The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-08-31
ARP On VARIOUS TOPICS.
Bill Thinks Dre,fus is lnnoeen. ard
is Being Prosecuted.
IHEN TALKS ABOUT The WAR.
The Negro Problem IS D:ssussed-Son:
Districts Where Iher: IS No Irors.e.
Peneteniiafy Statistics.

eTty OF but che mana Jew OF no great
Consequences az stake and yet the
world looks Oh with more concern than
Is given the Philippine war. where
thousands have died In battle since the
trial Of Dreyfus began. The great heart
OF the people believe the Jew Is limo
cent and is being prosecuted b. the
military because hs Is a Jew. Civil
ians everywhere are getting more and
more jealous CT the military power.
and well they may be. for IL Is aggres-
sive. cruel and intolerent when not
kept under restraint.
The long suffering OF Dreyfus has in
tensiied the pity OF mankind and re-
calls the plea that Shakespeare makes
fer Shylock, Il am a Jew: hath not a
Jew eyes and hands. senses, affections.
passions. II you prick us do we nc,
bleed? II you poison US do we not die"
This persecution has been goin; on for
five years and the end Is not yet in
sight. 1t reminds us OF the historic
-
April. 1890, and continued until April.
l79o. Never was a man SO unjustiy as
sailed. The sublimest oratory and log
ic OF Burke and Fox and Sheridan
came down upon him with withering
and pitiless force. Burke spoke three
days and amazed the world with his
mstchless eloquence, and the world
pronounced Hastings guilty before any
evidence had been introduced for
Burke's speech was an exordium. a
presentation of the bill OF indictment.
Poor Hastings. frail, small and sickly
krelt ct the bar and there heard the
terrible denunciaticns OF his accusers
The English natiCn was against him,
and even his friend and patron, VIII
liam Pitt, deserted him. Hastings, as
governor general of India, had nc:
pleased the party in power and was to
be made a victim. That was politics
then, and ii is politics now. 1t was
like the execution OF Mrs. Surratt and
Captain WurZ in 1865, for two more in
nocent persons could not have been
found, but the thirsty public demanded
some victims and these were chosen. In
1875 Hastings was triumphantiy ac-
quilted on every charge and public
opinion had already turned in his fa-
vor. Lord Macauley says that he all
'ninistered the Indian government with
hn, h4 Of ;,h
and John Stuart Mill says he was the
best governor that India ever had.
Well now, il Dreyfus can have such a
happy ending to his long suffering and
bori is already a hero-the brightest
star in the galaxy. He has made no
blunder in act or speech during his
long and arducus labors and when he
ing eyes and impassioned voice that
Dreyfus is innocent the world believes
him. I. he is again condemned, France
will be disgraced and degraded in the
eyes Of the great powers CT the world
A government that cannot save one in
nocent man cannot save Itself when
revolution comes.
The next biggest thing before lis is
the everlasting war that. like Banquo's 8
ghost, will not down. 1t drags its slow
length along from day to day and
| week to week until it's blood and COS,
has almost ceased TO agitate us and
| only its politics is considered The
question uppermost is will it roll Me
Kinley in again or will it roll him out
| Imperialism is a bieseT presidential IS
sue than silver or the tariff.
But just now the question that seems
| to concern the South is what shall be
done with the negro. In some portions
| OF the country there is no Disturbance
no friction. no outrages Of any kind
The two races are getting along az
| peaceably as in the years gone by
There are whole counties down in low.
er Georgia and whole districts in some
| of the western States where the ne.
| grces as a mass are industrious ard
humble and give no trouble. In upper
South Carolina there is peace and har.
mony save an occasional disturbarc,
that bad men like the Tolberts pro
| yoke. Most of the outrages that pro
woke the lynchings come from negr,
tramps who hayS no settled home, NJ
family, nor occupation, but go al,
come when they please. They are til,
scurf of the towns and cities-the oye..
fiow-for cites breed crime and cor
ruption, beth among whites and blacks
The prison report is interesting an,
instructive reading and shows the me-
careful and humane treatment CT IN
conyiCts. The commission with Gener
al Evans at its head, are all Kind
Christian gentlemen and no State il
the Union can show a better record G
its prisoners, both male and female.
But it is impossible tc keep up will
the lies and SANDER that are cirCLiz e;
by Northern politicians and Southern
negro editors and educators. 1t IS all
scheme to get money from the North
ern dup-s. Even as notable a womal
as the wife of Booker Washington, Hn'
is chairman OF the executive connittc'
of the National Association CT Colore.
Women, says in her published address:
The white people preach and point t
the immortality CT young colored girl
aad yet the white people themseiye
are to blame for this condition OF af
fairs, for in this convict lease system
the girls and women are not Cal
| worked in the field with men, but ar
shut up at night in the same cells wit
them. Can you expect poor, iSnoran
| colored girl to he pure and viituou
| when she is shut in night after nigh