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THE MONITOR
K National Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of Coloted
Americans.
! Published Every Saturday at Omaha, Nebraska, by The Monitor Pub
lishing Company.
Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter July 2, 1915. at the Postoffice 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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EASTER
EASTER is kept throughout Chris
tendom as the queen festival of
the Christian year. It stands for and
attests a fact. A fact is an event,
something which has been done, some
thing which has come to pass—some
thing that has been been accomplish
ed. The fact which Easter attests is
an historic event—a proven event of
history, resting upon indubitable evi
dence. That fact is the Resurrection
of Jesus Christ from the dead. It is
upon this historic fact that the whole
fabric of the Christian religion rests.
Its practical value for the human
race is that it illuminates the pathway
of death and proclaims man’s immor
tality. It sets the Divine Seal to the
longing lodged in the breast of every
man for eternal life and proclaims
that if a man die he shall live again.
Its constant message to men who pro
fess with their lips that they believe
in the resurrection of the body and
the life of the world to come is to
strive daily to live upon that high
plane of justice and righteousness
which such a faith enjoins.
CONCERNING THE MONITOR
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E have received two letters from
esteemed friends which call for
explanation. They are from friends
of ability and influence whose opinion
of The Monitor and interest therein
is highly appreciated. One is from
our esteemed and talented friend,
Roscoe Conkling Simmons, just re
turned from Europe. The other is
from Chester A. Franklin, printer and
publisher, and a successful business
man of Kansas City, Mo. Both friends
inquire why the size of The Monitor
has been reduced. Both pay high
tribute to the place The Monitor has
won and holds among race publica
tions.
Mr. Franklin writes among other
complimentary things, “I believe there
is no paper of ours that for size, car
ries the wealth of educational matter,
etc., so well presented as The Mon
itor, but that makes it the more in
cumbent upon you to live. You must
prove that good things can thrive.
You know it has long been said that
a fine restaurant, and fine anything
else is doomed to failure among Ne
groes. Do not let The Monitor prove
it.” He hazards the guess that the
reduction has been made for the sake
of economy and wonders why it is
necessary to so economize “when busi
ness is expanding and the Negro’s
future looms larger.”
Colonel Simmons’ letter is published
in full. He, too, inquires why The
Monitor has reduced its size and says,
in substance, a paper of The Mon
itor’s standard must be maintained.
The race needs it.
Grateful thanks, kind friends, for
your interest. The reduction in size,
was merely temporary and as, you
may well judge, for the sake of econ
omy. The advertising having fallen
off, we followed the example of some
of our local contemporaries in reduc
ing the size which made a considerable ;
saving in cost of publication. We re
, turn this week to eight pages with a
guarantee of sufficient advertising to .
maintain this standard. The paper
is steadily growing in favor and influ
ence and we shall strive not only to
maintain the high standard which it
has attained, but as time goes on it
is our desire to improve it, adding
features that will increasingly com
mend it to our readers.
The cost of issuing such a publica
tion as The Monitor is heavy, but the
favor with which it is being received
everywhere is proving that our people
do appreciate a publication of this
class and character, and are ready to
stand by it and make it a success. This
is most gratifying.
Monitor readers are Monitor friends
and boosters. We appreciate their
friendship, good wishes, kind words
and hearty co-operation.
THE BALANCER OF
THE UNIVERSE
ITH this issue of The Monitor
begins the publication of a drama
of the race conflict entitled, The Bal
ancer of the Universe, by B. Harrison
Peyton, of Washington, D. C. It is a
most interesting contribution to dra
matic literature and the only regret
we have is that we are unable to pub
lish the entire four acts of the drama
in one issue. We will, however, pub
lish it in installments and are sure
that our readers will find it intensely
interesting and pleasing.
SUPPRESS IMMORALITY
IT is alleged that bootlegging and
gambling joints are rapidly multi
plying in the northern section of
Omaha, where many of our race re
side. If this be true, and The Monitor
is inclined to believe that there must
be some truth in these rumors, such
places should be ferreted out and put
out of business. We owe it to our
selves as a people to discourage every
agency that tends to degrade and drag
us down. The acquisition of a few
paltry dollars, although they may
mount into the millions, can be no
compensation for the moral loss and
degradation which result from vice
and immorality among us. The Moni
tor appeals to all who have the best
interests of the race at heart to see to
it that they do nothing to encourage
vice and immorality. We appeal to
the better nature of the men and wo
men who are under suspicion of con
ducting gambling places and immoral
resorts to themselves eliminate these
evils, as a matter of race pride, with
out making it necessary for the law to
do so.
BUSINESS CO-OPERATION
IV' JE complain that after educating
TV our children their opportunities
for employment are limited. This is
true, although conditions are improv
ing; but we shall never have oppor
tunities for giving our children the
diversified employment which their
talents and inclinations seek until we
do our part to make opportunities for
them. If we want our boys and girls,
our young men and young women, to
have positions as clerks in stores and
counting houses, for example, then we
must pool our money and open busi
ness establishments of our own in
which they can be so employed. And
we must support unitedly and enthusi
astically these business ventures.
BUSINESS CO-OPERATION is the
demand of the hour in every com
munity. Organization and co-operation
spell success for any group of people.
Organize and co-operate.
JAPAN’S PROPOSAL REJECTED
ON Friday, April 11, Baron Makino
presented to the peace conference
an amendment proposing racial equal
ity and his argument was seconded
with great force by Viscount Chinda,
one of the most eminent of living Jap
anese. The amendment was lost and
the great peace conference, made up
of nations who only six months ago
were screaming “Liberty! Freedom!
Equality!” goes on record as opposed
to the very ideals for which millions
of men have died. It was to be ex- i
pected, because the leading nations of
the peace conference have no intention j
of recognizing the darker races as j
equals. The day will come when they j
will regret this action.
There is one thing very significant
in the proposed Japanese amendment.
Baron Makino and Viscount Chinda
did not propose that only Japanese be I
accepted as equals, but that the pre- j
amble o' the covenant read: “By the
indorsement of the principle of equal
ity of nations and just treatment of
their nationals.” In this single clause
Japan has championed the cause of all j
the darker races, the Negro of Amer
ica. the African native, the Chinese,
the Jew, the Indian and the down
trodden of the earth. We do not
believe that the darker races will for
get Japan. She has thrown down the
gauntlet to the white races in de
fense of the dark races, and it will be
a bold nation that would dare to pick
it up. We wonder what the peace
conference would say if the darker
peoples propose unity with Japan as
their leader?
DISCONTENT IN THE ARMY
FROM the Associated Press dis
patches we learn that recently
there have been several instances of
discontent manifested by soldiers in
the various parts of the United States
and the world, and most recently the
refusal of an entire company to obey
orders in Archangel, where a large
number of American troops are fight
ing the Bolsheviki.
Some of the American newspapers
have said that the spirit of Bolshevism
is rife among the American troops,
but we are not inclined to believe
that this is the truth. When Ameri
cans were drafted into the army they
were drafted with the understanding
that they would remain in the army
until the war with Germany was over.
That war is now over and the men are
anxious to get back to civil life. They
have not been instilled with the spirit
of absolute obedience to military rule,
and for this reason they feel they
have the right to demand that the
government keep its pledge with them
and release them from a duty that is
onerous and unpleasant.
In this demand we agree with them.
The government should discharge all
their drafted men at the soonest pos
sible moment and there should not
be a single American soldier required
to fight anywhere in the world today.
We are at war with no one and until
the government recognizes this posi
tion, it will continue to have trouble.
NEW LIGHT ON
EUROPEAN TANGLES
THROUGH the courtesy of Hon.
John E. Bruce of New York, The
Monitor has had the privilege of read
ing several books published by E. D.
Morel, the great English publicist.
“Ten Years of Secret Diplomacy,” and
“Truth and the War,” are two vol
umes of extraordinary enlightenment.
They deal with inside political and
diplomatic facts with which the ordi
nary European, let alone any Ameri
can, is scarcely cognizant. In the
light of these facts it becomes patent
that our world war could have been
avoided had the sense of justice per
vaded the minds of the leaders of the
various nations. On the other hand
the Morel books prove with the most
startling logic that the commercial
greed of the European nations led
their diplomats into unsavory agree
ments which could have done naught
else than bring about the world war.
While the American press has foist
ed upon the nation the idea that Ger
many was wholly to blame for the
war, it appears that the facts in the
case warrant the conclusion that part
of the blame rests with other nations.
The exploitation of Morocco by France
with the tacit understanding and per
mission of England and Spain, is
alone sufficient to make one feel that
Germany was grossly mistreated.
Again, we are afforded the evidence
that Austria had consented to stay
her invasion of Serbia and that Paris,
London, Berlin and Petrograd, had
been so informed, yet in spite of this,
Russia refused to stop her prepara
tions to punish Germany.
It is not too late to know these
facts, indeed, now is the time to know
them and consider them well. The
American senate is soon to be called
upon to ratify the League of Nations
and it is imperative that the American
people understand what it means to
enter into the whirlpool of European
diplomacy. We know of so source of
enlightenment more thorough and
more clearly put than these books of
E. D. Morel. A list of them may be
obtained from the National Labor
Press, London.
SKITS OF SOLOMON
Cheese
TVTO mighty annalist has ever wooed
li from the voiceless past the name
of him who first invented cheese—or
of the cow who helped him. When
first the dim light of history shed
its feeble rays upon man’s menu,
cheese was on it and has been hanging
onto it ever since. Step into the deli
catessen store around the corner and
ask the boss who looks like a Turk
and uses our mother tongue as if he
had some grudge against it, and he
will show' you a collection of cheeses
which he says came from everywhere,
beginning with Iceland and ending
with Ceylon. Of course you will swal
low the gaff and a few samples of
different cheese along with it, but
when Mr. Turk tells you that Russia,
Fngland, Italy, Hungary, France,
Switzerland, Spain, Sweden, Iceland,
China, Java and Ceylon have sent him
those cheeses by parcel post, he is
simply handing you the beautiful bunk
known as business bull. There is only
one foreign cheese that isn’t manu
factured in the state of little old New
York and that is Roquefort. The
reason it can’t make Roquefort is be
cause the French pass up friend cow
and use the milk of the sheep and then
pile it up in the caves of Roquefort
to ripen. New York hasn’t any sheep
and no caves, hence no Roquefort.
When it comes to Swiss cheese, New
York is a wrang, because it blows holes
into a pile of cheese until you think
you can see the Alps in it, but some
how it falls down on the taste. No
body knows that, however, except the
Swiss himself. As far as limburger
is concerned, New York duplicates it
precisely and goes fifty per cent big
ger on the smell. Last year one factory
in the empire state turned out 400,000
foreign cheeses and we claim that Is
going some.
THE REV. DR. LOGAN
PRESIDING ELDER
The Rev. Dr. Griffin G. Logan, for
the past five years pastor of Grove
M. E. church, has just been appointed
by the annual conference, presiding
elder of the Omaha district. His well
merited promotion is gratifying to his
numerous friends within and without
his connection.
| Obvious Observations
IV 7TNTER is all right in its place,
W but we wish it would stay in
the winter months and not try to
climb into the spring calendar.
The soldiers in north Russia have
revolted and we don’t blame them.
What business have Americans fight
ing the Bolsheviki anyway ?
Simonds says adios to the league.
There will be a league agreement, but
the prospect is that it won’t amount
to the paper it is written on.
The coal man is still laughing—or
chuckling.
Dig, brother, dig, and get that new
gown and Easter hat for the madame. '
You know j’ou’ve got to do it, so don’t
holler.
Last week the News came out in
i headlines about some wife beater who
is a prominent leader in Colored so
ciety. What does this yellow sheet
know about white society, let alone
any other kind ?
Woody W’ilson finds that he has run
< smack into a stone wall with his arm
ful of ideals. Europe doesn’t care
anything about ideals.
By the way, are you patronizing our
rare business men ? If not, get busy.
If there is any peace at the peace
conference, nobody has ever been able
to locate it.
Thanking you for your most kind
attention, we will now take a swipe at
the menu and find out what we can
I buy for a thin dime and a lonesome
copper.
The laws of our country promise to
give equal rights, but how are they
observed? The Negro under the con
stitution is regarded as a citizen, at j
i least when he is to pay taxes, and j
fight for the country’s flag, but that I
ends his opportunity except the priv- !
ileged of being lynched from time to
time. The equal rights of the small
est nation is to be maintained under
the league just consummated abroad, j
but the equal rights of some of the
citizens of the largest republic in the
world is “a mere scrap of paper.” Is
it a matter of surprise that the reel
agitators find material for hellish
propaganda among the disfranchised,
whether white or black ? Congress is
busy investigating in many directions.
Why not stop such cowardly threats
as are contained in the above editor
ial ? I am not waving the bloody
shirt, but as an American citizen voice
my protest against racial or religious
persecution and injustice.
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