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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-22

presses what the Eskimos think of the
world at war, Mr.. Macmillan said. 1t
means run amuck; gone clean crazy"
The Eskimos believe that all the white
man nations have gone "piblockto.'
II tried to EXPLAIN" Mr.. Macmillan
said, that the war started because
Germany wanted to acquire more land,
but they wouldn't believe it; they
only shook their heads and said:
No; that's impossible. There is plenty
of land for everybody When we were
getting ready to leave Eta they begged
us to remain with them. Why go
back there?'-meaning civilization
they asked us, where everyone is pib:
lockto? Stay here with us and be
happy"
THE APPEAL believes that the mis-.
sionaries who are trying to convert
the Eskimos are "piblockto," espe-
cially those from the United States,
who are trying to impose the Amer
;can brand of jimcrow Christianity on
them. If they have all of the neces-
sary virtues right now, why waste time
and money teaching them the murder
Gus Christianity of America?
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-22
OF One Blood,

(Gerald Stanley Lee in Mount Tom.)
I am human being. 1 do not pro-
pose to be cooped up or shut in in my
love and criticism to mere geographic
cal streaks or spots of people on a.
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
Noliere! Though the cathedrals quar-
rel together and sing praises with
siege-guns to- their own little foolish
national souls. an6I rain bombs on
each others naves,, I take. my stand
bv the great bellss ringing in their
towers. by the souls of their poets
overriding the years.. by the PRAYERS
and songs Of their hehoes, artists in.
ventors, by the mothers and the little
children.
We are all in the same woarld We
are all alike. will not say of any
one nation what I will not say of the
others; and I will not say Of any man
what will not say of myself.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-22
Why Did They Prefer "CoIored?"

We trust that all of the advocates
learned and otherwise, white and
black, North and South-of the use
OF the word Negro" as a race term
have caught the full meaning of it's
use at Houston, Texas. At the re-
quest of the Twenty-fourth Infantry
men themselves, the authorities de-
cided to refer to them henceforth as
"colored" soldiers. They had been de-
rlded and .nagged and goaded by the
corrupted use of the word until for
bearance ceased to be one of their
virtues. They had become contemptu.
ously and constantly referred to in
the daily press not as American SOL
diers, or Americans, nor as Uncle
Sans Boys" or in any other respectful
terms. They had been designated and
debased in the public mind there
these brave, manly defenders of the
American tlag-as Negroes" Per-
ceiving this evil practice and influence
the while officers of the Twenty fourth
appealed to the authorities to use the
word "colored" instead. With the
word "colored," troopers or soldiers
would have to be used. A kindlier
feeling between the soldiers and the
townspeople they were sure would in
eVitably result They were profoundly
right, but they were too late. Had
the practice obtained prior to their
coming in Houston, different state
of affairs might have ensued. We ask
all pr0miscuous, Wilful and Indifferent
users of the word Negro to ponder
this situation slowly. The request of
the troopers and their officers for the
change should be striking example
to all Doubling Thomases as to just
how the practice works out today in
hard, everyday life. Whatever the ar
gument about making it respectable in
the future, it decreases respect for the
race today. It does no good today.
It does much harm. What reason,
then, for its use? Are you willing to
be called "Nigger?" Are you pleased
to have your wife or mother called
q "Negress?" Then discontinue using
Negro" II you think 1t worth while
for you to be referred to as man and
your folk as people, insist on the use
of the word "eolored.''
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-22
OUR NEED OF JUx1APOSlTIcN
(From the Boston Guardian.)

From the Boston Guardian.)
That We much rather be. and assu
clate among ourselves, is a saying Ly
Colored Americans that has becon1-
almost trlte. That is a mistake; i,
ls feeling of avowed cowardice aul
innate 1nferiority. 1t is an utter in.
poss1bil1tay for the two races to sub
scribe to a common government and,
at the same time, each race work o
It's own salvation. The theory" has
been tried and resulted into a g!asl.v
failure; instead OF making for har.
mony and cordial good feeling lie
tween two races, it has increase
race hatred AMI antagonism in leaps
and bounds. We have needed too
long the advice from false and treach-
erous leadership that resistance Ia
wrong. that 1t only breeds race hat
red and antagonism; that the thing
for US to do is to get property and
other rights will inevitably follt ".
we have followed this advice" fai:l
fully and have been rewarded in
terms of residence segregation, street
segregation, confiscation and loss of
property, anti-intermarriage Ia
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 effontry and terrible legislation
with which our property is taken and
conflscated, with this same effontrv
and legislation will our political and
manhood rights be taken from us
That is fact. Every congress Of
fers legislation degrading and mimi
cal to our we'll being. Race pre1u-
dice, therefore, can only be worn down.
by attrition. We must send our
children, and 20 ourselves. to mixed
institutions aRd other places where
we can mix with the other races and
consequently become accustomed tn
one another. ABOVE ALL THINGS
WE MUST WELCOME AND PRAC
T1CE JUXTAPOSITION.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-22
coLoRED TROOPS.
Baker Says They Will Be Trained
States Where Raised.

Washington, D. C.-Secretary Baker
OF the war department has announced
that colored troops drafted into the
United States army will receive the
same consideration and treatment
heretofore given them under the rules
of the army. Those colored troops
drafted in states having camps of
their own will be trained in them,
which means that the Illinois contin-
gent of colored troops will train at
Rockford. Units from other states
will be assembled and trained with
their state troops as separate organi-
cations, the same as is now done in
the regular army.
Will Be Called Separately.
'The rule of the regular army in the
matter of the training of the colored
troops as separate organizations will
be adhered to-" said Mr.. Baker. ''The
call for colored men will be postponed
until one of the latter calls, so that
they will be called at separate time,
thereby giving an opportunity to the
officers at the camps to assemble the
organizations of which they are parts
substantially all at one time. They
will not be called last, but they will
be called separately.
May Volunteer for France.
"Afl colored men called in state
which has cantonment in it will be
organized and train there. Provision
will be made for the assembling of
colored troops from those states which
have no environments. It has not yet
been made. An opportunity will be
given to both white and colored men
among the selected forces to volunteer
for service and training in certain
lines of communication organizations
which is necessary to form, and it is
hoped that an adequate number will
volunteer for this military but non.
combatant service, but there will be
both combatant and noncombatant or.
CARNATIONS, just as there are white
organizations" ....-
Those who volunteer for this ser.
vice, it is said, will have an early op.
portun1ty to go to France. -
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-22
PROTEST AGAINST SEGREGATION.
CoIored Chicagoans Wire President
Wilson Opposing Jimcrowism in
the New National Army.

Protesting against the announced
policy of keeping colored and white
soldiers separately in cantonments
and insisting that regiments be
formed and training provided with
out making any distinction based on
race, a letter of protest has been
sent to President Wilson, signed by
the executive committee of the com
mittee on national citizenship de-
Tense, at Chicago, Ill.
the slgnerS are: Rev. Archibald
j. Carey, pastor, and warden Insti-
tutional Church; Edward H. Wright,
assistant corporation counsel; Maj.
Robert R. Jackson, member Fiftieth
general assembly; Edward D. Green,
former member Illinois legislature:
Louis B. Anderson, alderman, Sec
ond ward; George w. Ellis, assistant
corporation counsel; Robert S. Alb
bott, editor Chicago Defender, and
S. B. Turner, editor Illinois Idea.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-22
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 any
class Of people who has not been in
intimate and sympathetic relation with
the best as we'll as the worst OF the
class. We compare many persons
who live in the South, and think they
know the colored race, with others
who 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 cofored people
better than the first. They know aspi.
rat1ons among them that the others
do not know, or, knowing, do not
enter into and appreciates; they know
capabilities by direct contact with the
best Of the race which others are obi
vious 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
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
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-22
WALLER AGAINST "NEGRO."
Noted Brooklyn Doctor Says it Causes
Mental and Physical Segregation.

(From the Amsterdam News.) !
hoitor Amsterdam News:
Sir: | cannot too heartily congratu-
late you on recent editorial discour-
aging the use of the word Negro"
There 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
lze that it 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
inaccurate as applied to millions of
colored people, but it is also alarm
lngly injurious, for the following rea-
sons:
a. 1t has never stood historically or
IN the present, anywhere in the world,
Tor anything noble or uplifting. Most
hlgh-grade Africans repudiate it.
b. In Africa and out of Africa it
was never applied to the higher types,
but to GuineaS, Sudanese and Sene-
gambians only.
c. Its derivatives, 'Negroism," me.
grofy,' and it's compounds, Negro
head, NegrO-fly, NegrO.monkey. are all
clearly, in their associations, degrad-
ing.
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"
f.. 1t is not differentiated in the
mind and thought of the whites from
their favorite and generally used
(among themselves) terms, "Nigro"
and "Nigger."
g. AS stated by an eminent Jap-
anese diplomat it has an unquestioned
influence in cutting us off from the
thought, sympathy and cooperation
OF the millions of colored Africans,
Asiatics and islanders of the Yonder
world.
Very truly yours,
OWEN M. WALLER, M. D.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-22
CONVERTING THE ESKIMO.

Christian missionaries seem to have
made little Roadway in converting the
Eskimo in the far north, according to
Donald B. Macmillan, head of the
Crockerland expedition, who has re-
Gently returned to New York, after
four years in the Arctic.
Mr.. Mcmillan was in daily contact
with the Eskimos. He finds them
lovable and easily managed. The
members of the expedition trusted, i'm
plicitly the little colony of six fam
lilies at Eta, base of the expedition,
on the northeast shore of Greenland,
and never suffered a loss by theft. Yet
the same understanding of the Eski-
mo character has made Mr.. Mcmillan
skeptical as to the power of mission
airy work to better their social stand.
ards. e
IT don't believe the missionaries will
be able to change the social customs
of the Eskimos very greatly. They
are happy, care-free, jovial people.
They are continually laughing. If they
see man in serious thought for more
than a few minutes at a time they
think something is wrong with him,
And, really, they have all the neces-
sary virtues right now. They love
each other, they care for each others
welfare, and they protect each other.
If one is hungry all are hungry. They
have perfect socialism.
"And they are absolutely honest.
: Our supplies at Eta lay on the ground
in plain view of every one in the set
Element for four years, and no one
ever touched them without permits
sion. In New York after dark they
wouldn't remain four minutes before
being stolen
"Piblockto'' is the word that ex.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-22
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-22
Catholic Church by the method, SO
J generally in use, of circulating false
moods, whether or not by design.
L. L. THEOBALD.
St. Paul, Mimi, Sept. 10, 1917.
DO NOT HAVE FAIR DEAL.
Fight and Die for Country But Are Not
Given Honor.

(From the Christian Register, Boston. }
The mutiny of colored soldiers, and
their murderous procedure, is pecul.
iarly unfortunate at the present time.
1t adds fuel to the flame of race.
hatred. Those who espouse the cause
OF colored people as against the unfair
treatment they. suffer by no means
commit themselves to any extenuation
of their wrongdoing.> The crimes com
mitted by these soldiers should be
brought home to those guilty of them.
But it should be recognized, even here,
that colored soldiers do not have a
fair deal. They are allowed to fight
for their country and die for it, and
they have done so creditably, but they
are not given corresponding honor.
The salute is not required, or at least
is not given, to colored officers equally
with white officers. It is possible that
much provocation, if not justication,
lies behind the INSTRUMENTATION which
does not appear in the published re.
ports.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-22
Agreed to Be "Set Aside"

(From the Eagle, Washington, D. CO.
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 a
white bishop, being denied the priv.
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 $4,000 colored COM
municants are designed to clear the
way for the approaching "love feast"
There is verify in the assertion that.
in its primal manifestations, the
church is a social organization, with
religion as a by-product.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-22
Hates the Term "Neuro. :"

II hate the term Negro because it
is being used in terms of hatred. 1t
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-Assistan
United States Attorney General VIM.
H. Lewis, Boston, Mass.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-22

The New York mayors committee
for National Defense will start cam
paign this Fall for the Americaniza,
ton of the foreign-speaking people of
the city. The slogan is to be: zone
city, one loyalty, one people," "The
melting pot must be made to melt"
said committee members.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-22

In recent speech ex-senator Elihu
Root said: "America's great oppor.
tun1ty was slipping away, but at the
eleventh hour we grasped it and found
opportunity to restore ourselves.
Through it we shall find our national
soul and have faith in Gods people,
for they are the earth's democracies. y
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-22
The Eternal Gospel

(From the Martinsville Pioneer-Press)
We have no respect for servile,
cringing colored man. He is Of more
service to his people under the sod
than on top Of it. Richmond (Ya).
Planet That is our eternal gospel,
preach it in the valleys and on the
mountain tops.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-22
OH, FOR ANOTHER EMANClPA-
TOR!

Today is the fifty-first anniversary
of the issuance of the first Emanci-
patton Proclamation of the Great
Emancipation, Abraham Lincoln. He
emancipated 100000 of the people
scendants, now grown to be 100000
citizens, or, one-tenth of the entire
population Of this country, need to be
emancipated from the blighting curse
of color prejudice that seems to warp
the very souls of the other nine-tenths
of the citizens.
Oh, for another emancipation from
this condition almost as damnable as
slavery.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-22
Police Officer Is Indicted for Houston
Riots

Houston, Texas.-Lee Sparks, the
Houston police officer whose alleged
assault on Sergt. Baltimore, colored
trooper of the Twenty-fourth infantry,
is said to have preceded the riot of
the colored troops on August %, in
which seventeen persons were killed
and twenty-five wounded, has been in
dicted by the Harris county grand
jury on two charges.
One indictment charges him with
aggravated assault on Sergt. Balti-
more. III
The second charges him murder in
connection with the death of Wallace
Williams, colored civilian who was
shot to death on the Sunday following
the riot.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-22

The colored man has a large part in
raising cotton in the South. More
than one-third of the cotton farms are
cultivated by colored men, either as
owner or tenant.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-22
Not Worthy Of Freedom.

(From the Richmond Planet.)
When race or an individual sub.
mits uncomplainingly to oppression.
1t is practical demonstration that
the race or the individual is not wor-
thy of freedom.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-22
HAMPTON AND TUsKEGEE.

The Following Article is Taken From
The Cleveland Gazette, ana is Only
One of Many Such That Have APP
peared From the Trenchent Pen Of
Rev. William A. Byrd.-Read and
Ponder.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-22
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 spoils Of Office cannot buy;
Men who possess opinions and will;
Men who have honor-men who will not lie:
Men who can stand before demagogue
And damn his zeacherous batteries without winlinR
Tall men, sun crowned, who live above the fog
In public duty and in private thinking.
~. g. Holland.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-22

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??, 1917-09-22
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
eui'lotines decide our least disputes.
The few who dare must speak and
speak again to right the wrongs of
many.-EIIa Wheeler Wilcox.