The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-12-06
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States that provide for him separate
railway carriages and to the various
schemes, like the Grandfather
Clause" whereby some states con.
fine the suffrage to those whose
grandparents were free. in order tC
deprive him of the vote that was
constitutionally given him after the
Civil War. 1t inks him the more
inasmuch as he is told by his organs
in the Press that the American High
Command tried to, get the French tC
treat him as he was treated at home
Proud of his new found sense of dis
cipline, he is not deaf to propaganda
against allowing himself to be ex-
plotted by the white race in times
of crisis and then, when the crisis
is over, to be put back into a pc.
sition of recognized inferiority.
For many years past there have
been two theories about the edu-
cation of the American Negro. One
idea has been to concentrate upon
technical education, to bring him
up to manual trades, and to en-.
courage him to become a small far
mer The other idea has been tC
treat him as a white man. to give
him higher education. The later
policy has had considerable success
There have been Negroes high in the
Federal service. There are good Col
ored doctors and lawyers; and there
are many thousands of Negroes, pro.
badly, rich enough to own their OWL
motors and that sort of thing. Ii
New York, for instance, there is a
most prosperous Colored community
living together in good streets and
good houses, with its own theatres
and all the other trappings of civil.
lization.
But there is. a reverse side to the
shield. The intellectual Negro seems
TO take rather kindly to Socialism
and organized agitation. Thus, one
finds, besides the National Associa.
ton for the Advancement of ColoreC
people, which has many white mem.
bers, number of purely Colorej
organizations like the League fol-
Democracy, an organization of Color.
ed soldiers aflame with grievances
against the white officer they haC
in France, the Universal Negro I'm.
provement Association, whose pro-
gram is to awaken class conscious.
ness among the Negroes here and il
Africa, and to knit together all the
Colored races of the world, the Ma.
tional Association for the Organize
ton of Labor Union among Negroes
the Hamitic League of the World
the League of the Darker People o.
the World, and so on.
Nearly all such association are ex
IRENE and run by young Colored so
cialists, often aided and abetted BY
professional white extremists of the
type that causes so much trouble
among the alien proletariat. Some
of them publish inflammatory or.
gans like the Messenger of the New
York the Crisis of the same city OF
the Boston Guardian, whose editor
w. NJ. Trotter, a Harvard graduate
after fruitless visit to the peace
conference, lately told the senate
committee on foreign relations t
look out for a race rising if the
whites did not mend their ways. Ever
the Industrial Workers of the WorlC
have been getting recruits among
the Negroes in the South, fac
which made the American Federation
of Labor decide this year to coun.
tenace Colored unions, much to the
disgust of the southerners.
To this the white reply, as has
been seen from the news of recent
months, has too often been mol
force. Mob protection is the only
protection of the white mans home,
cried the other day the paper of 6
former senator of the United States
published in Mississippi in the course
of an article calling on the best anC
bravest" in the state to organize
"since there is no doubt that he'll
will be to pay in this country in
the near future"
But, enough has been said to show
how discomfort, merging often into
impertinence and sometimes crimi-
nal misbehavior on the one side, and
sometimes rough intolerance on the
other are exacerbating a problem al
ready difficult. The process is de-
plored by the vast majority of sober
whites and by many good, thought
full Negroes. 1t is quite probable that
the better sense OF the nation VIII
prevent its going so far as some pro-
fess to fear; but for the moment it
is not the least troublesome feature
Of a general situation teeming with
other problems of race amalgamation.
Nor is it one the existence of which
we can afford to overlook. There can
be little doubt that the extremists
would like to extend their propa-
ganda to our possessions.
Several of the most active agitators
IN New York and elsewhere are. in
Iced, reported to be West Indians.
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