The Denver star., 1917-12-22
AS Others See 1t
Pueblo Chieftain, St. Louis
Globe Dem. Comment
WHILE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY wEEPS

I WHILE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY WEEPS
The people the United States will generally approve
of e that imposed the members of the
regiment who mutined Houston Texas AT the
ME time the people of the country will demand that SIM
ia1 punishment be meed to the white who killed the
Negroes East ST. Louis few weeks before the occurrence
Houston If anything the of the white people in
Ea St Louis far than the acts of the Ne
groes Houston In either act excusable
military authority exercised wide judgment in inict
nR and quick punishment the Negroes If the civ
lii population East Louis fail nct similar punish
will only to show that falls down in Ger
circumstances and will only increase the feeling
that punishment is not fairly meted out.
1t would have been far the general feel
concerned have executed the white ST. Louis
executed the Negroes Houston because the white
people supposed be better educated and better citizens
the fact that they have had of
tunfx.
! The colored regiment OF which these members
has had peculiar history American life 1t this
that the thick of the fight San Juan
and saved Colonel Rooseve regiment from total annhia
ton later this regiment whose members munied dur
ing Rooseves president and number of them
|dishonorably discharged little year ago it this
regiment that fought the only battle that fought in Old
Mexico when trying capture Villa and many of
cooed boys who arrested ahd convicted at the
marol the who for SEVENTH
two hours without food and the hot sands of the
Mexican desert order to- of their whteSol
dier comrades Then in August the mutiny with its
and final chapter which yesterday. On
the dash the field battle and bravery these have
exceled anywhere by American troops but when
off field Of battle and another element their
aroused. they hideous the of crime a
feels grateful them for what they did the San
and in Old Mexico but America overlook what
they of liquor and aroused
their petty passions
Notwithstanding all this. fair play in America demands
that white who connected with the murder of
la Negro in East ST. Louis should the price that
has been paid by the Negroes for the Houston affair If the
East St Louis murderes they get away
with light it will only increase the hatred
that already and will Negro Justly
that his people do deal in the final adjust
ment of matters pertaining government The execution
of thirteen Negroes will long toward putting stop
to muny in regiment in our national service The
ecuon OF that few white people in East ST.
Louis would go long way toward putting down the
that by white hoodlums whom
respectable the Negroes whom they
officials of Illinois feel the disgrace which the East ST.
Louis affair brought them keenly There just
that disgrace from the escutcheon of the
plate OF Illinois, That ascertain who responsible
for the East St Louis murders and take those who
responsible and hang them without ceremony
useless red tape dilly dalying than their
brothers in crime in Texas Pueblo Cheftan.
The hanging United States soldiers and the
ing of forty mprisonment hard labor
will bring shock the country No contemplate
the fact without sadness of heart But thoughtful
will the necessity for action The fact that thirteen
of the sixty tried for participating the and
my Houston sentenced DEATH forty life
prisonment and half years Imprisonment
three year imprisonment, while Ave acquitted