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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-03-18
THE REASON WHY.

A distinguished foreigner who is
touring the United States had this to
say relative to his impressions of the
race question in this country: =:
II have always been interested in
what is called the race question in
the United States and since my arrival
I have endeavored to study it from
every viewpoint and if possible find
some reasons for it's existence.
AFTER I had met so large number
of Intelligent, we'll educated, refined
and cultured colored people 1 was at
loss to understand the reasons for
the bitter race prejudice and the at
tempts in various parts of the country
to segregate people of color. ~. ....
1.-The problem was largely solved
when I attended at Evanston, Illinois
recently a conference of the various
branches of Methodism and in which
the colored branches had representa-
ton. ~.
"That a body so-called Christians
should find it necessary to even dis
cuss the question of segregating any
class of people was so contrary to
the spirit of Christianity that was
greatly surprised; but after a South
ern delegate had in a vigorous speech
opposed segregation, I was dumb
founded to see bishop of a colored
Methodist church arise and make a
speech favoring the separation of his
branch from the proposed union of
Methodism. He referred to his men,
bers as white folks Negroes" and
said they wished to be set apart.
1t was disgusting revelation.
"The whole thing is now clear. Some
ignorant, short sighted selt-seeking
leaders are seeking segregation in the
church for some personal reasons.
Evidently they are not versed in his
tory or they would know that they
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-03-18
PLUCK AND PREPAREDNESS

Deputies from the Illinois state fire
marshaps Office have begun an inves.
tlgatlon into fire which occurred
wednesday in the home of Fred R.
Jefferson, colored man who resides
in Oak Park, suburb of Chicago.
Jefferson charges that his house was
set on fire purposely because of race
prejudice
This blaze was the second ATTEMPT
made to burn Jefferson's home. The
first occurred in April, 1914. The
latest blaze occurred about 1870
o'clock. The Jeffersons would prob.
ably have burned in their beds had
not the flare of the burning gasoline
awakened them.
Mrs. Jefferson carried out their
little daughter Faith. Jefferson him.
self could not get a connection over
either of the two telephones which
he has in his house and ran to a
neighbours house to call the fire de-
partment. After this he saw a white
man run away from the house and
stumble over a hedge, and was yell
ing when he disappeared, and it is
believed he was wounded by a shot
which Jefferson fired from his rifle.
Like a sensible man Jefferson has
learned the lessons of preparedness.
and keeps rifle, a shotgun and a
revolver in the house, not to mention
a huge dog, which is on watch in the
basement: He is ready to give house
burners warm reception.
Jefferson's house cost $4,000 and is
free from debt. He has been stu.
dent at the Art Institute, where he
took a prize, and is member of the
Chicago Guards band, Hull house
organization. .~....... ...
THE APPEAL congratulates Mr..
Jefferson on his pluck and prepared
ness and hopes that the next coward
ly scoundrel who attempts to burn his
home may receive bullet through
his back into his vile heart. p.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-03-18

segregation to a finish and that they
must do, for upon the proper settle
ment of this question depends their
very existence. Segregation is spread
ing all over the country and money
must be raised to. carry the question
to the Supreme Court of the United
States. 49, $685..
THE APPEAL hereby subscribes
five dollars to the fighting fund and
and has forwarded that amount to the
National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People at New York,
the same to be added to the fund for
carrying the matter to the court of
last resort. Who will follow suit?
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-03-18
THE LIAR AND HIS LIES.

Recently in Richmond in the more
or less grand old commonwealth of
virginia." colored citizens according
to the Daily Times-Dispatch, honored
Catholic priest who had worked
among the colored people, by present
ing him a silver tea service. So far,
so good, but in his speech the colored
brother who made the presentation
speech said that 'the white and COL
ored people Of Richmond lived side
by side in most harmonious relations
and that there was not the least
sign of race prejudice
Now somebody has lied. Either the
Times-Dispatch has misquoted the
speaker or he has deliberately falsi-
fed. The Planet, the Reformer and
the st. Luke Herald newspapers pub.
lished by colored people has stated
scores of times that rank prejudice
exists and certainly the enactment of
the city segregation ordinance which
does not permit colored and white
people to live "side by SIDE"
In truth the talk about "harmon1-
GUS relations is mostly bunk and it
has been handed out for years by the
bootlickers who for personal reasons
desire to curry favor with their op-
pressors.
Harmonious relations mot the
least sign of prejudice" and such ex-
pressions are lies and the man who
utters them knows that he is liar.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-03-18

are playing with fire. If they are
segregated in the House of the Lord,
segregation civilly and socially fol-
lows as natural sequence. Old col
ored men who were reared in slavery
are apt to have slavish ideas and
the only hope of the colored people
IS that the young men, the clear
headed thinking young men, will take
charge of the situation and push to
the rear the trucking leaders who
are willing to sell their birthright
for mess of pottage.."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-03-18
SEGREGATION IN ST. LOUIS.

'oINn.01I ISN IN 81 ,IOOI0.
Only one daily paper in St. Louis
had the courage and manhood not only
to fight against segregation but to
severely rebuke the other papers which
stood for the unholy thing.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the
Pulitzer paper, in an admirable edi.
torial, set forth it's view of the situa.
ton as follows: 49,.
"The forces backing the segregation
movement were so powerful that they
were able to control newspapers and
induce them to abandon their princi.
pies. That they should mislead for
a time large number of voters is not
a matter of wonderment.
"Of course the ordinances adopted
under the initiative will have to stand
the tests of the courts. We do not
believe that they will survive. If they
do not we do not look for a solution
of the problems they were planned to
meet. We believe that they are mis-
takes and that they will be recognized
as mistakes and set aside in favor of
the principles they violate: We hope,
however, the experiment of segregation
will not lead to serious consequences.
"The racial problems with which
they are planned to deal must be solved
on sounder basis of justice and lib
erty and with broader spirit Of hui
manity than are embodied in these
measures"
1t is said that the intelligent COL
ored people of Saint Louis will fight
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-03-18
DR.. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

see the Supreme Court of the nation
declare unconstitutional the very de-
vices which he asked the race to SUBJ
nit to. In other words, that court
asserted that the intention of the
amendments, that made the race citi-
zens, was that they should exercise
the franchise for the protection of
their citizenship
Eight: Though Tuskegee attempt
ed to keep both races in kindly atti-
tude, no man was more abused than
Mr.. Washington when he ate with the
president of the United States
| Ninth: The summary is, the very
things Mr.. Washington desired most
i to accomplish he died without seeing.
For twenty years he labored to have
his people secure the rudiments of a
common school education and enjoy
the friendly attitude of their white
nelghbors. This he did not realize to
any considerable extent.
The editor of The Crisis believed
the very attitude of DR.. Washington
riveted upon the race the very evils
he sought to dissipate. The editors
that belabor the editor of The Crisis
should disprove this position or &C
knowledge their mistake in unjustly
attacking a wise man. Evidently, no
man will attempt to foster to the
same extent the policies Of Mr.. Wash
ingtOn. 1t is very doubtful that Tus-
kegee can continue on the same elab.
crate scale, unless philanthropy en-
dows while the country feels keenly
the death of it's founder All sensible
persons believe the race must have
material basis upon which to stand.
1t must also be remembered that the
material prosperity of every people is
protected by the skill and brains of
the learned in the law that guide in
dustrial enterprises. No race needs
learned professional men as mech as
our race. No race needs a leadership
which is equipped with the very es-
sence of scholastic ability as does the
race. When men say that William
E. B. Dubois has done nothing, they
stultify themselves. He has his
faults, but he also has the virtues of
manhood, scholarship and ability that
will immortalize him-(Rev) Byrd,
Rochester, N. Y.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-03-18
PSYCHOLOGY OF PREJUDICE.

PSYCHOLOGY OF PREJUDICE.
Last week the st. Paul Pioneer Press
contained a very remarkable editorial
which has been so generally and favor.
ably commented upon that we repro.
duce it for the benefit of exchanges
and some people who did not see it.
1t certainly has the right ring. The
; occasion which inspired it was meet
ing of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People:
PSYCHOLOGY OF PREJUDICE.
1T is the duty laid upon every
American to rid himself of race
prejudice so far as may be. And, this
being America, race prejudice should
be entirely banished from our national
life, if not obliterated from our per-
sonal attitudes.
I'm any event, no American has a
right, the smallest personal right, to
speak or think his race prejudices in
public. That is un-American and
registers him as not an American. It
is a difficult thing to do at best, this
Kidding ones self of prejudice, particu-
larly of race prejudice. There appears
to be no corollary of tolerance to the
American proposition of liberty. But,
never was there moment in our his
tory when the call to this difficult
achievement was so loud, or the op-
portunity so large.
"And, at this moment when every
man feels prejudices and every man
knows it is laid upon him to act so.
far as possible free from prejudices,
there is a very large opportunity to
consider and Danish certain race
prejudice. We have had the race with
us almost from the beginning and will
have it to the end. Much injustice has
been wrought and will be wrought If
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-03-18
Reforms Needed at Home.
(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
incipient 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. II
he 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??, 1916-03-18

we do not confirm or grant of not
only federation but friendliness to this
race.
ION Tuesday night at the. Plymouth
church and for the society which ma
tionally is pledged to urge the ban
ishmeit of this prejudice, the society
for the amelioration of the conditions
of the colored people, President Vim
cent of the University will speak on
The Psychology of Prejudice It is
an illumination of which we are all
in need. Too often our prejudice
is "a matter of instinct, without any
psychology, any mental side to it. To
discover where we err, and where we
fail to manifest any intelligence,
should go far to cure us of our
medieval i'll. And at this moment,
there is nothing which we, as Ameri-
cans, an amalgam of all races, are so
much in need of as an understanding
OF prejudice, leading to it's elimina-
ton, or at least it's subordination in
public affairs"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-03-18
HONORABLE SECRETARY VISITS

HONORABLE SECRETARY VISITS.
The Honorable, the Secretary of the
Treasury" w. G. McAdoo, has started
for South America. He is accompanied
by Senator Fletcher of Florida. The
United States is reaching out for Gen.
trail and South American trade and
these two worthy segregationists will
no doubt receive a rousing hearty wei
come from the warm hearted Latin
Americans.
IN Brazil the Honorable Secretary
will meet many prominent citizens
high officials and merchants who are
colored men of various shades, from
a bright yellow to lustrous black
and he has made a great mistake il
ne has not included among his i'm
pedimenta samples of the famous seq.
regated water closet which was in
vented by former Honorable Assist
ant Secretary of the Treasury Will
A~~>~AS ssAN AASIdA1cu Ill Lie treasury
building at Washington by "The Hon
orable, the Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo. Doubtless this new-fangled
Democratic contrivance would greatly
impress many of the men of various
mixtures of Indian, Negro, Portuguese
and Spanish bloods, "The Honorable
the Secretary of the Treasury will
have the HONOR of meeting.
And it is appropriate that ''The Hon
orable, the Secretary of the Treas
ury" should steam away on the U. s
armored cruiser Tennessee. The name
tennessee, as well as that of ever,
other state in the murder zone of the
United States, is one for segregation
lists to conjure by, reeking as it does
with civic injustice, race prejudice
jimcrow laws, religious cant, hypocris,
and lynching.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-03-18
BE JUST TO THE LIVING.

Recently the New York Age pub
llshed excerpts from different race
journals which took notice of the
comment, made by Editor w. E. B.
Du Bots in The Crisis, on the death
of the late DIR. Booker T. Washington.
The virulence of the attack, by these
papers upon DR.. Dubois, was more
untimely than anything he had said
| about Mr.. Washington. Editor Du.
Bots gave public utterance to his con.
victions, and in so doing allowed the
| world to know the estimate he had of
DR.. Washington. Many others may
| think like the editor of The Crisis, but
will not dare to express it. Mr.. Wash
ington would not have been a man,
if he had been without fault. AS a
man he made mistakes of Judgment,
though honestly we believe The
editor of The Crisis recognized not
his personal mistakes, which had to
do with his personal character, but
those acts which had to do with the
shaping of the destiny of the race in
this country. In criticising the public
| acts OF man, no one should be held
| up as an enemy nor as unjust if the
criticism is just. Those editors who
| abused Editor Dubois did not at,
tempt to show that he was wrong in
his judgment of Mr.. Washington. 1t
is grossly unfair to appeal to abuse
when one is in combat. The very
| fact of appealing to abuse indicates
/ that the opponent is correct and
/ there is not an argument to meet him
but assaults upon him must be the
alternative. Truly, DR.. Washington
stood out as an educator of no mean
| ability in the industrial world. He
achieved his prominence in that por.
ton of the country where great an.
tagonism to the advance of the race
existed. He had to "stoop to con,
quer.". He made great concessions in
order that he and his institution
might accomplish a good for the race
which they otherwise could not. In
the opinion of the editor of The Crisis
Mr.. Washington conceded too much.
There are certain facts that stare us
In the face and we must consider
them.
First: Tuskegee has grown, but
the common school education of the
race in the South has shrunk almost
10 nOLnlng.
Second: During the height of Mr..
!! Washlngton's popularity almost every
Southern state tried to segregate the
school fund.
Third: Though Tuskegee has
turned out many worthy students, the
rank and file of our children in the
South are worse off today than they
were thirty years ago.
Fourth: The financial backing of
Tuskegee institute, by the most in
f1uential men of the country, resulted
in an alarming decrease in gifts to
higher educational schools to prepare
leaders for the race.
Fifth: In spite of the Cancellation
OF Mr.. Washington, the South during
his lifetime destroyed more of our
men by lynching and lawlessness
than at any other period of it's his.
tory.
Sixth: The advising of our people
to eschew politics and get material
wealth, did not make their lives one
whit better, for as fast as the race
got wealth every device for segrega-
ton and oppression was inaugurated.
Seventh: Mr.. Washington lived to
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-03-18
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-03-18
Must Judge A Group by It's, Best.
(From the Christian Register, Boston

(From the Christian Register, Boston,
Mass.)
No one can be said to know anv
class OF people who. has not been in
intimate and sympathetic relation with
the best as well 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
who have come into intimate and SYM
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-
rat1ons among them that the others
40 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 obi.
v1ous Of; they know qualities which
only respect and sympathy can bring
out; they know possibilities to which
otners by their very acquaintance are
blinded. II those who know the col
ored race through the mass and nv
observation merely could know what
Individual possibilities are demon
strated in growing numbers of the
elect, and would be courageously can
did 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. d.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-03-18
The SIN or 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
euiIIotines 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??, 1916-03-18
The MAN W. DAREs

honor tho man xho in rho con.
scIentious discharge Of his duty dares
to stand alone; the VOL ID, with ignor-
ant, intolerant ju~gment, may con-
denim, the countepances Il relatives
may be averted, and the hearts Of
friends grow cold, but the sense of
duty done shall Be swoetor than the
applause Of the world, the osuntsn-
ances Of relatives or the hearts q
friends. Charles Summer.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-03-18

Voliva the prophet Of Zion City In
sists that the earth is fiat. Many
years ago, Rev. John Jasper Of Rich
mond, Va, declared that the "Sun
do move" He attracted considerable
attention, and that's just about all
that Volva desires at this time.
Danskeren. [volume] (Neenah, Wis.) 1892-1920, 1916-05-17

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inroe 1@llOs 6olf, grebet al oiG-
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ON at ilaa FalpIus t6iel. 5ffe
u~iau0ipnIiat at 3eIoterne ira aliien,
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9faa0 % sen roinerffe arigsgoerite
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oioenoe OH 9lanerl, ben iioite intet
alleroe.
Der aif BUD til 9pperitepreiter-
ne % De 9el0ite; De u~ifoerretteoes
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illgen ifltl6e ane llraao, ifuIOe bis
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nogen boerfen Of gpperiteprGiter.
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Men = Fan, Tom Dor / Sim-
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1, ~. 7erom nprntere npite Song.