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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-08-26

boys set it up on one of the doorsteps
and extracted the loose teeth, which
are reported to have brought as high
as nVe dollars apiece from those who
could afford such rare and permanent
souvenirs. The few fragments which
held together till night, the under
taker was able to chuck into very
small ash can.
waco is center of American cul-
ture in Texas, a great Southern col.
lege town. It is a Christian CITY of
10000 population, boasting thirty-nine
Whlte and twenty-four colored church.
es: Yet no responsible voice was
raised in protest that bloody Monday
and only one has been since.
THOSE who believe that a crv 10
Heaven should be raised against this
ana every lynching, by legal prosecu
ton, by publicity. by cooperation with
the best white element of the South
by political agitation, are urged to as
! slst the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People tc
raise this $4,000 anti-lynching fun6
before August 1. Contributions Should
De sent to Oswald Garrison Willard
! treasurer, at the national headouar
ters OF the organization, 20 Fifth ave
nue., New York.
ROY NASH,
| Secretary.
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THE WACO HORROR.

lie "ACO fORROR.
THE APPEAL prints in this issue
the special report of an agent of the
National Association for the Advance.
ment of Colored People, who was sent
to Texas to investigate the recent
handwriting at Waco, the center of
Texas Christian Civilization.
The report says: "This is the &C.
count of one lynching. It is horrible.
but it is matched in horror by scores
of others in the last thirty years, and
in it's illegal, law-defying, race-hating
aspect it is matched by 2,S42 other
lynchings which have taken place be-
tween January 1, 1885, and June l.,
1916" d"
What are We going to do about
this record? The civilization of
America is at stake. The sincerity of
Christianity is challenged. The Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People proposes i'm
mediately to raise fund of at least
$4,000 to start crusade against this
modern barbarism. Already $4,000 is
promised, conditional on our raising
the whole amount"
THE APPEAL has made a con-
tribution to the fund and hopes that
every American who believes in the
supremacy Of the law and the per-
petuity Of democracy to give to the
cause according to his means.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-08-26

scene as if by magic when the word
that the Negro had been taken in
charge by the mob was heralded over
the city. AS the smoke rose to the
heavens, the mass of people, number
ing in the neighborhood of 10000,
crowding the City Hall lawn and over
flowing the square, hanging from the
windows of buildings, viewing the
scene from the tops of buildings and
trees, set up a shout that was heard
blocks away. Onlookers were hanging
from the windows of the City Hall
and every other building that COM
manded a sight of the burning, and as
the Negroes body commenced to burn,
shouts of, delight went up from the
thousands of threats, and apparently
everybody demonstrated in some way
their satisfaction. ~
The body of young Washington was
burned to crisp and was left for
some time smouldering in the remains
OF the fire. women and children who
desired to view the scene were al.
lowed to do so, the crowds parting to
let them look on says the newspaper
oOOOuAI. Out 1dLueI, Wuen questioned
about the propriety of holding his lit
tie son on his shoulder where he could
get a good view, is reported as saying:
my son son can't learn too young
the proper way to treat a Niger"
At II o'clock the crowd adjourned
for lunch, as usual; but by quarter
past one some of the boys were back
to continue the fun. A cowboy who
had ridden in off the range created a.
diversion by lassoing the corpse and
riding all over town with the remains
dangling at the end of his lariat
When the head bounced off as he
galloped through the reservation, :"
the ghetto where the Negroes and
prostitutes are segregated, some little
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-08-26
LlTERACY LAW DEFEATED.

oklahoma has been guilty of many
crimes against certain classes of its
QUEENS but things seem to be look
ing up in that state, as the returns
SHOW that the proposed literacy test
amendment to the state constitution
has been defeated by a. majority of
about $4,000.
Inc test would have disfranchised
any person unable to read and write
any section of the state constitution
and was admittedly intended as a sub
stltute for the famous grandfather
law declared unconstitutional by the
United States Supreme Court because
it in effect deprived colored men of
the right to vote.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-08-26

own wrist rather than take chances
that the boy should die too soon
Many had come a long way to attend
this party and they didn't want it to
end in a minute. Everybody was
happy; they shouted and sang like a
bunch OF fans at ball game, accord
ing to a Waco paper.
= When the boys clothes had been
cut up and distributed as souvenirs
there were not enough pieces to go
around, so somebody cut off an ear for
his keepsake. The Waco Times-Her.
aid, published the same afternoon,
said: ION the way to the scene of
the burning, people OH every side took
hand in showing their feelings in
the matter by striking the Negro with
anything Obtainable; some struck him
with shovels, bricks, clubs, and others
stabbed him and cut him until when
ne was strung up his body was a
solid color of red, the blood of the
many wounds inflicted covered him
from head to foot"
They took Washington to tree on
the City Hall lawn just outside the
window OF His Honor, the Mayor
! which he generously shared with Mr.
Gildersleeve, the photographer tt
whom We are indebted for our cuts
A chain was thrown over the limb o.
this tree, and while the fire was be
| ing lit, this bloody thing was hoisteC
| into the air where everyone would
have full view A manicurist WIZ
works for Goldstein & Mingle, whose
windows look out on the square, tolt
the investigator she saw them unse2
/ the lad. AS the chain frightened
around his neck, this half-dead crea
ture reached up convulsively to grail
it, so they cut his fingers off,
The Waco Times-Herald makes n,
bones of it. Fingers, ears, pieces O
clothing, toes and other parts of tn,
Negroes body we're cut off by member
of the mob that had crowded to tn,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-08-26
AGAINST JIMCROW CAMPAIGN

THE APPEAL started the fight
against a jimcrow Republican cam
paign two months ago, when on June
18th, the editor addressed a letter to
Mr.. Hughes, the Republican candidate
for President requesting him to have
the campaign conducted on platform
of "undiluted Americanism" using the
words which he had adopted as his
slogan.
Since that time a number of let
tiers have been written to the Re-
publican leaders from Chairman Viii
cox down, asking that all segregated
features be eliminated.
August Is, the editor again ad-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-08-26
Unfit to Teach Our Children.
(From the Martinsburg Pioneer
PreSs1

This paper has no retraction to
make in the Major Motion affair. 1t
thought then and knows now that no
improvement was made by his pro-
n Booker T. Washington's pal
llation gave us double work for man
hood rights not only in the South but
the North as well for untold years to
come, and his successors ambition is
to be patted on the back and be called
"a good darkey"-to the lower regions
With the good darkey" class. ANY
man who goes back on his wife when
abused for contending for her rights
PAID Tor, to ride in a Pullman car, is
unnt to lead and teach our children.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-08-26
NO JIMCROW WANTED.

NO doubt attempts will be made to
organize the colored people along Jim
crow lines in the coming Republican
campaign and the efforts will in many
cases be made by shortsighted and
misguided colored men themselves
men who fail to see the Importance of
not segregating themselves.
The colored people are American
citizens? For about ten generations
they have lived in this country and
there is no hyphen in their make up.
They have suffered from SEGREGATION
and as this campaign is to be, to use
Mr.. Hughes own words, one of "un.
diluted Americanism," there ought
not to be any separation, but the peo.
pie OF every race, class and creed
should work together as Americans for
the election of a Republican president
! Every effort to reach the colored
people should be made through the
Republican National Committee and
not delegated by that committee to
any group of self-seekers who may at.
tempt to use the campaign to further
their own selfish ends to the detriment
OF the masses of the people.
Good colored speakers should be en-.
gagged in the campaign, but in the
regular way, through the regular
speakers bureau and not through any
segregated headquarters. Colored men
and women stenographers and other
employees ought to have a fair share
OF the campaign work at the regular
headquarters.
The colored people feel very keenly
the humiliations which have been
placed upon them by the Democratic
administration and if colored men and
women are recognized and treated
simply as Americans in the CAMPAIGN
1t will make the whole class enthusi-
astic for the ticket and win votes for
the party.
10 segregate the colored people in
the campaign is to place the race be-
You'd the pale of Americanism.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-08-26

hardware store, Sam needed a lynch
ing to increase his popularity. The
murder of Mrs. Fryer on Monday,
May 8, came just at the right time.
Jesse Washington, a colored boy of
seventeen, confessed to both murder
and rape. His trial was set for Mon
day, May Is. The crowd began gath
ering from the surrounding country on
Sunday. When court opened, 1900
crowded into the room, inside the rail,
about the judges desk and jury box;
and 1000 more waited in the court
yard.
The District Judge of the Criminal
Court, R. I. Munroe, elbowed his way
to his desk, and the boy was brought
from his chambers, where he had been
secreted since the sheriff brought him
from Dallas in the middle of the night.
AS the jurors were called, the crowd
yelled, 1--WE don't need any jury"
but the trial was allowed to be hur-
ried through. The jury brought in a
verdict of guilty of murder and as
sessed his punishment at death. The
sessed his punishment at death. The
defendant had waived his legal rights,
and would have been hanged that
same afternoon. There was a pause
OF full minute. The court stenog-
rapher slipped out with his records.
Sheriff Fleming sneaked out, too
Then a big fellow in the back of
the court room yelled, Get the Mig
ger!" They took him before the court
had pronounced judgment, without the
judge lifting finger in protest. Down
the back stairs they rushed him to
the crowd waiting outside. They put
the chain in his mouth so that he
wouldn't choke too soon, and when
those Juggling at it broke it, the driver
OF the Anheuser brewery truck, who
led the rabble, wound it around his
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-08-26
MAKE UP THE $4,000.

More than $1,000 has been raised
for the Anti-Lynching fund of the Ma.
ment of Colored People and a new ap.
peal is being made to complete the
fund at once
THE APPEAL trusts that every
American who believes in American
institutions will give something to-
ward this worthy cause.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-08-26

dressed Mr.. Hughes, sending the fol-
lowing telegram:
Saint Paul, Mimi, August 16, 1916.
Hon. Charles Evans Hughes,
Republican Candidate for President,
On tour, Portland, Ore.
You have voiced "undiluted Ameri-
canism' as the slogan of the Repub-
lican campaign. The colored people
are undiluted and unhyphenated
Americans, born in America, and
they desire to be treated as all other
Americans are treated. This is a pro
test against the formation of a Jim.
crow annex to handle the colored
voters in the campaign. They have
suffered too much from segregation
by the Democrats to relish it in the
Republican party. To segregate the
colored people is to place them be
yond the pale of Americanism. Trust
you will prevent the execution of any
such plans.
John @. Adams,
Editor THE APPEAL.
We are pleased to notice that the
New York Age and other papers and
many prominent citizens are aiding in
the campaign for undiluted American
ism.
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Stand squareIy for Justice.
(From the Omaha Monitor ,

(rTUm the Omaha MOnitOr.)
Major Motion, please don't assume
the attitude of an apologist. We are
hoping for big things from you. We
Know and appreciate the difficulties
OF your position. Stand squarely and
nrmly Tor justice to your race. No
apology Is due from either Mrs. Mo-
Ton or yourself, because as cultured
ana refined woman she preferred to
ride IN a Pullman rather than in a
jim Crow" car in which equal &C.
commodations" are not provided, and
N which the conditions are seldom
sanitary or pleasant.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-08-26

It was Japan, nation NOT.
WHITE, that has called the hand
of the first president of the United
States who has used his high Office
to discriminate against the colored
part of this nation. BROWN Toxic
dictates to WHITE Washington. so
mote It be.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-08-26
Has Shown His Hand.
(FrOm the Cleveland Gazette

VFTOm tne CIeVeland GaZette.)
Four days after the Inauguration as
principal of Tuskegee, Ala, Normal
and Industrial Institute the South
forces Major Motion to "show his
hand" and there is not even deuce"
IN 1t for the race. One thing sure
and that is from a racial standpoint
he is certainly no improvement upon
Booker T. Washington.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-08-26
THE WACO HORROR.

account Of the Burning Of
u e Nahona1Ass
tof CooredPeo
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-10
NEUTRAL.
NPeo1ia. M. JournalO

Peoria H.. JOurnal)
The old lady who spoke softly Of
the devil because she had friends IN
both pieces had one idea of neutral
ity. Another. equally applicable 10
the situation of the United states in
its effort to maintain impartiality
toward all the European belligerents.
might be having enemies in both
places. Golfers calls attention 10
the fact that both Berlin and London
have criticized Sec'y L.ansing's latest
announcements on submarine war
fare as opposed 10 .Briti~h and Ger
man interests and quot these two
specimens of journalistic comment.
BY the .'Tasliche Rundschan' of
Berlin: 1T could just as well have
been signed bv Sir Edward Grey.
BY the Daily Telegraph" of LON
don: 'One might think the nete
had been prepared 10y Count Won
Bernstorff."
Here is a perfect cancellation. 50
to speak. and fine bit Of evidence
that the United states is coming
about as close to neutrality as is hu-
namely possible.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-10
.BULLY AND COWARD

(Springfield Mass. Republican
ANY scale of preparedness thus far
proposed would be entirely made
Guate for such a future as Senator
chan berlain of tine state OF OREGON
outlines. n the past we have meas
urably kept ont OF trouble only AT
the price Of ignominy" With tha
small nations we have played The
bully. toward strong nations We have
shown humiliatns cowardice. a
disposition TO compromise rather
tlan fight. There is not in the dip
lomatic history OF the United states a
single instance in which we DIDN'T set
The worst Of it," The wonder is that
after being plucked so often for lack
OF COURAGE 10 defend its rights the
United states should still be VISIBLE
on anv good map ~ the world. #
this policy is TO lie continued. tie
senator comedies we do not need 10
prepare But il We are TO act with
spirit a. many nations are doin-,
now, preparedness cannot go TOO far.
After the war eve snail not nave "A
friend on the face - the earth We
have offended Germany and Austr-a.
and IT. We DO our duty we shall OF
fcnd Great Rhitain Not 10 spea Is
81 France. Italy. ussia an5 japan
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-10
MERCHANT SHIP FAMINE SEEMS NOT
EXACTLY AN AMERICAN MONOPOLY.

It's safe TO that merchant marine will be
increased much more 10y purchases. There are very
few ships for sale any part world. soon
there may be none
Spain has just given hint of what may expect
from all the seafaring nations the war lasts much
longer Alarmed by the shrinkage Spanish mer-
chant marine. the government has royal de-
virtually prohibiting the Spanish ships to
foreign interests Vessels amounting TO a tonnage Of
go 600 had already been sold many more sales were
pending and freight rates were becoming intolerably
sigh.
Il Is doubtless similar condition that is the
OF PortugaIs recent seizure OF informed German
merchantmen. Evidently. Portugal needs ships so
badly that order get them is willing 10 risk
declaration OF by Germany The situation is nearly
the in Italy The Italian government is reported
have seized German merchantmen informed there
Italy. should be remembered is not al war with
Germany
Norway sweden Holland and other neutral countries
though COINS far Spain gone in forbiddng
the alienation OF ships have accomplished about the
result discouraging all sales The belligerent
nations, Of course, have ships TO sell The German
austrian merchantmen all bottled up at home
interned n neutral ports conhscated 10y en-
The allies have lost many vessels In
warfare, and need many for transports and supply
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-10
THE NEW BERLIN SEA RULE
CTopeka. Kan. Capital.)

CTopeka, Kan. Capital.)
IT is fair TO Sec'y Lansing to say
that he did not need the prodding OF
Senator Lodges sharp speech defy
ing the administration to accept the
latest Berlin doctrine as To merchant
ships of belligerents. The admins
tTatiOn appeared to be dubious as TO
what its policy should be, when 1t
first met the new German plan by
advising belligerent governments TO
disarm their merchant ships. but be-
fore the MaSSa chusetts senator's
speech the administration had taken
firmer stand in behalf of inter
rational law. under which the pro-
Triety Of arming merchant vessels
for self defense is as fully establish
ed as any right can be.
The original attitude of the state
department never would have been
Supported and in fact it was incon-
siStent with tho principle that has
been the very north star of the ad-
ministration' policy and which
Pres't Wilson so much emphasized
on his recent western trip. for Pres {
Wilson never wearies of reminding
the country and the world that in the
crisis of neutral and human rights
end interests the United States mus
take its stand immovably for inter
national law.
More than this. TO ask the govern
ments al war to disarm merchant
men is 10 ask them 20 turn the stu
alton wholly over 10 submarines. and
there was no chance that the admin
istration's suggestion would be ac-
copied There is no lawful defense
for the new German sea rule. AMI
Sec'v Lansing takes he only attitude
towards il that would be tolerated in
the United states. American citizens
have lawful right 10 travel on mer-
chantmcn of belligerent countries.
these merchantmen have a lawful
right to arm, themselves for defense.
and the German government has
heretofore pledged itself to the Unit
ed states that no merchant shin
will be attacked and sunk without
due warning and opportunity for
those aboard To be taken off in safe
". The proposed Berlin policy 10 be
inaugurated March I violates all
these established rules of neutral
rights and promises wrung from the
German authorities bv long cOntiru-
&c NEGOTIATIONS. senator Lodge in
declaring thar the American people
condemn the proposed German o.
Ger and viii not tolerate it states
practically universal sentiment ~
this country.