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The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1913-12-26
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AN APPEAL.
AN APPEAL.
To the Race Loving Women and Men
Of tho United States.

AN HFF6H6s
To the Race Loving Women and Men
Of the United States.
The Constitutional League Of Okla.
homa with Lawyer William Harrison,
of Oklahoma City as its leading At
torney Is contesting with vigor the
Jim Crow laws Of Oklahoma. He
will, the last of November or the first
Of December, bring before the United
States Supreme Court the case Of Nc
Cabe ct al We. The Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe Railway So, ct al.
We are informed that jurist say
that the Oklahoma case is the best
prepared Of its kind Of any case yet
put before the United States Supreme
Court, and that It will now have to
meet the issue squarely.
There is one feature Of this case
that will be settled which will effect
all Of the Negroes in the United
States and that is the Interstate pas.
senger law. If he succeeds It will put
an end to all Jim Crowism, 50 far az
1nter-S State passengers are concerned
They VIII not even be subject to the
Intr-state laws Of the South.
Hence we hereby appeal to every
liberty loving woman, man and friend
of the Negroe race in this country to
make a contribution to the expense
of fighting this cas-. We think It Is
high time, If Negroes want liberty,
they should be willing to pay some
thing towards It.
A few race loving men and women
in tn Oklahoma League, led by the
Rev. w. H. Jernagin, D. D., who is
now pastor Of the Mount Carml Bap
tist church, Washington, D. c., have
made great sacrifice to bring the case
through lower courts to its present
stage and Mr.. Harrison has practi
cally given his service for nothing
but must be rewarded.
We are informed that two able con
stitutional lawyers Of Boston and New
York will assist in this case.
Therefore let everyone who is in
terested send at least 81. All contri
buttons to be sent to Rev. w. H. Jern
agin, d. D.. 42o @ street, N. W., Wash
ington, d. c., who will receipt you FOL
the same. He is a reputable, straight
forward, Christian gentleman, and will
make an honest report of all money
sent him.
II persons making contributions Dc
not object, their names will be pub
lished in the leading papers of theil
state. Yours for Justice,
s. w. Layton, Philadelphia. Pa.
President Woman's Convention Auxili
ary National Baptist Convention.
Mamie H. Burroughs, Washington
D. c., Secretary Woman's Convention
Auxiliary National Baptist Conven
ton.
p. S.-Editors Of the race who ar,
interested will please copy.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1913-12-26

We notice that many EXCHANGES
are to publish list of delinquent sub.
scribers. We do not advise such pub.
LEGATION, until after the collection
agencies have blacklisted them with
the credit-men, who always want to
know the dead-beats. Some people al.
ways pay certain big bills to get q
standing, and fail to consider a news.
paper bill. 1t Is better to give a large
percent to an agency than to let a
delinquent subscriber escape. He de,
nights IN boasting that he never pays
for Negro papers.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1913-12-26

The above rates apply to all classi.
fications - follows, except Births,
Notices. Barter and Exchange and all
Cards Of Thanks, Obituaries. Meeting
ads. preceding Male Help.
Births, Deaths, Cards Of Thanks
and Meeting Notices - Minimum
charge. &c for Is words or less. Over
d words. one cent for each word.
All personal advertisements in the
local columns must be paid for In a..
vance.
All public comment inserted only
svsr the authors signature
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1913-12-26
TO BOYCOTT STORES THAT SELL
"NIGGER" BROWN.

New York, December 1S.-Many of
the colored residents here, especially
women, are incensed over department
sores advertising a new shade of
goods called niger brown" They
regard this as an insult to the race
even though the color may be as al.
Turing as is the color of "tantaliz.
Ing brown" Protests have been made
to the officials of some of the stores
and boycott has been threatened.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1913-12-26

Editor j. Alex. Ross, Of the Detroit
lnformer says, I'VE have stated quite
often editorially that before this Ad.
ministration is over the Negro will be
sounding the praises of President VIII.
son and many others that have been
criticised" Bro. Ross is optimistic
and prophetic, and we hope to see his
prophesy fulfilled. Yet we are doubt.
full. Why? because it's Wilson, that
all.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1913-12-26
NEGRO CONFERENCE NOTES.

A program of exceptional interest
has been prepared for the Annual
Tuskegee Negro Conference which
meets on January 81 and %, 1914. On
the first day of the Conference, which
is given over to the farmers, the
Fiftieth Anniversary celebration OF
Negro Farming will be held. The sub
ject for the Farmers Conference is
Fifty Years Of Negro Farm Life"
The Conference will open with q
parade, showing the improvements
that have been made in farming in
the past fifty years. Among the feat
ures will be the Negro farmer Of hall
a century ago with his cob pipe, OF
and wooden pillow. The improvement
in Negro farming will be shown prin
cipally by implements and products
The wooden plow will be followed by
another old-time farmer with a small
mule and a scooter pillow. Then will
come a more up-to-date farmer with
a good mule, but still a one-horse
plow.
Next in the parade will be a two
horse pillow to be followed by four
horse gang plow, disc harrow, roller
seed drill, mower, binder, thrasher.
gasoline engine, corn harvester, cotton
stalk chopper, and other modern farm
ing implements.
Another special feature of the pa
rade will be fine hogs, horses, mules
and cattle. Floats will show girls
dressing vegetables, trees being
sprayed, fruits and vegetables being
canned, milk being separated and test
ed, and girls making butter.
After the parade the farmers will
assemble in the Chapel of the Insti
tute and discuss improvement In
methods Of farming during the past
fifty years, how the homes of Negro
farmers have been improved, and the
improvement in the rural schools and
rural churches.
The Conservation Of Negro Health.
In order that the Workers Confer
ence, in contrast to the Farmers Con
ference, may have forward look and
that wide interest may be created
among both white and colored in the
South, the subject for the Workers
Conference will be 1.-THE Conservation
Of Negro Health"
I. The annual economic loss to the
South because Of sickness and disease
among Negroes. (a) On the farm
(b) In the town.
2. Some ways Of conserving Negro
health. (a) On the farm. (b) In the
town.
Every Negro organization in Ala
bama-medical associations, educa
tional associations, such organiza
tons, secret societies, etc.-has been
invited to send representatives to the
Workers Conference.
The Workers Conference program
is especially appropriate at the pres
emit time because Of the interest thai
Is being manifested everywhere in the
conservation Of health. OF particular
interest is 1t to the Negroes of the
country, for 1t Is estimated that ever,
year sickness and death cost then
100000, Of which it is said that BY
means Of preventable remedies a.
least $2O,OO0,O00 of this amount might
be saved.
DIR. Booker T. Washington, Principa
OF Tuskegee Institute, has invited in
terest groups Of individuals to be
present and to participate n makins
the coming conference one of notahl.
interest and value.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1913-12-26
NOTES ON NEGRO PROGRESS.
Furnished by the National Near,
Business League.

L. w. Jenkins, a colored man, has
secured the contract for laying all
the carpet in the new Chisca Hotel at
Memphis, Tenn, hotel recently COM
pleted having four hundred rooms.
The annual report made by the Sec
retary.Treasurer Of the Colored Ma
sonic Beneficial Association shows
that the association collected on pol
icies in force over $4,000 during the
past year.
Tulsa, Okla, although possessing
more than fifteen colored restaurants
offers an inviting opportunity for a
first-class up-to-date colored restau-
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1913-12-26

NEGRO ELECTED CLASS ORATOR.
The Harvard senior class has elect
ed A. L. Jackson, a Negro, of Engle-
wood, N. j., as class orator, and he
will be the principal speaker at the
commencement exercises in June.
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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-09
rs Pankhurst Answers Her Critics and Defends awessness0

england reached to you and carried one State
aa.er another to success am of the sincere
E nslana .nat II We had not had miltancy in
Gnslanu you would not have had suffrage for
women In Illinois. Since that date suffrage has
Oeen granted to women In Norway In Finland
49, ~ d,e other Day 1T was granted in Iceland.
nu 49, ao not forget China. Such movements are
WORLDWIDE. The results of militancy have
reached around the world
=, every cruelty and unconstitutional act which
an o ~. .a'ntant women suffer causes slow anger
~ the part or the people. Reginald McKenna
iionle secretary, promised that forcible feed
nS VI ene IeDei women would be stopped If he
t mere anorded another measure with which to
'erFlly them. Government gave him the out
raseous Cat and Mouse law, by which woman
Who nas Deen arrested is released but can be
iearrested any moment for the same offense
out Whlle he was afforded this new means Of
protection of England against its wild WON
en- ne has violated his pledge by resuminS
lorciole reedng, and not only resu1ning it, but
practising 1t Upon women under arrest but mt
convicted OF any offense The charge that orr
acts are unconstitutional is true. We admit II
Ihe women OF England are in full revolt wa
are are IN actiYe revolution But no act of ours
mas been as fagranty unconstitutional as
those OF the n,en who administer government
in dealing with us.
1t has been shouted at us from the house.
tops of Government that we have no regard
for human life. That is absolutely and un.
quaihedly false The only lives we hazard are
our own Half the bombs we have exploded
have exploded only In the Imagination ~ our
critics I am willing to die for the cause OF
suffrage. expect TO die for it. Another hun.
ger strike after five in one year and should
probably not last twenty-four hours longer.
But that does not matter If it give an i'm.
petus to the cause, If it helps get votes for
women. My daughter Sylvia is now in prison.
she has been in this country. The suffragsts
and members of the press have met her. When
she was released from a term in prison, the
whites of her eyes could not be seen. They
were covered with blood. From her prison at
Holloway she wrote:
Every one who comes to see me seems
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-09

companion revolutlonists. That is one reason
that the English people are with US. Dearer
IMAM anything else in the world to the typically
English heart is fair play. Our quarrel is not
with the English people. 1t is with group OF
stubborn men who defeat the Government.
the +, press Is. as rule, against us in London.
we nave our own newspapers and the news.
papers OF the provinces friendly. But the
press OF England has not the glorious indie.
pendence of yours. 1t is party press and
renects the dominant party. When the Lib
erals are out of power they talk grandly OF
freedom for all and restraint of the liberty of
none. but when they get into power they are
little worse than the others. Because the party
press at the bidding of the party distorts facts
you do not know i'll the United States the
truth about u.s. You are surprised to learn
the people are with us. Nevertheless it is true
We have destroyed property Yes do no:
apologize. We burn a few empty buildings
break an occasional window? Yes, but this
is war, and war is never nice nor are its
causes.
1t has been charged that am ambitious
that and my daughters revel in the notorety
OF this movement. That speech comes from 10
greater depth than the lips. These militant
methods are not easy for us to undertake. 1t
is hard for gentle, refined woman to intruGe
at banquet or public meeting, interrupt
speaker and be forcibly elected. 1t is not easy
lor a woman to chain herself to the railing
around Prime Minister'S house and wait for
hours In the hope OF speaking few words In
his unwilling car.
1t has been charged in England and occa
sionally here that have come to cause an
uprising among American women. That is as
untrue IS ali the other charges. You do not
need mitancy here. have come to bring
peace. not sword. My counsel to you Is tn
continue as you have begun along tho way
by which you have won so much success The
cause Is progressing, SO that drastic deeds arc
not necessary in America. l should deplore
thon hero. Our militant motto, Deeds, Not
Words" Is not needed in country whers
even your politicians listen to reason
In England 1t Is next to impossible to arouss
our men to take an interest in liberty even
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-09

their own liberty. 1t Is not enough to talk to
them. They have contempt for mere talk. We
must do things to attract their attention, to
make them think And that is not enough In
America you seize Il new idea quickly and
adopt it, Soon after hearing it you make it
your own. You live by it if it pleases YOU One
spectacle OF women rising III a meeting and
respectfully inquirlng from speaker whether
he is for suffrage would prod an Americar
mans mind to decision But an Englishman
must hear ii again and again. The work mill.
>tants have done is to again and again and We.
again impress upon the English mnd that
women want the vote and should have it, That
Is one thing they have done. very grea.
thing.
we are concentrating now upon the British
politicians They dread the reforming and
purifying effect OF women's votes. They ara
lull or sex prejudice. They conspire to cheat u.s.
AS the Government treats peaceful methods
with contempt, our only hope is in harassing
IL by acts OF violence Even the labor party is
broken reed. 1t keeps the Government in
power despite It's betrayal OF women. Mems
parties Will not fight for u.s. Therefore we fight
ior ourselves. Men politicians responsible
for our violence.
We occupy to-day the same posiion tho
American Colonies did and have adopted this
same policy OF rebellion. Here you win sur.
lrage State by State II you had to win sui.
irage by conversion of the entire country
and had Englishmen to- deal with you too
would have resorted to violence
But we shall win. The end Is In sight, {
oeiieve the long. weary struggle Is nearly OYER
ana that we Will win. am here to ask your
help. King Asquith and Chief Torturer NJ
kenna did not want me TO come Government.
l doubt not, was tho indirect of my de-
tention. McKenna did not want me to tell OF
MS method OF torture OF women
am mere to ask your help in making public
sentiment for us In this country What they
think In the United States is potent across
seas. And | shall lecture fer money. You
Americans know that money is necessary IN
war. But do not believe that women are at
war with men in Great Britain The war is By
women against politicians
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-09
BY MRS. EMMELINE. PANKHURsT.

@ lNCE eight years ago, when my daughter
Christabel and started militancy In
England by rising at public meeting
and asking questions Of candidates 1t has been
many times said OF the miltants: I'VE have
them on the run" They are saying 1t now and
with the same degree Of panic and falseness
THAT 1t has always been said. Greater indeed
because the lie is told in the face of constantly
increasing proof to the contrary
The giant charge made against miIitants by
Toes OF our cause-either open ones like King
Asquith and his Chief Torturer McKenna or
false friends like Lloyd George, or shuttle.
cocks like Winston Churchill-is that mill.
fancy has stopped the march Of suffrage for
woman to the goal Of success. "Miltancy has
set back suffrage seven years" Is the hoarse
cry of the panicky ones.
Inc answer to that Is like the answer to
the conundrum OF an impossible story told by
a, little boy. 1t is simple enough. The little boy
lied. Set back the cause of militancy! For
forty years mild methods had been pursued
with the result that the average Englishman
knew nothing about suffrage for women did
not know that large number OF English WON.
en- wanted votes for women. because they
wanted. by those votes, to raise the standard
OF the home in England They would never
have known 1t had 1t not been for militanoy
speaking world to think and talk about votes
for women.
The Englishman Is lethargic.- He only thinks
about what is brought before him with EN-.
pnasis, 1t hes been said with degree Of cruel
truth by one OF our workers that to make
Johnny Bull pay attention to anything you
must hit him between the eyes with brick
We have been hitting him between the eyes
and caused him to SEQ something beside stara
That Is the only way in England
Stopped the march of suffrage? When our
militant movement began in England but four
States in the United States had suffrage. Idaho.
wyoming, Utah and Colorado alone had votes
for women Recall the number you have rolled
up since. The wave OF agitation we started in
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-09

shocked and speaks OF my eyes. / have had
no mirror but by little continuance I was
1 lo.e 10 see myself quite we'll by reflector
oenlnd the gas. was startled to see my face
qulte white and my eyes looking horrible. like
cups OF Blood
The only lives menaced by militant methods
are our own. Them we are prepared TO sacri.
fee. ~ ~
We we have been attacked for our unladylike
methods in Great Britain We are in state
OF revolution, and war is never agreeablo Rut
our years of militantism have done what four
umes that time of moral suasion had failed
10 do. We have made the cause known P-,t
ons are asking what these women want. and
When they are told They want to vote" they
reply. Then why doesn't Government give it
wild women" we have been called .maa
women Yet what think you OF Sir Edward
larson, the eminent lawyer. who Is leading
the Ulster revolt?
and again said. II am told that it will be il.
legal OF course it will. Drilling is illegal.
Volunteers are illegal. But he adds with sig
inspect the Volunteers will find every man
with rife on his shoulder"
And. says f. q. Smith. Member of Parlia.
ment another male militant: "You might bring
John Stuart Mill to lavish the whole resource
or logic and rhetoric upon the Government OK
which Mr.. Asquith Is the head and leave him
cold. AS disrespectful as anything niitants
have said OF the Prime Minister, and yet Mr.
Smith walks Free He eats without force and
has never known the horrors OF the thirst
strike
1--WE shall stand side by side with YOU re-.
fus1ng to- recognize any law. The time for
rhetoric is past. The time has arrived for
action on your part and ours" Thus he talked
to the men of Ulster and went scot free.
For us there would nave been another term
in Holloway Jail, more forcible feeding. more
OF the path of pain that assuredly for some OF
US will lead to death. The Government talks
or unconstitutionnlism and yet II dlscriminates
between Sir Edward Carson, rebel leader, E.
q. Smith, rebel leader. and myself and my
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-09

morning, when tho service of God should SUN.
mon one TO the buildings dedicated to Him, and
oy the dances Sunday afternoons and evenings
Speaking of dancing, during the past ten
years that have been at the Cathedral In Chi.
cago. located In the most vicious poverty.
stricken and immoral districts in the city
nave had to see much and know much. Now I
leave that district. and go to the North
south Side residential district, where live peo
PIE OF wealth and, presumably. of culture and
refinement, people, who. because of their educa
ton and culture, should set the standard of con-
quot for the communicated what do | see!
nnd In their drawing the same liceu.
tlous. immoral, Enthusiastically named dances that
have just left in the immoral resorts of my
disturbances which have been borrowed
from an immoral source and which are in them.
selves immoral. The police check these dances
IN the dance halls Of the poor. What but so.
cial regeneration can check them in the halls of
the rich?
What shall say to the working girl at the
Catnedrai parish dance when asked to cease
dancing these dances and she replies: But the
test people in the city dance them" You, as
members of society and OF the Church must tell
me the answer.
We have taken vice as old as the world and
nave c0mmercialized it. say We ! refer to
men. Too long we have approached this sub
1ect from the woman's standpoint. II is not a
woman problem; it is man problem. Too long
we have asked the questions: Where does she
tome from? Why does she go into this life? What
are the conditions that force her there? What
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-09

we uo 10 rescue her and reform herr 1t Is
high time that ask the question: Where does
the man come from? Who are the five million
nine hundred and ninety thousand men who
furnish the SIG, 600 annual profit each year.
Why this demand? Why does the boy go
wrong? When we answer this last question
there will be but little occasion to ask the
question: Why does the girl go wrong? So
long there is a demand there will be some
form of supply. Again, it is time to approach
the subject from the demand rather than the
supply side.
Some say: This Is necessary evil" II so,
then 1t must be necessary to some one. Can
you tell me to whom 1t Is necessary? Answer
these five questions:
lis it necessary to manhood? Ask any
physician psychologist. What a reflection
upon your What reflection upon every
unmarried in the community. What an
insult to the celibate clergy OF the great relig.
ious communions Absolutely and unequvocally
never.
2.-Is It necessary to womanhood7 What an
ignorance Of the instinct of the woman What
lack OF knowledge of the adherence on the
part of womanhood. What an insult to her
honor.
3.-Is II necessary to public health? Can any
tistics which | gave III connection with the
health certificates before marriage: and even
more startling facts which might be given If
the occasion warranted.
Ais it necessary for the prosperity of city
that we should have wide open town with
SEGREGATED districts? The Vice Commission o..
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-01-21
Made Bold
Attack on
Young Girl
UNITED PRESS LEASED wrRB.1

Seattle, Wash, Jan. 21.-Patrolmen
and detectives are today looking for
the four young men who last night
stormed the ay hotel, 21O7 Westlake
avenue, defled the landlady, and at
tempted to remove 15-year-old Elsie
Sedell, when the girl, after being in
suited, asked Mrs. Jones to protect
her.
The girl was stopped by the four
young men at Pine and Virginia
streets, as she was on her way home
from work. Their threats Of what
they would do If she would not go
to a hotel with them made her obey,
The five went to the May hotel.
Three of the boys stayed outside and
the fourth went upstairs with the
girl. At the head of the stairs they
met Mrs. Jones, whom the girl asked
to step into room while she told her
story.
When ordered to go, the man Joined
his fellows and all four bombarded
the house with stones, fleeing just
before the police arrived.