Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-08-01
What Other Editors Say
CHICAGO, WHERE THE LIGHT DOTH SHINE

Chicago, Illinois, u S. A.-self satisfied Chicago,
vrtuous Chicago, dontyouwishy oucould- be-like-me
Chicago, which gets sorry for the benighted south
that it wants bottle from the Chicago river and
distribute it to the denizens of this region that they
sprinkng themselves with the sacred lbation, may not
be altogether without hope of seeing the golden gates
of Chicago when they die-Chcago the Glorious may
now sit down and commune with herself while the
oner, the morgues, the police reserves and the militia
bury the dead wash the blood from the pavemens and
dedicate another chair in Chicago University to the
social uplft of the colored brother"
If there is one community above all others in the
land whose newspapers clergy educators and publicsts
have with ceaseess JUNCTION both pted and denounced
the south for its handling of the question it is
Chicago. Following the Atlanta riots of several
years ago. than which awessness has left backer
page the history of this state Chicago fairly seehed
The Chicago newspapers simply frothed between the
column rules of their editorial pages They all but de-
manded that the rest of the United States invade the
SOUTH take all government and social institutions out
of the hands of southern whites and keep the section
under armed guard till it could learn to treat the negro
he was being treated in Chicago 1t filled Chicago
'hghbrows" with unspeakable wrath that they were
poWerleSS TO take the south by ts ears ana wash out
its scaret sins in the purifying waters of Lake Michigan
And now behold Chicago! She is today subsiding
from an orgy of bloodshed and awnessness probably
without parallel in the history of the country For
race riot pure, and simple, nothing like it has been
staged either above or below the Mason and Dixon
line The police and other authorities were either pow
erless to handle the situation made but hafhearted
attempt to handle it At any rate it not handled
and whites and negroes fought the streets like
men, the only difference being the surroundings and
the character of weapons used The dead already
Der nearly thirty, will die of their wounds, and
the hospitals crowed with injured the number of
hundreds more.
And all because a negro youth bathing in Lake
Michigan, let the raft on which he was sitting drift
across imaginary line that separated "white water
from black" water. The negro was knocked from the
raft by white persons and drowned That started the
trouble, and if there is order in Chicago today it is
because the troops on duty have the populace awed
with bayonets.
VIII Chicago cease to heckIe the South and pity
this section because it isn't like Chicago? She will
NOT! The very first time a southern mob lynches a
negro, the Chicago anvil chorus will start The 9th
and 28th of July, 1919 will be forgotten and the Chi
cago Tribune will be wanting to lead pilgrimage into
this benighted section to show us how Chicago con-
ducts her killings For, as everybody knows Chicago
killing is bound to be a perfectly proper affair Only
favored mortals get murdered in Chicago which has
heaven conveniently fenced in as fashionable suburb
Albany Herald.