The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1919-08-21

vengeance upon the offender of virtue.
The Northern mob does not stop there,
but directs its lawless attacks on the
race. Both mobs are lawless, and the
press of the South have condemned
them as SUCH
Somewhat less sweeping in its claims
as regards the South, but not less con-
WINGED in principle, the Norfolk (Va.)
Dispatch says:
"There have been times when race
riots of varying sizes have taken place
in a few Southern communities, but
they have all been due to flashing out
breaks against an individual or several
individuals, and occasionally these out
breaks have spread before they could
be checked But conditions have never
been of such a character as to lead any
considerable part of the population to
indulge in what the calm and uncolored
Associated Press describes as IAN orgy
of hatred.
The Knoxville (Tenn.) Journal and
Tribune, after calling the situation in
Chicago can utter disgrace to that city
and shame to the nation" marvels
that "there are those with white faces
and black hearts who would prosecute
a Negro because he is Negro, and who
give the law-abiding Negro no consider
alton, Jumping all together as whole
as having no rights the white criminal
need give any respect" and the Char
notte IN. CO. Observer says that:
"In race troubles in the South always
some sympathy is developed for the
Negroes and there is an element that
is ever inclined to give them protec-
ton. In Washington not a hand APP
pears to have been raised in their be-
half and for the whole of one night
they appeared on the streets at their
own peril When the Negro gets into
trouble in the North he is in trouble
bad. The whole population turns on
him and the disposition is to clean him
up If it should develop that during
the troubles in Washington any man
came to the rescue of the Negro we are
going TO venture that 1t was a white
man from the South
Very little in the way of rancorous
or abusive comment appears in the
Southern press concerning the outbreaks
at Washington and Chicago, and il the
Nashville Banner has something to say
about Northern Hypocrisy, the
charges are tempered by a willingness
to understand and forgive. Says The
Banner:
1.-THE Northern people have main
tanned a hypocritical attitude in re-
spect to Negroes, and outbreaks like
that in Chicago, now that Negro popu-
lations are becoming uneomfortably
large there, tear off the mask. The
hyprocisy in a great many instances
was unconscious. A large number of
Northerners had hereditary prejudice
on the subject arising out of the old
crusade against slavery and the Civil
War. They didn I recognize the inevi-
table race antagonism wherever a dark
race obtrudes on the white man, and
the difficulties under which the South
labored in keeping that antagonism
within bounds
However, the VicksDurg Miss Her
aid takes a shot at chicago in an edi-
torial entitled, "Chickens Coming
Home TO Roos," and asserts that
"To all with understanding the
bloody Chicago race clash was forecast
by the following story in the Chicago
News two days before the riot:
d" Not only is Chicago a receiving
station and port of refuge for colored
people who are anxious to be free from
the jurisdiction of lynch law, but there
has been built here publicity or prop
uganda machine that directs its appeals
or carries on an agitation that every
week reaches hundreds of thousands OF
people of the eolored race in the South
ern States. The State street blocks
south of Thirty-frst street are "news-
paper row." with The Defender, The
Search-light, The Guide, The Advocate,
The Whip, as weekly publications, and
there are also illustrated monthly maya
zines such as The Half Century and
The Favorite.'
"The propaganda Of tifis "receiv'
ing station and port of refuge the in
evitable precursor of race war, cut both
ways. Its poison indeed is more deadly
upon such Negro centers as Chicago and
Washington than with the Negro masses
of the South
Far from contenting itself with
merely tracing the Northern race riots
IN what n baliavpc m no tbair canaaq