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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-04-01
OUR NEED OF JUxrAPOslrIoN
(From the Boston Guardian

mat we much rather be, and asso-
c,ate among ourselves, is a saying by
Colored Americans that has becoms
almost trite. That is a. mistake. i,
Is feeling of avowed cowardice and
innate 1nteriority. 1t is an utter i'm
poss1ollltay for the two races to sub
scrloe to common government. and
at the same time, each race work on:
us own salvation. The "theorv" hae
been tried and resulted into a oh. st1s
failure; instead of making for har
mony and cordial good FEELING ha-
tween two races, it has incre.sod
tace natred AMI antagonism in leans
ana pounds. We have needed too
long the advice from false and treach.
erous leadership that resistance i,
wrong that it only breeds race hat.
red and antagonism; that the thing
TOT US to do is to get property and
0tner rights will inevitably follow
we have followed this "advice" faitl,.
iully and have been rewarded in
terms OF residence segregation, street
segregation, confiscation and loss ~
property, anti-intermarriage-which ia
all OF the blacklist pieces Of laeis.
latlon, since that it leaves our women
de1enseless and at the mercy of white
orutes - separate schools, jimcrow
cars, and even legislating to exclude
1urther Negro immigration, These
are the evils resulting from mon.
resistance" and rather be by our
selves" That with the same deeraa
OF enontry and terrible legislation
win which our property is taken and
conhscated, with this same effontrv
and legislation will our political and
MANHOOD rights be taken fnSn us
That is a fact. Every congress Of.
lers legislation degrading and mimi
cal to our we'll being. Race preiu.
dice, therefore, can only be worn down
oy attrition. We must send our
children, and go ourselves. to mixed
institutions and other places where
we can mix with the other races and
consequently become accustomed to
one another. ABOVE ALL THINGS
VIZ MUST WELCOME AND PRAC.
T1CE JUXTAPOSITION.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-04-01
Must Judge A Group by It's Best.
FROM the Christian Register, Boston
MaSS.)

rIoH tne CHRISTIAN Register, Boston.
Mass)
NO one can be said to know any
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 thew
know the colored race, with others
who have had no such contact. but
VINO nave 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
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 obi.
v1ous of; they know qualities which
only respect and sympathy can bring
out; they know possibilities to which
others 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
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.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-04-01
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
Tlmes-Dispatch has misquoted the
speaker or he has deliberately falsi.
lied. 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 a liar.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-04-01

SEGREGATION IN ST. LOUIS.
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:
"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
time large number of voters is not
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 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.
1.-THE racial problems with which
they are planned to deal must be solved
on sounder basis of justice and lib
erty and with q broader spirit of hui
mainly than are embodied in these
measures ~ .
It is said that the intelligent col
ored people Of Saint Louis will fight
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-04-01
WALLER AGAINST NEGRO"
Noted Brooklyn Doctor Says II Causes
Mental and Physical Segregation.
lEEOxaa

Noted Brooklyn Doctor Says It Causes
Mental and Physical Segregation.
(From Amsterdam News.)
Editor Amsterdam News:
Sir: l cannot too heartily congratu-
late you on a recent editorial discour-
aging the use of the word NEGRO"
Ihere 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 1t is the most potential fac
tor at work at the present to bring
about both physical and mental
segregation of the people of color, It's
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,
Tor anything noble or uplifting, Most
h1gh'grade Africans repudiate It.
D. In Africa and out of Africa it was
never applied to the higher types, but
to Guineas, Sudanese and Senegam.
bans only.
c.. Its derivatives, "Negroism," me.
grofy," and it's compounds, Negro-head,
Negro-hy, 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, If 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"
t. It is not differentiated in the mind
and thought of the whites from their
favorite and generally used (among
themselves) terms, MICRO" and "Nie.
ger"
g.. AS stated by an eminent Japanese
diplomat It has an unquestioned in
nuence In cutting us off from the
thought, sympathy and cooperation
OF the millions of colored Africans. ASH
at1cs and Islanders of the Yonder
world.
Very truly yours,
OWEN M. WALLER, M. D.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-04-01
HANDS OFF PUBLIC SCHOOL.

In a strong report to the Religious
Education association, DR.. George A.
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.
T. R. discovered a new bird on his
visit to Trinidad and T. r. is some
thing of bird himself
The Columbia Heights Athletic
Club, composed mostly of present anc
past pupils of the Monroe graded
school, have just given a minstrel
show at the Wilson Normal school,
Washington, D. G. The participants
were white, BACKED up with burnt
cork and the evening was given up to
burlesquing colored people. It is an
outrage that public school should be
used for such purpose. Colored
Washington ought to get busy and
see that such an outrage does not
occur again.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-04-01

Constitution of the United States
specifically states: All persons born
or naturalized in the" United States,
and subjects to the jurisdiction
thereof, are citizens of the United
States and of the State wherein they
reside. That covers the case of the
Eaves family. Both parents and the
boy were born here and are citizens
by right of birth, and this country is
as much their country as it is the
country of any other persons who
were born here.
Vardaman, Tillman and some other
more or less notorious sons of the
South have announced that this is a
white mans country and no doubt
they would be greatly pleased if the
colored people would accept that view
of the matter and get off the earth or
at least out of the country; in fact
some of these "statemen" have sug-
gested the deportation of all colored
citizens.
The average American knows that
this is the colored mans country as
we'll as the white mans country and
history tells us that the colored man
is worthy of the citizenship.
In many things the country, is un-
III st tn itc oo1orod oiti1onc po+1, c,,h
lie opinion and legislative enactments
are in many cases un-American, but
that does not change the basic fact
that all persons born here are Ameri-
cans and people who teach their chill
dren that this is white mans coun-
try and advise them not to salute
the flag, are traitors to the land of
their birth.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-04-01

segregation to 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.
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??, 1916-04-01
TEACHING TREASON.

Hubert Eaves, colored boy II
years old, at Des Moines, Iowa has
several times refused to salute the
American flag at the Clarkson public
school, which he attends and has been
arrested by the truant officer. He
says: America is white mans
country, have no country"
1t is said that he was instructed to
do this by his parents and if true
they are not only making fools of
themselves, but are guilty of treason
when they teach. their son to refuse
to salute the stars and stripes. They
have done the boy a great wrong by
endeavoring to instill such pernicious
ideas into his mind and they are
teaching him a falsehood. .-
The Fourteenth Amendment to the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-04-01
HONORABLE SECRETARY VISITS

7ONORABlE SECRETARY VISITS.
THE Honorable, the Secretary of the
Treasury" W. G. McAdoo, has started
Tor South America. He is accompanied
by Senator Fletcher of Florida. The
United States is reaching out for Cen.
trail and South American trade and
these two worthy segregationists will
no doubt receive rousing hearty wei
come from the warm hearted Latin
Americans. .-... 49,.
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 if
ne has not included among his i'm.
pedlmenta samples of the famous seq
regated water closet which was in.
vented by former. Honorable Assist
ant Secretary of the Treasury" Will
Jams and installed in the treasury
building at Washington by "The Hon
orable, the Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo. Doubtless this new-fangled
Democratic continuance 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 we'll as that of every
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, hypocrisy
and lynching.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-04-01

Moliere! Though the cathedrals quar-
rel together and sing praises with
Slege-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 will not say of the
others; and will not say of any man
what l will not say of myself.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-04-01

Vice President Marshall in a recent
speech put President Wilson in the
Abraham Lincoln class. He hardly be.
longs there, for fifty years after Lin.
coin gave freedom to the slave and
their descendants had advanced in
education, morality and good citizen
ship to equality with other citizens,
Wilson has endeavored to turn back
the hands of time and treat them as
If they were lepers.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-04-01
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-04-01
EmbItters All but DociIe Negro.
(From the Savannah Tribune)

0'o 0"'dHHdH ITIUune.J
IN many of the Southern States.
years ago, colored troops were allowed
and maintained. One by one these
states disbanded the colored troops.
Georgia was better orgonized than anv
OF the other states, and was the last
10 dlsband the colored trops. In event
or war, especially of any duration, the
colored man will be badly needed, but
mas ne been trained or has he been
encouraged to take up arms to fight
IN defense of his country? He has
Deen prescribed and debarred of MANY
privileges that are justly his and which
would embitter any other race but the
dOcile Negro.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-04-01
Didn't Believe In WORRYING,

The American Legal News says that
IN Iowa merchant sent a dunning
letter to a man, who replied by re.
turn mail: "You say you are holding
my note yet That is all right-per-
iectly right. Just keep holding onto
1t, and if you find your hands ain.
ping spit on them and try it again.
Yours affectionately."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-04-01
PSYCHOLOGY OF PREJUDICE.


Last week the st. Paul Pioneer Press
contained 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.
It certainly has the right ring. The
occasion which inspired it was a 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
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-04-01
Each Victory ENCOURAGES,
(trom the Martinsburg Pi0neer.pro

o''o 1'1es1 e1H1oDuIS TIUHeer-PTeSS)
All hail to our brave confrere the
non. n. G. Smith, editor of the old
reliable Gazette for going to the Gov
ernor OF Ohio, and preventing that
internal play, "The Niger" to be ex-
nlDited In the great state of Ohio. To
boldly fight such impositions is the nm.
nlnching duty of every decent man
among us. Every victory won bv the
lew courageous agitators encourages
others to step into the arena of de.
renee; and may the time come soon
when towards will be unknown. and
all stand united for manhood rights
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-04-01

American Christianity is travesty
on the real article. The main object
in the life of the average Caucasian
American Christian seems to be to
hold his colored brother down..
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-04-01
Of One Blood.

(Gerald Stanley Lee In Mount Tom
l am a human being. do not pro-
pose to be cooped up or shut in in my
love and criticism to mere geographi.
cal streaks or spots of people on
planet. This planet Is small enough
as it 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??, 1916-04-01

No question is settled until it is set
tied right. There will be no peace in
this country until the colored man
has every right guaranteed under the
Constitution.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-04-01

Many colored people are advocat-
ing self placement" for the race as
the solution Of the race problem. The
more the race gives the more it's
enemies will demand. Never willingly
relinquish any right.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-04-01
"RAsIs Of SOCIAL STRIFE"

In q recent address before the Sun
day Evening Club, Bishop Charles d.
Williams handed out some straight
goods. We quote three sterling para
graphs:
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-04-01
GOD GIVE US MEN.

God give us men A time like this demands
Strong minds great hearts, true faith and ready hands
Men whom the lust of Office does not KILL
Men whom the spoi]s of Office cannot buy;
Men who possess opinions and will;
Men who have honor-men who will not lie;
Men who stand before demagogue
And damn his treacherous batteries without winling
Tall men, sun crowned who live above the fog
In public duty and in private thinking.
j. G. Holland.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-06

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 "Wilderbs has worked a big change for the better in my general health. lone bottle has proved that it is su- iperior to ordinary medicines" said
 Mrs. c. M. Botsford of 51 Park Ter Trace.
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