Liberator - Volume 10, Number 7

              THE LIBERATOR

A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Cause of Good Government and the Advancement of the American Negro. Vol. X 5 cts. a copy LOS ANGELES, CAL., JANUARY 5,1912 $1.50 a year No. 7


Happy New Year


EARTH IS ENOUGH

By Edwin Markham 
AVE MEN of Earth have here the
Stuff
Of Paradise—we have enough!
We need no other thing to build The Stairs into the Unfulfilled— No other ivory for the doors—
No other marble for the floors—
No other cedar for the beam And dome of man’s immortal dream HERE on the paths of every day— Here on the common human way Is all the busy gods would take To build a Heaven, to mould and
make
New Edens. Ours the stuff sub­lime
To build Eternity in time!


“ALL THE PEOPLE GETTING TOGETHER”

By Lincoln Steffens

I have successively pinned my faith to three hopes of salvation for the city. First, hope in salvation of the city through one good man, a man exerting such an influence for righteousness as will galvanize the whole municipality into right­eous life.
But I saw that good men die, and that their ideals do not live forever after them.
Then I thought that salvation would come through all the good people banding together and fight­ing shoulder to shoulder. But 1 found that it wouldn’t work. The hypocricy that permeates the ranks of those whom it is conventional to call the good people always works disaster to such movements.
Lastly, 1 have come to hope in all the people getting together.
J am convinced that it is the only way. That is the idea of the social center movement.


REV. R. C. BEDFORD DEAD.
A FRIEND OF TUSKEGEE GONE

Rev. R. C. Bedford of Beloit, Wis., whose sudden death from heart trouble occurred in this city Sunday, had been for years one of the moving spirits of the Tuske­gee Institute, over which Booker T. Washington presides. Bedford was secretary of the Board of Trust­ees, and manager of the institute’s finance department. He was also trustee of the several affiliated schools, and has done much for the elevation of the colored race. He was born in England; graduated from Beloit College in 1872 and was ordained a preacher in the Congre­gational church. A widow and several children survive. John, a son, is connected with the govern­ment Forestry Service in Montana. Mrs. T. D. Woolsey of Beloit, is a daughter.


LIBERIA INSTALLS PRESIDENT HOWARD

Crowds Witness Ceremony of Inauguration of Successor to Bar­clay
(By Associated Press Leased Wire)

Monrovia, Liberia, Jan. 1.— President Daniel Howard was inua- gurated today as chief executive of
the republic of Liberia, succeeding President Barclay, who for eight years had occupied the office.
President Howard, after taking the oath, read his inaugural address in which he expressed satisfaction that the protracted negotiations in connection with the finances of the country had been brought to a con­clusion through the sympathetic interest of the United States, Great Britian and other powers.
Crowds of citizens came from all parts of the country to greet their new president and Monrovia was full of life and color. Natives of var- ous tribes came from the interior, their primitive garb contrasting strongly with that of the women of the city, who were dressed in Ara­bian costumes of vari-colored silks.


IMPORTANT TO WOMEN

For the purpose of voting at the presidential preference primary in May, early registration is a matter of importance to all who are not at present registered. This applies especially to women residing out­side the city of Los Angeles. All the 85,000 Los Angeles women who registered for the municipal election will be entitled to vote at the May primary, whether re­registered or not. But the regis­tration of women in the smaller cities and in the rural districts has been scant. It will be necessary for every woman who wants to vote a the presidential primary, but who is now unregistered, to become registered without delay. The county clerk calls attention to