Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-31
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CHICAGO AND THE NEGROES

<Ain GASSAASAt AONlCW VI SOlultlOAo leading up to the race riots in Chi cago, and lessons to be learned there- from are contained in an editorial in yesterdays issue of c. P. J. Mooney's Memphis Commercial Appeal, which is, commended to the careful consid- eration of everybody. Here's MT. Mooney's editorial:
 "The clash of whites and negroes in Chicago, coming hard on the heels of similar disturbance in Washing ton, should be warning to the ne- groes of the South that the supposed benevolent treatment of their race in the northern states is largely a myth. The scarcity of labor in the North during the war caused the big employers of labor there to turn their attention to the negro labor of the South. They imported number of negroes from the southern states, who were paid big salaries. The ne- groes were not so informed at the time, but it has developed that their employment was merely temporary. When the white soldiers began to re- turn, the negroes were let out. With the usual African improvidence a great many of these Southern blacks spent practically all of the money they made on city luxuries, so that when their employment was taken away from them they were penniless,
 Facing privations and want, q number of these negroes turned criminals in order to support them selves. There was an outbreak o1 robberies and other crimes by these imported colored men, and the result was that resentment of the white people was aroused. The supposed friends of the black man became their worst enemies and the war o1 races was the inevitable result. Ii has been pursued with a relentless. ness that could not be possible in the South.
 As bad for law and order as lynch. ings may be, they can in no way compare with the racial outbreak. that occur with a persistent ire quency in northern cities that house considerable negro population Mobs in the South vent their revenge only upon the negro who has beer guilty of some foul crime. The in nocent seldom if ever suffer. OI course, any mob law is bad but it k infinitely worse when this develops into a clash of races where the inno cent suffer with the guilty. Sucl racial disorders as have occurred dur ing the last few weeks in Washing ton and Chicago are possible in tn, Southern states, but they are hardly probable. i
 It is patent fact that the South ern white man by long experienc, has come to understand the negro He knows his good qualities and hi. failings. He is sympathetic with ths deficiencies of the race, and as long as the negro is orderly and we'll be. haved he will have the friendship o1 the whites. Assistance will never be refused the negro who obeys the laws and customs of the Southland The northerner does not understand the negro. Theoretically he is the friend of the black man, but he be. comes bitter and uncompromisine enemy of the whole colored race ir the first clash of feeling and senti- ment. The examples of this have been so numerous that it would be idle to question the fact.
 This race war in Chicago should be- matter of serious moment to newspapers, such as the Chicago Tribune, who have been consistent hsfers Of the South, and whose South