The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-07-25
White Men Have Been Dis
charged in Many Instances
and Negroes Taken In.
SEEKING SOCIAL EQUALITY
Attacks on White Women SO
Frequent in Washington
White People Take Law in
Own Hands.

Race riots in Washington which
have already taken score or more o.
lives, wounded more than 100, some
seriously, are attributed solely to one
cause by a North Carolinian, who has
spent several years IN Washington
and is familiar with conditions exist
ing in the national capital. That ia,
wholesale appointments of negroes in
government positions and an evident
effort to lift them to the pedestal of
social equality with the whites.
In substantiation of his belief. he
pointed out the fact that at least two
members of congress have negro sec
retaries-CongresSm Rodenburg
of Illinois, and Senator Lenroot-
while white men have been dis
charged right and left during the last
few months and negro appOintees
placed in the positions they formerly
occupied
The North Carolinian. whose name
cannot be divulged for obvious rea-
sons, was in Washington last week
and witnessed the series of riots
which have finally eliminated into
indiscriminate street fighting, out OF
control OF the police.
Il was particularly struck" he
said to the Daily News, "when l went
to the capitol Friday evening and
found in the place of the four white
men, who formerly operated the ele-
vators, four negroes, recent ap-
pointees. But you will understand
when you find out that the assistant
librarian of the house of representa-
tives is negro, the assistant clerk to
the committee on naval affairs is a
negro, while many other negroes
have been appointed to various places
formerly held by white men.
This condition of giving prece-
dence TO negroes in Washington, cou-
pied with the experience of many
thousands of negroes who went to
France and found themselves on the
were admitted into French homes.
who associated with French girls, has
completely beaten down their minds,
filled them with false sense of social
equality-and Washington is paying
the price.
colder people in the South know
what sort of conditions obtained in
the years Immediately following the
sought to elevate negroes; they re-
member the phantom empire that
rose up overnight to restore the white
flower of supremacy, and knowing
this, they are able to sense exactly
what the national capital is going
through now
The negro is not to blame, wholly.
We know the negro race is removed
from savagery by only approximately
200 years, whereas the white race
has a heritage of civilization dating
back centuries 1t is not reasonable
TO expect the negro mind TO have de-
veloped sufficiently To comprehend
the things about it. and when it is
apparently placed on plane OF
equality with the white race, it nat
urally concevcs the idea that it ha.
been given free license for the prac
tices of its savage Iusc.
THAT is exactly what is happening
I'm Washington. Since April attack,
on and insults to white women Of
Washington by negroes have become
so frequent that the white people
have reached the point where the,
demand that halt be called Blu
the peril seems to have gotten from
under control of the police, and tn,
devilment set in motion through
political scheme is about to wreak il
vengeance.
I'm congressional offices, in gov
ernment departments in Washington
white girls are forced to take dicta
tion from negro men. / know this t,
be a fact, for during a dozen year
residence in Washington, in dali,
contact with affairs. | know what
am talking about. The Republicans
who have been accused from the brit
of the party as being niger lovers
are not the only ones guilty of thi
tragedy. Democrats nave placed ne
groes in positions where they hav,
naturally forgotten their proper sta
tions
American soldiers and sailors, re