The Monitor
A Weekly Newspaper devoted to the civic, social and religious
interests of the Colored People of Omaha and vicinity, with the desire
to contribute something to the general good and upbuilding of the
community.
Published Every Saturday.
Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter July 2, 1915, at the Post
office at Omaha, Neb., under the act of March 3, 1879.
THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS. Editor and Publisher.
Lucille Skaggs Edwards, William Garnett Haynes and Ellsworth W.
Pryor, Associate Editors.
Joseph LaCour, Jr., Advertising and Circulation Manager.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $1.00 per year.
Advertising rates, 50 cents an inch per issue.
Address, The Monitor, 1119 North Twenty-first street, Omaha.
DISCRIMINATION WHICH MUST
CEASE.
There is discrimination against the
admission of colored patients to one
of our state institutions which must
cease. Members of the Negro race
suffering with tuberculosis are not
admitted to the state hospital for
tubercular patients at Kearney, where
they can receive scientific treatment.
This fact was called to our attention
some months ago by a white gentle
man of this city and we intended to
take it up at that time, but confess
to our remissness in doing so. We
were shown a letter at that time writ
ten by the matron or superintendent
to the superintendent of the Douglas
county hospital, in which it was stat
ed that there was not room to “sep
arate the races,” and that therefore
they could not be admitted.
We respectfully call the attention
of Governor Morehead and the Board
of Control to this state of affairs and
respectfully ask them to see that this
discrimination ceases.
As taxpayers and citizens of Ne
braska, we are entitled to all the priv
ileges of the public institutions of this
state. Our unfortunates are admit
ted to every other state institution.
Why should the state hospital for
tubercular patients be an exception?
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FAVORS WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
The New York Age, which is one of
the oldest, ablest and most influential
of our race journals, and for a time
considered ultra-conservative, is advo
cating the franchise for women. In
a recent issue it presents the import
ance of the measures upon which the
people of the Empire state are to reg
ister their will next month in the fol
lowing well-considered words:
"The coming elections are import
ant for the reasons that they will have
great influence on the national elec
tions next year, and also because sev
eral vital state questions are to be de
cided.
The revised constitution is to be ac
cepted or rejected. All citizens who
are in favor of bringing the state gov
ernment up to a higher standard of
efficiency and economy will vote for
the new constitution.
The question of the ballot for wom
en is even more important.
Let colored voters remember this,
the reasoning which holds that the
ballot should not be given to women,
is very closely related to the reason
ing which holds that the ballot should
not be given to the Negro.
Then it is clear that a vote for
woman suffrage in New York is a vote
against arbitrary abridgement any and
everywhere of the right to vote. We
therefore say vote for woman suff- j
rage
MAYOR THOMPSON REPLIES.
, It was stated in last week’s issue
that during Mayor Thompson’s brief
visit to Omaha, he was handed a note
reading:
“'Mayor Thompson: The colored
people of Omaha are watching with
pride and interest your career as may
or of Chicago and desire to thank you
for your manly and fair stand in giv
ing the members of their race merit
ed recognition in the city govern
ment.”
This note was written on our per
sonal card, which explains this appre
ciated acknowledgment, which was
mailed to us by the mayor of Chicago
m transit and which we pass on to
our readers:
CITY OF CHICAGO.
Office of the Mayor.
Omaha, Neb., Oct. 5, 1915.
Rev. John Albert Williams, B. 1).,
1119 North 21st Street,
Omaha.
Dear Sir:
I want to thank you for your kind
feelings as expressed upon the card
handed me today, which I assure you
are greatly appreciated.
Faithfully yours,
WM. HALE THOMPSON,
Mayor.
The Detroit Leader states a pa
thetic truth when it says:
"it must be a sad moment for the
mother and child when the latter in
quires: Mother, why does papa not
live here with us?’ Such a condition
with its disappointments and dis
grace might never arise if both par
ties in the divorce considered the
third little party in the case. Suffer
little children.”
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At least one good thing ought to
come out of the Billy Sunday pre
formances at the Tab. and that is
the silencing of criticism against the
antics and monkeyshines of the il
literate but well-meaning backwoods
Negro preacher. This has been a
favorite subject with humorous news
paper writers, but the cultivated and
captured white audiences of Omaha
seem to like the way that Billy “puts
the rousements on.” His antics and
grimaces outdo those of the most il
literate and amusing Negro preacher
who ever lived. Billy’s a good imi
tator,
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J. M. Morris and C. H. Robinson of
Minneapolis, and Clarence W. Wig
ington of St. Paul arrived in this city
Sunday to attend the consistory meet
ing of the Scottish Rite Sunday after
noon. Messrs. Morris and Robinson
returned home Sunday night and Mr.
Wigington Monday morning. All
were dinner guests of Mr. G. D. Gor
don Sunday and Mr. Wigington was
a guest over night of Mr. Nate Hunt
er.
JUST A WEE BIT SENSITIVE.
Here’s a Good One from Kennedy’s
Dream Book in the Western
Laborer.
A janitor of a school threw up his
job. When asked the reason, he said:
"I'm honest, and I won’t stand being
slurred. If I find a pencil or hand
kerchief about the school when I’m
sweeping I hang it up. Every little
while the teacher, or someone who is
too cowardly to face me, will give me
a slur. A little while ago I seen
wrote on the board: ‘Find the least
common multiple. Well, I looked from
the cellar to garret for that thing,
and I wouldn’t know the thing if I
would meet it on the street. Last
night, in big writing on the black
board, it said: ‘Find the greatest
common divisor.’ Well, I says to my
self, both of them things are lost now
and I’ll be accused of takin’ them, so
1 quit.”
IT CAN BE DONE.
Somebody said that it couldn’t be
done,
But he, with a chuckle, replied
That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he
would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.
So he buckled right in, with the trace
of a grin
On his face. If he worried, he did it.
He started to sing as he tackled the
thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it.
Somebody scoffed: “Oh, you’ll never
do that;
At least no one ever has done it.”
But he took off his coat and he took
off his hat,
And the first thing we knew he’d
begun it;
With the lift of his chin, and a bit of
a grin,
Without any doubting or quiddit;
He started to sing as he tackled the
thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it.
There are thousands to tell you it can
not be done,
There are thousands to prophesy
failure;
There are thousands to point out to i
you, one by one,
I The dangers that wait to assail you;
But just buckle in with a bit of a grin,
Then take off your coat and go to it;
Just start in to sing as you tackle the
thing
That “can not be done,” and you’ll
do it. —Unidentified.
Like Cures Like.
“Nowr, Willy,” said the mother, “you
told me a falsehood. I>o you know
what happens to little boys who tell
falsehoods?”
“No, ma’am,” replied Willy sheep
ishly.
“Why,” continued the mother, "a
big, black man with only one eye in
the center of his forehead comes along
and flies with him up to the moon,
and makes him pick sticks for the
balance of his life. Now, you will
never tell a falsehood again, will you?
It is awfully wicked!”—Ladies’ Home
Journal.
A Long Wait.
The self-made man stalked into the
office of a great financier with whom
he had an appointment.
“You probably don’t remember me,"
he began, “but twenty years ago, when
I was a poor messenger boy, you gave
me a message to carry-"
“Yes, yes!” cried the financier.
“Where’s the answer?”—Argonaut.
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the most particular taste.
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It’s cost is 35c per ponnd, or $1.00 per
three pound can. It will not disappoint
you.
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