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Minn. under aot of Congress, March I, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1915 ernment in forcing the Indians to re-' main on reservations would deter their civilization for hundreds of years. "If there had never been an Indian reservation," he said, "and if we had never had an Indian bureau, the In dians of the United States would to day be a thousand times better off than they are, and this country would not now be called upon to appropri ate $10,000,000 yearly for the man agement or mismanagement of the bureau. "I say without hesitation or res ervation that the true policy of the government should be to permit the Indians to attend our schools and to eliminate the purely Indian schools altogether. I would have Indians enter government employ, and I would assist them as far as possible in entering business life. That will accomplish far more than reserva tions will." What General Pratt says is good sound sense and applies to all other nationalities and classes. The plan of segregating any class of Americans is both morally and economically wrong. The white Americans who insist upon jimcrow cars, jimcrow schools, jlmcrow libraries, jimcrow public W 5= ASSAILS U. S. INDIAN POLICY. Brigader General R. H. Pratt, founder of the Carlisle Indian School ^^^f^T^j^Z^^M declares that the pblicy of the gov- i cnno De ignore i nappene parks, etc., etc., for colored Americans are traitors to true Americanism and the colored Americans who accept, without protest, the indignities and degradations forced upon them, have descended so low in the scale of hu manity that there is no word in the English language to describe the depths to which they have gone. TROUBLE FOR HYPHENISM. From all parts of the country in formation is coming that true Ameri cans intend to fight hyphenism. A national organization of Ameri can citizens of foreign birth or parentage to discourage "hyphenated Americanism" has been formed in York. Twenty-four persons, who responded to a circular distributed by a committee headed by William Lust garten, formed themselves into a provisional committee to encourage the fight on dual citizenship. A letter from Col. Roosevelt to Mr Lustgarten was read at this meet ing. It said in part: "I welcome the work of your so ciety in working against the most sinister and evil of all movements which would tend to destroy our na tional unity and to split us into a tangle of warring German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans and Scandinavian Americans. You and I are fellowa Americansjust plain, straight out, ordinary Americans." The Christian Register has this to say on hyphenism: Why do we tolerate hyphens in the names we give to our several groups and classes? A hyphen is a danger signal in this countrysometimes it is even a peril. Why not allow a man three years in which to get the hyphen out of his system, then test him by an oath or a choice of flags, and then amputate the hyphen or else send the man back home? We have the means of transportationsee all those in terned German ships? A hundred million dollars' worth of them! And the Thomas Cook agencies idle! The situation has suggestive points. Where is our Elijah who will say to these hyphenates, "If the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then him?" THE ONLY SOLUTION. Recently at the Church of England Congress at Southampton, Sir Sidney Olivier, who was governor of Jamaica from 1907 to the end of 1912, put for ward the claim that no solution of the American color question was possible except by a resolute disclaimer of the color line and the race differention theory. Sir Sidney Olivier certainly knows what he is talking about. In the Island of Jamaica, where he was gov ernor for five years, there are about 800,000 colored people and only 20,000 whites and yet there is absolutely no friction between the races. Jamaica is a British colony and the govern ment is just. Colored men enjoy ev ery civil and political right which white men have and there is no color line. Among other things Sir Sidney said: "My study and comparison of con ditions in the United States and the West Indies," he said, "has brought me to that conclusion. American and colonial politicians and public men are not Exeter Hall abolitionists nor evangelical Christian missionaries. I do not expect them to adopt the meth ods of missionaries, nor do I sympa thaat the faiths of VyOj,j. W& thnea Jamaica were democratic and V"^H 3^^^^p^^^-^^^^ J^*%1W?1|P THE SIN OF SILENCE *t, 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. men who laid t7m^ -1 the foundations for the peaceful^ TlTJ^T^l ^hoT velopment of the mixed community in itarian and, above all, uncompromis ingly Christian. "Were race differentiation held to it must increase civil discord. When the balance of numbers is as it is in the South in America it must tend to foster obscure preparations for civil war and rebellion. If statesmen and citizens face in the contrary direction I do not say that they will attain im mediately civil peace, but I am confi dent that they will be traveling the only road toward it. "I do not suggest that race does not greatly affect facilities for combina tion between humans in healthy national life, but race difference is only one of many schismatic agencies. The solution of the difficulty involves discipline for the white man as well as the black." THE COLORED MAN'S STAND- ARDS. The Christian Register, the leading Unitarian publication of the country, prints so excellent an article on col ored man's own standards that we are constrained to print extracts from it. "White men have set standards for the colored man for many years. Dur ing slavery days the standard was mainly one of health and strength, a "good disposition" was also esirable "bad nigger" was harder to sell than one who would make no trouble. Taken altogether the standard of ante bellum days for colored men was much the same as that for horses, "warranted sound and kind," and all the rest. During the war, with the splendid record of black men as sol diers, the standard held up for them by the white man shifted, though only slightly. After the war, and after the Fifteenth Amendment began to oper ate, the white man gradually altered his expectation of what the black could be and ought to be. Whites dif fer greatly to-day, both North and South, upon this question as a rule, the more civilized the white man the readier he is, in judging the colored man, to see his great possibilities and his remarkable progress, as already shown. The subtler problem, and more vital to the colored people, is regard ing the race's standards for itself in the variom* arts of civilization. And his most serious obstacle isnot the injustice of his white neighbors, evi dent and regrettable as that is, but the danger he continuously incurs of holding up low standards of attain ment for himself. If he is to com pete with the white man in business, manufactures, arts, scholarship, and other pursuits, he must hold himself up to as high a standard of excellence as does the white man. As a rule, colored people do not quite come up to this they have the faults of their qualities they are too easily satisfied with attainment which is distinctly second-rate in the world's Bradstreet. The colored musician, or painter, or artisan, or writer is too apt to meas ure himself ly the many people be low him in skill instead of keeping his eye fixed ou the few who surpass him. For this reason it is good for a col ored boy or girl to attend a school or college which white boys and girls attend. Well-meaning friends of the colored people have pitied such pupils of mixed schools and academies be cause of the many slights put upon them by careless or unfeeling white schoolmates but people who see morp deeply into the real problems of *he colored race believe that it is better for such affronted young people to undergo the affronts and to remain shI 5 tna nalf-attainmenta THE MAN Wll* DARES I honor the man **io in the con scientious discharge of this duty dares to stand alone th woi Id, with ignor ant, intolerant judgment, may con demn, the countenances *f 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. f "**"1*$SI$ *i* rwnw liv human-of i iin th among brothers mm atmo8ph and sisters of their own race, all alike half blindly groping their stow way out of the darkness' BeneT that a colored boy Should bear whatever slights are put upon him by certain narrow, selfish, white boys at Yale or Harvard than to drift comfortably along in some Negro school which has not got itself as yet squared to the world standards, in a world where white men rule." AMERICANSTHAT'S ALL. For many yearn it has been the custom to treat colored people as aliens, although they are more than ninety-nine per cent of American birth and there is a growing ten dency among the colored people to regard themselves as aliens. This is being encouraged by a class of lead ers who call themselves "Negroes" and yell about "Negro Kultur" al though they have not more than half and often less than one-eighth of Negro blood. Such men ought to stop the "Negro" propaganda and be Americans and demand justice be cause they are Americans and not by the false assertion that they are "Negroes." They should not have any rights as "Negroes" lm every right of an American cii^zen should be and will be accorded them, if they fight for their rights as American citizens by right of birth. AN EAST INDIAN'S IDEA. Dr. Krishna of the dethroned dy nasty of India, scholar, literateur, and intimate friend of Pierre Lofi, Anatole France and other European brilliants is in the United States, and his por trait of an American is nothing like the reflection the delighted gentleman draws from his own mirror. In a recent interview Dr. Krishna said. "The American lacks spirituality. He is material. He gives his wife of 40 $10,000. 'Now, you take a go to hell for what I care,' he tells her 'I must have a little bird around that I can flatter and be flattered by' And he gets his divorce." To this cavalier treatment of the lady of 40, the American adds a fawn ing for anything British, and an amus ing ingenuity twisting scriptures to condone whatever he wants to do, said the distinguished East Indian Dr. Krishna, dark, polished, and of excellent diction, spoke with contempt of America's degeneration to a mere colony of England, gladly restoring the IT PAYS TO AGITATE. The colored people of the Twin Cities deserve great credit for the magnificent fight they put up against the showing of the pictured lie, "The Birth of a Nation" They had an awful hard fight and only secured par tial success, owing to the technical! ties of the law, which worked to the benefit of the producers They, however, succeeded in having i icense revoke i DOtn ^s^^i^-t i ^^ffJ^^W^P^ If^ ^t"C yoke that Washington and other Segregation in business forces the heroes had cast off at great cost of poured people to support their own blood institutions, but segregation in the "Entfand sayS, mus seas,' and America says, 'yes, i right that you should,' and America supports her And yet, in 1812, your country fought England for just the reverse principle There was a man, by name George Washington, and you call him the father of this country be cause he demanded and, somehow, won a free home for his people. "Send us no more missionaries of Christ I find that not a nation that proclaims Christ has not robbed another nation of its home. And you thank God and Christ for each con quest that brings the light to heathen peoples. "Who has made this war? It is the Christian nations. Is that the light that you would have us brought by Christianity? "In India the English have brought a heel of iron. There are thousands of our people starving, and yet we must support English bishops with hand some rings, carriages, automobiles, and heavy crosses of gold. If Christ was crucified on the cross these gold ones typify, then his followers are nothing aback in crucifying their weaker brethren on their little replicas Dr Krishna is a graduate of the Uni versity of Bombay, the University of Japan, and of Oxford. He is presi dent of the Franco-Indian society of Paris and Bombay, is literary critic and philosopher oontro.it thes%5% Pau the last of the production we most sincerely hope forever in the Twin Cities. We should not be unmindful of the decision of that eminent jurist, Dis trict Judge John H. Steele of Minne apolis, who fearlessly determined the law upholding Mayor Wallace G. Nye in his revocation of the license of the Shubert theatre. Everyone does not know the pressure that was brought to bear upon'Judge Steele to prevent him from rendering his decision as he did, and he is entitled to our gratitude for his sterling manhood. It is quite gratifying, too, to know that acting Mayor Henry McColl and the members of the St. Paul city council voted unanimously for the revocation of the license to show the pictures in the Auditorium, and for this we are truly grateful. Right you Are. (From the Amsterdam News.) Yoting man! Young woman! In whatever position, in wiatever sphere of life, whatever your attainments, whatever your past accomplishments, whoever and whatever yon are, if yon ^ugi are not DISCONTENTED you are paid first class fare, as a jimcrowed! Jott sure. MERCHANT SUED BY A QUAD-, ROON. 7 Manicure Asserts Ardent Wooer Jilted Her Asks $10,000. SPECIAL TO THE APPEAL Chicago, NovemberA story'of taxi rides, cafe" parties, and swift, irresist ible wooing is told by Mrs. Eloise Lewis, quadroon manicure, in explana tion of a $10,000 breach of promise suit which she filed this week against Charles H. Heller, president of the North American Supply company, general merchants at 6103 South Hal sted street. Mr. Heller denies it all she simply did not wish to pay a bill for goods bought from his firm. Yes, he did take her out in a taxionce And he did visit her at her home, 20 East Forty-fourth street But he never proposed marriage. Says He Showered Gifts. Mrs Lewis, who is a widow, filed her suit in the Circuit court, through Attorney George W. Ellis. Accom panying the praecipe was an affidavit setting forth that Mr Heller had pre sented her with some household goods, had entertained her, and had proposed marriage. Mrs Lewis was busy yesterday at the Mecca barber shop with orange sticks and pumice stone But she formed her customers into a waiting line and turned aside to explain every thing. "Mr Heller came to the home of my sister, Mrs Henry White, with whom I am living, early in September," she said. "Well he talked to my sister and went away. But a few days later he returned. He said he had come to see me becauseheliked me. He liked me better than any white girl he had ever met and he wouldn't have any one but me. Thought He Was Sincere. "Now, I thought he was sincere. I had been honorably married, you know and my husband had been an honor able colored gentleman He died about a year ago Kansas City, where I then lived. So I had to be come a manicure "The next week he visited me at the barber shop, and I attended him. Right there, in front of everybody, he called me 'Sweetheart,' and he told the barber, 'That little girl there is the future Mrs Charles Heller' "On Oct 6 he took me out to din ner again In the meantime he had given me a rug and some lace cur tains. And this nightOct. 6he came home with me and told my sis ter and her husband he was going to marry me. And he wanted me to marry him right away Mr Heller lives at 5809 South Hal sted street with some relatives He is unmarried "I took her in a taxi only once," he said "I entertained her But, hon estly, I never promised to marry her!' Exhibit of Loose Reasoning. (From the Indianapolis World.) Segregation is good as well as bad fcv2?%f We have more drug stores conduct ed by colored men we have more men in the clothing and dye business we have more ice cream parlors we have a bank which we didn't have hereto fore, and we have more sense and should have more co-operation in busi ness. A little segregation in the depart ment stores and men's clothing stores will help the good work. Photogra phers are doing good business. Col ored people have decided to have their pictures taken by those of their own race. The colored man in business is com ing.The Washington Bee. The above, taken from our contem porary, the Washington Bee, gives an exhibition of the inconsistency of loose reasoning. "Segregation is good as well as bad" This statement is cer tainly misleading as regards all prin ciples involved. If segregation in business is the force that makes col ored people support their own race in business it is a very low base upon which to claim the right to do busi ness. It would be very interesting indeed to have explained the phases or the degrees of segregation that our contemporary has in mind which op erate satisfactorily when applied on one hand and at once become nega tive when applied on the other. This to us seems far fetched. Fundamen tals form the base of all phases of men are willing to compromise basic principles for a mere shadow, then fundamentals resolve themselves into racial or national development. When small shadows and not substances Have Learned to "Love, Honor and Obey." (From the Afro-American Ledger.) "If I can live happily among the colored people, if I can love them as I love the people of my own race, then I will know that our dream of broth erhood for all races jnay come true," says Miss Florence MacFarlane, dele gate from London, England, to the New Thought Congress, which met in San Francisco recently. Miss Mac Farlane announces her intention of going out to live among colored people The experience of the Englishwoman may prove interesting but it offers lit tle that is new. Thousands of her race and sex have not only learned to love their colored brothers, but love, honor and obey them." to He Is A Real Man. (From the Pioneer-Press, Martins burgh, W. Va.) Editor W. P. Dabney, of the Cincin nati Union, is busy day and night these days fighting segregation and all other forms of discrimination in the Queen City. This is noble in him, too, and especially so when it is known that Mr. Dabney is in an of ficial position. Men of that sort are generally as mum as a clam, but this is not so In the case of Mr. Dabney. He is a man. Tired of Praising Enemy. (From the Pioneer-Press, Martins burgh, W. Va.) The Pioneer Press gets sick and tired of Negroes going off in refluent argument and praise of tardy judicial actions. For after the wicked grand father rascality crime had served its plans and purposes and was by time getting thread-bare, this decision was made. Why should I go wild in praise of it after suffering fifty years because of the denials of my rights? For many be the times I've been compelled to ride over the very territory I fought in the war of the rebellion thougu I WALLER AGAINST "NEGRO" Noted Brooklyn Doctor Says It Causes Mental and Physical Segregation. (From Amsterdam News.) Editor Amsterdam News: Sir: I cannot* too heartily congratu late you on a recent editorial discour aging the use of the word "Negro." There is no greater delight enjoyed by the white people of the United States today than the spreading use of this unfortunate term. Why? They real ize that it is the most potential fac tor at work at the present to bring about both a physical and mental segregation of the people of color. Its use is on the increase only because our speakers and writers, especially Do Bois and Washington feel that its repetition, ad nauseam, is necessary to retain the good will of the masses The' term "Negro" is not only absurdly in accurate as applied to millions of col ored people, but it is also alarminly injurious, for the following reasons- a. It has never stood historically or in the present, anywhere in the world, for anything noble or uplifting. Most high-grade Africans repudiate it. b. In Africa and out of Africa it was never applied to the higher types, but race hatred anJ antagonism in leaps RACE PREJUDICE. I am convinced myself that there is no more evil thing in this present world than Race Pre judice none at all. I write deliberatelyit is the worst single thing in life now. It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any other sort of error in the world. Through its body runs the black blood of coarse lust, suspicion, jealousy and persecu tion and all the darkest poisons of the human soul H. G. Wells in N. Y. Independent to Guineas, Sudanese and Senegam-1 class bians only, Its derivatives, "Negroism," "Ne- grofy," and its compounds, Negro-head, Negro-fly, Negro-monkey, are all clear ly, in their associations, degrading. Its feminine form, "Negress," is Justly and correctly used to define your wife and daughter and sweet heart, if you favor the use of the mas culine term. e. It has been the word used by the Southern whites for two centuries, when formally speaking or writing about an unworthy or criminal man or woman of the race. For when he speaks of the worthy he invariably says "colored" It la not dlfroroHo+a,* thought S&i^S"? and thought of^ thSe whites from their favorite and generally used (among themselves) terms, "Nigro" and "Nig- ger." As stated by an eminent Japanese diplomat it has an unquestioned in fluence in cutting us off from the thought, sympathy and co-operation of the millions of colored Africans, Asi atics and Islanders of the Yonder world. Very truly yours, OWEN M. WALLER, M. OUR NEED OF JUXTAPOSITION (From the Boston Guardian That we much rather be, and asso ciate among ourselves, is a saying by Colored Americans that has become almost trite That is a mistake, it is a feeling of avowed cowardice anc innate inferiority. It is an utter mi possibilitay for the two races to sub scribe to a common government, and at the same time, each race work ou Its own salvation. The "theory" has been tried and resulted into a ghasth failure instead of making for har mony and cordial good Teehng "be- tween two races, it has increase 2S?fg and bounds. We have heeded too i long the advice from false and1 tread i erous leadership that resistance is wrong, that it only breeds race hat red and antagonism that the thing for us to do is to get property and other rights will inevitablayd We have followed thins "advice" faith- bee SilL S 6 ^fif* PHONE BOMONT 1400 le*,a- "Leads Them All" You take away the Crown, but it still remains the Peer of Bottled Beers. he guests in your home will be sure to rememberthatthey had a royal good time at your house, if during their visit you regaled them with Hamm's preferred stock. It will make them remember you as a Prince of entertainets. For luncheon, for dinner, or with the "bite" before bed- time, drink Hamm's. It adds a zest to every m^j, brutes separate schools, jimcrow cars, and even legislating to exclude further Negro immigration. These are the evils resulting from 'non resistance" and "rather be by our selves." That with the same degree of effontry and terrible legislation with which our property is taken and confiscated, with this same effontry and legislation will our political and manhood rights be taken from us That is a fact. Every congress of fers legislation degrading and inimi cal to our well being. Race preju dice, therefore, can only be worn down by attrition. We must send our children, and go ourselves, to mixed Institutions and other places wherp we can mix with the other races and consequently become accustomed to one another. ABOVE ALL THINGS WE MUST WELCOME AND PRAC TICE JUXTAPOSITION. lu Must Judge A Group by Its Best. (From the Christian Register, Boston, Mass.) No one can be said to know any class of people,4who has not been in intimate and sympathetic relation with thec bestas well as the worst of the compare many persons who live in the South, and think they know the colored race, with others who have had no such contact, but who have come into intimate and sym pathetic relations with large numbers of that race whom their Southern friends have never known and of the two sets of people we should say that the second knew the colored people better than the first They know aspi rations among them that the others do n6t know, or, knowing, do not enter into and appreciate they know capabilities by direct contact with the best of the race which others are obli vious of they know qualities which only respect and sympathy can utjaWs a issued ana sympatny can bringgbrin iy thV Possibilities to which others by their very acquaintance are blinded If those who know the col ored race through the mass and by observation merely could know what individual possibilities are demon strated in growing numbers of the elect, and would be courageously can did with themselves, they would re vise their judgments and possibly sof ten their prejudices. At any rate, they ought to credit to those on whom they charge ignorance of the colored race the values that come from know ing how many of that race are the equal of any members of the dominant race in the highest abilities and in the clearest aims No estimate is worth much which does not take people at their best. S'more Southern "Social Equality." (From the Cleveland Gazette.) Florence, S. CCapt Paul Whipple was the father of several Colored children. He died recentlySa re ba wit terms of residince segregation, street people we lack in erev of brain Keen segregation, confiscatioln loss of a-coming sisters for' w* n iL V1 pec eand lation, since that it leaves our women bound to tell, because itto ti zliit defenseless and at the mercy of white bodies. vs TJI^S Mhe 8ha1 1 hll( securin rewr efollow %e THEO.HAMM BREWING CO, .ST. PAUL agiter his estate, 1 Inheritance.11T Colored Lady Leads All. (From Martinsburg Pioneer-Press) Thenworld'sofrecord in stenographysaVsttha anh typewriting is held by a colored 'l to lady i spite allegations a world's best blood and th oe cause re is giant X* i Is at River dale, S. Cl.o leaving an estate of nearly $100,000. His8 will provides children and 'J hi associatio wit a Mose 4 troublehnotwtthan Ai is~~?i i 4 schj Uni for i Clu day suc her the! him i C'1 4t STJ &,.