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Our store is patronized by all classes of people and at all times of the day and night. Why? Because our stock covers nearly all the needs of ALL the people and at the right price. Let us know your wants and we will do the rest. 5th and Wabasha. F. M. PARKER & CO. MRS. W. B. ELLIOTT & CO. Staple and Fancy Groceries, Ice Cream, Cigars, Confectionery and Notions 411 University Ave. ST. PAUL Northwestern Stamp Works. MANUFACTURERS OF Rubber and Metal STAMPS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION 110 EAST THIRD ST. ST. PAUL, MINN. THE FLOUR BEST XXXX FOR THOSE WHO KNOW BEST ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.. SATURDAY: AUGUST 1, 1914. 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EISENMENGER MEAT CO Established 1870 THE MARKET OF BIG VALUES PURE, WHOLESOME SAUSAGE 34 VARIETIES 455-457 Wabasha HAVE YOU READ THE APPEAL? National Afro-American Newspaper PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY J. Q. ADAMS, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER 49 K. 4th Street, St. Paul, Minn. ST. PAUL OFFICE No. 226 Union Block, 49 E. 4th St J. Q. ADAMS, Manager MINNEAPOLIS OFFICE Metropolitan Bldg., Room 1020, JASPER GIBBS, Manager. TERMS STRICTLY IN ADVANCE SINGLE COPY, ONE YEAR.....$2.00 SINGLE COPY, SIX MONTHS.....1.10 SINGLE COPY, TWO MONTHS.....1.10 When subscriptions are by any means allowed to run without prepayment, the envelope should be addressed to the 5 cents and 5 cents on odd week, or at the rate of $2.40 per year. Express Money Order, Post Office Money Order, Registered Letter or Bank Draft. Postage Stamps with fractional parts of a dollar only one cent and two cent stamps taken. Should never be sent through the mail. 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Old Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austria-Hungary, in declaring war on little Servia, stated that he earnestly desired to avoid hostilities but "Providence decreed otherwise." That has a familiar sound. In the dark days before the war, the alleged Christians of the United States said that "God had decreed slavery as a great benefit to the poor benighted Africans." At the present time alleged Africans are mob-murdering Afro-Americans, putting them out of their churches, segregating them in certain cities, building jimcrow Y. M. C. A.'s, forging the race into jimcrow schools, jimcrow cars, jimcrow public libraries, jimcrow public parks. Southern Christian (?) legislators disfranchise the race and pass all sorts of discriminating laws. When called to account for their unchristian actions they bodily claim that it was decreed by God that the races should be separate in all things. The idea that certain classes wronged other classes by divine right may have been believed in the Middle Ages but the people do not swallow such dope nowadays. On July 3 the New York Evening Journal published a picture containing three figures, viz: Jack Johnson, an orang-outang and a leopard. It also published an editorial in substitution of the statement that "ABILITY TO WIN IN A PHYSICAL FIGHT IS PROOF OF INFERIORITY" and further says, "not deplorable, but encouraging, is the fact that no white man can be found to beat this tall Negro." Years ago, to be an adept in "the many art of self-defense" was considered one of the highest achievements for any man, yet nothing that has happened in a half century has so taken the conceive out of the Caucasian for "superiority" as the victories of Johnson in the "squared circle." In speaking of the heavy weight championship the white press has been looking to several "white hopes" to bring back the PROTEST AGAINST WRONG To submit in silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. The human race has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust; the inquisition yet would serve the law, and guillotines decide our last disputes. The few who dare, must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust; the inquisition yet would serve the law, and guillotines decide our last disputes. The few who dare, must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many. championship "where it rightfully be longs," but three times in succession, Johnson "carried home the bacon." Had Moran won the decision in France the other day, no such picture would have appeared in the New York Journal and no such editorial. It seems to us this is a case of "sour grapes," pure and simple. It makes all the difference in the world whose ox is gored. PLAYING WITH FIRE. The Afro-American in Atlantic City who are bending every energy to get a jimcrow principal for their jimcrow school ought to be in better business. They are making a great mistake. Instead of extending jimcrowism they ought to fight it and have the jimcrow school abolished as it is contrary to the laws of the state of New Jersey. Segregation NEVER plays. Perhaps the children of the men who are agitating this matter will curse them in the days to come and they will be justified in doing so. Any man who at any time justifies and fights for the segregation of his people from other American citizens is not only an enemy of his race but he is also an enemy of the Republic. Caste begets caste. If the Afro-American people are segregated why not the Jews next? Then perhaps some numerically weak class of citizens of foreign birth. Then perhaps the rich and the poor will be separated in the schools. Who knows? The jimcrow agitators of Atlantic City are playing with fire. THE JEWS DID IT. The great wholesale drygoods house of H. B. Clafn & Co. has failed, and the Jews did it. Years ago A. T. Stewart the first great drygoods merchant prince of America, angered the Jews by refusing to receive them as guests at the Grand Hotel at Saratoga, of which he was the owner. Jewish merchants all over the country combined and in a few years forced him to the wall. The Chafin Company is really the reorganized Stewart business. For years Jewish merchants have been withdrawing their trade and when the pinch came Jewish bankers, remembering the insult to their people in the past, refused to furnish the money to enable the firm to tide over the trouble. The Jews never forget an injury and who wrongs the race must pay the price. Would that the Afro-American would lear to punish their enemies. THE REASON WHY Segregation has come to Louisville because the Afro-Americans in that city have not been aggressive in their fight against injustice. Some years ago a proposal was made for a jimcrow library and it was accepted without protest. Residential segregation came as a natural sequence. The idea of the Caucasian fiends of the South is that persons with an admixture of African blood must be kept in a separate social status subject to their whims and caprices. The Afro-Americans who accept public segregation in any form, WITHOUT PROTEST are doing themselves a great wrong and hanging a millstone about their children's necks. EVERY KIND OF JIMCROWISM EVERY KIND OF JIMCROWISM SHOULD BE FOUGHT TO A FINISH INTERMARRIAGE OF RACES ALL RIGHT. Intermarriage of whites with Japanese, Hindus and other orientals was defended by Professor Franz Boas of Columbia University, a noted anthropologist, in one of the series of lectures which he is delivering at the summer session of the University of California. "All this feeling out here in California against the intermarriage of Americans and Japanese, as well as RACE PREJUDICE I am convinced myself evil thing in this present justice; none at all. I the worst single thing and holds together more abomination than any o world. Through its body of coarse lust, suspicion and all the darkest soul. —H. G. W I am convinced myself that there is no more evil thing in this present world than Race Prejudice; none at all. I write deliberately—it is the worst single thing in life now. It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any other sort of error in the world. Through its body runs the black blood of coarse lust, suspicion, jealousy and persecution and all the darkest poisons of the human soul. —H. G. Wells in N. Y. Independent. Ella Wheeler Wilcox between whites and other oriental peoples, is simply foolish sentimentality, without the slightest biological foundation," Professor Boas said. "Practically all the population of Europe is the product of the most widely divergent racial intermixtures. Humanity, fundamentally, is very nearly identical the world over, no matter what may be the color or race." ABILITY CAUSES RACE HATRED. A novel explanation of the Russian dislike for the Jew has been given by Count Alexander Scherbatsky, councillor of the Russian embassy in Washington. The count said that Russians objected to Jews because they were more capable than the Russians and not because they were of a different race and faith. "There is not much difference between the Jewish question in Russia and the Japanese question in California," he declared. "The Californians know the Japs are more clever than they are. The Russians know that they can not compete with the Jews. Their fear of the Jews is based on economic considerations." COWARDLY COLORED CURS The wires tell us that "thirty colored men watched the lynching of Rosa Carson at Orangeburg, S. C., but offered no resistance." It is a great shame and disgrace to the race that thirty Afro-Americans stood by and failed to give their lives, if necessary, in attempting to prevent the lynching of one of their women. They could not have died in a holier cause and the knowledge that they had fought to death in defense of the law would have made the next mob hesitate—all mobs are cowardly. Any Afro-Americans who stand by and see the law outraged and one of their women lynched are worse than cowards. Although our father was born in Georgia he moved from the state upon reaching early manhood, on account of the intolerable prejudice which was growing quite rapidly. That was at least seventy-five years ago and it's been growing worse and worse every year since. In fact, we had become to believe that nothing good could come out of Georgia, but it now seems there is some hope. The Georgia Senate has passed a bill making it unlawful for authorities to subject prisoners to "third degree" examinations. Good! Of course, the bill must be passed by the house before becoming a law, but as we said before, we 'as op.' Grim visaged war appears to be hovering over the people across the "big pond," in fact, it seems to have swooped down upon them and many lives have already been sacrificed. Though not in this country it will be greatly affected if the war continues; and, the complaints of the high cost of living will be redoubled as the cost of the actual necessities of life will be. Verily, as Sherman said, war is... Frank Park, of Sylvester, Georgia, who was elected to fill the unexpired term of the famous jimcrowist, S. A. Roddenbery, who died last year, has signaled his entrance into the arena as a great statesman by introducing a bill in Congress which makes it unlawful for "negroes to be designated, elected or appointed as commissioned or non-commissioned officers in the army. The New Age of Los Angeles calls attention of the Afro-American people of the country to the suit which S. W. Green, head of the Knights of Pythias has instituted against the L. & N. R. R. of Florida, to recover damages for the assault perpetrated upon him while a passenger a year ago, and appeals to all to aid the Pythian order in pushing the matter. LEOPARD IN ALL DAY VIGIL When Mate Dies It Means and Refuses Food For a Day. New York—From 10 o'clock in the morning until late at night Sultan a, a snow leopard, four years old, stood with his fore feet planted across the body of his dead mate, Sultan, in a forty foot square cave cage in the Bronx zoo. At intervals he raised his head and roared long and plaintively. Every time he did this the lions and jaguars on the side of the leopard cage raised their voices in a deep throat plated. In an effort to make Sultan abandon his death watch Keep David Schwartz placed a big, juicy porterhouse steak in the section of the cage inside the animal house, but Sultan paid no attention to it. When asked when he expected to remove Sultan's body Schwartz said, "Well, I couldn't go in there while Sultan is grieving—not for twenty zoos." RAISED ARMY FOR MEXICO. Californian Held Up Eight Men and Drilled Them For An Hour San Rafael, Cal.-An attempt to organize a company of soldiers for the purpose, he said, of marching on Mexico landed Henry Klopp, caretaker of a large estate near here, in jail. Klopp shouldered a rife, went to a county highway and halted men on the road until he had accumulated an "army" of eight. For an hour he drilled them. Word reached the sheriff's office that the men were held with prisoners, and the clowns uped behind Klopp and with the butcher in the kitchen down. Klopp's gun was found to be empty. He will be examined for his sanity. PETER OF SERVIA WOULD ABDICATE Aged Monarch Wants to Surrender Throne to His Son. Geneva.—It is an open secret in European climate that the aged King Peter of Servia wishes to abdicate to his son and settle down in private lavish majesty has a large circle of private friends here, he has passed ten # Photo by American Press Association. KING PETER OF SERVIA. years here for the education of his two boys. For more than a year past private emissaries have been on the lookout trying to find a suitable residence for the old king, but the notorious conduct of his son and he to the throne has somewhat disarranged his original plans, and he is advised that his second son is still too young to assume the responsibility of a ruler. The day after the assassination of King Charles and Queen Dagna King Peter was that Prince Karagoregvich that he abnorred the terrible crime, in which he took no part whatever. He added that he was too old to accept the throne, but that he had no choice in the circumstances. As soon as affairs permitted he would return to the quiet life of a country gentleman in Geneva. During all these years his majesty 'has kept up his correspondence with his former friends here and in private letters has stated quite recently that he hopes to be in Geneva again at no distant date. As he put it "Now that the war is over, I can finish my days in peace with honor." Rat Roba a Slot Machine Findlay, O.-The discovery of a rat working a slot machine averted suspicion from several boys who, it was thought, had been robbed it in the Toledo and Ohio Central passenger station of gum and pennies. Four hundred sticks of the former and nity pennies were missed when a rat was seen climbing up the wall near the machine. It jumped on the trap in the machine and in this way released gum and pennies. IN CHRISTIAN SOUTH. Lynching of Afro-American Woman Society Function in South Carolina. Orangeburg, S. C.:—Rose Carson, a colored woman, was taken from the house of a mob by a mob. Eye witnessess state that many of the most prominent citizens took part in the festivities. The woman, who was charged with the murder of a 12 year old child, was taken to the hospital and hanged. Afterward the body was riddled with bullets. SAYS LIVING IS NO HIGHER. Investigator Digs Up Records and Modern Media Use Makes Public His Conclusions. Bellefontaine, O.-A. Ann Carter, a pioneer grocer of Bellefontaine, has been searching old records regarding the comparative cost of food products now and in the past and has reached this conclusion: "Aside from three things--butter, poultry and meat--prices of staple groceries in the bulk are not higher than they were twenty-five years ago. "A man and woman can" to housekeeping today in better manner for the same amount of money than a couple could a quarter of a century ago. It is the desire of the buying public to have so much prepared food and so many things done up in attractive packages that increased the cost of living. "The cost of a cent of bread contains not 2 ounces" of beans, and a package of crackers contains but little more than four ounces. People are avoiding preparing food for themselves. "If people would continue to buy everything in the bulk at the grocery as they used to do and cook their food for themselves as they used to do there would not be a high cost of living problem." RENTED HEN STRIKES Quits Laying, and Owner Has to Sue Neighbor for Rent. Sunbury, Pa.-When eggs touched 60 cents a dozen recently Philp Bradford of Sunbury discovered a new form of speculation. It was revealed in Squire Tierney's court when Bradford brought suit against a neighbor to collect rental for a hen. Bradford has a lot of hens. Instead of collecting his eggs and selling them he rented out the fowls at 2 cents a day, the renter winning if the hens continued to lay properly. One of them was James H. Snyder, but instead of laying them at a rent, was all she did. When Bradford attempted to collect his rental Snyder refused to pay. Squire Tierney gave judgment for 50 cents against Snyder. Washington.—Spo-Pe, the Indian man of mystery, an inmate of the criminal division of the Government Hospital For the Insane at Washington, has broken a silence of more than thirty-two years. Spo-Pe's self imposed disuse of his talking apparatus has continued ever since the first day of his incarceration at Fort Wayne near Detroit, in 1882. Adjudged of near death, he was sent to the government hospital in 1882. His silence was accepted by the army medical examiners as a convincing symptom of melancholia. The crime for which the Indian was imprisoned was the murder of a fur trader, an act of reprisal against the white race for the killing of his mother in one of the hostile interchanges between the United States troops and the Blackfoot Indians in 1879. I was reminded for Malcolm Clark, one of a party of members of the Blackfoot tribe, herself a halfbred, to reawaken Spo-Pe's slumbering vocal organs. Times without number during his incarceration efforts have been made to persuade Spo-Pe to talk. Not a stylish, not even a grunt, has the aged warrior volunteered. But when Mr. and Mrs. Clark, in company with James Perrine and Charles W. Buck, paid a visit to the insane hospital they explained to the superintendent that they had understood there was an Indian among the inmates. Mrs. Clark had Spo-Pe pointed out to her. With her husband she addressed him in the stilted but eloquent Indian tongue. Spo-Pe gave no indication that he understood. Then Mrs. Clark said to her friends, "Step back, let me write him." She sat down beside the solenrd brown and began a musical form of baby talk, "the language of little people," as the Indians call it. She crooned and crooned to the gray headed man until finally the stolid heart seemed to melt. "What is your name?" she said, still in the infant dialect. "Spo-Pe," came from the lips of the stolc. And for the first time since he entered the hospital Spo-Pe had broken his silence. Finding that his tongue would really perform its office, Spo-Pe's first question was: "Where is Three Bears?" Three Beers was a brother of the Indian who died in 1888. Since the breaking of the thirty-two years' silence Spo-Pe has expressed a willingness to discourse, but as the age is not universally known in the government hospital he finds considerable difficulty in obtaining companionship. Injury Restores Hearing Loooteo, Ind.-Charles A. Bertrand, aged sixty-five, a harnessmaker, deaf fifteen years, met with a fortunate accident. He was stooping to pick a tool from the floor when a file fell from a bench and stuck in his ear. It was re-arranged with difficulty. Soon afterward Bertrand and that his hearing had been restored. Silence is Infamous. Possibly the worst thing permitted to go on and work injury to Negroes, has been the silence of Negro speak in the West. Ben. Tillman, Vardaman, Blease and others have been telling the North and West about Negroes raping white women. Ben. means they should be robust and brave, men proven lies, but as it is, both sections believe it. Shame on the intelligent men and women of our race who allow these base calumniators to plunge Ploner Press, Martinburg, W. Va. What Segregation Means Rev. Quincy Ewing, a Southern Caucasian, Born and Reared in Mississippi, Shows the Policy of the South is to Keep the Afro-American in Inferior Status Evidences of Christianity HOWARD UNIVERSITY Stephen M. Newman, A. M., D. D., President All Courses Begin September 30th, 1914 For Catalogues, Address, Howard University Washington, D. C. BY REV. QUINCY EWING. But we are very far from needing to rely upon any general consideration in support of the proposition advanced above. It is supported by evidences of recognition. Searches at the day of recognition. Searches at the day but something is said or done with this end in view, to emphasize, lest they forget, the conviction for both white and muster. The progo that the latter is and muster is negro that me instance a few such evidences. Consider, first, the "Jim Crow" legislation in the manner of its enforcement. Thus legislation is supposed to have for its object the separation of the two trains, street cars, etc., to save the lives of those from occasional contact with drunkenness, Negroes, and to prevent personal encounters between the whites and blacks. Members of the different races occupy the same cars, separated only by absurd inadequate little lights and wire screens, so tiny and light the motorcar can move them from one seat to the other, and the strength of his little finger. Needless to add, these screens would serve to obscure neither sound, sight, nor smell of drunken rowdies who sat behind them in summer cars, black and white painters may be separated not even by a brake-believe screen; they are simply rendered, respectively, to occupy certain seats in the front or the back end of the cars. In Birmingham, Alabama, the front seats are assigned to Negroes in all closed cars, and the back seats in all open ones. Why the front seats in the one case, and the back seats in the other is not easy to understand in the light of the letter and alleged spirit of the Jim Crow. The underlying purpose of the law is not the separation of the races in space; for public sentiment does not insist upon its fulfillment to that end. The underlying purpose of it would be to be the separation of the races in space; for the doctrine of inequality would be attacked by public passengers led by public conduct on equal terms; therefore the Negro who rides in a public convexity must do so, not as of undoubted right, but as with the white man's regulation. This place you may occupy on your seat may not, because I am I and you are I or to me it should be obscured that I am I and you are you." Such is the real spirit of the Jim Crow laws. IN HOLY RUSSIA. Jewish Girl Outraged and Crucified By Russians. Berlin—One of the most revolting crimes in the dark history of Russia in a special dispatch from St. Petersburg, and Russian youths having outraged and then crucified the daughter of a poor Jewish fisherman in Stavapol, on the After outraging the young girl, the dispatch declares, the three youths dragged her to a cemetery, where they were taken to the graves. Nails were driven through her hands and feet and even through her eyes. The three murders were arrested, but their friends in the town them and they escaped, it is asserted. 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 forward the claim that no solution of the American color question was possible except by a resolute disclaimer of the color line and the race differentiation theory. Sir Sidney Olivier certainly knows what he is talking about. In the island of Jamaica, where he was governor for five years, there are about 800,000 colored people and only 20,000 whites and yet there is absolutely no friction between the races. Jamaica is a British colony and the government is just. Colored men enjoy every civil and political right which white men have and there is no color line. Among other things Sir Siney said: "My study and comparison of conditions 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 methods of missionaries, nor do I sympathize with all their programs. But it cannot be ignored that it happened that the faiths of the men who laid the foundations for the peaceful development of the mixed community is Why is it that in every Southern city no Negro is allowed to witness a dramatic performance, or a baseball game, from a first-class seat? In Negreros who would be hundreds of Negroes who would first-class seats at the theatre and the baseball game, were they permitted to it. Can hardly be that permission is required for the theatres and baseball games are the intended by half the population that the seats could not be furnished for the other half. As a matter of fact, theatre-auditoriums and baseball grandstands are seldom crowded; the rule is that the seats should be but many vacant Surely as simple as moving from seat to seat a makeshift screen in a street-car, would it be to set apart a certain number of seats in the dress-circle of every theatre, or in a baseball park, for Negro patrons. The reason why this is not done, is perfectly obvious; it would be intolerable to the average Southern man or woman to the hours of the theatrical performance or in a baseball park, terms of equal accommodation with Negroes, even with a screen between. Negroes would look out of place, out of context, in the grandstand; their place, signifying their status, is the peanut-gallery, or the bleachers. . . . . Consider further that, while no Negro, no matter what his occupation, or personal refinement, or intellectual culture, or moral character, is allowed to trave in a pullman car between state lines, or to enter as a guest at a white people, the blackest of Negro or white people, the are given food and shelter in all first class hotels, and occasion neither disgust nor surprise in the Pullman cars. Here again the heart of the race problem is laid bare. The black nurse with a white baby in her arms, the black woman living after the comfort of a white invalid after the label of their inferiority conspicuous them; they understand themselves, everybody understand them, to be servants, enjoying certain privileges for the sake of the person served. Almost anything the Negro may do in the anywhere he may go, provided the number of his doing and his going is that he must. Such is the premium put upon his inferior; such his inducement to maintain it. IN CHRISTIAN U. S. Afro-American Woman Lynched by Americans. Muskogee, Okla—Lemuel Peace, a Caucasian, went into the colored section of the city Sunday night and mistreated Marie Scott, an Afro-American woman. To defend herself, she killed him. She was arrested and put into the Wagner county jail for safe keeping. Tuesday she was taken out of the jail by a masked mob and hanged to a telephone pole. The mob pulled the screaming woman from her cell, tied a rope about her neck and dragged her some distance through the streets before reaching the telephone pole. Jamaica were democratic and humanitarian and, above all, uncompromisingly Christian. "Were race differentiation held to it must increase civil discord. 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 immediately civil peace, but I am confident that they will be traveling the only road toward it. "I do not suggest that race does not greatly affect facilities for combination 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 the black." Editor H. C. Smith of the Cleveland, Ohio Gazette, announces himself as a candidate for the Legislature. He was formerly a member of the Ohio Legislature and did good service for humanity in securing the passage of a civil rights bill and an anti-lynching law. Mr. Smith has been a fearless advocate for the rights of his people, through his newspaper and THE AP-PEAL trusts that he will secure the nomination and be elected by a large majority.