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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-22
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 a thrust at the colored
man s 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 guaranteeSto every
citizen in the Republic. The propa.
ganda of filching from colored Ameri-
cans the ballot is but supreme ef-
fort to reenslave us and to force our
assent thereto To this policy the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-22
NO SECTlONALISM?

A bill to provide pensions at a mini
mum of $25 a month for veterans Of
the Civil War passed the House Of
Representatives by the impressive
vote of PAL to 46. Z.
Yet this is not the most impressive
thing in the incident. The forty-sn
representatives who cast the negative
votes were all Democrats and all but
one of them came from the solid
South or its 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
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-22

thought that she would improve in the
healthful climate of Minnesota.
She was placed in a comfortable
home at 1914 Rondo street, by her
daughter, Mrs. Annie Dempsey, who
made her home and spent most of the
time in Winnipeg, Can, where she
conducted a dressmaking establish
ment.
Mrs. Walker lived quiet life,
spending her time caring for her
granddaughter, Armesia Dempsey.
aged Is years.
She seldom left her home but de-
voted her energies in keeping it in
immaculate order and was highly es-
teemed by her immediate neighbors.
A few weeks ago she began to fail
but was a patient sufferer and always
said God knew best and she was will
ing to trust Him in every way
Last week, feeling that her end was
near, her daughter was summoned to
her bedside. Everything possible was
done for her but on Thursday morn
ing, June 18th, at 9:2O o'clock she
passed away.
She was born in Shelbyville, KY.
Oct IL, 1853, but subsequently moved
to Louisville where she afterward re-
sided for many years.
She was for 40 years member of
Green Street Baptist church and was
a devout Christian.
Her funeral was held at her late
residence last Monday afternoon at
2:30 o'clock, Rev. J. M. Henderson
officiating.
Special music was sung by the juni-
or choir of st. James a. NJ E. churcn.
and the beautiful solo, Face to Face
was sung by Mrs. Josie Arthur, Mrs.
b. G. Archer, accompanist.
There was a number of beautiful
floral tributes covering her casket.
Messrs. G.. w. Stewart, Oscar San
ders, j. Q. Adams and T. H. yelling
ton acted as pail bearers.
Lyles funeral director, interment at
Oakland cemetery.
The deceased leaves her daughter.
granddaughter and a sister, residing
in Louisville, KY, to mourn her de-
parture.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-22

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. =. .e. 49,.
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 us.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-22
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 a
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 "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 ii 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? 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??, 1918-06-22
AMERiCANs-THAT's ALL

For many yearn it has been the
custom to treat colored people al
Aliens. although they are more than
ninety-nine per cent OF American
birth: and there 10 q growing ten
dency among the colored people to
regard themselves a. aliens. This 10
being encouraged by 4 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-eighth 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 are
Negroes"
They should not have any rights as
Negroes" but every right Of an
American citizen should be and will
be accorded them. If they tight for
their rights 40 American citizens by
right Of birth.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-22
WALLER AGAINST "NEGRo."
Noted Brooklyn Doctor Says It Causes
Mental and Physical Segregation.

Mental and Physical Segregation.
(From Amsterdam News.)
Editor Amsterdam News:
Sir: I cannot too heartily congratu-
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
retain the good will of the masses. The
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.
c. It's derivatives, "Negroism,' "Ne-
grofy," and it's compounds, Negro
head, Negro-fly, Negro-monkey, are all
clearly in their associations, degrad-
ing.
d. Its 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. It 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. 1t is not differentiated in the mind
and thought of the whites from their
favorite and generally used (among
themselves) terms, NEGRO" and Mig
ger"
6. AS stated by an eminent Japanese
diplomat it has an unquestioned in
f1uence 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, M. D.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-22
coLoRED TROOPS ALWAYS FiRs7

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. 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 1912, 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 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. IF: ..-
In every American war, the "col-
ored troops have fought nobly."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-22
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.
titude was made known in a reply to
a memorial from the French Union
for Woman Suffrage, which asked him
to proclaim the principle of woman
suffrage as lone 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.. Will
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??, 1918-06-22
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
braV!ely," 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 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??, 1918-06-22
SATURDAY, JUNE %, 1918.
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 ~. Per-
manent organization June "a.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-22
THE ONE EXCEPTION.

Mr.. McAdoo's generosity to the rail-
road employees is wide and bounti-
tul and all-embracing-with 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 a petty dis
elimination which we would hardly
have looked forever from a South
ern-born director general of railroads.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-22

will ever be willing to accept the
wages Of Americas competitors. That
of free wool shall continue, it is only
being true, if the Democratic policy
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??, 1918-06-22

upon the question next November.
The other forty-fve members who op-
posed the bill are probably beyond
reach OF any political or other chas-
tlsement. They hail from states
where the loyal soldiers of the Civil
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??, 1918-06-22
The Color Line in the Catholic Church.
(From the Southwestern Christian Ad-
VOcate, New Orleans. LAY

(From the Southwestern Christian Ad-
vocate. New Orleans, La.)
There are two hundred thousand
colored Catholics in the United States
according to Walter F. McEntire, a
prominent Catholic, who in telling of
the orders and societies Of men and
women working among color people in
the United States, among other things
says in the Tidings, of Los Angeles:
1.-THE Church knows no color-line in
the House of God, and any man who
tries to lay one down is not a true
Catholic"
This is good reading but it is not
true to fact. There are only two COL
ored priests in the entire Catholic
colored constituency of America, and
the Catholic Church is the only reli-
gious body in America that forces on
it's constituency white ministry.
Moreover, the color issue is drawn as
completely in the Catholic Church as
elsewhere. There was time when
the Catholic churches welcomed COL
ored people to the affairs but not now.
In st. Joseph Church, New Orleans, a
few seats in the rear are marked re-
served for colored.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-22

oeived by the thinking men of the
country and the executive officers have
decided to hold the congress at Wash
,, ington, D. c., June FL 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??, 1918-06-22
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 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
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-22
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-22
MISS GRACE w. EDWARDS
A Former ST. Paul Resident Wins
Honors Abroad.

Though it has been something over
nVe years since Mr.. and Mrs. John
Edwards left st. Paul to make their
nome in Ottawa, ILL.,, they are kindly
remembered by host of friends they
left behind.
Mr.. Edwards held a position in the
McQuald Market House and the high
esteem of his employer. He was also
a prominent member of St. James A.
M =. church, in which, both he and
his better half were active workers.
1t will also be remembered that
they had daughter, Miss Grace, then
quite young, but who now is a fine
young woman, who, to use a common
expression, has made good" She has
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-22

The National Food Administration
is doing its utmost in every way pos
sible to educate the people up to the
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, un-
less conservation is vigorously and
nationally practiced. The slogan is:
"1n the Name of Liberty-SAVE
FOOD.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-22
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 well 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??, 1918-06-22

just been awarded a diploma from
the Ottawa High School and also one
from the Sherwood Music School Of
Cnlcago, which has branch school in
Inc music department of Pleasant
View College at Ottawa.
She stands very high in the estima-
zion OF the school in which she is the
only colored pupil, yet the graduating
Grass OF 70 students chose her for
pianist OF "Mikado" the commence
ment opera.
She is already putting her talents
TO profitable use, she teaches music
and harmony in her home town and
also at Streater, large town, sixteen
miles from Ottawa.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-22

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
country-loyal and patriotic citizens
be shocked and protest against the
mob murders so common here and of
which they are usually the innocent
victims?
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-22
Hates the Term "Neuro."

Il 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 ex-
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-Assistant
United States Attorney General VIM.
II. Lewis, Boston, Mass.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-22

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??, 1918-06-22

The Boston Guardian asks: Is Spin
garn playing double? Well, it GER
tainly looks that way from this neck
O. the woods. He is a 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??, 1918-06-22
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.-Ell1 wheeler W1leox.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-22

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, no
matter what race or religion, be as
a band of brothers to defend your
country against her enemies.