Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-07-30
COMING HOME TO THE TRIB

One satisfaction is found by the South in the
present and race dsturbaneesif it is first
ceded that they had and also that there be
any such thing as satisfaction in tragic events-in the
fact that they have been staged not in the South but
Washington and Chicago If their location could have
been left to referendum of the South, it is doubtful
whether the result would have been different than
Providence or Fate chose; the race would have been
close but very probably Washington would have
by nose over Chicago. Both places have been known
more or less as Paradses for the coored race the
colored race has discovered them bOth to its
when revealed in their true character as regards the
negro to be little short Of hell itself.
These outbreaks, with their bloodshed and their
embtering of the races, national tragedies and
thoughtful people everywhere of both will de-
plore them and pray for cessation of them. But no
man say where the conflagration which has begun
will end. 1t is confined in its furious form
to the North, but who say what minute the match
may be touched to the finder that lies waiting in many
Southern city where the racial friction has been in
creasng and growing of late?
The black man. through his own ignorance is large
ly the victim of condition of his making in these
where else, here among the people who know him in
mately who know his virtues and either tolerate
know how to deal with his vices. But listening to the
song of dsturbers and agtators who thereby
profited off him, the black man has gone from the
South by hundreds of thousands in the last few
to the North-a land painted land of big pay, OPP
portunty and EQUALITY
The latter has been the big incentive But the black
who left his Southern home is finding today that
he has been travelling down rainbow trail of decep-
ton he is finding that he has been sowing the wind
and reaping the whrlwind; he is finding that CON
tact is actually teaching the white man of the North
the faacy of the Norths theory of racial equality
that there is such thing in nature and the will of
man cannot overthrow the will and works of nature.
1t is tragic phase of these disturbances that the
negro race whole must suffer for the crimes of
comparatively few of it's number Millions of negroes
are Industrious and law abiding and deserving of every
good thing that goes with good citizenship But there
is crime, the awful in the category which is
peculiarly negro crime, and this lies at the bottom
Of almost all of the serious trouble of the negro
series Of such crimes produced the awful riots in
Atlanta few years ago. and a half dozen attacks
white women by negro stirred the soldiers sailors
and marines of national capital to frenzy of
cesses against the whole black few days ago 1t
is the bottom of mob violence in large majority of
throughout the South. When the negro is able
to suppress this type of crime, his fear of reatment
at the hands of the other may safely pass but
long that negro trait remains there will be trouble
1t is the instinct of the Caucasian keep his pure
asserting itself, instinct which is subject to no
man-made law.
1t is said the negroes again are leaving the South
in great numbers; that they say they going awy
from abuses to section of the country where tney
get their rights But after the experiences of THEN
emgrant fellows in Chicago and Washington where can
they turn after all?
1t all comes back to what the negro should have
known all along, instead Of listening thu Lorelei song
from the Northand, that the black mHns place is ii
the South and always will be in the South, where he
is known by the white man and 1here he knows the
white man. And what are the black mans rights? II
the abstract, his rights lib# the white mans conss
of his duties To live hapny and prosper to perpetuat
his race, and tc respect the rights of his fellow man