The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-10-23
THE GEORGIA HUMORIST
COMPARATIVE FIGURES ON CRIME IN
THE NORTH AND SOUTH.
shows Some Startling Facts--William Calls
Census Reports to HIS Aid in Rcfutins
Charges Of Lawlessness in tho South.
Important Talk.

nave Just roc0lVcu Uuo e0uU WI
ume of "Compendium of the Census
of $780," Eight years have passed
since the people made their returns
and the time is nearing when they will
be called on again. 1t takes 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.
1 have been very much interested in
these comparisons and feel prouder
than ever before of my state and sec
ton. For more than half century
the partisan and sectional literature OF
the north has overshadowed and hui
inflated us with unfair, untrue and
slanderous 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
nels. 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 for
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
Wu6T6 DOtu dUOuAu duA l. W HI tuhC luO
Germans or the Swedes or the Swiss
every time. The yankees have hated
You for generations. They are born
hating yau and raised up in schools
and churches to hate you. They can't
help it. But these foreigners have no
such prejudices. They don't like your
negroes. but have got nothing against
you. They are fair-minded, indus
trious people and have found them
honest and kind and good neighbors
whom you can depend on in time OF
| 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 ...................... o,ztt
| New York, convicted criminals In
| prison ................... IL, 46o
| Ohio, convicted criminals in prison.. 2,909
Illinois, convicted criminals in prison. 1855
Total ...................... "a, o4O
| Now deduct the negroes ......... 1,795
| Leaving whites. ..................21 ,745
Now let us take four southern states,
Georgia, whites OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 242
South Carolina, whites. 12S
| Mississippi liz
| virginia ..............,s.I.... 49,
Total. Observation-Disclosures. .866