The northwestern bulletin., 1922-09-16
UNHEARD CRIES

About years ago great papers filled they
ing in many friends without making enemies and
with silly stories of strange but unmpoan events There We're
whispers then Europe whispers that for many years but
the newspapers making much to hear the whispers
Had they listened they might have heard few OF us did,
plans peace terms; the invasion OF Belgium the Alliance
Italy France and Britain the collapse of Russia the terms OF
treaties They did not listen 1914 surprised them The
Treaty Versailles surprised them They still being surprised
There only whispers years Now there are NUT
terng sometimes Still the do not hear Some
things they see-oube in Russia in India in China but they
print meaningless speeches by politicians and many gure Every
day by figures they that something impossible just as
brilliant writer Bloch proved before the by
that the war was impossible Gve the Public What Wants
1t wants pleasant aery The whispers and the cries IRON
is important to know storm coming 1t is only
when storm has That the reasoning OF the Great
Press.
do pretend to be prophet but it takes no prophet to
see that raging the Far East and the Near East
ended and that all Europe be at war again. Even the
daily papers those things But the papers are still talking OF
though certainly important things yesterday than OF
tomorrow Tomoows is in the unheard muerngs and
and the muttengs and rise not from Africa ana
Asia and Europe, but from the Western World.
The white mans madness has caused these cries We drown
them with hear those from the East at es and
shake wckedness Europe but while
and strut and shake wise heads over Europe we are spreading
Japan strangely peaceab and happy country
and distributed the Japanese with soldiers and statesmen and
Now they greedy and aggressive
they driven the Russians and Germans from China and the
has been obliged to learn the science of wholesale MURDER her
pie fighting civil driving out unpopular masters Next?
to hate Asia Africa in South America force all to
fight to the death? Our children will blood this
GRAFTON has paid And it will make little difference whether the
white here and abroad holds his place by force or loses by
force he holds by force he will with his brutality and
his high words he loses by force revengefu coord nations will
make the earth their battle ground with the old sckenng
game, shouting false cries of their
Cooed tell that all this has nothing to do with them
That but they who do not hear the cries from other
lands out themselves at white injustice do they mag
inc their cries needed? his American Problem
Americans will settle it." Hmm.
preacher to tell the black what he ought to do
But lain white who knows something about his
pe tell these things that there millions of whites who
feel that something with their preene but who
hear themselves think because of the loud shouting of lies around
them that there whites who trying stop the
less madness of their but find their voices drowned the N
ing chorus OF the white and get from
most Cooed and American who has been shocked
abroad by the staring horror of Engshmen and renchmen
their first detailed knowledge of American nchng
believe the white here and Europe will
only when the brown yellow red and black papers the world
gather the smodered cries of India Haiti China and
Peru and Africa and shout them white mans chorus is
drowned and he stops his hmgng his comfortable chatter
OF legal and political argument and shvers gale of shreks
Argument makes his tongue and him with his
es But he is human echo the of his victims
tongue will STOP his heart will chill he feel the sticky
blood on his fingers Shame will strip him of this vanity.
Charles Can-A N. p