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Show THE BEE. 5 to death while they have been engaged in running and debauching the female members of the negro race. This is another matter as hard for the writer to understand as classical music. Still, if a colored gentleman with white blood in his veins insists that it is a fact, ho one should dispute with him. And whatever effect an ounce of race negro blood may have on the Anglo-Saxoit has been said that almost every colored man who ha distinguished himself in art, science, literature or professional work, has had more or less of white blood in his veins. How it came there, by fraud, force, or mutual consent, is a matter concerning which the writer knows absolutely nothing. Nor is it altogether clear whether intended to disseminate or the Anglo-Saxodilute the poison referred to, whether the colored man thus tainted should be mad about it or proud of it, or which side of the question he views it from. Any course he decides upon will meet the hearty approval of The Bee. or consanguinity ; and, if nothing cbo will do, is prepared to take a shot at the next man who brings in a line about the shape of a negros nose or his ability to handle grand opera. Wo live in constant fear of raz.ers autl would rather have the hydrophobia, small pox and apoplexy combined than the bite of a n n long time ago the writer knew a goal old colored man ; he was a typical darkey ; he was liked by all the neighborhood, for he was sensible and knew hi place. He used to sing his old plantation songs ; he used to dance, and pat, and play the fiddle. No white man ever accused him He put on of making a monkey of himself . no airs, assumed no virtues, made no effort to appear something he was not, did not hold himself above his race, its ideals, its pleasures, 'its made a monkey of characteristics. He never himself either in a physical or an intellectual sense. One day he gave the writer a piece of A Patti and her colored company were to visit Salt Lake. But when he read the program in the Sunday papers he resolved that he would not witness such degrading and demoralizing perso he gave away his tickets and formances, sincerely regretted having given Black Patti Broad-ax- . any publicity through the columns of the And his criticism, which applies to all the colored companies assembled here at that time the Georgia University Students, the Operatic Minstrels, Georges Pringles Georgia Minstrels and Ruscoe and is as follows : Hollands Operatic Minstrels We are unalterably opposed to minstrel shows and cake walks, and we have never witnessed a minstrel performance nor a cake walk, and as long as we retain our senses we never And he goes on to give his reasons for shall. staying away from and criticizing such shows. with a tenHe says they are degenerating dency to encourage negroes to make monkeys of themselves. We hate with all Mr. Taylor says further : the intensity or our being all negroes who will for the sake of acquiring money permit themselves to be exhibited by their white managers for the special purpose of furnishing ludicrous amusement for the gaping whites and to the debasement of the race. Trou-babour- s, Such an arraignment of what is popularly negro show is certainly regarded as a scathing. But, coming as it does from a colored critic, we feel inclined to accept it as authorative. A white man, expressing similar views, might meet with disapproval among the colored population of Salt Lake, who will hardly dare disagree with the editor of the Broad-ax- . He Is Ready for War Too. HPHE Deseret and criticism it may not be altogether out of place to reproduce a paragraph from a very : bright paper edited by an able colored man The Col. is firmly of the opinion that the hundreth part of an ounce of negro blood is sufficient to poison all the members of the Anglo-Saxorace in the universe. If this proposition is true then it naturally occurs to us that the race ought to male members of the Anglo-Saxohave entertained a great horror of being poisoned n n Trib-un- e fairly reek with sensational filth day after day. A XOTHER question asked by the Xew York Tribune, as it pats McKinley on the back, Would the slaughter of thousands of is this: And Spanish seamen call back ours to life? every time three hundred American marines are massacred by Spanish assassins the same question might be put. Is Weyler assisting White-laRied in his editorial work? w rTHE NEW YORK Tribune, as a justification A Would of the presidents policy, asks : the destruction of the whole Spanish navy restore the Maine to ours?. And so on it might ask concerning the blowing up of each vessel. Spain has a powerful ally in the gold-bupress of the first-clas- s In this miscellaneous chapter on negro music News, the Herald and the g advice which has never been forgotten ; it is repeated here for the benefit of all who write for East. The Bee. nPHE dont you nevah git into no diffikkelty wif a cullad pusson, bekase free reasons : 1. He kin call you mo names than youll care to say over. 2. He is putty apt to have a razzer in his pocket. 3. You caint tell when youll run up nigger, and his bite is sho agin a blue-guBoy, m death. So the editor of The Bee doesnt claim to be an authority on music, genealogy or anthropology; he is willing to concede all that colored authorities say about miscegenation, toxicology, HERALD has a good joke on the Trib-unwhich contains a critical review of a discussion which will not take place until next Had it been the Herald the review month. wouldnt have been written till next year. e TT 7HEN THE president begged congress for sixty hours last week before declaring war it wTas confidently believed that he wanted to get the Utah attorneyship off his hands before getting the country into any further trouble. But it would seem now that he had decided to leave both matters to international arbitration , |