The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-11-11

upOH one conception OF Cne impress
sion that is intended to be made. In
its issue of October 10 there ap-
pear.d upon the front page of the
Tribune cartoon which was not
only disgraceful, contemplate and
mischievous, but would do an i'm
mense amount Of harm in the incul-
cation of racial prejudice and an
tagonism were it not for the fact
that the Tribune's we'll known atti-
tude on the race question makes any,
thing that may appear in its columns
bearing upon that subject, whether it
be a cartoon or editorial, worthless
and of very little effect.
WHAT THE TRIBUNE seems to
be most concerned about is "race
sef-preservation." In other words,
the maintenance Of the purity Of the
Caucasian blood. If it were possible
for this to be made an accomplished
fact the Tribune and all others of
the same school would have our best
wishes and most loyal cooperation.
But the place to begin the reforma-
ton is at the door Of the American
white man. The millions of half
bloods in this country today are the
offspring of white fathers. This is
especially true Of the Southern states
of America, where there are rigid
laws to keep the two races separate
and apart.
IN THE ISLAND of Cuba, where
there is about an equal number of
white and colored inhabitants, there
are no laws, rules or regulations pro-
viding for race separation in any
particular In fact there is no coun-
try on the globe where there is less
restraint and more freedom of inter-
course, social and otherwise, than in
Cuba. A criminal assault upon a
white woman by a black man is
never heard of and lynch law is a
thing unknown. Yet statistics show
that in any one county in the state
of Georgia, for example, in which the
two races are about equal in point of
numbers, you will find more colored
children the offspring of white IA
theirs than in the whole of the Island
of Cuba. ~, =
WHY IS. THIS? Perhaps the
Tribune does not know. It is our
duty to give them the necessary in
formation. Because in the first place
popular sentiment, which is stronger
and more potential than the statutes,
tolerate cohabitation between white
men and colored women, but does not
tolerate cohabitation between col
ored men and white women. The re-
suit is that white women and col
ored men are the chief sufferers.
Human nature is the same the world
over with all races and groups. Ma
ture has endowed the human race,
male and female, with certain in
stincts the legitimate qualification of
which should be the ambition of ALL
Woman's highest ambition should be
that Of a wife and mother, and all
men are supposed to be imbued with
that instinct which seeks compan-
ionship with the opposite sex. Why
through extraneous methods should
unnatural and unjust limitations be
placed in the path of white women
and colored men? But for these
limitations each group and each race,
as is true Of Cuba and other coun-
tries, would seek and obtain the
qualification Of these instincts in
their own respective groups and
races in legitimate way.
PERHAPS THE TRIBUNE does
not know that in some sections of the
South it is difficult for a white
woman to get a husband and much.
more difficult for a colored man to
get wife. Why? Because So
ciety draws the line at the marriage
altar. A white man can be the head
of colored family and still ha