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The Appeal., 1914-04-25

measures ever offered in Congress.
= It strikes at the very foundation of
Christianity for among Christians of
every creed, marriage is regarded as
a divine institution.
There is no reason for such legisla-
ton. Caucasians usually marry eau
casians and o-Americans usually
marry Afro-Americans. The number
who marry interracially is wholly neg
ligible. The real purpose of the Bill
is to place a stigma upon the Afro
American people. -
The Clark Bill is really an open in
vitation to immortality and leaves the
Afro-American woman without protec-
ton and an easy prey to vicious men
Of the white race. If there is to be
any mixing of the races it ought to
be done legitimately in Christian mar
riage and not in an immoral manner.
1t is not the proper function of the
Government to draw lines of invidious
distinction between it's various classes
of citizens and place on the statute
books law which in effect brands
one group of citizens as unfit, chasing
it with imbeciles, idiots, detectives, de-
generates and criminals. A.
And then there is another point of
view. The mixing which has already
taken place has not resulted in de-
generate specimens of manhood. The
first blood spilled in the Revolution,
ary War was that of mixed-blood
-Crispus Attucks. Frederick Doug
lass, one of Americas greatest orators,
a patriot and a statesman was of
DR.. w. E. B. Dubois,
the great literateur and sociologist, is
a mixed-blood. Dr. Booker, T. Wash
ington, the great industrial educator, is
a mixed-blood. H. Y. Tanner, the great
artist whose pictures have been pur-
chased by the French Government and
now hang in the Louvre, is a mixed
blood. DR.. Daniel H. Williams, one
of the worlds greatest surgeons and
who was the first man surgeon in all
the world to operate successfully on
the human heart, is mixed-blood.
THE APPEAL could name thousands
of other mixed-bloods of whom Amer
ica may we'll be proud.
Every Afro-American in the United
States ought to do every thing in his
power to prevent the passage of the
Clark Bill and all other jim-crow legis-
lation. Write to your Congressman
and ask him to vote against and work
against every jim-crow Bill now in
Congress. -. :,
The Appeal., 1914-04-25
SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1914.
BEGGARS WHO HARM.

Just now the North is overrun by
Afro-American beggars, who are COL
lecting contributions for colleges and
universities, which are alleged to have
been organized for the "uplift' of the
race.
The Rev. H. o. T. Hamphat, A. M,
D. D., Phi. D., of Mussel Creek, Okla
homa; Ketchuman Cheatem, A NJ, D.
D., D. G. L., of Heavenly View, Mis-
sissippi; the Very Reverend A. S. S.
Gobbleumup, P. D. O., of Bear Wal
low, Georgia, and host of other wor.:
thies with queer names, weighted
down with string of degrees, con-
ferred by some 2x4 university, hailing
from strange towns, are telling of the
wonderful work they are doing for
their people and incidentally asking
for cash to continue their operations.
THE APPEAL does not object to
the collection of funds for proper edu-
cational purposes but is opposed to
some of the methods of these unctuous
collectors, who are evidently more in
terested in providing food and drink
and raiment for their own fat and
sleek bodies than in uplift work.>
In order to curry favor with the
whites, they make false and disgust
ing statements in their speeches,
praise their Southern oppressors, up
hold segregation and laud their own
degradation. If the South is so at
tractive as they picture it, they ought
to stay there and not come North to
injure their brethren by their jim
crow utterances.
They have done incalculable harm
in the North and they teach the same
stuff in their schools that they talk
when on this side of Mason and
Dixon's line. God help the students
under their control.
The Appeal., 1914-04-25
SPREAD OF MoHAMMEDANIsM.

SPREAD OF MOHAMMEDANISM
Every true Christian should be glad
to learn of the remarkable growth of
Mohamme edanisp. Among the colored
peoples of.the world it is outstripping
Christianity. 80 =, II
This may seem queer statement
but it is true. Christianity is so de-
cadent in America today that there
are few real Christians except Afro
Americans. - n
The souls of American Caucasians
have been SO warped by the infamous
color prejudice rampant in this coun-
try that in the majority of cases they
are not true followers of the Nazarene
Before the awful color line American
Christianity stands paralyzed and
dumb. "
There are today 100000 more Mos
lens than Christians in the British
empire. One-seventh of the whole
human race is Mohammedan and the
proportion is not at a standstill; it is
increasing yearly. In Asia and Africa
more natives are becoming Moham-
medans every year than are turning to
Christianity. To-day nearly all Of the
sacred places named in the Bible. are
under Mohammedan rule.
There is a reason why the colored
races cling to the religion of Moham-
med. It is a religion in which there
is no color line. The brotherhood Of
man is not a mere figure of speech as
it is in Christianity, but living real
ity. The orientals are too shrewd to
be caught in any large numbers by a
jimcroW religion, for that is what it
means when Caucasian Christianity
gets them into it's clutches.
The conquest of Colored America for
Mohammedanism has not yet begun,
but it is coming some day, THE AP-
PEAL believes and predicts and the
brotherhood religion will spread like
wildfre.
The Appeal., 1914-04-25
UNJUST JUDGE DENOUNCED.

Judge Willis of the criminal depart
ment of the Superior Court of Los An
geles, California, sentenced young
colored man to thirty years in the pen
itentiary for highway robbery, al
though his only loot was white
girls kiss.
When the fact became generally
known that so unjust a sentence had
been imposed white women sent in
protests, threats of recall and de-
nunciations. Deputations of white wo-
men visited the Judge to demand that
action be taken to save the young man
from such severe punishment. Tele-
phone messages informed him that
petitions were being prepared for his
recall. Other women called in person
to say that steps would be taken to
procure a pardon from the governor.
The action of the women shows the
difference between California and the
South. If the highway robbery" had
occurred in Vardaman's state there
would have been a lynching.
The Appeal., 1914-04-25
THE.REPUBLIc's SHAME.

For the first time in the history of
the United States, the machinery of
the government of 90,000,o00 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 degrade
ton. .'
There is no warrant in law for these
orders of subordinate officials. The
facts have been brought to the atten-
tion 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-
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. >
dent and we believe that he will care.
fully consider the many protests
which have been made and give the
word which Christian Statesman
should give, that during his aaminis-
tration there shall be no segregation
or discrimination On account of race,
creed or color among the servants of
| the government.
The Appeal., 1914-04-25
Evidences Of Christianity
IN HOLY RUSSIA.
Jewish Girl Outraged and crucified
Bv Russians.

Jewish Girl Outraged and crucified
BY Russians.
Berlin-One of the most revolving
crimes in the dark history of Russia
was reported here in special dispatch
from st. Petersburg, telling Of three
Russian youths having outraged and
then crucif1ed the daughter of a poor
Jewish fisherman in Stavrapol, on the
Volga.
After outraging the young girl, the
dispatch declares, the three youths
dragged her to cemetery, where they
nailed her to a cross above one of
the graves. Nails were driven through
her hands and feet and even through
her eyes,. The three murderers were
arrested, but their friends in the town
released them and they escaped, it is
asserted.
The Appeal., 1914-04-25
WHEN is MIXED BLOOD INDIAN? /?

Many perplexing questions have
propounded to government experts, but
they are all mere incidents to the
puzzle now before the Supreme Court
of the United States. It is: when is
a mixed-blood indiana"
It is the contention of the govern
ment that the term mixed-blood can
be applied only to those Indians who
possess a quantity of white blood
amounting to one-half or more.
/ This question arises over the term
"mixed-blood" Indians, as employed in
the Clapp amendment to the Indian
appropriation bill of 1906, removing
restrictions as to sale, incumbrance
and taxation of the allotments.
The circuit court of appeals for the
Eighth circuit held that every Indian
who had an admixture of other than
Indian blood, however small, is a
mlxed-blood. In the three cases de-
cided it was stipulated that one of the
Indians had one-eighth white blood,
another one-sixteenth, and the other
one-thirty-second; so the court dis
missed the cases. The Department of
Justice then appealed the case to the
Supreme Court.
s BY the way, the question: What is
a Negro? has never been decided by
the Supreme Court and it would prob
ably be as interesting as the Indian
case. THE APPEAL has always con.
tended that Negro is not a. proper
racial designation for Americans of
African descent. To hear men who
are not more than one-thirty-second
Negro yelling themselves hoarse about
being Negroes" presumably for the
purpose of making themselves popular
with black men has always seemed
very ludicrous. Afro-American will
cover all the various admixtures.
The Appeal., 1914-04-25

Congressman J: B. Aswell, of Louisi-
ana, addressed the Hibernian Associa-
ton Of d Savannah, Ga, recently on
The Freedom of Man." AS AsWell is
the author of the Bill to jimcrow Afro
Americans in the Civil Service we pre-
sumo his idea Of freedom is limited to
certain varieties of men. Savannah,
Georgia, where the speech was de
.livered, also claims the rather doubt
full honor of being the home; Of Con
gresham Edwards, author Of another
jimcrow Bill
The Appeal., 1914-04-25
IN CHRISTIAN u. S.
Afro-American Woman Lynched by

Afro-American Woman Lynched bv
Americans.
Muskogee, okla.-Lemuel Peace, a
Caucasian, went into the colored sec
ton OF the city Sunday night and mis-.
treated Marie Scott, an Afro-American
woman. W. To defend herself, she killed
him. She was arrested and put into
the Wagner county. Jail for safe keep
ing. Tuesday she was taken out of
the jail by a masked mob and hanged
to a telephone pole. The mob got into
the Jail by strategy. The mob pulled
the screaming woman from her cell,
tied a rope about her neck and
dragged her some distance through the
streets before reaching the telephone
mole Te.-
The Appeal., 1914-04-25

Honest fair minded Americans feel
that the fair fame of our country is
being trailed in the dust; Iney hang
their heads in shame. It
is the Nations shame
We hold President Wilson respon-
sible because in the final analysis the
acts of his subordinate officials are his
and he has the power to end this in
Justice by a. word ..-------
The Appeal., 1914-04-25
THE CLARK ANTI-MARRIAGE BILL.

The Clark Bill prohibiting inter-mar-
riage of the races in the District of
Columbia, recently reported favorably
by the District Committee of the
House, and making the marriage of
Afro Americans and Caucasians a
crime is one of the most infamous
The Appeal., 1914-04-25

If the Caucasian Christians of Ken
lucky are doing anything to abolish
the color line we have not heard of it.
The Appeal., 1914-04-25
RACE PREJUDICE.

am convinced myself that there is no more
evil thing in this present world than Race Pre-
judice; none at all write deliberately-it is
the worst single thing in life now. Il justiies
and holds together more baseness, cruelty and
abomination than any other sort Of error in the
world. Through its body runs the black blood
Of coarse lust, suspicion, jealousy and persecu-
tion and all the darkest poisons Of the human
soul.
-H. G. Wells in N. Y. Independent
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-16
STOCKS MOVE OFF
ON PROFIT TAKING
Weakness in London Gave Cue for
Lower Prices Here-Gains
Were Unimportant,
BY CHARLES w. STORM.

NEW YORK, Jan. 16-Profit tasing
sales Were evident to-day in a number
of important issues at the opening of
the stock market. Prominent in this
connection was Reading, which declined
to 1898 within the first fifteen minutes
of trading for net loss of Us While
pressure came from this source, the vol
ume of selling was not extensive in the
first half hour and the undertone was
steady.
Some gains were made in The issues
which are called unimportant by traders
Among these We're American Locomotive
u and Virginia Carolina Ii.
Among the declines were Amalga-
mated Copper y, Southern Railway y
Southern Pacific Is, Norfolk and West
ern Is, New York Central u, Lehigh
Valley g. Erie a, California Petroleum
Coast Line Il. Western Union Y. Texas
Company q, Steel common u
Chesapeake and Ohio, Utah Copper
and Canadian Pacific opened with frac-
tional advances.
The curb market was quiet
Aemricans and Canadian Pacific In
London were irregular within narrow
range, but the undertone was good.
RecoVeries were general in the late
forenoon. although fractional recessions
were noted in some of the smaller is
sues. Gains were noted as follows;
Northern Pacific, IN; American Can
y New York Central, y; Bethlehem
Steel, u; Utah Copper, %: Anaconda
Copper, Is; Anaconda Copper, Is
Erie. "a.
Reading dropped " Chesapeake and
Ohio and Amalgamated Copper IS. Bal
timore and Ohio and Southern Pacific Il
United States Steel, Union Pacific
American Beet Sugar ard Electric helc
firm. Call money loaned at ~.
The list was steady in the last houi
of trading. Amalgamated Copper rose
to 74%, after selling around 1875 dur
issues showed fractional advances
Reading held around 1T01s. Texas
Company dropped to 141 for a further
decline. Union and Southern Pacific
ranged slightly above their noon price
The market closed steady. Govern
ments unchanged other bonds strong,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-16
Indict Strikers for
Carrying Weapons

HOUGHTON, MICH, Jan. 10
Four striking members of the West
ern Federation of Miners were ar
rested to-day on grand jury indict-
ments charging the carrying of con-
cealed weapons. The names of the
four men were withheld when the
other 80 Indictments were handed
down yesterday
Sixteen men have been arrested
and furnished 1000 bond each to APP
pear in court to answer the charge
of conspiracy to prevent non union
miners from going to work in the
copper country.
Charles H. Meyer, president of the
Western Federation of Miners, who
was also indicted for conspiracy, is
expected to return at once from Den
yer and surrender
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-16
DONALD SONS WILL
STAY WITH COUNTY
Public Works Committee Induces
Brothers to Remain in Service
Under New Order.

Captain S. c. Anderson, chairman
of the Public Works Committee of
the County Commission, declared at
a meeting of his committee Friday
that Captain I. j. Donaldson and his
brother, S. H. Donaldson, have been
induced to remain In the service of
the county under the provisions of the
resolution adopted at the boards last
meeting, which made Captain Don
aldson superintendent of paving and
gave his former title of superintend-
ent of public works to his brother.
1t was announced that for the pres
ent Captain Donaldson would be de-
tailed as general assistant to the su-
perintendent of public works.
The committee will recommend to
the board the creation of the Office of
record clerk at the main county bar
racks, an office which was done away
with at the last meeting of the Com
mission, when the place of bookkeep-
er at the prison was abolished. II
develops that various records must be
kept at the barracks to comply with
the law.
The salary of the record clerk will
be $125 per month. Until the Com
mission has had time to act upon the
committees recommendation the du-
ties will be performed by Major Ma
than Lyon, former bookkeeper at the
barracks.
Several roads in the county were
ordered repaired and other routine
matters attended to.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-16
Futures opened steady.
HAYWARD G cLARk's
DAILY COTTON LETTER

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 16--The latest
news from South Africa shows that
with determined action on the part of
the Government the strike in South
Africa has been broken. An early col
lapse of the miners strike is expected
and the idea of calling a general strike
has been abandoned. Consos advanced
overnight q This should have a gen
orally stimulating effect on English
trade, Considering the wide difference
from New York and consequent strad
die selling, Liverpool came in very good.
showing futures a the opening of our
market about 2 points better than due.
Spots points higher; sales, $4,000
bales.
First trades here were at an advance
of points with good demand, based
on a strong Liverpool, the national gin
ners' rumor, good dry goods and spot
news. New York, however, seemed to
favor reaction over Sunday and
showed pressure which checked support
and caused prices TO recede.
The rumor of a bank failure in Paris
was used effectively, although French
rentes are unchanged and do not re-
feet any trouble Besides the strength
In cotton is based on a deficiency In the
supply and should be little affected by
outside developments, except when of
national character.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-16
COTTON SEESAWS
THROUGHOUT DAY
Early Bulge Met With General
Profit SaIes-Sentiment Bull
ish-Cables Strong.

NEW YORK. Jan. 16.-Little effect
was felt by the cotton market to-day
from the census bureau report as to
the amount of cotton seed crushed and
bales of linters obtained to December
81, which was 10000 bales over last
year. The report was construed as bear
ish, but strong Liverpool cables more
than offset the bearishness of the fig
ureS and first prices were at net adj
vance of to 10 points from Thursdays
final. Sentiment was bullish after the
call with Wall street traders buying
heavily which brought about widening
of the early advance several points.
Warmer weather was reported from all
sections of the cotton growing country.
The market failed to make further
progrss during the early forenoon. In
stead, the entire advance was wiped
away, as result of a general wave Of
profit-taking sales. attributed to those
who have been active buyers during the
present upward movement. on the
break January fell 1928, March 1884,
May 1888 and July 122S. 1t was said
that the census report was responsible
for the sudden unloading movement,
which would have a temporary bearish
influence, particularly on oil as well as
cotton
1t was rumored that the National Gin
ners' was 1900 bales ginned from Janu-
airy l to January 16, against 1872, 900 bales
last year. This would indicate yield
of 10 400, 900 bale sand was construed as
extremely DultlSn, resulting III d RAPID
recovery of the decline. The bulge.
however, met with liberal offerings ana
1t looked as though some of the promi-
nent interests who were heavy buyers
late yesterday were disposing of some
of their holdings. The setback found
little or no substantial support and
prices fiuctuated narrowly around the
previous close while the majority
seemed inclined to wait further develop
ments.
Sentiment continues to grow buish
and the talk around the floor favors
purchases on all setbacks. The spot sit
uation is reported strong with desirable
grades scarce and hard to buy, even at
higher basis.
Mill takings for the week were very
bullish, being 399, 900 bales, against 1885,
600 bales last year.
At the close the market was barely
steady, with prices at a net decline of
2 to points from the final quotations
of Thursday.
Following are II a; m: bids in New
York: January, 1882; March, IL 81;
| May. 1888; July, 1881; October, lilo
Following are 10 a. m. bids In New
Orleans January, 1853; March, 1880;
May, less; July, 1894; october. 11.S0
Estimated cotton receipts:
Saturday. 1913.
New Orleans. ...... $500 to $500 2,SS6
| Galveston .........14, 500 to $4,000 1855
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-16
OBITUARY..

News reached Mr. and Mrs. C. ..
Wallace Friday Of the death OF their
daughter, Mrs. Fannie f. Edwards,
at Copperhill. Tenn, after a short
illness. The funeral win be held IN
Knoxville. Besides her parents,
Mrs. Edwards is survived by her
husband and little daughter four
sisters, Mrs, l.. NJ. Sanford, Of
London. England; Misses Nina,
Willie and Kate Wallace, and two
brothers, Dick and Ralph Wallace,
The remains Of Mrs. Rebecea D. Harp,
aged eighty five, who died Thurs
day at her home, No. 1911 Foundry
street viii be sent Friday to Thorn
aston for funeral and intermcn-.
She was the widow of Or. A. p.
Harp and is survived by three
daughters, Mrs. r. u. Abercrombie.
Mrs. Addie Pickett and Mrs. f. +.
Means; three sons, II. d. and w.
A. Harp. of Thomaston, and A. 7.
Harp, of Atlanta and one sister,
Mrs. W. H. HolCOmbe.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-16
1914 Convention of
I'D. G. to Savannah

SAVANNAH, Jan. 16.-Mrs. A. B.
Hull, president of Savannah Chapter,
has received telegraph ic notice
from the president general of the
United Daughters of the Confederacy
that the 1914 convention will be held
in this city in November.
Some time ago Mrs. Huh invited
the convention to meet in Savannah,
but it was necessary to receive an
acceptance from each member of the
executive board. Committees will be
named at once to arrange for the con-
ventiOn.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-16
$4,000 Whisky Goes
Unclaimed in Macon

MACON, Jan. 16.-More than ten car
loads of whisky, valued at nearly $780,
600. are held up in the railroad yards
of Macon, and demurrage is daily accu-
mulating because the consgnees are
afraid TO claim their respective ship
mentS.
night and day. prepared to raid the
places where it is taken. This fact has
deferred the owners of the whisky from
claiming it.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-16
SPOT COTTON MARKET

Atlanta, steady; middling BE
Athens, steady. middling 1871
Macon steady; middling 1874.
New Orleans. steady; middling 1874
New York, quiet: middling 1885.
Philadelphia. easy; middling 10 10.
Boston, quiet; middling 1885.
Liverpool, firm; middling 7.16d
Savannah, steady; middling l3c.
Augusta, steady; middling 133s
Charleston, steady; middling 1874.
Norfolk, steady, middling 12l1-16
Galveston, steady; middling l2&.
Mobile, steady; middling II 7-16
Wilmington. steady; middling l3c.
Little Rock, quiet middling l3c.
Baltimore, nominal; middling l2%.
St Louis, quiet; middling 1874.
Memphis, quiet; middling 13A.
Houston, steady; middling 12aa.
Louisville. firm: mldhlin0 ~
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-16
Tells Dalton Plans
Of State Chamber

Charles y Mckinney, secretary OF
the Georgia Chamber of Commerce
has gone to Dalton, Ga, where he
will speak Friday night before a
meeting of the Dalton Chamber of
Commerce. at the invitation of Presi-
dent 3. A Tyler.
Mr.. Mckinney will tell of the plans
that are being made for the big
booster meeting in Macon January
29-30