Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1919-08-30


DIR. II. ID. LEWIS, Chairman.
MRS. w. II. JOHNSON, Secretary
RACE RIOTS ARE BLAMED ON
RADICAL NEGROES.
Representative Byrncs Says Leaders
Urge Violence ",To Obtain
Rights"
RED GOVERNMENT SOUGHT
Extracts From Certain Papers Are
Read on Floor Of House to Prove
Charges.
Washington, Avg. 25.-Recent race
riots throughout the country were in
cited by radical Negro leaders who
are striving to force members Of
their race into the ranks of the rcvo
mti0nary elements Of the country
Representative James T.. Byrnos Is.
c. asserted on the floor of the House
today.
MIR. Byrnes charged an extensive
campaign is being carried on by radi
cal leaders urging the Negroes to
join the [. w. w. as the only organ
cation in which they may obtain radi
cal equality. Many appeals of Negro
radicals for violence as the way Of
obtaining what they call their rights
particularly on the part of the return
ing Negro soldiers were read to the
House by Mr.. ByrncS Evidence of
a. inc
the Department of Justice he said.
Ono aim of the radicals, Mr.. Byrn-
cs said, is to establish what would
rraCt
among the Negroes of the South.
These radical leaders Of the Ne
gro race. he said arc urging thcir fol
lowers to resort to violence in order
TO secure privileges they believe them
selves entitled to and the recent race
riots Indicate they arc accepting this
bad advice. 1t is manifest that when
sanguinary conflicts take place in
cities so widely separated as Wash.
ington and Chicago in such u short
time the cause is general not local
QUOTES FROM NEGRO PAPER.
IN fair illustration Of tho type of
radical Negro leadership is w. e. B.
Dubois editor Of the Crisis magazine
Heretofore he has rendered great
service to his people by intelligent
leadership"
Mr.. Byrne thon referred to an ed1
torial In the Crisis urging tho Nc
groes to rise up and save America
lr
why"
The editorial with the title Return
Ing Soldiers" follows in part:
we sing: This country of ours,
despite all its better souls have done
and dreamed, is yet hameful land.
1T lynches. 1t DISTINGUISHES Its own
citizens. 1t encourages ignorance. IT
steals from US. 1t insults u.s."
TO support each one of these
statements, the Representative said,
Dubois prints q short article, conclud
ing with tho following:
This is the country to which we
soldiers of democracy return. This is
tho fatherland for which we fought.
But it is our fatherland. 1t was right
for lis to fight The faults Of the coun
try are our faults. Under similar cir
cumstances we would fight again.
But by the God Of Heaven we are
towards and jackasses, if now that
war is over we do not marshal every
ounce of our brain and Drawn to fight
n sterner, longer, more unbending
battle against the forces of hell in
our own land.
1--WE make way for democracy. We
saved it in France and by the Great
Jehovah we will save it in America,
or know the reason why.
GIVES EVIDENCE TO PALMER,
''If this editorial" Mr. Byrnes said
which refers to this as shameful
land. charges the Government with
lynching, DISTINGUISHING it's citizens,
encouraging ignorance and stealing
from its citizens, does not constitute
a violation Of the espionage law it
would be difficult to conceive langu-
age sufficiently abusive, to constitute
a violation. Believing this is true I
have called this to the attention Of
the Acknowledgement with the request
that he have proceedings instituted
against Dubois"
Mr.. Byrnes referred to statements
OF William B. Colson q contributing
editor Of the Messenger, another Ne
gro magazine. Colson, who Mr.. Byrne
said, claimed to be an officer in the
seth Infantry, wrote the following
in tho July issue OF the Messenger
under the heading. propaganda and
the American Negro Soldier"
"a feeble and indefinite propagan-
ia did spring up aonmg the Negro
in France. In that democrat
ic cline they found themelves. They
felt better within themselves because
thy were fighting for France and
for their race rather than for flag
which had no meaning.
Colson SAYS again mo intelligent