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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-23
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-23
TRoTTER's SPECIFIC DENIAL OF
INsoLENcE TO PRESIDENT.
Interview in Boston Globe of Nov. II
1914.

William Monroe Trotter, whose re-
marks on segregation in Cove -nment
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.
CAS- we left the President" said Mr..
Trotter, Il told him I was very sorry
if he still considered that l had of.
tended him. The President smiled
and said o, We'll 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 it as a warm affair.
II had gone outside the White
House when Mr.. Tumulty called me
back and said: 'Trotter, you have VIC
lated every courtesy of the White
House in quoting the President to the
press
II told Mr.. Tumulty that had done
so in ignorance of the rules, and apol
ogiZed. He accepted my apology
Then I asked the newspaper not to
publish what I 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
! 1t seems very peculiar to me. after
the President had told me everything
was all right, that a White House
! statement should say that l 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,
impairment or insolent to President
Wilson.
my whole attitude was that of en-
deavoring, on the spur of the moment,
to answer piece of masterful sophis.
try and to refute it successfully and
feeling great responsibility to do so,
l spoke with positiveness, deliberate
ness and directness, looking the Pres.
| ident full in the eye
II did not quiz or catechize the
President, and I did not attempt to
debate with him. The difficulty did
eliminated against and segregated in
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 a trying ordeal
to listen to such a statement at length
by the Chief Executive of the Nation,
l had at no time any temper, much
less lost my temper"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-23

; platforms every Negro leader who
does not protest against the indigni
ties thrust upon u.s."
Under the caption "Cowardice on
the Platform" the editor says: mo
race or people in the history of civil.
zatlon ever endured a leadership of
more consummate cow1lrds. The aver.
age Negro is a coward in his own
esteem. Void of respect, appreciation
or manly resentment, he submits to
every indignity, with apology, the
white man inflicts upon him. When
we speak of towards, we do not mean
physical towards, but moral and intel.
lectual towards. The coward who
| hasn't the moral courage to resent a
wrong. The coward who submits to
every indignity imposed upon him by
coWardly newspapers; the coward who
accpets every jimcrow accommodation
offered.
The Jews will not read a paper that
is hostile to the Jews. The Irishman
resents with all his hot blood insults
heaped upon his race by newspapers
and other nationalities. The Japanese
resents with all his manliness, with
all his soul, with all his might, every
wrong done him because of his race,
his color or his condition.
There is nobody a coward but the
Negro; there is nobody that kisses the
hand that smites him but the Negro;
there is no race so divided against it.
self and is such consummate band
OF bootlickers, towards and sy-
cophants as black educated leaders.
What we need is a manly leadership
one full of moral courage and intel
lectual bravery Men who will tell
the race of indignities that they ought
not to endure, and how they may rid
themselves of the agencies that seek
to crush and undo it.
Let us have a manly race; and we
can only have manly race by manly
leadership
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-23
''BR0kE" HIS WRIST
TO GET BIG DAMAGES
Many Dollars Collected From
Various Claim Agents.

Minneapolis, Minn.-How an obedient
wrist bone served as a means of liveli
hood was told in court by Lester Ed
ward Mills, who confessed that it haC
netted him $4,000 in the last year. II
finally caused bis downfall, however
and he will serve an indeterminate sen
tence in the Saltwater penitentiary as
the result Of sentence by Judge w. c.
Leary, before whom he pleaded
guilty" to charge of attempted
grand larceny Oh complaint of RALPH
Wellington. claim agent of the Duluth
Street Railway company.
All that Mills had done to separate
$4,000 from railroads, street railway
companies and merchants within the
last year has been to fall PROSTATE
over suit case in the aisle or any OBJ
stacle on the sidewalk, gasp for breath
and allow his left hand to hang limp
from the wrist. Six rides has he taken
in ambulances. six fair nurses have
smiled at him as the color slowly re-
turned to his face Five claim agents
have drawn checks against their com
panies. and as many times has Mills
pOcketed the same.
Among the recent settlements made
with Mills. according to his story in
court. are:
June q. 1913. Great Northern. $125.
Sept. s, 1913. Great Northern. $3.50.
Dec. 20, 1913. Northern Pacific. 81 200
May 6. 1914. Kennedy Bros. $500.
Sept. I. 1914. st. Paul Street Railway
company, $3.50
II have been in just one wreck
Mills told Judge Leary. THAT was
March Is. 1905. at Fond du Lac, Wis
l was brakeman on the old Wisconsin
Central. My left wrist was broken
About a year ago thought | could use
that injury to collect damages from
others. At Duluth got a fellow with
a suit case to get on the street car. and
when the car was rounding Il curve
fell over the suit case complained
that my wrist was hurt They took me-
to a hospital Later | came to Mime
apOlis and met the claim agent at the
West hotel. 1t was only a few days
afterward that was arrested"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-23
TELEGRAM TO PRESIDENT Will.
SON BY DR.. w. SINCLAIR, UN.
ABLE TO BE PRESENT WITH
DELEGATION.
Hon. Woodrow Wilson,
President OF the United States
Executive Mansion,
Washington, D. G..

washington, II. e.,
Honored Sir:
Unavoidable circumstances make Il
lmpracticable for me to join the dele.
cation as field secretary of the con
stltution league Of the United States
who are to present a 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. I 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 eyery nr;n.
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??, 1915-01-23
MR.. WILSON AND "sEGREGATloN.'

New York.-To the Editor of THE
| APPEAL. Sir: The interview Of Will.
liam Munroe Trotter and the delega-
ton of colored gentlemen with the
President of the United States brings
forward again the burning question of
the treatment of colored civil servants
in Washington. The whole incident
| shows grimly and forcefully how deep
ly the colored people of this country
feel the injustice which Mr.. Wilson S
government has inflicted upon them
and still inflicts.
The National Association for the Ad-
vancement OF Colored People has been
fighting segregation in federal depart
ments ever since the first rumor of it
was made public. Over year ago an
investigator was sent to Washington
; and report printed. Since that time
representative of the national as
| sociation has kept in close touch with
the local situation, and on one oc-
casion this representative appeared be-
fore the civil service committee and
helped kill the bill of Edwards of
| Georgia and Aswell Of Louisiana max
ing segregation legal throughout the
AOuCIdA CAVlI oc1 WIG. MuCl VI Zig
| segregation has disappeared.
When the U street station of the
postoftice in Washington was abol-
ished all the cOlored men employed
lost their positions, but through the
Intervention of this association three
OF them were reinstated. When the
bureau Of engraving and printing
moved to its new quarters it was the
original idea to segregate colored and
white people throughout the entire
building, but through the efforts Of
this association there is no segrega.
ton in the lun chrooms or on the roof
garden. Segregation, nevertheless,
still exists in the Postoffice Depart
ment and in the Treasury, and pos.
sibly here and there in a small de-
gree in other places.
It still remains true that for the first
time in half century a President Of
the United States and distinguished
members of his Cabinet have deemed
it necessary for the peace and quiet
of these United States that clerks in
the federal service, having passed the
same examinations and receiving the
same rate of pay, must be separated
in their work if the ancestors of any
of them had a drop of Negro blood.
In some cases the "colored" clerks
have been so white in appearance that
the officials themselves have made
mistakes in classifying them. In other
cases clerks of all colors have pro.
tested against the attempted separa.
ton. Always the separation has
caused humiliation and inconvenience
and added COST
]. e. SPINGARN,
chairman Board of Directors Nation
nj Association for the Advancement
of Colored People.)
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-23
MIRACLE MAN WITH ONE ARM,

He Supports Family Of Fourteen and
I Self on One and bne-quarter Acres.
Los Angeles. Calf a one armed
man succeeds in supporting wife and
thirteen childrenAon one and one-quar
ter acres of irrigated land why should
a man with small family and two
sturdy arms complain Of hard luck?
E. R. Davis, a!inative of Utah. was
engaged in mining until he met with
an accident and lost his left arm. He
bought four acres Of land in Milford
valley, Utah, of.which but little over
an acre is under an irrigation ditch.
From this small portion Of irrigated
land, he says. he has supported fam
lily Of fourteen in comfort. He raises
vegetables. fruits and berries.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-23
DR.. sPINGARN's SECOND TOUR.
WelI-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.
sociation for the Advancement of Col
ored People, and one of the most con-
slstent white advocates of justice and
equal rights for AfrO-Americans, is soon
70 make second tour of the country
IN the interests of the cause of our
race. 1t will be remembered that last
January he addressed meetings in De.
tro1t, Chicago, Quincy, Kansas City,
Topeka, st. Louis, Indianapolis, and
Cleveland, attracting very large audi
ences wherever he went, and nearly
everywhere winning wide publicity in
white papers for the cause of Justice
to the Negro.
Or. 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, 70 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 passionate sincerity
He was born in New York th:rty-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 It's official organ, 1.-The Crisis"
published under it's direction, has
circulation OF over $4,000 a month.
Among its other directors are Miss
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.
1t 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??, 1915-01-23
INFAMOUS LEGISLATION

The Democratic House of Represeu-
tatives has passed an Infamous act
prohibiting the intermarriage of white
and colored persons I'm the District of
Columbia.
The vote was about four to one but
, the fact that sixty members voted
against the Infamous measure shows
that the idea of justice is not yet dead.
The bill is an insult to one-tenth of
the population of the United States.
1t strikes at the very foundation of
Christianity for among Christians of
every creed, marriage is regarded as
a divine institution.
There is no reason for such legisla-
ton. Caucasians usually marry Cau-
caslans and Afro-Americans usually
marry Afro-Americans. The number
who marry interraciall is wholly neg.
ligible. The real purpose of the Bill
is to place a stigma upon the Afro
American people.
The Clark Bill is really an open in.
vltation to immortality and leaves the
Afro-American woman without protec-
ton and an easy prey to vicious men
or the white race. If there is to be
any mixing of the races it ought to
be done legitimately in Christian mar
riage and not in an immoral manner.
1t is not the proper function of the
Government to draw lines of invidious
distinction between it's various classes
of citizens and place on the statute
books a law which in effect brands
one group of citizens as unfit, CHASING
it with imbeciles, idiots, detectives, de-
generates and criminals.
And then there is another point of
view. The mixing which has already
taken place has not resulted in de-
generate specimens of manhood. The
first blood spilled in the Revolution
airy War was that of a mixed-blood
-Crlspus Attacks. Frederick Doug
lass, one of Americas greatest orators.
a patriot and a statesman was of
mixed-blood. DR.. w. E. B. Dubois.
the great literateur and sociologist, is
a mixed-blood. DR.. Booker T. Wash
ington, the great Industrial educator, is
mixed-blood. H. Y. Tanner, the great
artist whose pictures have been pur-
chased by the French Government and
now hang in the Louvre, is mixed
blood. DR.. Daniel H. Williams, one
OF the worlds greatest surgeons and
who was the first man surgeon in all
the world to operate successfully on
the human heart, is a. mixed-blood.
THE APPEAL could name thousands
Of other mixed-bloods of whom Amer
lea may well be proud.
Every colored person ought to get
busy at once and write to the Senators
who represent his state and ask them
to vote against the bill when it
reaches the Senate.
Do it now.
We are delighted to state that to
the everlasting credit of the Minnesota
delegation in the House, they voted
against the Infamous bill.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-23
1.-THE POWER OF A1ITArIoN."

THE APPEAL is always pleased to
read in the columns of it's Southern
Atro-American contemporaries editor
lals which may serve to inspire the
race to always protest against wrong.
In the article which follows, Mrs. Mag
gle II. Walker, the banker editor of
st. Luke Herald, Richmond, Virginia,
truly says, when the spirit and pow
er of agitation die among a people,
they are doomed beyond all hope of
resuscitation and redemption
THE POWER OF AGITATION.
The greatest power on earth for the
Fighting of wrongs, is the power of
agitation. When the spirit and power
of agitation die among a people, they
are doomed beyond all hope of resus-
citation and redemption. So important
is the power, that it is guaranteed to
the people through the mandates of
the Constitution of the United States.
The colored man is not an agltator,
nor has he ever been. 1t has dinned
into his ears until it has reached his
very soul, that all he has to do toward
righting his wrongs, is to wait until
the Lord himself shall see fit to come
down and right them. The idea OIL
peaceably assembling and making in
telligent and persistent protest against
outrage and wrong seems foreign to
him. Or, should he start an agitation
and is rebuffed at the start, he loses
heart, abandons the effort and gives up
like a disappointed child.
It is the agitation of the waters of
the sea, which prevents stagnation
and death. 1t, is the agitation of the
air which gives pure air to breathe.
1t is the agitation of the blood, which
gives us the power of motion and lite,
and it is the agitation of thoughts and
ideas which prevents brain stagnation
and mental death. When people lose
that interest in themselves, to that
extent that they stand supinely by,
quietly submitting to wrong, without
protest, they have reached the danger
point in race progress development.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-23
SATURDAY, JANUARY %, 1915.
WE GREET DR.. SPINGARN.

THE APPEAL welcomes to the Twin
Cities DR.. J. e. Spingarn, chairman of
the board of directors of the National
Association for the Advancement of
the Colored People, and one of the
strongest advocates Of justice and
equal rights for the colored people
Of the country, who is making his
second tour of the country in the in
terest of the colored people.
The Cincinnati Times-Star of last
Saturday had a long account of DR..
Spingarn's recent address in that city,
which we republish elsewhere.
The colored people of Saint Paul
and Minneapolis should turn out en-
masse at the Spingarn meetings and
give the great advocate of justice and
equal citizenship a right royal well
come.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-23
PRIVATE KILLED SEVEN MEN,

Brave English Soldier Awarded High.
est Honor In Gift of Country.
London.-The Victoria cross has been
bestowed on Private George Wilson.
Second battalion Highland Light infan.
try. for most conspicuous gallantry
near Verneuil in attacking hostile
machine gum"
The official announcement describing
Private Wilson's gallantry says:
He was accompanied by only one
man. When the latter was killed he
went on alone and shot the officer and
six men who were working the gun.
which be captured"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-23
Civilians and Soldiers Quarre

'"'''o''S dTI0 0O1O1STS ~VdT' SI'
London.-Military and civilian pris
oners have to be kept in separate
camps in England because it was
found they constantly quarreled as to
their respective bravery. The civilians
accused the soldiers of surrendering
and the soldiers accused the civilians
Of being afraid to 60 to the front. pitch
ed battles being the inevitable result.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-23

Missing advocate of right and justice.
While the majority of the so-called
leaders have equivocated and COM
promised the people for gold or power,
William Monroe Trotter has always
stood as a stone wall against every
form of injustice whether by the Ma
ton, the state, the municipality or
the church.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-23
Arrival of Shells Announced,

Arrival Of Shells Announced.
Paris.-In the Gazette de la Tranchee,
published in the battle lines of the
French army. Is the request that sol
diers having exercised the profession
Of hotel managers. ushers or hall por-
tiers announce the arrival Of German
shells in the encampment."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-23
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
guilIotines decide our least disputes.
The few who dare must speak and
speak again to right the wrongs of
many.-Ella Wheeler Wilcox.