The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-08-18
young colored man vas mobbed and driven
from one OF our city parks on cry being
raised that ne had insulted a white Wo-

young colored man was mobbed ana driven
from one OF QUIZ city parks on a cry oelns
ralseo That ne had insulted a white W.
| man.
Although the whites were the .aggressors
IN tae rioting, but three white prisoners
were arraigrei in court yesterday, as
against twenty-three negroes. and near: .ly
aii the latter had been badly battered WILL VIII
the missiles of the mob and the CLUBS %
the police. These facts tell the story
The Tribune says: If ever the Whole
truth Is told about the happenings OF we'd
| nesday night and Thursday morning it will
probably appear that the brutality ana
1eroclty engendered and stimulated IN tise
|. department by the Tammany thugs ana
ruf1ans, whose influence Is nasterIul IN
the Mulberry-Street headquarters and IN
the precincts throughout this borough, led
10 criminal assaults by policemen upon
law-abding people. There are many
negroes in New York. and a certain per-
centase Of the colored population is rest
less, dsorderly, vicious and criminal. But
that is true of the police force also
Tho Sun says: There is but one rule,
safe and sound. for the maintenance of
law and that is its impartial enforcement
and inflexible observance. Reprisals and
race conflicts have no place in the admins
tratlon OF justice, and the abject inferior
1ty OF the colorei population on the West
SIDE IN numbers, resources, influence and
proves should make cay the avoidance
of such a thing as a race war" in any
part Of New York, a city In which the dis.
parity between the white and colored pop
uiation. always great, has been increasing
each year.
The Times says: The record Of the po-
lice In the rotous attacks on the negroes
in their quarter on Wednesday night may
briefly be summed up. They stood idly
by for the most part. while the negroes
were being beaten, except when they join
ed savagely in the sport, until the rioting
threatened to extend dangerou<ly then
they gradually dispersed the crowds. ar
resting almost no whites and many blacks,
most of tile latter being dubbed most un-
mercifuly.
The Journal says: The race riots
in New York, deplorable as they
are, will have one good result. They
will cure us of self-righ teousness-they
will banisa the canting spirit Of superiority
that makes us boast that we are not
other men. They will teach us that there
IS only one general type of human nature
In America. not two types divided by Sec
tional lines.
The race problem that distracts the
South would distract the North in exactly
the same way if the conditions were sim
liar. Indeed, it seems reasonable to say
that the generations during which white
and black have been in close contact in
the South have developed in that quarter
a capacity for getting along In harmony
superior to our own. 1t IS not comfort
able to think of the possibilities here IL
the colored population of New York were
equal proportionately to that of New Or
leans.
The World says: New York little ex-
pected to have such an object-lesson to
oad-lnindedness in viewing outbreaks Of
disorder as is thrust upon it by these riots
in the Tenderloin.
AS usual with mohs the fury was insen-
safe There vas no more reason for at
lacking negroes indjscrminate ly because
a black desperate had stabbed a policeman
to death than there would have been for
mobblng and maltreating Caucasians on
the several occasions when policemen have
been killed by white hOOllumS.