Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-08-01

States=-which after reciting alleged
offenses against negro citizens and
saying not one word that would in
dictate the slightest degree of negro
culpability, concludes with tho appeal
, that Mr.. Wilson "rcQuest the Score
tary of War and the Secretary of
Navy to withdraw the leave Of all
, soldiers and sailors and marines in
and around the District of Columbia.
and that those detected of taking
part III such riots of action be prop
erly punished according to law No
appeal here that negroes whose foul
deeds have brought about these riots
be properly punished according to
law'-no note Of horror ut the num-
erous attempts ut rare by black men
= upon defenseless white women oc-
curing in the very capital of the
nation-no note OF protest at he an.
parent Indifference of the police in
dealing with such frightful crimes.
Nothing of the sort Indeed it is fair
~ inferrable from that disgraccrul
document, that the Government should
not especially concern itself with the
torch that brought on the blaze
that negro beasts who offended
against thccanctity of white women
III way that sets white men nfirc
with determination to prevent it's con-
tinuanc" and IL spread of the hclilsh
work. 1t is this sort of il-adviscd.
irresponsible leadership which enters
INTO the race problem of America as
enc OF 1T most dangerous features.
Thchc will he hope when negro pas
tors. negro orators and negro citi-
Ems call mass meetings to protest
AGAINST he crimes of the negro race
hut In, A.
n"rro meetings. called to protest
nr"inst alleged Inequality of rights
between the races on railroad trains
and elsewhere will draw tremendous
gatherings. and provoke the uttcrancc
81 Deliberate, larger melting false
hood from the lips Of negro orators ;
Fh" pity and shame of i'll
Washington's experience during
the past three days simply goes to
demonstrate the soundness of the ,
proposition that the race problem is !
OF distinctly natnonal and not of OK /
ciusivcly sectional relation as negro
ph'lc newspapers and propagandists
are forever and falsely teaching.
The question is more serious in The
South than in the North because
the negro population is proportion
ally much larger in the South than in
VIZ 'li, anu Hcnce the negro mo
NICE IS more acute i'm the one region
than in the other. 1t is both II not
able and significant fact, however.
that race riots occur almost cxclu-
sivcly on thcothcr side of the Po-
tomac-in such large ccntcrs MS New
York Philadelphia, in populous States
like Illinois and Ohio. The conditions
IS easily susceptible of explanation.
The Southern people understand the
negro; they recognize his good points:
they have been taught through the
medium of frightful experience to
appreciate the perils of society which
Turk in the heart of the criminal clc
mcnt of the race, and from the day
that the slave was made the citizen
they resolved that us long ms it was
so that the two races had to wall,
SIDE by side under the aegis of the
same civilization, they should walk |
on different sides of the highways |
OF life. Considerable time was required
to impress this conclusion upon the
mind of the negro population, but il
was finally made the subj cct of dem |
onstration as vivid as letters of liv-
ing fire flung across the arch of the
Heavens.