The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-07-26
EDITORIAL COMMENT.

Editor Gamble Of The Savannah Mirror Of
Commerce, writes to The New York Sun that
the publication of negro outrages upon whlte
women in the south has Il tendency to pre-
vent immigration from the north. He sug-
gests that it would be good idea to suppress
such news, because 1t is misleading and causes
peoplee,n the north to believe that women are
In constant danger in every locality III the
south, although the contrary is the case, many
of our counties having an unbroken record for
peace and order.
Says well-known architect in The Phila-
dephia Press: "The days OF towering stee-
pies. churches and public buildings will
soon be dropped and well they should be.
For years a tall steeple on n church was only
mark of competition to enable the next
congregation If possible to erect their steeple
peg or two higher. They are very expen-
sve things at best, and in Few years be-
very dangerous and always targets
for the highest winds and the lightning stroke.
Many serious accidents have occurred in ther
repairing, and frst-cass sky-high orna-
mented Steeple costs often much as
third of the whole building. How they orig
mated is a matter of some doubt, but the
general belief is that in the earliest days both
in this country and in foreign lands, the
church steeple was the lookout tower to watch
the enemies of the settlers for miles around"
Says The New York Sun: There is not, Oh
at least there need not be, any difference
whatever between literary English which ia
the diction of books and 'coloquial English
or the speech of daily life. a writer may
properly set down his thoughts on paper in
the very words he would IL he uttered
them in dialogue, and talker may converse
with proprety in the phraseoogy of polite
letters The writer who composes for the
printer he would speak to a nearer Is not
necessarily too free and easy in his style;
the speaker who expresses his thought to q
listener in the form in which he would print
r nod coriIu ctiIf an no
and may nob be taking on airs. Many great
writer's talk just as they write, and many
good takers write just as they talk WHAT
miseries are brought upon mankind, what
horrible evils accrue to the world, through
inaccurate or disorderly writing and speaking.
One Of the gravest faults of many of
takers Is that they talk too rapidly, and
of the worst faults of many of our writers is
that they write before thinking deeply"
A summary Of the census bulletin on homi
cides states that in June of 1890 the prison
population Of the United States was $3.50.
OF these, 1886 charged with homicide.
and of these 6,95S men and 1913 women.
Some facts Of interest to the southern people
are revealed in the table giving homicldai
prisoners by states and groups of states. IN
the south Atlantic group the total charged
with homicide was 1,0S7, Of whom 7S3 were
negroes. In the south central group thq
homcides were 2,545, Of whom 152S were
negroes. That Is to say, In the sixteen south
efn ana DOruer States Stli lne eA-Sltft St'lIcSs
except Missouri, the prisoners charged with
homicide, June /, $780, numbered 1852, OF
whom 2,311, or more than two-thirds of the
total. were negroes. In those states the Negro
population is not quite Il third Of the total
Hence, these statistics show that the homi-
cdal impulse in the southern negro manifests
itself in the ratio of two and one-half TO one,
as compared TO the whites; and these facts
quite upset the theory Of Mr.. Frederick Doug
lass, that the negro in the south Is as a ruIes
only punished to crafty white tyranny and
revenge. Even in the north central group.
which contains only state that has any
considerable negro population--A ssouri-the
proportion of negro homicidal prisoners Is
startlngly large, being pa in n total OF 1796.
In Ohio the total charged with murder In
some degree was 2l7, and of these thirty
nine negroes; though the negro popnla-
ton is less than ! per cent of the total popS
1ation, the race furnishes IS per cent-nearly
One-tifth-of the murderers.