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The Monitor '
A National Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of Colored
Americana.
Published Every Thursday at Omaha, Nebraska, by The Monitor Pub
lishing Company.
Entered as Second-Class Mall Matter July 2, 1915. at the Postofflce at
Omaha. Neb., under the Act of March I, 1879._
THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor. , ,
George H. W Bullock. Business Manager and Associate Editor.
W. W. MOSELY. Associate Editor, Lincoln, Neb.
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Monitor Starts Relief Fund for Tulsa Riot Victims
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
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Total . $29.50
TILSA’S NEED
w E publish in this issue an ap
peal, for which we most gladly
contribute the advertising space, for
help for our distressed brethren in
Tulsa, and also another appeal sent
out by the same committee request
ing that next Sunday be made Tulsa
Relief Day in all our churches
throughout the land. These appeals
are issued by the Colored Citizens'
Relief Committee of which S. D.
Hooker, one of Tulsa's most respon
sible merchants, a member of the
firm of Elliot and Hooker, clothiers,
whose splendid establishment was
destroyed by the mob, is chairman.
The executive secretary of the com
mittee is G. A. Gregg, Secretary, of
the Hunton Branch of the Y. M. C.
A. The other members of the com
mittee are well-known, dependable,
up-standing citizens. YVhat they say
comes therefore with authority and
compelling force. There is no doubt
about the fact that there is suffering
among the colored people of Tulsa.
Not only were their homes burned
but those homes and business places
were looted and robbed by the vand
als before they were fired. Tulsa
does not sincerely intend to grant
adequate relief. The disgraceful re
port of the grand jury, throwing the
blame for the riot upon the colored
people and the indictment of scores
of colored citizens for rioting and
about a dozen whites for looting
clearly proves this and shows the hy
pocrisy and insincerity of the white
business men of Tulsa who sent forth
the statement that the destroyed
homes would be rebuilt. The move
ment, which The Monitor sincerely,
hopes will he thwarted by legal pro
cedure, to compel the owners of
property in the burned district to
dispose of their valuable property
and build two miles distant at the
undesirable spot designated outside
thv city limits to which a clear title
cannot be obtained, brings this sham
and vaunted philanthropic pledge of
restitution into clearer light. No, as
our special correspondent pointed
out. some weeks ago, Tulsa is not
penitent nor does she intend to make
restitution to her outraged colored
citizens. Generous individuals will
no doubt do what they can, but not
Tulsa as a whole nor in any great
part. Help must therefore be given
our brethren there from the outside.
The Monitor realizing this started a
Tulsa Relief Fund to which the con
tributions have been small. We hope
that those who promised to send re
lief through The Monitor, since the
need has been so forcibly placed be
fore them will do so jiromptly and,
the amount whatever it is will be
sent to the Colored Citizens' Relief
Committee. If others desire to send
their contributions directly to the
Relief Committee, well and good.
The point is we must send relief to
our brethren in Tulsa. We hope the
churches in Omaha and Nebraska
will cheerfully comply with the re
quest of the committee and present
the needs of Tulsa’s riot victims who
are suffering through no fault of
their own to their congregations
next Sunday.
Show your sympathy with your
suffering brethren in Tulsa thous- j
ands of whom have lost everything |
they possess by contributing as gen
erously as you can to their needs.
HEAPING I P WRATH
Members of the notorious organiza-j
tlon which is taking the law into its j
own hands and admnisterlng punish
ment to 'those upon whom it looks
with disfavor are heaping up wrath
for a day of vengeance. Horse-whip
ping and tarring and feathering wom
en and priests is neither chivalrous
nor heroic, and this lawless organiza
tion revived in the south and seeking
membership in the north and west
has as one of 'Its tenets and protec
tion of womanhood. The members of
the organization MAY get away with
acts of violence towards hapless Ne
groea, but when It undertakes con
dign punishment of white women and
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I white men. priests and laymen, it is;
(numbering its days. The Monitor is
glad to see the cowardly gang show
ing its true colors, for it means its |
speedy dissolution.
DECEITHLNES>
Deceitfulness is one of the lowest of
human vices. You didn’t know it was
a vice? Well it is and among the low
est and meanest of vices. Judas has
;always been looked upon as a despic
able character, because of his treach
jery, but underlying his treachery was
j deceit. Beware of the deceitful man
jor woman, it you are a deteitful per
son get rid of your deceitfulness be
fore it undoes you as it certainly will
sooner or later.
(TRUEST AND OTHERWISE
By W. H. A. Moore
I am more than glad that Jack
Johnson is out of Prison. I now
trust he will find his levels of life,
make his last fight and then go out
into the oblivion that inevitably
awaits him. I like sports. I bewail,;
however, the situations of -obscene
professionalism to which many of its j
phases have fallen. Boxing is a
healthful sport. Professional prize
fighting has gone about as low as it |
is possible for it to sink, I imagine
I am one who does not think that a
Negro champion is in any way a nec
essary adjunct to the upbuilding of!
our particular species of mankind. I ;
don't think the "color line” will l»e
i wiped out by t.he fists of any colored
fellow no matter how strongly and
(skillfully he might use them. And
yet if it will break up the prize-fight
ing game if a black pugilist should
win the championship I am for a
black champion. I, for one, am heart
ily tired of the yelping of the Ameri
can white man about the stand lie j
feels he must assume to maintain the j
integrity of his kind. In one breath
he feels free to discant on the close
(relationship of the Negro to the gor-j
ilia and in the next breath he flatly;
refuses to permit the best white I
brute to engage in a fistic encounter |
(with the best black brute—mind 1 ami
(speaking of prize-fighters—engage in'
(a fistic encounter to establish the,
iquestion of superiority, whatever that
(may finally mean. There is no color
In brutes. Jack Dempsey is as low in
the social scale as it is i>ossible for
a human being to sink and Jack John
son is about in the same boat. So
what is the difference?
Speaking of superiority 1 notice
that Japan has been invited to sit at
President Harding’s disarmament
conference. Mighty risky business, j
There may be a Japanese point of j
view to contend with. What then? t
What if it should mark the beginning
of the end "white supremacy?” The
Japanese are sure to have their say.
Is not human supremacy the thing
aftpr ail to be sought by the nations
of the earth? Let us hope that this
J ea will prevail at the proposed i
onferenre.
EDITORIAL SQriBBS
Leading one's self is a big job.
Forgetting yesterday is great s[»ort j
—for some people.
America first when she's right,
when she’s wrong, take your pick.
The comet came, saw and then
went on about its business.
We would like to know tf President
Harding's disarmament conference
will include a discussion of a plan to
disarm American army officers who
shoot down unarmed yet “Impudent ■
niggers?” J
CATCHY NEW SO NT |
THK MONITOR is in receipt of a <
song entitled “Now President Hard- .
ing has His Seat,” words by Cora M. J
Ray, music by A. M. Bienbar. It is <
dedicated to the Bronze Cabinet. The \
words and music are snappy and J
catching. The composition is a credit j
to the romp' 'ers. It is for sale by j
the eompe Cora M. Ray, Sti Jos- J
eph, Mo. ai 35 cents per copy.
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ADDRESS TO COUNTRY BY N.A.A.C.P. CONVENTION
The following Resolution is really an address to the
Country and is considered the most important act of each
Conference.
The National Association for the Advancement of Col
ored People in its Twelfth Annual Conference, meeting in
l this great crisis of the w orld’s reconstruction, would remind
the nation that from our very first conference we have
planted our agitation and action upon a careful and thorough
investigation* of the truth concerning the Negro problem.
Often when we have published in our organ, THE CRISIS,
and in letters and articles in the press, our findings and con
clusions, we have been accused of exaggeration. Today we
stand vindicated before the world in the revelations of Geor
gia, and knowing that Georgia is little if any worse than half
a dozen other states, we solemnly adj ure * is nation to give
more serious attention and more eames action to this fes- i
tpring social sore.
Lynching and mob violence against Negroes still looms !
as our most indefensible national crime and unless the pres
ent administration takes early action by legal enactment it
will stand condemned of all thoughtful citizens north and
south. Increasingly the Negro at Washington, Chicago, and
Tulsa, has been forced to give his life irPself defense. No
man can do less for his family and people and it is a cruel .
campaign of lying that represents this fight for life as or
ganized aggression. Negroes are not fools. Eleven million i
poor laborers do not seek war on a hundred million powerful
neighbors. But they cannot and will not die without raising
a hand when the nation lets its offscourings and bandits in
sult, harry, loot and kill them. !
What is the cause of the new conflict of race in Ameri- j
ca? It is not simply a growing sense of manhood on the part
of the blacks, it is increased lack of sympathy and sense of
justice on the part of the w'hites and this arises from the |
snapping of those human bonds which must exist between
neighbors. If the Negro child is not educated; if the Negro v
is segregated in federal departments and Oklahoma cities; if
he is publicly insulted by “Jim Crow” cars; if he is treated j
unjustly in the courts as in the twelve pending Arkansas
peonage cases; if in the army and navy the Negro is grossly
j and continually discriminated against and faces plans for |
f further discrimination in the national guard; if he has no j
j voice in the administration of the law especially as to labor,
| agriculture and education; and if finally the nation is being
t honeycombed by secret societies like the Kill Kiux Klan, who I
j stir up race hatred by innuendo and appeal to the lowest
t brute instincts—if all these things are done, how can we
| help but kill the human sympathy, the spirit of the Prince
| of Peace, the strong faith and the desire for humble effec
* tive co-operation which alone can save civilization?
Men and women of America, the program of those who
t would save America from bitter racial hatred and conflict
j and murder is short and simple:
1. The Right to vote under the same conditions as oth
• er persons vote.
I 2. A federal law against lynching and mob violence.
3. Justice for the convicted peons In Arkansas.
4. Equitable treatment for Negro soldiers and sailors.
5. Aboliton of the “Jim Crowr" cars in interstate traf
fic.
6. Free public schools for Negro children.
7. The appointment of an inter-racial commission, of
high class, fair-minded men and women representing both
races, to make a scientific survey of race relations.
8. The withdrawal of our military forces from Haiti
and carefully planned aid for Haiti and Liberia.
9. The weight of our influence to secure justice for the
natives of Africa particularly in the former German colonies.
10. A world wide attempt to promote peace through
inter-racial understanding and equality, and through a wid- j
er recognization of the basic identity of race and labor prob- j
lems. :
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