THE MONITOR
A Weekly Newspaper devoted to the civic, social and religious interests
of the Colored People of Nebraska and the West, with the desire to con
tribute something to the general good and upbuilding of the community and
of the race.
Published Every Saturday.
Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter July 2, 1916. 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 and William Garnett Haynes, Associate Editors.
George Wells Parker, Contributing Editor and Business Manager.
Joseph LaCour, Jr., Lincoln Representative, 821 S. St., Lincoln.
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Address, The Monitor, 1119 North Twenty-first street, Omaha.
Telephone Webster 4243._
EMANICPATION CELEBRATION
About five thousand years ago a
little nation of people went under
bondage to the dusky Egyptians. For
five hundred years they toiled for
their masters and the land of Mizriam
is checkered with massive monuments
which the sweat and blood of this
little nation raised to the vanity of
foolish Pharoahs. The day of free
dom came at last and able leaders
carried them through to the Prom
ised Land. That nation is scattered
now to all the ways of all the winds.
Under every flag they live and every
tongue they speak, but with a won
drous unity they meet one day in
every year to thank their Jehovah for
bringing them out of the house of
bondage. They have done it for al
most five thousand years and will do
it for five thousand more. They
know what freedom means.
Fifty-three years ago freedom came
to the black race in the United States.
Those of the southland knew what it
meant and the first of January, to
them, is a holy day. We of the north
are cold to such sentiments. A profu
sion of privilege has dulled our sense
of gratitude to the Maker and
Breaker of nations; our empty pride
has chilled the chords of our hearts;
our unblushing ignorance has made us
ashamed of the hue that God has
given us. We are unworthy of our
race and of its ideals.
To fitly celebrate this day, the
Rev. Dr. Logan, of the Grove M. E.
church, invited the Colored citizens
to join together on the night of Jan
uary 1, to commemorate the Eman
cipation Proclamation. A mere hand
ful was present. The professional
men of the city, the ministers, doc
tors, lawyers, business men, and
would-be leaders, were conspicuous by
their absence.
Comment is not necessary. The
few who were there were enthusiastic
and warmly responsive to the memory
of the great day for their race. After
all it was a great meeting and spoke
more eloquently than words of the
short comings of men who want to
lead.
A GOOD LESSON
Last week a Colored man went to
a white dentist of South Omtht named
Kelly to have a tooth extracted. The
extraction was a difficult one, after
it was finished the dentist charged the
man seven dollars. The patient ob
jected, but threats of arrest caused
him to settle the amount for which
he asked a receipt. Later he sought
both legal and dental aid, legal aid
to try and recover the money paid
and dental aid to check the hemor
rhage and lessen the pain, the wound
he alleged, not having been properly
treated.
We hope this will carry its moral
to many of our people. The average
white dentist does not want Colored
patients and if, by chance, he feels
obliged to take them he usually
charges much more than the regular
price. Omaha has several competent
Colored dentists, all of whom were
educated in and graduated from north
ern colleges the same as the best of
Omaha’s dentists. Patronize them
and you will not run the chance of
being treated as was this man the
other day.
THE CASE OF SANTO DOMINGO
Every now and then there have been
rumors to the effect that the United
States has had a little war of her own
down in Santo Domingo. The State
Department has kept everything se
cret and the Associated Press remains
singularly silent, but the text of the
censorship order is such as to con
firm us in the opinion that the United
States is attempting some high hand
ed methods in this little country and is
finding the natives in a righteous
state of revolt. That Santo Domingo
is powerless to defend herself goes
without saying. The United States,
under the leadership of Wilson, will
see to it that the little black republic
feels the strength of American arms.
Her treasury will be robbed and her
resources worked to the limit for a
few money-mad Yankees, yet event
ually the score will be settled. The
United States must pay and pay with
heavy interest. Belgium paid, Eng
land is paying as are all the rest of
Europe’s belligerent nations. Our
country cannot escape with impunity.
OUR FARM LOAN BANK
Omaha is to have a farm loan bank
and the news has been a matter for
rejoicing throughout the entire state,
and it is well. Omaha deserves it and,
we believe, is an ideal city for such a
governmental institution. In connec
tion with this bit of news we note that
within six months it is expected that
a force of three hundred clerks will
be required to handle the business.
How many of them are to be Colored?
We can not answer this question,
but we do suggest that competent
young Colored men and women inves
tigate this matter and try for posi
tions. We have not yet learned
whether these positions will be con
sidered as under the departmental ser
vice or not, but it is tolerably certain
that the places will be filled through
examinations. Any person seeking
such preferment may rest assured that
The Monitor is ready and willing to
render any service that may be
desired in assisting an applicant.
SOUTHERN GRAFTERS
BUSY AGAIN
The Sunday Sun announces that, in
spite of the fact that the national
deficit will be something like $300,
000,000 on July 1, 1917, the Demo
crats are planning to jam through
Congress several measures that will
be no less than robbery of the Fed
eral Treasury. The three measures
represent a $120,000,000 grab, most
of which will go south of the M. and
D. line.
LET THEM BE PUNISHED
Tuesday evening the daily papers
reported the arrest of two Colored
men who had attempted to secure and
seduce a young woman through the
medium of the help wanted columns
of a daily paper. The men are un
known to us, but the crime with which
they are charged is most reprehen
sible and deserves severe treatment.
We sincerely hope that they will not
escape their just reward by any un
derhanded methods. Criminals of
that stripe should be put away for the
safety of society and the well being
of the race.
SONG OF SOLOMON
The Coal Man.
1. Hearken, O my son, while I
muse to thee a dainty ditty about the
coal man.
2. He is the happy hombre who
makes thee burn up good money and
helps thee to deplete thy exchequer
muchly.
3. The lower the mercury droppeth
the lighter growreth his heart for he
hath fond friends in the furnace and
the kitchen stove.
4. They work for him time without
ceasing and add many shekels to his
bank account.
5. A coal man measureth a ton of
coal by apothecary weight and not by
the weight called avordupois, and his
ton looketh large until it tumbleth in
to the bin.
6. And then it groweth still »mail
er, 0 my son, when it falleth into the
fire. It burneth up like paper, the
heat running toward the chimney and
the ashes choking the grate.
7. But it doeth thee no good to
holler, for he hath thee in his clutches
and humeth to thee the merry ha ha.
8. Winter now will soon be passed,
but still the coal man hath thee and
mindeth not to let thee go.
9. As summer draweth near, he
tumeth his carts into ice wagons and
thou needest him the same as ever.
He hath what is known as mortal
cinch.
10. The moral of this tale, O my
son, is that thou become a coal man.
Selah.
OBVIOUS OBSERVATIONS
The holidays are now over and we
will try to make love to the hay in
order to recuperate.
How the Allies can ask restitution,
reparation and security from the Kai
ser after the poor scrap they have
put across is more than we can un
derstand.
Next week we will publish a ver
batim copy of the censorship imposed
by the U. S. in Santo Domingo, and
if you can find one published by the
miltary authorities of Europe that is
any worse we’ll give you a ten year
subscription to The Monitor for noth
ing.
The Omaha Club set a record price
for banquet waiters by paying them
$4.00 and giving them from two to
four guests to wait upon. Hotel pro
prietors please take notice.
The first of January has come and
we ask all Colored voters to watch
the offices of Robert Smith, Michael
Clark and Harry Pierce. Each owes
us a place and they have all been re
minded of the fact.
,A Colored civic improvement club is
to be organized soon. Every man and
woman should join and set out with
the determined idea of making Omaha
a greater city and their race a more
important factor of it.
Thanking you for your kind atten
tion, we will now slide under the
blankets and have a tete a tete with
Morpheus.
LETTERS FROM OUR READERS
Omaha, Neb., Jan. 1, 1917.
The Monitor: .
Omaha, Neb.
Gentlemen: Enclosed please find
check for one dollar and fifty cents
in full for subscription to The Mon
itor for one year.
Very truly,
E. R. West
2006 North 28th St.
Kearney, Neb., 1-3-17.
To Rev. John Albert Williams, editor
Monitor.
Dear Sir: Please find enclosed
$1.50 for my subscription. I am now
in Kearney where I feel sure I will
be for awhile unless we go for the
winter to California, in which case I
will ask you to send the paper to
some one in Omaha who does not hap
pen to take it.
But, until I notify you otherwise, I
would like to have the paper come to
me.
Vours truly,
ALBERT HURT,
2120 3rd Ave.
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