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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-03
ON THE RIGHTS OF MAN.

Influential colored men in various
parts Of the country have signed
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 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 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
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 us.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-03
INSULTS coLoRED WORLD.
Boston Transcript Commits Treason
in Preferring Ruin of France
Rather Than Mixture of Blood
Of CoIored Races Fighting

for Her.
(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 at the Chinese
laborers may stay, and so may the
black soldiers from Senegambia and
other African French colonies. I'm
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
a 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
Africantzed or Asiaticized as the re-
suit Of the war the country's eventual
caianities from that source would be
greater than those resulting from the
destruction Of her cities and the raw
age Of her fields.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-03
(From the Boston Guardian.

June 21st to 10th, 1915, are now
historic dates in colored American
history. They mark the approach OF
colored Americans to their federal
government in behalf of justice and
liberty for their racial group.
These eight days with Sabbath day
thrown in, witnessed the gathering
together in the nations capital of
delegates from all sections Of the
country in the midst Of a worlds war
to formulate and present to the fed
eral Congress a statement Of the
grievous wrongs visited upon their
race and demand for redress.
Meeting under purposeful ques-
tionings of loyalty, and in spite of a
Jewish-American majors attempt
through the War Department to
thwart this race convention, yet
there was no wavering among these
delegates. They came for a share
for their race of the world democracy
which their country's president pro-
claimed as the flower of their race,
was sent into battle in another hem
isphere, and they never faltered. Day
after day the delegates met in two
executive sessions without dissent
from the announced purpose of the
call. Firm in the conviction that
they were true to the real patriotism
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-03
INSTRUMENTATION.

The basic need in America at this
moment, and for many years to come
is the fusion of our heterogeneous
population into an American ent,tv
II we fought q civil war to prevent
geographical division, we should find
1t worth while now to make soma
deliberate and mighty effort to pre-
vent more insid1ous and fatal d.
vision. This effort should not be
spasmodic and sporadic. It should be
constant.
The foregoing from the Chicago
Tribune hits the nail on the head.
And 1t Is especially necessary for
the colored people to stop trying to
segregate. The colored person who
advocates jimcrowism in church or
state Is an enemy Of the Nation.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-03
WALLER AGAINST "NEGRo."
Noted Brooklyn Doctor Says 1t Causes
Mental and Physical Segregation.

Noted Brooklyn Doctor Says 1t Causes
Mental and Physical Segregation.
(From Amsterdam News.)
Editor Amsterdam News:
Sir: I cannot too heartily congratu
late you on recent editorial disc0ur-
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
|0red people, but it Is 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 it.
b. In Africa and out OF Africa it was
never applied to the higher types. but
to Guineas, Sudanese and Senegam-
bans only.
c. It's derivatives, "Negroism," me
grofy," and it's compounds, Negro
head, Negro-fy, Negro-monkey, are all
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. 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. 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
fuence 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, NJ. D.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-03
f. AMERICANs-THAT's ALL.

: For many years it has been tho
custom to treat colored people a.
aliens, although they are more than
ninety-nine per cent Of American
birth: and there is a growing ten
dency among the colored people to
regard themselves as aliens. This IL
being encouraged by 4 class OF lead
ers who call themselves Negroes"
and yell about NEGRO Kultur" Al
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 ~
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-03
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-03
PluTocRATs DOING HARM.

Says the Saturday Evening Post:
THE modern plutocratic ideal is to
soar far away from the common lot
and then voloplane gracefully back to
1t. Why take the trouble to soar at
oil? Why not distribute the millions
for the common veal before they are
collected In the capacious individual
reservoir"
Many Of the men who have made
:reat fortunes by questionable methods
In some cases, and In nearly every
case, by paying employees low wages.
Carnegie made great fortune and
Is now aiding race prejudice by en-
downing jimcrow libraries in the South
and Rosenwald the Jewish muitimil-
lonafre is using some of his money to
aid the Christians in proving that their
religion is fake by building Jim crow
7. M. c. AS all over the country.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-03

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??, 1918-08-03
END LYNCHINGS
AND MOB SPIRIT.
URGES PRESIDENT
Proclamation Decries Growth of Disorders Emu
lating ermany"-Caled Blow at Human
Justice and Aid to Enemy Propaganda.

Washington, July 26.-Forcefully de-
nouncing an apparent growth of mob
spirit as emulating the '1awless pas
sion" Of Germany, who has "disre-
garded sacred obligations Of law and
made lynchers of her armies" Presi-
dent Wilson today appealed to the
country Ito make an end Of this dis
graceful evil"
Lynchings, he said, constitute "a
blow at the heart of law and human
JUSTICE" and contribute Ito German lies
about the United States what her most
gifted liars cannot improve upon by
the way Of calumny."
TEXT OF PROCLAMATION.
The text of the presidents procla-
nation follows:
my fellow countrymen:
II take the liberty Of addressing you
upon a subject which so vitality affects
the honor of the nation and the very
character and integrity of our institu-
tons that trust you will think me
justified in speaking very plainly
about it.
Il allude to the mob spirit which has
recently here and there very frequently
shown it's head among us, not in any
single region, but in many and widely
separated parts Of the country.
There have been many lynchings
and every one of them has been a
blow at the heart of ordered law and
! human justice.
mo man who loves America, no
man who really cares for her fame
and honor and character, or who
is truly loyal to her institutions,
can Justify mob action while the
courts Of justice are open and the
government of the states and ma
ton are ready to do their duty.
We are at this very moment
fighting 'awless passion. Ger.
many has outIawed herself among
the nations because she has disre-
garded the sacred obligations Of
law and has made Iynchers Of her
armies. Lynchers emulate her dis
graceful example. !, for my part,
am anxious to see every commune
ty in America rise above that level,
with pride and fixed resolution
which no man or set Of men can
| afford to despise.
NO NOT DIsCREDIT.
| I'VE proudly claim to be the cham
| pions of democracy. If we really are
in deed, and in truth, let us see to II
| that we do not discredit our own.
~ say plainly that every Ameri-
can who takes part in the action
Of a mob or gives it any sort Of
countenance is no true son of this
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-03
A GREAT JOKE ny

Recently some colored editors under
the direction of E. J. Scott and J. E.
Splngarn met in Washington and
asked the government for that mini
mum OF consideration" for racial
wrongs, and they evidently touched
tender chord in the breast of those
dear friends of the colored people
the white South. For instance, the
editor of the Lexington (Ky.) Herald
quotes this conclusion, praises it and
naively adds, "Assuredly he is entitled
to nothing less"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-03
tine GIN or SILENCE

To sin by silence when we should
protest makes towards cut Of men.
me 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
eutitotines decide our least disputes.
The few who dare must speak and
speak again to right the wrongs Of
many.-Eila Wheeler Nfiteex.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-03
BONDS OF THE FOURTH
LIBERTY LOAN.

Bonds of the Fourth Liberty
Loan are now being turned out by
the thousands daily by the Treasury's
Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
The bonds are similar in form and
design to those of the third loan, and
space has been left on each bond for
insertion of the exact terms of the
bonds. ~=.
It is believed that a sufficient num-
Der of the bonds will be ready to
make possible immediate delivery of
all bonds Of the fourth loan as they
are purchased.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-03
NO cAMouFLAGED REPUBLICAN.

The Republicans Of Michigan, speak
ing through their State chairman, say
that President Wilson's entry Of
Henry Ford in the Wolvering Sena-
torial race will make no difference
with Republican plans. Those plans
look for the nomination of a straight
patriotic Republican, one who never
was pacifist-before or since the
war began-one who never con-
tributed money to pay for Democratic
advertising, one who has voted more
than once in the past twenty years,
and each time voted the Republican
ticket.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-03
SHOULD BE NO COLOR CASTE

The New York World, one Of the
greatest daily newspapers in the coun-
try, says in a recent issue;
III there is any ground for the CON-
plant of Colored trained nurses that
they are unjustly Disseminated
against by the Red Cross, it should
Dc removed at once. This is a black
mans light as well as a white mans
and the Red Cross should be the first
or all bodies to recognize the fact"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-03
Minimum Consideration Only
Asked By CoIored Editors

STAR-cHAMBER RACES CONFER
-ENcE At EXPENSE OF GOVERN
MENT DESERTS STRUGGLE OF
RACE FOR RIGHTS OF DEMoc-
RAcY - c0LoRED MEN AWED
BY PRESENCE OF GOVERNMENT
" OFFICIALS, APPARENTLY AGREE
NOT TO AGITATE AGAINST
WRONGS BECAUSE COUNTRY is
AT WARFARE FIRST IN HIS
TORY ALLEGING INJUSTICE
WHO WORK ONLY FOR "MINl-
MUM" AND DON'T STATE WHAT
THAT ls-EMMETT SCOTT AND
MAJ. sPlNGARN TO BLAME.
CONCEAL Bulletin, June 20, 1879
The following is an extract from
the resolutions adopted by the confer
ence of colored newspaper editors
held in Washington last week under
the auspices of the War Department
and the Committee on Public Infor-
nation:
We, the thirty-one representatives
of the Negro press, which has a cir
.culation of more than a million
copies, principally among the colored
people Of America, and representa-
tives of other activities, wish to af-
firm, first of all, our unalterable be-
lief that the defeat of the German
Government and what it today repre-
sents is of paramount importance to
the welfare of the world in general
and to our people in particular.
We deem it hardly necessary, in
view of the untarnished record of Ne.
gro-Americans, to reaff1rm our 10y.
atty to our country and our readiness
to make every sacrifice to win this
war. We wish, however, as students
and guides of public opinion among
our people, to use our every endeavo1
to keep these 100000 people al
the highest pitch, not simply of pas
sive loyalty, but of active, enthusi
astic, and self-sacriflcing participa
ton in the war.
Admit Grievances Justifiable and thai
Race 10 FESTIVE.
We are not unmindful of tn,
recognition of our American citizen
ship in the draft, of the appointment
of colored officers, of the designation
of colored advisers to the Govern
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-03

Negroes" but every right OF IN
American citizen should be and win
be accorded them. II they light for
their rights ~ American citizens by
right OF birth.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-03

great democracy, but its betrayer,
and does more to discredit her by
that single disloyaIty to her stand
ards Of law and right than tho
words OF her statesmen or the sac
rifiees Of her heroic boys in the
trenches can do to make SUFFERING
peoples believe. her to be their
savior.
How shall we commend democracy
to the acceptance Of other peoples if
we disgrace our own by proving that
it is, after all, no protection to the
weak?
Every mob contributes to German
lies about the United States what her
most gifted liars cannot improve upon
by the way of calumny.
They. can at least say that such
things cannot happen in Germany ex-
cept in times Of revolution when law
is swept away!
CALLS UPON ALL
L therefore very earnestly and SOL
emily beg that the governors of all
states, the law officers of every COM
munity, and, above all, the men ind
women of every community in the
United States, all who revere America
and wish to keep her name without
stain or reproach, will co-operate-not
passively merely. but actively and
Watchfully-to make an end to this
disgraceful evil. It cannot live ~'here
the community does not countenance it.
Il have called upon the nation to put
its great energy into this war and it
has esponded-responded with a spirit
and a genius for action that has thrilled
the world.
Il now call upon it, upon it's men
and women everywhere, to see to it
that it's laws are kept inviolate. its
fame untarnished.
SHOW LOYALTY AT HOME.
Let us show our utter contempt for
the things that have made this war
| hldeous among the wars of history by
showing how those who love liberty
and right and justice and are willine
to lay down their lives for them upon
foreign fields stand ready also to H.
lustrate to all mankind their LOYALTY
to the things at home which they wish
| to see established as a blessing and the
pAoIoStAoA W tAe peop1e VINO nave new
er known the privileges of liberty and
government.
81 can never accept any man as a
champion of liberty either for ourselves
or for the world who does not reverence
and obey the laws Of our own beloved
land, whose laws we ourselves have
made. He has adopted the standards
Of the enemies Of this country, whom
he affects to despise."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-08-03
GOD GIVE Us MEN.

God give us men! time like this demands
Strong minds great hearts, true faith and ready hands,
Men whom the lust of Office does not kill;
Men whom the spoils of Office cannot buy;
Men who possess opinions and will; -..:.-
Men who have honor-men who will not lie ,4
Men who stand before demagogue F..
And damn his treacherous batteries without winHng!
Tall men, crowned, who live above the fog
In public duty and in private thinking.
->-=~ j G. Holland
The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1918-11-22
Encounter Superior Enemy Force
in Raid on Port oil
PoIa.
WERE DROPPING PROPAGANDA
One Machine prens Into Sea When
Plane 10 pu.ctured---pilet 10 Rec
eysd by cewrade With Great
pitreuisy Amid panssra

An American Adrlaiic Seapiane
H,ss- tpsln the American sausaron
a, this station has fallen the duty Of
dropping prog.e gant,a "aa.is over the
t,ss4 II rnla. explaining 70 the Aus
TRANS why America IL tighiins.
4 patrol composed Of fast machines
and chaserS started from this station
At 10 20 a. tn one day r~csntly. The
operation involved a flight II Ahou, ~
hour. Arriving at rcla. they earouD.
tered q strong patro, " Owe eoesny
land machlp~s which considerably out.
numbered and heavily oatxunned the
ArneFirhEx
The American light planes ~es~ Ut
m altitude n 3,SO m.serS when the
enemy vas sighted The decision to
attack was made at oecv, and this Gig.
nal was given ~ the chaser machines
10 drop to a lower altitude AMI engnsr
the savtny. The heavier ana slower
American machines wese ordered to
ssesp~.
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