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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-23
THE REPUBLICS SHAME.

| For the first time in the history of
the United States, the machinery of
the government of 9OOOO,OOO people is
| being used to humiliate and degrade
100000 of it's loyal and law-abiding
citizens. T.. . .5..- -
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.
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 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??, 1914-05-23
THE CLARK ANTl-MARRIAGEB 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
Afro-Americans 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.
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
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-23
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 a 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??, 1914-05-23
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 o1e-eighth white blood,
another one-sixteenth, and the other
one-thirty-seco so the court dis
missed the cases. The Department of
Justice then appealed the case to the
Supreme Court. ~+'-> r.
By the way, the question: What is
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 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??, 1914-05-23
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. 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 a lynching
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-23
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-23

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
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-23

Honest fair minded Americans feel
that the fair fame of our country is
being trailed in the dust; ruey hang
their heads in shamo 1t
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 a word
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-23
Organized opposition to the Anne

Organized opposition to the Amer
lean Telephone & Telegraph Co. BELL
system) in Ohio by consolidation Of
Is of the largest independent tele-
phone companies, with capitaliza-
ton of $25,0O0,0O0 and controlling g.
$50 miles of long distance wire, was
announced Wednesday,. r-: IT,.
We will hail with joy their success
if they will reduce the exhorbitant
rate now charged. . f..
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-23
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
Wasreported here in a special dispatch
from st. Petersburg, telling of three
Russian youths having outraged and
then crucifed the daughter of a poor
Jewish fisherman in Stayrapol, 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 we're 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??, 1914-05-23

On the person of man who looked
like a prize hobo and who was living
at a 1O-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 brake him if he lived according
to his means -s.. if . r.. Il ~
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-23
IN CHRISTIAN u. S.
Afro-American Woman Lynched by
Americans.

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-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 a 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??, 1914-05-23
Yes. lamphools.

Over at Atlanta City the Negroes
having secured a James Crow school
are raring and snorting because the
Board of Education exhibits some dis.
inclination to give them James
Crow principal What fools we NOR
tails be.
Charleston, CIV. Va.) Advocate
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-23


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, if
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 and
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 OF
colored women shut off in an unpleas-
ant alcove in one office; of others
quietly forced out of the lunch-room
they had been using for nine years
past and compelled to go into lava
tories at the lunch-hour, OF men clerks
segregated behind lockers in one cor,
ner Of room in the dead-letter divi-
sion Of the Post Office Department
Poorer accommoda tions for the segre.
gated are the invariable law Of segre.
cation. The assignment of separate
toilet-rooms to the races under threats
OF prompt punishment for failure to
obey the rules has been another OF
the deeply humiliating features OF the
Washington segregation. To the col
ored workers all this segregating has
been more brutal than q slap In the
face. It IL as IL the great Govern
ment Of the United States had gone
out OF its way to stamp them publicly
mond OF General Godfrey Weftzel.s
black brigade; certainly brothers and
sisters Of the black troopers who were
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-08-27
FOUR DISORDERLIES
| GIVEN LAWS LIMIT
Judge Connolly Imposes Fines
Amounting To $4,000 Under
Lettering Ordinance

A grand total Of $4,000 in fines was
ssessed In police court Wednesday
horning by Judge Connolly with only
pur victims. The four we're charged
Nth disorderly conduct, and the fines
fere imposed under the new lettering
ordnance.
Bertha Smith, Negress, was given
he limit, and will go to the House OF
Correction to Join her husband who
Fas sent up on similar charge sew
raj weeks ago. John Brady and Ira
Banks, who are said by the police to
ave too much to do with women OF
he street, were also given the limit.
Edward Gilroy, arrested on suspicion
y burglary, was also fined $500.
The police are we'll pleased over
he result OF the mornings work and
eclare that II the police judges con,
|nue TO deal out similar sentences
he city will soon be cleared OF q
lass Of undesirables that, up to this
lime, have held the law In contempt
Il was stated at headquarters that
ne news of the heavy fines had al
eady been spread among the mem,
fers Of the underworld and that q
GENERAL movement for safer chimes
Fas In progress.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-08-27
MISSIONARIES
FEAR RISING OF
| MOHAMMEDANS
americans Say Islam Is Prepar-
ing "H0ly War" On Chris
tians and Jews In Turkey
FIND OPPORTUNITY
IN EUROPEAN BROIL
cruisers Tennessee and North
Carolina May Be Sent To
Protect u. s. Citizens

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.--Fears by
mericans of q holy war" In both
European and Asiatic Turkey. with
Lmors OF threatened attacks upon all
Christians by mussulmen, have been
Transmitted to the state department
y Ambassador Morgenthau from Con-
Eantinople. Secretary Of State Bryan
lated today.
Officials here refused TO regard the
)tuation as serious, but admitted that
[orgenthau had said there appeared
B be some basis for the fears express.
d to him by American missionaries.
The latter are afraid that the Mussel.
hen will take advantage OF the gen
raj European war to attack Jews and
christians.
The cruisers Tennessee and North
arolina, now engaged In the relief OF
mericans in Europe, would be avail.
BILE for service In the protection OF
christians In Turkey should general
lassacre be attempted. Secretary OF
be Navy Daniels said today.
Secretary OF State Bryan said he
I'D been informed by Ambassador
forg ,nthau OF alarm for the safety
Christians In Turkey several days
go, but the absence of dispatches
Fom Morgenthau since then has given
be state department confidence that
be danger In passed.
"The Tennessee and the North Car
lima have merely completed their
hission abroad" said Secretary Dan
BIS. $50 that they could be pressed
hto service II they are needed. How
yer, alarm for the safety OF Chris
lans In Turkey seems greater out
Ide the country than In It."
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-08-27
BOARD OF HEALTH.
PROPOSALS
FOR
DRIVE WAYS

Sealed proposals for the construction
Of the Herman Kiefer Hospital. located
on Hamilton Boulevard and Blaine
Avenue, will be received at the Office
Of the Secretary. Board OF Health. ~
g. Antoins.st. until IL o'clock noon
Proposals shan include all grading
concrete work. curbing. back nlling
etc, including brick paved intersection
at Hamilton Boulevard entrance.
Concrete paving to be OF single
course construction, curbing OF Elyria
or Berea stone. all work to be done
according to the latest standard spec
ihcation OF the Department Of Pub.
lie Works for this class OF WORK
and under the supervision OF that De-
Proposals must be accompanied by q
certified check In the amount or per
cent OF the proposal and payable 20
the Board OF Health OF Detroit.
Two bonds In sum equal 70 the
full amount OF the contract will be re-
Quired.
Proposals to be made according to
plans and specifications on Ale in that
office. copies OF which may be secured
The Board of Health reserves the
right to reject any or all proposaia
THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
BY JOHN +. McKINLAr,
Aug. "a, 1914. Secretly.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-08-27
THE OLD WORLD WAR .
FROM DAYSTO DAY

factor In the battle. fighting
front OF 200 miles, along which
probably 2,eo0,e0e men are engag
ed. must develop constant unex
pected strength and weakness
Their quick discovery by the com,
mander-in-chief. In order to direct
concerted movements, rs q matter
OF great difficulty, but the re-
ward Is enormous.
An important strategic change
seems TO have been made by the
Germans. The original plan for
a march through Belgium toward
Lille apparently has been chang.
ed, and the main assault probably
now is developing along Frances
badly defended frontier Of 100
miles between Maubeuge and Yer
dun. This always has been the
weak spot of the French defenses.
1t Is protected only by isolated
secondary fortresses at Dirson.
Givet. Mezieres, Montmedy and
Longwy.
The French have been told their
forces would be able to operate
successfully against German ad.
vance In this quarter. but the gen.
eral star showed its own uneasl.
ness last year by basing an add.
tional frontier army corps on
Mezieres.
Fifty miles back toward Paris
is the great modern. defensive line
La FereLaon-R helms Chalons, but
II the French are compelled to
fall back there, the backbone OF
the field army probably will have
been broken.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-08-27
MASON,
(Formsr EupopeanI Manager Of the
v United Prcss.b

(Forzner European Manager OF the
United Press.b
. NEW YORK, Aug. 26.-(1l a.
ID. THE position of the German
forces, after their success In
stemming the French offensive,
does not seem to have improved.
The Official reports make II seem
probable that the allies are now
holding the German advance In
check. just az their own offensive
was broken up.
The possibility that the bellig-
Grants may tight each other to
q mutually exhausting standstill
10 evident. The narrow strip OF
frontier territory between the
German fortresses to the east and
the French fortresses to the west
may comprise the essential the
alter OF the war.
II 10 certain that the giye-and-
take on both sides has not been
beyond the fortress boundaries to
the present. and there is a fair
chance that the width OF the area
OF hostilities will be In inverse
proportion to its length.
A new condition confronting
the commanders of the forces en-
gagged In the momentous struggle
10 the necessity for complete and
rapid change of strategy. Never
before has the ability to alter
plans quickly been SO vital In
warfare.
The greater success with which
this can be done by one side or
the other may be the deciding
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-08-27
N0TICE--STREET PAVING
ASSESSMENT
Paving Notice No. l4e3.
LIVERNOIS AVENUE.

To Rabaut g. Krupsey. r. Roeh-
rig. r. kobel. e. Molske, A. Wrock. w
drosssisn. E. Fischer. w. Z. Ternes, II.
man NJ Sml ~ M Lonis sschultz. 81 z. Brink
Bushey. A.. Gudzinski, A. Gerhyenski,
Mil, oieck = West L sshnsidsr, y
kssshks fsiss soiis a. 6 seS w. hS Snrl
sckL J. Schroeder, w. Eichell. Chas.
katcll, Wilhelmine Lojowski, 9. Hine.
e. Beck e Raschlke. Ferdinand Fisch-
schowshek. +. Maiinowski. Albert Nal
tnowski. ]. Laurier, j. Kock, Anna Do
ran ra Chas Weldsr. Wilde. e. Fischer.
Carl s NisKsl ss sssisy n Plumadors.
giunks. a. fosneI. r. kaaYin. 81 Saf Psui Q.
8. Prechowiak, A. Holmer, j. Smoiar,
fpkx Eabiszik. Frank Emmons. Frank
Bank. w. ", Hannah. K. X. Earle, II.
inertia. Waligorskee, Annie Linzee,
William Buedo August Disher, 9. Bar
kops% nsalsS William bau Kli sna g
all other persons owning. occupying
or otherwise interested In any OF the
lots and premises fronting on Liver
within the limits hereinafter mention
ed. The Common Council OF the City
Of Detroit. having ordered 30 much Of
OF HoIatio street on west to the north
line OF Pittsburg street, TO be graded
and paved, notice Is hereby given that
an assessment has been made upon all
the lots and premises fronting on Liv-
erpois avenue, and liable to be assess
ed for said Improvement under the pro-
visions OF the City Charter. and that q
pleted, and will remain at the Asses-
sors' Office. In the City OF Detroit from
the date hereof until September 3.
1914. for the inspection of ali'persons
BOARD OF ASSESSORS.
BY Daniel l.. Dilworth.
A-603 President
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-08-27
FOR CONSTRUCTING W.T.
RIFIED CROCK LATERAL
SEWERS

Roll No. 1905. For constructing w.t.
rined crock lateral sewer No. x4sb, IN
alleys In blocks bounded by Whitman
Hupp, Jefferson and Freud-aves.
Roll No. 1924. For constructing vitri-
ned crock lateral sewer No. ASIA, In JEFF
ferson-ave., between Pennsylvania and
Roll No. ssas. For constructing vitri-
fed crock lateral sewer No. 2513, In al
leys In blocks bounded by Lakeview
Newport. waterioo-aves. and City LIN.
Roll No. 1854. For constructing Will
ned crock lateral sewer No. 2bb4, In al
ley In block bounded by Enery. Mt
Elliott. Forest and Hancock-aves.
Roll No. TITS. For constructing yitri-
fed crock lateral sewer No: 246s. In al
ley In block bounded by Flonda, Proc
tor; Kirkwood-ayss: and City Line .,,.,
Ned crock lateral sewer No. 24so. In al
ley In block bounded by Lenox. Drexcl
Kercheval and Waterloo aves.
ned crock lateral sewer No. a5os. In al;
B Boy Gs1's and s0p PsiS, Fredsriek sat
Roll No. 7sao. For constructing yitr,-
fed crock lateral sewer No. 25lo, In al
leys In blocks bounded by Proctor, Far
now. Michigan and McGraw-aves:
days from date OF this notice. Part,
2, 3. and 4. become due and payable w
one. two and three years, respectively
interest at the rate of per cent from
the date when the work was accepted
by the city.
Either OF said parts may be paid
within 80 days from the date OF this
notice without further interest
IL either OF said parts one. two. three
or four shall not be paid when the,
terest at the rate OF I per cent from
the date when the work Was accepted
by the city. will be added and tn.
premises assessed Will be advertised
and sold as provided by law.
MAX G. KOCH,
(aso) city Treasurer.