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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-14
The Cause of Migration
(Atlanta (Ga.) independently

(Atlanta (Ga.) independently
When meat was 15c pound and
flour $500 barrel, the colored laborer
received from $500 to $500 a week.
Now meat is SOC pound and flour
$500 a barrel, he is receiving the
same wages. He cannot live at this
and the white man cannot expect him
to remain in the South and live on the
starvation wages he is paying him
when the fields and the factories in
the North and West are Offering him
living wages. If the white man will
suppress lynching and lawIessness in
the rural districts, pay the colored
man living wages, give him square
deal on the farms, better schools, open
the doors of the shops and factories
to his prowess, and let him in the
labor unions, municipal ordinances
Ito keep colored men from leaving the
South) will be unnecessary.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-14
PATRIOTIC MID-YEAR EDITION..

This issue is the Patriotic Mid-Yea1
Edition of THE APPEAL.
THE APPEAL is an American news
paper without any hyphen, prefix OF
suffix.
The editor of THE APPEAL is an
American without any hyphen, prefix
or suffix.
THE APPEAL believes that every
person born in the United States is an
American, should feel that he is an
American and should be ready to sacri'
flee all of his possessions and even
his life to defend the United States.
In return for his loyalty to his ma.
tive land, THE APPEAL believes that
every American has the right to ex-
pect every right and privilege &C.
corded to every other American. No
land is democracy in which there
are two classes of citizens.
These are the days that we should
feel patriotic. One hundred and forty
one years ago the United States shook
off the bonds of Great Britain and be-
came independent.
The Declaration of Independence
states that "all men are created equal
and endowed by their creator with GER
tain inalienable rights among which
are life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness. After one hundred and
forty-one years this ideal has not been
realized and our much Wanted de-
mocracy is largely a sham, but some
progress has been made.
We are now at war and it is claimed
that we are fighting for worldwide
democracy, and in spite of the fact
that many forces have been at work
in recent years to retard the growth
of democracy, THE APPEAL believes
that the end of the war will find the
United States further advanced in true
democracy than may appear possible
at the present time, and in spite of it.
self.
: Not only the United States but in
the whole world we are about to enter
an Grain which the basic principle
will be human brotherhood.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-14
Greatest Disgrace to State,

Il feel very strongly on the sub
ject," said Judge Brown today. I'm my
opinion it is the greatest disgrace upon
the name of the state of Illinois vet
recorded I'm very indignant. Our or
ganization is watching the proceed
ings there, but we are waiting for the
reports of the various Investigations
l do not want to appear to criticize
any one, at this time. We have faith
in Governor Lowden unearthing all
the facts. At meeting to be held in
the near future we will decide what
steps to take"
THE society will prosecute suits for
damage against the city and county for
each Negro killed or injured" said
DR.. Charles b. Bentley, dentist at rs
East Washingtpn street. 'sThe stat
utes are clear on the subject. We will
go after the sheriff also if the facts
prove our beliefs,
I'VE are so astonished we can
hardly express our feelings. It is most
outrageous"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-14
LET AGITATION GO ON, SAYS
REV. ~. GRIMkE.

Commends Protest by Guardian and
Planet-Race Will Protest Till White
America Accords the, Rights Which
Belong to Every American Citizen
steady Decline of Rights Under
B. T. Washington Policy.
(F'rom the Boston Guardian.)
Washington, D. c., June 1, 1917.
Dear Mr.. Trotter:-I have just read
in the last issue of the Guardian your
editorial, including the editorial of Mr.
John Mitchell of the Planet, in which
ne administers very just and timely
rebuke to DR.. Frissen for some things
which he says in the last issue of the
Southern Workman.
Rights Declined Under WASHINGTON.
1t is amazing that at this late day.
and after the STEADY DECLINE OF
OUR RIGHTS UNDER MIR. WASH
lNGTON'S POLICY of quiet, unpre-
tentious service" that DIR. Frissell
should be attempting to revive that
pernlclous, un-American, unmanly.
heresay Of quiet submission to wrona.
what God directed his prophet to do
was: Cry aloud, spare not, lift I'M
thy voice like trumpet, and declare
unto my people their transgression,
and the house of Jacob their sins"
AND that is what we have been doing.
and will continue to do, until White
America needs the message, turns
from its evil ways and accords to the
colored man the rights which Justly
belongs to him as much as to any
other American citizen.
Let FrisseI Understand Once and for
All Time.
DIR. Frissell had just as we'll under
stand now, once for all, that the policy
for which he stands, as regards OUT
rights, will never be accepted by the
colored man. And the inculcation of
such a policy comes with very little
grace from white men who never
think of following it when their own
rights are involved.
Think coIored Unlike Whites.
1t is because, after all, they think
that the Negro is made of a little diff
terent clay. and therefore that it is
alrlght FOR HIM TO QUIETLY SUB
MY 10 WHAT WHITE MEN
WOOAD NOI. Be EXPECTED TO
SUBMIT TO, AND, WOULD NOT
SUBMIT TO WITHOUT THE MOST
VIGOROUS PROTEST?
Put Themselves In Our Place..
If some of our white friends would
put themselves in the place of the
colored man, and realize that there is
no essential difference between the
colored man and themselves. thew
would be saved from some of the fool
lsh things which they recommend at
times.
Let the Agitation Go On.
Let the Planet, let the Guardian. let
all the colored newspapers, continue
to speak out, and, in every other legiti-
mate way, LET THE AGITATION co
ON. 1t is in vain for DR.. Frissell, or
any one else to try to stop it.
Yours for equality of rights for all
citizens, regardless of race or condi,
ton.
FRANCIS J. GRIMKE.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-14
Hates the Term "Neoro."

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
DISTINGUISHING 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??, 1917-07-14
Mad Savagery
(Springfield Republican,

\opA uSIolu htpuDllCdn)
while we are so critical of the ma.
lions known as our enemies it is
morally disconcerting to have staged
in America such mad savagery as the
latest burning to death of a colored
man by a mob in Tennessee. The
colored man was clearly guilty, it
seems, of the fiendish murder of a
white girl, but retaliation in f1endish-
ness gets us nowhere in correcting
or even Furnishing a criminal class.
When race feeling is involved it is
impossible n to conceive of anything so
disastrous in its ultimate effects as
the treatment which mobs occasion
ally give. to these black men. At a,
time when Americans need to show
real capacity for mass discipline and
respect for authority, we are forced
to contemplate these hideous specta-
Giles OF mass brutishness and social
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-14
With MARKED CARDS"

In It's Army of Democracy U. S.
A. Begins With a New jim
Crowism Added to the Rest to
Fight for World Democracy,
but to Have Distinctions of Col
or in Our Own Army-Denial
Of Equality.
(From the Journal, the leading daily
paper Of Boston, Mass, June 20,
1919
THE DEAREST PROMISE IN THE
WHOLE OF THE CONSTITUTION
OF THE UNITED STATES IS THE
PROMISE OF EQUALITY FOR ALL,
REGARDLESS OF RACE, COLOR OR
PREVIOUS CONDITION OF sERVI-
tube.
But it is not always pleasant for
Negro to read that promise.
"Marked Cards."
Nor will the Negro feel a thrill of
promise when he comes to write
down his name for service to his coun-
try. For the registration card makes
a distinction of color. The man who
puts his name to that piece of paste
board signifies that his life is at the
disposal of this government in war.
That should be enough. But no-the
government asks that he shall spe-
city his "color." Literally, this govern
ment is beginning with marked cards.
We don't need to review the fine
record of the African race in fighting
the battles of America. It's men
have been in the front rank wher-
ever there came an opportunity to
serve. History vouches for that.
Now Jin-crow Registration.
And here, when we come to fight
for democracy, we find distinctions
drawn according to the color of a
mans skim
Negroes have not Jared we'll dur
ing the present national administra-
ton. They have disappeared from
public offices, and Jim Grow grip
OF the South has grown firmer. And
NOW A JIM CROW REGISTRA-
TION.
Race and color in our "Army of De-
mocracy."
II we were to define democracy as
applied to the army of a democratic
nation, we should picture men of all
races and all creeds grouped together
IN equality. A white millionaires son
might share tent with a Negro and
Chinese. Bdt-"color"!
Race, color and previous condition
OF servitude apparently are to be
recognized in our army of democracy.
Blunder No. 1.
Must Be Wiped Out.
But it must be wiped out. If an
aristocratic snobbishness has drawn
up the registration blanks, demo
cratic .decency must later denv the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-14

Congressman Medill Mccormick in
a recent speech said that all here must
be Americans. That's good talk but
there are about 100000 born here
in the United States who are anxious
to be Americans, but who are not per-
mltted to be. They are deprived of
their rights and treated with con-
tempt while thousands of Teutonic
traitors and alien enemies are given
the greatest consideration.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-14
The Shame of Illinois.
(FrOm the Chicago Tribune.)

(From the Chicago Tribune.)
The riot at East St. Louis is one of
the worst blots on the good name of
an American community in our whole
history. Illinois must bow her head
in shame before this disgrace. We
have no excuse. There can be no ex-
cuse for such a break down of the
most primitive safeguards of civil gov
eminent, for such betrayal of the first
duty of ordered society.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-14
Must Have a Place in School
(From the Chicago Defender,

(From the Chicago Defender)
Our naval training camp has every
nationality under the SUM- AS a red
flag to flout into the face of the, bull,
we have Cinnamon out there, the
Filipino out there, the Greek out there,
the Hebrew out there, the Italian out
there, and God himself only knows
what else out there, but we do know
that If we are anywhere near there
we are near the bathroom with mop
and broom. Space must be made for
the boy of the Colored race in the
school for which we are paying taxes.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-14
The Eternal Gospel

(From the Martinsville Pioneer-Press)
We have no respect for servile,
bringing colOred man. He is of more
service to his people under the sod
than on top of Richmond (Va)
Planet. That is our eternal gospel.
preach it in the valleys and on the
mountain tops.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-14
great Russian will aid the establish
ment in America republic which
knows neither race, creed nor color.

The National Evangelistic Alliance
of America has appealed to President
Wilson that flags on public buildings
be at half-mast on Sunday, July 10Th,
in memory of persons who lost their
lives in the East ST. Louis riots.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-14
The Most DisgracefuI Outbreak.

From the Chicago JournaI.)
The East st. Louis affair is the most
disastrous and disgraceful outbreak
the state has known for a generation;
perhaps the worst it has ever known.
That it should come during the heat
OF foreign war and on the eve of
Independence Day makes it still more
ominous.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-14
"Negroes and Dogs Not Allowed"
(FrOm the Nashville Clarion)

Down in Houston, Texas are some
elevators in public buildings labeled
NEGROES AND DOGS NOT ALLOW
ED.' Generous Classification! Such
signs as these account in such meas
ure, for the exceedingly rapid manner
IN which the Colored men are depopu.
lating the South. They can be neither
blamed nor censured for leaving a
town like this. They have hearts and
souls and human pride, just like the
people of other races. ".-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-14
Worse to Ask for Jim Crow,
(From the Cleveland Gazette }

: (From the Cleveland Gazette.)
We agree with the editor of the
N. Y. News: It is bad enough to have
segregated (or "jim crow") military
training camps FORCED on us by the
government, but infinitely worse to
ASK for them.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-14
A Chinese Puzzle,

(From the Cleveland Gazette.)
The governor of Massachusetts and
mayor of Boston are trying to find out
Why Jews are refused enlistment in
that states field artillery and in the
first coast artillery. Also, why Afro
AmeTcans from that state (and
others) are refused at the Plattsburg,
N. Y, officers military training camp
where DR.. J. E. Spingarn is a major
in-training.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-14

More than 100000 men are yet needed
to fill us. Army ranks in the volun-
teer army. Colored men are not per-
mitted to enlist and must wait for the
draft
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-14

Charles Edward Russell, a member
OF the American Commission to Rus.
STA, appeals to the American people
to help Russia build republic. Per-
haps In the years to come when the
Russian republic has been built some
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-14
The Law Itself on Trial,
(From the Chicago Herald !

(FTOm the Chicago Hera1d.)
East st. Louis, ILL.,, the law itself,
are all on trial until this grim, terrible
business is settled and settled rightly
Failure of justice means a vicious
precedent that will plague the COM
monwealth for years to come. When
the issue of law or anarchy is pre-
sented as plainly as in the orgy at
East st. Louis there should be but
one answer.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-14
Not Consistent

Baltimore (Md.) Commonwealth
President Wilson cannot consistent
ly contend for liberty, equality and
justice for Belgians, Russians, Poles,
French, English and Teutons without
conceding justice, liberty and equal
ity to ALL citizens of his own .coun.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-14
WARNS AGAINST RACIAL HATRED.

WARNS AGAINST RACIAL HATRED.
It is so unusual for a Christian
minister to preach against racial hat
red that THE APPEAL is pleased to
note that one minister has the cour-
age of his convictions.
In his sermon, last Sunday, Rev. II.
E. Peabody, pastor Of the South Con-
gregational Church, in Chicago, said
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-14

Brought Disgrace on LincoIn's State.
i (From the Chicago Daily News.)
Mob frenzy displayed in some of it's
most dreadful forms in East St. Louis
yesterday has brought disgrace and
just reproach upon the state of Abra-
ham Lincoln. y -
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-14
THE ILLINOIS HORROR
Ashamed to Register From East
St, Louis.
Chicago Daily American.)

Chicago Daily American.)
w. R. Neal is manager of hotel
in East St. Louis, Ill. Today when
he registered at the Congress Hotel
he gave his address as st. Louis, Mo.
I'm ashamed to say l came from
East st. LOUIS he told the clerk.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-14
Must Be Wiped Out.

But it must be wiped out. If an
aristocratic snobbishness has drawn
up the registration blanks, a demo-
cratic :decency must later deny the
distinction.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-14

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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-06-06
WHY WE FIGHT GERMANY.

As cotemporary says, We are
fighting Germany on the sea and in
Europe to avoid fighting her on our
own soil. If We do not break the
power Of Germany abroad we shall
have to fight it at home.
No person who is familiar with
the literature of Pan Germanism, on
which generation of Germans have
been reared, has any doubt about
this The German Government has
not even tactitly accepted the Monroe
Doctrine. and German writers of the
dominant class have invariably treat
ed it with contempt and hostility.
The attitude of Brazil and other
South American nations rs due to
Gcrmany's efforts to establish it's
political power within their limits.
In the war with Spain Germany
backed the latter. Every opprobrious
cpithct was hurled at Americans.
The Government undertook; to form
q European coalition against us.
In Manila Bay Admiral Won Dietrich
was Only restrained from turning bis
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-06-06

guns On our fleet by the certainty
that if he did, the British Admiral
would join Admiral Dewey.
No one with any knowledge Of in
ternational law has ever denied the
perfect regularity of the sale OF mu-
nitions by a neutral to either bellig-
1erent. Even Berlin and Vienna have
net ventured to do that. But the
German people are furious at us for
doing what they did in our war with
Spain and in the Russo-Japanese war,
and if We had submitted to the sub
marine war it would not have saved
us in the event of Germany winning
the war with Great Britain and
France.
If Germany were able to over
power those nations it would reinforce
it's fleet from theirs and then invite
us to pay the cost of the war, or take
the consequence, and this would
have happened if We had never car
ried our opposition to the subma,
rine campaign beyond the notewrit'
ing stage.
We have got to help France and
Great Britain break the power 81
Germany, or we must face that
power with no allies after the pres
ent war shall end in a dominant
Germany. If Germany can over.
throw France and Great Britain we
shall lose the Philippines and Ha-
wall, Porto Rico, and the Virgin Is
lands, and we shall either lose the
Panama Canal or see German fortl-
fled naval station set up near 1t.
"From Hamburg to the Persian
Gulf" may not seem to concern US
but it does, for it is the base line OF
German domination of the world
which includes US, and We have go'
to defeat Pan-Germanism or take or.
ders from it.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-06-06
MUST BE ON OUR GUARD.

We. are clearly approaching an
other critical point in the confedera-
ted struggle against system of re-
morseless and Unsuitable despotisn
and this time the danger zone is one
of premature peace and not of mill
tary Or naval aggression, and, as the
Baltimore Sun suggests. If we are
not to fall victims to the seductive
songs of the peace sirens, we must
realize the peril and stop our ears
against the charm of this cnchant-
ment. We must clear up the clouded
and ambiguous situation by the adop-
ton of definite war platform, and
by the announcement that We will
listen to no peace proposals which
fall short of that program. In a
word, We must nerve ourselves to re-
sist the insidious appeals which in a
few months seem likely to be ad-
dressed to ourselves as well as to our
allies
Germany and Austria have entered
upon a wide and carefully planned
campaign for the termination of the
war, having as its slogan "Peace with
ont anneXations or indemnities. !"
Although this cry comes apparently
from Russia, it is really originated
by the Russian ventriloquist. The
German Government knows now that
it cannot conqueror, and it will be we'll
content to cry quits on even terms
1t knows that if the war is prolonged
it cannot maintain itself against
the weight and strength of the
United States. Its only salvation
lies in creating the impression that
it is futile to continue the contest,
and that the fairest as well as the
most mecrciful thing to do is to stop
the human slaughter and the eco
nomic waste by no-indemnity, no
annexation peace
If we do not wish to be overcome
by this fatal German narcotic, to
be put to sleep by this deadly Prus-
sian peaccgas, we must prepare to
counteract its effects at once to
guard ourselves against a danger far
greater than that of the German
army or the German submarine. And
to do this we must make it clear to
ourselves and to the world that we
will entertain no peace proposition
which loses sight Of the objects Of
the United States and its allies in
this Wharf.-The destruction of Prus
sian militarism. the safeguarding
of the rights of the smaller nationali-
ties and the prevention of similar
conflict in the future.
Let US fully, understand the mean
ing of the issue which Germany is
attempting to make. Let US smash
this peace danger before it gains
further strength by the proclamation
of a relentless determination to ac-
cept no peace that does not make
for permanent safety.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-06-06
CAN SUCH THINGS BE?

August G.. Lemons, Belgian
Slider, who has done his bit for his
country now wants to serve I'm
Gle Sam. Lommens, who is at pres
ent engaged as mechanical draughts-
man at the Baldwin Locomotive
Works in Philadelphia wants to en-
ter war farm service. He was dis
charged from the Belgian army two
years ago, following the fall of Ant
werp, because of physical disabilities.
"What you hear in this country of
German treatment of the Belgians
and other peoples is absolutely true.
he sail. But as a matter of fact
you do not hear half of the atrocities.
They arc all so fr;rible that yca n
America, so far away, would not be-
lieve them.
II myself have seen samples of the
way Germany treats non-combatants'
women ard children. One day l was
enc Of e scouting party sent into a
patch of woods to ferret out some
German snipers. We captured them
and brought them back prisoners to
camp, When we went through their
pockets and packs we found the
hands and fingers of women ans
children on which were rings-hands
barbarously cut off for the sake OF
;ewelry and to save time. The sight
was sicken:ng.
"Men in my regiment. in whose re-
sponsibility and verify I had the ut,
most faith, told me that they had
seen German soldiers spit little
children on their bayonets, cut the
hands from children and pesforn
even more loathsome deeds of bar
| barity."
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-06-06
NORFOLK is SURPRISED.

Colored Men Willingly ADD their
Names in Large Numbers.
Norfolk, Va, June 6.-Norfolk's
registration under the Federal draft
act was almost complete yesterday.
Of a government estimate Of 1O,41T,
there were registered 9,79S, exclusive
of those exempt because Of military
service, and persons out of the city
whose cards have not been received
by the registrars. The number of
these two classes is estimated at not
less than 500.
The surprise was the eagerness
Of the negroes to register, most Of
them turning out early. At one