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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-09-26
of the District of Columbia to use the
middle of the streets, reserving the
sidewalks for Jawjaw1ans and other
superior people.
."MADE IN u. S. A."

Senator Fletcher Of Florida, chair
merce, favorably reported the follow
ing resolution, which had been sub
mitted by Senator Weeks of Massa.
chusetts:
"The secretary of commerce is here
by directed to cause to be prepared in
detail an estimate of the probable cost
OF sending at least six vessels, now in
the military or naval service of the
United States, or otherwise, to the
principal port of South America, such
vessels to carry suitable samples of
the manufacturers and products of
this country, together with reason
able number of representatives of bust
ness or trade organizations, and to
adopt such other means as may by him
be deemed advisable, to the end that
our manufacturers and producers may
be forthwith put in direct contact with
the markets of South America"
The majority of the people in Mex
leo, Central and South America are
mixed blOods, Caucasians, Indian and
Negroes and all sorts of complicated
mixtures and it would undoubtedly
be a great idea to load the ship with
samples of jimcrow cars and various
other hellish things which are made
only in the United States The 49,
100000 colored people out of the TO-
100000 inhabitants of Brazil would no
doubt be greatly interested in the u.
S. Treasury brand Of water closets
''For Negroes only" put on the market
by that distinguished inventor, John
Shelton Williams of Virginia.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-09-26
Infamous Determinations,
Pioneer Press, Martensburg J

What terrible thing, for peaceful
laborlng and country-loving people,
whose patriotism has been to this
nation gloriously tested in every war,
to be denied mans rights. In come
foreigners, who know nothing of our
country's laws; speak not a word of
our language, yet they can eat in res
taurants, ride on frst-class trains and
boats, stop at hotels; in short do what
any. white man can. It is quite time
that decent and refined coored people,
every one Of more or less mixed blood,
should be accorded the same right
Shame on America. If true, and God
declares it, that what people SOW that
shall they also reap; what a heart
rendering harvest is ripening to be cut.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-09-26
HEATHENs JEER CHRISTIANS.

The spectacle of three alleged
Christian emperors forcing upon the
world fearful bloody war has caused
the so-called heather of the Orient to
speak in ,derisi0n of Christianity and
they taunt the native converts with
the charge that Christianity is waning
and that Christian civilization is only
veneer.
This lesson was learned years ago
by the Colored people of this coun-
try Although the Afro-Americans
have accepted Christianity and in the
majority Of cases devoutly follow it's
precepts, they are robbed of their
civil rights in many states, they re-
ce1ve Injustice in many courts, hostile
legislatures pass discriminating laws
and they are mob-murdered in the
Southern tier of states.
And then American Caucasian
Christianity says: We want you to be
Christians in order that our numbers
may be enlarged, but you are not fit
to go to the same church with US, YOU
must go in Jim crow Y. M. G.. AS,
We might permit a Chinaman or a
Japanese or Malay or an Indian or
perhaps dog but not "nigger."
AS all Of these outrages are COM
mitted by people who claim to be
Christians it is not strange that the
Afro-American has little faith in the
Christianity Of the Caucasian Ameri-
can.
by their fruits We shall know
them"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-09-26
BY REV. QUINCY EWING.

But we are very far from needing
to rely upon any general consideration
in support of the proposition advanced
above. It is supported by evidences
on every hand, waiting only the eye
of recognition. Scarcely day passes
but something is said or done with this
end in view, to emphasize, lest they
forget, the conviction for both white
man and Negro that the latter is and
| must remain an inferior. Let me IN
stance a few such evidences.
Consider, first, the Jim Crow legls-
lation in the manner of it's enforce
ment. Such legislation is supposed to
have for it's object the separation OF
the races in trains, street cars, etc., to
save the white people from occasional
contact with drunken, rowdy, illsmell-
ing Negroes, and to prevent personal
encounters between the whites and
blacks. Members of the different
races occupy 1.-The. same cars, separated
only by absurdly inadequate little
open-mesh wire screens, so tiny and
light that conductor can move them
from one seat to another with the
strength of his little finger. Needless
to add, these screens would serve to
obscure neither sound, sight, nor smell
of drunken rowdies who sat behind
them! In summer cars, black and
white passengers may be separated
not even by a make-believe screen;
they are simply required, respectively
to occupy certain seats in the front
| or the back end of the cars.
In Birmingham, Alabama, the front
seats are assigned to Negroes In all
closed cars, and the back seats in al
open ones. Why the front seats in the
one case, and the back seats in the
other, it is not easy to understand IN
the light of the letter and alleged
spirit of the Jim Grow law! The un-
DERIVING purpose of the law is clearly
not the separation of the races IN
space; for public sentiment does not
insist upon it's fulfllment to that end.
The underlying purpose OF It would
seem to be the separation OF the races
in status. The doctrine Of inequality
would be attacked if white and black
passengers rode in public conveyances
on equal terms; therefore the Negro
who rides in a public conveyance
must do so, not as Of undoubted right.
but as with the white mans regu1a-
ton. This place you may occupy,
that other you may not, because ! am
/ and you are you, lest to you or to me
it should be obscured that am and
you are YOU" Such is the real spirit
OF the Jim Grow laws.
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IN THE DREAD AND BUTTER
STATE.n

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Nearly thirty years have passed since
the editor Of THE APPEAL left his
native state, Kentucky, and came to
Minnesota. Some years prior to that
he saw the changing conditions and
became convinced that there was no
chance for Afro.American in the South
that is to be more than a half
man. He felt that there were many
things more precious than gold.
He intended to marry and rear
family and he did not care to sub
ject his children, if any came, to the
heliish conditions which were general
in that section. He felt that they had
right to be born in a state where
there was no law to degrade them
where they would have fair field and
then If they failed it would be their
own fault
In 1885 he packed up his belongings
and came to the great state of Mime
sofa and he has never regretted the
step. His way has not been easy, but
he has reared family, giving his
children every advantage he could af.
ford to give them and if they do not
make good he can not be held re.
sponsible.
D 1t has been a great benefit to reside
in state which does not generally dis.
criminate between it's citizens. There
is room in the great state of Mime
sofa for others who wish to escape
the degradation of the South. Well
intentioned, intelligent, clean, respect.
able Afro-Americans will be welcomed
here and those who have a little CAPT
tai have good chance to succeed.
/ Southern Afro-Americans who are
thinking of coming this way should
divest themselves of all jimcrow ideas
before starting. Those who come as
men and demand respect as men will
be treated as men,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-09-26
SPREAD OF MoHAMMEDAN,sM

Every true Christian should be glad
to learn of the remarkable growth OF
Mohammedanism. Among the colOred
peoples of the world it is outstrippins
Americans.
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
Christianity.
have been so warped by the Infamous
The souls of American Caucasians
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 lie
increasing yearly. In Asia and Africa
more natives are becoming NOLAN.
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 ii
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 APP.
PEAL believes and predicts and the
brotherhood religion will spread like
w1ldhre.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-09-26
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 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 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 murdereFs were
arrested, but their friends in the town
released them and they escaped, it is
asserted.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-09-26
Silence is Infamous.

to go on and work injury to Negroes,
has been the silence of Negro speak
ers in the face of the Infamous lies
Ben. Tillman, Vardaman, Blease and
others have been telling the North and
West about Negroes raping white
women. By all means they should
have been rebuked and their state
ments proven lies, but as it is, both
sections believe it. Shame on the in
telligent men and women of our race
who allow these base calumniators to
SANDER us.-Pioner Press, Martins
burg, w. Va.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-09-26

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??, 1914-09-26

For the first time in the history OF
the United States, the machinery OF
the government of 9O,000,000 people Is
being used to humiliate and degrade
100000 Of its 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 Dear 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 nc
sense wards of the government. They
have won their places by examlna
and women and the government which
they have so faithfully and efficiently
served has no right to place upon
them this badge Of dishonor.
It 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 in shame. !,
IL the Nations shame.
We hold President Wilson respon'
sible because in the final analysis the
acts Of his subordinate officials are his
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-09-26
The Reason Why.
(Afro-American Ledger.)

One of the reasons why the South
is in it's present backward condition
is because the white people of the
South pay more attention to trying to
keep the Afro-American in 'his place."
whatever that may be, instead of try
ing to make progress and have the
colored man to assist him in doing
so. We are creditably informed that
Wilmington, N. c., has been falling
back in the race ever since that riot
took place which drove from it a large
element of it's very best and most
progressive colored people. It has
lost it's standing as the first city of
the old Tar Heel State, and is com
PEELED to take second or even third
place.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-09-26

upon tn liquor question. In addition
to providing a county option law, l
believe in further reducing the power
of the brewery in politics and curbing
the sinister influence of the liquor
traffic by preventing brewery owner
ship of saloons or buildings occupie,.
by saloons, by enforcement of laws
prohibiting the sale of beer or LIQUOR
to any but legally licensed retailers,
thus doing away with blind pigs and
other illicit places whose existence de-
ponds upon the illegal sale of liquor,
and by such other legislation as may
be necessary to destroy the power of
the liquor traffic"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-09-26

It 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??, 1914-09-26
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-09-26

What is sauce for the goose is
sauce for the gander." One of the
strongest arguments used in favor of
female suffrage is: Women should
have the ballot for their own protec-
ton" Granted But how about the
black men in the Southern states who
are deprived of the ballot by the
grandfather clause" or some other
equally outrageous and unAmerican
subterfuge? Do they not need protec-
ton? a..
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-09-26
GROWTH OF DRUG Habit.
Prohibitionists Pay Little Attention to
Country's Serious Menace.

. SSSsO GuOuoSOs
Duluth, Mimi, Aug.-Commenting
On the accumulation of evidence that
the drug habit is growing at an ap-
palling rate in this country, the Duluth
Herald Of August 18th says editorially:
1T is claimed that this country uses
more opium than China, and that it has
become the chief market Of the world
for this deadly drug.
Drugs kill more people than whis-
key, and kill them in a more dreadful
way. They kill the soul long before
they kill the body They kill the con-
science and turn human beings into
fiends. They corrode moral faculties,
and kill lingeringly, terribly.
Half the enthusiasm and zeal put
into the prohibition movement would
Stay the drug evil.
"Yet there is much enthusiasm and
zeal for the prohibition movement and
very little interest in the drug men
ace.
"Why?"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-09-26
IN CHRISTIAN U. S.
Afro-American Woman Lynched by
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-Americau
woman. 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 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??, 1914-09-26

Afro-Americans all over the country
ought to continue to protest to Presi'
dent Wilson against the Infamous
segregation of Afro-Americans in the
public service. i. ...s.- , 4
THE APPEAL suggests that Editor
Trotter of the Boston Guardian get up
another protest against segregation on
the civil service. We are willing to
make a small contribution to aid in
the matter.
'tWho would be free. themselves
must strike the blow"
A wise man knows all he tells, but
he never tells all he knows.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-09-26
Sample Southern Justice.
(St. Luke's Herald.)

VOI. LUKE f16TdIU.J
Down in Mississippi recently, a Pull
man porter who accepted a tip of ten
cents was fined $6-and the white
man who gave the tip was fined S.
After the trial the white mans fine
was RENTED and the money returned.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-09-26
sCAPITOL STEAM LAUNDRY.

"The House of Quality and Service"
Besides doing first class laundry work
at low rates, also does DRY CLEAN
ING, and for short time offers these
special rates:
Ladies' Suits $3.50
Ladies' Long Coats, full lining. $50
Ladies' Long Coats, half Iining.. 1.25
Ladies' Long Coats, no lining. -. 100
Ladies' LONG Gloves. 10
Ladies' Short Gloves. .O5
Mems Suits ................... 100
Mems Spring Over Coats. ..... 100
Try us and you will be convinced.
Our. wagons go everywhere.
Phone N. w. Cedar 939, Tri-State 1913
|43 Wabasha st. St Paul, MINI.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-09-26
ATTITUDE
Of William e. Lee on the Liquor
Traffic,

(From Owatonna Speech.)
II believe in county option and that
the people of any governmental unit
should have the legal machinery pro-
vided for the expression of thir will
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-09-26
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-it is
the worst single thing in life now. It justi11es
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. G. Wells In N. Y. Independent
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the opportunity to put an end to an
unjust and humilating conditions and
put one over" on the Christians.