RACIAL HATRED AND
RACIAL GOODWILL
There have been two awful out
bursts of racial hatred in this country
\v ithin the last ten days. Oi. was the
fiendish lynching at Memphis, Ten
nessee, horrible, ghoulish, hellish; the
other was the brutal mobbing of Ne
groes, who simply sought the right to
work, at East St. Louis, Illinois. Re
gretable, inexcusable, indefensible
manifestations of racial hatred, which
show how near below’ the surface of
cur culture and Christian civilization
the untamed and rebellious savage in
human nature lies.
While there have been these awful
manifestations of racial hatred, which
if dwelt upon would make us morose,
bitter and vindictive, there have also
been manifestations of racial good
will. From fire-swept Atlanta, Geor
gia, comes the cheering news that ra
cial lines were entirely forgotten in
ministering to and caring ifor the
suffering and destitute. We hope this
advice is true; for it reveals the bet
ter side of human nature, the side
which if cultivated will make such
savage scenes as those at Memphis
and East St. Louis which all right
thinking people must deplore, impos
sible.
Despite much apparent evidence to
the contrary, racial goodwill is far
more prevalent and potent than ra
cial hatred.
SOUTHERN SIDELIGHTS
The following comes to us as an
authentic manifestation of the nobil
ity and chivalry of the grand old
l outh. A Colored man intended com
ing to Omaha and informed his em-,
ployer he would quit the following
Saturday. This man had worked at
the one job for a little over seven
years. The boss said it was all right
end when the man went about his
business, he called up the sheriff and
told him that he was going to send
his “nigger” down the street on an
errand and that he should stop him
and search him. He then called in
his “nigger” and told him to carry
his revolver to a gunsmith and have
it fixed. Sheriff stops Colored man;
discovers gun; makes arrest; Col
ored man gets six months of county
dear That is what we call real
southern white genius.
REALLY RICH
No one ever acused Editor Du Bois
of being a humorist( but this from
the June Crisis is certainly a pipin:
“We should worry.”
If they do not want us to fight, we
will work. We will walk into the in
dustrial shoes of a few million whites
who go to the front. We will got
higher wages and we cannot be
stopped from migrating by all the
deviltry of the slave South; particu
larly with the white lynchers and
mob leaders away at war.
Will we be ousted when the white
soldiers come back?
THEY WON'T COME BACK!
WILL THE DREAM COME TRI E?
The other night we dreamed we
were riding on a North Twenty
fourth street car, which was in
charge of a Colored conductor and
motorman. Naturally, we were de
lighted at this new industrial oppor
tunity for our people. The car was
running smoothly and there seemed
to be no excitement on the part of
either train crew or passengers, who
were the average patrons of that
line with the average proportion of
both races. It all seemed as a matter
of course. We regretted on awaken
ing to find that it was only a dream.
But dreams, you know, sometimes
come true. And why may not this
dream come true?
Our people spend thousands- of dol
lars yearly with the Omaha and
Council Bluffs Street Railway Com
pany. We have young men with just
a? much brains, good judgment, com
mon sense, honesty and ability to be
trained as motormen and conductors
as they of the other race. Why then
should not some of our men be given
the opportunity of serving in this
capacity ?
Of course there is the jealousy of
the white laboring classes to overcome
as well as some slight opposition from
the public. This opposition will not
arise, however, in any great degree,
at least, if the white laboring classes
do not foster it. The time is coming
when the white laboring man must
see that his truest interests are in
common with those of the black la
boring man and the interests of each
can be best conserved by standing
together, asking only for the right to
earn their daily bread at a respect
able living wage in any honorable
field of labor for which they may be
qualified.
Then why not Colored motormen
and conductors ? Will the dream come
true? We hope so. We believe it
will.
DOING THE RIGHT THING
We are glad to know that several
young men of our race from this city
have filed their applications for ad
mission to the officers’ training camp
at Des Moines. It shows the right
spirit. The men who have applied
have the educational, physical and
moral qualifications required by the
government. They are not one whit
inferior to the splendid and capable
young white men who have gone from
this vicinity to Fort Snelling and
other camp6. Most of them are col
lege bred men. All of them have had
high school training and in addition
thereto professional training in law,
medicine, pharmacy or dentistry.
Four of them have had military train
ing. So Omaha has reason to be
proud of the men who have offered
themselves for the Des Moines of
ficers’ training camp. And here’s
wishing them success. They are do
ing the right thing.
Subscribe for The Monitor. $1.50 a
year and worth it.
SKITS OF SOLOMON
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War.
The naughty name that Mr. Sher
man called war was some right, only
worse. We have had more scares
thrown into us during the last thirty
clays than comes to a turkey four
weeks before Thanksgiving. It isn’t
because we are scared of der kaiser,
because we aren’t. All of us be
aching to take a fall out of his hon
orable right angled moustache. Ny
ti.ur are we losing sleep over his sub
marines, because our navy chaps are
a'l praying to catch sight of the peri
scope, not bothering about the sub
proper. What we are bothering about
ore the eats. One A. P. dispatch
says the graneries are bursting with
grain and before the ink is dry an
other says its all a mistake. Next
day Washington says that Sir Hoover
is studying the British food control
to see how many beans to allow a
family and then Sir Hoover says that
he wasn’t studying anything but the
ticker. Up Boston way they issued
a crop of indictments against some
food speculators and then the Gov.
sent out word to manufacturers to
ship their junk because the U. S. will
grab all freight cars pronto to ship
lumber, et cetra, to military camps.
V hen that happens a food speculator
will look like a mustard seed in an
oil tank. One guy says don’t buy
up any supplies because it makes
prices higher; another gink says lay
bold of the needful ’cause he thinks
it’s going to rain. One lady bird
says that Americans are wasteful and
housewife chirrups back that she can’t
get enough to eat, let alone waste |
anything. And so on, and on, and all I
on acocunt of war. Whipping Ger- !
many isn’t such a big job. but it sure
is worrisome.
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WHY READ THE DAILY NEWS?
Omaha’s premier joke sheet, The
Omaha Daily News, advertised a prize
contest for the first June bride. The
primary condition for winning in this
contest was that the bride must be
white. Any Colored person who will
longer take this newspaper excuse
after this wanton exhibition of prej
udice has little respect for the race to
which he belongs. Our advice is
DON’T READ THE NEWS!
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Omaha’s political upheaval has been
a long time coming, but it has finally
come with a sure enough explosion.
Don't crowd the arena, citizens! Give
the performers plenty of room to pum
mel each other.
Did you see Satan Monday night?
Some class to his majesty, eh ? Really
didn’t think a man of his reputation
could draw so many good people to
look at him.
What is the difference between the
Turks in Armenia and the Americans
in Tennessee ? Only that the former
aie more civilized.
Our garden is doing nicely, thank
you. How’s yours?
A camp for Negro officers has been
approved. Watch out for your sweet
hearts, boys. A woman certainly likes
gold braid.
Henry T. Burleigh certainly de
served the Spingam medal. He has
done some things that talk for him
without his saying a word.
If some of those tornadoes would
visit the kaiser’s camp we’d feel lots
better of the windy effects.
Honestly now, did you ever stop to
think that it takes real sure enough
coin to run a newspaper? Then loosen
up, brother, loosen up.
Are you going on any of the Des
Moines specials this summer, Gene
vieve ?
Thanking you for your most ardent
attention, we will now wrap a bacon
rind round a tantalizing sore throat.
FIRMS WANTING
COLORED LABOR
Bethlehem Steel Mills, Sparrow’s
Point, Md.
Yale & Towne Manufacturing com
pany, Stamford, Conn.
Minnesota Steel Mills, Morgan
Park, Minn.
Union Pacific Railway.
Kingston Brick and Ice company,
Kingston, N. Y.
Capitol Coal Mining company,
Springfield, 111.
Springfield Drain Tile company,
Springfield, 111.
Springfield Paving Brick company,
Springfield, 111.
Barney & Smith car shops, Dayton,
Ohio.