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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 28, 1916)
WE APPROVE: Some one who has remembered the Dreyfus case and Zola’s “J’accuse” philippic has organized a society of democrats under the name of Approv ing Americans. The slogan of the so ciety is “We approve!” We suppose their list of approbations will include ‘ the following: We approve the selection of William Jennings Bryan as secretary of state. We approve his resignation. We approve the stand of Mr. Wil- | son in opposition to a national defense program in 1914. We approve his addresses in favor of a national defense program in 1916. We approve his capture of Vera Cruz with the object of enforcing a salute to the American flag. We approve his withdrawal of our forces from Vera Cruz with the Amer ican flag unsaluted. We approve his insistence that Huerta must not be President of Mexico. We approve his recent announce ment that there must be no interfer ence with Mexico. We approve his support of Pancho Villa. We approve his pursuit of Pancho Villa. We approve his notification of Ger many that submarine attacks on mer chant ships must cease. We approve his declaration during the submarine controversy that we are too proud to fight. We approve his shaken fist. We approve his admonitory finger. We approve him when he advances and when he backs up, when he goes up and when he comes down, vertically and horizontally and diagonally, in straight lines and curved lines, in cir cles and spirals, elliptically and para bolically. Our approbation is flexible and adjustable, mobile and double jointed. “Them’s our sentiments,” said the backwoods statesman, “and if they don’t suit they kin be altered.”— Brooklyn Times. COLORED FOLK IN CUBA James Huneker, well known author and art critic, has written a very in teresting article in the N. Y. Times, entitled: “A West Indian Paradise of Perpetual Jajamas.” This excerpt will probably interest our readers: “Politics is the ruling passion. Not cock-fighting, a pastime throughout the island, not sugar or tobacco is so often in the thoughts of the Cubans. I had the luck to attend a meeting of the Liberalists to honor Alfredo de Zayas, their Presidential candidate. It was held at the Miramar, where the banquet was given in a large patio. Ladies in evening dress sat in the bal conies and listened to the grinding of male molars and to the noise of parch ed gullets overflowing with freshets of champagne. Such spellbinders! Such vociferous enthusiasm! Fierce little political fans, with portraits, were sold for pests. I fancied that I was in the old Ninth Ward till a man as black as the ace of spades spoke in glowing vocables. Then I knew I was in Cuba, the happy land of Col ored folk. Here the Negro not only votes but holds office. Here the Col ored women, most of them mulatto, walk the streets attired in variegated glory; that is, if they are not poor old washerwomen, in stockingless fee!, smoking black cigars, and carrying a live chicken under their arms. The Colored women of the better class are often handsome, majestic persons, bronze of complexion, hair of a nat ural features and symmetrical fig ures. There is no Negro problem, there are no “niggers.” The black people are equals, and they are happy, and sometimes rich. Those who are not rich expect to be, for they one and all play the lottery.” ALEXANDER HAMILTON COLORED (Amsterdam News) And now Alevander Hamilton, the best brains of the revolutionary per iod, is to be added to that long list of immortals differentiated from the rest of mankind as men of light com plexion, in whose veins ran predomin ant the virile blood of Africa and headed by the two Alexander Dumases, father and son, and boasting Pushkin, the great Russian, and many another of earth’s greatest men, some of them even unsuspected of Colored descent. The tale is old, and many have been the efforts by the descendants of Alexander Hamilton to cover it up. But the truth will out. And the story is well told by our attractively made | up and well edited contemporary, the Beth Tphillah Reminder, the organ of the Fourth Moravian church, of which the erudite Rev. Chas. Martin is pastor. The Reminder, in an arti cle scintilating with literary brillian cy and an array of facts, sets before the world final and convincing proofs of Alexander Hamilton’s descent from the despised and persecuted Colored race. What will white Amer ica think of its hero? We wonder can prejudice dim the fame of the mai, and will Caucasian cussedness m this case work out its usual theory, that the blood of ancient Egypt and Ethiopia can pollute in this age, when it uplifted anl glorified in all other ages? Anyhow, the article on Alex ander Hamilton in the August num er of the Beth Tphillah Reminder is well worth reading. TO SUBSCRIBERS Please look at the number on the yellow label on your paper. If the number there is the same as the “Whole No.” on the front page it shows that your subscription is due. CHAS. STORZ « f I » I > CHOCOLATES “The Utmost in Candy” THE O’BRIEN CO. 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