The Monitor a Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of the Eight Thousand Colored People in Omaha and Vicinity, and to the Good of the Community the Rev
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The Monitor A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of the Eight Thousand Colored People in Omaha and Vicinity, and to the Good of the Community The Rev. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor Volume I. Number 49 $1.50 a Year. 5c a Copy. Omaha, Nebraska, June 3, 1916 Claim Has Solved From Fair Ne^ska Gasoline Problem to S»’;^scC ^essee p Ii ..e Trip and Impressions Colored Grocer of Churchville, Tenn., .,ed by Editor on First Visit to Smash Rockefeller’s Expects to Southland. Vast Monopoly. HIS SECRET REVOLUTIONARY THE SOLVENT SAVINGS BANK Substitute Cheaper and has Greater A Race Institution Which Has Stead- Propelling Power than Gasoline ily Grown in the Confidence and Inventor British Subject. Esteem of the People. Chattanooga, Tenn., June 3.—In We promised to tell you something Churchville lives a Colored man who about the banks which our people hopes to rival Henry Ford in cheap- successfully operate in Memphis. In ening transportation and by his own this issue we attempt to redeem that invention divert much of the flow of promise. Our limited space, however, gasoline profits from Rockefeller's will permit us to tell you something hoard of gold. Mythical as it may about only one of these banks. From sound, he would replace gasoline with what we have planned to tell you, green-tinted water. And in the green and we are very sure that it will all tint is a powerful propelling force— interest you, it looks as though we and ’tis unpatented unknown, said, shall have to write at least two arti- save to the one Churchville man. cles on the Solvent Savings Bank and A British Subject. Trust Company alone. And then W. B. Tarando, 309 Sharp avenue, there’s the Fraternal Savings aim Churchville, is a British subject; says Trust Company, equally interesting he came to Chattanooga seven years aind worthy of commendation as a sig- ago from Kingston, Jamaica, and op- nificant and potent factor in Race evo- erates a small grocery store. The only ution. of what he claims as his in- history Banks Proclaim Progress vention is his asertion that he worked For it must be apparent to all that up the promised substitute for gaso- in our modem commercial life banks line in his little crude laboratory. •c signs of progress. The Three cents’ worth of his strange significant 1 inand for churches and schools ap- mixture is put into each gallon of pears early in the evolutionary pro- water, the basic ingredient of the pro- cess and of a people. Man's pelling liquid. Robert R. Church, Jr., Elected Delega tc-at-Large to National Convention. progress religious needs and his educational G. W. Nixon, president of the Nixon needs must be supplied. In these two Mining Drill company, found the the Colored American has Churchville inventor, and has started particulars abundantly demonstrated his common to help him develop what may be To Make You Think Something aspirations with a progressive human- great possibilities in the trade. ity. His entrance into the business Recently Mr. Nixon told the story and commercial world has, of neces- to a newspaper man. He admitted SHOW IN PUBLIC SQUARE. sity, been longer delayed. But even that it sounded incredible, so offered The Pittsburgh Courier. here he is rapidly developing. Busi- a demonstration. We have the report that after a Colored man was convicted of murder ness demands banks. And the race ■■ iveeps invention oecrei. and that in the proper courts, the southern by-standers, evidently impatient with the conducting, successfully, Tarando was called and mixed a banks. slow of their own took the defendant from the custody of the small quantity of the green-tinted process law, The Full Significance of This liquid in a gallon of water. The mix- Courts and burned him in the public square. We want you to fully weigh the sig- ture was poured into the gasoline This kind of lynching has become common in this country. It has grown nificance of this fact. It has been tank of a six-cylinder Grant automo- on such sentiment as gave to this burning strong just expression dastardly the Race has no confidence bile—all traces of gasoline having said that in the south; but as common as it has become, and as frequently as these or in one another. There is been removed. Hugh Nixon took the in itself horrible crimes we have no hesitancy in registering our protest 1 deal of truth in this indictment. wheel and a flying trip was made to may occur, good And is there not a cause for this Orchard Knob and back to the city. against the burning of a human being in the public square of any civilized yet mistrust and distrust, which, thank Fifteen and six-tenths miles were town of these United States of America. It may be said that protest is use- is covered, and still the gauge showed God, rapidly disappearing? less. We say it is never useless to raise an honest protest against any un- that the gallon of propelling liquid It took four hundred years to erad- lawful act. It was protest that won the independence of this country and it was not exhausted. icate the debasing influence of Egyp- a of the conditions The automobile apparently speeded will be protest that will help largely in effecting change tian bondage from one of the most races the world has forward as though the best grade of now so prevalent in this country. virile and brilliant was into its are ever seen. A race, too, that was one in gasoline flowing multiple We need not spend so much energy in describing the crimes. They but a different ligion, one in language, one in blood. cylinders, produced sufficiently horrible without detailed description. What we need to do is odor from its exhaust The Jnlike the Jewish our race is pipe. such people, i -vote our energies to the creation of a healthy sentiment against strange, peculiar odor was entirely of mixed blood. We are not respon- we site of the crime as a of beginning. different from that of gasoline. crimes, and need not select the place sible for the mixture, but it is there. must A protest in Maine is as good as one in Florida. The entire country We are only about fifty years re- ATTORNEY HAWKINS ELECTED before it will be stopped. Leo Frank gave his life moved from slavery, more debasing D. June 3.—Attor- rise up against lynching Washington, C., \an that of Amer- before the end conies. Egyptian bondage. William L. of to the lynchers, but his life is one less to be sacrificed ney Hawkins, formerly ican slavery taught espionage. The has been elected the This must stop lynching or become corrupt and falL This country Milwaukee, Wis., country house slave was taught to spy upon counsel for the International to the cities where general must stop lynching in the rural districts or it will spread the field hand and the field hand upon Hod Carriers’ Association, Local No. the sentiment mobs are more easily assembled. This cquntry must set abroad the house servant. The spy system 46. This association has a large mem- breeds distrust. This has needed to this uncivilized practice or be branded as uncivilized, and! nywhere bership and is affiliated with the stop is not of self on American Federation of Labor. carry the accusation that the United States capable government. (Continued Page 3) .