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tBy United States Cabls)

BERLIN, Saturday, June 2-Faiure of the great British-French spring offensive to than bend the German line is claimed by Gen. Hndenberg in his report to Emperor William today in which he says that the great est effort of the allies since the war began has come to definite conclusion.
 The emperor sent telegram proclaiming his joy at the announcement to the Empress at Hamburg castle.
 According to the report from Hindenberg the French and British efforts have to certain conclusion Pre- pared since autumn and announced since winter the
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-06-02
BOATS AND TRAINS

The Northwestern is due Monday morning.
 The Alameda sailed for Seward and way ports at 10 o'clock this morning.
 The Admiral Watson was due in Juneau yesterday.
 The train will leave Monday morn ing for Mile 40.
 A special train will leave at g o'clock tomorrow morning for Mile 23 and possibly Mile 40.
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ARMED ANARCHISTS PARADE IN
 PETROGRAD;; GRAND DUKE JAILED
cBy United States Cable)

PETROGRAD, Saturday, June 2-Heaviy armedT anarchists paraded the Nevsky prospect today bearing banners inscribed "Down with authority" and Long Live the Social Revolution"
 Speakers urged the people to loot the banks Many soldiers and sailors joined the demonstration but there was no real violence and no arrests were made.
 The arrest of Grand Duke Nicholas consequenceI of the royast riots at Tifles was reported today.
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ALLIES FAIL IN WEST, SAYS HINDENBERG

grand effor the attack of these allied troops support ed by powerful of artillery technical resources of all kinds and the most tremendous energy has failed after seven weeks hard struggle.
 The war office reports that artillery action of great intensity in the region of Dunnes on the Belgian coast and at Ypres bend was followed by British attacks which were repulsed
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AIR FLEETS RENEW ATTACK
 (By United StNtes Cable)

LONDON, Saturday, June 2-British air fleets re- heated their attack on German bases along the Belgian coast today dropping many tons of bombs on zeebrugge Ostende and Bruges. An attack was also made on the German airdomes at St. Denise and Westrem These air attacks are on the largest scale yet attempted and the damage inflicted has been reported by the observers to be great in comparison to the amount of ammunition Tsed
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THOUSANDS OF SERBS
 HANGED BY INVADERS
tBr United States Cablsl

UDINE, Saturday, June 2.-Further evidences of Teutonic lust is contained in the information that Serbian men, women and children who uprising against the occupancy of the Germans Austrans and Bugarans were hanged recently by the thousand This came ments of Austrian prisoners taken by the Italians during the recent fighting.
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FRENCH BAG ENEMY SUBMARINE
(By United States Cable)

ROME Saturday. June 2.-The French submarine Gree torpedoed and sunk today large enemy submarine as it was coming from Cataro escorted by torpedo boat The Circe later returned it's base undamaged
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VAST SUM FOR SHIPPING
(By United States Cable)

WASHINGTON, Saturday. June 2.-The war budget including $30 00OOO0 was completed by the house anC senate conferees this afternoon and will up for fna action at once This budget includes item of $780, 0OO O0O to be used in creating American merchant marine
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JAPAN TO SEND MUNITIONS ONLY
lBY United States Cable)

TOKYO, Saturday. June 2-The foreign office an- nonced today that contrary to reports Japan has not sent troops to aid Russia nor will
 The great need of Russia is for munitions and sup pies" said the foreign minister and these we will en- deavor to send"
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SUBS COLLIDE UNDER WATER
tBy United States Cablel

AMSTERDAM, Saturday, June 2-Incompete details have been received of undersea collision between Ger man and British submarine in the English channel:
 Whether only one or both survived the crash is not known
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ANOTHER LOAN TO FRANCE
(By United States Cable)

WASHINGTON Saturday, June 2.-France received the loan of another $OOOOO0OO from the United States today treasury warrant being handed to the French minister by Secretary McAdoO for the amount
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-06-02

WASHINGTON, Saturday, June 2-The senate fin ance committee has agreed upon tax of 100000 au tomobes not used eclusively for business purposes.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-01-27
"Any prejudice whatever will
be insurmountabIe If those who
do not share in it themselves
truckle to it and flatter it and
accept it as a law of nature"
John Stuart Mill.
HIGH COST OF LIVING.
s#tA*.tta tstsstS*%t@**.

According to the annual report OF
Armour & Co., meat dealers of Chi
cago, made public last week, the net
earnings were $2O,1OO,OOO or 20 per
cent on capital stock and 14.7 per
cent on investment. The report also
says the year was the most prosper
GUS in the history of the company. AS
this company is only one of many such
companies, who, it is reasonable to
presume made the same proportional
gains, does it not follow that the out
rageously high prices that have been
and now are being charged for meats,
are thus shown to be little short of
wholesale robbery. When people are
compelled to pay, in many instances,
three times as much as they formerly
paid for the same meats, does this
not show conclusively that such con-
Germs as Armour & Co. are largely
responsible for the high cost of liv-
ing that is driving people to suicide.
There should be some plan by which
such concerns should be prevented
from lining their Golfers by imposing
their unfair and uncalled for prices
on the public, for the necessaries of
life. .......
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DOUGLASS CENTENNIAL.
To Be Celebrated February 18th.
Observance Will Be Nationwide.
The Twin Cities Should Join
in Honoring Americas
Greatest CoIored Man.

Great and vital causes are advanced
by honoring the memory of their il
lustrious opponents. When the work
of these moral heroes is yet unfinished
or is being undone, the present-day
struggle for humanity is strengthened
by public observances of the anniver-
saries of the pioneers. Such events
furnish the occasion to recall the
careers and recite the noble utter
ances of the great advocates of re-
form, and to urge devotion to their
ideals. The sentimental appeal which
goes with the centenary of the birth
OF moral leader makes it's celebra-
ton, if carried on in the spirit of
his life work, of telling help to the
same cause today.
Hence it is that the National Equal
Rights League, representing the cru
SADIE of colored Americans for rights
and liberties still denied, urges the
celebration of the centenary of the
birth of that greatest of all colored
champions of liberty and of citizen
ship for colored Americans, Frederick
Douglass, all day Wednesday, Febru-
airy 18th.
The League. advises that these OBJ
servances be in the name of the EQUAL
Rights cause, and that in every place
where colored Americans are numer-
Gus, an Equal Rights committee or
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-01-27

in the north generally, for it is recog-
nized that political domination by the
Negro is not desirable. It is realized
that the premature acknowledgements
OF the slave was a misfortune to all
concerned, however justifiable as a
war measure. Intelligent opinion in
the north is in harmony with intelli-
gent opinion in the south in desiring
for colored people defense from ex-
ploitation and conditions of orderly
progress. Thinking men and women
in both sections realize that these
desiderata are retarded, not advanced,
by pressure for full political privileges
and the fear it keeps alive among
southern white men.
But if We do not adhere to dog.
mas, which, by the way, is one of the
weaknesses of the Jeffersonian Democ.
racy the south helps to perpetuate, if
we sympathize and support the south's
determination to deal with it's prob
lens as conditions, we do not waive
our right to protest and if possible
prevent the south from making its
necessity cover for unfair political
profit"
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Equal Rights League be formed to
arrange the centenary observance of
this great champion of equal rights.
This is the first great duty of our,
race collectively in the new wear 1917
and is the Leagues New Year Mes.
sage TO the race. 1t will inspire our
young people with respect for, and
pride In their racial strain to have
Drought out the wondrous ability of
This man born a slave. It will give
courage to our men and women to
night IN an organized way color dis
elimination to learn of the brave stand
taken by Douglass on many occasions
1t will challenge the conscience of
white Americans to know the life
struggle and the eloquent plea made
by him for justice to his race. Doug
lass was the great colored, abolitionist.
An escaped slave, he eventually waged
an independent campaign of agitation
Tor the freedom of his own race. The
approach of his centenary should be
the signal for his people to rally to
the standard of fight of our race
Tor rights denied because of our race
Let there be fitting observance
throughout the United States Of
America of the Centenary of Doug
lass, the orator, the abolitionist, the
editor; the writer, the statesman.
under the auspices of Equal Rights.
committee, or Equal Rights League
and the citizens, all day February Ia.
1917. Thus will our fight for rights
De strengthened in the land which
douglas helped make one of freedom
for all.
BYRON GUNNER.
President, Hillburn, New York.
WILLIAM MONROE TROTTER.
Secretary, Cornhill, Boston
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TUSkEGEE ON LYNCHlNG.

A number of Northern newspapers
are publishing Tuskegee reports OF
the lynching of 81 American citizens
in 1916, commenting thereon, and con
graduating the country that there
were fewer cases than in 1915.
Tuskegee has for several years re-
ported smaller number of lynchings
than other observers have been able
to record.
Reliable and accurate reports show
that 80 colored people alone and a
few whites were mob-murdered in
1916. Five of the colored people were
women and one was child. Another
hellish fact was the roasting to death
of five colored persons.
The Tuskegee reports are in line
with the Tuskegee policy of minimiz-
ing the injustices, outrages and
crimes of the Caucasians of the South
against the colored people.
Inaccurate reports do more harm
than good and the Tuskegee people
ought to present accurate data or cut
out their lynching bulletins.
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As OTHERS SEE US.

20, wad some power the giftie gle us,
TO Sc oursep as ithers see U.S."
Bobby Burns was, what we would
call nowadays, wise guy"
We Americans think we are the
whole show" but are we?
Sir Rabindranath Tagore, the ia
nous East Indian poet, winner of the
Nobel Prize for literature, doesn't
think we are, and recently criticized us
most numerically. He said we are
building ugly cities. are too SELF
assured, are nationally Connected and
are forgetting the fine simplicity of
life in our mad rush for money, and
we must admit that he is about right.
He says, there is more to life than
just making money. Life calls for
leisure not machine-made days of
money-mad activities. "You hurry so
you forget that life at it's best IS just
simplicity, taking time to get the
things that money can never buy.
Like popcorn wagon are your
modern ideas Of life. Everything is
popping and bursting in different d.
rections, no peace, no poise any
where"
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LET THE CONSTITUTION ALONE.

LET THE CONSTITUTION ALONE.
Wind TANNER Bryan, elated with
the undeserved success of the Demo-
Gratis in the recent national election,
is asking a little too much of his party
In speech at dinner recently given
in his honor at Washington he urged
the adoption of nationwide prohibit
ton and woman suffrage which is a
little more than the average Democrat
can stand for. He also advocated
the passage of an amendment for the
election of the President by direct
popular vote and to amend the con-
stitution so as to make that instru:
ment more easily amendable. This
latter suggestion would undoubtedly
meet their hearty approval as the
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments
to the constitution have been worm
wood and gall that they would like
very much to get rid of and in their
place put something that would further
outrage and crush the colored people,
We have got to stand the Democratic
administration for the next four years
but we most sincerely hope that after
that this beautiful land of ours will
not be cursed by their domination any
longer.
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SOUTHERN REPRESENTATION.

The Chicago Tribune, which was a
copperhead sheet during the Slave.
holders Rebellion and has since been
a persistent enemy of the colored
people has started a little movement
to cut Southern Representation in
Congress.
We quote some of it's editorial slush.
which if carefully read, will be found
to contain in itself a sufficient answer
to the Tribune's punk ideas of politi-
cal morality.
Nevertheless it is the duty of every
American, regardless of party, to at
tack condition which not only runs
counter to the principles of represen-
tative government, but also is demon
alizing to our political morality and
the right development of our national
policies.
Doctrinaires and sentimentalists in
the north demand the enforcement of
the right of franchise of the Negro in
the south. There is no such demand
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"A NEGRO WEST POINT"

"Giles B. Jackson and other me-
groes," so says the wires, have ap-
peared before Senate committee in
Washington and asked for the estab-
lishment of negro West Point"
Giles is an alleged lawyer from
Richmond, Virginia, who has figured
in a number of Jim-crow propositions,
but this one caps the climax.
How any man, born in America, can
go to Congress and ask that the badge
of inferiority be placed upon him and
his children by Congressional action,
is beyond the comprehension of THE
APPEAL.
If colored men are willing to risk
their lives in defense of their country,
they ought to be trained in the exist
ing West Point and if they are jim
croWed they ought to refuse to enlist.
1t would be interesting to look into
Giles head and see the wheels go
round
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his political and social minority, he
could be protected in his civil rights
and assured conditions of develop
ment, though not granted the politi-
cal privilege which would make him
in his present condition weight upon
southern progress and a cause OF
anxiety or race feeling. The political
genius Of America ought to be able
to work out such a compromise"
The Tribune's words are so Gin
compatible" with the genius of de-
mocracy that they answer themselves.
Think of the Tribune proposing a
special status" for the colored Ameri-
can, after the Supreme Court of the
United States, headed by Southern
Chief Justice, has thrown the grand.
father clause and other Southern
political schemes into the scrap heap!
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THE SHAREHOLDERS REBELLION,

The SHAREHOLDERS REBELLION.
The national order of United Daugh.
tiers of the Confederacy, recently in
annual session at Dallas, Texas,
passed a resolution urging upon the
people of the United States that here.
after they refer to the war of seces.
sion as the war between the states, u
and not as the civil war" as has been
customary. The ladies have a lot OF
nerve like Southerners of the male
persuasion. For many years they
have been telling us that the South
was right and the North was wrong
in the great struggle and to a great
extent the North has accepted that
view OF the case so that nowadays
there is very little respect even in
the North for the Northern soldie,
who fought to preserve the Union.
1t is disgusting to any believer in
real democracy to note the ascendency
OF the people who rebelled and sought
to destroy our great Nation. The
Southern people were rebels in the
true sense of the term and they de.
sired to perpetuate slavery. The
proper designation for the great
struggle from 1851 to 1865 is the
SHAREHOLDERS REBELLION.
That is what THE APPEAL has
called it in the past and we shall con.
tinue to call it by that name.
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MUZZLlNG THE PRESS.

There is bill before Congress that
has for its object the exclusion from
the United States mails of newspapers
or any sort of printed matter adver-
Using liquors of any kind. This Ger:
tainly is a step toward the muzzling
OF the press to which we very much
object. 1t affects the rights and liber-
ties of the newspapers fully as much
as it does those who deal in liquors.
1t does not apply solely to dry states
or dry territory but is general. 1t
seems to us that the passage of the
bill in question would work to the
detriment of "the freedom of the
press" which is generally conceded to
be very desirable. The bill should not
pass.
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Bryan on "Brotherhood"

The white man in the South has
dls1ranchlsed the Negro in self-pro
lection; and there is not a Republican
IN the North who would not have done
the same thing under the same circum-
stances. The white men of the South
are determined that the Negro will
and shall be disfranchised everywhere
1t is necessary to prevent the recur
renee of the horrors of carpetbae
rule. "-William Jennings Bryan in
speech at New York in 1903.
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confer with Gen. Washington, and ad-
wise method for renovating the
army. On the 23d of October the
negro question was presented and dis
posed OF as follows: Ought not me-
groes to be excluded from the new
enlistment, especially such as are
slaves?' All were thought improper
Dy the council of officers. It was
agreed that they be rejected alto
gether.
IN general orders, issued November
IL, IT'S, Washington says: Neither
negroes, boys unable to bear arms.
nor old men unfit to endure the ia,
tlgues of the campaign are to be en-
listed"
Permitted Their Enlistment.
washington, however, in the last
Gays OF the year, under representa-
tlons to him that the free colored men
VINO had served in his army were very
much dissatisfied at being discarded.
and fearing that they might seek en-
'ployment in the British army, took
the responsibility to depart from the
resolution respecting them and gave
license for their being enlisted.
washington promised that if there
was any objection on the part of Con-
gress he would discontinue the enlist
ing OF colored men, but, on January
TO- Its, Congress determined that
tne Tree negroes who had served faith
1ully in the army at Cambridge NAV
be re-enlisted therein, but no others"
The entire aspect of the affairs
changed when, in 1779 the South be-
gan to be invaded. South Carolina
especially, was unable to make anv
enectual efforts with militia, by reason
OF the great proportion of citizens
necessary to remain at home to nre-
vent lnsurrections among the colored
men and their assertions to the enemy.
VINO were assiduous in their endeavors
TO excite both revolt and desertion.
Inc result was that in all the South
ern states the legislatures passed reso-
lut1ons to enlist the colored men and
inc colored patriots of the Revolution
are as much entitled as their white
brethren for the ardor with which
tney fought the common enemy
whether they were bondmen or free,
men. 1t has never been possible to
give an exact statement as to the
number of colored men who served in
the Revolution, for the reason that
they were generally mixed in regi-
ments and not calculated separately.
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COLORED COLONiALS.
Many CoIored Men in the American
War for independence.

The employment of cOlOred men be-
came subject of much importance at
an early stage of the American War
OF independence. The British natur.
ally regarded slavery as an element
OF weakness in the condition of the
colonies, in which the slaves were
numerous, and laid their plans to gain
the colored men and induce them to
take up arms against their masters
by promising them liberty on this con.
ditiOn.
The situation was looked upon by
the public men of the colonies as
alarming, and several of them urged
the Congress to adopt the policy of
emancipation. But while the general
question of emancipation was de-
feated, the exigencies of the contest
again and again brought up the prac-
tlcal one of employment for colored
men, whether bond or. free.
Only Freemen Wanted in Army.
In May, ITS, Hancock and War
ren's committee of safety introduced
the following formal resolution: RE
solved, That it is the opinion of this
committee, as the contest now be.
tween Great Britain and the colonies
respects the liberties and privileges
of the latter, which the colonies are
determined to maintain, that the ad-
mission OF any person as a soldier into
the army now raising, but only such
as are freemen, will be inconsistent
with the principles that are to be sup
ported and reflect dishonor on these
colonies, and that no slaves be ad-
mitted into this army upon any con-
sideratiOn whatever"
Washington took command of the
army around Boston on July 3, ITS.
The instructions for the recruiting
officers from his headquarters at Cam
bridge prohibited the enlistment of
any negro" 1t may also be noticed
that they were forbidden to enlist
ANY person who is not an American
born, unless such person has a wife
and family and is a settled person
in this country"
Many coIored Men Enrolled.
Notwithstanding all this, the fact
remains, according to Bancroft, that
"the roll of the army at Cambridge
had, from it's first formation, borne
the names of men of color" Free
colored men stood in the ranks by the
side of white men, In the beginning
of the war they had entered the
provincial army, and the colored men.
like others, were retained in the serv.
Ice after the troops were adopted by
the continent
A committee on conference, consist
ing of DR.. Franklin, Benjamin Harri-
son and Thomas Lynch, met at Cam
bridge, October 10, Its, with the
deputy governors of Connecticut and
Rhode Island and the committee of
the council of Massachusetts Bay. to
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SCHOOLS FOR RUSSIA.

J'M-cROW SCHOOLS FOR RUSSIA.
Russia is learning from the United
States. The alleged republic is Civ
ing the despotism a few lessons in
hellishness and race segregation.
Mob murders are increasing in the
United States while Russian programs
are not so much in evidence as they
were two or three years ago.
Heretofore there were no segre.
gated schools for Jews in Russia,
maintained by the government. Three
per cent of the Jewish population were
admitted to the public schools and
universities.
Now the cable tells us that series
of segregated high schools and indus
trial schools exclusively for Jewish
students, similar to the Jim-crow
schools of the Southern United States
are to be established.
So the work of hell devised in the
South is continued in Holy Russia.