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The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-09-24

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The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-09-24
CLAIMS CARRANzA
CAN'T HOLD HELM
Rogue Gonzales Cara Declares
That the First Chief is
Incapable.
FOR THE ORIGINAL PLAN.
Urges That Pan-Amcrican Propo-
sal be Pressed Despite OPPOSE
ton of Carranza

tiOh Oh SaEEanLit.
Washington, Sept. ga gloomy
picture of what would happen in
Mexico if Carranza were recognized
by the United States and other Amer
lean republics is drawn in a state
ment issued tonight by Rogue Con
Zales Cara, once president of the
Washington to forward the peace
convention plan which the Villa and
Zapata elements have accepted at the
invitation of the Pan-American con-
ferees.
Cara urges that the convention be
held to set up a provisional govern
ment in Mexico despite Carranza's
refusal to participate, and declares
anarchy soon would follow recogni-
tion Of Carranza. Describing at
length the present military situation,
he denies Carranza's claim to control
the greater part of Mexican territory
and expresses the belief that Car
rama continues to delay his removal
to Mexico City because of fear that
such a move would be followed by
occupation of Vera Cruz by his
enemies.
FACTIONS WELL BALANCED.
people can be assured" says the
statement, that, Judging from a
military standpoint, the two contend
ing factions are we'll balanced. Villa
has as many men as Carranza, and
if the war should continue the only
result will be the weakness of both
parties, for neither con conquer the
other entirely.
I'm military sense neither Car
rama controls Villa nor Villa Car
rama, and if the obstinacy of the
supporters of the latter would reach
| the extreme of becoming an obstruc-
tion to all peace negotiations which
other part Of the conventionisrs
! sincerely desire, it is not improbable
! that there may appear new party
at whose head may be placed one OF
the leaders of greatest prestige.
IF / were selfish l should desire
for the complete failure OF Carranza
| that his government be recognized,
! certain as / am thas ne would prove
absolutely incapable in less than a
month, and knowing as ] do the
strong displeasure that will be felt
by the revolutionists in Mexico upon
recognition by the American govern
ment of party headed by a man
who, next to Huerta, has been the
most hated man in Mexico in the
later times.
WOULD BE TERRIBLE.
The situation in this case would
be terrible indeed, for the 100000
men at least who compose the army
OF the convention added to ali the
civilians attached to it, who consti.
tute the great mass of the people who
re striving toward the advent o.
better times, which will allow their
volution in ell respects. would Sc,
their hopes entirely dissipated and
they would not be content to have
contributed uselessly with theii
blood to end up at last with a dicta
torship more hateful than that o
Poriirio DiaZ. / frankly confess that
| myself am frightened at the pros
pect of the anarchy which would un
doubtedly follow.
What conclusions can be reached
from the foregoing? Simply that tn,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-30
THE COLORED MANS STAND
ARDS

d.
The Christian Register, the leading
Unitarian publication of the country,
prints so excellent an article on col
ored mans own standards that we are
constrained to print extracts from it.
white men have set standards tor
the colored man for many years. Dur
ing slavery days the standard. was
mainly one of health and strength, a
good disposition" was also esirable;
a "bad niger" was harder to sell
than one who would make no trouble.
Taken altogether the standard of ante
bellum days for colored men was
much the same as that for horses
warranted sound and kind" and all
the rest. During the war, with the
splendid record Of black men as SOL
diers, the standard held up for them
by the white man shifted, though only
slightly. After the war, and after the
Fifteenth Amendment began to oper.
ate, the white man gradually altered
! his expectation of what the black
could be and ought to be. Whites diff.
fer greatly today, both North and
South, upon this question; as a rule,
the more civilized the white man the
reader he is, in judging the colored
man, to see his great possibilities and
his remarkable progress, as already
shown.
The subtler problem, and more
vital to the colored people, Is regard.
Ing the races standards for itself in
the various arts of civilization. And
his most serious obstacle is-not the
injustice of his white neighbors, evil
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-30

Olivier, who was governor Of Jamaica
from 1907 to the end of 1912, put for
ward the claim that no solution of the
American color question was possible
except by resolute disclaimer Of the
| color line and the race differention
theory.
Sir Sidney Olivier certainly knows
what he is talking about. In the
Island of Jamaica, where he was gov.
ernor for five years, there are about
100000 colored people and only 10000
whites and yet there is absolutely no
friction between the races. Jamaica
is a British colony and the govern.
ment is just. Colored men enjoy ev.
cry civil and political right which
white men have and there is no color
line.
Among other things Sir Sidney said !:
my study and comparison Of con.
ditions in the United States and the
West Indies," he said, "has brought
me to that conclusion. American and
colonial politicians and public men
are not Exeter Hall abolitionists nor
evangelical Christian missionaries. 1
do not expect them to adopt the meth
DDS OF missionaries, nor do I sympa-
thize with all their programmes. But
1t cannot be ignored that it happened
that the faiths of the men who laid
the foundations for the peaceful de-
velopment Of the mixed community in
Jamaica were democratic and human
itarian and, above all, uncompromis-
ingly Christian.
Were race differentiation held to it
must increase civil discord. When the
balance of numbers is as it is in the
South in America it must tend to
foster obscure preparations for civil
war and rebellion. If statesmen and
citizens face in the contrary direction
do not say that they will attain i'm
mediately civil peace, but I am conf
dent that they will be travelling the
only road toward it.
Il do not suggest that race does not
greatly affect facilities for combina-
ton between humans in healthy
national life, but race difference is
only one of many schismatic agencies.
The solution Of the difficulty involves
discipline for the white man as well
as the black"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-30
TlNsEL cHivALRY.

The Southern Caucasians are con-
tinually yelling about their chivalrous
regard for women and their determin-
alton to protect females from assaults
etc., but in view of many happenings
in the Southland it is evident, that
that their chivalry is of the tinsel
variety.
Last year q. Caucasian went into the
home Of a respectable colored woman
In Wagner, OKLA, and attempted to
assault her, but was shot by the
woman before he succeeded. When
The chivalrous Oklahomans heard of
the happening, the colored woman
who killed the white man in protect
ing her virtue was lynched by an
orderly mob of the best citizens
In another Southern state recently,
colored man was walking along the
street with his sweetheart when a
white man made an insulting remark
about her. The colored man promptly
killed the white man and few hours
later he was lynched by a mob Of
leading citizens"
The chivalrous men of Georgia have
allowed a law fixing the age of consent
for girls 10 years, to stand upon the
statute boks, and in nearly every
Southern state It is lower than 1t
ought to be.
The Southern boast about defending
the honor Of women Is q LIE. South.
ern chivalry is tinsel.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-30
OUR NEED OF JUxfAPoslT,oN.
(F'rom the Boston Guardian

IAOAA Iuc DOSLOn GudrQlan.)
That we much rather be, and asso
clate among ourselves, is a saving by
Colored Americans that has become
almost trite. That is a mistake: it
Is feeling of avowed cowardice and
innate inferiority. It is an utter i'm
possibilitay for the two races to sub
scribe to common government, and.
at the same time, each race work out
It's own salvation. The theory" has
been tried and resulted into a CHASTITY
failure; instead of making for har.
mony and cordial good feeling be.
tween two races, it has increased
race hatred AMI antagonism in leans
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
1or US to do is to get property and
other rights will inevitably follow.
We have followed this "advice" faith
fully and have been rewarded in
terms of residence segregation, street
segregation, confscation and loss of
property, withdrawing is
all of the blacklist pieces of legis-
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 non
resistance" and rather be by our
selves" That with the same degree
OF effontry and terrible legislation
with which our property is taken and
confiscated, with this same effontry
and legislation will our political and
manhood rights be taken from us.
That is a fact. Every congress of.
fers legislation degrading and mimi
cal to our we'll being. Race pre1u.
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
TICE JUXTAPOSITION.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-30
TROUBLE FOR HYPHENISM.

From all parts of the country in.
formation is coming that true ~Ameri.
cans intend to fight hyphenism.
A national organization of Ameri
can citizens Of foreign birth or
parentage to discourage "hyphenated
Americanism" has been formed I'm
New York. Twenty-four persons, who
responded to circular distributed by
a committee headed by William Lust
garten, formed themselves into a
provisional committee to encourage
the fight on dual citizenship.
A letter from Col. Roosevelt to Mr.
Lustgarten was read at this meet.
ing. It said in part:
II welcome the work of your So
ciety in working against the most
sinister and evil of all movements
which would tend to destroy our ma
tional unity and to split us into a
tangle of warning German-Americans
Irish-Americans, English-Americans
French-Americans and Scandinavian.
Americans. You and are fellow
Americans-just plain, straight out
ordinary Americans
The Christian Register has this to
say on hyphenism:
Why do we tolerate hyphens in the
names we give to our several groups
and classes? A hyphen is a danger
signal in this country-sometimes il
is even peril. Why not allow man
three years in which to get the hyphen
out of his system, then test him by an
oath or a choice of flags, and then
amputate the hyphen or else send the
man back home? We have the means
of transportation-see all those in
termed German ships? A hundred
million dollars worth of them! And
the Thomas Cook agencies idle! The
situation has suggestive points
Where is our Elijah who will say t
these hyphenates, IF the Lord be
God, follow him: but if Baal, the1
follow him?"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-30
Must Judge A Group by Its Best.
(from the Christian Register, Boston
Mass

(From the Christian Register. Boston
Mass.)
No one can be said to know anv
class Of people who has not been in
intimate and sympathetic relation with
the best as well as the worst of the
class. We compare many persons
VINO live in the South, and think they
know the colored race, with others
VINO have had no such contact, but
who have come into intimate and SYM
pathetic relations with large numbers
OF that race whom their Southern
friends have never known; and of the
two sets of people we should saw that
the second knew the colored people
better than the first. They know aspi-
ratlons among them that the others
DO not know, or, knowing, do not
enter into and appreciate; they know
capabilities by direct contact with the
best OF the race which others are obi.
vlous OF; they know qualities which
only respect and sympathy can bring
out; they know possibilities to which
others by their very acquaintance are
blinded. II those who know the col
ored race through the mass and by
observation merely could know what
individual possibilities are demon
strated in growing numbers of the
elect, and would be courageously can
aid with themselves, they would re-
wise their judgments and possibly sof-
ten their prejudices. At any rate,
they ought to credit to those on whom
they charge ignorance Of the colored
race the values that come from know.
Ing how many of that race are the
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??, 1915-10-30

his address. He spoke for nearly an
hour to an audience which contained
many who opposed his proposals most
strongly, but he held the absolute at.
tention of every listener. AS he made
his points, rounding them out with a
touch of humor or pathos, or a burst
OF eloquence, he sWayed and con.
verted many of his auditors who had
entered the council chamber with their
minds set in favor of his opponents.
"There was more than the appeal of
one man in his speech. Listening to
his remarkable flow Of words, the i'm
partial nearer was forced to the con.
clusion that here was the sincere ap-
peal of a race of men and women, with
the same pride in accomplishment, the
same depth of feeling, the same
earnest desire to progress, that the
white race possesses. His flashes of
humor softened the sting of his sar-
casm and served to drive home his
points. His features reflected every
emotion of his brain; his expressive
eyes twinkled with merriment at times
and glowed with fervor at others. His
choice of words and his knowledge of
the tricks of elocution proclaimed him
a finished orator.
aside from the merits of either side
OF the argument in which this man
participated, his part in the real-life
drama was an unanswerable argu-
ment in refutation of the theory,
which even now finds opponents, that
education and enlightenment are bad
for his race"
The contention over the showing of
1.-THE Birth of Nation brought out
some splendid letters to the Dispatch
Mail Bag by both colored and white
people. It pays to agitate.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-30

dent and regrettable as that is, but
the danger he continuously incurs OF
holding up low standards of attain.
ment for himself. If he is to COM
pete with the white man in business,
manufactures, arts, scholarship, and
othvf pursuits, he must hold himself
up 10 as high a standard OF excellence
as does the white man. AS rule,
colored people do not quite come up
to this; they have the faults of their
quaItles; they are too easily satisfied
with attainment which is distinctly
second-rate in the worlds Bradstreet.
The colored musician, or painter, or
artisan, or writer is too apt to meas
ure himself by the many people be-
low him in skill instead of keeping his
eye liked on the few who surpass him.
For this reason it is good for col
ored boy or girl to attend a school OF
college which white boys and girls
attend. Well-meaning friends of the
colored people have pitied such pupils
OF mixed schools and academies be-
cause of the many sights put upon
them by careless or unfeeling white
schoolmates; but people who see more
deeply into the real problems OF the
colored race believe that it is better
for such affronted young people to
undergo the affronts and to remain in
the keen atmosphere of white stand.
ards Of custom, costume, and scholar
ship than to live in mild atmosphere
of half-attainment, among brothers
and sisters of their own race, all alike
half blindly cropping their slow way
out of the darkness. Better that a
colored boy should bear whatever
sights are put upon him by certain
narrow, selfish, white boys at Yale
or Harvard than to drift comfortably
along In some Negro school which has
not got itself as yet squared to the
world standards, in world where
white men rule.''
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-30
WALLER AGAINST "NEGRo"
Noted Brooklyn Doctor Says 1t Causes
Mental and Physical Segregation.
(ErQm AmStardam Mowc

'Noseu 0iooNlyn OOcIor says IL causes
Mental and Physical Segregation.
(From Amsterdam News.)
Editor Amsterdam News:
Sir: cannot too heartily congratu-
late you on a 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. It's
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 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.
80 AAAA iva etAu OuC VI A1ElCd WAS
never applied to the higher types, but
to Guineas, Sudanese and Senegam-
bians only. ..-.
C.. Its derivatives, "Negroism," "Ne-
grofy," and its compounds, Negro-head.
Negro-f1y, Negro-monkey, are all clear
ly, In their associations, degrading.
a.: 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.'"
I. It is not differentiated in the mind
and thought of the whites from their
favorite( and generally used (among
themselves) terms, "Nigro" and "Nie-
ger"
6. AS stated by an eminent japanese
diplomat 1t has an unquestioned in.
duence 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??, 1915-10-30
ANENT 1.-THE BIRTH OF A MA.
TION."

IIONs
The splendid effort which was made
by the people of the Twin Cities to
stop the showing of the pictures
libeled "The Birth of a. Nation" in
st. Paul, while not so successful as
was desired, may be considered some.
thing of a victory for us; but, if
nothing more had been accomplished
than the calling forth of the helpful,
inspiring editorial that appeared in
the Pioneer Press Thursday morning,
our fight would have been pre-emi-
nently successful.
The editorial in question which was
inspired by the logic and eloquence of
Lawyer B. S. Smith of Minneapolis, is
as follow:
A CHAMPION WORTH WHILE.
IF the Negroes who opposed the
presentation of The Birth of Ma
ton so strongly felt it incumbent on
them to offer proof to the public that
their race has progressed since the
period covered by the much-discussed
film play, they would need to seek no
farther than Brown S. Smith, the
Negro attorney whose masterful ap-
peal won for them the partial victory
which was granted by the City Council
on Wednesday.
Though surrounded by several well
educated, cultured men Of his own
race, Mr.. Smith lowered above them
all by the force Of his unique person
atty and the wonderful eloquence Of
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-30
THE HYPHENATED AMERICAN.

Oswald Garrison Wizards recent
speech against hyphenated American.
ism was a telling one.
Mr.. Willard was himself born on
German soil and Of a German father
yet he is amazed at the divided citi.
zenship of some Americans of German
ancestry.
He referred to Carl Schurz, and his
true Americanism and said "Wha.
would amaze him more than to finu
unnumbered Germans who, like him.
self, come to this country to escape
the very militaristic autocracy they
now uphold, today, denouncing the
nation that adopted and sheltered
and fed and clothed them"
Other races have shown strong
tendencies to form distinct bodies,
Mr.. Willard said, but the German
propaganda is, so far, the most ex-
tensive.
He then asked if it were true, as
contended, that the German Kultur
and political system were superior to
the scheme Of life and government
In America, why the hordes who have
locked here did not go to Germany
instead.
Mr. Willard said, that to allow ma
tionalistic groups to develop in this
country such as they have in Austria
Hungary would be most disastrous.
He said, such proposal was "un.
thinkable to true minded American"
For many years. it has been the
custom to treat colored people as
aliens, although they are more than
ninety-nine per cent of American
birth; and there is a growing ten
dency among the colored people to
regard themselves as aliens. This is
being encouraged by class of lead
ers who call themselves Negroes"
and yell about "Negro Kultur" al
though they have not more than half
and often less than one.eighth of
Negro blood. Such men ought to
stop the NEGRO" propaganda and be
Americans and demand justice be-
cause they are Americans and not by
the false assertion that they are
Negroes"
They should not have any rights as
Negroes" but every right of an
American citizen should be and will
be accorded them, if they fight for
their rights as American citizens by
right Of birth.