The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-08-07
A CAUSE FOR EVERYTHING
Mischief Makers Responsible for Agita-
ton of Trouble Between White and
Bl@k-A Story and It's Application.

The article following is from lady
friend of the Caucasian and may be
read with interest:
One of the first axioms of natural
philosophy is: There is a cause for
everything And it would seem that
when the cause for any state of affairs
is discovered it is reduced to a thing
which is at the control of man.
Now let us try to find the cause for
circumstances which are injurious to
humanity, and will eventually bring
about great disaster
Whoever has read the newspapers
must have noticed the dispatches from
many cities and towns reporting disa-
greementS between white men and col
ored men in the North and in the South
Now let us look for the main cause of
this constant disagreement between pee-
pie which is assuming the proportions
of an epidemic The troubles were
numerous, which resulted in death-the
deliberate taking of life, lawsuits, order
ing out of troops, and general stirring
up of abstract racial feeling between
people who would have peacefully pur-
sued their business paths without ram
cor if the spirit of war had not been
dominant, and was not still in the as
tendency.
In every dispatch there was some alb
stract allusion to race war, combir1a-
ton of words which is an evil omen.
The Southern press should eliminate
that word from print. It is Cup to" the
South to do it, for only the South can
have the proper appreciation of the dan
ger being promoted by sensational writ
ers. These constant disagreements be-
tween the whites and blacks remind the
writer of an actual occurrence
Once upon a time there were two
common dogs which belonged to next
door families The two dogs were on
friendly terms, though each dog attend
ed strictly to its own yard For years
these dogs lived on neighbor1y terms.
Then unfortunately mischievous Wis
ting boy sicked the two dogs on to each
other, while fence divided them. The
two dogs barked furiously at each 9TH
er, and being urged on by the mischiev-
Gus boy snarled and growled and bit at
the fence in their seeming efforts to get
at each other, but it was noticeable that
each barking snarling dog ran the gamut
back and forth, neither dog would reach
the open. When the mischievous boy
departed, the dogs stopped barking, and
one walked into its back yard, and the
other entered its own yard, and with a
heave of relief, threw itself down on
the gallery and went to sleep.
The white men and colored men have
lived and worked side BY side in peace
until some nischievous persons sicked
them on to each other. And it would
seem that human beings have not the
sense of dumb animals.
The trouble has been caused by mis-
chief makers, or by people who think
hey can by abstract reasoning level the
fence built by God. The intelligent
white men, the intelligent co1ored men,
should lead the majority from under the
influence of mischief makers. Work is /
work no matter who does it. Labor can
not attack labor with any degree of jus
Eice, and if it does SO, there is a lack of
displayed by the attacking
party
Let it be hereafter said for the honor
II white labor that Intelligence will
keep white labor from attacking colored
abor even though capital has imported
{ TO fill their places. Opinion is not as
important as human life, and opinions
should be regulated into peaceful chan
lels BY the thinking public.