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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.
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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.
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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
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Fresh cot flovtn always oa bawd
Stewart’s Seed Store
11* N. IM St. Opp. Post Office
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2420% Cuming Street
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Hardware Co.
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N. A. Patten. Proprietor
1014-1016-1018 Sooth 11th SL
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CASH MARKET
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Standard Laundry
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707 South 16th St. %
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WILLIAMSON
DRUGS, TOILET ARTICLES,
PRESCRIPTIONS
2306 North 24th St.
Phone Webster 4443 and we will
send it out.
A CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY OF
OMAHA'S COLORED BUSINESS
AND PROFESSIONAL FIRMS
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PAINTING
PAPERHANGING AND
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All Work Guaranteed.
4827 ERSKINE STREET.
PHONE WALNUT 211L
I SILAS JOHNSON
Licensed Emhalmer and F uneral
Director
2318 Lake Street
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ity service, and reasonable prices
We spare no pains for our
complete chapel service. Open
day and night.
Phone Webster 248.
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| Webster 208
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