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Hi it i i ^P3|fW .?/Ki^^^P W..M THE APPEAL MINNEAPOLIS OFFICE No. v-.'-fp*/, J-*' National Afro-American Newspaper pvBx.isam WSBKLX I J. .ADAMS, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER 49 E. 4t Street, St. Paul, Minn. ST. PAUL OFFICE No. 236 Union Block, 49 E. 4th St. J. Q.. ADAMS, Manager. 2812 Tenth Avenue South J. N. SELLERS, Manager. TERMS STRICTLY IN ADVANCE JINVJL. COPY, ONE YEAIIMA*".$&> SINGLE COPY, SIX MONTHS 1.10 5iNfi! E COPY. THREE MONTHS. .0 A/hen subscriptions are by any means al lowed to run without prepayment, the t-rms are 60 cents for each 13 we^ks ind 5 rents for each odd week, or at the mtc of $2.40 oer year. Remittances should be made by Express Money Order. Post Office Money Order, Hegrlatered Letter or Bank Draft. Posi ipp Stamps will be received the same as man for the fractional parts of a dollar. Only one cent and two cent stamps nken. 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June Minn., under act of Congress, March I 1*711 Fun a7Tn.*Kffii^ According to the Associated Press outrage seems foreign to dispatches of Thursday: "President Wilson, while receiving mittee that if it called on The Presidentan should be approached with logical argument and not over-j heated discussion. There are however I two sides to the question. Perhaps! the President himself was somewhat' irritated because of the persistence of the delegation in trying to secure an audience and the further knowledge that the colored people had registered their protest against the Democratic party in the recent elections. The dispatch says further: i "President Wilson replied he had in vestigated the question and had been assured there was no discrimination in the comforts and surroundings given to the colored people. He added he had been informed by officials that the segregation had been undertaken to avoid friction between the races and not with the object of injuring the colored people. The president said he was deeply interested in the race and greatly admired its progfess. He de clared the interests of the colored race would best be served by complete independence of white people and that he felt the white race was willing to do everything possible to assist them." ^i*u^iik*}i This reply was not what It ought to have been to a delegation of American citizens and it is not strange that Trotter and other members at once took issue with the president, declar ing the colored people did not seek charity or assistance, but that they took the position that they had equal rights with whites and that those rights should be respected. They de nied there had been any friction be tween the two races before segrega tion was begun." The President may be correct in stating that there is no discrimination in the comforts and surroundings given to colored people, but that does not help matters. It is the PACT of segregation which is wrong. It is un-American to draw any line of demarcation between American cit izens. The white and colored govern ment employes worked together with out friction prior to the Wilson Ad ministration and it should be remem bered that work in the Departments is not a social function. There can be no "complete inde pendence" of any one class in this country such an' idea is repugnant to the ideals of a democracy. The President seems disposed to speak patronizingly of the colored peo ple, but in that he is wrongneither special privileges nor assistance are desiredonly justice. The President said the question is not political, but human. In that case it ought to be settled in a human man ner and on a Christian basis. The segregation of government em ployes is an insult to the colored peo ple. It is un-christian and un-Amer ican and it ought not be countenanced in a republic. "THE POWER OF AGITATION." THE APPEAL is always pleased to read in the columns of. its Southern Afro-American contemporaries editor ials which may serve to inspire the race to always protest against wrong. In the article which folows, Mrs. Mag gie vValker, the banker editor of St. Luke Herald, Richmond, Virginia, truly says, "When the spirit and pow- naner: must reach us Tuesdays If pos- of agitation die among a people, ihle n.yway not later than Wednes ays. and bear the signature of the they are doomed beyond all hope of irthor. No manuscript returned, un- loan, stamps are sent for oostage. i reSuscitation 0f fall to give your full name and address, donmetf hevond all hone of resus- plainly written, post office, county and are aoomea oeyona au nope or resus "tnto. Businesseparats lettere of all citationpowerredemption.Uniteimportant neart abandon a delegation of Colored men who came like a disappointed child,8 to the White House to protest against I It isea the agitationf the waters of segregating the races in government a The president added he had not been thatm intereseta in themselves, to tha addressed in such a manner since he extent that they stand supinely by, entered the White House." I Quietly submitting to wrong, without If Mr. Trotter's manner was such as to irritate the President he certain ly made a grave mistake. Mr. Wilson is head of a great nation and his office should be respected. Any individual ought to be more careful of his man ner when addressing the President of. '.rixt'Jte!'! uii *l4i*i THE SIN OF SILENCE To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. The human race has climbed on pro test. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust, the in quisition yet would serve the law, and guillotines decide our least disputes. The few who dare must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many.Ella Wheeler Wilcox. an redemption. %ja%A" **"d w*m#v.vM-." THE POWER OF AGITATION. The greatest power on earth for the agitation die among a people, they and So is the that it ie guaranteed to States the people through the mandates of th i The colored man is not an agitator, nor has he ever been. It has dinned 1 into his earst until idea oi gita peaceably assemblingt and making in i telligent and persistent protest against art a \andUwrongthe I 0 rrebuffed sh nim i an at start, he loses the effort and wbich th 7 7 ^^XJXX^ J. and death. It is the agitation of the departments, objected to the tone ai whi gives purfe airblood, adopted by their spokesman, W. M., itris thceh agitation the which Trotter of Boston, and told the com- gives*us the him.again f? gives} up fofS pt i^ at to breathe, power^ ovf motionf andi lite, ^^iff^i^S? ideas which prevents brain stagnation an(J enta th. When a people loset protest, they have reached the danger point in race progress development. "MADE IN U. S. A." Senator Fletcher of Florida, chair man of the senate committee on corn merce fav0rably reported the follow the United States than if he was .,*_ whiph had been sub- ""t*"*" ing wnicWeeks naa ueeMassau u "The secretary of commerce is here by directed to cause to be prepared in detail an estimate of the probable cost of sending at least six vessels, now in the military or naval service of the United States, or otherwise, to the principal port of South America, such vessels to carry suitable samples of the manufacturers and products of this country, together with a reason able number of representatives of busi ness or trade organizations, and to adopt such other means as may by him be deemed advisable, to the end that our manufacturers and producers may be forthwith put in direct contact with the markets of South America." The majority of the people in Mex ico, Central and South America are mixed bloods, Caucasians, Indian and Negroes and all sorts of complicated mixtures and it would undoubtedly be a great idea to load the ship with samples of jimcrow cars and various other hellish things which are made only in the United States. The 19,- 000,000 colored people out of the 20,- 000,000 inhabitants of Brazil would no doubt be greatly interested in the U. S. Treasury brand of water closets "For Negroes only" put on the market by .that distinguished inventor, John Skelton Williams of Virginia. TURKEY'S GREAT COUP. That was a neat coup executed by Turkey. Seeing that the time was opportune she has by a stroke of the pen abolished the obnoxious system of extraterritoriality and declared her self supreme in her own house. The principle of extraterritoriality has been very exasperating to the Turks. The alleged "Christian" powers, because the Turks are of Asi atic origin and Mohammedans, assume that they were unable to handle their own affairs and compelled them by force of their superior warships to submit to the indignity of allowing consular courts of the various powers to take the place of the regular Turk ish courts. Then Great Britain, Rus sia, Germany, France, Austria and Italy established branch postofflces in the various cities of the Ottoman Em pire for the use of foreigners and in order to compete with these usurping establishments the Turks were obliged to sell stamps at prices below the regular postal union rates. The subjects of the great powers were treated with more consideration than Turkish citizens and exempt from tax ation. The situation was almost unbear- K.' itha haso reached hi I very soul tha all he do towards righting his wrongs, is to wait until the Lord himself shall see fit to come i down and. right them. Thel outrageous condition was .u.t .._ th able backedsobwha the combined navies of Europ could the poor Turks who had but a few bum battleships, do? When they voiced strong pro tests against the injustice of the thing, the Christian powers simply pointed to their warships. Then came a change. The great Christian powers began to spring at each others' throats and while they were engaged in the delightful pas time of murdering men with machine guns, Turkey, which is now ruled by the "Young Turks" who have modern ized court procedure and brought the tribunals of justice up to date, seized the opportunity to put an end to an unjust and humilating conditions and "put one over" on the Christians. Superiors Never Burn Inferiors. (Portland Advocate.) A superior race will not lynch and burn an inferior race simply because they have the power. Terrible crimes and brutalities will not be permitted against human beings by a superior ease and rac mitteresolution, by Senator of peacea for an injured conscience simp- chusetts: ue.1' "J TO he ee ly on thet basiss of color.flnd "HUMAN NATURE'S FOULEST BLOT." My ear is pained My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage, with which earth is filled. There is nofleshin man's obdurate heart. It does not feel for man: the natural bond Of brotherhood is severed as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colored like his own: and having power To enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys: 'Tis human nature's broadest foulest blot. owper. *ikife*u THANKSGIVING AT THE WHITE HOUSE VS THE STATE DINING BOOM OF THB WHITE BOUSE. In his bed of brown gravy, his portly sides cracking with deliciousness. Thanksgiving is a great day at the White House. The turkey intended for the president each year Is a mag nificent one, weighing about twenty eight pounds, it reaches the White House a few days before the great dinner by express, already killed. When roasted it is truly a sight to make Lucullus* mouth water with envy. The turkey Is cooked in a kitchen which is a model for cleanliness and comfort. On one side of the room is an immense range, at least twelve feet in length, and above hangs a large Iron hood, which carries off any odor. The tables are two in number and covered w1ttiA for U that God (n mercy eend, for health and children, home and frtaide for comforte the time of neecv for every Wndty word or deed, for happy tbougbte and holy talk* for guidance (n our dafly *alh. In everything, gfte tbanfcft. for beauty fn tbfe world of oure. for wdant graee and lovely flower, for eoifge of blrdd, and bum of beta, for the refreshing eummer'a breeze, for hill and plain, for stream and wood, for the great ocean'e mighty flood In everything give thanks. for the sweet sleep which comes with nlgbt. for the returning morning light, for the bright sun which shines on blgb. ^for the stars glittering in the shy for these, and everything we see, O, I*ord, we lift our hearts to thee In everything, gfve tbannst AIL to the chief!" That par ticular line of the patriotic hymn certainly applies at this season to the national birdthe turkey, and not the eagle. From the sun kissed sands of the gulf to the snow clad mountain crests of Alaska, from the burning deserts of Arizona to the bleak, storm washed rocks of Maine, the turkey is king. Millions of Americans will pay him tribute. On the plain dinner table of the farmhouse, on the silver laden board of the city banker, in the cabin, in the mines and cars whirling along their tracks of steel, beneath the glow of electric lights and the sounds of music floating from behind palms or with the gleam of the tallow dip. the sovereign is the same, proudly resting rinfc. Who've them is a hanging rod full of books, from which depend rows of shining saucepans of all sizes. The floor is covered with linoleum in a pretty design, and the whole place is lighted by electricity. There are three cooks, but the num ber of "help" at the White House Is sixteen, which includes the maids, laundresses and waiters. The dishes are washed in a patent affair. By means of a dumb waiter the meals are taken right up to the but ler's pantry, which adjoins the dining room and contains the presses full of china of all administrations and of ev ery variety of beautiful design. There are historic sets which have come down from the earliest days, for near ly every president's wife has added to the collection. Or china used by Lin coln there are about 100 pieces left the figuring and coloring being quaint and the dish bordered by a rippling de- Silver Moon Hotel and Cafe. Mr. Lee Johnson who has had years' of experience in catering to the inner man is now the manager of the Silvei Moon Hotel and tJafe, No. 7 E. Thin, street, near Watasha. The place is nicely fitted up Vlth all that pertains to hotel and cafe. He has 14 bed rooms, large public dining room, pri vate dining room for ladies, the "blue room," everything in first class order to take care orthe most fastidious. He serves a regular dinner from 12 m. to 8 p. m. at 25 'cents. Meals to order at all hour^ for moderate prices. Open all night. No 7 E. Third St., up stairs. Tel., Cedar 7089. t9BFm Cupper. sign inside of which is a broad band of color. There are about the same number of pieces left of a set which was bought and used by the Grants. Roosevelt paid the sum of $22,000 for a set of white and gold china, which numbered 3.000 pieces. One of the prettiest sets is that purchased by Mrs. Benjamin Harrison. The edge is a wide band of blue, and in the white center of the plate appears an ex quisitely dainty picture of the Ameri can eagle resting on a shield. The flsh sets are all decorated with painted pictures of all kinds of speci mens of the finny tribe, and the china used for game has pretty pictures of wild fowl in the air or standing among the reeds. There is even a plate which once belonged in the Confed erate White House and one given to Washington by the Society of the Cin cinnati. All of the silver at the White House is marked "The President's House." Other than having a monster turkey to grace his table, the president's din ner will be about the same as that of any other well to do American.Wash ington Star. When the Ancient Jews Gave Thanks. Three thousand years ago witnessed the Jewish feast of tabernacles, with its magnificent rituals, melodious choirs and picturesque festivities. For eight days the people ceased their work to "eat. drink and be merry." During the time great throngs gather ed in and around Jerusalem for sev eral days, living in booths formed of the branches of the olive, pine, myrtle and palm and decorated with fruits and flowers. Grand public pageants were held, nnd, in addition to these, every household had its worship, its sacrifices and its banquet AN OLD THANKS- GIVING FAVORITE By LYDIA MARIA CHILD. O VER the river and through the wood To grandfather's house we go. The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh Through the white and drifted snow. Over the river and through the wood Oh, how the wind does blow! It stings the toes And bites the nose As over the ground we go. Over the river and through the wood To have a first rate play. Hear the bells ring, "Ting-a-ling ding!" Hurrah for Thanksgiving day! THBOTJGH THB WHITE AMD DBTJTBS SNOW." Over the river and through the wood Trot fast, my dapple gray! Spring over the ground Like a hunting hound, For this is Thanksgiving day! Over the river and through the wood And straight through the barnyard gate. We seem to go Extremely slow It is so hard to wait! Over the river and through the wo* d Now grandmother's cap 1 spy! Hurrah for the fun! Is the pudding doner Hurrah for the pumpkin pie! Silence Is Infamous. Possibly the worst thing permitted to go on and work injury to Negroes, has been the silence of Negro speak ers in the face of the Infamous lies Ben. Tillman, Vardaman, Blease and others have been telling the North and West about Negroes raping white women. By all means they should have been rebuked and their state ments proven lies, but as it is, both sections believe it Shame on the in* telligent men and women of our race who allow these base calumniators to slander us.Pioner Press, Martins burg, W. Vs. k?Alsr ^U'Ls. ..*.*^^'*A-*t& 'MdCs^iSc ^.^-i/A'S BY REV. QUINCY EWING. But we are very far from needing to rely upon any general consideration in support of the proposition advanced above. It is supported by evidences on every hand, waiting only the eye of recognition. Scarcely a day passes but something is said or done with this end in view, to emphasize, lest they forget, the conviction for both white man and Negro that the latter is and must remain an inferior. Let me in stance a few such evidences. Consider, first, the "Jim Crow" legis lation in the manner of its enforce ment. Such legislation is supposed to have for its object the separation of the races in trains, street cars, etc., to save the white people from occasional contact with drunken, rowdy, illsmell ing Negroes, and to prevent personal encounters between the whites and blacks. Members of the different races occupy the same cars, separated only by absurdly inadequate little open-mesh wire screens, so tiny and light that a conductor can move them from one seat to another with the strength of his little finger. Needless to add, these screens would serve to obscure neither sound, sight, nor smell of drunken rowdies who sat behind them! In summer cars, black and white passengers may be separated not even by a make-believe screen they are simply required, respectively, to occupy certain seats in the front or the back end of the cars. In Birmingham,dAlabama, thein seats are1 Employes Who Get By. (Chicago Defender.) That our men and women are su perior in every way to the average wage earner found in these stores is without question, but worth doesn't THE Him WHO DARES I honor the man who in tho con scientious discharge of his duty dares to stand alone the world, with ignor ant, intolerant judgment, may con demn, the countenances of relatives may be averted, and the hearts of friends grow cold, but the sense of duty done shall be sweeter than the applause of the world, the counten ances of relatives or the hearts of friends.Charles Summer. What Segregation Means Rev. Quincy Ewing, a Southern Caucasian, Born and Reared in Mississippi, Shows the Policy of the South is to Keep the Afro-American in Inferior Status. front assigne to Negroe all closed cars, and the back seats in all open ones. Why the front seats in the one case, and the back seats in the other, it is not easy to understand in the light of the letter and alleged spirit of the Jim Crow law! The un derlying purpose of the law is clearly not the separation of the races in space for public sentiment does not insist upon its fulfillment to that end. The underlying purpose of it would seem to be the separation of the races in status. The doctrine of inequality would be attacked if white and blacK passengers rode in public conveyances on equal terms therefore the Negro who rides in a public conveyance must do so, not as of undoubted right, but as with the white man's regula tion. "This place you may occupy, that other you may not, because I am I and you are you, lest to you or to me it should be obscured that I am I and you are you." Such is the real spirit of the Jim Crow laws. Short Walk from Freeman to Serf. (Richmond Planet, Richmond, Va.) It seems to us that agitation is needed and that some well directed effort on the part of the Colored peo ple themselves should be made to check this pale of oppression which has now settled down all over the country. With the elimination of our political rights has come the interfer ence with our property rights and from freeman to serf is but a short walk in distance. Colored men must stand up for their rights, and they should not depend upon others to stand up for them. While the women are contending for the right of suffrage, let the Col ored men contend for the same thing. Political "pull" against us is accom plishing our ruin. We have never be lieved that the Colored people should eschew politics. This was the com mencement of our undoing and the sooner we get back on the political road again, the better. Rights are controlled and curtailed by politics. This is the lever to be used in our favor, just as the white peoples have used it against us. Why is it that in every Southern city no Negro is allowed to witness a dramatic performance, or a baseball game, from a first-class seat? In every large city, there are hundreds of Negroes who would gladly pay for first-class seats at the theatre and the baseball game, were they permitted to. It can hardly be that permission is withheld because theatres and base ball games are so well attended by half the population that first-class seats could not be furnished for the other half. As a matter of fact, thea tre-auditoriums and baseball grand stands are seldom crowded the rule is, not all first-class seats occupied, but many vacant Surely as simple as moving from seat to seat a makeshift screen in a street-car, would it be to set apart a certain number of seats in the dress-circle of every theatre, and in the grandstand of every base ball park, for Negro patrons. The rea son why this is not done, is perfectly obvious it would be intolerable to the average Southern man or woman to sit through the hours of a theatrical performance or a baseball game on terms of equal accommodation with Negroea, even with a screen between. Negroes would look out of place, out of status, in the dress circle or the grandstand their place, signifying their status, is the peanut-gallery, or the bleachers. Consider further that, while no Ne gro, no matter what his occupation, or personal refinement, or intellectual culture, or moral character, is allowed to trave in a pullman car between state lines, or to enter as a guest a ho tel patronized by white people, the blackest of Negro nurses and valets are given food and shelter in all first class hotels, and occasion neither dis gust nor surprise in the Pullman cars. Here again the heart of the race prob lem is laid bare. The black nurse with a white baby in her arms, the black valet looking after the comfort of a white invalid, have the label of their inferiority conspicuously upon them they understand themselves, and everybody understand them, to be ser vants, enjoying certain privileges for the sake of the person served. Almost anything the Negro may do in the South, and anywhere he may go, pro vided the manner of his doing and his going is that of an inferior. Such js the premium put upon his inferiority such his inducement to mantain it. count when prejudice steps in, so we must fight fire with fire, and those that are able to "get by" peace be with them and it is our duty not to hinder them in any way. Russians and Americans Alike. (Nashville Globe.) It will be a "commendable event in the march of civilization" If the war brings freedom to the Jews in Russia,pdro, but we fear the Russians are wholly like theira cousins, aunts and uncles in w,e i,c HOWARD UNIVERSITY Stephen M. Newman, A. M., D. D., President COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES A. B. and B. S. Courses TEACHERS COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MANUAL ARTS AND APPLIED SCIENCES Courses In Engineering Domestic Science Domestic Arts Manual Arts CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ACADEMY Three Preparatory Courses (Classic, Scientific, Normal) All Courses Begin September 30th, 1914 For Catalogues, Address, Howard University Washington, D. C, tfae at war wlll afte back Into the time-worn habit of see ing around the beam in their own eye the mote in their neighbor's. FIGHTING FOR THE BALLOT. (St. Luke Herald, Richmond, Va.) The Congressional Union, the white women's national suffrage organiza tion, is out on the war path against every democratic congressman in the nine states in the West in which women vote. The Congressional Union has headquarters in Chicago, and is using every possible political effort to I get the scalp of every democrat who ,1s opposed to women receiving zue I ballot. Everybody seems to understand the i power of the ballot except the colored people. 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