get up to
fit our advanced civilization, but the hiero-
gliphic unintelligibleness of the object
aimed at has never been altered from
that day to this. It has once or twice
been supposed that the railroad time-fold-
er was intended to aid people in learning
when trains arrived, passed or left cer-
tain places, and this supposition has been
enthusiastically encouraged by the rail-
roads; but a little investigation has easily
put to rest every rash thought'of the kind
and left the public still to grope in the
darkness of wonder why the railroads
yearly spend SO1 much money in endeavor-
ing to mystify the people just where en-
lightenment is most eagerly sought. It
has been a popular delusion that wars or
^earthquakes were the only things that
ifciade changes in geography. Whoever
gathered that idea never investigated the
Snaps furnished with this railroad brain-
leaser. Ik takes liberties with geograph-
ical positions that no war or earthquake
ever dreamed of, and with the calmest
effrontery hands it out to a presumably
intelligent public without apology, with-
out a blush. But the liberty taken with
locations is probably the least of its sins.
Knowing the value of time as they do,
how they can expect a man to sit down
for three weeks and devote ten hours per
day to figure out a five hundred mile itin-
erary, is beyond comprehension. Dr. John-
son has said that “that which pleased
long and pleased many must possess some
merit,” and without desiring to para-
phrase the leanujl doctor, it might be said
that “that which puzzled long and puzzled
many must possess great mystery,” and
if the railroad time folder as a puzzler
does not stand at the .head of the class
then we’ve dropped a stitch. Some one
has suggested that as railroads as a rule
have a benevolent streak along in' the
region of the passenger department, they
issue these folders to help the printer.
This is certainly a novel theory, and kind-
ly as well, but what a long suffering and
patient public wants is not benevolence so
much as a time card that can be compre-
hended by a mind less highly trained than
that of a graduate Egyptologist or a rear
end brakeman.
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It might be suggested to these men that they take frequent vaca-
tions, have regular exercise, sleep regularly, eat regularly and mod-
erately, and NEVER, no matter what the conditions, OVERTAX
THEMSELVES. But how many of them will follow such direc-
tions ?
There are few examples that illustrate the value of such safe-
guards. There is Mr. Sage. He has always regulated his life in such'
a manner that at the age of eighty-eight he is still able to go about
his work as usual and even scorns a vacation.
J. Pierpont Morgan also has the proper idea. He takes regular
vacations and never permits his affairs, however pressing, to inter-
fere with his health.
Perhaps the great trouble is that our public and professional men
work hard INTERMITTENTLY. Long periods of comparatively
easy routine are followed by several days of the most enervating men-
tal activity.
IT IS THAT WHICH TELLS ON THE SYSTEM. IT IS BAD, BUT
THERE DOESN’T SEEM TO BE ANY REMEDY FOR IT.
and now, unlike ordinary warfare, THREATENS TO BE XN
ICESSANT, the combatants agreeing to truces, but NEVER MAK
TNG PEACE. Its evils are pervasive and chronio and always ai
one’s door.
The solid association of employers which for purposes of combat
must act as units under the direction of one man or small group oi
Imen has abridged liberty—the liberty of each individual employer to
Utilize his own special advantages in competing with other men who
are in the same business. Employers should study means of procur-
ing for faithful employees rising wages during at last thirty years
of active service and means of prolonging the earning of wages BE-
YOND THE PERIOD OF GREATEST EFFICIENCY.
THE ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF STEADY AND MUTUAL GOOD
WILL BETWEEN THE EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYED WOULD BE
PRODIGIOUS.
The exclusion of nonunion labor from employment is not only
an attack on liberty, an effort to abolish competition and to a secure
a monopoly, but it Is supported on a carefully cultivated sentiment
of contempt and dislike for men whose only offense is that THEY
ARE INDEPENDENT in habit and thought
The habitual effort of trade unions to create a monopoly of laboi
each in its own trade is a hostile effort against the community as a
iwhole, for they seek by this means their own pecuniary benefit AT
THE EXPENSE OF THE REST OE THE COMMUNITY.
The boycott method of combat eminently is the method of ill will.
As they have grown powerful the unions have themselves become
exclusive and oppressive, and their former altruistic spirit has been
corrupted by class selfishness. Their modes of action which partially
Were sanctified by the genuine altruistic purpose have become ab-
horrent WHEN USED FOR SELFISH ENDS.
THE PROSCRIPTION OF NONUNION MEN, THE STRIKE OF
SYMPATHY AND THE SUPPORT OF A BOYCOTT ARE WEAPONS
WHICH ANGELS AND SAINTS COULD NOT USE WITHOUT BECOM-
ING DEMORALIZED.
Evils of School Athletics
-A.LFR.ED £• ST'EA.RDJS, Principal of Phillips A. nd. over Academy
^Questionable methods have become lam-
L J ENTABLY C0M.M0N IN SCHOOL ATHLETICS.
Players early are taught that skill in disregarding rules
is a prime requisite of a successful athlete, and the worst
feature of this lamentable situation lies in the fact that it is largely
graduates of our leading colleges and universities who are engaged
in this demoralizing business.
In the secondary school this evil is most insidious and most to be
deplored. To the average schoolboy the college athlete is a veritable
hero. His word is law. And this man often, I regret to
say, passes his time in instructing his pupils in THE ARTS
OF DECEIT AND DISHONESTY. I have seen many a college
athlete coach devoting his time to teaching his young followers how
they may cleverly disobey the rules of the game without risk of de-
tection, and I think that I am safe in saying that, the majority of
coaches are more or less given to this business.
SURELY ATHLETICS WHICH DEPEND FOR THEIR
SUCCESS UPON DISHONESTY AND HATRED ARE IN
NEED OF A VIGOROUS OVERHAULING. How many
schoolmasters know what their boys are being taught on the athletic
fieid ? I. et have we not a right to. know ? If care is required in
selecting as teachers men of character and sound moral influence,
even more important is it to my mind that the men to whom the un-
developed youth LOOK WITH REVERENCE AND ADMIRA-
TION should be meu who are actuated by principles of honesty and
uprightaaafc.
GALVESTON TRIBUNE'
(Established 1880.)
a woman is bent upon a career or circumstances force her
to determine upon making a career for herself I DON’T
THINK SHE CAN DO BETTER THAN TAKE TO
THE STAGE. Mind you, I don’t recommend any wom-
an to take up a career unless she has to do so. But if she has hej
own way to make in the world I don’t know of any profession which
offers her such rewards as those which the stage holds out.
So far as the stage offering a woman more temptations than she
will find elsewhere when she has to earn her own Hving, I DON’T
BELIEA E A WORD OF IT. Of course, in my own case I made
my debut in the company of my grandmother, Mrs. fiohn Drew, Sr.,
and was then in the company of my uncle, John Drew, so it may not
seem fair for me to make such a sweeping statement. Yet I think
it entirely-justified. If a girl wants to make a success upon the stage
she has got to work hard, and the work will take up so much of her
time that she will have little opportunity for late suppers and all that
sort of thing. •
And that very monopolization of one’s time is perhaps THE
GREATEST DRAWBACK to the stage as a profession. What
with actual performances, rehearsals, traveling, etc., one does not
have much time to devote to the society of friends.
YET, TAKING EVERYTHING INTO CONSIDERATION, I SAY LET
A GIRL TAKE UP THE STAGE, BUT FIRST LET HER ASSURE HER-
SELF THAT SHE HAS SOME TALENT, IS WILLING T'O WORK HARP
AND CAN PUT ALL SOCIAL LIFE INTO A DISTINCTLY SECONDARY
POSITION.
E negroes must demonstrate more and more to the
if II W03?lfi that we are not only successful in religious oy-
ganizatlonp, but also IN BUSINESS AND OOM-
MERCIAL ENTERPRISES. We will be judged in
the future not so much by our ability to make ab-
stract arguments and attract attention with our oratory, but by our
efforts in CONSTRUCTIVE AND PROGRESSIVE directions.
In the growth of a race complaints, condemnations and demands al]
have their elements of strength and helpfulness, but any race makes
a mistake which depends wholly upon these for success.
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The first and most fundamental thing is to give more attention
as a race to the public schools in the south. The average negro child
in the south is in school less than five months annually. In one state
in the south less than one-fourth of the negro. children attended any
school at all year before last, and THAT ONE-FOURTH WERE
IN SCHOOL FOR A PERIOD OF ONLY FOUR MONTHS.
The schoolhouses in which many of our children are taught are not
worthy of the name.
The negro race will never have again' in this country such oppor-
tunities of securing land as it has today. The price of land in every
part of the country is GRADUALLY INCREASING. If, in the
southern states especially, we do not become landowners in this gen-
eration, it will be more burdensome for the next generation to do so.
The time is not far off when the tide of foreign immigration will turn
rapidly to the south, and WE SHALL BE DRIVEN TO THE
RAGGED EDGE, so far as ownership of land is concerned, if we
do not profit by our present opportunities. •
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We should strive to become in larger proportion a commercial
and business race. We should organize and operate more banks, more
stores, own more farms, and construct and own more and better
houses. A race is Judged largely by the character of the houses it
occupies. The negro should not only wear shoes, BUT MAKE
AND SELL SHOES. The negro woman should not only wear
attractive hats, but make and sell hats.
IN EVERY CENTER OF NEGRO POPULATION THERE SHOULD
BE A BUSINESS LEAGUE TO ENCOURAGE AND LEAD OUR PEOPLE
IN COMMERCIAL AND BUSINESS DIRECTIONS.
While there is much discussion about the difficulties in the south,
it is true that the fields of commerce, business, industry and labor
are open to us there as they are not perhaps IN ANY OTHER
PART,. OF THE COUNTRY. In proportion as we lay the foun-
dations in these necessary directions we shall find our moral and
church life strengthened and opportunities for negroes to secure
college and university training.enhanced.
NO RACE CAN SUCCEED WHICH IS ASHAMED OF ITSELF. »
HAVE NEVER BEEN PROUDER OF BELONGING TO THE BLACK
RACE THAN I AM TODAY. I AM PROUD OF OUR PAST, PROUD OF
OUR PRESENT AND HAVE UNBOUNDED FAITH IN OUR FUTURE,
The Tendency of
Americans to Overwork
By THOMAS M. TAYLOR, Eminent New York Physician
a T is an unfortunate fact that the lives of public and profes-
sional men cannot be regulated to avert what might be term-
ed a national calamity. The lawyer, the doctor, the public
man, CANNOT HAVE ANY REGULAR HOURS OE
EMPLOYMENT. The banker might have, but there are always the
after hour conference, the night meetings of directors and the worry
that is constantly with him WHETHER HE IS ACTUALLY!
WORKING OR NOT.
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OLD AND THE NEW COURTSHIP
________By mrs. FRANK LESLIE.
► ERTAINLY “the times have changed, and men change
with them,” for us as well as for Ulysses, and I say “men”
. advisedly, for I dpn’t think women have changed as much.
Most girls-—that is, the dear, rosy, dimpled darlings who
are papa’s pet and mother’s blessing and who do not in-
sist upon becoming civil engineers or doctors of law, medicine or
theology^—these girls, pure and simple, are willing enough to marry
IF SOME ONB WHOM THEY LOVE asks them to do so. But
the men do not propose, and so the girls do not marry, and the good
old methods are out of vogue and the times are out of joint.
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Young men have extended their privileges and contracted their
liabilities. Formerly if a young unmarried man paid particular at-
tention to a girl or a young widow it was understood by all observers
that he was a candidate for her hand if he could gain her reluctant
consent to accept him. The girl’s parents looked serenely on, conscious
that THEIR DAUGHTER WAS MISTRESS OF THE SITUA-
TION and needed neither assistance nor protection; conscious, too,
that the young man would be a very fortunate fellow if he gained
so desirable a wife, and they would not stand in his way, although they
were sincerely sorry to lose the flower of their family.
And now all this is changed, Instead of placidly looking on to see
her daughter hold a little court and select the one she means to favor
from a crowd of eager aspirants, the mother must be, like the early
bird, very early on the ground TO CAPTURE the biggest and rich-
est worm before any other mother bird can grab him and carry him
to drop him into her nestling’s open mouth. No wonder she gets an
anxious and eager look herself and worries and frets and twitters
and chirps overmuch and keeps the home nest in a condition of tur-
moil, for the worm has grown very wary, and if in taking his early
Walks abroad he espies the flitting form of the mother bird or even
bears her sweet if sharpened song of greeting HE IS APT TO
PRECIPITATELY RETIRE to his burrow or hide beneath some
stem or clump of weeds.
Worse than this, should the bachelor chance to be, instead of a
mere worm of earth, a beautiful gold or silver fish disporting himself
in the waters of matrimony, then mamma, instead of a bird, is seen
as a fisher, A VERITABLE FISHER OF MEN, baiting her hook
with her daughter’s charms, her accomplishments, her virtues and
her affectionate and submissive temperament; but, alas, the goldfish
has grown as “gamy” as a brook trout, and worse, for he can often
keep a most experienced angler “in play” for a whole season and at
the end give a sprightly and humorous twist to his glittering tail and
fly off at a tangent to be no more seen in those waters.
BUT WHY, I ASK—WHY SHOULD IT BE SO, AND WHY DO OUR
YOUNG MEN NEED TO BE URGED TO MAKE THEMSELVES THE
‘'HAPPIEST OF MEN?”
Of course I know that the question has been asked before and
variously answered. But no answer that ever I have heard HAS
MET THE REQUIREMENTS, and I almost fancy that it must
remain one of the conundrums without reply which, like snags and
bowlders^ still obstruct jthe strpgj.-m. .of time.
Civilization’s Aim Should
Be to Avoid War
By HENRY LABOUCHERJB, Editor of Truth, London
PREFER teaching our children that war is one of the DIR-
EST CURSES that afflict this earth, and that, while all
should be prepared, if needs be, to defend our independence,
our persistent aim should be to avoid all wars, and, as was
well said by Lord Percy, “nations should consider not how little
they can concede to one another, but how far they can meet each
other’s views.”
This is the spirit that now animates the workingmen of France,
of Germany and of Italy. Their leaders are ever deprecating any
recrudescence of the military spirit that has conduced so often to
war in the past. It is the spirit that animates our own worki n gm p,n.
If we were attacked they would need NO MILITARY TOM-
FOOLERIES in national schools to induce them to fight for their
country. But they know that peace is the best of policies for them,
as never has there been a war which has not been
harmful to those engaged in industry.
Napoleon infused a military spirit into French-
men. What did the workingmen of France gain
by his conquests % What do our workers gain by
our annexation^ of Uganda, of the Sudan and of
the empire of Sokoto ? What have they gained by
our war in South Africa, except having to pay more
for some of their necessaries and the knowledge
that it has pavpd the way for the introduction of Chinese chattels
to work in the Transvaal mines for the benefit of OOSMOPQTJT A N
MILLIONAIRES?
A tribe of savages is always cultivating a military spirit. Its
sole occupation is war, and the arts of peace are despised as con-
temptible to men of spirit. AMONG CIVILIZED MEN THERE
OUGHT TO BE A HIGHER IDEAL, and there would be were
it not that there are usually too many missionaries of strife among
them ever appealing to the baser passions and trying to persuade their
fellow countrymen that there is something noble and elevating in wai
and that a soldier is the noblest of -human beings.
ARMIES ARE NECESSARY EVILS, BUT FOR MY PART I PREFEF
A PROCESSION OF TRADES UNIONISTS TO THE MARCHING BY OF
ARMED REGIMENTS AND THE SIMPLE AND HOMELY GARB OF /
WORKER TO THE TAWDRY TRAPPINGS OF MEN OF WAR. I R“;
SPECT A MAN WHO HONORABLY FULFILLS HIS CALLING AS /
SOLDIER, BUT HE IS NO BETTER IN MY EYES THAN THE MAN
WHO HONESTLY LABORS IN OTHER AMD MORE PEACEFUL VO
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