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BEAUTIFUL BLONDE IS BOLD BANDIT $2.00 a Year - Cents a Copy State Historical Society BEAUT Lady, Nordic, Used Colored Aides in Various Holdups St. Louis, Mo.—A white woman who used two Negroes as accomplices recently admitted to police that she was the young woman robber who held up a restaurant and two stores d who figured in six filling and store robberies. The woman said the name of "Mrs. Billie Smith" which she gave was fictitious. She is 29 years old, tall, blonde and slender. What dramatized her as a robber were her coolness in handling a revolver and the fact that she changed hats between holdups. Her arrest at a rooming house followed the arrest on suspicion of Lerry Smith, 28, Negro renter of the room. Smith had several checks, together with a bogus railroad bond which identified him as a man wanted in recent bad check deals. "I'm a check man, not a stickup man," Smith declared. "The woman at my room is the stickup woman. She pulled those jobs and two Negroes helped her." POPULAR SOUTH SIDE MAN ENTERS CITY COMMISSION RACE Long Record of Public Service; Present Prosecutor at South Side Police Court Mr. John Marcell, 2415 F street, has, after many entreaties by a host of friends, consented to file as a candidate for the city commission in the coming spring election. Mr. Marcell bears the indelible stamp of approval, because of his well known efficiency and experience in city government affairs, having been deputy city clerk from 1910 to 1915, holding the prosecutor job in the Omaha courts from 1915 to 1918, holding the same position at this time in the South Side court. He has been a resident of this city for over 36 years and it is said of him, that his acquaintances all over Douglas county exceed that of any other candidate, who has never before held elective office. His candidacy is very popular with colored citizens, because of his eminently fair and impartial dealings at all times, where and when his rare judgment has been called into play. The appointment of Officer Jones on the Metropolitan Police Force and of two other race men, who are now holding good positions, were in each case accomplished by his insistent demand that our group should have equitable representation in all branches of civic, federal and business enterprises. We predict his success, not only in the primaries, but also in the May election, as John Marcell's record for the last eight years in the interest of our group is not to be successfully disputed. SIX COLORED DRAMAS ON BROADWAY IN NEW YORK New York, N. Y.—The prominence given "In Abraham's Bosom," the drama by Paul Green depicting Negro life in the south, directs attention to the number of plays dealing with Afro-Americans which have found their way to Broadway this season. Among the more conspicuous are "Lulu Belle," "Deep River," "The Bottom of the Cup," "Stigma," and now Professor Green's opus. MEASURE STRIKES AT FRATERNAL ORDERS Trenton, N. J.—A bill introduced in the New Jersey Senate by A. Crozier Reeves, would prohibit colored fraternal order members from appearing on the streets with their regalia, emblems or any signs peculiar to the orders to which they belong. Counselor Isaac H. Nutter, Attorneys J. L. Jordan and C. Williams, Rev. I. L. Roundtree and other prominent Negroes are leading a fight against the measure. Senator Reeves is president of the Trenton Interracial Committee. --- LIFTING LIFT TOO THE MONITOR BISHOP SHAYLER CONFIRMS CLASS AT ST. PHILIP'S Also Gives Instructive and Interesting Illustrated Lecture on the Life of Christ The Rt. Rev. Ernest V. Shayler, D. D., bishop of Nebraska, visited the Church of St. Philip the Deacon Sunday morning, where he was greeted by a large congregation, confirmed a class of six young people, addressed them and preached a thought-compelling and heart-searching sermon from the text, "When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out. And when he cometh he findeth it swept and garnished. Then goeth he and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in and dwell there and the last state of that man is worse than the first." He emphasized the fact that unclean spirits dwell in men today just as certainly as they indwelt men in the days when our Saviour walked the earth. And they must be driven out. If, however, the heart is left empty, other spirits will enter in. The heart must be filled with God's love and attributes so there is no room left for the evil. The confirmees were Sylvia Winifred Adams, Theodore Jerome Bell, Anna Jean Dorsey, Nonence Ellen Gibson, Georgine Marjorie Hall and Helen Marvel Redd. Wednesday night Bishop Shayler gave his interesting and instructive lecture on "The Holy One and the Holy Land," illustrated by pictures taken by himself on his recent visit to Bible lands to a large and appreciative congregation. Following the lecture a delightful social hour was held in the Guild Room. OFFERED $1,000 FOR BEST RACE NOVEL: New York, N. Y.—The Albert and Charles Boni, Inc., 66 Fifth Avenue, offered a prize of $1,000 in March, 1926, for the best novel submitted by September 1st, by any Negro author. Recently the date was extended to July 1st, 1927, inasmuch as they claim "no manuscript which we have received has seemed to us to be sufficiently finished as to warrant publication as the finest novel written by a member of the colored race." The authors who submitted noveles however, are very much disgruntled; as they claim the original offer did not say the novel had to be the finest novel written by a colored author, but that the best of the lot would receive the $1,000. No matter how poorly the manuscripts were written, there had to be one that would be considered the best; and the author of that best should receive the $1,000. CHEAP GRAFTER POSING AS METHODIST MINISTER A tall, slender, brown-skinned Negro, calling himself the Rev. J. S. Williams, and claiming to be a Methodist minister, with a congregation of 700, is busy among political candidates canvasing them for small amounts. During the last campaign the editor of The Monitor ran across this "ministerial" gentleman and told him that unless he desisted from his grafting The Monitor would expose him. He stopped his game, so far as we were able to learn. But he is at it again. Two candidates for city commissioner have called us and reported him to us. He told one of the gentlemen that he was our brother. This shrewd "minister's" church must be on wheels, for it is alleged that he has given two or three different locations for it. The truth is he is only a cheap grafter seeking to obtain money under false pretenses and that is a misdemeanor punishable by the law. The race is not always to the swift. Many a fellow runs into debt who has to crawl out. OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1927 Editorial Comments On White Primary Victory Letters and telegrams of commendation have been coming to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People commending the victory before the United States Supreme Court in the Texas White Primary case, among the first to comment being Col. Theodore Roosevelt, who wrote: "That was a great victory." Among other comments received by the N. A. A. C. P., including newspaper editorials, are the following: N. B. Young, president of Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Mo.: "I stand in the presence of your association uncovered this morning because of the sweeping decision of the United States Supreme Court against the white primaries." Dr. W. G. Alexander, chairman on national program, National Medical association: "The wonderful victory which has been recently announced stimulates faith in our government and renews faith in the N. A. A. C. P. as an absolutely essential organization. I herewith enclose check for $25 as a small contribution towards the work of your great organization." Congressman L. C. Dyer: "Please accept my congratulations in the victory achieved in the supreme court as regards primary voting in Texas. Victories of this kind are all of great benefit all along the line." 0 Albon L. Holsey, secretary to the principal, Tuskegee Institute: "The National Association in my opinion reached the highest 'water mark' of its service to the race in the successful outcome of the Texas primary case. I have never seen such wonderful reactions as has been true among the Southern papers." 0 N. J. Frederick, attorney for the Lowmans in South Carolina: "I wish to congratulate the N. A. A. C. P. on its splendid victory in the primary case. It, in my opinion, is pursuing the rights of the colored American citizens." The executive committee of the Boston branch voted unanimously to send the National Office congratulations to the Texas decision, according to a letter from Butler R. Wilson, president of the Boston branch. Telegrams and Editorials The N. A. A. C. P. has received warm telegrams of congratulation from the Detroit and Columbia, S. C. branches, signed respectively by M. L. Walker, president of the Detroit branch and H. E. Lindsay, president and R. W. Jackson, secretary, of the Columbia branch. A number of quotations from newspaper editorials follow: Hot Springs, Ark., Echo: "The Negroes of America owe to the N. A. A. C. P. a debt which they can repay only by becoming members or a part of the association which stands only for justice and right." Detroit, Michigan, Independent: "This is a great legal victory that will doubtless have far-reaching effects in protecting the suffrage of colored citizens in the South." Rome, Georgia, Enterprise: "This is another bright star in the crown HOLD MORON FOR ATTACK ON 18-YEAR-OLD RACE GIRL Louisville, Ky.—Charles Falone, a 26-year-old white man, was indicted for criminal assault by a grand jury Friday in connection with his brutal attack upon Miss Alberta Hyde, pretty 18-year-old colored girl, Saturday night, February 12. Miss Hyde, who appeared on the witness stand with her face showing signs of the rough treatment that she received at the hands of the moron, told of the vicious attack. She stated that she was on her way home, when she was attacked by the man and dragged to the canal near 26th street, where she made desperate efforts to fight him off. She was stripped of of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People which had the case in charge." Omaha, Nebraska, The Monitor: "There is one outstanding militant organization that is waging an unremitting and uncompromising fight against discrimination and denial of opportunity and for the maintenance of his constitutional rights of which the Negro is largely deprived. That organization is the N. A. A. C. P." Richmond, Va., Planet: "No act of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has tended to emphasize the necessity for its existence more than this supreme court decision in the matter of democratic primaries. This great organization is not only entitled to praise but it should receive the necessary financial support to enable it to continue the good work." Louisville, Kentucky, News: "There would have been no such case before the supreme court had it not been for the N. A. A. C. P. We have never been able to see how any intelligent Negro man or woman could refuse to join the N. A. A. C. P." Chicago, Illinois, Bee: "Dr. L. A. Nixon, of Texas, in whose name the case was carried up, the local Texas and national N. A. A. C. P. whose backing won the case and the attorneys who so valiantly and efficiently fought the winning fight, together with the honorable judges of the supreme court, have earned the permanent gratitude and thanks of the whole nation." Pittsburgh, Pa., Pennsylvania Guard: "Much credit is deserving to the organization which brought this matter to the attention of the supreme court. The N. A. A. C. P. has worked on the case of Nixon, the plaintiff, who was barred from the primaries in Texas in 1923, ever since the matter occurred." "The Texas case is one step and the first in a campaign instigated and supported by an association of Negroes in the North and assisted financially by a few Northern white men. This association will make attacks from time to time, upon the whole line of defenses set up by the white men in the Southern states. Some of the Northern Negroes have become politically and socially aggressive, and they and their white allies are encroaching wherever they see or think they see a possible opening." her clothing and badly beaten by her attacker before an officer heard her screams and came to her rescue. The crime was called one of the most brutal that has occurred in this city in a long time. GRADUATES OF TECH HIGH SCHOOL—WINTER QUARTER Among the graduates of the winter class of Technical High school who were given their diplomas Tuesday morning were four colored students, the Misses Hallot Allen and Marietta Hill and Messrs. Clarence Desdunes and Thomas S. Phillips. The Monitor extends congratulations. $ ^{a} $ Clarence Desdunes was on the program with a violin solo. Vol. XII—No. 39 HOUSECLEANER WHO WON PAINTING PRIZE SAILS FOR EUROPE Palmer C. Hayden, Whose Oil Paintings Recently Received $400 Award from Harmon Foundation to Study Abroad FINANCED BY UNKNOWN DONOR Several Harmon Award Recipients Have Devoted Them to Special Educational and Charitable New York, N. Y.—Palmer C. Hayden, the 33-year-old Negro housecleaner whose landscape paintings recently brought him the Harmon Foundation's first award in art, sailed for Europe March 12 on the France. An anonymous donor, whose attention was attracted by Hayden's sketches at the time he received the $400 of the William E. Harmon awards for distinguished achievement among Negroes, is financing his trip and making it possible for him to spend two years there studying art. Although Hayden has known of this donation for nearly a month, he continued to work at his usual occupation of scrubbing floors and washing windows almost until the hour of his departure. He sailed in a third class cabin. The paintings which have attracted wide notice were executed in a tiny room at 29 Greenwich avenue where Hayden lives. But in order to have time to do this artistic work, the sacrifice of a real job was necessary. That is why he became a housecleaner about three years ago, working mornings for his various "clients", and spending the afternoon sketching. His earnings, he declares, were seldom more than five dollars a week—"unless I had a special job painting walls and for this I got $25 or $30, but this is too strenuous for regular work. I paid $3.50 for my room and occasionally, when money was scarce, I had to let a day go by without eating." When he received the $400 from the Harmon Foundation, he immediately made plans for a trip abroad. "I knew it was not enough to enable me to stay there for study very long, but I also knew that I could never get that much money together all at once again. I was able to bring it up to a little more than $500 by borrowing on my bonus check. Now that I have this gift, I will be able to spend some time in an art school at Paris, and later to visit the art centers in Italy, Spain, England and Germany." This will be the first time that Mr. Hayden will have had an opportunity to study without the necessary interruption of remunerative work. Since he left the grammar school in Widewater, Va., where his parents live on a small farm, he has sketched in his spare time—first when he was serving in the regular army, then when he was a New York mail carrier, and finally, when more time was needed than that left from a full day's work, as a housecleaner's job "on his own." His instruction has come through correspondence courses and from one of his employers. Victor Perard of Cooper Union. Hayden was one of the twelve Negroes to receive recognition from the Harmon Foundation in December in the first year of its series of awards for exceptional achievement in the arts, science, business and religion. Persons prominent in the several fields judged the entries and awards were only made where work compared favorably with the best of its kind, rather than with the best Negro work. This year's series, also designed to bring to public attention those who are doing creative work of outstanding merit, opened on Lincoln's birthday and announcement of the successful candidates is to be made on January 1, 1928, Emancipation Day. Dr. George E. Haynes, secretary of the Commission on the Church and Race Relations of the Federal Council of Church is administering the awards. GROWING THANK YOU! Whole Number 609 ANDIT OMAHA RACE ATTORNEY DELIVERS ADDRESS ON RACE PREJUDICE H. J. Pinkett Given Opportunity to Place Pertinent Facts Before White Congregation Mr. H. J. Pinkett, well-known attorney, addressed a large and enthusiastic audience on "Race Prejudice" Wednesday evening at Grace Evangelical church, white, 5112 No. Twenty-seventh street. Mr. Pinkett traced the history of race prejudice from the earliest times, and asserted that all races have been guilty, in some measure, of this evil. He declared that it remained for the modern world to give the worst example and practice of race prejudice. "The proud Anglo-Saxon," he said, "is the worst offender in applying race prejudice. He has forgotten the time when his ancestors wore bear skin, lived in caves and subsisted on raw meat and green herbs; when they were too ignorant and imbruced to become good Roman slaves. He is leading a movement to make all non-white races contemptible by branding them as inferior and, therefore, proper objects of exploitation and oppression. He is teaching the lesson of injustice and oppression." "Apparently, this view of fellow human beings has meant but little to the so-called Nordics. But it will mean world tragedy in the coming years, unless abandoned; for it may be that some day the sceptre of power shall pass to the darker peoples and when that day comes, these people will apply the lesson they shall have learned. If that lesson be one of justice and equity and good-will, all will be well for the world. But if that lesson be one of injustice and wrong; of hate and prejudice, the lighter races of mankind will be the victims, as the darker peoples are now, of the evil of race prejudice. And this would not be well for the world and civilization." The speaker declared that the application of the Sermon on the Mount would solve the problem. Later in the year, Mr. Pinkett is to speak at this church on the "Social Evil." LOVETT FOR-WIGHTMAN TO Lovett Fort-Wightman, organizer of the American Negro Labor Congress, who was to have spoken at Bethel Baptist church, South Side, Saturday night, March 26th, and at Zion Baptist church next Sunday afternoon, has been compelled to postpone his engagements here owing to demands made upon him for speaking in the east. He will visit Omaha at some later date soon to be announced. The Riggs Optical company, started in Omaha 18 years ago, now has 53 branches in the western half of the United States. Four new branches have been established within a year and twelve new branches within two years. Several of those beside Mr. Hayden who received the Harmon awards in 1926 have made a special use of the sum given them. C. C. Spaulding of Durham, North Carolina, who was accorded the first award in Business, donated the $400 so received plus $100, to the establishment of an educational foundation for students at the North Carolina College for Negroes. Arthur A. Schomburg, of Brooklyn, who won the second award in Education of $100 is applying the sum toward the publication of a bibliography of books by Negroes; and A. A. Alexander of Des Moines, Iowa, who received the second award in Business of $100 has made this the nucleus of an annual scholarship award to Negro boys and girls in the Des Moines high school. Will W. Alexander of Atlanta, Ga., a southern white man, who received the award of $500 in the only field of the series which was open to both white and colored people, that of Race Relations, presented the amount to an orphanage for Negro children at Atlanta, Ga. --- Myers Funeral Home PERSONALS Ed. F. Morearty, Lawyer, 700 Peters Trust Building, JAckson 3841 or Harney 2156. Mrs. Corinne Cross Patrick of Kansas City, Mo., spent Sunday here as the guest of her friend, Mrs. Alfred Jones at Hillcrest. Messrs. William and Rudy Shipman of Norfolk, Nebr., brothers-in-law of Mrs. Otis Shipman were weekend guests at her home. A. P. SCRUGGS, Lawyer. Large experience. Handles all law cases. 2310 North Twenty-second street. Webster 4162. Mrs. Fred Stuchwisch and little daughter, Mary Jane, of Battle Creek, Nebr., were week-end guests of Mrs. Otis Shipman, her sister-in-law. DESIRABLE LOT in Bedford Addition. For sale cheap. Inquire at Monitor office. Web. 4243. 4t-2-25-27. Rev. John Albert Williams, left Thursday night for St. Louis, Mo., where he will conduct a "Quiet Day," for the women of All Saints parish on Friday, and be the special preacher for the evening service on Sunday. Bishop Shayler conducts the early service at St. Philip's Sunday morning in the absence of the rector. We Moderns club held a social meeting with Mrs. Alice Jones, 2925 Grant street, Thursday, March 17th. A delicious luncheon was served by the hostess and an enjoyable time was had by all. The next meeting will be held with Mrs. Sybil Oglesby at her home, 3406 Parker street, on March 24th. The club reserved a table at the recent cabaret dance given by the Royal Dukes club. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms in modern home, 2715 Miami street. Webster 5488. 2-t. Mrs. E. F. Elliott, enroute to her home in Chicago, after a pleasant two months' visit in California and Arizona, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Allen, 2715 Hamilton street. Mrs. Elliott is the mother-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Allen's daughter, Lucy. FOR RENT—Five room all modern home, full cement basement.—WE. 4023. 3014 North 28th Ave. Sergeant Melvin McCaw is reported as slowly improving at his home, 2816 Ohio street. Word has been received by friends of the birth of a little daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Ray Gibson of Tacoma, Washington. Mrs. Gibson will be remembered as Miss Madeline Roberts, former Omaha girl. Vote for Charles J. Solomon for City Commissioner.—Adv. GROSS BUYS CAR OF HARDWARE The H. Gross Lumber and Wrecking company, Twenty-first and Nicholas streets, has just received a car of job lot hardware from the east, which contains an odd assortment of nails, fence, hog, chicken and barbed wire, screen wire, and selling at low prices. Also! 2,000 gallons of high grade paints. THE MEDICAL AUXILIARY The Medical Auxiliary met March 14, with the president, Mrs. L. E. Britt. The By-Laws committee of which Mrs. C. H. Singleton is chairman, assisted by Mesdames Price, Terrell and A. M. McMillan, made a report. The auxiliary is divided into Myers PETER B. --- groups, one of which supervises each monthly meeting. Old Folks Home and other shut-ins are going to be surprised with Easter baskets, according to plans. This group is under Mrs. J. H. Hutten and assisted by Mesdames A. A. Foster and E. A. Williamson. The hospital group is under direction of Mrs. Herbert Wiggins, assisted by Mesdames Craig Morris and D. W. Gooden. They personally make visits to the University and county hospitals carrying cheer and sunshine to the large number of inmates there. The auxiliary has a "Dorcas Box" where the place the layettes for the babies who are not prepared with tiny garments. The next meeting will be April 12, with Mrs. A. A. Foster, 2874 Binney St. CHURCH OF ST. PHILIP THE DEACON Bishop Shayler will celebrate the Holy Communion at 7:30 Sunday morning. The other services will be as follows: Church School, 10:00 a. m.; morning prayer, 11:00 a. m.; evening prayer at 8:00 o'clock. The Woman's Auxiliary of St. Philip's church held a largely attended and interesting meeting at the home of Mrs. L. E. Britt, 2519 Maple street, last Thursday afternoon. OLD FOLKS HOME Services are conducted at the home every Sunday afternoon from four to five o'clock. Public is invited. The Rev. Mr. Steel conducted the services last Sunday. Mrs. Rosa Jones is the new matron at the home. All inmates are very well. Richard Simpson, who has been quite ill at his home, 2878 Corby street, for the last two weeks, is somewhat improved. Mrs. H. J. Crawford, who has been to her home, 2505 Maple street, for three weeks, is steadily improving. Mrs. Charles H. Hicks, 2530 Maple street, slipped in the bath tub last Saturday night and in the fall injured her back. Mrs. Pauline Emanuel and sister, Miss Viola White, who have been the guests of Mrs. Richard Simpson, 2878 Corby street, for a week, left for their home in Denver, Monday. Opening of the new Riviera theatre at Twentieth and Farnam streets brings to Omaha one of the most attractive theatres in the United States, representing an investment of close to $1,000,000 and adding to Omaha's entertainment facilities, an institution that will attract thousands of people. It will open about March 26th. 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I wished above all things for speech with you. Corlaer. I am deeply in your debt. Ta-wan-nears, you have again incurred the gratitude of the province." "Did you receive my report from Oswego, sir?" I asked. "Certes, 'twas that—and this"—he tapped a document which lay before him on the table—"which brought me here." He proffered it. "Twas a report from a secret agent at Montreal, quoting the decision of the French fur dealers, acting in conjunction with their government, to raise the price of beaver from two livres, or one shilling sixpence in English currency, the pound, to the level of four livres, or three shillings, the established price then prevailing at the English trading posts. "That, mind you," continued the governor as I returned the paper to him. "was the first reaction in Canada to the tidlings that Murray had succeeded in legitimatizing his trade over the Doom Trail. But come with me. It may be I shall appeal to you for first-hand testimony." We deposited our muskets in a corner of the room, and filed into the larger chamber adjoining, where some thirty men awaited him. Several were gentry who were members of his council. Three were officers in command of the frontier garrisons. The remainder were merchants, dealing to greater or lesser extent in the fur-trade, the great export staple of the province. His excellency wasted no time in preliminaries or generalities. He deposited several papers on the table in front of him, and addressed himself to his task. "Gentlemen," he began. "I have summoned you to meet me here because a situation has arisen which is of the utmost gravity to the welfare of the province and the larger interests of his majesty's realm. Recently I have been in receipt of a communication in the form of a petition signed by many of the chief merchants of the province. beseeching me to abandon my opposition to the retention of the free trade with Canada which is now temporarily secured to them by the action of the lords of trade in suspending decision upon the law prohibiting the trade in Indian goods which I secured to be passed last year." "That petition represented the sober thought of a majority of the merchants and traders, your excellency." spoke up a prosperous-looking man. "It may be so," replied the governor. "But I would suggest to you, my friends, that certain knowledge hath come to me which compels me to wonder whether you would persist in this attitude were you acquainted with it. Briefly, I have lately obtained definite information that the French are beginning the erection of a stone fort at Jagara. The territory this side of the falls of Jagara is secured to us by the Peace of Utrecht. 'Tis not only that the French have no right to construct a fort there. They have no right to maintain a trading post there. 'Yet my agent talked with the officers in charge, Monsieur de Joincare and Monsieur de Lery, and they boasted of their intent to erect such a fort as would be a curb on our Indian allies, the Iroquois, and divert to their posts farther up the Cadarakul lake the fur trade which now comes to us at irondequoit and Oswego. Schenectady and New Albany. "At the time I received word of the building of the fort at Jagara, I received also this report from an agent in Montreal, announcing the doubling of the price paid for beaver at the French posts, so that now they are on a par with us." "We can afford to pay more than we do. London will still take it from us at a profit," rejoined the merchant who had first spoken. "Trade is trade," cried another. "It goes where the money is." "Aye, we have no fear," clamored others. "Let us suppose," resumed the governor, "that the French permit you to draw supplies of furs through them. I can conceive they might do so if it netted them the prices they desire. Does that mean that you will always be safe in expecting to have your wants so filled?" "To be sure," answered three or four men at once. "I differ with you," replied Master Burnet. "The fur trade is not only a means to earn profits. 'Tis a most important stake in securing military success. The nation which controls the fur trade, my masters, will have the interest of the larger numbers of savages. The nation which owns the support of the most Indian tribes will be the nation superior in extending its territories in time of peace and superior in battle in time of war." "It ill becomes a plain merchant to take issue with your excellency," re- marked a hard-featured merchant, "but it seems to me you attach overmuch importance to savage tribes and war. There is enough land in North America for French and English and Indians, too. Trade is everything." "So long as 'its rightly conducted,' amended Master Burnet. "Bear in mind, my masters, that the whole history of our possessions on this continent disproved the statement that there is land enough for ourselves and the French. The French are the first to dispute this view. "They plan openly to drive us into the sea. The New France they see in the future will embrace all the settlements of the Atlantic coast together with the inland wilderness." "If you bait them sufficiently, doubtless they will seek to fight us," asserted a merchant. "But they know not our English breed if they think to do so," cried a neighbor. "Or the Dutchman, either," said a third. "Good! That is the spirit I want to arouse," acknowledged the governor, quick to seize what he thought an advantage. "Gentlemen, what I desire from you especially today is your support in a plan I have been considering for moderating the exit of goods to Canada. The volume reached in recent weeks passes all reason. If permitted to continue 'twill exhaust our supplies. It plays directly into the hands of—" But he was not suffered to continue. "Free trading!" shouted a group. "Stick by the law, governor!" warned one. "The law is the law!" cried a third. The prosperous-looking merchant stood up and made himself heard by pounding his stick on the floor. "Do I understand your excellency to mean that you would alter the instructions received from the lords of trade?" he asked. "My plan is rather to amend the carrying out of the law by certain restrictions until I can forward representations on the situation to their lordships," replied Master Burnet steadily. "But as one of my brethren has just remarked, the law is the law." "The trouble here, sir, is that there is no law," declared the governor. "We have the suspension of the law, and in the interim there is no provision for a substitute statute." "Tush, we want no such law," proclaimed the hard-featured merchant. "Let us not quibble. His excellency might as well know the truth. Since Master Murray won his case we have been able to sell and buy as we chose. And our coffers have swollen thereby. "The law was an ill-judged law. It restricted trade, reduced profits. Let the French secure furs if they wish. They may do the dirty work. We will sit back and reap the profits. Better have free trade under France than limited trade under England or any other country." "You talk treason, sir," said the governor coldly. "Moreover, you talk foolishly. There is no freedom of trade in Canada—" "Well, we have it here; and by —— we'll keep it as long as we can," replied the merchant. "That is not like to be very long, my masters," announced a new voice. All eyes were turned to the door. There stood Andrew Murray, laced and cocked hat tucked under his arm. He bowed low to the governor. "I must beseech your excellency's pardon for my unheralded entrance," he said. "I am but just arrived in town, and I hastened here to present my case to you." He swept his eyes over the room as he spoke and fastened them upon my face. "You are welcome, Master Murray," returned the governor. "Had I known where to reach you I should have invited your attendance." "I am honored, sir. I venture to intrude upon you because of information I possess which I am sure will be of interest to you and all others who have the prosperity of the province at heart." "I am interested," said the governor impartially. "Pray state your case, Master Murray." "I shall do so all the more readily, your excellency, because I am persuaded you can have no knowledge of the crimes recently committed by persons who represent themselves to be your agents. "I see in this room three men whom I charge with the wanton destruction of a large quantity of furs and the murder of two of my servants and a number of friendly Indians." And that there might be no mistaking the objects of his accusation Murray pointed his forefinger at my comrades and me. Murmurs arose and hostile glances were bent upon us. "Be explicit, if you please," said the governor. "I will, sir," replied Murray boldly. "The young man known as Harry Ormerod, with Peter Corlaer and a Seneca chief called Ta-wan-ne-ars, raided a fleet of canoes on the shore of the Cadaraqui lake near Oswego and burned hundreds of packs of valuable furs which the far-western savages were bringing in for trade." "I have heard something of this matter," admitted Master Burnet. "But I understood the savages were in charge of Monsieur de Joincare, the French commandant at Jagara, and bound for Montreal." "Monsieur de Joncaire was accompanying them, 'tis true," admitted Murray. "But the savages were bound for my own trading stations. The loss, which will run into thousands of pounds, will fall upon our New York merchants." The murmurs grew into an outburst of indignation which the governor quelled with difficulty. "I shall look into Master Murray's charges," he said. "So much, at least." THE MONITOR ne is entitled to. But first I wish to acquaint him with what I have laid before this gathering, all the more so because he is more vitally interested perhaps than any other. "Master Murray. I am concerned over the extent to which the fur trade is passing into French hands, and I am bound to say my information indicates that the French have your assistance in the matter. The quantities of trade-goods going up-river have enormously increased this summer. They are hundreds of tons in excess of what formerly passed through Albany." "Doubtless our trading posts have profited thereby," suggested Murray blandly. "On the contrary," returned Master Burnet with decision. "Our trading posts have fared worse, if anything. Aside from the Iroquois, the savages are patronizing more and more the French traders. Briefly Master Murray, I am canvassing the sentiment of our merchants on the advisability of suspending for the time being, to some degree at any rate, the proclamation I issued in response to the action of the lords of trade in withholding the assent of his majesty's government to our law prohibiting the trade in Indian goods with Canada." Murray took snuff deliberately. (Continued Next Week.) URBAN LEAGUE TO DISCUSS SOCIAL RESEARCH Delegates from the National Urban League and its forty branches are to meet in St. Louis, March 29th to April 2nd to discuss the subject, "Readjustment of Social Programs in the Light of Research." This, the sixteenth annual conference of the Urban League, is to be participated in by leading white and colored public welfare workers in addition to the executive secretaries, industrial secretaries and other Urban League field workers. Reports on social studies will be made by investigators who have made social surveys in many cities and programs to meet the social needs revealed will be presented and discussed. Among the speakers for the evening sessions are: John W. Davis, president of the West Virginia Collegiate Institute; Howard R. Knight, general secretary of the National Conference of Social Work; Judge Albert George, of the Chicago Municipal Court; Professor J. R. E. Lee, of A. and M. College, Tallahassee, Florida; John Hope, president of Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia; Lloyd Garrison (the great-grandson of Garrison, the librator), treasurer of the National Urban League; Eugene Kinclek Jones, executive secretary of the National Urban League; and A. 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