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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 17, 1921)
The Monitor A National Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of Colored Americans _. Published Every Thursday at Omaha. Nebraska, by The Monitor Pub lishing Company. Entered as Second-Class Mall Matter July 2. 1916. at the PostoIIice at Omaha. Neb,, under the Act of March 8. 1879. __ _ THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor. George H. W. Bullock, Business Manager and Associate Editor. W. W. VlOSELY, Associate Editor, Lincoln, Neb. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $2.00 A YEAR; S1.25 6 MONTHS; 75c 3 MONTHS Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Application. Address, The Monitor, 204 Kaffir Block, Omaha, Neb. Telephone Douglas 3224. HAHDIJiU’S SPEECH Commenting on the President's Bir mingham speech the Pittsburg Courier wisely says: “Certainly the Negro race has its own peculiar characteristics. But they are simply racial. But surely racial characteristics are not to be used as a basis for establishing de grees of racial importance. When President Harding asks that Negroes unfit to vote be denied the ballot, he does so because of the unfitness of the man, and not because of his race. When he asks that white men unfit to votei be prevented from voting, he does so because of the unfitness of the man, and not because of his race. I This is good and sound advice. When the President says that the race problem has become universal, he is — correct; but he cannot mean that the Negro race has contributed any more to the universality of the problem than i A ether race whose members ate scattered all over& the earth. When our President asserts that social epuality must be eliminated from the whole question of political and eco nomic equality, he invites the undying query: what is social equality? Who has the unchallenged right to fix a standard? W'hen the President asks that Negroes be Negroes without im itating white mem, he speaks well, but not sufficiently. What he should | mean, and he probably does mean, is that the Negro should be the very best possible man, without qualifica tions at all. What is the best Negro? Or, what is the best white man? The statement means nothing, unless the President, by making uBe of it,meant to convey the idea that the best man is the white man; and that the Negro is less than the best, and therefor in ferior, and for this reason "social ! equality” is impossible. Is this his; meaning?” Social equality has never disturbed the Negro. The intelligent Negro knows that equality is a matter of opinion. If the Jew thinks he is epual to the Gentile, that is his opinion and to him that is the law of equality. If the Japanese thinks he is equal to the American white man, that is his j opinion, and to him that is lhw enough | on the question of equality. One man is equal to another only when he is. The Jew is equal to the Gentile only when he is. Social equality is a ques tion for the individual, and the Negro knows the truth quite as well as does the white man. But where confusion arises is when the white man refers to social equality as something desired by Negroes because by its acquisition they think they establish a racial equality through social contact. The Negro does not think any such thing. | He has never accepted any race as being superior to his own. He has | accepted the truism that the white race, by unlawful practices, has gained a decided economic advantage over the Negro, especially in the United States. But this economic advantage has nothing to do with race equality. If the South and North will give the Negro his educational, political and his economic justice—give him all America has to offer any other Amer ican in these fields of endeavor, the President’s philosophy of the “funda mental, eternal and inescapable race differencs” would find greater support among Negroes than among whites. The one complaint of the Negro is the refusal of the United States to allow him to. demonstrate the truth “that racial differences as such deal not in “equalities and inequalities super iority and nferoritv,” but in racial chaacteristics only. As American citizens the Negro de sires to be trated as o^her Americans who differ from him only in race and racial characteristics. He rebels against an Americanism which^reats a white American better than it does a black American. This is not Democ racy. His 6wu racial identity the Negro desires most of all His own racial characteristics are his inherited wealth; he wants'that left to him with out invasion of any source. He knows himself better than anyone knows him; he prefers his own leadership, and would succed admirably under it, if his leaders were allowed to prosecute a leadership in harmony with their own racial ideals. But white leader ship invariably intervenes. He desires his share of the work to be done in his own country at a wage in keeping with the standards of living in his country. He desires to be included among the nation’s assets. He desires simply to share the fruits of his coun try with the same freedom and toler ance as he enjoys when he goes to war for the flag. If the country will take hold of the suggestions of the President, and de cide to reduce them to practice with as much sincerity as attended their utterance there is every reason to hope that the few imperfections lurking In | the philosophy of President Harding will be worked out as the program progresses. LETTERS FROM OUR READERS — Commends President’s Speech EDITOR MONITOR:— I was asked what I thought of Mr. Harding’s speech. From many angles I heartily appreciate anti approve of Mr. Harding's speech. The Negro has the same right to be highlv educated as anv other race, and should be give” the same rights and privileges as all other Americans in this land of the free and the home of the brave, if 1 there he such a place. The Negro has no problem—it is the white man’s problem. The Negro does not want j social equality, hut he does want equal educational opportunities, justice of the law and the privilege to go in anv public place where ho is able to pa' his way, the same a« all other races. When the Negro is allowed his rights, given him by the 14th and 15th amendments—there will he no Negro Problem. Politically, I do not believe there ought be a solid South and a solid North, pretending the'- rr° fightin" over the Negro Problem—there should he no race nroblem. Every voter should vote for the party tbev think would look after all the people and the interests of the United States. One word for the Ku Klux Klan— you say you are for 100 per cent Americans, if so you should consult the Negro first for vour organiaztion. In all hattips or all other places of trust, the Negro has proven himself 100 per cent American. SERGT. BAILEY. COUNCIL BLUFFS. I A. A well-appointed luncheon was served at the Commercial Cafe, 1013 West Broadway, Tuesday in honor of Mrs. R. D. Dirkson of Pine Bluff, Ark. Covers were laid for seven. Mrs. D. M. Mixon was hostess. Those pres ent were: Mesdames .1. P. Jackson, IV. M. Moore, T. S. Wright, C. Wilson, and D. Bottoms. The center piece was of roses. For Rent—Furnished rooms strictly I modern. One block from car line.— ! 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I — I | Free Delivery Webster 0659 :i: ? i | COAL COAL COAL | Colorado Lump X Smokeless—Sootless •{• y ’WHY pa.> HIGHER TAX to hu> unscreened coal when a taxpayer is % Ijl offering this high-grade coal, thoroughly screened? •!• •j* Per Ton $10.50 per ton Delivered <j* X Fresh Coal Arriving Daily—Telephone Your Order. X f-t i Good Quality SPECIALITY Long Lasting f X Nice, Large Lump Egg Size •{• Per Ton $9.50, Celivdred Per Ton $9.00, Delivered Consumers Coal and Supply Co. Doug. 0.730 “Dealers in Good Coal” Doug. 0.730 X November Offerings in | Black Swan Records | ~ 85 cts. | E Ain't it a Shame to Steal on Sunday— E E Good night, Angeline—2016. E E . That’s my cup blues— E E When it’s too late—2018. E — Down Home blues “ E Oh! Daddy!—2010. E E One Man Nan E E There’ll be some changes made—2021. E MAMIE SMITH SONGS E E Mamma whip, Mamma spank E — I'm free, disengaged, looking for someone to ~ j E love ~ E Daddy, your mamma is lonesome for you E = Sax-O-Phoney blues — = VICTOR | — Dangerous blues = E Royal Garden blues—18708 . . 8.7c E = Wabash blues r E Tuck me to sleep in my old “Tucky” home—18820 .8.3c 5 E Ma! E E My Sunny Tennessee—1881!) 83c j§ E Say it with music E E Sweet lady E E South Sea Isles E = Rosy Cheeks—18801 = O-KEII | E Arkansas Blues E E Down Home Blues—4446 .85c E “ Wang Wang Blues ~ E Get Hot—4445 ...... 85c E 1 SOL LEWIS MUSIC PARLORS j 24th and Parker Sts. nmiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiimiiimmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiir: The Soror/ty/Beverage Buller-Nul I Coffee _ Delicious*' 1