Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-17
4s%lsjm
AN EXAMPLE FOR OTHERS.

We are seizing radicals and bol- shevists throughout the country and throwing them in jail. Radical lt- erature has been burned; radical pamphlets have been suppressed.
 In Chicago there is published un- molested newspaper that has more power for evil than all of the soviet advocates in the United States. I. is called the Chicago Defender. It is paper financed by white people. and edited by blacks, and it's mis- sion is to stir up through lies race prejudice and hatred and to inflame the mind of the negro against the white man.
 Every incident involving trouble between 1 white man and black man is rewritten by this paper and published, embellished by lies. There is not one item of news printed in this paper that isn't distorted as to facts.
 Last week this paper printed a malicious falsehood about the kill ing here of the negro, George Vicks, after vicks had killed City Detective Lynn and had shot several others. Vicks was a negro either insane or driven insane temporarily and was a menace to the lives of blacks and whites. Negroes as we'll as white people aided in killing him. Yet in this Chicago's newspapers account of the affair, vicks was portrayed as gamely defending his home and his life and property against "bulldozing southern officers" and it was proud ly proclaimed that he "got" several of them before he himself was killed.
 The account is fair sample of any news story in this paper. When it was received here Judge Elliott at the request of the mayor and city attorney issued an injunction preventing the circulation of the paper in Pine Bluff. and Jefferson county. It would be good idea if the authorities in other cities would do the same thing. It would be a better idea if the federal govern. ment, acting in the manner that it has acted in the red raids, would suppress this paper throughout the country.
 We throw man into jail and close printing office when the principles of Lenine and Trotzky are their particular hobbies. It is the proper thing to do. It is justified because the aim of the man and the printing office is to attack the fun damentals of our government and to override our laws. Why, then, should we not jail negro editors and close their printing plant when the power for danger to the government to en- courage domestic strife, and their at tempts to nrcte lawlessness and interference with the officers of the law are by far greater.
 In way, the publication of Vicks story is good thing for this parti- cular section It will show the readers to what extent the publishers of this newspaper will go to in flame the negro reader. It should indicate to anyone familiar with thel facts that the Chicago Defender and truth have been strangers for some time.
 But in other sections of the coun-f I try negroes will read the Vicks ar ticle and believe it. They will be- lieve that Vicks died in defense of his home, fighting officers of the law and white people who were -op- ! pressing him.
 No one objects to an expression of opinion, however radical; the treatment of the negroes in the South, and especially in this section of the country, can stand up under criticism from anyone. But when the facts are distorted and lies are printed as actual facts, it's time to call a halt.
 rur VAnuJyc axa Nsnvur<,