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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-12-05
THE COLOR LINE VEXES THE
PRESIDENT.
(From New York Eveninu MaiI.)

(From New York Evening MaiI.)
1t is hard to discover, in the rather
fully published reports, any sufficient
reason for the Presidents resentment
of the efforts Of Mr. Trotter to per-
suade him to abandon the offensive
policy of several Cabinet officers in
drawing the color line in the Federal
departments.
The subject under discussion was
the violation of the customs of fifty
years and the spirit of the Constitu-
ton in establishing "Jim Crow" gov
eminent. If the spokesman of the
Equal Rights League waxed warm in
urging the cause of his race. it is not
to be wondered at That he over
stepped the bounds of propriety is not
shown.
That the President was vexed is all
that appears in the published record.
II any adequate reason for his vexa-
ton had been supplied by Mr.. Trot-
ter, 1t would surely have been dis
closed.
That there was reason for the Pres.
ldents i'll temper is quite true, but it
was supplied by the Cabinet members
who were responsible for the narrow.
minded policy of segregating Colored
employees from white jobholders.
The incident recalls the similar vex.
alton shown by the President when he
abruptly dismissed an equal suffrage
delegation on June 80 on the ground
that he could not submit to cross.
examination"
When man is right, he usually will
listen patiently to the other side:
when he knows he is wrong he is very
likely to fly off the handle.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-12-05
DID THE PRESIDENT LOSE HIS
ahead?
(From the Philadelphia Press. }

(From the Philadelphia Press.)
It looks as though the result of the
last election has got on the Presidents
nerves and made him unreasonably ir.
ritable. In no other way can we &C.
count for the extreme sensitiveness
and quick resentment which he exhib-
tied while w. M. Trotter, of Boston,
as chairman of delegation of Col
ored men undertook to show him that
Colored employees were unfairly dis
eliminated against and segregated in
some of the executive departments
There is nothing in Mr.. Trotter's
remarks as reported which disclose
any ground for the Presidents resent
ment. Possibly the speakers manner
may have been too earnest, positive
and aggressive to suit the President.
He turned on him as he once before
ton whose assertions and arguments
were not to his taste and drove the
President into making the absurd
statement that he was not at liberty
to approve woman suffrage because it
had no place in the National Demo
cratic platform He told Trotter that
the Colored people were segregated in
the departments to avoid friction. But
there was no friction until Mr.. McAdoo
and Mr. Burleson got into the Cabi-
net and began. to enforce in their de-
spartments the principle Of the Jim
Crow law.
The segregation practced is wrong in
principle because 1t Ii disagreeable and
unfair to one class O. public employees
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-12-05
TELEGRAM TO PRESIDENT VIII.
SON BY DR.. w. SINCLAIR, UN.
ABLE TO BE PRESENT WITH
DELEGATION.
Hon. Woodrow Wilson,
President of the United States
Executive Mansion,

'" dSuIu6lOH, -. w.,
Honored Sir:
Unavoidable circumstances make it
impracticable for me to join the dele
cation as field secretary of the con.
stitution league of the United States
who are to present memorial to
you on Thursday, the 18th inst, in
voking your Intervention against the
segregation of government employees
at Washington or elsewhere on the
ground of race or color. respect
fully submit that such segregation vi
olates the spirit and letter of the Con-
stitution of the United States, forces
hardships and degradations of Col
ored employees, undermines civiliza-
ton, is subversive of American in
stitutions. contravenes every prin-
ciple Of righteousness and justice and
is shameful reproach to our Chris
ton religion. Segregation represents
not the ideals Of freedom but the
ideals of slavery. We pray that you
as the Christian President of this free
and Christian nation will use your
great powers, which are more than
amply sufficient to remove this foul
blot from our civilization.
(Signed), VIM. A. SINCLAIR,
Field Secretary Constitution League
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-12-05
NO JlM.cRow GOVERNMENT.
(From the New York World.)

(From the New York WORLDLY
No President ever suffered more
from the foolish indiscretions of mem
bers of his Cabinet than has Mr.. Will
son. He had a further illustration of
it yesterday in his unfortunate inter
view with delegation of colored men
who called at the White House to pro
test against the segregation of races
in Government departments.
The President should have foreseen
this unfortunate issue when Mr.. Nc.
Adoo and Mr.. Burleson were carrying
their color-line theories into demo.
cratic government. Mr.. Wilson told
the committee that there had been no
discrimination in the comforts and
surroundings of the colored clerks, but
explained that "he had been informed
by officials that the segregation had
been started to avoid friction between
the races, and not with the object OF
injuring the colored men," The Presi.
dent failed to explain, nevertheless,
why no such rule had been considered
necessary until Mr.. Burleson and Mr..
McAdoo got into the Cabinet.
For narly half century white
clerks and colored clerks have worked
side by side in the departments of
Washington, under republican and
under democratic presidents The
World keeps itself fairly we'll informed
about Washington affairs, but the first
it ever heard of this alleged friction
to which Mr.. Wilson refers was when
Mr.. McAdoo began his Jim-Crow pro.
ceedings in the Treasury Department
The president thinks that this is
not political question, but he is
wrong. Anything that is unjust, dis
eliminating, and un-American in gov.
eminent is certain to be political
question. Servants of the United
States Government, regardless of race
or color. For several years a colored
man has been Collector of Internal
Revenue in New York. He never
found it necessary to segregate the
white employees of his department to
prevent "friction";; yet he would have
had quite as much right to do so as
Mr.. McAdoo had to segregate the col.
ored employees of the Treasury in
Washington.
try have been trying to solve certain
great problems of government, few
southern members of the Cabinet
have been allowed to exploit their
petty local prejudice at the expense of
the party's reputation for exact jus.
tice.
Whether the President thinks so or
not. the segregation rule was promul.
gated as a deliberate discrimination
against colored employees.
Worse still, it is small, mean,
petty discrimination, and Mr.. Wilson
ought to have set his heel upon this
presumptuous Jim-Crow government
the moment it was established. He
ought to set his heel upon it now. II
is a reproach to his administration
and to the great political principles
which he represents.
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ton or not. We had supposed. after
the investigations of last winter. that
the vicious policy had been checked:
We understood that it was to be aban.
doned gradually. In numerous in.
stances the Growing had, we know.
been stopped. The more discouragine
Is it to find the President apparently
unfolding what the World justly calls
the foolish indiscretions of members
Of his Cabinet" There was no gen.
uine complaint as to the conditions
in washington. Colored and white
EMPLOYEES had worked side by side
for fifty years. Some of them had
been appointed by Grover Cleveland
one of his appointees to high place be.
ing the father of Mr.. Trotter, a veter-
an of the Fifty-fifth Massachusetts.
But the Wilson Administration went
out OF It's way to create the issue it
now deplores, and cannot see it's way
clear to admitting it's mistake and re-
verting to the only defensible position
OF absolute equality in the Govern
ment service.
The way to deal with race preju.
dice in such matters is not to enhance
1t by yielding, but resolutely to con-
front 1t with refusal to give in. 1t
Is surprising how often prejudice fades
away in given situation when it finds
itself wholly blocked. It, is even more
surprising how frequently it is merely
a state of wind. Often there is no
objection whatever to the presence
OF colOred people on the most familiar
terms, provided their position is clear
ly stamped as mental; let them sud-
denly aspire to equal privileges, and
those same people become at once too
offensive to be permitted to breathe
the same atmosphere. The situation
In Washington would be restored in a
twinkling to the old and absolutely
satisfactory status If the highest
authority were simply to lay down the
law that there was going to be a
square deal for everybody in the de.
partments without the slightest dis.
elimination; that there can be only
one class of public servants-all to be
treated with courtesy, consideration,
and absolute justice.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-12-05
THE PRESIDENT AND SEGREGA.
TON,

(From The Indianapolis News.)
The government, which makes laws
for all, collects taxes from all, and
summons all alike to it's defense in
time Of war, cannot rightfuly make
such distinctions. When men and
women enter the public service they
ought to be ready to conform to that
principle. No one is compelled to
enter 1t, but having made his choice
he should comply with the conditions
OF his employment
So the question is not wholly
economic, as Mr.. Wilson seemed to
think it vast is political as we'll,
not in the narrow partisan, but in the
broad sense. The people of the United
States as a whole would oppose the
adoption by their government of any
thing resembling the Jim Crow policy.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-12-05

full citizen of the purest Anglo-saxon
descent.
1T is but step in descent from the
position taken by those public officials
in Washington who segregate one race
to the public official in a Southern
state who advocates lynch law. The
example of the higher official will be
cited by the lower official as justifica.
ton for his course. The mob of the
South that lynches in the night is but
a step further than the official order
that segregates because of color in the
day."
When Southern Democratic daily
newspapers have the moral courage to
write such strong editorials demand
Ing justice for the race it ought to
make the cowardly colored ours who
condone jimcrowism hide their heads
in shame. ...-.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-12-05
TICKETS
TRoTTER's SPECIFIC DENIAL OF
INsoLENcE. TO PRESIDENT.
Interview in Boston Globe of Nov. IL,
1914.

William Monroe Trotter, whose re-
marks on segregation in Government
departments stirred President Wilson
at hearing in the White House last
Thursday, arrived in Boston yesterday
afternoon, and, after denying any
thing offensive either in his speech or
manner, told Of the way in which the
report of the hearing was given to the
newspapermen.
GAS we left the President" said Mr..
Trotter, II told him I was very sorry
if he still considered that I had Of
Tended him. =; The President smiled
and said: Owen call It all right
when we came out our delegation
caucused in Sec. Tumulty's room as
to what we should say for the news
papers. l told the newspaper men
briefly about the conference, merely
describing 1t as a warm affair.
II had gone outside the White
House when Mr.. Tumulty called me
back and said: ."Trotter, you have vio-
lated every courtesy of the White
House in quoting the President to the
press
IT told Mr.. Tumulty that l had done
so in ignorance of the rules, and apol-
ogized. He accepted my apology.
Then I asked the newspaper not to
publish what l told them, and they
consented. Mr.. Tumulty said he was
satisfied and l left. ......
White House Statement Issued.
"The report of the conference was
then given out from the White House.
It seems very. peculiar to me, after
the President had told me everything
was all right, that a White House
statement should say that 1 had Of
Tended the President of the United
States" ::
Did Not Lose Temper or catechize.
II want to say" he continued, that
neither in manner, language; tone nor
in any other way was I discourteous,
impertinent or insolent to President
Wilson. 4
my whole attitude was that of en-.
deavoring, on the spur Of the moment,
to answer a piece of masterful sophis-
try and to refute it successfully and
feeling a great responsibility to do so,
spoke with positiveness, deliberate
ness and directness, looking the Pres
ident full in the eye.
II did not quiz or catechize the
President, and l did not attempt to
debate with him. The difficulty did
not come until the President had been
permitted to declare for segregation
of my race and to say that I should
regard it as a benevolence and so rep.
resent it to my race.
Although it was trying ordeal
to listen to SUCH statement at length
by the Chief Executive of the Nation,
l had at no time any temper, much
less lost my temper.
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80 CENTS

who have right to be treated by their
Government without discrimination.
The race affected had a right to be
heard in their own behalf and showed
a proper spirit in going directly to
the President with their grievance.
We fear that the President has lost his
head He is certainly not so happy in
these extempore statements, made un.
der the irritation that so easily besets
him as in his more studied deliver
'ances which compel the admiration
even of his political opponents and
often skillfully covered up the falla-
cies of his reasoning character of the
policy he is commencing.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1914
STANDING TOGETHER FOR RIGHT

STANDING TOGETHER FOR RIGHT.
The unanimity with which the Col
ored press endorsed the action of Will
liam Monroe Trotter in his protest
against segregation was remarkable.
Only two or three editors of small
caliber, who evidently have some per-
sonal grievance against Mr.. Trotter,
abused the man who has against ire
mendous odds done battle for the
rights of the race.
These sore head publishers of papers
of little influence will not be able to
do much harm. What they have said
is more than offset by strong South.
ern Democratic newspapers which
have rebuked the President for his ac-
ton. Two Kentucky newspapers were
especially strong against governmental
segregation. 49, l..
The Louisville Courier-Journal: "The
Courier-Journal agrees with the New
York World that the segregation bust
ness over in Washington spells rather
small. During fifty years, including
two Democratic Presidential, terms
there was no thought of separating the
black and white official sheep. Why
should the suggestion meet the assent
of anybody now:
1.-THE segregation order should be re-
voked. 1t has no real cause or inter-
est to back it. The issue should not
have been raised. Let Mr.. Wilson take
matters further into his own hands,
and restore the status quo.' I.
Says the Lexington Herald: 1--WE re-
greet that the President has again per
mitted himself to display irritation to
those who went to him as Chief Exc
cutive Of the Nation, and refused 20
answer questions put to him about
the treatment of public employees.
'.For the second time he has per-
mitted himself to lose his temper
when confronted by delegation OF
citizens asking him to take action
about matter which is embarrassing
to them.
"The humblest American citizen Of
full Negro blood is in the eyes of the
law the full equal Of the most power
: 81 VA i :. 4 e y
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-12-05
SAYS PRESIDENT LOST HIS TEMPER n:
Leading Daily Newspaper Of Lexington Kentucky Supporter
Administration sernly Rebukes President Wilson for
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-12-05
DR.. sPINeARN's SECOND TOUR.
WeII-known White Advocate Of Justice
to Tour Country Again.

to Tour Country Again.
DR.. J. E. Spingarn, chairman Of the
board of directors of the National AS
ISOLATION for the Advancement of Col
ored People, and one of the most con-
sistent white advocates of justice and
equal rights for AfrO-Americans, is soon
to make second tour of the country
In the interests of the cause of our
race. It will be remembered that last
January he addressed meetings in De-
trott, Chicago, Quincy, Kansas City,
Topeka, St. Louis, indianapolis, and
Cleveland, attracting very large audi
ences wherever he went, and nearly
white papers for the cause of justice
to the Negro.
DR.. Spingarn will speak at Whining
ton, Delaware, on November 22nd, at
Howard University, Washington, D. c.,
on November 23rd, and at Harrisburg,
Pa, on November oath. His main tour,
however, will not begin until next
January, and he then expects to speak
In Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Dayton, Colum.
bus, Springfield, St. Joseph, Omaha,
Des Moines, Minneapolis, St. Paul,
Milwaukee, and other cities. He hopes
by succeeding tours to cover every
part of the country and to carry his
burning message of freedom to the
whole nation. All those who are in
terested In his coming tour, which like
all his other work for our race is car
ried on entirely at his own expense,
can obtain further information from
Miss May Childs Nerney, secretary OF
the National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People, 10 Fifth
Avenue, New York City.
DR.. Spingarn was for twelve years
Professor Of Comparative Literature
in Columbia University, New York,
and he is writer and scholar Of in
ternational reputation. He brings to
this cause not only Learning and ripe
scholarship, but eloquence, practical
experience, and a passionate sincerity.
He was born in New York thirty.nine
years ago, and for the last ten years
he has given untiring devotion to the
cause of black folk. He is a man of
independent means, who has never
asked pay Of any kind for this work.
The National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People, of
which he is chairman, has a member
ship Of about 5000, with branches In
over thirty cities all over the country;
and its official organ, 1.-THE Crisis"
published under its direction, has a
circulation of over $4,000 month.
Among its other directors are MI ss
Jane Adams and DR.. C. e. Bentley
Of Chicago, Archibald H. Grimke of
Washington, Moorfield Storey of Bos-
ton, and Oswald Garrison Willard,
John e. Milholland, Rev. John Haynes
Holmes, DR.. w. e. B. Du Bots, Charles
Edward Russell, Miss Lillian D. Valid,
Miss Mary White Ovington, Mrs.
Florence Kelley, Paul Kennaday, and
William English Walling Of New York.
It Is the only organization in the world
IN. which both white and colored
people work together for the equal
rights Of black folk.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-12-05

OF Oklahoma is invalid, in so far as it
allowed the furnishing of sleeping,
parlor and chair cars only to white
persons. Every once in while we get
hopeful sign that we may hope that
things will not always be as bad as
they are. 49,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-12-05
the MAN WHO pAREs

! honor the man who in the con-
scientious discharge Of his duty dares
to stand alone; the world, with ignor-
ant, intolerant judgment, may con-
denim, the countenances Of relatives
may be averted, and the hearts Of
friends grow cold, but tho sense Of
duty done shall 30 sweeter than tho
applause Of the world, the ceuaten-
ances OF relatives or tho hearts Of
friends.-ch1rles Summer.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-12-05
THE PRESIDENT AND THE
AFRO-AMERICAN.
(FrOm the Chicago

(From the Chicago Tribune.)
We are not ready to concede that
any body Of citizenship has less stand
Ing under the law than any other. If
the south wishes to make any such
Issue as this it will find that the
north, where there is prejudice, is
nevertheless restless when as a. part
of the nation it is asked to declare that
the main principle of the nation is q
piece of hypocrisy and does not apply
where it is inconvenient.
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superiors Never Burn Interiors.
(Portland Adyocate.)

"A superior race will not lynch and
burn an inferior race simply because
they have the power. Terrible crimes
and brutaities will not be permitted
against human beings by superior
race and then seek to ind ease and
peace for an injured conscience simp-
" on the basis Of color.