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Show THE CITIZEN 5 tyrant. He urges the workmen to hate capitalists and all, in fact, who that riots flame and are extinguished. The futility of the fight oppose the ideas of radical socialism. Yet he demands that he have .seen by the better elements on both sides and a truce is enforced. the right to make laws for a nation that believes in equal opportunity without special privilege. Bringing to this country a European bias of mind Berger had no & sympathy for Amierican ideals. Consequently he was a traitor in spirit before he became a traitor in fact. RACE RIOTS between whites and blacks in Chicago has been forecast by superficial observers these many years. The rapid growth of the black population and their settled antipathy toward the whites, marked by a constant attitude of defiance, has boded a sanguinary WAR struggle. is In a sense the Chicago race riot is a most illuminating comment- ary on prohibition. It was customary, in the days of the saloon, to point many a moral with Demon Rum as the villain of the plot. The prohibitionist was able to trace most of the tragedy and sorrow of the world to strong drink, but now that liquor has been expelled from our civilization tragedy and sorrow seem to be as prevalent as ever. Instead of murdering folk one by one in dry Chicago they murder them by wholesale. Here in Utah only the other day, a ranch feud led to murder. Everybody involved was perfectly sober and mentally intemperate. How eagerly and quickly the advocate of prohibition would have pointed the moral had the Washington and Chicago riots occurred two months ago. Demon Rum would have come in for, a castigation such as he had never felt before and his apologists would have piped up feebly in his defense , their voices quavering, with an undertone of shame and guilt. Old Demon Rum is down and out. He was a bad lot at best, but it begins to appear that other demons were responsible for much of the sin and crime commonly ascribed to Demon Rum. The aggressiveness of the Chicago negroes was a source of recurrent irritation to the' whites. By a process of action and reaction ' the pressure of animosity was increased on either side and it became-onla question of time when it would eventuate in blood letting. Negroes coming up from the south in vast numbers to Chicago intensified the bitterness. The southern negro found himself sudrepression exercised by the whites denly freed from the of the south. Realizing that his status had changed, he became arroTHE TRIPLE ALLIANCE gant and did what he could to, emphasize his new spirit of independence. Naturally this did not tend to promote a good will. The negro zone extends from the loop district far to the south ffXTO triplice; no League of Nations, is the phrase which was used to describe the attitude of Premier Clemenceau in urging and many of the white people in the district or adjoining it belong to a class about on a par with the toughtest elements in all big cities. President Wilson to propose alliance of Great Britain, France and Thugs, gunmen, dope fiends and unspeakable characters are to be the United States. At what heavy sacrifice the President obtained his league is befound by thousands in this district. It required only what the Germans call the will to war to coming more obvious. Whenever he objected to anything demanded in start the race riots. For years there was no mass mind on either by the delegates of European or Asiatic nations they said effect : Give us what we ask or we will not give you the league. It side willing war. It was a case of individual hatreds and clashes. The Washington riots had their inception in attacks on white requires no stretch of the imagination to picture some of these stateswomen an old cause of trouble in the south. This was the spark that men feigning hostility to the league so as to win better terms from lit the train of explosives. the head of the American peace delegation. We are left in ho doubt as to the real sentiment of President The Chicago outbreak was probably a sympathetic sequel to the Washington trouble. Reading of the murderous fighting in the Wilson regarding the triple alliance. In his Manchester speech he capital city, the Chicago negroes were thrown into a paroxysm of warned Clemenceau that there was to be no such an alliance. The fury. The worst characters among them thirsted for revenge. It French premier bided his time and then, at the opportune moment, needed only a real or fancied affront to explode the mine. flung into the face of the American President, No triplice ; no league. It is probable that the war itself had something to do with the It may be that Clemenceau assumed a sceptical attitude toward the affair. The great record of the black soldiers in France, where their league from the very outset so that he would have a diplomatic ax to fighting spirit was given full rein, no doubt has stirred the fighting wield when the President insisted upon the covenant. The more the spirit among the blacks throughout the nation. They argued that in President insisted, the more Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan demanded. Each time the President was bluffed into bidding higher. fighting at least they were equal to the whites. Here we touch the old wound the submerged social position of Finally he threw every American principle to the wind and acquiesced the black race. Even the fact that hundreds of thousands of white in the Shantung conspiracy. When Clemenceau first proposed the alliance the President demen died to free the negro could not blind the negro to his position of enforced inferiority. Wherever Ke went in the broad land he murred on the ground that, even if he presented the triplice plan to the United States Senate, it stood little chance of acceptance. All could evoke the admiration of the whites only by keeping his place. That was the only tribute the average white ever paid to a black France asks, Clemenceau replied, is that you use your influence with . He knows how to keep his place, was the customary praise the Senate. This is said to have found the President in a state of a negro who conducted himself courtesouly or obsequiously tounpreparedness. He had no answer, although, in the light of subseward the whites. Naturally this encomium was regarded as an insult quent events, an effective answer would have been easy. It is surprising that the President did not reply by demanding by the upstanding black man. Those who live in communities where there is no race question that France obligate itself to do something for the United States. cannot realize the constant friction in communities, where the whites The most singular thing about the treaty is that it is entirely onesided. If we are involved in war France can look on from the gallery. and the blacks are always in contact. In the south the blacks are made to keep their places on Jim If France is attacked by Germany we must leap into the arena and Crow street and railway cars. In the north the threat of force is fight. The Paris newspaper, Humanite, tells us that we must inremoved. The negroes and whites, mingle indiscriminately on public crease our army to fulfill our obligations and that, inasmuch as wc be conveyances and make a habit of insulting one another. Rather we can hardly accomplish this by the volunteering system, we must should say that only a small number on either side resort to insult, ready to introduce conscription again. As we have pointed out frequently President Wilson opposed the is sink deep into the souls of all jgit only a small number needed to 5ie sense of race hatred. triplice because it contradicted his claim that the League of Nations These are some of the causes of race riots. They are born of would prevent war. If the league could prevent war, why would it ? passion and die at the touch of reason. Unless the subordinated race not prevent an attack by Germany upon France To camouflage this difficulty a clause was inserted in the treaty is able to overthrow the conquering race and take the ascendancy there can be no immediate settlement of the quarrel. The result is which provides in effect that the alliance is to be of a temporary ever-prese- nt to-hi- |