The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-11-30

erance and greed have caused most of
the sufferings inflicted by human be-
3ngs upon each other" declared Will
nam dudley Foulke of Richmond, in
an ADDRESS at the Jewish temple here
tooay. Inc wars, massacres and per-
secutlons which have desolated h1-
manity. he said, have had their origin
mainly in these two springs of action.
intolerance is the more shameful of
the two. he said.
The desire of gain" he continued,
is merely the perversion of the i'm
pulse necessary to the getting of those
things which underlie all civilization.
Intolerance is not necessary at all
1t appears in many things; most prom
1nently In regard to ID Race and ma
tionalfty; (2) Politics; CD Religion 4
Race and national prejudices were
among the earliest and are still among
the most persistent forms of intol-
erance. There are very few races,
that do not consider themselves SUI
perior TO all others. We do not under
stand how they can all think SO though
we see it very clearly in regard 10
ourselves. The Greek considered ev-
cry alien a barbarian; that was the
name for all who were not Greek.
The Roman insisted-that to be Ro-
man was greater than to be king.
The Jews we're the only elect of Je-
hovah. The Chinese called all others
foreign devils" The Spaniard con-
siders the foreigner necessarily in
ferior. He is one of the "nosotros," the
true salt of the earth. The German
had an infinite contempt for English
men and Americans, as well as for
Frenchmen and the Latin races gen-
orally; all were degenerate. And we
Americans are as bad as any in our
arrogance. We are too conscious OF
our infinite superiority to the rest OF
mankind in all things which go to
make the perfect man. Say not that
this confession is un-patriotic or I'M
American. l love my country too
deeply to see it sullied by the spirit OF
the boaster. 1t is the greatest peoples
that can best afford to be modest, and
that nation is the wisest which can
recognize its own shortcomings and
not resent every criticism, however
friendly or well founded. When Glenn
enceal1 reproaches us that we left
France in the lurch, he may be right,
but right or wrong. we ought to I'M
QeTSLduu anu LOlCldIC thC AA@@RtONANt
ment of our former associate at the
selfshness that would confinc us to
cold isolation, while the great world
around us is struggling against the
forces of destruction. A great nation
ought to have a great heart for all
mankind.
Negro ostracized.
''But the one question upon which
ic most unanimous Is
the inherent superiority of the white
race. With us the negro is the under
dog and in order to keep him under
forever we ostracise him. We not
only shut him out from hotels and res
taurants. make him take back seats IN
places of amusement confine him eth
err by city ordinance or by public opln-
ion to certain undesirable neighbor-
hoods for residence, but our trades
unions exclude him from many occupa-
tons and everywhere We look on MIN
askance when he seeks to become our
competitor in business or profession
in which we are engaged. But THIS Is
not all. We excite hatred against him
in our movies such as THE Birth OF
Nation" We organize against him
secret society devoted to white SUI
premacy" striving not only to keep him
from all public office but to make him
cringe and bow to every whlm OF the
ignoble tyranny of our superior race.
The Ku Klux Khan, the heir to the
barbarous organization OF re-construc-
lion days, adopting the same name, the
same secret devices, the pointed mask
and white gown symbollzlng white su-
premacy, strives as of old to keep MIN
under. by the boycott, by political com
binations and in some places by whip
ping, by torture and by murder-the
same lawless acts which dishonoreo
our country shortly after the Civil war
If the, purpose OF the Khan is not tne
same. why assume the old name, the
old regalia, the old mummery?
Same Intolerance.
at is the old intolerance which i:
the ideal and the inspiration of the
new. Thousands of acts of violence
were then committed by gangs of nigh
riders; homes and schools were burn
ed. men were logged, tortured, muir
dereds by masked marauders till thu
whole race was terrorized. | could re
late the nauseating details for hours
If there was ever an excuse Tor sucl
crimes in the disturbed condition o
the south in those days what excuse i
there now, here in the north, where eS
cept for such organizations, there /
ample law and justice between blacl
and white Do the negroes threaten
any uprising? White supremacy ir
deed! Do you fear, my Ku Klux fe
low citizen, that there is danger tina
a negro will lord it over you? Ar
not your rights absolutely protecte
against invasions from his hands?
"Yet these outrages take place Il
day.. They have been particularly viz
ious in Louisiana until the governor c
the state declared that masked me
and invisible empires are not Anne
lean. | have denounced ethe ku klu
Khan as vigorously as | know how
its own stronghold. We have only b.
gun to fight this movement whic
strikes at fundamentals of orderly go
eminent. Yet in Texas the adjoinin
state. the candidate of the Ku Klu
Khan and a former member, Earle ]
Mayfield, was elected to the senate {
the United States!
No CompuIslon Needed.
Talk about the danger of soci
equality! Men seek in social int
course those who are most congenia
White men are sure in the long III
to choose whites as their associate
and negroes negroes. There is no cor