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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-05-04

lamaker Bros. Co. Throw Off Shacles of Music Trade
Combine and Cut Prices Without Ceremony the
Finest Talking Machines, Pianos and Player Pianos
Fine Art Grand Pianos Also Included in This Eek
IRENE Smash of Prices
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-05-04
DUNCAN SAYS He
WAS M|SQUOTED

Editor Of The Star: Ny a,ton.
ton has been called to a report In
,onlght's issue OF your paper which
is a gross Misrepresentation of my
position relative 10 war matters.
and which | wish you would cor
rect.
| refer 10 your statement that I
charged that tho Seattle Rcd
Cross directors represented the
capitalistic class"
The facts arc. that offered an
amendment that the council CO
operate with the Rcd Cross. pro
ylded We could name our own
members OF the executive board. /"
as ! felt that MFR. Gates. who was
hand.picked. did not reflect the
sentiment OF the council upon mat
ters pertaining To the war and was
no, capable OF representing us or
safeguarding tho interests OF Ia
Dor upon such a committee
| have been with Tho Star nine
times out OF every ten upon public
questions. but upon war questions
We have differences OF opinion. and
no amouat Of Misrepresentation or
coercion will whip me into 20
sition contrary TO my considerations
conception OF patriotism.
II may be that these are not
studied attempts 20 discredit mo.
but certain Il IL tina. on several oc-
caaions have suffered grave IN.
Justice at your hands.
In view Of my position In the
labor movement. and the vital need
OF avoiding Misunderstanding upon
these serious questions. feel that
you should at least give me an op-
portunity TO verify reports before
giving up your columns To state
ments from unreliable sources.
JAMES A. DUNCAN.
Secretary Central Labor Council.
Mr.. Duncan hstters himself
when he thinks THAT The star
would bother ltseH with any
studied attempts" TO oiscredlt
him. The Star Is not now. and
never has been, concerned In
the least over Mr.. Dunean's
opinions or acts.
The Star adulres Mr.. Dun.
can as peppery. t~o-flsted
fighter for che advancement Of
the causes OF organized labor,
and for what he believes 10 tho
right II It's repor. Of Mr.. Dun
cans remarks was In error. II
was because tho reporter who
wrote tho article was r1isln-
formed regarding the facts. An
effort was made 20 reach Mr..
Duncan for the purpose Of get.
ting from him a statement, but
he could not be located.
II the article, ss published,
did him an lnJUstice, The Star
hereby sets matters right In
the same spirit OF good will
with which II always will cor
rect MEASUREMENT.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-08
Must Judge A Group by It's Best.
\from the Christian Register, Boston


Mass.)
NO one can be said to know an,
class OF people who has not been in
Intimate and sympathetic relation with
the best as well as the worst OF the
class. We compare many persons
who live in the South, and think thew
AnoW the colored race, with others
VINO have had no such contact, but
who have come into intimate and sym.
pathetic relations with large numbers
CT 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 people
better than the first. They know aspi
rat1ons among them that the others
90 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
v1ous Of: they know qualities which
only respect and sympathy can bring
out; they know possibilities to which
otners by their very acquaintance are
blinded. If those who know the col
ored race through the mass and by
observation merely could know what
individual possibilities are demon
strated in growing numbers Of the
elect, and would be courageously can
old 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??, 1917-09-08
OUR NEED OF JUxrAPOs,TloN
(FrOm the Boston (1nard,an

(From the Boston Guardlan.)
Ihat we much rather be, and asso
ciate among ourselves, is a saying Ly
Colored Americans that has become
almost trite. That is a mistake; i,
Is feeling of avowed cowardice ano
innate 1nferiority. 1t is an utter i'm.
posslbilitay for the two races to sub
scribe to common government, and,
at the same time, each race wcrx o..
Its own salvation. The theory" has
been tried and resulted into a gaast.7
failure; instead OF making for har-
mony and cordial good feeling te
tween two races, it has increasex'
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 inevitabl y folk ".
We have followed this "advice" fail
fully aud have been rewarded In
terms OF residence segregation, street
segregation, confiscation and loss OF
property, Observation-Disclosures is
all of the blacklist pieces Of lesis-
lation, since that 1t 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 e1ontry and terrible legislation
with which our property Is taken ano
confiscated, 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 well being. Race preiu
dice, therefore, can only be worn Dr. W.T.
by attrition. We must send orr
children. and 20 ourselves. TO mixed
institutions and other places wha~e
We can mix with the other races ona
consequently become accustomed =,
one another. ABOVE All TtrNCe
WE MUST WELCOME AND ppAC
T1CE JUXTAPOS1TION.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-08
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 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
Moliere! Though the cathedrals quar-.
rel together and sing praises with
s1ege-guns to their own little foolish
national souls. and rain bombs on
each others nayes, ! take nv 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 littl,
children.
We are all in the same world. We
are all alike. I will not say Of any
one nation what l will not say of the
others: and will not say Of any man
what I will not say of myself.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-08
WIDESPREAD INTEREST IN MA
TlONAu RACE CONGRESS.

Colored Americans brought to Their
Feet" by Memphis, e. St. Louis,
and Chester outrages- Equal
Rights Committees Being Formed.
Boston, Mass, August 20, 1917
That the colored people of the coun-
try have been brought to their feet"
by the Memphis lynching, East ST..
Louis massacre and Chester riots, is
shown by the instant interest taken
in the call issued for speedy get
ting together at New York by Rev.
! Pyron Gunner, president of the Ma
tional Equal Rights League. Already
President Gunner has received word
from representatives in a dozen diff
ferent states who will attend the 10th
annual meeting of the league and End
Annual Race Congress under the
Leagues auspices, which will be held
three days, September Is, 10 and 20.
street, New York City,.
COlored newspapers all over the
country are announcing this National
CoIored Equal Rights Convention in
their columns, and the editors are
working with success for the forma-
ton of local Equal Rights Commit
tees that are to send delegates.
The Call" has been given such
wide publicity, the invitation being
open to every organization as we'll as
the Equal Rights League, the ,op-
pressed in every country in the civil
lied world have met as a group and
put forth their case and their de-
mand. except we colored Americans,
thoughtful citizens everywhere see
that the race will be judged by the
attendance at this National Race Con-
gress.
Every community that has not al
ready formed Citizens Equal Rights
Committee to send delegates is urged
to do so. Three full weeks remain in
which to do so. The last Race Con-
gress brought men and women of all
factions and all organizations together
and increased cooperation. It is ten
times as critical now for the race as
then.
Pres. Byron Gunner, of Hillburn, N. ]
=, and Corr. Secretary VIM. Monroe
Trotter of 81 COrnhill, Boston, are
receiving many letters on the conven-
ton and will answer all inquiries.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-08
Hates the Term "Neuro."

Il hate the term Negro because it
Is being used in terms of hatred. It
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.
Il. Lewis, Boston, Mass.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-08
MANY CLAIMS AFTERMATH OF
RACE RIOTlNG.

East St. Louis, ILL.,, September T.
Claims aggregating 100000 have been
filed against the city of East st. Lonis
for personal damages and for destruc.
ton of personal property as result
of the recent race riots here.
More than thirty claims have been
filed for loss of life and many colored
people have put in claims for destruc-
ton of personal property. Damages
have been asked for more than 1000
chickens, killed or missing.
Jesse Carter, colored man. put in
a claim for $25 which he said was
taken from him by an Illinois guards.
man.
The city council will decide whether
to allow the claims or to allow the
city to be sued. The law provides
that the city shall pay for all lives
lost and three-fourths of the value
of property destroyed.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-08
LET EUROPE BEWARE.
Some Day Africans Will Have Steam
Engines and Machine Guns of
Their OWn.''

(From the Christian Register)
Nearly all of Africa has been cut
up into spheres of influence, and the
Great Powers of Europe that are now
attempting to destroy each other will
soon be at odds over what are known
as their. colonial possessions 1t is
incredible that the tribes and nations
of Africa will always be denied the
right of choice as to their political
and social relations with the masterful
nations that have ruled them. Will
the European governments allow Afri-
cans to say who shall be their mas
tiers their felloW-workers, their
friends? If not now, at some later
date freedom must be decreed for
Africa. Because he had steam engines
and machine-guns, Kitchener could
NOW down the natives by the thou
sand and then establish university
at Karthoum. But some day Africans
will have steam-engines and machine
guns of their own. Then let Europe
beware.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-08
The Cause Of Migration
(Atlanta (Ga.) Independent)

When meat was 15c a pound and
flour $500 barrel, the colored laborer
received from $500 to $500 a week.
Now meat is SOC pound and flour
$1,000 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 will
suppress lynching and lawlessness in
the rural districts, pay the colored
man living wages, give him 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??, 1917-09-08
Agreed to Be "Set Aside"
(From the Eagle, Washington, D.

(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 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.
church, North and South, will unite
and the separation of the colored
membership and the refusal of bishop
ric honors to the 100000 colored COM
munlcants are designed to clear the
wayefor 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??, 1917-09-08
WARNS AGAINST RACIAL HATRED

It is so 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 likened' the East St.
Is Louis massacre to the ATROCITIES of
the unspeakable Turk in Armenia"
"The countrys 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-
Q -
ties of the unspeakable Turk in Ar
menia, could occur among our, own
fellow-citizens 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-a and
they find some Judgment in all our
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
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-08
FAILURE TO FIGHT COSTLY.

That strong defender of true Ameri-
canism, the Cleveland Gazette, edited
by Hon. Harry G. Smith, man of
whom all Americans may well 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.
1T has not been so very many years
since the adoption of the war amend.
ments to the Constitution and the be.
ginning of a systematic effort on the
part of our enemies to nullify the eff
feet they were expected to have and
its subsequent good. Since these eff.
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. c. AS,
etc. indeed, there is apparently a de-
sire for segregation of the races in
Heaven, if some of 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 a race. we
have been burlesqued, abused and hui
inflated by the thoughtless (some
members of the race), as we'll as by
those hostile to our interests, simnlv
because there was lacking proper re.
sentiment on our part and a 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
any other like creature on earth. To
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??, 1917-09-08

Sir Sidney Olivier certainly knows
what he is talking about. In the
Island of Jamaica, where he was gov.
ernor for five years, there are about
100000 colored people and only 10000
whites and yet there is absolutely no
friction between the races. Jamaica
is a British colony and the govern.
ment is just. Colored men enjoy ev-
cry civil and political right which
white men have and there is no color
line.
Among other things Sir Sidney said:
my study and comparison of con.
ditions in the United States and the
West Indies" he said, has brought
me to that conclusion. American and
colonial politicians and public men
are not Exeter Hall abolitionists nor
evangelical Christian missionaries. I
do not expect them to adopt the meth.
DDS of missionaries, nor do l sympa.
thize with all their programmes. But
it cannot be ignored that it happened
that the faiths of the men who laid
the foundations for the peaceful de-
velopment of the mixed community in
Jamaica were democratic and human.
1tarian and, above all, uncompromis.
ingly Christian.
Were race differentiation held to IT
must increase civil discord. When the
balance Of numbers is as it is in the
South in America it must tend to
foster obscure preparations for civil
war and rebellion. If statesmen and
citizens face in the contrary direction
I do not say that they will attain i'm.
mediately civil peace. but I am conf.
dent that they will be travelling the
only road toward it.
II do not suggest that race does not
greatly affect facilities for combina,
ton between humans in healthy
national life, but race difference is
only one Of many schismatic agencies.
: The solution of the difficulty involves
discipline for the white man as we'll
as the black"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-08

Jews who are fighting from England
urged the abandonment of title Jew.
posed of prominent Hebrews pleaded
that the 10000 Jews now serving in
the army were fighting not as Jewish
but as British subjects. Lord Derby
at once agreed to abandon the title
The title colored regiment ought to
be abandoned in the U. s. Army. Let
colored men fight as Americans.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-08
"Negroes and Dogs Not Allowed"
(From the Nashville Clarion)

N1 Z o111 wv &Ne1H11 V111C OI0I IOl1J
Down in Houston, Texas are some
elevators in public buildings labeled
NEGROES AND DOGS NOT ALLOW
Ed" 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.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-08
Must Have Place in School
(FrOno tho Th;oo nof

QFrOm the Chicago Defender)
Our naval training camp has every
nationality under the sun. AS a red
flag to t1out into the face of the bull,
we have Cinnamon out there, the
Filipino out there, the Greek out there,
the Hebrew out there, the Italian out
there, and God himself only knows
what else out there, but we do know
that if we are anywhere near there
we are near the bathroom with a mop
and broom. Space must be made for
the boy of the Colored race in the
school for which we are paying taxes.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-08

The Chicago Y. M. G.. A. will send
a lot of picked men to try 'to re-es-
tablish morale in Russia" We wonder
if they will use the Jim crow system
in use in Chicago and organize segre-
gated Y. M. G. AS for each of the
hundred and odd nationalities which
compose Russia?
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-08

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??, 1917-09-08
EIGHTH GETS PATRIOTIC FARE.
WELL.
! illinois Crack coIored Regiment
Cheered to the Echo.

Chicago, Sept. 2.-Chicago last night
10000 strong babe farewell to the
Eighth Infantry
It was the biggest ovation given any
local regiment about to start to the
South. Chief Justice Orrin N. Carter
of the Illinois Supreme Court recited
the history of Chicago's colored regi-
ment and expressed his conviction the
men again would prove their loyalty
and patriotism. He was cheered sew
eral minutes.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-08
THE ONLY SOLUTION.

Recently at the Church of England
Congress at Southampton, Sir Sidney
Olivier, who was governor Of Jamaica
from 1907 to the end of 1912, put for
ward the claim that no solution of the
American color question was possible
except by resolute disclaimer Of the
color line and the race differention
theory.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-08
The Eternal Gospel

(From the Martinsville Pioneer-Press)
We have no respect for a servile.
cringing colored man. He is of more
service to his people under the sod
than on top of it.-Richmend (Va)
Planet. That is our eternal gospel,
preach it in the valleys and on the
mountain tops.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-08

Several thousand Georgia colored
men will be assigned to loading trans
ports for France. They will be under
the command of w. G.. Austin, former
chief of police of Savannah, Ga.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-08
coLoRED TROOPS.
At Each Cantonment of New National
Army.

Washington, September, 1917.-The
order issued by the War Department
provides in every cantonment there
shall be one colored infantry regiment
where sufficient personnel is available.
Protests have been made against quar-
tering colored troops in certain parts
OF the South, but no modification has
been made.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-08
NATIONAL RACE CONGRESS.

Elsewhere on this page will be found
an article from Boston in regard to
the coming Race Congress which un-
~questionably is a needed movement
and it is hoped that the people of
the Twin Cities will get together and
arrange, to send representative to the
same. There is very little time to
work, so let's get at it NOW. Let us
hear from our citizens in regard to
the matter at once.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-08

Ex-President Taft is being talked of
as president of Hampton Institute to
succeed the late H. B. F.rissell. Taft
has too much race prejudice to be at
the head of such an institution.