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Rock Island Argus., 1915-01-14
MERCER STANDS
BY HIS PASTORAL
Cardinal 70 Belgium Refuses to
Withdraw Letter Addressed
TO His People Recently.

The Hague. Netherlands. Jan. IA
Cardinal Dcsideratus Mercier. the
primate Of Belgium. declined az pres
ent 10 discuss what he defined the
-veXarious measures" OF the German
authorities iu Belgium with reference
10 him and 20 the pastoral letter writ
ten by him on Christmas.
General Won Bissins. governor gen
erai OF the Belgian territory occupied
by the Germans. in reply 20 a request
made by the Associated Press that
he forward 10 Cardinal MERCER a tel
egram asking him for the exact facts
in connection with the incident, today
said:
Cardinal Nercier requests me to
forward TO you the following dispatch
in response 10 your inquiry:
81 feel much the sympathy YOU
have shown me and for which / thank
you. but I prefer not 10 dwell for the
moment on the yexatious measures TO
which YOU allude, and prefer to con
tiuue 10 shut myself in my episcopal
I wish TO declare. however.
that have Withdrawn nothing and
viii withdraw nothing from my pastor
al letter.
CARDINAL MERCiER.
Archbishop OF Malines.'"
General Won Biss.ng adds:
'As this reply Of the cardinal might 1
give rise 10 misunderstanding. l add I
thereto the following remarks:
"I certainly caused proofs of the /
pastoral letter in the printing Office TO /
be coufiscated and ] summoned the .
priests 10 give up copies of it in their
possession.
The cardinal never has been ar
rested nor has his personal liberty in
my way been encroached upon. have
merely. by means OF officers Of my
tan. requested him to give me explain
ltions Of the tendencies Of the pastoral
etter. and besides this. in order to
prevent possible manifestations, 7 ask
d him to abandon projected journey
o Antwerp.
"If these measures perhaps appear
o the cardinal subjectively vexati-
us. vet they were effectively abso-
uteIy necessary in order to clear up
he situation
Rock Island Argus., 1915-01-14
Wheat Goes TO s1.4asa.

Chicago. III. Jan. IA new high
record in war level prices was reach
ed today when May wheat sold for
sl.4s7s.
Rock Island Argus., 1915-01-14
Cotton Exports Almost Normal.

washington. D. -. Jan. 1f-Cot;on
sxports became almost normal during
December.
Rock Island Argus., 1915-01-14

Top. r + Talbot Oef) and Den
MS Shea Bottom. George Ehren-
hardf
Among the Terre Haute politicians
who have been arraigned before Fed
eral Judge A =. Anderson at Indian
aDoiis in the election frauds case and
who plan 10 fight 10 the finish for their
good name and 10 keep out OF Leaven-
worth prison are George Ehrenhardt.
Z. r. Talbot and Dennis Shea Ehren-
hardt Is a member OF the Terr- Haute
board OF public works; Talbot Is city
controller. and Shea is sheriff OF Vigo
county.
Rock Island Argus., 1915-01-14

CONTINUED on Page Eieven)
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-03
GOOD WORK, Mr.. TYLER.

The Cleveland Gazette, speaking of
the increase of race prejudice in
Columbus, Ohio, tells little
story of the commendable action
Of Ralph w. Tyler, former auditor
for the Mayor: "A motion picture
theater in East Long street recently
hung out a sign reading: First five
rows in the rear reserved for colored
patrons. Learning of it, Mr.. Tyler
went out and saw the sign, then called
up the chief of police, over the phone
and demanded that he cause the sign
to be removed, claiming it was an in
suit to $4,000 colored citizens, and
stated, If the authorities did not re-.
move the sign instanter he would tear
it down if he had to go to Jail for it.
The sign was removed" That was an
heroic action. THE APPEAL also
commends Mr.. Tyler's recent article
in which he condemns the use of
negro" as race name. Mr.. Tyler
thinks that American is good enough
for all people born in this country and
so does the writer.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-03
THE DEMISE OF THE sIxTY.THlRD
CONGRESS,

Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.):
"A dispassionate review Of the work
of the Sixty-third congress brings lit.
tie to congratulate the people of the
United States upon and much to con-
denim that body for. It's sins of omis-
sion and commission were many; it's
works, in advancement of the inter-
ests of the people and of the nation,
few and far between. Brought into ex-
1stence upon the summit of wave of
progressive reform; given power up
on promises plainly and definitely ex-
pressed, it demonstrated. incapacity
from the beginning and deliberately
repudiated in numerous instances poll
cies and principles it was elected to
promote and maintain. It produced
tariff law that fails to secure the reye-
nues needed for sound administration
OF the country's affairs, and it enacted
levy for taxes in a time of profound
peace. Need we go farther than this
as an evidence Of it's weakness, inca.
pacity and failure to grasp the require
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-03
OUR NEED OF JuxTAPosITIon.
(From the Boston Guardian.)

g (From the Boston Guardian.)
That we much rather be, and asso
ciate among ourselves, is saying by
Colored Americans that has become
almost trite. That is mistake; it
is feeling of avowed cowardice and
innate inferiOrity. 1t 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
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 antagonisn in leaps
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
for 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, confiscation and loss of
property, anti-intermarriage- is
800 " eAAO OAe@SAOSI PAOV06 VI &0S46.
lation, 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 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
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 preju.
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-
T1CE JUXTAPOsfTION.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-03
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-03
NEARLY 100 WANT JOBS.
President has Long List of Applicant.

President has Long List of Applicants
for Johnson's Place.
only ~ persons has signified direct
~ or indirectly, their willingness to
hold the Office of recorder of deeds
for the District of Columbia. A list of
the names is now before the President.
No ladies are in the list.
The District has been without a re-
corder since last summer when Lin.
coin Johnson, resigned, following a
gentle hint from the White House.
Following are the names of those
who want the job:
J: R. Anderson, J. E. Brodie, Norris
3. Clarke, Alfred B. Cosey, J. J. Crane.
Johnson $. Cravens, John w. Davis. ].
A. Dickson, Burton T. Doyle, Charles
l.. Ebaugh, c. H. Eberle, J. L. Ed.
monds, II. &. Evans, Joseph R. Fague.
B. T. Foster.
Carey S. Frye, Emmanuel M. Hew-
lett, James T. V. Hill, Richard R.
Horner, Giles B. Jackson, w. D. John.
son, John H. Kelly, J. w. Paisley, A.
A. Mathis, Richard S. Mitchell, Benja-
min F. Lee, William Cranch McIntire
Christian J. Goeckeler, George D. Sem.
KEN. ]. P. Kaufman.
Robert w. button, w. H, Holloway
Bernard ]. Brown, R. w. Nash, s. L.
Moore, J. J. Lightford, Jr.; G. w. Nc
Bath, William A. Orme, A. F. jenkins.
Rev: R. B. Ronin, Prof. D. R. Stokes,
L. G. Bailey, James D. Sneed. W. IT.
Nelson, William r. Page.
Charles E. Lane, Edward Beckham.
James B. Lloyd, Walter s. Mccarthy.
John I. Martin, Walter F. Miller, D. J.
Mohler, Paul w. Pope, Frank w. Reed
Jerome R. Riley, James A. Ross, James
Schooler, Horace Spencer, William W
Still, Rufus s. Stout.
J. L. F. Talton, julius F. TAYLOR. r.
Il. Tyson, J. NJ Underwood, W. Z. Ven.
able, DR.. J. Milton Waldron, L. G. War.
held, Robert L. Preston. William n
Gross. John B. Colpoys, Wilbur r
Cleaver, D. G. Brantley, J. T. Dayen.
port, William J. Dryer, Prof. " q
Reynolds. W. f.
Sully Jaymes. G. w. Tanner. Maurice
Lyon, 7. R. Knox, Lee Crandall. James
W. II: Howard, Charles w. Lancaster
Rev. George c. Clements, Rev. 4 Fran.
els Lee, DR.. A. II. Weathers. w w
woodward, DR.. Lewis A. Grifith CHI.
ford H. Plummer, Rev. R. B. Robinson
Adam E. Patterson, and William p
Morton.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-03
Before | the First
Easter Day
N Palm Sunday each year the
minds Of millions of Chris
~ tians the world over are occu.
pied with thoughts of scene

Nm RAIN Sunday each year the
minds Of millions of Chris
W tians the world over are occu.
pied with thoughts Of scene
in Jerusalem.
On the eastern spur of the Mount of
Olives lies the little town of Bethany,
a few furlongs away from Jerusalem
On the memorable morning of his en-
trance into the city Jesus secured near
Bethany the donkey upon which he
made his memorable journey to Jeru.
salem. The occasion was the feast of
the Passover, and pilgrims from Cali.
lee and eastern Judea, the localities in
which his ministry had been perform.
ed, accompanied him upon the journey
AS they beheld him riding on an ass
(the royal beast in the days of David
the hopes Of the multitude were sud-
denly revived. Quickly the news of
his coming spread through the long
lines Of pilgrims. Those ahead tore
palm branches from the trees by the
wayside, while others spread their gar
ments and cloaks along the way on
which he was to pass, while they all
Joined in a triumphant song:
Hosanna to the son Of David!
Blessed Is he who cometh in the name of
the Lord!
Hosanna In the highest!
Slowly the procession came around
the southern end Of the Mount of
Olives, with the gorge Of the Kedron
to the south, until the wonderful city
Of Jerusalem burst into view. Then,
descending into the valley, Jesus en-
tered the city through this gate in the
midst of a cheering multitude of peo-
pie, who waved their palm branches
before him. Lust as the sun was set
ting behind the hills he found his way
to the temple. He sought not wait
ing throne, but quiet place for wor-
ship. Then in the hush Of the even
ing, refusing to give any encourage
ment to the selfish material hopes Of
the populace, he quietly returned to
his humble home in Bethany.
The gate, as we see it today, is en-
tirely sealed. Many hundred years
after Christ mad passed through it the
city fell into the hands Of the Turks,
and it was their belief and fear that
our Lord Jesus was about to return
and re-enter the city through this
gate. It was not their will that he do
this, and they believed that by sealing
it up in this manner his coming would
be prevented, and so it remains to this
day, the Sealed Golden gate, the most
remarkable and interesting Biblical
landmark in the world
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-03

two men, one black the other white,
that will be waged in Havana mex,
Monday, when Jack Johnson, the
heavyweight champion, will defend
his title against the white hope"
Jess Willard. And the effects of this
battle, no matter which is victorious,
will be as far reaching as any engage
ment that may occur among the war
ring nations on that day. We do not
care rap which one wins or loses,
from pugilistic standpoint.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-03
"BACK TO THE FARM"

The cry Of "Back to the farm"
should now be changed to Back to
the ballot" The ballot is about the
only thing that will check these out
rageous assaults upon the constitu-
tional rights Of the colored people in
this country.
The foregoing is from the Richmond
Planet and there is more common
sense in those seven lines than is usu-
ally printed In seven columns Of the
average paper. Editor Mitchell has
certainly struck the key note Of the
cause Of the trouble.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-03
SAVAGE GEORGIA WHITES.

The Atlanta Constitution has for
years filled it's columns with false
stories Of the lawlessness of the
colored people and has caused the
lynching of many innocent men and
| women.
The Constitution now comes for
ward with true story of white
savagery, which is so remarkable that
we reprint it in full
The strangest part of this strange
tale is that it is not fictional story
Of the remnants of primeval race in
strange and distant land, spun, per-
haps, by the weird fancy of Jack
London, but that it happened in the
civilized land of Georgia. It is the
experience of Robert S. McCord, of
the Georgia Children's Home Society,
as told by himself.
He brought to Atlanta the other day
from the hills of Floyd county four
small children-the youngest AZ and
the eldest years, and he placed in
a public hospital another suffering
from sciatic rheumatism and the loss
of toe.
This is the story:
There came to Mr.. McCord reports
of two mothers and five children liv-
ing in restitution verging upon saw
agery in an unfrequented section of
Floyd county. With the sheriff of
Floyd county Mr.. McCord went to in
vestigate. ...-. -.....,
Back up in the hills they found the
home-a crude arrangement of tat
tered tent cloth, logs, and mud, built
by the hands of the two mothers who
lived there with their brood of five.
The older of the mothers was just
In the prime of her years, but already
bent with the toll of a lifetime. The
younger was only 16 years, her child
being about years old.
The children, clad in meager
stretches of cloth, skittered, like chip
hunks, in and out of tho gaping holes
Of the improvised structure. Their
mothers squatted near an open fire
burning several feet distant from the
hut under battered tin boiler in
which all their food was cooked.
The jargon of the mothers was so
illiterate that it was barely intellig-
ible. When it was understood that
the newcomers were there for the pur-
pose of carrying away the children,
the mothers went mad with rage.
The eldest snatched away from him
the child Mr.. McCord was leading by
the arm to big automobile that stood
in the roadway She flew at his
throat, screaming incoherently. The
other members of his party were a
considerable distance away. The
younger mother snatched from inside
the crude hut, single-barreled shot
gun, and leveled it upon the associa-
ton officer. The sheriff struck the
gun from her hands before it was dis
charged
The officials were compelled to sub
due both women before the children
could be safely removed. .
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-03
DANCING IN CHURCH.
Forms a Part of the Easter Services
In the Cathedral of Seville.

This cathedral at Seville has the dis
tinction Of being the only church in
Christendom where dancing forms any
part Of any ceremony or service. Here
q dance called the "Dance of the
Seises," is performed before the high
altar during holy week. 1t is in imita-
ton Of the dance Of the Israelites be-
fore the Ark Of the Covenant, and even
in Spain is of very ancient origin. I'm.
agine the cathedral on such an occa.
sion crowded with people, seated and
standing. In front of all the others are
several rows Of priests and church dig
nitaries, all in gorgeous vestments;
who inclose fair sized open place
before the high altar. A piece of car
pet covers the marble floor, on either
side Of which stands a row of. boys from
eight to twelve years of age, dressed
like Spanish gentlemen Of the middle
ages, with white stockings and large
plume In the hat. At signal from a
priest the soft music Of violins breaks
the profound silence Of the church and
the boys proceed to execute several
pretty and graceful figures. Later they
join in a gentle and harmonious song,
which in the obscurity Of the vast ca
thedral sounds like a choir of angels,
and finally they accompany dance and
song with their castanets.
Two centuries and over ago an arch
bishop Of Seville desired to put an end
to this ceremony, thinking it unbe-
coming the church and the Master in
heaven. But the people Of Seville
thought otherwise and were deter
mined not to give it up without strug-
gle. The case was finally appealed to
Rome. The pope of that day, think
ing to appease the people of Seville and
at the same time put an end to the
dancing, gave his permission for the
ceremony to be continued on condition
that the dance should be given up as
soon as the suits, which the boys then
had, were worn out. What resulted +?
The suits have never been worn out,
From time to time they have been
skillfully repaired with piece here
and piece there, and now, after two
centuries, the suits are still as good as
new, and the dance is still given.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-03
SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1915
IMAM OF NEGRO ORIGIN"

WAN VI NE0nO OHl0lN.
The st. Paul Pioneer Press publish.
es daily a department headed, "Mail
to the Editor" in which there is al
ways something good. One day this
week the following communication ap-
peared:
Zone of your recent contributors to
the Mail Bag makes 'pithecanthropos
erectus' the Adam of the human fami-
ly. But according to such well-known
authorities as Prof. Augustus H. Kean
of the London University, in his Eth
nology' and Man, Past and Present.
Prof. Giuseppe Sergi, professor of an
thropology at the University of Rome,
Italy, in his work on The Mediterra-
mean Races and our own Prof. Will.
lam 2. Ripley, in his work on Races
of Europe DR.. Brinton, in his Races
and Peoples as we'll as other schol-
ars versed in this department of
knowledge repudiate the hypothesis
postulated by the older scientists, and
advocate the following pronounce
ments as most worthy of the consider
attn of the scholars learned in the
science of anthropology:
First-The present races of Europe
are mere offshoots of primitive race
now extinct. This extinct race was an
off-shoot of an African or Negro race,
who migrated from Africa into Europe
during the glacial and preglacial peri
cd. Homo sapiens,' homo heidelber-
gensis,' neanderthalensis,' 'loanthro-
pos and all other early European tro-
glodytes had an African, therefore
Negro origin.
Chancellor David Starr Jordan of
Leland Stanford university virtually
says ditto to the conclusions of Ripley,
Kean, Sergi and others. And as re-
CARDS the 'Aryan race of the high
schoolroom, why, the science of eth
nology can find no trace of it's exist.
ence. The word 'Aryan' means light,
learning, culture, education in the
arts, science and industries. It is a
linguistic and not an chronological
term. Theosophical writer's and thee.
sophical literature claim that the Ang.
lo-Saxon, Celt, Dane, Teuton and the
inhabitants Of the United States are
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-03
Of the republic?"

NO, unless you would call the atten-
ton of the country to the mistreat,
ments of the loyal old soldiers and
Afro-Americans in the departments at
Washington, D. c., and elsewhere in
the federal service, at home and
abroad; and the patronizing, in every
way, of former traitors, ex-Confeder-
ates, by the Wilson administration
which, of course, includes the South
ern Democratic Sixty-third congress.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-03
ri, Point Of Interest.

"Will you be kind enough to re-
move your hat, madam" the usher
asked at the summer t9eater in an
unstagy whisper.
why should To- the woman asked.
There Is nobody behind me. Who
wants me to take my hat or"
THAT man back there"
'.'But it doesn't obstruct his view Of
the stage. am three seats to the
right Of him.
''That is true, ma'am. but you cut
OF his view Of the women In the
right lower box That seems to BE-
what he is interested In"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-03

Do not be satisfied with Jim crow
accommodations in any public place.
1t is criminal for a colored man to
advocate separate public schools, sep
arate public libraries, separate public
play grounds or separate public insti-
tutions of any kind. There can not
be two standards Of citizenship in a
republic.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-03

For long time now, the terrible
war that is being .waged between
eleven nations, has been the all alb
sorbing thing everyday. But the in
terest in the battles of the nation
will surely have to give way, for
few hours, to the fistic battle betwee
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-03

mere surfaces Of the great root. race
which was negroid in character and
color. so that the Negro is the true
ancestor of man. and mans primitive
home was somewhere in Africa"
Pithecanthropos.
Whoever he may be, he evidently
knows something of his subject and
he will cause some of the hide bound
colorphobists to sit up and take no.
tice. So mote it be.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-03
How to Dye Eggs.

If you will save the dry, brown skins
from onions and boil the eggs with the
onion skins long enough for the eggs
to be hard you will obtain beautifully
dyed Easter eggs Of various shades of
brown, with no taste Of the onion and
no danger Of poison, as from some 9th
er dyes Woman's Home Companion.