The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-06-28
4 BLACK SOLOMON.
Calmly Discusses the Race Cues
tion and Southern Lynching.
AN EVIL THAT is BLlGHTlNG.
Pleads Not for the Negro Alone,
But for Southern Manhood.
The Growth of Mob
Murder.

Brooker T. Washington, President of
the Colorcd Industrial and Normal
School at Birmingham, Ala, Wednes-
day furnished the Associated Press an
elaborate discussion Of the race ques-
ton in the form Of a paper. Prof.
Washington begins his paper by saying
that while it is true that there are cases
of lynching and outrage in the northern
and western States, candor compels him
to admit that by far the most OF the
cases of lynchings take place in our
southern States aud most Of the persons
lynched are Negroes.
with all the ealnestness of my
heart. he says, 1 want to appeal, not
to the president of the United States,
Mr.. Mckinley, not to the people OF
New York nor of New England, but to
the citizens of our southern States, to
assist in creating such a public sentl,
ment as will make human life here just
as safe and sacred as it is anywhere else
in the world
The paper then offers review Of the
appeal that has been made through the
press and prominent men that the Ne
gro problem be left to the South. He
recites that the whole country from the
the president down has beer inclined to
do this. By the policy Of non-lnter-
ference the South has been given a sa-
cred trust.
Prof. Washington continues: II fear
but few people in the South realize to
what an extent the habit of lynching
or the taking Of life without due process
of law has taken hold of US, and to
what an extent it is not only hurting
US in the eyes of the world but injuring
our own material growth. Many good
people in the South and also out Of the
South have gotten the idea that lynch
ing is resorted to for one crime only.
l have the facts from an authoritative
source. During the last year one hun
dred and twenty. seven persons were
lynched in the United States; OF this
number 11S were executed in the South
and nine in the northwest; of the total
number lynched l02 were Negros, %
whites and two Indians. Of this num-
ber only q were charged in any way
with the crime of rape.
Within period Of six years about
900 persons have been lynched in our
southern States. This is but few
hundred short Of the total number ct
soldiers who lost their lives in Cuba
during the war. If we could realize
still more fully how much further this
unfortunate habit is leading us-note
the classes of crime during a few
months which the local papers and the
Associated Press say that lynchlng has
been inflicted for-they include "mur-
der. rioting, incendiarism, robbery, lar
ceny. self defense, insulting women,
alleged poisoning. malpractice, alleged
barn burning, suspected robbery, race
prejudice, attempted murder and horse
stealing, mistaken identity" etc. The
practice has grown until we are now at
the point where not only blacks are
lynched in the South but white men as
we'll. Within the last six years at least
half dozen cololed women have been
lynched.
u am not pleading for the Negro
alone. Lynching Injuries, hinders and
blunts the moral sensibilities Of the
young and tender manhood Of the
South. Never shall l forget the re.
mark made by a little nine-year-old
white boy with blue eyes and Haxen
hair. The little fellow said to his
mother after he had returned from a
lynching: I have seen man hanged.
Now l wish l could see one burned.
Rather than hear such remark from
one of my little boys l would rather
see him dead.
There is too much crime among US.
The figures for given period show that
in the United States 30 per cent. OF the
crime committed is by Negroes, while
we constitute only about y per cent.
of the entire population. This proper
ton holds good not only IN the South
but also in northern States and cities:
No race that is so largely ignorant and
so recently out Of slavery could perhaps
show better record, but We must face
these plain facts \ large amount OF
the crime among US grows out OF the
idleness of our young men and women,
1t is for this reason that | have tried to
insist upon some industry being taught
our young people in connection with
their course of literary training.
Prof. Washington concludes by ap.
pealing to school teachers, minister:
and the press to arouse such sentl'
ment regarding the committing Of crime
against women that such crime vii:
not be charged against any members OF
the race. He says the Negro has
among the southern whites as good
friends as he has anywhere in the worio
and advises him to stay here and work
out his salvation.
Strangled in Bed.
William H. Hux, near Brown Swamp
church was found dead in bed, lying