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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-31
THE WAR NOT IN VAIN.

If the revolution in Russia means
that the Jews and other subject races
will be given full citizenship and that
the pale will be abolished, then the
bloody European war has not been in
vain. !,
The new government has given this
pledge and the Jewish people and the
Poles and other peoples who have felt
the iron heel of Russian tyranny are
rejoicing.
Whether the action will be sus-
tanned by the Russian masses is an
open question, aabut the chances are
that it will be approved as the masses
of all the various races have been
comparatively friendly in their deal
ings with each other when uninflu.
enced by government coercion.
The great danger is that the pres
ent government may be overthrow
by the return of the Romanoffs or the
reactionaries to power. The pogroms
or massacres Of the Jews were in
variably arranged either by the gov
eminent or the Greek church authori-
ties.
Let us hope that there will never be
reversion to government by terror
ism.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-31
MORAL GRANDEUR,

Would that the cursed cOlored cow
ards who cringe and cover and grin
and give up their liberties could read
in Caesars Commentaries on the Gaelic
war of the brave "Belgae," and then
come down to modern times and pom
der over the valor and courage of the
Belgian people of today, who, although
their land has been despoiled, many
of their women ravished, and many of
their men reduced to practical slavery,
have not been broken in spirit.
Cardinal MERCER, primate of Bel
GUM, in his Lenten pastoral letter,
although in danger of his life, did not
hesitate to pay a glowing tribute to
the courage and devotion of the Bel
gian people in their fight for liberty.
He did not, as many of the colored
churchmen do, tell his people that cit
is the will of the Lord that we should
be oppressed and lot of rot like
that, but lauded their loyalty to their
country and praised their retention of
self-respect under oppression.
Under the heading, 1.-THE Moral
Grandeur of the Nation" Cardinal
Mercier says
Brethren of our armies of Liege,
Haelen, Antwerp, the User and Ypres,
the Kameruns and East Africa, it is
you who are our foremost purveyors
of energy. -
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-31
FAILURE TO FIGHT COSTLY.

That strong defender of true Ameri-
canism, the Cleveland Gazette, edited
by Hon. Harry C. Smith, a man of
whom all Americans may we'll be proud.
printed an editorial in a recent issue
which is so accurate an exposition of
the costly blunder the colored people
have made in failing to fight for their
rights that we reproduce it. We trust
that every reader will read it care
fully and ponder over the truths ex-
pressed. 81.
1T has not been so very many years
since the adoption of the war amend
ments to the Constitution and the be-
ginning of systematic effort on the
part of our enemies to nullify the eff
feet they were expected to have and
it's subsequent good. Since these ef-
forts at restriction began, they have
grown and multiplied rapidly and
much of it has been due to our refusal
to fight the issues raised with all our
resources, before they became opera
tive. In the South DISTINGUISHING
constitutions have come, separate or
"jim-crow'' railroad and street cars,
peanut" galleries in theaters for our
men and women, separate bars in
saloons, "jim-crow" city parks, SWIM
ming pools, schools, "jim-crowism" in
dental offices, churches, Y. M. G. AS,
etc. Indeed, there is apparently a de-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-31
THAT MILITARY TRAINING CAMP
from the Cleveland Gazette.)

sf18( from the cleveland GaZette.) r
! DR.. J. e. Spingarn seems to feel that
our veteran officers of the Spanish
American and other wars, and the
many equally good soldiers in our four
regiments of the regular army and
the national guard regiments and
smaller units are deficient when it
comes to doing what he terms the
paper work" regular army officers
are required to do. In plain words,
they lack a good education" AS
proof, he cites the difficulty the New
York Afro-American N. G. regiment
! had in securing minor line-officers of
color to serve under WHITE co1onels,
etc. All of which but shows that our
friend, the good doctor, is largely un-
acquainted with the facts in the case.
Another thing, If as he says the army
and the southern democratic govern
ment at Washington do not want Afro
Americans as officers (and soldiers,
too, for they are refusing to enlist
any but former soldiers), we fail to
enthuse over his suggestion that we
fight SEGREGATION with segre-
gated volunteer off1cer-school or
AAlAlIaly training camp, dI Ills Time
or any other Nor do we consider the
offer of such a camp" as "a fair
chance" The Wilson administration
and it's southern democratic Congress
is bitterly opposed to the Afro-Ameri-
can as soldier and officer, and they
control the army" So it is not at
all strange that the latter, is opposed
to our men as officers, as DR.. Spingarn
says. Let war come and it will not
be long before much Of this will dis
appear. It was SO in the war Of the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-31
Jim-crow Camp Opposed.
Chicago Defender.)

In the east Major General Wood of
the United States army has started
movement for separate military
training school at New York City.
Every man in the east should look
upon this with disfavor and oppose
it. There should be no segregation
in an army of the United States. If
there should be military training it
should be one and all. The men of
the east who think, especially edi-
tors and writer's, should sound a death
knell to this 'Jim Grow" proposition.
1t will not be tolerated in the west
and should not be in the east. In
other countries all men of all colors
and nationalities serve on the same
army and fight for the same flag be-
cause 1t does not segregate or dis
crlminate. On the firing line we
should be as one. No longer members
OF the race should be looked upon as
cooks, but as citizen soldiers, wear
ing the rank. of equality, with no in
justice or discrimination heralded
against them. In case of war a num-
Der of southern whites are getting it
IN their breasts to lead our men to the
battlefield. In the past they have
shown that they have proven them
selves to be lot of chain drivers
and we advise them not to let a.
southern man command them. When
you join a voluntary army be led by
members of your own race and not
southern officers. Be led by men of
the north who treat you like, humans.
ana not southerners, who treat you
like slaves.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-31
GUARDING NATIONS CAPITAL.


First to be called out in the National
Capital, as they were first to be dis
patched from the District to the Mex
lean border during the recent mobili-
zation of the national guard, Wash
ington's colored soldiers now guard
the Nations Capital. ~.ss
Loyal to the core and quick to re-
spond to the call to action the vet
Grams of the First separate battalion
have been modified. Gen. Harvey
received orders from Gen. Leonard
Wood at New York Sunday night at
10:45 to call out the 1876 men. Within
an hour they had begun to assemble
and Monday they were assigned to
duty guarding places which It is
known the government is anxious to
protect, such as Southern Railroad
bridge across the Potomac, the aque-
duct that supplies the city with water,
the navy yard, the railroad tunnels
and power houses that supply the city
with electric lights and phones.
The city where resides the Presi-
dent who has done so much to de-
grade the citizenship of colored men;
the city where assemblies the Congress
in whose halls resound to vile abuse
of the colored people by such brutes
as Tillman, Hoax Smith, Vardaman
and other of their ilk; the city which
locally disregards the civil rights Of
the colored people and in many re-
spects treats them as lepers, is guard
ed by colored men =. f.. =
IT IS LOYALTY UNPARALLELED!
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-31

sire for segregation Of the races in
Heaven, i some q them ever get
there. These things have all crept
upon us since emancipation and the
elevation to citizenship supposed to
be equal to that of all other Ameri-
cans. We have lost ground, South
and North, because we have not
fought, and when we have resisted,
have lacked leadership, while other
supposed leaders have played into the
hands of our enemies. AS race, we
have been burlesqued, abused and hui
inflated by the thoughtless (some,
members of the race, as well, as by
those hostile to our interests, simply
because there was lacking proper re-
sentiment on our part and determi-
nation to take stand for our rights
with all the power at our command.
The world loves a MAN, a fighter!
on who thinks as much of himself as
sSAAy OSAOA AAhO u CdJOAO vi COL "
such aggressive MEN, unjust restric-
tons will in the end yield and break
down, because they will ever refuse
to recognize them. In cases of lux
uries of life such MEN will not ac-
cept the limitations though they
greatly desire them and have the price
demanded. In the case of necessities,
they will fight restrictions and limit,
as far as is within their power, the
demand for them.
A MAN CAN BE FREE IN A FREE
COUNTRY ONLY WHEN HE RE-
TAINS THE RESPECT OF HIS Eel
LOW CITIZENS TO THE EXTENT
HE RECEIVES THE SAME TREAT
MENT FROM THEM THEY EXPECT
FROM HIM"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-31
Jim.Crow West Point.
(FrOm the Indianapolis Freeman

A bill in the house of representa-
tives at Washington was recently in
.troduced reading in the title: To pro-
vide a commission to secure site,
plans and designs for a school to train
Negro soldiers. The object is to give
similar training to that at West Point
We note that among those named for
the commission is Thomas Taggart,
former senator of Indiana. Knowing
his goodly intentions toward the race
one may be assured that the effort
is worthy of consideration. The Ne
groes, however, we think, will not be
too hurried in selling what appears
an opportunity. They, we think, will
be divided in their opinion as to which
is the better thing to do: to go on be-
coming soldiers as they have been, or
ask the government to bring about
greater and more distinct separation.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-31

"Our good wishes follow in the wake
of these valiant men; all form a guard
of honor, proud and faithful, for our
magnanimous sovereign, who from a
sandbank, which now is all of his
kingdom, gives to Belgium, and to the
whole world a perfect example of en-
durance and of faith in the future.
1--WE have listened to the mighty
voices of wives and mothers; through
their tears they have prayed God to
sustain their courage and fidelity to
the honor of their husbands and sons
carried off by force to the enemy's
! factories. These gallant men have
been heard at the hour of departure
rallying their energy to instill courage
into their comrades, or by supreme
effort to chant the national hymn. We
have seen some of them on their re.
turn, pale, haggard, human wrecks;
as our fearful eyes sought their dim
eyes we bowed reVerently before them,
for all unconsciously they were re.
vealing to us new and unexpected
| aspect of national heroism.> After this
can it be necessary to preach courage
to you?" as~.~-, - 49,
OF course money is a matter of little
moment to so grand man as Cardinal
Mercier, but it is pleasing to note that
the Academy of Moral and Political
Sciences yesterday awarded to Car
! dinal MERCER, primate of Belgium, its
grand prize Of $4,000 francs $4,000,
destined to recompense"th the finest and
greatest acts of devotion of whatever
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-31

"A recent issue OF the chicago 1--we
ming Post, one Of the leading papers
Of the country, contained the follow
ing editorial: ..
So All American Regiments.
Men who are or who have assumed
to- be spokesman for the different
Original nationalities" which go to
make up our American life have
offered to raise regiments composed
entirely of volunteers of German
Americans, Swedish-Americans, Irish
Americans, or of some other kind of
Americans to- serve this country in
time of need. -.
This is all very well as showing a
proper spirit of willingness to defend
the country, but the good of the future
of the land demands that regiments be
composed of men of all origins. What
the United States wants to get rid of
! is the Americanism which has some
other kind of an ism coupled with it..
1t will make for real Americanism
if into all the regiments which, un-
happily, may have to be raised there
shall enter all the elements of Ameri-
can life. There is no melting pot like
the army camp kettle; and there is
no democracy like that of the dog
tent. Soldiers in. the field get to know
one another. Their aims are the same
and their life becomes the same. They
carry back home the democracy and
the comradeship which they learned to
understand and to love in the field.
We never will get rid Of hyphen-
ated Americanism if. we have hyphen-
ated regiments in the service. Men
of English, Irish, German, Swedish,
Scotch or any other extraction should
serve together when the cause is that
! of the country which they have made
| their own.
We have reprinted the entire article
because we believe that every word
VI ~ 10 u w. AL 5oou 6uCA AS"A ClIl-
zens should join in the effort to break
down the color line which at present
confines colored soldiers to four seq
/ -
regated regiments, which are a relic of
the Civil war.
Now that war is really here, colored
patriots are ready and anxious to be-
come defenders of their country. They
should be allowed to enlist anywhere
and at, any time in any regiment
of the United States army. They have
proved their loyalty and valor from
Bunker Hill to Carrizal.
Cut out the color line in the army.
I'VE ARE ALL AMERICANS.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-31

must accept different training camps
to prepare for war, it differs not at
all in practice from this declaration
of the post Office official that colored
clerks should get different wages from
white clerks. In this crucial hour
these are mad measures, which will
divide and dissipate the patriotism and
energy of the nation black and white.
Concentration and cooperation, har-
mony and union of the forces of all
the people beneath the Stars and
Stripes, should be the watchwords of
the nations preparation. In bitter
hours of direst need the nation will
come to this conclusion. This is not
the Wilson way. The American gov
eminent will eventually come to it.
Why not now? Let the black man
fight when he fights for square deal
and for one service, both postal and
military.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-31
KENTUCKY PRODUCTS BEST,

Kentucky, as every one knows, is
noted for possessing or producing
some of the biggest, best and most
beautiful things in the world. For
Instance, there's Mammoth Cave, the
biggest, best and most beautiful in
the world. Then there is the Ken
lucky Whiskey, the best, the best race
horses were BRED in Old Kentucky
where the meadow grass is blue" The
most beautiful women are from Ken
lucky. Now comes hen that has
made worlds record by laying SO.
eggs in g consecutive days. And, by
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-31

The Illinois House of Representa-
tives has passed bill prohibiting the
showing in the state of motion pic
lures showing lynchings or which tend
to excite race prejudice. It was in
,troduced by colored representative,
Robert R.. Jackson of Chicago. It
would prohibit the showing of such
pictures as ''The Birth of a Nation"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-31
the way; we might call your attention
to the fact that we were born in Ken.
ia the DAYTON

According to the Dayton Forum,
George L. Knox, owner Of the Free
man and A. 3. Manning, editor Of the
Indianapolis World, were brought to
Dayton by the producers of "The Birth
of a Nation" and the manager Of the
theater where it is to be shown, and
testified at the hearing before the
Dayton city commission that the film
was all right, educational and por,
trays the devotion the negroes had
for their masters and the love the
black mammies had for young white
soldiers" No comment is, necessary,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-31
HIGH COST OF LIVING CAUSE OF
"POOR" GARBAGE.

Soar of Food Price Results in SAVINGS
OF Grease and Oil, Expert Says.
And now the high cost of living has
hit the garbage.
The amount Of grease obtained from
a ton OF garbage at the municipal gar
hage reduction plant has decreased.
The high cost of living is causing
people to be more careful, - said Colo.
mel Henry A. Allen, in charge of the
plant. AS consequence large
amounts OF food formerly thrown away
are Delng saved. About seventy
pounds OF grease and oil formerly
were extracted from ton of garbage,
put tnis has been reduced by the saw
ing on the part of housewives"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-31
TERMS STRICTLY IN ADVANCE

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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-31
ANY prejudice whatever will
be insurmountabIe If those who
do not share In Il themselves
truckIe to It and flatter it and
accept it az a law Of nature"
John Stuart Mill.
FUND TO AID AMERICANlSM.

The following letter is self-explana-
tory.
st. Paul, Mimi, March 20, 1917.
DIR. w. E. B. Dubois, National Asso-
citation for the Advancement of Col
Ored people, New York City
Dear Dr. Dubois: The colored peo-
pie of the United States are passing
through one of the most dangerous pc
RODS of their existence.
Surrounded by foes without, some
of whom come as wolves in sleeps
clothing, pretending to be friends, the
most subtle enemy is the foe within,
the creatures who are willing to COM
promise with the outer enemy and
barter away the rights of American
citizenship. :
There is no need to write long
statement of the many dangers which
beset the colored American, as the
conditions are well-known to every
thinking man.
In order to do in a humble way
what can to change conditions am
sending $500 to be the nucleus of a
fund which I trust the National Asso-
citation for the Advancement of
Colored People will endeavor to raise
for the purpose of fighting any jim
crow army legislation which may bob
up in the congress which convenes
April 2.
Bills for a segregated West Point
and other pernicious measures will no
doubt be introduced. Such infamous
legislation should be fought to finish
and the N. A. A.. C. r. is the organ
ization to do the work.
:. The money sent is to be used as di-
rected and for no other purpose what
ever.
Yours for Americanism,
j. @. ADAMS,
Editor THE APPEAL.
Those who desire to aid this work
should forward their contributions to 4
the fund, direct to the National Assoc
citation for the Advancement, 20 Fifth
Avenue, New York City.
l .
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-31
THE SIN or 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
Ruillotines decide our least disputes
The lev who dare must speak and
speak again to right tho wrongs of
mshy.-ElIa Wheeler Wilcox.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-31

rebellion. the Spanish-American wal
and even in the recent invasion of
Mexico. Attention.! Doctor; about
face! in this segregation of1cer-sch0ol
business.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-31
PPEAL's EDITORIALS HAVE "PoIsE, LOGIC AND COURAGE

EDITORIALS HAVE "PoIsE, LOGIC AND COURAGE"
vadvook Scholar
Writer Diplomat and Personal
Great Charles Sumner, Lauds THE APPEAL.
tried
courage editorials
(signed) Richard T. Greener
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-31

George Gray Barnard the Sculptor
con Lberator and Democrat, to the Russian
George
Lincoln be and democrat the Russian
Peorad
the Friends of Russian Freedom.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-31
ALL AMERICAN REGIMENTS.

+ A recent issue of the Chicago Eve
ming Post, one Of the leading papers
of the country, contained the follow
ing editorial: