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The De Soto County news. [volume] (Arcadia, Fla.) 1898-1924, 1916-05-04
FRANCISCO VILLA


day is, perhaps, the most tailed
Of by American people, reads like ,
romance. Though a bandit, and M
doubt deserving of all that he Is abou,
to get or all that the American sOy.
eminent hope to be able to give bin.
he il not all bad, as a careful sur,ey
Of his life will show. A man, bon
without any advantages as he was
can not be expected to be all that We
who were born surrounded by all Tie
advantages that the highest civilirs-
tion affords, would expect Of him. W,
can not but feel that here is a man
who IS the victim OF circumstances
who had the making Of a great man
II he had only had half a chance.
Villas beginning is obscure. He 4
supposed to have been born in the IT.
tie town Of San Juan del Rio, state Of
Durango, in 1878, on the feast day Of
st. Francis Of Assist, so that he, a
man destined to a life Of violence By
some mockery Of fate, was named
Francisco, after the gentle lover Of
birds. Until he was twenty-five ne
herded goats, and all the time was
much dissatisfied with his lot, so much
so that he made himself so disareea-
BILE and quarrelsome among his neigh.
bors that he had few friends.
He became a bandit through an
event in his life that was partially
beyond his control. His sister was
wronged by the son Of a rich baron
OF the district, and Francisco search.
ed him out and killed him. Then he
had to choose between imprisonment
or hanging, and life OF freedom as
an outlaw. He chose the latter ami
took to the hills, and became a ban.
dit. 1t seems that he made repeated
EFFORTS TO return to an honest life. but
each time the watch dogs OF the law
got cose on his track and forced him
T. life Of outlawry again. He ani
his bond were known as the ssBand Of
"nstiee." In their attempt 10 justify
themselves they had ,as their mote:
IF it is just for the rich to steal
IRON the poor, then It is just for The
DOOR to steal from the rich: If 1t Is
!"Sf for the rich to kill the poor. then
1t is Just for the poor to kill the rich
lie became the idol of the peons. He
became revolutionist against the
system II government which ruled his
country. This Is the system as he saw
1t; "Nine-tenths Of the Mexican peo.
pie lived in ignorance, hunger. and
the other tenth stole from
everybody and murdered at will; vet
we, the ignorant, the half-starved
saves were classed as cattle. and
.hey as good and pure" He was a so
'ialist Of the extreme form.
Finally, Villa heard that one, Fran.
'lSco /. Madero, was preparing a rev
button on a program of Justice for
he common people, and he sought him
ut and volunteered to assist him. AZ
er an interview with Pom Abraham
GONZALES, leader in northern Mexico
I the revolutionary movement, Fran.
isco Villa rode out Of Chihuahua no
onger a common bandit, but with The
ahk OF colonel in the Revolutionary
rmy' From that time on he rose, IN
y the eyes Of all Mexico were cen
cred upon him, as are the eyes Of eli
ae world. We can not help but pity
I'M, Tor here was, we believe, the
'NRlng Of man, but for some ras-
n either due TO circumstances or bis
"n acts he failed to be one, but Be
ame bandit instead.
The De Soto County news. [volume] (Arcadia, Fla.) 1898-1924, 1916-05-04
All Is Free.

II is absolutely free to all who will
accept what It offers-what it win
bring to all: it is without cost to
those who will listen to those who are
prepared to explain and advise to
those who will read the panels and
watch the moving pictures and lantern
slides.
The train will have on hoard in all
it; movements II physician, represent
lns the state health board, and 9th
crs who are prepared to give practi-
cal personal advice to those who ask
it.
The initial trip will be made in per-
soual charge Of Dr. J. Y. Porter,
state health officer, and of Miss f.
u. Herndono. assistant to the health
officer.
The De Soto County news. [volume] (Arcadia, Fla.) 1898-1924, 1916-05-04

various models, as that illustrating
the Imhoff tank sewage disp
TEN, another showing H.. N.
driven or open wells Is e ut.
by drainage from stable, outh % @
and polluted surface water. \
ture model shows a dipping vat '.r
Kidding cattle Of the tick. A model
dairy is illustrated IN the same man.
ner; the proper feeding and cloth NJ
OF babies, the open-air treatmen d.
tuberculosis and many other prac'lcu'
questions OF sanitation and disease
prevention are similarly and graph.
caly illustrated.
This car Is also fitted with a stere.
omotograph with a capacity Of one
hundred and four lantern slides, and
this /, lighted and operated automati-
cally by electricity generated in the
car itself.
The Display Car
Car No. Is divided through most
Of its length by partition, on which
are displayed thrty-six panels. These
carry in graphically worded sentences
warnings and advice on sanitary sub
jects and disease prevention. Numer-
Gus electrically operated models and
large stereomotograph, similar to
that in car No. q are also arranged
to splendid advantage in this part Of
the train.
In this car will be installed an eX-
uensive and elaborate contribution
from the Florida Dental Society,
which will show various diseases Of
the teeth, and the proper attention
that should be given them. In this
car are gathered much Of the equip
ment that has special significance in
sanitation.
a complete inventory Of the educa-
tional equipment Of these cars would
be entirely unnecessary, for the train
with all its invaluable contents, is toI
he brought within the reach OF every
person in Florida who can 60 to the
dearest railroad station, and it will be
taken wherever the rails are laid Oh
which it may be run. 1t is to be per-
manent, a perpetual travelling school,
illustrating forcefully and graphically
how better health conditions, better
sanitation and better living may he
brought to every Floridian. When il
has carried to every part Of the state
its object lessons, the journey will
he repeated. with newed models and
cups
The De Soto County news. [volume] (Arcadia, Fla.) 1898-1924, 1916-05-04
The Living Car.

Car No. !, the living car for the ac-
commodation of the representatives
Of the board, contains the office in the
observation end, four staterooms, bath
and toilets, dining room and kitchen.
like the other cars Of the train, It Is
heated with steam and lighted with
electricity generated by a dynamo in
car No. 2, and like the others, il is
carefully screened and ventilated.
Car No. 2 contains in one end the
dynamo, driven by a gasoline engine,
and the sleeping quarters for the spe-
cial train crew. The larger part of the
car is devoted to the installation Of
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-10-07
MORRIS THE MAN.

The reelection of Edward H. Nor
ris as national grand master of the
Odd Fellows is great triumph for
the manhood of the colored people. For
several years the jimcrow element in
the order has endeavored to unhorse
him, but the manly men have been on
their guard and have prevented that
which would have been a great catas-
trophy.
The Grand United Order of Odd
Fellows in America, works under a
charter from the Grand Lodge of Eng
land and for that reason, the colored
members in the United States enjoy
the fellowship of millions of men of
every race, scattered all over the
civilized globe.
Edward H. Norris of Chicago, is the
foremost colored lawyer of the world.
His career. reads like romance Com
ing from the depths of poverty, his
tattered, overcoat, barely covered the
ragged suit he wore when he took. the
examination for the bar. Now he is
one Of the leaders of the Illinois Bar
and there are few who are anxious
to battle with him in the forum. Those
who are competent to judge estimate
that he has accumulated a fortune of
more than a million dollars.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-10-07
Reforms Needed at Home.

(F'rom The Christian Register.)
Race bitterness makes argument, or
discussion, or any effort to come to q
common understanding quite useless.
Where much racefeeling is engaged.
reason is neutralized. With some peo-
pie, questions of the rights of colored
people under the Constitution, of the
people of California have become i'm
possible: They simply can not discuss
the subject. While this is the case
IN this country, we have enough to
do In cleansing our own blood of
germs of conflict without thinking #
our main business to reach across
the water in restraint Of war. War ia
lncipient among us in these matters
and cruel barbarities frequent enoueh
70 Keep us busy reforming ourselves.
Billy Sunday speaks out emphati.
cally, acrobatically and ungrammatic-
ally against almost every wrong in the
country-except race prejudice. r.
ne wants to show that he ia a real
brave man, not afraid to tacke anv.
tnlne, and do some good where It ia
most needed. let him speak out aeinst
race prejudice. ''
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-10-07
MONUMENTAL BUNK.
(From the Louisville News J

A few grand old Southern gentle.
men" are agitating the building of a.
monument in honor of the old black
Mammies and Uncles of ante-bellum
days. This agitation going on through
the Southern press is full of disgust
ing sentlmentality expressing the high
regard OF said gentlemen for said Nam
mics and Uncles. According to the
truck we read slavery was a great and
noble institution and both slave and
master were happy and contented with
conditions. No slaves tried or wanted
to escape so delightful bondage; the
crack of the whip as it brought blood
from some black today regardless of
sex, the bark of the hound as he chased
human prey, who in foolish moment
had yielded to the desire for liberty.
the bidding at the auction block when
mother and child were torn asunder
are all fiction according to these kind
hearted old gentlemen. But because
OF the service = the happy service
given by the old Nanny and the old
Uncle they would build monument to
their memory. And in years to come
Southern white boys and girls-dis-
gusted and angered at the continued
freshness" of black boys and girls
can look at that monument and remem-
Der things were not always thus"
Why not a monument to the thou
sands Of known and unknown lynched {?
Why not monument to the thou
sands of Colored Women raped and
seduced in the lakewood towns of
Southern States? Whv not q ,nonu.
ment at Waco, Texas, where $4,000
men and women cheered the burning
OF black boy? These monuments are
about as necessary and would be as
decorative and identifying as one to
the old black Nanny and the old
black Uncle. D..
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-10-07
Points Emphasized by Hughes
In His Speech at Springfield, III.

M uenu ~ ne administration for such legislation 1.-THE
Adamson bi] the price peace was humliat;g
The phrase eight day. is apparently u.ed = +
the public in order establish something on;t
the asserted Judgment of society inspired i wh dooa
the ACT apply to only limited number railroad men re1
lively few? - ' ieia
aa the executive gone at to Congress for immediate
authority to secure prompt and thorough investigation If t
IN advance Of action and had he thus made
lot an inquiry SO entirely competent as to
have been no strike = 0' 'ne'e couid
Within few hours, demand Of the adnin.tr.t;o
glss mandatory increase wages involving mil
lions q dollars without any idea whether the ince
was NOT 9ustled And this action was taken in connect;
VIII. ne essential fundamentally Of commerce. the arteries Of
our commercial life. 81 - ' 1 y
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-10-07
ANNIVERSARY OF ATLANTA'S
SHAME. 49,.


Ten years have passed since
Atlanta, Georgia, was the scene of
one of the most uncalled for and
bloodiest riots ever recorded in his.
tory. -Colored men and women were
ruthlessly slaughtered because Of race
hatred; not a single one killed had
been guilty of any crime whatever.
The massacre was caused by the in
cendiary editorials of the Atlanta
News and Journal, owned by Hoke
Smith, since governor of Georgia and
now United States senator from that
state.
In his gubernatorial canvass Smith
also made incendiary speeches incit-
ing the Caucasians against colored
people and demanding that the race
be disfranchised.
Senator Hoke Smith is said to be
the author of the jim-crow policy of
the present administration and he has
the active support of Vardaman, John
Sharpe Williams and nearly every
Southerner in Congress.
I THE APPEAL reprints in this is
sue "A Litany of Atlanta" by DR.. W.
81. Burghardt Du Bots, editor of The
Crisis. It was written just after the
riot, the author being at that time a
resident Of Atlanta.
.september, 1916, being the tenth
anniversary Of the massacre and the
recent renaissance Of burnings and
lynchings in Georgia render the pub
lication timely.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-10-07
BEAUTIFUL, BUT BUNK.

President Wilson, speaking before
the citizenship convention, urged a
square deal'' for the immigrant and
demanded that America be kept the
finest example of the objects and ideals
that go to promote the standards of the
world.
I'VE ought to be careful to maintain
a government at which the immigrant
can look with the closest scrutiny and
to which he should be at liberty to
address this question: You declare
this to be a land of liberty and of
equality and of justice; have you made
it so by your law?'
II believe America should exalt
above everything else the sover-
eighty of thoughtfulness and sympathy
and vision, as against the grosser i'm
pulses Of mankind. No nation can live
without vision, and no vision will exalt
a nation except the vision of real lib
erty and real justice and purity Of
conduct"
Natural born Americans we're
warned by the president to examine
themselves carefully to-s see, whether
they have burning in them the true
light of America which they expect
to show to these foreigners.
If a square DEAF for the immigrant
why not square deal for 10000, 900
AMERICAN BORN citizens who are
bounded and Inundated, Disseminated
against and often mob-murdered be-
cause more or less African blood flows
in their veins?
The president is the leader of the
Democratic party which has displayed
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-10-07
MUST BE A JOKE.

An exchange telegraph dispatch
from Geneva says that it is under
stood the German government pro
poses to lodge a complaint with the
international Red Cross against the
use of the so.called tanks" The
complaint will be on the ground thai
the use of these new engines of wal
is contrary to recognized methods OF
civilized warfare.
After the sinking of the Lusitania
the rape of Belgium, the despoiling o,
Serbia, the Zeppelin airship raids ove1
England, killing innocent women ant
children, and other Infamous acts o.
Germans in the present world war, i
looks as if some grim joker is abroad
in the land. ~-...- ..ss .-~s.-.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-10-07
AMERIcANs-THAT's ALL

For many year" i has been the
custom to treat colored people az
aliens. although they are more than
ninety-nine per cent Of American
birth; and there is a growing ten
dency among the colored people to
regard themselves as aliens. This is
being encouraged by q class of lead
ers who call themselves Negroes
and yell about Negro Kultur'' al
though they have not more than half
and often less than one-eighth of
Negro blood. Such men ought to
stop the Negro" propaganda and be
Americans and demand Justice be.
cause they are Americans and not by
the false assertion that they are
Negroes"
They should not have any rights as
Negroes but every right of an
American citizen should be and will
be accorded them. il they fight for
their rights as American citizens by
right of birth.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-10-07
: ADVANCE OF CIVILIZATION.

The Canadian expedition which has
Deen Tor three years exploring and
making scientific investigations along
the north coast of the American con-
tlnent has returned, bringing much
important data from that frozen
region. One of the most interesting
bits of information is that which re-
lates to: the progress of civilization
in Arctic lands.
DR.. r. N. Anderson, who conducted
the scientific researches, notes great
changes in the actions of the natives
since he first visited them in 1911.
Here is a paragraph from his report:
Begging and petty pilfering seemed
to be more common than I found
them when first went into the arctic
regions. The natives are in general
very hospitable and kindly disposed,
but they are now anxious for white
men to come in with trading mate
rails. do not think they have had,
as yet, enough contact with white
men to change their demeanor or
nature very much, but it must be ad-
mitted that they seem less honest"
We who live in this great and
highly civilized land should not be-
little the progress that is being made.
The poor creatures are doing the best
they can under the circumstances and
under the further tutelage of white
men some bright Esquimaux lad, may
in the days to come, become a. black
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-10-07
1.-THE FATHER OF ABOLITION"

VI 70S.I ICNs
DR.. Samuel Hopkins, born at Water
bury, Conn.,, in September, 1921, was
a noted theologian of his day and was
also distinguished as an early oppon-
ent of the slave trade, although many
OF his pensioners were interested in
it. His fierce opposition to slavery
and the slave trade won for him the
title of "The Father of Abolition"
After graduating from Yale College
in 1741, he began theological studies
with Jonathan Edwards at Northamp-
ton, Mass, he was ordained pastor at
Hoosatonic, Mass. and remained there
until 1865, after which he preached in
various towns in Massachusetts,,
Rhode Island and Connecticut, his
congregations including destitute
societies. ~
The agitation he began led to the
passage of a law in 1774, forbidding
further importation of slaves into
Rhode Island and to subsequent act
declaring the children of slaves born
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-10-07

Master of sarcasm, ridicule is one
|of his most powerful weapons when
addressing jury. Keen in analysis
and versed in precedents, he seldom
loses case, for after examination
if he decides that it has no merit, he
will not accept it no matter how allur-
ing the retainer offered.
Morris is a clean cut, thinking man,
who knows that he is an American
and who not only demands but re-
ceives treatment as an American.
When he was member of the Illinois
legislature he secured the passage of
a strong civil rights bill, to safeguard
the rights of all American citizens.
AS there are many jimcrow men
among the 100000 members of the
Odd Fellows in this country, the ad-
vantage of having a man at it's head
who believes in manhood, should be
apparent to the most casual observer.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-10-07
HUGHES STRONG POINT;


MI. Hughes in his speech to a
colored audience stated that he stood
for equal and exact justice for all
citizens regardless of color, and he
said further:
~ am sure you do not wish par
ticuiaE things done because of4color."
That was a strong point, so it seems
queer that some of the jim-crow
colored papers were careful to. elimi.
nate it. Cutting out a strong point
like that shows the working of the
jim-crow mind.
The American thinking, intelligent,
levelheaded colored people certainly
do not want any particular thing, no
matter how alluring, because of color.
If they are treated exactly as other
Americans are treated they'll be sat.
1sfied. They are not asking different
treatment or especial favors because
Of color.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-10-07
HUGHES FOR EXACT JUSTICE,

HUGHES FOR EXACT JUSTICE.
Many colored people have been in
doubt about Mr.. Hughes stand on
the question of their rights as citi
zens: 49,.
The Republican candidate for presi.
dent settled the matter by his dec.
laration in his address before the
students of Fisk University and other
colored citizens at Nashville, Tenn,
when he said:
II say to you that stand, If I stand
for anything, for equal and exact
justice to all. I stand for the main.
tenance of the rights of all citizens
regardless of race or color. The one
word that I love above all others is
the word Justice We want in this
country what is right and fair.
am sure you do not wish particular
things done because of color. You
want what is right and fair. desire
to see such fair and decent and just
treatment as will make you proud of
your manhood and womanhood."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-10-07

no denial by Major Motion Of the
charges as stated in the public press
THE APPEAL agrees with the Cleve
land Gazette, that the Age evidently
means we'll, but that Major Motion ia
fully able to speak for himself.
THE APPEAL believes that il he
is not guilty as charged, Major Motion
ought to reply to the open letter of
the Crisis and issue a signed state.
ment repudiating the reports sent out
by the Associated Press.
The spirit of manhood in the prin.
cipal of Tuskegee, is of more import
ance to the colored people than a bill
lion dollars worth of beautiful build
ings. --
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-10-07

the greatest zeal in enacting discrim-
mating legislation and the president
himself has sanctioned the most in
famous racial determinations which
were wholly outside the law.
Inc presidents rhetoric is perfect,
but those who have suffered from the
enactments OF the Democratic party
and the presidents approval of un-
Just and unlawful and UNAMERICAN
practices, naturally doubt his sim
cerlty. His beautiful words are but
bunk
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-10-07
Answer to Jimcrowists.

(From the Union, Cincinnati, o.
The friends of Roy Miller are con-
graduating him, as he passes to high
schools, the only colored child from
the Hazelwood School, with the high
est average in the class.
Hazelwood, O.
Prof. Dabney:
Kindly put the above item in your
paper, as we are very proud of it,
especially after the county superin-
tendent and some of our friends"
tried to get "a Jim Grow School, out
here last fall. Yours in the fight
against Jim Grow and segregation,
Mrs. Geo. w. Allen.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-10-07

mail expert and gather in the shekels
by the thousands, or perhaps break
into Wall street, steal a few railroads
and become a Millionaire.
Some day the poor benighted
heather of the frozen North may so
far advance in civilization that they
will organize a hellocracy which will
rival Georgia or Texas in mob muir
ders. Who knows? ,@ -.