The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-09-02
WHAT RADYoALrsM OFFERS THE
SOUTH.

Tn a recsnt issue OF the North American
Review Mr.. Thomas Nelson Page has an ar
ticle on the negro problem in the southern
States. This article caught the attention OF
an English gentleman residing in the British
West Indies, and he has written to Mr. Page
nroino him most earnestly to do his best to
save the gallant South from the negro"
He says: THE English colonial once has
indeed made these islands lurid warning
for the Southern States. Already two col
ored Judges sit In one island alone, at good
salaries. to try uhite and colored peoples
cases. One OF the Judges is chief justice,
and would consequently try any tohate man
accused of murder or manslaughter
AS for social life, the small knots OF
white people who bold together will perish
utterly away under the official and pecunlary
pressure within few years. and then the
min of these lovely lands Of perpetual sum-
mer will be complete for want OF stick
inc 20 one simple division Of affairs, whites
for rule; blacks for work.
IF only for the sake of the white women
and children in the South. believe me 1t Will
be better TO make any sacrifice. any strug-
Gle TO remove the root of bitterness, the ac-
cursed thing, from the path OF southern
whites"
Here is British gentleman writing from
a potion of the British dominions where
the negro was freed long before our South
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pated, and where the experiments of social
equality and negro education have been
carefully tried for generations; and vet,
from his letter, one may readily see what
little PROGRESS has been made. And what is
here described as the condition of affairs IN
this special instance is true in all the British
West Indies. Take Jamaica. for instance.
That is probably more further advanced IN
civilization than any of the rest, since
II is more thickly populated with
whites. and what do we see there: Inc
traveller as he reaches Kingston finds him
self surrounded by hordes of idle negroes
doing nothing and resorting to begging
diving after pieces of money thrown 10
the ocean, squabbling, fighting. scrambling
for pennies, doing anything in fact to get
little money without working fol It, AS
tropical fruits are almost indigenous to the
soil, they can live without labor, and so
they 90 on steadily increasing, mover sdvanc-
ing. one mass of lazy. idle, worthless hui
mainly. And yet these creatures are, under
British rule. the social equals of the whites,
while some of them. little more sensible
than the rest. rise to be policemen, Judges
and teachers, in which positions they can
lord il over the whites.
Now it is 10 Just such condition as this
that the Republicans of the North seek
to bring the South. In the days of recon
struction they placed ignorant negroes
fresh from slavery over the whites at the
point of the bayonet making them magis-
trates and petty justices. and it was no I'M
common thing for them TO actually try
cases involving the persons and property
of their former masters. This has by no
means yet been forgotten, and the Republi-
cans Of the North. by means Of Force bills
and like legislation, are hoping at this very
time to restore similar state Of affairs to
the South. while the Southern Third party
men are aiding and sbetting them IN their
designs. 1t seems incredible that Southern
white men and farmers could thus lend
themselves to their own ruin and the de-
struction of their civilization.