Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-06-03

western city. 1t did not exist prior
later. and is composed today largely
of Northerp and Western adven-
turers. oil gamblers and solid, SUBJ
stantial business men who ieaven
every community.
This is not the first race riot within
recent years to occur outside of the
Mason-Dixon line. In East st. Louis,
Illinois, which is distinctly north
ern city. 125 persons were killed on
July Z, 1917. In Washington. Dis
trict of Columbia, seven persons were
killed and scores injured in the riots
which began July 10, 1919. A few
days later, beginning July &c. in Chi
cago, which is certainly not south
500 wounded. on October 2, the same
year, in Elaine, ArlSansas--which calls
itself mid Western. 80 persons were
killed and hundreds were wounded
in the street fighting. Three days
before that in Omaha, Nebraska,
which is certainly Western. three per-
sons were killed in race riots. and
many wounded. The mayor OF the
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down in time to save his life.
Every Evening reprints these facts
so that it's readers may discern the
fundamental causes of these shock
ing catastrophes which have oc-
Cured from time to- time. Every
Evening wishes its readers to under
stand that they are not limited to
any geographical area---the above
enumeration disproves the ignorant
New Englander's contention that
"Southerners cause race riots. but
will result when the bad element in
both races mix.
The North and the West We're free
from such outrages SO long as Negroes
did not colonize in those sections.
Then II was presumed that all Ne
groes were like the courteous ones
who occasionally graduate from Har-
vard-and Northerners believed that
Southerners were prosecuting the
Negro.
But the moment that the Negro
colonization movement started north
ward and westward-the moment that
the bad black man who is beast"
moved among them, the Northerners
and Westerners began to experience
their own race riots. Generally the
trouble started between the poor
white trash and the Negroes. II was
the Bohunks of Chicago who started
the riot there: the Slavs and Greeks
in East St, Louis: the lawiess whites
in Omaha.
There are two solutions to this
problem--or rather there are two diff
ferent problems to be solved: One is
how to treat the well disposed Negro;
the other, how to treat the man who by
his actions brands himself as a beast.
The FIRST problem is solved by educa-
tior: then the Negro takes care of
himself. and becomes a valuable asset
to his community. The other prob
lem is solved by strict enforcement of
the law at all times and under all cir
stances. 1t must be understood
that there are some Negroes-tle
scendants of certain African jungle
tribes-who cannot be educated ac-
cording 10 Western standards. Their
brains are different from those of the
white men1and they think differently
with those Sbrains. This latter class
is seldom seen except in the far South,
and in those sections of the North and
West which have been colonized by
them. But it is this class which
causes so much trouble by attacks on
helpless white women.
Education for the one class. strict
law enforcement which protects the
second class from lawless whites. and
which likewise protects the commu-
nifty from their beastly desires, is the
only adequate solution TO Americas
race problem. 1t cannot be settled by
high-fiown talk in the New England
parlors of the descendants of the
first African slave traders.
IT~TITE Enp WHITE