NO MORE RACE RIOTS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 280, 20 August 1921, Page 7

NO MORE RACE RIOTS

President Harding, in a short address to the negro students of Lincoln University, said: “The coloured citizenship of America in the world war earned its right to be memorialised. Much is said about the problem of the races, but let me tell you there is nothing that government can. do which is akin to educational work. One of tho great difficulties -with, popular government is that the citizeznship expects at the hands of government that which it sbqnjd do for itself. No Government can wave a magic wand and take a race from bondage to citizenship in'half a century. All /he Govornment can do is to afford the opportunity. The coloured race in coming into its own must do the great work itself in preparing for that P art ' < "' p 'J' tion Nothing will accomplish so rnucU as educational preparation I commend the valuable work this iiit? in that direction. It is a. fano c y n trast to the unhappy and distressing snectacl? that we saw the other day ou in ono of the Western States. God that in the soberness, the fairness, and th: Justice of this country we.shall never have another spectacle like it. . , The latter portion of the l resl / el } h brief address is construed to refer to t recent Tulsa race Tiots.