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.
Madree Penn, Associate Editor.
George H. W. Bullock, Advertising Manager and Associate Editor.
M. Wright, Circulation Manager.
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Address, The Monitor, 204 Kaffir Block, Omaha, Neb.
Telephone Douglas 3224.
THE PEOPLE PAY THE BILLS
RATE increases granted the rail
roads by the interstate commerce
commission are designed to give car
riers an annual net operating income
of $1,134,000,000, or $241,000,000 more
than the standard return allowed by
the government.
This is $34,000,000 more than the
roads made in the racord year of
1916, but is $99,000,000 less than the
$1,233,000,000 net operating income
they sought.
This enormous sum was granted to
the railroads supposedly to absorb
the wage increase of $600,000,000 re
cently given their employees. Let
us see what this means when applied
to our every day living. For exam
ple: the present fare from Omaha to
Philadelphia is $42.74. Pullman $8.7G.
$51.50 When the new scale goes into
effect the ticket will be $51.29 and
Pullman $13.14. Or where one paid
$51.50 for the trip he must pay $64.43,
an increase on this trip of $12.93. In
addition to this freight rates ad
vanced 33 per cent which means an
addition to the price of the things
that must be freighted.
This is certainly to make the al
ready high cost of living soar higher
and the public must pay the bills.
This is the way it will come to us:
About $15 per capita will be added to
our bills. The public will pay the bills.
If we reason by the same process that
the railroads do and apply that reason
to the manufacturers, wholesalers and
Jobbers in which cases we may ex
pect them to make a 98 per cent
profit over and above the cost we
may well set ourselves to pay at least
75 per cent more when it gets to us.
In the case of the railroad fare to
Philadelphia the roads blear $32.22
out of a total of $64.43. Can we
count on the merchants being more
charitable than the railroads? All of
these increases will appear in our
weekly table bills and we shall have
them to pay. *
This paper has always stood
strongly for reasonable wages and
good working conditions for the
working man. It believes there is
some justification in the present de
mand for higher wages. We are also i
in favor of a fair revenue readjust- I
ment by the roadB to absorb a reason
able wage increase; but we cannot see
the slightest reason for the roads of
the country taxing the public $1,134,
000,000 in order to absorb a wage in
crease of only $600,000,000. In other
words we do not see the excuse for
the excess revenue of $534,000,000 in
this instance.
The consumer will have to pay the
bills in any event. He will have to
pay it if the present rates were con
tinued and large deficits continued to
mount up which the government
would be obliged to repay and to raise
the money required by taxation. He
would have to pay it in larger meas
ure if the government owned and op
erated the roads if the inefficiency
which characterized the bureaucratic
rule of the last few years. So in any
event the public must pay the bills.
There is no call for pyramiding in the
matter as seems to be the intention of
the roads.
“LITTLE SAB HOW MEN.”
"IVTE note with interest and ming
W led humor, Mr. Roosevelt, the
democratic vice presidential nominee s
characterization of those senators
whose “minds did not go along with
Mr. Wilson’s on the league of nations
issue. We say with humor, because
of its nearness to the style of the
president In characterizing those
whose minds do not go along with his
own in any matter. It §eems as if
the two democratic candidates have
copied and divided between them
selves all of the pet phrases of their
chief and have made them their weap
on of attack against the republicans.
But both ought to refresh themselves
on the disastrous result of their
chief’s method in the use of these
words. The president characterized
the senators as a "little willful
group." Cox calls them “iniquitous,"
"despicable,” “brazen,” all of which
are splendid examples of their chief.
Mr. Roosevelt may be excused on the
ground that he is still but a novice
at big campaigning, and that be is
still a member of the Wilson cabinet,
walking in the shadow of the Lansing
episode, but we find no grounds what
ever on which to excuse Mr. Cox. The
election is still three months away,
which will be time enough for all
such mud slinging to have been ex- :
hausted and when this is done the
people will decide.
We harbor no animosity against
either candidate as men, and we trust
that they will soon gee the bad judg
ment in the use of such tactics. We
hope to see the campaign fought out ;
on principles and clear cut issues and
not persons and personalities. We
hope the democratic nominees will
see that they cannot win on invectives.
They ought to see that in every breath
they condemn senators for using their
own minds instead of being a mouth
piece of the president, they are fast
[establishing the belief in the public’s!
I mind that to vote a democratic ticket
means to vote for the establishment !
in Washington of an autocratic regime
such as we have had for the past eight
years. If we are to take the candi
dates at their word, they believe in a
muzzled congress. They brand a large
and representative body of men as
oligarchs because they did not submit I
to the dictates of an autocrat. We do !
not believe that one could find hardly
1,000 people in the country who would
like to gee another term of the Wil
son type of the presidency, and it is.
very safe to assume now that a Cox !
election means a repetition of that re
markable regime.
( OMilMTI LATI0\.S. SMITH
THE Monitor extends congratula
tions not only to Harry C. Smith,
editor of the Cleveland Gazette, for
the magnificent vote be received in the
reoent primaries for secretary of state, j
but to our race in Ohio for the loyal
support given him. In the first place,
it is noteworthy that a man of our
race had the courage to become a can
didate for the second highest office
in the gift of the state. Hitherto we
have been content to become suppli
ants for some appointive job, such as
janitor or doorkeeper, or in the case
of elective office, to file for some
minor office, which in our modesty we
believed no one would have very seri
ous objection to our securing. This
year noticed a radical change. Every
where members of our race decided to
file for positions hitherto untbought
of. Smith filed for secretary of state
in Ohio. He received over 50,000 votes
and lost the election only by a small
margin, which in itself was a great
victory. It demonstrates what can be
done. It points the way for the fu
ture. A united vote by our people in
almost any community where we are
found in large numbers can and will
eventually elect our own candidates
to almost any position for which they
may be competent and to yhieh they
may aspire. It is about time we
Stopped begging for appointive Jobs,
which we seldom get, and begin elect
ing men to the offices we desire them
to have. It can be done.
Proverbs and Paragraphies
BETTER is a handful with quiet
ness than both the hands full with
travail and sexation of spirit. Prov.
4:6‘ _ |
Thou shall not pry into thy neigh
bors’ affairs, lest while so doing thine
own will be sadly neglected.—Busy
body.
Ext (ft* is the arch enemy of success.
Carelessness and failure are twins.
The great thing in the world is not
so much where we stand as in what
direction we are going.
Honking your horn does not help
half so much as steering your machine
wisely.
GLIMPSES OF PORTO RICO
Some Interesting Facts About the
Country and People.
(By Grace Morris Hutten.)
SAK Jl AJi
San Juan, the largest city, has a
population of 120.000. It is built on
the slope of a small hill. The narrow
streets, which run parallel to each
other and cross at right angles, are
perfectly straight, and run down to
the bay, where the steamers dock. It
was formerly enclosed by strong forti
fications and walls on all sides, which
rendered the place impregnable, but
in 1897 the entire eastern and south
ern sections of the wall were torn
down. Portions of the demolished
eastern wall are still in evidence, ex
tending from San Cristobal in the rear
of the new Casino of Porto Rico.
In 1533, the ‘‘Fortaleza,'* now the
governor’s palace, was built. It was
the first fortification on San Juan.
The palace is impressive and massive
has a patio, beautiful gardens and
great vaults that formerly served as a
hiding place for treasure en route
from the new world to Spain.
Casa Blanca, or the White House,
was built in 1523 for Louis Ponce de
Leon, son of Juan Ponce de Leon. It
is the oldest building here and is a
splendid type of old Spanish architec
ture. It extends along the water front,
rising above the ancient city wall,
which is 30 feet thick.
At Muraflores Island, opposite San
Juan, is situated the 17. S. quarantine
station, completely equipped with hos
pital and sleeping quarters for pas
sengers arriving from suspected
plague and yellow fever infected coun
j tries. Here is a unique cement reser
voir 90 feet long, with deflecting
I walls, built by the Spaniards in 1780.
The school buildings are mostly ot
the modified Spanish type of architec
ture, nearly all constructed of cement,
are pleasing in’appearance, well light
jed and ventilated. The course of study
■ for the giaded schools can be .com
i pared favorably with that of the bet
I ter public school systems in the Unit
j ed States.
1 may say the most beautiful school
| building in Santurce, a fashionable su
burb of San Juan, has a colored prin
cipal. Under his supervision are 30
teachers, and five of these are white
Americans from the U. S. He is con
sidered one of San Juan’s most suc
cessful principals.
The oldest church in San Jose, which
was built in 1533. The cathedral was
commenced in 1540. Within rests the
ashes of Ponce de Leon, surmounted
by a magnificent sculpture, emblem
atic of Spain kissing the casket of
De Leon. Here I met a very interest
ing colored man. He said he was 89
years old and he had taken care of
this church since he was 10 years old.
Now be escorts all visitors around,
pointing out the interesting and his
torical data concerning the interior.
This is considered one of the most
beautiful and the largest cathedral in
the western hemisphere.
(Continued next week.)
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