Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-26
sEplrloa AMONG NleRoEs.
Leaders incited Riots In chicaScB
Seeks Alliance With the !. w. w.

Washington. Aug. .ss-That recent
race riots In Chicago and Wushkgton
was due to nationwide propagandA
conducted by radical leaders 0f tho
negro race was charged In n sensAtton>
al speech in the house by Representa-
tive Byrnes OF South Carolina.
Mr.. Byrnes quoted from writings IN
negro magazines urging the negroes
to Join the I. w. w. as the only labor
organization which draws no race or
color line" and advocating the estab-
l!sh.nent of IA bolehevIk government.
Inammatory articles along this line,
Mr.. Ryrnes declared, were clearly In
violation of the espionage act. He said
he had directed the attention OF At
torney General Palmer to articles by
w. F.. 3. Dubois, editor of the Crisis
Magazine, referring TO this country az
"a shameful land" which lunches dis
franchises It's own citizens, encourages
Ignorance, steals from US. insults US"
"Thnse radical leaders OF the negro
race are urging their followers TO res
sort to violence in order to secure
privileges they believes themselves en-l
titled to. and the recent riots indicate
that they are accepting this advice"
Mr.. Byrnes said. 1T Is unfortnnate
that some negroes have changed their
attitude. inspired, doubtless, by the de-
sire to promote the success OF the
radical leaders.
| "Thc recent race riots In Washing
| ton and Chicago and the many other
similar disturbances turnout the conn-
| trv have caused the press to speculate
as to the underlying causes Of the con-
4 10
when sanCuinary conflicts take place
in cities so widely separated and ~
tso short a time, the cause is general
and not local.
| Mr.. Brynes quoted from the article
In the Crisis, in which the Negro editor
concluded as follows:
This is the country TO which we
soldiers Of democracy return, This is
the fatherland for which we fought.
R,,t IL is our fatherland. It was right
| for us to fight The faults OF the coun-3
trv are our faults. Under similar cir-
cumstanccs we would fight again. Bnt
by the God OF heaven we are coWards
and iacknsaes II now that war Is over
,va do not marshal every ounce OF our
| hrafn and Drawn to fight sterner.
longer more unending battle against
l
| the forces Of hell in our own land
"We return. We return from fght-F
ing. we return fighting. We make way
| for democracyl We saved 1t In France,
and by the great Jehova we VIII save
| n in America or know the reason why
Mr.. Byrnes continued: II this edt-s
torial does not constitute violation Of
the epionage law. 1t would be difficult
to conceive language sufficiently nbus-
I've to constitute u violation. Believing
/. ,n,s ir,,.,. .:.-... ceIled this EDITORIAL
to the attention OF the attorney gem
eral. with the request that he have
proceedings instituted against DuboiD.
stNo greater service can be raI,ticfsHi
| 10 tho Negroes today th1 to have
them know that this governnieiir Will
not tolerate on the part Of Its leadero
action which tends to array them
| against the government under which
| they live, and under which tho NcgrOi
race has made greater progress than
fit npa under any other government on!
| earth" I: Sss |