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COLORED SOLDIERS FALL FIRST. A squadron of the Tenth Cavalry, colored American soldiers, was am bushed by Caranzista troops at Car rizal, Mexico. In the face of a with ering machine gun fire the American troops dismounted, deployed and charged the Mexicans, who were shielded by a row of adobe houses. Notwithstanding the great advan tage the Mexicans held both in posi tion and numbers, General Gomez, the Mexican commander, was killed during the first few minutes of fight ing, also a number of Mexican sol diers. On the American side, eleven troopers and their commander were killed. So the first blood in the first real battle of the Mexican war was that of colored Americans, who fought sol diers of another colored race in de fense of the American flag, which does not always protect them from injustice. In Mexico, American colored men are welcomed and treated as brothers, while in the United States,, the land of their birth, they are to a great extent treated as they were lepers, i subjected to insults, denied their civil rights. Nevertheless from the time that Crispus Attucks, the mulatto, gave his blood, the first shed in the Revolutionary war to the present time, colored men have never failed to lay down their lives in defense of their native land. -nAWIM^i "Z^^S ^V^^- 1 *K K headed "Major Moton's Denial" and quotes from the New York Age, that OPPOSES HYPHEN REGIMENT. HAS HEART ENLARGEMENT. The Pullman Palace Car Company is getting reckless! It has announced a raise in the wages of its employes. The raise granted is 5 per cent, but there will be no raise for porters who have been less than 15 years in service. This means that if a porter con tinues working for the Pullman Co. and does not get fired around the close of his 14th year of service he will re ceive an increase in wages of $1.87% a month. The present top wages of the Pull man porters is $27.50 a month. The benevolent Pullman Company also announces that in consideration of its 5 per cent increase in wages to employes 15 years in service that the old system of yearly bonuses to men 15 years in service are to be given 2 Yi per cent increase every five years. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," was born in Litchfield, Conn., June 14, 1811, one hundred and five years ago, and died in Hartford, July 11, 1896. Mrs. Stowe was the wife of Prof. Calvin Stowe and the daughter of Ly man Beecher. J. F. Rhodes in his "History of the United States From 1850" says of "Uncle Tom's Cabin": V*i-i JS 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. NO DENIAL. inspired her to pour out her soul in The Richmond Planet has an article a se paper's statement of the case. would be accomplished she would As a matter of fact there has been then have induced people to think no denial by Major Moton of the protest against slavery. thought she could only makShe i tna riSkt on the subject." charges as stated in the public press. When Mrs. Stowe prepared the plan THE APPEAL agrees with the Cleve- of the work that was to become fa- land Gazette, that the Age evidently mous and profitable beyond her fond- means well, but that Major Moton is fully able to speak for himself. fortieth year. Her husband's small THE APPEAL believes that if he is income hardly sufficed to meet the not guilty as charged that Major frugal needs of a large household. She Moton ought to issue a signed state- was worn out with the care of many ment repudiating the reports sent out young children and the burden of the by the Associated Press and announc- literary work she was doing to eke ing that he will be a man no matter, out the salary of Prof. Stowe. There if Tuskegee is swept from the face was nothing but the prospect of a bit- of the earth. ter struggle for a bare living when the inspiration of a lifetime came to her Mayor Mitchell of New York ob- lished serially in the National Era, an jects to the organization of a regiment anti-slavery paper in Washington, it of troops composed exclusively of obtained little notice. When, however, citizens of German birth. In his let ter, which he has given out he said he was of the opinion that it would be hurtful to draw racial lines in Ameri can military matters. "I would deprecate the formation of a regiment composed wholly of men of any one nationality," he added, whether they be German, French, Italian or Russian, as this might tend to draw the very racial lines which I believe ought to be avoided. I sug gest that you urge your men to join the regular organizations of the na tional guard or such other organiza tions as may be recruited by the fed eral authorities." The mayor ought to have added that it is a mistake to form a separate regiment of colored men. Colored men in New York made a fight to have themselves segregated. It was a great mistake and adds another to the list of causes which will prevent the colored people from being treated as American citizens. IT NEVER PAYS TO ASK FOR SEGREGATION OF ANY KIND the world slavery as she saw it her object st dream, she was approaching her land she wrote her "Uncle Tom's i Cabin." When the story was first pub- it was put on the market in book form it had the most extraordinary success. Longfellow thought that while it was one of the greatest triumphs of literary history, it contained an even higher moral triumph. In England some of the most en thusiastic encomiums were passed upon the author and her book. Lord Palmerston, Lord Cockburn, Charles Kingsley, Lord Carlisle and Macauley expressed their warmest appreciation of this strange novel and of the extra ordinary influences which it was hav ing in so many countries. More than 1,000,000 copies of the book were sold within nine months after its publication. Thirty different editions were published in London within six months of the appearance of the book in America. It would be a long list which should contain the number of languages in which the work was published subsequently and Mrs. Stowe's name became a familiar one in all parts of the civilized world. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was one of the most remarkable books ever writ ten and it probably did more to cause the war of the rebellion than any other one influence. Abraham Lincoln, after he became president, expressed a de sire to meet Mrs. Stowe and when she came to the White House he received her cordially. He' looked at her in tently for some time and then said, "So you are the little woman who caused the civil war!" 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- fro phen. It is true "that those~who~come|m0ney' Swede hav The author felt deeply that the lections of the old countrnyd also fugitive slave law was unjust and that that they are among the quickest to there was cruelty in its execution this I adopt American ways fully and 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. man te ~4 ~Jn eand rco com- I 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 %o 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 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. PROPOSES "WHITE" PARTY. Senator Newlands of Nevada is an ardent suffrage supporter. He called at the woman's party headquarters and suggested a way of winning the South to the cause. He said: "It strikes me that it would be a good scheme for the suffragists to come out for the nation-wide enfran chisement of white persons only," he said. "This would win over the South, which now feels that the Negro should not have been enfranchised and is op posed to its women getting into poli tics. On the west coast there is a strong feeling against the yellow races ever having the vote. Hence with a straight-cut declaration for a party of white men and women the suffragists could draw together all elements." COLOR LINE WIPED OUT. A strange thing happened in El Paso, Texas, Thursday when the col ored heroes who had been imprisoned in Chihuahua, released by Carranza, were returned to the border. Just read the press report: "There was a paradoxical side of the reception arrangements which ap parently was never thought of. All of the imprisoned troopers are Ne groes and probably never before in history was such homage considered for the colored race in the state of Texas, but they were not colored men in the minds of these patriotic south erners. They were Uncle Sam's sol diers. They had taken up arms against the Mexicans and that in it self is sufficient to make any one be loved in this southwest country. Their color was never considered. They were heroes, fighters, cavalrymen and that was enough." Good! The acquittal of the officers of the Riggs National Bank ought to be pleasing to all decent men. And the jury deliberated only nine minutes. This is a deserved rebuke to Comp troller of the Currency Williams, who endeavored to have the officers con victed of perjury. Then four days later the District Supreme Court held that Comptroller Williams may not re tain the $5,000 he imposed upon the Riggs National Bank. Williams, when assistant secretary of the treasury, is sued the famous order segregating the colored employes in one of the water closets of Treasury Department at Washington. John Skelton Williams, comptroller of the currency, he of separate water closet fame, left Washington the other day and allowed his deputy Thomas P. Kane, to sign, as acting comptroller, the new charter for 30 years, which he was compelled to grant to the Riggs National Bank of Washington, D. C. Wiliams haled the officers of the bank, into court some time since, but the jury in nine minutes declared the defendents not guilty and left John Skelton with the bag to carry. John hails from Richmond on the "Jeems." 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 giveC onset cent the nrii *perbankerof Th 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. It is said that on account of the high price of all building material all buildmg operations connected with the large fund raised for the segre gated Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. will be dispensed with for the present. It would be better if the buildings were dispensed with entirely. No good can come from "jim-crow" public or quasi-public institutions of any kind. After telling the story of the recent jimcrow" reunion of the M. E. church North and the M. E. Church South, the Cleveland Advocate asks, "Whither is the M. E. Church North bound?" In reply THE APPEAL begs to suggest that it is HEADED FOR HELL. There will be no cut in the South's representation in the Republican na tional convention of 1920. The basis of representation will be the same as it is in. the convention of 1916. MANHOOD OF RICHARD ALLEN. R- Wright, J~ 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 ndt 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 who were less outspoken. We might well, at this time, emulate the manly quali ties of our great leader. R. R. W. 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. What Waco Did. (From the San Francisco Chronicle.) Waco did more than burn a colored man she burned her own courage, decency and character, outraged the imaginations of her young people and smeared a foul disgrace across her civic life. 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 th 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." t. It Is not differentiated in the mind and thought of the whites from their favorite and generally used (amon? 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 Yondei 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 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, logic and courage of your editorials. (Signed) Richard T. Greener. If those who know the col- thy of freedom. 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. 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 lm 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 anJ 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 ana other rights will inevitably follow. We have followed this "advice" fafcl fully and have been rewarded in terms of residitfee segregation, street segregation, confiscation and loss of property, anti-intermarriagewhich 1B all of the blackest pieces of tegla 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 y| attrition. We must send our children, and go ourselves, to mixed institutions and other places wher* we can mix with the other races and consequently become accustomed to one another. ABOVE ALL THINGS WE MUST WELCOME AND PRAC- TICE 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. Wc 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 raceIndividual or an individual sub mits uncomplainingly to oppression. It isa practical demonstration that cae i LL-* th is not wor tn /k HI