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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-16
THE REPUBLICS SHAME.

For the first time in the history If
the United States, the machinery of
the government of 90,OO0,OOO people is
being used to humiliate and degrade
100000 of its loyal and 1aw-abiding
citizens. ~.-.0-
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.
Ihere 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 tn
establish that impossible thing, caste
in Republic.
dent and we believe that he will care.
1ully consider the many protests
which have been made and give the
word which a Christian Statesman
should give, that during his admins.
tratlon 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??, 1914-05-16
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. 0. T. Hamphat, A. M.
D. D., Phi. d. of Mussel Creek, Okla
homa; Ketchuman Cheatem, A M, D
D., D. c. 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 a 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 ihcalculable 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??, 1914-05-16
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
mixed-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.
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. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-16
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-16
Evidences Of Christianity
IN HOLY RUSSIA.
Jewish Girl Outraged and crucified
Rx Russians.

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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 crucified the daughter of poor
Jewish fisherman in Stavrapol, on the
Volga.
After outraging the young girl, the
dispatch declares, the three youths
dragged her to a 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??, 1914-05-16
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 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 wage upon which a 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
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-16

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 a 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. q
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-16
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 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. Populations 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 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??, 1914-05-16

Congressman J. B. Aswell, of Louisi
ana, addressed the Hibernian Associa
ton of Savannah, Ca, 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 tt
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. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-16

Honest fair minded Americans feel
that the fair fame of our country is
Delng tralled in the dust; they hang
their heads in shame. IT
Is the Nations shame.
We hold President Wilson respon-
slDle because in the final analysis the
acts of his subordinate officials are his
and ne has the power to end this in
justice by word. ..-E ID.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-16

. C. w. Post, the Battle Creek, Mich,
health food manufacturer who made
millions fixing up food that probably
saved the lives of many whose stom.
achs he helped with his food, could do
nothing for his own so he committed
suicide by shooting himself last Satur.
day. We believe we have seen leg
end something like this: physician
heal myself. . . 49,.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-16
Yes, Damphools.

Over at Atlanta City the Negroes
having secured James Grow school,
are raring and snorting because the
Board of Education exhibits some dis
inclination to give them a James
Grow principal. What fools we NOR
tails be.
Charleston, wv. Va) Advocate.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-16
IN CHRISTIAN u. S.
Afro-Amerlcan Woman Lynched by
Americans.

Afro.Ameriean Woman Lynched bv
Americans.
Muskogee, Okla.-Lemuel Peace
Caucasian, went into the 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 a 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 a rope about her neck and
dragged her some distance through the
streets before reaching the telephone
pole.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-16

to how much of the linen of the COM
pany is paid for out of the regular
monthly deductions for "lost linen"
from the porters "princely" monthly
wage?
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-16
Where Man Doesn't

Where Man Doesn't Reign.
"This Is mans world" she com.
planned.
Perhaps it u.s." he replied, ''but one
wouldn't suspect it while straying
through department store. = Chicago
Record Herald.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-16
RACE PREJUDICE,

am convinced myself that there is no more
evil thing in this present world than Race Pre-
judice; none at all. I write deliberately it is
the worst single thing in life now. It justiaes
and holds together more baseness, cruelty and
abomnination 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 G. Wells In N Y. Independent
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-16


men," But there is no statement that
there have been many such complaints
or that they were heard of under pre-
vious Administrations. Nor is it ex
planned why colored clerks are taken
out Of rooms In which their sole com
panions are white men, or why, il
there should be segregation because
Of the women, the Government does
not segregate all its women clerks
Nor does Mr.. McAdoo record the fact
that In many instances the white
clerks, without respect to sex, have
gone to their colored associates an6
expressed their complete dissent from
the Governments caste undertaking
He Indignantly denies that poorer
quarters have been given to the segre
gated, but eye-witnesses have told O.
colored women shut off in an unpleas
ant a1cove In one Office; Of others
quietly forced out Of the lunch-roon
they had been using for nine years
! past and compelled to go into lava
segregated behind lockers in one cor
| ner Of room in the dead-letter divi
sion Of the Post-O Office Department
Poorer accommoda for the segre
gated are the invariable law of segre
cation. The assignment Of separate
toilet-rooms to the races under threat,
Of prompt punishment for failure t,
obey the rules has been another O
the deeply humiliating features Of tn,
Washington segregation. To the col
ored workers all this segregating ha,
| been more brutal than slap in tn,
face. It is as Il the great Govern
lment Of the United States had gon,
out Of its way to stamp them publicl,
mond Of General Godfrey Wettzel'
black brigade; certainly brothers an,
sisters Of the black troopers who wer,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13

he left, vending his way toward his re cent quarters, and to. make sure of his bearings. took a long survey. ConfideI< that he was right. he determined to Gl ahead. so he gently opened door and passed in. Wishing to secure his coat and hat. which hung on the inside of the heretofore mentioned damask cur tains. he passed his arm behind them, and had it instantly thrust back by a female hand. He then attempted to part the damask folds, but two small hands held them securely. the curtains parting' sufficiently. however. to show that the waving brown hair he had expected to see was golden. With one piercing shrieS the intruder turned like a stricken deer. nor did he stop until the front of the boat was reached. He called for cabin boy sent him back to the ehambermaid urging her to go at once to Mrs. Sans apartment and acquaint her with the. mistake of her liege lord before the gen. eral alarm was sounded, or the long roll beat The matter was fully explained and reparation made. for the intrusion yet it caused an embarra ssment in the afterpart of the cabin that was felt dur ing the remainder of the day, and one of the participants was not even seen again. but kept her room with a violent head- ache''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13

under our observation, in connection with
 one of those happy couples. tAnd just
 here we must beg that our lady readers
 will not further peruse this article. for
 what follows is not intended for them.
 and if by them read, we will in future
 refrain from commenting on the pleasing
 subject of those Good Old Times in
 Dixie")
 A young scion of an aristoeratic fam ny living not thousand miles from our present county site. wooed and won one oi Mobiie's far-famed ante-belum belles Tn 1act she was the acknowledged
 beauty of her day and time. and her parents were famed fot their high moral ana social standing among the many prominent families of Mobile.
 Alter brilliant church wedding and reception and bounteous supper, ths young couple were escorted to the Danpnin street wharf to embark on the St. Nicholas. whose capacious ladies' cabin contained nothing but bridal apart ments so handsome were all, each con taining sleeping room, separated bv a heavy damask curtain from the room proper.
 The boat was loaded with freight and crowded with passengers, the wharf was lined with friends of the young couple. who came to bid them adieu. and over all floated the sweet strains of the calli- ope, under the slSillful touch of Prof Funk, a German musician engaged by the year to do nothing save perform for the pleasure of the steamers guests
 Captain Cox. wishing to give the vast crowd on shore a good view of a mag nificent spectacle headed his craft for Choctaw Pass in order to steam up the city front under flutter of flags and deafening cheers. All vessels that had steam up, blew their whistles. all rang or tapped their bells and never were a groom and his bride so honored on the old river. Music and dancing were kept up by the party aboard until late hour At lentgh the bride retired and the groom came forward and spent some- time with his friends and the officers of the boat, after which he disappeared and we saw no more of sam (we'll call him Sam, for short. until we chanced upon him in the barbershop (which on side-wheel boat is on the guard. just in front of the wheel-house), same being also the dressing room for the male passengers. Sam appeared without hat or coat, carrying in his hand brush comb and toothbrush. He gave us to understand that he had slipped out on the guard side, not wishing to disturb Mrs Sam, and proposed to finish his toilet along with the rougher side of creation After spending some 30 minutes with us,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13
WILSON WORKSA
 SUMMER CAPITAL
Spends Supposed Vacation Working With War
 Situation

Cornish, N. H.. September 12-Pres- ident Wilson got down to work with in few minutes after his arrival here today despite the fact that he was supposed to be on a vacation He read reports from Washington telling of op- position to the war tax matter by the House ways and means committee and the statement by A. Rustem Bey the Turkish ambassador, explaining his previous statements about the Amer lean press. MT. Wilson during the day showed himself thoroughly at home among the New Hampshire people. At Battleboro, Vt, he mingled freely with a crowd. talking with many persons, and when he arrived here he greeted a number of friends.
 He brought with him the Misses Smith of New Orleans, his cousins He expects to go to church tomorrow and on Monday morning plans to go golf ing prior to his departure for Wash ilgton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13
PUBLISHERS CLUB IS
 FORMED IN LOTHIAN
Object of Club Is to Unite Printers and Publishers for Their
 Mutual Protection

Dothan, September 12.-(Special) At a meeting here today of printers and publishers of southeast Alabama the Wiregrass Printers and Publishers club was organized. w. T. Hall of De- than, was elected president; w. H. Barclay of Slocomb. vice president; F.. H. Martin of Dothan, secretary treas urer; w. l.. Wilkinson of Geneva, char man of the executive committed.
 The object of the club Is to unite the publishers and printers of the territory iii which the club assumes Jurisdiction to compact organization for the mu- tual protection of its members and to facilitate an interchange of ideas thRt will be helpful in placing the printing end publishing business on higher ano more profitable business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13
ANIE-BELLUM FLOATING : PALACES OF THE ALABAMA

i'e accompanying article is the sev- nun or the series of stories entitled .urhe rtoating Palaces of the Alabama or de .'ooo oid Times in Dixie" written just just arter the civil war by the late J,,dpo Fleetwood Foster. who for years was editor of the Wilcox Banner.
 our last chapter closed with the most noted boat race of the COS between tba queens of the two rivers. the St Niobo- las, Captain Jesse J. Cox, and the A,ica Vivian, Captain s. W. Ables. We will confine this chapter to some incidents in the careers of these handsome passenger steamers
 We mentioned in an earlier issue the fact that the St. Nicholas earned s75 ooo in one season The through passenger from the west paid. as well as we can remember, s49 from Mobile to New York and on account of the delightful fare served on the Ditpatch Line. they de- manded and received sS.50 for each adult passenger carried. or about s1o if not pro- vided with a through ticket.
 "The opposition boats could not share in this through travel. as they could not maintain a. boat each day. The St Nicholas and St. Charles Frequently car rfed over 16o passengers, a majority of whom made the entire trip from Mobile to Montgomery, or vice versa When oppo- stion was very strong passengers often refused to purchase through ticket until Montgomery was reached, for ire quently S2.5o was sufficient to meet the published rate between the above points
 We recall a bitter war between the St. Charles and the P. F. Kimball Captain James A. Greer, commanding the latter published a card in one of the Mobile dailies saying that, as many of the passengers passing up and down the river were northern men and hostile to the institution of slavery and at the rate or $2.oo passage, the boats were not only losing money, but benefitng the enemies or our states and section; therefore he proposed that the river boats charge the Full fare, $10, and donate one-half to the various orphan asylums of Mobile. and In order that no advantage be taken of