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The Appeal., 1915-06-05
CENSUS SEGREGATION.

Negroes in the United States," is
the title of a pamphlet just issued by
the United States Census Bureau. The
title is misleading, for there are only
473 real Africans in the United States,
according to the Census, that is Ne.
groes born in Africa.
1t is wrong, unjust and un-American
for the government to segregate it's
clerks by color in the Departments
in Washington, and it is also wrong, un
just and un-American for the govern.
ment to issue separate and inaccu.
rate Census Bulletin as it has done in
the case of the bulletin, Negroes in
the United States.''
One instance of the inaccuracy is
the statement that it is the work OF
Negro Clerks The editor of THE
APPEAL has known two of the clerks
mentioned for many years and is we'll
aware of the excellent records they
had made before the census segrega
ton scheme was evolved. These two
gentlemen are mixed bloods, one be-
ing blonde, at least three-fourths
white. He should not be called a
NEGRO" because he is not a "Negro,'
but colored man.
Call him colored man if it is alb
solutely necessary to call attention tc
the fact, but it would be better fol-
the country and for all the people II
he and all other people were called
Americans. That's the correct name
for all persons born in the United
States.
The United States assumes that a
group of about 100000 people are
Negroes and proceeds to so classify
them. More than ninety-nine per cent
of the persons so classified were born
in America of American parents, and
their parents were Americans and 50
on back for ten generations. .
If man whose ancestors for MANY
generations is not an American, who
The Appeal., 1915-06-05
NEW BUSINESS OPENED.
Mr.. Frederick D. Mccracken Goes into
Business With a Favorable Outlook

Mr.. Frederick D. Mccracken Goes into
Business With a Favorable Outlook.
Mr.. Frederick D. McCracken. who
Tor htteen years was the popular and
efhc1ent private secretary to Congress-
man r. c. Stevens, has yielded to the
pressure of his many friends to re-
main in st. Paul and engage in busi-
ness. He has opened an office in the
Old Merchants Bank Building, corner
9th and Jackson iSts., and is dealing
IN real estate, mortgage loans, rentals
and general insurance. Mr.. McCrack-
ems long and faithful service with Mr..
stevens has given him a high standing
among the. business interests of this
city which affords him ample facili-
ties in his line of business. His high
standard of integrity, honesty and eff
cheney and his long and practical
training with Congressman Stevens
assures us that his business will be
OF a high order. On account of his
devotion to his people he will un.
doubtedly be able to render valuable
service to them in the way of obtain
ing decent houses without being i'm
posed upon by real estate dealers in
our city. He seems to be the right
man in the right place and THE AP-
PEAL, with many others, wish for him
the best of success in his venture.
The Appeal., 1915-06-05
WALLER AGAINST "NEGRO"
Noted Brooklyn Doctor Says It Causes
Mental and Physical Segregation.
lFrOm Amsterdam News

Editor Amsterdam News:
Sir: cannot too heartily congratu-
late you on recent editorial discour-
aging the use of the word "Negro."
There is no greater delight enjoyed by
the white people of the United States
today than the spreading use of this
unfortunate term. Why? They real
ize that it is the most potential fac
tor at work at the present to bring
about both physical and mental
segregation of the people of color. It's
use is on the increase only because
our speakers and writer's, especially
DO Bols and Washington feel that it's
repetition, ad nauseam, is necessary to
retain the good will of the masses. The
term Negro is not only absurdly in
accurate as applied to millions of COL
ored people, but it is also alarminly
Injurious, for the following reasons:
a. 1t has never stood historically or
in the present, anywhere in the world,
for anything noble or uplifting. Most
high-grade Africans repudiate it.
b. In Africa and out of Africa it was
never applied to the higher types, but
to Guineas, Sudanese and Senegam-
bians only.
C.. Its derivatives, "Negroism," NE
grofy," and it's compounds, Negro-head,
Negro-f1y, Negro-monkey, are all clear
ly, in their associations, degrading.
d. Its feminine form, "Negress," is
Justly and correctly used to define
your wife and daughter and sweet.
! heart, if you favor the use of the mas
culine term.
e. It has been the word used by the
Southern whites for two centuries,
when formally speaking or writing
about an unworthy or criminal man
or woman of the race. For when he
speaks of the worthy he invariably
says "colored."
f. It is not differentiated in the mind
and thought of the whites from their
favorite and generally used (among
themselves) terms, "Nigro'' and "Nig.
ger"
g. AS stated by an eminent Japanese
diplomat it has an unquestioned in
f1uence in cutting us off from the
thought, sympathy and cooperation
of the millions of colored Africans, ASH
atics and islanders of the Yonder
world.
Very truly yours,
OWEN M. WALLER, NJ. D.
The Appeal., 1915-06-05
RACE PREJUDICE.
(From Our Dumb Animals, Boston
Mocc \

ANAAAAAASSAoS DooSOAA,
Mass.)
This magazine has stood, from the
day of it's inception, for Justice and
fair play. 1t has by no means con-
fined its interest to animals. Men,
women, children, the victims of greed
: oppression, injustice, prejudice, have
found on it's pages an outspoken cham.
pionship. It has asked of no man the
color OF it's skin, nor of any man the
shibboleth of his sect. It has never
been able to understand how anything
but mans inner spirit could be the
measure of his manhood, or anything
but the fruit of his creed the test of
his religion.
1t would therefore be untrue to it.
self if it failed to denounce the at
tempt that has ben made here in Bos-
ton to humiliate and villify the colored
American citizen. This is what the
photo-play known as "The Birth of a
Nation" does. Not only does it falsify
history to suit its own purpose, repre-
senting the Ku Klux Klan as a body
of chivalrous knights, bearing the
cross as their holy standard, like the
crusaders of old; not only does it fall
sify the character of the colored man
of war times and imply that he is still
unfit for citizenship in an enlightened
republic, and present him in guises
that excite hostility against him, but
it appears to have been most skilfully
and deliberately planned to arouse and
widen in the North that prejudice
against fhe col0red man that has
characterized the worst elements of
the South. 1t holds up for kissing and
hate mulatto on the ground that he
wants to marry a white girl, but
sweeps the audience on without time
for anyone to remember that that
very mulatto face is the undeniable
witness to the fact that some white
man outraged his colored mother
At day when all Europe is a bat
tle-feld where race prejudice is reap
ing the whirlwind of it's own sowing,
and when we all must realize how cas-.
lily that spirit may be kindled here, to
permit the continuance of this exhibi-
tion in Boston, the home of Garrison
and Phillips and Sumner, is a re-
proach to our city,
1t is devoutly hoped that the at
tempt being made to stop it by some
Legislative act will have been success
| full ere these words are read. We are
perfectly sure that no other race of
our citizens would ever have endured
the insults, the wrongs, the lynchings,
the robberies of rights guaranteed un-
der the constitution without seeking
by some other than legal methods
those rights the appeal to law has
seemed impotent to secure.
The Appeal., 1915-06-05
OUR NEED OF JUXTAPOSlTION.
(From the Boston Guardian


That we much rather be, and asso
clate among ourselves, is a saying by
Colored Americans that has become
almost trlte. That is a mistake; it
is feeling of avowed cowardice and
innate inferiority. 1t is an utter i'm.
possibilitay for the two races to sub
scribe to a common government, and,
at the same time, each race work out
It's own salvation. The theory" has
been tried and resulted into CHASTITY
failure; instead. of making for har.
mony and cordial good feeling be.
tween two races, it has increased
race hatred AMI antagonism in leaps
and bounds. We have needed too
long the advice from false and treach-
erous leadership that resistance is
wrong, that it only breeds race hat.
red and antagonism; that the thing
Tor US to do is to get property and
other rights will inevitably follow.
We have followed this "advice" faitl1-
fully and have been rewarded in
! terms OF residence segregation, street
segregation, conflscation and loss of
property, anti-intermarriage is
all OF the blacklist pieces of leeis-
latlon, since that it leaves our women
defenseless and at the mercy of white
brutes - separate schools, jimcrow
cars, and even legislating to exclude
further Negro immigration. These
are the evils resulting from mon
resistance" and rather be by our.
selves" That with the same degree
OF efontry and terrible legislation
with which our property is taken and
| COnfiScated, with this samo offon+rv
and legislation will our political and
manhood rights be taken from us.
That is fact. Every congress of.
fers leg Station degrading and mimi
cal to our well being. Race preju.
dice, therefore, can only be worn down
by attrition. We must send our
children, and go ourselves. to mixed
institutions and other places where
we can mix with the other races and
consequently become accustomed to
one another. ABOVE ALL THINGS
WE MUST WELCOME AND PRAC-
T1CE JUXTAPOSITION.
The Appeal., 1915-06-05

is entitled to the name? If a white
man can become an American in two
generations. why should person OF
any other color born in this country
fail to arrive in the same space Of
time?
The name Negro" applied to a
eroup Of citizens in this country is in
accurate, because it does not include
forty or fifty million other Americans
who have more or less Negro blood.
The expression pure race is amyth
so all great writer's on racial questions
agree. .4--.--.-
The mixing Of bloods in this country
has gone so far that it is impossible
7esermine with any degree of accu,
racy who has Negro blood and who
has not, and for the Government to
select about 1O,0OO,OOO people and say
that they are Negroes" and by that
act to aid in making them a separate
treatment in church and state, is to
perpetrate great wrong.
It is an Infamous thing for the gov
ernment of this great republic to draw
the color line in any way. In a re
public every citizen should have ex
actly the same status so far as thu
government is concerned
There is no reason why a Democra
cy should attempt to classify it's cit
liens by their . blood. All person!
born in this country should be con
sidered Americans without any pre-
| fixes or suffxes.
The Appeal., 1915-06-05
"LOOk FOR THE MAN."

The press dispatches tell us that
"Stella Frank, IS, a beautiful colored
woman of Thibodeau, La, was shot
and instantly killed by Eva J. Thibo-
deaux, "a, prominent throughout
Louisiana, who afterward cut her own
throat. Believed Miss Thibodeaux will
die. Shooting caused sensation in So
cial circles. Motive unknown"
THE APPEAL believes that it can
unravel the mystery. The French say;
"Cherchez la femme" but in this case
we must look for the man. The mur-
The Appeal., 1915-06-05

George Mason, a Kentucky white
man, who lives in the cliffs north of
High Bridge, on the Kentucky river,
was so frightened at the sight of the
hrst train he had ever seen, that he
threw a rock at the Royal Palm on
the Queen & Crescent route. The
stone broke window and hit Ray
Fagan. A cash was cut on Fagan's
scalp, but after receiving medical
treatment he was able to continue his
journey. Mason declares that he had
never before seen a train and that he
thought the thing was some sort of
huge varmint."
The Appeal., 1915-06-05
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The Appeal., 1915-06-05
Shun Them Like Vipers.

(From the Martinsburg Pioneer-Press)
just as long as the negro believes
ne has a place." and is constantly
jerking off his hat when out of it, he
will be the cause of many others en-
during hardships forever and aye. AS
long as a certain class of whites take
to this class of sycophants, the more
rlg1dly those who wear their sover-
eighty under their own hats, should
denounce, discard and shun them as
they would viper.
The Appeal., 1915-06-05
"WHY AMERICANS FAIL"

1t is a. notorious fact that in spite of
Pan-American congresses, long-winded
editorials in American newspapers.
etcetera, the United States is far be-
hind Germany, Great Britain, France
and Spain so far as trade in Latin.
America is concerned. .-"r
The Appeal., 1915-06-05
The SIN OF SILENCE
To sin by silence when we should

To sin by silence when we should
protest makes towards out of men.
The human race has climbed on pro-
test. Had no voice been raised against
Injustice, ignorance and lust, the in
QUESTION yet would serve the law, and
euiIIotines decide our least disputes.
The few who dare must speak and
speak again to right the wrongs Of
many.-Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
The Appeal., 1915-06-05
Right You Are,

(From the Amsterdam News.)
Young man! Young woman! In
Whatever position, in whatever sphere
of life, whatever your attachments
whatever your past accomplishments
whoever and whatever you are. if Won
are not DISCONTINUED YOU are
lost!
The Appeal., 1915-06-05
The MAN WHO pAREs

honor the man who in the con-
seientious discharge Of his duty dares
to stand alone; the world, with ignor-
ant, into'erant judgment, may con-
denim, the countenances Of relatives
may be averted, and the hearts of
friends grow cold. but the sense Of
duty done shall be sweeter than the
applause Of the world, the ceunten-
ances Of relatives or the hearts Of
friends.-charIes Summer.
The Appeal., 1915-06-05

equal of any members of the dominant
race in the highest abilities and in the
clearest aims. No estimate is worth
much which does not take people at
their best.
The Appeal., 1915-06-05

SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1915.
The Detroit times., 1915-05-25
MANS PICTURE
IS HIS UNDOING

Detective Charles Carrnody ~ the
Bertillon department, has Identified
Harold Channel, arrested here IA
suspicious person SATURDAY.. o. a
burglar with a recor1 30 im-r,sor-
ment In Balumor" Phil dolph.a an
Chicago. under the names % Har.
old McNcsl and Harold Channel
The young man. well dressed and
good looking. was trying 20 sell
some diamonds or Woodwardavo.
when no Vas nabbsd by Detectives
Dowd and Hogan Catnody searched
his rogucs gallery. satisfied that he
had seen the mans face among tH"
pictures. and be soon found The
photograph. from baltimore. with
Channels criminal record Police
believe that the young man mas
have perpetrated some Of the
cent burglaries here.
The Detroit times., 1915-05-25
eeora. La~-.n.. Near Death

George g.. Lawrence. former conn
tr auditor and bookkeeper IN '4e
county auditors Office FOR several
avs past s near death H. his
crs So. 3e7 - Clalravc. having
1Gtroi second stroke o. pa-al5 "a
a' O'clock. sunday morning.
physicians bold out practically NJ
sor- FOR HE recovery Tho fret
stroke occurred last October and 10.
rHra fafcd him from work unfil
MAY = when De returned 90 work
,- 'orekcsqe- Err he a-d.'1-s.
The -. oud struk" follow . q bad
tli Downstairs. last "Wednesday.
The Detroit times., 1915-05-25
$4,000 LED TO
LIGHT BY SUNDAY

PkTER son. y J, May - Billy
sunday ma, cleaned up Paterson.
When ne laft he New Jersey town
-odar there we're l5.o"o converts
80 took s25.00o a. the free 1ill" 81.
se-.ng OF Patersonian- This gi:- q
'z- .lpl place. me New Jersey mill
Gown tsr ahead u any o. the big
-i'5ea where Sunday has conducted
revival campaigns Philadelphia,
with . 100000 people. gave sunday
80. o.n. ard P."shurg- with over
100000 population. gave HIN ga.
500
SUNDAY r. going 70 his farm In
-he vest after s-!ef stay i- Ph!'s.
da,pala He all rest until early In
september. when he begins big
revival campaign In Omaha IN
Noven ber and December 10 VIII 10
.- Syracuse. and N January and
February. 1915. Ne goes 20 Trenton
The Detroit times., 1915-05-25
chuteh c.l.hrs,,, JueLl.e.

The t1enty 1.'h anniversary u
81 Jane Evangelical cHur,H Hum.
ooidtaye and Pop.at.'. vas og.
-sryed attn special service. sun
dhr The pastor he Rev 4 ~ Bar.
g'nrr. Rho uas appointed MAY -.
Sci conducted a communion SER
vice .r German Ia ne mO'ning a
ttsnss giving sermon vas preached
~ Prof Carl Hemmln shaus. OF tho
'oydyi.ic Normal school The Rev
J q Kueppin, % 81 Salems Luth.
trsn church. Vas In charge OF the
voniug service The congrega on
las grown from 40 20 775 members.
Trio pastoral anniversary IL beng
observed today.
The Detroit times., 1915-05-25
PLANS TO MAKE
SALOONS CLOSE
AT MIDNIGHT

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The Detroit times., 1915-05-25
FOLLOWER
IS ARRESTED

When tho circus Is safely on Us
xav from - roit. charles Wel.ma1
Chicago ptckpocEet viii be-
brought from Jail. Wednesday morn
sr-. End given one hour in which %
leave tovn. vlth tho alternatives q
paving a rn- % $500. or serving SIX
months in the workhouss
Welluan Vas arrested BY Dcta0-
tive Frank Wilkinson, Saturday
morning. as 10 mingled vi'9 the
crowds transferring at Chens -. and
rore--.ave. The detective had
seen HE face" in tie roEYes' gal
ley H. vas taken before Judge
connolly Monday. and The fine or
prison sentence Nas imposed. He
Na- sent 20 jail as IL vas not
though, best u have him roaming
~ large F.ta the circus crowds. On
Wednesday 10 Will b. given hts
chance 20 hike
The Detroit times., 1915-05-25
Shoe travellers oroanixe.

The Michigan Shoe Travellers OF
Detroit perfected their organization
In meeting In tie Griswold house,
Saturday. which was addressed by
l.. r. Evartsl chairman % the legis-
iAtive committee OF the National
sho, Travellers Verne Moss Of The
RcStoa association, and Nr owen,
OF lhe Rochester association on.
o.rs Of the Detroit organization are
President. Thomes A Downs vice
president. Otto Reinhart. secretary.
VI. II. Reed treasurer Amos Ertell.
There Is q eharter membership o.
so. The association VIII be- afHliat.
"a ,,h the national hody A. W
Robinson. Frank A. tIuefter and r.
n. lleltz were appointed a member.
Sl,jp committee
The Detroit times., 1915-05-25
phc FINAN(JAI, AND MARKET NEWS I
Local

Jury indictment Is returned against
him "a por, land and ioimal APP
pltcatlou rs made for HIS removal
before the local grand jury acts.
District Attorney clyde | Webster
viii hold b M here for trial.
AS yet the ureEon authorities
have not made q proper request for
his removal" said Mr. Webster III
Dee is Indicted and convicted on n
charge oi robblug a postoiiico hs
-an pet e5year sentence. The
maximum ON the local charge
AGAINST ham is Ave years"
clark made sensational escape
after irving go pass one OF the stol-
,n money orders in the Pontchar
train hotel. and was arrested IN
Port Huron Soy era, hours later.
The Detroit times., 1915-05-25
GRAND JURY
WILL PROBABLY
INDICT CLARK

lanes {. CLARK. alias Carl =.
Mack. the bandit who Is heiug
held In the county jail on federal
warrant charging him with forgins
ana passing pos'otiiCe money orders.
VIII uN'ly be indicted bN the FEEDER
al grand jury conycnlng here nest
Tuesday Clark Is alleged 10 have
CD taiued the money order blanks.
which ia used I'm Detroit 10y ron.
hing posto'lce. with an Sccomp
lice In Portland. ore The author
lies th.re have issued warrant
tor his arrest. but unless "A grand
The Detroit times., 1915-05-25

Grains and Provisions

DETHOI Nav et-Closa wheat
s,Rrtes out w.ta % fseiine. - Nshk-
ieaicrs CHARGED ZIP 20 t-e fat that
lialy has sone 90 The market
wue euiet iu iht easiy trad ~
The liverpool martr' remains clos
M@ck were lore f1n fu"~~ - 'H"
Z week before. showing that f0e ~Dn.
marine oioc kndr of England .v hav-
ing title effect The Auericsn con
iributton was a little smaller ard
the qoartltF on paSsaS~ show p d.
batf bushels. Exports lRsf Week told
great deal about damage g. wheat
and Inc strength OF the market cam
pern had "a good deal 20 say about
thn enormous wheat crop 2 prospect
While kausas prospects have been
materially reduced. other states
heRfiEh effect
The crop Gauss dan weak shost-
20 cover ard th" market on NNnaar
had Nceu prcttyi well eEarA up TH
was less avniefy - ruSchnar wreat
rrd better opportunity 20 r'rr'ss
NafneH Recent ani.s indicate Thar
much wheat Do needed hv continental
Europe and British uiilers a.e tN-
!aE ha4vV husiueNE There 70 moth
ine tn the outlook 90 Indicate trof
TIE war IT. nearly over ana fn~ Puii-
tcan Crou VIII Re needed no matter
Wheat ? Rd an naflv spell 81 weak
ness ard lost ic which was later
recoveraa The close was on even
term. tIth saturdays close.
Tho e0urse grains and seeds were
mr. fpurtd
Wheat quotations Cash No. ? rad.
siaR Iulv OPENED with n dnci Ne %
Lr IA sf.st, declined 20 tiet and
ndxaneed a. 81 % September opened
az $50 lost &c and advanced 90
Al sgt so wheat. 81 40
Coarse grain quotations -- Gown
Cash 80 q 1sc No. ? yellow cars
~ 1ri-e No yellow 1s1.r. oats
Standard. a5ir ft &C.. Sc white 1a 2
No 2. sf11 R~ans Inmed .af@ srf
. ...',....,.t II tr.,-.~. S7nr Turr 40
The Detroit times., 1915-05-25

The North sea IS The greatest fs1.
us ground In the world. and de-.
~ - me great activity OF the fisher
mon. there seems 20 be- no dim.nu-
.on OF the csCh.