Nebraska Newspapers

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The monitor
A 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 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 Madree Penn, Associate Editors.
Fred C. Williams, Business Manager.
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Address, The Monitor, 304 Crounse Block, Omaha, Neb.
Telephone Douglas 3224.
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ARTICLE XIV. CONSTITUTION Of THE :■
UNITED STATES. I
Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged. I;
1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States. \
and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the J
United States and of the State wherein they reside. No ;•
state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the \
privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor I;
shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or prop
erty without due process of lawr, nor deny to any person
within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. j;
THE WORLD AT PRAYER.
•tote do not know how many of our
W readers have seen or were
among those who offered up the
prayer set forth by a committee of
the Interchurch World Movement and
which was said or supposed to have
been said, by millions throughout the
world at the ushering in of the New
Year. It was printed in every known
tongue. Doubtless, millions repeated
it with fervor. With one voice, though
in many tongues, it calls for the "ele
vation of justice and brotherhood,”
and appeals for the hastening of that
Kingdom in which mercy and love
rule in the hearts of men.
It is rather significant and stresses
the unity of the human family that
Christian people of the white race,
the black race, the yellow race and
the red race heard and joined in the
prayer that went round the world for
guidance to replenish a devastated
earth and stay the unrest of per
plexed people.
No one can estimate the power of
prayer. The individual, race or na
tion that genuinely believes in it and
sincerely offers it is sure to triumph
over all its foes, spiritual and tem
poral, and what counts more than all,
to conquer its own sins of hate and
greed and selfishness. These are the
sins which keep men and nations at
variance.
Let prayers like this one continue
to be offered throughout the world
and strife and hatred and discord will
speedily cease. The world was called
to prayer and here is the prayer that
millions were lequcsted to offer as
the old year closed and the New Year
daw-ned:
“Almighty God, Father of all man
kind. at the end of a year in which
malice has so often thwarted love,
ve join the prayers of all Thy chil
dren around the world for peace, the
elevation of justice and of brother
hoed.
"Thou Creator, Possessor of all
thing*. Who didst make the earth for
the race1’ of men and didst set bounds
for the’r habitation, forgive us our
greed as we repent of our sin. and
restore to all hearts the recognition
of the transcendent right of human
life to live.
"Open our eyes, we beseech Thee,
to the dignity of labor, the saeredness
of human service, and the privileges
of production, that nation may join
nation and man may join man justly
in honest work to replenish a devas
tated earth.
"Quicken the sympathy of hearts
made dull by reports and sights of
suffering, incomprehensible and need
less.
"Call us again that we may bow be
fore the eternal laws of creation, put
ting aside malice, envy, covetousness
and brutality, to enter into the peace
of the sons of the Most High.
Hasten by Thy gracious Provi
dence and by the consecrated efforts
of Thy children the coming of Thy
world wide Kingdom where justice,
mercy and love shall rule the hearts
and hands of men.
"Create in us, O Lord, clean hearts,
tnd renew right spirits for the com
ing year.
“This we ask in the spirit of Jesus
Christ, our holy Hope. Amen!”
MOMTOR MISTAKE*.
THE Monitor will always be found
manly enough to acknowledge its
mistakes and make due apology for
the same. We try to be -absolutely
sure of our facts before making a
statement or taking a stand. We have
the reputation of being reliable and
dependable and we are jealous of
maintaining this reputation. We find
that we are mistaken in the purpose
of the advertisement for waiters and
bus boys which we withdrew from
our advertising columns last week,
because, as we said, we had reason to
believe that its purpose was to find
men to take the place of waiters who
refuse to have their wages cut. We
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j have been reliably informed that this
in not true, and that these men are
wanted for other projects. We there
; fore reinsert the advertisement.
The insertion of advertisements
comes under the business manage
1 inent of the paper. This department
i uses the same care in trying to se
■ cure dependable advertisements as
! the editor does in maintaining the
| literary standard of the publication
j and it frequently occurs that the
; editor does not know what advertise
j ments are in until the paper is pub
lished. We have absolute confidence
| in the business management and, as
yet. have never had any reason for
| calling their good judgment into ques
I tion. This advertisement, was re
ceived in the regular way. Later, the
editor, knowing that there was a pro
posal to cut the wages of certain
waiters and having been informed
that the advertisement was inserted
by an employe of that bouse, conclud
'd that here was an underhanded ef
fort to supply the places of these men.
Having, however, since learned that
the gentleman who Inserted the ad
vertisement is not now' an employe of
that house and having been assured
that these employes are not to be dis
I laced. The Monitor acknowledges its
mistake and will continue to list the
names.
Al'IMtECIATE FOAH’I.IMF\T:
BI.’T DESIKE CREDIT
THE Monitor feels complimented
that ho many of our exchanges
consider us a model in news matter
and editorial comment. Several bor
row our news items, headlines and
all. News, of course, is common
property. It is in the matter of head
lines where originality is shown.
Where, therefore, our contemporaries
borrow our news items, headlines and
all. it might not be amiss or lacking
in courtesy to occasionally give The
Monitor credit. This is not absolutely
necessary in the matter of news, but
when it* comes to editorials credit
should he given. Not infrequently are
editorials from The Monitor published
in full in the editorial columns of our
exchanges as their own editorials.
This is dishonest and unethical. Our
editorial on the New A'ear is one of
the most recent cases. We are glad
to have our editorials quoted, but
please, brethren of the quill, give us
credit.
SELF-RESPECT.
ITNFORTUNATELY through a long
J process of wrong education many
members of our race have, perhaps
unconsciously, imbibed the spirit of
| self-depreciation which is most re
grettable and must he overcome.
What we mean is this: Because of
the enslavement of our forefathers
there has arisen, very naturally, the
disposition to believe that the race
which furnished the master class is
an inherently superior race. Conse
iquentiy, there is a tacit concession to
his right to rule and to be deferred
to in any and all matters of moment.
This process of thought has engen
dered and bred upon the part of one
insolence and arrogance and upon the
part of the other fawning and servil
ity. Too many of our people, even
those who lay claim to more than the
average degree of intelligence, as
sume this latter attitude. They speak
in laudatory terms of the dominant
race and in deprecatory terms of their
own. They reflect in their tone and
attitude those of the dominant race
toward our own race. This is a se
rious mistake. It Is a fatal mistake.
No individual who is constantly
under-rating and belittling himself
can win, nor does he merit, the re
spect of others. This is equally true
of races and nations. Would we gain
the respect of others we must not be
wanting in self-respect.
We must not accept for one minute
the popular American doctrine that a
dark skin is the infallible and unques
tioned credential of inferiority of race
Almighty God, and we speak with rev
erence, knew His business when He
made of one blood all nations of men
to dwell upon the face of the whole
earth and. fixed the bounds of their
habitation. He created no inferior
and no superior raceB. He created
man in His image and likeness. He
has given to each race its peculiar
gifts and characteristics which are to
be used for the welfare of all. As
these gifts are used and developed,
not selfishly, but for the good of all,
men and races rise to prominence or
sink into decay. He who is in the
master class today may be in the
slave class tomorrow. The race that
does what the Creator intended it to
do for the advancement of mankind
is the superior race. The one that
fails to do this or hinders His prog
ress in righteousness is the inferior
race.
Judged by his service to humanity,
not by the manifestation of brute
force, but by the exercise of kind
heartedness and the nobler virtues
the African race can successfully hold
its claim to equality, if not superior
ity to any other race on earth.
What we ■would have our own peo
ple more fully appreciate than they
do is the nobility and grandeur of the
race to which we belong. And we
would have them live up to their
highest traditions. Instil this into
your children. Never let them be
I lieve that they belong to an inferior
race. Never let them think for one
moment that they capnot rise to the
same heights in anv field of achieve
ment that any other similarly en
dowed human being can. Point out
to them and hold up to them as ex
amples anti an inspiration the men
and women of the race who have
! achieved success in any given legit
imate line. Encourage them to aspire.
I Do not teach them racial insolence
or arrogance, but teach them racial
self-respect. Sing to then, no thren
ody, but a paen of life and victory.
LEADING EDITORIALS
Dangerous Times Ahead for the Race
When the politicians of a nation
become convinced that a proposition
is popular, that there are many vot'-s
in it, they usually fall over themselves
in adopting and advocating that prop
osition, even if it amounts to a radical
curtailment of personal and political
rights and liberties. The activity of
alien socialists, Russian reds and the
like has been seized upon by both the
dominant parties as an excuse for fa
voring such legislative enactments as
will amount practically, to the en
slavement of the people to the party
in power, whichever party that may
be.
The action of the New York legis
lature in refusing to scat the five so
cialist members because of their po
litical beliefs is a case in point, and
one that has drawn out a strong legal
protest from Judge Chas. E. Hughes,
the last republican candidate for
president, and from other strong men
'n t • natif rt, a in ing i1.
subversive of the political freedom of
thought which has always been free
ly tolerated in this country, and de
nial of which is bound to lead to con
fusion and, perhaps, violence.
If the sedition law pases congress
as it has been adopted by the house
of representatives, any of the states
of the south can have arrested and
ultimately hanged any Negro editor
who should protest against any injus
tice, such as is now commonly prac
ticed against the Afro-American cit:
zens, including denunciation of mob
law and of the state government that
allows mob law to prevail within its
' jurisdiction. We should have to ac
cept without criticism or protest the
vile condition of affairs that prevail?
now in the southern states or be tried
for sedition and hanged for criticising
and protesting against the condition.
There is plenty of trouble ahead foi
the Negro people. The republican?
and the democrats in congress arc
working together to hitch upon us the
awful condition of affairs that has
been allowed to grow up in the south
ern states, and to try and hang us
when we criticize and protest against
it.—The Amsterdam (N. T.) News.
TilK A>TI.SKIMTIO\ HILL.
Organized labor is opposing the
anti-sedition bill now before congress
on the ground that it would violate
j the constitution and rob the whole
American people of their most cher
j 'shed and basic guarantees of free
j government.'*
“If the American people, and in fact
! a majority of the members of con
1 press." eeys Mr. Oompers, president
of the Amer'Can Federation of I,abor,
i"were awake to the dangers concealed
in this till, a storm of indignation
| would sweep the nation. It has been
j widely advertised that this measure
[ protects free speech fully, but pre
sents advocacy of forcible revolution.
I bolshevism, and anarchy. In fact, it
| would perpetuate an autocratic cen
jsorship over the entire American
I press. It can be used to kill free
speech and free assembly.
“Section 6 perpetuates the censor
| ship of the postmaster general over
: all newspapers and printed matter.
; The so-called Borah amendment, pro
jtiding a court review of the postmas
ter general’s action, is sound in prin
! ciple, but is inadequate to afford pro
jection as a practical matter to a pub
lisher against the autocratic action of
Jhe postmaster general.
“More amazing still, the proviso
sets up a censorship over any man's
private correspondence by the post
master general. It would be crim
inal. for example, for a man to send
a letter advocating resistance to an
injunction issued by a federal judge
ordering workers on strike to go back
to w’ork.
“Moreover, this section can be used
to prevent the organization of col
ored labor on the grounds of inciting
'racial prejudice, the intended or
probable result of which appeal is to
cause rioting, etc.’ No doubt advoc
acy of, or opposition to, the cause of
Irish freedom would in some sections
tic prohibited.”
We have seen enough of the work
ings of the espionage act—during the
war and after—to be suspicious of
these so-called anti-sedition hills. The
: espionage act was in many instances
'used—not as an instrument for the
j protection of the nation—but as a
■ weapon for autocracy and petty
tyranny. Too often private malice
found it a convenient cloak to hide
sinister purposes.
Just now, a widespread effort is
ijejng made to bring all labor organ
izations into disrepute by classing
them all as bolshevist. During the
steel strike and the coal strike this
was especially noticeable. We have
little doubt that the anti-sedition lulls
now before congress have been de
signed to hamper labor organizations,
| even at the cost of taking away the
' liberties of the rest of us. We should
not allow ourselves to be carried
| away by the present “scare” that has
l been worked up for a purpose. us
j preserve our liberty even though a
few “Reds'' sometimes abuse it. Our
^ present laws are sufficient to deal
with them. The True Voice (Omaha).
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