The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-09-02
BILL ARP'S WEEKLY LETTER.
COMPARATIVE FIGURES ON CRIME
NORTH AND SOUTH.
SHOWS SOME STARTLING FACTS.
William Calls Census Reports to His Aid
In Refuting Charges of Lawlessness
In the South.

I 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 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.
have been very much interested in
these comparisons and feel prouder
than ever before os my state and Sec
ton. For more than half century
the partisan and sectional literature OF
the north has overshadowed and hu-
inflated us with unfair, untrue and
slanderous statements. By these un-
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 natura.
increase of our own people will soo1'
enough occupy the south and secure to
us homogeneous citizenship that viii
continue to be the most moral and the
most patriotic of any this side OF the
Atlantic. Not long ago an Ohio mall
had the cheek to publish a lette,:
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 oil
your dogs. Let the yankees alone
and blow your horn for Germans. L
have lived for thirteen years right here
where both abound and will take the
Germans or the Swedes or the Swis,
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 IRE fair-minded, indus
trious people and I have found them
honest and Kind and good neighbor,
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,bf
New York, convicted criminals In
prison Observation-Disclosures. II, 1853
Ohio, convicted criminals In prison.. 2,s0s
Illinois, convicted criminals in prison. 1885
Total <o,ofo
Now deduct the negroes 1,795
Leaving whites. 81 ,745
Now let us take four southern states:
Georgia, whites Observation-Disclosures. ...242
South Carolina, whites s..................12 12S
Mississippi ....................... .......Ils
Virginia ........................ .3s2
Total ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. .S66