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Evening journal., 1915-09-01

The full text Of the Ambassadors
note to the Secretary Of state was as
follows:
MY Dear Secretary: With refer
ence 70 our conversation Of this morn
ing beg 10 inform you that my in
structions concerning our answer 70
your last iMsitania note contains the
following passage:
Liners Will not be sunk by our
submarines without warning and
without safety Of The lives az no-
comhatants provided that the liners
Do not try % escape on oiier resist
ance
Although I know you do not wish
to discuss the Lusitania question til
the Arabic incident has been definitely
and satisfactorily settled. ! desire 70
inform you OF the above because This
policy Of my government was decided
on before the Arabic incident occur
red
Il have no objections TO your MAX
ing any use You may please OF the
above information.
II remain my dear Mr.. Lansing.
VERY sincerely yours
(Signed) ~. Bernstorif''
Commenting on the foregoing state
ment. Secretary Of State Lansing
would only say "That IN view Of It's
clearness II seemed needless 10 make
any comment In reference TO il"
The communication, m the form b
which it was delivered, related TO fuiur,
submarine activities. Il lett open fol
future discussion an matters Of fact IN
connection with past occurrences. It was
taken for granted that this was because
questions Of rcparation would have Il
be settled and that diplomatic ncgotial
tions would have TO be conducted Ia
agree ON a basis. No difficulty was cX.
pected in adjusting them.
SO far as Secretary l.ansing's state
ment indicated. nothing was included 81
the way Of request that the United
States rcciprocate hy taking up VITA
Great Britain the subject Of the "sial.
vation blockade This, it was thought
however, was likely TO be touched or
later.
II was the first formal assurance, Ian
sing said that the department had
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GERMANY AGREES TO
AMERICAN DEMANDS
THAT SEA BE SAFE

Admits Validity of American Com
fef1fion That Sinking of Lusitania
By Submarine Was In Violation
of International LalU and VIII
Grant Full RcparatiOn. May
Stand Responsible Also For the
Arabic Disaster, Although the
Assurance Is Lacking.
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cARDINiI GFRBONS 10
CONFER WITH PRESIDENT.

BY The ''ritod Press
WASHINGTON, sert I. .-Cardfnal
Gibbons WIS schedG,ef today 10 see
Pres ideni Wilson at iho Whiio House
st p n Trarciay The visits pur-
pose was not made public.
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BrBTrv DISCUSSES PEACE TALK.

By The United Press
BERLIN VIA The Hague, sept lThe vossiscne zeitung
oaay printed Win prominent display statement Frano
Hirst editor o. tss London EeeuomIst England con-
.,ssrs nsase s,.ep.r,cp. n.sr Ne con Bsn vas made
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MAY0R,s AnNIs0Rs To MEEr

The weekly session Of the Mayors
Advisory Board viii be held at the
office Of Mayor Price this afternoon
Various matters pertaining to the
city viii be discussed.
Evening journal., 1915-09-01

The main batteries of American bat
tleships hereafter will have an eleva-
tion of thirty degrees, practically
doubling the present angle of fire, ac-
cording to a decision reached by the
Navy Department experts after close
study Of all available information of
naval engagements of the European war.
Wherever possible ships now under con-
struction and those already in, commits
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IDENTITY ONE vICTm on I'd

IS United Prepp.
WASHINGTON sept lone Of the eorpsss taken from
Mte Ashcroft he Navy Department notified soazy
from Honolulu
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HE COMPETED ARIZONA .@ncxnlo4r- ssarrp.

sion, it is understood, win be similarly
fitted. The Arizona, now nearing com
pletio@ will be fitted in this manner.
The effect of the charge win be to in
crease materially the range of the navy's
fourteen inch guns and also to make
ginfre more accurate in rough weather
The guns now have sufficient range to
reach anything within the limit of Wis
ion at sea. and the added elevation will
Evening journal., 1915-09-01

enable them to hurl at objects far be-
yond the horizon or over hills of con.
siderable size in bombarding land forti-
fications. Navy officers have needed
closely information on the battles in the
North sea and off the Falkland Islands
in reaching their determination. it is
said. Both were fought at almost the
extreme range Of the biggest guns en-
gagged
Evening journal., 1915-09-01
WEATHER

Part cloudy and continued
cool tonight and Thursday.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-07-31
MissIssIPPPs "MosT."

United States Senator John Sharp
Williams has been proclaimed 'Mis.
sissippi's most distinguished states
man. by a committee appointed by
Gov. Brewer of that state at the re-
quest of the president of the Panama.
Pacific Exposition.
Williams stock in trade is abuse of
his colored fellow citizens who consti-
tute about one-half of the population
OF Mississippi. The committee did
well to select John Sharp Williams,
because he is a. true exponent of the
mississippi idea, It may be surprise
to many people to learn that when
racial questions were discussed in
Congress, Williams was more vehe-
ment and vitriolic in his denunciation
OF one-half the people of his state than
that other Mississippi saint, James K.
Vardaman.
Northern people had conceived the
idea that "Jimkay" was the champion
negrophobist Of Mississippi, but he
couldn't fool the committee Of disting-
uished white citizens of that more or
less grand commonwealth.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-07-31
NOT so PARTICULAR NOW.

~ w IN lISOINn NO"s
Charles M. Haft has been appointed
one of the assistant corporation coun.
sci in Chicago, by Mayor Thompson.
Haft is the man who is said to have
stirred up row when a respectable
colOred man purchased the residence
next door to him, and suggested that
the colored people buy a 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 LOOKS
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??, 1915-07-31
NOT NEEDED.

THE APPEAL is opposed to the
plan of the Southwestern Christian
Advocate to have a socalled vigilance
committee at Washington.
1t is not necessary, as work of a
similar character has been accom-.
hshed as a business proposition by
the National Association for the Ad-
vancement of the Colored People for
the past two years and inimical leg
islation prevented. -.
The colored people are not a "vote.
less" people. In the North they have
voted for years and are still voting.
The United States Supreme Court has
Just decided that there is to be no
color line in voting in the future, so it
IS up to the colored people of the
South to guard their rights at the foun.
tain head. We feel that we are able
to do it in Minnesota.
A lobby in Washington would soon
degenerate into a political machine
and as it is likely that some jimcrow
lists would be on the committee it is
possible that committee kept up for
the purpose of guarding the rights of
the people would actually betray them.
1t Is a dangerous proposition.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-07-31
GEORGIA, THE DEVILS OWN.

Georgia, that hell-hole of America
has gone step further in it's injustice
to its good citizens who happen to be
darker in complexion than those who
control the destinies of that more or
less grand old commonwealth.
The state senate by unanimous
vote has passed a bill which will pro.
hibit white persons from teaching in
the colored schools either public or
private, in that state.
The bill is intended as a slap at
such schools at Atlanta University
Cannon Theological Seminary and
others, in which practically all of the
instructors are white men and women.
One of the worst features of the
case is the seeming Indifference of the
colored people whose liberties are
again attacked by the infamous meas
ure. So far as we are able to learn,
no strong protest has been made. One
Atlanta colored paper printed four
days after the bill was passed evi,
IDENTIFY did not consider the matter as
worthy of mention even in it's news
columns, for not single line concern.
ing it appears, and We have scanned
the columns carefully.
The Southern colored people owe a
debt of gratitude to the noble band
OF white people who have left their
homes in the North, from the time of
the Shareholders rebellion to the
present and have gone into the South,
where they have been socially ostra-
cised, and have devoted their lives to
the education of their darker brethren.
A protest should be made, even if it is
ineffective. It will not only show that
the race is grateful for what has been
done, but it will also strengthen the
manhood of the protestants.
Is it possible that colored jimcrow-
lists are really the ringers in the
wood pile?" THE APPEAL has no.
tlced in recent years several articles
IN ]lmcrow colored papers, advocating
the busting of the white teachers EN-.
ployed by the white people who give
the funds to support the schools. In
view of the growth of jimcrowism
among the colored people of the
South, such a condition is not impos-
sible.
God grant that the colored people
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-07-31

Must Judge A Group by Its Best.
(From the Christian Register, Boston,
A.. Mass.)
NO one can be said to know any
class of people who has not been in
Intimate and sympathetic relation with
the best as we'll as the worst of the
class. We compare many persons
who live in the South and think they
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 aspi.
rations 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 obli-
vious Of; they know qualities which
only respect and sympathy can bring
out; they know possibilities to which
others by their very acquaintance are
blinded. If 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
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.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-07-31
ELIMINATING THE HYPHEN.

me chief feature Of the Independ-
ence day celebration at Washington
this year was the launching Of cru
sade to eliminate the hyphen from
Americanlsm. A great mass meeting
was held at the foot Of the Washing
ton monument Commander John s.
Moore, U. s. N. retired, presided. Mr..
Moore said:
Ihere has been much said and
printed recently about hyphenated
Americans. We are gathered here
today to launch crusade that is ma
tlon-W1de, 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 humid
reds OF newly naturalized citizens and
hundreds whose citizenship is Of
longer standing repeated the oath of
allegiance and all over the country
t.f
"Americanization'' programs were car
ried out, the object being to bring all
people of the United States into closer
unity and common understanding of
American citizenship and American
ideals.
Ihls 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 for
colored Americans ought to blotted
out at the same time, forever.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-07-31
"NEGROS" AND MULES NOT
LISTED. -.

The British steamer Armenian sunk
recently by German submarine. car
ried, besides her regular crew, los
men who were signed aboard her to
attend to the 1,422 mules which the
ship was carrying for the use of the
English army in the war zone.
The Associted Press dispatch stated
that nineteen of the muleteers were
white men and gave list of their
name and addresses and continued:
Besides these nineteen white men
there were 81 negro muleteers."
1t was evidently not considered of
suffi importance to waste money
telegraphing the names and residences
of the mules or-the negro" mule
teers. .
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-07-31
CHRISTIANIZlNG THE "NEGRO.

I7nIS IANIZING THE "NEGRO."
Whenever number of so-called
American Christians gather together
there is certain to be some jimcrow
hypocrisy business and the recent
christian Endeavor meeting at Chica.
go was no exception to the rule.
First there was a season of prayer
and then Bro. Landrith of the South
jumped up and shouted: 1--WE are go.
ing to get behind the negro" and up.
lift him. We are going into the
negro" churches and organize G. r.
Clubs of negroes" and so on ad intin.
itum, ad buncum, ad nauseum. and
there was great applause IN CHI.
CAGO. -.
Think OF it, Brer Landrith is to car.
ry Christianity to people who already
have more than their share of it. If
the good brother really wishes to
change conditions the proper thing to
do is to carry Christianity to the red
necks, hill billies and crackers of the
South, carry it to the WHITE people
VINO are the cause of the NEGRO
problem. 49,.
The whole matter is simply bunk.
While the G. E. brethren and sisters
were grooming and screaming in Chi
cago, the Georgia crackers were busy
lynching Negroes and an attempt
was made to take Jew who is serv-
ing life term, out of the prison and
lynch him and to cap the climax the
Georgia court has declared it crime
for white person to teach a colored
person.
And then, the next day. after his
great whoop, Brer Landrith of the
South, hsowed his estimate of the
people in whom he claims to be so
greatly interested, by referring to COL
ored children as "pickaninnies."
Jimcrow schools, public parks, Y.
M. c. AS and other infamies are no
proof Of Christianity. Repeal the Jim
crow laws, cut out the jimcrow car,
the jimcrow drinking fountain and
other things intended to humiliate and
degrade the colored people and then
and not until then will THE APPEAL
nave any faith in Southern Christian
ity. .h
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-07-31
NO CREDIT DUE SOUTH.

1t is sickening to read some of the
slush written by colored men anent
the recent Grandfather Clause deci.
slon-they give the south credit for
the decision and slop over in 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.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-07-31
"sUcH PEOPLE STILL LIVE"

In Georgia. supposedly civilized
state-a Negro, SUSPECTED of steal.
ing a ham from a smoke house, and
lodged in jail awaiting trial, was taken
from the Jail by white men-they must
have 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??, 1915-07-31
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MORATORIUM IN CHRISTIANITY

MORATORIUM IN CHRISTIANITY.
A moratorium in Christionity" IL
proposed by a writer in the Christ
lche Welt, leading religious journal
in Germany. The writer urges that
lin 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; ''It 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 a 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 cup
lifting the negro"
The suggestion of the German
writer is a good one and the Southern
people in general and many in the
North ought to put aside their mock
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-07-31
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-07-31
The MAN WHO pAREs

honor the man who In tho con
scientious discharge Of his dutv d.rex
to stand alone; the world, with ienor-
ant, intolerant Judgment, may con
denim, the countenances II relatives
may be averted, and the hearts Of
friends grow cold. but the sense Of
duty done shall be sweetsr than the
applause Of the world, the counten-
ancss Of relatives or the heart. 81
friends. Charles Summer.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-07-31
Each Victory Encourages.

(From the Martinsburg Pioneer-P ress)
All hail to our brave confrere the
Hon. H. G. Smith, editor of the old
reliable Gazette for going to the Gov
ernor Of Ohio, and preventing that
internal play, ''The Niger" to be ex-
hibited in the great state of Ohio. To
boldly fight such impositions is the un-
finching, duty of every decent man
among us. Every victory won by the
few courageous agitators encourages
others to step into the arena of de-
fence; and may the time come soon
when towards will be unknown, and
all stand united for manhood rights.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-07-31
Embitters All but DociIe Negro.
(From the Savannah Tribune }

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 any
Of the other states, and was the last
to disband the colored trops. In event
of war, especially of any duration, the
colored man will be badly needed, but
has he 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??, 1915-07-31
dive or church and any church
which practices it is no better than a
dive. ..- :.

It is amusing to see in number of
colored papers the announcement that
a negro has been elected an alderman
In Chicago. There is absolutely no
truth in the statement. Oscar De-
Priest who has been elected is a col.
ored man and more white than black.
He should be called just what he is
a colored man.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-07-31

The Louisville News is making a
great fight against segregation Of res
licences and tells the colored citizens
that they can help by refusing to be
segregated in other walks OF life.
Segregation is wrong whether in a
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-07-31

cry of Christ and declare morator-
ium in Christianity until they are will
ing to practice the principles of Chris
tianity by giving 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. '-