The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.12, page 32, Oct. 1912, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers lions. He himself held high office in several black fraternal orders and was a vicepresident of the National Negro Press Association, editor of the Fraternal Monitor, and member of the NNBL. 2 Robert R. Jackson, born in Chicago in 1870, attended the Chicago public schools and entered the postal service in 1888. In the some year he joined the Illinois National Guard, rising to the rank of major of infantry during the SpanishAmerican War. In Hog he left the postal service for work as a fraternal journalist. He also entered Republican politics, serving in the Illinois Senate from 19~a to 19~6 and as a Chicago alderman for many years after 19~8. He was a member of the influential Appomattox Club, the Knights of Pythias, and many other fraternal orders. 3 Gustav I. Karger (~86~9~4), born in Berlin, Gennany, grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was a reporter for several newspapers. From 1889 to 1906 he was Washington correspondent of the Scripps-McRae Press Association. In the 1908 campaign he was the personal press representative of W. H. Taft, and in the 19~a campaign he was director of the bureau of organization of the Republican National Committee. ~ I. Solomon Gaines, a Boston waiter, had been active in the defense of W. M. Trotter during his trial in connection with the Boston Riot in ~ 903. 5 Actually Joseph Lawrence Jones. An Article in The Continent RACE FRICTION IN CUBA—AND ELSEWHERE October 3, T912 In the Republic of Cuba there are about 600,000 negroes or persons of African descent. In the United States there are about ~o,ooo,ooo negroes. The white population of Cuba is about ~,ooo,ooo. In other words, there are about sixteen times as many negroes in the United States as there are in Cuba, while the proportion of black people to white people is about the same there as it is in the former slave states In this country. For a period of several months past a very large proportion of the negro population of Cuba was in a state of rebellion against the government. This racial rebellion has already cost the Cuban government many hundreds of thousands of dollars, besides the loss to the country from the destruction of crops, the interruption of business and the injury to private property. With a negro population sixteen times as large as that of Cuba why has there been no negro rebellion in the United States? It Is not because 32