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THE MONITOR A National Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Internet* of Colored Interims* Published Every Thursday at Omaha. Nebraska, by The Monitor Pub lishing Company. ___ Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter July X. 1*15. at the PoetoBee at Omaha Neb., under the Act of March X. 1X7*. _ THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS. Editor and Publisher. Luollle Skagg* Edwards and Madras Penn, Associate Editors. Fred C. Williams, Business Manager. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, **.00 A YEAR; *1.00 * MONTH*; 00c 3 MONTH* Advertising Rates, «0 cants an Inch per isau*. Address. The Monitor, *04 Crouns# Block, Omaha. Neh. Telephone Douglas 3X34. jyWWWWWWW.VJW.V.W.WWW^AW.V.WAA/V.V.V.W^ 11 ARTICLE XIV. CONSTITUTION Of THE jj ;j UNITED STATES. ^ Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged. I; 1. AH persons born or naturalized in the United States. ;! and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the <ft j! United States and of the State wherein they reside. No / state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the ;! I; privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor ■; j! shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or prop •I erty without due process of law, nor deny to any person \ !; within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. J ARBITRARY PROCEEDINGS NO one who believes in fair play and representative government can approve of the exclusion of the five Socialists from the New York legislature. These men were duly electorates have the right to say who electroates have the right to say who their representatives shall be. This, of course, presupposes that there shall be a free and untrammelled ballot and a fair count. Fraud or intimi dation which interferes with the elec tors' vote, raises another question; but where voters have had a chance to register their will by their votes their choice must be respected. This is the foundation upon which representative government rests. There is no evidence to show, nor was it claimed there was, that these men were not duly and fairly elected by their respective constituencies. As we understand it, they had been in dicted for no crime. They had been accused of disloyal utterances, or what was considered by some, disloyal j utterances. But does not our law pre sume every man innocent or any al-; leged crime or misdemeanor until he is proven guilty? The action of the legislature presumes that these men are guilty of disloyalty for it has bus pended them pending an investiga tion of their loyalty and fidelity to the federal constitution and the constitu tion of the state of New York. The fact that they were willing to take the oath of office seems to us sufficient guarantee of their fidelity. However., The Monitor takes the position, that, in expelling these men the New York 1 legislature exceeded its powers and directly violated constitutional prin ciples of free government which strikes a blow at the very foundation of representative government. We, are interested in it because we see in it the establishment of a danger ous precedent. We stand unqualified ly and uncompromisingly for the full constitutional rights of all classes of American citizens. Socialists have their rights and arbitrary denial of those rights ought not and will not meet popular approval. No matter how much one may be opposed to so cialism or socialists, he must admit the action of expelling the five duly elected representatives of that party was an arbitrary proceeding, which the sober sense of the country must condemn and not condone. THE ANTI-SEDITI05 BILL. lWE regret that we cannot agree W with many of our friends and contemporaries In their opposition to the "Graham Sedition BUI," in some of its provisions. Attention has been specifically called to section 6 of the bill which reads as follows: "That every book, magazine, news paper, document, handbill, poster or written pictorial, or printed matter, memorandum, sign, symbol, or com munication of any form • • • wherein and whereby an appeal Is made to racial prejudice the intended or prob able result of which appeal Is to cauBe rioting or the resort to force and violence within the United States or any place subject to the Jurisdic tion thereof, is hereby declared to be unmallable, and the same shall not be deposited In any post office for mailing or be conveyed In the malls or delivered from any post office or by any letter carrier." It is contended that this section may be so construed as to bar from the mails nearly every Negro news paper and magazine which Is being published in the country today. This is not true. The average Negro newspaper does not make an appeal to racial prejudice. A great many exchanges reach our desk and while they are outspoken in their de mand for a square deal they counsel self-restraint, forbearance and mag nanimity. They breathe no gospel of hate. They urge their readers never 0 to be aggressors In wrong-doing, but to act only when necessary in self de fense. So the average newspaper or magazine would not be endangered. But upon the other hand, we be lieve that newspapers, magazines and other publications which have fo mented race prejudice and caused riot ing would be restrained from a repe tition of the offense. We have long needed some measure that would grant us protection from the malicious propaganda which has created such adverse sentiment against us as a race by sensational headlines and other reprehensible methods. We be lieve the reputable race press, and we need no other kind, can well take Its chances under this section, and that its benefits in suppressing vicious yellow journalism which engenders racial and religious distrust and hatred will more than counterbalance any strained interpretations that might be used to limit freedom on our side. We have more to gain than to lose from this provision. A COMPLIMENTARY CRITICISM; THANY YOUI yr~E heard a rather complimentary W criticism of The Monitor the other day. At least we so consider it. It was this: The Monitor publishes the good things our people do, but it seldom publishes any of the bad things. We think it ought to give more prominence to the bad things that our people do, than it does. We wonder why it doesn't? Our reply was: The daily news papers give sufficient prominence to the bad things our people do, without the necessity of our doing so. They rarely give prominence to the good things, the constructive things our people are doing in any community. If, for example. Sam Jones builds a beautiful home or invents a labor saving device, the impression is given, if anv mention at all is made of it in the daily press, that Sam Jones is a white man. But if Sam Jones steals a chicken or gets into a fight, then front page prominence is given to the all-important fact that Sam Jones is a Negro. So while the average white daily emphasizes the bad, the destruc tive, the extraordinary side of our peo ple's life, The Monitor conceives its task to be the emphasizing of the bet ter, the ordinary, the constructive side. We think this to be the better way. We believe the time will come when the newspapers of the country will minimize the reports of crimes and the sordid and seamy side of life and emphasize the nobler things of life; when they will cease catering to the sensational. The Monitor, as a dependable and wide-awake newspaper, will publish news, when it is worth while news, and under this head may Justly fall reports of the frailties of human na ture, but these will never be given undue prominence. Now we shall con tinue to give prominence to the good things our people do rather than tc the bad things which they do, but which they ought not to do. PICKENS TAKES NEW JOB. rE Monitor congratulates both Dean Pickens and the N. A. A. C. P. upon his selection and accept ance as Associate Field Secretary o! that great militant organization. W« feel sure that he will address hlmsell to the task of organization with tbt same zeal and effectiveness which have characterized his educations work. Whether he will be as happj In his new field of work as he wai in the old time alone will determine The N. A. A. C. P. needs strong ant forceful personalities for the tre mendous task before It and I*eai Pickens fullv measures np to the re qulrements. Talented, tactful »nt energetic he will never be fount asleep at the switch. LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS ATTHKN we couple these two name. Tf we are not thinking of the great emancipator and his political oppon ent, Stephen A. Douglas, but of his ; friend and co-anti-slavery worker Frederick Douglas. February is the natal month of these two great Americans. The date of the former’s birth is fixed as the twelfth day of this month; while the date of the birth of the latter, who was bom a slave, is indefnitelv stated as “somewhere about the middle of the month.” This, however, is suf ficient Justification for celebrating the birth of these two great benefactors of our race and of humanity on the same day. In many sections Joint me morial celebrations for these two will be held on February 12. Our people in Omaha are to hold such an anniver sary meeting under the auspices of the Leonard Wood Republican Club at Grove Methodist Church. Such a meet ing ought to bring out a record at tendance, and from that meeting should go forth an influence that will help maintain and perpetuate the prin ciples for which these men stood. “ME NIGGER, TOO!” ONE thing, among many, that the Chicago and Washington riots taught is that the Negro when at tacked by white boodlumg is going to fight and not run. This has created such respect for him among hoodlums that, in several instances, they have wisely let him alone and refrained from making Insulting remarks. This lesson has not been lost either upon the part of some of the other races whom unworthy representatives of the "superior race" seem to take de light in taunting and insulting. As i illustrating this the following story is quite to the point: Recently in Chicago, two colored youths were passing down the street and a Chinaman came along behind them. They passed some white toughs. The colored boys were not molested, as has been the rule since August. 1919, but the Chinaman was greeted by the toughs with such remarks as these: “Hello, Chink—Rat-Eater— Slant-Eyes,” etc. Whereupon, the Chinaman conceived an Inspiration and said passionately as be shook his fist: “Me nigger, too! Me fight like nigger at Thirty-ninth street!” WOOD FOR PRESIDENT. TIE Monitor notes with great pleasure the increasing Impetus of the boom for General Wood for the presidential nomination. Among many strong candidates, he is undoubtedly the strongest. The Monitor confident ly predicts that he will show greater strength than any other candidate on the first ballot in the convention, if, indeed, he is not nominated by accla mation. We know it is early to make this prediction, but The Monitor be 1 lieves in being first. Note our proph ecy. WAR RISK INSURANCE. rIE attention of our readers is called to the important matter of War risk insurance. Many of our soldiers and sailors have permitted their policies to lapse, which Is a most serious mistake. The govern ment Is making liberal offers to all ex-service men to renew their policies Ilf they have lapsed and all should ! avail themselves of this splendid op portunity of protecting their dear ones. i\OllI> PAT HIS FIXE. JOHN Mitchell, editor and banker of Richmond. Va.. has been arrested for the alleged crime of allowing pamphlets containing directions for making whiskey to be printed In his office. John, there are gome old Nebraska topers who would be willing to pay your fine if they could get hold of some of those pamphlets. THE MONITOR’S PRESS DAT. THE Monitor goes to press Wednes day of each week at 2 o’clock in the afternoon. To insure publication in the current week's issue news items and articles must reach our of fice by Tuesday night. One form, that ig to say, one chase, the iron frame In which one page of the type is "locked up" to go on the press is held open for • emergency advertisements, the copy for which cannot be obtained be fore Wednesday morning, until noon Wednesday. Now and then we can get late news on that page, but ordinarily not. Copy, therefore, that reaches our office Wednesday later than 10 i o'clock in the morning stands a slim , chance of getting in that week's issue. Frequently copy reaches us Wednes day afternoon or Thursday and some irate individual calls up to know ' Why isn’t my Item in this week's issue?" Too late, dear friends that's all. (let vour news In on time. LEADING EDITORIALS. THE MOTE AND BEAM. (Pittsburgh Dispatch.) If congressmen and senators have not had their sense of humor soured or blasted by the strenuous duties of war-times and related responsibilities, they may get at least a pretentious smile from their predicament in con nection with a proposed campaign against race intolerance. With appro priate dignity the senate has under consideration an investigation into race rioting, lynchings and kindred activities, with a view to ending vio lence and leading race prejudice away from its Inspirations. But Just when the proposal to give stern protection to Negroes in all their rights and privileges under the laws and consti tution was doing as well as could be expected, the discovery was made that there is a spirit of "Jim Crowism” In the national capital which Is second to none anywhere. This was discon certing, since congressional dignity, hardened as it Is. could not hope to stand up against the sneers of critics calling attention to the fact that con gress itself, as guardian of the Dis trict of Columbia, has refused to rec ognize the privileges of Negro dtl- j zens. The discomfiture was not softened when, a few days ago, James Weldon Johhnson, former United States con- ; sul in Nicaragua, now field secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was refused a luncheon in the restaurant of the Library of Congress. The su perintendent of grounds and buildings confirmed the action, but when Sena tor Wadsworth was informed, prom ised to investigate. The point of the j Incident is that Mr. Johnson was j waiting to be called to testify before | the senate committee in charge of the Curtis resolution to investigate in- j justice to Negroes. Perhaps Negro hunters in the South may respectfully ask congress to remove the beam from Its own authoritative eye before it finds too much fault with the mote so common south of the Mason and Dixon line. - ; | THE UNIVERSAL CAR Ford service for owners of Ford cars, 111 is one of the important elements of the great Ford organization. Ford owners can get real Ford service only by coming to the authorized Ford Honest dealers. where there are tji * at all times Ford work ? I t Orfl men, genuine Ford mar Service Aerials and the standard low Ford prices. If you want to get all there is, and the best there is, in your Ford car come to us Iji with it for the genuine Ford service. Prompt attention every time. SAMPI.E-HART MOTOR CO. 100% Ford Service 18th and Burt Streets OMAHA Wf Have a Caatpleie Line mi FLOWER.GRASS AND CARDEN ^CCUS Baiba, Hardy Pereaaiaia, PeaRry Sappiiee Fresh cot flovtn always oa bawd Stewart’s Seed Store 11* N. IM St. Opp. Post Office Phase Dear la. *77 i. !H. LAZARUS ! 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PHONE WALNUT 211L I SILAS JOHNSON Licensed Emhalmer and F uneral Director 2318 Lake Street The place known for its qual ity service, and reasonable prices We spare no pains for our complete chapel service. Open day and night. Phone Webster 248. IFor Pierre- A rrow I.imeasine j Service. Call CHAS. BOYD | Webster 208 {After Midnight) Tyler 4119 I g Service With Class—Car Warm | and Cory. 8 I I | @ Repairing and Storing Orders Promptly Filled 8 NORTH SIDE | SECOND-HAND STORE R. B. RHODES Dealer in i New and Second-Hand Furniture and Stoves. | Household Goods Bought and } Sold. Rental and Real Estate. 1 2522 Lake St. Webster 908 Subscribe for The Monitor : ATTENTION! LISTEN! j MEN OF OMAHA Are you Interested In giving your B wife one day's rest during the 9 week with no dinner to get and no B worrisome dishes to wash? \\ I If so, take advantage of SOOTH & THOMPSON'S a delicious 50-rent Sunday Sinner. B Regular Weekly Dinner, SSc. I Phone Web 45€S 2418 No. 24tb St 8 jl Allen Jones, Res. 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