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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-08-08

ABILITY CAUSES RACE HATRED.
A novel explanation of the Russian
dislike for the Jew has been given by
Count Alexander Scherbatskoy, coun.
cillor of the Russian embassy in Wash.
ington.
The count said that Russians object.
ed to Jews because they were more
capable than the Russians and not be.
cause they were of different race and
faith.
There is not much difference be.
tween the Jewish question in Russia
and the Japanese question in Califor,
nia,' he declared. 1.-THE Californians
know the Japs are more clever than
they are. The Russians know that
they can not compete with the Jews.
Their fear of the Jews is based on eco
nomic considerations"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-08-08
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
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??, 1914-08-08
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 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
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-
DERIVING purpose of the law is clearly
not the separation of the races in
space; for public sentiment does not
insist upon its 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 Crow laws
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-08-08

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 a
civil rights bill and an anti-lynching
law. Mr. Smith has been 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??, 1914-08-08

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
passenger year ago, and appeals to
all to aid the Pythian order in push.
ing the matter.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-08-08

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
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??, 1914-08-08

with her skill. The New York Hippo.
drome Elephants, engaged at New
York for seven successive seasons, has
been obtained for the entire week.
Many other high-class vaudeville acts
have been, engaged to fill the three
great arenas before the grandstand al
ternoon and evening. ...-. a..
Big Fireworks Display.
Each evening before the grandstand
there will be a big fireworks display,
called the Opening of the Panama
Canal" A scenic picture of the Canal
over 400 feet long will serve as back.
ground. Over 300 persons will take
part in a Spectacle of Nations. Sud-
denly at signal the fireworks display
opens, breaking down the last obstacle
between the Atlantic and Pacific.
On the last day, Sept ~, the most
pretentious auto racing card ever held
at Hamline will be put on Oldfeld,
D1sbrow, Rickenbacher and Knipper,
four of the greatest drivers in Ameri.
ca, will compete for worlds records.
Many other noted drivers will com.
pete in the regular events.
Many other amusement features
have been provided. Suffice to say nc
one liking good clean entertainment
can afford to miss the Minnesota State
Fair.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-08-08

Grim visaged war appears to be
lowering over the people across the
'*big pond,'' in fact, it seems to hav.
swooped down upon them and many
lives have already been sacrificed
Though not in this country it will be
greatly affected if the war continues
and, the complaints of the high cost
of living will be redoubled as the cost
of the actual necessities of life will
be-. Verify, as Sherman said, war is.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-08-08
in
JayEyeSee drivers
he Minnesota State Fair the butt
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
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??, 1914-08-08
COWARDLY cOLORED OURS.

The wires tell us that thirty col
ored men watched the lynching of Rosa
Carson at Orangeburg, S. c., but offer.
ed no resistance"
1t is great shame and disgrace to
the race that thirty Afro-Americans
stood by and failed to give their lives,
if necessary, in attempting to prevent
the lynching of one of their women.
They could not have died in a holier
cause and the knowledge that they had
fought to, death in defense of the law
would have made the next mob hest.
tate-all mobs are cowardly.
Any Afro-Americans who stand by
and see the law outraged and one of
their women lynched are worse than
towards.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-08-08

championship where it rightfully be.
longs" but three times in succession,
Johnson carried home the bacon"
Had Moran won the decision in
France the other day, no such picture
would have appeared in the New York
Journal and no such editorial. It
seems to us this is a case of "sour
grapes pure and simple. It makes all
the difference in the world whose OK is
gored. p. .-..---..
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-08-08
VETERINARIANS OF RACES ALL
RIGHT

Intermarriage of whites with Jap
anese, Hindus and other orientals was
defended by Professor Franz Boas OF
Columbia University, noted anthro-
pologist, in one of the series of lee
lures which he is delivering at the
summer session of the University of
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-08-08
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 outrag1ng 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??, 1914-08-08
IN CHRISTIAN U. s,
Afro-American Woman Lynched BY
Americans.

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 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??, 1914-08-08
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 wom-
an, who was charged with the murder
of IL 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??, 1914-08-08

between whites and other oriental
peoples, is simply foolish sentiment
tally, without the slightest biological
foundation" Professor Boas said.
practically all the population of
Europe is the product of the most
widely divergent racial intermixtures.
Humanity, fundamentally, is very
nearly identical the world over, no
matter what may be the color or race y
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-08-08
RACE PREJUDICE.

am convinced myself that there is no moro
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
HI G. Wells in N. Y Independent
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-08-08
What Segregation Means
Rev Quincy Ewing Southern Caucasian and Reared
Mississippi Shows the Policy Of the South is to Keen
the AfroAmercan in Inferior

Why is it that in every Southern
city no Negro is allowed to witness q
dramatic performance, or a baseball
game, from frst-class seat? In
every large city, there are hundreds Of
Negroes who would gladly paw 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 well attended by
half the population that tirst-class
other half. AS a 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 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-gallery, or
the bleachers.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-08-08

Consider further that, while no Me-
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 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
a white baby in her arms, the black
valet looking after the comfort of a
white invalid, have the label of their
lnferiority 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 20. pro-
Vlded 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.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1914-11-26
WILL FURNISH WHEAT
FOB SAN FRANCISCO FAIR
T. V. TalIant viii Enter RockIand
Valley Bluestem for q Place
Among the Prize Winners.

r. V. Tallant of Rockland, has some
Bluestem wheat which he considers
good enough to be shown alongside
the best wheat grown in the United
States, and will bring in enough OF 1t
to make a good display, for shipment
to the director of exhibits for this
state, at Boise. Mr.. Tallant noticed
the call for exhibits in last weeks
Press, and lost no time in responding
His exhibit will bear a card through
out the exposition showing by whom
and where grown, and any other par
ticulars that may be of interest
This county has been asked to pro-
vide from 100 to $50 bushels of wheat
of three varieties, Bluestem, Turkey
Red and Gold Coin. Director of Ex-
hibits j. w. Jones believes this coun-
ty grows the best wheat in the state,
and his belief is borne out by the
fact that better prices are paid by
buyers here than elsewhere. Natural
ly Mr. Jones is anxious to get the best
possible exhibits I'm order to bring
credit to the state. and 1t is distinct
credict to this county to be relied upon
TO furnish the wheat for the states ex-
hibit. Grain intended for this exhibit
should be left with NJ. A. Wones.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1914-11-26
fWO SOLID TOWNSHIPS
SEEnHD 10 WHEAT
lrbon Settlement Preparing to Sun.
ply Its Part OF Next Years
Demand.

G. S. Randall, prosperous Arbsn
farmer, states that there will be at
least two solid townships OF wheat
grown by Arbon and Crystal farm
ers next year, The acreage already
seeded and prepared for seeding next
spring will total not less than $4,000
acres in the settlement In the Arbon
valley and at Crystal.
Placing the average yield at 90 bu-
shells per acre, which Is likely TO be
less than more than the actual yield
makes the estimated output of next
years breadstufr -1.160,000 bushels,
or enough to bring genuine prosperi-
~ to the growers II good prices con-
tinue. These communities. according
to the estimate OF Mr.. Randall. pro-
duced about half million bushels
this year from about $4,000 acres, ap-
two thirds OF which has
been marketed. Six or seven years
ago there was scarcely any grain
grown there. the few settlers devot-
Ing themselves TO stockgrowing.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1914-11-26
GOVERNMENT TO HELP
IDAHO HOG RAISERS

The modern method OF solving ag-
ricultural problems by investigating
them, not only H. the laboratory, 3ut
also on the farm In corporation with
The farmer, has given such admirable
results that II IL to be applied 10 the
anti-bog cholera crusade.
Congress has appropriated a half
million dollars to carry on the work
and experiments Will be made IN all
parts OF the United States. The aim
will be not only to exterminate the
disease In the test sections, but also
to discover the most practical en-
cfent and economical methods for
continuing the work throughout tho
country.
This investigation Will MI a long,
felt want In Idaho. as the hog death
rate In this state from cholera Il 20
per 1000 head, and hog rs!scrs are
losing an average Of 5000 hogs, val
ued at $4,000. from this disease an
nually.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1914-11-26
9G HOGS BRING s1,iOO
Bonanza Bar Farmer Converts Wheat
Into Fork.

T. C. Elgin returned from Ogden,
Friday, where he shipped car Of
eight-months old porkers which
brought him $1.4OO. at 6h cents per
pound. From bunch of Ill he culled
the larger ones. leaving So which
averaged 225 pounds. Mr. Elgin found
lower market than he expected, but
feels that he made about $500 by
marketing wheat in the form OF pork.
The hogs were fed 700 sacks Of
wheat, which cost Mr. Elgin 1915. He
has sixteen Of his best hogs left which
were fattened on this wheat, and feels
that they are worth as much, at least,
as the 96 pigs sold we're at the time
he began feeding. The marketing of
the hogs was much less expense than
the marketing Of the wheat would
have been. and the amount received
s525 above the cost of the feed, and
he figures that he is Just that much
ahead. The pigs were fed and cared
for by his father-in-law, J. +. Million
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1914-11-26
IDAHO WILL SEND
WHEAT TO EUROPE

The United States has approximate
ly 100000 bushels of wheat on
hand this year for export and practi-
cally all OF it will probably be sold to
the warning countries of Europe. Ac-
cording TO a report issued today by
the United States Department OF Agri-
culture the wheat production of the
United States this year will be
around s92. 10000 bushels and only
COL .000, 900 bushels will be needed for
food consumption and seed purposes
at home.
The per capita Of wheat consump-
ton Of Idaho for food is SIS bushels.
and the total annual requirement Off
seed and food purposes I'm this state
is 3.4os.000 bushels. leaving q surplus
of production this year Of approx
nately 10,e54 900 bushels
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1914-11-26
new RAILROAD
ARTICLES FILED
AMERICAN FALLS l. ROCkLAND
VALLEY RAILROAD COMPANY
FILES ARTICLES OF INCORPOR-
ALTON, CAPITAL STOCK $G5O,OOO.
Line Projected From American Falls
10 hoy, 1hity-five Miles South
Gfiicers and Directors Elected
Campaign 10 Raise Necessary Money
For Construction Now On.

Articles OF incorporation of the AM
erican Falls a. Rockland Valley Rail-
road company have been filed. The
1ncorporators are: Hiram j. Slifer,
Chicago; J. T. Fisher, Henry Eock, X.
ID. Houtz, Rockland; o. w. Pollard,
Frank Berkstresser, o. w. Dawell,
Roy; George w. Stanger, Neeley; l..
l.. Evans, ID. w. Davis, and j. p. Mehl-
han of American Falls. The incor-
porators have each subscribed for
$500 of the capital stock, making a
total of $3S,5O0 subscribed. The Of
ficers are H. j. Slifer, president; l.. L.
Evans, vice president; ]. T. Fisher,
secretary and treasurer.
A stock subscription campaign un-
der the direction of Mr.. Slifer is be-
ing waged. 1t is the plan to secure
subscriptions of 500 each from 200
men, total of $4,000, to be used in
making a survey, and for necessary
preliminary expenses. Donations of
right of way will be asked, and doubt
less easily secured with little or no
expense. This work is to be complet-
ed this fall, If the necessary financial
assistance is forthcoming, so that ac-
tive construction can De begun in the
spring. Mr.. Slifer is said to be meet
ing with encouragement in the mat
ter of securing money for this prelimi-
nary work and prospects for the build
ing of the road are better than they
sver before have been. A meeting of
the directors is to be held in American
Falls tomorrow, at which report will
be made and plans considered for con-
tinuing the work.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1914-11-26
THE IDAHO OAT CROP FOR 1914

Washington, ID. c., Nov.-The 1914
oat crop of Idaho will amount to ap-
proximately 14,60S,000 bushels, COM
pared with a total yield of 1912 900
ushels last year. according to esti-
mates given out today by the Crop Re-
porting Board of the United States
Department of Agriculture. The acre
yield this year is 40 bushels. and
the product is bringing the farmers
around 35 cents per bushei. Last year
the average price was Al cents per
bushe,.
The oat crop of Continental Uni
ted States this year is estimated at
1,136, ,755. 900 bushels, or about 15.000.-
900 ushels more than last seasons
yield. The average yield per acre in
1914 for the entire nation was 29.6
bushels and 299 bushels IN 1913.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1914-11-26
HOLDEN INTENDS TO FIGHT FOR JUDCESHIP

The mere fact that the vacancy
was not proclaimed by the governor
does not seem to me to be any reason
why II should not be filled at the elec-
ton. Suppose, for example, that In
the proclamation the oce OF COVER
nor had been omitted inadvertently or
even Intentionally. could the present
occupant OF the place 20 into court
and declare that there could be no
election, even though names had been
written In for the place. and that he
must be allowed to hold over until the
next general election when his success
sor could be elected7 think the prop
Ier thing to have been done was the
issuance OF supplementary proclaim
alton calling the attention OF the peo-
pie to the vacancy, stating the law,
and explaining that the people had the
right to I'll the place.
The law distinctly says that any
vacancy existing 80 days before a gem
eral election shall be Alled at the
general election and believe the
court. In this case at bar, Will hold
that the person who received the larg-
est number OF votes at the last gem
eEal election is entitled to a commis-
nj u as justice OF the supreme court
re hfor the full four years remaining
OF the term to which Justice Stewart
was elected.
Ia case The court does not hold
that way but allows Judge Budge to
be seated. the matter will be more
complicated but It will not alter my
plans. ] am going to see that all the
votes cast for that vacancy are record
ed. When the result is announced, II
! am declared to have received the
largest number, ! am going to qualify
and ask the secretary for commits
sion. Should he refuse It, ! shall ask
for writ OF mandate and then, upon
receiving my commission, shall pro-
ceed to dispossess any person holding
the place. Ihave not investigated the
matter thoroughly, but, from what I
have found. believe / will be able to
take the matter TO the federal court,
II necessary. y."-Statesman.