General Race News
PRECS COMMENTS.
The Supreme Court Decision.
Complexion and Human Rights.
(The New York Globe.)
"But the Caucasian will con
tinue to rule.”—New York Sun.
"The determination of the white
man to rule the land wherein he
lives is not affected by the de
cision.”—New York Times.
Poor Caucasian! Poor white man!
He will be submerged if not protected
by a code of special laws. He is the
fittest and the best, but so tender he
cannot flourish under a rule of man
hood equality. Yet men who so speak
seldom realize that they are really in
sulting the Caucasian race.
The work of Jefferr.on. of Lincoln,
of Sumner, and of all the glorious
brotherhood of great statesmen who
did not consider complexions when
judging men, is unfinished. The old
argument that some classes must be
kept under still survives. In some
circumstances it is the manual work
er who must be kept to knowledge of
his place and in others it is a race.
Many of those who pretend to be
leaders of public opinion and who
think they are enlightened continue
to be afraid of democracy. The fear
is born, now as always of class selfish
ness and class prejudice.
The proposition that political rights
should be dependent on race color is
merely a milder expression of the doc
trine by which thousands of otherwise
good men quieted their consciences
for a couple of centuries and justified
the existence of slavery on the new
continent. Assuming that one race
was inherently and necessarily infer
ior, it was said that the most humane
arrangement was to allow members of
the superior race to "own” members
of the inferior race—that thus it
would become to the interest of the
master to look after the w’elfare of his
property—that the only way to insure
the rightful supremacy of the white
man was to keep the blqck man down.
The Negroes, who feel the bitter in
justice of a system which denies to
them an equal chance to grow and
who await with exemplary patience
the coming of the aay when, under
the providence of God, emancipation
will be complete, are in many respects
better Caucasians than those who
labor to restrict liberty. The black
man through hard experience has been
educated into real belief in the Cau
casian principle of equal chances for
all the sons of men.
THE NATIONAL BAR ASSOCIA
TION MEETS.
To All Colored Attorneys:
The National Negro Bar Associa
tion will hold its fifth annual session
in the city of Boston, July 18, 19 and
20, inclusive.
The sessions heretofore have been
well attended and it is the sense of
those who have participated in these
meetings that much good has been ac
complished.
This meeting is called in connection
with the session of the National Ne
gro Business League, of which it is
an auxiliary and from the inspiration
of which It sprung.
All attorneys of color w'ho are in
the active practice of the law and are
in good standing with the Bar of their
respective states and counties can be
and will be enrolled as members of
this organization upon application
properly made.
Perhaps there was never a time
when there was more necessity for a
strong organization among, and a
thorough understanding of, the col
ored attorneys in this country. And
there is no nucleus around which
they might gather and get more in
spiration than from the National Ne
gro Ilusiness League.
We had as well face the issue that
the American Par Association does
not want us and will not have us and
we ought to have self-respect enough
to disavow any intention of enforcing
our presence.
We trust that those good brethren
of ours w'ho have told us that they
w,ere members of the American Par
: Association will be thoughtful enough
to confess the error of their way and
come and go along with us as inde
pendent men who are winning our
way as successful attorneys.
It is no more discreditable for this
organization to be distinctly racial
than the National Negro Medical As
sociation, which is a live organiza
tion and unquestionably making good.
We trust that this meeting will be
a record breaker in attendance and
enthusiasm.
Signed: Perry W. Howard, Presi
dent, Jackson, Miss.; William H. Har
rison, Secretary, Oklahoma City, Okla.
Jitneys in Washington, D. C.
In Washington, I). C., a delegation
of colored citizens waited upon the
public utilities commission a few days
ago and entered a vigorous protest
against the policy adopted by the “jit
ney” bus managers to refuse to ac
commodate Negroes who wish to ride.
The matter is being looked into. The
status of the “jitney” bus is still In
the air, no decision having yet been
reached as to whether it is or is not
a common carrier, within the meaning
of the statute. It has been deter
mined that the taxicab is a common
carrier and the colored lawyers hold
that the "jitney” bus ought to come
under the same head. If the “jitney”
is held to be a common carrier, it can
not draw the color-line, any more than
the street cars can. If the “jitney” is
not a common carrier, it is nothing
and should not he granted a license
to obstruct the public highways. It
must conform to the laws of the Dis
trict- -or get out of business.
Dr. Charles Roberts Will Work in
Paris.
Dr. Charles If. Roberts, 242 West
Fifty-third street, New York, sailed on
the steamer Chicago, leaving New
Y'ork Saturday, July 3, for Paris,
France, where he will engage for sev
eral months in coluntary work in the
dental clinics of Paris, connected with
the hospital service for French sol
diers. Dr. Roberts is especially well
gual lied for this work, as he has suf
ficient command of the French lan
guage to talk intelligently, and has
had extensive experience in the var
ious d< ntal clinics of New York City.
The National Negro Bar Association
will meet in Boston July 18, 19, 20.
The call says that "there was never
a time when there was more neces
sity for a strong organization and a
thorough understanding of the col
ored attorneys in this country.”
FEAR DEPORTATION,
TRY TO SWIM ASHORE
Philadelphia, Pa., June 30.—Daniel
Riffan, a West Indian, who had
stowed away on the steamer Rochelle,
arriving here from the West Indies,
was afraid of deportation and attempt
ed to slip into the country by slipping
overboard from the vessel and swim
ming ashore at a point off the lower
part of the city. He was accompanied
by Luther Read, another West In
dian.
Riffan and Read were unable to
reach the shore and Riffan was
drowned before he could be rescued.
Read was taken from the water by
the crew on the government tug Vi
dette, and will be deported, just as
he feared.
Mine. E. Azalia Hackley, after a
successful series of concerts in and
about. Springfield, 111)., appeared in
Cleveland, O., in a grand song recital
for the benefit of the Home for Aged
Colored People. Mine. Hackley is
making her headquarters in Chicago,
where she will soon launch her long
cherished Conservatory of Music. She
is also preparing for the press a vol
ume on "Art and Artists,” which will
be of inestimable value to young peo
ple who are ambitious to shine in the
world of music and histrionic enter
tainment.
A savings bank has been organized
at the Armstrong Manual Training
School, Washington, D. C., through
the active agency of Mr. George Hen
ry Murray, one of the principal teach
ers in the department of business
practice. The institution is designed
not only to serve as an object lesson
in the work of practical banking, but
to encourage thrift on the part of the
pupils of the school. Deposits 'aggre
gating more than $ 1,700 have already
been made. This is the first bank
formed in the colored schools of the
District.
Mr. Andrew F. Hilyer, of the Treas
ury department, a trustee of Howard
university, Washington, D. C., and a
citizen of amply-demonstrated public
spirit, has formed a correspondence
committee, to work in conjunction
with the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People. The
committee will write protests against
injustices and letters of appreciation
to persons of influence in all parts of
the country touching matters affecting
the well being of the race.
Father Tolton, the first Negro Ro
man Catholic priest in the United
States, is to have his grave in St.
Peter’s cemetery, Chicago, marked by
a monument which will be paid for en
tirely by colored Roman Catholics.
J. H. Kelly, a colored man, who has
been employed by the Illinois Central
railroad for forty-two years, is chief
train dispatcher at Carbondale, 111.
Abram Smith, a colored merchant of
St. Thomas, D. W. I., has been elected
crown member of the legislature in
Denmark.
R. S. L. Jepson of Wheeling has
been made state commissioner of
health in West Virginia by the gover
nor.
WANTED -Correspondents and sub
scription solicitors for The Monitor in
Nebraska cities and towns.
WANTED—An absolutely reliable
colored tenant for a good ten-room
house; modern except heat. W. H.
Russell, 631 Brandeis Theater.
Some New Toilet
Goods Prices
50c Pompeian Massage Cream 29c
25c IToubigant’s Rice Powder 17c
$1.00 Listerine, Lambert's... .59c
50c Malvina Cream for.29c
25c Mermen’s Taicum (4 kinds)
each .12c
25c Rogers and Gallet Perfumed
Rice Powder for.17c
25c 4711 White Rose Soap-12c
25c Woodbury’s Facial Soap.. 17c.
You “save time and money” by
coming to the Recall Stores for
toilet goods.
Sherman & McConnell
Drug Co.
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Culinary Hints and
Recipes
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Steward Omaha Commercial Club
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Phone Webster 820
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