The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-11-13

mington passed beyond all previous con-
ceptions of baseness and became dead
ly menace to the peace of the community.
The liberty of the press is so mvaluaD!e
and important that even its license may
be permitted to go beyond all limits
but one. But it appears that i'll the
South, at least, there is dead line
beyond which neither black nor yellow
journalism can pass with safety In
deed. it may be doubted whether negro
editor who deliberately villified the
white women of Boston would be sate
in that community very long after MS
libel was made public.
"If Northern politicians and Northern
Republicans desire to know the true
remedy for the race troubles III the
South, they can easily discover it. 1t lies
on the surface 1t consists III their
abstaining from encouraging and Stlmu-
latng them. If they will stop giving
aid and countenance to the low white
scallawags and carpet-baggers in the
South, who make it their business to
poison the minds of the negroes against
the whites. Northern friends OF the
negro will have no occasion for further
solicitude about him. Republican IA
natics, sentimentalistS and unscrupulous
politicians are responsible for every col
lisiOn between the races in the S0utl.
The latter are especially responsible FOR
it. because in their greed for othce
and their fear that the colored Vote
NAV drift away from, the Republican par
ty, they are always actively engaged III
keeping alive negro antagonism to the
whites. Nothing could be more false
than the assertion that the negro IS
badly treated in the South. He is on
the contrary, better treated there than IL
any other part of the country. There
is no laboring class in any other section
of the Union which, taken altogether is
so well off or so fortunately situated
They absolutely do not know what it is
TO want. They have constant and health
full employment, they have unusual OPP
portunties to purchase lands and build
up homes of their own, they are pro
tected in all their rights Of property
and their children are educated by tho
taxes paid by the white people, to which
! they contribute almost nothing. Add tt
! this the personal kindness and aid Which
they receive almost every day III tht
wear from their white neighbOrs an6
employers. and there is no laboring class
in the country, we repeat, whose materia
condition and advantages can be com
pared to theirs.
at is not unnatural that under such
conditions and circumstances the South
! ern whites should resent the effort OF
the negro to put his heel on their necks
Northern employers would have done TIT
same thing no less emphatically undel
similar circumstances, but they Woult
have resented it by discharging theil
employees and exposing them to .deati
form starvation. The Southern people ar
disposed to have nothing but the kindes
feeling for the negroes, but they are no
going to submit to negro rule. Any ant
all attempts to subject them to sucl
sovereignty must fail, and they nigh
as well be abandoned now as later Th
persistent efforts to place a higher am
more civilized race under the feet of al
inferior one are a disgrace to the cOun
try and can only retard the progress ant
prosperity of the colored population o
the South. If the negro understands hi
own best interests. he will pray to be de
livered from meddling and fanatica
friends. :"