The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-10-13
THE GEORGIA HUMORlST
COMPARATIVE FIGURES ON CRIME IN
THE NORTH AND SOUTH.
shovs Some Startling Facts--William Calls
Census Reports to His Aid in Refnting
Charges of Lawlessness in the SOUTH
Important Talk.

have Just received the third VOL
| ume of "Compendium of the Census
of 1890" Eight years have passed
since the people made their returns
and the time is nearing when they will
be called on again. 1t takes a long
time and costs millions Of money, but
it is big thing and diffuses knowledge
among the people 1t is better that
the money be spent that way, for there
are no private schemes nor corporation
swindles in it and it gives employment
to thousands of needy people. The
census is the only mode Of getting at
the true condition of the nations af-
fairs and comparative view OF the
wealth, resources, education and mo-
rality of the people of the different
! states.
I have been very much interested in
these comparisons and feel prouder
| than ever before of my state and sec
ton. For more than half q century
the partisan and sectional literature Of
the north has overshadowed and hu-
inflated us with unfair, untrue and
sIanderous statements. BY these I'M
christian methods of their press and
pulpits their own good people have
been poisoned against us and immi-
grafton influenced in northern chan
neIs. Personally, I do not complain
of this, for / esteem it blessing that
neither northern fanatics nor foreign
paupers have to any alarming extent
infested our fair lands. The natural
increase Of our own people will soon
enough occupy the south and secure to
US homogeneous citizenship that will
continue to be the most moral and the
most patriotic of any this side of the
Atlantic. Not long ago an Ohio man
had the cheek to publish letter
about our lawlessness and said
it was amazing impudence fol
Georgia or the south to invite
northern people to settle here. Well,
we don't invite him nor any of his
kind. An unknown friends writes me-
from Nebraska and says: "Call of
your dogs. Let the yankees alone
and blow your horn for Germans.
have lived for thirteen years right here
where both abound and will take the
Germans or the Swedes or the Swiss
every time. The yankees have hateC
you for generations. They are borr
hating yau and raised up in schools
and churches to hate you. They cam
help it. But these foreigners have nc
such preiudices, They don't like YOU
negroes. but have got nothing agains
you. They are fair-minded, indus
trious people and l have found then
honest and kind and good neighbor.
whom you can depend on in time O
trouble"
But to the census. Look at these
figures on crime and criminals in some
of the states north and south in 1890
Massachusetts, convicted criminals in
| PRISON D,di
New York, convicted criminals in
| prison ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. II ,46>
Ohio, convicted criminals in prison. 300!
Illinois, convicted criminals In prison. $685.
Total Observation-Disclosures. 20, on
Now deduct the negroes ......... 1,79
Leaving whites. ..................21, IA
Now let ls take four southern states:
Georgia, whites Observation-Disclosures. "a
South Carolina, whites. ~;
Mississippi NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. IL!
Virginia ......:...........39.
| Total SGT
Now the total white population Of