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THE MONITOR
A National Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of Colored
Americans.
Published Every Saturday at Omaha, Nebraska, by The Monitor Pub
lishing Company.
Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter July 2, 1915, at the Postofflce 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.
Fred C. Williams, Traveling Representative.
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Address. The Monitor, 304 Crounse Block, Omaha, Neb.
Telephone Webster 4243.
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O’CONNELLS NEEDED
ON another page of The Monitor
our readers will find an article
“Daniel O’Connell and Slavery,” re
printed from Truth, a Roman Catholic
Journal of America. In this article
we are acquainted with the fact that
“a West Indian interest pledged twen
ty-seven votes in parliament” on ev
ery Irish question if he, O’Connell,
would oppose Negro emancipation.
O’Connell replied: “Gentlemen, God
knows I speak for the saddest nation
the sun ever sees,' but may my right
hand forget its cunning and my
tongue cleave to the roof of my
mouth, if to serve Ireland, even Ire
land, I forget the Negro one single
hour.”
Glorious words indeed and only7 the
kind of words that can fall from
a man who loves his people and his
principles and would sell neither for
all the riches of the Indies or the
panoplies of power. How many Ne
gro leaders in America have we who
can stand beside such a man as O’Con
nell? Don’t answer, for the answer
will only crush and discourage. Wbat
we need are black O’Connels who know
nothing but their race glorified and
whose hands shring back forever from
any stain of dishonor. Aye, give us
men like O’Connell!
REPUBLICANS WANT SOUTH
THE republican party is going to
try and break the solid south.
W’illiam Hays’ speech at Greensboro,
N. C., is considered the opening gun
in the campaign that is going to wrest
the political power from the demo
crats. What does it mean and upon
what grounds will the republican par
ty make terms of compromise? Is
the Negro to be made the sacrifice?
To one who knows the south and its
traditions, it is patent that the Ne
gro and the Negro alone is the only
basis upon which a compromise can be
effected.
The student of political history will
recall the reception given the Negro
delegates by William Hays, the chair
man of the national republican com
mittee. He received them insultingly
and threw their memorial in the waste
basket. This incident has passed and
we have almost forgotten it, but the
speech of Hays before the republicans
of North Carolina recalls it to our
mind. It is plain to see the way the
political wind is blowing. Hays has
said that “the republican party' needs
the south’’ and we say that if the
republican party needs the south, then
the republican party does not need the
Negro.
There is no gainsaying the issue as
it is presented to the race by this
speech in North Carolina. Racial is
sues are to be the pawns on the
chessboard of national politics and
these pawns are to be given up in
order that the rest shall be made se
cure. What the Negro can do is today
the deepest problem of racial politics.
A WONDERFUL BOOK
THERE came to The Monitor office
last week a volume which we
choose to describe as a wonderful
book. It is the work of Freeman
Henry Morris Murray of Washington,
D. C., and is entitled “Emancipation
and the Freed in American Sculpture’’
and is the first of a series of broch
ures, “Black Folk in Art.” It is a
study of interpretation and a most
delightful and pleasing interpretation
it is. We have alw'ays known that
here and there are beautiful statues
relating to our race, but never did
we dream that we should behold with- i
in the covers of one book the hand
some photographic reprints of forty- \
eight! And, too, we have learned that
from where the wild Atlantic spends
its fury upon our eastern coast to
where the peaceful Pacific caresses
the golden sands of California, our
race is pictured in immortal stone.
We thank the genius of the man
who made this book possible and urge
every man and woman of the race to
buy it and treasure it as priceless. 1
Every picture speaks a language of
faith and hope and sweetness and
hints that no race so remembered
by the chisel of sculptors can be un
worthy.
The book is published by the au
thor, whose address is 1733 Seventh
street, N. W., Washington, D. C., and
the price is $1.76. Send for it by all
means.
I THE ASSOCIATED NEGRO PRESS
THE Monitor is more than pleased
to welcome the founding of the
! Associated Negro Press of Chicago.
| It is a thing that Negro newspapers j
| have long needed and from the style
and class of news the Association is j
sending out, there is every reason j
to believe that the race press through
out the country is ready and willing !
to do everything possible to make it J
a great success. The Monitor has
been the recipient of many releases
and highly appreciates the service
rendered. The news is brief, clean j
and authentics; three things which ap
peal highly to editors whose constant
desire is to supply their readers with !
the latest and best race news possible
of attainance.
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SOLDIERS TO HAVE NEW TRIAL
70RD comes from the Associated
Press dispatches that the Negro
soldiers court martialed at Camp
Grant for thb alleged mistreatment of
a woman have been granted a retrial.
This order from the war department
comes fast upon the recent attack
upon the methods of court martial in
itiated by Senator Norris, and per
haps we have cause to believe that
our senator is indirectly responsible
for this retrial. The case of the Ne
gro soldiers of Camp Grant was men
tioned along with other abuses of the
i army courts martial and republished
I in the Congressional Record from the
Washington Post. It was Senator
j Norris who introduced the article to
I the senate and secured its publication
in the Record and thus brought about
the fight that has resulted in a gen
j eral review of all men condemned
and sentenced by army courts since
j the war began.
GIVE US CREDIT. BROTHER
IN looking over our exchanges the
other day we notice that an editor
in Urbana, Illinois, has borrowed one i
| of our editorials and a part of one !
j of “Bruce Grit’s” articles, but said |
brother doesn’t even mention where
he found them.
Now listen, brother of the press and j
j knight of the inky pen! If there is i
; one thing upon which The Monitor
tries to be real hefty-like, it is on the
editorial page. We try to write edi- j
torials that make our readers think !
and again we write some to afford our
readers real information. They are
for our readers and for the race, and
we hope both like them. But one
thing that makes us a little red under
the collar is to have some other paper
borrow a whole chunk of our editorial
cake and forget to siy that it comes
from The Monitor bakery. We claim
that if our cake is good enough to
eat and pass on, it is good enough to
bear our label. We “ain’t” ashamed
of anything we put out. So hereafter
and forever, brothers of the societies
mentions, borrow all vou want to and
j whenever you want to, but when you
J borrow, just tell your readers w'hose
j cake it is.
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| Obvious Observations
HAYS will trade the race for the
southern vote is the latest news 1
1 of the political world. What are we
! going to do about it?
Congress gave the president a fit
on the last day of the 65th congress
and we don’t blame him for making a
j bee-line for Europe.
Let's have a little warm weather
now; what do you say?
We venture the guess that after the
nations get through with the league 1
of Nations proposal it may still be
living, but it will never look the same.
We don’t know when the new con
gress will be convened, but when it 1
does there will sure be some fire
works that will make Paine’s Last
Days of Pompeii look like a huge mis
take.
Nearly all our"Colored officers are
back and we only pause to say that
they are lucky and we are glad to
see them. We would rather have them
here than under the poppy strewn
fields of France.
Did you see the California boys on
their way west the other night?
What a healthy looking bunch they
were.
It looks as though Argonne for
est and the trenches agreed with Lt.
Reed, doesn’t it?
Watch Chicago and her Negroes!
One thing, The Monitor is on the
map and if everybody will pay up all
they owe, it will stay there and get
bigger territory.
Thanking you for your kind at
tention, we will now fill the old com
cob and contemplate on the buying
capacity of a blue head and three
reds.
SKITS OF SOLOMON
The Passing of the Sixty-Fifth
FRIEND WOODY, the hefty Ameri
can political dictator, left his lug
gage in a Paris hotel and hurried
across the briny to help congress
grind out its bills calling for billions
of bullion, but congress balked. It
wanted an extra session and Woody
put both his number tens down that
there wasn’t going to be no extra ses
sion. What was the consequence of
the administrative exigency, or what
ever that means? Well, congress set
about to cut off the pocket change of
the government. They began filibus
tering. What is a filibuster? Well,
it is talking against time. One sen
ator spouts a four-hour anathema and
as soon as he sits down, another sen
ator starts another four-hour oratori
cal eruption, then another and another
until the clock struck twelve and the
stuff is off. That’s the way they
did it. And believe muh, Mable, they
did it up brown and with all the gravy
and the decorations. Woody begged,
but there was nothing doing. He
showed up stubborn and congress
wanted to show him that when it
came down to twenty-four carat stuli
homess, it was the peacherino of the
pack. We don’t blame Woody, be
cause he knows that when the repuh.
congress gets a swing at the govern
mental machinery, it is apt to catch
his coat tails in the cogs and make
him holler. Neither congress nor the
folks scattered from the wild Atlantic
to the peaceful Pacific are quite sat
isfied with Woody’s wisdom and gen
eral dope, and hence congress deemed
it about time to head him off. And
it sure did some heading. Woody
didn’t call the extra session, but he
did hurry back to Paris and his lug
gage so as to get a breath of air
that wasn't so all-fired hot as the at
mosphere of Wash, of the D. C.
CENSORSHIP AND
WHAT IT MEANS
The leopard does not change his
spots, neither does the Pharisee shed
his hypocrisy. He is the same today
as he was two thousand years ago.
He still strains at gnats and swallows
camels. He still covers his inside rot
with an outside whitewash.
The particular gnats that he is
straining at right now are such things
as the censorship of motion picture
films and Sunday amusements in gen
eral. The camels he swallows are big
enough to choke a nation. For in
stance, the torturing and lynching of
Negroes and other torturings and
lynehings.
Says a recent editorial in the Lib
erator: "Two hundred and twenty
two Negroes have been lynched or
murdered by mobs in the United
States in the past year. That is an
average of more than one every two
days. Only eleven of these have been
murdered for alleged rape; five for
alleged murder.” This leaves two
hundred and six that have been hound
ed to death by mobs for minor of
fenses.
Of one of these lynehings—and all
are much alike—the report of the Na
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored people is given. The
lynching took place at Dyersburg,
Tenn., in the presence of the citizens
of that alleged civilized community.
The report of the public exhibition,
which was hugely enjoyed, is herewith
described:
“The Negro was seated on the
ground and a buggy axle driven into
the ground between his legs. His feet
were .chained together with logging
chains, and he was tired with wire. A
fire was built. Pokers and flat-irons
were procured and heated in the fire.
It was thirty minutes before they
were red hot.
“Reports of the torturing, which
have been generally accepted and have
not been contradicted, are that the
Negro’s clothes and skin were ripped
from his body simultaneously with a
knife. His self-appointed executors
burned his eyeballs with red-hot irons.
When he opened his mouth to cry for
mercy a red-hot poker was rammed
down his gullet. In the same way he
was robbed of his sexual organs. Red
hot irons were placed on his feet, bark
and body, until a hideous stench of
burning human flesh filled the Sab
bath air of Dyersburg.
“Thousands of people witnessed this
scene. They had to Ire pushed back
from the stake to which the Negro
was chained. Rooftops, second-story
windows and porchtops were filled
with spectators. Children were lifted
to shoulders, that they might behold
the agony of the victim.
"A litle distance away in the pub
lic square, the best citizens of the
country supported the burning and
torturing with their presence.
“Public opinion in Dyersburg and
Dyer county seems to be divided into
two groups. One group considers that
the Negro got what he deserved. The
other group feels that he should have
had a ‘decent lynching.’ ”
Worse than savages? That doesn’t
tell it. Savages couldn’t do it. It’s
the work of jackals. And the com
munity is a “Christian” one. And a
bone-dry one. And a holy-Sabbath
observing one. The censorship of mo
tion picture films and the closing of
all places of amusements is enforced
with an iron hand.
Citizens of the state of Nebraska
think of Dyersburg, a town in which
the laws of the dark ages are still in '
force, think of the horrible crimes
committed under such hypocritical un
civilized laws and are you willing to
put our beloved state of Nebraska on
the same plane as Dyersburg, Tenn ?
The passing of House Roll Bill No.
355 means the elimination of your lib
erties and the final undermining of
your constituional guarantee to "Life,
Liberty and the Pursuit of Happi
ness.” Will your voice be heard? Or
will you sit quiescent and allow your
inalienable rights to be legislated
away ?—Jewish Bulletin.
VIVE LA FRANCE!
Dr. DuBois says in the March
Crisis:
“Mine eyes have seen” and they
were filled with tears. The mighty
| audience filled the Trocadero, and in |
the center of the stage stood a black
man, lithe, tall and straight; on his
breast were orders and he wore the !
uniform of an officer of the French
army. A general of Franee stepped -
toward him, touched him on either;
shoulder with his naked sword and
kissed him on both cheeks and said: i
“In the name of the president of the
republic, I nominate you, Bakhane
Diop, chevalier of the Legion of Hon-1
or.” The great audience arose, roared
and cried again when the crimson
badge of the Legion was pinned on the
Arab who stood to the Negro’s left
and the Annamite who stood on his
! right, while round about were black
French officers and rand on rang of
decorated troops.
It was France—almighty and never
dying France leading the world again.
The day was given to honor the black
men and yellow men who gave their,
! lives for a country they are proud
to call theirs and which is equally
proud to claim them. Seven black
deputies represent black Frenchmen
in the French parliament. Deputy
Diagne, of Senegal, was the first man
introduced today by the minister of
colonies and he sat in the place of
honor in the president’s box.
The exploits of the black and yel
low troops were acclaimed by actors
from the Theater Francaise, singers
from the opera and orators from the
government with plav and music,
cheers and the great strains of the
Marseillaise. France “le jour de
glorie est arrive,” and the honor is
yours. Men of Africa! How fine a
thing to be a black Frenchman in
1919—imagine such a celebration in
America!
RECEIVES LETTER FROM
PRESIDENT OF HOWARD
George Wells Parker, contributing !
editor of The Monitor, wrote a letter |
of appreciation to President J. Sanley
Durkee of Howard university, on the ,
address delivered at the recent How
ard conference. A letter from the
president in response to the same
follows:
HOWARD UNIVERSITY
Washington, D. C., March 4, 1919.
Mr. George Wells Parker,
The Monitor, Omaha, Neb.
My Dear Mr. Parker:
I have yours of February 27th'with :
enclosure. I thank you for the fine
words you say regarding the address
given before the conference here. I
thank you also for the brochure, “The
Children of the Sun.” I have glanced
at it for just a moment, but will, I
assure you, read it with a great deal :
of pleasure.
I am in the work with you all to
do everything in my power to ad
vance the highest culture of the race
and open every door, politically, mor
ally, spiritually, intellectually, that
the race may advance to its highest ;
possible attainments, and have the I
same frank, free field as do all other ,
races or peoples here in America.
I should be glad of a copy of your
paper that I may know something of
the movement of the race from your
part of the country.
With kind personal regards, I re
main, most sincerely yours,
J. STANLEY DURKEE,
President.
HUMOR AMONG THE
NEGRO SOLDIERS
One, Explaining Courage, Said He
Didn’t Want to Go to Heaven Hungry.
"Captain Winlock W. Miller of St.
Louis, an officer of the 317th Supply
Train, a Negro regiment, who recently
returned from service m France, tells
in the Post Dispatch of St. Louis, the
following story:
“There was one occasion in France
when five hundred Negro troops were
standing in a mess line when a boche
bombing plane flew overhead, opuring
down a stream of shrapnel. Of them
499 ducked at once for bomb proofs,
leaving one lone private in the line.”
Questioned afterwards as to his sig
nal bravery, he answered:
“Brother, its a long, long way to
heaven, and I don’t want to go there
on an empty stomach.”
Sec rotary Walter M. Harte of the
Y. M. C. A., who spent much of his
time in France ministering to Negro
troops, told the following:
“Over there the French girls call
the real black southern Negro ‘beau
coup de chocolate’ and the lighter
... ...
mulattoes ‘cafe au lait.’ And then,
too, there’s the story of a lonesome
buddy who told his captain he wished
the war would end so he could get
back home and see his ‘O. D. gal' once
more. You know O. D. is the army
slang for olive drab.
“There wTas one Negro who was a
rather trying patient in an Lnglish
hospital.
«‘1 don’t know why it is,’ said the
expaserated nurse, ‘but you black men
cause us more trouble than all the rest
of the soldiers put together.’
“A broad grin illuminated the ward.
“ ‘Yes, marm—yes, marm—dat’s
time,’ said the Negro, ‘and dat’s what ^
dem Germans said, too.’ "•—Kansas
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