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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-15
CHRISTIANITY HAS NOT SAVED the NATION
CALL FOR C0L0RED LIBERTY CONGRESS RECTES GR|EV0lH
WRONGS OF C0L0RED PATR|OTS---T0 MEET
AT WASHINGTON 1s1s JOHN WESLEY A. NJ E.
CHURCH-JUNE SUNDAY
coLoRE0 CHURCHES OF NATIONAL CAPITAL
All Coored
and Societies Urgently to Send Delegates

To- the Colored the By
vote of the National Coored Liberty
senlbled 18, owit:
THE Aim Object this National
the just the Coored citizens
fight under the flag of the Republic
cure from the Of the abolition
We CALL
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organizations The
called consider ourselves and
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fear because of the evils which stalk
God be
to the and njustices
an civilization
cratic babarsm the midst of
for independence united fought the
front ranks when disaster cuded
captured: We're brave
action patient under heavy
the bride
ana OF the patriot and soldier That
and today
Representing do than
Congress at this time to
from the Of Country
postery lighting and
dying in strange land to
protection for child
beyond the With this
and the last man to win the war for worwde 10 inc a9 dollar
the world fit place for all people live Wesley
CLAYTON Powen Pres ian 81 W H. ~, June 2s 1913
Marion Sydes
e. afn P M T. OF T Boa1d Mrs. s. Allen Mass Cor &c.,
Executive Headquarters "a Cornhl Boston,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-15
coLoRED TROOPS ALWAYS FIRST

Governor Whitman of New York
was not to blame because he aided
III the dedication of jimcrow branch
OF that travesty on Christianity, the
\. M. c. Abe was invited by the
segregationists who are engaged in
the nefarious work of belittling Christ.
The governor, however, called at
tentlon 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. It 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-
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 10000
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 thew
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??, 1918-06-15
FOR A SHARE IN THE new WORLD DEMOCRACY
NATIONAL ORGANIZER APPEALS SEND
DELEGATES LIBERTY CONGRESS WASHINGTON, D.. C.,
JUNE 81 TO 20,
Our Paramount Duty.


and political disabilities
realizing that
civilized
through cabinet
liberty
hundreds
compelled by law risk disease and death soldiers
ghng
England 49,
the issue of world democracy
formed the National Cooed Liberty
Whaley as Grand Organizer.
While President Wilson fighting
world Democracy
here at home and the
claim rights
assemble
will
- ~ NN "O'0''-
time as this hence
Coored
POLITICAL
should finance and send delegate
organizations town or city ELECTION
OF delegates at of Coored
are
The Grand Organizer
Rev. M F. syde H. sec Mrs Simpson, Asst; Rev D. s.
Klugh Conn, Treas;
Chairman Exec Board Rev Waters, Crockett NJ j.
ord Vice; Miss Bessie Smith, Va, Asst ~
Boston Mass where the clerical will be
all speaking
Prof Whaey
raising funds for the Congress- making
'O AOO0' WV
- ~ ~ 01e"DANo d great
Headquarters "a conh Monroe rroe Exacu
tive Secretary 1' OAee1'
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-15

Powell OF New York is president; Prof.
A. w. Whalley of Boston is national
organizer; w. M. 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 q 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.
ceived by the thinking men of the
country and the executive officers have
decided to hold the congress at Wash
ington, D. c., June 81 to 20. r
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 a big delegation.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-15
DEMOCRATS BROUGHT THEM IN


This department. is too patriotic
to use these pencils" wrote Inspector
q. o. Myers to w. D. Fulton, Ohio's
Secretary of State, on receiving a
consignment of pencils marked
made in Germany" 1t was a fine
joke on the Democratic officials of
Ohio, whose party stands for free
trade. They are "too patriotic" to
use pencils made in Germany" but
in 1913 their party was so unpatri-
otto as to make bid for German
competition in lead pencils, against
those MADE in America" by reduc-
ing the tariff duty to a 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? If
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??, 1918-06-15
THE ONE EXCEPTION.

Mr.. McAdoos generosity to the rail
road employees is wide and bounti.
full and acknowledgement one ex-
ception. While he provides equality
of pay for white and colored firemen,
trainmen and switchmen, he discrimi.
mates in that he makes the increase
to the white beneficiaries retroactive
to January first of this year and does
not permit the colored benefciaries to
draw any increased back pay They
will begin to "get theirs" from June
first. This seems to us petty dis
elimination which we would hardly
have looked for even from a South
ern-born director general of railroads
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-15
is THE LINE DRAWN YET?

The head of the American Red Cross
is out in a denial of a 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 M. 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?
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-15
CITIZENS OF u. S. A.

Congressman Benjamin L. Fairchild
of New York believes that only citi-
zens of the United States should be
permitted the right to vote. He has
introduced a resolution proposing an
amendment to the Constitution en-
bodying that limitation. The sugges-
ton has met with favor from other
Representatives and another similar
amendment has been pending in the
House for some days. 1t refers, how
ever, only to electors for Members of
the House of Representatives. Mr..
Fairchilds proposition goes further
than that and would apply to all elec-
lions for Federal officers, such as
President, Vice President, Senators
and Members of the House. The Con-
gress is given power in Mr.. Fair
child's resolution to enforce the pro-
visions of the new paragraph in the
Constitution.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-15
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
it.
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 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 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 filching from colored Ameri-
cans the ballot is but supreme eff
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
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 U.S.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-15
DOGS AND DEMOCRATS DESTROY

The Raleigh, North Carolina, News
and Observer, says that 10000 sheep
could be kept in Yancey county in
that state "but for 5000 worthless
dogs" Quite likely true. Just now
there is world shortage of both meat
and wool and sheep raising is profit
able wherever pasturage is plentiful
and dogs are scarce. But it was not
always so in this country. For many
years the chief menace to the sheep
industry was the possibility of a
Democratic national administration
that would put wool on the free list
and destroy the home market for the
home product. That is a matter of
history, and history will repeat itself,
though the present shortage of sheep
may delay the discouraging expert
ences of the past. The day of cheap
land in America has gone, and there
is no probability that American labor
will ever be willing to accept the
wages of Americas competitors. That
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-15
MINNESOTA is ALL RIGHT.

The Minnesota Recruiting District
is somewhat elated over the fact that
in April, LOB recruits were secured
in the state, which is believed to be
the highest record in the country.
When the final count was made for
May, however, it was found that 1,24O
recruits had entered the service. A
rush of men during the last few days
of the month netted ITS May 81, which
was the banner day for the month
The rush was largely of men Fl years
of age, who would have been COM
PEELED to register June S. This as
Major John D. Yost, Recruiting Officer
for the Minnesota District says:
'Shows conclusively that Minnesota is
back of the boys at the front, and can
be counted on for whole-hearted sup
port at all times"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-15

late you on a recent editorial discour-
aging the use of the word Negro"
There is no greater delight enjoyed by
the white people of the United States
today than the spreading use of this
unfortunate term. Why? They real
ize that it is the most potential fac
tor at work at the present to bring
about both a physical and mental
segregation of the people of color. Its
use is on the increase only because
our speakers and writer's, especially
Do Bots and Washington feel that it's
repetition ad nauseam, is necessary to
Iretain the good will of the masses. The
i term Negro" is not only absurdly in
accurate as applied to millions of col
ored people, but it is also alarmingly
injurious, for the following reasons:
a. 1t has never stood historically or
in the present, anywhere in the world,
for anything noble or uplifting. Most
high-grade Africans repudiate it,
b. In Africa and out of Africa it was
never applied to the higher types, but
to Guineas, Sudanese and Senegam-
bians only.
grofy," and it's compounds, Negro
ACcu NSSlO-uy, OVERWHELMINGLY, are dill
clearly in their associations, degrad-
ing.
d. It's feminine form, "Negress," is
justly and correctly used to define
your wife and daughter and Sweet
heart, if you favor the use of the mas
culine term.
e. 1t has been the word used by the
Southern whites for two centuries.
when formally speaking or writing
about an unworthy or criminal man
or woman of the race. For when he
speaks of the worthy he invariably
says "colored"
f. It is not differentiated in the mind
and thought of the whites from their
favorite and generally used (among
themselves) terms, NEGRO" and mig
ger"
g. AS stated by an eminent Japanese
diplomat it has an unquestioned in
fluence in cutting us off from the
thought, sympathy and cooperation
of the millions of colored Africans.
Asiatics and Islanders of the Yonder
world.
Very truly yours,
OWEN M. WALLER, MD.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-15
LEST WE FORGET.

ColOred Americans are the only
race-group in any country fighting Ger
many who are now prescribed. They
are the only race-group which has
not made united and formal demand
for full rights. ASK and it shall be
given unto you," saith the Scriptures.
On to Washington, Colored Ameri-
cans, while our boys are dying in
Flanders and our women are being
lynched in the u. S. A.
The colored Race Congress meets
in Washington June Fl to q. Per
manent organization June "a.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-15
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
bravely," says Pershing in his official
report of the exploit
On the same day that the cables
from France brought the news OF
Johnson's and Roberts heroism, the
wires from Valdosta, Georgia, brought
the story of the lynching of a colored
woman, Mary Turner by name, be-
cause she had attempted to resist the
lynching of her husband
This coincidence has moved the
New York World to inquire: with
tens of thousands of American colored
men fighting for civilization in France
under the American flag, how much
longer are the American people to
tolerate lynching of colored men and
women?
The answer is easy. Lynchings OF
colored people will be tolerated in the
South-where they occur almost ex.
clusively-so long as the political
party to which the New York World
adheres is permitted to deprive col.
ored citizens of their right to vote
and thus, through the exercise of their
civil rights, to protect their rights to
property and to life
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-15
WILSON FOR WOMEN VOTING.

President Wilson has expressed the
hope that the senate would pass the
woman suffrage amendment at the
present session of congress. His at.
t1tude was made known in a reply to
memorial from the French Union
for Woman Suffrage which asked him
to proclaim the principle of woman
suffrage as one of the fundamental
rights of the future.
1T is my earnest hope" the presi-
dent said, that the senate of the
United States will give an unmistak-
able answer to this question by pass
ing the suffrage amendment to the
federal constitution before the end of
the session"
Now that the women have won the
president to support suffrage there
is every reason to hope that Mr.. Viii.
son may aid the colored people in
their fight for the removal of color
determinations in the, u. S. A.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-15
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 24th, 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
e4s just claim of the Colored Ameri-
can 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 disfranchisement and of all caste
determinations, civil and POLITICAL"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-15

OF free wool shall continue, it is only
being true, If the Democratic policy
a question OF time when we shall i'm
port wool to the destruction of our
own industry. Two things are neces-
sary to insure the permanent estab-
lishment of sheep raising as an ad-
Junct of farming in nearly every Sec
ton OF the United States-kill off the
worthless dogs and re-enact the pro-
tective tariff on wool.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-15

like these figures of Revolutionary
and Civil War days. This may mean
some loss to the picturesqueness with
which historians may write the record
or 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??, 1918-06-15

That was good advice Cardinal Glib.
bons gave to 5000 Catholic soldiers
at Camp Meade, Md Among other
things he said:
First, last, and always, be as a
band of brothers. No matter what
state or nation you come from, nc
matter what race or religion, be as
a band of brothers to defend your
country against her enemies.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-15

There are a few honest and sincere
colored men who use the term negro"
in describing themselves, but the ma
jority 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??, 1918-06-15
SHOULD BE NO COLOR CASTE

SHOULD BE NO COLOR CASTE.
The New York World, one of the
greatest daily newspapers in the coun
try, says in a recent issue:
IF there is any ground for the com
plant of Colored trained nurses that
they are unjustly Disseminated
against by the Red Cross, it should
be removed at once. This is a black
mans fight as we'll as a white man.
and the Red Cross should be the first
of all bodies to recognize the fact"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-15

The Boston Guardian asks: Is Spin-
garn playing double? Well, it GER
tainly looks that way from this neck
O the woods. He is Jew but has
sought for himself all rights and priv
ileges Of American citizenship, while
at the same time proposing and advis-
ing segregation and separation and
segregation for colored Americans. Is
there one who dares to deny it?
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-15
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
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-15

with them is by placing their party
in the minority in Congress. They
constitute a 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??, 1918-06-15

Germany has lodged complaint in
Washington and asked for safeguards
against such excuses as led to the
lynching of Robert P. Praeger at Col
linsville, ILL.,, on April 4. If the brutal
Huns are shocked at mob violence
should not the colored people of the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-15

The Republican leaders had a con-
ference at Washington recently and
it is now understood that the Republi-
can campaign is to be no sham-battle
but finish fight Republican leaders
will insist on the nomination of men
whose loyalty will stand the acid test.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-15
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-15
10000 COLORED CALLED,

Orders for the mobilization of 10000
colored draft registrants qualified for
general military service to entrain
from June 20 to Is were sent out
June s, by Provost Marshall General
Crowder. The registrants will come
from twenty states.