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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-29

There really seem fair grounds for
believing and hoping that the Mary
land DISTINGUISHING amendment will
be defeated. Senator German, its
promoter, has recently been snubbed
very unceremoniously and has be-
come quite nervous; Mr.. Raisin, the
Baltimore boss, is Indifferent, and
Gov Warfe1d is non-committa1. A
wellinformed correspondent sums up
the situation as follows:
The effect of two signal failures on
the part of Senator German to control
his party and his consequent loss OF
prestige, has been to encourage the in
dependent element to break openly
with the leaders, with the result that
to the machine has rapidly
crystallized and now presents for
organization that bids fair to
Wrest from Senator German the con-
troll of a party over which his sway
and dictatorship has been undisputed
for a quarter of century.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-29

Another insidious advance in the dl-
rection of social equality has recently
TRANSFERRED in New York. A white Wo'
man, daughter of George W. Smalley
and granddaughter by adoption OF
Wendell Phillips. has accepted the
position of stenographer for Charles
w. Anderson, the Afro-American rev.
enue collector. Such incidents exas-
rerate the sensibilities of our South
EN- brethren, and should not be allow
ed. And to add to the bitterness OF
the pill. Miss Smalley coolly explains
that she has no prejudice against color.
But the Southern journals will not al
low this infraction of their ethical code
to pass by unrebuked. Miss Smalley
NAV listen for braying.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-29

Mr Rockefeller has made donation
of S1O,OOO,00O for the promotion OF
"hieher education'' throughout the Uni
ted States, under the supervision OF
Robert C. Ogden. Of course the South
will not accept her share Of the donat-
ion, for dear old Leopard Spots Dixon
says that Ogden is a Negro worshlpef
and believer in social equality, which
settles the question. Dixon is feartully
ignorant of Southern characteristics II
he thinks that social equality OF any
thing else will restrain Mississippi,
South Carolina and Louisiana Doodle
snatchers from having a grab at that
pile. They are not built that way. nel-
Their is Dixon himself.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-29

GAS ye SOW, so shall We reap. That
is the lesson: the one unchanging and
unalterable law Of national as we'll as
individual existence in this world.
The Russian government is learning
it today, just as the Romans learned it
when the Goths and Vandals burst
with sharp swords and blazing torches
into Italy. Roman vice and crime. IN
which they had been sunk SO long, pro-
videi their own punishment for the
Roman people and made them easy
victims of the fierce and terrible
"scourge of Cod
We frd the above truthful and spirit
ed expressions in a leading daily. 1t
is another illustration of the truth of
the old fable The faults of Russia
are in the bag before the editors face;
those of the United States. in the one
behind his back, Nevertheless, his
statements are as true Of the United
States as of Russians ye SOW, We
shall reap. The old Greek tragedian
wrote: Gods dice are always load
ed"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-29
recent lynching at Dumas.

A recent lynching at Dumas, Ark,
was marked by a peculiar feature that
the alleged offense was a black man
clipping with a white woman. Dumas
is little scare-crow of a town in
Southern Arkansas inhabited by
tough class Of hillbillies. The proof OF
the offense was that the parties were
travelling upon the same train, and OF
course in separate cars, for such is the
Arkansas Lag. Among the things
most strenuosly denied by Southern
writer's is the existence Of illicit re-
lations between black men, and white
women, but in this case their conten-
ton is that such relations do some
times exist, by the consent of the Wo-
man. This fact being admitted, it is
(easy to account for many of the lynch
ingS
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-29
Americans are very proud Of boast

Americans are very proud OF BOAST
ing of their free government and very
prone to censure the centralized gov
ernments Of the rest Of the world.
But there is lot of bosh about both
performances, for the United States
is composed of some states whose
governments are oligarchies, pure and
simple. Rhode Island is an oligarchy
CT the purest tyre, controlled by men
who are grand dukes in everything
except name. Mississippi is an OIL
garchy and about one thousand peo-
pie choose crack-brained John Sharp
Williams as Grand Duke. These two
states are By no means the only OIL
garchies in the United States and we
have not much right to make faces at
Russia and Turkey.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-29

For pure unadulteTated savagery'
the Watl1insville,- Ca, lynching bears
the palm. It's promoters had no re,
spect for race, color or degrees OF
crime, but just went into it for the
fun of the thing. 1t used to be said:
'Scratch a Russian and you will dis
cover a Tartar Is it not probable
that ere long this will be paraphras-
ed: "Scratc!1 a Southerner and you
will find a fend.'
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-29
The records made by Afro-American

The records made by Afro-Am erican
youth at our very best universities
ought to be a source of pride to every
Que Of the race, and serve as a CON-
plete reply to the aspecsions of the
enemies OF the Afro-American people.
We shall mention two instances: The
first is of Charles S. Duke, Of Pine
Bluff. Ark who bore off the first
matthews teal honors at Harvard re-
Gently. Duke was pupil Of Prof. J..
C. Corbin, veteran educator, to whom
he owed his early training and is an
evidence of the excellence Of that
training. The second instance is the
following f.2.ss-.< -..>.-@ u il - ..s
The highest honors in the senior
class at Cornell have. been awarded
to Jessie r. Fauset. the Only one OF
her race in the college of arts She
competed with 100 white students,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-29

An Afro-American exchange gets on
g. lot of rot about the Afro-American
being the inventor of the steam en-
CINE and the telephone. Now ii the
editor will furnish some proof OF the
truth OF his statements, he will do his
race an immense service. But we 90
not believe ne can or will do ,anyth1n
Of the kind and in our opinion he IS
merely talking through his hat. Such
folly does the race no good.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-29

There is something almost sublime
in the manner in which the Equitable
Insurance boodlers helped themselves.
Such high and lofty scooping was
never before heard Of A tip OF hum
dred thousand dollars was an ordinary
occurrence. Just think how those
high-toned scoundrels would declalm
over the depravity of an Afro-Amerl-
can who did some petty thleVlng:
Aad Just think how the Devil would
chuckle while they were doing so!
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-29

In his 4th OF July campaign opening
address. Gov. Jeff. Davis, of Arkansas,
said: But it is not necessary to steal
ballot boxes in eastern Arkansas any
more, as the niger is weaned from
voting But according to Jeff's own
statement. his white constituents are
doins an immense amount of stealing
from each other and from the state.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-29

Eeta Kappa award in this country. :.
japan has established schools TOR
the purpose of teaching the ignorant
Russian prisoners to read and write.
A, Polish soldier was much impressed
by the fact that he had to learn to
read his own language in Japan and
the world Will not fail to make a note
of it, =. -... $500 g r ~
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-29

We fail to see any reason why Mrs.
Mary Rogers, of Vermont. who IS un-
der sentence of death for the murder
Of her husband, at the instance OF
her paramour should not suffer the
death penalty. Her crime was OF more
than ordinary atrocity and without
one single redeeming feature. so
abandoned a creature deserves no
mart of the consideration usually &C
corded to virtuouS women
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-29

Governor Terrell, of Georgia, deeply
deplores" the lynching Of eight men
at Watkinsville; but says it is too late
now to take any steps in regard to the
matter. Georgia has a very dimiautive
governor. The state ought to SEND
him to a kindergarten for needed IN
strH stiOu. -. 10
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-29
CANNON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
ATLANTA, GEORGIA

ALBANIA, SEOIAIAa
AIMS AND METHODS
teal work in helping men towards sue
cess in the ministry. It's course Of study
is broad and practical; its ideas are high;
it's work is thorough; it's methods are
fresh, systematic, clear and simple.
CCCRSE OF STUDY
The regular course Of study occupies
three years, and covers the lines of work
in the several departments Of theological
instruction usually pursued in the lead
ing theological seminaries of the country.
EXPENSES AND AID
Tuition and room rent are free. The
apartments for students are plainly fur
nished. Good board can be had for
seven dollars per month. Buildings heat
Ala ID from loans without interest, and
gifts Of friends, granted to deserv-
ing students who do their utmost in the
line of self-help. No young man with
grace, gifts, and energy, need be deprived
of the advantages now opened to him
in this Seminary. For further particulars
address
L.G. Atkinson, D. D.,
Pres. Cannon Theological Seminary,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-29
.BRA|NERD INSTITUTE

A normal and industrial school with a
graded course of study. designed to give
thorough, symmetrical and complete
English education, and lay a solid foun-
dation for success and usefulness in every
vocation of life. Board and boarding hall
CHESTER, S. c
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-29

and it is believed will be the first
woman of her race to receive the Phi
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-29
SCOTIA SEMINARY
rNNH0Rn ri =

This we'll known school, established for
the higher education of girls will open
will be made to provide for the comfort.
health and thorough instruction of stu
dents. Expense for board, light, fuel,
washing. $45, for term of eight months.
Address
Rev. .. J. satterfield, .. D.,
Concord, N. c.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-29


BOOKER r. WASHINGTON, Principal.
WARREN LOGAN, Treasurer.
LOCATION
In the Black Belt of Alabama where the
blacks outnumber the whites three to one.
ENROLMENT AND FACULTY
Enrolment last year 1883; males, 882;
females, 81. Average attendance. 1,105.--
Instructors, SO.
COURSE OF STUDY
English education combined with industrial,
traizing; rs industries in constant operation.
VALUE Of PROPERTY
Property consisting of 2.267 acres of land.
50 buildings almost wholly built with student
labor, is valued at $350,000, and no mortgage.
$50 annually for the education of each stu
dent; ($z0O enables one to finish the course;
$1,000 creates permanent scholarship. Students
pay their own board in cash and labor.l
Money in any amount for current expenses
and building.
Besides the work done by graduates as class
room and industrial leaders, thousands are
reached through the Tuskegee Negro Confer
ence.
Tuskegee is 40 miles east of Montgomery and
l3o miles west of Atlanta. on the Western Rail
roa>- 8 Alabama.
Tuskegee is quiet, beautiful old Southern
town, and is an ideal place for study. The CHI
mate is at all times mild and uniform. thus
making the place al excellent winter resort.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-29
EnLLEEEE EMu E.HdoLa.
ATLANTA UNIVERSITY, Atlanta Ga.


Athletic
u or
The wageworker., 1905-12-22

the farthest. The strongest of the English
unions pay weekly benefits OF from s1.oo to
$500 to the unemployed, sick, and those dis
abled by accident. They pay an old age bene-
fit for life. and the death of a member
certain sum for funeral expenses. 1t is easy
to see that these features have very great in
fuence i'll holding the men together The
English workman pays about $3.50 year to
his union. This is more than American
workman pays, because the insurance feature
is not SO fully developed in this country. There
are a good many unions in the United States
paying benefits of one kind or another and it
is only question of time when insurance will
be common America must provide for its
working people in sickness and old age either
through its labor unions or through some>sys-
tenn of state insurance. Under the guidance of
Bismarck, Germany began compulsory nsur-
ance against sickness, accident, invalidity and.
old age for nearly all classes of worknefl earn
ing less than $500 per year. Austria, Denmark,
Belgium, France and Italy have followed the
lead of Germany and all have some fofm OF in
The wageworker., 1905-12-22

was 500 per year and food and sometimes lodg-
ing; but out of this the wage Garner must
maintain his family. The hundred years of
conflict between master and man has certainly
been of some benefit to the latter, as accord
ing to the accepted authorities today the av-
eragc wage is S436 per year.
So we believe fair in saying that the
first 100 years of labor unions have brought
about, first, rise i'll wages for the wage Garner;
second. shorter hours: third, better conditions
of labor for his women and children, and fourth,
decrease in child labor.
There is much question as to the origin of
the labor organizations, but they are generally
considered to be development of the Nine
teenth century. Beatrice and Sidney Webb,
the English authorities. claim labor unions as
a product of the capitalization of industry,
which makes the barrier between journeymen
and master practically impossible for the great
majority of workmen.
The first labor unions of which we have posi-
tive records in the United States are the Jour
neymen Shipwrights of New York, 1908, and
the Boot and Shoemakers Union OF Philadel-
phia, 1906. From this time to the present there
has been remarkably steady growth of labor
The wageworker., 1905-12-22

and in several costly strikes lost most of its
membership and is today hardly than
Upon the ruins of the Knights of Labor was
built the American Federation of Labor, an or
ganization having today membership of near
ly 1000 900. The Federation is organized up
on almost directly opposite principles from the
Knights of Labor. 1t believes in the trades
unions and the trades union idea opposed to
the labor union That is, eacl. trade shall or
ganize the in that business and form
union whose membership shall be based upon
every man being worker i'll that particular
trade. Then each union as body is mem
Der of the Federation and entitled to send dele
gates to central meetings when questions of
policy are decided. The idea Of the labor lead
ers today is to have each union control its
local affairs and keep an independent organ
ization subject only to general broad principles
OF policy as outlined by the national organ
ization.
Judging by the past history of labor unions
the successful unions of the future must beware
of partisan politics, violence and socialism, The
strongest unions everywhere today are the
which have carried the insurance idea
The wageworker., 1905-12-22

OF labor unions that from the first they have
been opposed to child labor. and it is largely
due to their efforts that any laws have been
passed restricting the labor of children. The
master class has always been opposed to any
laws raising the age at which children may be
employed, in betterng the conditions of
their work. From the glass manufacturers of
Indiana. where the blowers helpers small
children living i'll veritable slavery, and from
the owners of the cotton mills of the south
where nearly Is per cent OF their total enl-
ployes are small children. to the rich depart
ment store owners of Chicago the master is
always fighting against laws and conditions
that advance the welfare of the wage Garner,
his women or his children Henry White, one
of the strongest and clearest headed of the la
Dor leaders i'll this country, says: Instead of
solution hope for less injustice, more human
ty. for larger participation by the average
person in the benefits of civilization.
We find our railroads in this country in jur-
ing one in eleven of their trainmen every year.
and killing one in every 13:. They oppose all
laws that compel them to safeguard the lives
of their employees with modern appliances and
improvements, while on the other hand they
The wageworker., 1905-12-22

unions. At first there a large number
OF small unions. loosely organized semi-polit-
cal which dissipated their energies in political
reform questions and went to pieces Then
old customs would be abandoned and larger
and stronger union the outcome. The In
ternational Typographical Union, founded in
1850. was one of the first of the national
ions The National Labor Unlon organized in
1866 grew in few years to total membership
of 640,0 900, but was drawn into politics and the
question of irredeemable paper money, and
perished. The next strong union was the
Knights of Labor. Starting from small local
union of seven garment cutters in 1869, it grew
to 100000 members in 1886. 1t had highly
centralized form of government and although
starting as trade union finally admitted to
membership anyone over 16 years of age who
not lawyer, banker, professional gambler
or liquor dealer The official policy to
discourage strikes and boycotts, and to de-
pend upon political action, cooperation and
education. The knights of Labor became in
volved in the free silver campaign Of the ,9os,
The wageworker., 1905-12-22

have passed wherever possible laws limiting
their liability.
We find the master class ready to make
the laborer work II. 16 or even Is hours day,
and fighting with all their power the laws
which reduced the work day to 1 hours and
then to 10 hours just they fighting
the hour day. This same condition has mark
ed the fight Of the wage for better
wages. One of the earliest strikes recorded in
this country was i'll 1908, when the sailors of
New York struck for all increase in wages
from $40 to Sill per month. Like so many of
the later ones this strike was unsuccessful. 1t
is worth while to note the wages of 100 years
ago, SO as to what the wage has.
gained since that time
Laborers on the Pennsylvania canal were
paid $66 a year and lodged and fed in the
poorest manner. Hold carriers and mortar
mixers on the work at Washington received $40
per year. The hours of labor were from
rise to sunset and in New York wages averaged
40 cents per day According tonic Master the
average wage at this time i'll the United States
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-12-31

WaShingtOn. Dec. The body Of
b soldier killed In active service can.
not b cent home 10 his relatives 81
gOveTnmont expense for burial II be
iies In the United states More.
Dver. the body must Be placed IN the
BrArs department. This Wa the de.
eodin issued By the QuArtermastsr gea.
elsioa % the comptroller az the treas.
NJ n ths case % Private Albert LAsts.
NWshty-ninth battery. neld artillery
EAo WHs killed a. FOrI RILEY. KAa,
Ast OC,obeg.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-12-31
TWO MEN INDICTED
BY FEDERAL JURY
Banker and Bartender Charged
With Misuse Of Nails.
GOLD FRAUDULENT Options
Bought 1000 Acres Of Louisiana Land
at $3.50 per acre and sold the Land
Cut Up Into Lots 20 Feet Square for
S2O-Ss,OoO lnstssd $4,000 Assets,

Chicago. Dec. SO,--Tac federal
grand jury has returned Indictments
against Louis A. Gourjain. proprietor
Of the Imperial bank Of Dearborn and
Madison street. and John H. Dalton,
forme< proprietor Of a NORTH Side ga.
loon. both accused OF using the mails
TO defraud.
The indictments accuse them " sell
Ing fraudulent options on alleged oil
lands In Louisiana. The indictmets
state that Dalton and GourIai ac,lns
under the name Of the Louisiana State
Loan and Trust company Of New or.
leans. purchased 1000 acres Of land
In WinnI parish, La. al 81 80 an acre.
plated the land into land 20 feet
square and offered options on tneso
plots for SEQ each down to soc Caca
These option certificates were made
to resemble lottery tickets and Ger.
tain prizes ranging from DOC to s.
were paid as bait.
Monthly lists. purborting % be the
lists OF prices bid for the oil lands
were sent out to the purchases OF op.
lions. The indictments state that
the enterprise was 1 fraud; tnat tle
leases were worth 10 more than NC
each that no oil ever was found on
the lands; that no bids had been
made; that the assets OF toe compa.
ny were s.. 100 instead e. 81 500. 600.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-12-31
CO EnpIoaIon InIurss FamIIy.

McKeespOTt, pa, Dec. 80. Mrs
Hattie Sweeney was fatally burned aud
eight other members Of the Sweeney
family were seriously injured as the
result OF a natural gas explosion In the
kitchen OF their home a rubber hose
used in connection with the cooking
stove with the gas pipe. became De.
tached during the night and when Mrs
Sweeney struck q match TO light the
hre this morning the gas exploded. The
house was completely wrecked.