Arizona republican., 1899-11-14
Prof. Miller Says SOuthernerS
are Growing Fierce.
The RACE HATRED FOSTERED
Speaker Says The Remedy Does Not
Lie in Legislation But in Appeal
TO ihe Moral Nature-Uneducafed
whitemsn is the Real Enemv
of fhe Negro in fhe Southern
States.

States.
Washington. Nov. 13.-Lincoln Mem
orial Congregational church, corner
Eleventh and r streets northwest. was
well filled last night with a large and
attentive audience. which came to
hear Prof. Kelly Miller, of Howard
university, speak on the subject of
Lynch Law" A short musical pro-
gramme preceded the address. and
then Prof. Miller was introduced by
Prof. w. H. Richards.
The evil effects of lynchings are
threefOld," said Prof Miller. It
causes suffering among the negroes.
among the white people of the south,
and in the nation at large. Its effect
on the negro is to be especially de-
plOred. A subordinate race is depen-
dent on its reputation. No country
wants a race of potential rapists in its
midst 1t is the duty of the negroes
to see to it that that reputation is not
fixed on their race. The newspapers
dBOuilu Will ISDOIlS VI dllSSSu dS-
saults, which, in many cases, do not
have the facts to back them up. The
American people would become a ner-
vous race if they We're not growing
callous to the constant reiteration of
such outrages. Their numbness of
feeling in this respect is the only
thing that saves them. Yet out OF
all the cases of lynching, not more
than one in four even alleges rape as
the cause, while the impression goes
forth that it is practically the only Of
fense.
THE negro race suffers from every
protest it makes against mob violence.
People are apt to construe their ap-
peals for its cessation into a condona-
tion of the crime. Many innocent men
have suffered, but every victim who
has died, instead of being a martyr,
has mutely heaped opprobrium on his
race. His guilt has been considered
conclusive.
THE white people of the south also
suffer. Their hasty acts of condemna-
tion are being visited upon them. They
are growing fierce in their natures.
The bloodthirsty nature of the Span
lard is attributed to the relentless war
fare he waged upon the hapless MooIs.
Who can tell whether or not the white
man of the south may not have his
nature changed in like manner? Sam
Jones says that only one white man
in ten in the south has participated in
a lynching. Even at those figures
there have been more men in MODS
than there were in the confederate
army.
THE whole nation is concerned, for
its reputation is at stake. We cannot
fold our arms and say that these
crimes are committed in one section,
and that the others are not response
bic. The whites and the negroes are
growing to hate one another. and
lynchings have taken place all over
the country. Georgia is not the only
state to be held up to blame. Consis-
tency is a public as well as private
VII tue anu IL We are reaching OUT
new peoples to govern. we must show
that we know how to take care of
what we have at home.
THE remedy does not lie in legisla-
ton. The trouble is too deep-seated
for that. We must reach the moral
nature. The United States already
has u higher record for homicides than
any country in the world, savage or
civilized. We must try to reach the
natures of the lower element The
colored people should try to help those
who are among the more depraved of
their race. There is a widening chasm
between the educated negro and his
ignorant brother. Unless the economic
and moral status of the lower class is
improved there is no hope. In the mat
ter of education and religious infiu-
ence, the whites have always tried to
meet us more than half way. The ne
groes should try to make friends with
the better class of whites. Kindness
will do much for the colored man.
Slavery kept him out of mischief be-
cause it kept him busy.
The real enemy of the negro is the
uneducated white man. Those half
fed, ragged, cadaverous whites of the
south, who have nothing to do but 10
assemble at the station to look at the
train, are a menace to the safety of
the community. Then the newspapers
are careless in their statement of the
crimes committed by negroes. People
read by headlines, and when they see
the term black brute they guess at
the rest. The press must help in this
work of the regeneration of the negro.
1t requires more than an emancipation
proclamation and quasi-freedom TO
work out the evolution of a race from