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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1905
Page
2
The Athens Banner carries liberal notes on politics including La Follette and Addicks in Missouri and Delaware, tariff talk, cane raisers in Montgomery, boll weevil debate, and farmer concerns on cotton prices. Editorial odds and local items mention laundry company meeting and railroad list status.
The article contrasts hotel discrimination against Booker T. Washington with a broader critique of black governance in San Domingo. It cites Liberia, Reconstruction, and racial prejudice, asking if another test of citizenship is due and recalling Hoar’s warning that enfranchisement harmed both races. It also reflects on colonial views of Africa and Edenic lands in the Caribbean.
The passage argues that houses and towns were burned and forests regrew after massacres, citing Zululand and Dahomey as examples. It questions whether prolonged protection and tutelage have failed a race, suggesting the United States now takes possession of lands once granted for schooling a race, and calls for declaring enfranchisement in the South.
The clip shows mixed market data for spots in Athens and New York futures with open and close figures across January March May July October. An unrelated advertisement for Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney & Co appears, followed by a brief joke about talking to oneself from Detroit Free Press.
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