The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-08-21

The answer is that the work of the
twenty-five has the approval of the
voting and controlling populace. The
answer is that the twenty-five did
what the people of Georgia and the
people of the South wanted done, and
did what the people of the South tol-
crate, defend, and advocate.
The South needs to feel that it's
code Of conduct is so primitive and so
brutal that it has involved the whole
country in disrepute. 1t has made the
American nation stand in world opin-
ion for inhumanI burning of convicted
or suspected persons, for passions
which cannot find expression nova
days among savages
The South needs brutal, uncom-
promising, even unjust denunciation.
1t needs one which will not even con-
slider the South's tremendous limita-
tons. 1t needs one which will not
stop to weigh and take account of
causes, but which will go directly to
the results and treat those results as
it they had no applicable cause.
What the South needs is a tongue
flashing and continued tongue lash
ing of the most violent kind. 1t needs
to feel isolated from the respect of
the nation which is compromised by
the acts it defends.
We do not say that the North is
free from the spirit which flares up in
the South. We know it is, not free.
The North is able to show an act of
violence for every one exhibited in
the South, but the North does not
condone them nor defend them, and
it does endeavor to get at the causes
which produce them.
The South needs every bitter word
which can be said against it. It needs
to know that when it parades the
sanctity of it's women it is making a
display Of something the rest of the
nation assumes and holds too high to
spend useless words upon Action,
not eloquence, is demanded of the
South.
The need is that it. feel it's disgrace
and correct so far as is humanity pos
sible the causes of bad government
and of bad thought which are ex-
pressed in the conditions it tolerates.
We are not ignoring the great prob
lem which it has in the Negro. We
simply assert that the. South has per-
mitted it's problem to work out to the
utter confusion of it's governmental
agencies and the confusion of it's 30
litical thought
1t must, if it is to rehabiltate and
degenerate itself, correct it's opinion
and stop exhausting itself in rhetoric
and damning itself by act. 1t must
put community lawfulness superior to
individual lawlessness.
1t is concern of the nation that the
southern states should re-establish
i themselves as respected units in a
union. And if nothing but abuse can
bring them to a realization that their
ways are unworthy of their traditions
and of the history of the American re-
public, then the abuse ought to be
given them until the tongue of the
abuser is tired, even if the SENSIBLE
ties of the abused cannot be hurt and
| the sense of the abused aroused.
THE APPEAL approves of every
word of the foregoing editorial from
the Chicago Tribune and wishes tc
add few words of excoriation of the
contemplate colored ours who contin
ually praise the southern people and
condone many of their Infamous acts
It is not only contemplate but Grim
inal. The extension of race prejudice
in the North has been greatly aided
! by these fends in human form who
have been paid in cash or the appella.
ton of good negro" to laud the brut-
, al. barbarous, unhuman, unchristiau