The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1919-08-21
Letters from the People
The New Democracy


the greatest stains ever left upon any
race is the great crisis we have just
passed through for which the white peo-
pie are wholly to blame; for if you
continue TO kick dog around he will
bite you after while.
The white man or the white woman
who lost their lives in this great riot
did so at their own peril and for moth
ing. The colored man or colored woman
who lost their lives did so for some
thing.
The rights of the white man or
woman in America has never been
questioned or privileges ever been
marred, no matter whether they were
citizen or not, they had protection of
the law. 1t made no difference whether
they were right or wrong.
The Negro did not say he would not
live in the same neighborhood nor in
the same house with the white man no
matter how poor the white man was or
how rich the Negro was; it mattered
not to the Negro how poor or humble
the white man was, his home was pro-
tected and was not bombed because he
was a white man, but the Negro who
educated himself and raised himself
from the low levels to the higher plane
in life bought respectable home in a
better and more respected neighbor
hood, his house was in jeopardy and told
he would have to move.
| will ask any we'll thinking white
man if he does not think it is shame
to ask Negroes to go to war to fight
to redeem them and to return to a
country where they are supposed to
have home and find they have none
and denied the rights under the Stars
and Stripes to even spend their money.
The white hoodlums who start the
disturbances and trouble seem to be
backed up by the better class of white
people, who set in silence Instead of
forming themselves IN any one com.
mittee to break this band of error.
Won the head of our government
> seggregating and mstreating the
in Washington then the trouble
country began. Again | want to
my sensible thinking white person
tney would not resent these eondi
tions.
When white man or woman came
down State street shooting at will in
automobiles three in two and five in a
truck, at anyone and respected persons,
policeman sitting on n horse at Thir-
tyffth and State street made no at.
attempt whatever to apprehend them
until run down by a Packard machine
. with three colored men. Many other in.
cidents occurred by the police force
which caused trouble.
When the whites formed themselves
in big mobs in the city, they were bent
ON taking the life of negro without
any cause. When the Negroes were
pulled off the street ears al Forty-sev-
cnth street and beaten into insensibil.
ity, the better class of whites offered no
protection, and when the Negro tried to
protect himself he was called des-
perado by the police force
White people thinking of how the
jobs have been taken from them by the
downtown stores, | wonder if in their
own hearts they ever stop to think what
an American means when they are TAX
ing the earnings from $4,000 Negroes
who did not come to this county with
wooden shoes on as emigrants, but are
truly born Americans who could be
trusted in the time of war. They were
not blowing up factories, poisoning
meats or guests in hotels, but were
ghting in the trenches as loyal Amer.
IS, even though they were bounded
mistreated in time of war by white
officers. But let me say to my white
brother, you have time to repent for
what you have done to the Negro. The
reaction is bound to come. Let me
say to you so-called Americans, who
gave club and gun and the law to a
man as police who can not govern him
self in Europe, how do you expect that
man TO mete out justice to another race
who the so-called Americans are manu-
featuring hatred against.
/ do not uphold anyone in wrong
doing any more than would the Chi
csgo Defender, whose agitation is be-
yond all reasons, and the weaker class
take advantage of such print known as
the mad house. The more you read it,
the more angry You become, and the
so-called leaders do not put a stop to
such infiammatory articles.