The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-03-13
PROTEST FROM FREEDOMS
BIRTHPLACE.

hang my head for shame that 8
committee of the Anglo.Saxon Race
| to which / belong, has reported tt
the Congress of the United States 9
| bill to provide separate cars for Col
ored American citizens in the Distric,
of Columbia at the seat of the Ma
tlonal Government. Such a bill, If pre-
sented at the close of the Civil War
fifty years ago, would have excited
less comment.
It is rather late in our country's
| history to separate any class of our
fellow citizens from another class in
facilities for travel. Representatives
OF the Hebrew, Irish, Teutonic, Slavic
and Latin races may ride where they
| please. If Booker Washington, on
| whom Harvard conferred degree OF
LII. D.; Prof. Pickens, who was an
honor man at Yale; Du Bots, the ed
itor Of "The Crisis" former Assistant
| Acknowledgement Lewis; and William
Monroe Trotter must be put into sep
arate cars in Washington as being UNI
! fit to associate with their fellow citi
Gems, it is time vigorous protest were
made. q, .. ...0... ........
This is much more Objectionable in
| the capitol of the Nation than else
where. Visitors from other nations
who come to see our Congressional
Library and other public buildings
will have an object lesson hourly be-
fore them in the separation and de-
graduation of our fellow citizens.
One provision of the law which it
is sought to pass is fine of 81, 900 OF
| Imprisonment for six months for any.
| one who violates its provisions. and
! this applies to those in charge OF
street cars, taXicabs or any vehicle
where fare is charged. Conductors
porters, etc., are authorized as special
police for it's enforcement II
Premeditated. g.
That this is part Of previously
determined and clearly defined South
ern policy is obvious from a letter
written the Editor of this paper by
Thos. H. Caraway, who is one Of those
VINO reported the proposed law and
| VINO wrote on the stationery of the
House of Representatives under date
of Octover 1913: :. .
PERSONALLY, shall vote for every
measure that tends to segregate the
races, with reference to residence
transportation, and occupation, and
believe that measures of that kline
will be passed at the coming term Of
Congress" - -.ss... .....y..,.- =. .--.. &.
From this 1t appears that he wishes
Colored people to live only in Ger
tain part of the city, ride only on cars
set apart for them, and to deprive
them of many occupations where they
can earn an honest living.
The writer of this editorial takes
this ground, that segregation is always
badge of 'inferiority and is so in
tended, and that any segregation
based on color alone, is always wrong
Let no one think that we would dc
away with classes in society. There
will always be wide gulf between
the educated and the ignorant, the
| virtuous and the vile, the coarse anc
vulgar and the gentle and refined
but all these conditions are not base(
on a person having one-eighth or one
thirty-second of African blood in his
| veins but are based upon conditions
which the individual can change Il
he will. The writer believes thu
time has come when the ColoreG race
should repudiate the leadership Of
those who advise further forbearance
and subserviency and tame submission
to everything proposed. If at thu
recent visit of the editor of this paper
to the White House he had gone
In at the back door with a baske,
asking for cold victuals, all would
have been well, but when he went il
at the front door of the White House
and looked the President straight il
the eye and asked for Justice, he was
met with the remark that he spoke
with a background of passion" ant
that the tone of his voice" was no.
acceptable. No doubt he spoke witt
some warmth. He would be less thar
human If he had not, when he fell
that he was spokesman of 100000
American citizens, asking not for fav
J ors, but for rights. The race shoult
repudiate the leadership wn1cn seems
to be more concerned with the supe
rior advantage of leghorn pullets TO-
farmers and the fact that there is no
yet hog apiece raised in each Col
ored family in the South. than it il
with the fact of the loss of the ballot
lynchings, African exclusion, intermar
| riage and finally separation in cars
based on color alone. Let us pra,
for a leader who shall get out of tn,
arena Of the barnyard and get int,
the arena Of freedom and the rights
of man.
Lose not Freedom Gained by Adolf
tionists.
Let us not lose the freedom TO-
which Garrison, Phillips, Sumner
Andrew, John Brown and a host o
others laid down their lives. Let u