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Webster 1250. 4t LODGE DIRECTORY Kevstone Lodge. No. 4. K. of P . Omaha. Neb. Meetings first and third Thursday* of each month. M. H. Hazzard, C. C., J. H. Glover. K. of R and S.__ Ask the grocer, merchant, etc., with wrhom you trade: “Do you advertise in our paper, The Monitor? Snow’s College of Dressmaking— Fall term will open September 2. En roll now. Mrs. C. Ridley, 1922 North 25th St. _ ••••••• £ Eagle Wing Lunch Room $ I Meals and Short Orders £ X STITT & PORTER, Props. £ f 1413 North 24th St. £ X,*X"X~X~X~X',X~XX~X**X“X“X~X* —DR. CRAIG MORRIS DENTIST J 2407 Lake St. Phone Web. 4024 ; ..—-‘ . ■ ■ ■ Res. Colfax 3831. Douglas 7150 AMOS P. SCRUGGS Attorney at- La* 13th and Famam u...... ♦:~X“XK~XX~:~X**X~X-.*X“X“X-XX | FRIEDMAN’S PL ACE £ l* Fine Watch Repairing. Red 7914 •*. Y We Buy and Sell y Y Jewelry, Clothing. Shoes. Trunks y f Suit Cases, Etc. y S MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS £ 1211 Douglas St. Omaha. Neb. V •X~X“X-X-X-X~X“X~X“X~X~X“X* r ■ . . . —--- r I Off ice Phone Weh. 209;>. ♦ Residence Weh. 1219. i JOHN A. GARDNER j AUTO EXPRESS AND BAGGAGE ] Stand at P. H. Jenkins’ Barber i Shop. 2122 North 24th St. >X-X~X“X“X“X~X~X~X“X~X“X~X IK. & IVI. GROCERY CO. % We solicit your patronage. f 2114-18 North 24th St. i v t—xk—x—x—x—x**x«x—x—!«;-*>'>*iMX—:• -X**X**X"X-*X-X-X"X~X**X“X“X"X X We Sell Kashmir Goods X | STARK’S PHARMACY | X 30th and Pinkney Streets X X Phone Webster 4225. X $ * •XX“X"X-:"X"X“X"X"X~X~X-X"X ? ! ? j • | x | } WATERS ( | | BARNHART $ f. PRINTING CO. -8-8^ j ? V V .» •> :: } ;I c > t < • Y < • y < * y < > Y < • Y < • ? :: £ :: I :: .t . x~> r ‘y > THE BLACK PERIL Another blot has been cast upon the fair name of American lib erty and democracy. Race riots, such as those which occurred in Washington, D. C., have broken out in Chicago. The bitter strug gle presents a detail of facts of such brutality, violence and blood shed as to cause one to shudder at the horrors involved. It is hard to believe that with the end of the war for democracy, in which the American negro played so valiant and exemplary a part, such igno minious and undemocratic circumstances as race strife should come to life. Yet the bare facts stand before us. We are confronted by a spectre of race hatred and antagonism that is certain to cause us grave and vital concern. It is one thing for a nation to prescribe in its constitution and documents of law equal rights and franchises regardless of race, creed and color. It is another thing for the nation to translate into terms of fact the guarantees written into its constitution. Theo retically American constitutional law provides for the political and civil lights of the negro, but actually the guarantees have often ( been treated as a “mere scrap of paper.” Parallel to the rhetorical flourishes and extravagant verbosity that characten'ze our written documents of political and civil equality are written in negro blood lynching-bees innumerable and deeds of discrimination and endless persecution. History records our tactics relative to the once paramount “yel low peril.” Before we effectually barred Oriental cheap labor by legal processes and statutes of law, we were constantly imperilled by race warfare in the congested districts. Forcible suppression of Japanese and Chinese activities was not an infrequent occurrence. Actual murders took place. In addition to these the imposition of a social and economic boycott had a powerful result in aggravating | the racial strife and in bringing it to a quick climax. Are we, then, to adopt a similar policy in regard to the “black peril”? Are these recent race riots the incipient ripples of a great tidal wave that shall immerse this country in blood and chaos? These questions are not incidental; they are fundamental to our future welfare and progress. One thing is certain, we cannot deport the millions of negroes in America. The white race is responsible for their presence here. We brought them here and sold them into slavery. Then, expound ing principles of moral and political justice, we set them free and set out to Americanize and Christianize them. We used their vast labor powers to build up the great industries and agricultural en terprises of the South. Later we converted their j aw labor energy into manufacturing power in the North; and they are a source of tremendous wealth and production in this country. For these things shall we reward them by uncivilized warfare upon them? We dare not do it. But to what alternative can we turn? How can we solve the complex problems involved without incurring the danger of violent conflict? The best means of settling any problem, we believe, is by investigating the causes to which the difficulties may be charged. The causes of the race problem are threefold—political, social and educational. Cheap negro ldbor has displaced cheap white labor and lowered the standard of living. This is the germ of the con flict, which is aggravated by social antagonism, due to widely divergent racial characteristics. Thus, both socially and economic ally, the negroes and whites are constantly in a state of suppressed excitement, which is heightened and intensified by sporadic mur ders, rapes and crimes by negro degenerates—especially so when in various instances white girls are the victims of the crime. The most important phase of the problem is the educational phase. Herein lies the dominant cause and cure of the race prob lem. Illiteracy among the whites and blacks is the greatest single factor tending to produce violence and lawlessness and open con flict. Social and economic clashes are in part due to the widespread j existence of a profound anti-negro prejudice, which is the result of ignorance and miseducation. The negro problem has never been | studied in our schools. By silence it has been ignored. This wall of silence is the beginning of race hatred and suspicion. The race riots are a sufficient indictment of its evil effects. On the other hand, we have offered the negro very little opportunity for self education and advancement. We have commercialized and indus trialized him, but we have not educated him or offered him spirit ual satisfaction. Let us educate the nation to the truth of the race problem, so that we can lay the foundations of a relationship between the races j based on mutual sympathy and respect, rather than hatred and dis trust. The truth is there is no “black peril,” other than the peril of a staggering illiteracy and ignorance which we whites have fos tered and nourished by our own indifference and vaccilation. The truth is that by social, political and economic discrimination and distinction we have bred in the hearts and minds of liberty-loving negroes a deep resentment and feeling of revolt that glows bolder and bolder as the restrictions draw tighter and tighter. The truth is that we have based our judgment of the negro race on the fact that a large portion of negroes constitute the criminal element in this country, more than any other one race of people. But we must not forget, and I must emphasize this fact again, that if the negroes do largely contribute to crime and lawlessness they are not only to blame, but we ourselves—w'e who have done little to lift the ! economic and social and educational restrictions which are the bases of these criminal tendencies. It is plain that we must adopt a policy of justice toward the : negro if we wish to avert future race wars. We must put an end to 1 lynching. We must change our industrial system so that one race, ! shall not by virtue of cheap labor and servile service, subsist and produce at the expense of another race. We must educate both black and white illiterates, for there is force and violence most where there is education and reason least. We must give the negrr full political justice in the South, where it is denied him. Our school systems must include in their curricula scientific and historical courses dealing with the negro race and the race problems. Thus only by amenity, amelioration and education, may we hope to ar rive at a proper solution of this distressing and ^complex problem. In conclusion, we must raise our voices in protest against the real sponsors of anti-negro agitation and bloodshed — the prof iteers. These inhuman vultures, who live on the miseries of the human race, exploit the cheap, servile, ready-supply labor of the negro to the limit of exploitation. They and not the negroes dis ; place white labor. They and not the negroes lower the standard wage and the standard of living. They and not the negroes are the cause of rapes and murders committed by negro degenerates. These white-skinned profiteers have hearts blacker than the dark est negro color, and if we would have peace between the races we must eliminate this parasite, this exploiter, who is the root of the evil; who, for greed and profits, would set the whole world afire, i EUGENE M. KONECKY. BUILT ON HISTORIC GROUND New York City's Big Structures Stand on Land That Is of Sacred Memory. The land on which the Eqnlfable building stands, and the territory around and about It, is of sucred mem ory so far as early American history Is concerned. Just across the way on Broadway was Burns' coffee house, where the Revolution really started. Here was erected at a later date the City hotel, the scene of many memor able functions during the early days of the republic. On the northeast corner of Nassau and Cedar streets is a bronze tablet which rends as follows: Here Stood The Middle Dutch Church Dedicated A. D. 1729 Made a British Military Prison in 1778 Restored 179*> Occupied as the r S. Post OfBca 1*45-1878 Taken down 1882 At which time the post office moved to the present federal building In City Hail park. On the site of the present suhtreas ury, fit I’lne, Nassau nnd Wall streets, s new city Imll was erected in 1099. In front of tile building was a cage for criminals, with whipping post and stocks—but not t!ie kind of stocks they sell there now. When Independence was declared the building became the capital and was called Federal hall. Here the Declaration of Independence was rend from the steps In 1770. and here also Washington was inaugurated first president e>f the United States, In 1779. The wide strip of pavement on the west side of Nassau street in front of the Bankers Trust building bears evi dence of the former existence of Fed eral hall. The latter extended across Nassau street to the building line of the street nnd so dosed the thorough fare that a passageway was estab lished around the building in order that pedestrians might more readily get to Nassau street. When the sub treasury was built in 1836 on the site of Federal hall, Nassau street was opened to Wall street, and the little passageway was left, and forms the wide sidewalk of today.—Equitable City. Make Study of Eugenics. The eugenics record office at Cold Spring Harbor. I„. I„ is engaged In building up an analytical Index of the inborn traits of American families, es pecially with a view to studying the inheritance of sudi traits, fracing their recombination in given pedigrees, etc. Down to the beginning of last year the office had on file 534,625 curds Indexing individuals who are described in the archives of the establishment, on the basis of surname, natural trait nnd geographical locality. An elaho rate classification of traits has hem worked oul •'Extravagance rots character; train youth away from it. On the other ban 1. the habit of saving money, white It stiffens the will, also brightens the energies If you would be sure that you are beginning right, begin to save." Theodore Roosevelt. RACE BOOKS AND PERIODICALS Our Boys and Girls A weekly newspaper for our youth, $1.00 per year; 50c for 6 months. 54 West 140th St., New York City. The Negro in American History By' Prof. John W. Cromwell, $1.40 and worth more. 1439 Swann St., N. W., Washington, D. 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