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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-24
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 navy: "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??, 1915-04-24
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THE DEMISE OF THE SExTY-THlRD
CONGRESS,
ncinnati Enquirer (Dem.):

\S11lCuludLl EuQulr6T (D6n.).
"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-
lstence upon the summit of a wave of
progressive reform; given power up
on promises plainly and definitely ex-
pressed, it demonstrated incapacity
from the beginning and deliberately
repudlated in numerous instances poll
cles and principles it was elected to
promote and maintain. It produced a
tariff law that fails to secure the reve-
nues needed for sound administration
OF the country's affairs, and it enacted
a 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
ments 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??, 1915-04-24
CENSUS SEGREGATION.

Negroes in the United States" is
the title of 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.
The United States assumes that a
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.
If man whose ancestors for many
generations is not an American, who
is entitled to the name? If white
man can become an American in two
generations, why should a 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
determine 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.
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 suffixes.
If the Government contention that
every person with a drop of Negro
blood is a Negro, then the Census
figures are false. Instead of about
100000, there are really nearer co.
100000 or in other words, the majority
of Americans are Negroes, and AMER,
ICA IS NOW A NEGRO NATION.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-24
Must Judge A Group by Its Best,

Must Judge A Group by Its 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
class. We compare many persons
who live in the South, and think thew
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 say that
the second knew the colored people
better than the first They know aspi.
ratlons among them that the others
40 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.
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??, 1915-04-24
REFUSES TO BE INSULTED!
Even in the Name Of Christianity-b
Young Man Shows Manhood and
independence When Y. m. c.
A. Conference Draws
Color-l line,
cleveland Gazette.)

cleveland Gazette.)
Louisville, Ky.-Despite the fact
that he had been invited and urged
to attend Y. M. C. A. conference of
employed men of that organization,
Mr.. Theodore Pettyjohn, physical d.
rector of the Colored branch, was
asked into the kitchen when the call
for dinner was sounded. Following
his guide from the main dining room,
prepared for the other conferees, back
to the kitchen, Mr.. Pettyjohn politely
informed the lady that he would not
eat. He turned his back on the vic
tuals prepared for him and walked out.
He then looked up the gentleman who
had insisted on his being at the con.
ference and told him a few things.
The gentleman tried to defend him
self by telling Mr.. Pettyjohn that he
people and that Booker T. Washing
ton ate in kitchens. Mr.. Pettyjohn,
seeing that the Christian" could not
understand the principle of the mat
ter, left the conference and walked
five miles on an empty stomach
when he reached the city limits he
boarded car. At this conference all
present sat in the same room, read
the same Bible, declared Christ and
his teachings were the salvation of all
men, and yet when the dinner bell
rang, Christ and his teachings were
forgotten. Mr.. Pettyjohn was the only
colored delegate and fearing some un-
pleasantness = although it was a
"Christian" conference-Only attended
after two insistent invitations.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-24
WALLER AGAINST "NEGRO"
Noted Brooklyn Doctor Says 1t Causes
Mental and Physical Segregation.
(FrOm Amsterdam News

Noted Brooklyn Doctor Says 1t Causes
Mental and Physical Segregation.
(From Amsterdam News)
Editor Amsterdam News:
Sir: l 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 a physical and mental
segregation of the people of color. It's
use is on the increase only because
our speakers and writer's, especially
10 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.
TOR anything noble or uplifting. Most
hlgh-grade Africans repudiate it.
o. IN Africa and out of Africa it was
never applied to the higher types, but
to Guineas, Sudanese and Senegam-
bians only.
C.. Its derivatives, "Negroism," me
groty," and it's compounds, Negro-head,
Negro-fl y, Negro-monkey, are all clear.
~, IN their associations, degrading.
d. 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. 1t has been the word used bv 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."
+. 1t is not differentiated in the mind
and thought of the whites from their
favorite and generally used (among
themselves) terms, MICRO" and "Nie-
ger" H..
g. AS stated by an eminent Japanese
diplomat it has an unquestioned in
huence in cutting us off from the
thought, sympathy and cooperation
of the millions of colored Africans. ASH
atics and Islanders of the Yonder
world.
Very truly yours,
OWEN M. WALLER, M. D.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-24
name what will it take to make them

name what will it take to make them
fight?
As-for, me and those that think
with me, so long as one black man in
the United States is illegally punished
or unjustly treated or has the door of
opportunity closed in his face we will
protest and complain and protest
again whether the world wants to hear
us or not. We may not gain our ends.
We may not in our days realize our
ideals. But the program lay before
you is not only reasonable and just,
but it is a program of peace and pa
thence, and in laying it down l face
the awful fact that in this as in all
great causes, if peace and patience
cannot win, then war and struggle
must In any case there can be no de.
spair, there can be no surrender, there
can be no defeat as long as colored
man draws a breath in America
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-24
THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG.

For many years the South has op-
posed higher education and is not gen.
orally in favor of any kind of educa-
ton for the masses, and to suggest
that colored person ought to receive
a classical education is sufficient to
throw southerner into Mysteries.
There's a reason. '' t. a. 49,.
Rev. George H. Atkinson, president
of the Albemarle Norman and Indus
trial Institute, Albemarle, N. c., is
now in the North raising funds" as
so many other Southern beggars of
various colors have done, prior to Rev.
Atkinson's arrival In a recent speech,
the reverend gentleman said:
1--WE believe if you educate a man
in the South he will become dissatis-
fed and move to the North, where op.
portunities seem to be more numer-
Gus. His education, therefore, does
not help the South.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-24

A remarkable event took place in
the Illinois Senate recently. The bill
prohibiting the intermarriage of white
and colored people, introduced by Sen.
ator Coleman a Southern Illinois
statesman had been referred to the
committee of the whole and was about
to be discussed. Rev. A. J. Carey,
pastor of the Institutional Church, Chi.
cago, was in Springfield on business
and Senator Daley of Peoria, ar
ranged to have him address the Sen
ate on the bill, which he did with so
much logic and eloQuence that when
the roll was called it was found that
not single vote had been registered
in it's favor. After Rev. Carey's ad-
dress no one had the temerity to de-
fend the bill and before the vote was
taken the author of the Infamous leg
islative proposition slipped out of the
Senate Chamber looking like whip
ped dog
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-24
SATURDAY, APRIL "a, 1915.
PASTOR ABBoTT's sLUsH.

Old man Lyman (well named) Alb
bolt, one of the worst enemies the
colored people have ever had and
whose record as giver out Of mis-
leading information about racial con-
ditions is Al, is out west again hand.
ing out some more slush.
Recently he stood in a pulpit in
Illinois and said: 1.-THE South has ir-
revocably decreed against the mixture
OF the white and black races" The
statement is Abbottesque and like
many of the half truths he is wont to
utter.
If DR.. Abbott had stated that the
South has decreed that there should
be no lawful mixing of the races he
would have been nearer the truth.
The South, that is the white South is
not opposed to racial admixture, but
being at heart thoroughly immoral it
insists that the mixing be done in an
illegal manner.
The mixing which has already been
accomplished was started by the white
South. It began in the days Of slav-
cry, when the white master forced the
black slave women to bear children,
who followed the condition Of their
mothers and became slaves. A few
masters manumitted their half breed
children, but they were the excep-
tons to the general rule. Many mas
tiers made practice of breeding their
own offspring for sale and in time the
raising of children for the slave mar
kets became recognized Southern
industry.
Since the abolition Of slavery, the
white South, claiming Christ as it's
guiding star, has enacted laws making
Christian marriage felony, thus d.
rectly aiding immortality. The white
South has in every way endeavored
to humiliate and degrade its colored
people the majority Of whom have
more or less Caucasian blood.
Search history through; read the
atrocities Of the barbarian invasians
Of the early days, read the barbar-
tiles of the Middle Ages; read OF the
Inquisition; read the story Of the
French Revolution; read Of Russia's
persecution OF the Jews; read Of CIV
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-24
OUR NEED OF JUxTAPosITloh.
From the Boston GuardianD

(f'rom the Boston Guardian.)
That we much rather be, and asso
ciate among ourselves, is a saying by
Colored Americans that has become
almost trite. That is a mistake: il
is feeling of avowed cowardice and
innate inferiority. 1t 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 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, con6scation and loss of
property, anti-intermarriage is
all of the blacklist pieces of legis.
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 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 U.s.
That is 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-
TICE JUXTAPOSITION.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-24

Paul Runganadhan, a native of Ban.
galore, India, presided at the diner
given recently by the 1915 Glass" of
the w. S. D. Y: M. G. A. at Chicago.
The Chicago Y. M. C. A. is greatly
interested in breaking down caste in
India. Money and men ar esent to
break down this insidius foe in far
off India and when East Indians come
to Chicago, they are treated with
great consideration. The Y. M. C. A.
however, show that it is not entitled
to the name "Christian" by erecting
and maintaining jimcrow branch for
colored Americans. Away with such
Christianity.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-24
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-24

ilized CD Europe's rape of Africa;
read the horrors of the Christians
war now devastating Europe. Add all
of these together and they will not
equal in blackness what Southern
white people have meted out to their
own sons and daughters to their own
brothers and sisters, who are of a
slightly darker hue.
It is the blacklist page in the annals
of the world.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-24

rel together and sing praises with
siege-guns to their own little foolish
national souls, and rain bombs on
each others naves, take my 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??, 1915-04-24
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
guiI|otines decide our least disputes.
The few who dare must speak and
speak again to right the wrongs Of
@*',
many.-EIIa Wheeler Wilcox.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-24
OF One Blood. d.

Gerald Stanley Lee in Mount Tom.)
| am human being. I do not pro-
pose to be cooped up or shut in in nv
love and criticism to mere geographi.
cal streaks or spots of people on
planet. This planet is small enough
as it is, when one considers the
height and depth-the starry height
and depth-of the human spirit that
wavers and CLOVIS through us all
Wagner and Shakespeare, Tolstoi and
Moliere! Though the cathedrals quar-.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-24

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. i,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-24

On it's passage through the lower
house of the Pennsylvania state leg
islature, the civil rights bill, modelled
on the Levy law of New York, was
attacked by only one member, Repre-
sentative Baldwin of Delaware coun-
ty made many speeches in it's favor.
1t was passed by a vote of 1873 to "a.
Many representative colored men and
women from all parts of the state
we're on hand to aid it's passage.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-24

The colored people of Richmond,
Va, have started to fight segregation
They, have held meeting of protest
and are now raising money to pay
lawyers. y That's the way to do it.
This hellish segregation business must
be fought to a finish.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-24

The Turks killed few Christians
the other day and there was a great
howl about it, but when a mob of
Christians in Georgia murders a fam
lily of Christians of another color,
nothing is thought of it in this land
of alleged Christianity. ~ 49,.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-24
the MAN WHO pAREs

honor tho man who in the con-
scientious discharge Of his duty dares
to stand alone; the world, with ienor-
ant, intolerant judgment, may con-
denim, the countenances Of relatives
may be averted, and the hearts Of
friends grow cold. but the sense Of
duty done shall be sweeter than tho
applause Of the world, the .counten-
,ss
ances Of relatives or tho hearts of
nds.-chsrlss Summer.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-24

THE APPEAL has received notice
of the death on the 10Th inst, of Mrs.
Ann Dickson, aged 81, at Nashville,
Tenn. The deacesed was the beloved
mother of Rev. R. H. Boyd, D. D., Sec
rotary Of the National Baptist Publish.
ing Board, to whom we tender our
sympathy. Mrs. Dickson was a grand
old lady and was known as the grand.
ma of the National Baptist Publishing
House,