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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-10-03
WOMAN OF BROAD CULTURE.
Influence of Mrs. V. c. Haley Felt In
Many Good Movements.

influence OF Mrs. V. c. Haley Felt In
Many Good Movements.
st. Louis.-Mrs. Victoria Clay Haley
OF this city, royal grand matr0n, Order
Eastern Star of Missouri jurisdiction
and the leading spirit among the color
ed women Of the state in the suffrage
movement, is membe Of the National
Negro Press association. Mrs. Haley
made strong plea at the recent ses-
sion of the association held at Musko-
zee for cooperative and courageous
efforts on the part Of the leaders of the
race, especially in the fraternal Or
CARNATIONS and the ministry, to mold
sentiment In favor of the many needed
reforms which so vitality affect our we'll
being as race.
Mrs. Haley, who before her marriage
was teacher in the St. Louis public
schools, is an active leader in educa-
tional and social matters. She is the
second recording secretary Of the Ma
ional Association of Colored Women's
Clubs. of which Mrs. Booker T. Wash
ington is president, and captivated the
Y
Introductory symposium address on
equal suffrage at the biennial meeting
Of the clubs held recently at Wilber-
force university.
She is native Of Mississippi, but
was reared and educated in Missouri,
in the affairs for human uplift. She
is recognized leader and is always
found in the front ranks in every move
ment for race betterment- Her &C
tlvities and pronounced ability have
won for her many honorable positions
Besides having served as president of
many local clubs. she is president of
the st. Louis Federation of Colored
Women's Clubs as we'll as member
of the State federation.
Mrs. Haley has the distinction of be-
ing member Of the commission ap-
pointed by former Governor Hadley
for the proposed State Industrial Home
For 1ncorrigible Colored Girls, the site
for which was purchased by this COM
mission at Upton, Mo. The building
at Upton will be completed within a
few months. With her many respon-
sibilities Mrs. Haley finds time for
religious work, being the superintend-
ent Of live and growing modern Sun
day school in the historic St. Paul A.
M. e. church in this city.
She is district superintendent of the
Sunday schools in the St. Louis dis
trict and state superintendent of the
Allen Christian Endeavor league of
the state. Being Of a magnetic per-
sonality, graceful figure, accomplished,
earnest. versatile, a forceful and clio.
quent speaker, an elocutionist Of no
mean ability, Mrs. Haley comes as a
valuable asset to the National Negro
Press association.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-10-03
DR.. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
STARTLES US,
louisville News. J

The Louisville-Courier Journal quotes
Dr. Washington as saying in a recent
speech that "the Negro should stop
hghtlng segregation and lend his fore
es toward identifying the neighbor-
hood in which he lives" If DR.. Wash
lngton is correctly quoted this is mos,
dlscouraglng. 1t is uncomfortable that
one who occupies so prominent po-
sltlon in the Afro-American world
should so far forget his position and
his dignity as to urge his race to cease
protesting against the most cowardly
and humiliating legislation in the lana.
1t is safe to say that segregation
mas many champions even among our
race, but almost without exception
they are to be found among the ele-
ment where there is the least intelli-
gence and where there is an inherent
lear OF opposing anything the white
man chooses to do. But here we are
smltten from an unexpected quarter; a
recognized leader Of his race, an. edu-
Gator, tells us to forget our manhood:
to forget the sacred and inalienable
rights OF political and personal liberty
and to passively submit to the humili-
alton of being pushed aside as though
we are race of lepers, because we
would seek cleaner and healthier neigh
DorhOodS in which to live.
TO submit to a degradation without
serious objection is worse than coward
ly; it is unmanly and ignoble and any
race that would do so without exhaust
ing every means of moral and legal
protest is unworthy of the name OF
IN principle and fact; and, if DR.. Wash
ington believes it is wrong, as we think
ne does, it is to be deeply regretted
that he lacks the moral stamina to
say So
1t is obvious even to the friends and
supporters of DR.. Washington, that if
ne is quoted accurately, he can not
IN the future be regarded as being in
sympathy with the Afro-American who
places his self-respect and manhood
above everything else, and who is not
willing to sacrifice either for the sake
OF living on more congenial terms with
his white brother.
Dr. Washington's statement is as
puzzling to the News as it is painful
because even if he believes that we
should not oppose segregation il
seems worse than a blunder for him
to throw open so vulnerable a spot to
the many opponents of his policies by
saying so.
However, the advice of the sage of
Tuskegee is not going to have any
effect on our local fight one way or
the other. Surprise and disgust are
expressed on all sides by those who
read his quotation and the News is
forced to confess to the drawing of
some very painful conclusions, none of
which are too complimentary to Dr.
Washington.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-10-03
GEORGIA'S LATEST,

The more or less great common.
wealth of Georgia., land of the cracker
and the watermelon, in whose capital
the most Infamous and uncalled for
massacre of dark-hued Americans &C.
Cured, has again distinguished itself
by picking Tom Hardwick now unlaw-
tully occupying seat in the House of
Representatives, as its candidate for
United States Senator and he will dulv
be sent to Washington to be the COL
league of Hoax Smith, whose news
paper Was the principal inciter of the
Atlanta riot, and introduce some more
jimcrow bills.
The associated press dispatch, an
nouncing the selection of Hardwick,
naively added, "a nomination is equiva-
lent to an election" Of course, it is.
Half the population of Georgia con-
sists of Afro-Americans and they are
disfranchised by the states Infamous
laws.
during his six terms in Congress
Hardwick has done very little. Prac-
tically his whole time has been spent
in introducing jimcrow legislation, his
most notable achievements in this line
being two joint resolutions, one, H.
J. Res. go, SID Congress, proposing
an amendment to repeal the Four
teenth Amendment to the Constitution,
and one, H. J. Res 81, 62d Congress, pro-
posing the repeal of the Fifteenth
Amendment to the Constitution.
Hardwick is a great "introducer"
and when he reaches Washington he
may make hit with his cracker con-
stuents in "Jawjaw" by introducing
a Bill to compel all colored residents
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-10-03
IN THE "BREAD AND BUTTER
STATED

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
ne 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
hellish conditions which were general
in that section. He felt that they had
a right to be born in state where
there was no law to degrade them
where they would have a 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 a 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. 80.
It has been 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 Afr0'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??, 1914-10-03
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??, 1914-10-03
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 few such evidences.
Consider, first, the "Jim Crow legis-
1ation in the manner of its 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 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 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 Crow law! The un-
derlying 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 regu1a-
ton. This place you may occupy,
that other you may not, because ] am
| and you are you, lest to you or to me
il 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??, 1914-10-03
Evidences of Christianity
IN HOLY RUSSIA.
Jewish Girl Outraged and crucified

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 poor
Jewish fisherman in Stavrapol, on the
Volga. I..
After outraging the young girl, the
dispatch declares, the three youths
dragged her to cemetery, where they
nailed her to cross above one of
the graves. Nails were driven through
her hands and feet and even throug h
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??, 1914-10-03

upon tn liquor question. In addition
to providing 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??, 1914-10-03

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??, 1914-10-03
It is said that President Wilson

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 fe ar 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
Afr0-Amerlcans are to be treated Just
the same as other classes of Amer
leans
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-10-03

"AS TO 'JIMCROW' Y. NJ. &. AS
Those who are disposed to deny the
fatherhood of God and the brother hood
of man and help along race prejudice,
by advocating the establishment of
separate Young Mems Christian Asso-
Citations, should read and ponder over
the following letter from a white min
lister to Editor Harry S. Smith of
Cleveland. Ohio, and published in his
paper, the Cleveland Gazette:
Madison, N. j., Sept. "a, 1914.
Editor Gazette. Dear Sir:-You
voice the sentiments of my soul and
spirit why should Christian America
defy the "color-line" and rank it high
err than the fundamentals Of orthodox
religion? The common fatherhood of
God acknowledged by "The Church in
America") implies, to all believers,
the common brotherhood of "all men
in Jesus Christ."-2 Cor. ST; COL 8:
Gil; Eph. 2:1O-19.
I have fought in Virginia (Norfollx)
Maryland (Baltimore), and New Jer-
sey the pernicious practice Of the
Young Mems Christian Association in
"drawing the color-line" and using it
as an asset 1 do not exactly under
stand Mr.. julius Rosenwald's motive
in donating $4,000 to encourage the
building of Colored Y. NJ. c. AS in
America-do you? Every one built
(and successfully maintained) only &C.
centuates and makes more bitter the
"color prejudice!" For it is not the
filthy, foul-mouthed, evilsmelllng,
whisky-drinking Negro corner-loafer Or
bar-room hummer they hate and de-
preciate so much as the honest, intel
ligent, self-respecting and capable
Afro-American whose domination ano
social equality proclivities they fear,
because they recognize in him not only
a civic equal in embryo, but actually
a moral superior on mentallty!!!
Why should the National Y. M. =.
A, recognize, legalize and perpetuate
the "color-line?" There is none in sin,
there is none in sickness, nor pow
erty, neither in hell nor heaven!
When, in so doing, they cater to popu-
lar prejudice, they dishonor Christ
(see Matt. 23:1.4, Sly, they degrade
religion and condemn their own Ma
tional organization as a huge hypo-
critical conspiracy forged to bolster
up an inhuman lie-the sublime equal-
ity of all men.
I wish you every blessing with sue
cess.
Fraternally yours,
(Rev.) Geo. Wilson Brent.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-10-03
BAPTIsTs PROTEST SEGREGATION

BAPTISTS PROTEST SEGREGATION
At the suggestion of THE APPEAL,
Rev. E. j. Fisher, D. D., pastor of
Olivet Baptist Church, Chicago, ILL.,,
wrote and presented to the National
Baptist Convention, which met recently
in Philadelphia, a strong resolution
denouncing segregation in every form
by the National Administration in the
government departments at Washing
ton, and racial segregation in the cities
of the South, and condemned as un-
Christian and unAmerican the jimcrow
bills now being considered in Congress.
The resolution was passed unanimous.
ly and without any modification what
ever. The Baptist Convention repre-
sents about 100000 Baptists. g..
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-10-03
SPREAD OF MOHAMMEDANISM

SPREAD OF MOHAMMEDANISM
Every true Christian should be glad
to learn of the remarkable growth of
Mohammedanism. Among the colored
peoples of the world it is outstripping
Americans.
This may seem a. queer statement
but it is true. Christianity is SO de-
cadent in America today that there
are few real Christians except Afro
Christianity.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-10-03
FIGHTING FOR THE BALLOT.
(St. Luke Herald, Richmond. Val

The Congressional Union, the white
Women's national suffrage organiza-
ton, is out on the war path against
every democratic congressman in the
nine states in the West in which
women vote. The Congressional Union
has headquarters in Chicago, and is
using every possible political effort to
get the scalp Of every democrat who
is opposed to women receiving the
ballot
Everybody seems to understand the
power of the ballot except the colored
people. We need but little here be-
low, and we don't need that little long.
Other folks need all they can get, and
need it as long as they can get it
but we don't.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-10-03

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-
tion.' 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-
tiOn2
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-10-03
IN CHRISTIAN U. S.
Afro.American Woman Lynched by
Americans.


Americans.
Muskogee, Okla.-Lemuel Peace.
Caucasian, went into the colored sec.
ton of the city Sunday night and ms
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 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??, 1914-10-03
ATTITUDE
Of William e. Lee on the Liuuor
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??, 1914-10-03
What Segregation Means
Rev. Quincy Ewng Southern Caucasian Born and Reared
Mississippi Shows the Policy of the South is Keep
the Afro American in Inferior Status

Why is it that in every Southern
city no Negro is allowed to witness a
dramatic performance, or a baseball
game, from a first-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.
1t 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 first-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-
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 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-gallery, or
the bleachers.
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 pullman car between
state lines, or to enter as guest 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
a 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 themselves, 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 an inferior. Such is
the premium put upon his inferiority;
such his inducement to MAINTAIN it.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-10-03

Gossip is what others say about
you; what you say about others is
news.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-10-03

! OF the District of Columbia to use the
middle of the streets, reserving the
sidewalks for JaWjawians and other
superior people.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-10-03
RACE PREJUDICE.

MAUI
am convinced myself that there is no more
evil thing in this present world than Race Pre-
judice; none at ALL write deliberate]y-it is
the worst single thing in life now. It justifes
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 Y. Independent
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-10-03
AS TO JlMCROW' Y. M. c. AS.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1914.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-10-03

PROTEST AGAINST WRONG
TO submit in silence when we should protest
makes towards out of men.
The human race has Climbed on protest.
Had no voice been raised against injustice,
ignorance and lust; the inquisition yet would
serve the law, and guillotines decide our last
disputes.
The few who dare must speak and speak
again to right the wrongs of many.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.