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NOME, ALASKA, NOV. 17, 1915.
in the death of booker T. Washing
ton, the famous colored educator, the
negro race is beretl of a champion
wuose equal has not appeared during
me lung interval since tiiose far away
nays wnen the negro was nrst brought
fiom his ancestral home in the tropics
to become the slave of the early white
settlers oi America. L'ntil a compara
tively recent period of our national his
tory, the negro lias continued to oc
cupy practically the same place to
wnion lie was consigned in the day
wutn the first representatives of his
race appeared on the shores of the
continent,
ihioughout the long interval of
years he has remained on practically
me same plane of development as his
earner foruears and has achieved but
lime in the line of human advance
ment. True he has been freed of the
shackles of slavery but be has made
luue other material progress. in a
general sense he has remained a slave,
nor in the eyes of the law but in those
oi the peoples amongst whom he found
mmself.
it has been his unortunate lot to
be looked upon by his white contem
poraries as little more than a beast ol
burden, a ‘companian to the ox,” a
brutish thing of little worth aside iron
ins capacity to labor—valued for hii
usefulness, even as are the ox am
mule, but despised as a thing inferioi
because of the undeveloped nature o
his being and the possession of a blacl
skin.
until very recent years there havt
been few who were willing to gram
that he was thoroughly human, thai
he was a being with intelligence anc
capacity who might be developed to a
higher plane of usefulness it given hall
a chance to escape the degraded en
vironment of centuries. This impres
sion has been gradually disappearing
curing the last decade or two, however,
and, although the idea has been one oi
* slow growth, it has become recognizeu
that the negro is, after all, gifted with
me majority of the attributes of the
white and is capable of advancing tfo
a mental plane at least comparable
with that of many branches of the
while race if he is but allowed the
opportunity for growth. It is also
becoming understood that education
and freedom from the restraining in
lluence ol' his previous condition are
making a new man of the negro and
that he is today a different creature
from his forbears of even a generation
or two ago.
in menial quanncauons ne Is still
far below the standard of the white
race but he is never the less making
progress and is fast taking a place
of far greater usefulness than was
previously possible to one of his race
and color.
I We do not presume to hazzard a
guess as to the ultimate of negro de
velopment. Whether or not the results
of a changed environment and the
training afforded by education will re
sult in his being lifted to a plane of
equality with the average white even
in the fields of industry and business,
cannot be foretold. That he is for
ever heard barred from general equal
ity with the whites is doubtless be
yond question, no matter what height
ne may achieve in human advancement
or capabilities.
However, he is steadily going for
ward and is thereby earning a new
tegard in the eyes of his white con
temporaries. All this is more or less
• he result of the new conditions in
which the negro has been placed
through the loosening of the century
old bonds which have held him to tile
earth. Everywhere, the negro of to
uay Is being recognized as something
•afferent from the type of earlier days,
i his changed attitude is largely due to
me negro himself who has demon
strated that he is capubl i of advancing
uirough profiling by the opportunities
of his new environment. And if it
doubtless true that he will continue to
go ahead if given fuhtre opportunties
lor education and self-government.
Washington was one of the first to
recognize that the negro race was cap
able of better things; that he would
oecome a better man and a better
citizen if given the opportunity to im
prove himself. Through the years ol
ais busy and useful life he has labor
ed hard to help them to a higher plan*
of existence through the medium ol
education and has also endeavored tc
gain them a better recognition from
• he whiles upou whom their efforts ai
advancement so much depend.
In doing this commendable service
for his people he has won the regard
of all with whom he came in contact
and at the time of his unfortunate
death pgobably enjoyed the friendship
of a far greater number of white men
and women of the highest ranks ot
society than any negro who has lived
in modern days. Washington was
s what may Justly be termed "a great
f character" and will long rank high
among those who have striven unsel
fishly to do something for the advance
ment and well being of others. In all
i.is efforts he was extremely practical
and the keynote of his theory was that
• he negro must help himself. In other
words he must be educated up to the
standards of the white or he could
never hope to attain and hold a place
.or himself in an alien land and among
in alien people. Owing largely to su
perior mental attainments he was able
i do a great deal in his chosen field
jf labor to which he was naturally
itted by ties of race and blood. In
many respects he was all that some
ne has designated him: "The second
mancipator of the negro race.”
ALASKA
NOTES
At a Willow creek mine recently a
leanup of $3,200 was made from a run
of ten days in one of the quartz mines.
The Ruby Record-Citizen of Octo
ber S states that Senator Dan Suther
land had just been notified that he
•vas the dady of a husky son born in
Seattle a day or two before.
Otto Bergstrom was the first one
.n the Seward section to receive a pat
ent on his land ater the government
.tad completed its survey in that vicin
ity.
During the early part of last month,
•.he Central labor union of Seattle con
demned the action of the Alaska en
gineering commission in adopting the
system of station work along the new
abroad. A committee was appointed
to go to Anchorage to investigate the
matter.
Mr. Otto Nyhus and Miss Pauline
clertrude Siprari were married at Nu
lato during the first week in Novem
ber. Nulato was arrayed in gala at
tire for the occasion and the "two souls
with but a single thought" were given
a hearty send off. The couple will
reside at Kaltag during the coming
winter.
Charles Drapeau, a well known old
timer of Fairbanks and other Alaska
camps died in the Iditarod early in
October. Drapeau was until recently
engaged in the moving picture business
at both Iditarod and Ruby. He was
perhaps best known to northern people
as a musician of ability and was en
gaged in musical pursuits in many Al
aska towns.
During the Quarter ending June 30,
1915, 12 insane patients were commit
ted to Morningside Sanitarium from
Alaska. Of this number five have been
discharged, three have died and three
have escaped.
Patients are cared for at the sanl
traium under the contract entered into
March 19, 1914, which will last for five
years and provides that Alaska pa
tients be cared for at the rate of $27.50
per capita per month. This contract Is
revocable at the discretion of the sec
retary of the interior.
Since the insane of Alaska have been
sent to Mornlngstd* tor treatment un
der contracts of this sort,, or slnci
February ti, 1909, the foiling number,
of patients have been at the sanitar
ium from this territory: In September
1909, there were 133 patients; in July
1910, there were 122; in July, 1911
145; in July 1912, 150; in September
1913, 1S9; and in June 1914, there wor<
181.
The records show that a large ma
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Jonty of these patients have been^inen
—Umpire.
That Wrangell, in our own Alaska
has a Mexican question of Its own thal
might develope Into a very serious sit
uation is made evident in a letter from
that town to J. W. Pritchard of Sew
ard. Fifty or sixty Mexicans who had
been employed In the canneries have
congregated in Wrangell and, accord
ing to the accounts, have terrorized the
citizens. Holdups were common and
boats were stolen until at last the
people met in mass meeting and ap
pointed a committee of six to warn
all Mexicans to leave town. The con
clusion of the affair had evidently not
oeen arrived at when the letter was
written. One man Is reported to have
been badly cut up.
Fairbanks.—According to informa
tion obtained by Chas. Schnick from
Two-Step Louis Schmidt there were
four government surveyors in the
White Mountain district all summer,
and from the questions they put to
Schmidt, he thought they were search
,ng for ore from which radium is pro
duced. This is not the first year the
men have been in the same locality, as
they spent last season there also.
They were very uncommunicative and
Schmidt was able to obtain little in
formation regarding them.
Juneau is now having its school
troubles. During the latter part of
ast month, the council passed an ordi
nance requiring every child, living out
of town, to pay a tuition fee of $7.
This sum was fixed upon, as it is
figured that the maintenance of the
schools of Juneau costs $7 for every
•upil During the early part of this
month, when the time for the young
sters to start to school arrived there
ns a general protest, not only of out
f-town people but also many citizens
if Juneau.
That the ordinance would not be an
special hardship on some families is
oimitted, but on others the payment
of such tuition would be tmpossjfjle.
The Dawson News says Mike'O’Kee,
ab enthusiastic Dawson gngdener,
raised near St, Mary’s hospital this sea
son the first wonderberries grown in
he Yunokn. They are the marvelous
berry brought out by Burbank, the
wizard gardener of California. This
lerries have ripened, and are a hard,
round, dark-skinned berry, similar to
i he Yukon blueberry but more perfectly
round in form, and a trifle harder of
skin. Thousands of berries cover the
ew bushes, proving the adaptability
of the plant to this country.
Mr. O’Kee is greatly pleased with
the results of this, the first year’s
•xperiment with the berries, but hopes
to have them ripen a little more thor
oughly next year.
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