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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1920)
C ONGRESSMAN JEFFRIES DELIVERS ADDRESS Speaks to Large and Enthusiastic Audience. Points way for equality and Justice.. Makes Favorable Im pression. Under auspices of local branch N. A. A. C. P. On last Sunday night at the St. John’s A. M. E. Church, under the auspices of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple, was held a meeting that will long live in the hearts of colored Ameri cans of this city. One very striking feature of the evening was the singing of Fouk songs bv the choir under the diregion of Mr. Parker. Mrs. Jesse Hale Moss ably piesided over the meeting until the time came to introduce the speak er of the evening, when she intro duced Mr. John Long, who is Inspect or of Weights and Measures for the city of Omaha, who in turn in a few * Congressman A. W. Jefferis. well choosen words introduced the dis tinguished guest. Owing to the lengthy address it is not possible to publish it in full, but Mr. Jefferies said among other things: Mr. Chairman, My Fellow Citizens, Ladies and Gentlemen: I know not how it came about, but as I entered this hall tonight and took my seat in the pulpit I reached forward and picked up a fan and on that fan was the face of Abraham Lincoln. And as I looked into that face 1 could not help thinking what the influence of that great man has been and what wonderful things have been accomp lished since his name became a house hold word throughout this republic and throughout the world. • It may be that you feel somewhat' downcast and depressed in all of the i discriminations that have been heap- ' ed upon your race, but nevertheless I ( feel tonight as I look into your faces and observe the beams of intelligence j I can say truthfully that the Negro | race has made the most remarkable j progress of all peoples of the civil- , ized world. Abraham Lincoln believed that the rights of one man should be no more nor less than the rights of another! man and being inbued with that j thought the civil war was fought for four years and the black man was emancipated and slavery7 was abol ished. I believe in the rights of every human being regardless of what his color may be. The evolution of man is still going and this organization that you are giving your support, your energy, your vote will stir the evolu tion and bring to you your desires. People will learn that you cannot dis criminate against a people because of some peculiarity about them. They will learn that what they do to under- . mine the black man is undermining the republic. Take Virginia for in stance, in trying to keep the Negro from enjoying all of his constitution al rights there they have also denied the ballot to 150,000 white voters, for they are not qualified either. I don’t want to be misunderstood. God know7s there is enough of that in the world already. There will always be some discrimination in the world, but you don’t want any discrimina tion in law. I had the privilege of spending sev eral weeks in the south in North Car olina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Ala bama, and Georgia. We had the job of ascertaining if posible just where your money had been spent during the war. We went to Charleston, South Carolina and found that the government could have had the ground leased for $1,000 a year to build a dock on; we also found that two engineers had been sent down there and had reported that the docks could be built for $476,000. But when it came time to build the report of the engineers had been pigeon holed and the docks were built 9 miles farther down the river and over $20,000,000 of my money and your money had been spent to accommo date just one ship, when the ground that had been reported on by the en gineers would have accommodated 7 ships and at only a cost of $476,000. One peculiar thing about Charleston is that there are 70,000 inhabitants there, 3-5 of whom are colored and 2-5 are white. Upon investigation 1 found that there was only one re publican in the town, a Mr. Durant, who had been there for about two years. All of the colored people were not even counted. Despite that and other discrimina tions the colored race has ever proven itself 100 per cent Americanism to I the flag. 1 am here to tell you tonight that this country is dependant more upon you than you have an idea. I am here ' to tell you tonight that in the last j two years over 40,000 Negroes have gone to the State of Ohio alone to make better homes, better their con dition and to enjoy suffrage that was j denied them in the Southland. 1 am ' here to tell you tonight that there is i in Ohio a coming man who I believe i will help solve the many grievious i problems that confront you for he : plainly stated his attitude in his speech of acceptance. That man is I Marren G. Harding. It takes a brave man even now to sometimes stand for the right. You know there are shal ; low women who will criticise me for coming here tonight and addressing ; you, but if the constitution means anv ! thing to me at all it means that my I rights are no better than any or all I of the citizens. Let me tell you, don’t get impatient, j Evolution has been and still is slow, but it is also sure. If any bills come ! up before the next Congress against | discrimination I will be there.” AMERICAN GIANTS, WINNERS NEGRO LEAGUE RACE .... (By Associated Negro Press.) CHICAGO, 111., Sept. 23.—The Am erican Giants, considered the weak sister of the league, after disposing of Whitworth, leading pitcher of the j world, Francis Star, 3d baseman. Barber, crack outfielder; Charleston, greatest outfielder in the world; their ; chances diu ..ot even look encourag ing, but when the gong sounded, Fos ter surprised the base ball world, with a machine that has never been surpassed in Chicago, by any of the great clubs he has handled. American Giants have defeated j every club in the league, winning, 4 out of 7, from Detroit; 9 out of 12, | from St Louis Giants; 9 out of 10, from Cuban Stars; 11 out of 15, from Kansas City; 8 out of 9 from Dayton. Even Chicago Giants have not beaten them one game. So no one can say | it was a flash in the pan, but the best club in circuit. The great Bacharachs, headed by ! Cannon Ball Redding, String Bean Williams and two other crack pitch ers and Eastern Stars, were also de cisively beaten by American Giants, 4 out of 6 games. Knoxville Giants, champions of the ! Southern League, challenged the Am- ' erican Giants for World’s champion ship, and will meet September 21, 22, ! 23, 24, at Birmingham; 25 and 26 ] at New Orleans,—American Giantfe < then play Birmingham, 27, 28, 29 and ! 30; meet Knoxville at Knoxville, Oc- | tober 1 and 2; and final game of se- < ries at Chattanooga, October 3d. They will then meet Bacharachs at New York and return South against A. B. C.’s of Indianapolis. POLICE PROTECT MEN FROM ANGRY MOB, Three Men Charged with Killing Charles Barret, Take Refuge in Roman Catholic Church CHICAGO, Sept. 23.—Three col-! ored men were besieged for more i than an hour in St. Gabriel’s Roman Catholic church on the South Side Monday night by a mob of a thou sand persons after they had killed a white man, Charles Barret, who is1 said to have gone to the rescue of a white girl insulted by the men. They were rescued and placed in jail when squads of policemen were sent to avert a possible race riot. Chief of Police Garrity ordered the entire police force mobilized and placed several hundred extra police- j men around the scene of the trouble, j which was at the southeast corner! of the stock yards, where several ! thousand Negroes are employed. Shortly after Barret had been killed three colored men were dragged from a street car two blocks away and severely beaten. The men who killel Barret, cutting his throat with a razor, were chased several blocks by a continual ly increasing crowd anl finally they dashed into the church. Two hid in the confessional box and one back of the altar. WHITE MISSISSIPPIANS DO A SURPRISING THING Hold Meeting to Denounce Lynching of Two Negroes and Pledge Them selves to Aid Officers to Appre hend Mobbists. (By Associated Negro Press.) CORINTH, Miss., Sept. 23.—At a mass meeting held in the first Baptist Church (white,) called for the pur pose of expressing the views of the citizens of Corinth and Alcorn Coun ty upon the action of certain un known persons in hanging two Negro men who were confined in jail, which meeting was largely attended by both men and women, and after a full discussion and due consideration it was resolved: First, That we, the citizens f Cor inth and Alcorn County do hereby ex press our condemnation of said act as being a ruthless and inexcusable disregard of the courts of our coun try. and an overthrow and contempt for the laws of our land. Second, That we here declare that every aid we can give to the officers whose business to ferret out the crime and apprehend the criminals is hereby solemnly offered and pledged. Third, That said act of hanging the said human beings does not meet with the opproval of the great body of the people of this city and county, but on the contrary meets with their stem condemnation PURCHASE HOUSE FOR SCHOOL (By Associated Negro Press.) NEW ALBANY, Miss., Sept 23.— The city board of education, realizing n__ that more ought to be done for the Negro in an educational way, has just purchased the large two-story brick Baker residence, which will be converted into a schoolhouse for the colored children of this community. SOUTH ASKS FOR IMMIGRANTS JACKSON, Miss., Sept 23.—Due to 1 the fact that Hinds county in which this city is located, shows a loss of, 40 per cent of its rural population, President O. B. Taylor, of the Jack-1 son Board of Trade, has sent urgent j appeals to the United States Bureau of Immigration asking for foreign immigrants to take the place of those who have left the farms. 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