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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-06-01
PROTEST is RIGHT.

Commenting upon the following
statement:
"Sena tor Tilman is to have a body
guard of ten plain clothes policemen while
he is in Omaha to lecture.
afro Americans from all over the
county are urging the mayor to prevent
Tillman from speaking here"
The Evening Star remarks:
1t is pity that the Afro Americans
everywhere are so poorly advised in the
matter of Mr.. Tillman's lectures. This is
a country Of free speech. and no man
consults his own or the pubic's interests
who attempts to abridge the privilege.
1t may, however, be easily proved
that a good many people besides the
Afrc-Americans are poorly advised;;"
which. we presume is also pity.
Notwithstanding the fact that this is
a country of free speech. lecturers
have been mobbed for making charges
against the Catholic Church or for
interfering with saloons "Salome"
has been tabooed in New York and
The Mikado' interdicted in London.
We cannot see that it is any worse
to protest against Tillman's hogwash
than against Sapho Mrs. Warren's
Profession. or the Thaw nastiness.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-06-01

and existing political conditions. The
fact that two articles of the Constitu-
ton which are generally, though er-
roneously, considered as appertaining
solely to the welfare of the Afro-Am-.
erican, are openly and fagrantly vio-
lated throughout the entire South, is
just as important as though any other
part of that instrument was set aside
anG held for naught, insomuch as it
furnishes a precedent and pretext for
multiplying any other provision of which
any state may disapprove
The failure to enforce those amend
ments has resulted in reducing the
Republican party in the South to 4
thing of shreds and patches. scram-
bling over Federal offices and growing
small by degrees and beautifully less
as the days are passing by.
The success of the South in setting
aside such portions of the Supreme
law of the land, is what has embolden-
ed her to enact jimcrow laws, segrega-
ton bills and other devices specially
designed to expel the Republican party
from her borders. 1t has turned that
section over to the control of such
blatherskites as Tillman, Vardaman
and Hoax Smith
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-06-01
SATURDAY JUNE 1. 1907.
ENSLAVING OTHER PEOPLE.

There are people and plenty of them
everywhere in the world who care
almost nothing about the enslaving
OF other people, provided that those
people do not belong to their own
race. Particularly in the United
States a very large number of white
people can see nothing specially
wrong in African slavery. Such peo-
ole need to learn that the man who
is a Shareholder in principle cares
very little about the color of the slave
his greed and avarice have extin-
suished even his racial partialities. The
truth of this view of the case is shown
from the following excerpts from the
news of the day:
The Attorney General received yester-
day the report of the successful outcome
OF peOnage case against F. T. Howderl
superintendent SUI Of the PrairiePebble
4 verdict Of guilty was reached in all
five counts in the indictment. The per
sons IN regard to whom the acts were
committed We're white foreign laborers.
young white woman, sold into peonage
ten years ago, when she was a mere slip
Of girl. has just been rescued from her
Involuntary 4, ;ant seryitude Illiterate, dense
appointed guardian who had virtually
sold her into slavery was acting within
his legal rights, the girl shaved for years
s the toughest sort Of agricultural work..
She plOWed hoed. groOmed horses anu
mules looked after several cows. 8 q
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-06-01
IN HEATHEN VIRGINIA,

Joseph Britton is in Jail at Lynch
burg, Virginia, because he followed
Gods law and legally welded the wo.
man of his choice Britton is eau
casian and his wife is an Afro-Ameri.
can. The couple were married in
Pennsylvania but went to Virginia to
live, not knowing that the Infamous
laws CT the 'sgrand old commonwealth
do not permit Caucasians and Afro
Americans to live in Holy Wedlock
If the woman had been immoral and
lived with Britton in concubinage, the
"grand old commonwealth would have
approved. Thousands of people of both
races are living that way in Virginia
but the officers of the law are blind
to the facts. It is only when the re-
lations are honorable that the law for
bids
The miscegenation law is in contra
vention to the Constitution of the Unit
ed States but that ancient instrument
is dead letter in the grand old com
monwealth of Virginia.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-06-01
SOUTHERN SITUATION.

The political situation in the south is a
to good government for the countrv. It
is in fat and fragrant violation of the
constitution. Two amendments to that
instrument stand nullified by the demo-
publican party acquiesces To be sure,
the republican national platforms invar-
iably contain denunciation of the demo-
cratic action and a promise to apply the
constitutional remedy to the evil. but the
promise is never redeemed With both
houses of Congress and the presidency in
their control the republicans have had
constitutional representation in both the
House and the electoral college, but have
disregarded both their sworn duty and
their campaign obligations.
The foregoing from the Washington
Star is an admirable statement of past
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-06-01
STAY AWAY FROM SEATTLE.

Out in Seattle where the color line
has never been drawn before, the
Christian Endeavor entertainment
committee, composed of alleged Chris
tians has voted to draw the color line
and the hotels have refused to reserve
accommodations for Afro-American
delegates.
Very properly the Afro-American
residents of Seattle have met in mass
meeting and passed resolutions asking
Afro-American bishops and delegates
to the c.. E. convention to be held in
that city in July to stay away from
the convention and the city.
THE APPEAL endorses the position
of the Seattle Afro-Americans and sug-
gests that the bishops and delegates
not only give Seattle wide berth, but
that they have nothing further to do
with the band of hypocrites who call
themselves Christian Endeavorers.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-06-01
DU BOTS AND TILLMAN

Two prominent representatives Of
the South have, at the North, achieved
special prominence as lecturers: Pro
fessor Du Bots of Georgia and Senate,
Tillman of South Carolina. -.
They are representatives. respec
lively, of the American and the
Anglo-Saxon races. Physically, they
differ but little in complexion and
other characteristics; but that little
difference constitutes, in this alleged
land OF the free, chasm as impas
sable as that which separated Dives
from Lazarus. .a
Both have achieved national reputa
tons, and are unquestionably men
of decided ability. but THE APPEAL
has no hesitation in asserting that in
scholarship. in high breeding and in
lofty ideals. the Afro-American is i'm
measurably the superior Of the eau
casian; and relies upon the published
productions of the two to substantiate
the assertion
The senator is an uncouth, buster
ing rabble-rouser, restrained by nc
rule of decency or dignity: the profes
sor is a refined, courteous gentleman
who never forgets the rules of gro
priety or degenerates into vulgarity
Which of the two reflects the great
er honor upon the South, we leave
our readers to determine.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-06-01
JlMcROWlNG THE CHURCH.

Black bishops or no black bishops
was the question which threw the
convention Of the Protestant Episco
pal Diocese of Pennsylvania into
Mysteries at recent meeting. A com
nittee reported in favor of sending
special missionary bishops to the
South to labor among the Afro-Ameri
can population. Rev. DIR. Grammar
said it was great effort to win a
race, to bridge over the widening gull
OF animosity between whites and
blacks in the South Bro. Pepper
saie he believed that the introduction
OF Afro-American bishops would split
the church..
The following resolution was unani-
mously adopted: THAT the diocese
of Pennsylvania memorialize the Gen.
eral Convention so to amend the con.
stltu:ion and canons that missionary
bishops may be consecrated to have
jurisdiction over specified races, and
lay before it amendments that would
give the largest province of advancing
the interests of our church among the
colored people,"
The net results of this process OF
jirncrowing the Afro-American mem
hership Of the Protestant Episcopal
Church will probably cause them to
secede and set uD for themselves
whereby they will gain the privilege
OF electing bishops to suit themselves
In Sc. doing. they have the excellent
example of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church to inspire and direct
them
If they elect their own bishops
those bishops will probably be MEN
those selected by the white brethren
would almost certainly be FUNK
les.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-06-01

In the state of Texas there is man
named Brown, who is member of
the legislature Said Brown moved to
strike out the entire appropriation for
the support of the Prairie View Nor
NAL College for Afro-Americans.
THE educated Negro has only three
ambitions said Mr.. Brown, ito teach,
to preach. or to get into the penitentiary
for forgery.
He added that he would like to see the
torch applied to the walls of the Prairie
View Normal. as he was opposed to plac-
ing tools in the, hands of Negroes that
in the shedding Of the blood Of thousands nts
Mr. Brown failed to explain the diff
ference between the educated Negro
and the average Southern legislator,
which is this, that while the former
divides his time among the three pur-
suits of teaching, preaching and for
gerry. the latter devotes his entire
time to the last named or kindred
OCCUPATIONS, such as boodling. graft
ing and Matchmaking.
In one Southern state, Senator Butt
is on the rock pile, Senator Adams has
been expelled, Senator Covington is
on trial for swiping, and several other
legislators are between hi and the
powder house.
So, that if the educated Negro
should go to the pen. when he looks
around, he will be apt to think that
he is in the legislature
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-06-01
.lYNCHING A VIOLATION oF~THE
CONSTITUTION.

Judge Thomas G. Jones. of the Ala
bama FEDERAL bench. has just rendered
decision concerning lynching that
will, if affirmed by the Supreme Court
OF the United States, 60 far toward
solving one of the most vexing prob
lens this country has ever had to face.
Judge Jones holds that person who
forcibly takes from the custody of any
official, State or otherwise, a prisoner
accused of crime, and, after such TAX
ing, lynches, helps to lynch, or at
tempts to lynch the said prisoner, is
guilty of violence to the provisions of
the Constitution of the United States,
and that it is the duty of the officers
of the United States to take cogni-
zance of the same and assume juris-
diction to punish the offender. Judge
Jones bases his decision, of course. uD-
on the thirteenth and fourteenth
amendments to the Constitution.
We copy the. above from the Wash
ington Herald, which also states that
an appeal from the decision will at
once be taken to the Supreme Court.
We hope that the latter assertion is
true and that the case will very shortly
reach the Supreme Court. It is a we'll
known fact that the trials of lynchers
by their friends and neighbors is moth.
ing less than a pitiful farce-that, in
fact the grand jury and the mob are
the very same persons. For this rea-
son, not a single state in the country
is able to cope with the hoodlums,
thugs and hoboes who make up the
mob. But we believe that it is not
necessary to base the decision entirely
upon the amendment mentioned. The
Constitution obligates the general gov
eminent to guarantee to every state a
republican form of government, and if
a state cannot put down mob-rule, the
government should do So
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-06-01
"DEMENTIA MISSIPIANA."

Some fellow, in the Saturday Even
ing Post-founded by the old abolition
list, BENJAMIN Franklin-has given a
"dementia Missipiana" dissertation up
on what he calls '.The Vardaman
ldea;' in which he endeavors to show
that Abraham Lincoln and Vardaman
are par Mobile fratrum, Arcades an,bo
ana chips Of the same block generally.
The fellow talks glibly: about ancient
history as if he knew all about it, and
seems to have swallowed every non
sensicals myth that was ever published
or promulgated in any way.
His argument is substantially this
that the genuine Negro has always
been regarded as an inferior race and
that the Afro-Americans, descended. in
part. from him. have Inherited certain
racial characteristics which will for.
ever and forever render them un-
worthy of actual citizenship in the
United States.
incidentally he mentions some of
the meritorious acts of his hero, the
mongrel, half-Indian Vardaman, such
as protecting some members of the
race from being lynched.
The learned. dissertation about the
sutures is particularly atrocious piece
of nonsense. and not sustained by a
single medical authority of any note.
& Now it does not amount to anything.
how savage and barbarous the progeni-
tors of the Afro-Americans were, the
Important point is what they amount
to themselves Thousands Of them are
vastly the superiors Of the mollycoddle
who pumped all that sIush into the
Journal founded by Benjamin Franklin,
the old abolitionist.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-06-01
A DUTCH VIEW.

And now comes Mr.. Somebody Of
Holland who discovered that Ameri-
cans love stuffy cars and hot rooms
and explains it thus:
1T has occurred to me that this heat
in cars and buildings is due to the Ne
groes. They like it. because they came
from a torrid climate. They are the pOr-
ters and janitors and house servants.
Hence. they turn on the steam to the
full and the white folks just have to suf-
fer"
1t seems strange that it did not oc-
cur to him that those porters and jani-
and did not come from torrid eli
mate
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-06-01
THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT.

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Considering the special circumstan.
ces under which the Fourteenth
Amendment was adopted, it is not at
all strange that the popular impress
sion is that it is something which re-
lates to Americans alone. and
which has no important bearing upon
any important interest of white men
but the following from the Chicago
Chronicle will show how erroneous is
such conclusion:
Ten railroad companies in Alabama
nave invoked the protection of the United
states courts against the operation OF
certain laws recently enacted by the legis-
i fi,dae Of Of, that state: AS first result
States court for the northern district OF
alabama has tgranted a preliminary in
Junction restraining the state from put
ting these laws in effect
The laws of which the companies COM
pam make the rates existing on the LIST of
January of the present year the maximum
rates, fix rates on 10 articles classify the
the license Of any company removing a
case from state court to United States
court E73s5 Z
In the first place it will readily be
seen that nothing is so pleasant to the
Southern lawmaker as to discover
some way of multiplying some law of the
United States. Even his persecution
of the Afro-American within his Dor
ders is intended primarily and specifi
! cally. to spite the North His anxiety
| to repeal the Fifteenth Amendment
:, arises from his desire to demonstrate
to the world that the Southerner is
the nobleman Of the country, with the
| divine right to rule.
The Importance Of the Fourteenth
Amendment is shown by the fact that
upon its validity and Interpretation
ten important railroads rely as the only
protection against the prosecutions OF
! mob-elected legislature of ha1f-baked
nincompoops and: half-witted swash
bucklers. The sovereign state of Ala
bama is up against the Fourteenth
Amendment which may convince even
Florida senator that lex scriDta man
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-06-01

drove Of pigs, and worked in the barn
yard. where her duties were many ana
varied.
This white woman spent ten years
OF her life as a slave in the grand
old commonwealth of Virginia." the
mother of Presidents, as the price of
an old horse valued at less than $50.
We presume that she will not be on
exhibition at jamestown.
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-06-01
"THE coLoRED MANS PLACE y

NPhe Duluth Tribune has an article
upon Industrial schools, possibly in
tended to be very reasonable and con
ciliatory which concludes thus:
1.-THE place of the colored man is or
the farm and in the shop and the fac
nome as maid. cook and nurse. The coun-
try needs them; it has places for all OF
them. and the present object of these
schools is to qualify them for such posi-
tiOns.'' ... ! :.
Now there is little too much of
the old, ante-bellum. cursed-be-C Canaan
preach about that sentiment, to suit
THE APPEAL, and it would very
much like to know from what source
the Tribune obtained such definite in
formation as to the Afro-American' S
place. 1t has been demonstrated by
actual experiment that the s'colored
man. fits in many other places besides
the shop, the farm and the factory,
remarkably we'll.
Dunbar filled a poets place in the
United States, Tanner fitted an art
lists place in France. and Dumas,
Poushkin, Alexander Hamilton,
Browning, Lew Wallace and Toussaint
liOuverture deported themselves ex-
tremely well in various other capa.
cities.
The Almighty himself disnualified
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-06-01
Some excitable individuals were

Some excitable individuals were re-
Gently thrown into conniptions by the
report that Hayti would send a great
big black admiral to jamestown, who
vicinity; a report which proved to be
groundless. Perhaps it would have
been a good thing if he had come.
The color-line does not seem to be
properly adjusted to suit our inter
national relations; and it might be
we'll to have it Mason-and- Dixonized.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-06-01
"oUR PosTERiTY.'
Senator Morgan in his Jefferson's
birthday speech said this:

Negroes who were imported as slaves
had no part or concern in the sovereignty
Of the people of the United States thus
created and defined. They were not our
selves, our posterity.'
All of which is interesting; but
everybody knows that there is scarce
~ word of truth in it. The Negroes
Of Jefferson's day were not all 1sim-
ported" and thousands of them were
the posterity Of Jefferson, himself, and
his miscegenating associates.
Senator Morgan should let the
phrase "our posterity'' alone. or he
will provoke somebody to tell him
the truth.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-06-01

Southern plantation in the darkest
days Of slavery. Is
The quotations show that the white
woman both North and South is in far
mo, more danger from the brutes of her
own race than from the wretches of
the Afro American race. In producing
brutes the Caucasian race surpasses
the Afro-American ten to one.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-06-01

these men 10 for service on the farm or
in the shop and factory by endowing
them with talents. of the highest order,
which he intended them to use for
| the upilfting of mankind. and it is
! too late in the day for the Tribune
to print such rubbish about the color
ed mans place.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-06-01

We observe very great anxiety up
on the part Of the Democratic brethren
to muzzle John Temple Graves They
seemed to be either tired or ashamed
of his palayering.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-06-01

Treat each man according to
his worth as man. Distrust
all who would have any one
class placed before any other.
Other republics have fallen be-
cause the INSCRIPTIONS have
substituted loyalty to class for
loyalty to the people as whole.
President ROosevelt's speech
at Little Rock, Ark. Z,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-06-01

Now the foregoing instances do not
prove the Afro-American guiltless Of
many crimes charged against him, but
they do prove that he is not a sinner
above all men. The Chicago Moon
dance is in substance the Voodoo
dance Of Hayti and New Orleans, or
!. the altogether Of the Pittsburgh mil
Honaires, or the shawl dance of sa-
lone The free love cult Of the divin-
ity student and Miss Crosby could
scarcely hare been paralleled on .
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-14

There is a belief current among the
negroes in the south that the blue jay
visits the internal regions every Fri
day. This belief varies somewhat in
different parts Of the south. For In
stance, in South Carolina 1t is sup
posed to be carrying sticks for the
devils fires. while in Mississippi and
Louisiana the bird Is supposed to re-
port to his satanic majesty the status
Of his Affairs on earth.-New York
Tribune.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-14

OF course the best dressed man In
the world is the English gentleman II
you enter the royal inclosure at New
market or visit the lawn at Goodwood
on the day Of a classic race; 4 you a.
tend fashionable orchid or horse show
when some great parsonage presidea,
you win hardly Gee any one dressed
otherwise than perfectly. But take the
hurrying passengers In the city. OF the
street ears. trains or buses, 80 freely
among the men III the street, and you
win share the conviction / have arrived
at-namely, that the American Is in
general dressed more styIishly and 10
better fitting and better cut clothes. n
@. M. s. ia Derrick's Trade Report