The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-10-06

ed people to willingly accept in
ferior, segregated positions. Too
often that usual bugbear, social
equality, is used to brighten them
from any stand on equal recognition
and equal justice. Economic, politi
cal civil and social justice are as
much the property of the colored peo-
pile, as of any other class; and it
Should be their endeavor to obtain
the same. And they can never expect
to obtain these rights under a COM
promising leadership. Men of prin-
ciple. men of integrity, men who are
worthy of emulation are the only
men fitted to fill the situation de-
handing leadership in the line of
politicians.
Questions of revenue, tariff and
ored people, yet they are not the
questions of vital concern. Legisla-
ton in it's ultimate execution is al
most distinctly elass legislation
where ever the colored people are
concerned. And there exists not even
a particle of doubt in this distinction
which has extended to courts of JUS
tice. The colored politician is not
considered factor. He is never con-
sidered worthy to be taken into the
party councils. And so long as the
colored people permit themselves to
he bargained for, bought and sold by
the present class of cheap job seek
ing spittoon politicians among their
race, they can hope to obtain nothing.
We must learn to put aside our in
dividual interests where the welfare
of the general good is at stake.
William Mckinley died September
Ia, 1901; Theodore Roosevelt was
president of the United States from
that date until March 4, 1909. Seven
years five months and eighteen days.
During the years 1902 to 1908 in
elusive. Five hundred and twenty
five Negroes were lynched; in the
United States. During this same
period there existed some of the most
outrageous laws that ever blackened
the pages of any statute books, and
this in direct conflict with the Con-
stitution of the United States. jim
crowison, disfranchisement and dis
CT limitation existed during this same
period, but the Big Stick of Roose-
welt was not used to remedy these
conditions. Congress never consider
ed these conditions worthy of atten-
ton. From 1885 to 1921 inclusive
there were three thousand and thirty
eight Negroes lynched in the United
States. Among this number are in
Guided some of the most brutal, cruel
outrageous tortures that ever adorn-
ed the pages of history of lowest
savagery. During the period April
6, 1917 to Nov. II, 1918 five million
nineteen thousand eight hundred and
seventy-four men were engaged in
MAKING THE WORLD SAFE FOR
DEMOCRACY. During this same
period billions in money were poured
out accompanied with privations blood
and tears. The colored man marched
forth and endured all the miseries, all
the hardships all the suffering of war,
as he offered his life upon the alter of
patriotism. And yet Washington,
the Capitol. East St. Louis, and Chi
cago were not safe for LAW ADD
ING COLORED PEOPLE. All the
terrors and horrors suffered by the
Belgians in time of war, the colored
people have suffered, and are stiK
suffering IN this good Christian Land
of the Free. and Home of the Brave.
Is it not queer that one cent cannot
be spent from this generous treasury
of the United States to make Georgia
safe for Republicanism. Florida can
not receive the attention of a cor
poraPs guard to make it safe for a
Law abiding colored family. Free
dom of the press and freedom of
speech is safe nowhere in the South
ern States. But these are not mat
tiers that concern colored politicians.
fragrant violations of the law are
winked at, when it is merely matter
of invasion of the rights Of the COL
ored people. We have our Booker
T. Washingtons, our Bishop Walters,
our Lewises, Napiers and Vernons
but the whippings hangings and burn
ings go brutally and merrily on. The
colored people should quit wasting
their time assembling themselves for
the purpose of listening to the bum
come of white candidates for office.
This country is legislated and con-
trolled by the white people. And if
there is any miscarriage of justice,
and fault in the machinery of gov
eminent, if there is failure, it is
the failure of the white man. No
matter how harsh it may sound, the
necessity exists for the white man to
be educated, to be trained to mani
pulate the machinery of government.
| The white man must learn the fact
that the color of the skin does not fit
one for an executive position. Igno-
rance in power is dangerous; there
fore it remains fact that the igno-
rant white man is the greater menace
to this government than the ignorant
colored man, from the fact that the
ignorant white is more likely to
hold an executive position than an
Intelligent colored. All changes
of conditions along political lines must
be brought out through the enlighten-
ment of the white people. And we
need capable colored men to carry on
campaign of this kind of enlighten-
ment. For over three hundred years
the colored people have been listening
to sermons, lectures, speeches and
exhortations from white people telling
them how to make of themselves good
and useful citizen. It is now time
for the colored people to tell the
white people just how they should
act, in order that they, the colored
people, be given an opportunity to
follow this advice. No one better
than the colored man, knows the dis
advantage, and curse of being use
less; and no one is more handicapped
in his efforts to become useful. For
dishonesty and lawlessness the color
ed people is no less amenable to the