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i xht> Monitor ^ A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS. THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor $2.00 a Year. 5c a Copy_'_OMAHA, NEBRASKA, NOVEMBER 2, 1918 _Vol. IV. No. 18 i /Vhole No. 174) Socialist Candidate States His Position Rc\. George Frazier Miller, Rector of St. Augustine's Church, Brooklyn, Nominee for Congress, Frankly States Principles for Which He Stands in an Open Letter. ISSUES NOTABLE DOCUMENT Candidate Opposes Oppression and Exploitation Everywhere; Advo cates Statesmanlike International Program; Domestic Policy Sane and Comprehensive. NEW YORK, Oct. 31.—'The Rev. George Frazier Miller, rector of St. Augusine’s Episcopal church, Brooklyn, who was recently nomi nated by the socialists for congress, in “an open letter to the citizens of the Twenty-first congressional dis trict, the American people ami a reply to the Nu'ional Security league,” has clearly stated the policy h<’ advocated and the principles forwhich he stands. It is a notable document, setting forth . , a statesman!:ke domestic and interna tional governmental policy with the wisdom of which there will be very large agreement upon the part of peo ple who think. This frank, clear-cut statement will be a revelation to many of the new political vision dawning upon the minds of well-trained and thoughtful men and women of the Colored race throughout the country. The letter is in full as follows: I have been nominated for congress to represent the district named above. It was not of my seeking, nor did I respond readily to the call when sum moned for service. It was only after urgent appeals repeatedly, made from various sources, and a unanimous nomination by the socialist party in state convention assembled, that I consented finally to make the contest upon which I have now embarked. However much I might have been in ' disposed to the holding of public of fice — or however much the very thought of it was foreign to my taste or expectation—now that T have yield ed to the earnest wish of my com rades and those who have selected me to represent them, it becomes me, in justice to them and all who have staked a hope on me, to enter the campaign in all earnestness and vigor, doing all that lies within my power, in an honest and upright way, bent ardently upon the purpose of winning this election. A questionnaire was recently ad dressed me—as to all candidates for congress—by the National Security league for the purpose of ascertain ing my principles and policies that it, in turn, might inform the public as to my qualification or worthiness of be coming a representative of the people in the nation’s congress. 1 gladly avail myself of the oppor * tunity afforded by the inquiries -of the National Security league into my principles, not alone to furnish it the information sought, but to seize this moment as advantageous to let my policies he known to the voters of the New York Twenty-first congressional distri t and the people of the nation at large. Question—What has been the can didate’s position since July, 1914, on preparedness ? Answer—I believed in a thorough preparedness, not for aggression or conquest, but for evincing the strength which safeguards agairst as sault and all social safeguards against exploitation. Q.—In what way is the candidate directly on record as expressing these views ? A.—Not on record. Q.—Is the candidate’s present posi tion the same as given in answer to (A) ? A.—Yes. Q.—What was the candidate’s view point about the United States enter ing the war prior to the declaration of war, April 5, 1917 ? A.—While not seeking war, I voted in 1916 against President Wilson, whose re-election was won upon the cry, “He kept up out of war.” Q.—What record exists embodying these views? A.—I know of none. O. — Have the candidate’s views since changed regarding the partici J pation of the United States in the / war? A.—They have not. Q.—Will the candidate pledge him self to he an advocate of peace with victory, by which is meant a vigorous prosecution of the war until Germany, Austria and Turkey concede the claims of the allies'.’ t - * *• .-i ifcSZKSUt AMNl^. •j^.i.^.>id..-JrJi.r a ■« •' nt- frt if DOUGLAS COUNTY COURTHOUSE THIS is our new County Courthouse, the place where our county officials live when they are IN and where office seekers would like to be when he is OUT. Of course, this does not apply to the occupants of the top floor, where the county jail is located. Every fellow up there is trying to get OUT—all except Mike Clark and his deputies, w’ho are doing their best to keep all of the inmates IN as well as stay IN themselves. It is from the steps of this magnificent building, built at a cost of a million and a half dollars, that the final adieus by our public officials is made to our departing draftees. In many of these offices are employed race men as clerks and stenographers. A.—I am profoundly in sympathy with the cause of the allies so far as the crushing and annihilation of kai serism, Prussiani,-■an, all autocracy, plutocracy, oligarchy and spoilation are concerned; but if by the expres sion, “until Germany * * * con. cede the claims of the allies,” is meant the crushing of all the German people, especially the proletariat, the great masses of the submerged and oppres sed, the working classes, out of whose blood and sweat Royalty and Autoc racy live in pomp and ease and hold a mastery of men, I am not. I oppose oppression, exploitation and profiteer ing in rrr.y form, anywhere, every where. I am the advocate of the work ing classes, of whatever nation, color or creed. Q.—By what achievements in poli tics, business or professional life has the candidate demonstrated his ability to cope with the problems of the na tion ? A.—In the judgment of those who nominated me for public office, by long study in questions of sociology, economics, political science generally and other fields of study. Q.—What other views or policies regarding the war and reconstruction (Continued on Page 7) MULLEN ANSWERS Democratic Committeeman Says He Voted for Amendment in 1915. — OPPOSES F E I) E R A L ACTION ARTHUR F. MULLEN, democratilc rational committeeman, has writ ten a letter to the Omaha Daily News in which he says his position on wo man suffrage has been misrepresent ed. He says he is in favor of equal suf frage, but opposed to the federal amendment because he considers the question of suffrage one that should b< loah. with by each state. “My name appears on the initiative petition for woman suffrage filed with the secretary of state in 1916, und I supported and voted for the suffrage amendment in that year,” said Mr. Mullen. “I suggested to some of the suf frage leaders soon after the legisla tion convened in 1917 that a suffrage amendment to the constitution be in troduced, but they opposed the idea. I believe the legislature would have passed—Nebraska would have adopt ed it.” Mullen said he< favored the exten sion of suffrage to women along the lines of the plank in the 1916 demo cratic national platform, which favor ed action state by state. “I am in favor if Nebraska extend ing the right of suffrage to every one, regardless of sex or color,” Mullen said. He added that he believed the ■Southern states were just'f'od in im posing educational or property re quirements, so as to limit the fran chise. CHILDREN’S HOME OPENED Oakland, Cal., Oct. 25.—The Oak land Children’s Home and Day Nur sery had its formal opening October 21st. HAVE BEGUN TO CALL COLORED RED CROSS NURSES Pittsbuigh, Pa., Oct. 31.—Colored members of the American Red Cross have successfully passed examinations after completing a course in elemen tary hygiene and home nursing. The members include the following: The Misses H. B. Caperton, Ethlye C. Cole, Mary A. Cole. Delia Harris, Aiverda Morsell, Elizabeth Washington, Mar tha Washington; Mines. Alice J. Denny, Mary Hankley, Beatrice Hart ley, Nina Harris, Louisa C. House, Mary C. Hamilton, Pauline Manks, Martha Mathews, Eva Skipper, Laura Stidum, Annie Townes, Elizabeth Washington, B. D. Webb, Elizabeth Writt and Margaret Writt. Mrs. Laura ^Stidum was called im mediately after taking examinations and sent to Nantucket, Mass., to re lieve a trained nurse who was called overseas. PROMINENT F V M I L Y HAS BEREAVEMENT Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 31.—After an illness of less than a week Miss Car rie Napier, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Napier, died Wednesday night, October 10. The news of her death spread rapidly over the city and coun try, as she was extremely popular among the people of the state. President Starts Political Fireworks National Chairman Hays, Senators Knox, Penrose, laxlge and Brande gee Mass Attacks. T. K. MAKES BITTER COMMENT THERE was something doing in politics this week. Everything seemed to be going on serenely until the president happened to inject a lit .'e partisanship into campaign mat ters. It seems that he gave out the impression that only democrats could he depended upon t.o support him, al though his strongest support has come from the republicans. The first gun of opposition sounded when Chairman Hays, of the Republican National Committee, scored the chief executive heavily for his unjust discrimination against republicans and upon the floor of the senate the fight was led by Senator Knox, of Pennsylvania, and followed by the leading republican lights. The democrats, headed by Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, at tempted to block the storm, but made little showing before the men who have always been the brains of the senate. Theodore Roosevelt answered the president Monday .night at Carnegie Hall, New York, and apparently re ceived the unanimous applause of the W*. ih Important Notice Owing to the increased cost of publication, a new schedule of prices having gone into effect October 10th, The Monitor is compelled to increase its advertising rates. The new rates will become effective November 1st. 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In the course of his address he re marked: "If Mr. Wilson had really meant to disregard politics, he would at once constructed a coalition, non-partisan cabinet, calling the best men of the nation to 'he highest and most im portant offices under him without re gard to politics. He did nothing of the kind. In the positions most vital to the conduct of the war, and in the positions now most important in connection with negotiating peace, he retained or appointed men without the slightest fitness for the perform ance of the tacks, whose sole recom mendation was a supple eagerness to serve Mr. Wilson personally and to serve Mr. Wilson’s pariy insofar as such service benefitted Mr. Wilson.” Contrasting the president’s appeal with Lincoln’s “outright refusal, even in the darkest days of the civil war, to apply any party test to fitness for office,” the colonel said that Lin coln appealed to all loyal men of all parties and asked that the candi dates for congress be judged, not by the standard of adherence to his per sonal administration, but by their un conditional support )f the war.” Election of a republican congress, the colonel continued, “would be un derstood abroad as meaning that the pro-German and pacifists and bolshe vists and Germanized socialists could no longer be counted upon as effi cient and tortuous tools, that the fighting men and not the rhetoricians were uppermost.” Mr. Roosevelt interpreted the presi dent’s reference to the “anti-adminis tra'ion” attitude of republican mem bers of congress as based on waste ,-^nd extravagance be remedied” in the war-conducting departments. “We republicans pledge ourselves to stand by the president so long as ho stands by the American people and to part company from him at any point where in our judgment he does not stand by the people,” he said. “This is the people’s government, this is the people’s war and the peace that follows shall be the people’s peace.” He asserted that the president’s latest notes had placed him in such a position that he had either to "sac rifice America and humanity” or to “respond in such a manner as to stullify his own diplomacy and repu diate his own implied offer.” “It was not a pleasant thing for America that he should have put him self and the nation behind him in the position of invitipg a proposition wh <h, when acepted, he repudiated,” declared the colonel. “For the very reason that I abhor Germany’s trick ery. treachery and bad faith, I am most anxious that Americans shall not imitate her in these matters.” HOY KILLS MEXICAN IN SELF-DEFENSE Dallas, Tex., Oct. 14.—Willie Moore, a 16-year-old Colored boy, shot and mortally wounded a Mexican man nnmpd Lopez Tuesday afternoon. Ac cording to evidence secured Moore shot the Mexican in self-defense. Black Mandarin Of The Chinese Adam Butler, in The Favorite Maga zine, Gives Interesting Account of .Mandarin of China Whose Grand father Was African. SIN PA MIGHTY MAN IN CHINA PERHAPS the strangest sight I saw dining my sojourn in China ] was at Kienton, an interior city that | is scarcely accessible to the ordinary 1our:st. But as I was Colored—a de scendant of the African jungles and yellowish brown in complexion—the prime minister smiled upon me and gave me the necessary passports. To him I was no foreign devil, as he calls the average American or European, but one who, like himself, feels the weight of Caucasian domination. The journey was an unpleasant one. China is a beautiful country, but she has many disagreeable odors. She wallows in filth somewhat like a sleeping dog. For her colors she gives you the nausea of her laziness. She ncds over the heavy books of the scholars, while her gardens lie in rack ruin and her people are stiffled with superstition. After I had left Shanghai with my coolie servant and a guide we pushed deep into the wilderness until, after two days, we landed at the gates of Kienton. A mob of beggars besieged me with their droning supplication and almost worshipped me when I threw them a few coins equal to about 25 cents in our money. Imagine how far 25 cents would go among our beg gars! Twenty-five cents is a , poor man’s tip in the United States, and he who gives it need not expect to be woishipped like a Buddha. We stop ped at the most comfortable hut in the town. Kienton is a sleep place. Sometimes I think it is the home of the opium god. The inn was as quiet as a Brooklyn cemetery and the town as hot and close as Broadway in mid summer. During the cool of the day we visit ed several interesting spot.; in Kien ton. We stood at the portals of the Temple of the Sacred Dragor., as mag nificent a building as can be found in the heart of China. We did not enter, because, according to the guide, none but believers could tread the corridois and none but priests of the Sacred Dragon could penetrate the Holy of Holies. We stood at the spot where, according to the natives, Confucius publicly chastised an emperor of the Flowery kingdom; and on the other hand we drank tea in what we call a public house. There were hideous Chinese girls, over whom a dark browed master stood with a lash in his hand ready to whip as he would a horse any unfortunate wretch among them who failed to do his bidding. If I should live a thousand years I will never forget his wolfish teeth and the evil flame in his eye. Poor China! To allow her womanhood to be debased in such a fashion! After we left the public house we walked a short distance, stopped a moment or so at the Sacred Grove and went on until we reached an impres sive house, surrounded by tea gardens and rich Oriental foliage. “It, is the house of Sun Pa, the man durian," the guide informed me. “Yes, Sun Pa. He is a mighty man in these regions. His grandfather came from a far-off country and was dark like the mantle of the goddess of dusk." “From a far-off country?” “Yes; somewhere beyond the desert that lies near Ethiopia.” “Ah! An African. May I see him?” “I will see.” Soon the guide returned to inform me that his exalted highness would deign to see such a dog as I of for eign lands msut be. How grateful I was to his exalted highness for com paring me to a dog! I was ushered into the mandarin’s audience chamber1. I was left stand ing until in a few moments the reed curtains parted and I stood face to face with Sun Pa, the black mandarin of China. Sun Pa is decidedly Negro. He is slightly darker than the av erage Mon golian; his nose is flatter than the average Negro’s nose, and his lips are heavy. His hair is Mongolian in type and ius eyes are slit like the average Chinaman’s eyes. His frame is huge and covered with extremely gorgeous robes. In fact, I think his giant phy siqu j helps to make him a power among a people naturally small and saturated with superstition. He'spoke in French. It is said that (Continued on Page 8)