Phoenix tribune., 1921-06-11
THE DISGRACE OF TULSA
From The Tulsa Daily WorIdl

From The Tulsa Daily World)
Pround matchess Tulsa before the bar of Christian
civilization this day. and with head bowed the mantle of shame
upon cheek and sincerely hope with deep regret her
pardoned the great offense of her
citizens committed during Tuesday night and Wednesday
ing
There worthy of the whose heart is not
ae with indignation against that which has been done Mem
bers Of superior boastf Of the fact permitted them
degenerate into mwderers vandas permitted them
their community the fouest blow
received in its history.
Tulsa boasted that she Ardmore And a negl
gb number Of have plunged the reputation of the fair city
into the depths of iny Language is incapable of painting
the which has been committed against the community
and its peaceful law-abding citizens expressing
dignity inevitably feels toward incapable controlling
their passions and their prejudices.
is true that the pride of well its prejudice
consuming fire the veins Of every nationality. On this ground
would like it at all possible to condone
the hyra of Tuesday evening and night when the
the city suddenly transformed into raging
impeed The mprudence of the Negroes armng
selves and visiting the county jail permits something to be said
for those who responded the riot impulse
satate the blood lust o racial pride
But nothing that the mind capable conceivng permits
word of defense for the
set in at daylight the next morning Hundreds of thousands
dollars worth of propertythe homes of and children
black in color to be but guilty of other offense-wen
up in smoke Semorganized bands Of white Systematically
applied the torch while others shot sight of color
The Coored section of the city wiped out, and long
hopeless destitute pu refugees fled northward from
awful unjusfied characterized
with greater cruelty In the confagaton splendid
but recently erected and of the handsome educational edces
of the school district lost To property the
applied the torch make Of their terrible purpose
The entire race war; ujustied unneces-
Because Of it Tulsa is blazoned community where
tolerance does not exist where the constitution of
States be enforced suspended at WILL where prejudice
bgoy rules and where law and order hangy
knee to outawry Ten thousand citizens have
homeless and made exes ON the face Of the earth.
viii Tulsa accept such reputation willingly? Will this
city tolerate such nusceaccep meeky the sudden ending
its dream Of pmacy and glory? then the substantial
constructive citizenship Immediately get action There
is but in which Tulsa rehablate itself either
its the eyes of the outside world That by
ing that which has been destroyed.
Vandalism has taken the homes the savings thousands
Of people Tulsa that which taken The
sins OF comparative few thus visited upon the Whole
munty But it that must be houdered willingly and
herocay This restitution not because of afeconae regard
for the Coored but because of honorable
regard for the white whose superiority
be justified by concrete acts. :.
Not else the wound of passion be healed the
inoerant hatred be soothed. In this Tulsa
stand at the crossroads the cty destiny. way
greater and glorious uture other certainly
rerogresson and decay There not there cannot any
hesitating.