The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-01-31
Colored men and women IN st. Paul,

habitually avoid places of accommoda-
tions of the public. Young men engaged
in business, seek Colored boarding
houses often at the expense of time a1d
great Inconvenience Why? Not always
from choice, but because prudence die
tates such course unless they are will
| leg to pocket" insults or have recourse
to the law. There is not Colored man
the writer cares not who he may be-
who dares take his wife or daughter into
respectable eating house in this city
With any assurance that he or they will
not be, liable to the insalt of refusal,
which he must "pocket" or fight. The
writer prefers to fight, every trip, and if
he is the only man in st. Paul who does
--Why-draw your own deductions gen.
tlemen. The eternal principle of the
Survival Of thu fttest," as controller Of
human destiny may be stated in q thou
sand forms. Inspite ofexternal circum-
stances all individuals and all peoples
are largely the results, of their own MAX
ing. 1fit is true that 'There is Diyin-
ity that shapes our Ends, rough hew
them 90 we may" it is also true that no
cause is SO potent in fashioning character
as the native energy inherent in the in
div;dual or race. .s...
The curse of fhe black race has been
its willingness to accept such charity as
TO- tune metes out:withsa more or less
grudging hand. Freedom and citizen
| ship we're gifts from race who still had
the power to withhold, yet with all-com-
pelling freedom and citizenship within
lts grasp, the race is quite content to sit
quietly by until it's civil rights drop into
Its lap-like over ripe fruit without even
lifting up hand to shake the tree.
Since the formation of the National
League but one piece of federal legisla-
ton (the Blair Billy has received the
slightest attention at it's hands. The
election bill has been fought to it's death,
but the league has given no sign that
thellnteres,s Of the race were involved.
Local Leagues have remained quiescent
while wrongs, they were designed to
correct or prevent, have been perpe-
trated under their very eyes. In St.
Paul half dozen cases of violate civil
rights have occurred, but the Afro
American League might have been the
Land League for all the interest it has
manifested. 1t wakes to life only when
there is an occasion for feasting or a
chance for few individuals to emerge
from their native obscurity, pose for a
moment in the public gaze, and indulge
III sounding declamai ion which deceives
no one-not even themselves. Our pull
pits are dumb, our pulpits whose chief
claim and excuse tor existence is the op-
portunlty they afford for the education
OF our people-education in the affairs
and dutes of this world as we'll as the
world to come. Our newspapers are
dumb, or at lest dole out pertunctory
half column of stock Indignation so
lacking in spirit that it tatls to stir a
single impulse. :.
The writer has not allowed single in.
stance, wherein the civil rights of citi.
zen have been denied, to go unchal-
lenged during his residence in the CITY
whether il concerned himself or others,
he has protested. He has written com.
munications to the daily press. But
what can The protests of one man effec,
If there is no force behind him? White
people are no fools! The press and the
public generally, know that the Colored
people Care nothing about these matters,
and that they can b.; insulted with i'm.
punity, and as long as this condition OF
things exists they will be insulted, and
they deserve to be-. "Who would be
Tree themselves must strike the blow"
=. Meanwhile one last word for the Lea.
que, that organization owes it to the
citizens of st. Paul that it should shut
up. or do something worthy its name
let the officers who are alleged to be
Running it, step down and out, and give
some one chance who has some other
purpose to serve than to gain little
cheap notoriety. A league which has
never had dollar in it's treasury, is
worse than powerless, it is delusion
and a snare, and is worthy only of con.
tempt.
u Get down 'tGentlemen" and if there
are any men in st. Paul, give them q
chance. ...-- w. A. HAZEL.