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THE BLACK PERIL
Another blot has been cast upon the fair name of American lib
erty and democracy. Race riots, such as those which occurred in
Washington, D. C., have broken out in Chicago. The bitter strug
gle presents a detail of facts of such brutality, violence and blood
shed as to cause one to shudder at the horrors involved. It is hard
to believe that with the end of the war for democracy, in which the
American negro played so valiant and exemplary a part, such igno
minious and undemocratic circumstances as race strife should come
to life. Yet the bare facts stand before us. We are confronted by
a spectre of race hatred and antagonism that is certain to cause us
grave and vital concern.
It is one thing for a nation to prescribe in its constitution and
documents of law equal rights and franchises regardless of race,
creed and color. It is another thing for the nation to translate into
terms of fact the guarantees written into its constitution. Theo
retically American constitutional law provides for the political and
civil lights of the negro, but actually the guarantees have often
( been treated as a “mere scrap of paper.” Parallel to the rhetorical
flourishes and extravagant verbosity that characten'ze our written
documents of political and civil equality are written in negro blood
lynching-bees innumerable and deeds of discrimination and endless
persecution.
History records our tactics relative to the once paramount “yel
low peril.” Before we effectually barred Oriental cheap labor by
legal processes and statutes of law, we were constantly imperilled
by race warfare in the congested districts. Forcible suppression of
Japanese and Chinese activities was not an infrequent occurrence.
Actual murders took place. In addition to these the imposition of
a social and economic boycott had a powerful result in aggravating
| the racial strife and in bringing it to a quick climax. Are we, then,
to adopt a similar policy in regard to the “black peril”? Are these
recent race riots the incipient ripples of a great tidal wave that
shall immerse this country in blood and chaos? These questions
are not incidental; they are fundamental to our future welfare and
progress.
One thing is certain, we cannot deport the millions of negroes in
America. The white race is responsible for their presence here.
We brought them here and sold them into slavery. Then, expound
ing principles of moral and political justice, we set them free and
set out to Americanize and Christianize them. We used their vast
labor powers to build up the great industries and agricultural en
terprises of the South. Later we converted their j aw labor energy
into manufacturing power in the North; and they are a source of
tremendous wealth and production in this country. For these
things shall we reward them by uncivilized warfare upon them?
We dare not do it.
But to what alternative can we turn? How can we solve the
complex problems involved without incurring the danger of violent
conflict? The best means of settling any problem, we believe, is by
investigating the causes to which the difficulties may be charged.
The causes of the race problem are threefold—political, social and
educational. Cheap negro ldbor has displaced cheap white labor
and lowered the standard of living. This is the germ of the con
flict, which is aggravated by social antagonism, due to widely
divergent racial characteristics. Thus, both socially and economic
ally, the negroes and whites are constantly in a state of suppressed
excitement, which is heightened and intensified by sporadic mur
ders, rapes and crimes by negro degenerates—especially so when
in various instances white girls are the victims of the crime.
The most important phase of the problem is the educational
phase. Herein lies the dominant cause and cure of the race prob
lem. Illiteracy among the whites and blacks is the greatest single
factor tending to produce violence and lawlessness and open con
flict. Social and economic clashes are in part due to the widespread
j existence of a profound anti-negro prejudice, which is the result of
ignorance and miseducation. The negro problem has never been
| studied in our schools. By silence it has been ignored. This wall
of silence is the beginning of race hatred and suspicion. The race
riots are a sufficient indictment of its evil effects. On the other
hand, we have offered the negro very little opportunity for self
education and advancement. We have commercialized and indus
trialized him, but we have not educated him or offered him spirit
ual satisfaction.
Let us educate the nation to the truth of the race problem, so
that we can lay the foundations of a relationship between the races
j based on mutual sympathy and respect, rather than hatred and dis
trust. The truth is there is no “black peril,” other than the peril
of a staggering illiteracy and ignorance which we whites have fos
tered and nourished by our own indifference and vaccilation. The
truth is that by social, political and economic discrimination and
distinction we have bred in the hearts and minds of liberty-loving
negroes a deep resentment and feeling of revolt that glows bolder
and bolder as the restrictions draw tighter and tighter. The truth
is that we have based our judgment of the negro race on the fact
that a large portion of negroes constitute the criminal element in
this country, more than any other one race of people. But we must
not forget, and I must emphasize this fact again, that if the
negroes do largely contribute to crime and lawlessness they are not
only to blame, but we ourselves—w'e who have done little to lift the
! economic and social and educational restrictions which are the
bases of these criminal tendencies.
It is plain that we must adopt a policy of justice toward the
: negro if we wish to avert future race wars. We must put an end to
1 lynching. We must change our industrial system so that one race,
! shall not by virtue of cheap labor and servile service, subsist and
produce at the expense of another race. We must educate both black
and white illiterates, for there is force and violence most where
there is education and reason least. We must give the negrr full
political justice in the South, where it is denied him. Our school
systems must include in their curricula scientific and historical
courses dealing with the negro race and the race problems. Thus
only by amenity, amelioration and education, may we hope to ar
rive at a proper solution of this distressing and ^complex problem.
In conclusion, we must raise our voices in protest against the
real sponsors of anti-negro agitation and bloodshed — the prof
iteers. These inhuman vultures, who live on the miseries of the
human race, exploit the cheap, servile, ready-supply labor of the
negro to the limit of exploitation. They and not the negroes dis
; place white labor. They and not the negroes lower the standard
wage and the standard of living. They and not the negroes are the
cause of rapes and murders committed by negro degenerates.
These white-skinned profiteers have hearts blacker than the dark
est negro color, and if we would have peace between the races we
must eliminate this parasite, this exploiter, who is the root of the
evil; who, for greed and profits, would set the whole world afire,
i EUGENE M. KONECKY.
BUILT ON HISTORIC GROUND
New York City's Big Structures Stand
on Land That Is of Sacred
Memory.
The land on which the Eqnlfable
building stands, and the territory
around and about It, is of sucred mem
ory so far as early American history
Is concerned. Just across the way on
Broadway was Burns' coffee house,
where the Revolution really started.
Here was erected at a later date the
City hotel, the scene of many memor
able functions during the early days
of the republic.
On the northeast corner of Nassau
and Cedar streets is a bronze tablet
which rends as follows:
Here Stood
The Middle Dutch Church
Dedicated A. D. 1729
Made a British Military Prison in 1778
Restored 179*>
Occupied as the r S. Post OfBca
1*45-1878
Taken down 1882
At which time the post office moved
to the present federal building In City
Hail park.
On the site of the present suhtreas
ury, fit I’lne, Nassau nnd Wall streets,
s new city Imll was erected in 1099. In
front of tile building was a cage for
criminals, with whipping post and
stocks—but not t!ie kind of stocks they
sell there now. When Independence
was declared the building became the
capital and was called Federal hall.
Here the Declaration of Independence
was rend from the steps In 1770. and
here also Washington was inaugurated
first president e>f the United States, In
1779.
The wide strip of pavement on the
west side of Nassau street in front of
the Bankers Trust building bears evi
dence of the former existence of Fed
eral hall. The latter extended across
Nassau street to the building line of
the street nnd so dosed the thorough
fare that a passageway was estab
lished around the building in order
that pedestrians might more readily
get to Nassau street. When the sub
treasury was built in 1836 on the site
of Federal hall, Nassau street was
opened to Wall street, and the little
passageway was left, and forms the
wide sidewalk of today.—Equitable
City.
Make Study of Eugenics.
The eugenics record office at Cold
Spring Harbor. I„. I„ is engaged In
building up an analytical Index of the
inborn traits of American families, es
pecially with a view to studying the
inheritance of sudi traits, fracing
their recombination in given pedigrees,
etc. Down to the beginning of last
year the office had on file 534,625 curds
Indexing individuals who are described
in the archives of the establishment,
on the basis of surname, natural trait
nnd geographical locality. An elaho
rate classification of traits has hem
worked oul
•'Extravagance rots character; train
youth away from it. On the other
ban 1. the habit of saving money, white
It stiffens the will, also brightens the
energies If you would be sure that
you are beginning right, begin to
save." Theodore Roosevelt.
RACE BOOKS AND PERIODICALS
Our Boys and Girls
A weekly newspaper for our youth,
$1.00 per year; 50c for 6 months. 54
West 140th St., New York City.
The Negro in American History
By' Prof. John W. Cromwell, $1.40 and
worth more. 1439 Swann St., N. W.,
Washington, D. C.
The Negro Soldier
By John E. Bruce “Grit”. The glor
ious record of America’s black heroes,
25 cents (no stamps.) 2709 Madison
Ave., New York City.
The Crusader Magazine
The Greatest Negro Magazine of
America. $1.00 per year and cheap
at that. 2299 Seventh Ave., Mew
York City.
A monthly Review of Africa and
the Orient, $1.50 per year. Monitor
office or 158 Fleet street, London, E.
C. 4, England.
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