The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-12-27
TILE I'M GROW OAR.

The Times will never advocate any
measure which is designed to humiliate
the negro race. on the contrary We
would exert ourselves to uplift the negro
and TO help him to be a good citizen.
But when the negro becomes a disturb
ing factor in any relation Of life, The
Times believes I'm regulating him. This
IS white mans country by virtue OF
discovery, by virtue Of the blood which
he shed In securing its independence, by
virtue Of the energy that the white man
has exerted I'm developing II and making
70 the greatest land on earth. We will
never consent, therefore, that the negro
shall be a marplot We are unwilling
that he shall be forever a disturbing
element IN politics. We are unwilling
that the children Of the black man shall
be educated in the schools which the
white man has provided for his own
children. We are unwilling that the
negro shah force himself upon the whites
I'm any relation OF life where his pres
ence IS Objectionable. More than that.
we are quite satisfied that the peace Of
the nation and the safety Of the negro
depends upon this complee separation.
The negroes of tho South have COM
planned bitterly that the Legislatures OF
some Of the Southern states have enacted
laws requiring he railroad companies 10
have separate cars for whites and blacks.
Their complaint is that the Jim crow
car IS a roproach TO the negro. We
would not see the "jm crow car es-
tablished for any such purpose, but the
negro himself IS responsible for It, Those
who travel in the South very soon open
their eyes to the necessity Of such an
arrangement. on Saturday last local
train left Richmond for Petersburg. A
number Of negroes came aboard. and
while some of them were respectable and
well behaved. quite a number Of them
were boisterous and rude, and most Of
fensive I'm their manner One dirty fell
low, half drunken, entered and insisted
upon taking a seat by a respectable
white woman, who objected to his pres
cnce. and quite naturally 50. Any man
with the instincts Of gentleman in him
would have apologized and sought an
other seat But this negro insisted on
sitting down. There were white men i'm
the car. and it is not necessary to say
that the negro was soon jerked out Of
his seat aud sent to another part Of the
car. No effort was made 10 hurt him
and nothing was said 20 him by any
white man. although the negro showed
ugly temper and was evidently ready for
a fight Had any white man in the car
knocked him down, as it was a great
temptation TO do. there would have been
something of a riot on the car, and per
haps women and children would have
been hurt. If indeed there had not been
bloodshed
We have let out the secret Of the Jim
crow" car nobody objects to the pres
once I'm a railroad car Of a decent. re-
spectacle negro, whose person is clean,
and whose manners are genteeL But
that the whites Of the South will permit
half drunken, indecent negro men to
come into railroad car and force
themselves into a seat with a respectable
white woman is a proposition that is
not to be seriously discussed. If the
negro will rot behave himself, he can
not expect to be tolerated among genteel
people.