The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-03-28
WOULD FOREVER CLOSE THE DOOR or OPPORTUNITY
AND HOPE FOR AFRO=AMERICANS

Line negro is uSEGEJO Stdy.t8I1S Cdu-
not he deported or .cOloniZed, He is
demanding his rightful citizenship and
he must have it. He is being educated,
industrially and in every way, until he
is now fit to take his place as an in
dustrious citizen. The North must
awake to the fact that to preserve in
tact the constitution of our forefathers,
the rights of the citizens, white or
black, must be preserved
Judge Thomas Canty of Minneapolis
said:
1T is no longer a question whether
the Negro shall have suffrage, but
whether he shall have justice. While
there is some bad feeling between the
whites and the blacks in the South
generally, the hatred Of the poor white
trash for the niger is intense, and
assumes it's most sVirulent form when
the Negro is most industrious and saw
ing and attempts to put on airs"
"When the Negro is miserable,
dirty, ragged loafer, and his wife is
common prostitute, his poor, lazy
white neighbor considers the niger
is in his right place. Then there is no
niger equality. But If the Negro
provides a good home, has a fairly
good team of horses, a decent light
wagon, and his wife or daughter wears
a five dollar hat, the poor white trash
becomes furious the Negro is liable to
be white-capped or killed, and if he
gets into court against white man, no
matter how just his case, the verdict
is against him.
I'm many of the Southern states this
poor white vote is a controlling factor
in the election, and men like Tillman
gain the everlasting support of that
vote by so eloquently villifying the
Negro. Of course, the Negro is not al
ways blame1ess. In rare instances he
will violate a white woman, regardless
of consequences. He gets this instinct
from his forefathers in Africa, whose
chief occupation for thousands of years
was hunting down other men to get
their women. A thousand or so years
ago our forefathers were in the same
business. and undoubtedly left the
same instincts to some of their sons
for several generations; in fact, there
are occasional traces Of it yet!
1.-THE terrible punishment of the Ne
gro for this crime, by burning him at
the stake, and the awful orgies of the
whites on such occasions, not only IN
fame the hatred of the Negroes to the
highest pitch, but tend also to increase
the commission of that crime, because
the African instincts of the Negroes
tell them that the women Of such bar
barous, cruel and hatred enemies as
the whites, have no rights which any
Negro is bound to respect; that the
Negro who violates the women OF such
enemies is a hero, and when he IN
turn is burned at the stake, he is a
martyr.
81 am not in favor of giving coun-
tenance to savage like Tillman, who
lis tanning the flames in this awful bust
ness, and working up this race hatred
from one stage Of frenzy to another.
the United States constitution should
be repealed, and an amendment adopt
ed which would provide for the trial
of all controversies, both civil and
|criminal between whites and Negroes,
in federal courts properly organized to
do justice
Rev. T. A. PrintOn, pastor of St. Pet
er Clayer Catholic church, St.. Paul,
in a letter to the Globe says:
ut may be, as Mr.. Tillman claims,
that the Southerners are best quail
fed to solve the race problem in the
South, and that they should be left to
do so without interference from out
side But on his own admission the
problem may easily become national
concern, and by the very terms OF the
constitution it is, to some extent ma
tional concern already. 1t is national
concern to safeguard and preserve
those fundamental principles of lib
erty, indicated for the colOred as
we'll as the white man, at the cost of
the Civil war; and when the senator
from South Carolina comes among us
and equivalently tells us that it is
nine of our business what his own or
any other state may do in its treat
ment of the Negro, he is pointing the
way to what may ultimately turn out
to be treason against the constitution,
and every citizen has the right to
raise his voice in protest"
ut is hopeless to argue about the
possibility of race betterment with
one who sets out from the assump-
ton that no betterment is possible.
And it is strange logic to urge that be-
cause the Negro in the past has new
er proved what he has never had an
opportunity of proving. He should,
therefore, be considered not only in
capable of proving it under new COIL