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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-02-27
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-02-27
SPECIFIC DENIAL OF
INSOLENCE TO PRESIDENT.
Interview in Boston Globe of Nov. II,
1914.

William Monroe Trotter, whose re-
marks on segregation in Cove -nment
departments stirred President Wilson
at hearing In the White House last
Thursday, arrived in Boston yesterday
afternoon, and, after denying any
thing offensive either in his speech or
manner, told of the way in which the
report of the hearing was given to the
newspapermen.
LAS we left the President" said Mr..
Trotter, II told him I was very sorry
if he still considered that I had Of
tended him. The President smiled
and said: %, we'll call it all right
when we came out our delegation
caucused in Sec. Tumulty's room as
to what we should say for the news
papers. l told the newspaper men
briefly about the conference, merely
describing it as a warm affair.
Il had gone outside the White
House when Mr.. Tumulty called me
back and said: Trotter, you have vio-
lated every courtesy of the White
House in quoting the President to the
press
II told Mr.. Tumulty that had done
so in ignorance of the rules, and apol-
ogized. He accepted my apology.
Then I asked the newspaper not to
publish what told them, and they
consented. Mr.. Tumulty said he was
satisfied and l left.
White House Statement Issued.
1.-THE report of the conference was
then given out from the White House.
1t seems very peculiar to me. after
the President had told me everything
was all right, that a White House
statement should say that l had Of
Tended the President of the United
States"
Did Not Lose Temper or Catechize.
II want to say" he continued, that
neither in manner, language, tone nor
in any other way was I discourteous,
lmpertinent or insolent to President
Wilson.
my whole attitude was that of en-.
deavoring, on the spur of the moment,
to answer a piece Of masterful sophis-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-02-27
"RAClAL WAR;"

Viscount Bryce, former British am
bassador at Washington, in a recent
lecture at London University on
Racial Sentiment as Factor in
History" traced the origin of the
present war to feelings of racial con-
seriousness and national vanity de-
veloped during the last $50 years by
the American and French revolutions.
"Racial war;" Viscount Bryce said,
has now led to a war conflagration
on a scale vaster than the world ever
has seen.
What most is needed is the elimi-
nation of those feelings, the teachings
OF which in most nations breed
jealousy and hatred and prompt men
to defiance and aggression"
Every race and nation must learn
that it ought not, even in it's own in
terest, to desire predominance or
seek to enforce it's own type on the
world"
These words ought to be carefully
considered in the United States where
there is constant tendency to stir
up racial feeling. It is worse here
than in any other country because in
this country all other classes have
united against the colored people.
Prior to 1912 this was largely a
question of locality, but since the in
coming of the Wilson Democratic Ad-
ministration every effort has been
made to nationalize racial antipathies.
The most bitter harangues have
been made against the colored people
in Congress, where the speakers have
endeavored to make up with vitupera-
ton what they have lacked in logic;
Infamous laws have been offered and
have actually pasesd one branch of
that legislative body, and the Presi-
dent of the United States, sworn to
uphold the Constitution, has come out
as defender of racial segregation.
The endeavor has been made to
legislate the colored peopel nationally
into separate and inferior status and
make them negroes" instead of
American citizens.
The American people must learn
that the republic can not endure un-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-02-27
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1915
WILSON AND BEREA.

President Wilson is at it again. He
was the principal speaker at meet
ing held in Washington in the interest
Of Berea College, Kentucky, and as
usual said some things which were
long on rhetoric and lofty sentiment,
but short on fact and sincerity.
For instance in speaking of the
work Of the college, the President de-
clared that its object was ito do what
America was intended to do, TO give
people who had not had it an oppor-
tunity and to give it to them upon
absolutely equal terms, upon a basis
not of birth but of merit"
There was a time when that was
the object Of Berea, but it is no longer
true. When John G. Fee-God bless
his name founder of the college
was In charge Berea stood for oppor-
tunity upon basis mot upon birth,
but of merit" he white people and
the colored people were being edu-
Gated together. Both classes were
learning the great lesson of human
equality by studying together in the
same class room and Berea was doing
great work in breaking down ancient
prejudices.
Then came one Frost and like his
name he was a great blight upon the
school. While pretending to work in
the interest of the institution he was
really trying to disrupt it and it is
said that he more than any other
worked up the sentiment which
eliminated in the Infamous act of the
Kentucky legislature making the
teaching of white and colored stu
dents in the same class room a penal
offense.
What America has v1nolcated
above all things else," said the Presi-
dent, lis that native ability has moth
ing to do with social origin. It is
very amusing someone's TO see the
airs that high society gives itself.
The world could dispense with high
society and never miss it. High so.
ciety is for those who have stopped
working and no longer have anything
important to do"
This is very true, but lTesident
Wilson has himself drawn the line
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-02-27
ABILITY CAUSES RACE HATRED.

A novel explanation of the Russian
dislike for the Jew has been given by
Count Alexander Scherbatskoy, coun-
cillor of the Russian embassy in Wash
ingtOn.
The count said that Russians object
ed to Jews because they were more
capable than the Russians and not be-
cause they were of different race and
faith.
There Is not much difference be-
tween the Jewish question in Russia
and the Japanese question in Califor-
nia," he declared. "The Californians
know the Japs are more clever than
they are. The Russians know that
they can not compete with the Jews.
Their fear of the Jews is based on eco
nomic considerations"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-02-27
NEARLY 100 WANT JOBS.
President has Long List Of Applicants
for .lohnsnn'e pIana

President has Long List Of Applicants
for Johnson's Place.
Only 81 persons has signified direct
ly or indirectly, their willingness to
hold the Office of recorder of deeds
for the District of Columbia. A list of
the names is now before the President.
No ladies are in the list.
The District has been without a re-
corder since last summer when Lin
coin Johnson, resigned, following a
gentle hint from the White House.
Following are the names of those
who want the job:
}: r. Anderson, J. E. Brodie, Norris
B. Clarke, Alfred B. Cosey, J. J. Crane,
Johnson s. Cravens, John w. Davis, j.
A. Dickson, Burton T. Doyle, Charles
l.. Ebaugh, C. H. Eberle, J. l.. Ed
monds, H. G. Evans, Joseph R. Fague,
B. T. Foster.
Carey S. Frye, Emmanuel M. Hew-
lett, James T. V. Hill, Richard R..
Horner, Giles B. Jackson, w. D. John.
son, John H. Kelly, J. w. Paisley, A..
A. Mathis, Richard S. Mitchell, Benia-
min F. Lee, William Cranch McIntire,
Christian J. Goeckeler, George D. Sem
ken, J. P. Kaufman.
Robert w. Dutton, w. H. Holloway,
Bernard J. Brown, R. w. Nash, S. L.
Moore, J. J. Lightford, Jr.; G. w. Me-
Bath, William A. Orme, A. F. Jenkins,
Rev: R. B. Ronin, Prof. D. R. Stokes,
l.. G. Bailey, James D. Sneed, w. H.
Nelson, William R. Page.
Charles E. Lane, Edward Beckham,
James B. Lloyd, Walter S. Mccarthy,
John l. Martin, Walter F. Miller, D. J..
Mohler, Paul w. Pope, Frank w. Reed,
Jerome R. Riley, James A. Ross, James
SchoOler, Horace Spencer, William w
Still, Rufus S. Stout.
j. L. F. Talton, julius F. Taylor, B.
H. Tyson, J. M. Underwood, w. L. Ven.
able, DIR. ]. Milton Waldron, L. G. War
field, Robert L. Preston, William E
Gross, John B. Colpoys, Wilbur F..
Cleaver, D. C. Brantley, J. T. Daven-
port, William J. Dryer, Prof. w. E.
Reynolds.
Sully Jaymes, G. w. Tanner, Maurice
Lyon, T. R. Knox, Lee Crandall, James
w. H. Howard, Charles w. Lancaster,
Rev. George c. Clements, Rev. J. Fran
els Lee, DR.. A. H. Weathers, w. w.
Woodward, DR.. Lewis A. Griffith, Cliff
ford H. Plummer, Rev. r. B. Robinson,
Adam E. Patterson, and William P.
Morton.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-02-27
OUR NEED OF JUXTAPOSlTlON.

rIOm ZIG DOSLOu GudrQ1dn.)
That we much rather be, and asso-
ciate among ourselves, is a saying by
Colored Americans that has become
almost trite. That is mistake; it
is feeling of avowed cowardice and
innate inferiority. It 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
its 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 and 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, confiscation 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 us.
That is fact. Every congress Of
fers legislation degrading and mimi
cal to our well being. Race preju-
dice, therefore, can only be worn down
by aattrition. We must send our
children and 20 0urSelYes to mixed
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-02-27
MR. WILSON AND "sEGREGATioN. :"

New York.-To the Editor of THE
APPEAL. Sir: The interview of Will
liam MunrOe TrOtter and the delega-
ton of colored gentlemen with the
President of the United States brings
forward again the burning question OF
the treatment of colored civil servants
IN Washington. The whole incident
shows grimly and forcefully how deep
ly the colored people of this country
feel the injustice which Mr.. Wilson's
government has inflicted upon them
and still inflicts.
The National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People has been
lighting segregation in federal depart
ments ever since the first rumor of it
was made public. Over year ago an
investigator was sent to Washington
and report printed. Since that time
representative of the national as
ISOLATION has kept in close touch with
the local situation, and on one oc-
casion this representative appeared be-
fore the civil service committee and
helped kill the bill of Edwards Of
Georgia and Aswell of Louisiana max
Ing segregation legal throughout the
federal civil service. Much of the
segregation has disappeared.
When the u street station of the
)ostoftlce in Washington was abol-
shed all the colored men employed
ost their positions, but through the
Intervention of this association three
OF them were reinstated. When the
bureau of engraving and printing
moved to its new quarters it was the
original idea to segregate colored and
white people throughout the entire
building. but through the efforts OF
this association there is no segrega-
ton In the lunchrooms or on the roof
garden. Segregation, nevertheless,
still exists in the Postoffice Depart
ment and in the Treasury, and pos
slbly here and there in a small de-
gree in other places.
1t still remains true that for the first
time. in half century a President OF
the United States and distinguished
members of his Cabinet have deemed
1t necessary for the peace and quiet
OF these United States that clerks in
the federal service, having passed the
same examinations and receiving the
same rate of pay, must be separated
IN their work if the ancestors of any
OF them had drop OF Negro blood.
In some cases the "colored" clerks
have been so white in appearance that
the officials themselves have made
mistakes in classifying them. In other
cases clerks of all colors have pro-
tested against the attempted separa.
ton. Always the separation has
caused humiliation and Inconvenience
and added cost.
J. e. .SPINGARN,
chairman Board Of Directors Nation
a Association for the Advancement
of Colored People)
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try and to refute it successfully and
feeling great responsibility to do so,
spoke with positiveness, deliberate
ness and directness, looking the Pres
ident full in the eye.
i did not quiz or catechize the
President, and l did not attempt to
debate with him. The difficulty did
eliminated against and segregated in
of my race and to say that 1 should
regard it as benevolence and so rep
resent it 10 my race.
although it was a trying ordeal
to listen to such a statement at length
by the Chief Executive of the Nation,
had at no time any temper, much
less lost my temper"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-02-27
WILLIAM D. BRIGHAM.
ALL HONOR TO TEACHER AND
FITZGERALD,
First Victory Against Jim.crow Car
Bill Instance Of Racial Self Help.
Douglas Memorial and Protest Day,
W.T. . Is



Feb. Fl.
Especially
New York, N. Y, Feb. 9, 1915: The
first skirmish on the Bill for Jim-Crow
Cars in the District of Columbia was
won by the opponents of the Bill yes
terday, led by Rep. T. G. Thacher of
Massachusetts and Rep. John J. Fitz-
gerald of New York, Democrats, who
felt the desire to show they were not
in accord with the Southern Demo-
Gratis on this color line measure.
When the session of the House of
Representatives opened at II A. M,
Rep. Thacher presented the remons-
trance of the National Independent
Equal Rights League, Mass. Branch, to
the House. Then Kep. Fitzgerald
moved substitution of the Sundry Civil
Bill for the District of Columbia Bill,
which has the Jinl-Crow Car resolve,
it being the regular day to take up
D. of G. measures. The motion of
Fitzgerald was carried 1913 yes to 1O7
no. Rep. Clark of Florida was sore.
Douglas Memorial Day Protest.
The next regular day for District
of Columbia Bills is February 22nd.
The Equal Rights League appeals to
the Afro-Americans in every city to
hold meeting on Sunday, February
21st, to celebrate the 10th Anniversary
of the death of Frederick Douglass,
and to pass resolutions against the
Jim-Crow Car Bill, asking Representa-
tives to speak and vote against it,
and mail copy to every U. S. Repre-.
sentative in Congress from the state.
If in Southern state, select some
Northern States Congressman.
The Massachusetts Equal Rights
League passed and had it's resolutions
published on February 3rd, and mailed
copy to Rep. Thacher and the other
Congressman from Massachusetts and
Rep. Thacher answered the League
that he would present them and fight
the Bill. Branches of the League from
Boston to Kansas sent resolutions,
while the D. of c. Branch went to the
Capitol. But the Chief of all the
Colored Citizens of Boston, through
the activity Of Secretary Trotter, sent
Attorney Joshua A. Crawford as a per-
sonal lobbyist to Washington against
the Bill. He was at the Capitol at
9 A. M. Monday and went to work on
the Congressman.
This Colored organization is proud
Of this self-help. Any city desiring
to form branch league, should write
to National Organizer, Rev. R. C. Ran
som, 435 w. 35th St., New York, N. Y,
or Secretary Trotter at Boston, Mass.
Lot whole race organize.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-02-27
THE PRESIDENT AND THE
AFRO.AMERlCAN.
(From the Chicago Tribun.

(frOm 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??, 1915-02-27

between the classes even outside of
social lines. 1t is not nearly so wrong
for society to assume "airs" in So
cial matters as it is for the President
to advocate that one-tenth of the
people of the country shall be set
apart as pariahs, not even fit to work
in the same room with other citizens.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-02-27
INFAMOUS LEGISLATION

The Democratic House of Represen-
tatives has passed an Infamous act,
prohibiting the intermarriage of white
and colored persons TN the District of
Columbia.
The vote was about four to one but
the fact that sixty members voted
against the Infamous measure shows
that the idea Of justice is not yet dead.
The bill is an insult to one-tenth of
the population of the United States.
1t strikes at the very foundation of
Christianity for among Christians of
every creed, marriage is regarded as
divine institution.
There is no reason for such legisla-
ton. Caucasians usually marry Cau-
casians and Afro-Americans usually
marry Afro-Americans. The number
who marry interracially is wholly neg
Hgible. The real purpose of the Bill
is to place a stigma upon the Afro
American people.
The Clark Bill is really an open In.
vitation to immortality and leaves the
Atro-American woman without protec-
ton and an easy prey to vicious men
OF the white race. If there is to be
any mixing of the races it ought to
be done legitimately in Christian mar
r1age and not in an immoral manner.
1t is not the proper function of the
Government to draw lines of invidious
distinction between it's various classes
of citizens and place on the statute
books law which in effect brands
one group of citizens as unfit, CHASING
it with imbeciles, idiots, detectives, de-
generates and criminals.
And then there is another point of
view. The mixing which has already
taken place has not resulted in de-
generate specimens of manhood. The
first blood spilled in the Revolution
ary War was that of a mixed-blood
-Crispus Attacks. Frederick Doug
lass, one Of Americas greatest orators,
patriot and a statesman was of
mixed'blood. DR.. w. E. B. Dubois,
the great nterateur and sociologist, is
a mixed-blood. DR.. Booker T. Wash.
ington, the great industrial educator, is
mlxed-blood. H. Y. Tanner, the great
artist whose pictures have been pur-
now hang in the Louvre, is a mixed
blood. DR.. Daniel H. Williams, one
Of the worlds greatest surgeons and
who was the first man surgeon in all
the world to operate successfully on
the human heart, is a mixed.blood.
THE APPEAL could name thousands
of other mixed.bloods of whom Amer
lea may well be proud.
Every colored person ought to get
busy at once and write to the Senators
who represent his state and ask them
to vote against the bill when it
reaches the Senate.
Do it now.
We are delighted to state that to
the everlasting credit of the Minnesota
delegation in the House, they voted
against the Infamous bill.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-02-27
The Philadelphia Ledger is credited

The Philadelphia Ledger is credited
with the following, published as a good
joke: There was absolutely no evil
dence against the man you lynched."
mo evidence? Why he was as black
as the ace of spades" Well, there is
no joke about that, it's a plain unvar-
nished fact that when an alleged GRIM
inal is black, that is the strongest EVIL
dence of his guilt. The prime cause
for nine out of ten lynchings is the
fact that the victims are black.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-02-27
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
gui'Iotines decide our least disputes.
The few who dare must speak and
speak again to right the wrongs of
many.-EIla Wheeler Wilcox.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-02-27

he Ns Eqgal Righs League
attention of the American
AGAINST Colored American citizens
States under sectional domination - ~
awaken all patriotic citizens
t aep to the Black Code
atey a1e the abolition
bill reported
he Dlstrc OF Columbia And of
r~D O'o p10e-'''' VI '"oo
all
~ ~ 1oA"''oN' oo"'01no
law separating citizens
tai democracy
be applied
earth
be based not
Separate street.
all
ZION Coored citizens nations
Injurious
ent destroys equality of citizenship
without limit Never
the advancing
practice inamy ' $1,000
we appeal all Christians of
shifting
of wv ''
Rev. W. SWAIN Crawford Furlong
NJ A. N Shaw VIM D. Brigham, Mrs. c.
Monroe Trotter secretary executive committee 40 Cornh
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-02-27

less all citizens are on the same civil
and political level. If the Indictment
of racial friction continues there may
come to this country an internecine
war as destructive as the conflict now
raging in Europe.