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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-10-25
OUGHT TO CHANGE THE NAME.

ST7<IN0G I7E NAME.
An Afro-American in Philadelphia
desired to take a summer course at
the Y. M. G. A. in that city but was
refused because of his race. His
father threatened to give the matter
to the press and demand that the
name Christian be taken from the
organization. The young man was
then admitted.
AT Newport, r.. l., the Y. M. G. A.
refused to renew the membership OF
the son of a distinguished Afro-Amer-
lean physician and also denied admis-
sion to another colored man.
In various other Northern cities
Afro-Americansi have been refused
membership in so called Christian
Associations and dark-hued Christian
who had the temerity to enter white
Y. M. c. A. in the South would be
taking desperate chance-he might be
lynched for his audacity.
The American Y. M. G. A. has been
one of the greatest mediums for the
spread of the Infamous American race
all over the world. The little
booklet published by the Isthmian
Canal Commission Y. M. G. A., states
in plain English that only white men
are admitted to membership in Canal
Zone Y. M. C. AS.
Young Mems Christian Association
is a misnomer. It is not Christian in
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-10-25
The ONLY SOLUTION,

Recently at the Church of England
Congress at Southampton, Sir Sidney
Olivier, who was governor of Jamaica
from 1907 to the end of 1912, put for
ward the claim that no solution of the
American color question was possible
except by resolute disclaimer of the
color line and the race differention
theory.
Sir Sidney Olivier certainly knows
what he is talking about. In the
Island of Jamaica, where he was gov
ernor for five years, there are about
100000 colored people and only 10000
whites and yet there is absolutely no
friction between the races. Jamaica
is British colony and the govern
ment is just. Colored men enjoy ev-
cry civil and political right which white
men have and there is no color line.
Among ouner things Sir Sidney said:
MY study and comparison of con-
West Indies," he said, "has brought
me to that conclusion American and
colonial politicians and public men are
not Exeter Hall abolitionists nor
evangelical Christian missionaries. 7
40 not expect them to adopt the meth
DDS of missionaries, nor do I sympa-
thize with all their programmes. But
it cannot be ignored that it happened
that the faiths of the men who laid
the foundations for the peaceful de-
velopment of the mixed community in
Jamaica were democratic and human
itarian and, above all, uncompromis-
ingly Christian.
Were race differentiation held to it
must increase civil discord When the
balance of numbers is as it is in the
South in America it must tend to
foster obscure preparations for civil
war and rebellion. If statesmen and
citizens face in the contrary direction
wv HoI ody Iudt Luey Will dLLd1n I'M
mediately civil peace. but I am conf
dent that they will be travelling the
only road toward it.
81 do not suggest that race does not
greatly affect facilities for combina-
ton between humans in healthy
national life, but race difference is
only one of many schismatic agencies.
The solution Of the difficulty involves
discipline for the white man as we'll
as the black"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-10-25
ACCUSED BE THEY IF They
YIELD,

For more than a quarter of the cen
fury the editor of THE APPEAL has
struggled to give the Afro-American
people of the West a newspaper which
would defend their rights. A COM
plete file has been preserved and the
editor is proud to say that not a single
false note has been sounded. THE
APPEAL has always advised it's read
ers never to relinquish civil right
and to aid their Southern brethren to
regain the many rights which have
slipped away because of>the activities
of Jim crow propagandists.
THE APPEAL has never been a
profitable business proposition in it.
self, the editor has made his living out
of his job printing office and from
other sources of income, but he. feels
that he has done something to aid
the Afro-American people and the
consciousness of having fought for the
right compensates him for the years
OF hard work and the expenditure of
thousands of dollars.
The editor of THE APPEAL is a
father anu the one thing he has en-
deavored to impress upon the minds
OF his children is self respect, especial
ly as it relates to demanding all the
rights of American citizenship. He
is poor man and has little of this
worlds goods to bequeath them, but If
they have learned their lesson well
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-10-25
So They Say, and Give Another Enter
tainment.
| SHOULD WORRY,

So They Say, and Give Another Enter
tainment.
So many persons in both st. Paul
and Minneapolis who enjoyed the en-
tertainment which have given in the
last few years, and some who were
unable, for some couse, to get to
them, have lmportuned me to give an
other this year.
Few people can imagine the amount
of work and worry there is in connec-
ton with first class entertainment;
and, while I am not very anxious to
undertake what I know by experience
to be an lawful job" I will do as I
have always done before-go into it
with all the vim and push I can COM
mand, if 1 can be assured the good
people of the Twin Cities will go with
me. I can do nothing by myself, the
people made the other entertainment
what they were, and it will be up to
them to do so again. I'll push the
button if they will do the rest.
AS this is the Fiftieth Anniversary
year of our emancipation and as it is
to be celebrated all over the country
we can celebrate it here under the
auspices of THE APPEAL and thus
two birds can be killed with one stone
If the people wish me to conduct
another entertainment-which I think
can be made to eclipse all the others
they will be given an opportunity to
show their desires in few days as
the ball will be started to rolling at
once.
Respectfully,
]. @. Adams.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-10-25

For the first time in the history of
the United States, the machinery of
the government of 90,00O,000 people is
being used to humiliate and degrade
100000 of it's loyal and law-abiding
citizens.
In some Of the departments of the
Federal Government at Washington
Afro-American employees have been
segregated from their former associ-
ates and fellow workers and ordered
to use separate retiring rooms. In
some instances cages have been built
to separate Afro-American and white
government clerks. No other class is
Obliged to bear this badge of degrada-
ton.
There is no warrant in law for these
orders of subordinate officials The
facts have been brought to the atten-
ton of the Department heads and
thousands of petitions, memorials and
letters have been sent to President
Wilson, but up to this writing he has
not seen fit to rescind this Infamous
un-American policy.
The clerks who have been humiliat-
ed by the segregation orders are in no
sense wards of the government. They
have won their places by examina-
tons in competition with white men
and women and the government which
they have. so faithfully and efficiently
served has no right to place upon
them this badge of dishonor
1t is not question of social equality
that chimera which so many Caucas-
ians claim to fear, but of civil equality
which is the right of every citizen.
Heretofore the attempts to degrade
the citizenry have been the work of
individual states in the Southern tier;
the Federal Government must be held
responsible for this new attempt to
establish that impossible thing, caste
in Republic.
Honest fair minded Americans feel
that the fair fame of our country is
being trailed in the dust; they hang
their heads at this grievous wrong. It
is the Nations shame.
We hold President Wilson respon-
sible because in the final analysis the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-10-25

eral government and has caused hun
dreds of persons to write letters of
protest to President Wilson.
Recently he was selected to repre-
sent the Afro-American people at the
Centennial of the Battle of Lake Erie
and how we'll he did the work is shown
on the first page of this issue where
the full text of his speech may be
found
He was selected by the Chicago
Jews as the most suitable person to
represent the colored race at the Jew
ish protest meeting held there last
Sunday. He made a characteristic
speech comparing the Afro-A Americans
to the Jews. His address was so we'll
received that he was invited to speak
at an overflow meeting, where it was
acknowledged he made the best speech
OF the day. It was an impassioned
appeal for justice to the Jews who are
prosecuted by the Russians in Europe
and the Afro-Americans who are per-
secuted by the Christians in America
His remarks were greeted with deaf
ening applause by the audience COM
posed principally of Jews.
Just now, owing to the silence of
those who we're in former years ready
to defend their people and the large
influx of jimcrowists from the South,
there is great need of a great leader
in Chicago, one who will not COM
promise on the rights of the race and
DR.. Carey seems to fill the bill.
He must stick to his text and never
yield an inch to those who would drag
his people down. II he continues to
fight the battles of the race as he is
now doing without fear or favor, he
will in a short time become the
acknowledged leader of the Afro
American people in the West and there
will be none able to successfully dis
pute his title.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-10-25

We publish in this issue the form
of petition to President Wilson
against Jim Growing and color segre-
eating by the federal government.
CUT 1T OUT, SIGN 1T YOURSELF,
GET YOUR ACQUAINTANCES TO
SIGN 1T AND THEN FORWARD TO
SECRETARY TO BE FORWARDED
TO THE PRESIDENT AT WASHING
TON. Copies of the petition have
been placed in the hands of a number
of men in the Twin Cities and else
where in the state and every Afro
American, and every actual believer in
the brotherhood of man, black or
white to whose notice it comes is re-
quested to sign it. This is but one of
the ways in which we can show our
dissatisfaction with the outrageous
which are constantly
perpetrated Upon us. SIGN THE
PETITION.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-10-25
WILLIAM MONROE TRo7TER.

William Monroe Trotter, editor of
the Boston Guardian; deserves great
credit for the work he has accomp-
lished in the fight against segregation.
1t was he who conceived the idea of
getting up a monster petition to COM
bat the evil. He aroused a strong
sentiment over the country through
his own paper and other colored pa
pers and secured the names of thou
sands of people who dared to protest
against injustice.
Through the Massachusetts, Demo-
cratic Congressional delegation he has
secured an appointment with President
Wilson and on November 6, he will
head committee which will present
the petition and give a resume of the
many reasons why segregation is I'M
American and unjust to group of
loyal American citizens.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-10-25

We understand that President Will
son claims that the Afro-Americans
are in favor of and desire the seq
regation of employees of the govern
ment. The President is sadly misin-
formed or has jumped to the wrong
conclusion. Let every liberty-loving,
self-respecting, manly Afro-American
in the United States write him a let
ter denying in the strongest terms
that such is a fact. DO 1T NOW.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-10-25
I" SEE AND | AM SATISFIED"

A recent number of the New York
independent contains an article by
Professor Kelly Miller of Howard
University entitled, 81 see and I am
satlshed." 1t is a resume of race HIS
tory and the professor expresses him
self as being greatly pleased with
what has been accomplished since his
advent on earth about fifty years ago
and with conditions as they are today.
Prof. Miller is nearer that great seat
OF American prejudice-the National
Capital than the writer, but out here
IN Minnesota THE APPEAL is inclin-
ed to regard the Miller view as some
what distorted.
1t is joke to say that the American
heart will beat true to the higher i'm
pulse. Christianity is all right until
1t strikes the color line and then it is
a farce. Kelly Miller is black man
put even he does not realize the re-
morseless, unrelenting prejudice which
resides in the average Caucasian
heart
The professors soul "abounds with
reinsurance and hope" just as orders
have been issued by government Off
Gals which say that white and colored
employees must be separated in the
toilets.
BY the way-did not the professor
about fifteen years ago suggest "self-
effacement as the solution of the race
problem?
With the United States government
segregating his race, with the various
states enacting jimcrow laws, with the
Christian church ordering Afro-Amer-
lean Worshipers from the House of
God, with innocent colored men still
the victims of mob murder, with hum
dreds of thousands of Caucasian
mothers Installing race prejudice into
their prattling babes, with Bishops of
a Christian church telling the country
that REIMBURSEMENT was a crime and
United States Senators demanding the
repeal of the Fifteenth Amendment,
Kelly Miller is satisfied!
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-10-25
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-10-25
MOHAMMEDANISM SPREADING.

A Berlin correspondent writes that
.Mohammedanism is gaining more
proselytes than is Christianity, among
the natives of the African colonies and
tribes that once professed the latter
are now relapsing into the former.
The result is the most natural thing
in the world
The missionary is stuffed full of
color prejudice, he accepts his calling
because it is the best job in sight, and
he cares nothing for the native, but
holds him in utter contempt as mig
ger"
The native in a short time learns
to care nothing for the missionary,
because he discovers that he is a
hypocrite and a fraud. He repays his
contempt in kind.
A man who is saturated with Amer
lean race prejudice is a very poor
specimen of Christianity and is not
needed by the natives.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-10-25

and will suffer hardships and priva-
lions and even prefer to die rather
than degrade their souls by willingly
accepting any treatment which is in
any way inferior to that accorded to
other Americans, the editor will pass
into the Great Beyond happy in the
thought that he has left his offspring
a priceless heritage.
The editor of THE APPEAL would
rather see all of his children in their
graves than to feel that they will ever
even in their minds consider the
proposition of becoming Jim crowists
and II they are ever willing to give
up liberty and become servile syco-
phants, may Gods most awful curse
descend upon them and their children
and may their children's children be
accursed through all time and eternity.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-10-25
ANNIVERSARY OF ATLANTA'S
SHAME,

Seven years have passed since the
bloody massacre of innocent Afro
Americans at Atlanta, Georgia, and
we reprint Du Bois' famous "a Litany
of Atlanta" that the race may not for
get the awful days when Colored men,
women and children were shot down
like dogs because of their race. Not
single person who was killed had
been guilty of any crime whatever.
The massacre was caused by the in
cendiary editorials of the Atlanta
News and Journal, owned by Hoke
Smith, since Governor Of Georgia and
now United States senator from that
state.
In his gubernatorial canvass Smith
also made incendiary speeches incit-
ing the Caucasians against Afro-Amer-
leans and demanding that the race be
disfranchised. This has since been
done by legislative enactment.
Senator Hoke Smith is said to be
the author of the Jim crow policy of
the present administration and he has
the active support of Vardaman, Hef-
lin, Roddenbery and nearly every
Southerner in Congress.
Every Afro-American parent ought
to bring "A Litany of Atlanta to the
attention of his children. let Thorn
commit it to memory-it is a gem of
perfect English. Let it burn into the
souls OF your children so that they
may know that in it's efforts to de,
grade the Colored race and reduce 1t
to a condition not far removed from
slavery, the South does not hesitate
to murder innocent men, women and
children.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-10-25

According to the press dispatches,
Burr Harris, an Afro-American who
was under arrest charged with the
murder Of Mrs. Rebecca Gay, a Chris
tian Scientist practitioner at San Di-
ego, CAL, short time ago, has con-
fessed that he is guilty. He says he
had no grudge, but merely wished to
f'kill some woman" That is the sort
of feeling that actuates the mobocrats
in the South and causes them to lynch
innocent black men, they just want to
kill some "nigger."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-10-25
A GREAT RACE DEFENDER.

Rev. A. J. Carey, D. D., pastor of
the Institutional A. M. E. Church, Chi
cago, is looming up these days as the
greatest advocate of the rights of the
race in the Northwest.
He has held meetings, presented
resolutions, memorials and petitions
against racial segregation by the fed
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-10-25

acts of his subordinate officials are his
and he has the power to end this in
justice by a word.
We have not lost faith in the Presi-
dent and we believe that he will care
fully consider the many protests
which have been made and give the
word which a Christian Statesman
should give, that during his admins
tration there shall be no segregation
or discrimination on account of race,
creed or color among the servants of
the government.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-10-25
Emancipation
CC|GDr3tOl
ANNIVERSARY OF THE
ISSUANCE OF LINCOLN'S EMAN.
CIPATION PROCLAMATION cELE-
DRAFTED.

Having been quite successful in the
management of several of what are
said to have been the SWEETEST enter
tainments ever given in st. Paul, the
editor of THE APPEAL was con-
stantly importuned to "get up some
thing and he finally yielded to the
Establishments and as this happened to
be the Fiftieth Anniversary year of
Emancipation he conceived the idea of
celebrating that momentous event and
the following appeared in THE APP
PEAL on July 26:
SHOULD WORRY,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-10-25

AS an object lesson of the progress
made by the Afro-Americans of the
Twin Cities since Emancipation we
offer the showing they make in this
issue of THE APPEAL. Fifty years
ago it would have been absolutely
impossible. And this does not half
way tell the story.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-10-25
WILSON WILL NOT PROTEST TO
RUSSIA.

Special Correspondence THE APPEAL
Washington, D. c., Oct. %.
1t IS asserted on good authority that
PRESIDENT Wilson will take no official
cognizance of the countrywide protest
sent by Americans against the perse-
cution of Mendel Bells the poor Jew
of Kiev who is on trial charged with
numbering a Christian boy for ritual
purposes. First he fears the loss of
trade and then Southern members of
the Cabinet and Senators fear that
Russia could come back at this gov
eminent on account of the Atlanta riot
in which SO many innocent colored
people were killed and the large num-
Der Of Afro-Americans who are an
nually murdered and burned in the
South.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-10-25

At the Jewish mass meeting in Chi
cago to protest against the persecu-
ton of the race by Russia, Rabbi
Hirsch said that it would be well to
utter the American protest softly
while so many Afro-Americans were
lynched in the United States.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-10-25

A writer in one Of the papers says
that the spirit of Chicago is wanted
in the South. He of course referred
to the hustle and hustle of the great
city. It might be we'll also to take
along a little of the freedom from race
prejudice so creditable to the city.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-10-25

any sense of the word. The meek
and lowly Christ has never entered
the doors of the American Y. M. G. A.
The initials Y. M. G. A. evidently mean
Young Mems Color-line Association.
Either let Christ in or change the
name.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-10-25

Many of the Caucasian church
bodies are in session just now. Nearly
every one is fixing up some scheme
to degrade the colored man or kick
him out entirely. The Christianity of
the average Caucasian American is
the veriest pretense.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-10-25

American Christianity is a travestv
on the real article The main object
IN the life of the average Caucasian
American Christian seems to be to
hold his black brother down.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-10-25

Many Afro-Americans are advocat-
ing "self effacement" for the race as
the solution of the race problem. The
more the race gives the more it's
enemies will demand. Never willingly
relinquish any right,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-10-25

NO question is settled until it is Set
tied right. There will be no peace in
this country until the Afro-American
mas every right guaranteed under the
Constitution.