The Canton times., 1900-09-28
ARP ON MOB LAW.
Says the Good Negroes Are Safer
South Than North.
Recent Race Riots in New York, Ohio
and Illinois Discussed-MOney
the Root of Much of
the Evil.

| We thought that maybe the late
New York and Akron riots would even
in Gods country would call off the
dogs, but they are still blowing the
same old horn. They are hard up,
however. None of the hounds have
lost the trail, and all are scattered
and there is no keynote to rany them
the buglers don't harmonic. Some
said that the riot in lew York was
owing to a corrupt democratic admin
istration in that city. The Akron hor-
ror called for another solution. and
now they boast that they saved the
| niger, but if it had been down south
he would have been lynched with Sam
! Hose tortures. A late paper sent me
as marked copy says that southern
mobocracy has crossed the line and
is affecting the lower classes up
north, just as a contagion spreads in
unhealthy regions. 1t all comes from
the south, and there is no quarantine
| to arrest its progress. That's bad and
sad. Let's build wall.
But seriously we must warn our
| good negroes not to cross the line.
1t is dangerous. Keep away from
Pana and New York. Stay at home,
and cultivate our cotton and corn and
| let politics alone and you are in no
danger. Idleness is your curse. If
I had my way 1 would reestablish the
old patrol system and make every
tramp negro carry a pass or take
whipping. 1 would empower the
| town marshals and the country con-
stables to arrest every vagabond on
the highway and if he couldn't give
good account of hinseIl he should
be tied up and dressed down. We old
men know that one good whipping
has more effect on bad negro than
five years in the chaingang. Even a
hanging is glory, for they are going
straight to Heaven. Last Saturday
night a tramp negro cut the slat
from the blind of Mr.. Cary's house
and opened il and crawled IN and
stole his paternal gold watch and his
pocketbook within three feet of his
head, while he was sleeping. No
doubt he was armed, anu would have
shot Mr.. Cary had he walked up and
resisted. The negro took a night
| freight and was arrested at Kingston,
| and the watch was recovered, but he
got away. We have get to do some
thing with these tramps. Our chain
gangs are full enough. l repeat it,
that no good, Industrious negro is in
any danger in the south, and they
know it. Jim Smith is the biggest
farmer in the state, and he says there
is no labor in the world equal to that
of well-regulated negroes, and he
knows.
But the spirit of mobocracy is not
confined to the race problem up north.
The lynching at Gilman, in Illinois,
was against an old defenseless white
woman-a doctress who was suspect
ed of causing a young girls death
by malpractice, but who had not had
trial, nor had any intention to
harm the erring girl. A mob of 2j0
men attacked her house in the night,
and she defended herself and her
| home and killed and wounded as
many as she could. They mortally
wounded her and burned her house
| What kind of civilization is that?
| Why didn't they hunt up the man
who ruined the girl? Our civilization
down south has always protected
| women, no matter what they did.
We will not hang them for murder,
| for even old Mrs. Mobiles was sent to
| the chaingang. Our women must
| have protection from white brutes
and black fiends and we would have
rejoiced if somebody had given
that scoundrel, DIR. Wilkerson, who
ran away with his wife's sister, hun
| dred lashes before he was turned
loose in Atlanta. That was a good
case for little mob law. If the
law could not reach him the lash
would Poor, helpless. pitiful wom-
AMI How you have to suffer in si-
lence and live and die with your
wrongs unavenged. How many hearts
are breaking now because of hus-
bands tyranny or his unfaithfulness
to his marriage vows. For her chill
dren's sake she keeps silent and bur-
les her secret in her bosom. l know
of men who made fame while living.
and on whose monuments fulsome
epitaphs are chiseled who disgraced
and dishonored the name of husband.
l know some who are not dead who
are doing the same thing now. A
woman chained to an unprincipled
man is the most helpless creature