The Colorado statesman., 1921-06-11
CHEYENNE, WYO.
NEWS

THE wanton destruction of prop
erty in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Tues
day and Wednesday of last week
was caused by an inefficient police de-
partment working In favor of vice ana
crime. For many years Tulsa has
been wide open town where the thug
and leech are protected. Tulsa is the
blackest page in the nations history,
and respectable citizens of every race
blush with shame when her name Is
mentioned. The colored men We're un-
organized but fought bravely, man 10
man and gun to gun, they gave good
account of themselves. The white
hoodlums were organized, and While
their murflerous brothers were fight
ing I'm the business district they burned
the homes of peaceful colOred citizens.
Thus far in every race riot the col
ored man has not invaded respectable
white neighborhoOds and put the torch
to II.
In n colored church in Charles street,
Boston, Dec. Is, 1888, prominent
Catholic editor and Irish patriot pre-
faced the reading of poem with a
short speech in which he said; THE
colored men have their future in their
own hands; but they have n harder
task before them than they had IN
1860. 1t Is easier to break political
bonds than the bonds of ignorance and
prejudice. The next twenty-five years
can bring many reforms, and by proper
training our colored fellow citizens
may easily be their own protectors.
They must, above all things, establish
brotherhood of race. Make it so
strong that its members will be proud
g If,-fn
leans, and desirous of devoting their
energy to the advancement of their
people,
Two years later, when the news of
the butchery of eight black men at
Barnwell, s. c., was received, follow
ing three or four other similar CHASTITY
stories, he wrote:
'The black race in the South must
face the inevitable, soon or late, and
the inevitable is-Defend Yourself. If
they shrink from this they will be
trampled on with yearly increasing cru
city until they have sunk back from
the great height of American freedom
to which the war-wave carried them.
On this continent there is going to he
no more slavery That is settled for
ever. Not even voluntary slavery will
be tolerated. Therefore, unless the
Southern blacks learn to defend their
homes, women, and lives, by law first,
and by manly force in extremity, they
will be eXterminated like the Tasman-
ian and Australian blacks. No other
race has ever obtained fair play from
the Anglo Saxon without fighting for
it, or being ready to fight. The South
ern blacks should make no mistake
about the issue of the struggle they
are in. They are fighting for the eX-
istence of their race; and they cannot
fight the Anglo-SaXon by lying down
under his feet"
For such remarks as the above he
was accused of melting the Negroes by
incendiary language, one Catholic pa
per telling him, 1T is neither Catholic
nor American to rouse the Negroes of
the South to open and futile rebellion"
He replied:
True, and the Pilot has not done so.
We have appealed only to the great
Catholic and American principle of re-
sisting wrong and outrage, of protect
ing life and home and the honor of
by all lawful means, even the
when nothing else remains
to be tried. We shall preach this al
ways, for black and white, North and
South, please God"