The Colorado statesman., 1919-10-04
Extracts From Speeches, Edi-
torials, Magazines ofLoyal Amer
leans Black and White Against
Mob Rule and Lynchings

|HE following extracts from va
rious sources comply with our re-
l. quests from time to time to the
better element of the white race who
think the time has come to demon
strate the fraternity of human beings
We will present them to our readers
as often as we hear or read about
them, with the hope that it will en-
courage us to keep up the battle for
RIGHT AND JUSTICE.
(Rocky Mountain News, Denver,
Colo.:
If we are to be of world fedora
tion to make another such u war i'm
possible, if we are to become part
of the universal brotherhood, we had
better begin at once to set our house
in order.
Colored- troops We're sent from this
countrN-to fight in. France, We have
plenty of dispassiOnate testimony that
they did well. War is a great leveler
AS the soldiers fought so were they
judged and appreciated. But the war
is over and in everyday affairs the
old conditions remain. 1t is difficult
for the mass of the returned men to
appreciate the change; but they must
sooner or later and for them the
At the same time the white popula-
ton should bear in mind the services
rendered by colored troops in war.
The war should not have added to
race aptipathies; it ought to have
modified them.
The trouble is both racial and eco
nomic. The necessities of war brought
about novel economic conditions. Mi
grations from the South followed on
the heels of war. Colored labor was
employed where it was refused EN-
ployment before the war. Employer
and employed must join to restore the
equilibrium as soon as possible.
Denver Express, article by Jerome
Strauss:
Short cuts to justice lead down, not
up. Their goal is Utopia, their desti-
nation the pit.
There is growing tendency in
America to substitute human passions
for courts of law. Mob rule has swept
our cities = Washington, Chicago.
Knoxville, Pueblo and many others.
1t flared to ITS zenith in Omaha yes
terday.
Bestiality manifested in these cities
cannot be laid to racial prejudices
alone. In Pueblo the victims were
Mexicans. In other cities it was quite
apparent that chivalric regard for pro-
lection of white women had little to
do with the case. When chivalry
manifests itself through acts of yio-
lence and mutilatiOn of the dead, that
would disgrace a tribe of African can
nibaIs, it is time for it to perish.
Our fault has not been intolerance,
but tolerance We have let evil flour
ish instead of combating it, flatter-
ing ourselves meanwhile that we were
broadminded.
Now, if violence cannot be curbed
by peaceful means, it must be met
with force. When mob places
moose around mayors neck because
he will not yield up Negro to the
rope and the stake, it should be met
by n more powerful mob. If there are
those ready to shed blood for vio-
lence there must be an infinitely
greater number ready to shed blood
for law, order and justice.
This last will not be necessary II
the people act in time. Public senti-
ment in this country-if it would only
go out and show itself-is sound. 1t
still stands for the old moralities as
against the new anarchies.
But only by concerted patriotic en-
deavor can right and justice be main
tained on the throne now besieged by
bloodlust, selfishness and all the base,
human passions that civilization was
thought to have restrained.
From the New Republic; article by
Herbert j. Seligman:
In view of the clamor about Wash
ington's "crime wave" and its use to
foment hatred against Negroes. the
statistics of the Washington police de-
partment are pertinent. Those sta
tistics show that there were four as