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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-17
THE CENSUS GRAB.

While the Census bill was under
discussion in the House, Representa-
tive John G. Cooper of Ohio, sought
the adoption of an amendment that
would have taken from the Democrats
some, at least, of the enormous
amount of patronage they will exer-
else when that measure is put into
effect. AS it now reads all census
supervisors are to be appointed by
the Secretary of Commerce upon rec
concentration of the Director of the
Census. OF course that means that
practically all will be Democrats. Mr..
Cooper would have given the Con
gressmen a voice in making recon-
mendations for appointments in their
own districts. Had his views pre-
vailed Republican districts would
have stood a chance of having their
Inhabitants recorded by Republican
supervisors. But Mr.. Cooper's amend
ment met with disfavor from the
party in control and was defeated.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-17

ment departments, and to other in
dicatiOns of brOadened public opin-
ion; nevertheless we believe today
that justifable grievances of the
colored, people are producing not dis
loyalty, but an amount of unrest and
bitterness which even the best ef-
forts of their leaders may not be able
always to guide unless they can have
the active and sympathetic co-opera-
ton of the National and State gov
ernments. German propaganda
amOung US is powerless, but the ap-
parent Indifference of our own Gov
ernment may be dangerous.
Discreditabie utterance-Seek to Put
Race Loyal on Defensive, to Ex-
aooerate Difficulty OF Redress ana
Then cringe and Leave all lnden-
mite.
The American Negro does not ex-
pect to have the whole Negro prob
lem settled Immediately; he is not
seeking to hold up a striving coun-
try and = distracted world by push
ing irrelevant personal grievances as
price OF loyalty; he is not disposed
to catalogue IN this tremendous
crisis all his complaints and disabili-
ties; he is more than willing to do
his full share in helping to win the
war democracy and he expects his
full share of the fruits thereof.
...-~ Gentlemen Of tho Minimum.
But he is today compelled to ask
for that minimum Of consideration
which will enable him to be an eflci-
ent fighter for ,Victory-From the
Boston Guardian.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-17

Washington, D. c., July, 1918. A
second Declaration of independence
was enunciated and entered in the
records of the U. s. Congress at the
end of last week. This is the con-
sensus of opinion among thoughtful
Washingtonians who heard the petit
ton to the Government read at the
closing one of the five public mass
meetings of the National Colored Lib
erty Congress or who have read the
document as printed in the Congress
sional Record OF June 29th.
Like the first Declaration, this one
was the creation of delegated as
sembly, a citizens congress with a
national membership. The Liberty
Congress was composed of 115 dele
gates from 20 states and the District
OF Columbia, men and women, pro-
testing injustice and tyranny, re-
spending to q call. Like the first
one this Declaration represented the
voluntary. uncompensated, sacrifice
and natural feelings and yearnings OF
Americans for liberty and an equal
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-17
AMERlCAN8-7hAT'0 ALL.

For many yeara it has been tho
custom to treat colored people ~
aliens, although they are moro than
ninety-nine psr cent Of American
birth; and there 10 Z growing ten
dency among tho colored people to
regard themselves ~ aliens. This 10
being encouraged by 4 class Of lead
srs who call themselves "Negroes"
and yell about NEGRO Kultur" a.
though they have not moro than half
and often less than one-eighth Of
Negro blood. Such men ought to
stop tho Negro" propaganda and be
Americans and demand Justice b.
cause they are Americans and not by
tho false assertion that they are
Negroes"
They should not have any rights a.
Negroes" but every right Of an
American oitisen should b ana viii
b accorded them. IL they light for
their rights - American eitissns BY
right Of birth.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-17
(The Gazette. CLEVELAND Oh;o ,

(The Gazette, Cleveland, Ohio.)
At the great Afro-American. Con-
ference, held in Washington. D. c..
a few weeks ago, the only change
made in it's splendid resolutions was
a sentence along the line of the CON-
planned OF part of the July Crisis edi-
torial. When approached by the
writer and asked if he had written it.
DR.. Dubois, secretary of the commit
tee on resolutions, laughingly admit
ted that he had done so. This we
were loath to believe, and did not do
so until he arose in the meeting and
undertook to defend the Objectionable
sentence, but in vain, for it was
stricken out and proper one unani-
mously substituted for it. The Incl
dent started US to thinking land inyes-
t1gatlng), but not until we learned that
ne had been appointed (since the con-
ference) to a captaincy in the army
intelligence department, and stationed
IN the army Department at Washing
ton, D. c., did we understand his IRE
Versal of FORM
More Compromising than WASHINGTON
We do not believe that DR.. Booker
T. Washington in the hey-dey of his
doctrine of surrender preaching
would have dared do such a thing. o
DuBoise! Eft tn Brute!
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-17

of America secure, but the liberties
Of every other people as we'll.
''There can be but one issue. The
settlement must be final. There can
be no compromise. No halfway de-
cision would be tolerable. No half
way decision is conceivable.
1.-THE blinded rulers OF Prussia
have reused forces they knew little
ot-forces which can never be
crushed to earth again; for they
have in their heart an inspiration
and a purpose which are deathless
and of the very stuff Of triumph. -
From the Presidents Mount Vernon
Address.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-17
SATURDAY, AUGUST II, 1918.
HOLD YOUR LIBERTY BONDS.

Don't let your Liberty Bonds get
away from you. Hold onto them, even
if you may be tempted to dispose of
them.
In the first place, the government in
tended them for YOU. The Liberty
loans were designed as peoples loans.
In order to finance the war the gov
eminent must have the support of
ALL the people. 1t was intended that
you keep the bonds and not trade
them or sell them.
Promiscuous selling tends to depre-
ciate their value, and that is what the
German agents here would like to do.
Not only is 1T your patriotic duty
to retain these bonds, but in doing so
you are laying up something for a
rainy day. The Liberty loans and the
Was Savings Stamp issues have done
more to encourage thrift in America
than anything ever before attempted.
They have made bondholders out of
thousands Of people who never in
their lives until now had made an in
vestment.
Crafty and INSCRIPTIONS individuals
are using every means to entice these
bonds out of the hands of their own
ers. One method is to offer in ex-
change for Liberty bonds stock certi-
fcates In fly-by-night companies,
worth only the gold paper they are
printed on, and represented as return
ing much higher rate of interest
than the government securities.
Those who are not familiar with stock
values should beware of such offers.
There are other methods, some
savoring Of the gold4brick variety;
others just within the limits of the
law.
Liberty bonds are the safest invest
ment in the world. If you MUST dis
pose of them, you would do well to
consult your banker. e.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-17
Raises a False Issue in Order to
Compromise.


Let us consider the last two things
first. Our ranks are already closed:
they have never been open; they are
not open now; they will not be open
In the future. So that the dear doc
tors advice being predicated, as it is,
on the assumption that our ranks are
open, is baseless. The same is true
as to our fighting for democracy.
That is the one thing the colored man
has always desired, prayed and fought
Tor; he desires, prays and fights for it
now, and will in future desire, pray
and fight for it. Again the dear doc
tor is Offering advice where it is not
needed.
How Are We to FORGET Our Griev-
ances.
Now as to forgetting our special
grievances? How can we? The
| lyncher won't let US. The jim-crower
! won't let us. The man who practices
racial prescription won't let US. With
lynchings of colored people averaging
! higher than two week, how are we
to forget lynching? With the daily
denials to hundreds ct colored people
; OF the comforts and conveniences of
transportation, how can we forget
, jim-crow cars. When a young colored
woman. or man, has qualified for ad-
! mission to the civil service of the GOV
! eminent, and been certified and called,
and Is refused appointment when it is
| discovered that he or she is of the
| colored race, how can we forget racial
prescription? The lyncher, the Jim
| Grower and the racial proscriber keep
these things alive, not we.
No Other Citizens Having Special
Grievances Are Asked by Leaders
to Forget Them.
Then besides no other group of citi-
zens having special grievances are
| being advised by their leaders to for
get them, but to the contrary every
effort is being made to correct them
now This is true as to labor, as to
Woman's suffrage and as to rights of
| lrlshmen Why an exception in the
case of the colored man.
In all charity and seriousness, we
hope never again to see the pages of
The Crisis defiled with such stuff as
this To keep the ranks closed and
to fight for democracy means to pro-
test against mob violence, jim-crow
| cars and racial prescription. Where
these things exist democracy is not
triumphant.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-17
DUBOIS SURRENDER.
Dubois Misrepresents Race as he
Compromises Says Singleton.

Especial to the Pittsburgh Courier,
by Walter ]. Singleton.) In an edi-
torlal article dealing with the war,
The Crisis for July contains the fol-
lowing advice to col0red men.
Let us, while the war lasts, for
get our special grievances and close
our ranks shoulder to shoulder with
our own white fellow citizens and
the allied nations that are fighting for
democracy" ~
The learned Doctor Dubois has sell
dom packed more error into a single
sentence: He says three things in
this sentence: a. forget our special
grievances; (2) close our ranks, and
{ I'D fight for democracy with our
white fellow citizens and the allied
nations.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-17

share in the Rights of Man. While
the Revolutionary patriots met to
initiate war, those race patriots met
at the seat of Government when the
country was in mighty world war
and without eQuivocation set forth
the denials to their racial element of
those rights of democracy to spread
which their country was ayowedly
taking part in a world war.
This National Colored Liberty
Congress- keynote sounded by Maui
rice w. Spencer, local chairman, the
first night, which echoed and re-
echoed in every speech and in the
petition, was that when the u. S. A.
was proclaiming world-democracy as
its purpose in q world war, all race
and color discrimination in federal
departments. in public places in the
national capitol, in government
schools. in public carriers under gov
ernment control, in the election OF
federal officials should be abolished
by congress, which should also make
lynching federal crime.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-17
FRENCH WAR Cross FOR EVERY
MEMBER OF COLORED REGI.
MENT.

6nIN~S7 WIN SnO00 TOn 6SGnI
MEMBER OF COLORED REGI.
MENT.
Editorial by Arthur Brisbane, Editor
of the Hearst Newspapers.)
1t will soon be time for another St.
Gaudens to make monument to
another lot of colored troops of the
United States.
St. Gaudens made magnificent
statue of heroic young Shaw, the
white man, leading his colored troops
against slavery,
Another American officer, also
named Shaw, offers something to the
sculptor, something rather hard to
show in marble or bronze.
The French war department de-
clares that every member of a colored
regiment is entitled to the war cross
for courage shown in their first fight
ing under fire.
The white officer, Lieut.. Shaw,
was looking after his guns, giving in
structions, taking them to pieces and
reassembling them again, under fire
so heavy that if he had stood upright
he would not have lived five minutes.
He went from one gun to the other,
rolling over and over on the ground,
and comes out of it alive
When you see your colored fellow
citizens, in or out of uniform, please
remember that, no matter what you
may think, the white Prussian across
the line has a pretty high opinion of
him.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-17
BONDS OF THE FOURTH
LIBERTY LOAN.

Bonds of the Fourth Liberty
Loan are now being turned out by
the thousands daily by the Treasury's
Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
The bonds are similar in form and
design to those of the third loan, and
space has been left on each bond for
insertion of the exact terms OF the
bonds.
It is believed that a SUFFICIENT num-
Der of the bonds will be ready to
make possible immediate delivery OF
all bonds of the fourth loan as they
are purchased.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-17
Minimum Consideration Only
Asked By CoIored Editors

sTAR-cHAMBER RACES CONFER
ENcE At EXPENSE OF GOVERN
MENT DESERTS STRUGGLE OF
RACE FOR RIGHTS OF DEMoc-
RAcY - coLoRED MEN AWED
BY PRESENCE OF GOVERNMENT
OFFICIALS, APPARENTLY AGREE
NOT TO ACETATE AGAINST
WRONGS BECAUSE COUNTRY IS
At WARFARE FIRST IN HIS
TORY ALLEGING INJUSTICE
WHO WORK ONLY FOR "MlNl-
MUM" AND DON'T STATE WHAT
THAT Is-EMMETT SCOTT AND
MAJ. sPINGARN TO BLAME.
CONCEAL Bulletin, June %, 1879
The following is an extract from
the resolutions adopted by the confer
ence OF colored newspaper editors
held In Washington last week under
the auspices of the War Department
and the Committee on Public Infor-
nation:
We, the thirty-one Representatives
OF the Negro press, which has a cir
cu1ation of more than a million
copies, principally among the colored
people of America, and representa-
tives Of other activities, wish to af-
hrm. first ofsall, our. unalterable be-
lief that the defeat of the German
Government and what it today repre-
sents 10 of paramount importance to
the Welfare of the world in general
and to our people in particular.
We deem 1t hardly necessary, in
view of the untarnished record of Ne
gro-Amertcans, to reafirm our 10y
atty to our country and our readiness
to make every sacrifice to win this
war. We wish, however, as students
and guides of public opinion among
our people. to use our every endeayor
to keep those 100000 people at
the highest pitch, not simply OF pas
sive loyalty, but of active, enthusi-
asttc. and self-sacriflcinE participa-
ton In the war.
Admit Grievances Justifiabie and that
Race 10 Festive.
We are not unmindful of the
recognition of our American citizen.
ship In the draft, Of the appointment,
OF colored officers, of the designation
of colored advisers to the Govern
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-17
ENCOURAGING, ISN'T IT?

In the statewide primary held in
West Virginia, three colored men
were nominated on the Republican
ticket in as many counties for mem
bers of the House of Delegates, the
lower branch of the legislature. The
nominees were: J. V. Coleman, Kim
berly, Fayette county; Harry ]. Cape.
hart, keystone, Mcdowell county,
and T. G. Nutter, Charleston, Kama
wha county. Mr.. Nutter is lawyer
and secretary-treasurer of bank.
The colored population in none of
these counties is one-sixth of the
whole, that of Kanawha being only
about one-tenth.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-17

Reservation. He was direct de-
scendent of the Iroquois Indian Chief
Cornplanter for whom Congress es-
tablished the Cornplanter Reserva-
ton. The report says that the de-
ceased "although educated, believed
in restoration of pagan customs. ~
Edward, who was certainly not a
hyphenated American, must have
been bordering over our trend toward
Socialism during the past five years.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-17
President Wilson in a letter to

President Wilson in a letter to a
prominent citizen of Mississippi
classes Senator Vardaman, who is a
candidate for reelection as an "unde'
sirable." The colored people of the
country have long considered him as
one of that class. Vardaman was
elected senator with the expressed in.
tention of repeating the Fifteenth
Amendment to the Constitution of the
United States, but it still stands,
although he has been in the Senate
for twelve years.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-17
A GREAT JOKE ~

Recently some colored editors under
the direction of E. J. Scott and J. E.
Spingarn met in Washington and
asked the government for that mini.
mum of consideration" for racial
wrongs, and they evidently touched
tender chord in the breast Of those
dear friends of the colored people
the white South. For instance, the
editor of the Lexington (Ky.) Herald
quotes this conclusion, praises it and
naively adds, "Assuredly he is entitled
to nothing less"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-17
A GENTLE LIFE.

The suggestion that Secretary
Lansing run for Governor of New
York on the Democratic ticket is one
that constantly creeps out, but we do
not look to see it adopted. Mr.. Lans-
ing is an estimable gentleman, but he
is not exactly the stuff of which po-
litical heroes are made.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-17

There are few honest and sincere
colored men who use the term "neero''
in describing themselves, but the ma
1ority who use the term are jimcrow-
lists pure and simple. The time has
come to eliminate such words as Ger
man, Negro, Irishman, Lithuanian, etc.
People in the United States ought to
be satisfied to be known as Americans.
That one word is big enough to in
clude all persons born in this country.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-17
OUR WAR INTENTIONS,

eve intend what our forefathers,
rhe founders Of this Republic, in
tended. We in America believe our
participation in this war to be the
fruitage of what they planted. Our
case differs from theirs only in this,
that 1t is our inestimable. privilege to
concert with men out OF every nation
what shall make not only the liberties
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-17

. Senator Ben Pitchfork Tillman saws
he will run again Ito aid the United
States in the war;" Ben has done 80
many thing against his country it is
well that he should at last be willing
to aid it.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-17

President Rev. Byron Gunner is
out in a call for the annual meeting
of the National Equal Rights league,
which will meet in September in Chi
cago.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-17
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-17

God give US men! A time like this demands
Strong minds great hearts, true faith and ready hands
Men whom the lust of Office does not kill;
Men whom the spoils of Office cannot buy;
Men who possess opinions and WILL
Men who have honor-nen who will not lie;
Men who stand before demagogue
And damn his treacherous batteries without wnking
Tall men, sun crowned who live above the fog
In public duty and in private thinking.
~. g. Holland.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-17
TOO MUCH FOR ED.

From Auburn, N. Y, comes the re-
port of the death of Edward Corn
planter at the Cattaraugus Indian
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-17
DUBOIS WORST cOMPROMlsoR IN
EDITORS CONFERENCE.

Editor Harry Smith Of Cleveland
Gazette Says w. e. B. Dubois Wrote
minimum Of Consideration" Resolu-
tions-One of Dubois Was So Com
promising It Was Cut Out by Vote.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-25
TEUTON CENSOR
STRICTLY TABOOS
KISSES BY MAIL
''SpurIos ersenkt" Ban on Cross
Marks in Letters. Writes
Captured Philadelphian

The time-worn American custom OF
mailing kisses" to those YOU love, is
strictly taboo in the Office of the German
censors. Either jealousy or suspicion
prompt those officials to prevent the de-
livery of letters containing kisses" to
American soldiers in German prison
camps.
The censor with an iron cross looks at
a letter with the kissing cross, figures
on the "double-cross' and then has one
of his underlings destroy IL without
trace" The crosses on the letters you
write may mean kisses but you can {
make the German censors believe it.
They take them for war map or "A
cCde
When writing. don't send crosses for
'tiSSeS as they are not permitted,' Prl-
ate Robert Stokes Conner has written
rom "A prison camp to his mother at 6313
Dicks avenue. And Mrs. Conner passes
he Information along to, other mothers
and sweethearts of German prisoners
of war.
Conner, member of Company b.
Thierry on July 10. ana this letter is
the only word received from him. since
then. He writes that he Ia being
treated fine" at Langesalza, Germany.
He writes also that every member OF
his company that escaped death or in
jury in the drive is now captive.
In place Of the kisses that are ban
ned he asked his mother to get con-
nected with the Red Cross and send me
n razor and complete outfit of toilet
articles as | lost all my earthly posses
sions In the fight. Send me some
groceries and canned goods that will
keep and don't forget plenty of smoking
tobacco,