The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-01
CURRENT COMMENT.

1t is gratifying to observe that some of
the most influential periodicals of the
North are beginning to open their eyes to
the race problem in the South as it really
exists. Intolerant denunciation is giving
place to a search after and consideration
of the facts Writing in Lippncotts for
Augusta, Maurice Thompson says: 1.-THE
Southern states being almost wholly agri
cultural. white families are most frequent
ly found surrounded by those of the black
race The latter are as a rule trustworthy,
or at worst harmless; but among them are
certain number of depraVed creatures
sure to accept every opportunity to do
evil They are the black sheep of dark
flock. And just here is the place to note
one of the cardinal faults of the Southern
negroes; they rarely fail to harbor black
criminals, no matter how heinouS their
acts A fugitive reeking with the blood
of murder, and of outrage infinitely worse,
finds sympathetic asylum in every cabin
| he comes to. 1t is the race blindly justi-
flying Itself as against its superior enemy,
the white man. Before the negroes were
freed there were very few heinous crimes
booked against them in the South;
since the close of the war
the one eupremely eXasperating
| outrage has become more and more
frequent; and as lynching certainly follows,
mob executions have multiplied apace
ones, have, however, called for Judge
Iynch's swift punishment. A negro who
INSTRUCTED a railroad and caused disaster
and death was cooked upon a stove-a
| heathenish act; but in Indiana some white
men We're hanged because they were sus-
pected of stealing and other minor feio-
| nies."
The Review of Reviews, in considering
the race problem says: slavery mad Of
| necessity made every good plantation q
| training school in agriculture and IN nan
| dicrafts. The negroes of slavery times
knew how to raise cotton and tobacco
! how 10 care for livestock, how TO i13ke
and mend harness, to do plain black
| smithing to mold burn and lay brick,
| to do the palmer work of jolners, carpen-
| ters and wheelwrights, and, indeed, to
! work at many other usetul trades ana
| crafts. The war destroyed the plantation
| system. which had provided training in
| such trades and crafts; and the RAPID dying
off of the old generation OF blacks accord
| ingly left the South with new generation
on its hands devoid of discipline, indus
| try, and practical skill What the young
| negroes of the South needed was not Latin
and Greek but the practical training that
| would teach them how to mend a mule
| harness and the moral training that would
! keep them from drinking whisky
The New York Sun (Rep) says: If in
| descending from a railway carriage at any
| station in Europe or America you should
| politely decline to accept the advice of a
| tout for some particular hotel or SANTA
rum, and the tout should thereupon turn
around and begin TO tel exasperatingly
| lies about you to all corners, what would
| YOU think of the tout?
you would regard him not only a
very ungentlemanly person, but also as a
| hireling who didn't understand his bust
ness and didn't look after the true inter
! ests of his employers.
'@rhat is about what happened in the
| case of Admiral George Dewey and Mr.
| James Gordon Bennett, proprietor Of the
| Paris edition of the New York Herald aud
| the New York edition of the Paris Herald
"UDon the admirars arrival in Europe