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Write far terms, *Me copies free. la every letter that you write us never fail to give your full name and address, plainly written, post office, county and state Busi ness letters of all kinds must be written on separate sheets from letters containing news or matter for publication PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. Tieat each man according to his worth as a man. Distrust all who would have any one class placed before any other. Other republics have fallen be cause the unscrupulous have substituted loyalty to class for loj alty to the people as a whole. President Roosevelfo speech at Little Rock, Ark. **$ SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 190G THE ATLANTA MOB. Ever since the occurrence of the At lanta murders THE APPEAL has been anxious to see an itemized statement of crimes alleged to have been com mitted by Afro-Amerieans, simply for the purpose of finding out just exact ly what was the truth in regard to the matter, and it finds in The Outlook what is probably as reliable a state ment as may be expected from a southern source The statement is that of Mr A McKelway of Atlan ta whom The Outlook vouches for as "a Southerner of high character." Mr McKelway vouches for his statement as "an entirely accurate account of the crimes" and the internal evidence is that he is very nearly correct. The statement covers a period of about eleven months, from Oct. 26, 1905, to Sept. 22, 1906, and the num ber, all told is fifteen. Amohg the crimes itemized are the following, viz.- insulting proposal, pursuing a white woman, two cases, kissing a white girl, two cases of black men be ing seen upon the back porch. There are two cases of attacks upon white wo men. One case is itemized as brutal assault and one as criminal assault ^v^ km wh^le one or two are mentioned as simply assault. In one case the per petrator was hanged by law in aned other shot to death by neighbors. In several of the cases, the alleged criminals are in prison awaiting trial. This enumeration, by no means sus tains the contention that the Afro Americans of Atlanta a*nd vicinity were guilty of an indefinite number of rapes or attempts at rape. In the cases of the "men seen upon the hack porch," the probability is that they were intent upon no greater crime than pilfering, even if they were really tbjere, which admits of a doubt. Mrs. A. or Miss C. might very easily have been mistaken. It seems to THE AP PEAL that Mr. McKelvay is very far from successful in trying to account for the Atlanta mob. Especially does he fail to show that the rioters were the kind of men to concern them selves about the honor of the women of Atlanta. The gang of hoodlums who chased an Afro-American into the house of a white weman and actually scared her to death by murdering him in her presence, as Mr. McKelvay re lates, did not seem to be actuated by very commendable motives. Mr. Mcing Kelvay "Methinks, doth protest too much." THE ARKANSAS PLAN. The Houston (Texas) Chronicle is wrestling with the problem: "How to deal with the Negro as relates to his participation in connection with the affairs of government." The Chron icle cannot do this with entire tran quillity, "because of intermeddlers who live elsewhere affecting to believe that the Southern people will jiot deal justly with the Negro" The Chron icle's argument is in no need of quo tation, since it is merely "the same old thing, without dotting an I or crossing a T." But the Chronicle's ar ray of facts and figures is by no means convincing to one who really understands the situation. Thus it states that, in Arkansas, the whites pay 94 and the blacks only 6 per cent of the taxes, yet the whites so legis- late that the blacks get "an exact pro rata of the school fund, not based up on what he pays, but on a per capita division. Now this assertion is not nee th* wf,t*. SPEAKER CANNON MADE STRONG SHOWING. The official figures from Speaker Cannon's district, the Eighteenth Illi- nois, do not present a very satisfactor showing of the work done there by the political representatives of organi zed labor, who were attempting to de- feat the Speaker, or greatly reduce hi majority. In common with the candi- dates everywhere, the Speaker did no expect to have the advantage over the country two years ago, when Pres ident Roosevelt was elected, and hean may have thought and admitted to hi mself, if to no one else, that he might suffer somewhat from the fight being made against him. But those fears proved groundless Two years ago, in the Presidentia 1 year, the Speaker's majority was 15,752. This year it was 10,027 Fou years ago, when the Congressional election came in an off year, the Spea ker's majority was 7, 687, so that the returns show he received a majority.of 2,340 in excess of the last off year. If the Speaker did not reach up to his phenomenal majority of the Roose- velt year, organized labor, which is claiming credit for his "reduced vote,'*' the friends of the Speaker, say, shoul not oveilook the same fact in con- nection with their own candidate. true, by a jug-full, or, perhaps several right, the Fo" Pen Wh An^ Can "*te nrsJTll W ,I -V k ha aS jugsfull. The law is'apparently fair. Every child, black and white is count and the proper officer apportions to each county so many cents for every child it lists, without distinction of race, color or previous condition. But there is no limitation, whatever, upon the school directors, who are invari ably white, as to how they shall pay out the fund and those worthies, with one accord, manage it thus: They pay to a Caucasian teacher, say $75.00, and to an Afro-American teacher, who has passed the same ex amination and holds the same grade of license, say $40.00 per month. They build a $10,000 school-house for white children and a $1,000 house for Afro-American children. They pro vide, isay ten teachers for a certain number of white children, and about half that number for the same num ber of Afro-American children. And so on, throughout the list, so that the Afro-American child never gets anything like a pro-rata division. AMALGAMATION. By Andrew Carnegie. DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. While Senator Tillman is consider the subject of amalgamation, he might devote some attention to thedocuments. following: Chung Fong, or Afong, was a Chi nese mercantile gentleman, who acwhen quired a considerable fortune in Honolulu, partly by a successful su gar plantation near Hilo. His wife here was a Miss Fayerweather, of one fourth Hawaiian blood, by whom he had thirteen daughters and three sons, all of whom, except one son, are living, and, except one daughter, mar ried The twelve daughters were all married to reputable white gentlemen, mostly in professional life. One ofregulation them lives in California, as the wife of Rear Admiral Whiting, U. S. A.regulation Mrs Afong lives in her fine residence in Honolulu with a majority of her daughters, established in their own homes in various parts of the city, some of them with large families So, it seems while the Senator is closely watching the Afro-American, the heathen Chinee is butting in "with a smile that is childlike and bland." The Senator, with his pitch fork should go for that heathen Chi at once. If Collier's Weekly is matter is of sufficient im- panted a life pension to BoSker Washington the widely known educator, according toireliable reports Sfc Tusl millionairnet haso longtbe ee J*Ji eSdento edu ctaon eqU is th re 8 ^ns th support of the school the puS of the Afro- American youth. i Purpose quent visitor theren. He donated the funds to build th^ insti#e libJrT nf ww fromnw8t0gJeir *f0 Institut Alabama and hasten a i interested in Mrf 11 Vasfineton's Sout ^Tat^e/dWTTor the aforesaid 1 *W8tar ZmZ TtlXlaS8T problethatobutet*0fh problem of the color-line and, not only i shamelessly1 that the magic of the word white is already broken. So the Senator needs to gird up his loins. BLACKEN JIMCROWING TH E JAPANESE. The great problem which now con fronts our statesmen and sociologists is the devising of a safe, satisfactory and inexpensive plan for jimcrowing the Japanese sojourner in our midst. The absence of any such plan leaves an "aching void" in our scheme of national felicity which imperatively demands to be filled. California de serves the credit of having taken the first step in the direction indicated by applying the favorite old Southern plan of "segregation" to her public schools. But it seems that the afore said regulation, apparently, conflicts with an absurd treaty recently con cluded with Japan. The great princi ple THIS IS A WHITE MAN'S COUN TRY, formally adopted by the refer endum process, is, in that treaty, vir tually ignored, as if it were not well known that the above great and cor rect principle had been adopted, as a substitute for the Declaration of In dependence and other superannuated Now jimcrowing some body who Is unable to resist is a very hilarious process, but the very reverse the party of the second part ab solutely refuses to be jimcrowed. Such is the modus Vivendi at present. Japan shakes her fist at Uncle Sam and quotes the old legend%: Tit for tat: you kill my dog, I'll kill your cat. A correspondent of the Herald does not think very favorably of that papei 's suggestion that the South should have a more vigorous and effective police and says. "A more 'vigorous and effective police will not prevent the Negro from springing from ambush like a wild beast upon the innocent school girl as she .passes along the public highway, nor will it prevent him from using an ax to dash out the brains of a planter's wife in order to revenge some wrong which his superstition leads him to believe he has suffer- ed'" This year's crop of imaginative, mendacious and hysterical scribblers such as the above, may fairly be de scribed as luxuriant. No such condi tions have ever prevailed or can pos sibly prevail in a single township in the South. But the ahove corres pondent is far surpassed in the spe cialty of Ananias by the Bellingham Revielle, which says, editorially: "In certain parts of the -South no manold even thinks of leaving his wife and children alone for eve,n an hour as these fiends are lurking around seek ing opportunities for the gratification of their lust Every woman is train ed in the use of firearms, etc. etc." THE lAPPEAL admits that it cher ishes no very intense admiration for Mr. John Sharpe Williams, of Missis sippi. In its opinion, Mr. Williams cherishes the delusion that he is an exceptionally brilliant man, which causes him, ever and anon, to make a desperate attempt to convert other people to his opinion of himself, which ends in a disastrous failure. But,, for once, Mr. Williams happens to be on the right side when he says that to repeal the 15th Amendment is impossible. He is reported to have said that he believed in working out the race problem calmly and conserv atively, making the best of the situa tion as it is, and without waging war on the Negro as a Negro. "Strike at the root of the evil," he is reported as saying, "which is the-idle and vi cious Negro. ^Deal firmly with the bad and honestly with the good." One of the most prominent business men of West Virginia was, some mysterious dispensation of Provi dence, doomed to spend a few dsys in Lumpkin county, a portion of FJoke Smith's bailiwick of Georgia. accouo th century is the as follows: "They arrailroads,t withou asserts graph, telephones, COMMIT FACES TO CRIMES. It seems to THE APPEAL'that the Southern people, in their frantic and frenzied crusade against the Afro American, pay little, or no, attention to several matters which ought to be duly considered, of which one is the fact that it is claimed, with apparent reason, that some of the crimes at tributed to black men are really com mitted by white men whose faces are blackened with burnt cork. It can readily be seen that a criminal of this description enjoys complete immunity from, not only detection, but even sus picion, and-would be a zealous advo cate of a mob, if not the actual leader. A noted case occurred in a Southern state. A certain white man who had a considerable sum of money in hisand house, was persuaded by two of hiser neighbors to ga huntings one night, and" went, leavirig his wife alone at home. But shortly after his departure, old peddler, [who had traveled that section for many years, arrived and was granted lodging for the night. Some time after ihis arrival, the wo man of the house was attacked by two robbers and called upon the ped dler ^for help. The peddler responded and shot both of the robbers. They were the wives of the two men who had enticed the husband from home, and they were dressed up as men, with their faces blackened. This is an actual fact and needs no further explanation. P* ^T" "**'**f t inferno, he wend- th 0 of, to a reporter of the Post the follow- in th and-tele newspapers, and from the time I en tered the county until ten days later, I ^never heard of what was going on in civilization. Some of them do not actually knoWlhat the-war is over, for they talk About it as though it were still in full blast." Of course, Hoke,was just the kind of governor that such a gang of savages wanted and thus, his overwhelming victory is fully explained. The defeat of Hearst signally failed to throw a gloom over the people of the United States, if we may judge from the utterance of the newspapers. But there is one solitary mourner at the political funeralHon. John Tem ple Graves of Atlanta, who remarks in his paper: "Clroker and Roosevelt and the Boodle bag were the trinity that over came the people and their champion in New York. He has thousands of friends in every state of the republic, that he is the real idol and lead of the plain people of America no man who has eyes and brains can de- ny." We mention this fact for the edifica tion of the Afro-Americans of New York who voted for the "idol." Mr. Watterson says: "It is hard to believe that .the Japanese people will' allow minor matters to impair the friendship which has existed between the two nations, etc., etc" If we have a correct idea of the situation, the Japanese regard the exclusion of their people from the California schools as a violation of the terms of a solemn treaty between the two na tions. The Japs are not the only ones who do not rank violations of treaties among -minor matters. President A. W. Harris, of North western University, Evanston, 111., in a recent lecture, declared that he was shocked when ne entered a school and saw white and black children seated together. The President once taught in Maryland and, like a good many others had to learn Southern ethics to hold his job. But he will have to stand for the shocks or lose his job. Mayor Griffith, of Vicksburg, kiss., favors refusing license for liquor sell ing to all applicants who do not prom ise to refuse ,to sell to both white and black patrons, upon the ground that ^he mixed saloons are the usual cause of race riots. Why, Mr. Mayor, we thought you said that the cause Was assaults upon white women by "negro brutes." A prominent resident of Atlanta says that the Afro-Americans of that city are behaving much better since the riotsthat they are quiet, order ly and subdued and the result is grati fying. He failed to state how Hoke Smith and John Temple Graves are behaving, leaving it to be inferred that there is no improvement in their case. The Afro-American residents of Ok lahoma have organized an Anti-Lynch mg Bureau. Its object is stated to be to prevent lynchings and prevent the crimes which lead to and cause lynchings. Just how the bureau pro poses to operate, does not appear and, in the opinion of THE APPEAL, the whole thing is a farce. The fact that an Afro-American who "used insulting language" to a conductor and who was knocked down and beaten, was awarded one cent damages by a Mississippi jury, shows conclusively that the statement that Afro-Americans do not get a square deal in that state, is an atrocious slander. It is not particularly THE AP PEAL'S business, but somehow or other, it cannot help feeling glad that an American girl has gotten rid of the little insignificant no-count grafter who clung to her money tighter than Tite Barnacle himself Dr. Gladden's plan of setting aside a state or two for the exclusive use and behoof' of Afro-Americans, does not seem to excite general admiration. In fact, the plan was originally in dented by Governor Jacob Dolson Cox, of Ohio ad died a'bornm'. NEXT''' The descendants of. Pocahontas pro pose to have a cake walk, or some thing of the Kind, at the Jamestown Exposition We suppose that the ob ject of the function will be to show how many of the first families of white folks are not white folks. According to Judge Cooley, "The Constitution never yields to treaty, or enactment," but it yields very easily when our Southern brethren give it a batt. Very Likely. "You seemed, to size that man up pretty well,"* remarked the talkative patron. "Suire," replied the waiter, "it's easy fdr us waiters to take a man's meas- ure." "Yes? I suppose you measure him from tip to tip." t&mf Sweet Expectations. ?^z** "Has that young man any expecta tions in life?" asked the stern father. "He has," answered the heiress. "What are they''? "Me.1 1 ab KConecreateanyn ^QLLELTES AND ATLANTAB Chri tla i ?!S? En arJ ,s ar t0ry a 2SwIV-i!? dv an Pr S? ?V Annua months mt ar 901 Street. will cover all and matron Monday Tenn TUSKEGEE Normal ana Mistrial Institute TUSKEGEE ALABAMA. ay their ow board in cash and labor.) in amount for current expenses and building. Besides the work done by graduates as rlass room and industrial leaders, thousands wre reached through the Tuskegee Negro Confer ence Tuskegee is 40 miles east of Montgomery and 13o miles west of Atlanta, on the Western Rail roau.Gv Alabama. Tuskegee is a quiet, beautiful old Southern town, and is an ideal place for study. The cli mate ^s at all times mild and uniform, thus making the place an excellent winter resort. TILLOTSON COLLEGE AUSTIN, TEXAS. The Oldest and Best School in Texas for Coloied Students Faculty mostly giaduates of 'veil known colleges in the iiorth Repatation unsurpassed Manual training a pait of the regular course Music a special feature of the school Hecial id\antages for earnest students seeking to help themselves Send for catalogue and circulai to REV. MARSHALL R. GAINES, A. President. AUSTIN, BcaaaLE. Knowfes Building. Boys* Hall. -""Stone Hall. Girls'Hill, Model BonW Scnoo 1 advantages in Music and Printing Athletic for boys Physical cul^re for girls Home ffo2Ei?g,Ald 0 October For catalogue aJd information, address Preaident HORACE BUMSTEAD. D.B. HOWARD UNIVERSITY"teighecontinudan,1906,1rOctobeSinhe MEDICA1 DEPARTMENT wil (Including Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutic Colleges.) WASHINGTON, D. C. Sessio STUDENTS. MATRICULATED FOR DAY INSTRUCTION ONLY Four years' graded course in Medicine. Three years' graded course in Dental Surgery. Three years' graded course in Pharmacy, instructiotno is given by the quizzes, clinics and prac- ri?rJti M., ALLEGHENY, PA. A Practicil Literary and Industrial Trades School for Afro-American Boys a.itr Gnls Unusual advantages for Gnls and a separate building Address Joseph D. Mahoney, Principal. Allegheny, Pa. INewDigrami LONSERVATORV OF MUSIC BOSTON, Mass. All the advantages of 'he finest and most completely equipped Conser\atory building in the world, tha.at mosphereofa recognized center of ArtandMusicand association with the masters In the Profession are offered students at the New England Conservatory of iiufci'- Thorough work in nil departments of music Courses can be arranged in Elocutiou and Oratory GEORGE W. CHADWICK. Musical Director. All particv 'at sand year book mil be sent on application courses, with Industrf. Trainin Super!* Atlantat.h demonstrationsdidacticlectures, Wellequippe laboratories in all depart ments. Unexcelled hospital facilities. All students must register before October 12, 1906 For catalogue or other information, apply to ^ol&^!&t^^ShT&^iS^S^iMechanical,Normal and Common Will cover all fi^T3^^elI1.Ctt^an.d State Legis. th (INCORPORATED) T4 1881 i rfiranis i$,i latnre as The Tuskegee State Normal Schoot Exempt from taxation. BOOKER ST. WASHINGTON, Principal. WARREN I,OGAN, Treasurer. LOCATION In the Black Belt of Alabama where the blacks outnumber the whites three to one. ENROLLMENT AN FACULTY Enrollment last year 1,253 males, 882* females, 371. Average attendance, 1,105.-* Instructors, 88. COURSE OF STUDY English education combined with industrial trailing "28 industries in constant operation. VALUE O PROPERTY Property consisting of 2.267 acres of land. 50 buildings almost wholly built with student labor, is valued at $350V000, and no mortgage. NEEDS $50 annually for the education of each stu. dent ($200 enables one to finish the course: fl,000 permanent scholarship. Students Ga. Institutionh, devoted especially to advanced education. Colleee, No* 'UNIVERSITY.,'Term deserving students bagins eirs" WedSertal Ty. G. ADKINSON, D. D. Pres. Gammon Theological Sen^ai ATLANTA. GEORGIA. BRAINERD INSTITUTE CHESTER, S. A normal end industrial school with a Fnelish education, and lay a solid foun dation rr- """"ess and usefulness in every vocation lite ^oard and boarding haB graded course of study, designed to give a thorough, symmetrical and comDlete MorristownNormalCollege FOUNDED IN 1881. Fourteen teachers Elegant and com rrtodious buildings Climate unsurpassed Depaitments College Preparatory Nor mal, English, Music, Shorthand. Type writing and Industrial Trainingi FIFTY DOLLARS IN will pay for board room, light, fuel, tui Prr.rfn$fi nn TEXAS. AVERY COLLEGE. TRADES SCHOOL SSS 2 ^e i S tt el WLL TRAINS VIAT^SHINGTON w& F. J. Shadd, M. D., Secretary. Virginia Normal Collegfete institute. PETERSBURG, VA. Departments- Normal and ColSa giate Special attention to Vocal an* Instramental Music,Theoretical A culture, Sewing and-oking Healthy location heated by stea{ lighted by -wctricity: room, boant tuition, light ana heat, $60. For Catalog and Particulars write to J. H. JOHNSTON, President Medical Schools. Fiity-five Dollars a Year b'AMMON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ATLANTA, GEORGIA AIMS AND METHODS The aim of this school is to do prac tical work in helping men towards suc cess in the ministry. It course of study is broad and practical its ideas are high: Its work is thorough its methods are esh, systematic, clear and simple. COURS E} O STUDY The regular course of study occupies three years, and covers the lines of work in the several departments of theological instruction usually pursued in the lead ing theological seminaries of the country. EXPENSES AND AID Tuition and room rent are free. Th apartments for students .ire plainly fur nished. Good board can be had for seven dollars per month. Buildings heat ed by steam. Aid from loans without interest, and gifts of friends, are granted to deserv ing students who do their utmost the line of self-help. N young ma grace, gifts, and energy,w need be deprivedthwitn xt1 5 advantages no opened him in this Seminary. For further particulars address i ..-V ear hADVANCEe entr {$T Cldental Presi- th Beard $6 00 per month, tuition $2 00 per term Inorough worckr done in each de dent icuIa i Rev. Judson S. Hill, D. D., Wornslown, Tenn. SCOTIA SEMINARfo.Ydestablishe,school ft"own CONCORD,o N. el 1 v, Th Slrls will open 0 rovi lsher *t forC. the comfort, ducat A fo+rSthe next term October 1. Every effort W ili* health and thorough instruction of stu dents Expense for boaid, 1/ght fuel washing. $45, for term of eight months Aaare8 Rev. D.-J. Satterfield, D. D., Concord, N. C. SAMUEL HUSTON COLLEGE, A Christian School ISS^eed F.8um catalogume ant ,kn stat, ff wlla htto do a mfS hlt ^25f Fo other information, rite to tbe president R. S. LOVINGGOOD. AUSTIN, TBXAJ5- If ^3 I