The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-31
)R. BAERINGEE'S PAPER-CON-
ClVJDE,D

n In The Times yesterday we reviewed I'm
part a paper which was read by Dr. r.
B. Isarringer, chairman f7the faculty of
the University of Virginia, before the
Tri-State Medical Association, in session
at Charleston, in which the negro ques-
aion was ably discussed. The most
startling proposition contained in Dr.
d3arringer's paper is this: The white
race in the South has been. made more
criminal than it otherwise would have
Leen by prolonged contact with the negro
There is no use in 4ongcr mdncing mat
tiers. This problem is to save the white
men OF the South from barbarism by
reclaiming The savage with whom he IS
inseparably tied. 1t rises above the
question OF altruism and becomes a ques-@
1ion of self preservation.
Aside from THE general degradation by
contact with the negro race to which
DR.. Barringer refers, there are these two
things which have done more than all
else combined TO demoralize the whites
of the South and to bring law into con-
tempt. We mean qynching and ballot
box stuffnE, for both OF (which the negro
is Indirectly responsible. Before the war
our elections were pure. There was no
bribery, there was no intimidation, there
was no cheating Our political contests
we're bitter, and each candidate did all
that he could to win, but every legal
voter was free to cast a ballot as DE
pleased, and when his ballot was put
into the box it was honestly returned.
But when the Northern people put the
ballot into THE hands OF the negroes, who
mad SO recently been slaves, the whites
felt that the preservation OF their tnstl-
tutdons demanded THAT On one way or
another they must deprive the negro OF
his vote and prevent him from ruling
over chem Then came along the new
negro with his unbridled passions, as he
vas pictured in yesterdays article, and
he committed brutal crimes which the
whites could not and would not tolerate
They began to lynch the negro for crimi-5
nal assault, and having gotten into the
way Of nynching him for that they
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lawlessness begat la,wlessness.
This is an old story, and everybody
knows that it is true. The question now
to be considered is -the remedy for these
evils What are We going to do about it,
DR.. Barr.nger proposes two remedies:
First The negro must be removed
from politics.. certainly until the proper
time comes for him to exercise the right
OF suffrage.
Second, The negro must be educated
along new line.
He points out that the training Of the
negro is now On the hands of the negro,
whereas In slavery times 1t was in the:
hands OF the whites. Put the training
Of this founding OF the State into the
hands OF those who hope ultimately to
get back ta1e. pay for his keep says Dr..
Barringer, and self-interest will see to
1t that he Becomes able to pay. We took
/ The cannibal and made a man Of him.,
and We did at because our grandfathers
and grandmotlcrs were not ashamed to
give themselves to his euid dance. There
are IN the South to-day the same people.
and in rhis day OF national peril they
will not be found wanting
He thinks that the task Is to make of
/ the next generation of negroes in the
South honest. law-abiding 1aborers and
arhsans with an ambition for the re-
spec. o. the better class Of their own
people and o. the whites. In other
sw.ords MAT our task IS 20 substitute new.
higher. and. most tneortant Of al. 1T
tainsa 3 Sdsal1. ..Un6se thh.'.. conoladas