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HON. SHEADRICK B. TURNER
Member of the Legislature of Illinois, from the first senatorial
district; who stands ace hiffh in the estimation of the leading
Republicans and Democrats throughout this state; who assisted
in defeating the Race Commission Bill, in the fifty-first General
.Assembly.
THE RACE C03IMISSI0N
By Dr. M. A. Majors.
Tha Governor has appointed the
rsn commission. Since we have it
Ipt na see if we can find a use for
it The unsettled condition of the peo-
ple just coming out of a great war
frpB been the cause of much of the
chaos that now exists.
Hundreds of thousands of black
men who went to war, went to fight
and die lor a cause outside of their en
vironment, and for a country that
lynches, ourns, and murders them -at
will and lor which they are without
redress. They carried the flag, and
. then brought it back with honor, but
they met dishonor on their return. In
the battle zones the only humiliation
they suffered was from white Ameri
can soldiers and officers.
The question of rac prejudice has
been an incubus. A people long
wronged by the tyranny and oppress
sion and borne brutal useage almost
"nihout complaint will in the final an
alysis have an awakening if they pos
sess a spirit and a conscience.
The recent war put .all the races on
edge. The oppressed will no longer
be oppressed. What they fought for
they insist that it shall not be denied
them.
The old time darkey is dead and
sleeps his peaceful sleep in the grave.
The new order of world Democracy
tells the black soldier and the black
citizen, that to be respected, he must
respect himself, .and to do that his
house must be protected from the mob
and the bomb. This high regard for
self demands that he must die fighting
a man's fight, asking no quarter and
giving none. Peaceable and just, not
seeking trouble, nor giving other trou
- ble. Industrious, economic and a
proud people, fearing no one bnt de
manding what belongs to all people.
. He should not bedenied of the right
to buy property wherever it looks like
a good bargain, and where he wishes
to bring up his children.
He should not be denied the right
.nor blamed fcr doing the noblest
. thing a man can do for his family,
buying for them a home.
. ..He should be protected in all his
rights as much by a healthy public
.opinion as by the law. People that
hold prejudice against a race, merely
upon color, cannot very satisfactorily
determine wnat is nest lor tnat people.
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. We will not be interested jn any
proposition that advocates segregation
either in city or public schools, nor
anything that means Jim Crow law
lii the great state of Illinois.
"We believe the Commission would
Bo "a wise thing to call some kind of
'public meeting at which much of wha
iis,.to be' discussed pro and con by the
, commission, giving the public the op
portunity to be heard alo.
THOUGHTS OF THE HOUR
By Dr. M. A. Majors. "
We may not boast of a nickel' worth
of powder
To shoot or to color a womait's face
But there are -thoughts we'd like to
. express louder
Than white dailies print for our race.
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Tho press will never print forus,our
matter j - .
Only in 8 half-hearted measly jray
It always front-pages what Istonly
clatter C'V
It never prints for public what we'aay.
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Oh! let us find the man who stands
for "we must!"
The clock is striking, it is almost noon
Let's name him, back him, without any
mistrust
We cannot do the noblest thing too
soon.
We've passed the line of easy aatis-
fnrtinti-
We cannot hope for much with the old
way,
Vfe've got to get behind the men of
action.
We've got to get the things for which
we pray,
Let's be a race that isn't imitation,
Let's set up rules forgetting how to
shirk,
Let's do -the things that's worthy emu
lation,
Adding our full quota to the world's
great work.
F K
E E SIX NEGROES FROM
STOCKADE AT GRANT
CAMP GRANT, DLL. Half a dozen
of the colored soldiers court martialed
recently at Camp Grant upon charges
of complicity in connection with an at
tack upon a Bloomington, HL, woman
here in May, 1918, have been liberated
from the military stockade, it became
known today.
While camp authorities made no
official announcement that the ' six
Negro soldiers had been found not
guilty of the charges preferred
against them, it was unofficially ad
mitted that the men are now attached
to the Negro casual detachment at
518 South, under command of Lieut.
Charles Dickerson.
Army court martial proceedure pro
vides that following an acquittal, the
accused men shall be restored to duty
with their old organizations. Al
though given their freedom from the
stockade where they have spent more
than a year, the Negroes will not be
officially returned to duty until an
nouncement of the general courts mar
tial findings is made in Washington
by President Wilson.
The Negro soldiers who were de
fendants in the case and who are
now released from the guard house
are: Privates Elizer Chapman, An
drew Fields, Iron Townsend, James
Reel, Clemmie Johnson, Colonel Jack
son Cheeks.
With the exception of Chapman,
who was brought back from France,
this Spring to face trial all of the
sextette were tried and convicted at
the first general court marital held
at Camp Grant in August, 1918.
Army law provides that conviction
upon either of the first two crimes
may be punished.by death, or by such
a penalty as the military court may
provide. Should capital punishment
be inflicted upon any of the six men
alleged to have been convicted, the
sentence will be executed here.
A transcript of the record trial is
now in Washington where it is await
ing final review by President Wilson.
If he approves the sentence of the
Camp Grant court the verdict will be
published there by the judge advocate
general.
BETWEEN TWO FIRES
The senatorial foreign relations
committee has the eye of the world
turned to Washington. The Peace
League of Nations carries not enough
"self-determination" of small nations
and races, and the U. S. senate is bent
upon burnishing up the Golden Rule
for all of mankind.
fcory oyithauVtte-conaeotBfrPw
Lodge, Knox, Borah and Johnson, and
without the erudition and stateman
ship of ex-Senator El&u Root Any
how we shall see if the South takes
back-water.-MLay on MacDuff
and
damned be he who first ones,
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Hon. Lfee O'Neil Browne,
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cratic Members 01 rae
5 1 st General Ass emb ly
Assisted Sheadrick B.
Turner and Hon. Warren
B. Douglas to Defeat "The
Race Commission Bill
THEMJBERTY LOVING DEMOCRATS CLAIMING THAT
THEY DID NOT WANT THE SOUTHERN IDEAS ON
HOW TO HANDLE THE NEGRO GRAFTED UPON
THE SOIL OF ILLINOIS.
The following highly logical article contributed by Hon. War
ren B. Douglas, member of the Illinois Legislature from the 3rd
Senatorial District.
Gov. Lowden apparently feeling that
his opinion outweighed the collective
judgment of the members in the last
session of the legislature, in the mat
ter of the advisability of having a
"Race Commission", has proceeded to
appoint such a body himself.
Let me call to your mind what I
know to be the sentiment and true
feeling of the vast majority of the
people of this community toward this
much talked of "Race Commission"
whose duty it will be to find a panacea
for our so-called raicial ills; it might
be well for me to hark back to the
busy days of the fifty-first General As
sembly in which I had the honor of
representing the Third Senatorial
District During the session, House
Bill No. 155 provided for a board of
Race Commissioners was introduced
in the House, by my colleague, Honor
able Adelbert H. Roberts, referred to
.the committee on Efficiency and Econ
omy and reached second reading in the
House; this bill was afterwards with
drawn from the calendar; while it
was on the calendar, Senator Wheeler
introduced the same bill with a few
minor changes, in the Senate known
as Senate Bill 357, which passed the
Senate, reached the House in due
course, but did not pass, having failed
to receive the required number of
votes. It was a common understand
ing at that time that Gov. Lowden
was anxious, in fact extremely soli-
citious that it should become a law.
I take pleasure in reporting to the
constituents of my district and the
State of Illinois that I opposed the
measure and I further point out with
some pride the fact that some of the
best minds in the legislature opposed
and voted against this measure on
the ground that the bill if enacted
into a law would not only be unpatri
otic, un-American and unfair to 12,-
000,000 loyal souls, but it would ulti
mately lead to such laws as would
bring about segregation and disfran
chisement which is in open violation
of the Constitution of our country.
Among the many able legislators who
opposed this measure in the House,
allow me to name just a few of them:
OUKTRAEGES
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City CoUeclor, City Comptroller,
Nrfitf jrtjixPijr
of Cook CQuaty, he was always on the job in the interests of all
of the people, and as he Tirill be nominated asd elected as one of
the delegates to the Constitutional Convention from the fourth
senatorial district, he wfll assist in f ormnlaUng a new Constitution
the mterestsb? all the people
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Sheadrick B. Turner, serving his sec
ond term in the legislature, strenuous
ly opposed this bill and was more
than instrumental in conducting a suc
cessful campaign that lead to the de
feat of the bill. Among the salient
points brought out by Mr. Turner on
the floor, was this, "there are no com
missions formed for the Poles, Ser
bians, Croatians, or any of the other
nationalities that dwells beneath the
Stars and Stripes and why therefore
should there be one for the Negro,
when even handed justice and fair
play is the one and only solution for
the racial troubles of our country."
Mr. Turner's record on race matters
has always been four square and had
this bill any merit whatsoever, I am
sure none wquld have rallied to its
cause any sooner or more earnestly
than the "Wizard of the First Dis
trict"; Lee O'Neil Browne, Judge Wil
liam H. Dieterich, Lawrence C.
O'Brien and many others of the lead
ing Democrats and Republicans op
posed this measure because they felt
that it was unjust in its application
to the Negro. Some very strong
speeches were made against the bill
by leading men of both parties whose
terms of service in the legislature
stretch over a span of years.
In the Herald-Examiner of the first
of August, there appeared an article
headed "Lowden Plans Adjustment of
Race Issue," stating that he would ap
point these commissioners who would
work out a solution for the race prob
lem. To be more specific allow me to
quote verbatim from that article: "I
want to have a commission," said the
Governor, "composed of four or five
colored men who have nothing to do
with politics but who have the con
fidence of all the colored people and
an equal number of white men of the
same caliber. They would be men
who could through the creation of
public sentiment, create among their
people an understanding that would
soften the feeling between the races.
There would be a tacit understanding
that the colored race should occupy
certain areas for residences, certain
beaches and parks for amusement and
so on. By the same understanding
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certain similar areas and facilities
would bo reserved f op the white race."
This news article among some other
was
similar commision working on a simi
lar plan at Atlanta, Georgia and that
he had sent for a report of that body."
I opposed the commission bill in the
General Assembly, and am more bit
ter than ever against it now, for it is
quite obvious now as it was then that
this board of Raco Commissioners
would have for its ultimate purpose
tho bringing of segregation, jim crow
cars, in fact to chango the fair state
of Lincoln, as far as the Negro is
concerned, into a Hell Hole like unto
the State of Mississippi. Tho Govern
or says that there shall be a tacit un
derstanding among the commissioners
that they shall try to bring about
segregation with all its degrading in
fluences. The Atlanta commissioners
from whom the Governor seeks advice,
icsides in the state that gave to the
world Hoke Smith, it would seem
therefore that the commissioners are
to bring about conditions to make it
possible to mistreat tho Negro in
Illinois as he is mistreated in Georgia:
Jim Crow, taxation without the right
to vote, poor schools, lynch law, mur
der and ravishing of our women is
what the commissioners have tolerated
and counteanced in Georgia
It is inconceivable that the white
man, in spite of his farsightedness
and superior intelligence, fails to ap
preciate the folly of alienating the
good will and loyalty of the Negro,
who has proved himself to be a potent
factor in the economic and industrial
lifo of this country. And further, has
stood and ever been faithful to the
Star and Stripes, and has never been
found wanting when the Nation has
called upon him in the hour of need.
The Negro needs no greater proof of
his loyalty than that shown by his
willingness to sacrifice his life upon
the battle fields in every war in which
this country has been a party during
its entire history and when the Negro
went to France that democracy and
liberty might rule the world it was
with the hope that the war's setting
sun would be followed by the dawning
of a new day of hope for him and his.
And above all that since he had made
Europe a fit place to live in he has
returned determined that America
shall be a fit place for him to live in,
and no longer will the Negro be con
tented to be treated as the Nation's
ward or to accept of any cajoling or
humoring you might say in lieu of
those rights that are guarantees to
all citizens by the constitution of the
United States. This is the thought
advanced by the young Negro of todayj
who is teaching his people and givingj
them a new form of intelligent and
constructive leadership, and the soon
er the federal, state and city officials,
and the business men realize this fact
and enforce the law and giver every
man a square deal the better it will
be for the entire country.
The Negro in this country is purely
an American product, is a poor social
ist, and no bolshevik at all. He has
no fatherland to which he feels and
gives a large part of his allegiance,
while at the same time claiming Am
erican citizenship, and if America
would give better facilities and oppor
tunities for the Negro to develop in
the principles of manhqod and citizen
ship, it would prove a better invest
ment than throwing our doors open
to the hot-headed, disgruntled and.
ARRIVALS AT BEAUTD7UL
IDLEWILD
Mr. Geo. Jones, Jacksonville, Fla.
Mr. and Mrs. H. E Marshall, St
Louis, Mo.
Mr. Japp Manes, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. McKnight Fort
Worth, Texas.
Miss Lucille
Texas.
Mr. and Mrs,
Worth, Texas.
Collins, Fort Worth,
. Oscar Warren, Fort
Mr. J. Westmoreland, Buffalo, N. Y.
Dr. D. E. Hayes and Wife, Mont
gomery, Ala.
Mrs. Roshell Brock, Montgomery",
Ala.
Mr. Wesley Ladlow, Denver, Col.
Mr. Wallace A. Tate, Oklahoma,
Miss.
Mr. S. C. Hamilton, city.
Mr. George Mosley, Quincy, 111.
Mr. Richard Gaines, Kansas City,
Mo.
Mr. Eddie Griffin, City.
Miss Mamie J. Young. Bloomington,
Ind.
Mr. Wm. Johnson, Washington, D.C.
Mr. Wm. Franklin, Omaha, Neb.
Mr. En. Lindsay, St PouL JUinn.
Miss Louise Love, Sheridan, Wyo.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Levy. Minneapolis,
Minn.
Miss Billie Bell, Tallahassee, Fla.
Mr. John Neely, Winnipeg, Can.
Mr. J. A. Robinson, Winnipeg, Can.
Mr. Claude Williams, Columbus, O.
Mr. Wsstley Sewood, City.
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Mri c. C Holt; Xeala, Obfe.
MrT and Mrs.- O. T. WlHiaa, Do-
xroic. Mien.
Mr- J. Edward Gray, New York Cfty
Mn. Norma Sektext, Billing.
Mont.
Mr. and Mrs. Web, Chicago Ha&fetsj
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HON. WARREN B. DOUGLAS
The new gladiator of the Colored race in the Middle West; who
led the fight against the RaceCommission Bill, in the fifty-first
General Assembly of Illinois.
lawless elements of Europe, whom we
foolishly believe can be made into
first-water Americans by having them
go through the prescribed form of
naturalization but who in fact, while
filling their pockets with American
gold, form plots and put forth propa
ganda that is inimical to American
institutions and is eating like a can
cer into the very heart of our na
tional existence.
No permanent good can result from
segregation of the races such as be
ing suggested by some at this time.
What is needed is a better understand
ing between the races, and that, can
not be gotten by making a wider gulf
between them. Segregation will only
emphasize racial differences and keep
alive prejudices that should have no
place in the life of America today.
Setting territorial limitations for the
races will act as a two-edged sword
and the white man will be among the
Mr. Edd. Bradley, Gary, Ind.
Mr. Jack Wells, Milwaukee, Wis.
Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Jenkins, Aurora,
111.
Mrs. R. K. Clark, New York City.
Mr. Jas. E. Simpson, New York
City.
Mr. S. T. Cuthbert, City.
Mr. C. M. Edwards, Kansas City,,!
Mo.
Mr. John Wagstepp, Cattle, Wyo.
Mr. Roy Williams, Portland, Ore.
Mr. Loyd Griffith, Portland; Ore.
Mr. S. J. Carr, Chicago.
IDLEWILD NOTES
Hon Beauregard F. Moseley, pro-j!
prietor of Moseley's Stadium and Re-'
creation Park and Idlewild Hotel, left.'
Monday night for a short visit to his i PrKram of which will appear very
family now at his summer home, Idle- soon' The riot period excepted, there
wild, Mich. i has not been a single night but that
. . a service has Ijeen held in this plae
! The Superintendent will conduct a
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Bolden. accem- children's meeting at 2 o'clock and a
panied by Mr. William II. Cis:v of meeting for everybody at 8 o'clock
Cleveland, Ohio, were dinner guests at) Sunday. Hearty welcome to strang
le Idlewild, Sunday. j ers'and the
Something new in the hotel line wilW
soon be given to the public. Watch;
these columns for same. !
Don't fail to visit Moseley's Stadium!
and Recreation Park and enjoy a good
cooi nae Deiore returning. Open each j
evening, 7 to 11:30.
new of the rfch has e, ,.. ,
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first to feel its prick. Careful re
flection has shown this to be a question
that will not yield to legislation or
mob regulation, for you only have to
glance at Georgia, Alabama, Texas
and other states south of the Mason
and Dixon line where segregation
brought about by legislation or other
wise, only tends to make matters
worse. The Negro is here whether
by accident or design and here he in
tends to remain; all he asks is that
justice be given him, seeking no spe
cial favor, asking no special law, but
demands the right to the pursuit of
life, liberty and happiness as guaran
teed by the charter of Human Rights,
the right of an equal chance, an equal
opportunity to work and develop him
self, as that given the foreigners, who
are attracted to America because of
the American Dollar, only.
SUNSHINE RESCUE MISSION
2830 S. State St
Rev. H. Franklin Bray, D. D.. Supt
SERVICE EVERY NIGHT IN THE
YEAR
"Surely the Lord is in this place."
Thus spoke a goodly number who wor
shipped at the altars here during the
past week. Eternity alone will re
veal the tremendous good being done
here nigh: after night by reason f
the faithful service of a few of God's
spirit brytized souls vho give of the-r
time and strength in an earnest ef
fort to win men to Him. The Sunshine
Rescue Mission expects to have a biff
bunch in heaven.
The second anniversary of the Mis
sion will begin on the 25th of next
month and continue one week. Speak
ers of national reputation will have
r"art in these anniversary services, a
WHITHER ARE WE DRIFTING?
This is a f ruel world we live in.
The trials, sins and miseries of our
times seem multiplied and friend and
fe all suffer alike their woes.
The reconstruction day is here, and
besides the greatest war of the world
j to give us horror, a busy-being demo
I cratic "administration of public affairs
has added to our common ills. The
High Cost of Washhurton-aad national
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