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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-27
MEXICO LOSING ITS
WEALTH IN REVOLT
Statistics Show Need Of a
Stable Government.

Washington. - Consul Theodore c..
Hamm sends to the department of
commerce from Durango a striking ar
ray of facts showing the necessity for
ending the Mexican revolution and re-
establishing stable form of govern
ment in that republic
For example, the state of Durango
in 1913 was favored with abundant
and seasonable rains, insuring fine
crops of all staple farm products un-
der ordinary conditions, but not more
than two-thirds of the usual acreage
was planted, and not more than 10
per cent of the crops planted were
gathered by the rightful owners Of the
land, the remainder being appropriate
ed for military purposes or harvested
by others than the rightful owners on
account Of lawless conditions. Of
Chile peppers, for instance, the export
was only $4,000 against $4,000 to
$4,000 in normal years.
The cotton yield, says the consul,
was phenomenal in the famous La
guna district of eastern Durango and
southwestern Coahuila, along the Ma
gas river-120,OOO bales, worth $780,
600. Half the crop is still in the
warehouses at Torreon, and the other
half was shipped to the United States
at sacrifice instead of being sent as
ordinarily, to the cotton factories in
southern Mexico. The exports to the
United States from Durango in the
last year were $2,254.00O as against
$9,731 900 in 1912.
The railways to the gulf have not
been in operation in 1914, and all trade
is paralyzed. Torreon in times of
peace is busy interior manufacturing
city, like Syracuse. N. Y, or Paterson.
N. J.
In the city of Mazatlan, state of ST.
nalOa, on the Pacific, United States
Consul w. e. Alger reports, the ex-
ports to the United States in 1913 fell
off almost 100000, or 20 per cent
Eggs are now selling there at 7 cents
apiece, milk at 80 cents a quart, fuel
at four and five times the usual price
and all other articles in proportion.
Two of the three banks have closed,
and all business is suspended. There
was no railroad service in 1918 from
March 4 to Dec. 81, and but for the
numerous arrivals and departures of
American war vessels there would
have been scant mail facilities even
by water
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-27
SATURDAY, JUNE 81, 1914.
"6E MEN, NOT MOLLYCODDLES

Marking the successful elimination
of course of hard study, the annual
commencement of the National Law
School was held in Washington. Sena~
tor James E. MARITIME delivered the
address to the graduates and among
other things he said:
BE men, not mollycoddles,' he told
them, "for if there is any class of men
the world despises it is the class
known as mollycoddles" And a molly
coddle is that breed of humanity which
has the distinction of being indeinable.
1t is too bad that Senator Marines
advice was not given to a class con-
tanning Afro-American youth for it is
sadly needed.
In the majority of the addresses de-
livered at Afro-American school COM
mencements the speakers practically
advise the graduates to become molly
coddles and give up all of their rights
as men. They are told to be good and
thing on silver platter. A lot of such
disgusting dope is passed out to Afro
American graduates every year.
There are entirely too many Afro
American mollycoddles on earth right
now and it will be we'll for the race
if no more are turned out by the
schools.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-27
SEGREGATlNG REPUBLICANS.

The Central Afro-American of Saint
Louis in a timely editorial protests
against the action of certain branches
CT the Republican party in Saint Louis
in putting the Afro-American voters
off to themselves and shutting them
out of the party councils in the forma-
ton of campaign plans. The Afro
American says:
ESPECIALLY is it true of some wards
in this city, where the Afro-American
voters are directed to hold separate
meetings, where the only work they
can accomplish is to carry out the in
structions given them by the advo-
Gates of this segregation idea. 1t is
an idea entirely foreign to true Re-
publican principles, having no place
upon the roll of honor with the names
of Lincoln, Sumner, Grant, Douglas
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-27
is CASTE BREAKING UP?

Sir George Macalpine says that caste
in India is breaking up and that Chris
tianity is doing the work. He gives
caste ten years to die and says that
when it is dead there will be a great
influx from India into the Christian
church.
The Hindu who gives up his religion
and even his caste to get into the
Christian church is fool-he's jump
ing out of the frying pan into the fire.
The Christian church is really the
greatest promoter of caste in the world
and if great numbers of Hindus break
into the Christian church they will
promptly be organized into segregated
churches in violation of the alleged
basic principle of Christianity.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-27
Afro.Americans all over the country

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
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.
"Who would be free, themselves
must strike the blow"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-27
THE REASON WHY,

Segregation has come to Louisville
because the Afro-Americans in that
city have not been aggressive in their
fight against injustice.
Some years ago a proposal was made
for jimcrow library and it was &C.
cepted without protest.
Residential segregation came as a
natural sequence
The idea of the Caucasian fiends of
the South is that persons with an ad-
mixture of African blood must be kept
in a separate social status subject to
their whims and caprices.
The Afro-Americans who accept
public segregation in any form, WITH
OUT PROTEST are doing themselves
a great wrong and hanging a mill
stone about their children's necks.
EVERY KIND OF JIMCROWISM
SHOULD BE FOUGHT TO A FINISH.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-27
By REV. QUlNCYEWlNG.

-~ But we are very far from needing
to rely upon any general consideration
in support of the proposition advanced
ABOVE. 1t is supported by evidences
on every hand, waiting only the eye
OF recognition. Scarcely a 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 few such evidences.
Consider, first, the "Jim Crow" legis-
lation in the manner of it's enforce
ment. Such legislation is supposed to
have for its 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 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
Whlte passengers may be separated
not even by 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 all
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-
derlylng purpose of the law is clearly
not the separation of the races in
space; for public sentiment does not
insist upon it's fulfillment 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 regula-
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.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-27
CHEATED OF HIS REVENGE.
Georgian Had Travelled 1000 Miles to
Learn Intended Victim Was Dead.

Georgian Had Travelled 1000 Miles to
Learn Intended Victim Was Dead.
Ell Pas0. Tex. - There might have
been tragedy here if William Berry.
an aged Georgian, had not found upon
his arrival that man he had come
nearly 1000 miles to kill had been
killed five years ago. #
Berry. trembling with anger and dis
appointment, told his story to the pc.
lice and returned to his Georgia home
Nine years ago in Oklahoma, be said.
Bill Harrell had testified against him
in perjury case growing out of Ber-
ry having witnessed the killing of two
men over land grabbing dispute.
Berry says he was sent to the peni~
tertiary on Harrells testimony, his
family was scattered, his farm lost and
health wrecked. He was four years
in the penitentiary, he said, and for
the past five years had been reunit-
ing his family and home ties, nursing
all the while determination to some
day kill Harrell, who, he had learned.
had reached Ell Paso.
Five years ago Harrell attacked an
Ell Paso newspaper publisher, J. T.
Mitchim, and Mitchim killed him.
Berry knew nothing of Harrel hav.
Ing been killed until he reached Ell
PasO.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-27
THE JEWS DID 1T,

The great wholesale drygoods house
of H. B. Claim & Co. has faileu and
the Jews did it.
Years ago A. T. Stewart the first
great drygoods merchant prince of
America, angered the Jews BY refus-
ing to receive them as guests at the
Grand Hotel at Saratoga, of which he
was the owner. jewish merchants all
over the country combined and in a
few years forced him to the wall.
The Chaflin Company is really the
reorganized Stewart business. For
years Jewish merchants have been
withdrawing their trade and when the
pinch came Jewish bankers, remem-
bering the insult to their people in
the past, refused to furnish the money
to enable the firm to tide over the
trouble.
The Jews never forget an injury
and who wrongs the race must pay
the price.
Would that the Afro-American would
lear to punish their enemies.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-27

Jamaica were democratic and human
itarian 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
I 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.
Il do not suggest that race does not
greatly affect facilities for combfna-
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 a.
as the black"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-27

and others, but very properly belongs
in the category of ideas advocated by
Vardaman, Tillman, Blease and their
ilk
NO separate meetings are necessary
for the German, Irish, Jew, Italian or
any English-speaking race of Re-
publicans, then why in the name of all
that is honest and fair are such meet
lngs necessary for Afro-American Re-
publicans. Afro-Americans do not de-
mand more than their share of re-
cognltlon in appointments, based upon
their numerical strength, and they will
never be satisfied with less. All
voters in the Republican Party should
have the right to express their pref
erences for men who desire their sup
port at the polls, and this can only be
done by Afro-American representa-
lives being admitted to the party
councils where the selections OF the
party organization are discussed. This
is the only method we know of where
by the party organizations can in all
truth act for government OF the
people, by the people, and for the
people,
Let us have ONE PARTY COTN-
GIL participated in by representatives
of ALL NATIONALITIES, then we
shall have TRUE HARMONY. and
slngleness of purpose that will sweep
aside all opposition"
10 all of which THE APPEAL says
Amen.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-27

All eyes are directed toward Paris,
France, today, as tonight Jack John
son, champion pugilist of the world,
is to meet Frank Moran, of Pittsburgh.
The advance sale of seats indicates
that the largest and most fashionable
crowd in the history of French fights
will be present. You know Johnson is
a French citizen now and the betting
is two to one on him. We do not care
a tinker's damn about Johnson or the
fighting game, but as he said in ST..
Paul before the Johnson-Jeffries fight,
so say we now, may the best man
VIM"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-27
! SEA TRAVEL NOT
YET QUITE SAFE
Hidden Dangers Lurk Beyond
Reach Of Human Hand.
BUT PROGRESS IS RAPID.
Drastic Laws Requiring Sufficient Life
boats and Advent Of Wireless Te.
iegraphy Have Not Entirely EIimi-
mated the Dangers-Heroic Rescues
as the Empress of Ireland Sank.

lesraphy Have Not Entirely EIimi-
mated the Dangers-Heroic Rescues
as the Empress of Ireland Sank.
Montreal.-The sinking of the EN-
press of Ireland, crack transatlantic
liner of the Canadian Pacific line, by
the coal laden collier Storstad in the
st. Lawrence river almost in sight of
the shore tends to prove that one in
trusts himself to the fates when board
ing vessel. Although in no other di-
rection has such notable progress been
made in recent years, no human hand
has been able to make travel at sea
absolutely safe.
The perfection of the wireless, the
Improvement Of revenue cutter service
and drastic laws requiring ample and
seaworthy lifeboats have eliminated
many of the dangers lurking in the
path Of the great ocean going vessels.
But we still have the elements to con-
tend with. and these can never be
conquered.
When the Titanic sank with its fear
full toll of life it was the elements that
caused the disaster. The iceberg freed
from winter quarters by the springs
sun broke away and brought death to
the hundreds. The dense fog on the
st. Lawrence, prohibiting the captains
of the Empress of Ireland and the
Storstad from seeing ten feet ahead,
meant death to 1000 persons.
The inquiry now under way will re-
veal that one man was perhaps more
at fault than the other, but it cannot
place the blame for the disaster on the
shoulders of any one man. 1t was
caused by the weather conditlons-by
the elements.
Following in the wake of the disas-
ter many pathetic stories are told of
brave rescues and intense suffering.
Two participants in the tragedy of the
burning Of the Volturno at sea last
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-27

CAPTAIN KENDALL OF EMPRESS OF IRE
LAND.
year are survivors also of the wreck
Of the Empress of Ireland One Of
them was J. H. Price, an ordinary sea-
man on the Ireland, who while serving
last year on the DevOnian plunged
overheard and saved a woman passen-
ger Of the Volturno
The other man was pantryman on
the Ireland, John Cope, who was one
OF those saved from the Volturno.
Robert w. Crellen. a bronzed miner
from Silverstone, B. c., swan for over
an hour with golden haired little girl
of eight on his back.
"And when will mamma and Evelyn
get here?" the little girl asked when
she arrived in Quebec. Mr.. Crellen
had not yet told her that her mother
and small sister had lacked strong
arms to support them in the icy wa
ter and had died there. They were
Mrs. Sabina Barber, a widow, and her
daughter, Evelyn, three years old. The
little girl who was saved was Florence
Barber, eight years old.
With Crellen and William Barry of
Silverstone they were going on holi-
day trip to England. They occupied
rooms near one another in the second
cabin. All of them got on deck to-
gether. This is Mr.. Crellens account
of what happened:
"a great hole was in one side Of the
ship, and she listed over so far that
1T was only with the greatest difficulty
that we could get them all up the COM
panionway. We got to the rail and
stood there. l held Florence. and Mrs.
Barber held her little sister,
Then as the ship listed we climbed
over the rail and walked cautiously
down. the ships side to the waters
edge. trying to avoid falling into the
portfolios. just as we reached the wa
ter's edge the ship gave tremor that
was terrible. We knew it was all
over. | saw Mrs. Barber and her
child tottering toward the water and
reaching out their hands to me. l
tried to get them, but couldn't reach
| them. and that's the last saw OF
them
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-27
Silence is Infamous.

Possibly the worst thing permitted
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??, 1914-06-27

flag is dishonored. Postmaster Gen
eral Burleson, probably the most preju-
diced man in the Cabinet, issues dis
eliminating orders, Alexander Ste
phens, Superintendent, arranges the
details of his segregation schemes in
the Railway Man Service, and Auditor
Kram, the Father of Segregation, -
continues the Infamous work he start
ed some years ago.
What a farce!
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-27
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-27
THE FLAG TAKERS.

There was a great flag celebration
on Flag Day at the Post Office Depart
ment Building in Washington.
Secretary of State Bryan made a
great speech and the assembled off,
Gals and clerks gave great whoops,
sang patriotic songs and proably fiat
tered themselves. that they were really
patriotic.
Yet in that building every day the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-27

Editor H. c. Smith of the Cleveland.
ONO Gazette, announces himself as
candidate for the Legislature. He was
formerly member of the Ohio Legis-
lature and did good service for hui
mainly in securing the passage of a
civil rights bill and an anti-lynching
law. Mr.. Smith has been a fearless
advocate for the rights of his people,
through his newspaper and THE AP-
PEAL trusts that he will secure the
nomination and be elected by large
majority.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-27
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 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??, 1914-06-27

On the person of man who looked
like prize hobo and who was living
at 10-cent lodging house Ill New
York, police found $4,000 in bills and
bank notes. We suppose the poor fell
low was afraid the high cost of living
would break him if he lived according
to his means
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-27
The SIN Of SILENCE

To sin by silence when we should
protest makes towards out of men.
The human race has climbed on pro-
test. Had no voice been raised against
Injustice, ignorance and lust, the in
QUESTION yet would serve the law, and
The few who dare must speak and
speak again to right the wrongs Of
many.-ElIa Wheeler Wilcox.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-27

Last December THE APPEAL sent a
prominent Louisville man a small con-
tribution to aid the fight against segre-
cation. Although two letters have
been sent asking about the matter the
man in question has not deigned to
reply. That is not the right way to
secure further aid for the cause. -...,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-27
Criticising.

The true rule of life is to praise
everything good and knock and criti-
else everything bad and detrimental
to public welfare. So here's to the
fellow who criticises and knocks. He
is the brave man of the community.
He is the one that stands between
the people and abject social, financial
and political servitudes, for he is a
real man with an opinion and not
afraid to express it.-Portland Advo-
ate.