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.
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Address, The Monitor, 1119 North Twenty-first street, Omaha.
Telephone Webster 4243.
PARKER DISPROVES
CUTTING’S THESIS
The New York Sun of August 20,
publishes a third of a page article
by George Wells Parker, of our city,
ander the caption “Nations Are Not
Destroyed But Made Great by Mixed
Blood.”
The article is in reply to one writ
ten by Janies D. W. Cutting, pub
lished in The Sun of June 11, in which
the thesis which Mr. Cutting attempt
ed to defend was that destruction
awaits nations of mixed blood, and
incidentally that the pure “Aryan
race” is divinely appointed to rule
the world.
Mr. Parker maintains that.
“It is a startling thesis if true; an
important question of the moment, if
scientific fact and historical truth will
verify it.”
Then with an array of unanswer
able facts, ethnological and historical,
he disproves Mr. Cutting’s thesis.
We wish we had space to publish
the article in its entirety.
The fact that the article by Mr.
Parker was deemed of sufficient merit
to be given such liberal space in The
Sun is of itself a most complimentary
tribute to his literary style and ability,
upon which we sincerely congratulate
him.
We have only space to quote the
following closing paragraphs of Mr.
Parker’s scholarly article which show
the vigor of his style and the sound
ness of his argument:
“This review of general ethnology
must show that Mr. Cutting’s theory
has no basis whatever in either fact
or history. If he has our own Amer
ican people in mind the theory' can
have no application whatever. The
original colonial population was
estimated at 8,400,000, which most
certainly was not Aryan, but suppose
that we grant that it was. Has that
original population multiplied so
rapidly that we may consider the
perpetuation of “Aryan” blood the
only factor in saving this nation to
civilizatilon? Most certainly not.
In the past thirty years 80 per cent,
of European immigrants have come
from Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria
Greece, Italy, Montenegro, Poland,
Portugal, Roumania, Russia, Serbia,
Spain, Syria and Turkey. All of them
represent types of merged ethnic
characters. In the State of Massa
chusetts two persons out of every
three are foreign born or have for
eign bom parents. Boston itself has
nly 23.6 per cent, of native whites of
ve parentage. New York City has
only 19.3 per cent. Bearing such facts
in mind, according to Mr. Cutting this
nation can but await dire destruction.
The truth is that the United States
:s a nation in the making, a people
potential. In dreaming of her destiny
we need the geologian’s sense of time
and the astronomer’s sense of distance.
The verdict of history is that no pure
blooded race has ever become great of
itself. Such a race, if ever there can
be one, must stand alone like a single,
chemical element awaiting combina
tion with other chemicals to make it
useful.
National existence depends upon
healthy ideals and sterling virtues.
When a civilization becomes effete;
when the moral law is shattered upon
die rock of might; when lust, vanity,
; cruelty and oppression destroy purity,
I honorable pride, mercy and justice;
when honest labor becomes degraded
and the pursuit of wealth for wealth’s
ake becomes the lone ambition; then
the fate of that nation is sealed. Out
of the mists sweeps a Sesostris, Dar
ius, Alexander, Caesar, Atilla, Alarm
or Bonaparte. All are scourges of
God coming in answer to inevitable
and immutable laws to purge the
world and to give humankind another
chance.”
In the concluding paragraph Mr.
Parker has pointed out the only source
of a nation’s greatness and perman
ency. His conclusion is that made of
old and recorded in Holy Writ, that
“Righteousness exalteth a nation; but
sin is a reproach to any people.”
“PROTECTION OF AMERICANS”
The lynching industry goes on
e. Five colored Americans in
Florida, two of them women, and one
in Texas, is the record for this week.
Nothing is done about it. A hypo
critical government and political can
didates talk big about "the protection
of Americans at home and abroad.”
while the murder of black American
citizens goes on unrestricted. If the
government is so anxious about “the
protection of American lives” in Mex
ico and on the high seas, it ought to
be consistent enough to show a little
solicitude for“the protection of Ameri
can lives,” in Georgia, Texas, Florida
and other sections of the lawless
Scuth, even though it be the lives of
only humble black men and women.
We don’t know who Mayor Dahlman
will appoint as inspector of weights
and measures; but it should be a man
whose life, character, association and
reputable standing in the community
as well as his ability, will call for no
explanation or apology, and who will
therefore be a fit representative of
our race. The appointment of any
other type of a man would be an em
barrassment to the administration and
an injustice to our people.
News from all portions of the coun
try is to the effect that industrial con
ditions are improving for our race.
Opportunities for us to earn an hon
t living are multiplying. What our
self-respecting people want is not
charity or pity but an opportunity to
work.
“Be ye temperate in all things,” is
the good advice given by the highest
authority. This includes food, speech
and all of God's gifts which have been
given men for use and not abuse.
Yes, The Monitor is growing, thank
you. Subscribers and advertisers like
the publication.
Snow will soon be flying. How about
your coal bin?
What are you doing to make a place
for your boy or girl?
Grow with Growing Omaha.
“DON’T FORGET THE
BUCKET, CHARLEY!”
It was Tuesday morning about half
past ten in front of a well-known
wholesale liquor house on Famam
street; we were on our way to the
bank. Our attention was drawn to
an Oakland automobile containing
three men evidently delegates to the
Retail Credit Men’s convention. They
wore badges labelled “Des Moines."
A rather elderly man, with whiskers,
and a cane, scrambled out rather nim
bly and started hastily for the front
door of the liquor house. He was fol
lowed closely by a younger man. As
the third man started to leave the
auto, the old man shouted to him:
“Don’t forgit the bucket, Charley.”
“That’s right,” he replied, and he
reached into the auto. We saw him
take out a large bucket about the size
of a large sized candy bucket, and
take it into \he liquor house.
They were from Des Moines, Iowa.
NEGRO NEWSPAPERS O. K.
The average Colored man complains
a good deal about the lack of a cer
tain kind of news in the Afro-Ameri
can paper and that is the excuse of
ferred by some of the “big guns” for
not subscribing to the Colored papers.
But after all, isn’t it a fact that the
little weekly Afro-American journal
is the life of every community? After
one of these gentlemen has tired of
reading the police court records,
mobs and burning recitals of their
people, they turn with keen apprecia
tion to the Afro-American journal
which chronicles the good deeds and
achievements and optimistic accounts
of the Afro-American life struggles.
These men and their families can then
lift up their heads and believe that
after all life is worth living.—Louis
ville (Ky.) American Baptist.
AMONG RAILROAD MEN.
Sam M. Dukes on the O. W. limited
Omaha to Portland is well pleased
with his run.
Chas. Robinson, a former waiter on
the U. P., will leave the first part or
next week for Elgin, 111., where he will
be employed by Y. Cook, editor of the
Mothers’ Magazine.
Many of the waiters running on the
road are being employed in the cafes
of San Frencisco which formerly used
white help.
The Monitor is winning many
friends up and down the road. All of
the boys eagerly look for it each week.
Subscribe now. $1.50 a year. 1119
North 21st St., Omaha, Neb.
Mr. J. William Shields is the rail
road representative of the Monitor.
Volney Carter, buffeet man on the
Overland limited between Chicago and
Oakland who laid over between trips
Friday night on account of the illness
of his wife, resumed his run Monday.
Mr. S. K. Brownlow relieved him.
I,. C. Sayles is in the dining car
service of the U. P. between Omaha
and Portland.
The- Fontenelle Investment Com
pany buys, sells and exchanges any
thing. Phone Douglas 7150.—Adv.
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