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Busi ness letters of all kinds must be written on separate sheets from letters containing news or matter for publication. ft tftlljlift itl I tl iWl iHltffttfrtfe-tH8H%HJHfcHfri jHrAltHfatrfttA "Any prejudice whatever will be insurmountable if those who do not share in it themselves truckle to it and flatter it and accept it as a law of nature." John Stuart Mill. SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1919. COWARDLY BISHOP REBUKED. We reprint from the Cleveland Ga zette, edited by Hon. Harry C. Smith, a stalwart and outspoken champion of the colored people, the following rebuke to cowardly colored bishop: BISHOP PHILLIPS WRONG While there' is much in Bishop C. H. Phillips' pacifist interview of last Sunday, in the Cleveland News-Lea: der, to interest the "average reader, there is one statement to which about all of the intelligent members of our race will take issue and that is his statement that "the Afro-American does not desire social, political or in dustrial equality." That is not true, bishop! In this section of the coun try we want and, in a limited degree, enjoy all three. In the South, our people are asking the last two. "So- cial equality" is a myth. It does not exist among any class (race) of Americans. It is a matter for the individual to settle and he alone set tles it in all cases. And many white and colored individuals (families) in this section of the country have long ago settled it to their entire satisfac tion and are enjoying the so-called "social equality," and will continue to do so until "the end of the chapter" regardless of the ranting of southern ter if not both and the laws of the political equality, the fundamental law of the land guarantees the lat ter if not both and the laws of the states are in most cases explicit when it comes to the former. Not only does this race of ours desire them but it demands them and will never rest until they are conceded in every nook and corner of this country of ours. The Afro-American wanjts and must have everything good every other class (race) enjoys in this country if he is to keep abreast of the times and be able to cope with them in the great struggle of life. In this sec tion of the country, at least, we can stand up and say sotell the plain unvarnished truth and should do so. That it is not advisable for the good bishop to do so because of his resi dence in the South and because of the large church interests there he rep resents, we can understand. However, good bishop, please refrain from giv ing out such interviews here in the North where they do no good but on it is possible that he would appoint jim crowists if such a body were named, and its findings would be of no value in the matter. As a matter of fact there is noth ing to arbitrate. The colored people are wholly within their rights as citi zens. The Supreme Court of the United States has decided that segre gation is unconstitutional and if a jimcrow commission recommended a plan for "voluntary segregation, it would stand for something illegal. From what we learn the attempt is to be made to get the colored people to agree to their own segregation but we do not believe Illinois colored men will do so. If any attempt is made to segregate, the colored people have the whiphand and can prevent any such action by appealing to the courts. "MISTAKEN FOR NEGROES." During the recent race riots in Chi cago, about half a hundred, Mexicans, East Indians, Malays, Cubans, Porto Ricans and other peoples of dusky hue were mistaken for "negroes" and either insulted or badly beaten. There was not such great mistakes after all, as the majority of these peoples have a percentage of African blood. On the contrary not less than 20,- 000 colored Americans, often called "negroes," some as fair as lilies went unmolested through the streets of Chi cago. It was one of the queer inci dents of the riots. The white rioters, with murder in their hearts often could not tell a "negro when they met him. WOULD BAR FROM ARMY. Colored men would be barred from the army and navy under a bill in troduced by Representative Carraway (dem.) Arkansas. The bill also pro vides for the discharge within sixty days of all colored men now in the service and prohibits appointment of colored men to the naval and mili tary academies. Representative Carraway knows that this bill can not be passed, but he wishes to stir up race friction and make a hit with the rough necks of Arkansas. AN INFAMOUS STATEMENT Dr Clarence True Wilson, "general secretary of the board of temperance, prohibition and public morals," of the Methodist Episcopal Church, ought to be very careful in the stuff he hands out to the public for he has just made a statement which is not wholly true and which is an insult to one group of American fighters. On the authority of Deets Pickett, research secretary of the board who has just returned from Europe, the as sertion is made that drunkenness, dis honesty, immorality and the associa tion of French women with colored men, are some of the causes for their "dissatisfaction" with France In another column of this issue of THE APPEAL will be found a letter from a St Paul man who is now a soldier in France (thousands of such letters have been received from col ored soldiers), which shows that the alleged "Young Men's CHRISTIAN Association" drew the color line, and colored soldiers were continually in sulted by signs reading, Troops Only" WANTED, A SAMARITAN. Prone in the road he lay. Wounded and sore bestead: Priests, Levites past that way, And turned aside the head. They were not hardened men In human service slack: His need was great: but then His face, you see, was black. From the New York Independent. the contrary have an effect that re tards the progress of those of the race in this section of the country. THE LOWDEN COMMISSION. THE APPEAL is not enthusiastic about the Race Problem Commission appointed by Governor Lowden of II- There is no color line in France or any other European country, not even in Germany. The French people treated the colored Americans as if they were human beings. There was no patronizing. The, lik i linois. The governor is a very doubt- American soldiers continually insulted ful quantity on the race question and an i To infer that the relations respecable French women ,in arms. between and colored men were immoral is an infamous slur on the French women and an insult to the colored defenders of democracy. It is said that the French demi mondaines preferred the colored men, .and this piqued the white Americans. I They did not object to the sin, but the fact that the female sinner was a French woman and the male sinner an American colored man. The averave white American accus omed to the infamous, abnormal, un christian, and really un-American color line, can not grasp the psychology of the French people who not only have no color line but cannot com prehend its meaning. France which gave to the world the Dumas, pere et fils, judges men by merit not by color. France is true to its motto, "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternity." NOT A WHITE MAN'S COUNTRY. One Beauregard Moseley of Chicago, a colored man of local prominence presumably in order to be patted on the back and called a, "good negro," in an address at a colored meeting dur ing the riots informed his auditors that, "this is a white man's country." He was promptly rebuked and we trust he'll know better next time. No, this is not a "white man's coun- try." It is true that the white man stole it from the Indians.and also stole some colored men who were free in Africa, brought them over here and made them slaves to work the stolen property. Three hundred years of un requited toil gives the colored man a better title to the land than the white man's. The colored man knows no other land he speaks the vernacular of the country he has fought in every war to preserve its integrity has has al ways been loyal though deprived of "life, liberty and the pursuit of hap piness." The colored people of the United States are not aliens they were all born here. They are Americans and as Americans have their share in our common country. BROKEN HEARTS REPAIRED. Broken hearts are being mended in Russia nownot the hearts shattered, by unfortunate romances, but the val vular organs pierced by knives. Time mends the first kind ,and the skilled surgeon Zelder, can be depended on to operate successfully on the knife-torn heart. Dr. Zelder has a little hospital at Obuchow. Thirty-one persons brought to the hospital with hearts pierced and slashed by knife wounds have suc cessfully had their organs repaired and have recovered entirely, to all ap pearances, from their remarkable ex periences. One patient has lived seven years and shows no signs of having been affected by the heart wound and subsequent sewing up. The foregoing statement is going the rounds of the press as something new and remarkable, yet human hearts were repaired more than 20 years ago and it was a colored man, Dr. Daniel H. Williams, the famous surgeon of For White Chicago, who first successfully op erated on the human heart. 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. =pjtcv.a were treated because that is the custom me France. On the contrary the white mistreated their colored brothers r^r-^ have given a wholesome lesson to mob leaders. "A mob shows no discrimination and so innocent colored men were chased by howling mobs through the streets of downtown Chicagosome losing their lives at their hands. "There is nothing new in race prej udice. There has been prejudice be tween all races and the color of the Negro's skin makes him an mark in these outbreaks I "The war apparently awakened a disregard for civil law and order. Men have become dissatisfied and life is being held cheaply. "There is more than a suspicion in the assertion that white men in Chi cago have contributed financially to destroy the homes of colored men. i No Longer Slaves. "There must be a realization that the colored man is no longer in a state of slavery. A' half century has passed since his serfdom and he now is a factor in our industrial life. He is ac quiring both education and property. "He is given, under the constitution of the United .States, political rights, and those rights, given him by law, he should be permitted to enjoy. Those who would deny them are law less, and if the law is to be venerated all laws must be honored. In Illinois the Fourteenth Amend ment is going to be recognized. "One thing I wish to emphasize and that is the loyalty of the colored man. He has always been true to the Stars and Stripes, and has never joined any organization founded with the inten tion of destroying our institutions. Segregation Impossible. "Segregation has been advocated as a remedy, but if there, is any blood and bone in the constitution of the United States there can be no lawful restriction between citizens possess ing equal political rights. "The final and lasting cure, if there be one, is the exercise of justice, rea son and good sense between both col ored and white, even though the treat ment is prolonged as any procedure dependent upon the individual con science for fulfillment must necessar ily be. "It is only by vigorous and impar tial prosecution of all offenders that respect for law is established. So ciety is not constructed upon the prin ciple that might makes right Where laws are respected mobs are impossi ble. FRENCH DEMAND RACE EQUALITY Protest on American Seldiers' Acts to Colored Men. Paris, AugustThe government was interpellated in the chamber of depu ties a few days ago on the rough treat ment French colored soldiers are al leged to have received from the Amer ican military police in French ports. The questions were asked by M. Bois neuf and M. Lagrosilliere, colored deputies, respectively from Guade loupe and Martinique. The debate that ensued ended with the unanimous adoption of the follow ing resolution: "The chamber, faithful to the im mortal principles of the rights of man, condemning all prejudices ^of religion, caste, or race, solemnly "affirms the absolute equality of all men, without distinction of race or color, and their right to the benefit and protection of all the laws of the country. The cham ber counts upon the government to ap ply these laws and see that the neces sary penalties for their infringement are inflicted." Expects an Apology. Jules Pams, minister of the interior, replying to the colored deputies, said that the government had applied pen alties and asked them not to insist upon a discussion of "the very regret table incidents, as France does not forget the services rendered by her colored sons." The minister of the interior added that the American government had not hesitated to express regrets in terms that did France the greatest honor. "High Diplomacy" Problem. M. Pams asked Deputy Boisneuf for reasons of "high diplomacy" to drop the subject. The deputy said he would not speak of questions that in volved diplomacy, but he protested against the complicity of the French military authorities in these incidents. He then read a confidential circular to French officers attached to the American army, setting forth how American opinion did not tolerate "familiarity between whites and blacks." "And it is America that wants a .r EXERCISE GOOD COMMON SENSE AND IMPARTIAL PROSE- CUTIONS ARE THE MAIN POINTS. Segregation Held Impossible Exercise of justice, reason and good sense between both blacks and whites and impartial prosecution of all offen ders offer the only preventive against the recurrence of race rioting, said Attorney General, of Illinois, Edward Brundage in an address before the Chi cago Association of Commerce at Ho tel La Salle. Segregation of the races, the attor ney general said, is impossible under the constitution of the United States as the law prevents restriction be tween citizens possessing equal po litical rights. Accuses Police. "I desire to make no criticism of the individual policeman or of any particular commanding offcer," Mr. Brundage said. "I do say, however! that it is mighty unfortunate for the future welfare of Chicago that nearly all the persons turned over to the state's attorney for prosecution for the recent riots are those whose skins are colored. It is a reflection upon Chicago that black men could be mobbed in broad daylight in the heart of the business district without a sin gle member of the mob being arrested. Calls Mob Cowardly. "A mob is the most cowardly of all hrutal aggregations and a few deter mined police officers could have made it possible for the staters attorney and a jury in the criminal court to society of nations," interjected Charles Bernard, a deputy from the Seine. "The circular wasn't signed by Wil- son," shouted Deputy Mayeras (Social ist -from the Seine) in reply to Bernard. THE LATE RAGE RIOTS White Woman Writes Her Personal Experiences in Recent Race Troubles in Washington To the Editor of The Nation: Sir: On Tuesday night, when so many in Ledroit Park feared a mob and a general massacre, and when most white men believed that a white woman who ventured into that section would be literally devoured, I took it into my head to go there, and go I did. I went for several reasons One was to prove that a white woman could do it another, because I knew what had been done by the authorities and thought that a little reassurance from a lone and harmless woman might go a good way, for I guessed the probable psychological state in that section. Besides, I wanted to know at first hand what the colored people were doing and thinking. I found out If I talked to one colored man, I talked to a hundred and fifty. Occasionally I would stop to speak to one I knew oftener I would accost a group of un known men and ask them for their views Always and everywhere I met with courtesy and attention. As we talked, men would appear from the shadowsseemingly from the night itselfuntil there were perhaps twen ty of us. Only once did I see a police man, who glanced at us curiously, but said nothing and passed slowly on And when we had finished our talk the group would melt into nothingness and I would proceed on my quest. I saw no women at all. And the menwhy, those men were not out to They were armed, most of them, and were quite frank about it, but they did not want a fight. They said they were out to see if a mob were coming, and, if there were, they were going home to barri cade themselves then, if the mob tried to get in, there was trouble ahead As one put it: "A man would bte less than a man if he didn't fight for his familyw and his home." Their state of easy something.' star primarily fight. I was no a min I fear, a perfect hysteria of dread lest as more than one expressed it, "a new East St Louis" was at hand And, as, with all hysteria, a small occurrence would have set them off a frenzy Dynamite! They were TNT. Again and again I was asked: "Is a mob gathering on Pennsylvania Avenue? Will they come up and burn us out? Is the Park cordoned?" For they did not dare go downtown far enough to see if the troops were really there. Over and over, I heard the pathetic question: "Do the white folks care? Does anyone care? Are they really doing anything I told them that the best of the whites did care, but that we were helpless. I told them also that measures had really been ta"ken that afternoon and what they were that there really was military, as well as police, protection One queer old man remarked: "Well, I reckon some buddy do care, or a white lady wouldn't come out to tell us about it A one.-handed soldier said: "I en listed I gave the country my hand, and I was ready to give more. When I was in France, I was a man and a soldier, but when I get back here, I'm not a citizen I'm not a man. even just a big, black brute." It was not said bitterly it went deeper than bit terness. He spoke like a man with a broken heart. Another said: "They say this is to protect the white women. My father was in charge of a whole plantation and a family of white women during the Civil War. They weren't afraid to leave the white women with us then, and colored men are no different now." Many of them expressed a liking for, and confidence in, the captain of the precinct, and, when a man of one race speaks well of a man of another, dur ing a race riot, that means something But they spoke of the lack of colored police, and of the fact that colored men were being dropped from the force and that none had been appointed since 1910. "You know," they said, "that we could talk better to colored police. They would reason with the people and not just knock them 'round. They know who the people are and what is going on, and they could stop a lot of trouble without arrests But they don't want to give us a chance." I saw but one noisy Negro, a half witted and dishevelled-looking fellow, talking loudly and belligerently. Him two colored men seized and thorough ly shook, telling him that if he did not "shut up and get home," he would cer tomly find things happening to him. Once an excited colored boy came fly I ing on a bicycle with the news that a white mob had formed inside the cor don and was on its way. "Let's go meet them," said one young hothead. This was at once negatived. "We'll watch and see if they are coming, and if they are, we will go home and lock the doors. That's what Captain Doyle said, and he knows what's what." So, for a few tense moments, we stood peering into the drizzly gloom, not knowing what .might after all be about to come. But all was quiet, and we silently drifted on our ways. And thus it went for two hours. I met themnot savages, not red-hand ed murderers, but citizens, hunted and terrified, looking more or less hopelessly to their Government for aid human beings craving the hand of brotherhood, and cut to the very heart I thought of Belgium. I re membered that my country stands abroad for liberty, justice, and the rights of men, though she has them not at home. How blind we are, we An glo-Saxons, who talk of Freedom and have not yet freed our souls. But still I hope and dimly see a dawnred, it is true, but still a far-off dawn. A white man once said to me: "You talk like a Negro You seem at times to identify yourself with them. Have you lost your race consciousness?" I replied: "I hope I think enough like them to show you how they feel. I hope I always lose race consciousness when it stands in the way of my con sciousness of common humanity." i Then he said a queer thing. "I do not know whether you are mad or in spired I had been thinking of going to Serbia, but I believe my duty is here I believe that our country needs all of us who are standing along the color line. I am ready to do anything possible, to whatever limit. If you, to whom I look as a leader in this sit uation, should ever need my service* you have but to speak. My soul is aflame, not with the glare of the de stroying torch, but with the steady, incandescent glow which cannot be extinguished. Washington, July 20. E. G. M. ROBERT R. MOTON. (From the Crisis.) Neither R. R. Moton nor W. E B. Dubois had the slightest idea that the other was planning to sail for France. December 1, until they met in Wash ington on a quest for passports, No vember 30. They sailed on the Steam er Orizaba and frankly discussed their agreements and disagreements. When they reached France, each went about his own business. Dr. Moton was sent by the President of the United States and the Secre tary of War to see and talk to colorec soldiers. Dr. Du Bois was sent by the N. A. A. C. P. and the Crisis to gather the historical facts concerning colored troops and to call a Pan African Congress. On the night before Dr. Moton started out a colored man of national reputation and unquestioned integrity who had been in France six months took him aside and told him frankly the situation: the rampant American prejudice against colored troops and officers and the bitter resentment of the victims. Dr. Moton's letters gave him every opportunity. A special Army Order preceded him, which read: Dr. R. R. Moton, President of Tus kegee University, will be present in the Divisional area for the next few. days. The Division Commander di rects that commanding officers render all possible assistance in any visit or inspection Dr. Moton desires to make. They will also see that he is accorded every opportunity to make any obser vation he may wish to make. What did Dr. Moton do? He rushed around as fast as possible. He took with him and had at his elbow every moment that evil genius of the colored race, Thomas Jesse Jones, a white man. Dr. Moton took no time to investigate or inquire. He made a few speeches, of which one is reported by^a hearer as follows: The address delivered by Dr. Moton to the men consisted of one or two jokes by a colored preaciier, the as surance that the people at home were proud of them and the manner in I which they should act upon their re turn to the United States, dwelling al most entirely upon the phrase "Not to be arrogant." After he had spoken to the men the major informed the offi cers^that Dr. Moton desired to hold a secret conference with them. All of ficers congregated in the office. After being presented to the officers, Dr. Moton stated that he had been sent to France by President Wilson and Mr. Baker for the purpose of speaking to the colored troops. He also stated that he had just left Paris where he had been in conference with President Wilson and had asked the President his views as to the practical applica tion of democracy toward the colored man in the United States, but ended by saying: was very much pleased with his* reply but, gentlemen. I can not quote the President." After Dr. Moton finished his talk no opportunity was given to the officers to inform him of the conditions that had existed in France, and he did not seek any information relative to same from any of the officers after the con ference ended. Dr. Moton then returned to Paris and met Colonel House, General Per shing and others. Colonel House told the writer that he urged Dr. Moton to remain in Paris and that if he would, Colonel House would give him an op portunity to appear in person before the Peace Conference to speak for the black world. Dr. Moton refused to stay, but promised to return. He then went to England and secured an audience with Lloyd George, Prime g$*i& ^*:S?3R3Cr*-*=s. Big Exhibit/ *fiHE world's biggest machinery show will be a feature of the great Minnesota State Fair and Victory Exposition Aug. 30 toSept. 6 Minister of England. The destiny of the black race today is in the hands of England and the destiny of England is in the hands of Lloyd George. Yet Dr. Moton did not keep his appointment but rushed to catch his boat in order to be present at the Tuskegee Confer ence. He sailed with Thomas Jesse Jones still watching him, and did not return to Paris or to the Pan-African Conference, which he said he favored and promised to support. No one questions the personal in tegrity of Robert R. Moton or his kind ly disposition, but no one friend or foe, can look these facts in the face and not feel bitter disappointment Should Open the Doors to Opportunity (From the Christian Register.) A circular sent out to employers in a large city, calling attention to the number and quality of young colored men trained in the schools of the city, and asking co-operation and counsel in making their services available, brought one reply which though anony mous is significant of an opinion still widely influential. "Kindly send them to Africa, instead of mixing them with us As the expression of an in dividual desire these two points are of course admissible, but as practicable measures*it is curious that any intelli gent person should seriously entertain them. Does any one suppose that the colored population of the United States could be sent to Africa, or that if they were sent they would go? So long as they are here, and have al ready been mixing for more than a century, and have the rights of citi zenship, including the right to die with white men for their country, is it any reckonable menace to respectability and intrinsic leadership to open a few more industrial doors to their proved abilities and usefulness? While we' write, a moving-van is unloaded by two white men and one colored man. The colored man is the boss, the white men take his orders. There is not the least trouble about it. There would never be trouble if it were not made by people of the temper of the anonymous objector. Not "Nigger"Not "Negro." (From the Washington Bee.) Bishop Wilbur Thirkield, in discus sing colored Americans in the South western Christian Advocate, and in his reply to Irvin S. Cobb, says: "The writer means well, but he does not seem to know what the term 'nigger' that has persisted as a relic of slav ery and has in it the sting of liquid fire to every self-respecting Negro must go.". Yes, and The Bee asserts that not only the word "nigger" must go, but the word "Negro We are American citizens, the same as you, although our skin may be dark. The white man manufactured both terms and the Government legalizes them and colored Americans perpetuate them. For God's sake, give both terms a rest! Hates the Term "Negro." "I hate the term Negro because it is being used in terms of hatred. It is the cause of the segregation of the Negro It is being used in contempt in public places it is an excuse for disfranchising him and it is an ex cuse for lynching him. Only one tenth of one per cent of the colored people in America can trace their descent to Africa, and there is no more right to call all colored people Negroes than to call all white people Turks or Armenians."Ex-Assistant United States Attorney General Wro H. Lewis, Boston, Mass. 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