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LODGE asks for
stronger navy
gassachssetts Senator Makes an
Invincible Argoment.
declares we are MECLARED
jjysGermany Has Covetous Eyes
on the Western Hemisphere
an d We Should Be Alert.
I Washington special says: The
possibility of a clash with Germany
over the Monroe doctrine w-as force¬
fully laid before the senate and the
country Friday by Senator Lodge of
Massachusetts, in the course of a vig
"orous speech plate against plant the by construction the
»o armor govern
E< particular significance of this
Ihe must look to such
declaration that we
contingency over either the Danish
West Indies or Germany’s desire to
more power in South America lies
the fact that Senator Lodge is usually
very reticent on all matters pertaining
to foreign relations and further that
f s generally recognized as repre¬
senting the views of the president and
date department on the matter.
When, therefore, he declared, that
tee were such possibilities to be
considered his declarations were given
greater weight than such talk coming
from almost any other senator.
When consideration of the uaval
till was resumed the pending amend¬
ment was that offered by Senator Till¬
man for a straight price of 3300 per
ton for armor and a government armor
factory not costing over 34,000,000.
Mi. Lodge, of Massachusetts, speak¬
ing in opposition to the amend¬
ment, said that for the past three
ears the senators from South Caro
ina and New Hampshire—Mr. Till
nan and Mr. Chandler—had been en
ieivoring to get armor at a low price.
The net result of their work had beeu
lo put a stop to the construction of a
Lvq. ^government He had no prejudice plaut, but against stop a
amor to
fieta'lding Ijor of all ships until the ar
plant could be erected, would, he
Rhought, he a flat mistake.
“My reason for desiring more
blips,” said he, “and desiring them
[quickly, is my belief that the safety of
lie United States depends upon the
Strength of our navy. We do not
heed the navy for the protection of
our insular possessions. The danger
lies in our own great coast line and
in the defense of the Monroe doctrine
in tho western continent. For the
defense of this great coast line and
lie cities studding it we have no ade¬
quate fleet. We are about to enter
upon the construction of an isthmian
wnal, to defend, control and operate
which we must be tbe naval master of
lie Caribbean sea. We must have a
arrnore powerful fleet than we have
oday, Ihe safety ef the canal de
:enda upon our fleet.
“A great fleet is the greatest insu¬
res of peace. We should not close
•u eyes to the possibilities of the sit
sation. We could never allow the
danish islands to pass into any other
undtban onrs. The European nation
tlich should undertake to take pos
»[8ion of those islands right on the
'oadto the canal and to make of them
I'eat naval stations would by that
,f ry act become an enemy of ours,
could submit to no such thing as
The Monroe doctrine is a great
irotc-ction to the United States. Men
•fall parties—Democrats, Republicans
w “here Populists—without distinction,
to that.
1 am by no means sure that some
,
-oropean nations, perhaps one whose
’>'7 is now receiving such a rapid in
'case, may not test the Monroe doo
We may be called upon to pro*
' bat doctrine in Brazil or some
wer country. Already too much time
“ een lost. If the Monroe doctrine
Wd be endangered or if our coast
“°nld be menaced, we would be pre¬
yed h we gad had it been would engaged be a weak iu throttl excuse
s ||u egregious monopoly.”
In a colloquy with Mr. Lodge, Mr.
• 5 tman said it was well known that
6 naT f of the United States was su
,bat of Germany.
* 88 tbat now was being made in
German navy.
senator thinks,” said Mr.
e - “there is no danger to be ap
t ® t ‘ e d 1 I fear he underrated the
lowh-u° inch I e have given su t*ject—a much thought subject
V°rn ieration '”
taint ’ °* ^ est Virginia, argued
‘ s t plants, i did Mr. Allison, who
- as
liter*° Q be Bc ore of economy. The
fcL Sa .j ’^ ** w °nld be four be
Bn^° Terninent years
>« termor plate could
Bacon, on a ship
^ of Georgia, advocated
trr, Egtrac L°n of » government fac
»' 'w. Can9e be believed it would be a
J ‘00 of interests.
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The Rockdale Banner
FREE STATE CLEARED
Lord Roberts Has Succeeded In
Demoralizing the Boers.
JOURNALISTS DECLARE WAR IS OVER.
Briton* Enter Kroonetad and Hoist Union
J»ck Over President Steyn’s
Former Headquarters.
A London special under date of May
14th was as follows: “The war is
practically over,” says The Daily
Chronicle’s Kroonstad correspondent,
and in less definite terms this is the
view to be gathered from all the cor¬
respondents. They picture the Boers
as utterly demoralized and disheart¬
ened by Lord Roberts’s unexpectedly
rapid advance and by his facile turn¬
ing of the carefully prepared positions
of the Boers.
There was practically no fighting
and there are no further details to
give respecting the occupation of
Kroonstad. The correspondent of The
Daily Telegraph says:
“The union jack was hoisted in the
market place by Mrs. Lockhead, the
American wife of a Scotchman. Most
of the horses of the Boers are in a
wretched condition, but President
Kruger declares he will continue the
war.”
It appears that the Boers at Kroon¬
stad had beeu reinforced by 3,000
men from Natal Friday and that alto¬
gether 10,000 men with twenty guns
trekked from Kroonstad on the ap¬
proach of Lord Roberts.
The Boers made an ineffectual stand
at Bnsehraud and had elaborate in
treuebments in front of Kroonstad,
which offered great facilities for a
rearguard action. Their only anxiety,
however, appears to have beeu to get
away safely with all their guns and
convoys, which again they have suc¬
cessfully accomplished. The few stores
they were unable to carry away they
burned.
President Steyu is represented as
having been frantic with rage and as
having kicked and cuffed the burgh¬
ers after vuiuly imploring them to con¬
tinue the fight.
Thus the situation at the seat of war
in South Africa is as satisfactory from
the British point of view as the most
snuguihe friend could have hoped.
The occupation of Kroonstad practi¬
cally places the whole Orange Free
State in British possession.
It is evident from Lord Robert’s
last dispatch that the disintegration
has commenced. The Free Staters
are scattering to their homes, while
the Transvaalers have gone north¬
ward, declining to fight longer in the
Orange t ree Stato. What little re¬
sistance the former still are likely to
make seems to be centering at Lind
ley, whither President Steyn has
transferred his government.
It is evident that the strategy of
Lord Roberts and the rapidity of his
advance have bewildered and disheart¬
ened the Boers, as their resistance
since the British reached Zand river
has been slight.
There is no further news regarding
the advance of the relief column to
Mafeking, but it is possible that Lord
Roberts’s success will result in forcing
the Boers to raise the siege. Pretoria
advices via Lourenzo Marques state
that the Boers’ supply of smokeless
powder is exhausted and that all ef¬
forts to manufacture a fresh supply
have beeu in vain.
BAPTISTS FIGHT SALOONS.
Southern Convention at Hot Springs De
c’ares War On Liquor Traffic.
Hostilities against tho liquor traffic
were begun Saturday iu the Southern
Baptist convention, In session at Hot
Springs, Ark. Rev. Dr. J. B. Cranflll,
0 f Texas, introduced a vigorous reso
lution declaring the eumity of the
Southern Baptists against the traffic
in every way. The resolution declared
the liquor traffic to be the greatest
barrier to the work in the home aud
the foreign mission field.
Congress is denounced for nullify¬
ing the law abolishing the canteen and
the establishment of the army canteen
and saloons are declared to be blots on
onr civilization. Protest is made
against the national government issu¬
ing licenses in localities where pro¬
hibitory laws are in force.
BIG RAILROAD DEAL f
Rumor H»» It That Seaboard Consoli
date* With the r. c. * P.
Rumors that the Seaboard Air-Line
railroad consolidated with the Florida
Central and Peninsular and other con
: ue ctions of the system at a meeting of
I the syndicate held in Baltimore last
Monday have been so persistent that
; Seaboard officials are confident the
; ,t ea l has been made. All that is neces-
1 fa .y i they say, before the public is
] officially notified circles, of the is gigantic the arrange- com
biD6 i n railway details that natur
m ont of preliminary consolidation of the
a jly follow a
magnitude of that manipulated by the
seaboard.
CONYURS. GA.. WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1900.
RESORT TO BULLETS.
Street Car Strike Situation at St. ;
Louis, Ho., Reaches a
Critical Stage.
Affairs in the street railway strike
at St. Louis Friday showed a complete
reversal of the conditions prevailing
Thursday. The day opened quietly,
hut later reports began to circulate of
renewed rioting in various parts of the
city. In oue instance the police fired
into a crowd, and in others used their
clubs on those who attempted to inter
fere with the running of cars. While
rumors of casualties were rampant
during the day, up to a late hour of the
night none of a serious nature had
been corroborated.
The suburban system ran all its
cars under an escort of police. So
close was watch maintained by the
force that practically no disturbances
occurred on its lines. The Transit
Company started cars on a number of
its branches, nnd notwithstanding the
ample police protection afforded, trou¬
ble cropped out in various directions.
Two cars wore taken out of the sta
tion at Geyer and Jefferson avenues at
^ o clock aud the ,100 strikers around
the carsheds were forced back by the
poiLeo.
1 resident David Kroyhng, of the
Central trades and Labor Unions,
says the situation is far more critical
than at any time since the strike be-
11
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He . it . fight of . for
says is a unionism
its very existence and must be won if
it takes every union man iu St. Louis
to do it, who, he says, only awaits the
word of their officers to go on a syrnpa
tlietac strike.
Ibis would mean 100,000 men anu
womeu would lay aside their work.
CORBETT GOES DOWN
James Jeffries Reaffirms His Right
to the World’s Pugilistic
Championship Belt.
In tbe arena of the Seaside ^ Sporting .
club at Coney Island, Friday night,
James J. Jeffries reaffirmed his right
to the world’s pugilistic championship
by knocking out James J. Corbett in
the fastest, prettiest and closest heavy
weight ring battle ever fought in New
York. -
The contest lasted twenty-three
ronnds of the twenty-five limit.
Corbett emerged from a year’s re
tiremeut from the ring rejuvenated
and fresh. He was as fast and clever
as back in the days when people mar
veled at hia skill. His foot work was
wonderful aud his defense perfect,
He ontboxed hia man at both long and
short range, aud if he had had the
strength necessary, he would have
gained au early victory. A hundred
times he ducked the punch
knocked him out. At times he made
the massive Jim look like a beginner
in the art of defense with his hands,
and when Jeffries stood over his quiv
eriug form, his face showed marks of
the punishment that Corbett had in
flicted. ’
Corbett went down to defeat that
was regretted by a vast majority of
the men who filled the hall. The
money was against him, but he had a
wealth of sympathy. It was probably
his natural heritage as the short ender,
but before the battle had ended ho
won more support by his display of
speed and skill. Jeffries won with
his strength, both that strength that
lies in the power of massive muscle
aud that strength which is the essence’
of v
Jeffries had many points of advant
age over Corbett. To begin with, he
is nine years younger than the ex
champion and is au inch taller. He
went into the ring weighing 210
pounds and Corbett’s weight was 183.
Tho normal girth of Jeffries chest is
44 inches aud of Corbett’s 42 inches;
expanded, Jeffries’ chest measures 49
inches and Corbett’s 44} inches. With
arms extended Jeffries reaches 76i
inches and Corbett 741 inches. Jef
fries’ biceps measure is 16 and Cor
bett’s 14 inches.
There was never a more orderly
affair under the Horton law. There
was order in the assembling and
handling of the greqt crowd and or
der in the contest. The small army
of police present was taskless aud
the contestants themselves neither
wrangled nor quarreled throughout
the evening.
FILIPINOS BAItLV WORSTED.
Troops of tlie Forty-Third Regiment Take
Charge of Three More Towns.
A Manila special says: The towns
Hilongos, Maasin and , T Leyte have
been recently occup.ed by troops
of the Forty-thud regiment. The ene
my opposed the landing of the troops,
and their losses were heavy. There
were thre e American casualt ies.
British Have German Prisoner.
Among the prisoners of the foreign
man, from Erfurt. He claimed to be
a journalist, but was found hiding in
the cactus bush with a rifle in his
hand.
SEPARATE THE RACES
Was Tenor of Montgomery Speech 1
of John Temple Graves.
NO FUTURE PEACE WITHOUT IT.
Georgian Makes Argument For Ilia Con¬
tention In Discussion of
the Negro Problem.
During the meeting of the society
t° r the promotion of study of the race
conditions held in Montgomery, Ala.,
the past week, Hon. John Temple
Graves argued for separation of the
. localities . the
raoe8 m as cure
existing evils. Mr. Graves said in
part:
For twenty years I have been in
constant protest against the compla
cent assertion that there was no race
question in the south. Men of power
and influence in my own and other
states—politicians of prominenoe,
shimming the surface of events—have
soothed us with the assurance that
there was no problem and that time
and patience and folded bauds would
settle these great questions iu the per
way
Xho issue of races is not peculiar to
America. It is the problem of tho
Anglo-Saxon peoples. It burns iu In
d j a> j n Africa and in America.
“Will the white man permit the ne
„ ro bave an e q Ua ] part in the indus
trial, political, social and civil advan
tages of the United States? This, as
I understand it, is the problem.”
'Ibis question, asked by Council, as
tlie deliberate representative of his
people, is the core of tho ruee ques
tion. I adopt it as my own and ask
that question here today.
The answer to it is iu every white
man’s heart, even if it does not lie
openly on every white man’s lips. It
may be expressed in diplomacy; it may
be veiled in indirection; it may be
softened in philanth o.diy; it may bo.
guarded iu politic utterance, and of
tenest of all it is restrained by ultra
conservatism and personal timidity.
But, wherever the answer to this vital
question comes, stripped of verbiage
a nd indirection, it rings like a martial
bugle in the single syllable—-“nol”
If the fifteenth amendment be re
pealed you may be sure that it will
never be re-enacted in nation or stato.
The enfranchisement of the negro was
the American mistake of the century,
It is best recognized by those who did
it.
Industrial education will not solve,
but complicate the problem. Will in
dustrial education raise tbe moral
status of the negro when the academy
and the classic school have failed?
Will the education of the r aand pro
duce a higher type of citizens than the
education of the mind?
On this great question I stand now
where I have always stood—where
Webster stood and Henry Clay; where
Thomas Jefferson stood and Abraham
Lincoln, and Henry Grady and Council
anil Turner and the rest—where in
time all men will stand who see the
light and dare to face it.
Separation is the logical, the inevit
able, the only way. No other pro
posed solution will stand tbe test of
logic and experiment.
Education complicates the problem.
Every year of enlightenmeut increases
the negro’s apprehension of his posi
tion of his merit and attainment, and
of the inconsistency between his real
and his constitutional status in the
republic.
We have come in God’s providence
to the parting of the ways.
In the name of history and of hu
manity; in the interest of both races,
and in the fear of God, I call for a
division.
We make it peaceably now. TVo
may be forced to accomplish jt in b.lood
hereafter.
The time is propitious aud the ooqn
try is ripe for separation.
I have more than casual reason to
believe that the solid judgment which
rests behind the beneficient oxperi
ment of Booke? Washington teaches
him that neither worth, nor merit, nor
achievement will ever bridge the im
possible barrier of race prejudice, and
that when the last arrow of his noble
effort has been shot, it must oome to
this at last
There is not a hope in fact or reason
for the negro outside of separation,
NEGRO METHODISTS
j£ 0 |^ Their Great Quadrennial Conference
In Columbus. O.
The quadrennial conference of the
A M . E. church opened at Columbus,
OM Monday 7 with over 400 delegates
^ad nt . Aft er preliminary exercises
been held and the auditorium ded
icate d to religious J services by Bishop
Tur pr jdlng offic * h al .
rennial sermon was preached by B.sh
p wssr: tb historv and
r us
Among other facts and figures pointed
out that the church had been growing
membership at the rate of 34 au
hour during tbe i$st four ye^rs*
Official Organ of Rockdale t «uu
ty. Has 1-argent CircoUiUoa in
the County.
“WHITE MAN RULES”!
Says Bourke Oockran In Speech
Before Southern Society.
“FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT IS DEAD.”
New Yorker Keoeives a Qneat Ovation at
The Convention Held In Mont
gomery, Ala.
Bjurke Oockran reoeived an ovation
when he was introduced to make an
address on the negro problem before
the southern society convention in
Montgomery, Ala., the applause last¬
ing for five minutes. He boldly ad¬
vocated the repeal of the fifteenth
amendment to the Federal constitu
tien. He argued that it was a bad
limb on the tree; that it had beon uul
lified by the states; that it had been
lynched, so to speak, by the people of
the south. Ho declared that the re
conciliation of the theoretical status of
the negro, under the constitution,
should be reconciliation with hia act
mil status iu the public opinion of the
country.
He maintained that this ropoal was
host f or the negro as well as for the
white man, since both races had to
live together, to prosper together or
go down together. Every source of
irritation between the two should be
ramoved and the fifteenth amendmeut
vas the greatest. Ho asserted that
the path of tbe negro to political and
social rights lay through their deport
uieut.
He asserted that tho path of the ne
gro to political and social rights lay
through the development of the unit,
the individual, and that tho only
means was by iudustrial education.
He landed the generosity of the south
for spending thirty-five years after its
devastation, and out of its poverty,
over one hundred millions of dollars
for negro education, and pointed out
that it was the duty of the federal gov
err.ment to assist in preparing its
words for the duties of citizenship.
Ho said that it would bo far more
j defensible for the country to spend
ten or twenty millions a year iu help
ing uplift the black men of the south
instead of one hundred millions iu
putting down the brown man of the
east. He believed that the eBtablish
merit of a Tuskegee school in every
county in the south and the multipli
cation of Booker Washingtons was tho
duty of national government; that the
white and black man are here and
must live here and work out their own
salvation; that the intelligence of the
white man will always triumph and
the black man must be content to take
second place; that the interests of
both races are identical nnd when
one prospers both prosper; that it is
possible for the two races to live to
gether and prosper and that the negro
furnishes the best labor for the south;
that the question of suffrage should bo
left solely to the states, but they
should see that the negro should have
absolute protection to life and proper
ty- Rape cannot be stopped by lynch
ing and the records show that where
the lynchings are resorted to the crime
of rape becomes more frequent. We
must help the black man to become a
good citizen. meeting and
Mr. Oockran closed the
the audience rose to their feet and for
ten minutes applause continued. No
such ovation was given a speaker at
the conference.
|»n John Temple Graves of Georgia, in
a minutes’ speech, captured the
cro lll 3 by saying after all that had
beefi 1 ( i d, oue fact was patent, “that
when ? committed there would
>,e was
be a lilt ing-”
‘ \ Itluiiull " U A ROUTE FA YOKED*
ltion wiLcwnal ,
int#rcihio throve-the Commission Appears
After Sana*#,
Frift4j'"lhe entire membership of
t b(J iuterooeanio canal commission ap
peored before the senate committee in
charge of the Hepburn bill,
All of the members of the commis
sion were given an opportunity to ex
p ress their views and were questioned
a t considerable length by the senators.
As to the Nicaragua route all reit
erated what the Walker commission
bas rep0 rted—that the waterway is
j entirely practicable from an engiucer
ing standpoint at about the same
)a uge of estimates heretofore made,
from gns.OOO.OOO to 3140,000,000.
< ARE OF THE BODIES
Of Confederate Dead the Object of An
Amendment to Sundry Civil Bill.
An amendment to the sundry civil
»ll was introduced in the senate
1 fk«™day to enable the secretary of
w*r to have the bodies 264 Confeder
ate soldiers buried in the Arlington
' phonal cemetery.
A number rf then Mta are now
seeks to bury them in one spot and
t
Headed By Governor Shaw.
I 0 wa Republicans attend elected Philadelphia McKinley
delegatee to the
eouveution headed by Governor bbaw.
NO. 18.
THE U. S. COURT
BARS STRIKERS
Kansas Federal Judge Issues
Absolute Injunction.
PROTECTS STREET CAR PEOPLE
Striking Workmen Are Forbidden
to Interfere With Running of
Cars In Kansas City.
Tho federal authorities found alleged
cause for interfering in the strike in¬
augurated Saturday morning by the
uuion employes of the Metropolitan
Street Railway Company in Kansas
City.
Judge William C. Hook, of Leaven¬
worth, Kansas, sitting in Kansas City,
issued from the United States district
circuit court au injunction that is
more absolute and sweeping in its
terms than any injunction ever bofoio
secured in the district in a contention
between labor and capital.
The injunction is made absolute for
a week, tho matter being set for a
hoaring Saturday, the 19th, and if its
restrictions shall ho observed by the
strikers the Metropolitan company has
its fight won, for the strikers’ hands
are tied for seven days, and iu tho
meantime the Metropolitan company
can go about the organization of its
disrupted forces. predicated
The injuction is upon
tho faet that several of the persons
complained against as threatening tho
interests of the company are residents
of other states, aud the further faot
that the strikers threaten to prevent
tlieeouipaiy from carrying out its con¬
tract with the United States govern¬
ment to transport the city mail carriers
to and from their routes.
Harry Bryan, the national organizer
of the Amalgamated Association, de¬
scribed as a resident of Michigan, ia
one of the parties enjoined, aud the
others named are twenty-two local
leaders of the union, several of whom
are mentioned as residents of Ohio
and Kansas.
The injunction restrains the persona
named aud all others from in any
manner, directly or indirectly, stop¬
ping or interfering with the running
of cars on the lines of the Metropoli¬
tan Company; enjoins them from har
rassing, assaulting or in any manner
interfering with any person who may
be in the employ of tho company as
he goes to or from his work or as he
is engaged in the operation of a sUset
ear; enjoins union men aud all others
from picketing or patrolling the oar
houses, stopping places, stations,
tracks, or approaches thereto, or loit¬
ering iu large numbers iu or about auy
of the places named, or making loud
or boisterous noises in the vicinity
thereof for the purpose of intimidating
or interfering with the company’s em¬
ployees. further
The injunction oven goes
than this and enjoins any coneerted
action to cause any act or annoyanoa
which will assist in stopping the opera¬
tion of the cars, or interfering in any¬
wise with an employee in moving a oar
which may carry a mail carrier, or a
messenger, or upon which a mail car¬
rier or a messenger may wish to ride.
The restrictions not only apply to
Organizer Harry Bryan and the twenty
two men named, but to all others who
may be acting in conoert with them
after the entering of thiH injunction.
In addition to the police and the
deputy marshals sworn in, a force of
United States marshals will bo on hand
to interfere in ease the injunction ia
ignored, and there is every probability
the strikers will now desist in their
efforts to bring out the man who have
so far jailed to join them.
SUNDAY OAHB BUNNINO.
Every street car line in Kansas City,
Mo., and Kansas City, Kan., was in
full operation Sunday and no show of
violence was offered by the strikers.
The injunction of the federal court,
enjoiuiug the union men from inter¬
fering with tbe running of the cars,
and the added fact that it was Sunday,
combined to have a salutary effect on
the strikers. Early in the day groups
of strikers gathered at tbe different
power bouses and quietly urged tbe
crews to join the strike. Less than a
dozen responded, however, and the
places of these men were promptly
filled.
Railroad officials had applications
Yo ” be^e b ® oTno ?/ “° de ay pUced
“ dOZe “ g a t the termi
Xes them full
3°d to Ly fill the recru^ gap hst teht b
by to the strikers’
ranks.
Bubonic Plague at Sydney.
The number of eases of the bubonic
plague officially reported in Sydney,
New South Wales, to date is 216. Of
these 73 have proved fatal.