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_ - • THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1923 / 35
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Hon. Harry M. Daugherty, Republican Attorney General
of the United States, While Appearing Before the Honor
able Judges of the United States Supreme Court at Wash
ington, D. C., Recently Declared That “This Is a White
Man’s Country or Government.” The Twelve Million
Colored People in This Country Should Rise Up in Their
Might and Demand President Harding to Remove Him
From His Present Position.
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Our highly esteemed Brother, CoL
Robert S. Abbott, the grand head
boss of the greatest weekly news
paper in the world and his able
staff, had ten thousand fits in 1920,
because former United States Senator
from Illinois the Hon. James Hamil
ton Lewis, happened to state in some
speech which he delivered somewhere
when he was a candidate for gover
nor of this state, in alluding to the
proportion of employes in the City
Half of the whites and the colored,
referred to the city as “a whit man's
government”
Now we see from the public press
that a' Republican Attorney General,
standing before the Supreme Court of
the United States, in asking the Court
“if he could speak freely” and receiv
ing the response that “it was the desire
of the Court that he should speak
freely,”—touching his insistence on
legislation affecting the yellow races,
said—“Weil, our policy is to announce
to you our doctrine, that this United
States is a white man’s country.”
It is interesting to note what Broth
er Abbott and his staff will have to
say, as it was a Republican who asked
that the whole country be declared
only for white men,—when Senator
Lewis, the Democrat, in the rush of
SREV. ARCHIBALD JAMES CAREY, L.L.B., B.D.D. 1
The Trickiest and the Smoothest Political Bishop of the A. M.
E. Church,. Who Is Able to Ride Two Political Horses in
Opposite Directions at the Same Time.
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a political campaign alluded to the
city as a white man’s government,
meaning a proportion of those govern
ing in official office in tji^ City Hall,
—or in the control of the ballot boxes
from certain- wards of the South Side.
Never did we expect to live to s*e
the day in this country that a Re
publican United States Attorney-Gen
eral would become so bold as to stand
up bUore the august members of the
Supreme Court of the United States
and lay down or propound such a
damnable doctrine and that it is the
solemn duty of this government to
shape its legislation or policies so as
to place all of its burdens upon any
color except white, on the ground
“that is a white man's country.”
Without the least delay the twelve
million colored people all over this
country should rise up in their might
and demand President Harding to at
once remove his Attorney-General
from office for he is narrow minded,
full of rare prejudice and he cannot
1>e regarded as a well wisher or as a
true friend of the colored race.
At this time we wish to remind
President Harding not to go fast
asleep in that direction, to remember
the fate of the Dyer Anti-Lynching
Bill which was defeated by a Repub
lican United States Senate, and if he
fails to give these matters his serious
consideration we will warn him right
here and now to beware of the ides
of November in 1924.
Only a few weeks ago, Col. Sim
mons, in company with the Hon. Medill
McCormick, called on President Hard
ing at the White House and Col. Sim
mons, like a brazen-faced brat, had
the nerve to assure President Harding
that* he was the leading and the most
prominent colored man in this city
and throughout the state of Illinois,
and as such the colored people in this
city were well pleased with the treat
ment which they have so far received
from his hands; that it made no dif
ference to them if the Dyer Anti
Lynching Bill was knocked out by the
Republican LTnited States Senate; that
the colored people of Chicago and Il
linois would %ote for him and march
on to victory with him in 1924 just
the same.
The brass and the down right gall
of some people is appalling and Col.
Simmons is badly affected with a bad
cast of the big or the swelled head
when he sets himself up as the head
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or the boss spokesman of the colored
people residing in this city or within
the state of Illinois, for at no time
in the past that we can recall have
they, the colored people in this city,
called any public meeting and selected
or united upon Col. Simmons to wend
his way to Washington, D. C., and
*oice their sentiments to President
Harding.
In the first place, Col. Simmons
does not claim that Chicago is his
home and in the second place we have
never found any one who would posi
tively state that Col. Simmons owns
one dollar’s worth of property in this
city which he pays taxes on.
So it would appear that there is no
logical reason on earth why Col. Sim
mons should desire to pose as the
leading colored man residing in Chi
cago; unless it is that he is laying his
plans to rake in a whole barrel of easy*
money from Senator McCormick and
President Harding.
It will be recalled that only a few
years ago that Col. Abbott hearalded
it to all the world that Col. Simmons
was a grand rascal; that he had beat
him out of a whole bunch of money
which was .due him as subscriptions to
his greatest weekly newspaper in the
world and that Col. Simmons was
dead and was hurried in a very deep
grave at Memphis, Tenn. These are
some of the further reasons why Col.
Simmons cannot be regarded as a
true leader of the colored people resid
ing in Chicago.
COLORED SCHOOLS MAKE PROG
RESS-STATE AGENTS, MARY
LAND TO TEXAS, HOLD CONFER
ENCE AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE
PUBLIC SCHOOLS NEED PUBLIC
SUPPORT—DR. J. H. DILLARD DE
CLARES GOOD CITIZENSHIP MUST
BE PUT IN REACH OF ALL.
(By Wm. Anthony Aery)
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Hampton, Va.—The State - agents
for colored schools in 14 Southern
States, who recently met for a three
day conference at Hampton Institute,
were introduced by Principal J. E.
Gregg as “the group of men who are
doing the most important work that
is being done in the South for the im
provement of colored public schools.”
Leo M. Favrot, Baton Rouge, La.,
referred to Hampton’s service to the
South through its graduates. He
stated that in Louisiana the coldred
school population had increased 3 per
cent in 9 years, while the number of
colored teachers had doubled and the
salaries paid to colored. teachers had
quadrupled. In 1913 two-thirds of the
white school children were enrolled,
while only one-third of the colored
children were enrolled. In 1922 three
fourths of the white school children
and two-thirds of the colored chil
dren were enrolled. “There is a
growing sentiment,” he said, “that we
must do more for our colored chil
dren.
N. C. Newbold, Raleigh, N. C.,
stated that North Carolina is now
spending between $3,500,000 and $4,
000,000 annually on its colored schools.
“We have built,” he said “287 Rosen
wald schools at a cost of over $1,000,
000. Forty more Rosenwald schools
must be completed by June 1. These
schools will cost $120,000. Three
years ago North Carolina had 1000
colored teachers with State certifi
cates. Today the State has 2250.
North Carolina is making an earnest,
sincere, and faithful effort to do its
duty by its colored people. Some of
us'have a hope and an ambition that
we may live to see in our State—not
only there, but all over this country—
such conditions obtain as will make
of the races friends and helpers and
cooperators for the upbuilding of our
country.”
W. T. B. Williams, Tuskegee In
stitute, Ala., field secretary of the
Jeanes and Slater Boards, said:
“American Negretes have had stimu
lated within them the sense of re
sponsibility for those who have been
less fortunate than they are. That
impulse has sent hundreds into the
work, for the uplife of others.’’
Taxes Must Support Schools
Dr. James Hardy Dillard, Char
lottesville, Va., president of the Jeanes
and Slater Boards, declared that he
discovered many years ago that all
the millionaires in America could not
educate the people. “There is only
one way to do the job,” he said “and
that is by public taxation. That is
the way it must be and ought to be.”
Doctor Dillard said that the Hampton
Institute students are chosen ones
who must through service give their
less fortunate brothers and sisters a
fair chance. “These State agents,”
he said, “are making it possible to
bring the school out to the little child
in the country, and, please God, we
are going to keep at this work until
every child shall have a good school
to go to, where he may get the light
of knowledge and good-will and good
training to be a good citizen.”
Other members of the conference
included Dr. Wallace Buttrick, Tre
vor Arnett, and H. J. Thorkelson,
New York; B. C. Caldwell, New Or
leans; O. H. Bernard, Nashville; J.
H. Brinson, Tallahassee; F. C. But
ton, Frankfort, Ky.; W. F. Credle,
Raleigh; E. A. Duke, Oklahoma City;
J. B. Felton, Columbia, S. C.; G. H.
Ferguson, Raleigh; Wm. D. Gresham,
Richmond; Bura Hilbun, Jackson,
Miss.; W. B. Hill, Atlanta; J. W. Huf
fington, Baltimore; J. S. Lambert,
Montgomery, Ala.; J. A. Presson,
Little Rock; L. W. Rogers, Austin,
Tex.; and S. L. Smith, Nashville.
Addresses were also made by Law
rence H. Parker, Amherst, Mass.,
editor of “World Agriculture,” who
stated that no permanent society of
nations could be organized without
the proper adjustment of those eco
nomic difficulties which center about
the world’s food supply; by Jackson
Davis, Richtnond, Va., field agent of
the General Education Board; and by
Dr. Francis W. Shepardson, Chicago,
secretary and acting director of “The
Julius Rosenwald Fund."
JULIUS F. TAYLOR HAS BE
COME AN HONORARY MEM
BER OF THE RED CAP’S
CLUB.
Last week at the regular meeting
of the officials of the Red Cap’s Club,
3441 &. Wabash avenue; Julius F.
Taylor, was chosen as one of * its
honorary members for the current
year.
Many thanks, to the president,
Sandy W. Trice, and its other officials
for the pleasant honors conferred up
on us.
MADAM M. CALLAWAY BYRON,
WILL APPEAR IN RECITAL
AT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH
Tuesday evening, May 22, Madam
M. Callaway Byron, the far famed
International songstress who has
sweetly sang in all of the leading
cities of Europe, will appear in re
cital, at Olivet Baptist Church, 3!s(
street and South Park avenue.
There is a rich treat in store for
all those who will be present on that
delightful occasion.