Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1919-08-02

g<RUPULOUs RAR PE4aY EoR THE MORO
u 10 tnssFastte@ 20 ana The Baltimore sun. that
o. ultsa conservative shoot La commenting on thai
race riots at Wasktngton, rsminding Hs readers
tAat tlso white peopss &C Inc country owe 10 the
9&&roso mot coly scsuguaous fair play. but also
large tosesanoe and sympathetic understanding
Remarks tho aan: TAs let ee tho negro La q hardl
ena. Ho ~ TIA wnAee es2. Thu sportsxnanliisI
thing fee TIA Waite mara b 90 De- to recognize this
nac&." ES& u haa&sus b add that tho GREATEST
ssssay 60 tho AsarS ~ tie vsessua or arrogant
Negro SO ssa@ % negroes. se0esally ineouse osI
8rsssoe chs vsessus ana Arrogant members OF thst
EAca, thaa0 win 30 eFouhas. and Tho nssros adda
esss moRs "eecauas he 10 he saAer COG. invariably
6ste tho wusst 81 saaA e0osSnscrs an these wfsoaS
havs heao tnAfns place ta wsshsnston."
m han besn shaEgsA that the negroes have bosa
ee agxxosscss fn the RIOTS at the capital but
aoosxdins 90 DISTRICT Cenansaausoner Brownlew shese
ossarsaks weTe pxooeded by attacks GA Innocent
negroes and were. doubtless, duo partly. at least
60 unreasoning resentment and rancor entertained
by the offenders Truth is. the negro In Washing
ton has been bewildered by tho suddenness and
numbers OF tho attacks his people. Because q
few negroes proved vicious the entire has been
under the ban in consequence the average
negro. recognizing tho injustice of this attitude and
not knowing whom his own life would be demanded
has been impelled to protect himself, since tho
police have been powerless or Inadequate to givel
him tho protection no hos O right to expect Tho
negro race, as q whole, is no moro to be held e.
sponsible for tho shortcomings of vicious
members than is the white for tho conduct
of any group of Its criminal degeneraes Fair play is
jewel; If anything, tho whites just as the Balti-
moro Sun argues, should be most tolerant and
sympathetic to the negroes. rather than truculent
and uncharitabe.
It is we'll, since the Washington police has gricv-
ously failed oc It's duty that military is invoked
to keep the peace. If there Is protection for tho
white, 1t Is also for the negro the latter needs
1t quito much, If more than the former
Judging from the dispatches and a reading of tho
washington papers tho negroes are moro scared
than vicious and because OF that fact have Mt
times. committed nervous blunders that have pro-
vo1ed reprisals. That the negro bootleggers have
peen far too active in tho pursuit. OF their Illicit
trade 49, possibly, true but 1t is also as true that
many innocent negroes have been arrested and
k1ndHer spirit at the federal capital by the domi-
nant nationals If the two races dwell together
IN anfty. Now that tho military forces are in
control OF tho situation. II would be we'll for rem
resentative Spokesman OF tho negroes to suggest
q plan OF procedure to District ommissioner
;Brownlow that, II found reasonable shall mako
the dsgraceful clashes tho last week less likely
rnrepetitton. The police have been MS derect
toward the negroes as they proved toward the
parading suffragists allowing a rowdy public TO
command the situation at all times
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