The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1892-05-28
HARRY SHEPHERD.
The Eminent Afro-American Photogra
pher of st. Paul.
Who is Vilified and Abused Without just
Cause has Lawyer McGhee and Many
Others to Come to
his Rescue.

Orrls Hunt thought he had done
what no other man could do when he
bought the Elite Photograph Gallery
from our artist, Harry Shepherd. Shep-
herd had sold more galleries and
opened more than any other man in the
business, but this time Hunt thought
ne had him where for three years he
could not make picture in this city,
but not so. Shepherd refused to sign
an agreement that contained words that
excluded him from the. SANITY CITY, so
Hunt took Shepherd into court. He
exhausted quarter legion of photog-
| raphers, but the court saw no reason
why Shepherd couldn't make pictures
in st. Paul. Then Hunt called Beasley,
| Beasley, the well-informed, who knew
shepherd we'll. Yes, knew his repu-
tatlon for truth and veracity in the
| neighborhood where he lives among
his friends and associates, although
Dave had never visited among them
| and had no association with them and
would have had to consult city direc-
tory to tell what street Shepherd lived
on, but Dave knew more than he was
| asked to know. Dave knew that Shep-
herd could not be believed on oath.
| What?, Yes, Dave took his most SOL
emn oath that he himself wouldd't be-
lleve Shepherd on oath, and vet Shep-
herd was Dawes friend. He got man
| to leave a ifteen-dollar-a-wee Job to
learn him the trade, and paid the man
three dollars a week for four weeks, at
the end of which time, Dave let
! him go without notice. But when
| did Dave move out of his glass
| house so he could throw stones? Had
| he forgotten that little game of cheat
he played on Hornbeck when he feeced
him out of two hundred on a false prom
Use which he never intended to live up
to? When did he get so righteous that
ne can make oath to the sins of others?
Better would he be if he would cease
swearing, OBTAINING, and scandalizing,
for even the too chaste reputation of
his friends (?) families are not safe
from his defamatory tongue. He can
depose OF the want of truth in others.
why not repent his having a party dis
charged for paying attention to the
white scrub he happened to fancy. Re-
llgious Beasley, least the beam out of
thine own eye, then thou cans't see
more clearly the moat in thy brothers
eye. Shepherd may get the better of
white men, it is his right to as much so
as the right of any man to profit all he
can out of every transaction, but no
Negro has he ever injured. BY his sue
cess is the race, in part, measured.
Wlther then the man who is so mean
| as to join hands with the disgruntled
white man to drag his own race down
because one is more successful than he.
But Shepherd was not hurt. LAWYER
McGhee in whom the court has the
highest esteem and trust, who had
known him for near fifteen years his
neighbor and his business adviser. tes-
titled that his reputation and standing
IN the community was the very best.
indeed Shepherd called so many men
with whom he has dealt for years to de-
pose Tor his honesty, that his Honor
Judge Egan remarked that he consid-
cred further testimony unnecessary and
then did David look like he would re-
Joice could he crawl into a hole and
pull the hole in after his dear very lit
tie self. Even Hunt turned pale when
he thought how we'll Shepherd stood
when there sat in court the man whose
wife Hunt had seduced and eloped with.
and yet Shepherd refused to put this
man on the stand, he would win on
merit or not at all. Is such a man I'M
worthy of belief on oath, if he is not.
then who is?
e. JUSTICE