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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-01-31
CONFUCIANlSM IN CHINA.

COnfucianism has been made the
state religion of China by the admins
trative council of the republic, al
though all religions are to be to1er-
ated.
It is understood that the presidents
intention is to set an example to the
Chinese nation, which he thinks needs
the moral influence of religion. The
president will worship at the temple
of Confucius and at the Temple of
Heaven annually in the same way as
the Manchu emperors did, but without
wearing the diadem.
One religion is as good as another
and sometimes better and any old re-
ligion is better than the hypocritical
farce of Christianity as exemplified by
Caucasian American Christians.
Christianity is the state religion in
many countries so it was rather pre-
sumptuous for the Christian mission
aries to oppose the Chinese in having
a state religion.
The Chinese have acted wisely in
having their own religion and not &C
cepting the religion of the people who
are doing everything in their power to
degrade them. The opium traffic car
ried on by the British came near
running the Chinese people, but Eng,
lands aristocrats had to have the gold
even if each coin represented a Chi
nese soul.
Many alleged Christian nations, in
Guiding the United States, have laws
restricting Chinese immigration;
Great Britain, an alleged Christian
country, helped herself to Hong Kong
some fifty years ago, Russia, an al
legged Christian nation, gobbled up
Manchuria; Germany, whose kaiser
claims to rule by divine right, occu-
pies a Chinese port; France, an al
legged Christian nation, has appropria-
ted a slice of Chinese territory and
even little Portugal holds Macau
The shrewd Chinese realized that
if they accepted Christianity they
would at once be lowered in the esti-
nation of the Christian world, that
the Christians would probably pro-
coed to enlarge their spheres of in
fuence" until their country would be
Christianized out of existence.
Wise Chinese!
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-01-31
LET CoLoRED JUDGE STAY.

President Wilson has a hard time
of it placating the Southern fire-eat-
ers who see red every time it is pro-
posed to help the Negro. But he has
gone far enough in that direction and
public opinion will back him up in his
apparent determination to reappoint
Robert H. Terrell, Negro, as munic-
ipal judge of the District of Column
bia.
The public will be the more anxi-
GUS that Judge Terrell be continued
in office because Senator Vardaman
of Mississippi has served notice on
the President that he will oppose the
appointment. 1t is nothing to Varda-
man that Terrell has served we'll as
municipal Judge. It is nothing to
Vardaman that the retention of Judge
Terrell in Office will be an inspiration
to other colored men in their struggle
upward. Terrell is a niger and
that damns him in Vardaman's eyes.
If there could be a more narrow view>
point than this, it has not been dis
closed. Instead of condemning Ter
rell, Vardaman condemns himself and
that section Of the white race which,
instead of encouraging the colored
race, employs every means to keep
the shackles on the Negro. Let
President Wilson reappoint Judge
Terrell.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-01-31
HlNDUs SHOULD BEWARE!

Hindu students from practically
every leading American university at
tended the meeting of the Hindustan
Association of the United States at
Chicago last week. They are trying
to encourage the young men and wom-
en- of India to attend American
schools.
It may be all right now but if the
number becomes very great they
would be treated in America Just as
AFRO Americans are treated-with con-
tempt. Even now Hindus are prac-
dcally barred from the Pacific Coast
and in the South they find it neces-
sary to wear turbans to prevent being
mistaken for Afro-Americans and be-
Ing subjected to the insult and degra-
dalton Of the jim crow car and other
devilish devices Of that benighted sec
ton Of the country.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-01-31

THE APPEAL reprints in this issue
a portion of the article on "The Pres
ident and Segregation at Washington
which appeared in the North American
Review for December. In it Oswald
Garrison Willard, the author, who is a
grandson of the great abolitionist Viii
liam Lloyd Garrison, takes the Wilson
Administration to task for the great
injustice of trying to establish caste
in the republic. Every reader of THE
APPEAL ought to purchase copy of
the North American Review, read the
entire article and preserve the copy
for his children's children to read.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-01-31
THE REPUBLICS SHAME.

For the first time in the history of
| the United States, the machinery of
the government of 9O,O0O,0OO 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-
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-
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 a Republic.
Honest fair minded Americans feel
that the fair fame of our country is
being trailed in the dust; they hang
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 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 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??, 1914-01-31

1t looks as if Senator Vardaman OF
Mississippi is the real President of
the United States, at least that he is
debating the reactionary jimcrow pol
icy which has President Wilson
bound hand and foot.
Years ago, many Americans
who felt secure in their rights mini
mixed the power of Vardaman when
he was making his ''white man" cam
paign and said that it would never be
possible for such creature as he to
influence the policy of this great gov
eminent, but now we are face to face
with the fact that Vardaman actually
controls the government of the
United States. He has just delivered
to President Wilson his ultimatum
that he will fight any Negro nomina.
tons" to the bitter end.
Vardaman, who talks so much
about a white mans government
boasts of his Indian blood and it is
also rumored that he has Negro blood
in his veins and he certainly looks
as much like Negro as many men
whom he calls Negroes"
If Woodrow Wilson is President,
he ought to have the courage to treat
every class of American citizens in
accordance with the principles of the
New Freedom" of which he has writ
ten and talked so much. He swore to
do it when he took his oath of Office.
He should order the discontinuance
of segregation of the races in the gov
eminent departments and he should
nominate colored men for office and
stand by his nominations by recess
appointments until he wins.
The cause for Vardaman's latest
outbreak is the fact that Municipal
Judge Robert H. Terrill is a candi.
date for reappointment. Judge Terrill
was endorsed by 800 of tn elowyers
Of Washington and 20 or more Of the
leading law firms wrote personal let
tiers to the President in his favor, il
being unanimously conceded that he
is the best municipal judge in the
city. He is also recommended by
Attorney General McReynolds.
That all Of the whites do not in
dorse Vardaman's ideas is shown in
the following editorial from the St
Paul Dispatch:
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-01-31

Now what do you think of this :?
Robert Threat of Arkansas was ac-
cused of mistreating 14-year.old
white girl. He was sentenced to hang
last July, but appealed to the Su.
prem eCourt and was granted a new
trial and last week was sentenced to
20 years imprisonment. It is strange
that he ever had trial and stranger
still that after being sentenced to
hang he was allowed to escape that
penalty. Are the bloodthirsty South
erners getting better?
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-01-31
we haye.read with great interest =

2 We have read with great interest a
recent article from the pen of Israel
Zangwill, author of the Melting
Pot. ;" It includes among otner things
the official report of the aliens admit
ted to the United States in the year
ending June 80, 1913 Among the over
forty different nationalities that went
to make up the sum total of 1,427 ,227
immigrants it will doubtless surprise
many to know that there were 1874
Africans. The smallest number were
Pacific islanders, 27 and the largest
Italians, 318,519.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-01-31
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 a 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 other things Sir Sidney said:
MY study and comparison of con-
ditions in the United States and the
West Indies," he said, 'shas brought
me to that conclusion. American and
colonial politicians and public men are
not Exeter Hall abolitionists nor
evangelical Christian missionaries.
do 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
ltarlan 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
do not say that they will attain i'm
mediately civil peace, but I am conf
dent that they will be travelling the
only road toward it.
1 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 well
as the black"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-01-31

DR.. W. Ward Plat, of Philadelphia,
is very anxious to convert the Asiatic
people living on the Pacific coast to
Christianity. Judging by newspaper
reports, it would seem that the eau
casians themselves need to be convert
ed to true Christianity. The Asiatics
are behaving themselves, making mon
ey, educating their children and con-
Quoting themselves with more propri-
ETY. than the white heather, who en-
deavor to Cypress them.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-01-31

Brig.-Gen. John J. Pershing, former
military governor of Mindanao, says
that the Moros Of the Philippine ISL
ands have been pacifed and that they
will be good unless someone attempts
to interfere with the Mohammedan
religion. There is no reason why
Americans should attempt to convert
the Moros. They, have a good reli-
gion and they are too shrewd to &C
cept the jimcrow Christianity of the
American Caucasians.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-01-31

1t is said that President Wilson
wishes to show the Afro-Americans
that he is not inimical to them. He
can do it easily and without fear from
the opposition of Vardaman. Mr..
President, just pass the word down
the line that there is to be no more
segregation in the service of the
United States government; revoke the
separate toilet order and declare that
Afro-Americans are to be treated just
the same as other classes of Amer
leans.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-01-31
concluded that he could do somethin
along that line himself.

IS + ID
concluded that he could do something
along that line himself.
Lomax conceived the idea Of teach
ing colored men to be Pullman por-
tiers by mail. Students sent in their
money from all over the country. The
postoftice inspectors say he promised
to get them positions and failed to
make good. He was held to the grand
jury.
Lomax was evidently a rather YER
satile fellow. His course included:
Theory and practice of moral sua-
sion as applied to tipping.
Aesthetics of whiskbrooming.
Art of bedmaking.
The human smile and how to use
it in extracting the coin.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-01-31
THE RACE is RISING.

The greatest takers the world has
produced have been Caucasians. They
have feeced their brethren out O.
billions Of dollars by means of all
sorts of schemes from religion to
tango. It would require too much
space to even name the many plans
of separating their victims from their
coin.
Some time since one Charles A.
Lomax, an Afro-American. became a
little envious Of the Caucasians who
were extracting the ''long green"
from their confiding brethren and
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-01-31

Instead of being eliminated the
lynchers are following up-to-date
methods in the south's favorite diver
sion. At Purcell, Oklahoma, recently,
a mob in an automobile proceeded to
the jail, took therefrom colored man
CHARGED with murder, carried him
to Noble and hanged him.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-01-31

President Wilson could end segre-
cation in the departments with sin
gle word. Will he have the courage to
give it?
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-01-31
The MAN WHO DaREs

honor tho man who in the con
sclentious discharge Of his dutv dares
to stand alone; the world, with ienor-
ant, intolerant judgment, may con
denim, the countenances Of relatives
may be averted, and the hearts Of
friends grow cold, but the sense of
duty done shall be sweeter than the
applause Of the world, the counten-
ances Of relatives or the hearts Of
friends.-charles Summer.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-01-31
RACE PREJUDICE.

am convinced myself that there is no more
evil thing in this present world than Race Pre-
JUDGE; none at all. write deliberately 1t is
the worst single thing in life now. It justifies
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-
ton and all the darkest poisons Of the human
soul.
III O. Wells in N. =. Independent
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-01-31

Keep up the protests against segre-
uo finn ..zs5l
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-01-31
is VARDAMAN PRESIDENT?

SATURDAY, JAN. 81, 1914
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-01-31
THE APPEAL
AnatlonaI Afro-American Newspaper

PUBLISHED WEEKLY M
j. Q ADAMS, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-01-31

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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-05-02
UNIVERSITY WINS
0RAT0Ry CONTEST

George Bosnian, representing the
University of Virginia, last night won
the handsome medal offered to the hest
orator in the annual contest OF the
Virginia State Oratorical association.
He had as his subject The Problem
of the City" which he handled in a
descriptive and intelligent manner.
There is always sharp rivalry between
the colleges and universities of tho
State in this annual contest. and many
students of the different schools were
present to hear their representative
speak Many graduates of the differ
ent schools were also presented and
they seemed to he as interested
in the manner in which their alma
mater was represented as did the stu.
dents.
The following is list of the differ
ent colleges represented. the names OF
the representatives and the subject on
which they spoke.
c. r Herndon. Roanoke college.
THE Truly Great; George kerns.
Washington and Lee university. An
Invisible Dynamic; George Bosnian.
University Of Virginia. The Problem
Of the City; O l.. Simpson. Emory
and Henry college, The F'ulfillment
of Life. H. b. Lapsley, Randolph
Macon college, The Real and tho
Ideal; H. l.. Harris, William and
Mary college, Personal Worth: G..
II Payne, Hampden-S Sidney college.
"Cnrecorded Heroes; c. A. Tucker.
Richmond college. The Progress OF
World Wide Peace
Richard Fl. Mann, of Petersburg:
Or. A r. Chandler. of Fredericksburg.
and the Rev. II. n. c. Maclachian, OF
Richmond, acted as judges.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-05-02
Fairmount-Avenue Methodist
Church viii Formally Take
"Charge Of Sunday School
and Basement.

The new Paramount Avenue Method
list church will have special services to-
morrow, the occasion being the
formal opening of the basement and
Sunday school rooms Of their hand
some new church DR.. RI. +. Johnson,
OF Crozet. Va. one OF the first pastors
of the church, will preach at II a. NJ.
and =, NJ.
The church. with NJ f. Wright,
architect. and e. ". Pollard, con-
tractor. Is built Of brick, trimmed with
stone and Is modern and convenient
in every way. II Is a beautiful build =
ing and viii seat 500 people.
Though the entire building Ii about
completed. with the exception of the
art glass and pews for the main audi
torIum. II Is thought that the congre-
cation will have 10 have all the SER
vices in the basement for quite awhile,
till money can be raised to buy the
pews and art glass.
The Paramount Method.sts have
done themselves great credit and de-
serve TO be Congratulated on their sue
cess.
Not quite year ago the old church,
which looked we'll. showed no out
ward signs Of decay. and was meeting
the demands Of the congregation. hut
upon examination by the city building
Inspector II WIS thought 10 he unsafe,
and the order was 20 pull II down, with
a debt OF 500 on the old building. This
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-05-02
GRAHAM HOBS0N TO
Be OUT FOR BOARD
TO TAXI; CHANCES AGAIN IN FIELD
WITH HIRSCHRERG AND
MCCARTHY.

II Was stated last night that Graham
3. Hohson would, AT the proper time,
announce himself as \ candidate for
the admin strative board. He has un-
til. the sixteenth of tho month within
which To Tile his Intentions.
MIR Hobsols is new a member 81 the
house Of delegates. having led the
ticket at the election last year. He
was in the field for tho administrative
board before. and made n splendid run,
Mr. Hobson served a number of years
In the board Of alderman, and is a
mani well versed in public matters
He lis young man. aggressive and
thofAuughly honest and sincere.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-05-02
SUPERINTENDENT Of
PARKS FAVORED
PRESDENT PETERS SUGGESTS
SUCH. A, MOVEMENT AS A MOST
IMPORTANT ONE.

The finance committee of the city
council last night discussed and dis
posed Ola long docket of business. of
more or less Importance.
There were many matters which
have been delayed because Of details
which had to be looked into.
One of the most important, of in
terest to the public, was that of the
proposition Of creating the position OF
superintendent of parks. President
r. L. Peters, Of common council. ap-
pealed to the board to recommend
the creation Of such a position, be-
cause, as Mr.. Peters said. much time
expense and trouble might be averted
by having one man look into the work
pf oil the parks, 20 that the admins
trative board would be relieved OF the
hearings which the various parkkeep-
ers have TO hold at various times-
The administrative board suggested
this arrangement some time ago. and
It will probably be ur to common
council next Monday night.