.': "'," .' HE ITO 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 $1.00 a Year_ 5e a Copy. Omaha, Nebraska, ~eptember 18. 1915 Volume I. Number 12 Democracy'Taught to I Colored Citizens ..' World by Negro Race I Gain Schooll'acilities I Jethro, the Ethiopian Father.in-Law I Taxpayers of Jacksonville, Fla., Carry " . of Mose:s, Originator of Popular Fight for School Funds to Representative Government. Court. MOSE~ MARRIED COLORED WIFE SECURE A FAVORABLE DECISION Sociologist Milholland Boldly States Will Receive Appropriation of $215,­ That American Republic Found· 000, An Increase of $100,000. ed on Statecraft of Negro. Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 17.-The Negro school children of Jacksonville John E. Milholland of New York is will be provided with additional facil­ visiting in San Francisco, C:il. a,,,1 ities to the extent of three new grad­ Pauline Jacobson, a special \Hlter on ed school buildings and a new hlg-h the San Francisco Bu:!etin, secured a school building, ~hich is to be the page interview with the noted Bodol­ equal in every way of the high school ogist, in which he sels forth hi:; idea building for white children,' This is of the debt the white man owell to tlH. the outcome of the fight made ~ Negro. He declared that disfrallclli!<c' Negro taxpayers to secure a large ment of the Negro is ingratitUde to !. proportion of the funds accruing from race which has done much for human­ the $1,000,000 bond issue recently ity, and that lynchings of 1.Jl:tc;1c, i>; voted by Duval county for educational indefensible in regions where whil.:'!' purposes. control all the courts. The Board of Education appropriat­ Mr. Milholland said that \yh i)? 1001,· ed for the Negro schools only $115,000 ~~. '. ~}. } ing up the evolution of rep,'(!3enlativ,' of the million dollars voted, and this 'J,) government he had com·~ UpO:l Lh,~ . was to be used in improving' the grad- I'" debt which the white mar; owe, tht;) ed schools only, renovating some 01' , ' .. Negro race for all that is ,"ortll whillJ the old buildings. ,No pr9vision was in a democracy, "It i3 not' Icings made for a high school. Led tiy Capt. \ which threaten a democracy," said hr, Haskell & PlIllman's Famolls Dog "Umpie" J.' W. Floyd, one of the largest tax­ 1-" "but lackeys, I had seen tWJ repub· payers, a movement was started and 1. L. lics crushed out in the Rj)n: war, Attorney Purcell and other legal l 'NOW", Will You "MUF"? talent employed to secure an injunc­ I saw the spn'ad of IackeyisIU both III f, tion.. this country and abroad: Were we i , Etl' 'a Sale n : fast losing that most priceless. herit- Demo.::racy Comes f rom· 1'Opl' , laws.' 'Such c·onscl'entl'o.uS devotl'on tn of Bonds Stop.ped. age-liberty? '1. found mY,selfwonder- "Who was it, then? Why, the Eth'I- duty! Such Ij·.simPlicity of cons-ecra- Purcell argued the case before. the 1.., .. ':' ing who first said: 'Procla,m Jib':!rt.y op,ian priest of Milian, his own f ather· tion! But it doesn'tI blind Jethro, the court and was sustained in every con- .' r , throughout the laJ;ld and unt') all the in-law, Jethro. In the imperious re' ·man of COlor ,to the commonsense 01' tention. The court's decisIon tied up I. inhabitants. thereof: I thought'it was quirements of a loca1 situatIOn,'J eth1'0 the sil.. uallo.n. He answers with almost :the sa-Ie ·of the bonds, I > ,. an utterance of Jefferson, I bega'l to saw the foundations of the AmeriCan brutal bOldne s: '.' The Board of Education held a (:;.. t.race it to, its beginnin,ss. i faun.j r€·public, and every effort toward dem- "The thing that'thou dO,est is not meeting and reconsidered its former .. good. Thou 1wilt surely waste away,. :actii>n, Resolutions were pass-E~dprO' ( t that I had to go back and back--bacl~ ocracy that the world has seen r , , both thou and this peop.le, for the viding- for three additional graded ), afJeft'erson and Thomas Pa.ine, throughout the intervening years. I ... .. , thing is tooh~avy for thee. T!J.ou art schools at a cost of $5,000 ~ach, and though both of these ,men haj dahor· "Moses sat, as he had, perhap.s, seen .' h'· . h' b" '.' nQt able to. pe~.form i.1. thyself alon·e." a ;~gh·;sc .0°1 Uilding on the .present " ate.d::the; idea.:magnificently; back of Pharaoh sit at Memphis, listening to " Stantal;i school site to cost $85,000. BunkerH'ilLand Runnymede; of the the co'mplal'nts 'of the families and the Jethro 'Outlin~s Representative ·Gov., . I:..' • Every facility will be provided and M{l.gna Ohartaof King Jo~n; of Ramp individuals that came to him with [ el'nrrient, theAjquipm~nt.is \~be 1dentic~I'with ton and ,CrOmwell; oLMifabeau ali'd tMirgrie:yances, petty orseri()~.s. and "'Harhn :t~il unto me: said pid that·!}f the, high school for whites, , '. l', ; "DantO:ri~ ,a~d: Rouss¢au~of th~' 'ari:d~ tl1r:~e '.-: . AJ.'hltotle: tribes with thei#'large questions. Jethro, (Wilt give thee ·couns.el.i·Be.side,s; otheri>f tb;e schools , ' , .:, and.P1ilto aI1dP~rici€:s: Je~rsoa:ha:d'91' d·ispute.. He' listened with heroic' He proceed'~ nOW to tell ~()ses that .he io.r Neiro chiidi:en are to. ha~e added .' _0•• ;' ~ : 'wrhten it~ but,h~ had cribbed it from pa,tience, wasting his genius ofstates-:laWS, and shoW ·them the way iind:'to'the curriculum a domestic scien'ce' '.~' ..; ",1··· c (~~~~~in~ey;~ic:~~~i~;~:l~~othe fiftieth 'niaiisliip upon the petty misUIlder ' la.w~;and sho:W themtnewaYB and';~ourse with spec1~1 t~acher 'f~r the .~,~ .. ,,·Ye~t)an'dProC1aim_libertyt{ii'6U~hOtit. ~~t.~,~~n~:r:f"~lf.~ilii:h()~~~ve"torturing;.·~~;:~~.:~:u~ti~~r:~~."t~~~,~~::~~;~:i1at~dh;~;,;,;~J~l~ht:f~~::gr~:t~:: , .' :~iCthe'ia~durit~all the' inh'lhltHnts ~nd-ilarrowing' 'lli'ocess with:¢li~ra.~. .:b:e: dob.ethro1i:g:~olg~~~zatI6n,through :Ja~kspnviIle, ;:'$··Z15,qo.OJ iJli;tea:~ 01' the <.t~.~~~ojY . .. ... tertsti<i meel~ness, knowing 'rio ,otheZ:re.presentatiye];'ov'ernnieIit, . ·.·..in:t~nd.ed $i1s;OOO>. :1n~~~ioa;:~'t~r~;~)~~:l~h~~:ir.l;;:t::. ··.. 6PEAK·S·:GER~A~·'~O:·. ~., .. ,. :: ~. .: ,'..... G'E~.M:ANiCO'NFER:EN~E.. ........~ r· ~. : .' .~. .. •.. \ . about'tt:· He knew. Only the~ing'Gu.sl.;,.·ask·(:idone.eveiiing; .·.~Why.' si.ttsllf th.ou; .of:'.tens/:·Decentralize '" gc;>vetnmertt:Meiid:en,-' : Miss;;:., appear;ed . berore the . , .' <' f' : ness,' H~' haclbeen br'o'li~k:tip::i:f:th'~;jek};:s~:j:f;.:~li:;ri~:'~ndaW' (he pe1:tI{i$: ~taiitl '. ;ifufu~'di~t~bf:!'"::~Diit~lbut~';~ioult~th~I\ ···G~~a~ .Methodlst COnr~rence .which ' " 'court of the' :Pharaohs, .What. he; ~~~d~ ~br·tbee ·fro.ni~inot~inl,(·Unto·',iwe~ l' '. ,- ity! 'Th~i~{J~:~the'fotindahdn"':bf,rep.· .was in·.sesslon ,here, and ·.deU-vered an . '-"~een'- of human go'vernmEi-nt was a. re~ :. "~rylbses 'ail'8.w~rS humbly, 'The 'peo- r~s~J{t£tiie goveri'Inien.t. " :Do you get ·addresll in 1nte~st' ot ·the Freedm'an's morse~e.sa·.de~lIoti8fl:l' the- \v'lll or.?ne' pI<come- u~~o:'ine' to:.i~qu1r~·. 01' 'Gl?d; me1":.:' c'. ,'. - ':'. '. .' , .•Aid Socie~y ~ the' Meth~dlst Episco- . man' backed by the bla\ll{ 'wa~'~ fit when they h~ve a matt~r they come Instead"ot one judge, 100 and 1,000 pal Church. , ". j. pr1esfcralt and, the brutality· ot mill; u~to m'e, anll I juage.betweeri .one an-d ac~or:dlng·. fo :thelr ability' an~ .the re- ' -He spoke' In .German aUd It w the '. tary :.atrengtb. 'He' had p~ob!1bly lh~ver' another.' a:nd '-I' judge' between a: ix)a,n' ·Qujremen~. or the .situatlon, and theBe Orat tlme In the history 01' the' corer­ heard or any .olher· toI'm . ·or. g-ov'er\l~ an'd his ~ellow, 'to'make knowJl, unto Will, take c"tire'.o1' t~e ordinary atrain ,ence that it bad heard an addr s in ment. .them the statutes' of, God anI) HiJI . " (Contlnued'cit !OUrthPage) '\ tthe German language by.a Ne " , ..... ..." ~ ". ,... THE MONITOR ~-'-:-~------....;..------------------------.I ' Gi1 , ORRIE S. HULSE :T~R{EPEN I fc. P. Wesin Groce ry Co. i Harney 62:>7 Hurney 6M-I · T . J. L. PETT8YS, Mgr. f HULSE & RIEPEN .f Fruits·and Veeetables .~ Funeral DIrectorS ~~~ r·L.,.,·~=:-c-:-~~--:::"",,-_~ Doug. 1226 701 So. 16th St, .. I!I12005 Cuminu Sf. Tel. D. 10981 .- ~~.~ "-7""~......-_.:-~:.... 'to"> ~;. ~, .-........................~............-4-.-..-.-.................... THE "JIT~EY 'BtlS" NOW . I WANT MEMBER ON THE .. • '. A COMMON CARRIE.R BOARD OF EDUCATION......................._--~_....~---_. F. J. THOMPSON'S t C~, II. MARQUARDT 1 Washington, D..C., Sept. 17.-The Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 25.-·With I • CASU .MARKEI· + BOOT BLACK PARLOR We also save you 30 per cent on colored citizens of Washington are six prospective vacancies on the board Retail Dmkr in FJ esil aDd SnIt MealS, .1, . POUltry. O)'SI ers. etc ~ laundry. After August 1st, manu­ sharers in the victory by which the of education, the Negroes of this cIty 2003 Cumine sr. Doue. 3834 facturers and jobbers of boot black here~ofore discriminating "jitney" are campaigning to secure at least one B"rne Rendeled Lard.