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Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-09-04
!. F. WAGGAMAN WAS
AMONG MEN HEAVILY
INSURED IN STATE
Insurance Companies Hit Heavily
Last Year BY Long Epi-
demic OF Flu"
PAYMENTS OVER NORMAL

The late John f. Waggaman, who
formerly resided nj wild Rose
Lodge" on South river. Anne Arundel
county. was among the heavily in
sured Marylanders. according to re-
ports which have recently been issued
and which give the payments made to
beneficiaries of decedents during 1918.
Mr. Waggaman carried insurance
amounting to $32602
Among other large policies paid was
that on account of the death of Guy
Carleton Parlett. formerly resident
Of Millersville. this county, and son OF
Mr. and Mrs Claudius r. Parlett. the
father being head of the firm OF Par
lett and Parlett Company. of this city.
Young Parlett was member OF the
Machine Gun Company, OF Annapolis.
that trained with the Il5th Infantry
at Admission. Ala. for overseas service.
He died there following an operation.
The year 1918, was as in many in
stances. an abnormal period in the life
insurance field. according to the fig
ures issued by the Insurance Press.
Distributions to the enormous amount
OF $1,1l5,S10,000 were made during
1918, owing to the abnormal death
rate.
Naturally there were many policies
paid out by the various companies,
and the fifth largest was that paid on
the life Of Seabury Davies, OF the firm
of Poe & Davies, Of Baltimore. vic
t m of the FLU" during its epidmeic late
last year. The amount paid was $780,
600
Over five million dollars was paid
out on Maryland policies, some & abe
largest in other cities being those of
Harry w. Bowers, Frederick. $25.323;
James Dawson Williams, Kensington,
$22.505; l.. NJ Schlens, Catonsville.
$25O17, and Bernard F. Shriver,
Union Mills, $4,000
The largest claim of 1918 was that
of Robert A. Rowan OF Los Angeles,
which called for $4,000.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-09-04
NOTICE

This Store will be open until
1880 P. NJ. on Tuesdays, Thurs
days and Saturdays, and until Z
P. NJ, on Mondays and Wednes-
days.
WlEGARD'S
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-09-04
ire Wood!

Place your order for your winter
fire wood now. Direct from the farm.
II. Y. X. HOWAT,
Phone 1924 F-6.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-09-04
Notice to Subscribers
in Annapolis

:, -o,,r PAPER is not delivered
o'clock and you will
- 81 7I-R, copy will
y sent by special boy.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-09-04
Partly Cloudy

Partly cloudy tonight and
Friday; slightly warmer
tonight. west portion.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-11-01
REvIVING WAR INSURANCE.

Soldiers and sailors who have al
owed their war insurance to lapse
should take note of the new treasury
lecision whereby men out of service
eighteen months or more may rein
cate their policies up to Dec. 81, 1919,
IN payment of two months premiums,
rovided they are still insurable ply
sically.
Many Of these po]icyholders have
dropped their insurance because they
Ire young and without dependents.
tut beyond question most of them
will some day be married and have
dependents and will need insurance.
Life insurance is regarded today by
our most substantial citizens as the
necessary equipment of every man of
amily, and many banks are publicly
advocating it as a measure of thrift.
These boys of the army and navy
can never again get insurance as
;heaply as it is offered by the govern
ment, and the terms for reinstatement
are exceedingly liberal. It would be
ne part of wisdom for these boys to
get their policies launched now and
at least partly paid for while they are
unburdened, financially, by family.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-11-01
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER /, 1919.
REGISTER OF TREASURY QUITS

REGISTER OF TREASURY QUITS.
Houston B. Tehee of Oklahoma, an
American Indian, has resigned as
register of the treasury and will go
to New York to become connected
with large oil firm. The resigna-
ton is effective Oct. 81. Four colored
men, Blanche K. Bruce, J. W. Lyons,
w. T. Vernon and J. c. Napier held
the Office at one time. The last
named was put out shortly after the
present Democratic administration as
sumed authority in 1913. The place
has been emasculated and does not
amount to much except that the salary
is the same.
At one time the Office Of the regis
ter Of the treasury was one of the
largest of the government bureaus,
having 500 employees. When Mr..
Lyons was register, there were nearly
100 employees. When Mr.. Napier as
sumed Office, he found the bureau cut
to one division, with about 20 en-
ployes. When Mr. Tehee came in he
found the number reduced to 10 or
IL and it is possible the next move
will be to wipe it out entirely.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-11-01

years, try the experiment of found
ing state upon the teachings of it's
Christ?
eve Cinnamon believe that trade
restrictions beget war. The West had
been at war for and because of it's
markets ever since your modern ciyili-
cation was created.
when the guns of Germany worked
destruction to the cathedrals Of
France, we heard you weeping aloud
in your market places because of the
loss of the architectural beauties of
Rheims and Louvain. Not one voice
was raised in honest protest because
OF the dissertation of the Inner taber-
nacle.
II attack not your Christian religion.
nor would I compare it unfavorably
with our Confucianism. You, how.
ever, do not practice your religion.
With you commercial relation comes
first in all things; the moral relation
is forgotten.
Lasting peace will come only when
you accept honestly the teachings of
the Christ whom you now only pre-
tend to worship"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-11-01

William Wilberforce and others ham
mered" at the vile wrong in England
The agitation was continued until the
year 1884 saw the abolition of slavery
in all British colonies. 49,.
Bond-seryice had strong hold in
the United States, bit the ABOLITION
lists had already unsheathed their
hammers" William Lloyd Garrison,
Frederick Douglass. Wendell Phillips,
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Sum-
ner and hundreds of others Hammer
ed" the great evil until the slave hold
ers' rebellion came, when hammers"
were exchanged for guns, and with
the assistance of nearly 100000 former
slaves, who fought nobly, the great
blot was wiped from the escutcheon.
The work of the hammer is not yet
complete. Thousands of social wrongs
still exist which must be hammered
until they disappear.
Thousands of men, such as women
slavers, jimcrowists and their ilk, men
who would barter their birthrights,
must be hammered until they beg for
mercy and reform or are knocked into
hell
Great is the hammer! Long may it
exist to knock down the Wrong; to
build up Right.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-11-01
An ApoloqIst.
(From the Washington

(From the Washington Bee.)
The Bee, at the time Major Motion
was named by committee of apollo
gists, said then that he was Hand
Picked Leader"
The condition OF the colored race
In this country is due to these "hand-
picked leaders," Now, in the first
place, Major Motion represents a class
Of white men and not the Colored
Americans.
He is not only ''hand-picked
leader" but an apologist who fails to
resent an insult. Would any Ameri-
can white man of any nationality at
tempt to make excuses for an insult
to his wife by common carrier.
Has this not been the policy of all
hand \picked leaders? This hand
picked representative apologies for
the insult offered his wife while en-
route to her home. Will Major Mo-
ton, the newly installed principal of
Tuskegee, enter suit for damages?
No, he would offer an apology to those
who had insulted his good wife. The
Bee has always been an admirer of
Major Motion, and thought that he
possessed manly traits, that would
commend him to the thoughtful con-
sideration of the American black
race, but The Bee must confess that
he is hand-picked leader and an
apologist.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-11-01
Should Open the Doors to Opportunity
(F'rOm the Chriotion Poo;ctor\


(From the Christian Register)
A circular sent out to employers in
a large city, calling attention to the
number and quality Of young colored
men trained in the schools of the city,
and asking cooperation and counsel
in making their services available,
brought one reply which though anony-
nous is significant of an opinion still
widely influential. Kindly send them
to Africa, instead of mixing them
with u.s." AS the expression of an in
d1vidual desire these two points are of
course admissible, but as practicable
measures it is curious that any intelli-
gent person should seriously entertain
them. Does any one suppose that the
colored population of the United
States could be sent to Africa, or that
II they were sent they would go? So
long as they are here, and have al
ready been mixing for more than a
century, and have the rights of citi-
zenship, including the right to die with
white men for their country, is it any
reckonable menace to responsibility
and Intrinsic leadership to open a few
more industrial doors to their proved
abilities and usefulness? While we
write, moVlng-van is unloaded by
two white men and one colored man.
Inc colored man is the boss, the
white men take his orders. There is
not the least trouble about it. There
would never be trouble If it were not
made by people of the temper of the
anonymous objector
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-11-01
INDIANS AGAINST SEGREGATION.

Three hundred members of the
American Society of Indians, in an.
nual convention at Minneapolis, voted
for the abolition Of the u. S. govern
ment Indian Bureau.
The reasons given by speakers are
that Indians should be regarded the
same as other American citizens and
do not need supervision.
A remarkable thing in connection
with this pronouncement is the fact
that the editor of THE APPEAL, in
wire to the President just before he
left for the Peace Conference at Paris,
in December, 1918, suggested the
same idea in reference to the Ameri-
can Indian.
DR.. G. E. Eastman, Amherst, Mass,
president of the organization, in an
address said the Indians were not un-
derstood; and would not be in the
United States, until an Indian IS presi-
dent
Even the American Indian, who was
robbed Of his country by the eau
castan, sees the menace of segrega-
ton, to which so many colored men
are Indifferent; and, some, actually
claim desire.
Through the influence Of certain
prominent colored men a negro
bureau was established in the Depart
ment Of Labor, as a war measure.
The war is over and it should be
abolished. Cut out the word negro"
In the government service. If all citi-
zens, regardless Of race or color, are
not subject to identical conditions be-
fore the law, then American democ-
racy is fake.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-11-01
REBS TO HONOR k. K. K.

Headed by the Robert E. Lee camp,
whose membership includes Gen. K.
M. Vanzandt, commander in chief of
the United Confederate Veterans, a
movement has been launched by local
veterans in Austin, Texas, for the
erection of a monument to the Ku
Klux Khan, which fourished in the
south in reconstruction days, for the
purpose of intimidating and murder
ing colored people to prevent them
from voting or exercising any rights
Of citizenship. 1t will be recalled that
Texas is the state in which Secretary
Shillady of the N. A. A. C. P. was
brutality assaulted about two months
ago because he was endeavoring to
aid the colored people. r-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-11-01
FEAR OMAHANS LYNCHED INNO
CENT MAN.
(From the Boston Post.)

(From the Boston Post.)
Omaha now is gravely questioning
whether Will Brown was guilty of the
act for which wild mob lynched him
after a night of lawlessness. Every
day that dawns brings increasing fear
that the awful deed was committed
upon man innocent of any "crime'
except that of having a black skin.
These revelations have aroused the
respectable majority of the commune
ty almost to the limit of endurance.
1t is reported that strangers visiting
the city are making pilgrimages to
the smoke-smirched hulk of the Doug
las County Court House, once the
pride of happy city. Their horror
adds but fire to the Indignation of
Omahans. Citizens demand the pun-
ishment of the lynchers, and declare
they are going to get it. Already
one hundred arrests have been made,
and prosecutions are at hand.
The deep revulsion from that wild
orgy Is a good thing for Omaha. It is
good thing also for America.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-11-01

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
a few families there seems to be lit
tie or no friction Trouble seems to
be caused by the coming of the
masses. r.
~ An example Of this is right here in
Minnesota in the town of Bemidji,
where there are not more than dozen
colored people. Charles w. Scrutchin
a colored man of African ancestry is
the leading lawyer, having 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??, 1919-11-01
RIGHT Mr.. WRIGHT.

A recent interview of Mr.. Edward
H. Wright, a $4,000 assistant corpora
ton counsel in Chicago, on What the
Colored People Want" which was pub
lished in the Chicago Daily News, il
80 admirable in It's general character
that THE APPEAL reprints some ex.
cerpts from the same:
what do the colored people want
politically in the LIST congressional dis
trict, where the bulk of those in Chi
! cago live, and why?" Assistant Cor
poration Counsel Wright was asked
today.
:'The co1ored man in the LIST con-
gressional district" replied Attorney
Wright, constitutes the backbone Of
the republican party and he desires
: politically what any other element OF
the American people desires under
like conditions. The colored man is a
native born American; he is 100 per
cent patriotic; he is intelligent and
progressive and his ambition is to
reach the status of absolute equality
as an American citizen.
Eve feel that If we bear all the bur-
dens and responsibilities of citizenship
we should be accorded all the priv
leges that 80 with it. We want no
special privileges-and we want no
special handicaps.
I'm all matters in which the law
governs we demand the same rights
that other American citezens enjoy.
But there is often friction and bad
feeling between the colored man on
the one side and all other races on the
other because there is not better un-
derstanding between the antagonistic
elements. "
"That better understanding may be
brought about the colsred man should
be represented in all bodies that have
to do with the shaping of policies un-
der which the people must live
He should be represented in con-
gress, in the legislature, in the coun-
Gil, in the governing committees of the
political parties with which he affli-
ates. f..
1T is unfortunate that the white
mans unreasoning prejudice Ono mat
ter to what party he belongs) makes
it almost necessity that the colored
man should have preponderance OF
the vote in a certain territory or have
at least the balance of power between
the parties before he is given any
political recognition. This has tend
ency to compel colored men to draw
racial lines as a matter of self protec-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-11-01

two or more interpretations of the
same word, each contrary to the
other?
To assert that a man is incapable
of accomplishing a meritorious deed,
without giving him an honest chance
for a try
To call man whose distant parents
or parent had Negro blood a Negro
and a white man whose parents were
Indian. Malay or Monaghan a white
man still?
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-11-01
ALL HAIL, 1.-THE HAMMER!"

For many years we have heard a lot
about throwing the Hammer" into the
discard and giving time to "construc-
tive work." Many have said: Build
up; never tear down.
But knocking and tearing down are
Just as necessary in the economy of
things, as building up. Battering
down Wrong is useful process and
must usually precede the building UP
of Right.
Foul as it is, hell itself is defiled
by the fouler presence of john" That
was tho terrible verdict of the con-
temporaries of King John Of England.
In his person were combined insol-
ence, seldshness, unbridled lust, cruel
ty, shamelessness and tyranny. The
barons rose against him and demanded
change A. D. 1915, they invited the
King to little meeting at Runny-
mede and they informed the absolute
monarch that there must be some ma
terial notifications in the autocratic
power of the King. John did not relish
the demand but he realized that he
stood alone and that the barons had
their little hammers" up their sleeves
and were ready to use them, so he
granted the Magma Charta. The Great
Charter was discussed, agreed to, and
signed in single day. Thus modern
democracy and liberty had their origin
in hammer" work.
In the sixteenth century the Cath
Ollie Church had grown corrupt. The
priests were guilty of immortality, ex-
tortion and all the other crimes in the
decalogue. The Inquisition was work.
ing overtime. When conditions were
at their worst, Martin Luther appeared
on the scene armed with "hammer,"
and he battered down the Devil so
braced Christianity and this in the
strongly entrenched in the church.
Thus began the Reformation which
separated the Protestant church from
the Romish See, and conferred in
estfmable benefits on mankind.
For many years the American COL
-ontes had been oppressed by England.
the mother country. The colonies
protested against taxation without
representation. Mother England re-
fused to heed the cries Of her children,
90 in 1775, the colonists revolted, the
drst blood shed being that of Crispus
Attacks, mulatto, whose valor the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, has
commemorated in enduring granite
and bronze on Boston Common. The
continued "hammering" Of the colon
ists finally brought the liberty which
was proclaimed, July 4, Its. - 80
In the seventeenth century, African
slavery was inaugurated in America.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-11-01

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-Assis
United States Attorney General VIM.
H. Lewis. Boston, Mass.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-11-01

anything out Of the ordinary was 60
ing on, at least it was about three
days before the government made any
move to curb the rioters. Now comes
Senator New, Republican of Indiana,
10 has introduced a resolution that
any person participating in a mob,
OF, or other public disturbance while
>othed in an army or navy uniform
would be subject to criminal prosecu-
lion.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-11-01

ton. This is all wrong on both sides.
The white man holds the solution
OF this question in his hands. Not
having reached this desirable point,
the colored man naturally seeks to
combine his energies to achieve those
things that ought to be freely accord
ed to him If he produces man COM
petent and deserving of preferment.
The colored republicans of the End
ward believe that their people should
be represented in the Cook county
republican committee. They believe
that in the End ward where the color
ed man constitutes 80 per cent of the
republican strength, they should select
a colored man, not because he is color
ed, but because he is deserving and
capable, as the head of the republican
organization, with voice in the man.
agement of the affairs of the party.
While many of the colored voters
believe that in the list congressional
district an effort should be made to
send a colored man to congress, there
are many others who feel that Con-
gresham Martin B. Madden has been
the one conspicuous member of Con-
gross who has stood up for the rights
of the colored people and they feel
that common justice requires that they
make no attacks upon Congressman
Madden unless he should fail to CO.
operate with them in matters for their
good in the district.
I'VE believe we should apply the
same rule to the delegates to the re.
publican national convention from
the LIST congressional district. We
should have one of the delegates and
he should cast his vote for a man for
president who represents American
ism in it's highest sense.
In the program herein outlined,
the enemies of the colored race will
raise the cry of negro domination
wherever the colored man is numer-
ically in the majority. This is all
rot.
''It is the desire and purpose of
the intelligent progressive colored
man to maintain the most friendly
relations with the white man and to
cooperate with him in all matters
touching the public welfare.
Cali they ask for is justice and
fairness in all public matters, and if
little Christian charity can be
mixed with it so much the better.
We will fight for absolute equality
under the law-no separate schools
nor separate cars-no segregation,
either voluntary or imposed We de-
mand the right to work out our
destiny as free American citizens
without being shackled by the chains
of race prejudice, and any man who
would deny these things to us is not
worthy of being an American citi-
zen."
THE APPEAL has only one fault
to find with Mr.. Wright's interview
his too frequent use of the word
negro" It's use aids in keeping the
colOred man shackled. There should
be no Poles, no Irish, no Germans,
no Negroes, nor hyphenates of any
kind in the U. S. A. The word Amer
lean ought to be broad enough to
cover all citizens.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-11-01
Ii MoY ZOOS IDEA.

A Chinaman, Ii Aoy Foo, of New
York, wrote to the New York World,
q letter which we reprint and respect
fully refer to hypocritical Caucasian
Christians of the U. s. A.:
IT a Chinaman may be permitted
to suggest, would it not be possible to
found better and more lasting peace
upon the Ten Commandments than
upon the fourteen points? - : Why
does not the West now, after 1909