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M'nn under act of Congress, March 8. 1179 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1915. ANNIVERSARY OF ATLANTA'S SHAME. The recent lynching of Leo Frank, a Jew, in Georgia, has aroused the country more than the murders of thousands of colored people in the South during the past twenty years. But only nine years have passed since Atlanta, Georgia, was the scene of one of the most uncalled for and bloodiest riots ever recorded in his tory. Colored men and women were ruthlessly slaughtered because of race hatred not a single one killed had been guilty of any crime whatever. The massacre was caused by the in cendiary editorials of the Atlanta News and Journal, owned by Hoke Smith, since Governor df Georgia and now United States senator from that state. In his gubernatorial canvass Smith also made incendiary speeches incit ing the Caucasians against colored peo ple and demanding that the race be disfranchised. Senator Hoke Smith is said to be the author of the jim crow policy of the present administration and he has the active support of Vardaman, Hef lin and nearly every Southerner in Congress. THE APPEAL reprints in this is sue "A Litany of Atlanta" by Dr. W. B. Burghardt Du Bois, editor of The Crisis. It was written just after the riot, the author being at that time a resident of Atlanta. September, 1915, beiDg the ninth an niversary of the massacre and the recent renaissance of burnings and lynchings in Georgia render the publi cation timely. NO ILLEGITIMATE BABIES. It is the consensus of opinion of the leadmg thinkers of the world that there should be no illegitimate chil dren, that is, that babies should be declared legitimate by the state, even if born out of wedlock. A new law was recently passed by Norway, giving the so-ca'led illegiti mate child a right to his father's name. The expenses of Its rearing are di vided between father and mother in| proportion to their ability to pay, the) basis to be the financial sta+us weaUhier parent. And the illegitimate' Norwegian child is an heir to the father's property and on equal terms with the children born in marriage". Nature knows nothing of illegit imacy she cares naught for marriage certificates and there is no reason why the innocent babe should be de graded and ostracized because of the sins of its parents. Such a law would be especially valu a^e in the South where wealthy Cau casians are the fathers and mothers of many children of colored women and men. The equal inheritance feat ure would give to thousands of colored children their just share in many Pfll mo GermaB soil and o. a German father. VA yeft noe i amazed a the -/AnohiT,f_sfQrY1QWQ(,Afc.t o^ the very militaristic autocracy they now uphold, today, denouncing the nation that adopted and sheltered anOthed Mr. Villard JTnTf 1 1 S tensive. DR. W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS Editor The Crisis, Author of "A Litany of Atlanta," Published Originally in The New York Independent and Reprinted by Permission in The Appeal juoi ouaitj many great estates and would also give them their proper social status. THE HYPHENATED AMERICAN. Oswald Garrison Villard's recent speech against hyphenated American flocked here did not go to Germany instead. Mr. Villard said, that to allow na tionalistic groups to develop in this country such as they have in Austria Hungary would be most^ disastrous. He said, such a proposal was "un- thinkable to a true minded American." For many yearn ft 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"Negro" than one-eight- of Such men ought to 1)lo oless Negr 0 th 8 0 propaganda and be demand justice be an of the' American the cau sf als th Americans and not by ar asserti that they that they are "Negroes They should not have any rights as "Negroes" but every right of an American citizen should be and will be accorded them, if they fight for their rights as American citizens by right of birth. THANKS, GOV. WILLIS. Gov. Frank Willis of Ohio, deserves the thanks of the colored people of the country for ordering the State Medical Board to abolish the require ment that applicanttsey for licenses to practice certainn branches of surgery mus "onlni,firt" nr are "white wnete stat a"* W/.O,A or "colored" and furnish photographs. The plan of compelling applicants to furnish photographs was put into the national civil service rules to hinder the appointment of colored J6W eX bodies. S said, but th6e German th S ism was a telling one ernment service, even after they had Tvyr- IT1OIW/, 'passed the required,t Mr. villar was himsel,,, born onu^ .,Prejudiced a na dividef citi De a would amaze him more than to find ^na all circumstances and neither the unnumbered Germans wh6, like him- national nor state governments have self, come to this country to escape a 0 contended, that the German Kultur etc., but in view of many happenings I and political system were superior to in the Southland it is evident, that the scheme of life and government that their chivalry is of the tinsel in America, why the hordes who have variety. REV. A. J. CAREY, A..M., D. D.f PH. D. Eloquent Pastor of the Institutional A. M. E. Church, Chicago. In- dorsed for the Bishopric and Willi"be* Elected byr the General Con-. *iti* ,v*-r'' S ferenc mi tests. Js apparen that the appli headfs*ltof bureaus look belongs 101ft ft i 4sy^ th^e t cn zensnip of some Americans of German ancestry cnbed classes he is promptly rejected. The citizens of this country are He referred to Carl Schurz, and his Americans and that one word ought to true Americanism and said "What photoa A A.atx either of* the pros- sufficient description under any ny right to inquire whether he is whlte corn fe and clothed them." races have shown stron",tinually tendencies to form distinctm colored, redheaded, baldheaded pigeontoed, or whether he has ni 1 nose. ee yellingf aboutr theira chivalrous a wr ni TINSEL CHIVALRY. The Southern Caucasians are con- regard for women and their determin- He then asked if it were true, as ation to protect females from assaults ft T^Widely r& T-r& J ..'T^j. JnS COlret if winner n^ woman SM MAY WOE AND BITTERNESS AT TEND THEM. For more than a quarter of the cen tury the editor of THE APPEAL has struggled to give the colored people of the West a newspaper which would defend their rights. A complete file defend their rights has been preserved and the editor is proud to say that not a single false note has been sounded. THE AP PEAL has always advised its readers never to relinquish a civil right and to aid their Southern brethren to re gain the many rights which have slipped away because of the activities, of jim crow propagandists. THE APPEAL has never been a profitable business proposition in it self, the editor has made his living out of his job printing office and from other sources of income, but he feels that he has done something to aid the colored people and the conscious ness of having fought for the right, in a measure, compensates him for the ears of hard work and the expenditure of thousands of dollars The editor of THE APPEAL is a father and the one thing he has en deavored to impress upon the minds of his children is self respect, especial ly as it relates to demanding all the rights of American citizenship. He is a poor man and has little of this world's goods to bequeath them, but if they have learned their lesson well and will suffer hardships and priva tions and even prefer to die rather than degrade their souls by willingly accepting any treatment which is in any way inferior to that accorded to other Americans, the editor will pass ipto the Cft-eat Beyond happy in the thought that he has left his offspring a priceless heritage. The editor of THE APPEAL would rather see all of his children in their graves than to feel that they will ever even in their minds consider the pro position of becoming jim crowists and if they are ever willing to give up 1 berty and become servile sycophants, may woe and bitterness come to them, as it should, to everyone who sells his birth right. CONDONING COLORED CURS. THE APPEAL approves of every word of the reprinted editorial from the Chicago Tribune and wishes to add a few words of excoriation of the contemptible colored curs who contin ually praise the southern people and condone many of their infamous acts. It is not lonly contemptible but crim inal. The extension of race prejudice in the North has been greatly aided by these fiends in human form who have been paid in cash or the appella tion of "good negro" to laud the brut al, barbarous, unhuman, unchristian un-American South. When the Georgia senate recently passed a law forbidding white persons to teach colored pupils some of these human skunks rushed into print to de fend the action, saying that it would benefit the colored man. The white Georgians Who burn and hang and legislate against their col ored fellow citizens are saints when compared with colored men who con done their crimes. de**mine WOma Last year a Caucasian wen into the has gonea far that It I abl ra the ha S attempte 0 woman before he succeeded. When I select about 10,000,000 people and say the chivalrous Oklahc-mans heard of that thev are "Negroes" and by that the happening, the colored woman who killed the white man in protect ing her virtue was lynched by an "orderly mob of the best citizens." In another Southern state recently, a colored man was walking along the street with his sweetheart when a white man made an insulting remark about her. The colored man promptly killed the white man and a few hours later he was lynched by a mob of "leading citizens." The chivalrous men of Georgia have allowed a law fixing the age of consent for girls 10 years, to stand upon the statute boks, and in nearly every Southern state it is lower than it ought to be. The Southern boast about defending the honor of women is a LIE. South ern chivalry is tinsel. by ou States i S tte SEGGREGATION BY CENSUS. ite a Dam hle tn 06 til th the United States Census Bureau. The title is misleading, for there are only 473 real Africans in the United States, according to the Census, that is Ne groes born in Africa. It is wrong, unjust and un-American for the government to segregate its clerks by color in the Departments in Washington, and it is also wrong, un just and un-American for the govern* ment to issue a separate and inaccu rate Census Bulletin as it has done in the case of the bulletin, "Negroes in the United States." The United States assumes that a group of about 10,000,000 people are Negroes and proceeds to so classify them. More than ninety-nine per cent of the persons so classified were born in America of American parents, and their parents were Americans and so on back for ten generations. If a man whose ancestors for many generations is not an American', who any other color born in this country fail to "arrive" in the same space of time? The name "Negro" applied to a group of citizens in this country is in accurate, because it does not include forty or fifty million other Americans who have more or less Negro blood. Tbe expression "pure race" is amyth so all great writers on racial questions agree. The mtrin /of' is entitled to the name? If a white man can become an American in two dollars through their jimcrow methods generations, why should a person of $ '"3?^46* with any degree of accu- Government to th fo impossibleowhdan Negr bloos not nos 0 act to aid in making them a separate treatment in church and state, is to perpetrate a great wrong. It is an infamous thing for the gov ernment of this great republic to draw the color line In any way. In a re public every citizen should have ex actly the same status so far as the government is concerned. There is no reason why a Democra cy should attempt to classify its cit izens by their blood. All persons born in this country should be con sidered Americans without any pre fixes or suffixes. WILLIAM MONROE TROTTER. The unceasing warfare against in justice and wrong whic has been waged by William Monroe Trotter, editor ofo the Boston Guardian, ought warmhspot in the a ni heart of every right thinking human being. With his pen and tongue, he has done much to quickenthat the moral of the colorede people and they are larnln sacrificesfibre People and they are lsso colore th must be made, if they would win the great battle for civil and political rights. There are no frills and furbelows about William Monroe Trotter. He is a plain, earnest, honest, upright man, who has decided to give up wealth, official preferment and worldly honors to dedicate his life to a noble cause THE APPEAL has always admired him because he is an UNCOMPRO- MISING advocate of right and justice While the majority of the so-called leaders have equivocated and com promised the people for gold or power, William Monroe Trotter has always stood as a stone wall against every form of injustice whether by the Na tion, the state, the municipality or the church. MANY JEWISH ENEMIES. The fact that three Jews have bought the rights tor the state of Mas saehusetts tor the production of "The Birth of the Nation," the infamous and false film and that Jewish capitalists are exploiting the photo-play all over the country should cause the colored people to see that many of their most bitter enemies are Jews. A Jewish attorney general was re sponsible for the Maryland disfranch ment law recently declared unconsti tutional. A Jewish Senator and a Jewish Con gressman have become notorious be cause of their tirades against the race In many localities Jews aided the passage of the segregation laws. A Jew worth many millions is giv ing thousands of dollars to aid in the establishment of jimcrow Y. M. C. A.'sis actually aiding the alleged Christians in their efforts to segregate their believers of darker hue. All this is queer work for a people who have been oppressed for thou sands of years and who are still mas sacred in many parts of Europe. All Jews are not enemies of the colored people but those who have power and money seem to take a spe cial delight in swiping the colored man and alsogathering in the coin. "WHY AMERICANS FAIL." It is a notorious fact that in spite of Pan-American congresses, long-winded editorials in American newspapers, etcetera, the United States is far be hind Germany, Great Britain, France and Spain so far as trade in Latin America is concerned. A book by A. Wyatt Verrill on "South and Certral American Trade Conditions of Today," recently issued by Dodd, Mead & Co., New YTork, has this to say under the heading, "Why Americans Fail: "Race or religious prejudice, con descension, discourtesy or bluff have no place in Spanish America. The Latin-American is a gentleman first, last and all the time. He has never acquired our habit of being a gentle man in private life and a boor in business and he expects others to be as courteous as himself and if they are not he judges them accordingly. He may be white, brown, yellow or black, but he remembers that one of his ancestors was probably a plumed grandee of Old Spain. You may scoff at his ideas, you may laugh at his faith, you may curse at the "lazy Greasers," and through it all he may smile, treat you with respect and po liteness and greet you with expres sions of the greatest pleasure, but in his heart he despises you for an ill bred "Yankee pig" and thanks God that he is of Spanish blood. On the other hand treat the Latin American with courtesy, praise the buildings and industry of his town, admire his beautiful women, visit his places of interest, and speak his lan guage and you may command respect, admiration and true friendship and every entertainment and comfort will be yours." THE APPEAL has printed a number of editorials along this line showing that Americans have lost millions of an it is a great satisfaction to have this view upheld by a great authority thoroughly familiar with conditions. Race prejudice is an expensive proposition for those who indulge in it. Many colored people are advocat ing "self effacement" for the race as the solutioU of the problem. The more the race gives the more its enemies will demand. Never willingly! enem demandracNever willing wi i bloods in this country relinquish any *Wt&j&i*. i^J^ to which I have sent copies. But 1 won't finish "Let me repeat that I am proud to be here, and let hie add these words: I am asked why I have appointed col ored men my cabinet. Here's Why He Did It. "Here is my answer to fill. "2. Because, in the name of human ity, it is my auty to do what I can to elevate rather than degrade any class of American ciLzens. "3. Because during the pre election campaign I gave you my word that, if elected, I would give you a square deal, and Bill Thompson keeps his word." Mr. Carey Talks. The subject of the mayor's appoint ments to office was introduced by the Rev. A. J. Carey, who presided and presented Mr. Thompson. "The colored people," Mr. Carey said, "ask no favori= and no sympa hy, nor do they ask any return for any support they may give to any cause, political or otherwise. They ask only format tiey deserve as A.ner.eai ,I71 MY DUTY TO ELEvATJB, NOT DEGRADE. Says Hon. William Hale Thompson, Mayor Chicago, When Appoint ing Colored Men to Places in His CabinetA Presidential Possibility. art sts. pne s, scientist, and educators Prejudice Still Exists. "Since attaining personal liberty, the colored people are still the vie tims of relentless and unreasoning prejudice which throws all sorts of obstacles in the path of advancement "It is considered presumptuous for ?n irriwidral of the colored peoplie to aspire to any employment other than mental tasks, and there have been recent instances where even your ngnt to be considered among William Hale Thompson, mayor cf Chicago, has made a great name for himself by ignoring racial lines and giving the colored' people representa tion in the city offices. At a recent crowded meeting in Chi cago he told why he it The mayor had a written address to deliver. He tried to deliver it, but the hum of the assembled crowd discour aged him. So after reading about a third of the speech he tossed it to one side and concluded: "I could read the rest of this speech the laborers in this city has been chal- to you few the tront rows, and the lenged. "1. Because the persons appointed Place in this land of freedom and op- were essentially fitted and qualified Portunity. If inquiry were made con- for the positions they were selected cerning the nativity of these critics mi_ William Hale Thompson may not! 1920. I helped elect him alderman I helped elect him county commission er I helped elect him mayor. And tbe my work will not be complete until I *ue have helped elect him president." Then the storm broke and the crowd went wild. In his speech, among other things Mayor Thompson said: "I know that in some quarters I have been criticized severely for ap pointing a few representative colored citizens to positions of honor, and trust, and dignity. I am glad to take the full responsibililty and the honor of making every one of these appoint ments, and I want to ask my critics to be as manly and to come out into the open light of day with their un American sentiments. "Too much publicity is given the shortcomings and frailties of the col ored man and too little publicity is given his genius and skill. "We read in the daily prints column after column of sickening detail of crime or misdemeanor committed by some weak, abnormal member of the colored race, but seldom do we see accounts of the contributions to the world's work by colored sculptors, i -I.S. THE MAN WHO DARES I honor the man who in the con scientious discharge of his duty dares to stand atone the world, with ignor ant, intolerant judgment, may con demn, the countenances 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 heart! of friends.Charles Summer. MS you think? The mayor has put some 'niggers' to work out at the garbage plant!' Just as though colored men are not to be considered human be ings. What of His Critics? "Criticism such as those enumer ated are un-American and have no -~-**^*4-vi* uuu nave uu ift woulld probablIy. be found. that. a number of them had come, or their immediate ancestors had come, to this country to escape tyranny and oppres sion in some foreign land and to find opportunity in this land of the free, and, having found it, would shut the door the faces of others. fill I n,AuJ_ L. i_ "It is easy to understand the atti tude of our own citizens of southern ancestry, who feel obliged to de nounce the colored man in order to justify the questionable acts of their forefathers, but such sen amen ts are entirely inexcusable when spoken by the children of oppression from any place in the wide world. "To deny equal opportunity to the colored man in this land would be out of harmony with American his tory, untrue to the sacred principles mockeryf our boasted civili~ a I mak Whatever Mayor Thompson has zation and justice, and render mean done, whatever he will do, he will do ingless the word opportunity BeliPv not out of sympathy for the descend- ing this as I do, you can rest assured ants of a race once enslaved but for American citizens who have earned tneir position." Cheers interrupted the speaker. On the Way to Washington. that, so far as my power and influence go, the colored man will get a square deal. Noiftc "Vote Catching" Scheme. "This is no new position for me, advanced as a vote catching 1 S no be elected president in 1916," he i scheme. had th victor went on, "but I'm sure he will be in ot thI Perry'e den commissionofromeIllinois, and,boarsuch,odsa a member th governing ten' state-s participated in th celebration.-which "On investigation it was found that 40 per cent, of Perry's sailors were colored, and thereupon I did myself the honor to introduce a resolution proposing to invite a prominent rep resentative of the colored race to participate in the exercises commem orating the victory. "The resolution, although opposed, was adopted, and I was afterwards fortunate enough to secure the dis tinction for my friend, our distinguish ed chairman, Dr. A. J. Carey, who not only reflected glory on himself, but credit on the colored people and his state." ~-i- BOOM FOR THOMPSON. 0 Twin City Republicans Want Him to Run for President. Minneapolis and St. Paul Repub licans are planning a big reception for Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago. They regard him as good presidential timber and plan to start a boom for his nomination.