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In every letter that you write us never fail to give your full name and address, plainly written, post office, county and state. Busi ness letters of all kinds must be written on separate sheets from letters containing news or matter for publication. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1917 "Any prejudice whatever will be insurmountable if those who do not share in it themselves truckle to it and flatter it and accept it as a law of nature." John Stuart Mill. j&or**i NATIONAL RACE CONGRESS. Elsewhere on this page will be found an article from Boston in regard to the coming Race Congress which un questionably is a needed movement and it is hoped that the people of the Twin Cities will get together and arrange to send representatives to the same There is very little time to work, so let's get at it NOW. Let us hear from our citizens in regard to the matter at once. WARNS AGAINST RACIAL HATRED. It is so unusual for a Christian minister to preach against racial hat-, red that THE APPEAL is pleased to note that one minister has the cour age of his convictions. In his sermon last Sunday, Rev. H. E. Peahody, pastor of the South Con gregational Church, in Chicago, said that racial hatred within the United States is more dangerous than all Ger mans outside this country. Dr. Peabody likened the East St Louis massacre to the "atrocities of the unspeakable Turk in Armenia." "The country's perils are not all on the sear and beyond," said Dr. Pea body. "Think of the moral earthquake and volcano that has burst in the midst of the land, in our own state, since last we met. "Who would have believed that a massacre that reminds one of St. Bartholomew's night and of the atroci ties of the unspeakable Turk in Ar menia, could occur among our own fellow-citizens in East St. Louis? "But, beware! The peril is nearer than that. The mutterings of the vol cano are felt in Chicago. The single explosion is not the most significant thing. The race prejudice, contempt and hatred, workingworking be neaththese are the hell belowand they find some lodgment in all our hearts God help us. "There is far more danger to the republic from race hatred within our borders than from all the Germans put together. i "Christian citizens of Chicago, think MjiiJ^& ?L*r i#b- *& 3k* iJ S this thing through. Try to make up your mind beforehand what you will do and say when the earthquake and the volcano shall be around you. Our country is in dire need of clear heads and stout heartsChristian hearts, both within and without." THE MAN WHO DARES The world loves a MAN, a fighter! on who thinks as much^of himself as any other like creature on earth. To such aggressive MEN, unjust restric tions will in the end yield and break down, because they will ever refuse to recognize them. In cases of lux uries of life such MEN will not ac cept the limitations though they greatly desire them and have the price demanded. In the case of necessities, they will fight restrictions and limit as far as is within their power, the demand for them. A MAN CAN BE FREE IN A FREE COUNTRY ONLY WHEN HE RE- TAINS THE RESPECT OF HIS FEL LOW CITIZENS TO THE EXTENT HE RECEIVES THE SAME TREAT- MENT FROM THEM THEY EXPECT FROM HIM!" THE ONLY SOLUTION. Recently at the Church of England Congress at Southampton, Sir Sidney Olivier, who was governor of Jamaica from 1907 to the end of 1912, put for ward the claim that no solution of the American color question was possible except by a resolute disclaimer of the color line and the race differention theory. I ja **5& 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. FAILURE TO FIGHT COSTLY. That strong defender of true Ameri canism, the Cleveland Gazette, edited by Hon. Harry C. Smith, a man of whom all Americans may well be proud, printed an editorial in a recent issue which is so accurate an exposition of the costly blunder the colored people have made in failing to fight for their rights that we reproduce it. We trust that every reader will read it care fully and ponder over the truths ex pressed. "It has not been so very many years since the adoption of the war amend ments to the Constitution and the be ginning of a systematic effort on the part of our enemies to nullify the ef fect they were expected to have and its 'subsequent good. Since these ef forts at restriction began, they have grown and multiplied rapidly and much of it has been due to our refusal to fight the issues raised with all our resources, before they became opera tive. In the South disfranchising constitutions have come, separate or "jim-crow" railroad and street cars, "peanut" galleries in theaters for our men and women, separate bars in saloons, "jim-crow" city parks, swim ming pools, schools, "jim-crowism in dental offices, churches, Y. M. C. A.'s,only etc. Indeed, there is apparently a de sire for a segregation of the races in Heaven, if some of'them ever get there. These things have all crept upon us since emancipation and the elevation to a citizenship supposed to be equal to that of all other Ameri cans. We have lost ground, South and North, because we have not fought, and when we "have resisted, have lacked leadership, while other supposed leaders have played into the hands of our enemies. As a race, we have been burlesqued, abused and hu miliated by the thoughtless (some, members of the race), as well as by those hostile to our interests, simply because there was lacking proper re sentment on our part and a determi nation to take a stand for our rights with all the power at our command. Sir Sidney Olivier certainly knows what he is talking about. In the Island of Jamaica, where he was gov* ernor for five years, there are about 800,000 colored people and only 20.0Q0 whites and yet there is absolutely no friction between the races. Jamaica is a British colony and the govern ment is just. Colored men enjoy ev ery civil and political right which white men have and there is no color line. Among^jther things Sir Sidney said: "My study and comparison of con ditions in the United States and the West Indies," he said, "has brought me to that conclusion. American and colonial politicians and public men are not Exeter Hall abolitionists nor evangelical Christian missionaries. I do not expect them to adopt the meth ods of missionaries, nor do I sympa thize with all their programmes. But it cannot be ignored that it happened that the faiths of the men who laid the foundations for the peaceful de velopment of the mixed community In Jamaica were democratic and human itarian and, above all, uncompromis ingly Christian. "Were race differentiation held to it must increase civil discord. When the balance of numbers is as it is in the South in America it must tend to foster obscure preparations for civil war and rebellion. If statesmen and (citizens face in the contrary direction I do not say that they will attain lm i mediately civil peace, but I am confi dent that they will be traveling the road toward It. "I do not suggest that race does not greatly affect facilities for combina tion between humans in healthy national life, but race difference is only one of many schismatic agencies. The solution of the difficulty involves discipline for the white man as well as the black." Jews who are fighting from England urged the abandonment of title "Jew ish Regiment" The committee com posed of prominent Hebrews pleaded that the 40,000 Jews now serving in the army were fighting not as Jewish but as British subjects. Lord Derby at once agreed to abandon the title. The title colored regiment ought to be abandoned in the S. Army. Let colored men fight as Americans. The Chicago Y. M. C. A. will send a lot of picked men to try "to re-es tablish morale in Russia." We wonder if they will use the jim crow system in use in Chicago and organize segre gated Y. M. C. A.'s for each of the hundred and odd nationalities which compose Russia? Several thousand Georgia colored men will be assigned to loading trans ports for France. They will be under the command of W. G. Austin, former chief of police of Savannah, Ga. Ex-President Taft is being talked of as president of Hampton Institute to succeed the late H. B. Frissell. Taft has too much race prejudice to be at the head of such an institution. A colored man, P. W. Howard, has been elected member of the Repub lican National Committee to fill the vacancy caused by the death of L. Moseley. Colored men are eager to join the Navy and risk their lives in defense of their country but they are not al lowed to enlist except as mess attend ants. "HUMAN NATURE'S FOULEST BLOT." My ear is pained My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage, with which earth is filled. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart. It does not feel for man: the natural bond Of brotherhood is severed as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colored like his own: and having power To enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys: "Ks human nature's broadest foulest blot. -^rCowper. Seven hundred and forty-seven thou sand people joined the churches of the United States in 1916 and yet h1 is to pay all over the country. Experts at Washington see the end of war within a year, so 'tis said, and it certainly is a consummation most devoutly to be wished for. COLORED TROOPS. At Each Cantonment of New National Army. shall be one colored infantry regiment of the South, but no modification has Illinois Crack Colored Cheered to the Echo. East St. Louis, 111., September 7. Claims aggregating $500,000 have been LET EUROPE BEWARE. Some Day Africans Will Have Steam Engines and Machine Guns of Their Own." (From the Christian Register) Nearly all of Africa has been cut up into spheres of influence, and the Great Powers of Europe that are now attempting to destroy each other will soon be at odds over what are known as their colonial possessions. It is incredible that the tribes and nations of Africa will always be denied the right of choice as to their political and social relations with the masterful nations that have ruled them. Will the European governments allow Afri cans to say who shall be their mas ters their fellow-workers, their friends? If not now, at some later date freedom must be decreed for Africa. Because he had steam-engines and machine-guns, Kitchener could mow down the natives by the thou sand and then establish a university at Karthoum. But some day Africans will have steam-engines and machine guns of their own. Then let Europe beware.v WIDE-SPREAD INTEREST I N NA- TIONAL RACE CONGRESS. Colored Americans "Brought to Their Feet" by Memphis, E. St. Louis, and Chester OutragesLocal Equal Rights Committees Being Formed. Boston, Mass., August 29, 1917. That the colored people of the coun try have been "brought to their feet" by the Memphis lynching, East St. Louis massacre and Chester riots, is shown by the instant interest taken in the call issued for a "speedy get ting together" at New York by Rev Pyron Gunner, president of the Na tional Equal Rights League. Already President Gunner has received word from representatives in a dozen dif ferent states who will attend the 10th annual meeting of the league and 2nd Annual Race Congress under the League's auspices, which will be held three days, September 18, 19 and 20, in Mother Zion church, W. 136th street, New York City. Colored newspapers all over the country are announcing this National Colored Equal Rights Convention in their columns, and the editors are working with success for the forma tion of local "Equal Rights Commit tees" that are to send delegates. The "Call" has been given such wide publicity, the invitation bin open to ever organization as well as the Equal Rights League, the on pressed in every country the civil ized world have met as a group and put forth their case and their de mand, except we colored Americans, thoughtful citizens everywhere see'?.111 that the race will be judged by the attendance at this National Race Con gress. Every community that has not al ready formed a Citizens' Equal Rights Committee to send delegates is urged to do so. Three full weeks remain in which to do so. TtigTast Race Con gress brought men and women of all factions and all organizations together and increased co-operation. It is ten times as critical now for the race as then. Pres. Byron Gunner, of Hillburn, N. Y., and Corr. Secretary Wm. Monroe than on top of it.Richmond (Va) Trotter of 34 Cornhill, Boston, are Planet. That is our eternal gospel, receiving many letters on the conven- preach it in the valleys- and on the tion and will answer all inquiries. mountain tops. HAMPTON AND TUSKEGEE. Fo,'owng Tn tn Chicago, Sept. 2.Chicago last night 20,000 strong bade farewell to the teaching 'STS5ST tow tTbe Eighth Infantry. It was the biggest ovation given any1 local regiment about to start to the South. Chief, "g 1 Justice Orrin Carter COl(?N. Illinois f. CU ?ff l?o^ 8 ry MANY CLAIMS AFTERMATH RACE RIOTING. Article is Taken From The Cleveland Gazette, ano is Only One of Many Such That Have Ap peared From the Trenchent Pen of Rev. William A. Byrd.Read and Ponder. That Hampton andthey Tuskegee haveo have als done much good for the colored race and the country at large, no sane man wiln nar io Washington, September, 1917.The resistance and deep respect for order issued by the War Department "southern traditions." Such men as provides in every cantonment there Set an where sufficient personnel is available. they hope through iteto uplift the Protests have been made against quar- colored race and in a measure solve tering colored troops in certain parts deny,o but there is a serious ques- th done. Hampton in Virginia empha sizes humility for colored men. Tus kegee in Alabama emphasizes non- Lo and many others buil "d maintain Tuskegeehav becauset problem Th trouble with rac tn tni been made. men constantly advise the colored race to be patient while the white men continually heap upon them I more and grievous burdens. Colored EIGHTH GETS PATRIOTIC FARE- mee are continually reminded that WELL. Policy is its one-sidedness. These southern white man is his "bes friend" and this white "friend" is I continually showing his friendship by Regiment oppression, violence and death. Be sides these evils both Hampton and Tuskegee stand for the kind of edu cation the south is half way inclined to tolerateindustrial training, a good servant." From Tuskegee a sen nigger"'s anddbe allowedover ^Preme Cour recited a man and quit or acquiesce like "a ment and expressed his conviction the main. No one can sit and hear a men again would prove their loyalty lecture from Hampton's teachers with- and patriotism. He was cheered sev-, out being impressed with the fact that eral minutes. OF to re*e timenjk of thi kin goes out th country. The head of Tuskegee must S stand for this sentiment or fight like filed against the city of East St. Lonis IS WRONG! Within Hampton itself, souls and human pride, just like the for personal damages and for destruc- this inferiority of the colored to the people of other races. tion of personal property as a result I white is emphasized. We are reliably of the recent race- riots here. More than thirty claims have been filed for loss of life and many colored people have put in claims for destruc tion of personal property. Damages have been asked for more than 1,000 chickens, killed or missing Jesse Carter, a colored man put in a claim for $25 which he said was taken from him by an Illinois guards man. The city council will decide whether to allow the claims or to allow the city to be sued. The law provides that the city shall pay for all lives lost and three-fourths of the value of property destroyed. informed that even a little advance agent, white of course, secured for Major Moton, after he was chosen head of Tuskegee, a humblb,U stop- was made against such, he r^* en "agent of Hampton, who chanced to have a white skin." Mind you, an agent begging the public for a chance to present his black school progeny. Major Moton was very wise whe.n he told his New York''audiencei a"few days ago that he did not aspire to be the leader of the colored people in this country. No southern man who must live and make his living there, i can be this leader! Major Moton must the black man to the white man, urg- in which th& Colored men are depopu- ing the colored youth to accept this latmg the South. They can be neither as a fact and prepare to make useful blamed nor censured for leaving a suppress his own resentment at in-, the southern policy. The colored race is unalterably opposed to accepting tees should demand for their^wards a greater degree of freedom of I thought and action than they now i have. The pandering to the wishes of the south is not making it better for the colored race but it is firmly! hisjife under such conditions. THIS town like this. They 1iave hearts and I Uvery* S Wnf^i a ?tnnJ/ of himself stopped at the "Onandaga hV be much like equality of the president S wo i of Tuskegee N. & I. Institute with establishing a policy which the whole 2 race will be asked to accept. Now the colored people not in the south era states will NEVER acoept the policy of the South. Colored working there have the sympathy of *J we will not stand for any loud-! mouthed proclaiming that the colored race should accept the policy as taught by Hampton and Tuskegee Major Moton is wise in doing the best he can under the most able conditions so far as real man-1 hood is concerned, but he is unwill-! ing to advocate what he has to accept as the policy of his race. We take off our hat to him in this. The time Is ripe for such institutions as At lanta and Fisk Universities to re ceive their meed of praise. These in stitution no wavered in thei demanePlehavee for th best and highest for Pd Worse to Ask for Jim Crow. (From the Cleveland Gazette.) We agree with the editor of the N. Y. News:(oIt is bad enough to have 8e8rG AS tering a sentiment of inferiority of tire, for the exceedingly rapid manner scn colored people. In church and state suppresa lynching and lawlessness i schools these teachers must accept i accept. The danger of Hampton and laD gated "ji crow" military trainin camps FORCED on us by the them. vern ment, but infinitely worse to fo "Negroes and Dogs Not Allowed" (From the Nashville Clarion) Down in Houston, Texas are some all of the effort of that institution is elevators in public buildings labeled to make the colored people patiently 'NEGROES AND DOGS NOT ALLOW- receive whatever the whites or the ED." Generous Classification! Such i Posslbilitay for the two races sub- south may give them. They are fos- signs as these account in such meas- Must Have a Place in School (From the Chicago Defender) Our naval training camp- has everv nationality under "the TunT As a'red flag hotel in that city. When a protest Fnipmo int 0 tn the most expensive and exclusive 7e havflout Cbimuneen out therde the ouft saidTthae ewant of a man than to have done suc"h"a S t thing where discrimination is unlaw- thie he the^ a The Cause of Migration (Atlanta (Ga) Independent) When meat was 15c a pound and flur $8.00 a receive sam atl rem justice in order to do what good he starvation can for his race. Heads of southern schools cannot be the leaders in civic i and national matters pertaining to rur tn ma dea anything as its portion which any i the of the shops and factories other self-respecting race would not Tuskegee is their building up a man- (to keep colored men from leaving the hood of weaklings and non-resistants South) will be unnecessary. They are making colored youths be lieve that they are right when they humbly take southern sand and say they have sugar. These institutions should remain and be encouraged, BUT THEIR POLICY SHOULD BE CHANGED. The colored youth should be taught to shun bullyism, but love to embrace those principles of cour ageous manhood which resent wrong when wilfully and maliciously given The weight of these institutions will' be sought to stem the tide of emigra tion from the south. We hope they will speak out and utter the truth. The colored people of the south have nothing to fear by leaving there They may die by reason of the cold In this section (and this it not at all probable) but that is more merciful than dying by the rope and at the mouth of the shotgun. Here in the north their children can receive the education any child receives, and their ambition will not be curtailed by making them believe and recognize the fallacy that they are inferior to some one else. If the south desires the black people to remain there let them lift the embargo on education voting, protection of life and prop erty, and discontinue "jim-crowism," segregation and general cussedness Black people are insulted when they are asked to accept such as their portion. The trustees of Hampton and Tuskegee should recognize the fact that their work must fail if they continue to try to build up a race that is too weak and cowardly to demand its rights. These white trus ent those of us who are not there but Jecth Theirt plansocial jusr- tice and manly recognition of worth wherever it is found regardless of raceis deserving the highest praise Too much money cannot be given them for their great work. (Rev.) WM. A. BYRD. The Eternal Gospel (From the Martinsville Pioneer-Press) We have no respect for a servile^ cringing colored man. He is of more service to his people under the sod -A e" barrel,0the coloredalaborer from $4 0 to $8 00 week meatbarrel No $16-e0 0 is 30c a pound and flour a th calab,itle ol 8 respec tbe b? out th er ,nded 0D8ervat! men he is receiving the Hencannott live a this nwages.e whit ma canno expect msm 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 novoice 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. him a in in the South and live on the wagesanhears wn Nort th livin i paying hiim thh fields the factories and Wes offering him wages. If the white man will districts pay the living wages, coloren giver him a the farms bette schoolssquare open Prowess, and let him in the idoors unions, municipal ordinances 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 lnchm 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. ^rom the Christian Register, Boston Mass.) No one can ue said to know anj class of people who has not been in intiuia 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, Imt 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 theaopreciat* first. They know asp-i they know others are obli rations amonge them that the others nont know, or, knowing, do not an whic ,t direct contact with the rac qualities which kno the of sympathy can bring an Possibilities to which kno their very acquaintance are those who know the col throu a the mass and by I raC ore on merely could know what rate growing numbers of the Individual possibilities are dmon would be courageously can- an themselves,an they would re-- Judgment possibly sof PreJdlces. wlt te, te.ny thel 0u chft rv the man B0 W In At any rate, 8ht to credit to those on whom S ignorance of the colored a lue that come from know tn unfavor-- rac that race are the th 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. r. G. Holland. Defective Page i 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 Ly Colored Americans that has become almost trite. That is, a mistake, is a feeling of avowed cowardice ano innate inferiority. It is an utter BCribeens a fac to a commoeacgovernmento and th salvation, Th "theory has *m time race wor* ow GrL outD ihere he regretted it, buta di,df not it Jw? *^T S M Ji JSt egregation, confiscation and loss of rfS th resulted mto a ast an ,t trle bee ure insteacde ofIgoohasfeeinr ail u,, Snl with a ful. For Major Moton to stop in the 7L the bathroom with mop defenseless and ast the mercy of white same hotel with him would be too S lZZ +5h T** whicftCl? cordial de an tw twee making fo har ras mon residinc w5efo*tte Property, antMntermarriage-which is Hebrew ou^thwi S l2Sm Mt tem we^are'Sywhere^ea? ttere ft ZL latIon increase 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 breedvsi race hat red and antagonism thatw the"thin?edr for us to dlow iesd toe property and othehra rights Inevitab1! adce folo a vwill W a the Ul W thi eget rea fol ostreetn segregation,w ou ,eave plec sInc ma dae i cara we are paying 1 fo an taxese th f blacke8 tha legislating exclude brutes separate schoolsto eve jim^roweau,rxe 5l 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 ana confiscated, with this same effon+rv and legislation will our political and manhood rights be taken from ua That Is a fact. Every congress of fers legislation degrading and inlmi cal to our well being Race preiu dice, therefore, can only be worn fl wr by attrition. We must send onr children, and go ourselves to m'yerf institutions and other nla^e*! w^^, we can mix with the othpr ra^es ^n*t consequently becomp afciisto^n'1 one another. ABOVR AT TT TT XP WE MUST WTCLCOMF 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 Moiiore! Though the eathedrals quar rel together and sing praises with fiieee-guns to their own little foolish nafional souls and rain bombs on each other's n^ves, I take mv stand bv the great bells ringing in the'r towers, by the souls of their poets overriding the years, bv the pravers and songs of their heroes, artists in ventors, by the mothers and the lift], children We are all in the same world. We are all alike. I w,ill not say of any one nation what I will not sav of th others and I will not say of any man what I will not say of mvself Agreed to Be "Set Aside." (From the Eagle, Washington, D. No, the colored delegates to the M. E. General Conference, held at Sara toga Springs, N. Y., recently, did not "walk out." They simply assented to arrangements to be "set aside"to be segregated into a colored general conference, to be presided over by a white bishop, being denied the privi lege of directing their own labors in the Master's vineyard. Two years from now the two wings of the M. E. church, North and South, will unite and the separation of the colored membership and the refusal of bishop ric honors to the 350,000 colored com municants are designed to clear the way-fo the approaching "love feast." There is verity in the assertion that, in its primal manifestations, the church is a social organization, with religion as a by-product. 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- jr*- i ,nLss&-i*&