New Britain herald., 1919-12-05


 justice is overridden by the desire for revenge upon the transgTessor, do
 what we may to check it. This is an instinct nearly as old the human race and it's standards. All of the laws in the world will not alter t. There are many white men lynchel for the same crime as the negro, under the same circum stances. al- though this is ignored by those arsn- Ing the race question. There arc many. many more negroes in the South than in this section; conse- quently, there is a greater number oi degenerates. another human falhhS' do what we will Therefore. there are more lynchings. This IS not meant as an argument for the lEhch law.'' We decry il. ~,en though We admit that in certain cases Whl1h for personal revenge would overcome ol1l. judgment. We might wish that revenge upon any man who trlh~i 1 with Int, sacredness of our heart, be would make no difference. The black man is ruled by the same in stinct. is he not?
 There is a feeling between races which also exists whether we woul change it or not. The man does not live who can place the blame con He is preiudiced at once. Wherever the two races come into contact in large numbers there is liable to be trouble started by one side or the other, it ma tiers not which. This has been largely confined to the South, where there are many negroes, until other similar disorders are now taking place in every section of the country and becoming alarmingly more fre- quent. The statement that the Southerner understands the colored man and that the Northerner la cks in this understand is an old ,are1,- ment, the many fallacies in which become more apparent. Race riots and lNnchings often take place when the two races come into contact Witness. for example. Chicago, Oma- ha and other Northern and Western States. New England has kept her skirts clean. for the few negroes who settle in New England are the better educated, we'll behaved, good citizen type.
 Our people have made mess Of the negro problem. A governme ent has undertaken to give him the rights of a citizen, yet these rights are burlesQue in their applica ton. We have undertaken to educate him and when he tries to establish him. cation, he is blocked and hampernd in every move. Social equality is the true test of the democracy of which we have made the colored man part. Yet the negro, as we'll as his brother of the white skin, knows this is i'm possible and can never be.
 A group of level-headed cleanr minded, strai ght- thinking colored men is now working on the solution of the problem. Recently they went 10
 Washington and there started lobl,v toward the esta blishment of a suD-
 committee of the Foreign Relations Committee to be known as the , Freedmen's Committee. It is the hope of those working for this to , ultimately set apart a territory in the south western part of the United be conducted as a separate govern ment under the protection of the United States. It has been stated thlt ninety per cent. of the colored popu- lation of the United States favors such a plan.
 The plan is tentative, rough, and presents it's many difficulties. 1t is only scheme but it is the first step forward toward the solution of whar is becoming one of our most serious problems.