The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-11-22

Their Causes and the Proper Rene
dies-ghe Mean White LEADER the
Ones who should be .'Diseipllned.''
The Negroes Worst Enemy-The
Clean sweep by the Democrats OF
Wilmington
Rochester On. " Herald.)

the races to live in accord in the
south. The race question has caused
more elimination and re~crimination
than any other n thing with which
this country has had to deal with since
the first voyage of Columbus.
Barrels Of ink have been wasted in
suggested remedies, but the problem is
no nearer solution than it was a gen.
GRAFTON ago. One of the reasons is that
it is not treated honestly. The truth
is that the southerners are lynching
the wrong man. They should turn
their attention-if they must take
somebody in hand in order to correct
abuses-to the white man who is urg-
ing the confiding blacks to overt acts
In order that he may reap political
benefits. The white scalawag who
wants to place himself in the way of
receiving political favors from a re-
publican administration in the demo-
cratic south, finds no surer way Of
making himself conspicuous han in
making the blacks believe that they
are i'll used.
The result is that the negroes in
course Of time come to believe that
they are being kept out of the Prom
Used Land of political supremacy by
their late masters, and then trouble is
not far to seek. Race equality is a
very pretty theory, but the world will
be a great deal older before it's beauty
Will be otherwise conspicuous. When
East Avenue and Pine Alley meet and
fraternalize, then may we expect bet
ter conditions in the south. The gen.
tIemen of the northern press are de-
luding themselves with this theory
because they are far removed from the
possibility of it's exerting an influence
in their own sphere of life. They will
admit that the greatest mistake ever
made was that of placing the fran
chise in the hands of several millions
Of benighted people, but they will not
admit that some of their other theo-
ries are equally as pernicious in their
influence on the black.
This sort of influence. it may be de-
pended upon, is at the bottom of the
trOubles in North Carolina. 1t would
be difficult to imagine a negro, who
was not urged by a more rascally
white than himself, penning such an
article for publication in his newspa-
per as this.
w suggest that the whites guard
their women more closely, thus giving
no opportunity for the human fiend, be
he white or black. You leave your
goods out Of doors and then complain
because they are taken away.
Poor white men are careless in the
matter Of protecting their women, es-
pecially on farms. They are careless
Of their Onduc toward them, and our
experience among the Door white peO-
pie in the country teaches us that the
women of that race are not any more
ma rtio111ap in tho ~ ottap Of I op1oCf;nn
meetings with colored men thai are
the white men with colOred women.
Meetings Of this kind go on for some
time, until the woman's infatuation or
the mans boldness brings attention
to them, and the man is lyrched.
Every negro lynched is called a big,
burly, black brute when in fact many
of these who have thus been dealt
with had white men for their fathers,
and were not only not black or 'burly'
but were sufficiently attractive for
white girls of culture and refinement
to fall in love with them, as is we'll
known to ALL"
Manly of Wilmington was given time
to vacate that city. Cool northern
blood will hardly grasp the full signif-
icance of the foregoing EDITORIAL; to
do that they would nave to put them
selves in the place of the people whom
II was III dltly Written " lHSu1I. IL
this man could point to one case which
justified his assertion, it was a wrong
in the nine hundred and ninety-nine
where he could not. To say that this
theory of reprisal is justified is to
argue for the setting aside of all law
n to say that because a man has
shed your brothers blood you may
shed his.
1t is a reasonable assertion that
Uhprn tho white rpnnh1ioon po1itio;o-
is a rara avis, there the relations of
white and black in Dixie are most pa
cific. OF course his points to but one
conclusion, and that is hat the negro
is cOntented where he is left alone,
and where he is disconnected it is the
result of white republican Interference.
The race trOubles are deplorable, there
is no use in trying to deny that but
gentlemen in the north can write hOmi-
lies till dOOmsday without bringing
them to an end.
The timely taking off OF a few politi-
cal meddlers is the only cure.
THE NEGRO'S WORST