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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-15
REFUSES TO BE INsULTEp!
Even in the Name Of Christianity-A
Young Man. Shows Manhood and
Independence When a Y. M. c. +
A. Conference Draws a
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Louisville, Ky.-Despite the fact
that he had been invited and urged
to attend a. 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
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 car. At this conference all
present sat in the same room, read
the same Bible, declared Christ and
MS 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
Chrlstlan" conference-only attended
after two insistent invitations.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-15
SATURDAY, MAY IS, 1915.
"CHRISTIAN UNITY PERILED."

DR.. John R. Mott, general secre-
tary for foreign work of the Y. M. C.
A. is fearful that "Christian unity
whatever that is, will be periled by
the present war.
In a recent address at Los Angeles,
he said:
christian unity will be manned
hopelessly by this great war. In every
country taking part in the great con
f11ct I heard it called "holy war;
Christianity will be affected for at
least two generations and the Y. M.
G. A. and similar bodies in America
must lead in the redemption"
The Christianity of every country III
Europe is superior to the Christianit,
% OF the Y. M. c.. A. in America,
the principal mission of which seems
to be to mock Christ by drawing thu
color line and DR.. Mott will only max.
bad condition worse if he continues
to try to introduce the American
brand of Christianity into Europe.
Every style Of outrage which haA
been perpetrated in Europe was first
enacted by American Christians in the
United States. If Europe is to be re-.
deemed by American Y. M. C. A.
Christianity, God help it!
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-15

that the two persons responsible for
the near-riot were the policemen in
plain clothes, Dennis Harrington, who
punched Mr.. Trotter in the Jaw, and
especially the ticket-seller,. Mr.. Shee.
han, WHO drew the color line on
tickets. q
Judge Bracket denounced in severe
terms the color discrimination in SELL
ing to white people when they stopped
selling tickets at the approach of a
number of colored people in the lobby.
he said this was contrary to the equal
rights law of Massachusetts, and was
entirely wrong. He praised the COL
ored people as good citizens, said they
were entitled to justice and equality.
He criticized Mr.. Trotter for not
leading the people away even though
their rights were being denied. He
praised the conduct of the large color
ed audiences present at the trials.
Editor Trotter was found guilty of
assault upon an officer, fined and ap-
pealed the case, as he is innocent.
Rev. Fuller and Mr.. Trotter were
showered with congratulations.
E. P. Benjamin and c. G. Morgan
were their attorneys.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-15

man In private life and a 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 a 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 expires.
sions of the greatest pleasure, but in
his heart he despises you for an i'll.
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 a number
Of editorials along this line showing
that Americans have lost millions of
dollars through their jimcrow methods
and it is a great satisfaction to have
this view upheld by a great authority
thoroughly familiar with conditions.
Race prejudice is an expensive
proposition for those who indulge in
it.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-15
AN INFAMOUS THING.

1t Is an infamous thing for the gov
eminent of this great republic to draw
the color line in any way. In 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
ton scheme was evolved. These two
gentlemen are mixed bloods, one be-
ing blonde, at least three-fourths
white: He should not be called a
NEGRO" because he is not .'Negro,'
but colored. man.
Call him 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. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-15
A MINSTREL MAYOR.

Mayor Harry P. Pearsons of Evan
ston will be interlocutor at a minstrel
show, according to the Chicago pa
pers. The affair will be pulled off at
the Neigborhood Club of North Evan
ston, May 20 and 81, and will be for
the benefit of the Neighborhood Club
libraries, which are installed in the
city.
The descent Of Evanston has been
swift. 1t was started when a lin
crow Y. M. c. A. was opened about, q
year ago. Then came the attempted
segregation of two colored postofice
clerks and a postofice employees ban
quet and now the mayor Of the city
SO far forgets the dignity Of his Office
that he has decided to blacken his
race and make fun of one group of
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-15
THE LABEL OUGHT TO BE A
GUARANTEE.

In pulled rice, how much is rice.
now much is puff? In shredded wheat.
how much is shred? In dried apples
now much is water?' asks DR.. H. w.
Hill Of the Minnesota Public Health
Association. "Who pays, if no one
knows what's what?"
fortunately committee of nine
experts has been at work more than
year on just such questions. The
committee represents the official Agri.
cultural Chemists of the United
states; the American Dairy Food and
Drug Association; and the United
Department of Agriculture. Julius
Hortvet, State Chemist of Minnesota
and Prof. E. F. Ladd of North Dakota
are prominent middle.west representa-.
tlves. Others are State Chemists H.
Il. Barnard of Indiana; w. F. Hand
OF Missouri; j. P. Street of Connect.
cut; VIM. Frear of Pennsylvania: ;
and &. L. Alsberg, R. L. Emerson and
|. K. Phelps of Washington. DR.. Ais.
berg is chairman A meeting was
held recently at Washington, D. C.
State Chemist Hotvet reports material
progress in definitions and standards
which it is hoped will win general
agreement and permit uniformity
throughout the State, in quality and
in labelling. Thus will be settled
many things, for what housekeeper
knows chocolate from cocoa, except
by the label and the taste? Just what
IS condemned milk-really? What con.
stltutes pure table salt? Is not blind
faith in labels the only present guide
to the average consumer Then labels
must be correct and there must be
those who can guarantee their cor
rectness from real knowledge.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-15
"WHY AMERICANS FAIL"

1t 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" ..fs
Race or religious prejudice, con-
descension, discourtesy or bluff have
no place in Spanish America. The
Latin-American is a gentleman first,
last and all the time. He has never
acquired our habit of being a gentle.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-15
|CoLoRED PRoTEcTIcE LEAcuE

|coLoRED PRoTEcTIcE LEAGUE
An organization known as the Col
ored Protective League of Colorado
has been formed in that state, with
the following objects: e..
i. The lessening of racial preju
dice.
2. The material advancement of
Colored people.
3. Legal redress for Colored per-
sons who are prosecuted.
a. A local bureau of information.
5. The study of local social and
economic conditions.
;, 8. Efforts to gain a square deal
from the press.
Z. Efforts to lessen racial discrimi-
nation and to secure all civil and DO.
l1tlcal rights to Colored citizens.
That is a good program and THE
APPEAL wishes the organization suc.
cess.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-15

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 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 its 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??, 1915-05-15
PASTOR ABBoTT's sLUsH.

Old man Lyman (well namely Alb
bolt, one of the worst enemies the
colored people have ever had and
whose record as a 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 IT.
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 tc
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 II
insists that the mixing be done in an
illegal manner. .
The mixing which has already beer
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 thei1
mothers and became slaves. A few
masters manumitted their half breet
children, but they were the excep
lions to the general rule. Many mas
own offspring for sale and in time the
tiers made practice Of breeding theil
raising of children for the slave mar
kets became a recognized Southern
industry.
Since the abolition Of slavery, thu
white South, claiming Christ as it,
guiding star, has enacted laws making
Christian marriage a felony, thus di
rectly aiding immortality. The whit,
South has in every way endeavoret
to humiliate and degrade it's coloret
people the majority of whom hav'
more or less Caucasian blood.
Search history through; read tn,
atrocities Of the barbarian invasian.
Of the early days, read the barbar
tiles OF the Middle Ages; read of tn,
1nquisition; read the story of tn,
French Revolution; read of Russia
persecution of the Jews; read of civ
equal in blackness what Southern
white people have meted out to thei
own sons and daughters to their owl
ilized CO Europe's rape of Africa
read the horrors of the Christians
war now devastating Europe. Add al
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-15
NEW BUSINESS OPENED.
Mr.. Frederick D. McCracken Goes into
Business With a Favorable OutIook-

business with a Favorable Outlook.
Mr.. Frederick D. McCracken, who
Tor fifteen years was the popular and
ethclent private secretary to Congress
man F. c. Stevens, has yielded to the
pressure of his many friends to re-
main in St. Paul and engage in bust
ness. He has opened an Office in the
O!d Merchants Bank Building, corner
9th and Jackson iSts., and is dealing
In real estate, mortgage loans, rentals
and general insurance. Mr.. McCrack-
ems long and faithful service with Mr..
Stevens has given him high standing
among the business interests of this
city which affords him ample facili-
ties in his line of business. His high
standard of integrity, honesty and eff
cheney and his long and practical
training with Congressman Stevens
assures us that his business will be
OF a high order. On account of his
devotion to his people he will un-
doubtedly be able to render valuable
service to them in the way of obtain
ing decent houses without being i'm
posed upon by real estate dealers in
our city. He seems to be the right
man in the right place and THE APP.
PEAL, with many others, wish for him
the best OF success in his venture.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-15
FULLER AND TROTTER ACQulT.
TED ON "BIRTH OF A NATION"
Especially

V0peCIdI.J
Boston, Mass, May 4, 1915. The
trials of Rev. Aaron w. Fuller and
Editor VIM. Monroe Trotter, Secre-
tary OF the National Independent
Equal Rights League, on the charges
OF melting a riot and disturbing the
peace in the fight against Tom Dixon's
birth of a Nation" photo.play closed
this afternoon after four days trial.
Both men were acquitted and Judge
John G. Bracket, son Of the Equal
Rights Champion Ex-Gov. J. @. A.
Bracket, declared from the bench
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-15

school libraries. And the affair is to
be staged in LINCOLN SCHOOL!
The colored citizens of Evanston
ought to protest at once against the
public school building being used for
a minstrel performance and they
ought to remember Mr.. Pearsons
when he comes up for reelection. ....~
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-15
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 servo the law, and
guiIlotines decide our least disputes.
The few who dare must speak and
speak again to right tho wrongs Of
many.-EIIa Wheeler Wilcox.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-15
The MAN WHO pAREs

] honor the man who in the con-
scIentious discharge Of his duty dares
to stand alone; the world, with ignor-
ant, intolerant Judgment, may con-
denim, the countenaRces 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 ceunten-
ances Of relatives or the hearts o.
friends.-charles Summer.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-15

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. + 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 neighbOr." 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
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OF these together and they will not
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??, 1915-05-15
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 q
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.
II 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 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. t.,
The mixing of bloods in this country
has 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 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-
sldered 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.