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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-09-24

When you want anything, advertise
in the new special column of this
paper. Some bargains are offered
there this week which it will pay you
to read about See page two. This
paper has more than 5000 readers
every week and one cent word will
reach them all
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-09-24
HAD HIS DOUBTS,

Uncle Ezra-Do you think the new
dances show that people are becoming
more immoral1
Uncle Eben-Wal. I dunno, but since
the summer boarders introduced them
here we amt had a single old-fashioned
Hissing game PUCK,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-09-24

Charles W. Gates, the candidate of the
votes from democrats and progressives
Us well as republicans, for. II elected
governor, as he will be, he will be found
ment believed otherwise, We would not
hesitate to say so.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-09-24

One Of the surest ways to promote
abiding peace in Europe would he to
provide that the emperor, king or other
ruler responsible for a declaration Of war
should be kept at the very front on the
firing line.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-09-24

How much longer can the human
now going on in Europe without revolt
ing against it?" asks the New York
Post. Well Krupp, the German gun
builder, has some new and powerful six
teen inch howitzers he would like to try
out before the war is stopped
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-09-24

If a presidential election were to be
held to-day, President Wilson would be
the choice Of a great majority OF the
American people, but Grover Cleveland
Is republics are unErateful
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-09-24
VERMONT FARMS VALUABLE.
(From the swanton Courier,)

(From the SWanton CourlerJ
"A farm In Enosburg brought Ni.5o
the other day. Not knowing the size and
fertility of the farm. We should say 1t
was rather attractive proposition.
However. those in the cities who yearn
for n little farm in the Green Hills OF
old Vermont need not be discouraged,
for there are nice little properties that
can be bought for a rather small frac-
ton of that amount. and good farms,
too There Is no need to let long
cherished desire go unfulflled. But
come to Vermont" Barre Time.
There are many valuable farms in
Swanton, They have been sold here for
prices ranging from 5000 to $4,000
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BUSTLE IN AGAIN.
Y. i. Telegram.)

Qrom the n /. Tecgram)
The hustle, formerly back number,
has come to the front, to be worn at the
back.
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merchandisss Get right" from the ''ads",
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THURSDAY, SEPT. "a
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-09-24
HOW A VERMONTER
ESCAPED FROM WAR
ZONE OF EUROPE

The Rev. Samuel Rose OF sharon mas
just received a letter from MS son. the
Rev. Philip NJ. Rose. relating the young
mans experiences when he was caught
in the war zone by the outbreak OF the
European conflict. He went last fall to
Italy to study for two years, and the
past summer he has been travelling In
SWITZERLAND and Germany. The three
friends mentioned are college men from
Pennsylvania, with whom Mr.. Rose was
travelling The letter follows;
80 city Road
London, f. c.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-09-24

Shoreham, Vt, Sept. l6. 1914
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-09
AFRO-AMERIcAN RIGHT WORD.

= We congratulate our up-to.date con-
temporary the Chicago Defender on
it's new make up" It is chock full
Of news and presents fine appearance.
We are especially pleased that the
Defender has adopted the word Afro
American as a racial designation. It
is shame that it is necessary in this
alleged land of the free to differentiate
between Americans, but it is true.
Who has not been disguised by the
use of the word Negro with small
IN" as is almost invariably the case
in the daily newspapers. Although
the words Jew, Mexican, Filipino,
Chinaman, Japanese are always CAPT.
African blood have been described as
talized, Americans of more or less
negroes" and "negresses," as if they
were wild animals.
In view of the fact that not more
than one-third of the Americans of
African descent are of pure Negro
blood it follows that the word Negro
is not correct, while Afro-American
would include people of various per-
centages of admixture and if generally
adopted the daily papers would be
compelled to capitalize it. The word
American has been used by THE
APPEAL for thirty years.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-09
ALWAYS RIGHT TO PROTEST.

A number of colored newspapermen
met recently in Nashville, Tenn, and
among other things decided /, not to
protest against segregation lowing to
the changing attitude of the Southern
whites"
The attitude is undoubtedly chang
ing but it is for the worse. There
were more lynchings in 1913 than in
1912; the unjust franchise laws are
still in force; segregation in the gov
eminent service is a matter of fact;
ghettos are being established in many
Southern cities; the jimcrow car is
still running; discriminating laws are
being enacted by "our good friends"
In the Southern legislatures. Thou
sands Of wrongs are being done every
day.
THE APPEAL believes that the
newspapermen have made a very SER
ious mistake in this the greatest crisis
since the civil war. We should al
ways protest against wrong. It is not
necessary to use violent or abusive
language; a protest may be couched
in courteous terms.
The principal mission of the colored
press is to aid in righting the wrongs
OF the race. If it fails to do this
there is really no excuse for it's ex-
istence.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-09
SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1914.
THERE'LL BE SOMETHING DOING
WE HOPE,

The state Of California seems bound
to be of some assistance finally in
settling the status of the railroad
porter insofar as tipping has been
made a part of his income. The Pull
man Company pays the porter $27.50
per month for services and the State
of California considers this altogether
too small a wage upon which man
can live. Just how much the Pullman
Company expects the public to pay
per month to each porter to make up
the balance of the wage of the porter
and just what the company estimates
that balance to be, and whether or
not the Pullman Company cannot find
enough money to pay the porter a
living wage out of the enormous
"dividends" and melons," which are
cut and distributed almost yearly to
the stockholders, are some of the
main matters which will be brought
to light by the proposed investigation.
To this might be added the query as
to how much of the linen of the COM
pany is paid for out of the regular
monthly deductions for "lost linen"
from the porter's "princely" monthly
wage?
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-09

standpoint instead of material one.
America is the big brother of other
nations"
This is a speciman of the loud noise
prominent men are handing out to the
people.
BUT IS IT TRUE?
I Take for instance, the growth of
"idealism" in Louisville, the home of
DR.. Lyons. There is no question about
the increase of race prejudice since the
editor lived there thirty years ago.
Even ten years ago who would have
dreamed that in 1914 there would be
60 agitation for the formation of a
ghetto for Afro-American, but it is
a fact. .-.
If there has been any growth of
idealism in this country the Afro
American has been left out of the
equation. The "idealism" of the great
mass of the Caucasians seems to be:
What can be done to retard the real
progress of my brother of darker hue
How can we humiliate and DEGRADE
the race by discriminating laws? How
can we prevent him from exercising
the rights of a free man? How can
we use the Christian religion to de-
grade the race?
True idealism, true morality would
abolish Kentucky's Infamous color line
laws, jimcrow cars and ghettos.
If the Caucasian Christians of Ken
lucky are doing anything to abolish
the color line we have not heard of it,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-09
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-09

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 i'm
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. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-09
SPREAD OF MOHAMMEDANIsM

Every true Christian should be glad
to learn of the remarkable growth of
Mohammed anism. Among the colored
peoples of the world it is .outstripping
Christianity.
Ihls may seem a queer statement
but it is true. Christianity is so de-
cadent in America today that there
are few real Christians except Afro
Americans. ~.
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. Today nearly all of the
sacred places named in the Bible are
under Mohammedan rule.
There is 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 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.
l
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-09
UNJUST JUDGE DENOUNCED

Judge Willis of the criminal depart
ment of the Superior Court of Los An
geles, California, sentenced a young
colored man to thirty years in the pen
itentiary for highway robbery, al
though his only loot was a 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 lynching.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-09
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. NJ,
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, halllng
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. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-09
Evidences Of Christianity
IN HOLY RUSSIA.
Jewish Girl Outraged and crucified
By 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 a special dispatch
from st. Petersburg, telling of three
Russian youths having outraged and
then crucified 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. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-09
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
mixed-blood. In the three cases de-
cided it was stipulated that one of the
Indians had one-eighth white blood,
another one-sixteentk, 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. '.... .@....
By the way, the question: What is
q 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 ne-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. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-09
THE REPUBLICS SHAME.

For the first time in the history of
the United States, the machinery of
the government of 9O,O0O,0O0 people is
being used to humiliate and sdegrade
100000 of its loyal and law-abiding
citizens.
In some of the departments of the
Federal Govern nent 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. ~ \-s~
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 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??, 1914-05-09
THE CLARK ANTI-MARRlAGE BILL

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
and Caucasians a
"crime" is one of the most Infamous
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. -.D Il
There is no reason for such legisla-
ton. Caucasians usually marry eau
casians and Afro-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 a law which in effect brands
one group of citizens as unfit, CHASING
it with imbeciles, idiots, detectives, de-
generates and criminals.
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
airy War was that of a mixed-blood
-Crispus Attacks. Frederick Doug
lass, one of Americas greatest orators,
a patriot and statesman was of
mixed-blood. DR.. w. E. B. Dubois,
the great literateur and sociologist, is
a mixed-blood. DR.. Booker T. Wash
ington, the great Industrial educator, is
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 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.
lea may well 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. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-09

Honest fair minded Americans feel
that the fair fame of our country is
being trailed in the dust; rney hang
their heads in shame. 1t
is the Nations shame. ID.
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:
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-09
"GRoWTH OF IDEALIsM."

"Idealism is making rapid growth in
America despite the commercialism
of the age" is the opinion of DR.. J. s.
Lyons, of Louisville, KY, moderator of
the Presbyterian Assembly of the
United States. Americans are be-
ginning to look at things from moral
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-09

Regulation by the federal govern
ment of elections of Representatives
and senators was proposed in. bills.
introduced this week by Senator Sher
man of Illinois. He urged the right
of the United States to protect the
election of its own officers.
To which we say amen.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-09
IN CHRISTIAN u. S.
Arro.American Woman Lynched by
Americans

Americans.
Muskogee, Okla.--Lemuel Peace q
Caucasian, went into Nthe colored Sec
ton of the city Sunday night and mis-.
treated Marie Scott, an Afro-American
woman. To defend herself, she killed
him. She was arrested and put into
the Wagner county Jail for safe keen.
ing. Tuesday she was taken out of
the Jail by masked mob and hanged
to telephone pole. The mob got into
the jail by strategy. The mob pulled
the screaming woman from her cell.
tied rope about her neck and
dragged her some distance through the
streets before reaching the telephone
pole.