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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-18
BY REV. QUINCY EWING.

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 day passes
but something is said 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 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 the same cars, separated
only by absurdly inadequate little
open-mesh wire screens, so tiny and
light that a 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 al
| 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 ir
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 IL
space; for public sentiment does MOI
insist upon it's fulfillment to that end
| The underlying purpose of it would
seem to be the separation of the race:
in status. The doctrine of inequalit,
| would be attacked if white and blacl
passengers rode in public conveyance
on equal terms; therefore the Negro
who rides in public conveyanc,
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 | an
/ and you are you, lest to you or to m,
it should be obseured that , am l ane
you are YOU" Such is the real spiri
of the Jim Grow laws.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-18

Editor H. G. Smith of the Cleveland,
Ohio 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
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 a large
majority.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-18
SATURDAY, JULY IS, 1914.
THE DEATH OF A MAN.

There recently died in Chicago, an
Afro-American who was every inch
man.
In these latter days when the Windy
City has been overrun by jimcrowists,
self-seekers at the expense of the race,
self-segregationists, separate Christian
association builders and others STEPPED
in servility, character like John G.
Jones stands out in all it's greatness
and brilliancy-
In the olden days he fought every
exhibition of hostility to his people, to
a finish. So great was his indignation
when his people were wronged, and so
vigorous was his fight against every
form of jimcrowism that he earned for
himself the sobriquet of "Indignation
Jones'"
While in lowly calling he earned
and saved enough money to pay his
tuition in law school and after sew
eral years was admitted to the bar
and built up paying practice. He
was prominent in Masonic circles and
was received with great honors by
members of the craft when he visited
Europe some years ago.
Although somewhat dark in COM
plexion he knew that he was not
Negro and resented being addressed
as one and insisted on being called an
American. He acted as an American
citizen, demanded all the rights OF
American citizenship and he seldom
failed to get his rights. a.
Jones was absolutely unafraid.
Many years ago when he was mem
Der of the Illinois legislature, he re
fused to vote for the late S. M. Cui,
lom for United States Senator, because
he felt that Cullom had not been
square in his dealings with his Afro
American constituents. Every posi-
bic influence was brought to bear on
Jones BY the. then powerful Republic
can machine to induce him to give
his vote to Cullom He was cajoled
and threatened but he stood like ada
mant and even after Cullom had beer
elected and a motion was made tc
make the election unanimous, Jones
refused to change and registered his
vote against the man he believed t.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-18

Frank Park, of Sylvester, Georgia,
who was elected to fill the unexpired
term of the famous jimcrowist, S. A.
Roddenbery, who died last year, has
signalized his entrance into the arena
as a great statesman by introducing
a bill in Congress which makes it un.
lawful for negroes to be designated,
elected or appointed as commissioned
or non-commissioned officers in the
army. .--
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-18
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 crucitied 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 a cemetery, where they
nailed her to 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??, 1914-07-18

The New Age of Los Angeles calls
attention of the Afro-American people
of the country to the suit which S. w.
Green, head of the Knights of Pythias,
has instituted against the L. & N. r. R.
of Florida, to recover damages for the
assault perpetrated upon him while
a passenger a year ago, and appeals to
all to aid the Pythian order in push
ing the matter.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-18
What Segregation Means
Rev Quincy Ewing Southern Caucasian Born and Reared in
Mississippi Shows the Policy of the South to Keep
Inferior Status.

Why is it that in every Southern
city no Negro is allowed to witness a
dramatic performance, or baseball
game, from flrst-class seat? In
every large city, there are hundreds of
Negroes who would gladly pay for
first-class seats at the theatre and the
baseball game, were they permitted to.
It can hardly be that permission is
withheld because theatres and base
ball games are so we'll attended by
half the population that frst-class
seats could not be furnished for the
other half. AS matter of fact, thea
tre-auditOriums and baseball grand
stands are seldom crowded; the rule
is, not all 6rst-class seats occupied,
but many vacant Surely as simple as
moving from seat to seat a makeshift
screen in a street-car, would it be to
set apart certain number of seats
in the dress-circle of every theatre.
and in the grandstand of every base
ball park, for Negro patrons. The rea-
son why this is not done, is perfectly
obvious; it would be intolerable to the
average Southern man or woman to
sit through the hours of a theatrical
performance or a baseball game on
terms of equal accommodation with
Negroes, even with a screen between.
Negroes would look out Of place, out
of status, in the dress circle or the
grandstand; their place, signifying
their status, is the peanut-ganery, or
the bleachers.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-18
Subject for a Carneqie Medal,

Subject for Carnegie Medal
Atlanta City, July 2.-During a fight
in a houseboat at Missouri avenue and
the Thoroughfare tonight, May Whit
aker, 90 years old, sustained a seri-
GUS stab wound in the arm and was
then thrown into the water. She was
drowning when Louisa Brown, an Afro
American girl, plunged into the Thor
oughfare and carried her ashore. The
Whitaker woman was rushed to the
City Hospital in serious condition.
The police are searching for Charles
Mccall, alleged to have been her as
sailant
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-18
RACE PREJUDICE.

I 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 justifies
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
H g. Wells in N. T. Independent.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-18
HON. DANIEL W. LAWLER.
Makes a Fourth of July Speech o.
which a few Excerpts Follow.

makes F0urtn 'of July speech OF
which a few Excerpts Follow.
Crookston, Mimi Condemning
democratic leaders with pint of
whisky in their stomachs and case
of wine in the cellar who would take
away the poor mans beer" D. w. Law
Ter, recent candidate for Democratic
omination for Governor, assailed coun-
ty option in his address at the Fourth
of July exercises in this city.
Mr.. LAWYER said that very large
nd influential portion of the people are
laboring under the delusion today that
the great ills of humanity can be
cured by the passage of law forbid
ding them. He said: MANY we'll
meaning people, even in Minnesota, be.
lieve that the evils of intemperance
can be wiped out by passing a law Civ.
ing the majority in a county the right
to make the county prohibition ter
ritory. The motive is good, but the
reasoning bad. Human nature can be
refined and reformed by education, but
never by coercion. The evils of intern
perance are today greater in the State
of Maine, which has been a prohibi
ton state for seventy years, than in
the state OF Minnesota.
The speaker paid a warm tribute tc
the women of America. "The women
of this country he said, "are better
than its men, nobler in their ideals and
more self-sacrificing in their lives.
Referring to woman suffrage he said
i that the people of the United States
have at least one thing to be thank
full for, and that is that the women Of
America have not Initiated the grotesque
and extravagant antics of the Suffra
+. gettes of England. Deprecating the
line OF reasoning that reform can be
brought about by coercion, Mr. Lawlel
said that the same motive which looks
upon county option as the cure-au Of
social conditions tavors also woman
suffrage.
ut is natural that the idealist anc
dreamer should believe that society
will be elevated and reformed if these
women are given the right to vote
but he continued, "the experience Of
other commonwealth has shown that
the tendency of woman suffrage is not
to elevate men, but in some degree, al
least, to lower women, to the standard
of the average man..
~ In Minnesota most of the agitation
for county option and woman suffrage
has been carried on to divert attention
from one interest to another. For the
past five years the so-called brewery
interests have been the goat mucf
to the pleasure and profit of the public
utility corporations. The legislative
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-18
The ONLY SOLUTION.

Recently at the Church of England
Congress at Southampton, Sir Sidney
Olivier, who was governor of Jamaica
from 1907 to the end of 1912, put for
ward the claim that no solution of the
American color question was possible
except by a resolute disclaimer of the
color line and the race differention
theory.
Sir Sidney Olivier certainly knows
what he is talking about. In the
Island of Jamaica, where he was gov
ernor for five years, there are about
100000 colored people and only 10000
whites and yet there is absolutely no
friction between the races. Jamaica
is British colony and the govern
ment is just. Colored men enjoy ev-
cry civil and political right which white
men have and there is no color line.
Among olner things Sir Sidney said:
"My study and comparison Of con
ditions in the United States and the
West Indies," he said, "has brought
me to that conclusion. American and
colonial politicians and public men are
not Exeter Hall abolitionists MOI
evangelical Christian missionaries.
! do not expect them to adopt the mech
DDS of missionaries, nor do I sympa
thize with all their programmes. Blu
it cannot be ignored that it happened
that the faiths of the men who lait
the foundations for the peaceful de
velopment of the mixed community IL
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-18

be inimical to the rights of the Afro
American people.
1t is sad to say that there are few
men with John G. Jones' strength of
character left in Chicago. The cring.
ing sycophants have come and preju.
dice has increased by leaps ana
bounds.
May he rest in peace.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-18
IN CHRISTIAN u. s.
Afro-American Woman Lynched by
Americans.

HmeFICanS.
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 keep
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??, 1914-07-18
THE REASON WHY.

Segregation has come to Louisville
because the AfrO-AmerlCanS in that
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-18
IN CHRISTIAN SOUTH,
Lynching of Afro-American Woman
Society Function in South
Carolina

Orangeburg, S. C:-Rose Carson, a
colored woman, was taken from the
jail at EllOree near here and lynched
by mob. Eye Witnesses state that
many of the most prominent citizens
took part in the festivities. The wona-
an, who was charged with the murder
of II year old child, was taken to
the scene of her alleged crime and
hanged. Afterward the body was rid
died with bullets.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-18

Consider further that, while no Ne
gro, no matter what his occupation, or
personal refinement, or intellectual
culture, or moral character, is allowed
to trave in a pullman car between
state lines, or to enter as a guest a no.
tel patronized by white people, the
blacklist of Negro nurses and Wallets
are given food and shelter in all first
class hotels, and occasion neither dis
gust nor surprise in the Pullman cars.
Here again the heart of the race prob
lem is laid bare. The black nurse with
white baby in her arms, the black
valet looking after the comfort Of a
white invalid, have the label of their
inferiority conspicuousIy upon them;
they understand emselves, and
everybody understand them, to be SER
wants, enjoying certain privileges for
the sake of the person served. Almost
anything the Negro may do in the
South, and anywhere he may go, pro-
vided the manner of his doing and his
going is that of inferior. Such is
the premium put upon his inferiority;
such his inducement to MAINTAIN it.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-03-13

Quite an important real estate transfer
was made this week, when Mr.. J. p.
Harrison sold practically all his holdings
in Tensas parish to st. Louis parties. The
property sold consisted of part Of Delta,
Briarland, Clsranook or the Shaifer place,
agSregating about four thousand acres.
The purchasers of this valuable property
are 8. T. Yourtree and Robt. Rutledge.
It il understood that the deal consists
more of an exchange Of property than &C
tual sale, Mr.. Harrison having exchanged
his plantations in Tensas for city prop
erty at st. Louis, with, however, the &C.
compartment Of considerable cash BY the
afore named purchasers. Just what Mr..
Harrison's plans are for the future we
ere not informed, but it has been said
that he contemplates moving to Fayette.
Miss, where bis brother, DR.. Harrison,
resides. Our entire people viii regret to
lose Mr.. and Ms. Harrison from this
parish, wherethey have lived % long and
are % universally euteemed.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-03-13
baber ST. b oUse 81
days Ait0r AMI st

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day nlgAt. bat wln Ut opea agaln -
II Mesday nesnlng. Thsshop b oDea
fro0 , .. -. sntn %. -. every ~
and untll re O'Clock q 8G1nrday nlEhs
end ! believe my fslsa6s WI agrse
that 4 b bit rlsht tint sbosld not b
expectod 70 wosk q Sundays also.
appreciate the cnsto4 ofnyfriesds
nd bespeak ID continuance, assuring
prompt and satisfactory service.
Yours tralys
AUG. zUCcARO.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-03-13
Attention, hog Raissrs!

lwlsh to cal attention a IN parties
who ere keeping hogs within tie cor.
seph th.t such practice b positively
against town ordinooco, w11ch pro-
vides . penalty q fine o. lmprlsoa.
mont for violatloa. therefore serve
notice on III parties keeping hogs
within the corporate limits Of town
that same must b removed at once,
or proseclstion win follow.
(Signed) L. A. MURDOCH,
Health Offlcer.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-03-13

DR.. w. M. Baker, of Arcadia.
Grand Lecturer for the Masonic
Lodge of Louisiana, spent Monday
and Tuesday in St. Joseph and We'd
nesday and Thursday at NewelltOn,
lecturing the two lodges in this par
ish. DR.. Baker was accompanied to
St. Joseph by Mr.. H. B. Conner. OF
the Vidalia Lodge. and to Newellton
by Mr.. G.. H. Clinton, bf the St.
Joseph Lodge.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-03-13

REGULATION l. No cattle shall be driv-
en-, allowed to drift or be moved BY rail,
boat or other carrier into Tensas Parish,
Louisiana, from any area in the United
States that is Guaranteed by the United
States Secretary Of Agriculture to prevent
the spread Of Spletnic or tick fever in cat
tie until they have been dipped in an APP
proved manner in the standard arsenical
solution or otherwise properly disintected
under the supervision Of duly author
lied inspector Of this Board or Veter-
mary Inspector Of the United States Bu-
reau Of Animal Industry, who shall issue
q certificate Of their removal.
REGULATION 2. Horses and mules en-.
tering the Parish,of Tensas shall be free
from ticks (Margaropus Annulatue).
When any cattle, horses or mules are
received at . railroad station or river
landing in Tensas Parish, Louisiana, from
any point in the United States that is
quarantined by the United States Secre-
tary Of Agriculture TO prevent the spread
of Splenetic or tick fever in cattle, it
shall be the duty Of railroad agent 10
notify the supervising inspector. who
will be stationed It st. Joseph. Louis
lana, and The cattle, horses or mules
must not be removed from station stock
pens until permisuioa to do % has beea
received from dnly AUTHORIZED inspector
OF this Board.
REGULATION 8. II shall b the duty 81
al persons owning or having in chares
any cattle at regular dipping vat 1t ~
such times as may be designated By Z
duly authorised Inspector Of this Board,
for the purpose Of having them properly
disiniected.
REGULATION A. Should any cattle,
horses or mules of an infested area DRIFT,
swim or otherwise enter the PSrish o.
Tensas contrary to the regulations Of thi'
Board, they shall be guaranteed and dis
infected at. the expense of the owner Of
owners. Any infested cattle, horses Of
mules within the Parish Of Tensas, tht
owner or owners of which, after due no
tice, fail to disinfect same in manner
satisfactory to an Inspector Of this Board
shall be placed in quarantine and disin
fected at the expense Of owner or owners
Should the owner or owners of such ami
mails be unknown to the Inspector, such
animals shall be guaranteed, disinfectet
and cared for and any Expense thus in
CURED shall be paid before such animal
are released.
REGULAsoN s. ANY rerson, persons
firms or corporations violating any Of TIN
regulations of this Board, shall be guilt!
of q misdemeanor - provided by Ac
274 Of the session Of 1908.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-03-13
TNF TENsls e0OD ROADS ASSOCIATION.

On Monday, the End inst, there
was a large and representative meet
ing of the citizens of this parish held
at the Court House in St. Joseph
for the purpose of considering meas
ures for betterment OF the parish
roads.
The meeting was called to order
and after the purpose sought to be
accomplished was explained, those
present organized a Parish Good
Roads Association under the name
of The Tensas Good Roads Associa-
ton. A permanent chairman and
secretary were elected, and a COM
mittee representing each ward and
the three towns was appointed The
duties of the members of these COM
mittees are to divide their respective
districts into short sections OF road,
assigning to Chose living on these
roads a certain territory over which
to run the 'split-log" drag after
each rain. 1t is the further duty OF
committees to use their efforts tow
ards seeing that such plans OF road
improvement as may be adopted are
carried out in their respective dis
tricts. This committee will meet at
an early date and assign the roads
to those who have agreed to use the
drag. A smaller committee was ap-
pointed to confer with the Police
Jury, with a view to adopting an
improved road working plan and to
take up the matter of purchasing a
new and more suitable outfit for
that purpose.
The towns have agreed to work a
certain milage of road free from
cost to the parish, and with one ex-
ception, (Mr. J. G. Harris) every
man present pledged himself to drag
q portion Of the public road free OF
cost to the parish except cost OF a
driver of the team at 81 per day.
This will be a large saving in ex-
pense and will do much to help in
accomplishing the purposes sought
by this convention. Under the pres
emit system the road dragging is a
very heavy tax with most unstatis-
factory results.
From the enthusiasm shown at
this meeting and the willingness to
give a helping hand shown by those
present with the exception men
toned we feel encouraged to look
for practical results and better roads
in the future. Certain it is that this
il not the proper time for any ad-
ditional tax and without such there
is no hope for better roads unless
our citizens live up to their pledges
made at the meeting.
A committee appointed by the
Police Jury is investigating the sys-
tenn Of road work adopted by other
parishes and at an early date will
report to q called meeting OF that
body at which time the matter OF
adopting some new methods in local
road work will be acted on.
Lets all pull together and make a
success of this movement.