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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-05-18
GALL FOR COLORED LIBERTY CONGRESS RECTES GRIEVOuS
WRONGS OF C0L0RED PATRI0TS---TO MEET
WASHINGTON D. c, JUNE WESLEY A. NJ E.
cHURcH-JUNE SUNDAY IN
coLoREo CHURCHES OF NATIONAL CAPITAL.
All coored Churches Business Civic
and Societies Urgently sendD Delegates.

vote the sSa gdss5 Of the
sembed 13, to wit
1.-THE Aim and Object
just claim OF the Coored
fight the flag of the Republic
from the the abolition
and OF all caste Determinations civil
we send forth CALL in
and organizations greetings
called consider
sogan-To
place to live in And would
We know that the
Many people
fear because OF the evils which stalk abroad
God
the many njustes
tn civilization
cratic barbasm In the midst suffering wrongs
for independence
When disaster couded
white captured: were brave
action patient under heavy
BRIDE
and OF the patriot soldier
and know no other
representing than
Congress at this time to
remove from the statutes of Country all
poster lighting and
dying in strange land Others
child American Citizens at home and
beyond With
democracy and to make
ne world MT place for all people live Meet Wesley
Powell " Pres Allen W. Whaley Mass Nai 30 nrs
Marion sydes Recording Mass
PENN Wm Monroe Trote Ts A& Mass Cor se
Executive rers-S4 Cornhll
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-05-18

or proceeding at law or otherwise
has been instituted to recover said
debt or any part thereof; that, by
virtue of a power of sale therein con-
tanned, said mortgage will be fore
closed and the land and premises
therein described, lying and being
in the County of Ramsey, State OF
Minnesota, described as follows, to
wit:
Lot numbered Eleven (11) in
Block numbered Three CD in Palace
Addition to st. Paul, according to the
recorded plat thereof on file and of
record in the Office of the Register
County and State of Minnesota, will
be sold at public auction to the high
est bidder for cash by the Sheriff
of said Ramsey County, at the Cedar
Street main door of the Court House,
in the City of st. Paul in the County
of Ramsey, State of Minnesota, on
the LIST day of July, 1918, at 10
o'clock in the forenoon, to pay and
satisfy the debt secured by said
mortgage, seventy-fve ($75.OO) Dol
lars attorneys fees therein provided
for, and the costs and disbursements
allowed by law upon such foreclosure
and sale.
Dater May IT, 1918.
JOHN P. SMITH,
Assignee of Mortgagee
w. T. Francis,
Attorney for Assignee of Mortgage.
329 Metropolitan Bank Bldg,
st. Paul, MINI.
(5-18-18)
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-05-18
NOW FOR LIBERTY.

Sunday, June %, will be Liberty Day
in the colored churches of the District
of Columbia. The National Colored
Liberty Congress proper will open
Tuesday morning, June rs, Monday
the Gath, to be given over to regis.
tration and meeting of the Board OF
Managers.
"The Aim and Object of this Con-
gress of delegates from Colored
churches and organizations is to press
t1s just claim of the Colored Ameri.
"an citizens of the U. S. A. to
share in the world democracy for
which they are subject to fight under
the flag of the Republic and to take
positive measures to secure from the
Government guarantee of the abolition
of Acknowledgement and of all caste
determinations, civil and POLITICAL"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-05-18

so that the money will be safe and
profitable and at the same time afford
ing the government the use of it. It
Is planned to sell the certificates to
the public on the installment plan by
using stamps that may be purchased
and pasted in a book for that purpose.
When there are sufficient stamps to
cover the cost of a certificate the book
will be placed on sale In every town
can be exchanged for one. The stamps
and city in the country.
The individual who has money laid
by for rainy day need have no hest
tation in converting it into war saw
ings certificates, since the government
will redeem them at any time upon
the request of the holder, allowing in
terest at per cent. Under this ar
rangement the investor in these GER
tif1cates will have the satisfaction of
knowing that If any emergency should
arise in his family, such as sickness
or death, he could Immediately realize
upon his certificates.
1t is safe prediction that the war
savings certificates will go like hot
cakes" Their small denomination, the
good interest rate, the terms upon
which they may be purchased, the
fact that they are not subject to taxa
ton when held by persons of small
means-all will make them an at
tractive investment. Working people
whose margin OF income above expen.
ses is narrow at best will find in them
an excellent incentive for beginning
the prudent habit of saving. They
will be popular for Christmas presents.
School children will be able to invest
part Of their little weekly allowances
in certificates. AS a result many mill
lions will be transferred to the Fed
eral Treasury and through it will flow
into the channels OF trade, while the
people OF small means will be made
to feel that they, too, are doing their
share toward helping their country
win the war.
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F ORA SHARE IN THE new WORLD DEMOCRACY
ORGANIZER APPEALS PREPARE TO SEND
DELEGATES TO LIBERTY CONGRESS At WASHINGTON, c.,

Our Paramount Duty.

already
Amenns that the
its president cabinet
the European promote liberty
that hundreds
compelled by
that all the classes
England
the issue world democracy
Whaley Organizer ~ "
declaring the u S. A. is fighting for
cations for this democracy
claim rights denied Colored
and present claims for rights
Acknowledgement
BLAME FOR NOT RACIAILY DEMANDING THE GOVERN
MENT. ~ ~ '0'Dt
We have will
raterna organization society
should finance and have CON-
MoNITY LIBERTY COMMITTEE whose duty
organizations
are
Grand Organizer
c. Powell Pres W. W. Troer Exec secy
T. syaes H. IT, Sec; MRS Cravath Simpson
klugh Conn.,
Exec Board Rev Waters
oro vice; MISS Bessie Smith, Va, Asst
The headquarters are at 81 Cornu
Mass where the clerical clerk and where
all speaking
should be Prof Whaley delegates and
LOT the congress- making
80 e ~ 'ne oiano organizer great
Headquarters "a Boston, Mass VIM Monroe r
tive Secretary $500 - ~ MONROE lIoter' Excel
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-05-18
PRESIDENT WILSON
Asked to Countermand Major-GeneraI
BaIiou's Jim.CroW Order.

Boston, Mass, May 1.-Regarding it
as the most non-democratic action
since the world war began, the Ma
tional Equal Rights League, which has
branches in % states and will hold it's
18th annual meeting in Chicago in
August, protested to President Wilson
by telegraph against the order of
Major General Ballou, former com
mander of the separate officers train
ing school for colored men, which
order is so insulting that it was torn
down three times when posted up at
Camp Upton, and which order colored
soldiers to surrender civil rights at
the behest of white race prejudice.
Telegram Wants Order Counter
manded.
The telegram read as follows:
Boston, Mass-To the President,
Woodrow Wilson, White House, Wash
ington, D. c.
The National Equal Rights League
calls upon you to countermand Gen.
Ballous Bulletin No. IS for 92nd Di-
vision, Camp Funston, Kansas, en-
joining officers and ssoldiers to refrain
from going into public places where
their presence is resented because of
color. His dictum that asking public
service is putting pleasure above the
general good is not applied to white
soldiers, destroys all civil rights,
causes fresh discrimination, fosters
race prejudice, humiliates our race,
degrades the army uniform.
No order so vicious or undemocratic
has been is faed in any armies fight
ing German. Protect American SOL
diers in DEMOCRACY at home before
sending them abroad in Democracy
War.
Rev. Byron Gunner, N. Y. President.
Rev. M. F. Sydes, R. I. Exec. Com.
William Monroe Trotter, Mass. Cor.
Sec'y.
The members of the National Equal
Rights League and the colored people
generally are urged to send letters
and kilograms of protest to President
Wilson and Secretary of War Baker.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-05-18

American color question was possible
except by resolute disclaimer Of the
color line and the race ditferention
theory.
Sir Sidney Olivier certainly knows
what he is talking about. In the
Island of Jamaica, where he was gov
ernor for i've years, there are about
100000 colored people and only 10000
whites and yet there is absolutely no
friction between the races. Jamaica
Is 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. 80
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 I sympa-
thize with all their programmes. But
it cannot be ignored lsat 1t happened
that the faiths of the noa who laid
the foundations for the peaceful de.
velopment Of the mixed community in
jamaica democratic and human.
itarian and, shove all. uncompromis.
ingly Christian.
Were race differentiation held to II
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.
Il do not suggest that race does not
greatly affect facilities for combina
ton between humans in healthy
national life, but race difference II
only one of many schismatic agencies
The solution of the difficulty involvei
discipline for the white man as well
as the black"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-05-18
ORDER or MAJ. GEN. BALLou
Against Which Protests Have Been
Made by Many coIored organiza-
tons.
Headquarters Ninety-second Division,
.-.:. Camp Funston, Kansas
March %, 1918.
- BULLETIN NO. IS.

1. It should be we'll known to all
colored officers and men that no useful
purpose is served by such acts as will
cause the color question" to be raised.
1t is not a question of legal rights, but
question of policy, and any policy
that tends to bring about a conflict
OF races, with it's resulting animosi-
ties, is prejudicial to the military in
terests of the 92nd Division, and there
fore prejudicial to an important inter-
est of the colored race.
2. To avoid such conflicts the Di-
vision Commander has repeatedly
urged that all colored members of his
command, and especially the officers
and noncommissioned officers, should
refrain from going where their pres
ence will be resented. In spite of this
injunction, one of the Sergeants OF
the Medical Department has recently
precipitated the precise trouble that
should be avoided, and then called on
the Division Commander to take sides
in row that should never have oc-
Cured, and would not have occurred
had the Sergeant placed the general
good above his personal pleasure and
convenience. This Sergeant entered
theater, as he undoubtedly had a
legal right to do, and precipitated
trouble by making it possible to al
lege race discrimination in the seat he
was given. He is strictly within his
legal rights in this matter, and the
theater manager. is legally wrong.
Nevertheless, the Sergeant is guilty
of the greater wrong in doing anything,
no matter how legally correct, that
will provoke race animosity.
3. The Division Commander repeats
that the success of the Division, with
all that that success implies, is de-
pendent upon the good. will of the
public. That public is nine-tenths
white. White men made the Division,
and they can break it just as easily
if it becomes a trouble maker.
4. All concerned are again enjoined
to. place the general interest of the
Division above personal pride and
qualification. Avoid every situation
that can give rise to racial ill-will.
, Attend quietly and faithfully to your
duties, and don't 90 where your pres.
enCe is not desired.
S. This will be read to all organiza-
tons of the 92nd Division. BY com.
mand of Major General Ballou;
ALLEN J. GREER,
Lieutenant Colonel, General Staff,
! Chief of Staff,
OFFICIAL:
Edw. J. Turgeon,
Captain, Assisting Adjutant,
Acting Adjutant.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-05-18
SATURDAY, MAY IS, 1918.
THE DRIVE FOR LIBERTY.


The movement for the Liberty Con-
gress was inaugurated in Boston,
June 13 of last year at session held
in Faneuil Hall, the cradle of liberty,
at national conference called by the
New England League. A Liberty Con-
ference was started as a national COM
mittee to arrange for a National
Colored Liberty Congress. Rev. A. c.
Powell of New York is president; Prof.
A. w. Whalley of Boston is national
organizer; w. NJ Trotter, executive
secretary. A board of managers was
begun with Robert H. Harrison of
New York as chairman. This board
is to be augmented.
The purpose of the Congress is to
press the just claim of Colored Ameri.
cans to share in the world democracy
for which they are all subject to fight
under the flag and to take positive
measures to secure from the govern
ment guarantees Of the abolition of dis
reimbursement and of all caste dis
ordinations.
The proposal to hold meeting early
this year has been enthusiastically re-
ceiyed by the thinking men of the
country and the executive officers have
decided to hold the congress at Wash
ingtOn, D. c., June "a to 20.
This congress of Colored America to
present to the Government it's claim
for share in the world democracy is
a great opportunity for the Colored
people. Every community ought to
send big delegation. ..-.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-05-18

Eighty years ago it took special
combination of stage coach, railway
and steamboat lines to carry the mail
between New York and Washington,
a distance of ESQ miles, in, SO hours.
Now it is an everyday occurrence to
cover the route in three hours This
shows the rapid rate of progress that
has been made in the matter of rapid
And the limit is not
yet reached. Last Wednesday mail
was carried by aeroplane from New
York to Philadelphia in one and one
half hours.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-05-18
SHOULD ABANDON SEGREGATION.

DR.. Gulick, secretary of the commits
sion on relations with the orient of the
Federal Council of Churches said in
Boston recently: -.
America should abandon its humil-
iating and discriminating treatment of
Japanese and Chinese in this country
he said, "and adopt an oriental policy
fitted to hold those people permanently
to friendly relations with the demo
cratic nations of the west"
Dear Doctor G. would it not be we'll
for America to begin right here at
home and abandon its humiliating
and discriminatory treatment of it's
own colored citizens? How about it
dear doctor.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-05-18
NOT ONE, BUT TEN MILLION.

The Philadelphia Ledger is of the
opinion that this war will produce no
Robert Morris, no Stephen Girard, no
Jay Cooke-meaning by that that no
man will so impress himself upon the
financial operations of the government
during the war that he will stand out
like these figures of Revolutionary
and Civil War days. This may mean
some loss to the picturesqueness with
which historians may write the record
of our war for the freedom of the
world; but that will be more than
overbalanced by the gain to the ma
ton in the consciousness that the
united action of ten million citizens
the number who subscribed to the Sec
ond Liberty Loan-means more for
the national cause than the superhu-
man efforts of any one man.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-05-18
THE MOST LOYAL GROUP.

The colored people of Chicago had
a patriotic rally recently. There were
more than 5000 persons in attendance
at the main meeting and the overflow
meetings.
Strong resolutions were passed, in
which they referred to themselves as
the colored citizens of Chicago" and
declared that notwithstanding the fact
that they were not treated as other
American citizens and deprived of
many of their rights of citizenship,
they would not hesitate to give their
lives for their country. That's loyalty
and patriotism, greater than evinced
by any other American group, because
no other class is denied the rights of
citizenship.
The few Chicago papers who gave
meager accounts of the meeting re-.
ferred to the participants as negroes"
and did not print one line of the reso.
lutions. !.
The following are the resolutions
printed in one Chicago paper six days
after the meeting was held:
Mindful of the fact that from the
hour of the! formation of this nation,
in every moment of it's peril, our faith
ers have consecrated their lives to the
protection of our country, our flag and
our nation and have placed their hope
for the full enjoyment of all the rights
OF American citizens in the pledge of
the Declaration of Independence and
the Constitution of this their country:
And further mindful of the fact that
because the American people in the
midst of the terrible war devastating
Europe, true to their traditions, have
found it to be their duty to insist upon
the observance of the sacred rights of
humanity and neutrals on the part of
belligerents, this action finds itself to-
day on the brink of a war which will
engage the entire resources of this
country, material and patriotic;
Be it resolved, That we, the colored
citizens Of Chicago in mass meeting
assembled, do reaffirm our readiness
to discharge every duty incumbent on
an American citizen, notwithstanding
the fact that all rights and privileges
are not always accorded to US.
Be it further resolved, That we re-
consecrate our lives, our energies and
our resources to the protection of our
country, OUR flag and our government,
and that we hereby pledge to. the
president of the United States, Con.
gress, the governor of Illinois, our un-
qualified loyalty and support in each
and every exigency which may arise,
and we do call upon all loyal citizens
to cooperate with us.
Be it further resolved, That as citi-
zens of the State of Illinois we pledge
our unqualified support to sustain and
maintain the Eighth Regiment Infan-
try, National Guard.~and bespeak for
them the same high measure of devo-
ton and loyalty to the cause of the
American people which it has shown
in the past. .s~-... n, 5e--.-
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A SIGH OF RELIEF.

The last heard of Francis J. Heney,
who came to Washington to "bust the
trusts" the Supreme Court had re-
fused to grant him the right to paw
over all the papers of the meat CON-
panies. Heney has subsidized. It is re-
marked in Washington that Heney
came in like a lion and went out like
one of Bo-peep's Misunderstanding his
tail behind him. The country is too
full Of illuminate to have such a fire.
brind at large.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-05-18

gated places in the department of the
government are. doing the colored peo-
pie great wrong. Any man who
would accept such an appointment,
would necessarily be a jimcrow man
and he would do his country great
harm in bolstering up the color line.
Give colored men representation in
the government as Americans, not as
negroes"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-05-18
NEGRO" ADVISER NOT WANTED.

Pressure has been brought by me.
groes" so the wires tell us, to have a
negro adviser appointed to tell the
Department of Labor what ought to
be done along negro" labor lines. Sec
rotary Wilson has announced that a
negro" will not be selected as a
permanent representative but promi-
nent colored men will be consulted
Secretary Wilson has the right idea.
No patriotic colored American wishes
jimcrow representative. It would be
all right to appoint a colored man as
an assistant secretary of labor but to
appoint a<"negro" adviser and confne
him to jimcrow duties would be segre-
cation in it's worst form.
Negroes" who are asking for segre-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-05-18
THE SIN OF 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
guiIlotines decide our least disputes.
The few who dare must speak and
speak again to right the wrongs Of
many.-ElIa wheeler Wilcox.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-05-18

Through the efforts Of the local
Equal Rights League of Lynn, Mass,
the license for the showing of the in
famous film, The Birth of a Ma
tion, was revoked last week. An
other evidence that it pays to protest.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-05-18
WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES.

The new war savings certificates
will bear per cent interest, will run.
for term of five years and will be is-
sued in denominations as low 40 IS.
They are to be just what their names
indicate, Savings" certificates,
means OF investment for small savings.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-05-18

SINGLE COPY, three months. $3.50. 80
sen,ittances should DO made by Express
Money Order Post ONCE Money Order, Re-
gistered Letter or Bank Draft. Postage
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cent and two cent stamps taken.
Silver should never be sent through the mail.
1t is almost sure to wear hole through the
envelope and be lost; or else it may be sto-
len. Persons who send silver to us in letters
do SO at their own risk.
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In an inch, and about seven words in an
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than u. No discount allowed on less than
three months contract. Cash must accom-
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Further particulars on application.
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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
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-05-18
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ANY prejudice whatever will
DO tnsurmountabIe It those who
do not share In Il themselves
truckle to II and flatter It and
accept It a. a law Of nature" 4
John Stuart Mill.