El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-07-28
THE WHITES MUST SET THE EXAMPLE,
MUST AT LEAST SHOW CIVILIZATION

THE National Association for the Advancement of Col
ored People is making strenuous campaign not only
to turn the thoughts activities the into right
channels but to direct the mind of the white brother into
channels of real help.
of the most telling circulars sent out by this OF
ganzaton recently refers to the burning of negro-by
Civilized" white peope-at Hattiesburg, Miss Without
comment facsnes of newspaper accounts of the lynch
ing Of the deliberate plans for the ynchng printed
What terrible indictment of civilized people, where
crime is "atoned" by the commission Of another;
where the crime Of passioncrazed brute is punished by
the cool, deliberate murder of the criminal by who
call themselves civilized and humane; by who hold
themselves as examples in community as leaders in civil
hzation, and expect to be euated by their black neigh
borSi
Murder7 It nothing more See what the Hattiesburg
correspondent teIegraph TO his paper the Jackson Miss
John fairfield, the negro alleged to have as
saulted Ellisville young woman has been taken
TO Eilisvle and is guarded by officers in the
office of Dr. Carter in that city. He is wounded in
the shoulder but not seriously. The officers have
agreed to turn him over to the people of the CITY
at o'clock this afternoon, when 1t IS expected he
viii be burned The negro is said to have made a
partial Confession
dispatch:
when Gov. BiIOO was shown the above dis,
patch and asked what action, if any, he intended
to take to prevent the affair, he said
I powerless to prevent it. We have guns
for state militia, but It Is impossible to
send troops to the scene for the obvious reason
that have troops
Sounds like social affair from the same dispatch:
a committee of Elisville citizens has been
appointed to make the necessary arrangements for
the event, and the mob is pledged to act in con-
foTmity with these arrangements"
Murder? Murder is crime premeditated whether there
may be cause for It not what the correspondent
of the New Orleans States sends to his paper June &c
from Elisyille, Miss:
As o'clock approaches, John fairfield, assal-
ant of the EIlisville white girl is being carefully
guarded in the office Of Dr.. Carter OF this city.
The wounded negro has confessed and seems
@Dissension has broken out among the indig-
nant citizens to what disposition should be made
of the prisoner
1T is said the negro will be taken to the scene
OF his crime, near the Ellisvle railroad tracks,
where he attacked Miss Meek, and viii be stood
up where everybody can see him.
@Some of the angry citizens, it is said, want
fairfield lynehed while others want him burned
But this is not the worst Now the news that
white attempted to assault two negro girls, and
because aged negro defended the girls and shot
Of white brutes he taken from jail and lynehed
upon the spot.
Whites cannot expect improvement in the negro /
race no much the improvement may be needed
any section district until they Learn control their
passions until they learn to quit acting madmen
and to act with justice and with sanity
would first demand respect for the law, whether
is the low Of God the law Of the state nation must
first show a respect for the law.
On the other hand the negroes of the country who
anything at ALL must know that such talk that
brought out by of their members in New York I
Sunday VIII improve their cause OF get them any
where with the whites. New York dispatch says:
Nearly 1000 negroes shouted their approval
here today when various speakers, addressing a
meeting held under the auspices OF the Equal
Rights league, urged the adoption Of radiealism
among negroes means Of obtaining their
zone speaker suggested following the con-
stTuctive work done by blacks in Washington
while others advised using all methods, force
and making radiealsm the essence OF propa- Il
gandai and stopping, the white treading
toes
for the AntiSalOOn League. would make the league
mandatory for Germany.