Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-07

eolored race: to-day three-fifths come
from white farms. The white states and
whire districts have become the cotton
ceHteFs OF the South. The negro parishes
of Carroll Tensas and Madison, the finest
cotton country in the world, where the
yield is greatest and the staple the finest,
produce far smaller crops than
they bore thirty years ago, while
the white counties of Texas have
increased their production four and five
fold. This fact attracted the particular
attention of Professor HiIlgard. who
prepared the census report on cotton,
ana he notes the singular coincidence
that the bulk of the crop of Mississippi is
raised in the hills, where the yield per
acre Is small, instead of in the bottoms,
where every condition is favorable. The
fact did not seem to strike him that the
true reason lay in the fact that in the
hills the cotton was raised by the whites;
in the bottoms, by the negroes.
White immigration would mean the in
dnstrial regeneration of the South.
Such would be the industrial results. 1t
is not of this, however, that we wish par
ticuIaPIy to treat, but of the political or
rather the race aspects of the matter.
Let us say here, for the benefit of our
Northern brethren, that in the race dis
turbances in the South the division is
always made on race, not political lines.
In the Colfax rot OF Easter 1873, every
white Republican was found acting with
the whites against the negroes; in the
Lafourche troubles of last year the lead
ing Republican of Southern Louisiana,
and formerly Republican candidate for
governor, was against the negroes. In
the Freetown riot of this year the only
white man killed was white Republic
can, who was acting against the negroes.
And when only the other day race
difficulty was reported at Lamar, Miss.
the Westerners settled at Michigan City,
and who have been in the South but
few years, poured to the assistance of
their Southern white brethren against
the negroes. The Western white man,
Republican, or Democrat, who settles III
the South, very soon takes IA position on
the race question, and the only position
white man can take.
If Messrs. Chandler, ingalls, and other
bloody shirt shriekers will but look over
the list of so-called outrages they charge
to the South, they viii discover a fact
which gives the true solution of the negro
questiOn-that no race disturbances or
unpleasantness no so-called Outrages or
suppression of votes, have ever occurred
IL
are in majority. We have had race
trouble i'll Louisiana, but always in
the negro parishes. Look at the
list: Caledonia, Coushatta, Colfax,
Freetown, Pattersonville, Fausse Pointe,
Caddo, Bossier, Madison and Tensas, all
in negro parishes, and III districts in
which the negroes are in a majority. In
not q white parish of the state has there
been q disturbance since the negro was
given the franchise. In Catahoula,
Sabine, Vernon, st. landry, Calcasieu,
Washington, Lafayette, Union,
Whinn and all the other white
parishes Of Louisiana, the most
friendly relations exist between the races;
there is no whisper of outrages or of sup
pressed votes, and the negroes of these
parishes will willingly bear testimony to
the fact that they are granted every right
and privilege to which they are entitled;
and if the election returns are studied it
will be seen that the Republicans poI%d
larger vote in the white than in the col
ored parishes of the state.
1t is the same i'll all the Southern states.
No one l1as ever heard of any race dis
turbances or friction III the white counties
of Mississippi that fringe the gulf, or the
northeastern counties on the Tennessee
line. The trouble has been at Yazoo,
Vicksblrg, Carrollton, Scooba, Wahalak
and other places where the negroes pre-
ponderated. And in Texas, there has
been no disturbance save in the few coun-
ties like Washington and Fort Bend,
where the negroes are more numerous.
Wherever the white are in decided
minority there are peace, order and har-
mony. Messrs. ingalls, and Chandler
viii look over their lists in vain for a
whisper Of an outrage or a complaint
about the vote in any district of the Souths
where the whites outnumber the negroes
They will find the relation between the
races perfect in parishes like Caloasieu
and st. Landry, and the negro enjoying
greater prosperity and more of his rights
than anywhere else il the Union. No
where is he doing better than in New Or
leans and simply because the whites are
Ill majOFity-nearly four to one-here.
The reason for this is palpable. The
relations between the Southern whites
and negroes are friendly whenever the
former have no fear Of. negro supremacy
something they will not and cannot
submit to. Where the negroes consti-
tute third of the population, there is
nothing to fear from them, no chance of
negro supremacy, no prejudice against
them. The relations of the races are
best, the negro happiest and most pros
porous, and the growth and development
Of the nth greatest in those sections
where the eolored people constitute but
third of the population, as in Maryland,
Western Arkansas and Northern Texas.
Wherever the whites are in a majority
the negroes are contented and have no
complaints to make; wherever the
negroes predominant the race question is
a living, burning and dangerous one.
What the Times Democrat proposes is
that through white immigration the en-
tire South be freed from negro majori-
ties, the supremacy of the whites as
sured, and with it peace, prosperity and
good will between the races.