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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-06-14

The following new marriage licenses
were granted yesterday:
julius Wiltroek. Loretta Dakelsky.
Chicago.
Joe Malionski. Jozefa Andzewiewska,
Gary.
George soltis. Mary Dzobnok. Whit
ing.
sam Wilson. Mary Foster. Gary.
Willard LaVoy. Cabri. Canada; Nell
lie E. Kieffer. Chicago.
lie Sasgaria, Victoria Sas. Gary.
Jennie O'Dea, Goldie womack, Chi
cago.
Joe obara, Francis obara, Indiana
Harbor.
elem Robinson. East Hammond;
Mamie Riley. Hammond.
Roy Leonard Nelson, Margaret jan
sin. Elgin, Ill.
Tony Clemente. Lillian Leahy. Chi
cago.
Warren A WILDER. Mary L Gohren-
niger. Chicago.
Donald A. Pool. Marion Smith. Chi
cago.
Mark A. Hoag, Newton county, Ind:
Bessie Trip, Cedar Creek TIP. Ind,
Abraham Sommer. Chicago; Ethel
Nikantinsky. Gary
David Craig. Anna Mullins. Chicago.
Luther NJ Merrill. Lydia Hartke.
Hammond.
william r. Homer. Florence Meh-
ringer. Chicago.
Christ Krebs. Bertha Burke, Chicago
VIM. Hand. Margaret Rose. Chicago.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-06-14

Judge Green. upon payment OF which
he was released.
Edward Lawler, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
P. ]. Lawler. and John Kane have both
enlisted in the L. S cavalry and are
now in camp at -, KY. they
leaving Whiting on Monday.
Red Cross sewing classes are still
held at the Whiting library each day
from / to p. m. Volunteers in sew
ing are desired.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-06-14

SNdI APu1T
- DR.. and Mrs. w. A. Schedden re-
turned from their visit last night.
No word has come from the Erie
regarding what they will do about the
train service. The state public service
commission has not made any an
nouncement yet
The Erie construction gang which
has been camped west of town for
months, has moved on.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-21
AGAINST RACIAL HATRE


1t is 50 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. H.
E. Peabody, pastor of the South Con-
gregational Church, in Chicago, said
that racial hatred within the United
States is more dangerous than all Ger
mans outside this country.
DR.. Peabody ikened the East St.
Louis massacre to the "atrocities of
the unspeakable Turk in Armenia"
THE country's perils are not all on
the sea and beyond" said DR.. Pea
body. think of the moral earthquake
and volcano that has burst in the
midst of the land, in our own state,
since last we met.
who would have believed that a
massacre that reminds one of st.
Bartholomew night and of the atroci.
ties of the unspeakable Turk in Ar
menia, could occur among our own
fellow-c1tizens in East St. Louis?
But, beware! The peril is nearer
than that. The mutterings of the VOL
cano are felt in Chicago. The single
explosion is not the most significant
thing. The race prejudice, contempt
and hatred, working-working be-
neath-these are the hell below-and
mo lie u! 4uemSpoI emos pun xeu1
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-21

Else we make a joke of our high
est boast.
The Color Line in the Catholic Church.
(From the Southwestern Christian Ad-
vocate, New Orleans, Lay
There are two hundred thousand
colored Catholics in the United States
according to Walter F. McEntire, a
prominent Catholic, who in telling of
the orders and societies of men and
women working among color people in
the United States, among other things
says in the Tidings, of Los Angeles:
1.-THE Church knows no color-line in
the House of God, and any man who
tries to lay one down is not true
Catholic"
This is good reading but it is not
true to fact. There are only two COL
ored priests in the entire Catholic
cOlOred constituency of America, and
the Catholic Church is the only reli-
gious body in America that forces on
it's constituency white ministry.
Moreover, the color issue is drawn as
completely in the Catholic Church as
elsewhere There was a time when
the Catholic churches welcomed col
ored people to the affairs but not now.
In st. Joseph Church, New Orleans a
few seats in the rear are marked re-
served for colored.
The American prejudice has at last
full grip on the Catholic Church.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-21
aper without any hyphen, prefix or

paper without any hyphen, prefix or
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 era in which the basic principle
will be human brotherhood.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-21
DEMOCRACY WILL GAIN.

Prof. Charles e. Merriam in an ar
ticle on the "War for Freedom" as
sumes that as a result of the present
war both civil liberty and Industrial
democracy will be the gamers in every
country in the world and the United
States will be no exception. Here are
some of the things he has to say:
"Since the outbreak of the war
democracy has achieved important sue
cesses, the significance of which may
we'll be carefully weighed.
First in Importance comes the over
throw of the Russian autocracy, and
the substitution of democracy. Even
the most optimistic friends of free
government had not dared to hope for
so swift and sweeping a victory as has
actually been won.
I'm England labor has been recog-
nized in the coalition cabinet, and
upon all great Industrial questions has
been brought into close cooperation
with the government Home rule for
Ireland is we'll on it's way, and suffrage
for women is apparently about to
achieve it's final success. -
I'm Germany and Austria the rumb-
lings of democracy are being heard,
even above the roar of the cannon.
The abolition of the three class system
in Prussia; the Encouragement of the
Reichstag districts, which have been
unchanged since 1869; the grant of
broader suffrage in Austria, are con-
cessions which the ruling class must
make to the people.
1T is not possible to raise the flag
OF democracy, and organize a great
crusade against autocracy, without ad-
vancing the line of democracy in every
country in the world, whether on one
side of the contest or the other. If
there are autocrats who hope to use
the name and seal of democracy as a
means of obtaining political or eco
nomic privilege, they are doomed to
disappointment. They are Enchanting
democratic forces that cannot be
quieted without full recognition of
their position in society and the state.
In the long run, both civil liberty and
industrial democracy will be the gain
ers in every country in the world.
America will be no exception"
War is a horrible thing viewed from
any angle, but good will come out of
1t and when it is over many of the old
prejudices and distinctions which have
cursed the world will have been
burned away.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-21
Worse Than Belgium.

New York, July 3.-"Swift and Sc.
we're punishment" for the East St.
Louis mobs was demanded by the So
cialist leader, William English Wall
ing, in telegram to President Wilson
today. -
Such punishment is necessary, Wall
ing said, because "of the dangerous
effect of race riots in America on rev.
dictionary Russia, South America and
Japan"
Walling characterized the uprising
as partly the result of German agents
efforts to stir up a race war to keep
American troops at home and partly
the result of an attempt by the South
ern states to keep the Negro under
their thumb.
Speaking as a member of the execu-
tive committee of the National Asso-
citation for the Advancement of Col
ored People, Walling, in his telegram,
said:
The international and military sit
uation calls for immediate action.
There must be swift and severe pun
lshment for the mob. But this will not
suffice. There should be an immedi-
ate presidential proclamation in the
present military exigency that the full
military power of the nation will be
used in defense Of the lives and lib
erty Of our cOlored fellow citizens"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-21
Will Sue for DAMAGES.

The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, with
former Judge Edward Osgood Brown
of the appellate court president of the
local chapter, is planning to institute
suits under the Illinois statutes against
the city of East st. Louis and St. Clair
county for personal damages on be-
half of the dependents of the Negro
men and women who died at the hands
of the incensed mobs in the orgy of
murder and arson several days ago.
Under the statutes, the dependents
have actions against both the city and
the county for damages to property;
life and limb, the judgments not to ex-
coed $4,000 in each case. This may
mean suits for nearly $1,OOO,OOO when
the final loss of the scores killed, the
hundreds injured and the many homes
destroyed is recorded. ~.-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-21
NATIONAL COLORED LIBERTY CONVENTION
Will Be Called to Meet in Washington in the Fall of 1917pan
Originated at Meeting of New England
Suffrage League. =.

was made by Americans the sunee
Boston
IN the southern states VIM II Scott NJ
Mass lsO4 has vndaed 2
III ne Baptist church
reception in the vestry
y nearly 100 delegates
pusaed with
wod democracy for which
Colored
this
aludl meeung successful in in
president the
SPOKESMAN voiced
Co1ored nome let all
oo'oieo Liberty convention at Washington this Wv
Calls on Nation to Man His RIGHTS
country in estabIjshno deoc,
eoo caste and ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Pac'sed at home said William "Nse"''
we Colored
ana the people the United States
ENJOY TINS world democracy for
20 nep n resi- OF the world to
our race IS held serfdom WINE
Liberty at WASHINGTON +h;e E,u
Cooed Liberty
ing National colored Liberty washington IN ba f
formed with these - III Tue Iall was
Officers
resident Kew johnson w
OF New
wee president s. S. Crockett
- Sydes OF Rhode Island
corresponding secretary
smith HAMPTON Virginia. Alien Of
CHAIRMAN OF the board
view 1orK City; grand organizer Allen Whay
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-21
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-21
Mad Savaaery
(Springfeld Republican,

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 fiendish-
ness gets us nowhere in correcting
or even Furnishing "a criminal class.
when race feeling is involved it is
impossible to conceive of anything so
disastrous in it's 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
10 contemplate these hideous specta-
Giles OF mass brutishness and social
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-21
hearts; God help us.

hearts; God help us.
There is far more danger to the
republic from race hatred within our
borders than from all the Germans
put together.
"Christian citizens of Chicago, think
this thing through. Try to make up
your mind beforehand what you will
do and say when the earthquake and
the volcano shall be around you. Our
country is in dire need of clear heads
and stout hearts-Christian hearts,
both within and without
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-21
LET AGITATION GO ON, SAYS
REV. r. J. GRIMKE.

commends Protest by Guardian and
s Pianet-Race Will Protest Till White
America Accords the Rights Which
Belong to Every American Citizen
Steady Decline Of Rights Under
q. 7. Washington Policy.
(From the Boston Guardian
Washington, D. c., June Il, 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.. Frissell 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 MR.. WASH.
1NGTON'S POLICY of "quiet, unpre-
tentious service."' that Df. Frissell
should be attempting to revive that
pernicious, un-American, unmanIy.
heresay Of quiet submission to wronu.
what God directed his prophet to do
was: Cry aloud, spare not, lift up
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 FrisseII Understand Once and for
= All Time.
DR.. Frissen had just as we'll under.
stand now, once for all, that the policy
for which he stands, as regards our
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 co|ored Unlike Whites.
1t is because, after all, they think
that the Negro is made of a little diff.
ferent clay. and therefore that # is
alright FOR HIM TO QUIETLY SIN,
49, ~ VITA WHITE MFiN
WOULD NOT BE EXPECTED TO
SUBMIT TO, AND, WOULD NOT
Submit TO WITHOUT THE MOST
VIGOROUS PROTEST?
Put Themselves In Our Place.
II some of our white friends wou1d
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
ism things which they recommend al
Let the Agitation Go On.
Let the Planet, let the Guardian. 1e,
all the colored newspapers, continue
to speak out, and, in every other legiti
mate way, LET THE AGITATION GO
ON. 1t is in vain for DR.. Frissell, OF
any one else to try to stop it.
Yours for equality of rights for al
citizens, regardless of race or condi
ton.
FRANCIS ]. GR1MKE.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-21
The illinois Massacre,

,(F'rom the Chicago Evening Post.)
/. I'm ouah town we don't let a mig
gah get off the train long enough to
brush youah coat, not even. if he's a
pO'tah on Putnam
They'll tell you this in just these
accents in some of the southern towns
Of Illinois.
And it was from these towns that
the militiamen came to maintain or.
der in East st. Louis
This is the whole story of the fail
ure of the militia in the worst rage
riot that has tdisgraced Illinois since
Lovejoy was martyred.
Troops from Northern Illinois should
nave been sent into East st. Louis;
troops from Southern Illinois should
not have been sent there. For the twi-
light zone of the Mason and Dixon
line cuts across the central and south
ern portions of the state.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-21
"Any prejudice whatever will
be insurmountable if those who
do not share in II themselves
truckIe to It and flatter It and
accept It az a law Of nature"
John Stuart Mill.
CRIME AGAINST CIVILIZATION,

In the opinion of THE APPEAL,
the strongest article denouncing the
East Saint Louis massacre was an
editorial published in the Christian
Register of Boston, Mass The Regis
ter is the leading Unitarian paper pub
lished in the United States and per-
haps that accounts for the article.
The Unitarian church is one of the
few Christian denominations in Amer
lea in which there is no color line.
The orthodox Christian sects in Amer
lea are so filled with prejudice that
the ruthless massacre of helpless men,
women and children fails to bring out
a protest.
The article from the Christian Reg
lister, which follows, is not so long as
some of the articles which have ap-
peared in the daily papers, but it is
evidently the most sincere which THE
APPEAL has seen:
The hideous outrage against law
and humanity in East St. Louis, ILL.,,
makes us turn again from the barbara
ties of war to the ferocities Of peace,
from crimes against civilization abroad
to crimes against civilization at home.
The testimony of eye witnesses shows
that nothing is to be learned among
white people of this city from the cru
elites and brutalities of foreign con-
quest. No tribes of any name or time
have ever outdone the white men and
women who burned colored men,
women and children the other day in
this American city. Nothing more re-
voting was ever charged against Ne
groes than was done by these white
people. The organization of the man.
hood of the nation for the protection
Of human life and liberty on the seas
and for the deliverance of democracy
in the world will be needed at home
after it's task abroad is done. While
our fellow-creatures in the United
States are hunted and tortured as if
they were wild beasts, government can
scarcely be called democratic. So long
as colored people are prescribed, dis
eliminated against, segregated and
despised, ill-will and antipathy will
furnish fertilizers of hatred and MUIR
der.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-21
The Cause Of Migration
(Atlanta (Ga.) independent

(Atlanta (Ga.) independently
When meat was 15c a pound and
flour $500 a barrel, the colored laborer
received from $500 to $500 a week.
Now meat is SOC pound and flour
$500 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 VIII
suppress lynching and lawlessness
the rural districts, pay the coloreo
man living wages, give him a 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??, 1917-07-21
Greatest Disgrace to State.

Il feel very strongly on the sub
ject," said Judge Brown today. In my
opinion it is the greatest disgrace upon
the name of the state of Illinois yet
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 a 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 E Bentley, dentist at Is
East Washington street. "The stat
utes are clear on the subject We will
go after the sheriff also If the facts
prove our beliefs.
We are so astonished we can
hardly express our feelings. 1t is most
outrageous" ~
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-21
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; is being used in contempt
IN public places; it is an excuse f0r
d1sfranchising 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 Observation-Disclosures
United States Attorney General VIM.
H.. Lewis, Boston, Mass.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-07-21
Negroes and Dogs Not Allowed"
(From the Nashville Clarion)

Nr1oH1 tHe NdSHV1IIe CIar1On)
Down in Houston, Texas are some
elevators in public buildings labeled
NEGROES AND DOGS NOT ALLOW
3D." 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.