The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1899-05-20

posed to legitimate restriction Of the suffrage,
but we insist that restrictions shall apply
alike to all citizens Of all states. We are
qualification, or both. We insist that neither
| of these was intended or is conserved by the
new constitutions of Mississippi, South Caro-
| lima. or Louisiana. Their trainers intended
and did disfranchise a majority of their citi-
| zenship because of "race color, and previous
condition. and we therefore call upon the
States in
| made mandatory by section Of article XIV.
| of the constitution. We call upon Afro-Amer-
| the determination to deprive them Of their
suffrage rights. If it is necessary to accom-
plsh this vital purpose to divide their vote
in given state We advise that they divide it.
The shibboleth Of party must give way to
| the shibboleth of self-preservation.
2. The increase of mob and lynch law in
the republic must be source Of regret and
grief to every law-abiding citizen. 1t has
H at beaS
which will spread over the whole body of the
Of fGP IN Se e. I'll nhf
| shocked and Disguised the nation. We regret
that the president of the United States saw
At to treat with silence this vital mater 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.
3. The separate car laws have grown to
such provoking proportions and they are so
unjust; degrading, and oppressive in their
operations, THAT we deem It urgent to direct
attention to them here. We urge and advise,
in the interest of Justice and decency that
the graduated passenger rate prevailing in
North Carolina be substituted for the in
famous =. stem now in force in most Of the
| other sts.es Of the South. It is a principle
Of common law that a man shall pay for
what ne wants and get what he pays for.
nrava31inp a nj do
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
far or just, or in accordance with common
or statute law practice in the United States.
contract valid in one state of the repuslie
citizens than Afro Americans it is.
4. In the interest OF humanity, we request
that the penal institutions of the South be
reformed: The horrors of them depicted by
George w. Cable gears 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-
nate tS a 81 q1a n 9puoe
juveniles asylu1ns OF their own and the OPP
poltunity to reform. The other states Of the
weah eD nseds only
appeal to its inclination. AS a matter of
fact there must be no less than 100000 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.
S. Intelligent citizenship is the strongest
safeguard Of the state. The taxation Tor
school purposes in the Southern states IL
wholly inadequate to 0bliterate the abnormal
tlltteracy OF those states, due in large part
TO the maintenance of separate schools for
the two races, necessftatfng q double expen-
d1ture OF monies, we suggest that part Of
the public domain Of such states as have
public lands be devoted to school purposes.
g. We feel that more general distri-
button of the Afro American race throughout
the states of the Union and the new terri
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
5tr1buti0n be encouraged IN an 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.
i Z. We favor both higher and industrial edu-
cation and we are grateful at the splendid
growth Of the love Of education manifested
by the eagerness with which our people fiji
all avenues of education open to them.
s.. We are gratifed at the DEVELOPMENT Of
business enterprises OF all sorts among us
ana we wish to encourage all such as being
among the strongest levers in the uplfft Of the
race We submit our cause to the fafr-mfnd-
Cd men OF our own land and of the world at
large. and invoke divine intcrposition in our
behalf. =