Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1919-07-31
SANE MEN AND RIOTERS

| Race rioting is asinine. An in
dividual of one color fights with an
individual of another color. Miles
| away from that fight of individuals
other men, ignorant of the cause OF
the original trouble, also fly at each
other. Their reason for fighting is
that other persons are fighting some
where else.
Innocent persons are injured. The
community is thrown into an uproar.
Fatalities result. Both sides ignore
the law. Peace officers are beaten
merely because they're peace Officers
A mob by it's natur is opposed to
peace.
Sensible citizens of any color do
not attack each other for no reason
except that men with overheated
minds or ruffianly dispositions are
attacking each other. There is just
as much sense in expanding an isolat-
ed clash between negroes and whites
into a general racial engagement as
there would be in bald headed and
red headed men shooting each other
because of a rumor that a bald head
ed man and a red headed man had
exchanged shots in another town.
Rioting is barbarism. 1t is de-
fiance of law. II the truth were
sible for disturbances such as began
Sunday in Chicago probably would
be revealed as disrespectful of law
even when not excited.
'Hoodlums negro and hoodlums
white-men with chips on their
shoulders howouldmuch rather en-
gage i'm a brawl than witness orderly
operation of the law-usually con-
stitute the backbone of any rioting.
II is but natural, perhaps, even for
men of common sense to fight when
they believe they have sound reasons
for fighting. But there is no rea-
son on earth for men fighting i'm
personally merely because God made
the skin of one white and the skin OF
the other black.
Stories differ concerning Sunday s
trouble at The Chicago bathing
beach. Whatever was the provoca-
ton to violence, the chaces are that
appeal from the aggrieved side to
the police.
Any man, negro or white, with an
ounce of sense, knows that there
exists a condition in Chicago that
needs adjustment. But he is worse
than an idiot who believes he can ad-
just it by the murderous use OF
clubs. bricks or bullets.
In the cracking of heads nobody
wins. The entire community loses.
Certain southern newspapers will
take good care to see that Chicago
gets a black eye in their territories
in consequence of few thoughtless
individuals.
Should we care? Ask the bank
ers and the business men who have
been striving to weave the CONNER
cial interests of southern states into
our own through the Mississippi
| Valley Association with the object OF
emaking Chicago the greatest city II
the world.
The negro cannot say he is denied
legal justice in Chicago. 1t is the
very fact that the negro in the north
especially in Chicago. boasts of the
| justice he receives that brings
thousands of southern negroes to
live in Chicago.
Doubtless the race suffers from
the deeds of the small minority OF
ruffians in its own midst. So does
the white race suffer in the estima-
tion of law abiding negroes through
the acts of white ruffians who go out
OF their way to vent their hatred OF
the negroes.
Respectable persons no doubt Of
ten are drawn into rioting when II
Is In progress. Their passions are
played upon by reckless talk, false
reports and fake heroics. The moi
spirit Is infectious. A man pos
sessed OF common sense when alone
often loses II In crowd-even at Q
baseball game. But the best type
/ OF man In absent in any riot.