The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-05-09
SOWING SEED.

! Palmetto, Va, anu IN ln' presence OF
his wife and children, killed him with
an ak and then raylshed his wife, an
assault 80 brutal that the Atlanta Con
stitutlOn says II "dethroned the reason
Of the people OF Western Georgia. y
They seized the criminal. tried and con.
yicted him by lynch law, chained him
to tree, cut off his ears and fingers
covered his body with kerosene oil
built fire OF fagots about him and
slowly burned him to death and cut
the charred body into small pieces.
The lynchers numbered many thou
sands of the respectable citizens OF
Georgia. Every year there are a hun
| dred or more cases OF these lynching
| proceedings in the Southern States,
caused by brutal crimes OF negroes
upon white women. Throughout the
| wide and sparsely settled area OF the
South women fear to travel alone IN
borhood Of large cities. There is the
same dread OF violence and assault as
there would be If, every year. several
hundred persons were killed by tigers.
and IL was known that every square
mile OF territory outside of the cities
was subject to their prowlngs and
sudden attack.
What, then, are the causes Of this
terrible condition OF the social state &?
every Southern woman Is called upon
to arm herself because she cannot b.
protected?
Several hundred years ago the Amer
lean colonists established slavery. It's
object was cheap labor. No doubts
were raised about the moral qualifica-
lions OF the negro immigrants. Can
he handle a hOe?" was the only ques-
ton asked. The best and the worst
type ct negroes captured in Africa
were imported indiscriminately Any
who asked in those days, will not
these blacks some day have their
part to play in the national destiny"
were regarded as foolish dTeamers
who did not understand business,
and were willing to arrest industries
and commerce. The intelligent classes
said: There is money in slavery"
The Northern people helped to rivet
the chains upon the slaves by making
slavery perpetual under the COnstitu-
ton, and Northern Indifference and
Southern industries kept up the slave
trade even in a small way until the
opening of the civil war.
In 1920 slavery began to be unprofit-
able in the Southern States, and some
steps were taken to abolish II. But Eli
Whitney's marvellous cotton gin sud
denly made slave labor profitable" in
its narrowest sense, and slavery was
maintained. The negro was the gamer
because he exchanged the degraded life
Of a savage for one that was less de-
graded. The white man, under the
profits OF slavery. created a brilliant
civilization" which produced chival-
rous men and the most fascinating and
lovely women, in comparison with
which the men and women Of the
North were outwardly rather uncouth.
The tourist who visited the South was
dazzled with the splendor of the social
Ia. % ta,h al,
ization. He was not taken to the
huts of the slave. Northern merchants
said slavery must be good institution
because Southern merchants promptly
paid their debts.
Then came the "irrepressible con-
niCt," the awful sacrifice, the social
ruin of almost one-half OF the nation.
What legacy did the devout colonial
forefathers leave, aside from the legacy
of war that cost half a million OF
lives and infinite sorrow to the living
Those Northern and Southern fore
fathers imported without hesitation
the lowest type OF African savages.
They imported, as well, some Of the
highest type Of negro, from whom
much may be expected. OF this lowest
type We're thousands OF brutes who
were cannibals when imported, and at
best We're hardly better than wild
beasts. II they could only hold hoe
the good forefathers were satisfied.
The descendants OF these savages are
everywhere In the South today. The
past generation ignorantly and selfish
ly imported the seeds OF the tree
which produces thorns, and in the
thorns OF this tree the social life OF
the South now bleeds. Between, on
the one hand, the slave ships owned
and sailed by New England men and
the need OF cheap labor by the South.
and on the other hand the awful crime
which cast the people OF Georgia into
a frenzy, there Is a clear and logical
conclusion. As the fathers sowed, SO