The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1919-09-04
SENSATION IN HOUSE
WHEN BYRNES SPOKE
Charges by S. G. Representative OF
Organization by Negroes Creates
Big Stir.

Washington, Aug. 27-The speech
! by Representative James F. Byrnes
of Aiken, charging that negroes are
being organized all over this country
for the purpose of starting race riots
created CONSERVATION among the Re-
publicans in the house. During Mr.
Byrnes speech the Republicans, who
count much upon the negro vote, in
next years elections, were manifest
ly disturbed. When Mr.. Byrnes tried
to get an extension of time to contin-
lie his remarks, Mapes, Republican
from Michigan, objected. 1t was only
through the efforts Of Johnson of
Kentucky, a Democratic member,
that Mr.. Byrnes was allowed time to
continue.
The disclosures by the South Caro-
linian that the race riots in Wash
ington and Chicago were predicted in
the July number of "The Messen-
ger', a negro monthly, produced a
profound sensation. Using editorials
and other articles from negro maya
zines, Mr.. Byrnes showed that alli-
ohScS Will lhS L. w. w. dHo 'hC oO
cialist party by the negroes were
strongly urged. During his speech,
Representative Byrnes declared that
he would ask the department Of JUS
tice to prosecute under the espionage
act, DR.. w. E. Burghardt Dubois,
president of Atlanta University, be-
cause Of certain utterances in 1.-The
Crisis" Of which Dubois is editor.
InflammatOry Editorial
Probably the most daring and in
flammatory of all the editorials read
by Mr.. Byrnes was this one from the
July number Of 1.-THE Challenge"
'"The negro who believes himself
free is liar and jackass. .. .
From this day with the fires of re-
sentiment burning in every corner Of
our tortured souls, We swear Holy
Allegiance to High Heaven that we
will be free. We renounce with scorn
the old law of turning the left cheek,
once the right be smitton, of love
thy enemy as thyself.' Love every
white devil that lies on innocents and
does not even pause at stabbing an
unborn black baby In its mothers
breast! Never! Never! Never! Love
for love! Hate for hate! Respect for
respect! Smite for smite!
The following extract from the
July number of "The Messenger" was
read by the South Carolina member.
After calling on the negroes to insist
on having men of their race made
police captains in all the larger cities,
the article said:
Cali such big negro communities
are magazines Of race prejudice.
ready to explode at any moment up
on putting the flame to the fuse:
riots are imminent-real race. riots
in all such large cities. as New
York, Philadelphia, Boston, Bal
timore, Washington. Chicago, Pitts
burgh and st. LOUIS
Commenting on this Mr.. Byrnes
said:
"Since the publication Of this arti-
Gle most unfortunate race riots have
occurred in Washington and Chicago.
In determining who was the aggres-
sor the above statements are enlight-
ening. They show that the negro
leaders had deliberately planned a
campaign of violence"
One of the editorials declared that
the Germans treated the negroes in
the American army in Europe far
better than American whites. ard that
families across the Rhine took the
negro soldiers into their homes on a
basis of complete equality. The writ
er deduced that this was because
1.-The American whites had no chance
to contaminate the German people
with race prejudice propaganda"
Causes of Riots.
At the outset of his address the
South Carolina congressman called
attention to the recent race riots in
Washington and Chicago.
"These riots and the many other
DISTURBANCES throughout the country"
he said, "have caused the press to
speculate as to the underlying causes
of the conflict between races. 1t is
manifest that when sanguinaIy con-
flicts take place in cities so widely
and in so short time the
cause is general and not local.
He then quoted as follows from IN
editorial in "The Crisis" entitled
Returning Soldiers"
1--WE sing: This country of ours
despite all its better souls have done
and dreamed. is yet shameful land.
1t lyme les, it encourages ignorance;