The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1899-06-03

The shibboleth of party must give way to
| the shibboleth of self-preservation.
the republic must be source of regret and
grief to every law-abiding citizen. 1t has
become source of reproach at home and
which will spread over the whole body of the
nation unless stop be put to it.: The re-
that the. president of the United States saw
fit to treat with silence this vital matter in
Yet we Indulge the hope that he Will use his
good offices to settle this matter to the salts
faction of all concerned and the honor and
glory of the nation.
8. The separate car laws have grown to
such provoking proportions, and they are 80
unjust, degrading and oppressive in their
operations, tisAt we deem It urgent to direct
attention to them here. We urge and advise,
in the interest of justice and deeency that
the graduated Passenger rate prevailing in
North Carolina be substituted for the in
other sts:es Of the South It is a principle
Of common law that a man shall pay for
what he wants and get what he pays for.
in New York with a railroad or other COM
mon carrier is not worth the paper it is
written on south OF North Carolina Is this
or statute law practice in the United States.
A contract valid in one state OF the repuSlic
should be valid in every state-with all othet
IS.
4. In the interest OF humanity, we request
that the penal institutions of the South be
reformed. The horrors of them depicted by
Ge1rge W. Cable FEARS ago instead Of growing
herding OF males and females and juveniles
IN the convict camps OF the South constitutes
one of the most glazing scandals in the ad-
ministration of justice in the republic Sepa-
rate the males from the females; give the
juveniles asylums Of their own and the OPP
Rortunity to reform. The other states of the
vuh oorost Rhn Co,yS r.
wealth enough, it needs only Inclination. We
appeal to its inclination. AS matter Of
fact there must be no less than 50o,00 Afro
Americans in the South who are held in in
voluntary service, contrary to the thirteenth
amendment to the Constitution Of the United
States and the peonage statutes thereof.
safeguard OF the state. The taxation for
school purposes in the Southern states is
wholly inadequate to obliterate the abnormal
f to t OF rno1e stafes que IN Large ps s
the two races, necessitating double expen-
diture OF monies, we suggest that part of
public hands be devoted to school purposes.
q: we feel that more general distri-
button Of the Afro American race throughout
tories Of the republic, in order to reduce the
congested population OF the Southern states.
would do much to simplify the race problem
in those states, and we urge that such dis
trlbutlon be encouraged in aid reasonable
way We have no sympathy whatever with
the schemes Of those who wish to have the
race leave the United States for foreign coun-
tries. We shall remain here and fight out
our destiny in the land Of our fathers.
Z We favor both higher and industrial edu-
cation and we are grateful at the splendid
growth of the love OF education manifested
a by the sagerness with which our people fill
an avenues OF education open to them.
g.. We are gratified 1T the development OF
business enterprises OF all sorts among us
and we wish to encourage all such as being
among the strongest levers in the uplift Of the
race. We submit our cause to the fair-mind-
ca men OF our own land and Of the world at
large, and invoke divine interposition in our
behalf.