The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-15

The above statement appeared on
poster in the League Enterprises
window and has attracted consider
able attention from the great mass
of passersby on that street. Women
in particular have taken notice and
you can hear them reading aloud the
drastic speech Two little girls read
it, one failed to fully grasp it's mean
ing, thereupon the other was heard
to remark: Course they use bad
language, don't | hear 'em every day."
(Strong indictment for our most thriv-
ing business streeti) Every old lady
who stops and reads lets drop some
ejaculation such as That man is sure
right" while grimfaced men read and
thoughtfully pass on, some even stop
ping to encourage with a. handshake
THE REAL CONDITIONS.
Now what is the matter? The mat
ter is this: You have good Colored
people in this town. Many, many
But you have too large a contingent
of vicious Devils OF these, WHO shall
rule? The righteous or the wicked?
The refined or the vulgar? The clean
mouthed or the profane? We ask,
who shall rule? The conditions in
this neighborhood are shameful. The
very air is vibrating with corruption
that hurts. Most of our fair brothers
take the stand that "All Negroes are
bad" Many of our own people take
the equally ridiculous stand that all
NnUrnne
sense shows that Negroes are good
and bad and even Indifferent, like
other races. But of these three classes,
who shall rule? 1t looks as though
the bad Negro is ruling when he is
permitted to practice his demoraliz-
ing antics unmolested and unchal-
lenged by those who believe in moral
right and decency. We might well
ask if we are towards in this respect.
THE DEEPER CAUSE.
AS usual much of this evil is trace
able to the saloon and barrel houses.
A striking feature is that these places
are invariably run by Jews and white
Gentiles. Here you have the sons of
Shem and Japheth pursuing merciless-
ly the haunts of the sons of Ham,
corrupting and killing the moral fibre
of these dark-skinned people. It's a
long, long way from the drunken
Noah, Somewhere in antiquity to
antiquity to Eighteenth street in
Kansas City, but such is the connec-
ton. It's lamentable that the Jews,
unjustly prosecuted race that they
are, should furnish the worse dives
and hell holes in this city to corrupt
another race. 1t would be fortunate
| if they were as clannish in confining
their money-making schemes among
their own people as they are in their
social and religious propaganda, for
then the "Zion movement" would
make a better impression in Negro
quarters. The poor Jew (poor when
they come here) seeks Negro neigh
borhood, his field being too corrupt
in more than one way, though a
squeezing pawn shop and dirty sa-
loon are his specialties.
This is the only thing we hold
! against the Jew. In this He is strik-
ing against our manhood. We are try
ing to elevate ourselves in a neigh
borhood effectively set apart for our
people. We are trying to raise the
tone of this community to higher
moral standard and the Jew in his
juxtaposition offers very adverse
element, therefore we feel justified
in opposing him. Still we have re-
gard for the Rosenwalds, and others
who symbolic a higher type of citi-
zen, but we certainly have little re.
spect for the Barrelhouse Keepers
and their ilk, whom we have come to
conceive as the corruptors of our race.
Here are two definitions of saloon.
Webster would do we'll to copy;
| Saloon-A drink Emporium where
men enter, assuage their thirst and
go on their way.
| Saloon-An tInsiehtIv nlaca WHARF