NEGROES IN AMERICA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3328, 5 November 1919, Page 2

NEGROES IN AMERICA.

STRONG RACE FEELINGS.

MORE DISORDERS THREATENED.

The 11eg1'0e:= of the State ‘of Ge»orgja are planning, .according' to report, to “rise up and Wipe out :the whole white people,” as a result of the lynching of Eli Cooper <3.-nd the burning‘- of se,v.e'r—al negro churches at Osmulgee, writes :1 New York etorrespondent. Cooper was shot after being ta.k:en from the county gaol because he was suspected by the mob of ‘hing the leader of the plot against them. -His body was thnown into a*cllul'ch, which was fired and burnt to the ground. «a

Race antagonism is at a high pitch throughout Ge:-vgia as the result of the lynchi-ng several months ago of Berry Vv'ashingion, an aged negro‘, who. he alleged, had insulted some coloured girls. As a consequence of this lynching, the blacks are believed to be organising for a general raid upon the white popul»a"t.ion, and agitatoirsh from the ranks of the Bolsheviks and.’ Radical Socialists are spreading the war cry, “Wipe out :the whites.” Delegation.es of pno-minent negroes told the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate at Wfiasliingtoii that “unless the Governments act Wisely in the present situation the patience of the subject races may becoiiie exhausted, leading to serious disorder.” They complain that oppression of ‘the colxonured Americans is sifch that unless guarantees against its continuance were made by the nation and the States, “there can be ‘no assurance that our beloved country will c>o~n’Einue to be «a land of peace, secure from violence, and insurrection.”

The conllnittec was‘ warned that the black man of America has given notice that what -he has suffered in the past will not be endured in {HO future. “He means business now,” said one delegate, “and there can be me compromise.”