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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-08-14
NOT so PARTICULAR NOW.

Charles M. Haft has been appointed
one OF the assistant corporation ycoun-
sci in Chicago, by Mayor Thompson.
Haft is the man who is said to have
stirred up a row when respectable
colored man purchased the residence
next door to him, and suggested that
the colored people buy tract Of land
in the suburbs and segregate them.
selves.
Haft is something of a lawyer, his
great trouble being race prejudice.
He will now have to do business with
three colored assistant counsel, a COL
ored chief Investigator and number
OF other colored men who have been
appointed to places in the same office
with him, by Mayor Thompson.
HIATT has the opportunity to resign,
segregate himself in his own private
law office and thus avoid contact with
the new colored appointees, but it is
a good bet that the $4,000 salary looxs
good to him and there is little danger
that he'll turn it loose because he is
surrounded by colored men, some
holding places like his own,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-08-14
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-08-14
OUR NEED OF JUxTAPOS,TIoN.
(From the Boston Guardian

mat we much rather be, and asso
c!ate among ourselves, is a saying BY
Colored Americans that has become
almost trlte. That is a mistake: il
Is feeling Of avowed cowardice and
innate inferiority. It is an utter i'm.
possibilitay for the two races to sub
scribe to a common government, and,
at the same time, each race work out
It's own salvation. The theory" has
oeen 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 leaps
and bounds. We have needed too
long the advice from false and treach.
erous leadership that resistance is
wrong, that 1t only breeds race hat.
red and antagonism; that the thing
for US to do Is to get property and
other rights will inevitably follow.
We have followed this advice" faitl,.
fully and have been rewarded in
terms OF residence segregation, street
segregation, confiscation and loss of
property, anti-intermarriage-which is
all OF the blacklist pieces of legis.
latlon, since that 1t leaves our women
de1enseless and at the mercy of white
Drutes = separate schools, jimcrow
cars, and even legislating to exclude
further Negro immigration. These
are the evils resulting from mon
resistance" and rather be by our.
; selves" That with the same degree
OF effontry and terrible legislation
with which our property is taken and
conflscated, 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 preju.
dice, therefore, can only be worn down
by attrition. We must send our
children, and 60 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-
T1CE JUXTAPOSITION.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-08-14

At no time during the existence of
the exposition, were there more than
a few-a very few-people in attend
ance.
The more one inquired the cause
of the terrible frost, the more you
were met with the answer, the af-
fair was entirely a one-man concern,
and that since the success, if any
success, would be credited to Col.
Giles B. Jackson, the more deter
mined was the public to show that
the failure should be attributed to the
same source.
That the affair was most miserably
advertised and more miserably man.
aged goes without saying, and since 1t
was in the hands of one man, the Ne.
groes of Richmond, of the State of
Virginia and the entire country, have
no regrets at it's failure"
THE APPEAL has always opposed
the appropriation of funds for
jimcrow affairs of any kind. The ap-
preparation of $4,000 by the United
States was class legislation, a. thing
which the colored people ought to
avoid even if it seems to favor them.
The colored man has no right to any
special consideration and if he gets
few thousands in cash he must pay
by losing some right. Jimcrow appro-
priations are dangerous things.
The appropriation was given to
Giles Jackson because he is of the
ante-bellum type so loved by the
South. He knew how to bow and
kowtow before his white frens" and
he got the coin. 1t is not strange that
he arranged a white folks day" as
the great event of his TODD.
Let us hear no more of the appro
priation of public money for jimcrow
affairs.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-08-14
MORATORIUM IN CHRISTIANITY.

. A moratorium in Christionity" -
proposed by writer in the Christ
liche Welt, leading religious journal
in Germany. The writer urges that
in a war of this character, where
ruthlessness of an unparalleled type
is displayed and where the very rudi-
ments of Christianity are ignored, it
would be wise, if Christianity is to
be maintained, that it should not be
preached or taught during the contin-
uance of the war;" 1T is mockery to
ask men with bloodstained hearts to
approach the table Of the Lord"
WAR is phenomenon which the
church should not be able to bless. It
is opposed to every essential of Chris
tianity, and the sooner moratorium
for Christianity is declared the better,
There should be no more church non
sense about the ennobling and purify
ing effects of war;"
In this country we know something
OF the mockery Of religion when it
reaches the color line. In the South
land it is common thing for men
ITO approach the table of The Lord
after having engaged in mob murder.
Every variety Of outrage against the
darker race is done in the name of the
Lord. Men whose hearts are viler
than the devil himself, talk about up
lifting the negro"
The suggestion of the German
writer is good one and the Southern
people in general and many in the
North ought to put aside their mock
cry of Christ and declare a morator-
ium in Christianity until they are will.
Ing to practice the principles of Chris
tianity by giving a square deal to
their darker brethren-not in segre.
gated negro" missions and jimcro~
Y. M. c. AS, but in the daily dealings
of life. ..
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-08-14

qualities; 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 fixed on the few who surpass him.
For this reason it is good for a 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 ~he
! 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 tina, 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 a world where
| white men rule"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-08-14
THE COlORED MANS STAND.
ARDS. ..

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 for
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:
bad niger" was harder to sell
IMAM 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
dlers, the standard held up for them
by the white man shifted, though only
signify. After the, war, and after the
Fifteenth Amendment began to oper-
ate, the white man gradually altered
MS expectation of what the black
could be and ought to be-. Whites diff.
Ter greatly today, both North and
South, upon this questions; 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 a.,
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
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
otner pursuits, he must hold himself
up to as high a standard of excellence
as does the white man. AS a rule
colored people do not quite come up
to this; they have the faults of their
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-08-14
Must Judge A Group by It's Best.
(From the Christian Register, Boston
D.. Mass,)

. Must Judge A Group by It's Best.
(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 we'll as the worst of the
Glass;. We compare many persons
who live in the South, and think thew
Know the colored race, with others
who 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 say that
the second knew the colored people
better than the first. They know aspt.
rat1ons among them that the others
90 not know, or, knowing. do not
enter into and appreciate; they know
capabilities by direct contact with the
pest OF the race which others are obi.
Vlous or; they know qualities which
only respect and sympathy can bring
out; they know possibilities to which
otners by their very acquaintance are
Dnnded. 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 courageouslv can
did 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. 80 -
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-08-14
THAT RICHMOND FAIR.

Under the above heading the Star
OF Norfolk, Va, prints the following:
Today ends the existence of one
of the greatest farces that has ever
been inflicted upon the people of this
section of the country.
Sometime ago the congress of the
United States appropriated the sum
OF tifty-five thousand dollars to assist
in celebrating the fiftieth year of the
Negroes freedom in this land, and that
money was entrusted to Giles B. Jack.
son and some other men, whom we
have never heard mentioned, for the
contamination Of the result named:
put never in all our experience and
observations have we seen a more
miserable failure in projecting sucn
an affair.
Inc Richmond people who usually
make success of any undertaking
IN which any of the citizens of the
progressive city is interestd did not
take the trouble to lose any of their
time, in giving the concern the least
consideration. The celebration was
held in the grounds of the State Fair
Association, therefore there was no
necessity for the expenditure Of anv
money for buildings or improvements
and while there were few things of
interest on exhibition, there were 50
few that they were not of sufficient
interest to command the attention OF
even the local people, let alone the
people from other parts Of Virginia
or the. country in general.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-08-14

sade to eliminate the hyphen from
Americanism. A great mass meeting
was held at the foot Of the Washing
ton monument. Commander John S..
Moore, y. s. N. retired, presided. Mr..
Moore said:
mere has been much said and
printed recently about hyphenated
Americans. We are gathered here
To-Day 10 launch a crusade that is ma
tlon-Wlde, to make the celebration of
independence day and Americanization
day go hand in hand for all time, and
to wipe out forevermore the hyphen in
American citizenship"
In st. Paul and Minneapolis hund-
reds OF newly naturalized citizens and
hundreds whose citizenship is Of
longer standing repeated the oath of
allegiance and all over the country
characterization" programs were car
ried out. the object being to bring all
people OF the United States into closer
unity and a common understanding of
American citizenship and American
ideals.
ms IS an opportune time to call
attention to the fact that there are
more than 100000 native Americans
who for many years have been treated
as~aliens because they are darker in
complexion than the aliens who have
become naturalized. The Supreme
Court Of the United States has re.
Gently decided that the efforts of the
south to nullify their votes are null
and void and that they are citizens
| indeed.
The colored citizens are native
Americans with several generations OF
American ancestors and there is alb.
solutely no reason why they should
be differentiated in any way from any
other citizens, native or naturalized
1t Is well to erase the hyphen and
the word NEGRO" as a racial name fol-
colored Americans ought to blotted
out at the same time, forever.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-08-14
NO CREDIT DUE SOUTH.

1t is sickening to read some of the
slush written by colored men anent
the recent Grandfather Clause deci.
sion-they give the south credit for
the decision and slop over INF their
praise of the Southern Christian
Justices" -.
AS matter of fact only three of the
nine justices are southern men; the
other six being Of northern birth. The
south deserves no credit whatever.
The case was so clear that even the
southern justices did not care to risk
their names going down in history
with the opprobrium which attached
to Justice fancy in the bred Scott
decision.
There is no reason why the south
should be lauded except the bootlick.
ers would be unhappy unless they
were busy.
5E.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-08-14
"sUcH PEOPLE STILL LIVE"

In Georgia. supposedly civilized
state "a Negro, SUSPECTED Of steal
ing ham from smoke house, and
lodged in Jail awaiting trial, was taken
from the jail by white men-they must
nave been men, beasts would never
have been so depraved and shot to
death. This, in the United States, in
the year of grace 1915. The long suf--
fering Of the Negro race is among the
wonders Of history. Will this patti
ence, under injustice, outrage, viola
ton of rights last forever"
The above is an editorial that ap-
pears in the July number of "Our
Dumb Animals published at Boston,
Mass.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-08-14
Embitters All but DociIe Negro.
(From the Savannah Tribune J

IN many Of the Southern States,
years ago, colored troops were allowed
and maintained. One by one these
states disbanded the colored troops.
Georgia was better orgonized than anv
OF the other states, and was the last
to dlsband the colored trops. In event
OF war, especially of any duration, the
colored man will be badly needed, but
mas ne been trained or has he been
encouraged to take up arms to fight
IN defense of his country? He has
been prescribed and debarred of MANY
privileges that are justly his and which
would embitter any other race but the
docile Negro.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-08-14
of@one Blood.

(Gerald Stanley Lee in Mount Tom
| am a human being. I do not pro-
pose to be cooped up or shut in in nv
love ana criticism to mere geographic
ca streaks or spots Of people on
planet: This planet is small enough
as IT is, when one considers the
helght and depth-the starry height
and depth-of the human spirit that
Wavers and CLOVIS through us all
wagner and Shakespeare, Tolstoi and
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-08-14
Each Victory ENCOURAGES.
(From the Martinsburg Pioneer-pro

" !oAi 'ne Martlnsburg Pioneer-Press)
All nail to our brave confrere the
non: II. g. Smith, editor of the old
rellaDle Gazette for going to the Gov.
ernor OF Ohio, and preventing that
internal play, "The Niger" to he Az.
alDlted in the great state of Ohio 70
boldly fight such impositions ia the IN,
nlnchlng duty of every decent man
among US. Every victory won bv tho
Few courageous agitators encoura ees
otners to step into the arena NJ do,
fence; and may the time come soon
VI, towards will be unknown, and
all stand united for manhood rights
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-08-14
WALLER AGAINST "NEGRo"
Noted Brooklyn Doctor Says It Causes
Mental and Physical Segregation.
(Er0na ncfordono Noura -.

Mental and Physical Segregation.
From Amsterdam News.)
Editor Amsterdam News:
Sir: I 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 1t 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 its
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 1t 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
h-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," "Ne-
grofy," and its compounds, Negro.head.
Negro.fly, 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. ...
g. 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, MICRO" and mig.
ger" 49,.
6. AS stated by an eminent japanese
diplomat it has an unquestioned in
nuence In cutting us off from the
thought, sympathy and cooperation
OF the millions Of colored Africans, Ash
atics and Islanders of the Yonde1
world. ~
| Very truly yours,
| OWEN M. WALLER, M. y
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-08-14
The MAN WHO pAREs

] honor the man who in tho con-
sctentious discharge Of his duty dares
to stand alone; the world, with .ienor-
ant, intolersnt judgment, may con-
denim, the countenances It rslatives
may be averted, and tho hearts az
friends grow cold. but the sense 81
duty done shall be sweeter than th.
applause Of the world, the ceunten-
ances Of relatives or the heart. %
friends. Charles Summer.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-08-14

Mollere! Though the cathedrals quar-.
rel together and sing praises with
slege-guns to their own little foolish
national souls, and rain bombs on
each others naves, I take nv stand
by the great bells ringing in their
towers, by the souls of their poets
overriding the years, by the prayers
and songs of their heroes, artists. in.
ventors, by the mothers and the little
children.
We are all in the same world. We
are all alike. I will not say of any
one nation what will not say of the
others; and will not say of any man
what I will not say of myself.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-08-14
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??, 1915-08-14
He Is A Real Man.
(From the Pioneer-Press, Martins

(From the Pioneer-Press, Martins.
burgh, w. Va.)
Editor w. P. Dabney, Of the Cinctn-
natl Union, is busy day and night
these days fighting segregation and all
other forms of discrimination in the
Queen City. This is noble in him.
too, and especially SO when it Is
known that. Mr.. Dabney is in an Of.
hcial position. Men Of that sort are
generally as mum as clam, but. this
is not SO in the case Of Mr.. Dabney.
He Is a man.