2,900,000 LIBERIANS CELE
BRATED FREEDOM OF
AFRICAN REPUBLIC
July 28 Corresponds With the Ameri
can Fourth of July—Ex-Slaves Es
tablished a Miniature United States
Government.
(Special to The Monitor.)
Two million Liberians celebrated
July 28 an occasion that corresponds
to the American Fourth of July.
The little African republic adopted
the democratic form of government
72 years ago, with a constitution mod
eled after that of the United States.
Since then it has emerged from the
toils of the slave trader, adopted the
white man’s mode of life and forged
ahead as a civilized nation.
England made it possible for Li
beria to become a nation by making it
unlawful for British subjects to con
tinue the slave traffic after May 1,
1807. The legality of the trade thus
being overthrown by England, the
other nations followed in her wake
and the horrors of the traffic declined.
Tells of Liberia’s Growth.
How Liberia grew into a well gov
erned and enlightened Negro republic
in the years that followed is told by
W’illiam H. Dawley, Jr., 2126 'Tracy
avenue, Kansas City, Mo., of the fac
ulty of Lincoln high school in the fol
lowing historical sketch:
“The temporary immunity of the
coast from the horrors attendant upon
the slave trade, occasioned by the pas
sage of the British ‘abolition act’ fur
nished an opportunity to certain j hil
anthropists in America to cany out an
idea which had originated years pre
viously, of planting on the west coast
of Africa a colony of civilized Afri
cans; but which had seemed imprac
ticable in consequence of the unlimited
and pernicious sway of the slavers on
the Liberian coast.
“In the year 1816 a society was in
stituted—American Colonization soci
ety—for the purpose of colonizing
Africa, with their own consent, aided
by free persons of color, from the
United States. In 1820, the necessary
preparations having been made, the
ship Elizabeth sailed from the United
States with a company of 88 emi
grants for the west coast of Africa.
After various trials and difficulties
they landed on Cape Monserrado and
succeeded in establishing themselves.
Colonization Cost Many Lives
“Thus began the American coloniza
tion of Africa. Then followed inter
mittent streams of ex-slaves and free
persons of color sometimes with val
iant and devoted white governors and
not infrequently with redoubtable and
no less devoted black governors with
reluctant incorporations of natives.
After some bloodshed and serious
losses by diseases of acclimation until
1847, the Republic of Liberia stood
forth a sovereign state.
“Among other things, the following
■will be noted in their declaration of in
dependence: ‘We, the people of the
Republic of Liberia, were originally
inhabitants of the United States of
North America. Under the auspices
of American colonization we estab
lished ourselves here on land pur
chased from the lords of the soil.’
A Miniature of American Freedom
“The Liberian government thus be
came our own in miniature, with a
population of 2,000,000 and a territory
one-half the size of the state of Kan
sas. It is interesting to note that the
superintendent of education is a mem
ber of the cabinet, while before the
American congress at special session
a bill was introduced creating a sec
retary of education as a cabinet of
ficer for the United States.
“Liberian education has been de
signed to produce statesmen and Euro
peans affirm that they are unable to
teach the Liberian statesmen anything
in diplomacy, for they are of superior
finesse.
“Christianity seems not to make the
proper impression on the grownup na
tive, who easily becomes a convert to
Mohammedanism, no doubt because of
its simplicity and the fact that its mis
sionaries speak the language of the
natives and live among them. Chris
tians have the most signal success in
the schools, if they get the children
before they are 9 years of age.
To Undertake Worthwhile Things
“With the progress she has already
made Liberia is now prepared to un
dertake genuinely worthwhile things.
If some Negro Clive, or Rhodes, or
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Shonts, were to assemble a few fellow
physicians, chemists, engineers, scien
tists, and a goodly number of scientific
farmers of sound health and virile re
ligious principle from the United
States and settle in the republic, Li
beria would soon become the garden
spot of the dark continent; and the
home of such music that would period
ically attract visitors from all parts
of the globe. Then she could repeat,
as did one of her daughters of old:
‘I am black, but comely.’ ”
WINDY CITY IN
GRIP OF RACE WAR
(Continued From Page 1.)
ceased only when the pavement was
covered with dead and wounded, or
the mounted police had spurred their
horses through the truculent mass.
Cars Stopped Early.
Men and women were dragged from
street cars until the company stopped
running the vehicles through the af
fected area.
As the night wore on, looters and
incendiaries appeared. Several houses
were fired, and one was burned. A
number of stores were broken open
and sacked, while vandals of both
races broke and marred and besmirch
ed the habitations of their opponents.
Toward daylight, a number of white
rioters invaded the downtown quarter,
beat Negroes found on the streets
and dragged cowering porters from
all-night restaurants and hotels to
the streets, flogging them unmerci
fully.
The various affrays owed their in
itiative about equally to the two races,
although the Caucasians seemed to
be the prime aggressors. Most of the
white rioters were youths.
The police devoted much of their
activity to clearing the streets of
Negroes, and many of the fatalities
resulted from the recalcitrancy of the
blacks against the order to disperse.
In one crowd at Thirty-fifth street
and State street, former A1 desman De
Priest, a Negro, was with a crowd of
blacks orderd to scatter. They re
fused despite the pleadings of De
Priest and two Negro police sergeants
and the officers fired into the assem
bly, killing four and barely missing
the former alderman.
A police captain in the black belt
ascribed the trouble to the hoodlum
ism of Negroes who came to Chicago
during the last two years to make
up the shortage in labor caused by
the war. He said his experience
showed that the older Negro resi
dents refrained from such clashes,
having become accustomed to the free
dom allowed the blacks without turn
ing it into license.
As the night wore on hospitals In
the region became filled and doctors
were all overworked caring for the
injured. A Negro corpse was taken
into the establishment of a white un
dertaker and soon a crowd threatened
to attack the place. News of this
spread and thereafter dead Negroes
would not be accepted in white mor
tuaries.
WEDNESDAY’S REPORT
Hospital Attacked.
A mob of whites attacked the Prov
ident hospital, an institution for Ne
groes, Tuesday night and in the shoot
ing that followed, one Negro was
probably fatally wounded, two police
men, one wrhite, and about six other
persons, were wounded. When the
mob surrounded the hospital an at
tempt to enter the building was beat
en off by policemen.
Hundreds of whites followed the
leadership of a man who is said to
have rushed through the nearby
streets firing a revolver.
The hospital was caring for about
70 patients, about a score of them
Negro victims of riots. The pres
ence of policemen prevented a more
serious riot. The patients were thrown
into a serious condition, the hospital
authorities said.
Despite authenticated reports ot
stabbings, clubbings and stonings that
poured into police stations as the
night wore on, Acting Chief of Police
Alcock insisted that he was “very
well pleased with conditions.”
He said that he had approximately
1,800 men in the black belt, .36 patrol
wagons, one ambulance, 30 motor
cycle men and a mounted squad.
Overseas Men Confer.
It was regarded as significant that
five colonels who saw services over
seas conferred with Governor Low
den during the late afternoon. These
were Milton J. Foreman, Abel Davis,
Henry J. Reilly, John W. Clinnin and
Henry A. Allen. The executive later
said he would not divulge what had
been discussed. It was learned also
that Colonel Joseph B. Sanborn was
on his way to Chicago from Spring
feld to meet the governor.
SAYS AMERICANISM IS
SULLIED BY TEXAS LYNCHING
(Special to The Monitor.)
New York City, July 26.—John R.
Shillady, secretary of the National
Association for the Advancement ol
Colored People, today sent a telegram
to Governor W. P. Hobby of Texat
asking him what action had been tak
en to vindicate Americanism sullied
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by the second lynching in Texas since
the beginnir if the year. The tele
gram reai fn’’ 'vs:
July 25, 1919.
Hon. V Governor,
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The second lynching in Texas since
the beginning of the year is reported
to have occurred at Gilmer, Texas,
July 24, when a mob took Chilton Jen
nings from jail and hanged him in
the court house square. The National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People respectfully asks what
is being done to vindicate American
ism sullied by this second defiance
of orderly government in Texas since
the beginning of the year.
JOHN R. SHILLADY,
Secretary National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People.
RACE ELEVATION
Omaha, July 27.
To the Editor of The Monitor:
We are glad to know that there are
men and women within our midst who
have the intelligence to start a move
ment for race elevation. There are a
great many little things that should
be given consideration and I will men
tion several.
The first and among the most im
portant is that parents teach their1
little ones self-respect. If the parents
-et better examples for their children
we think that the race problem would
adjust itself. Men and women of the
race who classify themselves as lead
ers should so conduct themselves that
the unfortunate would be willing to
follow in their footsteps.
I also demand more respect for our
girls. Treat them with respect, wheth
er you find them in the cabaret or on
the streets. Regardless of her condi
tion we, as men, must allow for her
mistakes. She has not had the oppor
tunity that her white sister has had.
We must encourage her at all costs,
for her success means our success, and
if she falls we also fall. Merit and i
efficiency has no color line, but it has <
many barriers. Neither complexion
or hair should be a barrier. She should
be capable and efficient and meet with
all demands. We should help her press
onward.
It is the hope of the N. A. A. C. P.
that we do these things and I hope it
means all that it stands for. I must
commend Mr. C. C. Gallaway for zeal
and merit. These are the means by
which we succeed. Let us adopt this
policy and through force of character |
eliminate discrimination.
REV. WILLIAM HALL.
2815 Burdette Street.
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