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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-11-16
NOT ON YOUR LIFE!

One of the latest popular songs in
the Democratic South, has the title:
I'm 1860 You'll Find Dixie Looking
Just the Same" and this is part of the
chorus:
You'll find the colored aunties,
In their shanties,
Singing sweet and low;
Oh! the time may come
And the time may go,
But nothing changes,
In the land of Old Black Joe."
But things do change even in the
'land Of Old Black Joe." In 1860,
millions were in what then seemed
to be a hopeless bondage, but 1868
found them free.
Then came the infamous BLACK
Code" WHICH legally sought to re-en-
act slavery, but these unjust laws
passed away and the colored man was
marching on to Americanism. His
progress was so rapid that the South
became alarmed and instituted the
scheme of elimination by lynching.
Then came the subtitle plan of segre.
cation championed by Henry w.
Grady. When Grady died, yellow
man who called himself black, took
up the Grady plan and passed it on
to Caucausian America as something
original. He was willing to have mil
lions of Americans treated as pariahs
if he could gain the title of great
negro"
The vicious Grady plan has been
very generally adopted and today H.
100000 patriotic Americans are de-
MED civil rights which the other co.
100000 of Americans enjoy, largely
as the result Of the Separation"
espoused by a few so-called great
negroes" and a lot of little nckspittle
leaders. ~"--
The present war will revolutionize
the world. America will give free
dom to Europe and when the colored
troops return after their triumphal
entry into Berlin, things will begin
to change in this country. .--
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-11-16
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FOR JUSTICE WITHIN.

In recent address at Washington
Bishop Charles Gore OF Oxford, Eng
land, said: - = -@rs
1T is necessary that we crush Ger
many, but it is also necessary that
the. allies convince the workers that
they are fighting not only for the
overthrow OF their foes from without
but are as we'll fighting for liberty
and justice to all classes, creeds, and
colors within. If with the overthrow
OF Germany this is not accomplished
the war will only have been partially
won. This is the thought I am try
ing to get into the minds of all the
people with whom I come in contact.
I'VE must have it thoroughly I'M
derstood that militarism is but a nee
sity of the moment and in no sense a
permanent institution. Democracy
under a military system is an impos-
sibility."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-11-16
CONTEMPTIBLE DOINGS.

The segregation policy of the
Democratic party is one of the most
contemplate petty tyrannies and ex-
lists in no other country in the world.
Its purpose is to humiliate and put
in an inferior position the colored
people of the country.
The Washington policy is compar-
able with the mob murders of the
South for it is really a lynching of the
finer feelings of humanity. The sep
aration in the lavatories of the vari-
GUS departments and in the Senate
galleries is an outrageous thing and
absolutely uncalled for.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-11-16

tor at work at tho present to bring
| about both 4 physical and mental
segregation of tho people OF color. Its
use IL on the increase only because
our speakers and writer's, especially
Do Bots and Washington feel that its
repetition, ad nauseam, Is necessary to
retain the good will Of the masses. The
term Negro" is not only absurdly in.
accurate a. applied to millions OF col
ored people. bat it Il also alarmingly
Injurious, for the following reasons:
| a. It has never stood HISTORICALLY or
In the present, anywhere in the world,
for anything noble or uplifting. Most
high-grAde Africans repudiAte 1t.
b. In Africa and out OF Africa it was
never applied to tho higher types, but
to Guineas, sudaness and seoesam-
bans only.
c. 1ts derivatives, "Nsgroism," "Ns-
groty," and it, compounds. Negro
head, Nsgro-hy, NeEro-mouksy, are al
clearly in their associations, desrad-
ing.
d. Its feminine form, "Negreas," Is
justly and correctly used to define
your wife and daughter and sweet
heart, II you favor tho use Of the mas
culine torn.
.. 1t has been the word xssd BY the
Southern whites for two centuries.
when formally speaking or writing
about an unworthy or criminal man
or woman Of the race. For whom he
speaks of tho worthy he Invariably
says "colored."
t. It IL not differentiated In the mind
-, and thought of the whites from their
fAvorite and generally used (among
themselves) terms, Negro" and Mig
xor."
&. Al stated by an eminent Japanese
diplomat it has an unquostioned In
duence in cutting us OF from the
thought. sympathy and cooperation
of the millions OF colored Africans.
Asiatios and Islanders Of tho Yondor
world.
Worry truly yours.
OWEN II. WALLER, N. D.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-11-16
GIRLS WORK WONDERS o
They Are Giving the Huts in
France the Touch of Home.
Being There Means Much.

1t was In hut at one of the train.
Ing schools In France. He was nom
commissioned officer. He had been in
Franco for eight months, and now was
back from the front as an instructor.
He hadn't seen a girl of his own kind,
q girl like his sisters, for weeks.
And there she stood behind the can.
teen counter in this big, roomy, COM
Portable hut.
He bought a bar of chocolate. Then
he drifted over to the group around
the piano. Presently he went back to
the canteen for a package of c1garets.
He strolled to the reading table and
leafed over magazine. Again he re-
turned-this time for q cake of soap
and some tooth-paste.
For moment the rush at the can
teen was over. He loitered at the
counter and looked at the girl. She
smiled. So did he. Then he blurted
out what he had been trying to say for
20 minutes:
Gee! But it's nice to see girl
like you!"
Ihere are girls like that all over
France-in camps, in towns, in the
big cities-even at the front itself.
They are serving the canteens, run
ming restaurants, handing out hot choc-
olate or coffee, pies and doughnuts.
They are giving the huts look OF
home-putting bright curtains at the
windows, posters on the walls, making
1ower-gardens at the doors. They are
mending for the soldiers.
But, most Of all, they are Just being
there! They talk about the things
that sound like home. Perhaps they
know the very towns and streets and
girls that these boys know. They bind
together home and France! They are
the girls beside the men behind the
guns!
Without the organizations whose
uniforms they wear, these girls could
accomplish nothing. However eager to
help, they could not even travel as
Individuals
But with the backing Of these estab-
lished, recognized and regulated bod
les, they can work wonders.
When you think Of war as a brutal
izing force, think of American woman
hood working with the soldiers in this
war-then give to support the organ
izations which make this possible.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-11-16
OUR cOLORED TROOPS.
(From Popular Mechanics, Chicago

| (F'rom Popular Mechanics, Chicago.)
Had it occurred to you, the univer-
sal loyalty of our colored citizens?
Have you ever met a colored man in
this country who was a prO-German?
Do you even know anyone who thinks
he has actually seen one? I have
personally made this inquiry in the
South, in New England, on the Pacific
coast, and here at home in the central
West, and have arrived at the firm
conviction There amt no such ami
ma" as a pro-German American COL
ored man.
When the big war started and Bern
stoff let loose his long and carefully
prepared plans of arson, bombs,
strikes, and general confusion in this
country, one of the most dastardly
schemes on which his boss depended,
/ was an uprising of the nine million
colored people in the South. The ef-
fort was we'll organized, beautifully
supplied with money, was operated
with great secrecy, and at first was
carried on outside the larger southern
cities. All sorts of impossible rewards
we're promised; the blacks were to
own and rule the South; every sort
Of poison lie was used to tempt the
colored people into a revolt against
the whites. It was = expected and
hoped this revolution would keep this
country busy for the duration of the
war. OF all this people in the North
! heard very little.
To the everlasting credit of the col
ored people they refused to be led into
the trap, and like the proposed revolu-
ton ;. in India and Egypt and some
other countries, the plot miserably
failed.
At last We entered the war. what
then of the colored man? When VOL
untary enlistment was offered, he re-
sponded promptly and in large num-
bers. During the Civil War. it was
no infrequent part of a northern gen.
erals report of battle that "the col
ored troops fought bravely." The re-
ports which are reaching us of the
colored troops in France include more
than fought bravely"-they tight
magnif1cently.
Yes, the colored troops are still
fighting bravely."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-11-16
THE GERALDINE L. TROTTER Me.
MORTAL FUND.

MORTAL FUND.
A movement is on foot In Boston to
raise fund of $4,000 as a memorial
to f1ttingly commemorate the great ca
reer of Mrs. Geraldine L. Trotter and
at the same time to aid The Guardian.
Mrs. Trotter died that The Guardian
might live.
THE APPEAL has subscribed $500
to the fund and a check for that
amount has been mailed, and we trust
that every person who appreciates
Mrs. Trotter's sacrifice and the serv-
ice: Of that fearless. ,unafraid and I'M.
compromising journal, The Boston
Guardian, will assist in raising the
money, which will be handled by a
committee of one hundred prominent
Boston citizens. s.--
The colored people Of the United
States owe a debt to the Trotters,
which all, of the gold Of the earth
would not wipe. out. They were the
leaders in the fight for, Justice. Sur
rounded on every side by bringing
sycophants who were willing to sell
the rights Of the people for mess
Of pottage, they stood almost alone
and refused to surrender one tot or
title Of what they knew to be their
rights as Americans. -,
There ought to be no trouble to
raise $4,000. At least $4,000 should
be raised. Any amount will be re-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-11-16
wholly to the colored people.

"AOuy W LA0 CO1OISu pSOQ10.
Many colored clerks and employees
have lost their places since 1913 and
according to the Washington papers
and persons who live in the city and
are well informed, scores of colored
persons who have passed the required
examinations and have been certified
by the Civil Service Commission, have
been refused appointments.
A colored judge of the municipal
court Of the District of Columbia has
been allowed to retain his Office,
which is a. local one.
A few new places have been given
out, but nothing to compare with the
places lost and in the majority of
cases are strictly along segregated
That is what the Democrats have
done.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-11-16
And things will change in Dixie,

11Au tAlu8s Will cnange IN Dixie!
Forty years from now, the great
mass and mess OF cringing jimcrow
leaders will be dead and gone to their
pun1shment-and the fires of hell are
what they deserve. In their places
will arise a new leadership of strong
men, untainted by slavery, unpurchas-
able and unafraid. They will demand
absolute civil equality with all other
Americans and they will have the
backbone, the money and the political
power to enforce their demands.
Segregation in all it's forms, dis
eliminating laws, political Injustice
and social degradation will vanish
even in the South.
No! In 1860 you'll NOT, find Dixie
looking just the same"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-11-16
Hates the Term "Neqro."

II hate the term Negro because it
is being used in terms of hatred. 1t
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 TN 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.
II. Lewis, Boston, Mass.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-11-16
THE sM or ssLEHeE

To sin by silence when We should
protest masses towards cut Of naaa-
The human race has climbed On pro-
test. Had 40 veiee been raiaed aoasne+
ia3sstiee, isaerasee end lust, tho in
qaisttses yet wosid serve the law, and
gu1faotines decide oar least disputes,
The few who dare must speak and
speak again TO right tho wrongs Of
msuy.-EHa Whoeto9 Wbeox.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-11-16
AND THE WAR is OVER!

Now that fighting has ceased and
war is practically at an end, the report
comes that R. w. Tyler, colored war
correspondent has arrived at the
front. And again, Col. Charles Young
has been assigned to Camp Grant, near
Rockford, Ill, and is due there in a
few days. to- take command of a
"colored development battalion It
seems that the gentlemen of the mini
mum" got what they asked for. =,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-11-16
PLAN FOR ORGANIZING coLoRED SEEK WORLD
DEMOCRACY

ntercede
Americans In the World Peace Adjustment
Rights
dispensaon of
and and Colo @ being M the victims
rights the right to life itself historic
citizens
the country which is the moral leader and military savior Allied
this body have the for the enjoyment
shall cali Ma
ona Equal Rights
after January 1st 1913 elect petitioners
ing basis
delegate the
the So Every LOCAL. labor ciyic e
secretary the
become bee me ocal affiliated member delegates
s s vs To 1 r o the @
The executive this
National Executive Committee shall issue the call and
registration for delegates shall be one dollar
THIS assembly shall elect the petitioners
Americans WV '~ III O' ue"0cfaeS 0r o0'0feo
Equal Rights Leagues and
secy Troter cornl Boston Mass ~ ~
9T 4 d Rs52s S Ca Secretary
Rev A G Powell Ny
REV. J. R. Little Miss Edw richardson Okla
Dr. Howard, Rev D. W. Moore Ohio
j. B. Coleman Mo- Rev H. D. Prowd Cal.
NEWLY ELECTED OFFICERS
President Rev W Moore Columbus vcepres, Taylor
Rec Ne secy simms chcaro
i:9: 2ass't chi
son. national lecturer to cooperate with the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-11-16
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-11-16
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KEEP SOLDIERS HAPPY
while IN THE HOSPITAL

The morale of wounded SOL
der suffers severely unless he can
be entertained in some manner.
That's why, whenever there's
. Anything doing" about the hospi-
tails, all the men who can walk or !
limp or lean upon. their stronger
"buddies" form pleased yet sor-
ry procession toward the place Of
entertainment. The growing need
Of hospital entertainment is a
potent appeal in the United War
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-11-16
coLoRED MEN ELECTED.

Three colored men, H. J. Capehart
Of Mcdowell county; J. v. Coleman 4of
Fayette county and T. G.. Nutter Of
Kanawha county, were elected to the
West Virginia legislature last week.
Colored voters are not in the majority
in any of the counties they represent,
the percentage in Mcdowell being "a,
Fayette %, and Kanawha 10.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-11-16

ceived. II you can not give $780,. give
$1.00. or even less. il that is not pos
sible. The important point is to give
something and give it NOW.
Subscriptions may be sent at once
to Mr.. Edgar P BENJAMIN, "a School
Street, Boston, Massachusetts,: ~-
SEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION AND
DO 1T NOW -: - a..
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-11-16

One of the great benefits of the end
of the war will be the abolition of a
number of war work negro sections
which served largely as breeding
places for racial discrimination and
further plans for degrada alton.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-11-16

The end of the war and the death
of autocracy in Germany was cele-
brated in the Land of the Free and
the Home of the Brave" at Sheffield,
Ala, by the lynching of colored man
charged with resisting an officer
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-11-16

The government is still calling for
typists but when colored women pass
the examination, are certified by the
Civil Service Commission and pro-
coed to Washington some little bureau
head refused to accept them. ~
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-11-16
WALLER AGAINST "NEoRo."
Noted Brooklyn Doctor says Il Causes
Mental and Physical 6spreaation.

(Trom Amsterdam Nsws.)
Editor Amsterdam News:
Sir: cannot too heartily congratu-
late you on recent editorial disoour-
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
he that Il Il the most potential fxo-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-11-16
GOD GIVE Us MEN.

GOD GIVE Us MEN,
God give us men! A time like this demands
Strong minds great hearts, true faith and ready hands;
Men whom the lust Of ofsee does not kill; z#
Men whom the spols Of office cannot buy;
Men who possess opinions and will
Men who have honor-men who will not lie;
Hen who can stand before demagogue
And damn his trsaeAerous batteries without winknal
7aA nsn, sun crowned, who live abovs the fog
n pubhe duty and Ia private thinking.
~. g. Holland
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-11-16
HOLD YOUR LIBERTY BONDS.

Some get-rich-quick concerns are
endeavoring to persuade patriotic
Liberty bond holders, whom they
know will not sell outright their Lib
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-11-16

"Aay prejsdtas whatsvar VIII
be tssurm exRtabie n theoe WhS
do not share In h themselves
trvoisie 70 h and hetseF Il ass1
aeeepk b a. baw ~ nasHro."
-JoAA StlsAft MIL.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-11-16

Keep Them Smiling
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-11-16

Rev. B. P. Maddox, Ill.
N. S. Taylor, Miss.
E. T. Morris, Mass.
Rev. j. D. Gordon. Cal.
Rev. VIM. B. Baber, Mich.
Lee L. Brown, KY.
Edw, Richardson, Okla.
Rev. =. w. Moore, Ohio.
Rev. H. D. Prowd, Cal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-18
TO BAR alien VOTE
Kansas Supreme Court Rules
Against Enemy Ballot.
Topeka City Clerk Directed To
Remove Names Here.
SEVEN THOUSAND IN STATE
Order Applies to Every Citizen
of Germany, Austria.
Mandamus Writ Asked for by
Attorney General.

Alien enemies will not be allowed
to vote in the elections in Kansas next
month. This was the ruling of the
Kansas supreme court today when it
allowed a writ of mandamus against
Miss Eta Covell, city clerk of Topeka,
directing her to remove from the reg
istration lists the names of all enemy
aliens within the city. This includes
both men and women. The writ was
asked for by the attorney general
While the writ issued by the court
applies directly only to Topeka, the
city officials and the election boards
in every precinct will be directed not
to allow any alien enemy to vote in
their districts. The suit was brought
to test the question of alien enemies
being permitted to vote and is appli-
cable to the entire state.
1000 in State.
There are nearly 1000 alien enc
mics in Kansas. Just how many of
these are affected by the ruling OF
the court cannot be told at this time
The order applies to every citizen OF
Germany, Austria and Hungary who
has declared his intention to become
a citizen of the United States, but has
not completed his naturalization. It
of course, will not affect those who
have never made the declaration, as
they had no right to vote. 1t applies
equally to both men and women, the
status of the wives and daughters OF
alien enemies being the same as the
husbands and fathers. 1t also applies
to the sons of unnaturalized alier
enemies