The broad ax., 1917-09-01
Attorney AugustusL L. Williams
Sets Forth His Views On
The Race Riots at Houston,
Texas. He Pleads For Bet
ter Treatment For The Co.
lored Soldiers On The Part
Of The American People.

quently at Wyoming, and at Columbus,
N. NJ, where it is now stationed.
These statements which no doubt
were true leads me to believe and If
read by any fair-minded person they
would likewise believe that the treat
ment these boys, wearing the uniform
of the U. s. A, who are always and
are ever ready to defend Old Glory,
who had not within the fifty odd
years of the oath U. s. Infantry's ex-
istence allowed it to be besmirched or
to be trailed in the dust, were receiv-
ing fair play or even human treatment
and this in my mind is the primary
cause of the trouble at Houston.
1t seems that the good people of the
North who have done so much and are
still doing all that is being done to in
still in the minds of all the people the
principle of fair play throughout the
country are not apprised of the under
handed methods of the southern sec
ton of the country to get even with
the North for what they believe until
to-day, that great wrong was done
to the South by giving the black man
his freedom, and this same South are
to-day in the saddle. This situation
seems to be so pronounced that it is
working like wildfre through the
country to such an extent that we find
such well organized bodies of black
men as the gallant Oath Infantry be-
coming Infatuated at the treatment they
are receiving wherever they 60. Ev-
erything is being done that can be
done to create ill-feeling among the
black soldiers against his white brother.
On the other hand, everything that can
be done to the White soldier to instill
in his mind his alleged superiority over
the black soldier so as to further in
crease his hatred against these men.
And to my surprise the Northern peo-
pie are asleep, or if not asleep they are
Indifferent to these conditions so pro-
nounced as to almost cause the dead
to rise and speak out against it IN bold
words, so that the world would forever
know of this injustice to the race.
The Inflated oath Infantry has done
all that could be done in honor of this,
their native country, to promote its
general welfare to instill its supremacy.
So can it be said that these men must
be shot down like dogs without the
world knowing the cause or without an
awakening for justice and right.
We call upon proud America to
awake in this trying time of trouble,
when the world is shocking and totter-
ing with one of the greatest wars that
history has yet recorded, when so many
black boys are preparing with daring
aspect to face the shot and shell from
the cannons roaring in yonder land like
mighty hurricane, a mighty volcano
when sending forth its lava among the
people in the frightened country for
the honor, valor and the integrity of
the Stars and Stripes which they love,
for the protection and honor and fire.
side of his country, the land of the
free and the home of the brave,
America, awakel Speak out, come
forth from under cover, open your eyes,
YOUR heart and demand that Justice be
done regardless of the cost to all man
kind, no waiting, no pickering, but now
is the time.
A. L. Williams,
1s4 West Washington st.