The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1920-01-31
receiving the support of every Dem
ocratic leader in the city.
HOUSTON POST CRITIClZES
Federal Military Officer for Not De
forring to Texas Jim Crow Laws
and Unchristian Racial
Sentiments


terings and evidences cropping out
in the South which clearly demon
Strate that section has made no ma
terial progress from the opinion
and sentiment which actuated the
brave fellow who dared to fire on
| TT. Sumpter. The only difference
disCernable is that the south has not
had the courage TO take such steps
as could be interpreted in no other
way than as an attempt to over
throw the authority of the govern
mcnl. Their courage does prompt
camouflage through Jim Grow laws,
lyhchings, burning at stakes and de-
mails of justice TO Negroes, which
are nothing more and nothing less
than veiled attacks on the govern
! Iucnt. rhe Negro race holds no
brief for the "RedS" who have been
transported to Soviet Russia, yet on
account of the continued mistreat-
ment expressing him, he is forced
/ to believe there are men of the
/ South who are equally as inimical
and dangerous to this government
as the "Reds" were. The Reds un-
doubtedly talked unwisely and loo
much: but at least the American
"Reds" did not have the blood Of
innocent and defenseless human
beings on their hands. Thou shalt
not kill', so speaks Gods law. The
fact is the South has never beer
since AppomatoX sufficiently con-
templative of two facts: One that
personal liberty is one of the fun
damental principles without which
world Democracy and American
Democracy can not exist; and sec
ond, that the United States Con-
Slitution is supreme in all respects
as to its authority, especially as to
certain amendments pertaining to
Negro citizenship.
The Houston Post affords recent
evidence of the widely spread
Southern ''huism," and unreaS-
oning unreaSonableness. This pa
per cauStically arraigns a Federal
military officer because he sent a
white prisoner under guard of two
Negro soldiers to Leavensworih.
The Post charges the officer with
Intentionally creating situation
which would stir up racial strife.
The Post thus would have it under
stood that any Federal military of .
ticer while preparing his orders at
headquarters in an Army Post in
Texas, should permit his brain to
become so belittled as to think in
pitayune Teas, rather than maSio
don United States. The Posts
ihouhgiless and inconiderate ef-
fusion follows:
Every now and then something
occurs to show thai there are .,f-
flcerS in the army of high standing
who appear to have no conception
gro club, many of white political
Of the race problem, and who 30
laundering along creating situations
which stir up racial clashes.
The latest instance was the send
ing of white prisoner under guard
of two Negro soldiers from a south
western camp to Jefferson Bar
racks. The trio got as far as Fort
Worth, where a mob formed and d
riot was narrowly averted when il
was found a white man was in
charge Of Negroes. The Negroes
were relieved of their charge and
lie was sent on under white guard.
According to news dispatches.
the Negro guards were in no way
to blame. They were carving Out
orders from higher-up faithfully
and honestly. But inasmuch as
The segregation laws of Texas pre-
scribe separate coaches for Negroes
1t was necessary for the Nepro
guards to take their white prisoner
into the Negro coach.
To say that Southern sentiment
would not tolerate such a situation
as this, is putting il mildly, and an
army officer with intellipenc,
enough to hold a commission should
have known it.
such occurrences as these raise
The suspicion that ii is moi so much
ignorance on the part of white or-