The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-04-09
WASHINGTON
THE CITY OF MAGNIFICENT DIS
TANCES. -
A Collection Of a Few Of the Events
Occurring Among the Afro-Ameri-
cans of the Capital Of This Great
and Glorious Naticn for Our Many
Readers.

Washington, April 1.-THE Afro
American race has yet to learn the
power of petition and how to ask for
legislation that will favorably affect
cur material interests. We depend
too much on sentiment and upon get
ting one man or set of men interest
ed. But little new legislation OF any
Importance is introduced and passed
by congress without the aid of petit
lions which have been industriously
circulated and signed by interested
citizens Of communities situated in all
sections Of the country For instance,
if the powerful A. NJ E. or Baptist or
carnations favor the passage OF a
certain bill by congress, as was in
| timated by the Introduction OF GER
! tain bill a few weeks ago, it is not
probable that much attention will be
given one petition that recites the
i fact that two million members of these
organizations desire such legislation,
but on the other hand, if every church
| in the connection prepares a petl-
tion, has it signed by it's members and
| then mailed it to- a friendly member OF
| congress or to the committee in charge
| ct the bill, there~is likely to be favor
able action or else good reasons Will
| be given by the committee for its
! failure to recommend the passage OF
the bill in question.
| The work of preparing the petitions
should be done intelligently, however,
and by special committee appointed
by the organizations interested. The
idea I wish to convey is that ten
thousand petitions having the sigma
t1re OF two hundred members more or
| less, on each petition, will have an
effect where only one petition pur-
porting to be from two million mem
bers or persons, will be filed away in
a. pigeon hole and forgotten before
the sun goes down. We must learn
how to ask for what We want,
/ The language Of the republic OF
Haiti is French, while the language
of the, republic of. Santo Domingo, on
the island Of Haiti, is Spanish:
In speaking of the case of Santo
Domingo Mr.. William Bayard Hale re-
Gently wrote, among other things for
the Saturday Evening Post, the fol
lowing:t ! ..'.:s = :'%:,'. !. IS.
WORK TOT Inc OIIISI StdlCS'
cit is not unlikely that the end has
come for the experiment of black gov
eminent for Haiti. The Ethiopian has
-, been a failure in his Eden. He has
nothing, to show for century CT in
dependence but a wilderness where
there was a garden, and ruins where
there were great. monuments of indus
try, art, and JOY. His. ngOvernments
!have proven ridiculous affairs of, con-
temptible incapacity; his moral con-
dition is an affront to the conscience
of the. world. He has no principles to
.perpetuate. mo. ideals to live, for the
future holds for him, if he is suffered
to sink into it, nothing but a. total
atavism into savagery:t'tfn ever hui
name considerations called to a duty
5 they, call not the worlds attention to
the case of Santo:T Domingo ? The
::world;;' = in this, INSTANCE, is the United
States;lt's< The 'intolerable character.
which conditions in the black repub-
Flies have now assumed recommends
to the government at washington,
with what: must 7be irresistible force,
an interference in Santo Domingo for
the relief of outraged humanity and
the rescue of expiring civilization, not
to mention the behoof of morality, de-
cency, tranquility and efficiency; and
lit may be depended upon that the rec
ommendation will be Needed -
The physical, social and political
conditions as pictured by Mr.. Hale are
deplorable but what of the s"civiliza-
ton, morality 'decency'' and tranquil
ity. he wishes to substitute? Read of
the @littlet social happening in Missls-
sippi that recently occurred, and ask
yourself if Santa Domingo would be
better, or worse under the protection
of the United States. -.
The following is the editorial from rom
the Nashville American, Wednesday,
March I16. 1904. 10 That Congressman
Crumpacker of Indiana had read IN
the house during heated discussion
on the "Race Question" several days
ago: 81. .s 9 z. s+#5 's
tEsst The Brutal White.
.s.Not long ago Governor Vardaman
succeeded in preventing the lynching
of / Negro in Mississippi But there
was lynching in that state that for
Ihendish brutality has not yet been sur
passed, even when the victims have
been, roasted at the stake: It occurred
at. bod dsyille recently and these are
the circumstances as related by Local
newspapers: Luther HOlbert, a Ne.
Egro. had a quarrel with q white man..
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