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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-09-27
ONE WAY OUT.

It seems that the best means for
promoting the welfare of the colored
people would be the scattering of COL
ored families all over the country.
In communities where there are only
few families there seems to be lit
tie or no friction. Trouble seems to
be caused by the coming of the
masses.
An example of this is right here in
Minnesota in the town of Bemidji,
where there are not more than a dozen
colored people. Charles w. Scrutchin
a colored man of African ancestry is
the leading lawyer, having a good pay
ing practice, his clientele being all
white. He has the respect of the en-
tire population and is received every
where with the same cordial welcome
that is given the whitest man in town.
There is no race problem in Bemidji.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-09-27
"NEGRESS" is NAUSEATING.

The following from the Chicago
tribune is manly protest against the
Use OF a word which is particularly Of
'ensive to colored women.
OBJECTS TO "NEGREss."
CHARACTERIZATION of the Tribune.)
in two recent issues you published
cry fine and highly commentators
ditorials on Race Progress and Com
mon Sense" yet, Notwithstanding that,
yesterday you state in glaring head
lines the death of Nine. Walker,
Wealthiest Negress." That word
"Negress" is nauseating in the eye
sight of all colored women and should
be eliminated from the vocabulary, in
which it has no rightful place. Above
MI, your paper should be the leader
u this regard, if you really have the
'elfare of the colored race at heart.
SAMUEL z. C. WESTERFIELD.
The colored men who persist in u.s.
ing negro" as a race designation are
Nrgely to blame for the common use
IT word which should be avoided
The colored people of the United
States are Americans-that's ALL The
use of negro" and "negress" is the
cause of many Determinations against
the colored people.
The word ''negress" is nauseating,
and so is the word NEGRO" when
used as a racial designation for the
colored people of the United States.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-09-27
Must Judge A Group by Its Best
(From the Christian Register, Bosto
Aaaa\

(From the Christian Register, Boston.
Mass.)
No one can be said to know any
class Of people who has not been IN
intimate and sympathetic relation With
the best as we'll a. the worst Of the
class. We compare many persons
who live in the South, and think they
know the colored race, with others
who have had no such contact, but
who have come into intimate and syu4-
pathetic relations with large numbers
of that race whom their Southern
friends have never known; and Of the
two sets Of people We should say that
the second knew the colored people
better than the first They know aspi-
rations among them that the others
do not know, or, knowing, do not
enter into and appreciate; they know
capabilities by direct contact with the
best Of the race which others are obli
vtous Of; they know qualities which
only respect and sympathy can bring
out: they know possibilities to which
others by their very acquaintance are
blinded. II those who know the col
ored race through the mass and by
observation merely could know what
individual possibilities are demon
strated in growing numbers Of the
elect, and would be courageously can
did with themselves, they would re-
wise their judgments and possibly sof
ten their prejudices. At any rate.
they ought to credit to those on whom
they charge ignorance Of the colored
race the values that come from know
S~an~
equal Of any members OF the dominant
race in the highest abilities and in the
clearest aims. No estimate is worth
much which does not take people at
their best
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-09-27
NOT A White MANS COUNTRY.

One Beauregard Moseley of Chicago,
colored man of local prominence
presumably in order to be patted on
the back and called "good negro"
in an address at a colored meeting dur
ing the riots Informed his auditors
that, "this is white mans. country"
He was promptly rebuked and we
trust he'll know better next time.
No, this is not white mans coun-
try" 1t is true that the white man
stole it from the Indians, and also stole
some colored men who were free in
Africa, brought them over here and
made them slaves to work the stolen
property. Three hundred years of un-
requited toll gives the colored man a
better title to the land than the white
mans.
The colored man knows no other
land; he speaks the vernacular of IT,
country; he has fought in every war
to preserve it's integrity; has has al
ways been loyal though deprived of
life, liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness."
The colored people of the United
States are not aliens; they were all
born here. They are Americans and
as Americans have their share in our
common country.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-09-27

resenting the national race congress.
American colored men, he said, could
be recruited to police the territory
under. white officers.
Such an amendment is all wrong,
because the United States has given
justice to the colored peoples already
within its borders
A petition that all the African col.
onies taken from Germany be "di
vided between Egypt, Abyssinia and
Liberia was filed by the League OF
Darker Peoples of the World.
This amendment would be all right
if the word Egypt were stricken out
To give any of the colonies to Egypt
would be to turn them over to the
tender mercies of Great Britain which
rules Egypt with an iron hand.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-09-27
GO TO SEE HIM.

The soldiers and sailors who took
out government insurance during the
world war should, under all circum-
stances, continue to pay their premi
ums on their policies, which are bet
ter by far than any others they can
get. All men who were in the army
or navy should at once join the local
Post OF the American Legion. Go to
see Lieut.. Hauenstein, 919 Pioneer
Building, Fourth and Robert streets,
VINO mas been appointed special agent
OF the Legion for the purpose of help
ing the men to revive their insurance
if they are in arrears or to continue
their risks. Lieut.. Hauenstein will
accord the men the most courteous
attention if they will call to see him.
Our boys should act promptly, for
If they delay too long, they will be
required to take another medical ex-
animation for Insurance. DO IT
NOW!
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-09-27
KEEP COOL!

With the great racial excitement
now existing all over the country, it
is we'll for -colored people to keep
COOL
No good can come from incendiary
talk. 1t is rank folly to talk about
actual, physical fighting to win the
contest for justice in the U. S. A.. 1t
would be futile as the colored people
have neither wealth nor guns and are
outnumbered five to one. Never be
the aggressor but defend yourself ii
wantonly attacked.
The colored people must fight but
it must be with the spirit, money and
the ballot. Use every legitimate
means to create healthy public opin
ion and vote for the individual OF
party guaranteeing protection of life
and liberty.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-09-27
COWARDLY BISHOP REBUkED.

We reprint from the Cleveland Ga.
zette, edited by Hon. Harry C. Smith,
stalWart and outspoken champion
OF the colored people, the following
reDuke to cowardly colored bishop:
BISHOP PHILLIPS WRONG
While there is much in Bishop c..
H. Phillips pacifist interview of last
Sunday, in the Cleveland News-Lea.
der, to interest the average reader,
there is one statement to which about
all of the intelligent members of our
race will take issue and that is his
statement that "the Afro-American
does not desire social, political or in
dustr1al equality" That is not true,
bishop! In this section of the coun-
try we want and, in limited degree,
enjoy all three. In the South. our
people are asking the last two. $50
cial equality is a myth. 1t does not
exist among any class (race) of
Americans. It is a matter for the
individual to settle and he alone set
ties it in all cases.. And many white
and colored individuals (families) in
this section of the country have long
ago settled it to their entire satisfac-
ton and are enjoying the so-called
social equality" and will continue to
do so until 'tthe end of the chapter"
regardless of the ranting of southern
ter if, not both and the laws of the
political equality, the fundamental
law of the land guarantees the lat
ter if not both and the laws of the
states are in most cases explicit when
1T comes to the former Not only
does this race of ours desire them but
1t demands them and will never rest
until they are conceded in every nook
and corner of this country of ours.
The AfrO-American wants and must
have everything good every other
class (race) enjoys in this country if
he is to keep abreast of the times and
be able to cope with them in the
great struggle of life. In this Sec
ton of the country, at least, we can
stand up and say so-tell the plain
truth and should do so.
That it is not advisable for the good
bishop to do so because of his resi-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-09-27
ASK EQUALITY IN TREATY.

William Monroe Trotter of Boston,
secretary of the National Equal
Rights League, appeared before
senate foreign relations committee
Thursday representing the organiza-
ton and asked for two amendments to
the Peace Treaty. One provides that
in the league of nations covenant the
members 'vouchsafe to their own citi-
zens the possession of full liberty,
rights of democracy and protection of
life, without restriction or distinction
based on race, color, creed or previ-
GUS conditions
The other adds a similar guarantee
as a separate section of the treaty.
Such amendments are all right.
An amendment to give the United
States a mandatory over the Kan.
erun, a German colony in Africa, was
requested by Joseph T. Thomas,
colored man of Cleveland Ohio, rep
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-09-27

If they are, we will go home and lock
the doors. That's what Captain Doyle
said, and he knows what's what" So,
for few tense moments, we stood
oering into the drizzly gloom, not
moving what might after all be about
70 come. But all was quiet, and we
silently drifted on our ways.
And thus it went for two hours. I
met them-not savages, not red-hand-
ed murderers, but citizens, hunted
aud terrified, looking more or less
nopelessly to their Government for
aid; human beings craving the hand
of brotherhood, and cut to the very
heart. I thought of Belgium. 1 re-
membered that my country stands
abroad for liberty, justice, and the
rights of men, though she has them not
at, home. How blind we are, we An
glo,Saxons, who talk of Freedom and
have not yet freed our souls. But
still hope and dimly see a dawn-red,
it is true. but still far-off dawn.
A white man once said to me: "You
talk like Negro You seem at times
to identify yourself with them. Have
you lost your race consciousness? I
replied: Il hope l think enough lik -
them to show you how they feel I
nope always lose race consciousness
when it stands in the way of my con-
sciousness of common humanity. 3"
Then he said queer thing: II do
not know whether you are mad or in
spired." l had been thinking of going
o Serbia, but l believe my duty is
here. I believe that our country needs
all of us who are standing along the
color line. I am ready to do anything
possible, to whatever limit. If you
to whom look as a leader in this sit.
uation, should ever need my services
you have but to speak My soul is
af1ame, not with the glare of the de-
stroying torch, but with the steady
incandescent glow which cannot be
extinguished.
Washington, July 20. E. G. M.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-09-27
WALLER AGAINST "NEoRO."
Noted Brooklyn Doctor Says 1t Causes
Mental and Physical Segregation.


(From Amsterdam News.)
Editor Amsterdam News:
Sir: l 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
lie that it is the most potential fac.
tor 1T work at tho present to bring
about both a physical and mental
segregation Of the people of color. Its
use 10 on the Increase only because
our speakers and writer's, especially
DO Bots and Washington feol that it's
repetition, al nauseAm. Is necessary to
retain the good will of the masses. The
term Negro" is not only absurdly in.
accurate AZ 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-erade Africans repudiate it.
b. In Africa and out of Africa It was
never applied to tho higher types, but
to Guineas, sudanese and seaeeam.
bans only.
c. Its derivatives, "Negroism," NE
grofy," and it, compounds. Nero
head, Nsgro-hy, NeEro-monksy, are al
clearly in their associations, degrad-
Ing.
d. Its feminine form, "Negrsss," is
Justly and correctly used to define
your wife and daughter and sweet
heart, If you favor tho use Of the mas.
euline torn.
.. It has been the word used BY the
Southern whites for two centuries
when formally speaking or writing
about IN unworthy or criminal man
or woman of the race. For when he
speaks OF tho worthy he invariably
says "colored."
1. It IL not differentiated in the mind
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-09-27
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1919
WOULD "coNvERT" THE JEWS.

WOULD "CONVERT" THE JEWS.
Some members of the Episcopa.
board of missions favor the raising OF
a fund of $1,OOO,OOO for the purpose
of converting the Jews, because they
are losing faith in Judaism and be-
coming atheistic.
This move brought quick retort
from many of the rabbis, three OF
whom we quote:
"Attempts to convert the Jew
have never been successful said
Rabbi Joseph Stolz of Isaiah Temple,
land the thronged synagogues refute
the charge that the American Jew
is straying from his faith
Rabbi Stolz said that reports that
the Episcopal Church might be in.
duced to appropriate large sums for
Christianizing the Jew were too ri
diculous to discuss.
Rabbi Abraham Hirschberg of Tenn
pie Sholom declared that Judaism
was stronger than it had ever been
and that the American Jew was one
of it's greatest factors.
In Europe they have had for hun
dreds of years, a great way of "con-
verting" the Jews by surrounding the
ghettos and numbering men, women
and children. In Hungary, recently,
hundreds of Jews have protested
Christianity to save the lives of them
selves and families, but all of the GER
tifcates of baptism were overprinted
in red, mot good in case of pogroms
(massacres)."
The Jews of the United States will
not rush to Christianity because they
know that American Christians would
then segregate them and compel them
to ride in jin-crow cars and lynch
them just as they have their colored
brethren.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-09-27
CLOSE JIM.CROW SCHOOL

The colored people of Pittsburgh
Pa, who have shown a united front
in refusing to be jim-crowed, have
done a great service to the whole
people.
Although contrary to the law, a
seperate negro" school was opened
on West Front Street in that city,
but the colored people refused to aid
it and insisted upon sending their
children to the regular public schools
with other American children, and the
jim-crOw school has been obliged to
close for want of patronage. Good!
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-09-27
Not "Nigger"-Not' "Negro."
(From the Washington Bee.)

(From the Washington Bee.)
Bishop Wilbur Thirkield, in discus
sing colored Americans in the South
western Christian Advocate, and in
his reply to Irwin S. Cobb, says: "The
writer means we'll, but he does not
seem to know what the term niger
that has persisted as a relic of slav-
cry and has in it the sting Of liquid
IRE to every self-respecting Negro.
must CO."
Yes. and The Bee asserts that not
only the word "nigger" must go, but
the word Negro" We are American
citizens. the same as you, although
our skin may be dark. The white
man manufactured both terms and
the Government legalizes them and
colored Americans perpetuate them.
For Gods sake, give both terms a rest
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-09-27

and thought of the whites from their
favorite and generally used (among
themselves) terms, Negro" and Mig
ger"
&. AS stated by an eminent Japanese
diplomat it has an unquestioned in
huence in cutting us Off from the
thought, sympathy and cooperation
of tho millions OF colored Africans.
Asiatics and Islanders Of tho Yonder
world.
Very truly yours,
OWEN M. WALLER, M. D.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-09-27
COLORED VETERANS ELIGIBLE

Nothing illustrates the status of
the colored man in the United States
more than the announcement of Henry
D. Lindsey, chairman of the national
executive committee of the American
Legion that colored veterans are
eligible to membership.
The announcement states further
that the composition of local and state
organizations will be left to the mem
bers themselves. That means that
many colored men who have risked
their lives in defense of their country
will be denied membership in the
South and in many parts of the North
And they still say the war was fought
for democracy"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-09-27
EASY TO CONVINCE HIM.

The following is from the Chicago
Herald and Examiner:
One colored man was killed and two
were injured this week in a fight with
whites in the heart of the colored
section. In Chicago? No, in New
York. * --..s s-. =.
Because our time of rioting is over,
some people think the sky is clear
again. No idea could be more foolish
So long as we have discrimination, un-
fair treatment, feeling of brooding
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-09-27
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
euillotines decide our least disputes.
The few who dare must speak and
speak again to right tho wrongs Of
many.-ElIa Wheeler Wilcox.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-09-27
THE "coLoRED" COMMITTEE.

The plan of the Roosevelt Memorial
Association to have segregated "col-
ored" committee in each state to raise
funds among the colored people is an
unnecessary drawing of the color line
and entirely wrong.
Such plan would have been repudi-
ated by Col. Roosevelt who was a con.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-09-27
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-09-27
"Negroes and Dogs Not AIlowed'
(FrOm the Nashville ClariOn)

Down in Houston, Texas are some
elevators in public buildings labeled
NEGROES AND DOGS NOT ALLOW
Ed" Generous Classification! Such
signs as these account in such meas
ure, for the exceedingly rapid manner
in which the Colored men are depopu
lating the South. They can be neither
blamed nor censured for leaving a
town like this. They have hearts and
souls and human pride, just like the
people of other races.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-09-27

dence in the South and because of the
large church interests there he rep
resents, we can understand However,
good bishop, please refrain from Civ
ing out such interviews here in the
North where they do no good but on
the contrary have an effect that re-
tards the progress of those of the
race in this section of the country.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-09-27

spicuous advocate of equality. He
many things to break down the color
line.
For the men who head this affair
to set the colored people aside is really
an attempt to put a blot on the record
and memory of a great American
The work could have been done just
as effectively by having colored men
as equal members Of state and local
committees without the color line.
The editor of THE APPEAL received
an appointment as member of a
"colored" committee but declined to
serve.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-09-27

Needed by coIored Leaders.
(From the Richmond Planet.)
Manhood is an asset that every in
dividual should be proud to possess.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1919-03-21
JACOB BILLIKOPF RECEIVES
$4,000 GIFT FROM FRIENDS.

Jacob Billikopf, the young execu-
tive director of the American Jewish
Relief Committee, became the re-
cipient Of the greatest material tes-
timonial ever bestowed on any Jew
in public life in this country, when
he was presented with the sum of
fifty thousand dollars at the home of
Hon. Henry Morgenthau in New
York last Thursday evening.
The gift is expressive of the great
personal appreciation of a number
of prominent Jewish men and wo-
men in all parts of the country for
the thorough manner in which Mr.
Billikopf aroused the Jews of the
United States on behalf of the Jew