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The Monitor
K National Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of Colored
Americans.
Published Every Thursday at Omaha. Nebraska, by The Monitor Pub
lishing Company.
Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter July J. 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 Madree Penn, Associate Editors.
George Wells Parker, Contributing Editor.
Fred C. Williams, Business Manager.
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| Dare, never gindge the throe. —Browning.
RADICAL AND CONSERVATIVE
iw / E publish in this issue, from the
TV Washington Post, a thoughtful
and illuminating article on America’s
race problem written by William
Howard Taft. The article is sympa
thetic and eminently fair. It states
accurately an<4 does not minimize the
causes of just complaint upon the part
of Colored Americans. Due recogni
tion is given to the educational and
economic phases of the question, and
the writer is quite right in stating
that migration, due to unjust condi
tions, will prove a strong factor in
correcting certain abuses which have
been most malignant in the South.
Mr. Taft recognizes the fact, which
all students of the race question must,
that education and training have de
veloped two classes of leaders, the
radical and the conservative. “The
first class resents so deeply the un
fairness which racial prejudice leads
to that they seek to end it by direct
frontal attacks upon it and its conse
quences. ” The second class “are wise
enough and noble enough and self-re
strained enough clearly to see that
they way to ameliorate conditions is
not by direct frontal attacks of re
sentment or revenge, but by the edu
cation of their people and a stimula
tion of them to greater industry and
economic success, so that it shall be
the enlightened selfish policy of the
controllers of public opinion in the
South to welcome the industrial de
velopment of the race for the benefit
of the whole South, white and black.”
It is very evident that the sympa
thies of the distinguished jurist and
writer are with the conservatives rath
er than with the radicals. This is the
typical attitude of many who give any
thought to this subject. The judicial
mind is characteristically conserva
tive, and therefore one would natural
«v expect Mr. Taft to favor this
school.
It should be remembered that no re
forms have ever come through con
servatism. Radicalism forces reforms
which conservatism may then con
serve. It was radicalism and not con
# servatism that forced Magna Charta
from the hands of King John for the
CONSERVATION, if you please, of
English liberty. It was radicalism and
not conservatism that threw off the
galling yoke of Great Britain and
gave the coveted boon of independ-1
ence to the American colonies. It was
radicalism and not conservatism
which overthrew slavery- and pre
served the union. And it will be rad
calism and not conservatism that will
overthrow the glaring and admitted
injustice of American race prejudice.
There must be “direct frontal attacks
upon it.” And these direct frontal at
tacks are being made by the so-called
radicals. Nor must it be forgotten
that many who are classed as conser-!
vatives, because they may not be so
clamorous for rights denied as others, j
really belong to the radicals. The rad
icals are counselling “direct frontal
attacks of resentment” and pitiless
publicity-, believing that the great
majority of white Americans are
sound at heart and believe in justice
and only need to have injustice
brought to their attention to make it
right. Radicals are not, however,
counselling “direct frontal attacks of
. revenge.” Thoughts of revenge, thank
God, never enter the heart of the Col
ored American. He is willing to pre
sent his case insistently- and persist
ently at the bar of the American con
science, and this the radicals are de
termined to do. While making this
demand the radicals, too, are urging
their people to develop themselves in
education, industry, thrift and charac
ter that they may show themselves
worthy of the rights and privileges
for which they are contending.
Yes, the race has two classes of
leaders, radicals and conservatives,
and needs both; the former to secure
rights and the latter to conserve them.
Each has the same aim. They differ
as to methods.
Judge (to witness)—Why didn’t you
go to the help of the defendant in this
fight?
Witness—I didn’t know which was
going to be the defendant.—Boston
Transcript.
ONE AMONG A HUNDRED!
ONE HUNDRED dental students
were in Lincoln last week taking
their examinations before the state
examining board. Ninety-nine were
white students and one Colored. They
were graduates chiefly of leading edu
cational institutions of the state
where ethical standards are supposed
to be high. The one Colored student
is an alumnus of Howard university,
one of the leading educations' institu
tions of the race, whose standards for
efficiency and morality are unsur
passed by any in the country. The
students were supposed to be gentle
men. They were being examined as
to their fitness to be admitted to prac
tice an honorable profession vitally
affecting the public health. The ex
aminations were halted by a dramatic 1
incident. Attorney General Davis and
members of the examining #board an
nounced that it had been discovered
that the examination questions had
been stolen some days before and sold
to the students then taking the ex
amination for sums ranging from
$2.50 to $5. He said, “1 want every
man who had nothing to do with this
and who did not see the questions in
advance of the examination to =tand.”
Only one man arose and with head
erect looked the attorney general of
Nebraska frankly and fearlessly in
the eye, and he was John Andrew
Singleton of Omaha,
With a redeeming sense of honor
other students called for Paul Flem
ing of Wilsonville, Neb., to stand up.
He did so. He said he had not stood
up with Singleton because he had seen
the papers but refused to have any
thing to do with them.
These two men alone were per
mitted to take the examination.
This incident speaks most eloquent
ly. Singleton had not been taken into
the plot for obvious reasons. But.
knowing him as we do intimately and
from infancy as a young man who
hates falsehood and sham, we are con
fident that had he been shown the
papers he would have done precisely
what young Fleming did, who de
serves unstinted credit for his cour
age, honestly and manliness. Both
men passed excellent examinations
and were complimented by the board.
We are proud of both these young
men.
We are profoundly glad that John
Andrew Singleton was the one man
out of one hundred, and he a member
of our race, who could honestly, fear
lesslv and truthfully say that he had ;
no part nor lot in the dishonorable
proceedings of his confreres of the
vaunted inherent superior race, who
thought to show their superiority by
cheating.
We hope that our people before
whose attention this incident may
come will realize the wisdom of al
ways doing that which is honorable
and right, and in whatever they may
be engaged they will always stand
upon their merit and never be guilt}'
of falsehood, sham or wrong to attain
any object, however solicitous they
may be to attain it.
Dr. John Andrew Singleton, we con
gratulate you and wish you heartiest
Godspeed and success as you entei ,
upon your chosen profession, in which,
by study, diligence, application and
persistent work, we hope you will rise
to eminence.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE WINS
AFTERa persistent fight of nearly 1
forty-five years’ duration con
gress has adopted the suffrage reso
lution, submitting the nineteenth
amendment to the states for ratifica
tion. It was approved by the house
by a vote of 304 to 89 and in the sen
ate by a vote of 56 to 25. Its passage
was delayed in the senate by the op
position of anti-suffrage senators
from the South. Their chief ground
of opposition was their insane desire,
which so dwarfs the vision of that fair
section of our land, to restrict, if not
wholly to eliminate, the franchise of
Colored citizens. They could not see
how they could grant the vote to white
women and deny it to Colored women.
However, the resolution has been
passed and will be submitted to the
states for theii* ratification. The
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states will undoubtedly ratify the
amendment.
That women should have the right
to vote is so eminently just that one
marvels at the fierce opposition the
effort to secure it has encountered
That the victory has at last been won
shows that right will ultimately tri
umph. It was the patient, persistent,
intelligent work of those who were
labelled radicals which ultimately won
the fight for woman’s suffrage
BY KINDNESS
ONE of the greatest powers in the
world is kindness. The most hard
ened and obdurate have eventually
been won by kindness. Then, too. kind
ness richly blesses him who shows it
infinitely as much as it does him who
receives it. It is not particularly eas
to do it, but we can all do it if we
really want to, and that is to meet
and subdue harshness by kindness.
Suppose we all honestly and sincerely
try to overcome harshness and preju
dice and unkindness by kindness.
CONOR \T1 RATIONS,
GRADUATES
THE MONITOR extends sincere
congratulations to our boys and
girls who are being graduated from
high schools, academies and universi
ties and are being promoted from the
various grades. We hope that wher
ever your lot may be cast you will do
whatever your hand finds to do with
thoroughness, and that wherever you
may be, in school or hospital or office
or trade or busy mart, you will real
ize that true greatness lies in service.
SCOTT AND HOWARD
1NIVERS1TY
THE MONITOR congratulates
Howard university upon securing
for its official family the services of
Emmett J. Scott and it congratulates
Dr. Scott upon his cal! to an educa
tional work which in its splendid op
portunities for training for wise and
efficient leadership he will find most
congenial.
COMMISSIONERS. GIVE
US THAT PLAYGROUND
COMMISSIONERS of Omaha, please
wake up and give us that much
needed playground between Nicholas
and Clark streets. The blue print
PLANS are a real work of art, but
give us the playgrounds, not the plans.
What do you say, Mr. Falconer? What
do you say, Mr. Towl?
THE PERISCOPE
(By the Associated Negro Press.)
Call of the Soul.
THE call of the soul is expressed in
a manner that is seldom seen in
a short poem, written by Professor
Pearson, vice president of the Geor
gia State Industrial college, and re
produced in a recent issue of the
Southwestern Christian Advocate. The
expression is worthy of the full page
devoted to displaying it by the South
western, and cannot be too generally
read and remembered. Here it is with
the title:
VOICE OF THE NEGRO SOLDIER
When I return from foreign shade and
shore.
My native land with joy behold once
more.
If I have been a soldier true and
brave.
Risked limb and life my country
dear to save.
Yea, nations all from autocratic greed
That they be wholly free in state
and creed—
While Father, Mother made and con
served food
And war bonds bought in loyal,
cheerful mood—
I will not ask for houses, favors,
praise,
As we resume the toil and peace of
former days,
Bi-t that you lift the cursed racial ban,
Grant me the rights of any other
man.
Bombing the Bombers.
There is nothing to gloat about in
the amazing national, and interna
tional unrest, and the rioting, bomb
ing and lynching going on in our fair
land. It is a pity and a shame. How
ever, the leaps and bounds with which
the state of affairs is flaming up,
may serve to stir the nation in such
a way that our own troubles and mis
fortunes will be looked after. We
have pleaded, and denounced, im
plored and warned, but our voices
have seemingly passed into the vapor
of oblivion. We are all against
anarchy and lawlessness of any kind,
and have always been. We are noted
for being the least demonstrative un
der the greatest provocation. The
virtue of our patience is one of the
amazing chapters of American his
tory. But every time one of us is
lynched or mobbed, they who do it
are only grinding the nation a little
more closely to that uncivilized and
disgraceful state called anarchy. The
whole business of destruction must be
stopped.
PRESS GLEANINGS
A Negro Woman's Success.
The life story of “Mme.” Sarah J.
Walker, the former St. Louis Negro
washerwoman, who died Sunday after
having built up a fortune of $1,000,
000 as a business woman, is a strik
ing lesson in opportunity as it exists
in America. The woman was a child
of a slave. She had no advantages
in life. But she recognized the value
of the opportunity of freedom and
she used it. She began in a small way
with an attic for a workshop, and
she built a great business. The most
striking fact in her life is that she
won success through hard work and
faith. She did not trust to luck.
The story of this Negro woman’s
success should prove beyond all dis
pute that opportunity in America is
unlimited. The world is filled with
grumblers whose sole complaint and
excuse for failure is that the “breaks”
are always against them. Most peo
ple bom of slave parents and washing
at a tub for a meagre livelihood would
he likely to consider the breaks of
fortune against them. But success
does not enter where it is not invited.
Yet it is approachable to all and holds
up no bars of color or class.—St. Louis
Republic.
THE VALUE OF ORGANIZATION
We scarcely need further proof to
convince u.- that the unorganized class
rets the worst of everything. We see
it on every hand. The rich form com
bines, the poor consumer pays the
toll; the carpenters and plasterers
get their wages raised, the public
school teachers do not, and so on all
along the line the organized groups
get all the favors; the unorganized,
unrepresented masses not only get no
favors, but have to stand the cost
of the favors shown the organized
groups.
When the government took over the
railroads it promptly raised the wages
of organized employes, but who paid
for it? Why, the unorganized travel
ing public and the shippers. Every
successful wage strike is paid for by
the gentle public. The men at the
wheel see to it that they always come
out the right end of the horn. All of
this increases the cost of living to i
be paid by millions who had not;
shared in any increase of income.
We are no different than any other,
racial group, and if this line of pro- !
cedure has proven to be the most sue- ,
cessful it behooves us to adopt it in- s
-tanter and get in the band wagon of i
-uccess so that we may keep up with ]
the parade. It has been our policy in
the past to attempt to rise individual- |
ly. Some of us have succeeded, but
real success is not measured by sel-;
fish rules and unless as we rise we
take our neighbor with us no matter
to what heights we attain we are as
low as the least among us.
Of all groups we are in need of or
ganization the most. Twelve million
strong we could demand what we
now plead for. We could resist many
of the indignities now heaped upon
txs. First, let every wage earner |
join, if possible, a union. But their
duty does not end there. They must j
with the other members of their group j
j join such national organizations as the
I Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, the Urban league or
: one or two other similar bodies which
have for their sole object the uplift j
of our group. This is a duty that!
we not only owe ourselves but owe I
all others who suffer with us.
The idea that fair treatment is ob
tainable without class organization is
fuly recognized among the thinking
men and women of the day. We have
! been lacking in that clannishness so ,
dominant in such racial groups as the
Jews and Japanese. A unity of pur
pose, a one for all and all for one pol
j icy has brought them to the high
ground upon which they stand today.
Ignorance has kept us where it has
kept all other classes subjugated. It is
not the white man’s business nor his
purpose to pull us out of the mire.
This task is strictly up to us. We
are the carvers of our own destiny.
Our duty is plain. To row up stream
j means work. Let those who are con
! tent to drift, drift on into obscurity,
j The drones in every swarm sooner or j
j later fall by the wayside, but those
! who stick together and work for the
i common good of all find that the end
: justifies the means.—The Chicago De
; fender.
MEDICAL riRM HAS WELL
APPOINTEI) SUITE OF OFFICES
Drs. J. Boston Hill and Amos P.
Madison have gone to considerable
expense in remodelling, refitting and
decorating their handsome suite of
offices at Twenty-fourth and Hamil
ton streets. Last Wednesday night
they were inspected by the doctors,
dentists and other professional men,
who were entertained at a smaker by
these two devoted disciples of Aes
culapius. All were loud in their
praises not only of the hospitality of
their genial and generous hosts, but
also of their handsome, convenient
and well-appointed offices. The suite
consists of a large common waiting
or reception room and private offices
and consultation rooms.
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