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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-07-17
SAVE BOSTON, AND MAssA-
CHUSETTS.

William Monroe Trotter Makes a Stir
ring Appeal to tho People Of Boston
to Save the State of William Lloyd
Garrison from the Disgrace of jim
crow Christianity.
(From the Boston Guardian.)
Word comes that a public meeting
has been held in the Peoples Bap-
fist Church, addressed by Matthew
Bullock and by white men, announc-
ing that Boston is to have asColored
Branch of the Y M. c. A. This is
institutional jim-crowism, educational
and 'recreational segregation. Here
will be a. concrete lesson of separate
provisions for colored in a semi-public
institution supposedly for all men.
Here will be selfconfession of non
association ability Of colored people
with all the rest in the public life.
Jim-crowism and segregation are an
awful menace, degradation tand dan.
ger in our country. They are put up
On colored people only. Jim-crowism
is being extended. The rest Of the
American people, even foreigners, are
looking down upon US more and more
as they see that we alone are barred
out or separated in institutional and
public places. The minute we accept
a separate branch or place, the Segre-
gators get the argument on us that
We practice and accept 1t where we
can get money or position out Of it,
and so ought not to seek service where
they: lose money by it. We ruin our
case by advising separation with re-
gard to Christian educational places,
which should be open to US as
brothers, and are open in Boston, but
never are after a special place has
been established.
All over the West civil rights are
denied. We are even barred from
soda fountains, so strong is the JIM
crow feeling: Our people have no
chance to keep white people accus-
toned to contact with colored people,
in fact, they are taught it is unnatural
by separate Y. M. G. AS, etc. -
It is ten times harder to get public
service where whites see colored seq
regated in Christian institutions. In
Boston we have more rights and free
dom than anywhere else. We, then,
should keep out any civic separation.
One leads to another and soon Massa-
chusetts will be as bad as Ohio. Save
Massachusetts.
The South justifies jim-crow cars in
the incompatibility of white and COL
ored. In the name of the Abolitionists
do stubbornly oppose and resist any
Jlm-crow Y. M. c. A. in Boston. It is
a concession and help to the South
and Wilson. Accept this and We can't
stop other things. Our cause and race
is doomed. Jim-crowism breeds jim
crowism, and this in principle is of
the jim-crow car.
Protest to the Y. M. G.. A., in the
press, and in meetings. Our future is
at stake. SAVE BOSTON.
VIM. MONROE TROTTER.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-07-17

Under a new law the women Of
Jamaica, British West Indies, are to
have a vote in the elections for the
parochial boards and the legislature.
Every woman is entitled to vote If
she is rs years of age or more, can
read and write, and is of British ma
tionality, but she must have also GER
tain salary or property qualifications.
The salary designated Is $25 per year,
or she must pay $50 in rent or $40
takes on house, lands or personal
property. The requirements are so
liberal that 1t is estimated that ninety
per cent of the women can meet them.
According to the census the popu-
lation of Jamaica is about $4,000,
classified as "black," $4,000; "col-
ored,' 10000; "white," 10000. AS a
matter of fact, according to recent
visitors, there are, actually not 1000
people who can trace their ancestry
back to a point where there is no ad-
mixture of African blood. There are
also large numbers of Chinese, Japan
csc and East Indians among the popu-
lation, the Chinese controlling the
greater part of the retail trade. The
intermarriage of the whites, and Ne
groes, Chinese, Japanese and East
Indians has produced crop of beau
tiful children, really a new race to
which the various races have con-
tributed their best mental and physi-
cal points.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-07-17
He was so thOrOlghlv robbed IF his

He was so thoroughly robbed of his
mentality, that he complacently helped
manufacture the shot and shell which
enabled his masters to keep him in
slavery. When Liberty and Citizen
ship were granted him, his childish
mind could not grasp their signif1-
canoe. He took what was given him
with a thankful heart, thanks to the
teachings of the old school.
He has not yet demanded unequiv-
cally all that is due him! He fears
to refuse acceptance of the Half Loaf
and demand the WHOLE, trembling
lest he be denied any at all. With
apologize mien and Sinking smile,
he renders gratitude for Jim Crow
Settlement Houses, Jim Crow Soldiers
and Sailors Clubs, Jim Crow Y. M.
c. AS, Jim Crow Officers Training
Camps, Jim Crow churches, frater-
mites and politics.
He thus plays the begger's role in
0pAIO VI Luc ldCL CudC u0 las proven
himself to be an indissoluble and
indivisible entity of the whole warp
and wool Of America, economic, politi-
cal, military and social. He is the
economic: backbone of the South. He
holds the balance of political power
as he is beginning to learn. He has
always been the fangs of the American
army. His blood, suspected and I'M
suspected, flows in more veins than
any other one strain in America.
He is still a. slave if he accepts any
thing short of the full unstinted meas
ure of recognition: and respect. The
New Colored 'American will never
again be satisfied with EQUAL
RIGHTS when they are not the SAME
RIGHTS. The NEW Colored Ameri-
can, repudiating the teachings of the
old school, who led him into the quag-
mire of peonage and serfdom MUST
and WILL spurn the Half Loaf and
lay hold onto the WHOLE LOAF, $50
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-07-17
, Carrying the Color Line.
(FrOm the New York Age.)

There is tendency among the mem
Ders OF the race to be over sensitive on
the subject of color. This tendency is
OF course excusable to a certain ex-
tent, because of the fact that the mat
ter OF color is so frequently thrust
upon them. But it would be the part
OF wisdom and good policy to forget
the fact of color when possible and to
regard themselves merely as Ameri.
cans and good citizens.
Such an attitude maintained with
modesty and dignity would of time
dlsarm the outcropping of prejudice
based solely upon color, and would in
sure the individual the same treat
ment accorded people of other races.
CARRYING the color line as a chip on
the shoulder is sure way of provok.
ing resentment on the part of the
other fellow, while a calm and un.
concerned demeanor, with proper in
s1stence on the same sort Of treatment
and accommodations furnished the
public in general is more likely to win
acceptance and secure proper recogni.
ton.
|. Colored people should endeavor to
forget their color in public places and
regard themselves solely as an in.
tegral part Of the body polite, with
the same rights and privileges and the
same duties and responsibilities as
any other class of citizens. New York
is good place to practice such a pol
icy as cosmopolitan city where every
person is so intent on his own pursuits,
that so long as the other man or
woman does not tread on his toes, he
or she can go his own gait unmolested.
The public places and conveyances
are open to all, with the provision that
each persons rights end where his
neighbours begin. So there is no ne
cessity to faunt the color line in your
neighbours face, so long as he is in
different to your color and only asks
that you do not infringe on his rights.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-07-17
THE NOMINATION OF COX.

From the viewpoint of the colored
group the nomination of Governor Cox
of Ohio on the Democratic ticket is
eminently satisfactory. So far as we
know he has always been just in his
treatment of the colored citizens of
his state.
And whether Harding or Cox be
elected, the next president Of the
United States will be a Northern man..
and that is something to be thankful
for, The nomination of McAdoo would
have been dangerous for democracy,
because he might have been elected.
He now lives in New York, but he was
born in Georgia, and has in his soul
the contempt which the Georgia white
people as a rule have for the colored
people. We must not forget that
McAdoo struck one Of the most con-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-07-17

groes to be excluded from the new
enlistment, especially such as are
slaves?" All were thought improper
by. the council of officers. It was
agreed that they be rejected alto
gether. <
In general orders, issued November
IL, 1775, Washington says: Neither
negroes, boys unable to bear arms,
nor old men unfit to endure the ia
t1gues Of the campaign are to be en-.
listed"
Permitted Their Enlistment.
Washington however, in the last
days Of the year, under representa-
tons to him that the free colored men
who had served in his army were very
much dissatisfied at being discarded.
and fearing that they might seek en-
ployment in the British army, took
the responsibility to depart from the
resolution respecting them and gave
license for their being enlisted.
Washington promised that If there
was any objection on the part of Con-
gress he would discontinue the enlist
ing OF colored men, but, on January
IL, ITS, Congress determined THAT
fully in the army at Cambridge may
be re-enlisted therein, but no Others"
The entire aspect of the affairs
changed when, in 1879 the South be-
gan to be invaded. South Carolina,
especially, was unable to make any
effectual efforts with militia. by reason
OF the great proportion of citizens
necessary to remain at home to pre-
vent Instructions among the colored
men and their assertions to the enemy,
who were assiduous in their endeavors
to excite both revolt and desertion.
The result was that in all the South
ern states the legislatures passed reso-
lutions to enlist the colored men, and
the colored patriots of the Revolution
are as much entitled as their white
brethren for the ardor with which
they fought the common enemy,
whether they were bondmen or free
men. 1t has never been possible to
give an exact statement as to the
number of colored men who served in
the Revolution, for the reason that
they were generally mixed in regi-
ments and not calculated separately
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-07-17
:4THE TRAGEDY OF THE HALF
! : - LOAF" !.

: THE: APPEAL heartily. endorses
every word: Of the following editorial
from our enterprisiag and uncompro-
missing contemporary, The Chicago
ip.4VNVkha 1,it,zsthat=there aFe-so
few whips" among the papers edited
by colored men:
The strongest races Of men, and the
most indomitable characters of history
have always either uneompromisingly
demanded every scintilla of their just
rights, or, being denied the full meas
ure of attainment of their ideals have
spurned even life itself. Z -:
Patrick Henry in crying out for
"either liberty or DEATH" voiced the
sentiment of the Pilgrim Fathers, who
preferred the unknown horrors of the
great uncharted Western ocean and
the savage-ridden land beyond to re-
ligious oppression" in comfortable
home. i
But the American colored man is
apparently satisfied with the HALF
LOAF. For $50 years he was so told
that he was entitled to NOTHING
that he even enjoyed life itself by suf-
france. His mind was 80 deliberately
dwarfed and stunted that he could not
even think to the contrary.
So we'll was this. psychology in
grained into him, that even today, race
leaders Of the old school, finding it i'm
possible to break from this log cabin
philosophy, handed it down to free
men," AZ
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-07-17
"BACk TO ABYSSlNIA."

A lot of ignorant black men, attired
in fantastic garments, bearing aloft
the flag Of Abyssinia, and led by an
alleged Abyssinian, paraded in Chi
cago Sunday. The. procession finally
halted at corner where the Abys-
sinian leader burned the American
flag. This action was resented by the
crowd composed of colored and white
people and in the melee two white
men were killed and two colored men,
including "a policeman, were; danger:
ously wounded. 49,. :.
The. toughs in the crowd tried to
start race riot, but sober white men
and sober colored men stood together
and trouble was averted. ;Colored men
formed a posse, hunted down the men
charged with murder and turned them
over to the. officers of the law. =:
The next day the Chicago Tribune,
which for years has done everything
In its power to stir up race prejudice,
laid the cause of the trouble to the
writings Of DR.. w. E. B. Dubois and
the N. A. A. G. P. and in bitter edi-
torial intimated that these influences
were endeavoring to force social
equality" what ever that may mean.
It is not likely that three men in all
the motley crowd even knew that
there is such person In the world
as Du Bots.
Then came some colored men who
played into the Tribune's> hands by
giving out interviews which either de-
nounced Du Bots or damned him with
faint praise by saying that his philos-
pphy was all right for high brows but
dangerous for the men in the ordinary
walks Of life. One Of the most dis
gushing of these is alleged to have
been given by Mr.. Anderson, said to
be one of the assistant editors of the
Chicago Defender. We trust Mr..
Anderson did, not say, what was as
cribed to him, as from his talk the
readers of the Tribune would be led
TO infer that he was an advocate Of
segregation Of every kind. And then
he commented on :1ntermarriage which
really had no place in the controversy,
having been :interjected by the: Fri.
bune without an y reason whatever.
Mr.: Anderson appears to have done
some queer talking when he said he
was very anxious to- keep the African
blood pure as, so THE APPEAL Is
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-07-17
e
coLoRED CoLONlAls.
Many coIored Men in the American
War for independence.

The employment of colored men be-
came a subject of much Importance at
an early stage of the American War
Of Independence. The British natur-
ally regarded slavery as an element
Of weakness in the condition of the
colonies, in which the slaves were
numerous, and laid their plans to gain
the cOlored men and induce them to
take up arms against their masters
by promising them liberty on this con-
dition.
The situation was looked upon by
the public men of the colonies as
alarming, and several OF them urged
the Congress to adopt the policy of
emancipation. But while the general
question of emancipation was de-.
feated, the exigencies of the contest
again and again brought up the .prac-
teal one of employment for colored
men. whether bond or free So
Only Freemen Wanted in Army.
In May, ITS, Hancock and War
ren's committee of safety introduced
the following formal resolution: IRE.
solved, That It Is the opinion Of this
committee, as the contest now be-
tween Great Britain and the" colonies
respects the liberties and privileges
OF the latter, which the colonies are
determined to maintain, that the ad.
mission Of any person as q soldier into
the army now raising, but only such
as are freemen, will be inconsistent
with the principles that are to be sup
ported and reflect dishonor on these
colonies, and that no slaves be ad-
mitted into this army upon any con-
sideration whatever"
Washington took command of the
army around Boston on July 8, Its.
The instructions for the recruiting
officers from his headquarters at Cam
bridge prohibited the enlistment Of
any negro" It may also be noticed
that they were forbidden to enlist
ANY person who Is not an American
born, unless such person has a wife
and family apd is settled person
In this country"
Many coIored Men Enrolled.
Notwithstanding all this, the fact
remains, according: to Bancroft, that
the roll of the army at Cambridge
had, from its first formation, borne
the names of men of color" Free
colored men stood In the ranks by the
side of white men. In the beginning
Of the war they had entered the
provincial army, and the colored men,
like others, were retained in the serv-
ice after the troops were adopted by
the continent"
A committee on conference, consist
Ing of DR.. Franklin, Benjamin Harri-
son and Thomas Lynch, met at Cam
bridge, October 10, ITS, with the
deputy governors of Connecticut and
Rhode Island and the committee of
the council of Massachusetts Bay, to
confer with Gen. Washington, and ad-
wise method for renovating tho
army. On the 23d OF October the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-07-17
APPEAL FIGHTS JIMcRoWIsM.

Saint Paul, MIMI, July 3, 1920.
Mr.. William M. Trotter,
Editor The Guardian,
Boston, Mass.
My dear Mr.. Trotter:
I am enclosing small check to aid
you in your fight against the proposed
Jimcrow Y. M. c. A. for Boston.
The attempt of some uckspittle
leaders to foist this disgraceful con-
dtt1on upon the city in which William
Lloyd Garrison battled for the free
dom Of the slave shows that the COL
ored people who sponsor such an in
stitutioh are unfit for freedom and
are unworthy Of the respect of decent
people.
If Jimcrow Y. M. G. A. is right,
then lynching, disfranchisement, jim
crow cars and all Of the denominations
Of the South are right. If Jimcrow
Y. M. G. A. is right, then CHRIS
TIANITY Is A LIE.
There is absolutely nothing in the
argument, zone should not go where
he Is, not wanted" when it is applied
TO, public or semi-public places. A
Y. M. c. A. is a semi-public place
and it is always and everywhere open
to the most degraded Irish, Germans,
Japanese, Chinese, Poles, Russians,
Coreans, Indians, South Sea Islanders
and all other peoples, no matter if
they are the scum of the earth. Col
ored people should go to the Y. M. c..
AS whether they are wanted or not.
To admit that one, has no right in
them is to admit that one is not
human:
In the United States, segregation
usually, begins IN the church or in
some so-called church institution, and
then follows the loss Of civil rights
and civil degradation The Caucasian
Christian church is parody on Chris
tianity and has done the colored peo-
pie incalculable harm.
The most valuable thing in the
world is manhood. There is nothing
that will take it's place. 1t is a jewel
beyond price.
I glory In the fact that you are al
ways ready to protest against Wrong
and do not hesitate even when the
devil, Wrong, comes masquerading in
the habillments of the Christ.
Remember the words of Ella
Wheeler Wilcox:
TO sin by silence when We should
protest makes towards out of men,
The human race has climbed on pro-
test. T., Had no voice been raised
against injustice, ignorance and lust,
the tnquisition yet would serve the
law. and guillotines decide our least
disputes. The few. who dare must
speak and speak again to right the
wrongs Of the many"
The American Federation of Labor
has just erased the color line, but
hypocritical American Christianity
takes advantage of the colored mans
deep religious feelings and strength
ems the Infamous caste system in an
effort to deprive the race of it's civil
rights. for that is what segregation
Of any kind leads to.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-07-17
CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY.


About twenty-five years ago, the
world was Mortified by the news of the
first lynching by burning at the stake,
which occurred at Paris, Texas Since
that time the rule of the mob has in
creased by leaps and bounds. Even
our own state has been disgraced by
mob murder.
Paris, Texas, has just celebrated the
twenty-ffth anniversary of the estab.
'lishment Of burning at the stake as
the rule in the United States, when
colored men are charged with crime,
by saturating with oil and burning at
stakes. two colored men, who were
charged with the murder of their land
lord, In a dispute about rental of a
farm.
Sheriff Clarkson, so the dispatch
reads, said: 1.-THE mob probably
burned the wrong men, o
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temptible blows at the colored race
when he instituted racial segregation
in the Treasury Department at Wash
ington. farewell Crown Prince!
Let us be thankful that the Wilson
administration, the "reigning family"
which has done so much to injure the
nation in general and the colored peo-
pie in PARTICULAR, will soon be a thing
of the past.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-07-17
GRAND JURY FINDS THAT PUBLIC SAFETY
HEAD IS INCOMPETENT FOR PLACE
SAYS HIS ACTION HAS DISGRACED POLICE FORCE
AND PLACED FOUL BLOT UPON CITY,
MURNIAN AND SERGEANT OLSON ARE cokDEmhp FOR
FAILING TO PREVENT LYNcHIkG OF coLoRED MEN:
Duluth, Mimi, July 16.
Special to THE APPEAL.

William r. Murna city commissioner of
Men Of public safety unfit for his job His lack Of action
the night IS disgaced the police for all
in it's history.
This is the meat of the finding of the special grand which
has been the events of the night of June 49, when
mob which
the alleged outrage of West Duluth by
hands, stormed the city JAIL wrecked place without
effective from the police red" suspects
them death, hanged block
from police headquarters -"
The physician who examined the girl testified that
not been assaulted at ALL
Twenteigh true bills have been found against the lychers
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True Race Pride.
(From the Boston Guardian

(From the Boston Guardian)
On equal rights do not be misled
by the talk that you are lacking in
race pride for wanting to be where
you are not wanted if it refers to
affairs for the public. Race pride,
self-respect require that you insist on
being permitted to be present where
you have normal right to be as
citizen, and where there is no reason
for you not being wanted except con-
tempt merely for your race.