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

InIOTueu, MT. ANDERSON is more white
than black, one parent having been of
pure Caucasian ancestry and the other
more than half white. All that talk
should have been left unsaid.
The Tribune writer garbled the
story of 1.-THE Comet" from Du Bois'
book, "Darkwater," and made it ap-
pear that the point was "the mating
of white woman and negro from
which new race will spring." This
is absolutely false. The colored hero
who saved the life of white woman
had no thought of mating with the
woman as he was already the hus-
band of brown woman and the
father of dark baby. The story ends
with the pathetic meeting of the
father and the mother who held in
her arms the corpse of their dead
baby.
Prof. Dubois has never taught trea-
son and that was the cult Of the mis-
creants who burned the American
flag. He has advocated a fight by
legal means for the removal of the
hindrances which hamper the prog
ress of the colored people,.
DR.. Du Bots is one of the leading
lights in the National Association for
the Advancement of the Colored
People, an inter-racial organization
composed Of about 10000 colored
members and 10000 white members
who are banded together to make
America a real democracy. 1t is ma
tion-wide in it's influence, having
about $50 branches in 43 states. The
Governor of Minnesota, J: A. A. Burn
quist is the president of the st. Paul
branch of the association.
The eleventh annual conference of
the association was held in Atlanta,
Georgia, early in June. Much doubt
was expressed prior to the conference
Eas to whether the plain truth in re-
gard to the race question could be
spoken in Atlanta, but the association
was true to it's colors and every state
ment, every speech was frank,
straight forward, evidencing no fear,
but marked with sincerity.
The keynote of the conference was
struck by James Weldon Johnson
| when he declared that the five prin-
| cipal demands of the colored people
were Cd guaranty of safety of life
by the abolition of lynching if neces-
sary; ca the colored mans untram-
meled right to. the ballot upon the
same terms as other races; 60 the
| adjustment of "Jim Grow" cars: az
equal educational and industrial op.
portunities; 60 the abolition of seq.
regation, especially in the govern
mental departments in Washington.
| There is no treason in the FORE
going program and no true American
who believes in true democracy can
find any fault with it. If it isn't right
democracy, the United States is a
fraud and Christianity is false. ,>.~
From all reports the "Abyssinians'
in Chicago are a lot of ignoramuses
and criminals. just like the Italians
camorra, labor sluggers and I. W. w.
who, accordingsto a we'll displayed no.
tice in the Chicago Tribune, have
committed 1471. murders in Chicago
since January i Of this year. When
the black men who desecrated and
| burned the American flag and then
committed: MURDER have been proved
guilty they should be hanged by the
neck until they are dead.
+ The colored people in the United
States are Americans, born on Ameri-
can soil, the census of 1910 showing
that only 1876 out of 100000 were
born In Africa. If the few who were
born in Abyssinia wish to return to
their native land, they have as much
right: to do so as the Jews who are
trying to found home land in Pales-
! tine, but when "Abyssinians" or any
other, kind of Africans are guilty Of
crimes against this country or against
any citizens Of the country they
should be punished to the full extent