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AN EXCELLENT ANSWER
THE MONITOR has noticed with
pleasure the alertness of some of our
thoughtful and well-informed young
men in replying through the columns
of our dailies and especially the
“Public Pulse” column of the World
Herald, which is most broad-minded
and impartial as a public forum, to
articles which deal with various
phases of the race question. Well
written and dignified articles of this
character, without rancour, spite or
pettiness always compel a respectful
reading and help create a healthy and
helpful public sentiment. Of such a
character is the following letter from
the pen of Attorney W. B. Bryant
which appeared in the World-Herald
of last Wednesday:
Editor Omaha World-Herald:
In one of the daily papers a few
days ago there appeared an article
concerning a proposed experiment by
German scientists with African babies
to determine whether or not they
would revert to a lower order of
animal life, if isolated throughout
their formative years from the so
called higher forms of animal life.
This experiment seems unnecessary
in the light of our American experi
ment with chattel slavery. Under
this system the black slaves were
quite isolated from the higher forms
of animal life. A majority of them
" had no contact whatever with higher
forms of animal life than domestic
mules, imbruted overseers and petty
tyrant masters. Our experiment last
ed two hundred fifty years and em
braced millions in numbers. Did the
chattel slaves revert to cave men or
apes? Certainly not. But the sys
tem destroyed the humanity of the
slaveholder and the slave. And the
twentieth century should not have an
experiment anywhere, the object of
which is to degrade human beings to
a lower order of life.
All of us should be engaged now,
as the noble men and women were en
gaged in the struggle to overthrow
and supplant chattel slavery in the
early sixties, in elevating the less for
tunate beings among us to higher
standards of humanity.
It makes no difference that this
last venture is made in the name of
science. It is wrong. Learning should
be used to lift men to higher planes
of life.
Fortunately, for every so-called
scientist in Africa seeking reversion
of human beings to a lower form of
life, there are hundreds of men and
i women working to raise them from
: their lowly station to a higher plane
I of life.
Besides, one does not need, to go to j
Africa or to experiment to find cave
men or reverted human types. They.
: may be found in the jungles of every ;
large city in the world, and all of them
1 are not black with wooly hair, and |
they are a long way from Africa.
CONGRATl LATIONS, STUDENTS
WE sincerely congratulate the
young students of our race who, in i
! increasing numbers yearly are taking'
advantage of the educational oppor
j tunities offered them. This year
1 twelve young men and women gradu- |
j ate from Central and Technical high |
■ school. They have had the grit and ,
; courage to stick and their parents ■
have been willing to make sacrifices j
for them to remain through these
years of pupilage. Many of them are
planning to go to college and every
encouragement should be given am
bitious youth who are anxious to fit
I themselves for useful sendee by the
I best training they can obtain. The
| aim of education is training for work;
not the avoidance of work. And this
is the ideal the thoughtful, progress
ive student keeps before him. The in
I crease in the number of our graduates
drives home the necessity for our
planning to make places for them in.
the business, industrial and profes
sional world. Are we striving to do
this? We must urge our young peo
ple to equip themselves for efficient
j service and we must do our part in
I helping provide fields of service for
j them. Congratulations, students; con
i gratulations, parents—but the end is
|not yet. Look to the end!
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CAPTl RE AND JAIL MORONS
IT IS REPORTED that some de
generate is terrorizing women in the
mid-northern part of Omaha. His fa
vorite field of operation seems to be
in the district between Twenty-fourth
and Thirtieth and north of Lake. The
police should not slacken their vigil
ance until such degenerates and ruf
fians are safely behind prison bars.
It has also been reported to us that
a certain Famam street merchant
who advertises for a neat, intelligent
colored girl has made improper pro
posals to no less than three respect
able young woman who have an
swered his advertisement. It is well
for that black-hearted, lecherous vil
lian that one of these young women
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JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS.
(THE NEGRO’S CONTRIBUTION NOT NEGLIGIBLE |
A moment’s thought will easily convince open-minded ^
.. persons that the contribution of the Negro to American jy
!! nationality as slave, freedman and citizen was far from
! > negligible. No element of American life has so subtly and y
!! yet clearly woven itself into warp and woof of our thinking J
'< ■ and acting as the American Negro. He came with the first y
‘ > explorers and helped in exploration. His labor was from •£
< > the first the foundation of the American prosperity and jt
< > the cause of the rapid growth of the new world in social and y
<> economic importance. Modern democracy rests not simply y
; on the striving white men in Europe and America but also ;
<; on the persistent struggle of the black men in America for •
two centuries. The military defense of this land has de
; pended upon Negro soldiers from the time of the Colonial
; wan down to the struggle of the World War. Not only does ;
; the Negro appear, reappear and persist in American litera
1 tare but a Negro American literature has arisen of deop ;;
> significance, and Negro folk lore and music are among the < >
! choicest heritages of this land. Finally the Negro has played !
; a peculiar spiritual role in America as a sort of living, ;
• breathing test ef our ideals and an example of the faith, <
! I hope and tolerance of our religion—-Du Bois, “The Gift of I I
! ; Black Fafe”
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reported her experience to her mother
and kept it from her father and broth
er, whose high temper and spirit she
knows. Women of our race, like other
women, seek honorable employment,
and seeing advertisements of this
character answer them in good faith,
not expecting to be insulted, nor will
they stand for insult. Morons and
degenerates, white or black, who prey
upon women, whether in the streets
or elsewhere belong behind prison
bars. They should be captured and
jailed.
FINDER OF LEPER
CURE IN DANGER
Has Narrow Escape From
Chinese Bandits.
Washington.—Within a few days aft
er the United States public health
service announced the release of lep
ers as "cured" by a treatment w'hleh
Included the use of chaulmoogru oil,
word came from Joseph F. Kock, who
located the cliaulmoogra tree in Bur
ma, telling of his narrow escape from
Chinese bandits.
Mr. Kock was leader of the National
Geogruphic society expedition to Yun
nan province, China, which found
blight-resisting chestnut trees for
transplantatiou In the United States.
After a few mouths, in this country he
returned to Yunnan to seek plant spe
cimens for the Arnold arboretum, at
Cambridge, Muss.
Mr. Kock spent one night in a di
lapidated village temple, full of coding.
His native guard deserted him; outside
the town the heads of native victims,
captured some days before, were hang
ing from poles.
“From Tungchwan to Clmotung 1b
five days' Journey, and two days out
of Tungchwan I bad the most terrible
experience of my life,” Mr. Kock
writes.
“With much misgivings I left
Tungchwan. The first day passed
without incident, but the second had
much in store for us. After lunch,
under an old walnut tree we made our
way over the mountains with my 12
Nashi men, 20 mules, 4U soldiers, and
all the followers who took advantage
of my going and Joined on for the
sake of protection which the soldiers
gave.
Robbers Pursue Caravan.
“We had not gone very far when
my bead muleteer cams and said that
robbers were behind the caravan. I
waited for the mules to catch up with
us, and as they came in sight 1 rode
on. but not for long, as my boys yelled
'Bobbers are coming,' and at that mo
ment they opened tire on us. My na
tive soldiers behaved rather bravely,
but we soon found that the brigands
outnumbered us considerably and that
the battle was to be a one-sided affair.
“We pushed on under fire as best we
could through a pine-covered slope
while the soldiers engaged the brig
ands; the latter pursued us, and we
retreated, all of us, soldiers Included,
under the Ore of the brigands down a
deep ravine which we had to cross and
up the other side over a most terrible
rocky trail. The firing continued the
rest of the afternoon. Thanks to the
bad aiming of the brigands we lost
only one soldier. We reached the
small plain of Yichesun, on the edge
of It being a small liamlet called I’an
plengal. As we reached the plain, I
thought, ‘Thank God, now we were
safe,’ but, alas, the brigands followed
us, they looted the small hamlet, cap
tured three soldiers with their guns,
and while they were busy there we
reached the village of Yichesun, where
we had to stop for the night.
Brigands Chase Guards.
“Just as I arrived and passed
through the dilapidated old gate (but
no wall) there also arrived 35 soldier
guards sent to us from Cfiaotung
As I was talking with their officer,
one of the Tuugcbwan soldiers came
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running into the village to tell me (
that 200 robbers were only one and
a half miles from the village and that :
they could not hold them back. I Bent
the Chaotung soldiers to help the
Tungchwan soldiers, but soon they all
returned with the robbers at their
heels.
“I was quartered In a miserable old
temple full of coffins in the center of
the village. The brigands cams to
within half a mile of the hamlet
where there was a large temple, and
of this they took possession. Dark
ness came on. I never spent such a
terrible night In all my life. At mid
night the officers of the soldiers came
and announced that the brigands were
outside and that they could not hold
the place and that they could not pro
tect me. 1 had opened my trunks and
distributed $600 In silver among my
men, wrapped up some extra warm
underwear, a towel, condensed milk
and some chocolate, besides ammunl
tion for my two .45-Colts. I sat fully
clad waiting for the turn of events.
Every minute I expected the firing to
commence. The soldiers said that
they could protect me but not my
boxes, and that the best thing would
be to retreat and hide If the brigands
rushed Into the place. The people of the
village began burying their few val
uables and great excitement ruled the
hamlet. It was a terrible wait and a
long night.
“Outside of the hamlet were hanging
from poles heads of brigands that had
been captured some days before. 1
was Informed thut 600 bandits were
outside the village and thut capture
was irresistible. I cannot tell you how
I felt. However, at 4 a. m. they were
still outside and no shot had been
fired. At dawn there was no one to be
seen. They had vanished."
Scene of Gold Strike
Lacks Butter and Bacon
Wrangell, Alaska.—Telegrams re
ceived here announce a new gold
strike 250 miles northeast of here on
a tributary of the Eagle river In the
Ca8siar district, British Columbia, a
short distance from a placer discov
ery made last September.
The strike Is free milling quartz.
Telegraph Creek, B. C., lfiO miles i
northeast of Wrangell and the princi
pal base of supplies for the Cassiar
distrtct, was reported without butter,
bacon, lard, beans, rice and cigarettes
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