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SEEING THE LIGHT. A Northern Editor's Views of the 9 Race Problem In the South. In the Bellman, a weekly magazine published in Minneapolis, the sub? joined editorial appeared September 29. It is such a clear cut dispas? sionate and common sense analysis of the negro problem, that we feel that it is worthy of reproduction for the purpose of showing that the northern people are at least beginning to see the light: x The fearful occurrences in Atlanta, Ga., which have horrified readers of the daily press may weil give us of the North a shock. We deserve it and we need it to awaken us to a relization of our responsibilities to our brethren -of the South. A race war, undertaken on the part of the whites in sacred defense of their homes, or an unlawful outbreak in which the innocent and guilty of one . race were alike sacrificed to the mad? dened vengeance of another; con? sider it either way, as you will; de? nounce it or excuse it; find palliation in the greatest of provocations hu? manity can know or condemn the perpetrators a? outrageous law break? ers, you cannot avoid the awful fact that the condition which is respon? sible for it exists.and must be reckon? ed with. This dreadful problem presses for a permanent solution. The con" i elusion of the rebellion demonstrated once and for all that this was a Na? tion. Being such, its component parts must share responsibility for the maintenance of order and justice within its borders." If the protection of women is not the supreme duty of the American citizen,' wh?ISt?r he lives north or south of Mason and Dixon's line, then our country no longer deserves to rank among civi? lized nations.. If it is, then it is time that the citizen of the North ceased ! ta consider the problem of the South ! as an academic question to be discuss- ! ed calmly and regretfully at a safe.; distance from the scene of horror^ and shame. It is his duty to come j forward, manfully, and acknowledge1 his share of the blame and* ??s?me ] his part of the burden. k The North is even more responsible for this overshadowing horror than the South. Let it face the facts as they are and cease this sloppy, sen? timental talk about the elevation of the negro race and the need of self control on the part of the southern Caucasian. Ethical considerations, fine spun theories, philanthropical de? vices for a gradual elevation of the negro are not entitled to a moment's consideration when it is true that no white woman living in the South is safe for a moment unless guarded by the gun. The North freed these negroes. It elevated them to citizenship and pro" claimed them the possessors of equal rights with the whies. Previous to the war, slavery, accused though it was, held them in subjection and re? strained the brutes among them, and they were macy, from violence. Care" less of consequences, the North let them loose and encouraged them to believe themselves equal in every? thing to their former masters. After a brief interregnum of carpet-bag government, the conquerors retired to their safe, pure, protected homes, secure in the knowledge that the law was amply strong to protect them from assault and their womer, from dishonor. They washed their hands of responsibility; they left to the impoverished, defeated, disheartened South the task of making the newly freed worthy of citizenship. Since then the North has contrib? uted largely of money to educate the negro. It has sent northern teachers, devoted, self-sacrificing, well-mean? ing persons, full of zeal to lift the once oppressed race to a higher plane. It has sympathized with and supported every scheme devised to benefit the negro and has lauded to the highest skies every effort to cre? ate in him social, political and finan? cial aspirations. To the protests of the white men of t?e South who knew the negro and had to live with him, that the methods chosen were wrong and mischivous and would surely re Ta suit in disaster, the people of thv^ North turned a deaf ear. The Southern white man's exact knowledge, of conditions was discred? ited, his advice scorned, his warn? ings unheeded. Although he had demonstrated repeatedly his fidelity to the restored Union and had shown his willingness to serve his country in the field when the emergency arose, he was deemed unworthy of. confi? dence in questions affecting the ne grro. He was void to observe the law, when the law was unable to save him or. what was a thousand times more important, to save the dearest thing on earth to him-his women. He was told to contain himself, to be patient and await the results of long-distance northern theorizing. Meantime he was surrounded hy a dense mass of ignorant negroes fast forgetting what little of self-control had been inherited from a former generation which had been trained to respect the white man and honour the white woman and rapidly return? ing to a state of brutal savagery, ev ery day degenerating, as a' w morally, and becoming an incret menace to civilization. Upon vicious, ignorant, debased horde, puny schemes of race elevation . as snowflakes falling into the seet ocean.' Still the southern whites tested, warned and implored, northern sentimentality was p agaist the natural appeals of i the ties of kinship and the dictate nature. Now it has at length come to that the deluge has broken and problem, long in the brewing of ; malign fat tors, must be effects ! settled not alone by the South ? the North as well. We have ! enough of theorizing, tempori2 j philosophizing, it's time to act. No ! ern people are not generally awar i the fact, but it is nevertheless t j that the state of the mass of neg j in the South is so debased, so uttc hopelessly, fearfully lacking in m conceptions that there exists many southern states a condi which ?his or any other respects journaf^rould not dare describe cept in the most general terms, loathsome and shocking would details be if truly and plainly stato White women and children are safe, they can not walk unguarded the streets of the cities even in time. At night, doors must locked and windows barred, the volver must be ready at hand, if black assailant is to be kept out. many portions of the Black Belt, family of the white man lives ii constant state of seige; a fate wc than death awaits the members they dare relax their vigilance for hour Northern people do not kn the truth and their journals are enlightening them. The South, very shame, is loth to let facts known, but a residence of even a ? weeks in any portion of the conn where the ignorant negro populat: is congested will convince the rn sceptical - that this hideous danger always imminent and very real. . ? Thea cdrne of stealing is the v< ?east^?f?th^ negro's offenses agai: southern society The whites of 1 South have long since ceased to < peet that he will respect the rig! of propety. Larceny is looked up as a joke As well might one exp< the leopard to change his spots, the southern negro to refr?in fr( stealing. It is possible to prot< against this comparatively minor < fense; it is the hideous crimes, t unspeakable horrors that are the ri menace. Against these the, law powerless, because it recognizes punishment adequate to the offens it can devise nothing that will pr vent its recurrence and the hat done is irreparable. Ordinary punishment, adequate the North to check crime, fails e tirely in the South to restrain tl negro even from the commission minor misdemeanors. The disgra of imprisonment does not touch hi] es a rule. In many southern towr when cold weather approaches ai the shiftless and improvident blaci feel its chill, numbers of them d liberately and openly commit theft order to be arrested, convicted ar sentenced to the penitentiary durir the winter months, there to be mai] tained in comparative comfort at tl State's expense until spring return When, once again at liberty, the come back, they are met at the trai by their neighbors, relatives an friends and escorted in triumph 1 their lurking place* as if they wei heroes returning from an honorabl undertaking,' instead of idle, viciou debased criminals let loose from jai The fear of immediate and dread ful death is powerless to control th brutal, degenerated negro when hi passions are aroused. His mind is to feeble and shallow to consider th consequences of his crime and th brute in him, once awakened, reckon nothing whatever of future punish ment. The force of example, even L its most terrifying form when frenziei mobs wreak vengeance in, burning and sickening torture, does not im press itself upon this class for mon than a very brief time. Its intellec is so inferior and its imagination s< utterly diseased that the effect o: such horrid spectacles soon wear off This nati -nal cancer is a revolting hideous subject. One is loth tc speaK of it in clean type on unpol? luted paper, lest its contemplation should breed pestilence, but. if it is ever to be cut out, it must be realized and considered in all its horror, es? pecially by northern people who have too long shut their eyes to the truth. The South understands it and the bet? ter classes of whites, to whom our sympathy and aid snould be exten' ded in the fullest measure, know further that, besides the vicious ne? gro, they have with them a large element of ignorant, violent intem? perate white people for whose crude and revolting execution of lynch law they arti held responsil '.- by the world. It is time for the-North to bear a hand in the solution <>f the problem it has liberally shared in creating. It can do so by ceasing to exploit the negn? as the white man's equal. It can do so by considering the mass of negroes in the South as they are, not : as sentimentalists represent them to be. It can do so by discontinuing its senseless, fruitless attempt at higher cultivation of the negro. As long as the vast majority of the race in the South remains as it is, the strong arm of white control must be strengthened and encouraged to ex? ert itself. The negro must be taught the rudi? mentary virtues he has forgotten be? fore he can aspire to a higher educa? tion. He must be made to obey, ab? solutely. He must be compelled to restrain himself. He must fear and respect the law and he must be made to understand that if he dares so much as think wrongfully of a white woman he will deserve death and at the slightest indication of an intent to commit wrong, he will receive it. The North can do its duty by first understanding the condition as it is and then uniting with the Caucasian of the South, in knowledge of and sympathy with his situation, to devise proper, adequate and permanent re? lief. What is now needed is less senti? ment and more common sense on the part of the North. All the money it has tc devote to humanitarian pur? poses and all the sympathy and sup? port it can summon should, in this grave emergency which threatens North and South alike, be placed, un? reservedly and in the fullest confi? dence, back the better class of white people in the South who alone are possessed of a full comprehension of the true situation and who alone are competent to deal with it adequately and justly. * A Neglected Gold Mine. The Charlotte Chronicle notes that Columbia butchers tell the Columbia Reocrd that the people of that state are quite independent of the beef trust, so far as the quality and price of beef are concerned. The Record thinks that conditions ought to be that way but doubts whether the situation is to roseate as the words of the butchers might indicate. "There has been a 'large and gratifying ex? pansion in the cattle raising industry in this state," the Record says, "but the. supply by no means meets the demand. There is room for much wider expansion, and it is hoped that farmers will realize this and enter the business which will prove a sure j money-maker. Big packing houses j ship cold storage beef from Columbia alone, to various parts of the state, amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. Exer/ cent in that business coula oe home capital | cirulating at home." The Chronicle adds this: "The neglect of the rich opportuni? ties of cattle raising in this section of the South is one of the conditions that is hard to explain. There axe portions-and large portions at that of cattle grazing lands in North and South Carolina .that are the equal of the best grazing lands' in the West. In respect to an abundant and pure supply of water, they are batter. We could name three counties in the western part of North Carolina that could keep every beef market within the limits of the state supplied the year round, Iredell and Caldwell counties have been paying some at? tention lately to raising cattle for the market. The time is coming when this long neglected industry will be? come an important element in the prosperity of the south." Our esteemed Charlotte contempor? ary is quite correct. There is no j excuse for North Carolina's buying a pound of beef produced outside of the state. Some of the finest beef cattle we ever saw were raised* in the savannahs, hammocks, and cane? brakes of eastern North Carolina. By the way, a few weeks ago we saw two carloads of fine cattle load? ed in a South Carolina town for con? sumption in Charlotte. It was a sight to make us envious of Charlotte, when we remembered how sufficient used to be the home raised beef that formerly came to Wilmington from Sampson and other counties-now a thing of the past. The Charlotte Chronicle says the failure to raise cattle is "A Neglected Gold Mine." That is true. Tho busi* ness was never more profitable than at present.-Wilmington Star. $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the, medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a c<-n- I stitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting di? rectly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby de? stroying the foundation of the disease and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and as? sisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollors for any case that it fails to cure. .Send for testimonials. Address: F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 7Gc. Take Hall's Family Pills for con? stipation. 9-18-lm. LETTER AS TO SCHOOL BOOKS. State Superintendent of Education 3Iartin Issues Instructions About Exchanges. Columbia, S. C., Oct. 10.-State Superintendent of Education Martin has issued a circular letter of in? struction to county superintendents of education, calling attention to sec? tions of the text book contract. The letter is as follows: My Dear Sir: Allow me to call your attention to sections 5 and 10 of the text book contract. The publish" ers agree to take all text books of any series, or of any edition, in the hands of pupils in exchange. The only re? striction is that the book must have been in use during the year 1906, and of course it muse be of like grade and upon the same subject as the one for which it is given in part payment. This means, of course, that books which are in use ir. the city schools may be exchanged. The retail and exchange prices printed in our bulle? tin of 16 pages are official. A careful reading cf the contract and .other matter in thc bulletin will enable you to answer almost any question which may arise. I hope that you will exercise super? vision over the subdepositories, and see that they understand the contract Sincerely yours, O. B. Martin, State Supt. Education. NEGRO LYNCHED BY NEGROES. The Victim Was Accused of Criminal Assault on a Negro Girl. Dallas, Tex.,. Oct. 10.-Anthony Davis, a negro, was lynched by ne? groes at Texarkana last night. He had been arrested and bailed out of jail on a charge of assaulting a six teen year old negro girl. A mob of negroes caught him and strangled him to death with a rope by dragging him about , the negro settlemr-its. Blood Poisoning * Results from chronic canstipation which is quickly cured by Dr. King's New Life Pills. 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