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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-Ciass Mail Matter July 2, 1915, at the Fostofflce at Omaha Neb., under the Act of March 3, 1979.___ THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor and Publisher. Madree Penn, Associate Editor. Fred C. Williams, Business Manager_ SUBSCRIPTION RATES, *2.00 A YEAR; *1.25 6 MONTHS; 60c 3 MONTHS Advertising Rates, 75 cents an Inch per issue. Address The Monitor, 204 Kaffir Bloch, Omaha, >'eb. Telephone Douglas 3224. HARDING VERS IS COX TIT"?! have given very careful study W to the acceptance speeches of the presidential candidates of the two major political parties in order that we might get a clear view- of what each is personally thinking and plan ning as the paramount issue in the campaign before them. Now that Air. Cox has spoken, we are giving our candid opinion of the merits and de merits of the men as men and their production as a document to be di gested by the people. What we say, therefore, will be without bias or per sonal favor to either party or can didate. We had waited with great interest to hear what Mr. Cox had to say, for it was by this expression that the nation was able to get a line on the democratic nominee as an indepen dent or a Wilsonized candidate. We do not believe a single person that read his speech is in the slightest doubt that Mr. Cox is a very' close adherent of the W ilson policy. W e were frankly disappointed in Air. Cox. We had looked for a more indepen dent stand, notwithstanding the com mon rumor after his Sunday confer ence with the president that he had swallowed head and tall the W ilson ian international doctrine. Mr. Cox’s production is a long, weird and wandering document. It contains at least 10,000 words, di vided into 42 major and 11 minor heads. As near as we have been able to figure, three-fourths of it is assid ously devoted to the defense of the league of nations just as it was brought from Europe by Mr. Wilson. The remaining one-fourth is as near ly as we can describe it, devoted to a vehement excoriation of the senate for rejecting the pact. He would first ratify the pact as it stands. One would be easily smothered in beau tiful and attractive promises to undo what has been done by what he chooses to call a republican congress. He is very indirect. In plain, it is a wonderful effort to artificially paste beautiful roses over a perfectly hare shrub to hide its ugliness. Like the present incumbent, he elects to emit such invectives at his opponents as “iniquitous senatorial cabal,” despic able job of polities,” and “Brazen dis honor,” in condemning the senators who differed in opinion with the pres ident. It is interesting only for the fact that what it conceals is far more interesting than what it reveals. Not so witn HartUng. tie cuooses a course tuat seems possime ol at tainment. ms speecn is totally devoid ol invectives, He tnrows no mud. He stands lour square on me policies trial anect tne nation, ne is con cise, straight lor ward and to me point. He is lar more explicit than even his own piatiorm declaration. He acquitted himseil witn digmt.v auu poise, rn lact he said lar more in tne o,0uu words he used than his democratic opponent did in his l0,Uuu. These coiumns have always given praise to the man or party that mer ited praise regardless ol his paity aliiiiauon. Vie think well Ol -Hi. Cox as a man. But we are not ahle to follow him in his acceptance speecn. We are not a ole to convince ourselves of the sincerity of his many declara tion.-,. Vve reail s.'s thundenng ap,r.ai for support »1 the league in columns of the paper in which he declares it will forever prevent wars, while on the very same page we read of at least 12 wars raging right under tne very eyes of the league. He extoils it to the skies as the only means to reduce armaments and armies wmie on the very same column we read or the secretaries of war and the navy pleading before the congress for the largest army and nav y in the world He declares for reduction of taxe.-,, while his own partisans are guilty for their imposition. We have come to the place where deeds and not words only affect us. Well, said Mr. Hard ing, that if one of two choices were left to him—that of nationalism as be tween internationalism, he would choose the former. Mr. Cox, like the president, is too obsessed in the interests over the sea and too little concerned about the .suffering at home. Let Mr. Cox, like Mr. Harding, give attention to the things at home FIRST and Then go across the seas. Mi. Cox very' dex terously avoided the mention of the race question. His party at San Frahcisco was equally as careful. But Mr. Cox cannot reasonably expect that the members of our group will forget this when they vote. We cannot justify the governor in condemning those senators, both democratic and republican, who de clined their assent to the league. We are convinced that they acted in the best interest of their country. VICTIM OF JIM CROWISM QERGEANT CALDWELL has died, O a victim of the Jim Crow car laws of the South. He was a soldier of good reputation, who had served his country overseas. Upon his re turn to his home in Anniston, Ala., an altercation arose between him and a street car conductor over a seat. The conductor sought to evict him. A fight ensued in which Caldwell killed Linton. That there were ex tenuating circumstances in Caldwell’s case, is clear from the fact that in fluential persons pleaded for clem ency, and plea.-e remember; that this was in the very heart of the South, where it is not the custom to either show or plead for mercy for a black man who kills a white man under any circumstances. Caldwell’s case was even brought to the attention of Pres ident Wilson. All efforts to save Caldwell's life proved unavailing. He went to the scaffold and paid the pen alty of his crime. He met his doom like a man. He died, we repeat, a victim of the Jim Crow car laws of the South. Sortie will call Edgar Caldwell foolish because he did not quietly submit to the customs of the section in which he was. Those who so reason, overlook the fact that a man who has risked his life on the battlefield for his country cannot tamely submit to conditions which rob him of his rights of manhood. This is a fact which America must square- I ly face in the case of the returnee overseas soldier who has come bark with a new sense of manhood and per.-onal rights. Linton died because he was trying to enforce discrimina tory practices of his; section, and Caldwell died because he rebelled against them. BRIGHTEN IT VOI R MIND ! Beginning with next week’s issue, | this paper will conduct an intelligence j contest which will consist of 100 ques- ; tions the same to appear in 10 equal j installments. Three prizes of $5, $3 i and $2 will be offered by the Monitor to the persons fulfilling the condi tions laid down. The questions will not be hard, but of sufficient variety j to force us to “rub up” on many j things which we ought to know. The 1 first prize will be awarded to the per- I son who answers every question per- ! fectly, the second to the one answer- , ing not less than 95 per cent and the 1 third not less than 90 per cent. All answers must be filed in the Monitor office in legible hand not later than Tuesday afternoon of the week after the issue in which the questions ap pear, attached to the coupon on which the questions will be recorded. KEEPING ENGAGEMENTS Do you know that too many of us fall down in the matter of keeping engagements? We promise to be at a place at a certain time and we are careless about being on time. Some times we do not go at all, to the great inconvenience of the one who is waiting for us. This is wrong and is a grave fault that many of us should overcome. Lets try. We can do it. Were men to one another, As kind as God to all, Then no man on his brother For help would have to call; On none for idle wasting, Would honest labor frown, And none to riches hasting, Would tread his neighbor down. Proverbs and Paragraphic* A sound heart is the life of the | flesh; but envy the rottenness of the bones. Prov. 14:30. — Even a fool, when he holdeth his ; peace, is counted wise, and he that ! shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. Prov. 17:28. He laughs best whose laugh last-. Thou shalt not speak falsely of thy neighbor, lest he speak the truth of thee which may be worst. The back biter. Sincerity is an opening of the heart. We find it in very few people; , and that which we generally see is nothing but a subtle dissimulation to 1 attract the confidence of others.-— Rochefoucauld. Deliberate^ with caution, but act with decision, and yield with graciou - -ness, or oppose with firmness.—Coi ton. When in a fix, sweating will get you further than swearing. Let mules do the kicking.—The Housekeeper. Saving is having. If you have half an hour to spare, don’t spend it with someone who hasn’t.—The Gossipei. The big members of the league of nations are having the time of their life making the small ones behave. Twelve of ’em are now at war. Now that Mr. White’s mind doe not “go along with Mr. Cox’s’’ on the main issue of the campaign, we are interested to see whether Mr. Wilson will rise up and smite him. Mr. Cum mings may then be “drafted.” Europe fears another war as a re suit of the Russo-Polish conflict Oh. no! Impossible. The league of na- I tions is a fact and is now operative by thirty nations, of which Poland i- ! a member. Let the league do it. GLIMPSES OF PORTO KK’O Some Interesting Facts About the Country and People. (By Grace Morris Hutten.) Porto Rico is situated southeast of Cuba. It is 1,500 miles from New York city. If the weather is good the trip is usually made in five days. Porto Rico is cdnsidered the most beautiful of all the West India islands. It is exceedingly striking and picturesque to the eye. Your first vision of Porto Rico reminds you of your childhood’s ideas of fairlyland. Nature here offers an aspect quite strange and enchanting, clothed ijs the rich and splendid vesture of the most luxuriant vegetation. The whole island has the apepar ance of a continued chain of human habitations, intermixed with fields of sugar cane, groves of plantains, plan tations of tobacco, coffee and fruits of all kinds, with here and there towns and villages peeping between the hills. Clumps of palm trees are scattered over the plains, ornamenting by their graceful foliage the sides of the lit tle hills, which rise on the valleys like gentle waves on the ocean. Here and there a mountain, blue in the distance, seem to fade into the clouds. The mountains have not the rocky and precipitous surface which render the mountains of other countries sterile or inaccessible. All of the mountains here are susceptible of cultivation to their tops. El Yeonque, the highest point, can easily be reached in a day. This peak can be seen at a distance of 68 miles at sea. Valleys and tableland abound, little houses, coffee plants, groves of plan tains and plots of tobacco are every where visible. You can see acres and acres of tobacco covered with white cheese cloth, to secure a finer grade of tobacco on the side of the moun tains, and the white clcth gives it the appearance of snow in the distance. 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