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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-06-24

the traditions of the South and had no
resentment against the people who
committed the outrage" ....
THE APPEAL has no hesitancy in
saying that if Major Motion is quoted
correctly and feels that way that he
is unified for the presidency of an
institution which is designed to fit COL
ored youth for life. Manhood should
be the basis of all training.
What more is needed to make a man
resentful than an attack on his wife
A being who would not defend his wife
against every foe is unworthy to be
called man. Even among the lower
animals the males willingly give up
their lives in defense of their mates.
The present unhappy state of the
colored people in the United States is
largely due to the servile tactics OF
the so-called leaders who have been
not only too cowardly to defend them.
selves when attacked but have actr.
ally advised submission to great
wrongs.
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 vel.
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 a 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??, 1916-06-24
Must Judge A Group by its Best.
(from the Christian Register, Boston
Mass)

Must Judge A Group by its Best.
(From the 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
who have come into intimate and syn,
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
DO not know, or, knowing, do not
enter into and appreciate; they know
capabilities by direct contact with the
pest OF the race which others are obi.
Vlous OF; they know qualities which
only respect and sympathy can bring
out; they know possibilities to which
others by their very acquaintance are
blinded. II those who know the col
ored race through the mass and bv
conservation merely could know what
Individual possibilities are demon.
strated in growing numbers of the
eject, and would be courageously can.
aid 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. . GOV W.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-06-24
Sergeant Patton Promoted
SPECIAL TO THE APPEAL,

SPECIAL TO THE APPEAL.
Chicago, June 23.-Merit finds re-
ward in war in other ways than
medals and ribbons. Take Federal
Drill Sergeant John H. Patton. So
recognized is his ability that when
the orders for mobilization came, Col.
FRANKLIN Denison, of the Eighth ILL.,
nols Infantry. wired ,.Adjt.-Gen. Dick
son and asked that he take steps to
secure the discharge of Patton. who
IS colored, from the roster of the 10th
cavalry and help secure for him a
captains commission. The state
leader complied. Last night he re-
ceived word from Washington grant
ing the request.
Patton becomes captain of the
staff now with salary of 5000 a
month" said the general. Yesterday
ne was getting $50 month. Tell me
mat money cannot be made in war.
But Patton deserves it because. for
whipping a regiment into shape, he
is a MARVEL" :,
And the general added that should
Patton survive hostilities with Mexico
ne undoubtedly would receive a com
mission as lieutenant in the regular
army. -
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-06-24
coLoRED SOLDIERS FALL FIRST

coLoRED SOLDIERS FALL FIRST.
A squadron of the Tenth Cavalry,
colored American soldiers, was am
pushed by Caranzista troops at Car
rial, Mexico. In the face of a with
ering machine gun fire the American
troops dismounted; deployed and
charged the Mexicans, who were
shielded by row of adobe houses.
Notwithstanding the great advan-
tage the Mexicans held both in posi-
ton and numbers, General Gomez,
the Mexican commander, was killed
during the first few minutes of fight.
ing, also number of Mexican SOL
diers. On the American side, eleven
troopers and their commander W ere
killed.
So the first blood in the first real
battle of the Mexican war was that of
colored Americans, who fought sol.
diers of another colored race in de.
Tense of the American flag, which
does not always protect them from
injustice.
In Mexico, American colored men
are welcomed and treated as brothers
while in the United States, the land
OF their birth, they are to a great
extent treated as they were lepers,
subjected to insults, denied their civil
rights. Nevertheless from the time
that Crispus Attacks, the mulatto,
gave his blood, the first shed in the
Revolutionary war to the present
time, colored men have never failed
to lay down their lives in defense of
their native land.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-06-24

wavers and CLOVIS through us all
Wagner and Shakespeare, Tolstoi and
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, I 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 anv
one nation what I will not say of the
others; and will not say of any man
what I will not say of myself.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-06-24
MONUMENTAL BUNK.

(from the Louisville News.) ..--
A few grand old Southern gentle.
men, are agitating the building of a
monument in honor of the old black
Mammles and Uncles of ante-bellum
days. This agitation going on through
the Southern press is full of disgust.
ing sentimentalty expressing the high
regard of said gentlemen for said Nam.
mics and Uncles. According to the
truck We read slavery was a great and
noble institution and both slave and
master were happy and contented with
conditions. No slaves tried or wanted
to escape so delightful a bondage; the
crack of the whip as it brought blood
from some black today regardless of
sex, the bark of the hound as he chased
human prey, who in a foolish moment
had yielded to the desire for liberty,
the bidding at the auction block when
mother and child were torn asunder
are all fiction according to these kind
hearted old gentlemen. But because
OF the service the happy service
given by the old Nanny and the old
Uncle they would build monument to-
their memory. And in years to come
southern white boys and girls dis
gusted and angered at the continued
freshness of black boys and girls
can look at that monument and remem-
Der things were not always thus"
Why not monument to the thou
sands of known and unknown lynched?
why not monument to the thou
sands of Colored Women raped and
seduced in the lakewood towns of
Southern States? Why not a monu-
ment at Waco, Texas, where $4,000
men and women cheered the burning
OF black boy? These monuments are
about as necessary and would be as
decorative and identifying as one to
the old black Nanny and the old
black Uncle.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-06-24
PROPOSES "WHITE" PARTY

Senator Newlands of Nevada is an
ardent suffrage supporter. He called
at the womans party headquarters
and suggested way of winning the
South to the cause. He said:
1T strikes me that it would be a.
good scheme for the suffragists to
come out for the nationwide enfran-
chisement of white persons only" he
said. "This would win over the South.
which now feels that the Negro should
not have been enfranchised and is op-
posed to it's women getting into poll
tics. On the west coast there is a
strong feeling against the yellow races
ever having the vote. Hence with a
straight-cut declaration for party Of
white men and women the suffragists
could draw together all elements"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-06-24
OUR NEED OF JUxrAPoslTloN
(From the Boston Guardian.)

ILL.,
That we much rather be, and asso
clate among ourselves, is saying by
Colored 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 GU;
Its 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 antagenism 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
Tor US to do is to get property and
other rights will inevitably foil, "
we have followed this advice" fail
fully and have been. rewarded In
terms of residence segregation, street
segregation, conflscation and loss of
property, anti-intermarriage-which 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 ef1ontry and terrible legislation
with which our property is taken and
confiscated, with this same effontry
and legislation will our political and
manhood rights be taken from US
That Is q fact Every congress of
fers legislation degrading and mimi
cal to our we'll being. Race preju
dice, therefore, can only be worn dowr
by attrition. VI We must send on,
children, and 60 ourselves. to mixeG
institutions and other places wher.
we can mix with the other races an
consequently become accustomed r.
one another. ABOVE ALL THINGS
WE MUST WELCOME AND PRAC
T1CE JUXTAPOS1TION.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-06-24

The 100000 raised in Chicago for
the relief of the Jewish sufferers in
the European war was contributed by
the Jews themselves. The Christians
aid not give one per cent of the
money. The Christian bankers who
signed the appeal did not give any
money: William Randolph Hearst,
whose newspapers probably caused
the lynching 1f Leo Frank in
Georgia, gave 5000, but Bill will
get that back in single day from
his Jewish advertisers.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-06-24

Samuel 2. Thrasher, superintendent
OF the famous Committee of Fifteen
OF Chicago, knows something about
vice as ne has studied the question
for many years, and what he said in
a recent address is Illuminating
MOST OF the girls in resorts enter
voluntarily-they are not dragged into
them. White slavery is about 80
per cent bunk" Then he assaulted the
theory that low wages to working girls
Is the principal cause of their down
fall. There are so many reasons
given for the social evil that there
isn't any," said Mr.. Thrasher. ~:
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-06-24
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-06-24
RESENTMENT NEEDED.

After having been granted Pullman
tickets from Montgomery, Alabama to
Savannah, Georgia. the wife of Major
Robert R. Motion, recently installed
as principal of Tuskegee Institute, and
Blanton Motion, his brother, were
elected from the car by 1.-TWO police
men and some of the best citizens" of
Troy, Ala. Although they had paid
Pullman fares and were interstate pas
sengers, both were forced to ride in
the jimcrow car.
The wires tell us that when Major
Motion was informed of the matter, he
condoned it saying that he respected
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-06-24
Agreed to Be "Set Aside"

(From the Eagle, Washington, D. c.
No, the colored delegates to the M.
E. General Conference, held at Sara
toga Springs, N. Y, recently, did not
walk out" They simply assented to
arrangements to be "set aside"-to be
segregated into colored general
conference, to be presided over by
white bishop, being denied the privi-
lege of directing their own labors in
the Masters vineyard. Two years
from now the two wings of the M. E.
church, North and South, will unite
and the separation of the colored
membership and the refusal of bishop
ric honors to the 100000 colored COM
munlcants are designed to clear the
way for the approaching "love feast"
There is verify in the assertion that,
in it's primal manifestations, the
church is a social organization, with
religion as a by-product.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-06-24
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.
II. Lewis, Boston, Mass.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-06-24
Answer to Jimcrowists.

(From the Union, Cincinnati, o.
The friends Of Roy Miller are con-
graduating him, as he passes to high
school, the only colored child from
the Hazelwood School, with the high
est average in the class.
Hardwood, O.
Prof. Dabney:
Kindly put the above item in your
paper, as we are very proud of it,
especially after the county superin-
tendent and some of our friends"
tried to get "a Jim Crow School" out
here last fall. Yours in the fight
against Jim Grow and segregation,
Mrs. Geo. w. Allen.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-06-24

troller OF the Currency Williams, who
endeavored to have the officers con-
Wcted OF perjury. Then four days
later the District Supreme Court held
that Comptroller Williams may not re-
tain the $4,000 he imposed upon the
Riggs National Bank. Williams, when
assistant secretary of the treasury, is
sued the famous order segregating the
;olored employees in one of the water
closets of Treasury Department at
Washington.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-06-24

~ Ihedore Roosevelt, when president
OF the United States, practically
lynched an entire battalion of colored
troops and in 191Ahs- Kicked the south.
ern colored delegates out of his Pro.
gressive convention. Yet last week
at Chicago some colored men SO lost
their sense of decency- and honor that
they held public meetings and passed
resolutions calling on the colored dele
gates to vote for Roosevelt, "for the
success OF the party and the safety Of
the country!"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-06-24
Unfit to Teach Our Children.
(From the Martinsburg Pioneer
Drooo

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-
motion. Booker T. Washington's pal
llation gave us double work for man
hood rights not only in the South but
the North as we'll 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 Pullman car. is
unfit to lead and teach our children
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-06-24
serviIity Brings Contempt.

(From the Union, Cincinnati, o.
If the above is true referring to
the Motion 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 il: 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-
rior to all colored people?
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-06-24
OF One Blood.

(Gerald Stanley Lee in Mount Toni
| am a human being. l do not pro
pose to be cooped up or shut in in nv
iove and criticism to mere geographic.
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
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-06-24
The Color Line,

tFrom the Chicago Evening Post.)
Major Motion is quoted as saying
mat ne bears no resentment against
anyone for the treatment accorded his
wife. If he were an American. he
would resent it holly and the railroad
would pay damages. AS an Afro
American he may not act on the i'm
pulse of self-respect and chivalry: he
must cringe and submit.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-06-24

After telling the story of the recent
"jimcrow" reunion of the M. E. church
North and the M. E. Church South, the
Cleveland Advocate asks, "Whither is
the M. p. Chu{ch North bound?" In
reply THE APPEAL begs to suggest
that it is HEAfEB-FOR HE'LL.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-06-24
Has Shown His Hand.

(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
ne is certainly no improvement upon
Booker T. Washington.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-06-24
The SIN OF 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.-EIIa Wheeler Wilcox.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-06-24

President Wilson has settled the
question of who will be Recorder of
Deeds for the District of Columbia by
appointing John F. Costello to the
place. Costello is Democratic National
Committeeman for the District of
Columbia.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-06-24

1t is said that on account of the
nigh price of all building material all
building operations connected with
the large fund raised for the segre.
gated Y. M. CA. and Y. w. G. A.
will be dispensed with for the present.
1t would be better if the buildings
were dispensed: with entirely. No
good can come from "jim-crow''
public or quasi!public institutions of
any kind.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-06-24
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NO DENIAL,

The Richmond Planet has an article
headed major Motions Denial and
quotes from the New York Age, that
papers statement of the case.
AS matter of fact there has been
no denial by Major Motion of the
charges as stated in the public press.
THE APPEAL agrees with the Cleve-
land Gazette, that the Age evidently
means we'll, but that Major Motion is
fully able to speak for himself.
THE APPEAL believes that if he is
not guilty as charged that Major
Motion ought to issue signed state
ment repudiating the reports sent out
by the Associated Press and announc-
ing that he will be man no matter
if Tuskegee is swept from the face
of the earth.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-06-24

The Cleveland Gazette suggests
that each paper contribute one dollar
to press Testimonial Fund" for
Editor Trotter. THE APPEALS
dollar is ready, as it is worthy
object.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-06-24
What Waco Did.

(From the San Francisco Chronicle.)
Waco did more than burn a colored
man; she burned her own courage,
decency and character, outraged the
lmaginations of her young people and
smeared a foul disgrace across her
civic life.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-06-24

There will be no cut in the South's
representation in the Republican ma
tional convention of 1920. The basis
of representation will be the same as
it is in the convention of 1916.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-06-24

The acQuittal of the officers of the
Riggs National Bank ought to be
pleasing to all decent men. And the
jury deliberated only nine minutes.
This is a deserved rebuke to Conn