The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-10-04
MOB LAW COMING HOME TO
ROOST.

kUUSI.
The tentacles of the hydra-headed
monster of mob law have shown
themselves in the last week in two
new and vitality dangerous directions.
Every American, black as well as
white, who loves the fair name OF
his country, must stand shocked
and ashamed at the news that comes
from Japan as well as Georgia Dis
patches from the Orient declare that
the Japanese papers are flashing the
Japanese into an anti-American fury
ON the score of the inhuman treat
ment accord black Americans by their
white fellow citizens. They are max
ing the most OF the Washington and
Chicago race riots, telling the people
of Japan. '"That these bloody street
battles OF hundreds Of thousands OF
whites against the blacks picture
plainly the status of the American
people and the ferocity OF their pref
udice against Colored peoples" Sure
ly no more ominous shadow has fall
en- athwart Americas pathway than
this ugly menace Of the hostility OF
the yellow races. Should this anti
American propaganda take deep root
and gain momentum among the hun
dreds Of millions Of the yellow races
in the Orient the dire possibilities
of its consequences in world race
war would be too dreadful to con-
template. Yet this Is the next world
tragedy which this agitation, MADE
possible by the increasing mob law
of America, portends. 1t is the logi-
cal conclusion of the campaigns OF
the professional race haters against
the black and yellow peoples car
ried on in Congress and throughout
the, nation, but especially in the South
and far West This foodgate of inn
pending trouble the present Admin
istration at Washington has opened
by giving ear, tacit approval and
political preferment to the dema-
gogues, and half baked Socialists OF
the nation. II has released the forces
of discomfort and discord which are
sowing the wind, but unless brought
up short by the next Administration
may reap the whirlwind. When they
provoke the proud children OF the
Land of the Rising Sun they put on
this nations hand problems which
may rock it for generations for so
luton. In allowing mob law to go
on unchecked by the strong right
arm of the nation, in failing to de-
clare that the preachers and prac-
TIGERS of race persecution are trail
tors and enemies to the Republic
Congress is allowing the small boy
to enter the powder magazine with
matches.
But, serious as is this foreign
phase OF American race prejudice
and mob law, their direct effect upon
the nation from within is now begin
ming to be seen. We have long said
that it was but step from the lyn-
ching of black man to the lynch
ing of a white man and general
anarchy. Among the manifold in
stances of mob law none has more
clearly pointed this out than the
whipping of two white women in
Georgia last week. The New York
Evening Mail sums up the situation
when in its Friday issue 1t said:
"Whipping Women
The extent to which the bacillus
Of mob rule will spread once it has
found secure Judgement in the spirit
ual system of community is indi-
Gated by the whipping of women in
Macon, Ga. Mobs in Georgia as in
other Southern States, have so long
been in the habit of maltreating, IL
not killing, human being by the most
revolving torture that the color line
has become faint in such lawless en-
terprises. This time 1t is not Col
ored persons who are the victims of
mob violence, but white persons-and
white women.
These women were whipped be-
cause textile workers on strike re-
sented their continuance at their
jobs.
'The subsection of women to per-
sonal violence is a demonstration of
barbarism that rouses the indigna-
ton of every red-blooded man. But
the whipping of women--even white
women-ceases to shock individuals
who have grown accustomed to the
whipping, torturing and burning If
mem
These are the chickens OF mob law
against the black man coming home
to the American people to roost. The
lossening OF the bonds of civiliza-
ton in the Boston police strike, in
the Macon textile strike whipping,
in the Washington and Chicago race
riots has come down as the direct
descendent of Southern mob law
and race Acknowledgement, which
made possible the present Admins
tration. Congress must stop mob law
now if Il would preserve the Repub-
lie.
Tho Maui W, b Na,.v-