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guilty or not guilty? In case one il
is admitted that Mrs. Motion boarded
the car and was elected. Then what
did Motion do? He either said that
or something else or was silent H.
does not claim to have saio something
else. His long distance liars say he
let the matter drop in which event he
is more thoroughly contemplate and
aesplcable that he ever could have
been otherwise. With respect to the
soldiers he faces the necessity of ex-
planning why an administration vi.
clously hostile to colored peoples in.
terests sent him to France. And if
ne was instrumental in stopping the
Dogs from sleeping in the mud why
dld ne report that he found conditions
satisfactory. There must be some
logic in a lie. Caution-liars should
ne straight. Was it satisfactory to
Mr.. Motion to find heroes such as ours
sleeping in the mud? Speak up Ike
and 'spress yourself"
Here is little modest and unas-
stunning speech. The Guardian chal-
ienges Mr.. Motion to 90 down to Tus-
kegee and say it.
Lynching is wrong. l am teaching
my students how to break it up.
"A colored man has a right to marry
whom he pleases when mutually won.
am teaching my students to assert it.
A colored man has the right to live
anywhere he can pay for. l expect nv
students to do it. You have a right
10 an equal chance at any honest lob
you are able to perform. All men
nave the right to fix the price on their
LABOR. teach you here to do it. The
ballot IS yours. If they don't give it
TO you take it. When you pay first
class fare get first class ride"
No, Mr.. Motion cannot say these
things He does not deny apologizinp
Tor his wife being insulted. He must
get some five and ten Northern papers
to 90 it. He knows if he told the
truth at Tuskegee they could make
MIN run so fast his head rag would
catch afire.
There is an old Tuskegee SLOGAN
LEARN to do some one thing well y
Inc war has proven that this old doc
tr1ne is thousand years out of date.
Inc whole race has shown in this war
mat we have all learned to do all
things WE'LL az
10 lead now the requirement is:
speak thou the things which become
sound doctrine and speak them stronp
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PAID FOR PULchR,TUDE.

How about this: Discharged soldiers
receive a bonus of $50 and girls re.
tanned in Government service receive
a bonus of s240~ with a big increase in
salaries. Does the government owe
these girls more than it does the men
who faced death in France? AS one
soldier says: washington keeps it's
girls and the soldier keeps his uniform
because he cannot buy a suit" Such
condition should be remedied at the
next session of Congress. Bills have
already been prepared to give the men
years pay, and other advantages.
II the government can afford $24O
bonus for its girl war workers it can
afford substantial bonus for the men
who won the war. Think it over!
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jim CROW DAY IN BOSTON
(From the Boston Guardian J

Monday, February "a, was a tvn;ca,
jim CROW day in Boston, and it seems
TO nave been so planned. The day
Time was given over to welcoming the
returning president. In the evening
there was a meeting held to honor col.
ored soldiers. The two occasions at
least have the alternatives of the lin
Crow doctrine of separate and dis.
tlnct but equal or the Jim Crow ar.
rangement of up to the big house
ana down to the big gate" The i'm.
Presslons OF the events are significant.
ihere are strong and variant views
mere on the question of the League of
Natlons There are equally strong
views on the race question and the
rights of man. But on this occasion
Boston behaved herself proud. There
was no heckling of the president Tha
reception was dignified and orderly.
but ne lett Boston still in possession
OF her views.
There was no rough-necking down
at the big gate. Mr.. Scott and Mr..
Motion were received with respectful
dignity. But they left Boston with no
greater disposition to compromise I'M.
man rights or to barter with lynch
ers and Jim Grow propagandists.
Ihree-fourths of the audience were
white. Doubtless they are friends of
the race. Their presence points to
another vital circumstance. The meet.
ing was held under the auspices of a
settlement house-a charitable insti-
tuition. Many white people are willing
to assign restricted mendicant status
10 the best the colored man can pro.
duce.
But the brainy colored man does
not accept the principle of ward and
warden any more than the principle
OF man and master. They are allies
and are opposed to self-determination
Boston passed the incident coolly
but respectfully. The results so far
as all detectives go were a boomer
ang.
TO sum up Jim Crow day in Boston
was black-frost.
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BRUCE GRIT FILES STRONG DEMURRER
AGAINST M0T0N'S METHODS

pant Of the Jim Crow, coaches dur
ing times of peace. - =
The pity of the whole despicable
business is that our country is not
great enough to live up to its own
constitution, not noble enough to fol-
low the precepts of it's own Christian.
lty! It basely bows to the caprice
OF prejudice and condemns it's own
citizens to scorn, contempt and humili.
alton. The burden of this petty pass-
port problem need not be placed on
the shoulders of France, for that slor-
lous country has ever been great
enough to honor and protect it's citt-
zens, regardless of race, regardless
OF color. The tint of the skin. the
curl OF the hair, has never been the
badge of humiliation in La Belle.
France; and so in her time of need,
gloriously did her sable sons rally to
her support. The day will come when
America on Bonded knee will cry for
help. Will there still remain foreiv.
ing black sons to come to her aid.
or will they all have been brutally
done to death by the mob, the tree.
the torch?
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william Monroe ~Trotter Reconse. ninoten+ re;ah., ,
crates Himself eo'A'
(From the Boston Guardian

(from the Boston Guardian.)
we consecrate all of the powers we
nave to fight for the immediate reign
OF Justice and law in the treatment of
100000 Of our own colored fellow
cltlzens, not on the banks of the
kline, but on the banks of the Mis-
slsslppi; not in Africa, but in Georgia.
We should lose heart if we relied
on man or men to win in this fight.
but we know as Charles Sumner once
said: Justice reigns aloft on the
throne Of God and not below with the
multitude" We turn from faint
hearted leaders and cheer ourselves
with the thought, "The Lord God ON.
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6. The abrogation of the white
Australia" legislation and the &C.
acknowledgement of the right of all peo-
pies to acquire citizenship.
z. The repeal by the United States
of all anti-oriental immigration laws
and the acknowledgment of the right
of Japanese and Chinese and Malays
to become citizens.
8. The repeal of all United States
laws CHASING certain Indians as nom
citizens, all people of American Indian
blood to be Immediately recognized as
American citizens.
9. The repeal of all laws of the
United States, or of any state, In which
the words colored, African, Afro-Amer-
lean, Negro, Mulatto, Indian, Japanese
or Chinese are used for the purpose to
making determinations against the
people OF any race, nationality. class
or creed, and the immediate abroga-
ton of any color line restrictions en-
forced without warrant of law.
10. The nations comprising the
League of Nations to be forbidden to
enact any legislation which in any way
discriminates against the people OF the
Caucasian, Monaghan, African, Indian,
and Malay races, or against any ma
tionality, religious creed or sex.
IL. The free immigration of the peo-
pie of any one country to any other
country having membership in the
League to be neither denied nor
abridged on account of race, national
ity, class. color, creed, or sex.
The adoption of the foregoing rules
in the Constitution of the League of
Nations would not only mean freedom,
equality and democracy for all man.
kind but would be an actual earthly
realization of the Fatherhood of God
and the Brotherhood of Man.
Trusting Mr.. President, that you will
as the representative of our great re-
public, advocate the principles I have
enumerated, I am,
Very truly yours.
JOHN @. ADAMS,
Editor The Appeal.
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END AUTOCRACY OF COLOR
Asks Editor of THE APPEAL in an Appeal Wired to
President Wilson the Eve of His
Departure for Peace Table,
calls Color Line Greater Menace to Permanent World
Peace Than Hun Mitarism Just Overthrown
Asks President to Aid the Oppressed of All Nations
Races, Colors Creeds and Sex in Realizing
Liberty, Fraternity and Equality
Saint Paul, MINI, Dec. 2, 1918.

Saint Paul, Mimi, Dec. 2, 1918.
To the President,
White House,
Washington, D. G.
Sir:
Now that the world war is over and
military autocracy has been doomed.
l appeal to you as the representative
OF the United States at the Peace
Table, to demand the abolition of that
greater menace to the peace of the
world, THE AUTOCRACY OF COLOR.
Through the centuries the colored
races OF the globe have been subjected
to the most unjust and inhuman treat.
ment by the so-called white peoples.
Every atrocity which the Huns have
inflicted on the helpless white peoples
OF the world during the four years OF
war now ending, has been suffered by
the colored peoples of the world for
more than four hundred years.
In the recent war the colored races
have furnished as many men as the
white races have supplied, if the labor
and fighting units are both counted,
and now that victory has been won,
it is but just that the color line which
has hampered the progress of the col.
ored peoples, should be abolished at
once. Not only that, but the op.
pressed OF the white race should be
delivered from oppression.
Mr.. President, shall endeavor to
outline program which should meet
the approval of every believer in world
democracy:
1. Home rule for Ireland.
2. Home rule for India.
3. Home rule for all colonies which
desire it.
4. Self-determination for the people
of all countries, In which the people
are practically all of one race or ma
tionality and yet dominated and op
pressed by few of different race OF
nationality.
s. The former German colonies tt
become republics under the protection
Of the League Of Nations. These PEG
pie are as capable of self-government
as the people of Russia, Germany, Tur
key, or the Balkan States.
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SAME OLD STUFF,

Remembering the language in which
President Wilson induced his demo.
cratic congress to reverse itself on
the subject of Panama canal tolls,
against the interests of the United
States, it will not be surprising if he
tells the country that the proposed
constitution of the League of Nations
must be Endorsed "in ungrudging
measure" or he will not know how to
deal with other vital international
problems.
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BILL BRYAN 1OeS UP.

According to William Jennings Bry-
an, federal control of the railroads
doesn't work because there are still
some railroad men connected with it.
We suppose that the theater will at.
tain it's highest state of efficiency Just
as soon as all the actors are removed
and that the churches will reach the
pinnacle OF success in removing evil
from the world when the preachers
have all been taken away. Better
stick to grape Juice and woman sui
frage, William!
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ings, the chief one of which is that
the Jews are dedicated heart and
soul to the countries in which they
dwell under free conditions"
AL Jews" the petition states, "re-
pudiate every suspicion of a double
allegiance, but to our minds it is nee.
essarily implied in and cannot by any
logic be eliminated from the estab.
lishment of a sovereign state for the
Jews"
The petition also states that by the
large part taken by them in the great
war, the Jews have once and for all
shattered the base aspersions of the
anti-Semites, who charged them with
being aliens in every land, incapable
OF true patriotism, and prompted only
by sinister and self-seeking motives. u
It says that those who would seek
the establishment Of Jewish sover
eign state and yet insist on their
patriotic attachment to the countries
Of which they are citizens, are self
deceived in their professions of Zion
ism. and under a spell of emotional
romanticism or Of a religious senti
ment fostered through centuries OF
gloom"
II the Jews representing to great
extent the leadership in commerce
and industry and the money power Of
the World are opposed to "jimcrow'
state, why should not colored men pro
test against segregation in every
form?
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A GOOD BILL.

Mr.. Madden, Of Illinois, has offered a
bill in Congress to further amend an
act entitled An Act to regulate COM
merce," approved in 1887, that will, if
passed, do away with every jim.crow
system of transportation within the
territorial boundaries of the United
States. 1t has been referred to the
Committee on Interstate and Foreign
Commerce and ordered to be printed.
AS the next Congress which will have
it to deal with has working Republican
majority, it is hoped that the mem
bers OF the party of, Lincoln and Sum.
mer, the party Of equal rights, will see
to it that it is promptly enacted into
law.
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JEWS OPPOSE A SEGREGATED
NATION.


Short'sighted colored men who are
talking about negro republic" in
Africa, and forgetting to agitate for
reform in the treatment of 10000, 900
colored citizens of the United States,
ought to know that prominent non.
Zionist Jews from all parts of the
United States have sent with Presi-
dent Wilson to the peace conference
their objections to the Zionist demand
for Jewish state in Palestine.
The petition was handed to the
President by Congressman Kahn on
February S. There were 9S8 names
on the petition representing the rich
est and most prominent Hebrews in
the country.
The objections to the establishment
Of Jewish Homeland in Palestine"
are set forth under four specific head
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AN ABSOLUTE MoNARcHY7
No, An Absolute Democracy! But
Wilson Relans!
(From the Cincinnati Union.)

(F'rom the Cincinnati Union.)
There are more ways of killing
dog than hanging him." Our Demo-
cratic administration, so anxious to
make the world safe for democracy,
has shown sublime disregard for the
rights and safety of colored American
citizens at home. It now seems to
feel that. by refusing passports to
representatives of those who complain
Of intolerable conditions here, that
Europe will not know of the. foul
canker that gnaws the very vitals of
our government! IT'S another case
of the ostrich sticking it head in the
sand and feeling that it's body is hid.
Europe knows that there is a skel-
eton in Americas closet and that
that skeleton is the black citizen Of
the U. s., occupant of the front-line
trenches during times of war; occu-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-03-29
NOT UNDERSTANDABLE.

An Iowa farmers wife writes the
Chicago Tribune that she can't under
stand why the War apartment doesn't
discharge first those soldiers who have
jobs awaiting them. That is only one
Of the scores of things concerning the
War Department that the country
can't understand.
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The government-supported u. S. EN-
pl0yment Service Bulletin exclaims.
Let US get down to hardpan-we hun:
dred million Shylocks." That is sure
ly new one. The American people
have been called almost everything
else, but this is the first time they
have been called a hundred million
Shylocks.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1919.
ASKS RACE EQUALITY.

Action by the peace conference to
eliminate race prejudice, which he
termed "a fruitful source of discon-
tent and uneasiness among nations in
the past" was urged by Viscount Ishii,
Japanese ambassador to the United
States, speaking before the Japan So
ciety here tonight.
Nothing would contribute more ef-
fectively to the foundation of perma-
nent peace, he declared, than appli-
cation of proper remedy, "at this op-
perfume moment" to this cause of in
ternational discord." The constitution
of a league of nations, he added, would
not be worthy of the conference if it
omitted provision to right the "con-
spicuous injustice" arising out of pre-
JUDGE between the races. "
Viscount Ishii urged the right of the
Asiatics, "who fought side by side
with the Anglo-Saxons, Latins, and
Slavs against the common foe," to
equal consideration among the allied
peoples.
1.-THE single minded object of the
war;" said the ambassador, was the
maintenance Of international justice
and the establishment of durable
peace. No consideration Of racial feel
ing entered into the supreme decision
for the sacrifices of blood and treasure
on the part of any of the allied or
associated powers.
And now, when this war for inter-
national justice is about to come to its
happy termination and when the
world league for permanent peace is
being contrived, why should this ques-
ton of his race prejudice, race discrim-
ination, and race humiliation alone be
left unremedied? When restriction
or prohibition of discriminatory treat
ment of chattels and commodities is
being adequately provided for, why
should this unjust and unjustiiable
discrimination against persons be al
lowed to remain untouched?" ~
= Just notice the similarity of the plea
of Viscount Ishii to that of the editor
of THE APPEAL in his wire to the
President, which we reprint on this
page. In view of the wide spread de-
mand by all the various racial ele-
ments of the world for the abolition
Of the color line, why is it that so
many alleged colored leaders stand
like dumb driven cattle and voice no
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-03-29
Porto Rico Will Demand Statehood or
Freedom.

san Juan, Porto Rico, March s.
After debate of more than two davs
in both houses of the insular 1eeisia,
tule' the Unionists and Republicans
To-Day agreed to join forces in insisting
mat the American congress make
known what the future of Porto Rico
IS 10 be. 1t was agreed that if there
can be no assurance that statehood
is possible, the parties should work
Tor independence. The people of
Porto Rico are not satisfied with color
line which has been forced upon them,
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ADDRESS TO THE COUNTRY AND THE WORLD
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out, but they may perhaps be kicked

out, but they may perhaps be kicked
out.
The Methodist Episcopal Church has
given up all ideas of the Brotherhood
of God and the Brotherhood Of Man."
and at the centenary it is very likely
that the brethren will recount the
wonderful thing the church has done
for the: negro" and all will join in
singing Coward, Christian Soldier"
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The SIN OF SILENCE

s7*> 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
guilIotines decide our least disputes.
The few who dare must speak and
speak again to right the wrongs Of
many.-Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
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GOSH! THINK OF IT!

People who pay taxes to cover the
expenses of the war Wilson was
elected to keep us out of, should
scrutinize with suspicion his play to
the galleries with a plan to keep US
out Of future wars. First thing we
know we will be paying taxes for the
war the league will get us into.
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protest, or, ask for the minimum" of
justice?
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ANY prejudice whatever will
b insurmountable II those who
d not share In Il themselves
tsuekio to Il and fattor II and
accept Il 40 a law Of nature"
John stuart Mil.
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THE MAN WHO DARES

I honor the man who i'm the consci-
stand alone; the world, with ignorant,
fntolerant judgment, may condemn,
averted, and the hearts Of friends grow
cold, but the sense of duty done shall
be sweeter than the applause Of the
world, the countenances of relatives or
the hearts of friends. Charles Sumner.