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"Any prejudice whatever will 4 bo 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. jr^ igi II igi II i jji ij4pMiII igi ij 1J1 II igi igj 1J11ji i Jiigi I Ji-tyKyHyKg} SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1919. BUSINESS MEN'S MISTAKE. The colored business men's league at St. Louis made a great mistake in electing Robert R. Moton as president of their organization. Moton is not a business man, knows nothing whatever of business and very little of anything else. The clicque which maneuvered his election was simply working to impose the sinister power of Tuskegee on colored business men. Moton is not even qualified to be the principal of Tuskegee, because he lacks an important quality which every leader should possessman hood. When his wife was ejected from a Pullman car a few years ago he prac tically intimated that it served her right, as he had warned her to "re- spect the traditions of the South." Imagine a man who will not protect his own wife, as the head of an in stitution organized "for the training of colored youth!" ONE WAY OUT. It seems that the best means for promoting the welfare of the colored people would be the scattering of col ored families all over the country. In communities where there are only a few families there seems to be lit tle or no friction. Trouble seems to be caused by the coming of the masses. An example of this is right here in Minnesota in the town of Bemidji, where there are not more than a dozen colored people. Charles W. Scrutchin a colored man of African ancestry is the leading lawyer, having a good pay ing practice, his clientele being all white. He has the respect of the en tire population and is received every where with the same cordial welcome that is given the whitest man in town. There is no race problem in Bemidji. "MISTAKEN FOR NEGROES." During the recent race riots in Chi-' cago, about half a hundred, Mexicans, East Indians, Malays, Cubans, Porto Ricans and other peoples of dusky hue were mistaken for "negroes" and either insulted or badly beaten. There was not such great mistakes after all, WOULD BAR FROM ARMY. Colored men would be barred from the army and navy under a bill in troduced by Representative Carraway (dem.) Arkansas. The bill also pro vides for the discharge within sixty days of all colored men now in^the service and prohibits appointment of colored men to the naval and mili tary academies. Representative Carraway knows that this bill can not be passed, but he wishes to stir up race friction and make a hit with the rough necks of Arkansas. NOT A WHITE MAN'S COUNTRY. One Beauregard Moseley of Chicago, a colored man of local prominence presumably in order to be patted on the back and called a "good negro," in an address at a colored meeting dur- WANTED, A SAMARITAN. Prone in the road he lay. Wounded and sore bestead: Priests, Levites past that way, And turned aside the head. They were not hardened men In human service slack: His need was great: but then His face, you see, was black. From the New York Independent. as the majority of these peoples have a percentage of African blood. On the contrary not less than 20,- 000 colored Americans, often called "negroes," some as fair as lilies went unmolested through the streets of Chi cago. It was one of the queer inci dents of the riots. The white rioters, with murder in their hearts often could not tell a "negro when they met him. COWARDLY BISHOP REBUKED. We reprint from the Cleveland Ga zette, edited by Hon. Harry C. Smith, a stalwart and outspoken champion of the colored people, the following rebuke to cowardly colored bishop: BISHOP PHILLIPS WRONG While there is much in Bishop C. H. Phillips' pacifist interview of last Sunday, in the Cleveland News-Lea: der, to interest the average reader, there is one statement to which about all of the intelligent members of our race will take issue and that is his statement that "the Afro-American does not desire social, political or in dustrial equality." That is not true, bishop! In this section of the coun try we want and, in a limited degree, enjoy all three. In the South, our people are asking the last two. "So- cial equality" is a myth. It does not exist among any class (race) of Americans. It is a matter for the individual to settle and he alone set tles it in all cases. And many white and colored individuals (families) in this section of the country have long ago settled it to their entire satisfac tion and are enjoying the so-called "social equality," and will continue to do so until "the end of the chapter" regardless of the ranting of southern ter if not both and the laws of the political equality, the fundamental law of the land guarantees the lat ter if not both and the laws of the states are in most cases explicit when it comes to the former. Not only does this race of ours desire them but it demands them and will never rest until they are conceded in every nook and corner of this country of ours. The Afro-American wants and must have everything good every other class (race) enjoys in this country if he is to keep abreast of the times and be able to cope with them in the great struggle of life. In this sec tion of the country, at least, we can stand up and say sotell the plain unvarnished truth and should do so. That it is not advisable for the good bishop to do so because of his resi dence in the South and because of the large church interests there he rep resents, we can understand. However, good bishop, please refrain from giv ing out such interviews here in the North where they do no good but on the contrary have an effect that re tards the progress of those of the race in this seqtion of the country. 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. ing the riots informed his auditors that, "this is a white man's country." He was promptly rebuked and we trust he'll know better next time. No, this is not a "white man's coun- try." It is true that the white man stole it from the Indians.and also"*stole some colored men who were free in Africa, brought them over here and made them slaves to work the stolen property. Three hundred years of un requited toil gives the colored man a better title to the land than the white man's. The colored man knows no other land he speaks the vernacular of th country he has fought in every war to preserve its integrity has has al ways been loyal though deprived of "life, liberty and the pursuit of hap piness." The colored people of the United States are not aliens they were all born here. They are Americans and as Americans have their share in our common country. BROKEN HEARTS REPAIRED. Broken hearts are being mended in Russia nownot the hearts shattered by unfortunate romances, but the vai (vular organs pierced by knives. Time mends the first kind ,and the skilled surgeon Zelder, can be depended on to operate successfully on the knife-torn heart. i Dr. Zelder has a little hospital at Obuchow. Thirty-one persons brought to the hospital with hearts pierced and slashed by knife wounds have suc cessfully had their organs repaired and have recovered entirely, to all ap pearances, from their remarkable ex periences. One patient has lived seven years and shows no signs of having been affected by the heart wound and subsequent sewing up. The foregoing statement is going the '"rounds of the press as something new and remarkable, yet human hearts were repaired more than 20 years ago and it was a colored man, Dr. Daniel H. Williams, the famous surgeon of Chicago, who first successfully op erated on the human heart. "NEGRESS" IS NAUSEATING. The following from the Chicago 'Tibune is a manly protest against the use of a word which is particularly jof '*nsive to colored women. OBJECTS TO "NEGRESS." Chicago.(Editor of the Tribune.) in two recent issues you published ery fine and highly commendatory ditorials on "Race Progress and Com mon Sense," yet, notwithstanding that, yesterday you state in glaring head lines the "Death of Mme. Walker, Wealthiest Negress." That word "Negress" is nauseating in the eye sight of all colored women and should be eliminated from the vocabulary, in which it has no rightful place. Above "*U, your paper should be the leader ft this regard, if you really have the 'elfare of the colored race at heart. SAMUEL Z. C. WESTtERFIELD. The colored men who persist in us tag "negro" as a race designation are Vgely to blame for the common use of a word which should be avoided. The colored people of the United States are Americansthat's all. The use of "negro" and "negress" is the cause of many discriirinations against the colored people. The word "negress" is nauseating, and so is the word "negro" when used as a racial designation for the colored people of the United States. Ratification of the federal woman suffrage amendment was defeated in the Georgia senate by a vote of 37 to 12. Not stronge in state which lynches women for the alleged crimes of their relatives. EXERCISE OF GOOD COMMON SENSE AND IMPARTIAL,PROSE- CUTIONS ARE THE MAIN POINTS. Segregation Held Impossible Exercise of justice, reason and good sense between both blacks and whites and impartial prosecution of all offen ders offer the only preventive against the recurrence of race rioting, said Attorney General, of Illinois, Edward Brundage in an address before the Chi cago Association of Commerce at Ho tel La Salle. Segregation of the races, the attor ney general said, is impossible under the constitution of the United States as the law prevents restriction be tween citizens possessing equal po litical rights. Accuses Police. "I desire to make no criticism of the individual policeman or of any particular commanding offcer," Mr. Brundage said. "I do say, however, that it is mighty unfortunate for the future welfare of Chicago that nearly all the persons turned over to the state's attorney for prosecution for the recent riots are those whose skins are colored. It is a reflection upon Chicago that black men could be mobbed in broad daylight in the heart of the business district without a sin gle member of the mob being arrested. Calls Mob Cowardly. "A mob is the most cowardly of all brutal aggregations and a few deter mined police officers could have made it possible for the state's attorney and a jury in the criminal court to have given a wholesome lesson to mob leaders. "A mob shows no discrimination and so innocent colored men were chased by howling mobs through the streets of downtown Chicagosome losing their lives at their hands. "There is nothing new in race prej udice. There has been prejudice be tween all races and the color of the Negro's skin makes him an easy mark in these outbreaks. "The war apparently awakened a disregard for civil law and order. Men have become dissatisfied and life is being held cheaply. "There is more than a suspicion in the assertion that white men in Chi cago have contributed financially to destroy the homes of colored men. No Longer Slaves. "There must be a realization that the colored man is no longer in a state of slavery. A half century has passed since his serfdom and he now is a factor in our industrial life He is ac quiring both education and property. "He is given, under the constitution of the United States, political rights, and those rights, given him by law, he should be permitted to enjoy. Those who would deny them are law less, and if the law is to be venerated all laws must be honored. In Illinois the Fourteenth Amend ment is going to be recognized. "One thing I wish to emphasize and that is the loyalty of the colored man. He has always been true to the Stars and Stripes, and has never joined any organization founded with the inten tion of destroying our institutions. Segregation Impossible. "Segregation has been advocated as a remedy, but if there is any blood and bone in the constitution of the United States there can be no lawful restriction between citizens possess ing equal political rights. "The final and lasting cure, if there be one, is the exercise of justice, rea son and good sense between both col ored and white, even though the treat ment is prolonged as any procedure dependent upon the individual con science for fulfillment must necessar ily be. "It is only by vigorous and impar tial prosecution of all offenders that respect for law is established. So ciety is not constructed upon the prin ciple that might makes right. Where laws are respected mobs are impossi ble. FRENCH DEMAND RACE EQUALITY Protest on American Seldiers' Acts to Colored Men. Paris, AugustThe government was interpellated in the chamber of depu ties a few days ago on the rough treat ment French colored soldiers are al leged to have received from the Amer ican military police in French ports. The questions were asked by M. Bois neuf and M. Lagrosilliere, colored deputies, respectively from Guade loupe and Martinique. The debate that ensued ended with the unanimous adoption of the follow ing resolution: "The chamber, faithful to the im mortal principles of the rights of man, .condemning all prejudices of religion, caste, or race, solemnly affirms the absolute equality of all men, without distinction of race or color, and their right to the benefit and protection of all the laws of the country. The cham ber counts upon the government to ap ply these laws and see that the neces sary penalties for their infringement are inflicted." Expects an Apology. Jules Pams, minister of the interior, replying to the colored deputies, said that the government had applied pen alties and asked them not to insist upon a discussion of "the very regret table incidents, as France does not forget the services rendered by her colored sons." The minister of the interior added that the American government had not hesitated to express regrets in terms that did France the greatest honor. "High Diplomacy" Problem. M. Pams asked Deputy Boisneuf for reasons of "high diplomacy" to drop the subject. The deputy said he would not speak of questions that in- i volved diplomacy, but he protested against the complicity of the French military authorities in these incidents.' He then read a confidential circular to French officers attached to the American army, setting forth how American opinion did not tolerate "familiarity between ^~whites and blacks." "And it is America that wants a society of nations.," interjected Charles Bernard, a deputy from the Seine. "The circular wasn't signed by Wil- son," shouted Deputy Mayeras (Social ist from the Seine) in reply to Bernard. THE LATE RAGE RIOTS White Woman Writes Her Personal Experiences in Recent Race Troubles in ^Washington (From The Nation, New York.) To the Editor of The Nation: Sir: On Tuesday night, when so many in Ledroit Park feared a mob and a general massacre, and when most white men believed that a white woman who ventured into that section would be literally devoured, I took it into my head to go there, and go I did. I went for several reasons. One was to prove that a white woman could do it another, because I knew what had been done by the authorities and thought that a little reassurance from a lone and harmless woman might go a good way, for I guessed the probable psychological state in that section. Besides, I wanted to know at first hand what the colored people were doing and thinking. I found out. If I talked to one colored man, I talked to a hundred and fifty. Occasionally I would stop to speak to one I knew oftener I would accost a group of un known men and ask them for their views. Always and everywhere I met with courtesy and attention As we talked, men would appear from the shadowsseemingly from the night itselfuntil there were perhaps twen ty of us. Only once did I see a police man, who glanced at us curiously, but said nothing and passed slowly on And when we had finished our talk the group would melt into nothingness and I would proceed on my quest. I saw no women at all. And the menwhy, those men were not out to "start something." They were armed, most of them, and were quite frank about it, but they did not want a fight They said they were out to see if a mob were coming, and, if there were, they were going home to barri cade themselves then, if the mob tried to get in, there was trouble ahead As one put it: "A man would be less than a man if he didn't fight for his family and his home." Their state of mind was not primarily fight. It was fear, a perfect hysteria of dread lest, as more than one expressed it, "a new East St Louis" was at hand. And, as with all hysteria, a small occurrence would have set them off in a frenzy Dynamite! They were TNT. Again and again I was asked: "Is a mob gathering on Pennsylvania Avenue? Will they come up and burn us out? Is the Park cordoned?" For they did not dare go downtown far enough to see if the troops were really there. Over and over, I heard the pathetic question- "Do the white folks care? Does anyone care? Are they really doing anything." I told them that the best of the whites did care, but that we were helpless. I told them also that measures had really been taken that afternoon and what they were that there really was military, as well as police, protection. One queer old man remarked: "Well, I reckon some buddy do care, or a white lady wouldn't come out to tell us about it A one-handed soldier said: "I en listed I gave the country my hand, and I was ready to give more. When I was in France,J[ was a man and a soldier, but when I get back here, I'm not a citizen I'm not a man, even just a big, black brute It was not said bitterly it went deeper than bit terness. He spoke like a man with a broken heart. Another said. "They say this is to protect the white women. My father was in charge of a whole plantation and a family of white women during the Civil War. They weren't afraid to leave the white women with us then, and colored men are no different now." Many of them expressed a liking for, and confidence in, the captain of the precinct, and, when a man of one race speaks well of a man of another, dur ing a race riot, that means something But they spoke of the lack of colored police, and of the fact that colored men were being dropped from the force and that none had been appointed since 1910. "You know," they said, "that we could talk better to colored police. They would reason with the people and not just knock them 'round They know who the people are and what is going on, and they could stop a lot of trouble without arrests. But they don't want to give us a chance." I saw but one noisy Negro, a half witted and dishevelled-looking fellow, talking loudly and belligerently. Him two colored men seized and thorough ly shook, telling him that if he did not "shut up and get home," he would cer tainly find things happening to him. Once an excited colored boy came fly ing on a bicycle with the news that a white mob had formed inside the cor don and was on its way. "Let's go meet them," said one young hothead This was at once negatived. "We'll watch and see if they are coming, and if they are, we will go home and lock the doors. That's what Captain Doyle said, and he knows what's what." So, for a few tense moments, we stood peering into the drizzly gloom, not knowing what might after all be about to come. But all was quiet, and we silently drifted on- our ways. And thus it went for two hours. I met themnot savages, not red-hand ed murderers, but citizens, hunted and terrified, looking more or less hopelessly to their Government for aid human beings craving the hand of brotherhood, and cut to the very heart I thought of Belgium. I re membered that my country stands abroad for liberty, justice, and the rights of men, though she has them not at home. How blind we are, we An glo-Saxons, who talk of Freedom and have not yet freed our souls. But still I hope and dimly see a dawnred, it is true but still a far-off dawn. A white man once said to me: "You talk like a Negro. You seem at times to identify yourself with them. Have you lost your race consciousness?" I replied* "I hope I think enough like them to show you how they feel I hope I always lose race consciousness when it stands in the way of my con sciousness of common humanity." Then he said a queer thing: "I do not know whether you are mad or in spired." I had been thinking of going to Serbia, but I believe my duty is here.. I believe that our country needs all of us who are standing along the color, line. I am ready to do anything possible, to whatever limit. If you. to whom I look as a leader in this sit uation, should ever need my service* you have but to speak. My soul is aflame, not with the glare of the de stroying torch, but with the steady, incandescent glow which cannot be extinguished. Washington, July 20. E. G. M. Minnesota State Fair and Victory Exposition Aug. 30 to Sept 6 APPOINT BOARD FOR RIOT PROBE GOVERNOR LOWDEN NAMES TWELVE PROMINENT MEN TO STUDY RACE RE- LATIONS. URGES FULL GO-OPERATION Gov. Frank O. Lowden of Illinois has announced the appointment of a commission of twelve professional and business men to make a study of race relationships and report on the recent race riots in Chicago. Members of Commission. The members of the commission are: Edgar A. Bancroft, Julius Ros enwald, Victor F. Lawson, Edward Osgood Brown, Harry Eugene Kelly, William Scott Bond, Dr Geo. C. Hall, Edward H. Morris, Robert S. Abbott, Adelbert H. Roberts, George H. Jack son, Rev. L. K. Williams. The six last named are colored men. Mr. Bancroft is chairman. of the commission, which will begin its in vestigations as soon as some of the members return from their vacations, probibly within a week or two. Acts on Requests. In making public the names of his appointees, the governor issued the following statement: "I have been requested by many citizens and by many civic organiza tiona in Chicago to appoint a commis sion to study and report upon the re cent racd riots in Chicago, and upon the broad question of the relations between the two races "Those riots were the work of the worst element of both races. They did not represent the great over whelming majority of either race. The two races are here and will remain here. The great majority of each re alizes the necessity of their living upon terms of cordial good-will and respect, each for the other. That con dition must be brought about. Must Solve Problem. "To say that we can not solve this problem is to confess the failure of self-government. I offer no solution of the problem. I do know, however, that the question can not be answered by mob violence. I do know that every time that men, white or col ored, take the law into their own hands, instead of helping they only postpone the settlement of the ques tion. When we admit the existence of a problem and courageously face it, we have gone halfway toward its solution. "I have with the utmost care, in response to the requests above set forth, appointed a commission to un dertake this great work. I have sought only the most representative men of the two races. I have not even asked them whether they had views as to how the question could be met. Urges Spirit of Fairness. "I have asked them only to ap proach the difficult subject with an open mind and in a spirit of fairness and justice to all. This is a tribunal that has been constituted to get the facts and interpret them and to find a way out. I believe that great good can come out of the work of this com mission. "I ask that our people, white and colored, give their fullest co-operation to the commission. I ask, too, as I have a right to ask, that both races exercise that patience and self-re straint which are indispensable to self-government while we are work ing out this problem." ANNUAL MEETING E. R. L. SEP. 23. The Organization That Got a Dele gate to Paris in Spite of Govern ment Ban, to Meet at Washing ton, D. C, for Three Days. Washington, D. C, August, 1919 Following the meeting of the local branch in the Metropolitan A. E Church which heard the details of the remarkable exploit of Delegate Wil |liam Trotter of the League in outwit jting the State Department by carry ing the cause of the race to the Peace Conference, Executive Officers of this organization, headed by Rev. Byron Gunner of New York as Chairman, held a two days' session. The result was the decision to hold the 12th Annual Meeting of the Na tional Equal Rights League at Wash jington, September 23rd to 25th, 1919 One of the features will be the Col ored Race and the Peace Conference, in connection with a full report by delegate Trotter. "Full Democracy Now" is the slogan. Every existing branch league, every branch formed prior to Sept. 25 is eligible to send delegates, also all bodies which sent delegates to the World Democracy Congress conducted by the League. NEWS FROM OVER THERE. Paris, France, Aug. 7, 1919.After sixteen months from my home and family and one year in Europe, it is expected that by August 25 my dis charge will be given to me in New York City The last appointment given to a colored secretary by the Paris office was given to me yesterday. The last party of twenty colored secretaries was placed in my charge it is the most signal recognition I have receiv ed to be placed in charge of such a learned, strong and big minded group of Christian men and women. Among them are: A. W. Schockley, H. Scroggins, Wm. Stevenson, C. H. Wil liamson, M. R. Atwell, Mrs. Mary Tal bert, Mrs. Helen Curtis, Mrs Flor ence C. Williams, Miss Kathenne Johnson, Miss Aletha Rochon, Mrs Madeline Childs, Miss N F. Brown Mrs Addie W. Hunton. The hope is that we will sail from Boulongue Saturday. All are well and in fine spirits and ready to go home. We did not come back til it i& over, over here. Best greetings to all friends and readers of THE APPEAL. B. N. Murrell. CO TO SEE HIM. The soldiers and sailors who took out government insurance during the world war should, under all circum stances, continue to pay their premi ums on their policies, which are bet ter by far than any others they can get. All men who were in the army or navy should at once join the local Post of the American Legion. Go to see Lieut. Hauenstein, 919 Pioneer Building, Fourth and Robert streets, who has been appointed special agent of the Legion for the purpose of help ing the men to revive their insurance if they are in arrears or to continue their risks. Lieut. Hauenstein will accord the men the most courteous attention if they will call to see him. Our boys should act promptly, for if they delay too long, they will be required to take another medical ex amination for insurance. DO IT NOW! Big Exhibit/ rQHE world's biggest machinery show will be a feature of the great Minnesota State Fair and Victory Exposition Aug. 30 to Sept 6