THE MONITOR
A National Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the later set* of Colored
Amerteaas
Published Brery Thursday at Omaha, Nebraska by The Monitor Pub
lish tag Company__
~ Entered aa Second -Clasa Mail Matter July 1, 1»1S. at the PostoElce at
Omaha. Neb , under the Act of March 3, 1879.
THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS. Editor and Publisher.
Lucille Skaggs Edwards and Madree Penn, Aeeoclate Editors.
Fred C. Williams. Business Manager.
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FAITHFULNESS
LAST week alarge circle of friends
were saddened by tbe death of
one of their number. She was a wom
an who was never in the public eye
She did not pose as a woman of bril
liant attainments. But there were two
particular spheres in which her influ
ence was felt—her home and her
church. In these a dominant trait of
her character was pre-eminently dis
played and that was faithfulness. No
woman was ever more faithful and
devoted to her domestic life than she
and in her church life she was equally
bo. For nearly twenty-three years
she was treasurer of the Ladies' Aid
society of her church; for twenty
years a member of the choir and for
eight years a teacher in the Sunday
school, and it is recorded that weath
er was never too inclement to keep
her from her duties.
What a splendid record this is, espe
cially in these days when people are
so quick to become weary in well
doing and turn over duties which they
can so well perform to others.
Mary Elizabeth . Parker has left a
record of faithfulness which others
may well strive to emulate. Brilliancy
of mind, great intellectual attainments
count for little compared with faith
fulness in the discharge of the ordi
nary duties of the ordinary everyday
life. It has its reward here and here
after, for the admonition and promise
of Holy Writ is true: "Be thou faith
ful unto death and I will give thee
a crown of life.”
CHANGING THE JERY SYSTEM
BECAUSE of failure of conviction
in several of the riot cases, which
in the face of evidence many believe
to be a flagrant miscarriage of jus
tice, there are those who are advo
cating a change in the jury system.
It is being urged by some that a five
sixths, others that three-fourths vote
determine a verdict, rather than a
unanimous vote. In other words,
there are those who would have the
vote of ten men or nine men out of
the twelve Jurors determine the ver
dict, which now requires the unani
mous vote of the whole twelve jurors
One man or two men can “hang a
jury" and prevent a verdict.
Even with the abuse of the jury
system, and when jurors say, as some
have said in empannelling Juries for
the recent riot cases that they would
be reluctant to bring in a verdict of
conviction no matter what the law
and evidence might show, one real
izes how the system may be abused
and made to defeat justice and thereby
encourage lawlessness, The Monitor
believes it is better to adhere to the
present plan of a unanimous verdict.
There is of course nothing magical
about the number twelve, but what
ever may be or might be the number
of Jurors determined upon we believe
that Justice in the long run will be
best conserved by adhering to a unani
mous verdict. Efforts should be made
to secure intelligent and uncorruptible
men to serve as Jurors, men who re
gard this as a sacred duty, and will
regard their oaths as Jurors in the
same light as they would wish to have
others regard theirs were they them
selves to be on trial and this, despite
apparent evidence to the contrary, we
believe is the attitude of the average
Juror, drawn sb they must be from all
classes of our citizenship. Of course
there will be now and then found
men who will be swayed by their pre
judices, or influenced by mercenary
motives, but we believe that the aver
age Juror really wants to conscien
tiously discharge his duty in the in
terests of justice. Change in the Jury
system will cause no change in th«
character or personnel of Jurors.
THE PASSING OP THE BEE
INTO OTHER HAND)1
NEWSPAPERS have a personality
Those who found them, direci
their policy and speak through then
give them that personality. When yoi
think of a newspaper, you think of its
editor. A change in the editorship
impresses one as the passing of some
more or less striking personality.
When one thinks of the Omaha Bee
which for so many years was unques
tionably one of the great newspa
pers not only of this section, but of
the entire country, be invariably
thinks of Edward Rosewater, its
founder and for tbirty-six years its
brilliant and versatile editor. And
after his lamented death, the quill
w'hich fell from his hand was lifted by
his son Victor, whom he had liberally
educated and trained as his successor.
It was a case of "The king is dead;
long live the king." Rosewater suc
ceeded Rosewater and that honored
name impressed itself upon the Oma
ha Bee. The son for some years main
tained the standard set by his illus
trious sire. Then, for or from some
unaccountable reason, the Bee began
to decline and lost its hold upon the
people. Sensationalism in its news
columns, surplanted its sanity, relia
bility and poise. As a climax to all this
comes the announcement of the sale
of the Bee to Nelson B. Updike, the
millionaire grainman, and the passing
of the Bee into other hands. After
nearly half a century the Bee passes
from the Rosewater family.
Whatever may have been its mis
takes, and newspapers like all person
alities are liable to error, the Bee un
der the older Rosewater and in a
lesser degree under the younger, can
look back upon an honorable record of
achievement in the upbuilding not
only of Omaha, Nebraska and the west
but also in shaping national policies
As it passes into other hands, The
Monitor desires to pay a tribute to the
Bee and its splendid work under the
Rosewaters and to wish for it under
its new management unbounded suc
cess and restoral to Its former pres
tige. The era of reconstruction calls
for strong and fearless newspapers.
This the Bee has been and may again
become.
BIG BUSINESS
MEMBERS of our race in many
cities are launching out into big
business enterprises. They are or
ganizing and incorporating stock com
panies with large capitalization for
developing not “get-rich-quick”
schemes, but legitimate commercial
and industrial enterprises which in
time will give good returns upon the
capital invested. We are learning to
do just what others have long been
doing, pooling our money, taking one
share of stock at $10, or ten shares
for $100, or as many as we can af
i ford—and investing it in some com
mercial or industrial enterprise. The
1 Standard Life Insurance company
the Black Star Steamship line, and
other corporations might be cited as
1 examples of these legitimate business
; ventures on a large scale which are
making good.
This is the thing to do. We can
only learn to do things by doing them.
The Monitor ventures the prophecy
that within the next ten years the
1 United States will see many big cor
: porations financed and successfully
! managed by Negroes capitalized at
j millions of dollars, giving employment
to thousands of people. Think what
this will mean.
We are beginning to learn the ne
cessity of putting our little savings or
earnings together in such a way that
they will count for much. We have
begun to see that one man with $100
cannot do very much in a business
way, but that ten men, for example,
each putting $100 in a common fund,
makes a working capital of $1,000,
which will go quite a distance in es
tablishing some little business or to
wards the purchase of a business lot
or something of the kind; and that
100 men with $100 each means a
working capital of $10,000 and that
$10,000 cash can swing a pretty good
sized and well-paying business deal
in real estate or almost anything else.
We have begun to learn that 10 times
10 are 100, or in other words that
your $10 and my $10 added to Jones'
and Brown’s and Smith’s, etc. gives
US, a working capital of $1,000, $10,
000, $100,000 with which to do busi
ness.
This means as you can readily see,
that in time we are going to be able
to finance and develop splendid busi
ness, industrial and comereial enter
prises of all kinds; to own well-pay
ing business blocks in the heart of
the leading cities of the country.
No, this is not a dream, but a
vision of things which must shortly
come to pass, and is already coming to
pass in many cities of the land.
Our people have begun to realize,
as never before, that we must make
places in the commercial and indus
trial world for our children whom we
are educating and that it is up to us
to make these places and that we can
da it and must do it.
Small business ventures are being
made by our people in every commun
ity. Foster and encourage them. Big
business ventures are being made.
Support and develop them by invest
ing what you can in them and boost
ing them. Big bcsiness will then be
in a position to aid and help develop
the smaller business ventures.
The era of big business is here.
It is an open door into which we as
a race must not fear to enter.
“Be bold, be bold; but not too bold.”
DEFENSE KI ND FOR
ARKANSAS FARMERS
READERS of The Monitor have
been made acquainted with the
exact conditions existing in Phillips
county. Arkansas, where Negro farm
ers who had been robbed for years by
unscrupulous whites, organized and
employed attorneys to legally protect
their interests. It has been made
known that some of these same un
scrupulous whites precipitated a ‘‘race
riot" or ‘•insurrection" by firing upon
some Negro farmers peaceably assem
bled in a church and Justified their
actions by publishing the lie that Ne
groes were unlawfully assembling to
attack the whites. Monitor readers
will recall the articles bv Mr. Ken
nerly, a southern white man, which
exposed and excoriated the conditions
complained of in the southern states
The Monitor therefore gladly pub
lishes the following appeal from the
Citizens’ Defense Fund Commission
of Litle Rock. Ark., and will gladly
receive, acknowledge and forward
contributions, large or small for this
fund:
Several days ago leading Negroes
from ail parts of the state of Ar
kansas assembled in the city of Little
Rock and organized the Citizens' De
fense Fund Commission The person
nel of the commission is as follows:
Dr. J. O. Thornton, chairman; .1. H.
McConieo. secretary; Dr. H. W. Suggs,
treasurer: Rev. J. P. Robinson and
Rev. R. M. Caver.
The object for which this commis
sion was created is to raise fnndB to
erindtinf the defense of the 87 Negroes
convicted tn connection with the re
c"~t rs'e trouble in Phillips county,
ArVanspo The men composing this
comnnlss'ou are well established citi
zens cf wide acquaintance and repre
sent t’ e very highest type of spiritual,
professional and business activity.
Twelve cf the Negroes convicted in
connection with the Phillips county
trouble have been sentenced to die in
the electric chair and 75 to serve sen
tences in the Arkansas penitentiary,
ranging from five to twenty-one years.
Negroes throughout the state and
nation feel that these Negroes should
be given full opportunity to prove
their guilt or innocence and in view
of that fact counsel have been em
ployed to fight the cases to the end. i
A few days ago a motion was filed in
the Phillips county circuit court for a j
new trial. The motion was overruled, j
On January 9th an appeal was taken
to the Arkansas supreme court for a '
new trial. Every effort will be made
to defend the rights of these Negroes
both in, the state and federal courts.
To fight these cases through the
courts will require a large sum of
money, and the Citizen’s Defense
Fund Commission is now calling upon
Negroes throughout the country to
contribute to this fund. The Negroes
in every community are requested to
make contributions through some well :
established organization like the
church, club, benevolent, civic asso
ciation. etc., or send contributions di
rect to the secretary,
J. H. McCONICO,
Box 112. Litle Rock. Ark.
In this matter the race must act
and act at once. Contributions should
be made and remitted promptly in
order that the progress of the defense
be not handicapped for lack of funds.
HOME BUYING
^7® have noted with pleasure the
growing determination upon the j
part of many of our people to become
home owners. Within the last few
years the number who have begun
to buy homes has increased rapidly,
so that it has been asserted with those
who are in a position to know that
among no group of citizens in Omaha
today are there proportionately more
home owners, people who have paid
for their homes, and home buyers,
people who are making payments
upon homes, than among the colored
people. This si most gratifying. It
speaks volumes for the character of
our people.
The man who owns his own home
or has the ambition to own his own
home is a valuable asset to any com
munity. It makes for better citizen
ship.
There is another gratifying thing
to be noted in this connection and that
is the pride our people take in keep
ing up their homes. They love to
keep them looking nice.
Home buying should be encouraged.
The record made up to the present has
been quite comendable; but there is
still room for improvement. Many,
of our young men who are making j
good money should invest some of it
in real estate; they should begin buy
ing a home.
Plans are being worked out in many |
communities by which any one who
so desires may begin buying a home. >
Already there are numerous agencies
through which this can be done.
The Monitor urges home buying.
(OI.OIUR AMERICAN
COUNCIL Bl’SV
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The Colored American Council, of
which Henry Lassiter is president,
had a conference with Congressman
Martin R. Madden and other members
of the house of representatives yes
terday evening relative to reporting
out of the interstate commerce com
mittee the "Jim Crow car bill,” which
has been slumbering since twelve re
publicans voted for it some months
ago. The plan now is to present it as
a separate bill upon the suggestion of
several congressmen and put it
squarely up to the republican con
gress to pigeonhole, pass or defeat
the bill. Then the colored American
will know where he stands with the
republican party
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