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-! National Association Issues Statement ; Will Exhaust Every Legitimate Effort to Have Assailants of National Secretary Shillady Punished. New York, Sept. 3.—It is unneces sary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to make the statement to the press of this country that it intends to do everything in its power to punish the assailants of Mr. Shillady and to make the country ring with a knowledge of the conditions in the capital city of Texas. Only in the southern states of America could we read that a judge and deputy sheriff beat up a citizen visiting their city in the interests of a well known association, highly honor ed, of ten years’ standing, an associa tion with Moorfield Storey, former president of the Bar association, as its president; Major J. E. Spingam as its treasurer; with the governor of Min nesota as the president of one of its branches, and Senator Capper, until recently, president of another—an as sociation that has stood always for kindly dealing and fair-play. The association believes that the citizens of the United States feel with it profound indignation at this latest expression of mob violence. No Col ored man who appears to think for himself is safe in the south, and it would seem that the same is true to day of any white man w'ho has the courage to expound his cause. The annual report of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was put in the hands of the district attorney, deputy sheriff and the justice of the peace in Austin. They read its chief aims stated as fol lows : 1. A vote for every Negro man and woman on the same terms as for white men and women. 2. An equal chance to acquire the kind of an education that will enable the Negro everywhere wisely to use this vote. 3. A fair trial in the courts for all crimes of which he is accused by judges in whose election he has par ticipated without discrimination be cause of race. 4. A right to sit upon the jury which pas. es judgment upon him. 5. Defense against lynching and burning at the hands of mobs. 6. Equal service on railroad and other public carriers. This to mean sleeping car service, dining car serv ice. Pullman service at the same cost and upon the same terms as other pas sengers. 7. Equal right to the use of public parks, libraries and other community services for which he is taxed. 8. An equal chance for a livelihood in public and private employment. 9. The abolition of color hyphena tion and the substitution of “straight Americanism.” The demand for equal service on railroads and public carriers they took a special exception to. They also ad vised discontinuance of the Crisis. They talked about social equality. In the same report the association, in Mr. Shillady’s forceful language, makes this statement regarding social equal ity, which it believes and for which it intends to battle to the end: “Nor should any one be led astray by the tiresome talk about ‘social equality.’ Social equality is a private question which may well be left to individual decision. But the preju dices of individuals cannot be ac cepted as the controlling policy of a state. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is concerned primarily with public equality. America is a nation—not a private club. The privileges no less than the duties of citizenship belong of right to no separate class of the people, but to all the people, and to them as individuals. The con stitution and the laws are for the protection of the minority and of the unpopular, no less than for the fa vorites of fortune, or they are of no meaning as American instruments of government.” Will not the readers of this article wire or write to their senators and representatives, expressing their in dignation at the treatment accorded Mr. Shillady in Texas, and urging upon them a congressional investiga The Monitor’s Phone Number Is Douglas 3224 tion of mob violence in the United | States? Omaha Branch Takes Prompt Action The Omaha Branch at its regular ] session Sunday afternoon appointed a committee which forwarded the fol lowing telegram to Senator Hitchcock and Congressman Jefferis: Omaha, Neb., Aug. 24, 1919. The Omaha Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of: Colored People, in regular session, re spectfully calls to your attention the outrageous attack upon our national secretary’, John R. Shillady, at Austin, Tex., August 22, and requests you to bring the same to the attention of the senate (house) urging the enactment of a national law making such an at tack punishable by the national au thorities. COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS. Thomas Reese, Chairman; Madree Penn, Secretary; Mrs. Cecelia Wilson Jewell, Mrs. J. Alice Stewart, H. J. Pinkett, Rev. John Albert Williams, President. And this letter to Governor Hobby: Omaha, Neb., Aug. 25, 1919. W. P. Hobby, Governor, Austin, Tex. Dear Sir—The Omaha Branch of the National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People, in regular ses sion assembled, has learned with deep amazement and keen regret of the ex hibition of mob violence and disregard for law in the attack on John R. Shil lady, secretary of the N. A. A. C. P., by County Judge Dave J. Pickle, Con stable Charles Hamby, Ben Pierce and others at Austin, Tex., on August 22, and therefore urges your excellency the governor to exercise all of your legal powers to save law and order from a complete breakdown in Texas. We are loth to believe that the au thorities of Texas will permit this at tack upon a white man to go unwhip ped of justice. Very truly yours, ! COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS. Thomas Reese, Chairman; Madree Penn, Secretary; Mrs. Cecelia Wilson Jewell, M (StrUrAiiee Steuafrt, H. J. Pinkett, Rev. John Albert Williams, President. NATIONAL RACE CONGRESS READY FOR ACTION ‘Suffrage Session” Called for October 7th to Be Best of the Series—Able Speakers of Three Continents Ex pected to Be Present—Emergency Defense Fund Growing. (Special to The Monitor.) Washington, D. C., Sept. 3.—The official call for the fourth annual ses sion of the National Race Congress of America, to be held in this city in October has been issued by the presi dent,''Rev. V. H. Jemagin, and is 1k ■ ing widely circulated through the press i of the country. This congress is to be known as the “suffrage session,” and the clans from every section of the land are getting ready to gather at the nation’s capital to emphasize the importance of the ballot as a solvent for many of the ills that beset America’s 12,000,000 Negro citizens. The call states the case with clear ness and force and Dr. Jemagin and his co-workers are urging that large delegations be sent here from the va ! rious sections to consider w’ays and means for the betterment of the civic and economic status of our people. Able speakers will present the issues and the discussions will be broad and ’ thorough, and the steps te be taken *o crystallize thought into action will be prompt and vigorous. All phases of the intricate “race problem” will be j treated. ;i Hon. F. M. Hercules, secretary of the society of the Peoples of Africa, I with headquarters at London, Eng land, has accepted an invitation to address the congress, and Congress i man Matthew Agady, of Liberia, is also expected to speak. Invitations have been extended to the Hon. C. D. King, president of the republic of Li beria; Hon. Blaise Diagne, a member of the house of deputies of the Repub lic of France, who has had charge of the colonial troops who fought so ! valiantly for liberty and democracy throughout the world war. M. Diagne presided over the deliberations of the ; recent Pan-African congress in Paris. The Abyg^inian government has prom ised, through its envoys, to send a message of cheer. Rev. A. C. Gamer, pastor of Ply I mouth Congregational church, this city, has accepted the post of field agent for the congress, and will travel extensively in the next few weeks to place before the country the plans and purposes of the congress. He will be assisted by Rev. Daniel L. Reed, the well-known lecturer and author; Rev. A. A. Graham of Phoebus, Va.; Rev. J. N. C. Coggins, and a number of others yet to be named. Local units of the congress now in existence will be stimulated and many new ones will be instituted. It is regarded as espe cially important that units be estab lished in every locality where Colored people are found. Prof. John R. Hawkins, executive secretary of the Emergency Defense Fund, under the auspices of the Na tional Race Congress, is actively push ing the collection of the $250,000 fund authorized by the organization for the general protection of Colored-Ameri cans, and encouraging progress is be ing made. The congress is also co operating with the citizens of Wash ington in defending innocent Colored men who were arrested during the re cent riot for no other reason than that they dared to protect their lives and their homes from the violence of the mob, when the authorities of the law failed to do so. Arrangements have been made by Prof. Hawkins with the Bar Association to provide every Col ored man with able counsel and no worthy case will go undefended when brought before the courts. Contribu tions in behalf of this cause and for the $250,000 general defense fund may be sent to Prof. Hawkins at 1541 14th street, Northwest. Any sum, how ever small, will be welcomed and ac counted for. Correspondence relative to the October “Suffrage Session” of the National Race congress, is in vited by President Jemagin, who can be reached at 901 3d street, N. W., Washington, D. C. The forthcoming meetings promise to be the very best of the series, and that much good will be accomplished for all the people by this frank exchange of counsel is al ready assured. STATE FEDERATION STRONG ORGANIZATION Spokane, Wash., Sept. 3.—The State Federation of Colored Women’s Or ganizations, Washington and jurisdic tion held its third annual meeting here and re-elected Mrs. John E. 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