The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-04-30

D.
Of the board Of trustees of Howard |
University, and Prof. F. w. Fairfield,
dean of the College of Arts and Sci |
ences.
Miss Nettie Murray rendered a vo-
cal solo. Mr.. Clarence White rendered
a violin solo, accompanied by Miss
Beatrice Warwick Other selections
were furnished by the Howard Univer-
sity Band.
The president Of the United States,
received the Council Saturday at the
White House at IL o'clock.
Commissioner West has received
from the Frederick Douglass Memorial
and Historical Association a request
that the home of the late Frederick
Douglass on Cedar Hill, Anacostia, be
exempted from taxation. 1t is stated
that it is proposed to dedicate this
property to the memory Of the famous
leader.
AS compliment to the young ladies
who gave a masquerade some months
ago, a number of the young men hon
cred gave dance last Friday evening
al Gray's Banquet Hall. Those pres
ent were Misses Euretta Mathews, FL
frida Kennedy. Gursta Sma1lwCod, Ger
trude Ryan, Estell Kennedy, Lizzie
Yates, Lillian Rarker, Eliza Bell, Grace
Green, Clotile Huston. Gertrude Clark,
jamie Coles and Messrs. J. Cubert
Campbell, John Wright, Ulysses Hus-
ton James Lee Samuel JACKSON,
Samuel Enwell, Allen Levey, Roscoe
Brown, Lloyd Jones, Chas. Evans,
Joseph Bryant and Almond Scott
Miss Louise Smallwood chaperoned
the party.
The Baltimore conference CT the A.
M. E. Church adopted a resolution
appealing to President Roosevelt for
his support in an effort to secure per-
mission for an Afro-American exhibit
ton at the St. Louis fair. Now the
fair opens on April 3Oth. A building
would have to be erected, exhibits col
lected and classified. In fact no kind
of creditable showing could be made
by our people without special prepare
ton, and to attempt such thing at
this. the eleventh hour, would be ex-
tremely foolish. OF course, there will
special Afro-Amefican exhibit, and I
merely point out the manner in which
our people go about things. If the
request was granted, the fair would be
closing before we, would be ready to
throw open the doors of the proposed
Afro-American Building to the visitors.
Mr.: Hale G.. Parker of Chicago was,
in our city'a few days last week.
Senator A. J. Hopkins sent out hun
dreds of packages of vegetable seed
to the Afro-American farmers of the
state this year.
Mr.. Archer Marshall of Boston has
been in the city several days visiting
friends and relatives.
Mr.. Chas. J. Pickett will leave for
Chicago May 5th.
The recent speech of Congressman
Morrell of Pennsylvania, in answer to
Representative Hardwick of Georgia.
was a splendid effort and is being
widely discussed. He made an e1o-
quent plea for the Afro-American and
presented enough facts and figures to
take the breath of the average South
ern Congressman. The speech was a
Congressional Record of April 9Th.
Mr.. Morrell said in part:
eff the Afro-Americans are going
back as result of education, so are
we. What example, may l. ask, do we
give of civilized methods as the result !
of over two thousand years of educa-
ton and consequent supposed refine |
ment? We institute the stockade prin-
ciple, where man is worse than
slave we prevent him by intimidation
from exercising the civil rights which |
we know belong to him under the in
strument which made us what we are. !
When a crime is committed we follow
him like wild beast, with dogs. When |
captured we burn him alive, like the |
Indians did their captives during the
early days Of this country. and at the
same time we are admitting the In |
dams to citizenship.
compare the Afro-American people, |
whom it is quietly proposed to disfran-
chise, with certain classes of foreign |
ers who come to our shores. ignorant |
of our laws, ignorant of our language, J
ignorant of our institutions, who are |
eagerly naturalized, sometimes even
before the legal qualifications have |
been quasi conformed to.
LET me refer the House to a care |
fully prepare list of the property inter-
ests of those affected by the amend
ments the gentleman would annul, |
nh oh int. IN
nectiOn let me suggest another
thought. BY repeating the fourteenth !
and fifteenth amendments, at once all
the Afro-Americans in the United |
States would be disfranchised. Of all
the farms at the present time in the |!
United States, according to the census |
of 1900, 10 per cent are owned or !
operated by Afro-American farmers,
and according to Mr.. Talcott Williams,
editor Of the Philadelphia Press, the
amount of property now owned by the
in this country |
amounts to almost 81. O00,eOO,O00. H. /
+ .*Now, by the resolutions introduced ,
by the gentleman from Georgia and !,
others, it is proposed to disfranchise !
all the owners of this property. II
would like to ask what were the caus-
es. which led UP to the Declaration of |
Independence; what was it that our
forefathers fought for during 1776?
Let me suggest that the initial cause |
for which we fought was that there !
should be mo taxation without repre-
sentation," and there can be no repre-
sentation without the right to exercise !
the franchise. Direct representation |
Of those. governed in the governing