The monitor
A National Weakly Newspaper Devoted to tbe Interests of Colored
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EnUred as Second-Class Mall Matter July 2. 1915, at the Postoffice at
Omaha. Neb., under tbe Act of March I. 1179.
THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor.
Geerae H. w. Bullock, Circulation Manager and Associate Editor.
TRAGO T, MCWILLIAMS, Associate Editor, Lincoln, Neb
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HOW TO MEET THIS MENACE
IT is enheartening in the midst of
so much that has a tendency to
dishearten even the most optimistic
and stout-hearted in these days to note
the practical unanimity with which
such a large section of even the
southern press is denouncing the re
vival of the pernicious Ku Klux Klan.
Another ray of light is short athwart
the darkness by the utterances coming
from the ultra-conservative pulpit of
which the historic St. Paul's church
of Richmond, V’a.. is representative.
Press and pulpit are the great mould
ers of public sentiment, the all
powerful creators of public opinion.
Whatsoever therefore these two pow
erful agencies favor or disapprove
flourish or decline. Opposition there
fore to the Ku Klux Klan from such
influential sources will do much to dis
credit this diabolical institution which
the rector of St. Paul’s aptly exco
riates as “an insult to the forces of
orderly government.” We rather fear
however, that this organization has
gained such a headway that it will
take something besides hostile public
sentiment to stay its insane machina
tions. It has been organized tnd car
rying on its secret work for six years
and during that time has gained a mo
mentum which it believes Justifies Its
coming out into the open and 'rankly
declaring its purposes as it has done
in the last few months. One may be
well assured that were it not for its
consciousness of its power that It
would not have given itself this wide
publicity. We are of the opinion that
in addition to the public sentiment
that must be aroused against P, there
is need for an organization equally
strong to meet it on its own ground
and to oppose force to force. Since it
til organized avowedly to intimidate
our people we ought to have an or
ganization. compact, formidable, mo
bile, strongly financed to strike bacs
in self-defense. If the government will
not suppress these midnight assassins
and cutthroats of the “Invisible Em
pire’’ law-abiding American citizens
whom the subjects of his imperial
majesty attack will have to protect
themselves, and will.
This in our judgment will be the
most effective wav to meet this
menace.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
' PLEASE TAKE NOTICE
npHE Monitor desires to call the at
tention of the Department of Jus
tice to the fact that according to a
statement published in the World
Herald of February 15, one of Its rep
sentatives. Spieial Agent Byrn, pub
licly endorses the Kn Klux Klan, and
can see no objection to the formation
of a branch of this un-American and
dangerous organization In Omaha. Mr.
Byrn is quoted as saying when advised
of its proposed organization here:
‘ Well, If the Klan stands only for
what we understand It does—I’m
mighty glad of It!
“The Ku Klux Klan of modern times
is nothing like that of the pos-belluin
period, as everyone knows. The mem
bers wish to makp Americans pay
more attention to America and not
spend so much time and money and
conversation In worrying about what
is going on in other countries. They
are out in the open, and so far there
is nothing about them to criticize."
We do not believe the Department of
Justice will knowingly permit Its rep
resentatives to publicly sponsor any
secret organization the avowed pur
pose of which Is to overthrow' the or
derly process of government, bv resort
ing to night-riding attacks and terrer
isation. Does the department endorse
Mr. Byrn’s views? As a government
offcial is he within his rights in mak
ing nuch a statement, if he he correctly
quoted?
THE APPROACHING
LOCAL CAMPAIGN
r Nebraska the privilege of voting
Is accorded to all citizens of both j
sexes, who can meet the prescribed
qualifications. Nothing is exacted of
one citizen that is not applicable to
all. Since voting is a sacred duly, all
of our citizens of voting age should
qualify by registering and studving the
issues before the community, and vot
ing their sentiments honestly and fear
lessly. The candidates are nominated
at the primaries.
It is very essential, therefore, that
our people should prepare to vote ir
the April primaries. At the primaries
we have the privilege of selecting and
nominating the men whom wp desire
to be our representatives in the com
munity. Important issues are to be
met in Omaha the coming spring cam
paign. The city government !s to ha
chosen and in this we are all vital!f
interested. The Monitor, therefore, at
this early date desires to call the al
ien ion of our citizens to the necessity
of qualifying in order that thev may
vote intelligently in the spring cam
paign.
WHAT THE EDITORS SAY
IN UNEXPECTED REBI hK
The showing made by the southern
members of congress in the hearing
before the committee on the census, in
opposition to the representatives of
the National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People, was
styled “humiliating” by such a devoted
exponent of southern interests as the
Memphis Commercial Appeal. Among
other things it said.
“The representatives of this organ
ization who appeared before the com
mittee were Negroes of ability who
presented their case impressively and
with becoming dignity. But the man
ner in which they w»re bullied by
southern congressmen, who were mem
bers of the committee, presents a hu
miliating contrast. The courtesy anil
ability with which the northern mem
bers conducted themselves, though
they evidently sympathized with theii
southern associates, was highly com
mendable. Prom this exhibition It
seems quite clear that, the south must
improve the quality of Its representa
tion, if it hopes to retain the respect
of the nation. One cannot imagine
Igimar or George or Tsham G. Harris
or Garland playing the role that these
men did.”
The fact that a rebuke like this
should be delivered by a southern dally
shows that a sense of public decency
and decorum still exists in that sec
tion. though not manifest in its rep
resentation in congress. The New
York Age.
KU KLUX KLAN
A hr? am Lincoln did not live to see
the organization of the Ku Klux Klan
in the -outh following the war. An
institution so abhorrent to the ideals
and ideas he represented must have
made him turn in his gfave.
Now the Ku Klux Klan is revived.
It is composed of 100 per cent Amer
icans, according to its “imperial wiz
ard” (good name that, for chief of
such a terrorist, lynch-law mob—“im
perial wizard”—for "mystery" and
"magic” are two of the weapons with
which they terrify).
That ought to be enough to charac
terize the Ku Klux Klan. We have
had sufficient experience to show us
what “100 per cent Americans” are.
They are intolerant, un-American,
violent suppressors of freedom and de
mocracy. They have to label them
selves “100 per cent Americans,” in
order to justify their conduct to them
selves.
But then, also, these particular “100 I
per cent Americans”—the Ku Klux
Klan—are organized for the purpose
of "maintaining the supremacy of the
white race." Educated persons, know
that anything that has to have its su
premacy maintained has no suprem
ncv. It is like contempt of court. It
is the court that brings itself into con
tempt. by its owr. illegal actions, in
most cases. Supremacy maintains it
self The phrase is mere camouflage
to cover up the real purpose of the
Ku Klux Klan which expressed in
plain, southern white man’s Knglish,
would be "to keep the niggers down.”
Just think of such a thing in the
south—in the United States—in this
day and age.
In the south? The “imperial wiz
ard” (somehow that title suggests a
monkey on a stick) announced at a
public initiation of 527 Kluxes at Bir
mingham, Alabama, last month, that
there were 30,000 members of the Ku
Klux Klan in the north. And that
7.000 of these were in ?5ew York and
Chicago!
This seemed to a bewildered editor
imnossible, until he read in the Chi
cago Daily News a dispatch bv a Chi
cago newspaper correspondent who so
far forgot whatever decency he mav
have acquired, as to describe nimse'f
as having “had the honor of being the
first northerner not a klansman to
see such a sight” as this public initia
tion which was obviously staged to
invest the “klan” with more terrors
for southern black folk. A ver\ doubt
ful honor, it senis to a civilized man.
The “imperial wizard” (imperial Is:
a frank word, at least) said that
northern headquarters for the Negro
terrorizing organization would
opened shortly in Chicago or Cincin
nati. It seems as if there ought to ho
some lawful way to wipe out ♦his un
lawful organization. That its influ
ence has really penetrated to the north
cannot be doubted since a Chicago
high school had at its graduation ex
ercises, January 28, a college in
structor as orator, who poisoned the
mimto of the graduating high school
boys and girls, as well as the vast
audience, by a speech in which he
stirred race hatred, developing the
theme that races could not mix and
therefore white "supremacy” had to
be maintained.—The New Majority
Chicago.
\LL TEAR ROI'YD RELIGION
One of the pressing needs of the
times appears to be an all-year round
religion, a system of religious observ
anee that can be depended upon for a
steady pull instead of requiring to be
speeded up at intervals by spasmodic
, revivals. Most churches today seem
to be unable to arouse or maintain the
interest of their followers without re
course to the services of visiting evan
gelists and the evoking of an emo
tional outburst of religious sentiment
of a transitory nature.
The system of revivals, as conducted
at present in most of our churches, is
expensive in its cost and in most cases
devoid of practical results, so far as
the solid growth and extension of the
church work is concerned. Much
money is raised at these meetings, for
the evangelical visitors must be paid
as the laborer is worthy of his hire.
Those who attend the meetings either
witness or participate in the flood ol
religions emotions excited by *he fer
vid oratory of the exhorters and manv
profess religion. This exaltation of
feeling lasts for a few weeks until the
evangelists depart and the flood of
enthusiasm subsides. The church re
turns to the beaten rut of conventional
service and most of the new converts
relapse into their former ways until
the next revival season.
What is needed in roost of our
churches is an all year round religion,
which every pastor acting as his ovn
evangelist and preaching the gospel of
right living as well as dying in the tri
umph of faith. Every pastor should
realbe the real meaning of the term
evangeliae and carry it out, by preach
ing a living gospel of good works and
the developing of strength of Christian
character. With this kind of a reli
gion, there would be no need for costly
revivals.—The Xew York Age.
HANFFFF'APPEF* BY
R4CFAL PRKJI FW K
Mr. A L. Jackson, himself a Negro,
takes up the cudgels for his race In
the February Forum. He says;
‘‘As with the Indian, so It has been
with the Negro. In most every field ,
of endeavor his demonstrations of
ability and fitness have had to be on
a racial basis. He has had no other
choice. Therefore, many achievements
by Negro men and women have beer
to him not so much accomplishments
of talented individuals, but racial ac
complishments refuting the constantly
repeated assertion of pre-ordained in
feriority.
“For generations the Negro has been
looked upon as a predestined tiller of
the soil. Any effort to break down this
notion was frowned upon. So he tilled
the soil In an effort to satisfy ignorant
and nnsclentfflc overseers and plants
tlon owners, until the day came when
following the advice of wiser men, he
began aerinlring his own land. Toda"
more than 22C.000 Negroes are owners
of their own farms; f>72.ft*>4 are rent
ers or share croppers looking forward
to the day when they will be owners:
$4f»2.BfI2.2IS worth of farm-building
stock and eoufpment are owned hv
these tillers of the soil.’’
CHAMBF-RMATD WINS
ST’FT FOR DAMAGES
KANSAS CITY. Mo., Feb. 17
Miss FTla Wade, 1315 Woodland ave
nue, former chambermaid at the
Coates House, ,who was arrested on
the charge of suspicion of having
stolen the pass keys at the Coates
House and who was held forty-eight
hours for investigation, brought suit
against the Coates House by her at
torney, 3. B. Gibbs, and in Judge
Buckner’s division No. 1 she received
a verdict of S500 damages. Judge
Gibbs is being congratulated on all
sides for this splendid victory.
H \S OBJECTIONS TO
BECOMING WHITE
ALPERSON, W. Va., Feb. 17.—
Mi's. Mary Jones, residing near here,
v. ho is of a decided chocolate com
plexion, has begun turning white in
spots. So anxious is she to retain
her original color that she has ap
pealed to physicians for aid. She has
been told, however, that there is no
remedy for her.
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