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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-02
SEGREGATION DENOUNCED.
Leading Daily Newspapers the Country the President for
conoonng the jim Grow Policy of the Southern Members of
His Cabinet.

ton or not. We had supposed. after
the investigations of last winter, that
the vicious policy had been checked:
we understood that it was to be aban.
dOned gradually. In numerous in.
stances the JimCrowing had, we know.
been stopped. The more discouraging
is 1t to find the President apparently
UNFOLDING what the World Justly calls
the foolish indiscretions of members
OF his Cabinet There was no gen.
ulne complaint as to the conditions
IN washington. Colored and white
EMPLOYEES had worked side by side
Tor fifty years. Some of them had
been appointed by Grover Cleveland
one OF his appointees to high place be.
ing the father of Mr.. Trotter, a veter-
an OF the Fifty-fifth Massachusetts.
But the Wilson Administration went
out OF its way to create the issue il
now deplores, and cannot see it's way
clear to admitting it's mistake and re-
Vertlng to the only defensible position
OF absolute equality in the Govern
ment service
The way to deal with race preiu.
dice in such matters is not to enhance
1t by yielding, but resolutely to con-
front it with refusal to give in. it
is surprising how often prejudice fades
away in given situation when it finds
itself wholly blocked 1t is even more
surprising how frequently it is merely
state of wind. Often there is no
objection whatever to the presence
OF colored people on the most familiar
terms, provided their position is clear
! ly stamped as mental; let them sud-
denly aspire to equal privileges, and
! those same people become at once too
offensive to be permitted to breathe
the same atmosphere. The situation
in Washington would be restored in a
tWinkling to the old and absolutely
satisfactory status if the highest
authority were simply to lay down the
law that there was going to be a
square deal for everybody in the de-
partments without the slightest dis
elimination; that there can be only
one class of public servants-all to be
treated with courtesy, consideration.
and absolute justice.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-02
NO JIM-cRoW GOVERNMENT.
(From the New York World

\NAOAAA Viz A>C" 1OTk WOrlQ.)
No President ever suffered more
from the foolish indiscretions of mem.
bers OF his Cabinet than has Mr.. Will
son. He had further illustration of
IL yesterday in his unfortunate inter-
view with a delegation of colored men
VINO called at the White House to pro-
test against the segregation of races
IN Government departments.
The President should have foreseen
this unfortunate issue when Mr.. Nc.
Adoo and Mr.. Burleson were carving
their color-line theories into demo-
cratic government. Mr.. Wilson told
the committee that there had been no
discrimination in the comforts and
surroundings of the colored clerks, but
explained that "he had been informed
by officials that the segregation had
been started to avoid friction between
the races, and not with the object of
lnJuring the colored men," The Presi-
dent failed to explain, nevertheless,
why no such rule had been considered
necessary until Mr.. Burleson and Mr..
McAdoo got into the Cabinet.
For narly half a century white
clerks and colored clerks have worked
side by side in the departments of
Washington, under republican and
under democratic presidents. The
World keeps itself fairly well informed
about Washington affairs, but the first
it ever heard of this alleged friction
to which Mr.. Wilson refers was when
Mr.. McAdoo began his Jim-Crow pro.
ceedlngs in the Treasury Department
The president thinks that this is
not a political question, but he is
wrong. Anything that is unjust, dis.
eliminating, and un-American in gov.
eminent is certain to be a political
question. Servants of the United
States Government, regardless of race
or color. For several years colored
man has been Collector of Internal
Revenue in New York. He never
found it necessary to segregate the
white employees of his department tc
prevent friction; yet he would have
had quite as much right to do so as
Mr.. McAdoo had to segregate the col
ored employees of the Treasury in
Washington.
While the Democrats of the coun
try have been irving to solve certain
great problems of government, few
Southern members of the Cabine1
have been allowed to exploit their
petty local prejudice at the expense OF
| the party's reputation for exact JUS
| tice.
Whether the President thinks so OF
not, the segregation rule was promul
gated as deliberate discrimination
| against colored employees
Worse still, it is a small, mean
petty discrimination, and Mr.. Wilson
ought to have set his heel upon this
presumptuous Jim-Crow government
the moment it was established. He
ought to set his heel upon it now. Il
is a reproach to his administration
and to the great political principles
which he represents.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-02
THE PRESIDENT AND THE
AFRO-AMERICAN.

IFT0m the Chicago Tribune.)
We are not ready to concede that
any body Of citizenship has less stand
ing under the law than any other. II
the south wishes to make any such
issue as this it will find that the
north, where there is prejudice, is
nevertheless restless when as a. part
OF the nation it is asked to declare that
the main principle of the nation is a
piece of hypocrisy and does not apply
where it is inconvenient
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-02
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-02

Jack Johnson was indirectly the
cause of a splendid but peculiar
funeral for Walter Campbell, an Afro
American barber of Little Rock, Ark,
this week. Just before the Johnson
Jefries fight Campbell made a wager
with the leading white undertaken of
the "City of Roses" that if Johnson
lost, that he would shave the under.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-02

The latest addition to the list of
Afro-American newspapers that has
reached our office is The Kansas City
Herald, which made it's advent No
vember %, with Bro. J. Silas Harris
as editor. 1t is six column folio,
is we'll gotten up and is handing out
some "hot stuff"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-02

who have a right to be treated by their
Government without discrimination.
The race affected had a right to be
heard in their own behalf and showed
a proper spirit in going directly to
the President with their grievance
We fear that the President has lost his
head. He is certainly not so happy in
these extempore statements, made un-
der the irritation that so easily besets
him as in his more studied deliver
ances which compel the admiration
even of his political opponents and
often skillfully covered up the falla-
cies of his reasoning character of the
policy he is commencing.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-02

President Wilson has nominated the
present Register of the Treasury,
Gabe e. Parker, to be superintendent
of the Five Civilized Tribes in Okla
homa, and the Senate has confirmed
the appointment. Who is to take
Parker's place we wot not.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-02
Superiors Never Burn Interiors.
Iparflond Aduncafal

A superior race will not lynch land
burn an inferior race simply because
they have the power. Terrible crimes
and brutalities will not be permitted
against human beings by superior
race and then seek to find eIse and
peace for an injured conscicnfe simp-
" on the basis of color.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-02
J. &. MiIhoIIand's CongratuIatcry Tel.
edram.

Philadelphia, Pa, Nov 13, 1914.
Mr.. VIM. Monroe Trotter, Race Lead.
er, The Guardian, Roston, Mass.
You have rendered great service.
That interview with the president is
memorable event in the history Of
the race struggle in America. You
were easily victor. Never has Mr.
Wilson appeared to less advantage. ]
congratulate you on such a display of
moral courage, answering loyalty and
genuine Americanism.
JOHN e. MILHOLLAND.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-02

taker free as long as he lived; and if
Johnson won and Campbell died and
furnish the best funeral possible
Johnson won and campbell died and
on last Tuesday the undertaken fur
nished the most costly casket in his
establishment, a dozen carriages and
an elaborate funeral for Campbell.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-02
The MAN WHO DAREs

! honor the man who in the con-
scientious discharge Of his duty dares
to stand alone; the world, with ignor-
ant, intoierant 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 the
applause Of the world, the ceunten-
ances Of relatives or che hearts Of
friends. Charles Summer.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-02

The Germans seem not to be
troubled as to the ultimate outcome of
the war being in their favor. The
Reichstag has just voted a new. war
tax credit of $3.50, 100000.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-04-01
TO SAVE SIGHT
Fugitive Pleads Guilty and Pays Fine
So That He Can Consult an
Eye Specialist.

NEW YORK. March 31.-To save
his eyesight. John T. Ehrgott. a fugi-
tive from justice since 1902, when he
was Indicted by the federal grand Jury
for participation in customs frauds.
came here from Yarmouth. Nova SEQ
tia, today promptly pleaded guilty and
paid fine OF 1000. 1T was a case
~ his staying in Canada and go blind
or coming here, pay the penalty and
then consult one OF New York's eve
experts, said Roger y. Wood. assist
ant United States district attorney. in
commenting on the case.
Ehrgott was charged with defraud
Ing the government out OF duties of
$4,000 on shipments OF high grade
beans from Canada.
When the indictment was returned
Ehrgott went TO Yarmouth. where he
prOspered About four years ago he
Was arrested in Boston and brought
here. and pending trial was released
on $4,000 cash bail He left the coun.
try, however. returning TO Canada and
forfeiting the bail Being told. when
his eyes began to fail. that only a New
York specialist could prevent him
from becoming blind. Ehrgott decided
TO return.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-04-01
WHEELING GIRLS
Score In Joint Recital In Boston-MIss
Eserter and Miss Bishop
Well Received

Special Dispatch TO the Intelligencer.
BOSTON, March 3i.-Two Wheel
ing musicians. Florence May Bishop.
pianist. and Eva Egerter. soprano. now
OF Paris and New York. gave a Joint
recital in Steinert Hall. Boston. Tues
day. evening. before a large and en-
thuslastic audience. Miss Bishop is a
graduate OF the 1913 class at the New
England Conservatory of Music, where
she has been a pupil OF DIR. J. Albert
Jenery. Miss Egerter studied singing
In Paris under several masters and
had expected. had not the European
war interviewed. to be heard in opera
this season.
feature OF the recital which the
two friends gave here was the first
performance OF a new Danse Polon-
aise by DR.. Jeffery. which was rend-
cred by Miss Bishop as the conclud-
ing number OF the program. Miss
Bishop also played Saint-Saens' Chan
son Napehtaine, a group of Symphonic
Etudes by Schumann and the Beethov-
en- Sonata, op. 81. no. 3.
Miss Egerter made a very favorable
impression through her Interpretation
OF Rimsky-Korsakow's Chanson In
dene. Grieg's I'm Kahne." and selec-
tions from Massenet. Salter, Spress
and Louis Victor Saar.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-04-01
SEND PROTEST
Mining Men Object 10 Villa order
Amending Rules Making confis-
cation Of Mines Possible

FL PASO. March 3l-A committed
OF mining men representing foreign.
owned corporations In northern Mcxi-
co to-day sent a protest TO the Sec
Rotary Of State against the action Of
the villa government In 80 amending
the old Federal mining law a.. they
consider 10 render operation OF min.
inE properties impossible and confsca.
ton probable.
a telegram received to-day from
Southern Mexico stated that all min
inr properties around Guanajuato In
the state ~ that name. ceased opera
t.ons last Monday because OF the de-
cree ~ the local authorities requiring
mining companies To- pay In E1d In
stead OF ln the current fiat money
The Guanajuato district is under
villa control and therefore. the urop-
critics are subject TO a clause OF the
new amendments 10 the mining law
rcuuirirr operation ~ an mines I2U
days from April ~ under penalty OF
possible coufscation.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-04-01
TWO SENTENCED
Defendants in Old Swindllna Case Get
Heavy Fines and a Term
In Prison

PHILADELPHIA. March 31.-Pris-
on sentences and fines were imposed
in the United States District court
here to-day on two OF the three re-
naming defendants indicted ten years
ago as conspirators IN the fraudulent
operations OF the Storey Cotton Com
pany. Thomas II. Quinlan. the last
OF the defendants TO De arraigned
pleaded guilty and will be sentenced
tomorrow. He was a brother OF
Oliver Quinlan who. under the name
OF Sorey. posed as the head OF the
concern, and was known as secretary
and treasurer. but was said to be only
a salaried employe.
The prisoners sentenced today were
Walter b. Riggs. a director who was
fined $500 and sentenced to a year
and a day in the penitentiary. and
Arthur c. Howard, one OF the com.
pany's agents who was given a like
prison sentence and med $500. They
were said TO have been comparative.
ly unimportant figures in the swindle
which defrauded investors out of a
million and half dollars before n
was exposed and ire leading promot.
ers arrested by postal inspectors.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-04-01
BAD SITUATION
May Arise Over Death Of American
Who Went Down When Germans
Sunk the FaIaba

WASHINGTON. March 3f.-While
no official notification OF the death OF
an American. Leon c. Thrasher. On
the British liner Falaba. sunk By the
German submarine. had reached he
American government today. officials
viewed the situation as fraught with
grave possibilities.
Secretary Bryan said he expected
Ambassador Page in London to sub
NIT a full report on the case. IL ad-
vices there confirmed reports of
Thrasher's death. but added that no
inquiries had been received by the de-
partment nor had any been made by
Mr.. Page. Officials generally were
not inclined to discuss the matter I'M
I'll some Official version OF the de-
struction OF the liner was received.
II Is known. however. that in view
OF the language OF the American note
inquiry In reply othe German mott
hcation Of a submarine hockade OF
England, the facts in this case will
be awaited with the greatest interest.
That note contained a plain warn
ing that the loss OF American lives
through the German program OF sink
ing merchant vessels would be view
ed as an unfriendly act
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-04-01
OPERATE ROAD
Canadian Government 70 Commences
Operation % Trans-ContinentaI
Road from New Brunsklek to
Manitoba.

OTTAWA. Ont. March 3l-The
Canadian government will al once be.
kin operating the trans-continental
railway on which steel has been laid
upon the whole route OF l.s0O miles
from Moncton. New Brunswick. 20
Winnipeg. Manitoba. Il was announc.
ed tonight. The company. for which
the line was built has declined 20 take
Il over at present.
The line was built BIZ the Canadian
government for the Grand Trunk Ia.
circ railway company. which signed
q contract 10 take II over for opera.
ton on completion. paying for nifty
years as rent three per cent on the
cost Of construction Work was start.
ed ten years ago. The route lies
through the wilderness TO the north
OF existing lines and settlement in
Canada. IL was built virtually without
grades and the construction through.
out was OF the most permanent char
acter. II has been called the hest
built road I'm the world. The coet
was s172.OOO.OO0
The Grand Trunk Pacific Company.
in declining TO sign the lease or begin
operating claims that terminals-at
Quebec have not been finished ana
that In other respects the road IS IN
complete. This the government dis
putes. II is to prevent the destruction
of the line by frost and flood that the
government proposes to inaugurate a
train service OF it's own.
Failure of the company to take over
the trans-continental led TO a bitter
discussion In parliament to-day.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-04-01
JAIL DELIVERY PULLED
OFF AT HARRISYILLE

Special Dispatch TO the Intelligence.
ELLENBORO. W. Va, March 81
successful jail delivery was pulled
on at Harrisville this week and Cole
man HaddoX. charged with a felony.
and Charles Beemer. who had but i've
days TO serve, are at liberty. With
the aid of monkey wrench. evident.
ly passed to them 10y outside friends.
the couple removed several iron bars.
making escape easy. The couple was
followed to Hughes river with blood.
hounds. as soon as the delivery was
discovered the following morning.
wheer tracks indicated that some one
had met the fugitives with horses and
assisted them TO make their escape.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-04-01
BROUGHT BACK
special Officers Arrive az Fairmont
With Six Men Charged With Muir
der at Termination

Special Dispatch Co the Intelligence
FAlRMONT. W. Va. March 81
Special Officers w r. Harris. Julius
Grotzinger and G. r. Hurst returned
from Pittsburgh tonight with six men
in charge. arrested as members OF the
rioters who murdered Constable Riggs
al Pennington month ago.
Three Of the men. Vincenzo Furci.
John Furci and Marcus Ferrie. were
arrested in Pittsburgh. two. Carlo
Marconich and John Cisco in Russell
town. Pa. and the sixth. John Go-up.
in Republic. Pa
Gorup was engaged to marry Min
ME Dursh. Pennington girl. early in
April and a letter he wrote TO her
caused his arrest in Republic. The
others were traved by detectives and
captured
All the men arrested are indicted
for murder
Two other men. Tony Gregory and
Ralph Gregory. were arrested in
Pennington charged with the same OF.
Tense today
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-04-01
YOST LAW YlOLATORS
ARE CAUGHT AT GRAFTON

Special Dispatch Co the Intelligence.
GRAFTON. W Va. Marcn 31.-Ed-
ward Msphis. with 10 gallons of whis-
ley and six bottles OF beer In a buggy
with his driver. was arrested by local
city and county officers last night In
the outskirts Of the city. on a war
rant charging violation of the Yost
prohibition law. The trial has not
yet been held. The officers say that
Maphis got the booze" in Oakland,
left the B. a. o. train at Lesmalinston.
just outside the city limits. and there
was met by the driver with the buggy
and brought on into the city The de.
PENDANTS claim that the liquor was la
beled I'm accordance with the provi-
sions OF the law.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-04-01
PROHIBITION
OF National Character May Be Adopt
ed 20 Cope Win Situation That
10 Menace 20 Government

LONDON. March 81. 10 p. m.-KIng
George has added his plea 20 that OF
the ship owners and. In some cases.
mat OF the LabOrites themselves. that
some vigorous measures be adopted
10 cope with tne question Of drunken
ness. which. II Is urged. Is having the
eject OF delaying the delivery OF
munitions OF war.
The king. has volunteered. ~ Il Il
considered avisable. personally to give
up the use OF all alcoholic liquors and
10 issue an order against their use In
the royal household. Such a notihca-
ton has been sent TO David LLOYD
George, the chancellor OF the exche-
quer. by the kings private secretary.
Lord Stamfordham.
The question OF drink and its ef.
feet on the work which is considered
necessary for the successful prose
cution OF the war oyershadows az the
present moment everything elee IN
public interest.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-04-01
EIGHTEEN INJURED
L. GAS EXPLOSION

SYRACUSE. y. Y, March 81
Eighteen men were injured. three
probably fatally. by an explosion OF
gases In the carbolic acid plant OF the
Semet-Solvey Company tonight
The force of the explosion was ter
rife. The brick and steel walls and
roof of the building. which was 200
feet deep. We're shattered and hun
dreds OF windows in the immediate
vicinity were broken. Residences on
the heights OF Syracuse. FIVE miles
distant. were shaken.
Officials estimate the property
damage at $4,000. They attributed
the explosion TO Spontaneous combus-
ton.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-04-01

HONOLULU. March 71.-Tests with
the specially built diving bell design.
ed FOR use in locating and raising the
United states submarine p lost az
the barber entrance since last Thurs
dav. with - men aboard have result
~ satisfactorily
The bell IL reported 10 have remain.
~ water TIGHT while submerged for
fourteen hours a. tho dock ~ d.
planned 10 submergo tho bell with "a
man inside for further tests before
lowering - AZ the point where the
fuh-arine r. said 20 have been Do.
Gated
The ben. DESIGNED by w. O. parts
a civilian engineer. is fftv.f0ur fpcb
iron pipe. seven feet high. fitted with
glass ports. telephone connections
with the surface and cir tubes.
Naval authorities believe that with
this bell the attachment ~ cables to
the submarines can be- directed sue.
cessfuIiy