The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1921-04-16

q century after Lincoln's proclama-
ton, have advanced further than the
colored people in this country be-
cause they have reached the point
where color does not count. They
are absolutely free from any civil or
social determinations. The color line
does not exist in. Brazil, and the
blacklist Brazilian is in every way
the peer Of the whitest Of his
countrymen.
Principal Motion deems it a wonder
full thing that his race "has had the
privilege of coming into contact with
the white people Of the South" Here
are some Of the benefits Of the con-
tact: Two hundred and fifty years
OF slavery; enactment of the in
famous Black Codes to retain slavery,
in fact, after its abolition; segrega-
ton; denial of living wages; denial
OF equal school facilities; disfranchise-
ment; jimcrow cars, etcetera. Why
even Tuskegee Institute which fur
nishes Principal Motion his bread and
butter is the gift of the North.
Northern people have given IS per
cent Of the endowment fund, and the
greater portion Of the running ex-
penses is begged in the North. The
state of Alabama gives the measlv
sum of about $4,000.
Here is another gem from Prin-
cipal Notion: ''To the Southern white
people we owe our language and our
religion and all that we have learned
and all that we have. advanced in
civilization" Think of a man who
would say such things being the
head Of an institution which trains
the youth. Is it strange that many
OF the students come out imbued
with distorted ideas of their proper
place in the world?
Then Principal Motion came out in
his peroration in which he said that
mo Southern colored man wanted
social equality" In that statement
he showed his ignorance of the Eng
lish language? He probably meant
to say that the colored people were
not seeking matrimonial alliances
with white people. Principal Motion
may not wish social equality, but
there are millions of colored people
who do. desire it. Social equality
means, Equality in the collective
body composing community. espe-
cially when considered as subjects of
civil government" Here are some of
the definitions Of "equal'': of the
same degrees with another or each
other; uniform in condition or ac-
ton; of just proportion or relation;
equitable, just, impartial, exact; of
the same Importance and concern;
not distinguished by any ground or
preference.
Social equality means the right to
vote, the rightato equal and Identical
accommodations on common carriers.
the right to service in public places
OF refreshment and amusement. the
right to residence anywhere one is
able to buy or rent home, the right
to attend the nearest public school,
the right to legal trial when
charged with crime, and every other
right which citizenship in a republic
carries with it.
Principal Notions dear friends of
the South have denied all Of these
rights to the colored people, every
effort for advancement has been
fought, in one way or another, even
it conducted on jimcrow lines. The
purpose of the South always has been
and is now, to segregate the colored
people from other citizens and make
them pariah class, despised by all
others, and subject to the whims and
caprices of a master class. In North
Carolina, where Principal Motion made
his speech, colored people are treat
ed as a group apart from the white
citizenship and subject to different
treatment. They have suffered from
all of the inequalities of citizenship,
They have made progress not be-
cause of segregation, but in spite of
it. If the Southern white people
had not placed hindrances, including
murder, in their path, they would
have ere this reached the plane which
has been attained by. the colored
people of Brazil. .
Some of Principal Motions activi-5
ties in the past should not be for
gotten. Shortly after he succeeded
3. Washington as the head Of Tuske-
gee. his wife was elected from a
Pullman sleeper because she was
colored. According to the associated
press Motion made no attempt to de
fend her, Out stated that he had adj
vised her, not to attempt to ride in
a Pullman. just after the armistice
in the world war Principal Motion
was sent to France as the special
representa- of President Wilson,
the arch enemy Of the colored race.
The Crisis, and other periodicals and
many colored soldiers asserted that
n Of