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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-08-07
RIGHTS SHOULD BE SAME,

In general way, Hr. Harding, the
Republican candidate for President,
says that he is for the rights of col
ored men. He says, II believe that
colored men should be guaranteed the
enjoyment of all their rights -.
Those are good words and we thank
him for having said them; but in the
United States there is wide diver
gence Of views as to the rights Of the
Negro" or colored man" or afro.
American" In one state it means one
thing and something else in another
state. Even in Ohio rights" of the
colored man has an uncertain mean
ing. In the South, rights" for any
other than a white man has little
meaning.
Mr.. Harding would enhance his
chances for securing the votes of col
ored men and women by stating that
the rights of both white and colored
American citizens should be absolute
ly identical. .
MIR. Harding, If elected, the first
thing you can do, without the "advice
and consent" of the Congress, will be
to issue an executive order abolishing
racial segregation, which is carried on
in the departments at Washington and
in some parts 81 the country without
warrant of law.
:, Mr.. Harding, II elected, will you Is.
sue such an order? =. -, ~
Mr.. Harding. If elected, will you
favor the enforcement Of the Civil
War Amendments to the Constitution,
as we'll as other amendments, and sd
recommend in your messages to Con
gress? 49,, H.. -y... r.. .. ..,..
Mr.. Harding, if elected, will you
recommend and endeavor to secure
the enactment Of Federal santi-lynch-
ing law? (s:s "~..:-. 1-.r-%t. ~.,. -. :
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(d) That office holding should be
untrammeled with. the full rights of
any citizen to hold same and enjoy
the emoluments thereof. -.
The program" is very good as far
as it goes, but it. stops farz short, Of
what it should be. And there is a
fatal defect: The colored voters are
expected to swallow the bait and sup
port the party on faith. Neither the
party nor the platform, nor the nomi-
nee, gives any assurance that the pro:
gram will be carried out in case the
Republican party regains power. The
only way to be sure of its fulfillment
is for the nominee to say NOW that
he will carry it out and then let the
publicity men and spellbinders spread
the news. 49,, j..
Mr.. johnson is a shrewd politician
and he knows that all deals" must be
made BEFORE the election or they do
not. amount to much. Mr.. Johnson
does not take anything for granted in
his own personal political deals. AL,
though not from Georgia., one must
always "show" him. In the recent
pro-convention campaign it is alleged
that he made several pilgrimages to
the capital of Illinois and conferred
with Governor Lowden and Secretary
of State Emerson, and it is said to
have been arranged that if he secured
Lowden delegates that cash would be
furnished tor the expenses of the cam
paign in Georgia and that Johnson
would be given fat job. Mr.. Johnson,
in his own testimony before the Sen
ate Investigating Committee, estab-
lished the fact that he received $4,000
from the .Lowden fund for: the ex-
penses Of securing delegates pledged
to Lowden. He did not try to get
delegates with program" He should
use the same care in arranging a
program" for the colored people to
see that there are some pledges behind
it. Without definite pledge it means
little, perhaps nothing: : = -:
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-08-07

protest makes towards out of men.
The human race has climbed on pro-
test. Had no voice been raised
against tinjustice ignorance and lust,
the inquisition 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 its civil
rights, for that is what segregation
of any kind leads to.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-08-07
JAMAICA, WOMEN TO VOTE.

i Under. q, new law the women of
Jamaica, British W<st 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 Is years OF age or more, can
read and write, and is Of British ma
;ttonality, ebnt she must have also GER
tain salary or property qualifications.
The salary designated is $25 per year,
or she must pay $50 in rent OF $40
taxes: on house, lands or personal
property. The requirements are so
liberal that it is estimated that ninety
per cent of the women can meet them.
According to the census the popu-
lation of Jamaica is about $50, 900,
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 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-
1ation, the Chinese controlling the
greater part OF the retail trade. The
tntermarriage of the whites, and Ne.
groes, Chinese, Japanese and East
indians has produced a 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??, 1920-08-07
Carrying the, Color Line,
(From the New York Ace


There is tendency among the men,
bers 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. j.
Such an attitude maintained with
modesty and dignity would Of time
disarm the outcropping of prejudice
based solely upon color, and would in
sure the individual the same treat
ment accorded people of other, races.
carrvins 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 I'M
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. - =, u. = ~ :. i
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 a 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 60 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
neighbor's 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??, 1920-08-07
JtMcRoWIsM FOR BOSTON.

The attempt of some lickspittle
leaders to .foist this disgraceful con.
dition 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:
stitution are unfit for freedom and
are unworthy Of: the: respect Of decent
people. q .s~t e-1a.: c.4. s-"~. =:
II a Jimcrow Y. M. c.: A. is right,
then lynching, Acknowledgement, Jim.
crow cars and all of the denominations
of the South are right. II q Jimcrow
IN c. A. lis right, then CHRIS.
T1AN1TY IS A LIE. II =. :: -. - Ill.,
There is absolutely nothing in the
argument, lone should not 60 where
he is not wanted" when it is applied
to public or semi-public places. A
7. M. c. A. is 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. G.
AS whether they are wanted or. not.
To admit that one has no right in
them is to admit that one is not
human. IF j
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 a 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 its place. It is a jewel
beyond price.
Remember the words a Of Ella Ia,
Wheeler Wilcox:
ITO sin BY silence when we should
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-08-07
Mr.. JoHNsoN's PROGRAM.

: Mr.. Henry L., Johnson, who has been
appointed as head of the "colored"
bureau Of the Republican National
Committee, announces a program"
as follows:
(a) A law forbidding Jim-Crow
cars entering the capital at Wash
ington:. - ~" 49, 4
(b) A General Executive Order
forbidding any such thing as segre-
cation in any department Of the gov
eminent or federal territory of the
United States. -
(c) Passage, OF a law making lynch
Ing federal crime, with trial before,
and punishable by the United States
Court. : g. - ~ = a. T.. . ,. ~, ;
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-08-07

jimcrowism of any kind in the cam
paign. "A ready-addressed stamped en-
yelope was enclosed for reply, but,
up to this writing, no reply has been
received. H. @s=.1z .. - :.
!, The Cleveland Advocate is authority
for the statement that Mr.. Johnson
will select speakers "who will address
colored gatherings exclusively and no
speakers will be assigned to speak
from the same platform with a white
speaker and before mixed audience"
If this is true, it is the most outrag-
eous- segregation of which we have
ever heard in politics. If white and
colored citizens Of a common country
can not meet in a political campaign,
where on earth can they meet? This is
segregation with a vengeance and if
this is to be the policy of the ,Repub-
lican' National Committee in the pres
ent campaign, THE APPEAL does not
hesitate to say that it is Infamous and
should be reversed Immediately. It
should not only be reversed, but wide
publicity should be given to the fact of
it's reversal. Further, proof should be
given that it really has. been changed
by having good colored speakers ap-
pear and address all of the large meet
iugs in the large cities OF the country.
There is no necessity for a segre.
gated .colored bureau, and in spite Of
the fact that some, who have axes to
grind, favor it, its formation is really
an insult to the party loyalty of the
colored people. There might be some
excuse for organizing a foreign Ian.
g,iage division for the. purpose of
reaching naturalized Americans who
have a limited knowledge OF the En-
oglish language. All other Americans,
either: naturalized or native born Of
English, Scottish, Irish, French, Ger
man, Spanish or other descent, who
speak English, will do business through
the regularly constituted bureaus at
the, national headquarters. -: /;
The colored people of this country
are not NATURALIZED, they are
NATIVE BORN AMERICANS, and En-.
glish is their mother tongue. Accord
ing: to the census of 1910, only 1876 of
the so.called colored people in the
United States were born in Africa.
Having: lived in America for ten or
twelve generations, the colored people
have a clearer idea of real American
ism than the millions Of foreigners
who have come later and have done
less, for the country. And they feel
that they are entitled to the rights of
citizenship in all their fullness.
Now is the time to find out what
the party and it's nominees will do.
It will be fatal to wait until after the
election to make demands So shrewd
a politician as Henry Lincoln Johnson
knows that arrangements must be
made In advance. He ranged to
have himself elected national commit
:eeman early in the game and then,
when prominent Republicans tried to
got him out they were unable to do 40,
If he had delayed he might not now be
committeeman.
j.: We must get busy NOW.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-08-07
Mr.. Harding, IL elected, will you en-

Mr.. Harding, II elected, will you en-
deavor to secure the abolition of the
Jimcrow car in Interstate travel? -
Mr.. Harding, sc elected, will you
recommend and endeavor to- secure
legislation abolishing the color line
in the Unl,ed, States Army and lin the
United States Navy? '%a.'s' @ .vs,Sss:'s@.
Mr.. Harding: The things asked for
are not to secure special privileges,
but. to abolish special privileges, to
the end that the rights of citizenship
may be equal without regard to race,
color, creed or sex. .
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-08-07
JAMAICA.

Jamaica is British colony, the
largest island. Of the British West In
dies, SO the Governor General and
other chief officials are sent over from
England to rule the Jamaicans, but
colored men have risen to the highest
places, to which native Jamaicans may
aspire. The Attorney General, the
Assistant Postmaster General, the AS
sistant Collector Of Customs and the
Assistant Registrar General are COL
ored men,
Many Of the largest businesses are
conducted by colored men. The larg.
est department store in Kingston, the
capital land principal !, city OF the
tsland is owned sby men of.mixed black
and white blood, and the sales ladies
are the most beautiful black, colored,
eChino-Jamaican, Japanese,Jamaican,
jewish Jamaican, Hindu-Jamaican,
Spanish-Jamaican, French-Jamaican
and Caucasian girls, that the island
affords, all working together in per.
feet harmony and with no thought of
color.
There is no color line, and the diff.
ferent races and colors mingle freely
in civil and social life without any
friction whatever. OF course, some of
the English who come over to be pub.
lie officials, try to form a little clique
[of their own, and the few Americans
are Mortified to find that there are
no social distinctions based on color
but their opinions cut no figure, and
they are compelled to accept the con
ditions as they find them. ;.~
The majority of the people are com.
municantse OF the Church Of England
though there are many Catholics, Yves.
leyans and Baptists. Practically all
Of the people attend the same
churches. there being no such thing
az q: "colored": branch Of the Church
of England In recent years the Bap
lists and :Methodists from the United
States have organized "colored'
branches Of these churches.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-08-07
SATURDAY, AUGUST Z, 1920.
SEGREGATION IN CAMPAIGN.

For two years THE APPEAL has
been writing to tho Chairman and
other officers Of the Republican Ma
tional Committee and prominent Re-
pubilcans all over the country on va
rious party policies, giving the view
point Of q large number Of eolored
voters, and the replies received in
variably said that the contentious were
right.
In the matter of putting colored men
on the platform and policies COM
mittee OF the Republican National
Committee, appointed last January,
Chairman Hays accepted the viewpoint
OF THE APPEAL and appointed five
colored men as full and equal mem
bers.
Then came suggestions for the In.
corporation Of certain planks in the
party platform THE APPEAL was
not alone, the National Association,
for the Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie, the National Equal Rights League,
and a mum Der of strong national and
local organizations offered planks,
which, although differently worded,
were the same in meaning. In the
matter Of lynching, the platform COM
mittee of the Republican National Con-
vention, in the language Of prominent
colored women, when we asked for a
plank, gave us splinter" The other
planks offered for the abolition of seq
regation in the civil service, in the
Army, in the Navy, and on common
carriers, were all thrown into the dis
card. s.x.
Recently THE APPEAL has written
to the nominees, Republican National
Committee people and prominent Re-
publicans, asking that jimcrowism be
eliminated, and we were led to believe
that, in spite of the, fact that the
Republican National Convention had
sidestepped a clear-cut plank for equal
rights for all Americans, there would
be no segregation in the campaign.
Now comes the information that a
segregated colored bureau is to be es-
tablished, with Mr.. Henry Lincoln
Johnson, of Georgia, at its head. Short
ly after Mr.. Johnson was elected a
member of the Republican National
Committee, THE APPEAL wrote to-
him and asked him as a member Of
the committee to make a fight against
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-08-07
1.-THE TRAGEDY or THE HALF
LOAF"


THE APPEAL heartily endorses
every word of the following editorial
from our enterprising and uncompro-
missing contemporary, The Chicago
Whip. What pity that there are so
few whips" among the papers edited
by colored men: >;~.-.>&.S. *=:s.as.
The strongest races of men; and the
most indomitable characters of history
have always either uncompromisingly
demanded every scintilla of their just
rights, or, being denied the full meas
ure of attainment of their ideals have
spurned even life itself. w..
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 a comfortable
home. :.. .,,, .. .-.-' "a
But the American colored man is
apparently satisfied with the HALF
LOAF. For ESQ years he was SO told
that he was entitled to NOTHING
that he even enjoyed lite itself by suf-
france. His mind was so 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,"
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 signid-
canoe. He took what was given him
with g thankful heart, thanks to the
teachings Of the old school. 80,
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. Grow
Settlement Houses, Jim Grow Soldiers
and Sailors Clubs, Jim Crow Y. M.
c.. AS. Jim Grow Officers Training
Camps, Jim Crow churches, frater-
mites and politics.
He thus plays the begger's role in
spite Of the fact that he has 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 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, 80
help him God!"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-08-07
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, tho in
QUESTION yet would serve tho law, and
euiIIotines decide our least disputes. !
The few who dare must speak and
speak again to right the wrongs Of
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-08-07
coIored Men Nominated.

st. Louis, Mo.-Two colored men
won Republican nominations for the
state legislature from ST. Louis in the
primary election. They are Langdon
Harrison and w. N. Moore, Of the
third and sixth districts, respectfully.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-08-07

honor the man who in the consci-
entio.ls discharge Of his duty dares to
stand alone; the world, with ignorant,
intolerant Judgment, may condemn,
the countenances of relatives may be
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.