The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-26
A Paper Read BY President Winston
of the State University.
FOREIGN AND NEGRO CRIMINALS.
The Colored Element More Criminal
Than Any other in Our Popnln-
LONESOME suggestions.

University upon the subject OF THE Pre-.
yention OF Crime" II was as follows:
The treatment and prevention OF erin,
is undoubtedly one OF the greatest prob.
lens Of modern life. Our criminal, paupel
and insane population amounted In 1890 e
$40, 800. This Is equal 10 fourteen STANDING
armies as large as ours. The entire popu.
lation OF the State Of Vermont is not 90
large by nearly 10, 900. If our criminal
pauper and defective classes were brought
into one community they would form q
State outnumbering in population fifteeB
States and Territories now in the Union
One person among rs In every 222 is an IN.
mate OF some prison, r%eformatory. public
almshOuse or benevolent Institution. nc
house. feed, clothe, cure. educate and re-
form this mass Of wretched humanity Is {
large item in the list OF our public burdens
and is becoming larger year by year.
IL is not my purpose to offer any sugges.
lions regarding the treatment of the in
mates of our penal and charitable institu-
tiOns nor to discuss tho causes Of insanit,
and %pauperism, but, as briefly rs possible
to suggest a few practical measures FOR the
prevention Of crime.
Over one-half Of our ,rimlnals are either
foreign or colored. although these two eIs-
ueuts constitute little more than one
N"'" - ""i bop"ioti"u' tue loivIsn -poIh
is one and one-half times as criminal as
tie native white. aud the colored citizen u
three times rs criminal. The native white,
heiug Is per cont o. tie population, iur-
nishes only 10 per cenG OF the criminals.
anc VI this ~ PEI cent nearly one-hdlf.
tlcugh born In America. weiS born of for
eiSn parems. The native WHITE population
% genuine american larehlaHe furnished
pHly- Huu-tpurtt az an ,rfpaf1,1- ,Vn.-
~ TH.s Va',.0uteM o. our cIlLhlha cla.S'
a. dimipution OF crime in orr roinIrv nv
preventing OF property restricting turtner
Immigration from foreign lands. Legis!2-
ION On th's suoJeGI Intended 10 improve
,"' Iv"'''S W we iuinihlan's mas dlreduS
hIu the erect OF diminishing inc ra - ur
TtHuc auiohs our lo'elRh- porn popuialIon'
Duiths ,ne ue0nle rom loeo 10 iSoV thls
iA1lC aeereaseu ofs per cent Let the pol
IVY w. In'lieu iultnei anu sun petter 10
9m,Ss WI Iuno"' L IS nov ~ueuahueu ny
humanity. nor Is 1t consistent with tho
Nruarc VI oar country ana tne theory OF
ou. k~o'etHlneht thtt we mould CONTINUE To
leiieFo OtiLer countries Oh tnelr CRIMINALS
VI 'neli ne'ollui lur criminals flttS Two
utr cent Vi our foreign CRIMINALS nave 50
i'lle leEaru LOT the OPPORTUNITIES 81 Amer
lcan clu1enshlp and so little interest in
the soVerhIneht ana clVlilzauon hose pro-
.cVtloh tuey ciaiiu that they nave not even
'hhsh tne trouoie to become iaturaliAed
cltinehs' seventeen rer cent OK them can
neltneI IeAu nor Wtite' instead OF receiv-
ins auinns'"n's Vi lhls ehaiacter II would
ne Nlser anu more economical Tor tie
oon 9oaaes 20 aoha,e annually s2o,uUV,
eVV :, f'NiuoV,voo lor lhelf support and re-
= "'''ion III 'heir own countries
M
rue p'opiem OIL crime among our colored
reputation IS far more difficult to deal
with. but the statistics Of The last census
| tbrow ltght nm man, az ~. -
rboso..
49,
l. The colored element is more criminal
than any other in our population. Their
ratio Tor crime leads ali Others in our
prisons and ielormatorles.
.. From 1880 10 1890 there was an IN.
crease of 3S l-3 per cent in the ratlo Of
colored criminals TO colorod nopulat on. in
other words. the colcred pouuiation ,sas
oue-third more criminal I'm lsg0 thsn IN
1850.
3. While 81 per cent of the coIore1 non
ulation are illiterate. only "a per cent Of
colored criminals are llliterate. The coll
ored population that can read ana write
is not true of any other element of on,
population,
4. The ratio of negro prisoners and n,
neeio paupers to negro population is very
much higher in the Northern than in ~
southern states In the North Atlantic
states the ratio TO the million of negro
population is 75i7, in the South Atlantic
ZIG, in the North Central states Gs5I, IN
me South Central 29St, in tho Wes:.r IA,
9a27. The negro is nearly three fines ~
South Atlantic. over twice aS crim,in,, a.,
the North Central as in the South C,nfrei
~ ,mree anu a halt times as criminal in
inc Western States as in the south AZ.
lentic' IN short, the negro is fully two
ana q half times as criminal in tie states
who're he was free as in those where he
was hsll IN slavery.
= uvei onc,third of the nesro crImi.
mas are married, being the largest .atio OF
marrleu criminals furnished by any e)e-
H@ieas o' eur population. excepting the In
crime by domestic relations ,har o;,bA.
nesroes ne ars s9is b crimes committed by
asSsins, IRE nose against person and
the government and against 1 socje,y AGAINST