The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-23
AN APPEAL TO MONARCHS
Negroes Ask European Kings to
Interfere and Obtain Fair
Treatment for Them.

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Cleveland, March 23.--Three hundred
thousand negroes who belong to the
Equal Rights association have appealed
to the emperors and kings OF the OLD
world to aid them in the United states.
The petitioners declare they are victims
of gross injustice and that all OF them
are likely to be murdered by the whites
Of America. Intervention through the
representatives Of the European and ASH
attic monarchs at Washington is requested
to compel the United States to grant the
blacks the justice they assert Is denied
them. $500
c. W. Hines, chairman of the execu-
tive committee of the Equal Rights as
ISOLATION is the author Of the appeal.
| The right Of the negroes to appeal ana
| foreign governments to intervene is based
on the United States interference In be-
half of the Cubans. -..-..
I'VE, the Afro A Americans of the United
States of America says the appeal, "are
| brutally and barbarously maltreated and
| basely compelled. for no crime or INSIDE
| meanor. to suffer every ind1gnity, cruelty
and murder that inhuman, iendish ma
| ture can invent. by some of those who
once held the Afro-Americans in bondage
and slavery or the descendants of those
who once held the Afro Americans In
slavery and bondage in the United States,
and who still, without cause, harbor In
their hearts a deadly hatred against the
Afro-American race. .,.> e..
I'VE behold with sorrow and grief the
twentieth century has ushered in with
the same bloody catalogue staring the
American people in their faces, Witness
Ing mob violence. murder, DISTINGUISHING
and crime against the Atro-American to
be most alarmingly on the increase. Such
| oppression, wholesale lynching and wan
| Of
never before heard OF in any civilized
| country.
! From one to five or more are either
tortured, hung, shot or butchered, and
others are burnt to death at the stake.
1t has come to such a common occur
renee that the press and pulpit say but
little about it. They pay more attention
to the barbarities Of the foreign coun-
tries than they do to their own America;
to Stake the deadly hate and foul thirst
for murder and to wallow their hands
In the warm blood Of their dying victims.
| "And while the victims are writhing in
pain in the fire, their ears, eyes and fin
gers are cut out and off for souvenirs,
and pieces of their sizzling, frying and
burning flesh are slashed from their burn
ing bodies and are auctioned off to the
highest bidder after this fashion, holding
1t up: Who wants piece of niger
meat? Who wants piece of niger
meat?' 1T is sold at ten cents The
heart is divided into quarters and is sold
at twenty-five cents each.
And they seldom get employment ex
cept at mental labor. Wages that they
receive are the smallest that is paid to
any other employs. They are barred out
OF most every place that other races are
admitted and in places of amusement and
on common carriers, in hotels, the color
line is drawn on them. They are dis
eliminated against in the courts, now and
$4I I~,,A
not II the Afro American is litigant
In suit against any other nationality
They cannot even rent decent house to
live in.
THE courts are presided over by what
are classed as white men. The officials
OF the law are the same. except now and
then an Afro American policeman. Edu-
} cation. character and competency cut no
figure in their behalf. So there is no re-
dress to be had in America for an Afro
American against these barbarous and
fendish outrages perpetrated upon the ma
tive-born Afro-American. In the face OF
the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments to the constitution Of the
United States, the bred Scott decision is
the supreme de facto law Of this coun-
try-namely that the black men and
women have no rights that so-called
white men are bound to respect
I'VE have time, and again pleaded and
. appealed to presidents, to congresses Oh
: the United States to enforce the laws and
I to stop that inhunian wholesale murder
U that discrimination and slaughter of ar
innocent people, but every plea and ap-
peal has been ignored.
n I'VE, therefore, now. in the name Of
God Almighty, do hereby appeal to the
powers of Europe and to every civilized
nation Of the old world, through theil
representatives at Washington. D. c., tt
q interfere In some way in behalf Of the
poor. downtrodden, outraged Afro-Ameri.
n can of the United States.
s THE Americans interviewed, so they
: claimed, for humanity. because Of Spain's
barbarous treatment Of the Cubans. The,
drove the Spanish army from that island
at the cost Of many lives, censured the
Spanish throne for wholesale murder
butchery and torture Of innocent Cubans
forgetting the beam that was in theil
=. eye! Of their unequal savagery, Of burn.
Ing men alive at the stake, which Span.
iards would not tolerate to be done t
their bitterest foe.
THE foreign powers have the same ane
y better right to interfere in defense Of
o 100000 people, that are liable to be
r murdered at will by prejudiced classes
y who use that nickname, the whites O.
y America, for no cause whatever, only
their skin is darker than those that cal
themselves white people.
I'm Gods name, will the king of Eng
, land. will the emperor of Germany, will
l. the car Of Russia, will the sultan Of Tur
key, will the shah Of Persia, will the en-
peror Of Austria, will the king of Ital,
and will the king of Greece. will the presi
dent of Switzerland, will the king Of Port
ugal. will the president of France, will
the king Of Sweden and will the king o
Siam, will the emperor of China, will tn,
rulers Of Belgium, Roumania, Luxem
burg, Montenegro and all other foreign
powers interfere in some way in behal
Of the suffering, outraged and murdered
. Afro American people Of the United State
and thus save the name of Christianit,
from reproach, mockery and derision AM
the name Of humanity from shame witt
all Of it's dear amenities, from disgrace
scorn and ignominy? ~ '."'e~ .'
For Gods sake intervene to save us
the Afro-American men. women and chill
dren, before we are all murdered by thos
so-called prejudicial whites Of America
We plead. we beg Won to. .,