The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-04-29
LET US REASON TOGETHER.


hind II a murdered citizen and wife for
sunshine and which ended by the Newman
demonstration of Sunday, is now matter
OF history.
II will be discussed for a season, forgot
ten in the rush of new events. only to be
renewed with different characters and Diff
ferent settings at another time.
Hence, 1t becomes necessary to reason
together over the situation--to look deep
ly into causes to gauge the present and
TO improve the future, aided by the expe-
rlence OF the past. There must be found
some solution Of ever recurring events
The security and prosperity of the white
race demands 1t. the existence and the
happiness OF the black race requires 1t!
~
The condition of life in country where
two races live in common is always one
full of peril. 1t has been truly written
by an English historian that mo inferior
race can stand UP before the Anglo-Saxon
and live" OF course. the writer meant
that no races could occupy the same terri
tory on perfectly even terms. The right
of the superior race to rule the ignorance
within It is something which may be ar
gued against, but which can never be re-
moved. The citadel of that race is in its
women and the integrity of these women,
who are the mothers of the race, is the
prize for which their fathers and brothers
will lay down their lives, and for the vo-
lation of which they will exact life TO
talk about this. one way or the other. is
dle--the fact is imprinted in the heart
and is as immutable as the laws OF The
Medes and Persians.
| The nearest approach to cooperation Of
races In the same territory which has ever
been made is that now existing in the
! Southern States of our Union The white
man carried with him into the fields of
| the South traditions which have descended
to him through the whole histnry Of his
race masterful. governing, invincible
The colored race, the most docile OF the in
/ ferior races, content TO dwell in me ttrts
! OF his white ne ghbor, because measurably
! Christianized, and happily adapted Linn
! self to the situation. The proportion OF
criminals was really small.
Disturbers made their appearance among
! these people They were in,itel to dis
| trust the people among whom they lived,
and who alone in the whole history OF the
world, had made any progress IN civlizlng
them. They were told to assert their
1 manhood" to talk back to he imperti-
nent, and to seek the first places without
| invitation, Their docilty was rudely
1 shocked, and there grew up a generation
! Of selt-sufncisnt aggressive negroes, who
threw aside the counsels Of their fathers
. for the advice OF their new and ndiscreet
4 mentors Thus were added to the criminal
] rI ,1sftb urkn
proudest boast was that they held the
sidewalk against the white man.
! This condition, transferred to the rural
districts. can not be fully appreciated by
those who have not lived there The
small farmer and his wife. needing hired
help, engage It, The wife is forced To re-
main alone in her little cabin while the
men are out at work, bravely hiding her
fears, but In constant dread. Such q far
mer was Alfred Cranford such wife he
had, and such fate as she met Is what
has driven half the men of Georgia mad
but every man Of them either the husband
of wife or the brother of a sister!
= ~
Through the columns OF the Constitution
these dangers have recently been dis
cussed, and In manner which must at
tract attention. Former Governor Nor
then, zealouSly religious and conservatives
whose administration was marked by the
most vigorous pursuit of lynchers, and
who has denounced such resorts 10 mob
law on every occasion, declares that
"All such homes as you name shall be
made miniature arscnals, at least to TIE
extent OF one good Winchester and one
good pistol that women be allowed 10
carry weapons upon their persons, con
cealed IL so desired, and that they be
taught the use and handling of firearms,
so that they may become their own pro-
tectors in the absence OF the husband or
| master Of the house. An occasional negro
lying dead In the back yard, shot by a
brave woman in defense of her honor. win
do more TO stop this awful crime than all
the lynching that may occur In a year"
SO much for the manner in which such
assaults are to be met. On the same
page appears remarkably thoughtful ex.
/ preston from the pen OF Mr.. S. NJ. In,
man, In which there is given a CLEAN Of
hope for the colored race but when, 1t
must be admitted carries with 1t It's cug
gestion of coincident danger. Mr.. Imam
declares that
II believe % per cent OF the white men
and negro men of the South are as re-
spectful toward women as any peopla en-
earth, but the other 5 per cent Of white
and negro scoundrels. tramps and brutes
are responsible for all the trouble. How
TO reach these is the problem"
Mr. Inman is. we are sure, correct in the
estimate which he has made. and he fur.
! nishes excellent advice for the ameliora-
ZION of bad conditions. but the danger to
which we allude is so well brought out by
Governor Gambler that we can not do bet
ter than to reproduce what he has to say
upon the subject;
THE whole thing is deplorable, and
Hollis crime. the horrd details of which
have not been published, and are too horri-
BILE for publication, is the most diabolieal IN
the annals OF crime. The negroes OF that
community lest the best opportunity they
viii ever have IN elevate themselves in
the estimation OF their white neishbors.
The diabolical nature OF the double crime
was wen known TO every one of them; the
| perpetrator was we'll known, and they
owed It to their race TO exhaust every
means OF bringing Holt to justice. This
course would have done more to elevate
them In the estimation OF good people and
to protect their race against the. mob than
all the rewards and proclamations Of all
the governors for the next fifty years
But they lost the opportunity, and 1t Is
4. IL.