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The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1906-04-13
Checks Cashed in Saloons

Representatives from McGregor Mis-
sion are urging a matter of great i'm
portance in Detroit. Many of the man
ufacturers of the city pay their help by
check, and two-thirds of these checks,
as has been ascertained by investiga-
ton, are cashed in the saloons, and Of
course the bar is patronized and much
money finds it's way into the saloon
keepers till that otherwise might be
taken home or spent to better service.
If factory men were paid in cash rather
than by check, it would call for a little
more bookkeeping perhaps, and in some
instances might work hardship, but in
behalf of temperance and protection of
their workmen, most men who employ
help should, and we believe would,
gladly accede to this request.
The city itself pays by check largely
and might we'll adopt this method of
cash payment, and thus be an example
to other industries of Detroit. The
water board already pays by cash and
the various city departments might we'll
do likewise.
The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1906-04-13

Minneapolis, Mimi, in 1895, had $50
saloons. The city was divided into
twelve districts and the saloons licensed
in only one district. Twenty-eight
policemen were sufficient for the entire
eleven districts without saloons, but the
one saloon district had one hundred and
forty-seven policemen. Who pays these
extra men?
Vermont had only about thirty-fve
policemen in the entire state while she
had state prohibition. Burlington
alone, under the license now, has more
than half that number. What necessi-
tated more policemen?
The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1906-04-13
THE ILLINOIS ISSUE
Something Rich

following clipped Champion Play
consideration preachers
appear There right
track than when the brains the other side beginning
to preachers to preach
prominent politician of the Illinois,
said the writer while ust
continue preach what the saoonkprs call
simple gospel and Of politics.
mu At this point the speaker his Bu when
that they begin try and influence their constituency c
the liquor traffic and organize to this end that the whisky
alarmed
following simply emphasize
statement.
medd1ers Where they should be manly leaders ~
Of the ministers study art public
speaking become good readers the what wonders
they could with within the fold well those beyond the
When the Bible first translated into English people Travelled
us, good
Today should reading Of eloquent
the Word to their the face denoncng
saloons and invoking the aid Of lawmakers
$$s S;sS ;;
and city councils less there would be and less e
Every preacher who helps to make dry bts increases the army
bootleggrs and thereby poson the and anarchy
We wish to make few comments the above First note well the
expression The
firmly they regretted
it in the past, they will regret it in the future
their
of great present ministry
the snce and art public speaking good readers Of the
scrintures Get whisky crowd TOGETHER ANYWHERE mark their intel
gn and would wonder why thought of that before
Third know of the cloth who are loyal the saloon
institution and who have scarcely been known detrimental
word concerning and have hear of saoonkper who has
lost his life by flood Storm trying get to church hear these
preach
srong and eloquent of the World to their congregations would
be saloonkeeper today
Fifth eff they would depend God and city councils e
peace less alcohol world
Champion Play say
hearty Amen In proof thereof want that just the
fighting local bill that have upon
city councils but upon God in the heart of the
saloons for Chicago policeman
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-10-27
"THE euYAscuTus is LOOSE

Senator Tillman is cayorting
around. and the newspapers are Civ,
ing great deal of space to his clap
trap and slush as though they were
ct some Importance Among other
Things, he poses as a prophet and
predicts that in less than ten years
there Will be race riots "beside which
the Atlanta riot will pale into insig-
nlHcance." He lays down six propo-
sltlons which he says cannot be dis
puted, among which we discern some
faint streaks of sanity. Among these
ere his admission that lynching has
failed to- prevent criminal assault. He
says that the superior race should
protect many millions Of innocent
Negroes' from false teachers and bad
leaders,; and he asserts that the line
must be drawn as sternly between
white men and black women as be-
tween black men and white women.
And right here THE APPEAL re-
marks. that as to the last proposition
it will render Senator Tillman all the
aid in it's power. But Gilman says
not enc word about the igin-mill. the
very fons ct origo Of nearly all the
race troubles. Of course he could say
nothing about the dive, since every
body knows about his strenuous and
successful efforts to turn the state
OF South Carolina into an immense
'tbliud tiger" But he concludes by
urging the men of the South to go
ahead and do what they think right
in the matter. regardless of all the
Yankees between Cape Cod and hell
But all the rawlings Of all the Ti1lmanc
that ever lived amount to nothing
when arrayed against the instincts
and PURPOSES of the civilized citizens
tof the United States, who constitute
an immense majority of the people.
His little gang of marauders could not
gain fair victory over one windmill.
Tillman may-
Rave and snort like Bashans bull,
Or braying ass, of mischief full,
But the Yankees have once whipped
some Of the deviltry out of his sans
culottes and can do it again.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-10-27
COL. THoMPsoN's PLAN

One Colonel Thompson OF Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, the town Of lynching
fame, thinks that the United States
government ought to collect the idle,
sEiftless Negroes" ship them to Pan
ANA and compel them to build the
canal. That's his solution of the race
question.
In an interview Col. Thompson
says: ut is the idle Negro who makes
the race issue in the South. The
working Negro is respected and en-
couraged. and we want him to remain,
but we are going to get rid of the
other class, no matter how it is done.
No greater falsehood was ever ut
tered than "The working Negro is
respected and encouraged" No man
with Negro blood in his veins is re-
spected in the South. If a man were
{; veritable Christ in all Of his deal
ings with his fellow man and was
able to work twenty hours out of
every twenty-four, he would still be
looked upon with contempt If Of the
Afro-American race.
The latter part of Col. Thompson
statement is very true. The. Caucas-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-10-27

* /
1t is a little hard to decide which
Tillman despises most heartily the
Afro-Ame1ican or the Yankee, by
which term is meant all the white
people of the North. He loses no
opportunity to pitchfork the latter
class in his, usual low-fung style. But
he is finding out that the Yankee
fails to recognize in him superior
being and is handing him back as
good as he sends. The Chicago Chron-
icle voices its opinion Of Southern
superiority in the following neat man
ner: At Argenta and other points in.
Arkansas there seems to be- a move
ment to drive the blacks out of the
state. It would be interesting to OBJ
serve the result of this campaign if
It were successful. 1t is notorious
thatssthe Negroes do all the work in
Arkansas. The white men, as "a gen
eral thing, are lazy, loafng whisky
drinking, tcbacco-munching persons
Woo divide their attention between
gambling and manslaughter. No now
er on earth could induce these men
to work, so that It becomes a matter
OF vital interest to know what would
be the fate of Arkansas with the
Negroes driven out. This considera-
ton may influence + the Caueasians
who are now trying to evict the
blacks"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-10-27
DEPRAviTY AND SUFFERING

among the results Of the frenzied
discussion of the Afro American and
the lylng reports of his assaults up
On white women, is one which UNI
anticipated, may have considerable
effect upon public sentiment: that
IS That the white woman, about and
around whom the war Of words has
RACED, mas come to the front. and
IS having her say through the public
press. And if those women tell all
they know about certain conditions
which have prevailed in the South
from time immemorial, it will be a
SAD revelation of wide spread de-
pravlty upon the one hand and of
the most intense suffering uron the
other ~ IS
NO one can tell what both the white
and BLACK women of the South have
suffered on account of the liasons
which have existed between the
races. Many of the Afro-American
women have been despoiled Of their
virtue and made unwilling rivals OF
their white sisters:
Of course it is one Of the conditions
OF existence and inseparable from the
institution OF slavery that the women
OF the enslaved race have no legal
protection and are at the mercy Of
the masters This applies to feudal-
ism as well as actual slavery, during
the prevalence of which concubinage
OF the bond woman was distinctly af-
firmed in the law Of the land In this
particular the evil effects of slavery
have survived the institution itself
end are still prevalent throughout
the entire South.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-10-27

Our Southern brethren are in great
danger of losing their prestige in the
matter of knowing how to deal with
the Afro-American which they have
persistently claimed to have a monop
oily of knowledge. They have from
time immemorial hurled the bitterest
reproaches at the North, or to use
Senator Tillman's language call the
Yankees between Cape Cod and hell
for presuming to know anything about
the matter. But present conditions by
no means substantiate the claims OF
the brethren aforesaid. Public senti
ment, as exhibited by the press, does
not seem to accept the Atlanta meth.
cd as bowling success; and thus far
the only congratulations offered have
been those of the Cossacks of Russia
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self to be an migrate by blackguard-
ing the men who paid for his bread
and butter.
3. He has shown his conspicuous
unf1tness to be a U. S. Senator by
sneering at majority of the people
of the United States as Yankees. And
yet were it mot for fear of those
Yankees the Afro-Americans of South
Carolina would eat up the Tillman
outfit rump and stump.
A. Senator Tillman predicts race
riots that will eclipse the Atlanta
horror. inside of ten years. And THE
APPEAL predicts that if his predic-
ton is verified, the Senator will va
NOSE, skedadle shin up stump and
call on 'all the Yankees between
Cape Cod and He'll to quickly trek
down in South Carolina. Thus did
Falstaff, thus did Bombastes Furioso,
thus did Sancho Panza. So Tillman's
Fee, Fsa, Fun does not scare any
body.
5. Senator Tillman asserts that
the Afro::Americans hope for ANAL
gamation and that the Yankees" are
planning to bring it about in the
South. The Senator need not go
from home to find the promoters Of
amalgamation. There they are thick
as autumn leaves, and cheeky as the
Devil. or Tillman himself South Car
olinians may do q great deal to tran
quilize the Senator, but when he
jumps on amal2amation, he is inter
fering with inalienable rights. The
Senator dOesn's pan out very much
on the Constitution, but he must be-
ware how he trenches upon the pur-
suit Of happiness and vested rights.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-10-27

4 queer incident is reported from
Leesburg, Ga. Six months ago. a
white Georgia belle, Miss Green, was
married to one Mr.. Wilson, who was
said to be Of French descent. The
wedding was a tony affair and the
newly married couple took up their
residence in handsome house in
which they entertained the aristoc-
racy Of Leesburg very lavishly. All
went as merry as wedding bell until
the couple had spat, in the course of
which Wilson informed the bride that
he had Negro blood in his veins. The
results of this idiotic move were that
Wilson had to flee to escape from
being lynched by his wife's relatives,
WEo offered a reward of $500 for his
capture, dead or alive while the wife
has to be constantly watched to save
her from suicide. It is. almost need
less to note the fact that this strange
case was the result Of the illicit rela-
tons which heretofore existed be-
tween Wilson's male progenitors and
Afro-American women. Things change
around, sometimes, very queerly.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-10-27

The Importation of Italian laborers
to the South Snay be a grand success
as whole, but it certainly is attend
ed by some embarrassing incidents.
For instance, recently in West Virgin
ia, a railroad contractor, Fitzgerald
discharged some of his laborers. The
following result occurred: The dis.
charged Italians became enraaed AND
about IL o'clock, as Fitzgerald was
riding along the line of his work, he
was fired on from a shack He fell
from his horse with three bullets in
his body. Italians to the number o.
twelve or fifteen rushed up and plung-
ed knives and dirks into the already
dying man.
1t seems probable that lynching will
shortly become the popular mode of
Furnishing a man for discharging his
employees.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-10-27

Nearly all of our race troubles may
be traced back to the doings and
savings of three classes of unclean
animals, the divekeeper, the harlot
and the rabble rouser. The dive
keeper and the harlot started the
thing in Argenta, the rabble rouser
was the exciting cause in Atlanta.
Afro-American breaches and teachers
can not deprive the divekeepers of
their licenses. nor break up the re-
sorts where white and black. male
and female, indulge in their social
equality orgies They can not pre-
vent rich merchants and bankers
from renting their buildings for the
accommodation of degenerates, or
from setting up dives with Afro
Americans as managers in order to
cater to the Afro-American trade. and
the authorities are afraid to do their
duty; for as the mob said to the
Atlanta officer: eve voted for you
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SOME ADVICE 70 GOV. JELI<.

SOME ADVICE sTp GOV. JEL!<s.
Gov. JeliSs, of Alabama, has sent !,
communication to an Afro American
journal, giving some wise and timely
advice to the race which that paper
represents. But the. governor does
not seem to realize the fact that much
CT his advice is as badly needed by
his own race as by the Afro Ameri-
can. The saloon and the harlot are
at the bottom Of nearly all the race
riots; and the dives are nearly all
kept by white men. The late Arkansas
riot originated in the rivalry of a
white and black man for the favors
of an Afro-American harlot. Now, if
Gov. jerks will take the advice of
Senator Tillman, and punish white
men as severely for consorting with
black strumpets 9as Afro-American
men are punished for consorting with
white women, he will take step in
the right direction 1t would be well
for him to take into consideration the
fact that THE SINGLE CITY OF
CHICAGO, IN A YEAR, FURNISHES
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-10-27

isns of the South are determined to
compel the Afro-Americans to work
for them for starvation wages or "get
rid of them no matter how it is DONE .
The Atlanta M emphis-W Whining ton-Ar-
genta-Carrollton-C opiah-Hamburg plan
of ;getting rid of them. is being
worked very effectively in the South
nowadays.
President Rooseyelt's administration
is just now working hard to stamp out
peonage in the South and will not, of
course so into the slavery business it.
self
Col. Thompson certainly has nerve
to present such proposition to the
President.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-10-27

The Chicago Chronicle rebukes the
'Chautauqua caterers to depraved
tastes" who employ Senator Tillman,
the fire-brand hurler, to rouse up
the rabble in the North. The rebuke
is timely, but so long as depraved
tastes will pay the freight, the
Chautauquanites will cater. They
are not in business for their health
they are neither moralists nor phil
anthropists. And by the way, are
they any worse, in reality, than the
newspapers who parade their biggest
headlines to giving the Clansmen a
boom?
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-10-27

The Baltimore Sun favors ethical
teaching for Afro-American youth and
thinks that the schools are not do
ing what is expected Of them. But
the real trouble is that the schools
have no chance to teach the vast
majority of the Afro-American youth.
ethically or otherwise, from the sim
pie fact that the American youth
do not attend. So far as is known.
the schools seem to have done fair
~ well with those who have attended,
for the record shows that the criminals
are generally of the most illiterate
class. The real need is more schools
and better ones.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-10-27

John Sharp Williams views the
question CT government ownership of
railroads respectfully from the stand
point or racial peace and quiet in the
south 1t seems to be impossible for
MI. Williams and many other solid
south democrats to rise above the
level of Jim Crow craftsmanship.
Some time they will rise to higher
level and then the south will cease
to be solid
The essence Of the jimcrow policy is
simply to restore the conditions that
existed during slavery times, so far
as possible
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-10-27

The New Orleans Times-Democrat
speaks of Senator's Baileys plea that
ne has right to add to the vocation of
corporation counsel to his functions
OF United States Senator-las an Gun
satisfactory Defense and indefens-
ible upon any ground Upon the
proposition: Should a senator be the
tool Of corporation, but little argu-
ment is needed.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-10-27

SeatOr Tillman has made a lectur-
Ing tour through the country and, of
course, so important an event has
had results some of which THE APP
PEAL proposes to tabulate, as our
mathematical professor used to say.
l. The Senator has pocketed, so
it Is said, the neat sum of $4,000,
which has made him a bigger fool
than Thompson's colt.
2. Senator Tillman has shown him
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-10-27

the angelic sex during the reign of
terror in France. A very good idea of
the capabilities CT women during such
times may be gained by studying the
characters OF "The Vengeance" and
Madame Defarge' in Dickens ''Tale
OF 1fWc Cities The fact seems to be
That women are more easily brutalized
than men; being more impulsive and
less reflective. And when they be-
come brutalized, they remain so.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-10-27

NO Great God delfper as!
From the leagued lying of despot and Of brute,
Great God delber Us!
city lay travail God Lord, and from her IONS prang
Murder and Black Hate Red the dnigh ang crack
fiery filled the and reb1ed underneath the
when church spires pointed silently to Thee And all this
greed greedy hide behind the veil Of vengance
as Thine ear 0 Lord!
= In the pale still morning looked the deed We stopped
and held 1eapns thsydd they their
heads and er and with Crime! The word
mockery, ths they hundd crimes while docue
Turn again our captipiy Q Lordl
Behold this thing ;dear God hue
black toed and bit from the pttance
paid him. They him: RISE He worked Did this
Nay, told how said another ddone
had Yet Tor that mans this
eth manned and urded, his wife naked to shame, his
children, to poverty and evil. #
Hear u.s. O. heapenfy FahheI
Doth stink Thy nostri, Q God? How
long ountng blood Thine
pound Pile the pale frenzy blood
high Thine altar Jehovah Jeh
and burn II IN hell forever and forever
Fogne as good Lord; kn0u' not zhaf se say
) Bewldered are passon-toe mad with the madness Of
bbed and Knocked and murdered people; sraining at the arpos
Of Thy Throne, hack1ed hands and charge Thee God
BY the bones o our stolen fathers dead mothers BY
the very blood Of Thy cruied Christ: What meaneh tits? Tell
the Plan; give the Sign!
Keep not fhor silence, q Godi
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-10-27

Those people who have been SO
much surprised at the fact Of South
ern women exulting at the lynching of
an Afro-American brute, might learn
something by reading of the doings Of
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q ltta1lp Of atlanta

Y Attanp Of Atla11ta
81 N Silent Cod Thou whose voice aa and mystery hath
w. left an-hungered in these fearful days
81 Hear us, good Lord!
Listen Thy chndren faces dark with made
moekery in Thy Sanctuary With up1ed Thy
q heaven, God, crying:
We beseeoh Thee o hear as, qood LondI
q We not better than fellows,
human When devils do devly
8 the deed: them them,
than they have
q and home.
q Haze mercy miserable sinners!
= = And whose deeper guta made these devils?
and debahed their mothers and their gandmote bought
and sold their and waxed fat and rich pu iniqutys
E Thou knouue,
q = this Thy justice Father that gu1e be
and the innocent crud for the gut of the untouched guilty?
Justice. Judge of menl
= = Wherefore do dead?
Have Heavens halls Thine
stark amidst the black and rolling smoke bow
4 bitter forms Of endless dead?
Azuake. Thou that skepest!
thru blazing corridors Of where worlds swing
gentle and freear black
hypocrisy and chaste Of speck du
Turn again. O Lord, kape Isl motif perish In
: = = From lost Of body and last Of blood
Great God deltper Us!
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-10-27

MORE INSTANCES OF ASSAULTS
UPON WHITE WOMEN, BY WHITE
MEN. THAN IS CHARGED TO THE
-AlFllRO-AMERICANS OF THE EN-
TIRE SOUTH. IN THE SAME
LENGTH OF TIME.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-10-27
FEE! FAA!! FUM!!!

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1906.