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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-13

.Coe, professor of religious education
in the Union Theological seminary,
New York, gives reasons why church
and public schools should be separate:
"The opposing religious bodies are
still watchful Of one another. No
workable plan for increasing the reli-
gious functions in the public schools
is likely to be agreed upon. ...
"The argument for teaching the
Bible in the public schools on the
ground of it's literary merits seems to
have had little weight because it has
been advanced by religionists from
evidently religious motives.
"The forces that are devoting them
selves assidiously to the reform of re-
ligious education are rarely, if ever,
eager to commit religious functions
to the state. The demand that the
public schools provide religious edu-
cation proceeds in large measure from
persons who feel that something needs
to be done, but have not yet become
absorbed in the details of the recon-
struction that is already under way
within the churches"
The reasons are logical and those
who wish to carry religious teaching
into the public schools are enemies of
the state.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-13
CHARITY aMAkEs EDWARDS.

Charity makes for slaves, towards
and sycophants,'' said Mother Jones'
OF Colorado mine field fame, recently.
Her words are true.
Men cheat their employees out OF
what Is their just due and become rich
and when they have accumulated mil.
lions they pose as "philanthropists'
and endeavor to perpetuate their
names by giving money for libraries
or Charities" or Christian (?) asso.
Citations.
Instead of being great philanthopists
these men, in many cases, are simply
thieves who really ought to be in
prison for having robbed their. fellow
men.
No class has suffered more from the
"philanthropies" of these rich thieves
than the colored people and their ne
farious work has been aided by so
called colored leaders who have taken
the role of public mendicants and have
begged for money to organize jimcrow
institutions and thus prevent their own
class from securing their rights az
American citizens.
The product of the segregated insti
| tuition is usually crop of young col
| ored people with slavish instincts
cringing towards, servile sycophants.
Great God deliver the people from
such charity and give them justice.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-13
VITAL PRINCIPLE AT STAKE
(From the Christian Registerl

The enactment of an ordinance for
the segregation of colored people in
ST. Louis by a majority of over
$4,000 votes will give much impetus to
the movement that has acquired head
way in several cities with mixed
population, but it's significance is
likely to be wrongly estimated. It is
not so much judgment of the real
question at issue as it is an ex-
preston of the wish of most white
people not to have colored residents
IN their neighborhood. The vital
principle at stake, the right of citizens
to hold and use their property with
all the rights other citizens enjoy, is
not decided. 1t is shown how unde
slrable it is to commit to a general
election decision which belongs to
courts, and which cannot properly or
lntelligently be consummated by the
public, especially under the influence
OF a prejudice. 1t shows that
ignorance is not confined to the
ignorant alone, for citizens of the
higher class showed gross ignorance
of the point at stake Fortunately
courts still exist, and competency is
not quite overwhelmed by the land
slide OF mere mass. The obiter dicta
of the Supreme Court of Missouri in
a decision just rendered upholding
the constitutionality of the initiative.
Indicate positively and clearly what
it's Judgment will be as to the rights
OF colored citizens under the law.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-13
REPUBLICAN, NATIONAL CON-
VENTION.

Georgia will send two complete sets
of delegates to the Republican ma
tional convention, and both will go
uninstructed. They are:
Jackson wing-Henry S. Jackson.
'of Atlanta; j. M Barnes, of Thorn
son; Henry Lincoln Johnson, colored,
of Atlanta, and B. J. Davis, colored.
also of Atlanta.
johnson Wing-Walter H. johnson,
OF Columbus; Henry Blum, of Savan-
nah; j. w. Lyons, colored, of Augusta
and H. A. Rucker, colored, of Atlanta.
Louisiana white and colored Repub-
leans will send contesting 'delega-
tons to Chicago conventions. The
llly-Whites met and elected twelve
delegates The colored men appeared
at the Gruenewald Hotel and de-
manded admission, but were refused
py the hotel management saying that
colored men could not participate in
conventions in that hostelry. The
colored men charge that this was the
ruse by which the lily-whites barred
them, They will send a full delega-
ton.
Frank J. Hogan and DR.. Edward W.
Winston were elected delegates. and
julius I. Peyser and George W.
robertson, alternates, from the Dis
trict of Columbia to the Republican
national convention to be held in Chi.
/ cago next month, according to the
ballots cast at the primaries last
Friday, and officially counted Monday
night by the returning board at the
office of Attorney George c. Gertman
IN the Century building.
The REORGANIZATION ticket was &C.
corded 1914 votes of a total of 7.246
cast at the primaries, by official
count.
The Miller-Chase ticket, composed
OF Robert I. Miller, Calvin Chase
delegates: Arthur B. Hayes and DR.
Albert R. Collins, alternates, got 1908
votes.
The Bradshaw-Marshall ticket. com
posed of Aaron Bradshaw and DR.
Charles H. Marshall, delegates
Angus Early and L. Melendez King
alternates, got 1929 votes.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-13
OUR NEED OF JUxrAPOsITItN
(From the Boston Guardian.

That we much rather be, and asso-'
clate among ourselves, is saying by
C0l0red Americans that has become
almost trite. That is a mistake; it
is feeling of avowed cowardice and
innate inferiority. 1t is an utter i'm
possibilitay for the two races to sub
scribe to common government, and,
at the same time, each race work on;
It's 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 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
1or 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, withdrawing 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
confscated, with this same effontry
and legislation will our political and
manhood rights be taken from US
That is a fact. Every congress Of
fers legislation degrading and mimi
cal to our we'll being. Race preju-
| dice, therefore, can only be worn down
by attrition. We must send our
children, and go ourselves. to mixed
institutions and other places where
J we can mix with the other races and
| consequently become accustomed to
one another. ABOVE ALL THINGS
WE MUST WELCOME AND PRAC-
T1CE JUXTAPOSITION.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-13
"BASIS OF SOCIAL STRlFE,"

In recent address before the Sun
day Evening Club, Bishop Charles D..
Williams handed out some straight
goods. We quote three sterling para
graphs:
"Nine-tenths Of our social strife
come from trying to know people by
labels or numbers. We require a
great deal more temperance and virtue
from the tramp who comes to the back
door and asks for cold victuals than
we do from the society youth who
comes into the drawing-room and asks
for our daughters hand.
think of the simple Russian, Ger
man and French peasants across the
sea tonight, numbering each other. If
you went through the ranks most of
them wouldn't know what it is all
about. They are doing it just because
some one in authority has labeled the
other fellow-'enemy.'
1.-THE secret of nearly all our hatred
and Indifference toward our neigh
bors is because we don't know them.
We are all slaves to names and
titles; we hate to face realities. We
are getting morally color blind to the
finer shades of right and wrong. Often
we are afraid to be alone with our
real selves for fear we should get
acquainted with them.''
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-13
Must Judge A Group by Its Best.
(From the Christian Register, Boston

mooS.)
No one can be said to know anv
class OF people who has not been in
intimate and sympathetic relation with
the best as we'll as the worst of the
class. We compare many persons
who live in the South, and think they
know the colored race, with others
VINO have had no such contact, but
VINO nave come into intimate and svn,-
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-
ratlons among them that the others
90 not know, or, knowing, do not
enter into and appreciate; they know
capabilities by direct contact with the
best 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,
otners 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
ala 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. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-13
INSTRUMENTATION.

The basic need in America at this
moment, and for many years to come
is the fusion of our heterogeneous
population into an American entity
If we fought a civil war to prevent
geographical division, we should find
it worth while now to make some
deliberate and mighty effort to pre-.
vent a more insidious and fatal di.
vision. This effort should not be
spasmodic and sporadic. It should be
persistent and sweeping.
The foregoing from the Chicago
Tribune hits the nail on the head
And it is especially necessary for
the colored people to stop trying to
segregate. The colored person who
advocates jimcrowism in church OF
state is an enemy of the Nation.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-13
MIXING THE RACES.

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. d.
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-
lions to the general rule. Many mas.
own offspring for sale and in time the
tiers made a practice of breeding their
raising of children for the slave mar.
kets became recognized Southern
industry.
Since the abolition of slavery, the
white South, claiming Christ as its
guiding star, has enacted laws making
Christian marriage a felony, thus d.
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
1nquisition; read the story of the
French Revolution; read of Russia's
persecution of the Jews; read of civ.
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
equal in blackness what Southern
white people have melted out to their
own sons and daughters to their own
brothers and sisters. who are of a
slightly darker hue.
1t is the blacklist page in the annals
of the world.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-13
TRUE CHRISTIANS.

The Chicago Tribune recently pub
lished in it's photogravure section a
page of pictures showing the eight
Christian Science churches. All OF
the edifices are classic in their pure
simplicity of architecture and they
are typical of the true Christianity OF
the Christian Scientists.
These eight churches are the only
ones in Chicago that are absolutely
free from race prejudice. Jews and
Gentiles, white and colored people all
meet together and worship God in the
beauty of brotherly love. 1t is an in.
spring sight to visit one of these
churches where the lines of creed
and race have been eliminated and
the spirit of Christ reigns supreme.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-13
PLUTocRATs DOING HARM.

Says the Saturday Evening Post:
"The modern plutocratic ideal is to
soar far away from the common lot
and then voloplane gracefully back to
it. Why take the trouble to soar at
all? Why not distribute the millions
for the common veal before they are
collected in the capacious individual
reservoir"
Many of the men who have made
:reat fortunes by questionable methods
in some cases, and in nearly. every
case, by paying employees low wages.
Carnegie made a great fortune and
is now aiding race prejudice by en-
downing jimcrow libraries in the South
and Rosenwald the Jewish muitimil-
lionaire is using some Of his money to
aid the Christians in proving that their
religion is fake by building Jim crow
Y. M. G. AS all over the country.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-13
WILL BE ELECTED BISHOP.


Information from all parts of the
country is to the effect that Rev. A.
J. Carey, A. NJ, D. D., Phi. D., minister
and warden of the Institutional
Church, Chicago, will be one of the
strongest candidates to come before
the General Conference of the A. M. E.
Church, which meets in Philadelphia
in May. That his election is prac-
tically assured is the consensus Of
opinion among the we'll informed dele
gates leading preachers and promi-
nent laymen.
DR.. Carey has the Endorsement of
practically every person of promi-
hence in Illinois. The A. M. E. min.
listers are for him to man and have
issued a circular letter in his behalf;
the leading members of the bar,
headed by Edward H. Norris, the
foremost lawyer of the country have
issued printed. endorsement; the
leading physicians and surgeons,
headed by DR.. Daniel H. Williams, the
most famous physician and surgeon,
have united in an endorsement, and
men of every profession and calling,
not only in Illinois but in every state
in the union, have endorsed the mill
tant pastor and, what is better, we
have it on good authority that Dr.
Carey's friends have secured pledges
from enough delegates to make his
election sure.
Viewed from any angle Rev. Dr..
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-13
Reforms Needed at Home.
(From The Christian Reeistor

(From The Christian Register)
Race bitterness makes argument. or
discussion, or any effort to come to a.
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 It
our main business to reach across
the water in restraint of war. War is
1ncipient among US in these matters,
and cruel barbarities frequent enough.
to 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. If
ne wants to show that he is a real
brave man, not afraid to tacke any.
thing, and do some good where it Is
most needed, let him speak out aginst
race prejudice.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-13
WALLER AGAINST NEGRO"
Noted Brooklyn Doctor Says It Causes
Mental and Physical Segregation.
(From Amsterdam NeWs.)

(From Amsterdam News.)
Editor Amsterdam News:
Sir: cannot too heartily congratu-
late you on a 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
lie that it is the most potential fac
tor at work at the present to bring
about both a physical and mental
segregation of the people Of color. Its
use Is on the increase only because
our speakers and writer's, especially
DO Bots 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,
lor anything noble or uplifting. Most
nleh'grade Africans repudiate it.
D. IN Africa and out of Africa it was
never applied to the higher types, but
10 Gu1neas, Sudanese and Senegam.
bans only.
c. Its derivatives, "Negroism," me.
grofy," and it's compounds, Negro-head
Negro-f1y, Negro-monkey, are all clear.
~, IN their associations, degrading.
d. Its feminine form, 'Negress," is
justly and correctly used to define
your wife and daughter and sweet
heart, II you favor the use of the mas.
culine term.
e. 1t 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."
1. It Is not differentiated in the mind
and thought of the whites from their
favorite and generally used (amone
themselves) terms, MICRO" and mig
ger"
6. AS stated by an eminent Japanese
diplomat it has an unquestioned In.
huence In cutting US off from the
thought, sympathy and cooperation
OF the millions Of colored Africans. Ash
at1cs and Islanders of the Yonde1
world.
Very truly yours,
OWEN M. WALLER, M. D
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-13
OF One Blood.

(Gerald Stanley Lee in Mount Tom }
| am human being. l 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 1t is, when one considers the
height and depth-the starry height
and .depth-of the human spirit that
wavers and CLOVIS through us all
Wagner and Shakespeare, Tolstoi and
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-13

Carey is a great man, a man of edu-
cation and culture, an eloquent pulpit
orator and valiant race defender.
The great A. M. E. Church needs
men of the type of DR.. Carey and the
church of Richard Allen will honor it.
self as we'll as the race if he is elected
to the Board of Bishops.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-13
Have Learned to "Love, Honor and
- Obey"
(From the Afro-American Ledger J

(From the Afro-American Ledger)
III l can live happily among the
colored people, If can love them as I
love the people Of my own race. then
l Will know that our dream of broth.
ernood for all races may come true"
says MISS Florence MacFarlane, dele
gate from London, England, to the
new Thought Congress, which met in
San Francisco recently. Miss Mac.
Farlane announces her intention Of
going out to live among colored people,
The experience of the Englishwoman
may prove interesting but it offers lit
tie that Is new. Thousands of her
race and sex have not only learned
TO love their colored brothers, but Ito
love, honor and obey them"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-13
A BRAVE GOVERNOR,

Governor Dunno of the state of
Illinois is a just and brave man.
He has just signed the sixth re-
prieve he has granted to Elston
Scott, colored murderer under SEN
tence of death at Murphysboro, Ill.
The last reprieve stays the hanging
until July II, because Sheriff James
White of Jackson county has stead
tasty refused to grant the governor
assurances that the execution would
be conducted decently.
1t seems that the sheriff has
planned to make the hanging a gala
public event, but Governor Dunno is
determined that the state shall not
be so disgraced.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-13
Campaign Against Lynchina.

o111 1'11s1H 10cC01 ueI.J
There is no better time than NOW
to begin a National Crusade Against
Lynch1ng in the United States. For
the rapidity with which this national
CRIME has spread, the barbarity with
which it is committed and the utter
dlsgraceful complacency with which it
Is regarded, should arouse the con-
science of the country in one united
protest against it's further spread and
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-13

Members of the Haitian senate who
persisted in holding meeting in
spite of the warning of Rear Admiral
Caperton, in command of the Ameri-
can forces, were dispersed at Port
au-Prince by detachment of gems
d'armes commanded by an American
officer. The senators protested but
offered no resistance. This procedure
seems much like the Operations" of
the Germans in Belgium and Serbia,
which have shocked our "humanitar-
ian" president.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-13

Moliere! Though the cathedrals quar-
rel together and sing praises with
siege guns to their own little foolish
national souls, and rain bombs on
each others naves, take my stand
by the great bells ringing in their
towers, by the souls of their poets
overriding the years, by the prayers
and songs of their heroes, artists in
ventors, by the mothers and the little
children.
We are all in the same world. We
are all alike. I will not say of any
one nation what I will not say of the
others; and l will not say of any man
what will not say of myself.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-13

Gen. Juan Jimenes of Santo Domin-
go has resigned the presidency of that
republic. He took this action to pre-
vent armed Intervention by the
United States. Any man who gives
up his aims and ambitions for the
good of his country is a patriot, and
Gen. Jimenes' action puts him into
the patriot class.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-13
Hates the Term "Nearo."

Il hate the term Negro because it
is being used in terms of hatred. It
is the cause of the segregation of the
Negro; it is being used in contempt
in public places; it is an excuse for
dlsfranchising him; and it is an ex-
cuse for lynching him. Only one
tenth of one per cent Of the colored
people in America can trace their
descent to Africa, and there is no
more right to call all colored people
Negroes than to call all white people
Turks or Armenians ''-Ex-Assistant
United States Attorney General Vim.
H. Lewis, Boston, Mass.