The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-01-27
WILLIAM PIcKENS
MISUNDERSTANDING
PAPERS CHARGES
Contents of Letter Printed in
Independent" Is Termed
T pure Rot. !"
SAYS LIES PACK PAGE
Communication From d. N.
Tobias, Editor, Brings
Scathing Retort. -.


of pure rot, "denouncing" the N. A.
A. c. P. and all it's officers. It mis-
represents the colored men and wo-
men of the organization, and even
tries to insult the voluntary white
| workers. It roundly cusses Dubois,
Johnson, White and the others, and
| we do not intend to waste much time
on the abuse which the "Independent"
heaps upon these colored men; they
have been cussed before; they are
used to it. During all the thirteen
years in which they have been build
ing up the first national power of
the colored American, they have been
abused-and some of them before
that time even. And the queer thing
is, that the cussing and abuse have
not done them an accursed. bit of
good! -.-
| Falsehoods Many. "
1t is surprising how many plain
falsehoods are packed into this sin
gle page of the Independent"
| l. That the colored men and wo-
men of the organization are con-
trolled and bossed by some white peo-
pie or ether, and that mot single
colored man or woman has or has
ever had any voice whatsoever" in
it's control.
2. That people like Mary White
Ovington and Moorfeld Storey are in
the Association because they have
"color prejudice" and want to keep
the Negro down!-as if any white
person on earth who had brains
enough even to desire to keep the
Negro down, would not have too much
sense to help the N. A. A. C. P.
3. That some Jews and other white
people are making profits" out of
the Association.
We would rather believe that the
Independent" was duped by the fell
low who sent them this article, than
to believe the article expresses the
real views of that newspaper. The
fellow who wrote the article is with
out influence in his own community,
and the odd thing is, that no editor
who knows him, would be willing to
accept any kind of contribution from
him. &
Men Not Bossed.
We could believe that some enemy
of the colored race paid for that page
in the ATLANTA Independent" in order
to try to Insult the few white friends
whom the colored man can now count
on, and so drive them away from his
cause-if we did not know that al
most any worthwhile enemy of the
colored man would have more sense
than to make his lies so plain and so
ridiculously extreme that nobody
would believe them. For example.
take that first lie:
That Dubois and other col
ored men are being "bossed"
by somebody.
At least all of the intelligent COL
ored people of the United States
know that about all of the trouble
Dubois ever had in this world, arose
from the fact that he will not be
"bossed" in any degree either by
white groups or colored ones. And
it is very poor skill in liar to &C.
cuse a man of having the very "vir-
tue" which nearly everybody else has
been cussing him nearly all his life
for not possessing; namely, the good
ness to be "bossed and controlled"
And it is much the same with the
| other colored men of the organize
ton; some of them have left other
and easier work because they would
not be "owned and controlled"
About Moorfield Storey.
But lie No. 2, is the limit, and sug-
gests to us that perhaps after all,
the hired har meant to cheat those
who may have hired him by OVERRIDING
the thing, SO that nobody could be-
lieve it:
That Miss Ovington, for
example, is actuated by
"color prejudice" and a de-
sire to hold the Negro down.
What queer Association for any
white woman to get into, if she wants
to do any harm to the colored race
what queer books she has written on
the subject-and what queer speeches
she is always making. Think of it.
she attacks the enemies of the col
order race more --nncompromisingly
than do colored men themselves. and
certainly more boldly than the "At-
lanta Independent" ever dared to do
it. In the last ten years she has
given more towards the advancement &
of the colored American-without re-
ward-than any other person. who
has lived in that time; invaluable
services, without cent of paw. with
added contributions in cold cash.
And as for Moorfield Storey, another
white person who must be very queer.
if, as the Independent" states. he
means to profit" by his, connection
with this Association, has given sery-
ices that could not have been bought:
he has rescued the editor of the Gin
dependent" from residential segrega-
tion-from grandfather clauses
and while that paper was busy tipping
its scandalous little page, Moorfeld
Storey was busy trying to save it's
editor and all its readers from
"peonage" by pleading the Arkansas
cases before the supreme court with
out cent of pay. When Storey res
cued the Atlanta Independent" staff
from the awful damnation of residen-
tial segregation in Georgia, he did .
not receive from them or from any
body else, even cent for his ex- y
penses from Boston to Washington
and back. And, besides this inesti-
nabie indirect giving, Moorfield
Storey has given into the treasury
Of the N. A. A. c. p. in cash more
than six thousand dollars. The As
ISOLATION, then, has cost Moorfield
Storey more in cash and services than
t has cost any other person in the
woodland Mary White Ovington
1aS donated rnn1eo in ,1ur11rch q % hlo !,