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Classified Advertising RATES—2 cents a word for single In sertions. Hi cent a word for two or mors insertions. No advertisement taken for less than 25 cents. Cash should accom pany advertisement. WANTED—A competent operatoi for hairdressing, facial massage ana manicuring; good salary and perma nent position; railroad fare refunded after six months’ service. Address Mrs. Thompson’s Beauty Shop, Laurel Bldg., Muscatine, Iowa. DESIRABLE ROOMS FOR RENT Furnished rooms, strictly modern, one block from 24th street car line. Men only. Call W'ebster 4012. 4t First class looming house, steam heat, bath, electric lights on Dodge and 24th street car line. Mrs. Anna Banks, 924 North 20th. Douglas 4379. Neatly furnished rooms for light housekeeping. 2901 Seward. Call evenings after six. First-class modem furnished room. Mrs. L. M. Bentley Webster, rlo. North Twenty-sixth street, Phone Webster 4769. Nicely furnished room in modem home; 26t>4 Decatur street. Webster 4490. For Sale—5-room cottage, modern except heat, 1218 South 17th street, $2,000; $500 down, balance in pay ments. Phone W’ebster 1911. For Rent—Room for gentleman In private family. Call W’eb. 3200. Neatly furnished room for man in strictly modem home. Mrs. Barker, 2706 Parker street. W’ebster 1250. 4t Property for sale. Telephone Web ster 1352. FOR SALE—A nice home for Colored family; easy terms. Call at 1809 North 24th st. WANTED—Two men to room and board. Phone Webster 1250. Neatly furnished rooms for lent 1714 W'illiams St. Second flat. Furnished rooms for rent. 2614 Seward St. Phone Webster 1897. FOR SALE 3616 Patrick, 7 rooms, all modem, $3,000; $500 down, terms 18th and Paul, 9 rooms, all modem $3,000; $500 cash, terms. 2913 Grant, 5 rooms, modem, except heat, $1,800; $200 down; terms. See Reed, W’ebster 5660. Monitor subscription contest closes Saturday, November 15. Get busy If your church is going to earn that $100. lodge directory Keystone [.edge. No. 4 K of I-* . Omaha Neb. Meetings first and third Thursday* of each month. M H. Hazzard. C. C.; J H. Glover, K. of R. and R. Ask the grocer, merchant, etc., with whom you trade: "Do you advertise in our paper, The Monitor?” Snow’s College of Dressmaking Fall term will open September 2. En roll now. Mrs. C. Ridley, 1922 North 25th St. DRUG STORES ADAMS HAIGHT DRUG CO., 24th and Lake; 24th and Fort, Omaha, Neb. X Res Colfax 3831. Office Doug. 7812 X AMOS P. SCRUGGS % X LAWYER ♦} X Real Estate, Insurance, Loans, g X Notary Public 220 South 13th Street. V y (Over Pope's Drug Store) J .x-:-x~x~x~X“X**x-x~x~x~:-x~x I K. & t GROCERY CO. y % X We solicit jour patronage. X X 2114-16 North 24th St. £ ■x-;-x-XK-x-x«-xX"X~xx--x--:->-x .;„x..x--;-:-*X"X“X"X"X“X“X"X-X“:; We Sell Kashmir Good* X | STARK’S PHARMACY | X 30th and Pinkney Streets X Phone Webster 4225. X T x-.x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x* »♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ 1* FRIEDMAN’S PLACE | Fine Watch Repairing. Red 7914 X We Buy and Sell .1, Jewelry, Clothing, Shoes, Trunks •*, Suit Cases, Etc. g MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS £ .xx-x-i-xxx-xxxxxxxxxxx-x-x ...x-xxxx"xxxx~xxx:-xxxxx**xx | FIRST CLASS | I' HAIRDRESSING j MANICURING ANI) FACIAL X MASSAGE j' We use the Walker system. X Will call at your home. ^ Phone Douglas 4379 X j Mrs. H. L. Massey | 924 North 20th St X ^W*XKX"X:X-XXXXX:"XXXXX".X"X". Rl'SSELL W ARNS OF THE DAN GER OF CONTINUING TO M AL TREAT THE NEGRO RACE (Continued From Page One.) man accused by many witnesses o, leading one of the gangs that drove through the black belt shooting indis criminately at Negroes, and on August 24, almost a month later, this same policeman was still on duty. He had not even been reprimanded. When something like quiet was re stored, a special grand jury was em panelled to investigate these upheav als. Twice that grand jury wa moved to go on strike because t' prosecuting attorney of the count persistently failed to produce any thing against white men, but onl 1 masses of testimony against black i Once it was necessary for the coui J I to threaten the jury with contempt | I proceedings to induce it to return t I its labors, so deep was its disgust j : with the one-sided proceedings of tu ' prosecutor. After three weeks of this farcical proceedings, the prosecutin attorney issued a statement in whic he ascribed the entire riot to his pc I litical enemies and supported his sertion by raiding various Negi ■ I clubs, which he said were maintained 1 in violation of the law by the enemies. And this seemed to be far as his mind could travel in the j ! face of a great calamity that menaced i j the peace and security of the entire , | city, not to say of the country. Within a few days of the expiration of the gi and jury’s term, this was the j | relative showing of deaths from the ! j riot and prospective punishments under the conditions imposed by the prosecuting attorney’s office: Killed in the Riots Indicted Of White Persons. 16 17 Of Colored Persons.21 59 There may be better ways than this | to insure race riots, but I am unable | to think of them. It was not pre- j tended anywhere that the Negroes were more culpable than the whites. Yet they furnished the greater num ber of victims and by far the greater number of persons prosecuted. “Best People” Unconcerned The attitude of educated and well to-do Chicago throughout the whole affair was most extraordinary and alarming. The city is the seat of a great university and the center of a considerable culture. The university and its intellectual environs never I gave a hoot about the rioting and never lifted a hand for justice. There | are, I suppose, 500 Protestant, churches in and about the city. I was assured that not ten of the pastors of these churches raised their voices in the pulpits against what was go ing on. The attitude of a large part j of the population, even outside of the property-owning class, was one of ap parent sympathy with the white mur derers. Apathy and indifference, ot a kind likely to frighten any man that thoughtfully considered the facts, were manifested elsewhere. “Oh, damn the niggers, anyway! They only got what was coming to them,” was a comment frequently heard in places like elevated and suburban j trains. For once Chicago seemed to i lose all pride in its reputation before the world. Nobody cared how much it was shamed if the Negroes could only be driven out. At a ladies’ sew ing circle or tea party or somethin : ! of the kind where the sentiment was ! unanimous against them, three or four of those present were college bred. Some being questioned about ! their savage animosity gave this lum ! inous answer: “Well, how would you like to have a family of niggers come and live next door to you?” Or there was re course to that good old refuge of the | illogical mind, “Do you want yout daughter to marry a colored man?’ The one conspicuous exception to qll this degrading reversion to the standards of savagery was afforded by the Roman Catholic church. From the beginning the Catholic archbishop, with splendid courage, stood forth t( remind the community of its Christian and civic duties. On his instruction I the priests of his diocese preache' sermons denouncing the riots and in sisting upon the rights of the coloreo population and the most fervent pro test to the governor came from one of his subordinates, the eloquent an dauntless Father Kelly. I noted in a foregoing paragrapl the fact that on this occasion the Negroes, contrary to expectation, did not nan, but stood and fought. Exact ly the same thing had happened two weeks before in the race riots at Washington. It is probably impos sible to get any attention to this fact, but I do assure you it is of inestim ably greater importance than the varying prices of real estate, whether in Chicago or elsewhere. For many years I have been observing with some care the race problem in Amer ica, and I can assure anybody inter ested in the subject that the old style Negro has vanished and a new type has arrived with which, believe me, we shall not be able to deal with in the old ways. It is too late to dis cuss whether this change is good or bad or how it might have been pre vented. It has come, there isn’t any possible way of turning it backward, I and we shall have to meet it face to face as an accomplished fact. I think that the sooner we under stand this the better. Negroes a Changed People The Negro did not run in Chicago nor in Washington and in my judg ment he is not going to run anywhere. And the reason is that he has found himself. He knows now that he is a man. That makes the difference. He knows that he has under the Consti tution of the United States certain right.- declared to be inalienable and that these rights are denied to him. He knows that merely because of the color of his skin he is put at a dis advantage with his fair skinre brother, and he knows that the dis crimination is an indefensible wrong. He knows that no matter what may be his character, his attainments, in dustry, skill or worth, every avenue of advancement is closed to him be cause of his color. He knows that be cause of his color he is debarred from making his livelihood by any except the most menial occupations. 1 ’ < knows that he and his children air branded by that one mark of color an consigned by it to the pit of a cast from which there is no escape, and h feels in his heart and knows in hi mind that ail this is contrary to ole mental justice, to the American ti dition and to the law of God. He sees elaborate preparations be gun to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, al though that amendment is but a fa natic’s dream, and he knows that no body intends to enforce the Four teenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the same constitution, although these embody his sacred rights. He has looked upon all these things ' until the iron has entered his soul. Ii- ' will not run away again. He wi! i stand and fight. He has reached th point where a man would as lieve d as continue to live under what 1 deems intolerable conditions of inju. tice, and when any men reach th state of mind it is but wisdom to in 1 their protests. It will he said in some quarters this stalwart state of mind in Negroes is the result of agitat • among them by pestilent trouble ers; that if the Negro had been left alone as he was at the close of the Civil war he would still be servile and submissive; that foolish agitation ha. put into his head notions of equality ami justice. This is puerile nonsense and gross ignorance. The truth is the Negro has been left quite alone. Hardly one white person in a million has ever manifested the slightest in terest in his welfare or wrongs. The whole of his marvelous and unexam pled progress m the last fifty years he has achieved himself, not only un aided but in the face of the bitterest prejudice and often active opposition. Among a people so avid of education and so indomitably bent upon improv ing their condition some form of re volt was inevitable. From 1900 to 1910 the Negroes of this country, by their own efforts, re duced the percentage of illiteracy among their people from 49 to .39, and that in the face of the fact that south ern states, where most of the Negroes and most of the illiteracy exist, are frankly organized to prevent Negro education. And it is from this source and none other that the new spirit comes. The simple fact is that being freed from slavery the Negro was certain • to learn to read, that learning to read ■ he was certain to become aware of the stupid and baseless injustice I practised against him, that becoming j aware of this and being a man he was | certain to resent it, and some time or other to turn against the bullies, that ; solely by virtue of superior numbers were torturing him. Well, that time | has arrived, and the question I want I to put to the professing Christians ! of my country is what they are going to do, now that it is here? What seems to Ire proposed in some parts of these free and daw abiding United States is sufficiently shown in a recent incident at Austin, Texas. There is a small and struggling or ganization called The National Asso ciation for the Advancement of Col ored People. It has no political or so cil aims, but strives merely to up hold the law and do good. It has a branch in Austin, which became in volved in some legal difficulties owing to the fact that, acting on eminent lawyers' advice, it had not secured a state charter. The secretary of the association journeyed from New York to Austin to adjust the difficulty. At Austin the judge of the county court, the sheriff and another man assault ed this secretary on the street, beat and maimed him, and then sent him out of town with a warning. Apparently, the mere name of the association had been sufficient to arouse their anger. When the associstion called this outrage to the attention of the gov ernor of Texas, he responded in v cynical telegram upholding the as sault and the breach of those laws that he had sworn to enforce. If this is the spirit in which we an te approach this grave and over shadowing problem, we may as well understand now in plain terms that the consequences will be appalling and of a nature to cover America is-fore the eyes of the world with an in delible shame. With what effrontery can we con tinue to urge peace, order and the su- j premacy of law abroad, when at home we trample upon constitution, law and every consideration of justice and civilization to wreak our unreasonin hatred upon our own citizens, whos only offense is a darker complexion than the rest of us have? No people on earth have ever bee able to get away with such hypocris' and none ever will be. The terms of the proposition befor us are as square as a die and as pi' ’ as day. There are only two possib' solutions of the race problem America. One is to give to the Negro cit'Z" every legal right possessed by the white, every right of franchise, prop erty and legal protection, north south. The other is to exterminate him: to go forth upon an errand of who’e sale murder and kill every m" woman and child of a darker cor'- i plexion than an established stand Which do we want’—Recons' tion, October, 1919. A BIG OFFER To the Readers of The Monitor: On another page in this paper find and read the excellent offer made bv j Philip’s Dept. Store, 24th and O j streets, South Side, and you will bo, well rewarded if you take advantage of the opportunity of the suggestion j offered there. Monitor office, Douglas 3224. Telephone Walnut 1199 After 5 P. M. 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