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Busf. ness letters of all kinds must be written on sepaiate sheets from letters containing news oi matter for publication t* "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. 4HBHSKeHgHjp4gHeHyHyH^BHg SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1920. THE BEGINNINGS OF SEGREGA- TION. The following item from the Chicago Daily Tribune is interesting as show ing the various influences which are suggesting and encouraging segrega tion "The possibility of Wendell Phillips High school at Thirty-ninth street and Prairie avenue being set apart for col ored pupils exclusively, "by a natural segregation," was suggested last night by Principal Charles H. Perrine. At the First Presbyterian church, Grand boulevard and Forty-first street. Dr. Perrine spoke at the first of a series of Sunday night community meetings in connection with the Chicago Plan. "Negro boys and girls deserve the best available in the way of teachers and equipment The district around Wendell Phillips is rapidly becoming settled by colored people, and there are comparatively few white pupils. They are getting fewer and fewer. "The time is near at hand when we shall need another high school farther oouth to take care of the increased unite population there A modern nigh school located somewhere near Fiftieth street v ill be necessary soon and should be included in the Chi cago Plan. Wendell Phillips will be then exclusively for colored pupils. They should be given the finest high school possible." The Rev. William Covert, pastor of the First church, anounces a series of discussions on Sunday evenings to consider the duty of the church in the development of the Chicago Plan. Like nine out of every ten schemes for the degradation of the colored peo ple it was suggested by a supposed friend and perhaps there is a "nigger in the woodpile" That is perhaps Perrine had talked with some jimcrow "negro" who approved the outrageous plan. There are some jimcrow "negroes" in Chicago and in other cities including St. Paul and Minne apolis. Like the majority of schemes for the degradation of the colored people it was incubated in a so-called Church of Christ. Principal Perrine said that the dis trict was becoming settled by colored _W.?, -j, jf. A High School should be made "colored. That would be an outrageous perver sion of the name, for Wendell Phillips was a real Christian white man who devoted his life to work in righting the wrongs of his colored brethren. There are neighborhoods in Chicago inhabited almost exclusively by Ital ians, Chinese, Poles, Russians and other foreigners, but the thought never comes to Mr. Perrine or others of his ilk to restrict the children in those neighborhoods to "exclusive" Italian, Chinese, Polish or Russian schools. The schools remain PUBLIC schools, open to all. There has been much talk about the "Chicago Plan" and now we are get ting some intimation that segregation is to be a part of that plan However we believe that the thinking colored people of Chicago have their eyes open and will be ready to fight jimcrowiza tion of the schools. One thing that Mr Perrine said is true: "The colored boys and girls are entitled to the best in the way of equipment and teachers." The colored children have the same rights as other children, no more and no less. To at tempt to segregate them is to take from them their birthright. The only way they can get the "best" is to at tend the identical schools that other American children attend A jimcrow school built of gold and studded with diamonds would still carry with jt the degradation for which it was designed. THE "NIGGER" IN THE SEGREGA- TION WOODPILE. "Prof. Neval H. Thomas, a school teacher in Washington and an active member of its N. A. A. C. P., con cludes a vigorous news article pub lished in the Cleveland Gazette with words which answer the boasts of those who get money for institutions and houses for Colored people that keep the races apart Says Prof. Thomas: "I have heard many silly Negro ad vocates of segregation boast of how much money they can raise for a Negro enterprise, too blind to see that most any white man will contribute liberally to any movement that will keep Colored people away from him and make them acknowledge their in feriority. In fact, the most dangerous enemy of democracy with which we have to contend, and the most serv iceable capitalistic tool, is organized charity. The large donors to these Negro "charities" are making profit able investments when, through some well-paid Negro, they can establish a separate Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A. so cial settlement, or school. These in stitutions aid in keeping the toiling masses apart, so that, on the principle of "divide and conquer," these wealthy "donors" can exploit. So, the collec tion of large "contributions" by these Negro segregationists is no achieve ment, but another barrier to the prog ress of the race. I well remember how one of these international "secre taries" boasted of getting the money to build a Negro Y. M. C. A. in the great city of Chicago. If that institu tion remains there long the great civil rights law of Illinois will be null and void 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. people and therefore Wendell Phillips into the associations which bear the Already its presence there has freshing and gratifying to find an ex- popularized a movement for separate ception in Congressman L. C. Dyer schools and segregation as to homes of Missouri, who appointed Richard W. for our people "No, our solution is not surrender, but FIGHT! Let the churches and welfare clubs of Cleveland exert extra tary Academy. There have been sev- activity for the moral betterment of eral colored boys appointed to West Cleveland's youth, and your press, pul- Point in former years, but only two pit, your ballot, and every other power were able to withstand the strenuous, within you. Agitate for admission outrageous treatment accorded them THE MAN WHO DARES I honor the man who in the consci entious discharge of his duty dares to stand alone the world, with ignorant, intolerant judgment, may condemn, 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 countenances of relatives or the hearts of friends.Charles Sumner. name of Jesus who was "no respecter of persons," until they acquire a sense of shame." THE APPEAL agrees with every word that Mr. Thomas has1 written. The Y. M. C. A., social settlements, "Community service," and all similar schemes are efforts at segregation, pure and simple. Their purpose is to bar the colored people from quasi-pub lic institutions, to which all other peo ple are admitted without question. When the "colored" Y. M. C. A. was opened in Chicago, THE APPEAL pre dicted editorially that it would prove a curse, by reason of creating greater prejudice and the prediction has been more than verified. It will take a thou sand years to undo the wrong it has done Possibly ten thousand years may not right the wrongs done by the establishment of jimcrow Christian associations in the United States. The man who has given so much money to divide American Christians along the color line is a Jew. How could it be possible for a Jew to be in terested in the spread of Christianity? The idea is ridiculous. The shrewd Jew knew that by catering to the blind prejudice of the so-called white Christ ians would bring in dollars. He also knew that jimcrow "negroes" would laud him for his "philanthropy" and start a lot of colored men's white sil ver dollars rolling his way. It was a plain Jewish business proposition. Cupidity not humanity caused him to spend his money for his pet charity." And it has paid. For every dollar he has put in he has taken out two. The colored man must fight to a fin ish any attempt to bar him from any public or semi-public institution. MIRABILE OICTU! In these days of profiteering and money mad people whose God is money, it is almost unbelievable that a man would resign an easy job that paid a salary of 10,000 "plunks" to accept a hard job that only pays $3,- 000. The rara avis that did this is Rev. J. Douglas Swagerty of Dallas, Texas, who was educated for the min istery and was assistant pastor of the First Methodist church. When the church no longer needed an assistant pastor, Mr. Swagerty accepted a posi tion at a salary of $10,000. He received an offer of assistant pastor, choir director and director of religous education in Wesley Memorial church of Atlanta, Ga., at a salary of $3,000 per year. He says: "It is not a matter of money with me, it is a matter of do ing my duty. I will continue in church work despite the greater finan cial opportunities offered in other fields. It is my chosen calling and I wish to follow it." One can have some faith in this man's Christianity ANOTHER CANDIDATE FOR WEST POINT. It has been so long since a congress man of any of the states has been fair enough, man enough and unafraid to appoint a colored boy as a candidate for West Point, that it is quite re- Jackson, aged 19, a graduate of Sum ner High School, St. Louis, as prin cipal candidate for the Nation's Mili- and to be ALLOWED to graduate. The new candidate appears properly equipped to undergo the ordeal if he succeeds in passing the required ex amination in March, which we sin cerely hope he will. We also hope if he passes he will be fortunate enough to over-ride all obstacles that may be put in his path at West Point and that he will be permitted to graduate. NOW LET THEM GO ON RECORD 1 The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York, announces that a questionnaire has been sent to every man prominently mentioned as a presidential possibility, asking him to state his views on a program for bettering race relations in the United States. The questionnaire is as follows: "If elected President: 1. Will you favor the enactment of laws making lynching a Federal of fense? 2. What is your attitude toward the disfranchisement of Americans of Af rican descent: (a) Will you advocate that Congress enforce the 14th amend ment and reduce the representation of states which disfranchise their citi zens* or (b) will you advocate the appointment of Unjted States Commis sioners to enforce the 15th amend ment? 3. Will you endeavor to bring about the abolition of "Jim Crow" cars in interstate traffic? 4. Will you withdraw armed or other interference with the independ ence of Haiti? 5. Will you urge national aid to elementary education, without discrim ination against colored children? I 6. Will you pledge the apportion ment of colored soldiers and colored officers in the armed forces of the United States in proportion to their numbers in population? 7. Will you abolish racial segrega tion in the Civil Service of the United States?" I The questionnaire was sent to the following men: Herbert Hoover, Wil liam G. McAdoo, Governor Goodrich (of Indiana, Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University At torney General A. Mitchell Palmer, Senator Hitchcock, Governor Cox of Ohio, Senator Pomerene, James W. Gerard, Senator Underwood, General 'Wood, Senator Warren G. Harding, Governor Lowden of Illinois, Senator Hiram W. Johnson, Senator Poindex [ter, Governor Coolidge of Massachu setts and General Pershing. LIBERIA OUSTED HUNS. African Republic Was Only Nation to Expel All Germans Dur ing the W#r. London, March 1Liberia is said to have been the only state at war with Germany which expelled every German from within its gates and se questrated all their property. Before the war there were about 300 German citizens in Monrovia, the capi tal, and Liberia was rapidly becoming a German protectorate, says Alan Bourchier Lethbridge, in the Daily Telegraph. The Germans, he adds, controlled a giant wireless plant and evidently had made arrangements to use Liberia as a lin in the chain of colonial1 possessftms.k Their places now are being rapidly taken Spaniards, and Mr. Leth bridge predicts if Spanish immigra tion into Liberia continues, Spain will have the largest foreign colony in the country. SAINT PAUL Mr. A. H. Copeland has moved to 363 N. Dale. Mrs. A. J. Turner, 390 Rondo street, is ill at her home. Mr. Noble L. Houser has moved to 445 Willius street. Mr,s. T. W. Stepp, 782 St. Anthony, is ill at her home with pneumonia. Mr. and Mrs. Talbert Bush have moved into their new home, 543 Boun son street. Dr. Turner was a professional visitor to St Peter, Minn., on Thursday of this week. Mr. T. H. Lyles. 687 St. Anthom Ave. is confined to his home by ill ness this week. Atty. W. T. Francis has been ap pointed as a member of Mayor L. Hodgson's campaign committee. FOR RENTFour rooms and store front, or will sell hair dressing shop. M. Love, 310 Rondo. Tel. Elkhurst 3473. When you wish to write a letter home, you can get paper and en velopes FREE at the "Gentlemen's Resort," cor. St. Anthony and Kent. Mrs Carrie Mills returned last -Sun day from Chicago where she spent tw months with her daughter, Mrs Wm. Stanton and family. Mrs C. E. Charleston, 474 St. An thony Ave, who has been ill for the past two weeks is still confined to her home. PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER Mrs. Harriet E. Williams, stenographer for Atty. W. T. Francis, suite 329 Metro politan Bank Building, corner Cedar and Fifth Street, will do typewriting for anyone desiring her services, at reasonable rates. Tel. Cedar 8948. One of the big things to which the people may look forward with pleas ureable anticipations is the oratories or the Messiah which will be pre sented at Pilgrim Baptist church, by the Swedish Baptist Chorus of 100 voices on Tuesday evening. March 30. Admission 35 cents. This will be a veritable musical treat. THE APPEAL has just learned that the magnificent special dinner which was served for the officers at the Ca baret Dance in honor of Col Otis Duncan at Union Hall during his visit to the city was prepared by Mrs John Hudnell, 494 Rice street and was a splendid specimen of her culinary skill. Mrs. J. B. Johnson, 863 Woodbridge street, was hostess to the Adelphia Club Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. B. Edwards read a very interesting paper I on the State of Washington. Discus I sion was led by Mrs. M. Burton. The i club's guests were: Mrs T. B. Botts, Minneapolis, and Mesdames Bettie Jones and J. A. Hanly. The Forum of the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored People wil meet on tomorrow, March 14th, at 4:00 P. M.. at Pilgrim-on-the Hill, Grotto St. and W Central Ave. Mr. T. J. Duncan will address the meeting on, "Co-operative Buying." All members and friends are urgently requested to be present. The season's greatest event will be the Grand Inaugural Ball of the Brotherhood of D. and S. Employes' Union, Local No. 548 at Union Hall, Monday evening, March 22d. Special features: Kangaroo Court, $5. Prize Waltz, Pep Punch. Committee, R. s. Harris, chairman, George Kin^, R. 1'oulden. Ticlets, 50 cents. Mrs. Anna Gamble, 403 Arundel street entertained at six-o'clock dinner Monday complimentary to Mrs. Vir ginia Taylor. Miss Margaret Johnson and Miss Mattie Murrell. The dinner was a splendid specimen of the culi nary skill of the hostess and was high ly enjoyed by her fifteen guests. After dinner cards and dancing were fea tures of the evening. Wednesday the Self-Culture Club met with Mrs. Emma Hood, 676 St. Anthony Ave., with Mrs. Birdie High as special guest. They enjoyed a splen did dinner and elected as officers: Mesdames Mildred Johnson. Pres.. Minnie Archer, Vice Pres., Ida Smith" Sec, Ida Covington, Asst. Sec. Hilda Kennedy, Treas., Emma Hood, Chap., Leantha Scott, Chrm. Sick Com., Peg gy Hobson, Critic, May B. Mason. Journalist. The club is making a silk quilt that is to be raffled for the benefit of Crispus Attucks Home on March 26 at the home of he vice president. The twenty-sixth annual banquet of the Lincoln Republican Club was held at Masonic Temple last Monday night and was the largest ever held. Excel lent speeches were made by Leavitt Corning, president of the 'club, Maj. Royal A. Stone, toastmaster, Gilbert Guttersen, candidate for mayor of St. Paul and Senator Hiram Johnson of California, candidate for nomination for president of the United States, L. S. Ferguson, candidate for councilman of St. Paul, delivered the invocation. Mr. Leland S. Duxbury was the soloist The Lincoln Club Quartette: Messrs. Mallory, George, Wahlquist and Lar sen rendered several selections. Bar rett's Orchestra furnished music. The colored citizens were represented by about thirty gentlemen. The hearing on the petition of Mrs. Lucy Smith of Tacoma, Wash., to al low the will made by Margaret Simp-' son alias Margaret Martin, in which Mrs. Smith is given one-half of the Simpson estate in Mineapolis, was had before Judge Dahl in Probate Court at Minneapolis on Thursday. Attor ney W. T. Francis of St. Paul repre sents Mrs Smith of Tacoma. Attor-1 neys B. S. Smith and W. Morris represent Mrs. Callie Rhone, sister of the deceased living in Minneapolis The Court determined in as much as the will had been proved in the Supe rior Court at Tacoma, Washington, it i must be allowed here unless steps are taken in the Court at Tacoma to break the will, and a continuance was grant ed in order to give opportunity to de-' cide whether the contestants will make any effort to have the will de clared void in the Courts of Wash-( ington Mrs. Irene Robinson, 790 Carroll Ave., being born on Feb. 29th, has had only eleven birthday anniversary dur ing her life. As her last birthday anni versary fell on Sunday she celebrated it on Monday, March 1st. with an ela borate reception for her friends from 7 to 11 p. m. Assisting her were: Mes-! dames Thomas, Patrick, King, Hill, Woodfork and Sears She received a number of nice presents from relatives and friends in Kansas City and other places. The Willing Workers Club of Memorial Baptist Church, Mrs S. W. Williams, president, presented a silver baking dish. Musical selections were rendered by Mrs. A. W. Jordan, Mrs. T. J. Carr, Misses Wright and M. Patrick and Mr. J. H. Hickman. Sr. Remarks were made by Rev. T. J. Carr., The hostess served chicken salad, rolls, coffee, ice cream, cake and frappee Miss Thelma Williams presided at the punch bowl. There were upward of eighty guests present during the evening. ST. PAUL REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. Five-room modern bungalow, Avon near Iglehart. Price $5,400. Cash $1,000, balance on terms. Eight-room modern dwelling, Fuller near Milton. Price $5,200 Cash $1,000, balance on terms. Other desirable bargains on reason able terms. McDEW 10 S Third Street Tel Atlantic 0621 Minneapolis EX-SERVICE MEN, ATTENTION. This is of Interest to Every Man Who Fought in the World War. It would take too much space to tell all the advantages that may ac crue to any ex-soldier of the U. S. army who will intelligently investi gate some things. They can get the best and cheapest war risk insurance in the world. They can get citations "for Meri torious Service." They can get free, the best medical treatment known to science. Reader, if you are an ex-soldier, go to some army office and investigate and learn what you may get if you try. INDUSTRIAL CLUB. An Industrial Club has been opened at 4555 Champlain avenue, Chicago, 111., for the benefit of YOUNG BUSI- NESS WOMEN, along all branches. Homelike rooms with conveniences at very reasonable rates, within their reach. Moral atmosphere and safe surroundings. A help to any honest girl who wishes to earn her own ilving. Mrs. Melissa Ann Elam. Tel. Drexel 7604. TRUTH TERSELY TOLD! WHAT BETTER THING CAN ONE DO THAN TO REMEM- BER ONE'S FRIENDS? THE TRADES PEOPLE WHO AD- VERTISE IN THE APPEAL, THUS SHOW THEY ARE FRIENDS AND WANT YOUR TRADE. THEY RECOGNIZE YOUR PAPER AND INVITE YOU THROUGH IT TO TRADE WITH THEM. ACCEPT THEIR INVITATIONS AND SHOW YOUR APPRECIATION. THERE ARE NO BETTER PEOPLE TO TRADE WITH THAN OUR ADVERTISERS SHOP IN OUR COLUMNS BE FORE YOU DO YOUR SHOP PING. THOMAS ON TERRELL. (From the Boston Guardian.) In his correspondence for the Old reliable Cleveland Gazette, a paper which we greatly admire as we ad mire al^o its great editor, Hon. Harry C. Smith, especially for his stand against the race drawing off together in separate philanthropic institutions, Prof. Neval H. Thomas, of Washing ton, D. C, flays Judge (or Justice as he calls him) Robt. H. Terrell as a compromisor. Prof. Thomas made a splendid fight against a separate lunch room in the District Supreme Court Building. He says Judge Terrell was quoted by the judges against him. He charges that he opposed colored people coming North, opposed race petitioners to Peace Conference and then scores him for rushing to be the first to greet President Wilson upon his return from the Conference. We, ourselves, are surprised to see the way in which Mr. Terrell had this sent out over the country and the way the press dis played it. He says the Judge presided at a meeting for Sen. Borah to oppose the 15th amendment. Then he speaks as follows: "He even sanctioned separate rec reational centers for colored and white troops, with those of the col ored immensely inferior, in spite of the fact that the blood of white and black alike was flowing in one crim son stream in distant France. Only agreeable colored people are allowed to speak to the colored soldiers at the center of which he is head. None of us radicals who are constantly telling the colored man that he has done his share of the dying and that it is high time he was getting some of the liv ing, are ever invited to this center to talk democracy." We took .our stand on this in Bos ton much farther North than Wash ington. Verily the Judge needs make reply or the race will see how it is that this Southern administration retains a colored man as Justice Is It Fair? (From the Monitor, Omaha To stand before the God of heaven and earth with trumpets and loud voice and proclaim: "Thank God we (U. S.) are not as other people are. We write upon our books laws grant ing to all our people equality." Then write other laws abrogating the pre vious regulations? And when you do not think it feasible to put them in print, simply make it an unwritten rule that serves your purpose as well? To covet your neighbor's goods (rights) and if he should remonstrate with you, to slay him? For a so-called democracy to have two or more interpretations of the same word, each contrary to the other? To assert that a man is incapable of accomplishing a meritorious deed, without giving him an honest chance for a try. To call a man whose distant parents or parent had Negro blood a Negro and a white man whose parents were Indian, Malay or Mongolian a white man still? Must Judge A Group by Its Best. (From the Christian Register, Boston, Mass.) No one can be said to know any class of people vh has not been in intimate and sympathetic relation with the best as well as the worst of the class. We 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 not 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 bring out they know 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 ktow 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 GOD GIVE US MEN. God give us men! A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands Men whom the lust of office does not kill Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy Men who possess opinions and a will Men who have honormen who will not lie Men who can stand before a demagogue And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking! Tall men, sun crowned, who live above the fog In public duty and in private thinking. J. G. Holland. 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 It worth much which does not take people at their best. WALLER AGAINST "NEQRO." Noted Brooklyn Doctor Says It Causes Mental and Physical .rogation. (From Amsterdam Nsws.) 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 ths spreading use of this unfortunate term. Why? They real ise 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 Bols and Washington tool that its repetition, ad nauseam, is necessary to retain the good will of the masses. Th term "Negro" is not only absurdly in accurate as applied to millions of col ored people, but it Is also alarmingly 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 Afrloa was never applied to the higher typos, but to Guineas, Sudanese and Senegaat bians only. c. Its derivatives, "Negrolam," "Ne- grofy," and its compounds, Negro head, Nsgro-ly, Negro-monkey, are all clearly in their associations, degrad ing. d. 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 eenturies. 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." f. It is not differentiated in the mind and thought of the whites from their favorite and generally used (among themselves) terms, "Negro" and "Nig- ger." g. As stated by an eminent Japanese diplomat It has an unquestioned In luence In cutting us off from the thought, sympathy and oo-operatlosi of the millions of colored Africans, Asiatics and Islanders of the Yonder world. Very truly yours, OWEN M. WALLBR, M. D. 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-Tespecting 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 ekin may be dark The white man manufactured both terms and the Government legalizes ithem 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 ie 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 Wm. H. Lewis, Boston, Mass. Certainly Silly. Speaking at the A. M. E. conference at Indianapolis last week Bishop Cop pm said: "Some colored people say that they belong to the exclusive class Colored people are too far from the top of the ladder to talk foolishness of exclusiveness." "HUMAN NATURE'S FOULEST BLOT." My ear is pained M^ soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage, with which earth is filled, There ih no flesh in man's obdurate heart. It does not feel for man: the natural bond & Of brotherhood is severed as the flax 1 That falls asunder at the touch of fire. I He finds his fellow guilty of a skin I Not colored like his own: and having power 1 To enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause 1 Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. I I Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys: I 'Tis human nature's broadest foulest blot. I Cowper. I