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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-22
MERGE RACES, HIS PLEA.

An Americanization that will result
in a merger of all races and peoples
that "have come to swell our popu
lation, a merger that will be so com.
plete that the thought and conduct,
social and political, of all of them
will be so directed that America and
America only receives their unquali-
fed and undivided allegiance" was
urged by Associate Justice of the
District Supreme Court Frederick L.
Siddons, the principal speaker at the
closing session of the citizenship
convention held recently in Washing
ton, D. G.
Justice Siddons said that the ma
tives of the United States, as well as
those coming from foreign lands,
should be instructed in American
citizenship if the motives and ideals
of our government were to be looked
up to and respected by aliens.
Justice Siddons said that it was
largely this country's fault that
America has so-called "hyphenates."
The justice concluded by exhorting
everyone present to do all in his or
her power to perform "the great and
noble task of developing the ideal
American citizen.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-22
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.
any COUNTRY is THE WORLD"


1t was in 1888, on July 18th, that
William Lloyd Garrison, speaking at
Exeter Hall, London, England, uttered
the momentous words: "My country is
the world; my countrymen are all
mankind"
Garrison's words are the ones which
will be treasured by the ages. They
are sparks from the fire within him.
They illuminate his breadth of mind,
his Catholic spirit and his indomitable
courage. In the summer of 1888, ever
active and resourceful for the freedom
of the American slave, he visited Eng
land. BY this time he had become a
national character.
The Liberator, the anti-slavery or.
gan, which had as it's motto, "Our
Country is the world, Our Country.
men Mankind" was two years old
He had been imprisoned in Baltimore
the Georgia legislature had offered a
price for his head, and on his way
to his ship at New York, through Con
necticut, he was pursued by a sheriff
with writs for his apprehension.
But he reached London safely. II
was his first trip to the worlds met
ropolis and in company with his co
worker, George Thompson, he was
shown some attention by the anti
slavery element in London. Garrison
was the accredited agent of the New
England anti-slavery society, and hi!
object was the collection of funds fol
the establishment OF manual training
schools for the youth of African blood
in the United States.
Another object was to combat ar
African colonization scheme, to which
Garrison was firmly opposed. A meet
ing was arranged for the American
champion of the American slave al
Exerter Hall on the evening of July
18th. The great auditorium was
packed. Garrison was introduced by
George Thompson. He began thus:
"Mr. Chairman, it is long since ]
sacrificed all my national, complex
tional and local prejudices upon the
altar of Christian love, and breaking
down the narrow boundaries of a sci
fish patriotism, inscribed upon my
banner this motto: my country is the
world; my countrymen are all man
kind.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-22
An ApoIogist. -.
(From the Washington Bee

(From the Washington Bee.)
The Bee, at the time Major Motion
was named by committee of apollo
glsts, said then that he was "Hand
Picked Leader"
The condition of the colored race
IN this country is due to these "hand-
picked leaders" Now, in the first
place, Major Motion represents a class
OF White men and not the Colored
Americans.
ne is not only a "hand-picked
leader but an apologist who fails to
resent an insult. Would any Ameri-
can white man of any nationality at
tempt to make excuses for an insult
TO his wife by common carrier.
Has this not been the policy of all
hand picked leaders? This hand
picked representative apologizes for
the insult offered his wife while en-
route to her home. Will Major Mo-
ton, the newly installed principal of
iuskegee, enter a suit for damages?
NO, ne would offer an apology to those
VINO had insulted his good wife, The
Bee has always been an admirer of
Major Motion, and thought that he
possessed manly traits, that would
commend him to the thoughtful con-
slderation of the American black
race, but The Bee must confess that
ne is a hand-picked leader and an
apologist.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-22
BEAUTIFUL, BUT BUNK.

President Wilson, speaking before
the citizenship convention, urged a
square deaP' 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.
1--WE ought to be careful to maintain
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 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 were
warned by the president to examine
themselves carefully to see whether
they have burning in them the true
light of America which they expect
to show to these foreigners.
If square deal" for the immigrant
why not a square deal for 100000
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 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.
The 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. sin
certify. His beautiful words are but
bunk.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-22

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 a 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??, 1916-07-22
THE WACO HORROR


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, Fascinating
aspect, it is matched by 2,S42 other
lynchings which have taken place be-
tween January /, 1885, and June l.,
1916"
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 con-
tribution to the fund and hopes that
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-22

0 NahonaAs
for the Advanemen Coore

Fifty thousand copies of the story
OF 1.-THE Waco Horror" have just been
distributed by the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Colored
People through it's official organ, the
Crisis, and as a result a campaign for
an anti-lynching fund of $4,000 has
been launched. Immediately upon
hearing the details of this American
atrocity, which for barbarity surpass-
es anything charged against the Ger
mans in Belgium, Judge Moorfield
Storey, National President of the AS
ISOLATION, and formerly President of
the American Bar Association, and
Mr. Philip G. Peabody, both of Boston,
each offered to contribute $1,000 to-
ward such a fund on condition that
the remaining $4,000 be raised by
August 1.
The N. A. A. G. P. sent special
investigator from National headQuar.
tiers at 70 Fifth avenue, New York,
who commenced gathering evidence in
Waco, Texas, where the burning oc,
Cured, within forty height hours after
the lynching. 1nasmuch as fifteen
, thousand people had sanctioned the
affair by their presence and dozens OF
pictures were taken, there was NO
difficulty in ascertaining the names
1 and addresses of the ring-leaders and
the failure of both the Judge and
sheriff to make the slightest effort tc
protect their prisoner. The Associa
ton is bending every effort to secure
distinguished Texas lawyer with
courage enough to bring the case
against these murderers into court.
Politics, the investigator found, was
at the bottom of the affair. San
Fleming, the sheriff, is up for re
election at the Democratic primary il
July. His opponent, Buchanan, though
illiterate, has three dead niggers tt
his credit" and is therefore very
popular. Unless he is to go back tt
selling buggies and cultivators for the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-22
THE WACO HORROR.

own wrist rather than take chances
that the boy should die too soon.
Many had come long way to attend
this party and they didn't want it to
end in minute. Everybody was
happy; they shouted and sang like a
punch 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-
ala, published the same afternoon,
said: ION the way to the scene of
the burning, people on 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 a 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 Of
this tree, and while the fire was be
ing lit, this bloody thing was hoistet
into the air where everyone would
have full view. A manicurist wh(
works for Goldstein & Mingle, whose
windows look out on the square, told
! the investigator she saw them unse1
the lad. AS the chain frightened
around his neck, this half-dead~ crea
ture reached up convulsively to grail
1t, so they cut his fingers off.
The Waco Times-Herald makes nj
bones of it. Fingers, ears, pieces O.
clothing, toes and other parts of thu
Negroes body were cut off by member:
OF the mob that had crowded to thu
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-22
THE MOTION INCIDENT,
comments OF Coored Contemporaries Major Motions
Resent the Humiliation of His Wife and the Insult
to the Colored People of the Country

Major Motion is in no sense leader
of the colored people, but the fact that
he is at the head of Tuskegee gives
him influence and he is doing the COL
ored people great wrong when he
fails to resent any wrongs. He was
picked for his job by white people
who are not looking for the real well
fare of the country but for their own
selfish ends.
If the trustees of Tuskegee really
mean to serve the colored people they
should ask for the resignation of Prin
cipal Motion and put in man who will
resent attacks on the rights of the
race.
Manhood is the basis of all real
progress.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-22

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 shout that was heard
blocks away. Onlookers were hanging
from the windows of the City Hall
and every other building that COM
manded 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. X"
The body of young Washington was
burned to a 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
e~NSOuAI' Ouc ldIu0l, WHICH, questioned
about the propriety of holding his lit
tie son on his shoulder wnere he could
get 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
mad 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??, 1916-07-22
ServiIity Brings Contempt.

(From the Union, Cincinnati, o.
If the above is true (referring to
the "Moton Incident") then Major
Motion will rise to fame and fortune
as did his illustrious predecessor.
"Crooking the pregnant hinges of the
knee that thrift may follow fawning"
brings wealth from the great masses
OF white people alright, but it also
brings a vast amount of contempt.
There is so much bowling, cringing
and nauseating servility shown by
some OF our people, is it any wonder
that even the 25th class of white
people feel that they are the Lords
Amounted, and therefore vastly supe-
rlor to all colored people?
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-22
Unfit to Teach Our Children.
o (From the Martinsburg Pioneer
procc

This paper has no retraction to
make in the Major Motion affair. It
thought then and knows now that no
Improvement was made by his pro-
motion. Booker T. Washington's pal
nation gave us double work for man
mood 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 for, to ride in a Pullman car. is
unit to lead and teach our children
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-22
Stand SquareIy for Justice,
(From the Omaha Monitor \

Major Motion, please don't assume
tne attitude of an apologist. We are
hoping for big things from you. We
haow ana appreciate the difficulties
oI your position. Stand squarely and
nrmly for justice to your race. No
apology is due from either Mrs. Mo-
ton or yourself, because as a 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
in which the conditions are seldom
sanitary or pleasant.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-22
Has Shown His Hand,
(From the Cleveland Gazette.

(From the Cleveland 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 a 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??, 1916-07-22
Must Contend for Rights.
lErQm Richmond Planot

We do not just understand the
position of Principal Robert R. Motion
Ill tne matter .......... There is no
other course to pursue than to con-
tlnue to contend for rights denied,
even though we are rebuked and dis
appointed in so doing. No question
IS ever settled until it is settled right.
We must continue to appeal to the
conscience of the American people.
We must continue to attempt to en-
1orce our rights through the courts of
the land, even though some of them
may be prejudiced against us.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-22
Major Notions First Dutv.

(f'rom the New York News.)
The future of the great work at
Tuskegee, may call for an offending
silence, but it will never be helped
long or to any great degree by an
abject surrender of the races rights.
Major Motions first duty to himself
and his race is to set himself now and
at all times four square with the pro-
gross of his people.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-22
No Very High Opinion.

(F'rom the Nashville Globe.)
we entertain no very high opinion
OF President Motions explanation to
the Associated Press Correspondent
at Montgomery, anent that sleeping
car episode. We trust he was in
correctly quoted.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-22

Unless He Can Talk Like a Man.
(From the Richmond Planet.)
Principal r. R. Motion has gone to
WORK. It would be well for him to
Keep at 1t and to have nothing further
70 say about that Pullman sleeping
car incident.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-05
WAR HAS NOT
KILLED SNOBBISHNESS
Aristocrats Of England Still Consider
Themselves Better Than
Ordinary Soldiers.

LONDON, Feb. 24.-(By MaiD-The
war hasn't killed snobbishness in Eng
land.
For instance, certain magazine
publishes what it calls Casual Pencil
l1ngs From Fighting Man. They're
anonymous but presumably they rep
resent a certain type Of officer, which
the lighting man" is supposed to be,
or they wouldn't appear in a typical
English magazine.
Here are some extracts:
"A considerable number Of unclassi-
fed individuals, neither fish, flesh nor
good red herring, have been jerked
into commissions by backstairs influ-
ence. Promotion of that sort doesn't
! pay for itself. I'd rather see it come
from the ranks, though that doesn't
always pan out WE'LL
"A v. @. corporal who recently de-
chned the honor put it sensibly enough
when he said that what he had done
to earn the distinction only proved
that he was a man, not a gentleman,
and that from personal experience he
knew the men would rather be led by
an incompetent gentleman than an ex-
perienced ranker who hadn't the ad-
vantage Of good BIRTH .
Il think the democracy will dis
count good deal of what their lead
ers have told them of late years about
us gentry. The deathroll Of the army
must surely convince them, not only
that we're not the selfish brutes the
demagogues tried to make out, but
that, whatever our faults, we tumbled
over one another to render the coun-
try service out Of all proportion to our
numbers. The rank and file know it,
anyhow. They know wele in it as a
matter Of duty first and secondly be-
cause it's our nature to lead"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-05
contractor Who Will Build New
home Of keokuk Country Club,
Will Commence at Once
on Work.
OF BRICK AND sTUCCO
Building Committee Decides to Have
This Combination for New
Rome-OId Site 10
Chosen.

Work on the new. home Of the
heokuk Country club will be COM
menced this week, If the weather Is
at all suitable for the contractor to
put his men on the job. AS announc-
ed last week, in The Gate City, Will
liam Kirchner secured the contract
for the new home
At a meeting of the building COM
m1ttee and the contractor, it was de-
cided to use brick and stucco in the
construction Of the house. Brick will
be used in the lower part, with the
upper part Of stucco It is felt that
this will make an exceedingly pretty
building, and will be quite an imposing
sight perched at the summit of the
Country club hill overlooking the
valley of Prices creek and Lake
Cooper.
The location Of the home already
has been decided upon on the site Of
the building which burned a year ago
in May.
The Country club season Is ap-
preaching and committees already
have been appointed for the activities
OF the club year.