The Omaha guide., 1933-07-29

from MS mind, which quickly revertS
to the contemplation of the glories Of
free institutions. Even the Negro, the
brunt- bearer of it all, is momentarily
aroused to a pitch Of verbal fury, and
forthwith reverts to his accustomed
carefree mood.
1t is human nature to justify ones
self by shaping ones emotions to his
dealings. Do not the good white
Christians of Georgia seek easement
Of conscience by placing the Negro
urder the ban Of ~outlawry in that
they belong to an inferior social and
moral order? There is to be found
somewhere in the Hebrew Scriptures
the blessed assurance that the Lords
anointed shall be given the heather
for their possession who shall be ruled
with a rod of iron and broken to
pieces like a potter's vessel. He that
stitch in the Heaven shall laugh. The
justification outdoes the preparation
ir compromising outrages against hu-
man nature. Why reason with the
wolf that he has made the eve bleat
for the lamb, if sheep were made for
wolves to devour? Must we forever
lay our civilization and our Christian
ity aside while race prejudice RACES
in Georgia? Alasl while statesman
ship and religion are dumb, we must
wait upon Echo for an answer.
But Germany has no such pretext
as Georgia. The Jew and the German
both belong to the white race. Racial
differences are of low visibility.
There is no wide-apart margin in the
levels Of culture. The two peoples
have been living together for a thou
sand years. The only difference is one
Of spiritual cult. The Jew may change
his religion as he, in large part, is do
ing in Russia, but the Negro cannot
easily change his skin. Germany does
not ask the Jew to become German,
but to get out. Here we have the
greatest evidence that race prejudice
is mo- innate but acquired and slim
ulated for Interior ends. Hitler want
ed an issue as a rallying point for the
cons lidation of the German people.
He has an intuitive knowledge Of mob
psychology. Appeal to pride and pref
udice of race ever fails to elicit en-
thusiastic response if presented with
passionate frenzy. He is master OF
Ku Kluxer of Germany. Semitism is
a shining mark that any German car
easily be made to see and shoot at
Race prejudice is the ever handy
game of the ~demagog. Hitler can give
Tillman, Vardaman, Hefflin anG
Blease cards and spades and beat
them with the game. Both Georgia
and Germany are at the mercy of the
mob haranger.
Race prejudice causes the people tt
lose their logical calmness and bal
ance of judgment. In Georgia the Ne.
gro must be suppressed lest he lower
the level of Anglo Saxon civilization
In Germany the Jew must be sup
pressed lest he raise the level of cul
ture too high for the German to at.
tain unto. Race prejudice operates
against the Negro because he is in.
ferior, and against the Jew because
he is superior. The brutal frankness
of the Teuton is in glaring contrast tc
the hypocrisy and guile of his Anglo
Saxon cousin. The German justifies
his devilment in the name of practical
necessity, the Anglo Saxon casts his
sins on the Lord.
The climax of inconsistency has
been reached. Georgia upbraids Ger
many for manifestation of race pref
udice. Hitler has a ready made answet
for the reproach which Senator Rob-
inson the leader of the Senate, has
recently cast into his teeth for preju-
dice against the Jews. 1t will be the
same as Turkey once rejoined Wood
row Wilson for her Armenian atroc-
tiles: when you stop lynching and
burning Negroes, it will be good time
to upbraid us for ~mistreating Arm
enians."
When the Georgia pot calls the
German kettle block, surely the Gods
laugh unless they have lost their
sense of humor.-Kelly Miller.