The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-08-20
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FOR many years the chicago Tribune has bsen
=, -. b.hst - certain intervals Of writing lengthy
nd vttuperats articles directed at the south IN re-
,t,on 20 1he inadsouacy with which this section OF
~ country has handlsd race problem
The Knoxville sentinel says;
.nrin~1n~ the thing home has caused the
Chicago Tribune 70 80 in this thing NOT : go
tfonai but : national problem
.ru.~ >eura r,e from race conflict these many
years since freedom II due entirely to the fact
that the two in the south understood eacn
other. and that understanding Is based on tne
know1edge that certain things arc done or at
tempted there win be immediate and condign
punishment. The two races In the south know
that race distinction and race segregation are
right. going to be compelled ana are mere
stay.
THE Chicago Tribune. to be rather brutally
frank is sick at the stomach, because OF the
fact that it has seen staged in the north the
very thing which II has been threatening the
south with. which has been in the south.
and which will never be-"
It so happened that . member OF the editorial
stan OF The Journal in Chicago at the time an
injunction was brought against David wark Griffith
and his company TO restrain them from presenting
the Birth Of Nation At the Illinois theatre And
this member OF The Journal present At the nrss
presentation OF great picture in Chicago when
the injunction having been quashed the picture was
shown to one of the greatest audiences ever gath
cred under roof.
No small part OF the interest Of that great
moving picture drama lay in the audience An au-
dience cold. almost menacing at the opening. as
scene after flashed upon the screen Al
first, when Dixie" played. there was but
pattering Of applause here and there through the
house, and said: we southern" Presently
of interest crept subty into the atmos-
phere. When Dixie was played again the applause
was only spontaaeous, but overwhelming A
great hush fell upon the house. broken hare and
there by q womans sob a mans cheer. And al
last. when there rode out great army. thousands
of men who swept like white flame through every
countryside and village street to the rescue OF the
women and children whose White Hope they were
the hush like tile holy silence Of some vast
cathedral And then, suddenly, the great white
army rode for the sanctity Of the home mighty
shout went up from the thousands Of threats. and
the great theatre rang with such ovation per-
haps. in all its history. 1t had never known Mer
stood in their seats and cheered and the thunder OF
applause literally shook the building.
The Tribune up at the close Of lengthy
editorial. folows:
Public policy has first call; this goes for
all and creeds in the population Public
policy requires that life and liberty and the
suit OF happiness be maintained. If the races
always at swords points and individuals of
each continually being sacrificed to the violent
feeling which exists and which il is use to
1 deny, does it follow that somewhs-e there
must be rule of conduct?"
The best rule of conduct that was ever devised
or ever will devised. is that which obtains in tn
south, where two have lived in harmony TO
the simple reason that they have applied the rul
of live and let their daily intercourse and
thought Of equality enter into the problem at all