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:: ARTICLE XIV, CONSTITUTION OF THE }.
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!! Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged
;; 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, £
;; and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the y
I! United States and of the State wherein, they reside. No £
! state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the X
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< > shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or prop- •{•
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GOV7RNOR BRY.AN KNOCKS OU^
BOXING RI LING (
pOVERNOR BRYAN has rescinded
the ruling of the Nebraska boxing
commission which forbade boxing and
sparring contests between colored ana
white contestants in Nebraska. The
ruling as The Monitor contended from
the outset, was purely arbitrary,
based solely upon unjustifiable preju
dice and was in direct violation of
the constitution of the United States
and the state of Nebraska. These
facts were formally presented to Gov
ernor McKelvie, together with a pe
tition of more than 5,000 names from
all classes of Omaha citizens for the
removal of the bar to mixed bouts, by
a delegation of colored citizens head
ed by Henry W. Black, president of
the Omaha branch of the National As
sociation for the Advancement of
Colored People, but the Republican
governor adroitly side-stepped, with
all the consummate skill of an artful
dodger, and declined to act. Upon
Mr. Bryan’s election it was decided to
renew the effort to have this ruling
set aside. A delegation waited upon
Governor Bryan some three months
ago. It was again headed by Mr.
Black. The report of the delegation’s
favorable interview with Governor
Bryan was reported in full in The
Monitor. There was no side-stepping
upon the part of the democratic gov
ernor. He frankly stated that he be
lieved the ruling unconstitutional but
desired time to give the subject con
sideration, and he gave assurance
that he would take action on the mat
ter. Last Friday he rescnded the rul
ing as bein unconstitutional. By this
action, Nebraska takes her place
where she rightly belongs in that gal
axy of states which recognizes the
constitutional rights of all her citi
zens. Discrimnatory laws, practices,
customs or rulings against any class
of citizens, which are not applcable
alike to all citizens, are entirely out
of place in an enlightened or progres
sive commonwealth. Laws, rulings or
practices aimed agianst colored citi
zens as such with the sole purpose of
placing the brand of inferiority upon
such citizens must be and will be vig
orously opposed. The ruling against
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mixed bouts in Nebraska belonged to
this category and Governor Bryan has
done the right thing in setting it
aside.
KEEPING UP OUR HOMES
JT is gratifying to note the pride so
many of our citizens are showing
in the upkeep of their homes. No
matter how humble our dwellings may
be, let us all see to it that the prem
ises and dwellings are made as at
tractive as possible. Where there are
lawns, keep them well trimmed, and
make the grounds attractive with
flowers. Let those sections of the
cities and towns where our people
reside in large numbers be made real
show districts in cleanliness and
beauty. In cities like Omaha, where
there are so many home owners and
attractive homes this can easily be
done. If your neighbor, who may be
a tenant only and not an owner,
seems careless of his surroundings,
try to encourage him to spruce up.
PERHAPS ANOTHER CRAFT
y AST week we published a thought
article, as all his articles are, from
Kelly Miller, of Howard university
on the Harding administration. Dean
Miller’s conclusion was that while col
ored Americans will not be enthusias
tic over Mr. Harding’s renomination,
most of them will remain on the Re
publican ship, because the Democratic
ship makes no provision for their
passage. This, however, overlooks
the significant fact that overtures are
being made by the Socialists for the
colored vote and many of the young
er men, and especially women, are
looking with favor upon these over
tures. The Republican ship may not
be heavily freighted with colored vot
ers. Increasing numbers of them are
now ready to take passage upon some
other craft. What that craft will be
remains to be seen. Many things may
happen between now and 1924. Other
political crafts may be launched.
STREET IMPROVEMENT
COMMISSIONER Dean Noyes, in
charge of the department of
street Maintenance and Improvement,
is certainly the right man for the job.
Omaha streets are being paved and
improved in sections of the city
where they have long been overlooked
and neglected. He seems to have
made an intelligent survey of the
city’s needs and is doing his best to
adequately meet them. We hope the
good work will continue.
I FOOTNOTES TO §
| AFRICAN HISTORY :
(By the Hamitic League)
Inevitable Africa
Slowly, but ever surely, the sons
and daughters of Ham are creeping
! into the calcium and making a noise
like a race once worth while. Old
king Toot, for instance, bobbed up at
a most inconvenient time. Klikues
and Klans had just about persuaded
everybody that the Negro never was
I anything, isn’t anything now and
never will be anything. Then Car
narvon and Carter busted into the
tomb of king s and discovered King
i Toot. There was plenty of newspaper
noise for a moment. Then silence!
Have you ever wondered why? The
truth is that folks wanted to know
too much. They wanted to know just
what Mr. Toots looked like. It would
never have done to say that Toot was
the color of unbleached coal. Ye
white folks couldn’t afford it. So
out went the high sign to put on the
soft pedal, whisper low sweet char
iot and lock up brother Toot for a
year or so.
But Toot was only one blackbird
out of a million. A white face in
Toot's time was as scarce as a dim
pled daisy in December. Let the
truth come out. It won’t hurt any
body. It may give a gentle jolt to
history, but the old girl can stand it.
I She has stood worse than that in her
sweet young life. In fact, things may
seem a little more home-like—maybe.
She knows that when it comes to
claiming a place in the sun, old Af
rica staked the first home-site. Hers
was the sun god and the moon god
i and all the little gods. The time is
I here. Africa is holding a royal
I flush.
(Next week: “Memmon, the Son of
] the Sun.”)
THINK THIS OVER
Why Spend Money With Merchants
Who Will Spend No Money With
Us Either by Advertising Or
Giving Our People Em
ployment?
A North Twenty-fourth street mer
chant said the other day, “Nearly all
my trade is colored trade, why then
should I not advertise in a colored
newspaper? It is the proper thing to
do; it is the fair thing to do.”
This merchant is absolutely right.
But there are several North Twenty
fourth street merchants who decline
to advertise in our colored newspap
ers, saying that they can get the
trade without it. If our newspapers
are to exist they must sell advertis
ing. This must be sold to merchants
who expect our trade. Show your
race pride and independence and
fairness and justice by patronizing
ONLY the merchants who will play
fair in this matter of advertising pat
ronage. Think this over and act ac
cordingly.
DEAN NOYES PLACES BARNETT
F. L. Barnett, who was the head
janitor at the city jail $nd was dis
charged with twenty-six others May
1 when Dan B. Butler became Police
Commissioner, has been given a fore
manship in the Street Maintenance
department by Commissioner Dean
Noyes in charge of that department.
GULF©/* tt
CALIFORNIA
View of Guaymaa, Mexico.
(Prepares by th** Sartorial Geographic So
clety. Waahlnffton, D Q.)
The Gull of California, one of the
great gulfs of the world, is next-door
to the United States, yet little known.
A recent resolution of tile Arizona
house of representatives seeking to
have tlie United States acquire a strip
of territory between Arizona and the
Gulf, whatever its fate, at least cen
ters attention on the potential impor
tance of this great body of water.
If the Gulf of California were
stretched out inland over our country
from New Y'ork harbor, it would swal
low up a at ret eh of country from HO
to lhy miles wide hack as far as De
troit and Its busy factories. It was
shown on tlie early maps of North
America as tlie Sea of Cortez, since
this bold corsair explored It first. Its
depth varies from 600 to 6,000 feet, its
coast line on both sides is irregular, and
In it are many islands, Angel de la Guar
da and Tlbaron being the largest. The
latter island points Its rooky crest 7,000
feet above llie level of the sea. and
Is inhabited by a fierce and war-like
tribe of Indians, the Serls, who, It Is
claimed, haie cannibalistic Instincts.
It can be easily understood that It Is
solely hecau-e of tile outlet that there
has been a move toward acquiring the
strip of northern Mexico south of Ari
zona, for It is one of the most deso
late regions of North America. The
map shows that while the southern
boundary of the state extends due
west for a space from the southwest
ern corner of New Mexico, It then
strikes northwestward at a very slight
angle. The resolution sought ail ar
rangement with Mexico by which this
bend In the southern boundary of the
state would he eliminated so that the
line would continue as It started, in
■ due east and west direction. The
triangular area that would be added
to the state would he about 240 mile*
long by about Vi miles wide at the
point of greatest breadth.
Arizona Would Be Coast State.
The important consideration Is that
this long narrow triangle Is all that
separates Arizona from the sea. Add
It to Arizona, and overnight the state
would desert tlie 27 inland common
wealths and Join the 21 that border on
sail w ater. With Its hundreds of thou
sands of tons of minerals to ship, the
state is now bottled up by a nurrow
region undeveloped and little likely to
he developed by Its present owner. It
Is felt that even the desolate, prac
tically tnillless desert, and the lack of
natural harbors on the Gulf would not
deter Yankee enterprise and Yankee
engineering ability from laying down
a trail of steel and constructing quuys
or piers at which ocean steamers
would soon he loading, furnishing the
cheap transportation that bulky prod
ucts demand.
I ne ureas or must states are well
known, even the purts sparsely popu
lated. It is hard for dwellers In many
other portions of the United States to
realize, therefore, that not only is thla
triangle of Mexico a terra Incognita,
but that the portion of Arizona which
adjoins it is almost equally so. Most
of the region south of the Southern I’a
cllic railroad may he thought of us a
desert on which small broken rocky
ranges of mountains have been super
imposed. In the valleys between the
craggy mountains are numerous
patches of fertile soil, hut little rain
falls and there are practically no run
ning stream*—only dry stream-beds
which now and then carry water for
• few hours until It Is lost In the sand,
and a very few water holes.
Both north and south of the border,
this region is given over almost wholly
to a handful of i'apago Indians with
communistic customs who range as
freely as did their remote ancestor*,
needing to give, In their desolate home
land, little nr no thought to border
lines or to the governmental machinery
of states and nations. The region—
both Amerh-an and Mexican—is known
roughly as “Papugueria," and Is nel
dom traversed by white men.
Through It the international boun
dary extends, the ultimate in arbitrary
lines. Swerving neither to the right
nor to the left It extends, a straight,
geometrical line, running up sheer
rlllfs and over craggy peaks, hurdling
great valley* and tiny arroyoa, criiaa
Ing deserts, lava flows, and sand dune*,
until It atrlkes the Colorado river aome
fifteen miles below Yuma. And It ts
Imaginary as well as arbitrary. Lit
tle monuments from three to five miles
•part mark It* progress, but these are
often obscured: and the Indians and
Many are showing their apprecia
tion tor the Monitor by Bending in
their eubecrlptiona. Are you a sub
scriber? if not, why not? la your
subscription due? If so, please pay
it pnnptly.
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the occasional white or Mexican trav
elers. may, and do cross and recross
It frequently without knowing its lo
cation. and with no guards or officials
to question th«m.
Not a Pleasant Region.
The Mexican triangle of Papaguerla
which it is proposed to add to Ari
zona, is even a more Inhospitable coun
try thun the border region. In addition
to the features of the latter, it em
braces a district 30 by 40 miles cov
ered by extinct volcanic craters and
an ancient lava flow, and hundreds of
square miles of great towering sund
dunes that create a landscape like that
of parts of the Sahara, tin the high
est lava ja-aks of Plnacate, say the old
Papago legends, their "Elder Brother”
landed from his cask after the deluge
and after floating around the world
four times. While his solicitude for
animals was not so extensive as that
of the Hebraic Noah, he at least man
aged to save a coyote and a beetle.
The Papugos formerly were "sand peo
ple” living In the sand dune region
near the lava fields, with headquar
ters at the few small water holes.
Thin region U now practically deserted,
the Papagos living by dry-farming and
stock-raising farther east anil north.
On the southern edge of the Bay
of St. George is the Sallpa de St.
George, a salt deposit, usually measur
ing about 325 feet In diameter, hut
sometimes entirely covered by the sea.
which is a favorite with the Papagos.
When they need salt, the customary
method is to ride to the foothills of
Chujububl, perform a certain ceremo
nial rite peculiar to the gathering of
salt, and then walk the 50 miles to the
Satina in about a day .and a half.
There is no wuter to lie hud between
the two places. 'Hie Pinnate Salt de
posit, about fifty miles further north
on the Gulf shore, however, has al
ways furnished the major portion of
the salt supply of the Papago Indians.
The amount of this heavy commodity
that'the Indians can carry is astound
ing. Not only are Papago families in
Arizona supplied from tills dlstunt
source, hut In the past the entire salt
supply of sizable American towns has
tieen purchased from the Indians.
The promised boundary line would
strike the Gulf of California Just north
of the Bay of St. George, which has
been considered by Mexico as a possi
ble port site. There Is no general
knowledge of good natural harbors
along the portion of the gulf to the
north, hut probably there would be
little difficulty In constructing harbor
facilities either along Bahia Adair,
which would mark the southern boun
dary of the addition, or northward to
ward the h«*ad of the gulf. The larger
sand dunes are 20 miles from the shore
near the gulf head and an equal dis
tance from the Colorado Vlver. The
most feasible railroad route probably
would he from the neighborhood of
Yuma, extending roughly parallel to
the river.
Paradise for Fishsrmsn.
The placing of a portion of the Oulf
of California under the Jurisdiction of
the United States would open up an
other fishermen's paradise. Kven now
a few super-adventurous Americans
venture to this unknown region on
hunting and fishing trips, hut In an
alien land where only the law of the
frontier prevails. It Is a somewhat
risky procedure. There is a multitudi
nous varlely of flah In the gulfs wa
ters—a sufficient supply to justify the
erection of huge canneries. Today
they are serving as food for Innumer
able pelicans and other fish-eating
birds. The natives and Mexicans of
the region are without skill and the
facilities for catching them. They us
ually ''still-fish" at great depths for the
jew fish and tortuava and kill their
catches by pounding them on the head
when they get them to the surface.
At present Ouaymas, about half way
down the gulf. Is the farthest north
port of any consequence. Under the
strong, centralized, though somewhat
despotic regime of Diaz. Guaytnaa was
a hustling port of consequence; but
the products of the hinterland fell off
under revolution and Insecurity, and
for years the bay has been silting up.
But It still hints of the possibilities In
Lower California across the gulf. Now
and then a schooner from that mys
terious shore will put Into Guaymas
and yield up Its cargo of dates In raw
hide-covered bales, sewed up In the
form and size of flour bart-els. as the
f friars taught the Lower Californians
I to do two centuries ogo.
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