2 AUGUST 1919, Page 2

To point to the negroes' social and political grievances, and

o utter sad homilies on the tragedy of allowing a " small rationality" to remain so conscious of traditional wrongs as :o be a permanently embittered ingredient in an otherwise united community, would be merely to remind white Americans more acutely of the calculated insolence which they allege against the negroes in Chicago. We cannot possibly help the negroes by interference. If we can help them at all, it is by saying that,whatever their grievances may be, they are citizens of the United States, that citizenship implies respect for the law, and that no rights can ever be gained or recovered by criminal violence.