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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-06-12
BUILDING A PLATFORM.

For many years the Republican
party has been Indifferent to it's faith
full allies, the colored people, and
even since the party is in power in
Congress, efforts of good Americans
to get the Republican party to elm
mate jimcrowism from legislation
have failed.
Now the platform makers are at
work in Washington. The press dis
patches tell Of many tentative planks,
but there is the usual silence about
Fundamental rights which are of more
interest to group of about 10000
Americans than anything else.
There are colored members Of the
advisory committee, but we have not
been able to learn that they have done
anything. Is it possible that they are
jimcrow men who are willing to keep
their mouths shut when it is time to
speak?
THE APPEAL believes that there
should be a short and strong plank,
with no reference to "the colored
man" or "the Afro-American" or 1.-THE
Negro" but a demand for exact Jus.
tice for all American citizens and
should include:
1. The enforcement of the Constitu
ton of the United States.
2. A national anti-lynching law.
8. Abrogation of racial segregation
in the civil service of the United
States and in the Army and in the
Navy.
4. Abolition of the jimcrow car in
interstate travel.
There must be no evasion. Let the
Republican party speak out plainly
for equality of citizenship. If the ad.
visory body will not hear, the fight
must be carried to the Republican
national convention at Chicago and an
attempt made to get an equal citizen.
ship plank in the platform or know
the reason why.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-06-12
CHRISTIAN SOLDIER"

THE APPEAL of May 1, contained
the following editorial:
The stage is all set and when the
quadrennial conference of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church meets in Des
Moines, Iowa, this month, it is likely
that that most Infamous action ever
attempted in the history Of Christian
ity will become an accomplished fact.
The great event Of the meeting is
to be the uniication of the North and
South branches of the church, which
separated over the slavery question
many years before the shareholders
rebellion.
When the separation took place the
Northern branch took stand for
Christianity, humanity and freedom,
while the Southern branch stood for
slavery.
Now after 70 years they are to re.
unite by casting aside every vestige
of Christianity, and segregating the
colOred members Of the church.
It is a plan conceived in hell,
nurtured and sustained by the devil
and a reputation of the basic princi-
pies by the Christ which this great
church claims to follow.
And the disgusting part is, that
some colored men are partners in the
infamy.
We learn from the press dispatches
that the trick has been turned and
the Infamous scheme consummated,
and the great M. E. church has torn
down the banner of Christ, who taught
the equality Of races, and has substi-
tuted black flag. Two "negro''
bishops having been elected. That
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-06-12
THE REASON, ;.

The Boston Guardian edited by Will
liam Monroe Tratter, is the paper
which stands first and foremost in
the battle against jimcrowism. The
following editorial from recent issue
is timely:
The reason that a preparatory Y.
M. G. A. or civic centre is a step
backward is that in the North it
means nothing less than an invita-
ton to white men conducting places
for public patronage or recreation,
to refuse, deny or segregate all COL
ored patronage and point to such an
institution as a just reason for so
doing, and soon the idea as we'll as
the practice of setting colored Ameri-
cans off by themselves in all places
for public accommodation will spread
until, as in many cities throughout
the North will be found segregating
or denial in theatres, restaurants
and such places, until it reaches the
public schools.
Every attempt to help in any way
the singing out of colored Americans
as a race, in this country, for whom
must be maintained separate places
of public accommodation, must be
def1antly fought, not even lending ear
to the argument so common in cities
OF the middle West that such sep.
arate institutions furnishes "jobs"
for our men and women.
The colored people can not sell their
citizenship rights in education and
with the proceeds, pay the salaries
OF a few persons who may get en-
ployment in such Jim crow insti.
tutions.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-06-12

would be all right if they were to be
real bishops with identical powers of
the white bishops, but they are not
and It never was intended that they
should be equal. Their powers are
limited and they are to preside over
negro" conferences only. The most
nauseating thing of the whole bust
ness is the fact that some of the COL
ored men in the church supported the
plan and are rejoicing that they have
been officially and permanently seq
regated and declared inferior.
In this country there is a great Or
ganization known as the A. M. E..
church. 1t is monument to the man.
hood of Richard Allen, who refused to
be jimcrowed and founded the A. M.
E. church. The colored people in the
M. E. church could have joined with
the A. M. Els but it seems that the
people preferred to remain where they
are segregated.
Now that the M. E. church has re-
pudiated the teachings of Christ and
unfurled the banner of jimcrowism,
the choir will please sing, "Onward,
Christian Soldier!"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-06-12
COLORED COLONlALs.
Many Colored Men in the American,
War for Independence.

war TOR 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 bv
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-
1eated, the exfgencies Of the contest
again and again brought up the prac-
teal one of employment for colored
men, whether bond or free.
Only Freemen Wanted in Army.
In May, ITS, Hancock and War
ren's committee of safety introduced
the following formal resolution: RE-
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 a 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 3, 1776
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-06-12
Lack of Labor Caused by Migration
to North Causes White South to
Make Some Concessions.
Special to THE APPEAL.

ATLANTA, Ca, June 2.-Whether it
be change in the real attitude of the
south toward the colored people, as
some assert, or the fact that their
migration to the north has left the
south in an economic state which
make concessions to them necessary,
the fact remains that the sessions of
the eleventh annual conference of the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People,, which
has been in session here since Mon
day, have received more notice from
the southern press and southern indi-
viduals of standing than any of the
conferences hitherto held. At the
first session, which took place at the
new A. M: &. Bethel church, the mayor
of the city was present. That itself,
according to Atlantans was an
achievement. The mayor is said 70
represent a large labor and working
class element.
Five hundred delegates from 343
branches and forty states who with
$500 others crowded the hall, acclaim
ed enthusiastically demands upon the
south made by James Weldon John
son, field secretary of the association
Five Demands Upon the South
These demands were: CD Guaranty
OF life by abolition of lynching; ca
demand for equal education and in
dustrial opportunities; (3) demand
for the ballot under the same qualifi-
cations as others; (4) abolition of seq
regation, and 50 abolition of Jim
Crow cars. The Rev. Ashby Jones,
noted southern preacher-orator, made
plea for cooperation.
Migration to Force Justice.
The Rev. DR.. Robert Bagnall, a COL
ored speaker, in an address said that
when migrations of colored people to
the north were at the height in 1879
the same kind of racial conferences
had been proposed with no success
DR.. Bagnall declared that the only way
to secure justice for the colored peo-
pie in the south was for him to con-
tlnue to migrate until the south real
lied that as matter of economic
necessity it would have to grant the
five demands Mr.. Johnson had out.
lined.
A telegram from Louis F. Post, as
sistant secretary of labor pointing out
the fact that to the extent that indus
try is dependent on colored working
men, to that extent production is
checked by injustice to them, aroused
tremendous enthusiasm and was the
subject of commentator by succeed
ing speakers. A telegram from Jacot
H. Schiff asking for justice to the col
ored people also was read.
Mrs. Florence Kelley was one of the
speakers and made a plea for organ
lied effort among colored people in
buying farm materials and nipple
ments and in effecting unity among
Themselves
The Spingarn medal for the mos;
noteworthy achievement OF the year
by man of African descent was pre-
sented to DR.. w. E. B. Du Bots bv
Bishop Hurst for holding the par.
African congress in Paris.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-06-12
Is It Fair?
(FrOm the Monitor, OmaI

(From the Monitor, Omaha.)
To stand before the God of heaven
and earth with trumpets and loud
voice and proclaim: 'Thank God we
GU. S. are not as other people are
We write upon our books laws grant.
ing to all our people equality" Then
write other laws abrogating the pre-.
vious regulations? And when you do
not think it feasible to put them in
print, simply make it an unwritten
rule that serves your purpose as we'll
To covet your neighbor's goods
(rights) and if he should demonstrate
with you, to Stay him?
For so-called democracy to have
two or more interpretations of the
same word, each contrary to the
other?
To assert that man is incapable
of accomplishing a meritorious deed,
without giving him an honest chance
for a try.
To call a man whose distant parents
or parent had Negro blood a Negro
and white man whose parents were
Indian, Malay or Monaghan a white
man still?
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-06-12

The instructions for the recruiting
officers from his headquarters at Cam
bridge prohibited the enlistment Of
any negro" 1t 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 and 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 it's 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 the
army. On the 23d of October the
negro question was presented and dis
posed OF as follows: Ought not ne
groes to be excluded from the new
enlistment. especially such as are
slaves?" All we're thought improper
by the council of officers. It was
agreed that they be rejected alto
gether.
In general orders, issued November
10, Its, Washington says: Neither
negroes, boys unable to bear arms.
nor old men unfit to endure the IA
tigues of the campaign are to be en-
listed"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-06-12
MADDEN NEARLY MOBBED,

The statement that the Confederates
of the days of the Shareholders re-
bellion were traitors, made by Martin
B. Madden, member of Congress from
Chicago, in the House of Representa-
tives at Washington, almost provoked
a clash the other day.
Mr.. Madden reiterated his state
ment and said that he had no apology
to make and asked:
"Does anyone deny it?'
There was uproar from the Demo-
Gratis, several Southern members
shouting, EYES," and you're a liar"
Representative Romjue of Missouri
arose and started toward Madden, as
did Representative Johnson of Missis-
sippi, but both stopped short, as South
erners are wont to do, unless it is a
mob of 1000 masked men ready to
burn a defenceless prisoner at the
stake, in which case they are remark
ably brave.
Madden turned again to the Demo.
cratic side and said:
"They were traitors. You say no
and say yes. They did try to destroy
the Union.''
In these recent years with South
erners like Pitchfork Tillman, ct al
it is refreshing to see men like Mad
den who can not be- bluffed by South
ern buster.
Madden told the truth and the
SOutherners know it.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-06-12
THOMAS ON TERRELL,
(From the Boston Guardian.

IN his correspondence for the Old
reliable Cleveland Gazette, a paper
which we greatly admire as we ad-
mlre also its great editor, Hon. Harry
c. Smith, especially for his stand
against the race drawing off together
in separate philanthropic institutions.
Prof. Neval H. Thomas, of Washing.
ton, D. c., fays Judge Cor Justice as
he calls him) Robt. H. Terrell as a
compromisor.
Prof. Thomas made a splendid fight
against separate lunch room in the
District Supreme Court Building. He
says Judge Terrell was quoted by the
Judges against him. He charges that
he opposed colored people coming
North, opposed race petitioners to
Peace Conference and then scores him
Tor rushing to be the first to greet
President Wilson upon his return from
the Conference. We, ourselves, are
surprised to see the way in which Mr..
Terrell had this sent out over the
country and the way the press dis
played it. He says the Judge presided
at meeting for Sen. Borah to oppose
the 18th amendment. Then he speaks
as follows:
ne even sanctlOned separate rec
reational centers for colored and
white troops, with those of the COL
ored immensely inferior, in spite of
the fact that the blood OF white and
black alike was flowing in one Grim.
son stream in distant France. Only
agreeable colored people are allowed
to speak to the colored soldiers at the
center of which he is head. None of
us radicals who are constantly telling
the colored man that he has done his
share Of the dying and that it is high
time he was getting some of the liv-
ing, are ever invited to this center to
talk democracy"
We took our stand on this in Bos-
ton much farther North than Wash.
ington.
Verify the Judge needs make reply
or the race will see how it is that this
Southern administration retains a
colored man as Justice.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-06-12
SHE MUST BE A PEACH!

day publishes cut Of a colored girl
and says: Against a field of chill
dren of all races, Miss Audry Trip,
colored child of New York City, three
years and nine months old, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Reynold Trip, was
adjudged the most perfect child of
pre-school age, in Manhattan. Audrey
was awarded gold medal. Her fav-
orite pastime is tree climbing
If the PROJECTIONS of a colored child
are such as win such a verdict from
a white jury, she must be "a peach"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-06-12
WHAT A LIE!

The amount of bunk just now being
offered to the public in advertisements
in which quotations from the Bible
and the sayings of Christ, are made
a conspicuous part, is almost beyond
belief.
One of the most recent bunco1srs IS
the Order Of Moose, which has faring
headlines in the papers like these:
MOOSE EXEMPLIFIES SERMON
ON MOUNT"
"MOOSEHEART IS THE GOLDEN
RULE IN ACTION
Down near the end of the ADVERTISE
ments one finds a notice that ANY
WHITE MAN MAY BECOME A
MEMBER"
Such advertising is a proclamation of
the Sermon on the Mount
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-06-12
ORGANIZED LABOR E,RASES
COLOR LINE.

that we learn from press dispatches,
that the American Federation of
Labor at it's annual convention in ses-
sion at Montreal, Can, June 10, wiped
out the, "color line" and warned it's
affiliated International unions that
colored workers must be given full
and equal membership with white
men. This is certainly as it should be
as it should always have been, for of
one blood God made all men; and, He
is no respecter Of persons. His crea-
lures surely would make no mistake
in following His example.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-06-12

lions it has appeared that in some
states, meetings of the Republicans
have been called in places where it
was the custom and practice to deny
access to colored people, the national
committee gives notice thru it's chair
man to all the organizations of the
Republican party that that practice
any state convention or in any dis.
trict convention
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-06-12
1.-THE TRAGEDY OF THE HALF
LOAF"

THE APPEAL heartily endorses
every word of the following editorial
from our enterprising and uncompro-
missing contemporary, The Chicago
Whip. What a pity that there are 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 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.
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.
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 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 signif-
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
spite of the fact that he has proven
himself to be an indissoluble and
1ndivisible 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 un-
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-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-06-12
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK,

It appears that the manhood stand
the thinking colored men have taken
lately is bringing forth good fruit
with the Republican National Com.
mittee at Chicago as the following
resolution was passed this week:
I'm view of the fact that at this ses-
sion of national committee and at pre-
vious sessions of the national COM
mittee and preceding national conven-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-06-12
THAT'S THE WAY TO DO IT.

A movement started in the districts
surrounding Cordovia, Spain, by the
weather. people to go without hats
and also to wear sandals made Of
hemp in protest against high prices
is spreading through Southern Spain.
Hundreds have joined the silent demon
stration, which is causing consider
able perturbation among tradesmen.
Let us hope that it will spread to this
country.