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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-09-25
1.-THE CONQUEST OF HAITlv

In an article in The Nation of. July
10, 1920, Mr.. Herbert J. Seligman gave
the awful details of the occupation of
the republic by the armed forces of
the United States.- Bishop Hurst.
James Weldon Johnson and others
have given further details. in the
Crisis and other magazines. There
seems to be no doubt that the terri
tory of a friendly country was ruth
lessly invaded and thousands killed in
the efforts to "pacify" the people, All
accounts agree that the United States
forces in their conquest Of Haiti made
the. German invaders of Belgium look
like a lot of pikers.
Now comes Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Democratic nominee for vice presi.
dent, who boasts that he wrote the
new constitution of Haiti which was
forced upon an unwilling people at
the points Of bayonets. And Mr..
Roosevelt says that it is a very good
constitution" ..ysR& f.. 81
The Haitians, it seems, are not so
sure about that and a delegation of
Haitians is now in the country en-
deavoring to get some relief from the
entertainments of the City National
bank Of New York city, which they
claim acting under the new constitu-
ton has practically gobbled up all Of
the rich resources Of the country.
Senator Harding the Republican
nominee for president, does not ap.
prove of the occupation and it is like
" that if he is elected he will order
the United States army and navy to
get out and allow the Haitians to run
their own country.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-09-25
1.-THE TRAGEDY OF
THE HALF IOAF''
(From The Chicago Whip

THE APPEAL heartily endorses
every word Of the following editorial
from our enterprising and uncompro-
missing contemporary, The Chicago
Whlp.- What a pity that there are so
few "Whips" among the papers edited
by colored men: -s-
The strongest races of men, and the
most indomitable characters of history
have always either uncompromisingl
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 ESQ 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
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-09-25

mind could not grasp their signifi-
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 Grow
Settlement Houses, Jim Crow Soldiers
and Sailors Clubs, Jim Grow Y. M.
G. 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 un-
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
help him God!"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-09-25

examination reveals that there is an
interlocking directorate in control"
The Messenger will publish series
of interesting and Illuminating arti-
Giles which will be a complete expose,
and in which the editors claim they
will show that the aims of the direc-
tors are Numerically opposed to the
real welfare and advancement Of the
colored people. Definite attention
will be given to certain personalities
such as Thomas Jesse Jones, Charles
H. Kelsey, Robert Russia Motion,
Emmett Scott, DR.. Durkee, George E.
Haynes, Julius >Rosenwald, Eugene
Kinckle Jones, John M. Candy, A. S.
Frissel, Bishop w. P. Thirkield, Elk
President Taft and a host of others.
If it is true there exists an "invis-
ible gOvernm ent' which seeks to con
fine the colored people to ''jimcrow''
plane in the United States it ought to
be brought to light.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-09-25
OPEN LETTER TO WOMEN SUI.
FRAGE LEADERS,
National Equal Rights League Urges
Stand Against Color Line.

The National Equal Rights League,
in an open letter to leaders of the
suffrage movement, congratulates
them in their victorious fight for
equal suffrage.
The letter addressed to Mrs. Car
RE G. Gait, president of the National
American Woman Suffrage Associa-
ton; Miss Alice Paul, chairman of
the National Woman Suffrage Party,
and Miss Alice Stone Blackwell reads:
Ladies The National Equal Rights
League, organized to promote equal
ity of rights without exception for
race, congratulates the National
American Woman Association and
National Womans' Party, to which
some of us belong, on tehir remark
able achievement in gaining equal
political rights without exception for
SEX
The Four Condolences.
At this, your hour of victory, we
would CALI to your thought the fol-
lowing striking condolences: The
most notable male crusaders for the
abolition of slavery and the bestowal
of full rights of citizenship upon
Americans OF color were also the
chief advocates of woman suffrage.
The first American woman suffrage
convention grew out of a worlds
anti-slavery convention, where the
wife of an American abolitionist was
denied a vote, and Lucretia Mott be-
gan the organized movement now
crowned with glorious success. The
women pioneers of the SUFFRAGE move
ment,, Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Julia Ward
howe and Susan B. Anthony, in
whose honor the 18th amendment is
named and who wrote it on the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-09-25

model of the 18TH amendment, which
gave suffrage to colored men. were
devoted champions of freedom and
equality Of rights without distinction
because of race or color. Lastly, in
the dark days, when your champions
were few and the cause weak and un-
popular, the gifted orators of the
colored race came to it's rescue with
their genius, and Frederick Douglass
was friend priced by Mrs. Stanton
and Miss Anthony till his death.
Causes Linked by Pioneers.
Such linking Of the cause of JUS
tlce, equality and rights for the col
ored people of this country with
that of woman suffrage in it's strug-
gle, inspires us to appeal to your
organization to stand firm and strong
against any color line in the posses
sion now of the suffrage won.
Keep the Stain Off.
In the presence of the crime of
dlsfranchlsement of colored men, in
behalf of the millions of colored
women now enfranchised, this league
calls upon you to remain true to the
traditions of your cause, to the mem
DRY or your pioneers, to friends in
time of need, to principle pure and
undefiled, exerting your full power
that your colored sisters may not be
denied and the new POLITICAL freedom
stained by race discrimination.
N. S. TAYLOR,
President, Illinois.
MRS. MARIE CRAWFORD.
End Vice-President, New York.
MRS. M. C. SIMPSON,
. Assistant Secretary.
VIM. MONROE TROTTER.
Executive Secretary.
boston, Mass, September, 1920.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-09-25

pointed out today, with the first act
under the California law. Formal de-
mand of satisfaction will then be
made
The Japanese question ought to be
OF intense interest to the colored
people Of the United States who are
oppressed by the United States gov
eminent under the laws as now inter-
preted by the ruling Democrats, by
the Democratic state governments in
the murder belt of the South and by a
general vicious public opinion.
To the colored men who are fighting
for absolute racial equality of all
American citizens, the action of Japan
in demanding racial equality in a for
eign land ought to be an inspiration.
"Of one blood created God all men,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-09-25

Trotter in opposing the erection of a
Y. M. G. A. for the colored people.
Logically and under the sunlight of
divine justice, both Mr.. Adams and
Mr.. Trotter are right. There is not
the shadow of excuse for a. separate
building in locality like Boston,
Mass, where all citizens are pre-
sumed to enjoy and are accorded
their civil and political rights.
The three great leaders now stand
ing forth in this attitude and main
tanning this position are William
Monroe Trotter of Boston, John @.
Adams of st. Paul, MIMI, and Hon.
H. c. Smith of Cleveland, Ohio. We
can not say otherwise that under the
American flag with the full glare of
American citizenship shining in their
faces, they occupy high ground, and
it will be the future that will accord
to them the full recognition they de-
serve.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-09-25

PEAL writes this for the men, be-
cause the colored women never call
themselves that name. Even those
who use the word negro" refer to
the female as NEGRO woman"
This is from Paris by Universal
Service:
''The star visitor of the week at
Biarritz is Mamie Jones, a Negress,
who sold a tiny Oklahoma farm for
100000 when oil was discovered on
it. She has taken villa on the sea
front, and, attired in the most gor-
geous and colorful creations, is sur
rounded by a dozen or more ebony
admirers.
Mamie spent the first night here
| in the baccaret rooms at the Casino
| and lost few thousand dollars.
Thereafter she declared, "Ah prefers
craps" and has remained away from
the Casino"
There is probably not word of
truth in the foregoing, but if Mamie
prefers "craps" she is sustained by
| many modern instances:' For in
stance, there is distinguished white
craps shooter in ST. Paul who has
made thousands of dollars out of his
"profession.',' And the game is more
popular among the white people up
in this neck of the woods than it is
among colored people.
Further, THE APPEAL read in the
! papers about a month ago, that a
certain Greek gentleman, Mr.. Tomo-
nasandropopoulas, by name who re-
| sides at the Blackstone hotel in Chi
| cago, which, by the way, is the last
word in swell hostelries, in that CITY,
cleaned up about 100000 in a single
sitting which was held on the
'steenth floor of this hotel. The Chi
cago papers also said when he arrived
in Chicago few years ago he had
exactly SO cents in the pocket of
his torn trousers.
He started in business as a SHOE
sinner, and during the day he dill
gently welded his brush and polish
ing rag, raking in the coin. His
evenings were spent in study-studv-
ing the intricacies of "craps." At
ten end Of few years, having mas
tered the game and acquired few
thousand dollars, he moved from
South Halsted street to his elegant
qaurters in the Blackstone on Mich
lgan avenue, and began the practice
OF his profession" He has been so
successful that his fortune is esti
mated at 100000.
Further, the Chicago papers said
that games were played nightly at
the various hotels, such as the Black
stone, La Sale, etc., at which enor-
nous sums were staked on the "roll
of the bones."
THE APPEAL will state further
that the colored patronage of the
hotels named is not very large, their
clientele being confined principally to
white people. No, "craps" is not a
colored folks game. It was at one
time the pastime of the most de-
graded people of all classes, but it
has risen in the social scale and is
now very popular in "high society,""
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-09-25
JAPANESE TO DEMAND RACIAL
EQUALITY,

Advices from Washington say that
the Japanese government has broad
ened the issue arising over the pro
posed exclusion of her nationals from
owning land in California, it was
learned from official sources today
She will now insist that the United
States formally recognize the equality
of her citizens with those of any other
nation. Such recognition would take
the form of an official declaration
similar to the one proposed at the
Versailles conference and withdrawn
by Japan.
On that occasion two great jana
nese demands were before the confer
ence. Japan insisted first upon a
statement recognizing the equality OF
her race. second, that Shantung with
its vast resources in minerals, its
great German developments and it's
100000 of people be given to her.
The council compromised by Sgiving
'Shantung. Now she demands that the
United States alone give her the fa1
more desirable concession which the
council of nations, acting upon plea
from Australia, expressly denied.
1t is recognized both by Japan and
the United States, it was pointed out
in official circles today, that nothing
whatsoever can be done to prevent
the citizens of California from enact
ing the proposed land expulsion. act.
Such an act, Japan maintains. is an
unjust discrimination aimed at her
alone. ~..... es.... ~n.~ =e
The final issue will come, it was
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-09-25
WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE.

Carrie Chapman Gait, president OF
the National American Woman Suf
rage association, recently said rela
tive to the granting of suffrage to
women, ut is not a. Republican vic
tory; it is not a Democratic victory:
1t is not woman's victory; it is not
a mans victory-but an American vic.
tory" And so it is.
jeanette Carter, a prominent color.
ed suffragist, in a recent article in the
New York Age, says:
1.-The colored women of the nation
have a duty to perform which thew
cannot well shirk. They are obligated
by all of the wrongs heaped upon
them in class legislation and contemp-
tuous public opinion, more degrading
and humiliating to them, it appears,
than to our men, to organize for their
own protection and the conservation
of their citizen rights, and to use
their power of the ballot and their
power of organized agitation and pro-
test to the very utmost to right the
wrongs unlawfully heaped upon them
in common with the men of their race.
1t is a duty, and believe the colored
women of the land will meet it wisely
and fearlessly."
THE APPEAL indorses what Miss
Carter says and believes that votes
of women will do much to right many
wrongs which jimcrow colored men
have allowed to be heaped upon the
colored people. --,.. r. ..~a +.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-09-25
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER rs, 1920
WILL YOU, MR.. COX?

Mr.. Cox, in your speech of accept
ance of the Democratic nomination
for the presidency of the United
States you failed to mention manj
things which are of great import tt
a group of 100000 American citi
zens and which ought to concern
every good citizen of the United
States.
In order that you may make you1
position clear THE APPEAL will ask
you few questions.
Mr.. Cox, if elected, the first thing
you can do without the "advice and
consent of the Congress, would be
the issuance of an executive order
abolishing segregation, which is car
ried on in the departments at Wash
ington and in some parts of the coun.
try without warrant of law.
Mr.. Cox, if elected, will you issue
such an order?
Mr.. Cox, if elected, will you favor
the enforcement of the Civil War
Amendments to the Constitution, as
we'll as other amendments, and so
recommend in your messages to Con
gress? .-.'. IL
Mr.. Cox, if elected, will you recon-
mend and endeavor to secure the en-
actment of federal anti-lynching
law? g-. ...
Mr. Cox, if elected, will you en-
deavor to secure the abolition Of the
Jimcrow car in interstate travel?
Mr.. Cox, if elected, will you recon-
mend and endeavor to secure legisla-
ton abolishing the color line in the
United States army and in the United
States navy? .-.s ~ ~. =. T.
Mr.. Cox, if elected, will you restore
the colored mans status quo so far
as office holding is concerned and give
representation in Office by presiden-
tial appointment? >- ...~ ~ ..r,
Mr.. Cox: 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. - K
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-09-25
INVISIBLE GOVERNMENTv

THE APPEAL has long suspected
that there is an invisible govern.
ment" headed by capitalists, working
among and controlling certain organ.
lzations and institutions for the pur.
pose of keeping the Triggers in their
place." rather than making colored
youth self-respecting American citi-
zens. 5'~
Now comes the Messenger, maya
zine published in New York, which
says, "The protested purposes and
objects of those who represent them
are by no means the real objects. An
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-09-25
THEIR FEET or CLAY.

For many years THE APPEAL
looked up with respect and almost
reverence to some of the colored men
who were leaders Of affairs for ad.
vancement. e. -.-+...-~.s..
The "Old Guard" is fast passing
away and the .jimcrow man is making
desperate effort to grin himself into
pOwer-and cash. - :.
Some of our idols have toppled over.
After years of valiant battling for
manhood rights, several of THE APP
PE E14AALS super men" have succumbed
to the Establishments of entrenched
power and have compromised their
souls. Their feet are Of clay.
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-09-25
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, the in
QUESTION yet would serve the law, and
guiIIotines decide our least disputes.
The few who dare must speak and
speak again to right the wrongs Of
many.-EIla Wheeler Wilcox 49,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-09-25
True Race Pride.
(t'rOm the Boston Guardian)

\rlo1n lne 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.
selt-respect require that you insist on
Delng permitted to be present where
you have a normal right to be as a
citizen, and where there is no reason
Tor you not being wanted except con-
tempt merely for your race.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-09-25
Regular Southern Stvle.

because he had bought Pullman
tickets for his wife and daughters
John Leonard, who runs a barber shon
Tor whites only at Yazoo City. Miss
was taken into the woods by a mob
stripped and severely beaten with
horse whips. "'1A
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-09-25
Colored Men Nominated

st. Louis, Motive colored men
won Republican nominations for the
state legislature from st. Louis in the
primary election. They are Langdon
Harrison and WI M. Moore, of the
third and sixth districts respectively.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-09-25
GOD GIVE US MEN.

God give men, time like this demands
Strong minds great hearts, true faith and ready hands:
Men whom the lust of Office does not kill;
Men whom the spoils Of office cannot buy;
Men who possess opinions and WILL
Men who have honor-men who will not lie;
Men who can stand before demagogue
And damn his treacherous batteries without winlng!
Tall men, sun crowned, who live above the fog
In public duty and in private thinking
u. G. Holland.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-09-25
THE "NEGREsS' AT BlARRlTz.

Here are some things which may
interest the colored men who call
their women "negresses." THE AP-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-09-25

"Any prejudice whatever will
be insurmountable if those who
do not share in it themselves
truckIe to it and flatter it and
accept it as a law of nature"
John Stuart Mill.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-09-15
YOUNG PARIS MAN ELOPES
WITH LEXINGTON Girl

Paris, KY, Sept. 15.-James Clay
Ward, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Miller
Ward, wealthy young farmer and
horseman of Bourbon county, and
Miss Media Roscoe, of Lexington,
eloped to Cincinnati and were mar
ried Tuesday. The bride is assistant
county superintendent of schools of
Fayette county. She is a sister-in-law
of DR.. Joseph A. Goodson, superin-
tendent of the Eastern Kentucky State
hospital. Mr.. Ward is grandson of
the late James E. Clay, running and
trotting horse breeder.
Parental objection was the cause of
the elopement. Mr.. Ward served in
the war as lieutenant, recently re-
turning from overseas. Anticipating
disinheritance, young Ward has OBJ
tanned position in local garage and
rented a small cottage here.