The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-07-10

men were killed and two colored men,
including a policeman, were danger
! ously wounded.
The toughs in the crowd tried to
start a race riot, but sober white men
and sober colored men stood together
and trouble was averted. Colored men
formed 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 a 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 a person in the world
las 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 intermarriage which
really had no place in the controversy
having been inter1ected by the Tri-
bune without any 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
Informed, Mr.. Anderson is, more white
chan 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 "The Comet" from Du Bois'
book, "Darkwater," and made it ap-
pear that the point was ''the mating
of white woman and a negro from
which a 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 a brown woman and the
father of a 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 tight 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 mako
America real democracy. It is ma
t1on-wide In its 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
as to whether the plain truth in re-