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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-02-24
HIGH COST OF LIVING.

According to the annual report of
Armour & Co., meat dealers of Chi.
cago, made public last week, the net
earnings were $2O,100,O00 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,
tnree times as much as they formerly
paid for the same meats, does this
not show conclusively that such con.
Germs as Armour e 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.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-02-24
AS OTHERS SEE US.

TO- wad some power the giftie gle US,
To Sc oursel, as ithers see u.s.
Bobby Burns was, what we would
call nowadays, a 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 chat life at it's best is Just
simplicity, taking time to get the
things that money can never buy.
Like a popcorn wagon are your
modern ideas of life. Everything is
popping and bursting in different d.
rections, no peace, no poise any
where"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-02-24

American special status in which,
at least during what may be called
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 a 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 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
Especial 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!
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-02-24
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 prohibi-
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-
st1tut1on 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 =
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-02-24
CHARITY MAKES EDWARDS

Charity makes for slaves. cowards
and sycophants," said Mother Jones'
OF Colorado mine field fame, recently.
Her words are true.
Men cheat their employees out of
what Is their just due and become rich
and when they have accumulated mil.
lions they pose as "philanthropists"
and endeavor to perpetuate their
names by giving money for libraries
or charities" or Christian (O asso-
Citations.
Instead of being great philanthopists
these men, in many cases, are simply
thieves who really ought to be in
prison for having robbed their fellow
men.
No class has suffered more from the
"phllanthropies' of these rich thieves
than the colored people and their ne.
farious work has been aided by so.
called colored leaders who have taken
the role of public mendicants and have
begged for money to organize jimcrow
institutions and thus prevent their own
class from securing their rights az
American citizens.
The product of the segregated insti.
tuition is usually crop of young col.
ored people with slavish instincts ::
cr1nging towards, servile sycophants.
Great God deliver the people from
such charity and give them justice.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-02-24
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
and not as the "civil war" as has been
customary. The ladies have lot OF
nerve like Southerners o. the male
persuasion. For many years 1aey
have been telling us that the South
was right and the North was wrong
in the great struggle and to 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 soldier
who fought to preserve the Union.
1t is disgusting to any believer in
real democracy to note the ascendenc,
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 1861 to 1866 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.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-02-24
SOUTHERN REPRESENTATION,

The Chicago Tribune, which was a
copperhead sheet during the Slave
holders Rebellion and has since been
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 a condition which not only runs
counter to the principles of represent
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
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 misfortune to all
concerned, however justifable 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 it's
necessity cover for unfair political
profit
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-02-24
Must Judge A Group by lts Best.
(From the Christian Register, Boston

~SS - S'ooP Oy utS BEST.
(From the Christian Register, Boston.
Mass.)
No one can be said to know anv
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
VINO nave come into intimate and svm-
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 neonle
better than the first They know aspf.
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
best 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
otners by their very acquaintance are
ohnded. If 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
ala 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 now many of that race are the
equal OF any members of the dominant
race in the highest abilities and in the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-02-24
Of One Blood.

(Gerald Stanley Lee in Mount Tom.>
l am human being. l do not pro-
pose to be cooped up or shut in in nv
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
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 1 will not say Of the
others; and will not say of any man
what will not say of myself.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-02-24

being. AS Spingarn said in writing
about Dubois recently, "unpurchasable
leaders do not sell their SOULS, neither
do they compromise the rights of their
people.
Spingarn the Jew, is classed as
white man in the United States. There
is no Jewish problem here. Now that
he is out of Russia, from whence he
came, leaving the ghetto behind, he
is willing to put the colored man in
the ghetto here. What is the differ
ence between the segregation in the
departments at Washington and segre-
cation in the training of black Ameri-
cans, who are to fight for their coun-
try. What is the difference between
the separation of the soldiers of this
'country and the Jim crow cars-the
only place on earth where such things
obtain.
You cannot defeat prejudice by com
promising with it.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-02-24
WALLER AGAINST NEGRO"
Noted Brooklyn Doctor Says It Causes
Mental and Physical Segregation.
(From Amsterdam NeWs.)

Editor Amsterdam News:
Sir: I cannot too heartily congratu-
late you on a 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
lie that it is the most potential fac
tor at work at the present to bring
about both physical and mental
aggregation 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 its
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,
for anything noble or uplifting. Most
h1gh-grade Africans repudiate it.
| b. 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 its compounds, Negro-head,
Negro-dy, Negro-monkey, are all clear
ly, In their associations, degrading.
d. It's 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. It 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 theiy
favorite and generally used (amone
themselves) terms, MICRO" and mig
ger"
6. AS stated by an eminent Japanese
diplomat it has an unquestioned In
fuence In cutting us off from the
thought, sympathy and cooperation
OF the millions of colored Africans. Ash
atics and Islanders of the Yonde1
world.
Very truly yours,
| OWEN M. WALLER, NJ. D
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-02-24
Agreed to Be "Set Aside :"
(From the Eagle, Washington, D.

(F'rom the Eagle, Washington, D. c.
No, the colored delegates to the M.
p. 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 a colored general
conference, to be presided over by a
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.
cn9rch, North and South, will unite
and the separation of the colored
membership and the refusal of bishop
rlc honors to the 100000 colored com
municants are designed to clear the
way for the approaching "love feast"
Ihere is verify in the assertion that,
IN its primal manifestations, the
cnurch is social organization with
religion as by-product.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-02-24
Hates the Term "Neqro."

Il 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.
II. Lewis, Boston, Mass.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-02-24
clearest aims. No estimate is worth
much which does not take people at
their best.
OUR NEED OF JUxrAPOSlTlcn
(From the Boston GuardianD

L.
That we much rather be, and asso
ciate among ourselves, is a saying by
Colored Americans that has become
almost trite. That is a mistake; it
Is feeling of avowed cowardice and
innate lnferiOrity. 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 CHASTITY
failure; instead OF making for har-
mony and cordial good feeling be-
tween two races, it has increased
race hatred AMI antagonism 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
for US to do is to get property and
other rights will inevitably follow.
We have followed this "advice" fail.
fully and have been rewarded in
terms of residence segregation, street
segregation, confiscation and loss of
property, anti-intermarriage which is
all of the blacklist pieces Of legis-
AoL1ou, SLIGO tIldC IL 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 ano
conf1scated, with this same effontry
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 preju-
dice, therefore, can only be worn down
by attrition. We must send onr
children, and go ourselves. to mixed
institutions and other places where
we can mix with the other races and
consequently become accustomed IT.
one another. ABOVE ALL THINGS
WE MUST WELCOME AND PRAC-
T1CE JUXTAPOSITION.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-02-24
"Any prejudice whatever will
be insurmountable If those who
do not share in il themselves
truckle to it and fIatter it and
accept it as a law of nature"
John Stuart Mill.
NO COMPROMISES!

The month just drawing to a close
that was the birth month of number
OF good men notably among whom
were George Washington, Abraham
Lincoln and last but not least Fred
erick Douglass. These men live in
history and in the hearts of their fell
low men because of their uncomprom-
Using stand for justice under all cir
cumstances. 1t is such men as these
whose memories are ever kept green,
and who deserve to live in the hearts
of men.
William Lloyd Garrison did not COM
promise with slavery. He said he
would not compromise and he never
did. He did not hesitate to denounce
the constitution of the United States.
He was mobbed in Boston but that did
not deter him. He did not compro-
mise, and he fought slavery until
freedom came.
Charles Sumner was another of the
uncompromising men who lives in the
hearts of those who believe in the
Brotherhood of Man.
In recent years J. E. Spingarn took
a stand for human rights that seemed
to put him in the Garrison-Sumner
class but lately he has said and done
things that have weakened the faith
he had inspired. Now he has come out
and advocated the establishment of a
Jim crow military training school
where colored men may (if they will
accept the situation) have an oppor-
tunity to prepare themselves to be-
ccome officers if this country is
plunged into war. West Point and
Annapolis is good enough in which for
any men to prepare to risk their lives
in defense of their native country and
there is no need for any Jim crow
compromises. Spingarn is Jew. His
people have suffered for hundreds of
years from the prosecutions of alleged
Christians. He is the last man on
earth who ought to advocate any COM
promise on the rights of any human
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-02-24

and Spain so far as trade in Latin.
America is concerned.
A book by A. Wyatt Verrill on
epe1L ueo!lsmv lsI41eO pup q}nos,,
Conditions of Today" recently issued
by Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, has
this to say under the heading, "Why
Americans Fall"
Race or religious prejudice. con.
descension, discourtesy or bluff have
no place in Spanish America. The
Latin-American is gentleman first.
last and all the time. He has never
acquired our habit of being gentle
man In private life and a boor in
business and he expects others to be
as courteous as himself and if they
are not he judges them accordinglv
he may be white, brown, yellow or
olack' but he remembers that one of
his ancestors was probably. plumed
grandee OF Old Spain. You may scott
at his Ideas, you may laugh at his
1alth, you may curse at the "lazv
Greasers," and through it all he NAV
smile, treat you with respect and DO.
likeness and greet you with express.
sions of the greatest pleasure, but in
his heart he despises you for an Ill.
bred Yankee pig and thanks God
that he is of Spanish blood.
On the other hand treat the Latin.
American With courtesy, praise the
buildings andVindustry of his town.
admire his beautiful women, visit his
places of interest, and speak his Ian.
guage and you may command respect
admiration and true friendship and
every entertainment and comfort will
be yours
THE APPEAL has printed a numher
OF editorials along this line showine
that Americans have lost millions OF
dollars through their jimcrow method,
and 1t Is great satisfaction to have
this view upheld by great authorit,
thoroughly familiar with conditions.
Race prejudice is an extensive
proposition for those who indulge i,
it.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-02-24
THE HYPocRlTIcAL tribune.

In another editorial THE APPEAL
has called attention to the hypocriti-
cal fight the Chicago Tribune has
started to cut down Southern repre-
sentation.
In another issue the Tribune claims
to be actuated by desire to correct
a condition incompatible with prog
less and democratic society,"" And
IN the same editorial it throws off it's
mask and says:
An intelligent majority of the north
can Ne relied upon to defend the south
from colored domination. There ought
to be a more energetic cooperation
to try to work out for the colored
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