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There is always rejoicing in hell when the South succeeds. The regions of the damned were the scene of great hilarity when the word was passed around that the Southern plan of reuniting the Methodist church north and the Methodist church south had been unanimously approved, "with a display of emotion without a parallel in many general conferences." The plan favors the segregation of the colored membership in "special conferences" and as the vote was ac cording to the press dispatches, unani mous, it seems that not one of the many colored delegates had the man hood to make a protest against the unholy, ungodly plan. Thus seventy-one years after the Methodist Episcopal church split on the slavery question, the hypocritical northern branch welcomes bagk- the church south over the prostrate body of its colored membership. If that is Christianity the writer prefers to be damned. The Methodist church fought slav ery with zeal in 1844, the general con ferences by resolution ordered a bishop who held slaves to refrain from exercising his episcopal function until he had washed his hands of slavery, The Southerners were so infuriated by this action that the Methodist Epis copal church, south was organized in Louisville, Ky., in 1845. In agreeing to draw the color line on its colored membership the Metho dist church is following the lead of other so-called Christian bodies in the United States. The alleged Chris tians are defying God, but He is not mocked. The probable eventual solution of the color line in religion will be the introduction of Mohammedanism into the United States. Islam PRACTICES the doctrine of the "Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man" and welcomes all men to its folds. And of the Methodist bishops, Bishop Hart zell has declared that the Moham medan negroes in Africa are superior every way to those who have em braced Christianity and this in the face of the fact that he was laboring zealously to propagate Christianity. WOULD ABOLISH THE HYPHEN. Universal service in military train ing camps as an aid toward American izing the immigrant has been sug gested by G. Bernard Anderson, Swed ish vice-consul at Chicago. Here is what Mr. Anderson says: "I think immigrants will get more of the American spirit by serving for some weeks side by side with born Americans than by being lectured or instructed. It would bring men to gether in a common movement. "I do not really favor the holding of meetings in which the difference be tween American born citizens and nat uralized citizens is emphasized. In fact, I feel that we ought to get rid of the hyphen in America at once and for all time. Any meeting in which it is a part of the program calls atten tion to it. I do not really favor any reference to the term Swedish-Ameri can. I think every man who came from Sweden ought to forget the hy phen. It is true that those who come from Sweden have many tender recol lections of the old country and also that they are among the quickest to adopt American ways fully and com pletely. For the latter reason I should like to see the Swedish part of the term dropped. I think it would be dropped quickly, too, were it not for some men who try to make political capital out of it by playing to the so-called 'hyphenated' vote. "Foreigners in America should be quietly made Americans through edu cational method, by patriotic concerts in the parks and patriotic meetings on occasions of national moment. The group meetings should be discour- aged." Mr. Anderson is right. People who come here and become citizens ought to drop the hyphen and become Ameri cans in fact. And if this is true how x_ HON. LAWRENCE Y. SHERMAN. Illinois' Favorite Son and Candidate for the Republican Nomination For President. HON. FRED YV\ UPHAM. Chairman of the Chicago ^Committee of Arrangements for the Republican Convention. much more important is it that people who are born in the United States should reject any proposals to set them apart in groups for any reason or purpose whatsoever. The colored people are citizens for tified by ten generations of residence and they should shun any schemes which segregate them in any way. Such plans, no matter how alluring, they may seem are un-American, dangerous and damnable. The $600,000 raised in Chicago for the relief of the Jewish sufferers in the European war was contributed by the Jews themselves. The Christians did not give one per cent of the money. The Christian bankers who signed the appeal did not give any money. William Randolph Hearst, whose newspapers probably caused the lynching of Leo Frank in Georgia, gave $1,000, but Bill will get that back in a single day from his Jewish advertisers, Fifteen thousand Texans hugely enjoyed the spectacle of a human be ing being roasted at the stake be cause he was colored. Then one hun dred and sixteen members of the state militia refused to present them selves for muster into the Federal service. Brave people these Texans! It was Japan, a nation NOT WHITE, that has called the hand of the first president of the United States who has used his high office to discriminate against the colored part of this nation. BROWN Tokio dictates to WHITE Washington. SO mote it be. The question of further reduction of southern representation in the Re publican National Convention will be fought out at Chicago. A great wrong has already been done which the na tional committee should undo. It is the duty of the Republican National Convention in its platform to speak out squarely on the great questions of human rights which were the foundation stones upon which the party was built. Unquestionably where colored men have been prevented from participat ing in Republican conventions in the south, the lily white delegations should be barred from the Republi can National convention. MANHOOD OF RICHARD ALLEN. By R. R. Wright, Editor of the Christian Recorder. It is said that Richard Allen was born a slave. That is untrue. No man is born a slave, and certainly 'Allen was not If we knew his an cestry it might be that his father and mother were African royalty that through Allen's veins there coursed more royal blood than in the veins of those it is said owned him. But Allen not only was not born a slave he never became a slave. There is nothing to indicate that he had anything of a slave nature about him. There are today men who are slaves their wills belong to other men, and they dare not do anything but what others, their masters, tell them. There are today thousands of men whose minds, if they have any, belong to other men, and they dare not think anything but what their masters think for them. Furthermore, not all the slaves are owned by men. Whiskey holds thou sands in slavery, passion holds its thousands and prejudice its thousands. Abraham Lincoln did not set all the slaves free. He could not. Only God can do so. Richard Allen, we say, was not a slave. No man owned his body no man owned his soul no man owned his thoughts. Richard Allen was not a slave. No man could enslave his soul, though one might have title to his body. No man could hold down his mind no man could subjugate his thought. Richard Allen was one of God's princes, noble in thought and great in action. This is illustrated by the fact that while still a slave in name, his word was everywhere taken at the very highest value. His word was indeed his bond. On one occasion a preacher wanted permission to preach in his master's house. Richard Allen was sent to convey the message that permission had been given. The preacher asked of Richard Allen if he had a note stating the fact, and he promptly re plied that he needed no note. Such was the standing of Richard Allen that notes were not needed. Again, when Richard Whatcoat was preaching in the south, he wanted Richard Allen to accompany him, but to accept accommodations which were not in keeping with a minister of the gospel. Richard Allen promptly re fused, stating that he would not ac company him on such terms. Practically all the references which we have to Richard Allen reflect not only upon his good judgment, but upon his courage. We will never know the full history of the first few days of the African Methodist Epis copal Church, but the facts which we have point to the fact that the strong character of Richard Allen, his un daunted courage and strong manhood qualities were those which saved the day for African Methodism in the early days of its organization. When Richard Allen came to Phila delphia the colored people had been segregated for some little time in St. George's Church, and had, so far as we knew, offered but little objection. It was his great spirit, which in less than two years of his residence in this city, put him at the head of the col ored population here and which re volted at the idea of being a brother in Christ, and yet being separate from his fellow-Christians, and for this cause he led forth the group which formed the African Methodist Epis copal Church. It was Richard Allen's keen sense of justice which scented the injustice in the Colonization Movement started by so-called friends of the Negro, who wanted to show their friendship by deporting the free Negroes to Africa. Richard Allen fought this action with a great many others wjio were less outspoken. We might well, at this time, emulate the manly quali ties of our great leader. R. R. W. A. M. E. BISHOPS ELECTED. Two bishops were elected at the fifteenth day session of the twenty fifth quadrennial conference of the A. M. E. church at Philadelphia. Ballot ing began in the morning and con sumed the entire day. Thirty aspir ants for Episcopal honors entered the race, which was exciting throughout. The bishops-elect are Rev. W. W. Beckett, of Charleston, S. C, and Rev. I. N. Ross, of Baltimore, Md. Three ballots were necessary to elect the bishops. Rev. William A. Foun tain, of Atlanta, Ga., was leading at the end of the first ballot, with 169 votes, closely followed by Dr. Ross, with 164 necessary for choice, 306. At the end of the second ballot the results showed that Dr. Fountain had begun to slip and that Dr. Ross, to gether with Dr. Beckett, had begun to gain strength. Dr. William D. John son, an unindorsed candidate, cut in on Fountain on the third ballot and beat the indorsed candidate in a grand free-for-all, but was not able to pull sufficient Votes to win. The final count was: Beckett, 377 Ross, 312 Fountain, 173 Johnson, 260. Bishop Ross was born in Hawkins county, East Tennessee, January 22, 1856. Secured his training in his home town, and joined the Ohio con ference in 1880. Spent 25 years as pastor of some of the largest churches in the connection, and is at the present time pastor of Ebenezer A. M. E. church, Baltimore, Md. Bishop Beckett was born a slave, worked his way through school and finally graduated from Allen univer sity, of which he is now president. Born in South Carolina, he has lived there practically all his life, and has devoted his efforts to the uplift of his people 4n the state, all but four years when he served as missionary secre tary. Balloting for Bishop. The result of the first ballot was as follows: A. J. Carey, 98 W. A, Foun tain, 164 R. B. Brooks, 35 W. Samp son Brooks, 44 I. N. Ross, 159 G. B. West, 159 A. H. Hill, 59 W. W. Beckett, 118 H. T. Kealing, 17 W. T. Vernon, 23 M. W. Thornton, 25 Wm. D. Johnson, 96 G. W. Porter, 22 W. G. Alexander, 3 Sandy Sim mons, 13 J. R. Ransom, 33 T. J. Askew, 7 S. P. Felder, 70 F. Jesse Peck, 3 W. H. H. Butler, 4 A. L. Gaines, 29 C. R. Tucker, 24 D. P. Roberts, 10 R. s. Jenkins, 6 H. M. Steady, 11 T. H. Jackson, 5 W. D. Miller, 3 C. C. Dunlap, 5 P. C. Hunt, 2 Chas. Bundy, 4 D. J. Brown, 10 H. E. Stewart, 2 K. C. Holt, 2 R. H. Singleton,,2 and the following 1 each: J. J. Morant, R. W. Nance, J. A. Jones (Texas), F. M. Johnson, R. V. Branch, R. L. Heard, P. A. Scott, S. D. Roseborough, J. A. Gregg, -A. J. Wilson, A. R. Cooper, J. I. Lowe, L. Nichols and .W. Abington. Total vote cast, 610 nec essary to choice, 306. No election. The Second ballot resulted as fol lows: 572 votes cast, 287 necessary to choice: Ross, 236 Beckett, 209 Fountain, 162 Johnson, 140 Carey, 93 Hill, 54 West, 53 Felder, 47 Tucker, 22 W. S. Brooks, 21 R. B. Brooks, 12 G. W. Porter, 9 Gaines, 9 Thornton, 7 Vernon, 6 Simmons, 5 Steady, 5 Roberts, 4 Askew, 3 Dunlap, 3 Kealing, 3 Sutton, 3 W. H. Butler, 2 L. H. Smith, Sr., 2 Bundy, 2 Jenkins, 2 and the follow ing 1 vote each: A. C. Smith,"Single ton, Hunt, Wingfield, Warren, Mor ant, Lee, Gibbons, Capeheart, Grif fin, Syes, Scott, Chavis, Channel and Allen. No choice. After this vote Revs. A. J. Carey, W. T. Vernon, A. H. Hill, A. L. Gaines, R. B. Brooks, G. W. Porter, M. W. Thornton, Sandy Simmons, S. P. Felder, G. B. West, J. R. Ransom, and H. T. Kealing withdrew. The third ballot resulted as fol lows: Total vote 570 necessary to choice, 289 W. W. Beckett, 377 I. N. Ross, 312 W. A. Fountain, 173 W. D. Johnson, 260 A. L. Gaines, 2 C. R. Tucker, 10 Porter, 1 H. A. Cory, 1 Brooks, 5 R. S. Jenkins, 1 Downs, 1 Roberts, 2 Dunlap, 1 Simmons, 2 Steady, 1 West, 2 Kealing, 2 Singleton, 3 and 1 each for Smith, Hill, Williams, Sherman, Travers and Butler. BISHOPS FOR AFRICA. The general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in session at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. elected Alexander Priestly Camphor of Bir mingham, Ala., and Elsen S. Johnson of Sioux City, Iowa., as missionary bishops for Africa. Dr. Camphor, who is colored, re ceived 706 out of 736 votes and will be stationed at Liberia, the place of his former vice consul generalship to the United States. Since 1908, he has been president of the Central Ala bama college at Birmingham. Bishop Johnson is an Oxford grad uate. Since 1909 he has held a pas torate in Sioux City. During the Spanish war he was chaplain of the Fifty-second regiment. For twelve years he has been assistant secretary of the general conference. He re ceived 732 out of 790 votes. Waco and Americanism. (From the Chicago Evening Post.) If Americanism is more than a mere shibboleth of patriotism if, as we believe, it has a real meaning that gives the word worth, then Ameri canism must be shocked and humili ated by the horrible story of the Negro lynching at Waco, Texas. It is no defense to say that the wretched victim in this instance had confessed to a hideous crime and been convicted by a court of justice. Rather is it an aggravation, for here there was no risk that justice would not claim the full penalty. The burn ing of the man for the delectation of a mob of Waco citizens under such circumstances is a bloodthirsty, brutal horror too black for words to stigmatize. It was the gratifying of a lust for vengeance as guilty as the lust that provoked it. The thing is the more cruel in its wrong to Americanism at this time because the people of Texas have been crying aloud for the repression of mob rule on their own border. They demand intervention to compel order in Mexico, yet give themselves to lawless violence in their own state. In the forefront of the Villa chase the colored soldiers of the Tenth Cav alry and Twenty-fourth Infantry have held conspicuous place they have done excellent service. How greatly the ideal of Americanism must be ex alted in their minds by the knowl edge that American law cannot pro tect from the mob a member of their own race. As perilous to Americanism as the "moral treason of the politico-racial hyphen" is the treason of those who defy law and humanity and brand their country with the mark of bar barism in the eyes of the world. If the guilty cowards in Waco cannot be apprehended, every citizen in the town should be disfranchised. It would be small injustice to those who were not participators, for in a mat ter of this kind, where the com munity tolerates such outrages and protects the perpetrators, it should bear a measure of the responsibility. The votes of men who practice an archy are not desirable votes. Dis franchisement is the least that may be done to protect Americanism. PULLMAN CO. GIVES MEN STOCK RIGHTS. Offers Employes 5,000 Shares at $155 Subscriptions Pro-rated on Salary Basis. The Pullman company has offered to employes and officers who have been in its service for one year or more, the right to, subscribe to 5,000 shares of its stock at $155. The stock is quoted on the New York stock ex change at more than $160 per share. Subscription rights, according to the formal announcement of the plan, are pro-rated on a salary basis. 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Retired em ployes may not make original sub scriptions, Subscriptions will be received until July 15, and allotments made as of July 31. The first payments will be deducted from the July, 1916, earn ings of subscribers. WALLER AGAINST "NEGRO" Noted Brooklyn Doctor Says It Causes Mental and Physical Segregation. (From Amsterdam News.) Editor Amsterdam News: Sir: I cannot too heartily congratu late you on a recent editorial discour aging the use of the word "Negro." There is no greater delight enjoyed by the white people of the United States today than the spreading use of this unfortunate term. Why? They real ize that It is the most potential fac tor at work at the present to bring about both a physical and mental segregation of the people of color. Its use is on the increase only because our speakers and writers, especially Do Bois and Washington feel that Its repetition, ad nauseam, is necessary to retain the good will of the masses. The term "Negro" is not only absurdly in accurate as applied to millions of col ored people, but it is also alarminly injurious, for the following reasons: a. It has never stood historically or in the present, anywhere in the world, for anything noble or uplifting. Most high-grade Africans repudiate it. b. In Africa and out of Africa it was never applied to the higher types, but to Guineas, Sudanese and Senegam bians only. c. Its derivatives, "Negroism," "Ne- grofy," and its compounds, Negro-head, Negro-fly, Negro-monkey, are all clear ly, In their associations, degrading. 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 centuries, when formally speaking or writing about an unworthy or criminal man or woman of the race. For when he speaks of the worthy he invariably says "colored." f. It is not differentiated in the mind and thought of the whites from their favorite and generally used (among themselves) terms, "Nigro" and "Nig ger." g. As -stated by an eminent Japanese diplomat it has an unquestioned in fluence in cutting us off from the thought, sympathy and co-operation of the millions of colored Africans, Asi atics and Islanders of the Yonder world. Very truly yours, OWEN M. WALLER, M. 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 Wm H. Lewis, Boston, Mass. Must Judge A Group by Its Best. (From the Christian Register, Boston, Mass.) No one can be said to know any class of people who 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- APPEAL'S EDITORIALS HAVE "POISE, LOGIC AND COURAGE." Hon. Richard T. Greener, Late U. S. Consul at Vladivostok, Eminent Scholar Literateur, Writer and Diplomat and Personal Friend of the Great Charles Sumner, Lauds THE APPEAL. As one who knew Sumner and tried to practice his theories I wish to express my hearty approval of your utterances in THE APPEAL and I can urge them as competent opinions. I congratulate you on the poise loeic anad courage of your editorials. 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. G. Holland. Bssj 6 (Signed) Richard T. Greener. ored race through the mass and by observation merely could know what Individual possibilities are demon strated in growing numbers of the elect, and would be courageously can did with themselves, they would re vise their judgments and possibly sof ten their prejudices. At any rate they ought to credit to those on whom they charge ignorance of the colored race the values that come from know ing how many of that race are the equal of any members of the dominant race in the highest abilities and In the clearest aims. No estimate is worth much which does not take people at their best. OUR NEED OF JUXTAPOSITION (From the Boston Guardian That we much rather be, and asso ciate among ourselves, is a saying by Colored Americans that has become almost trite. That is a mistake, it is a feeling of avowed cowardice and Innate inferiority. It is an utter mi possibilitay for the two races to sub scribe to a common government, and, at the same time, each race work out Its own salvation. The "theory" has been tried and resulted into a ghastly failure instead of making for har mony and cordial good feeling be tween two races, it has increased race hatred and antagonism in leaps and bounds. We have heeded too long the advice from false and treach erous leadership that resistance is wrong, that it only breeds race hat red and antagonism that the thing for us to do is to get property and other rights will inevitably follow. We have followed this "advice" fahi fully and have been rewarded in terms of residince segregation, street segregation, confiscation and loss of property, anti-intermarriagewhich is all of the blackest pieces of legis lation, since that it leaves our women defenseless and at the mercy of white brutes separate schools, jimcrow cars, and even legislating to exclude further Negro immigration. These are the evils resulting from "non resistance" and "rather be by our selves." That with the same degree of effontry and terrible legislation with which our property is taken and confiscated, with this same effontry and legislation will our political and manhood rights be taken from us That is a fact. Every congress of fers legislation degrading and inimi cal to our well being. Race preju dice, therefore, can only be worn down attrition. We must send our children, and go ourselves, to mixed institutions and other places where we can mix with the other races and consequently become accustomed to one another. ABQVE ALL THINGS WE MUST WELCOME AND PRAC TICK JUXTAPOSITION. Of One Blood. (Gerald Stanley Lee in Mount Tom) I am a human being. I do not pro pose to be cooped up or shut in in my love and criticism to mere geographi cal streaks or spots of people on a Planet. This planet is small enough as it is, when one considers the height and depththe starry height and depthof the human spirit that wavers and glows through us all Wagner and Shakespeare, Tolstoi and Moliere! Though the cathedrals quar rel together and sing praises with siege-guns to their own little foolish national souls, and rain bombs on each other's naves, I take my stand by the great bells ringing in their towers, by the souls of their poets overriding the years, by the prayers and songs of their heroes, artists, In ventors, by the mothers and the little children. We are all in the same world. We are all alike. I will not say of any one nation what I will not say of the others and I will not say of any man what I will not say of myself. Not Worthy of Freedom. (From the Richmond Planet.) When a race or an individual sub mits uncomplainingly to oppression, it is a practical demonstration that the race or the individual is not wor thy of freedom.