The new age., 1907-03-02
MORE TROUBLE BREWING.

MORE TROUBLE BREWING.
A press dispatch this week from FL
Paso, Texas, says: Negro soldiers of
the Twenty-fifth infantry stationed at
Fort Bliss have threatened to raid this
city and citizens are arming them
selves and are ready for an outbreak.
Between the Negro troops and whites
saloon fights have been numerous.
Four of the soldiers assaulted white
man, but were overpowered and driven
sent to the officers of the fort that
the soldiers must be kept at the bar
racks if they wanted to avoid clash.
The citizens also warned the soldiers
that they would find the white men OF
Ell Paso prepared to meet them any
time. The guardhouse at Fort Bliss
is said to be filed with fractions Ne
gro soldiers who have had trouble
with the citizens in the city, and these
are threatening to revenge the alleged
insults to the soldiers. Several sol
diers have been beaten in saloon
brawls and the officers at the fort
have cut off permits for more than
four Negro soldiers to be absent from
the post at the same time All must
be in quarters at p. M
1t is at least quite probable that
behind the account is studied and
systematized plot to get the colored
soldiers at Ell Paso into trouble, and
provoke them if possible into doing
something like what it was alleged
some colored soldiers at Brownsville,
in the same State, did, and for which
they were discharged without honor"
and without a trial. 1t is well known
that there is a rabid antipathy to the
presence of colored soldiers in Texas,
however well they behave, and the
slightest misconduct on their part
would subject them to all sorts of ex-
aggerated and invented accusations on
the part of a portion of the people
of the town where they are quartered
The above story has the earmarks of
fake and a canard on its face. 1t
is not at all probable that the soldiers
have threatened to raid the town."
and the statement that one white man
was assaulted by four soldiers, but
were driven back, is at least unlikely.
The dispatch reads all the way
through as if it had been concocted
not only to SANDER the soldiers and
prejudice the public against them, but
to lay a foundation for future accusa-
tions of more serious nature. After
two or three such reports have been
sent out by the Negro-haters, we may
expect to hear that the soldiers have
"shot up" the town, and if anybody
should get killed in a row down there,
which happens not very infrequently,
doubtless the Negro soldiers will be
charged with the murder, and there
will be plenty of witnesses to swear
to it; and then perhaps these troops
will also be incontinently discharged
without honor"
We presume these colored troops
are not perfect, and that they do not
always behave like a Sunday School
teacher in a church, but probably they
are no worse behaved, and likely much
CelCeI, lAdH HoAy "hAIC SoiuA0iS 0AiAii
larly situated. Some of the latter
drink more than is good for them, and
get into brawls, and no long dispatches
are sent out over the country about
lit. We don't believed these colored
troops have made any such threats as
are alleged, and if any of them did
that it was because of indignities in
ficted upon them by people who are
determined to make trouble for them
and get rid of them.
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