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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-29

but in. spite of their excellent news
service, splendid make up" and vain
ooastings, they are as painted sepul.
chres. Something is lacking. They
print columns of news CD but con-
done wrong. ..
Another paper, a modest little five
column folio, often poorly printed
comes to the editor Every week it
strikes strong blows for justice and
right. It prints powerful editorials
many verltable gems, not only against
those who Cypress, but also against
the contemplate ours within, who
kiss the hands which smite.
The little paper is the Pioneer-Press
of Martinsburg, w. Va.,-a newspaper
with soul. IL
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-29
NEW BUSINESS OPENED.
Mr.. Frederick D. McCracken Goes into
Business With a Favorable OutIook-

WIZ T'eueT'Ck y. McCracken Goes into
Business With a Favorable Outlook.
Mr.. Frederick D. McCracken. who
Tor hfteen years was the popular and
ett1cient private secretary to Congress.
man +. c. Stevens, has yielded to the
pressure of his many friends to re.
main in st. Paul and engage in bust
ness. He has opened an Office in the
Old Merchants Bank Building, corner
9Th and Jackson Sts., 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 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 high order. On account of his
devotion to his people he will un.
doubleday 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 APP.
PEAL, with many others, wish for him
the best of success in his venture.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-29
CHRISTIAN UNITY PERlLEp.r

80 &
Dr. John R. Mott, general secre-
tary for foreign work Of the Y. NJ. G.
a. is fearful that christian unity"
whatever that is, will be periled by
the present war.
In recent address at Los Angeles.
he said:
Christian unity will be manned
hopelessly by this great war. In every
country taking part in the great con
Hlct l heard it called 'holy war"
Chrlstlanlty will be affected for a..
least two generations and the Y, N.
9. A. and similar bodies in America
must lead in the redemption"
The Christianity of every country IL
Europe is superior to the Christianit,
~ OF the Y. M. C. A. in America,
the principal mission of which seem,
TO be to mock Christ by drawing tn.
color line and DR.. Mott will only max.
a bad condition worse if he continues
to try to introduce the America.
brand OF Christianity into Europe.
Every style of outrage which ha.
been perpetrated in Europe was first
enacted by American Christians in the
United States. If Europe is to be re.
oeemed by American Y. M. G. A
Christianity, God help it.! .a..
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-29
PRorEcTIcE LEAGUE

coLoRED PRoTEcTIcE LEAGUE.
An organization known as the Col
ored Protective League of Colorado
has been formed in that state, with
the following objects:
1. The lessening of racial preju-
dice.
2. The material advancement of
Colored people. ... ..
3. Legal redress for Colored per.
sons who are prosecuted.
4. A local bureau of information.
5. The study of local social and
economic conditions.
s. Efforts to gain square deal
from the press. E..- ..s
Z. Efforts to lessen racial discrimi-
nation and to secure all civil and DO.
litical rights to Colored citizens.
That Is a good program and THE
APPEAL wishes the organization sue,
cess.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-29

Some Of the unthinking editors are
urging Bishop Alexander Walters of
the A. M. E. 2. Church to become a
candidate for Recorder of Deeds of
the District of Columbia
We trust the bishop will not fall
for their fattery and place himself
before the country as aseeker of po-
litical office. To do so would be dis
grace to himself, his family, his
church and the people with whom he
is identified.
1t would also be dishonorable, be-
cause he has recommended other men
for the place and it would be difficult
to convince the people that there had
not been duplicity in handling the
matter.
To even become candidate for the
place would lessen his influence with
the Wilson administration and he
would also forfeit the respect of the
people of the country and if he sue
ceeded in getting the place he would
be dead one' so far as influence
with the president is concerned.
The office of Recorder of Deeds and
two or three other places would really
be Of little value at present What
the colored people need now is JUS
TICE. A thousand appointments
would not pay for what has been lost
by the Democratic policy of segrega-
ton.
If Bishop Walters is a real man
with a back bone, now is the time to
prove it. Let him spurn the offer of
the political place and tell President
Wilson plainly that the colored people
can not be caught by any such chaff.
THEY WISH JUSTICE, NOT OF
FICES.
A PAPER WITH "A SOUL.
A thing can not be judged by its
size. This is especially true of the
spiritual. Some of the most famous
men and women known to history
were those whose great souls were
encased in fragile bodies.
Among our exchanges are several
papers which are filled with TYPE,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-29
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-29
PASTOR ABBOTT's sLUsH.

Old man Lyman (well named) Alb
bolt, one of the worst enemies the
colored people have ever had and
whose record as giver out of mis-
leading information about racial con
ditions is Al, is out west again hand
ing out some more slush.
Recently he stood in a pulpit in
Illinois and said: "The South has if.
revocably decreed against the mixture
Of the white and black races" The
statement is Abbottesque and like
many of the half truths he is wont to
utter.
If DR.. Abbott had stated that the
South has decreed that there should
be no lawful mixing of the races he
would have been nearer the truth.
The South, that is the white South is
not opposed to racial admixture, but
being at heart thoroughly immoral it
insists that the mixing be done in an
illegal manner. ....- H., r.
The mixing which has already been
accomplished was started by the white
South. It began in the days of slav.
cry, when the white master forced the
black slave women to bear children,
who followed the condition of their
mothers and became slaves. A few
masters manumitted their half breed
children, but they were the excep.
tons to the general rule. Many mas.
own offspring for sale and in time the
tiers made practice of breeding their
raising of children for the slave mar.
kets became recognized Southern
industry. "'
Since the abolition of slavery, the
white South, claiming Christ as it's
guiding star, has enacted laws making
Christian marriage felony, thus di
rectly aiding immortality. The white
South has in every way endeavored
to humiliate and degrade it's colored
people the majority Of whom have
more or less Caucasian blood.
Search history through; read the
atrocities Of the barbarian invasians
Of the early days, read the barbar
tiles Of the Middle Ages; read of the
1nquisition; read the story of the
French Revolution; read of Russia's
persecution of the Jews. road If civ
equal in blackness what Southern
white people have melted out to their
own sons and daughters to their owl
ilized CD Europe's rape of Africa
read the horrors Of the Christians
war now devastating Europe. Add all
of these together and they will not
brothers and sisters, who are of 9
slightly darker hue.
1t is the blacklist page in the annals
of the world.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-29
WALLER AGAINST "NEGRO"
Noted Brooklyn Doctor. Says It Causes
Mental and Physical Segregation.
(FrOm Amsterdam News

(From Amsterdam News.)
Editor Amsterdam News:
Sir: l 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
lie 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 Its
use is on the increase only because
our speakers and writer's, especially
DO Bots 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 alarminlv
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
h1gh-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.
bans only.
C.. Its derivatives, "Negroism," me-
grofy," and it's compounds, Negro-head,
Negro-fy, Negro-monkey, are all clear.
ly, In their associations, degrading.
d. It's 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."
I. 1t is not differentiated in the mind
and thought of the whites from their
favorite and generally used (among
themselves) terms, "Nigro'' and mig
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
at1cs and Islanders of the Yonder
world.
Very truly yours,
OWEN M. WALLER, M. D.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-29

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
first train he had ever seen, that he
threw a rock at the Royal Palm on
the Queen & Crescent route. The
stone broke a window and hit Ray
Pagan. 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 train and that he
thought the thing was some sort of
huge varmint.''
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-29
CENSUS SEGREGATION.

| No6AOCo III Tie UnlCeQ States" Is
the title of a pamphlet just issued by
the United States Census Bureau. The
title is misleading, for there are only
47S 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 a 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 inaccuracv ia
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 thsy
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 "Negro,"
but a colored man.
Call him colored man if it is ab-
solutely necessary to call attention to
the fact, but it would be better for
the country and for all the people if
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
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 so
on back for ten generations.
If a man whose ancestors for many
generations is not an American, who
is entitled to the name? If white
man can become an American in two
generations, why should a 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.
:, The mixing of bloods in this country
has gone so far that it is impossible
e ermine with any degree of accu-
racy who has Negro blood and who
has not, and for the Government to
select about 100000 people and say
that they are Negroes" and by that
act to aid in making them separate
treatment in church and state, is to
perpetrate a great wrong.
| It is an Infamous thing for the gov
eminent of this great republic to draw
the color line in any way. In re.
public every citizen should have ex-
| actly the same status so far as the
! government is concerned.
There is no reason why Democra-
cy should attempt to classify it's cit
liens by their blood. All persons
born in this country should be con-
sidered Americans without any pre-.
| fixes or suffiYne
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-29
The MAN WHO DAREs

! honor the man who in the con-
scientious discharge Of his duty dares
to stand alone; the world, with ignor-
ant, intoIerant 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 counten-
ances Of relatives or the hearts Of
friends. Charles Summer.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-29
BACK TO The FARM

The cry of "Back to the farm"
should now be changed to Back to
the ballot" The ballot is about the
only thing that will check these out
rageous assaults upon the constitu-
tional rights of the colored people in
this country.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-29
The SIN OF SILENCE

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
guiIlotines decide our least disputes.
The few who dare must speak and
speak again to right the wrongs Of
many.-EIla Wheeler Wilcox.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-29
Right You Are,
(From the Amsterdam Ne

(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. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-29

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. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-29
THE BISHOPS OPPORTUNITY.

SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1915.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-03-20
YUMA

Church services will be held at
yuma VI. r. church next Sunday morn
ing at II o'clock with preaching by
Rev. Mr.. Ball
Mrs. Clyde Wake visited her aunt
Mrs. Maria Alsbrow AT WATERFOWL
Saturday. Mrs. Allsbrow has been
dangerously III.
Percy Cox was a business caller in
Hiilsdale. Wednesday.
Miss Nerna Mumma spent Friday
night with Miss Eta Schwenecker.
Mrs Jane Wainwright continues
quite poorly since suffering the terri
BILE burns on her hand and arm.
Miss Allie Beal. Mrs. Nettie Wake.
Mrs.. Minnie Wainwright and Mrs.
Lou Wainwright were shopping in the
tri-cities Monday.
Mrs. Mira Donahoo has been i'll.
Mrs. Bell Walker OF Hiusdale spent
Saturday with Mrs. John Brown.
Mrs Ed Wainwright has been i'll the
past week.
Miss Edna Mumma and Viola Eek
strom were callers in Port Byron sun
day.
Hazel Wainwright was shopping in
Moline and Rock Island Friday.
Mrs. Sheldon Mumma was a bust
ness caller in Rock Island Tuesday.
Rev. Mr.. Ball and family spent sat
urday al The home OF Mr.. and Mrs
Frank Wake.
The sociable held at the home of
John Schwenecker Friday evening for
the benefit OF the Greenwood Sunday
school was we'll attended and those
present had a very enjoyable time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sylvester Daily were
callers at the ID. W. Mumma home.
Mrs. John Brown spent from Sat
irdsy until Monday a, Snvis with her
mother. who Is seriously Ill with pleur-
sy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-03-20
PROGRAM At AUDITORY ART
SCHOOL

Tbe following excellent prosram vas
eiven last evening by pupils o. the
AUDITOR An Heaooi ne the school audi
forum
Piano Happy Farmer --- Schumaru
April Flowers" ....-...R Wiik-s
Carl Kramer
p.arn-"fpurufalI- .........-. He'iiui
Cyrus CtIrchiu
PIANO rrrrads ....-.... ~ Frifuu
Elizabeth VcgCi
Violin Hrvrrie- .....-...H uursud
Henry Won WorterEhTn. Liss Van
farEsrrrfr al frr piano
p.rro-aTuar Poem .....-H- Eeiscr
Gertrude Hayes.
pi1l1-.I.a Cascade urF RosFe" Asher
Jessie s.mmuu
Frra-HW Water Sprifr" ......G LANCE
Florence EiadHi
Piano. Alpine Hrf- ..-.... 60. L1uEe
Ethel Eel'1rH
F.H..r Eurflrru. ..... urEar EIriIue
Harry EauterTcructt MlFr Eliza
H-sr FardervrHurff lt pirur.
fIlu1- soter1r" .............. Dorm
Dorothy Fans
Cu.gH Amman ..-..... EuHT
Harry Tom
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-03-20
SCRIPTURE
Isaiah 1879


And there shall come a rod out OF
the stem OF Jesse. and a branch shall
grow out OF his roots;
And the spirit OF the Lord shall rest
upon him. the spirit al wisdom and un-
Outstanding. the spirit OF counsel and
might. the spirit OF knowledge and of
the fear of the Lord,
And shall make him of quick under
standing en- the fear of the Lord. and
he shall not judge after the sight of
his eyes. neither reprove after the
hearing OF his ears.
But with righteousness shall ne
judge the poor. and reprove with
equity for the meek of the earth: and
he shall smite the earth with the rod
OF his mouth. and with the breath Of
his lips shall he Stay the wicked.
And righteousness shall be the cir
die OF HIS lions. and faithfulness the
Eirdlenes of his reins
The wolf also shall dwell with the
lamb. and the leopard shall lie down
with the kid: and the calf and the
young lion and the failing together;
and q little child shall lead them.
And the COW and the bear shall
feed; their young ones shall lie down
together: and the lion shall eat straw
like the OK.
And the sucking child shall play on
the hole OF the asp. and the weaned
child shall put his hand on the cock
atrice's den.
They shall not hurt nor destroy in
all my holy mountain; for the earth
shall be fun OF the knowledge of the
Lord, as the waters cover the sea.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-03-20

wrote the letters. You might as well
forget him now
Dear Mrs. Thompson: I have been
going with a fellow for nearly year
and he hasn't written to me for some
time. Do you think he still cares for
me? He is in a different city. Should
l wait until he writes or should I
write? He seems to think a lot OF me.
DOLLIE
l am afraid the boy has forgotten
YOU. Dollfe. Don't writ to him, be-
cause it viii not bring him back You
can only learn to forget him and have
good times with other boys.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: I have been
going with a young fellow who left
the city. He asked me TO write and
he answered my letter. Do you think
he cares for me? BABE.
He likes you or he wouldn't care to
correspond. But he has done nothing
to indicate that he cares deeply for
you
Dear Mrs Thompson: VIII you
please print list of the wedding an
niveTsaries? BELLE
one year, a cotton wedding
Two years, a paper wedding.
Three years, a leather wedding
Five years, a wooden wedding
Seven years, a wooden wedding.
Ten years. a tin wedding.
Twelve years, a china wedding
Fifteen years. a crystal wedding
Twenty years, a linen wedding.
twenty-five years, a silver wedding.
Fifty years. a golden wedding.
Sixty years a diamond wedding.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: What viii
close large pores
ANXIOUS HOUSEWIFE.
IL camphor water. an astrtngent, is
used regularly on enlarged pores. they
viii decrease in size.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-03-20
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anf a. ff had Invited members rri
friends 81 an rafrrra.rserf .r t.aslr.
lc tsmuIr f8sF rVrr.rs ana f1 enjoy
ar evening ef r1.iaa.l.F and a pro-
rram uv fae Tr11H1fesr ranpar.
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room of rnr temple ana listened rl a
GrnEram riter 1T far IrHsa..f1lrs
assisted aF Wfss Hrr8 rareosF. rrHf.-
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