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Business letters of all kinds musi he written on separate sheets from let ters oontalnipg news or matter for pub- jUtifftfi IfeiWtrdl teeond olasj) matter Iffjl at & poitoftoe atfit.Paul Mnn under aet el Congress), March I, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1916. HUGHES FOR EXACT JUSTICE. Many colored people have been in doubt about Mr. Hughes' stand on the question of their rights as citi zens: The Republican candidate for presi dent settled the matter by his dec laration in his address before the students of Fisk University and other colored citizens at Nashville, Tenn., when he said: "I say to you that I stand, if I stand for anything, for equal and exact justice to all. I stand for the main tenance of the rights of all citizens regardless of race or color. The one word that I love above all others is the word 'justice.' We want in this country what is right and fair. I am sure you do not wish particular things done because of color. Tou want what is right and fair. I desire to see such fair and decent and just treatment as will make you proud of your manhood and womanhood." MORRIS THE MAN. The re-election of Edward H. Mor ris as national grand master of the Odd Fellows is a great triumph for the manhood of the colored people. For several years the jimcrow element in the order has endeavored to unhorse him, but the manly men have been on their guard and have prevented that which would have been a great catas trophy. The Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America, works under a charter from the Grand Lodge of Eng land and for that reason, the colored members in the United States enjoy the fellowship of millions of men of every race, scattered all over the civilized globe. Edward H. Morris of Chicago, is the foremost colored lawyer of the world. His career reads like a romance. Com ing from the depths of poverty, his tattered overcoat, barely covered the ragged suit he wore when he took the examination for the bar. Now he is one Of the leaders of the Illinois Bar anj there are few who are anxious to battle with him in the forum, Those who are competent to judge estimate HUGHES AT LINCOLN'S TOMB. "THE FATHER OF ABOLITION." Republican Candidate for President Makes Pilgrimage to Resting Place of the Great Emancipator. A non-political but interesting feature of the big Republican day in Illinois was the pilgrimage just at dusk of Mr. and Mrs. Hughes to the tomb of Lincoln. The visit was made without any ostentation, so quietly, in fact, that not more than a dozen persons all told were there at the same time. There was no placing of floral wreaths. The Republican candidate, more than half a century after Lincoln, walked all around the imposing shaft, stood with bared head above the spot where the remains lie, and after a solemn moment in contemplation of the heroic statue of the great emancipator, returned to his hotel. Master of sarcasm, ridicule is one after March 1, 1785, to be free. In of his most powerful weapons when 1776, he published and dedivated to addressing a jury. Keen in analysis the Continental Congress "A Dialogue and versed in precedents, he seldom loses a case, for after examination if he decides that it has no merit, he will not accept it no matter how allur ing the retainer offered. Morris is a clean cut, thinking man, who knows that he is an American BEAUTIFUL, BUT BUNK. and who not only demands but re- President Wilson, speaking before ceives treatment as an American the citizenship convention, urged a When he was a member of the Illinois "square deal" for the immigrant and legislature he secured the passage of demanded that America be kept the a strong civil rights bill, to safeguard finest example of the objects and ideals the rights of all American citizens that go to promote the standards of the As there are many jimcrow men world. among the 700,000 members of the "We ought to be careful to maintain Odd Fellows in this country, the ad- a government at which the immigrant vantage of having a man at its head can look with the closest scrutiny and who believes in manhood, should be to which he should be at liberty to apparent to the most casual observer, address this question: 'You declare I this to bedafland Concerning the Slavery of the Afri cans, Showing It to Be the Duty and Interest of the American States to Emancipate All Their Slaves." eQuali bbelieve REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN MANAGERSNO. HON. JAMES B. REYNOLDS, that he has accumulated a fortune of Secretary Republican National Committee. Astute Leader. Original of iy^chtagVin Georgia^render toe pubt more than a million dollars. Brilliant and Effective Campaign Plans. lication timely kX&k. ^.^Qs. of liberty and an justice have you madof* you Dr. Samuel Hopkins, born at Water- "0 I America should exalt bury, Conn., in September, 1721, was above everything else the sover- a noted theologian of his day and was eignty of thoughtfulness and sympathy also distinguished as an early oppon- and vision, as against the grosser im- ent of the slave trade, although many pulses of mankind. No nation can live of his parishioners were interested in without vision, and no vision will exalt it. His fierce opposition to slavery a nation except the vision of real lib- and the slave trade won for him the erty and real justice and purity of title of "The Father of Abolition." I conduct." After graduating from Yale College Natural born Americans were in 1741, he began theological studies warned by the president to examine with Jonathan Edwards at Northamp- themselves carefully tosee whether ton, Mass., he was ordained pastor at they have burning in them the true Hoosatonic, Mass. and remained there light of America which they expect until 1765, after which he preached in to show to these foreigners, various towns in Massachusetts, If a "square deal" for the immigrant Rhode Island and Connecticut, his why not a square deal for 10,000,000 congregations including destitute AMERICAN BORN citizens who are societies. hounded and humiliated, discriminated The agitation he began led to the against and often mob-murdered be- passage of a law in 1774, forbidding cause more or less African blood flows further importation of slaves ,into in their veins? Rhode Island and to a subsequent act The president is the leader of the declaring the children of slaves born Democratic party which has displayed law? S*t, the greatest zeal in enacting discrim inating legislation and the president himself has sanctioned the most in famous racial discriminations which were wholly outside the law. The president's rhetoric is perfect, but those who have suffered from the enactments -of the Democratic party and the president's approval of un just and unlawful and UNAMERICAN cerity. bunk. mail expert and gather in the shekels by the thousands, or perhaps break into Wall street, steal a few railroads and become a billionaire. Some day the poor benighted heathen of the frozen North may so far advance in civilization that they will organize a hellocracy which will rival Georgia or Texas in mob mur ders. Who knows? ANNIVERSARY OF ATLANTA'S SHAME. In his gubernatorial canvass Smith also made incendiary speeches incit ing the Caucasians against colored people and demanding that the race be disfranchised. Senator Hoke Smith is eaid to be the author of the jim-crow policy of the present administration and he has the active support of Vardamari, John Sharpe Williams and nearly every Southerner in Congress. THE APPEAL, reprints in this is sue "A Litany of Atlanta," by Dr. W. IE. Burghardt Du Bois, editor of The I Crisis. It was written just after the 'riot, the author being at that time a resident of Atlanta. *^j ".September, 1916, being the tenth r^ss-"^ anniversary of the massacre and theAbraham recent renaissance of burnings and practices) naturally doubt his sin- colored papers were careful to elimi-1 it. Cutting out a strong point like that shows the working of the jim-crow mind. The American thinking, intelligent, level-headed colored people certainly do not want any particular thing, no matter how alluring, because of color. If they are treated exactly as other His beautiful words are butnate ADVANCE OF CIVILIZATION. The Canadian expedition which has been for three years exploring and making scientific investigations along the north coast of the American con- Americans are treated they'll be sat- tinent has returned, bringing much isfie d- important data from that frozen treatment or especial favors because region. One of the most interesting bits of information is that which re-1 lates to the progress of civilization in Arctic lands. MUST BsE A JOKE.s Dr. R. N. Anderson, who conducted the scientific researches, notes great changes in the actions of the natives since he first visited them in 1911 Here is a. paragraph from "his report: fro p0se to be more common than I found thT^T Th them when I first went into the arctic ToZrl?"* regions. The natives are in general very hospitable and kindly disposed, but they are now anxious for white men to come in with trading mate rials. I do not think they have had, as _yet, enough contact with white men to change their demeanor or nature very much, but it must be ad mitted that they seem less honest." We who live in this great and highly civilized land should not be little the progress that is being made. The poor creatures are doing the best they can under the circumstances and headed "Major Moton's Denial" and under the further tutelage of white quotes from the New York Age, that men some bright Esquimaux lad, may paper's statement of the case, in the days to come, become a black- As a matter of fact there has been EX-PRESIDENT W. H. TAFT. Who Will Make a Ntfmber of Speeches for the Republican National Candi dates, Is a Forceful Campaigner. Ten years have passed since Atlanta, Georgia, was the scene of one of the* most uncalled for 'andrags, 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 of Georgia and now United States senator from that state. WiM HUGHES' STRONG POINT./' Mr. Hughes in his speech to a colored audience stated that he stood for equal and exact justice for all citizens regardless of color, and .he said further: "I am sure you do not wish par-' ticular. things 4one because ot-color." i That was a strong point, so it seems queer that some of the jim-crow They are not asking different color, telegrap dispatcrh tha excnan ih i unde Ss A Gene vG a a government pro- erma comPlaint hl odg stoo Internation "Begging and petty pilfering seemed TlrtLT* *ne\"^" with the al Red Cross against the Th wa 0 n6W.enf ine S 0 is contrary to recognized methods of civilized warfare. After the sinking of the Lusitania, the rape of Belgium, the despoiling of Serbia, the Zeppelin airship raids over England, killing innocent women and children, and other infamous acts of Germans in the present world war, it looks as if some grim joker is abroad in the land. NO DENIAL. The Richmond Planet has an article no denial by Major Moton of thehands charges as stated in the public press. THE APPEAL agrees with the Cleve land Gazette, that the Age evidently means well, but that Major Moton is fully able to speak for himself. THE APPEAL believes that if he is not guilty as charged, Major Moton ought to reply to the open letter of the Crisis and issue a signed state ment repudiating the reports sent out by the Associated Press. The spirit of manhood in the prin cipal of Tuskegee, is of more import ance to the colored people than a bil lion dollars worth of beautiful build- AMERICANSTHAT'S ALL. For many yearn 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 less than one-eighth of Negro"" blood Such men ought to stop the "Negro" propaganda and be Americans and demand justice be cause they are Americans and not by the false assertion that they are "Negroes." They should not have any rights as "Negroes" hut 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. Vice President Marshall in a recent speech put President Wilson in the Lincoln class. He hardly be longs there, for fifty years after Lin coln gave freedom to the slave and their descendants had advanced in J**J. f^V education, morality and good citizen ship to equality with other citizens, Wilson has endeavored to turn back the hands of time and treat them as if they were lepers."* "COLORED LEADERSHIP." (From the Cleveland Gazette.) The attempt on the part of certain white people interested in industrial education for our people almost to the point of opposition to any other kind, to select for the race a man or a set of men as the recognized leader or leaders of the race, is at least prej udicial. No man or combination of men could so nominate Theodore Roosevelt leader of the white race of America. The position Mr. Roosevelt t ,1*'"J.JXL I Seorfe should foSZ ce^ta^ a LlClito people. wBEESBBBssssEEBaEmMmESBgaaamummsBM HUGHES STANDS FOR EXACT JUSTICE. "I say to you that I stand, if I stand for any- thing:, for equal and exact justice to all. I stand for the maintenance of the rights of all citizens regardless of race or color. The one word that I loye above all others is the word 'justice.' We want in this country what is right and fair. I am sure you do not wish par- ticular things done because of color. You want what is right and fair. I desire to see such fair and decent and just treatment as will make you proud of your manhood and womanhood." ma S from the Zmf w,!3^HE"" 8 and^rdrEven^hT elecSon 'ofa *?T "ESTS^ man to the ^J^JtSS^^l^^^MlSi^Sl SSTSJstrl of'?h^race^tfeVk|' fre attitude toward vital or atmua toward vital questions pleases them. Because of the prej udice extant in this country against the race, and as this prejudice is very large from white opposition to ourWhy men coming on equality with them, any choice for leadership by them^ for^ Southern States'c S I SS tg8tre rt" 1 1 with SrureiudfceJ i S i We heZeVtiTllVeTlnad MONUMENTAL BUNK. (From the Louisville News.) A few "grand old Southern gentle men" are agitating the building of a monument in honor of the old black Mammies and Uncles of ante-bellum days. This agitation going on through the Southern press is full of disgust ing sentimentality expressing the high regard of said gentlemen for said Mam mies and Uncles. According to the truck we read slavery was a great and noble institution and both slave and master were happy and contented with conditions. No slaves tried or wanted to escape so delightful a bondage the crack of the whip as it brought blood from some black today regardless of sex, the bark of the houndo ?freshness' hn S men should seek tKeniielnS if f8e harmony in all tninw PQQIH!? l race nized wishes of the that leader ship, however backed by money, will be most bitterly fought. The at tempt make ahead of any particu- leaeJrace,p l a th 001 bring down upon both the school and school, the only colored child from its head the opposition of all not in i the Hazelwood School, with the high sympathy with the "leader." Certain I est average in the class, qualifications a leader must have if Hazelwood, O he would lead, and devoid of these he Prof. Dabney will ignominously fail Any man who has not a keen appreciation of the worth and rights of his race can-' especially after the county superin- not be the leader of that race An man who will surrender the funda mental things that belong to his race is unfit to lead that race to virile manhood and respectability. The more other races emphasize his fit ness, the more his inacceptability will manifest itself. No man dead or alive has ever been the leader of our race in this country. Many men living and dead have been the exponents of many things that contribute largely to the race's welfare Besides a man who may be a leader in one thing may not be a leader in all. To pro claim the president of Harvard col lege as the leader of the white race of America is to insult that race. Not because the president of Harvard is lacking in sane advices, noble pre cepts and manly virtues such as are applicable to the rise of any race, but because the demands of the white race are so multiplied and varied that no one man can possibly lead in all. The same is true of our race. The insistence by white men that all our men echo the policy or plan of some man of the race they (the whites) like, is a very disturbing element in the progress of the race. The policy of placing unlimited resources in the of this leader as' well as mete ing out to the race only those things this "white appointed leader" dic tates, is to subject the race to a specie of slavery that is more damna ble than peonage, for it attempts to fetter the mind. All we ask of white men, north, south, east and west, is to allow our men to come to leader ship in the same way others achieve it. Our race appreciates its great men. It is willing to give them honor and homage, but it is unwilling to bow the knee to any "white man's choice of leadership" simply because this leader fits in with the diseased and prejudiced mind of those opp^ed fiSaT%osMo^T'-^^7.lS to untrammeled manhood fnr "^.3?f" a to ^elffewfy an human prey, who in a foolish moment hadalyieldednc taccording motheT ort ot? tr the desire foreliberty,- wer ScUo to thes kind hi ar an he ^ered at the conUnledn an ?hJ iv7' U~ eSS a Wa guste boy 0 can look at that monument and remem ber "things were not always thus." Why not a monument to the thou sands of known and unknown lynched? not a monument to the thou sands of Colored Women raped seduced in the backwood townsSafsdoaneS Wac TeHsf wner S neere wome an me wSTe I decoratlv th^e-o^ bTt otkUncle^ when a leadership is foisted uponsany race and that too against the' 0 recogi 8 (REV.) WM. A. BYRD. He is a man. Points Emphasized by Hughes InHisSpeech at Springfield, 1 The demand by the admiairtraUon for such legiriation [the Adamsontall]as the price of peace was a humiliating spectacle The phrase "eight-hour day" is apparently used to tickle the public ear in ordertoestablish something quite different If the asserted judgment omnnbeConinspired* society itimmediatesdoeywh, 0nC rt eXeC"tiV ?V*! authority to secure promptooM,try ^^/r the burning bn, woul ar moImment a ssar nece an beautifying as one to -5UW Answer to Jimcrowists. (From the Union, Cincinnati, O.) The friends of Roy Miller are con gratulating him, as he passes to high Kindly put the above item in your Paper, as we are very proud of it, tendent and some of our "friends" tried to get "a Jim Crow School" out here last fall. Yours in the fight against Jim Crow and segregation, Mrs. Geo. W. Allen. Reforms Needed at Home. (From The Christian Register.) Race bitterness makes argument, or discussion, or any effort to come to a common understanding quite useless. Where much racefeeling is engaged reason is neutralized. With some peo ple, questions of the rights of colored people under the Constitution, of the people of California have become im possible. They simply can not discuss the subject. While this is the case in this country, we have enough to do in cleansing our own blood of germs of conflict without thinking It our main business to reach across the water In restraint of warourselvessirWa. Incipient among us in these matters and cruel barbarities frequent enough, T,me reforaiing bJM Billy Sunday speaks out emphati cally, acrobatically and ungrammatic ally against almost every wrong in the countryexcept race prejudice, if he wants to show that he is a real a'raid to tacke any thing, and do some good where It is race prejudice. He It A Real Man. (From the Pioneer-Press, Martins burgh, W. Va.) nati Union, is busy day and night these days fighting segregation andI all other forms of discrimination In the Queen City. This is noble in him!*of and especially stoawhen is too, ui* atit sor are Jn Ion J.._ Me is not so in the case of Mr. Dabney. rela- men- Wilroa 8 --r**Vof i and thprough investigation the stated grievances advance of action, and haTnYthus made instant proven for an so entirely competed Tu, ZXZ sX-:minquiry 0 denUUl re pronded a mandatory increase of wag involving mil- lions ofdollars, without any idea whether the increasemsor not ,stod.. And this action was taken Z with the essential instrumentality of commerce, the arterie of our commercial Me^^?vA-,JS j3t ^m*Bso Con-