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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-06-12
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.
put In spite of their excellent news
service, splendid make up" and vain
boastings, 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. 1t prints powerful editorials
many veritable 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.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-06-12

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 Negro"
but colored man.
Call him colored man if it is alb
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.
II man whose ancestors for many
generations is not an American, who
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
group-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
s;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 a separate
treatment in church and state, is to
perpetrate great wrong.
1t is an infamous thing for the gov
eminent 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 the
government is concerned.
There is no reason why a 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 suffxes.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-06-12
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.
It is wrong, unjust and un-American
Tor 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
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-06-12
WANTS A COLOR LINE,

Chicago, June /, 1915.
Editor Evanston News-Index:
At the recent musical festival in
evanston noted at the Saturday aft
ernoon performance a liberal sprink-
ling OF Negro. children among the
whites. The effect was not pleasing.
The scene was aggravated by the
pacing in many instances of Negr,
boys between little white girls. AS
Stunning that the teachers in the
schools had the placing of these chill.
dren, then l would say that such an
arrangement was an aggravation of
an already acute color question in
this country and particularly in
evanston. The person who arranged
these children apparently went out
OF his or her way to make this point
OBNOXIOUS to, l am sure, large num-
Der OF the audience. If the Negroes
must be placed in prominence in this
way why not put them in group by
themselves, which they personally
would prefer, rather than sprinkling
them as they were. Nothing is gained
by adding fire to the color question
IN this way, but it would appear that
the teachers or those in charge of
Just such affairs as this 20 out of
their way to shove the Negroes down
the throats of whites.
Yours truly,
Anatoi GoIIos.
The above appeared in the Evan.
ton NeWs-1ndex June 7. The idea of
a man with such a name expressing
such sentiments against native born
American citizens!
Well, the next day, in the columns
OF the same paper, Rev. H. E. Stew
art, pastor Of Ebenezer A. NJ. D.
church, in an article nearly five times
as long literally wiped up the earth
with the alien and he was seconded
Dy Mrs. Edw. c. Mumphrie in an ar
ucle about six inches long. Both fur.
nlshed the prejudiced foreigner with
something that he won't forget.
Miss Cornelia Gordon, who has been
sojourning in Washington, D. G.. for
some time returned home Wednesday
Mrs. James Mitchell, 795 Rondo
street, presented her husband a son
last Monday. a -.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-06-12

ness, grabbed the birds, stuck them
into a bag and skunk away in the
night. ..-..
The dockets of the police courts all
over the country in recent years, show
that many distinguished white men
are now in the industry of the illicit
capture of fowls. One gentleman was
a leader of society in Kansas City,
who never appeared in public un.
gloved. He had his business thor
oughly systematized and reaped thou
sands OF dollars out of his thievery.
He is now in the penitentiary.
Two white gentlemen arrested a
few days ago in Laporte, Ind, have
elevated the chicken lifting business
to the "de luxe" class. These men
used a specially built automobile, car.
rying interchangeable tires, license
tags of three states, and other para
phernalia. They are said to have been
operating in northern Indiana and
Illinois and southern Michigan for two
months
The poor old black chicken thief,
who could be traced by the prints of
his number Is brogans, so beloved by
the minstrel, has made his exit and
the elegant kid gloved white thief in
his big auto, appears on the scene,
gets the chickens and has whisked
away before one can say Jack Robin
son.
The progress of civilization is won
derful.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-06-12

Some of the prejudice fighters in
Chicago have been at work on the in.
famous film, "The Birth of Ma
tion," and while the great contest to
have the film barred from exhibition
in the city was raging, some of the
prominent colored people were giving
a minstrel performance. Yellow and
brown people blackened their faces
with burnt cork and gave coon
songs" and dances and the other stuff
which goes with a minstrel perform.
ance.
The people who took part in this
affair are very we'll known in colored
circles, so THE APPEAL will be
charitable enough to presume that
they did not intend to deliberately do
anything which would in any way in
jure themselves or the people of their
group.
But they must not be so thought.
less in the future. These intelligent
people ought to be ashamed that they
had anything to do with a minstrel
performance in which the darker side
of their class is shown. -
THE APPEAL has always opposed
minstrel shows and has recently
called attention to the misrepresenta.
tons Of the colored people, often
given in public schools and churches
by white people,
If the colored people of Chicago
wish to make an effective protest
against prejudice breeding programs
of every kind, they must stop bur-
lesquing themselves and "come
Clean"
THE APPEAL acknowledges the re-
ceipt of an invitation to the Fifty
second Annual Commencement of
Wilberforce University; WHEREFORE,
Ohio, Thursday, June II, 1915.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-06-12

$25,OOO,OOO," stated Irwin K. Walker.
assistant states attorney, assigned to
the tax investigation.
1t appears that Rosenwald is not
paying what he ought to pay. His
pronts, from a stock dividend alone
last year, were more than $11, 900 ooo
Although Rosenwald is a Jew and he
knows that his people have suffered
through centuries of segregation, he
gives great sums of money to build
1lmcrow Y. N. c. AS and other insti-
tutlons which have for their object the
segregation of American citizens.
Gould money be put to a baser use?
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-06-12
1.-THE BIRTH OF A NATION.U

The colored people all over the
country have been fighting the mis-
chievous and dangerous prejudice
breeding film, 'The Birth of a Ma
tion." Articles, editorials, etcetera.
have appeared in the papers all over
the country, but the best THE APP
PEAL has seen is the communication
to the Chicago Tribune, written by
Major John R. Lynch, who lived in
the south during the reconstruction
period and knows whereof he speaks.
Major Lynch's article is so excellent
that we reproduce it in full:
Chicago. editor of The Tribune. }
Speaking of the photoplay called
The Birth of Nation" you say:
1T is in all essential episodes ground
ed on historical fact, representing the
struggles of that terrible time in the
south when the whites, back from
war, saw their government taken over
by the newly enfranchised blacks con-
!! trolled by the northern carpetbaggers,
What happened with the Negro
ascendant and how the white re-estab-
1isned MS supremacy is shown with
OBVIOUS natural sympathy for the
south, and no doubt with such height
enlng of effect as dramatic art has a
i right to employ. 1t presents what the
south says and the north of our day,
at least, is inclined to believe to be
truth
Exactly the reverse of this is true.
Tor there never was time when any
one of the state governments of the
south was taken over by the newly
enfranchised blacks controlled by the
northern carpetbaggers.
That some mistakes were made dur
! ing the progress of reconstruction will
not be denied. How could it be other.
wise? The war had just come to an
end. Sectional animosity was bitter
and intense. The Republican party
was looked upon as the enemy of the
south. No white man could identify
himself with the Republican party at
that time in any one of the southern
states without running the risk of be.
ing socially ostracised and publicly
characterized as an enemy to his sec
ton, his state, and his race. Notwith.
standing these things, not less than
70 per cent Of the white men of that
sectlon-men who were to the man.
ner born, many of them ex-Confeder-
ate soldiers, identified themselves
with and became leaders of the Re-
publican party. These, in the main.
were the men that the newly enfran-
ch1sed blacks selected as their lead
ersh1p they loyalty and faithfully fol-
lowed.
l do not hesitate to assert that the
reconstructed state governments at
the south were the best governments
those states ever had before or have
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-06-12
A PHILANTHRoPIsT's (O METH
obs.

The personal property assessment
for 1915, of Julius Rosenwald, the So
called philanthropist of Chicago, will
be fixed at 100000 by the board of
assessors, according to the announce
ment made recently by David M.
Pfaelzer, a member of that board.
His assessment has been estimated
at 100000 and a penalty of $1,000
200 has been made" announced the
assessor.
We will fight such an assessment
to finish," came the comment from
the state attorneys office, which
caused the indictment, later quashed,
in Mr.. Rosenwald's case for failure to
schedule. HE paid taxes on more
than 100000 last year, and our con-
tention is that he owns personal prop
erty of which the value is closer to
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-06-12
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-06-12
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
guiIIotines decide our least disputes.
The few who dare must speak and
speak again to right tho wrongs Of
many.-EIIa Wheeler Wilcox.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-06-12
APPEAL ALLOWED ON FILM

chicago, June 11.-Judge Cooper in
the Superior Court today allowed an
appeal to be taken to the appellate
court on a bill Of exceptions filed to
the Injunction granted by him re-
strain1ng the City Of Chicago from in.
terfering with the production of "The
Birth of a Nation It is expected
that an early hearing will be had and
an immediate decision given by the
appellate court. =.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-06-12
the MAN WHO pAREs

! honor tho man who in the con.
sc'entious discharge Of his dutv dares
to stand alone; the world, with ienor-
ant, intoIersnt judgment, may con-
demn, the countenances Of relatives
may be averted, and the hearts Of
fr'ends grow cold, but the sense az
duty done shall be sweetsr than En-.
applause Of the world, the counten-
ancss Of relatives or the heart. o.
friends. Charles Summer.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-06-12
CHICKEN STEALING DE LUXE.

One of the chestnuts which has
done duty in minstrelsy for more
than a generation is the old lie about
the niger" chicken thief who
sneaked into the hen coop in the dark
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-06-12
MUST COME CLEAN.

SATURDAY, JUNE IL, 1915.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-08-18
Immigrants
DISCUSSED BY
ca THOLIGs.
Welfare OF the Native and That
of the Immigrant Are De-
clared lnseparabie.

TOLEDO. o., Aug. 16.-The immi.
grafton question has largely occupied
the attention Of the delegates to tnei
annual convention Of the American.
Federation Of Catholic Societies here
In session, a number of speakers
having discussed the problem at a
social gervice mass meeting in the
Coliseum
Charles =. Fay. president Of the
spoke Of the "Dimculties and Dangers
Of the Catholic Immigrant" There
has been, he said, q great deal Of
scientific analysis of the Immigration
question and there was more need
for action than for figures He said:
''The welfare of the immigrant and
the welfare ef the native are In
separable. II we fall, they shall fall
and they shall stand Il we do. Men.
and discontented with everything.
The masses OF Europe and the masses
of America alike are agitated BY
speakers and teachers on subjects
that are fundamental In importance.
FaIsehood, IN the name Of philosophy
and politics, OF religion, progress and
science, has made entry into millions
OF minds.
Socialism is an example. Here
we have, as Bebel says, a phi1oso.
ply of life entering into every phase
of human activity;;, movement not
adequately comprehend by ten per
cent Of its membership; school Of
thought founded by Atheists on
Atheism Involving necessarily the IA
talism, despotism and -bas pphemy that
such q Foundation demands. It 10
an economic absurdity, political
monstrostty and pz1i1osoph1o lunacy
And yet, with the goodly outside
often worn by falsehood, It approaches
the immigrant who may have heard
of 1t at home, but the native as well
with fair promise of happiness and
freedom when the people receive the
rewards for their labors. What a
crude distortion Of socialism is given
by the average agitator we are all
aware; and we are aware also OF the
real signiacance of the movement:
we know the principles for which II
stands. and how far from the truth,
Notwithstanding the probably good In
tentions OF some Of its victims"
The speaker told Of The success
of mass meetings held In the Boston
Archdiocese to expose socialisttc
teachings. He said that the state
secretary OF the socialist party IN
Massachusetts In his recent annual
report had announced that because OF
the work OF the Common Cause
Society, which had grown mp in Bos-
ton to Offset socialist activities. q
number OF the socialist local or
CARNATIONS had died out.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-08-18
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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-08-18

1.-THE government OF Lomzha. A de-
script.on of this city is contained In
/ a statement just issued by the Ma
tional Geographic Society:
4Bieostok is junction point
where the great WarsaW-Petrograo
trunkline railroad crosses the CRAZE
wo . Brest : Litovsk,- koyel-Vlad!mtr-
Volnys railway, which last traces the
line OF Russian defense behind the
Polish frontier, behind the Bug rtV-
er. where the armies Of the Tsar ac-
cording to reports. will make q de-
term:ned stand. This is one Of the
most important military lines In
Russia, more important than the So
called Polish Quadrilateral. Novo
FGeorgievsk. WarsEw, lyangoroo.
tBrest Litovsk, Grajewo and Osowtec
wh:ct Guard the northern and of line
toward the East Prussian frontier
while from Osowiec the chain OF fort
resses sweeps around to Kovno, far IN
sosowiec is thirty miles north
east Of Bdelostok, and the city OF.
Lomzha is forty miles to the west
Bielostok is an Important point OF dis
tribution for the whole line OF the
Bug, railroads bringing this place into
communication with Petrograd, and
with the cities of northeastern, cas-
tern and Southern Russia. But most
important, it guards the main line to
the northern capital. Although fort1-
fed Bielostok is not ranked a fortress.
1t Is garrison city and depot Tor
military supplies.
"Bielostok is well-planned town,
with growing industry, Its factories
turn out wooden and, leather goods,
hats, soap and machinery. It has
population of about 5000. Its NUM-
cipal palace and park is called the
Versailles of Poland. Formerly this
palace was the residence Of the counts
Of Braniski, the o1den owners Of the
city. At the partition of 1885. the city
fell to the share of Prussia. and was
ceded by Napoleon l, to Russia IN
1907 by the Treaty of Tilsit. The
great cloth mills Of Bielostok gave
the modern city its Importance:
otherwise it is little more than
strategic point in Russian defense
and a forwarder of merchandise.