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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-07-06
is THIS DEMOCRACY?
(From Chicago Daily News.)

(From Chicago Daily News.)
Editor Daily News:
We have in our household young
woman who is both cur friend and our
domestic assistant. Her ancestors
happened to live in Africa through
many centuries of southern sun and
her skin is black, but she is a more
interesting human being than at least
rs per cent of the people who would,
suppose, designate themselves our
Social equals" whatever that may
mean.
On recent evening she and we sat
down at table in a pharmacy and
gave an order for three ice creams.
Behind the counter two impudent peo-
pie to whom nature had accorded
white skins-if not an understanding
of Christianity-s their heads in
superior" refusal.
' OF course the believer in real de-
mocracy or the brotherhood of man
knows that the only inferior people
are those who have to adopt snobbery
in order to appear superior. And one
does not expect snobbery to be able to
interpret democracy.
The incident has, it seems to us,
a deep significance at this time when
we are warning for democracy. Some
people evidently see no irony in ask
ing the brothers of our colored friend
to give their lives for the democracy
which these pseudo democrats inter-
pref as synonymous with discrimina-
ton.
What delight such incidents must
give to German sympathizers!
MARGARET HATFIELD CHASE,
STUART CHASE.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-07-06
NO sECTloNALlSM?

A bill to provide pensions at mini
mum of $25 a month for veterans of
the Civil War passed the House of
Representatives by the impressive
vote Of 241 to 46.
Yet this is not the most impressive
thing in the incident. The forty-six
representatives who cast the negative
votes were all Democrats and all but
one of them came from the solid
South or it's immediate environs. To
them should be added two others, one
from Tennessee and one from Texas,
who answered present" when their
names were called.
The sole negative vote cast by a
Northerner was provided by Mr.. Cor.
don of Ohio, whose motives may best
be determined by his constituents,
who will have opportunity to pass
upon the question next November
The other forty-five members who CD.
posed the bill are probably beyond
reach of any political or other chas.
tisement. They hail from states
where the loyal soldiers of the Civil
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-07-06
General Pershing Denies Rumor in U.
S. That colored Men Get Most
Dangerous Posts.

Neutrality-suspicious. denial of re-
ports circulated in this country that
colored soldiers with the expeditionary
force were placed in more dangerous
positions than the white troops has
been cabled by General Pershing.
Pershins's cabIegram.
The generals cab1egram, which was
in reply to one of inquiry sent by Sec
rotary Baker, said:
"The stories, probably invented by
German agents, that colored soldiers
in France are always placed in most
dangerous positions and sacrificed to
save white soldiers, and that when
wounded they are left on the ground
to die, without medical attention, etc.,
are absolutely false.
'The following are the losses as re-
ported up to June 10 in the four COL
ored combat regiments now in France:
Three hundred and sixty-ninth in
fantry, died of wounds, 3; died of dis
ease, 6; severely wounded, q; 370th
infantry, died of wounds, none; died
of disease, 3; severely wounded, none;
371st infantry, died Of wounds, none;
died Of disease, 8; severely wounded,
none; SOD infantry, died of wounds,
none; died of disease, 3; severely
wounded, none.
Are Highly Efficient.
"A tour of inspection just completed
among the colored troops by officers of
the training section of these headquar-
tiers show the comparatively high de-
gree of training and efficiency among
these troops.
"Colored troops in trenches have
been particularly fortunate, as one
regiment was there month before
any losses were suffered. This was
almost unheard of heretofore on the
western front.
'The exploits Of two colored infan-
trymen some weeks ago in repelling
much larger German patrol, killing
and wounding several Germans and
winning Croix de Guerre by their gal
lantry has aroused a fine spirit of en-
ulation throughout the colored troops,
all of whom are looking forward to
more active service.
"Only regret expressed by colored
troops is that they are not given more
dangerous work to do.
II cannot commend too highly the
spirit shown among the colored COM
bat troops, who exhibit fine capacity
for quick training and eagerness for
the most dangerous work."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-07-06
ASS lN-ELEPHANT SKIN.

This is no time for partisan politics,
declare the administration propagan-
dists, but the Democratic national CON-
mittee is out with long statement
showing the development of the Amer
lean dye industry, the indirect purport
of which is that the industry was built
up without a protective tariff. AS 4
matter of fact, the war has served as
a greater protection to American in
dustry than tie highest tariff law ever
enacted. Republicans believe that dis:
cussion of the past, present and future
of American industry is timely, and the
more the Democratic national commit
tee has to say on the subject the bet
ter we shall like it. But we would also
like to have the pretense of non-par-
tisanship in administration circles
abandoned.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-07-06
DESPlCABLE |. w. w.

At the trial of Private Frank
Wormkee, alias Frank Woods, one of
112 I. w. WIS being tried in Chicago,
it developed that he was requested
to teach sabotage in the Army. Two
forms of this sabotage were placing
substance in food to cause illness
and the cutting up of clothing. An
other form Of sabotage which was
practised by the organization was to
put spikes in logs, concealed in the
lark, to wreck mill machinery, and
creating fires in the Montana lumber
district was still another. Any one
of these tricks is despicable enough
in time of peace. In time of war it
is rank treason and should be pun
ished as such.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-07-06
DEMOCRATS BROUGHT THEM IN

This department is too patriotic
to use these pencils" wrote Inspector
c. O. Myers to w. D. Fulton, Ohio's
Secretary of State, on receiving
consignment OF pencils marked
Made in GERMANY" It was a fine
joke on the Democratic officials of
Ohio, whose party stands for free
trade. They are t'too patriotic to
use pencils MADE in Germany" but
in 1913 their party was 80 unpatri-
otto as to make a bid for German
competition in lead pencils, against
those made in America" by reduc-
ing the tariff duty to ridiculous
rate. thereby enabling Germany to
stock our market so full that our i'm
porters are carrying those stocks four
years later. Do you Democrats and
free traders now see the point? II
the war lasts long enough perhaps you
will learn something in regard to
this matter. No amount of argu-
ment has ever been able to convince
you.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-07-06
IS TIE LINE DRAWN YET?

~ s's1 Live DoS\"N VEL.
The head of the American Red Cross
is out in a denial of part of the
charges of determinations by Red
Cross against colored soldiers. He
says that colored soldiers are served
exactly the same as white soldiers,
but there has never been much doubt
about that
. Miss Martha NJ. White of Jackson
vile, Fla, was the only colored dele
gate present at the meeting of the
Council Of National Defense at Wash
ington.
She made a talk at the meeting.
Bringing up the matter of a recogni-
ton Of colored nurses, she received
the positive assurance that the Red
Cross had made no provision for use
Of colored nurses either in this coun-
try or in France, and that none would
be made.
Will the Red, Cross head kindly
explain? 7:.:sz~
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-07-06
NATIONAL CoLORED LIBERTY CONGRESS
HOLDS the MOST WIDELY representative CONVENTION
WHICH HAS met IN THE LAST Is YEARS
AT WASHINGTON
WRONGS coLoRED AMERICANS PRESENTED TO PREsl-
DENT AND PLEA MADE TO CONGRESS AND AN APPEAL
THE CONSCIENCE OF NATION

Washington, D. c., July, 1918-The
most widely representative convention
of COlored Americans assembled in
the last rs years has for over two
days been holding a National Colored
Liberty Convention in the John Wes-
ley A. M. E. Zion Church, 18th and
CorcOran streets. One hundred and
fifteen delegates, with fees paid, from
80 different states are really here,
from Massachusetts to Alabama, New
York to Oklahoma H. H. Harrison of
New York City was elected chairman,
w. H. Urine, Oklahoma; w. E. Hester,
Tennessee; A. w. Whaley, Massachu-
sets; vice-chairman, J. w. Bell, Ken
lucky; secretary, Mrs. M. Carruth
Simpson assistant, Rev. w. c. Brown,
treasurer. ~ -~s~
Three mammoth mass meetings
have been held Monday, Tuesday and
tonight Editor Trotter of the Guar
dian is chairman of the Committee to
draft the race petition to Congress
and he and his committee are work
ing with determination to get it re-
ceived by Congress. The speech of
Maurice w. Spencer, chairman of the
local committee, on Monday night
was considered a masterpiece, as was
that of DR.. S. w. Harrison of Fort
Smith, Ark. The address of Chair
man H. H. Harrison and of VIM. Nun.
roe Trotter were applauded to the
echo. A feature of Tuesday nights
meeting was the address of Rev. M.
F. Sydes of r. I. and the splendid
singing of Miss Virginia Williams.
who studied in Germany.
Delegation at White House.
Monday morning delegation from
the Liberty Congress called at the
White House to see whether the Presi'
dent cared to discuss the request or
to answer. M. w. Spencer was
spokesman. The other members were
Prof. A. w. Whaley, J. w. Bell, /. B
Allen and w. E. Hester. Mr.. Tumulty
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-07-06
AMERIcANs-ThAT's AL.

For many years It has been the
custom to treat colored people %
aliens. although they are more than
ninsty.nins per cent of American
birth: and there 10 q growing ten
dsncy among the colored people to
regard themselves as aliens. This II
being encouraged by . class Of lead
ers who call themselves ''Negroes"
and yell about NEGRO Kultur'' A.
though they have not more than half
and often less than one-eiEhth OF
Negro blood. Such men ought to
stop the NEGRO" propaganda and be
Americans and demand Justice be-
cause they are Americans and not by
the false assertion that they arc
Negroes"
They should not have any rights %
Negroes" but every right Of IN
American citisen should be and win
be accorded them, II they tight for
their rights 90 American citizens by
right Of birth.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-07-06
INSULTS coLoRED WORLD.
Boston Transcript Commits Treason
in Preferring Ruin Of France
Rather Than Mixture of Blood
Of CoIored Races Fighting
for liar
Boston Transcript

Boston Transcript
However, Tommy Atkins may to
considerable extent be inclined to set.
tie in France. So, very likely, would
be the whole body of the Portuguese
troops who are fighting there, and the
Italians. Thousands af the Chinese
laborers may stay, and so may the
black soldiers from Senegambia and
other African French colonies. IN
fortunately the Incorporation of most
Of these elements into the future
French population would represent
mongrelization and degeneration.
France would do better, in the long
run, to send them home, for the i'm
mediate economic or Industrial ad-
vantage of their immigration would
be more than counterbalanced by the
disadvantage of the mixture. France
amalgamates all racial elements: that
enter her gates. Her best hope for
her Topographic future rests on such
Strengthening of her economic, So
cial and moral bases as would result
in a normal increase of the native
population, and a steady immigration
of enterprising young people from
Northern Europe, or of sturdy Span
ish or Ligurian peasants. IF the blood
OF the French nation should be
Afrieanized or Asiaticized as the re.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-07-06
BILLY THE BUNco BOY.

When on May 10 Billy Sunday clos
ed a ten weeks campaign for souls
in the big tabernacle in Chicago, the
final record was: Number Of trail
hitters, 49,165; expenses of the cam
paign, $135,00O; number of co-operat-
ing churches, 424. The results of the
campaign in additions to Chicago
churches, it is estimated by the vari-
GUS pastors, will not exceed 1000. One
of the pastors said that nine-tenths
were already church members and the
other tenth yielded no results. Bill
cannot succeed because he misrepre-
sents Christ by drawing the color line
in places where he ought to take a
stand for right. AS bunco boy Billy
is a. bOuncer.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-07-06

have an offensive body Odor which
made their treatment with white pa
tients inadvisable. The N. A. A. c. P.
has protested to Governor Philip of
Wisconsin and directed the governors
attention to the fact that colored peo-
pie are citizens and taxpayers of Wis
consin and are equally entitled to the
benefits of public institutions provided
by public funds. The Association in
sists that DIR. Williams objections are
puerile and absolutely without war
rant. The personal offensiveness such
as alleged by DR.. Williams is purely
Individual matter and not one of race.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-07-06
ON THE RIGHTS OF MAN.

Influential colored men in various
parts of the country have signed a
strong memorial to the President,
Cabinet, Congress and the Governors
of the states. We quote a portion Of
lit.
We are one group of American
people than whom there is none more
loyal, which is marked out for dis
elimination, humiliation and abuse.
In the. great patriotic and humani-
tartan movements, in public carriers,
in Federal service the treatment &C.
corded us is humiliating, dehumaniz-
ing and reprehensible in the extreme.
This persistent and unreasonable
practice is but a thrust at the colored
mans self respect, the object being
not merely to separate races, but to
impress us with the idea of supposed
natural inferiority. Such demoraliz-
ing discrimination is not only a viola
ton of fundamental rights OF citizens
of the United States, but the persis-
tent segregation of any element of
our country's population into a sepa-
rate and distinct group on the sole
basis of color is creating a condition
under which this nation can not long
endure.
When we reflect upon their bru-
talities and indignities, we remember
they are due to the fact that in all al
most every Southern state we have
Systematically by law or chicanery
been deprived of the right that very
manhood suffrage which genuine
democracy would guarantee to every
citizen in the Republic. The propa:
ganda of fllching from colored Ameri-
cans the ballot Is but a supreme ef-
fort to reenslave us and to force our
assent thereto. To this policy the
colored man does not, can not and
will not agree. OF it our intolerance
Is cumulative. Against it, we shall
exert our righteous efforts until not
only every eligible colored man, but
every eligible colored woman shall be
welding the ballot proudly in defense
of our homes.
We are appealing to you neither as
vassals or interiors. Bull Run and
Appomattox fixed our status in this
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-07-06
dore Perry's colored marines were

dore Perry's colored marines were
first in the fight.
In the Shareholders Rebellion the
colored troops were not first because
they were not allowed to enlist, but
when they did get in and 100000
were finally enlisted, they got to the
front in a hurry.
At San Juan hill in Cuba in 1898
colored troops were at the forefront
and at Carrizal In Mexico in 1915 they
were among the first to die for their
country.
In every American war, the "col-
ored troops have fought nobly."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-07-06
SHOULD BE NO COLOR CASTE.

The New York World, one of the
greatest daily newspapers in the conn
try, says in a recent issue:
If there is any ground for the com.
PANT OF Colored trained nurses that
tney are unjustly Disseminated
against by the Red Cross, 1t should
oe removed at once. This is a black
mans fight as we'll as a white mans
and the Red Cross should be the first
OF all bodies to recognize the fact"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-07-06
Hates the Term "Nearo,"

I 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 e.
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
United States Attorney General VIM.
H. Lewis, Boston, Mass.
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SOUTH LYNcHEs THEM.

Henry Johnson, a colored soldier, of
Albany, New York, has been cited and
decorated by the French military au-
thorities for: what the French general
Of division terms "a magnificent ex-
ample Of courage and energy" With
him was Needham Roberts, another
colored man. Both men fought
brayely, says Pershing in his official
report Of the exploit.
On the same day that the cables
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-07-06
coLoRED TROOPS ALWAYS FIRST

coLoRED TROOPS ALWAYS FIRST
Governor Whitman of New York
was not to blame because he aided
in the dedication of jimcrow branch
of that travesty on Christianity, the
Y. M. c. Abe was invited by the
segregationists who are engaged in
the nefarious work of belittling Christ.
The governor, however, called at
tention to the fact that the New York
colored regiment was the first to
carry. the stars and stripes to the
firing line in France.
That is not strange. 1t was a col
ored mana mulatto, Crispus Attacks,
whose blood was first spilled in the
Revolutionary war. In the battle of
Lake Erie in the war of 1872, Commo-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-07-06

nation. We are free men. We are
sovereign American citizens - free
men who purchased our freedom with
our own blood on every battle field
from Bunker Hill to Carrizal, full
rights and immunities such as are
freely granted to others but syste-
matically refused to us.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-07-06

fact that there is not enough food
stuffs to supply our needs without the
practice of rigid economy by every
one, especially the housewives. The
forecast of available supply indicates
grave danger of serious shortage, I'M
less conservation is vigorously and
nationally practiced. The slogan is:
I'm the Name of Liberty-SAVE
FOOD.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-07-06

SAID an answer would be sent to the
Convention. The reply was received
on Tuesday, but was marked conf
Dental.
Pleas Made to Congress.
Congress is requested to make
lynching a crime against the Federal
government, and as such subject to
the jurisdiction of the Federal courts,
in a petition unanimously passed by
the National Colored Liberty Con-
gress, which has just closed it's ses.
sions here. --.--.-.s: 49, ~. ..- -.-..
This and five other requests for the
abolition of specific race discrimina.
lions are advocated by the petitioners
as win-the-war measure. The petit.
ton has been placed in the hands OF
Senator Penrose, and is to be pre-
sented to the Senate this week.
The colored congress protests that
colored citizens are Disseminated
against in public and Federal build
ings in Federal territory, in public
carriers operated by the government
in certain States, in the army and
navy schools, in the right of suffrage
In certain States and in the civil serv
ice.
The petitioners ask, in view of the
military service rendered by their race
during the present war, that our owl
republic may not be a part of thu
world not safe for democracy" The,
also protest the segregation of races
in the military camps
The congress was called for the pur
pose of laying the cause of the coloret
citizens before the United States Con
gress, and was attended by lis dele
gates from 80 states. H. H. Harrison
of New York, was chairman of tn
congress. William M. Trotter, of Bos
ton, was elected chairman of the ma
tional executive committee for tn
coming year. The committee viii
wage an active campaign to secur'
the desired legislation.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-07-06

War are held in execration; and the
only method of dealing effectively
with them is by placing their party
IN the minority in Congress. They
constitute majority of their party
and when the Democrats are in power
they dominate their party colleagues:
and It is only on rare occasions that
they can be overridden. This hap
pened to be one Of those occasions.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-07-06
the SIN OF SILENCE

To Sin by silence when we should
protest makes towards cut Of mon
inc human race has climbed on pro-
test. Had no voice been raised AGAINST
'njustiee, Ignorance and lust, tho in
qu'sit'on yet would servs tho law. and
eu''iot'"ss decide our least disputes.
The few who dare INSET ....k ..x
spsak again TO right he vye.ae af
many.-klia vhse.or yv,se.x.
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still found it profitable to sell in our
prices required to compensate our
farmers for their efforts
Now that Taft and Roosevelt have
had half hour of intimate converse
ton, who can say that some day we
may not see President Wilson and
Senator Chamberlain talking together
once more?
There is little doubt that if the hat
room boys in the city hotels were sent
out on the farms to shear sheep, they
would get all the wool the sheep
would give up. The suggestion of the
New York Sun is a good one.