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The Appeal., 1915-05-08

A writer in Liberty" published
quarterly in Washington, D. c., under
the caption, "The Inalianable Rights
OF Man," presents some incontrovert-
able facts, viz: "Governments were
ordained to protect the natural rights
OF men and not to deprive any man
OF his rights. + So IAN upright.
honest citizen should enjoy equal
rights with every other citizen, ire.
spective Of numbers, creed, or color
before the law of the land. Equality
OF rights is the first of rights, and in
the sight of the law there should be
no respecter of persons, whether he
be king or pope, nobleman or peasant,
rich or poor, Christian, Jew, or infidel,
red white or black. The right of
choice is divine, and every man should
be protected in it's free exercise so
long as the exercise of his choice does
not interfere with the equal rights of
his neighbour If all the people
thought as does the writer of the ar.
ticle and lived up to his ideals then
this might to be justly called the
Land of the Free"
The Appeal., 1915-05-08
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 a man whose ancestors for many
generations is not an American, who
is entitled to the name? If a white
man can become an American in two
generations, why should 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
mas gone so far that it is impossible
so does the writer.
determine with any degree Of accu.
racy who has Negro blood and who
has not, and for the Government to
select about 1O,0o0,00o 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 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. T..
If the Government contention that
every person with drop of Negro
blood is Negro, then the Census
figures are false. Instead of about
100000, there are really nearer 90,-
100000 or in other words, the majority
of Americans are Negroes, and AMER,
ICA IS NOW A NEGRO NATION.
The Appeal., 1915-05-08

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. ]. 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 1T was found that
not a 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 a whip
ped dog. 49,
The Appeal., 1915-05-08

100000 people satisfaction, in Gods
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 I lay before
you is not only reasonable and just,
but 1t Is program of peace and pa
tience, 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.
spa1r, there can be no surrender, there
can be no defeat as long as colored
man draws breath in America"
The Appeal., 1915-05-08
OUR NEED OF JUx1APosI7IoN
(From the Boston Guardian

rom the Boston Guardian,)
Ihat we much rather be, and asso
clate among ourselves, is a saving bv
Co1ored Americans that has become
almost trite. That is a mistake: il
Is a feeling of avowed cowardice and
innate lnteriority. It is an utter i'm.
posslbllitay for the two races to suh-
scribe to common government, and
at the same time, each race work out
Its own salvation. The theory" has
been tried and resulted into a ehast1v
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
lor US to do is to get property and
other rights will inevitably follow
we have followed this 'advice" faitl1-
FULLY and have been rewarded in
terms OF residence segregation, street
segregation, contiscation and loss of
anti-intermarriage-which is
all of the blacklist pieces of lesis-
!atlon, since that it leaves our women
defenseless and at the mercy of white
Drutes - 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
or effontry and terrible legislation
with which our property is taken and
contlscated, with this same effontrv
and legislation will our political and
manhood rights be taken from us,
rhat Is a fact. Every congress of.
fers legislation degrading and mimi.
cal to our we'll being. Race preiu.
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
WIZ MUST WELCOME AND PRAC-
T1CE JUXTAPOSITION.
The Appeal., 1915-05-08
Race prejudice is an expensive
proposition for those who indulge in
II
AN INFAMOUS THING.


It is an Infamous thing for the gov
ernment of this great republic to draw
the color line in any way. In a re-
public every citizen should have ex-
actly the same status so far as the
government is concerned.
1t is wrong, unjust and un-American
for the government to segregate it's
clerks by color in the Departments
in Washington, and it is also wrong, un-
just and un-American for the govern
ment to issue separate and inaccu-
rate Census Bulletin as it has done in
the case of the bulletin, Negroes in
the United States"
One instance of the inaccuracy is
the statement that it is the work of
NEGRO clerks" The editor of THE
APPEAL has known two of the clerks
mentioned for many years and is we'll
aware of the excellent records they
had made before the census segrega-
tion scheme was evolved These two
gentlemen are mixed bloods, one be-
ing a. blonde, at least three-fourths
white. He should not be called
Negro" because he is not Negro"
but colored man.
Call him a colored man if it is alb
solutely necessary to call attention to
the fact, but it would be better for
the country and for all the people if
he and all other people were called
Americans. That's the correct name
for all persons born in the United
States.
The Appeal., 1915-05-08
PASTOR ABBOTT'S SLUSH.

Old man Lyman (well named) Alb
bott, 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 pulpit in
Illinois and said: "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. 1t 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-
tions to the general rule. Many; mas.
own offspring for sale and in time the
| ters made practice of breeding their
raising of children for the slave mar.
kets became a 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 di-
rectly aiding immortality. The white
South has in every way endeavored
to humiliate and degrade it's 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
lnqu1sition; read the story of the
French Revolution; read of. Russia's
persecution of the Jews; read of CIV
The Appeal., 1915-05-08
REFUSES TO BE INsULTEp!
Even in the Name Of Christianity-l
Young Man Shows Manhood and
independence When a Y. M. C.
A. Conference Draws s.
CoIor-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
Tor 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
ought to want to eat with his own
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
hve miles on an empty stomach
when he reached the city limits he
boarded a 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 ins1stent invitations.
The Appeal., 1915-05-08
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
The Appeal., 1915-05-08
WALLER AGAINST "NEGRO"
Noted Brooklyn Doctor Says 1t Causes
Mental and Physical Segregation.
(FrOm Amsterdam NeWs)

Mental and Physical Segregation.
(From Amsterdam News.)
Editor Amsterdam News:
Sir: I 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
lze that 1t is the most potential fac
tor at work at the present to bring
about both physical and mental
segregation of the people of color. It's
use is on the. increase only because
our speakers and writer's, especially
Do Bois 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.
b.. 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-f1y, Negro-monkey, are all clear.
ly, in their associations, degrading.
d. It's 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
cullne term.
e. It has been the word used by 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."
T. It is not differentiated in the mind
and thought of the whites from their
favorite and generally used (among
themselves) terms, "Nigro" and mig
ger"
g. AS stated by an eminent japanese
diplomat it has an unquestioned in
fluence In cutting us off from the
thought, sympathy and co-operation
OF the millions of colored Africans. Ash
atics and Islanders of the Yonder
world.
Very truly yours,
OWEN M. WALLER, M. D.
The Appeal., 1915-05-08

It is notorious fact that in spite of
Pan-American congresses, long-winded
editorials in American newspapers,
etcetera, the United States is far be-
hind Germany, Great Britain, France
and Spain so far as trade in Latin
America is concerned.
A book by A. Wyatt Verrill on
South and Central American Trade
Conditions Of Today" recently issued
by Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, has
this to say under the heading, "Why
Americans Fall"
Race or religious prejudice, con-
descension, discourtesy or bluff have
no place in Spanish America. The
Latin-American is gentleman first,
last and all the time. He has never
acquired our habit of being a gentle
man in private life and boor in
business and he expects others to be
as courteous as himself and if they
are not he judges them accordingly.
He may be white, brown, yellow or
black, but he remembers that one of
his ancestors was probably plumed
grandee of Old Spain. You may scoff
at his ideas, you may laugh at his
faith, you may curse at the "lazy
Greasers," and through it all he may
smile, treat you with respect and po-
likeness and greet you with express
sions of the greatest pleasure, but in
his heart he despises you for an ILL
bred yankee pig" and thanks God
that he is of Spanish blood.
On the other hand treat the Latin
American with courtesy, praise the
buildings and industry Of his town,
admire his beautiful women, visit his
places of interest, and speak his Ian
guage and you may command respect,
admiration and true friendship and
every entertainment and comfort will
be yours
THE APPEAL has printed number
of editorials along this line showing
that Americans have lost millions of
dollars through their jimcrow methods
and it is great satisfaction to have
this view upheld by great authority
thoroughly familiar with conditions.
The Appeal., 1915-05-08
Must Judge a Group by Its Best.
(from the Christian Register, Boston,
M9csl

Must Judge A Group by Its Best.
(f'rom 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 well 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
VINO nave 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
90 not know, or, knowing, do not
enter into and appreciate; they know
capabilities by direct contact with the
pest OF the race which others are obli-
vlous 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., 1915-05-08

equal in blackness what Southern
white people have meted out to their
own sons and daughters to their own
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
brothers and sisters, who are of a
slightly darker hue.
1t is the blacklist page in the annals
of the world.
The Appeal., 1915-05-08

rel re together and sing praises with
slege-guns to their own little foolish
national souls, and rain bombs m
eacn others naves, take nv stand
ny the great bells ringing in their
towers, by the souls Of their noets
opsfiiolng ons the years, by the prayers
sn anat songs OF their heroes, artists. in.
ventors, Dy the mothers and the little
we are all in the same world. We
are all alike. I will not say of anv
one nation what will not saw of the
others; and will not say of any man
~hat | will not say of myself.
The Appeal., 1915-05-08
Shun Them Like Vipers,

(From the Martinsburg PioneeryPress)
Just as long as the negro believes
"he has a place." and is constantly
jerking off his hat when out of it, he
will be the cause of many others en-
during hardships forever and aye. AS
long as certain class of whites take
to this class Of sycophants, the more
rigidly those who wear their sover-
eighty under their own hats, should
denounce, discard and shun them as
they would viper.
The Appeal., 1915-05-08
Each Victory Encourages.
(From the Martinsburg Pioneer-Pres

F'rom the Martinsburg Pioneer-Press)
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., 1915-05-08
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The Appeal., 1915-05-08
OF One Blood.

(Gerald Stanley Lee in Mount Tom.)
| am human being. 1 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 a
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 glows through us all
Wagner and Shakespeare, Tolstoi and
Moliere! Though the cathedrals quar-.
The Appeal., 1915-05-08
Right You Are.
(From the Amsterdam News.

tFrom the Amsterdam News.)
Young man! Young woman! In
Whatever position, in whatever sphere
OF life, whatever your attaipments
Whatever your past accomplishments
whoever and whatever you are, if Won
are not DISCONTINUED YOU ara
lost! "" oio
The Appeal., 1915-05-08

Well, what do you think Of that?
President Wilson has officially compli.
mented the officers and men of the 9th
and 10th Calvalry for their good work
in patroling the Mexican border dur
ing the engagements between the Mex
ican forces.
The Appeal., 1915-05-08
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
euiIIotines decide our least disputes.
The few who dare must speak and
speak again to right the wrongs Of
many.-EIIa Wheeler Wilcox.
The Appeal., 1915-05-08

The word negro" applied to the
majority of the colored people is just
as much of lie after it has been
capitalized as it was before. Be
Americans.