The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-07-24
Rioting Gees On In WASH
ingtou and Several Are
Killed.

The appointment of negroes to
f.leyal lob is the direct cause of the
ro,iug now in progress at Washing.
ton. says a well known southerner
TT he Greensboro News Says the
e9ntleman:
Il was particularly struck when |
went to the capitol Friday evening
and found in the place of the four
white men, who formerly operated
the elevators, four negroes, recent
aoDoiutees. But you will understand
better the point | am trying to make
when you find out that the assistant
librarian of the house of representa-
lives is a negro; the assistant clerk
70 the committee on naval affairs is
q negro, while manv other negroes
have been appointed to various
nIaces formerly held by white men.
This condition of giving prece-
donce to negroes in Washington,
coupled with the experience of many
thousands of negroes who went to
France and found themselves on the
same social plane as the whites,
who were admitted into French
homes, who associated with French
d;rls has completely beaten down
fheir minds, filled them with false
sense of social equality-and Wash,
ineton is paying the price.
"Older people in the south know
what sort of conditions Obtained in
the wears Immediately following the
Civil war, when carpet baggers
soueht 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
eung through now.
u he negro is not to blame. wholly.
We know the negro race is removed
from savagery by only approximate
" 200 years, whereas, the white
race has a heritage Of civilization
datipe back centuries 1t is not
reasonable to expect the negro mind
to have developed sufficiently to
comprehend the things about 1t, and
when 1t is apparently placed On a
plane of equality with the wf1ite
race, it naturally conceiveS the idea
that it has been given free license
Tor the practices of its savage lust.
That is exactly what is happen
ing in Washington, Since April at
tacks on ard insults to white women
ot Washington by negroes have be
come So frequent that the white peo-
ole have reached the point where
thew demand that d halt DE called.
But the peril seems to have gotten
from control OF the police, and the
dcv.lment set in motion through a
uOlItical scheme is about 10 Wreak
lis vengeance.
in congressional offices, in gov
ernmeDt departments In Washington
white girls are forced 10 take dl>ta-
ton from negro men. | know this
to De a fact, for during a dozen
years residence in Washington, IN
ualy contact with affairs, | know
what | am talking about. The ke-
puDlicans, VINO have been accused
from the birth of the party as being
niger lo\ ers, are not tie only enes
eullty of this tragedy. Democrats
nave placed negroes IN posillons
where they have naturally forgotten
their proper stations.
"Anerican soldiers and sailors,
returning from overseas where they
became thoroughly dlsgusted wNn
the LuIopran customs of granting
social equality to negroes, ale lnvao
ing the negro quarters Of "ashlng
ton nightly, and administering
tnrash.ngs IN the latest approved
ku Klux Klan methods.