The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-09-03

incident robbery preferably against tie
police. This district is patrclcd BY men
invariably in pairs. but even then, II an
opportunity presents itself IN a dark SPOT
or especially II these policemen are called
upon % enter some dive to qhcll dts
turbance, they are habituaIly souuced
UPON b. 2 number OF burly brltss, who
90 frlsht.ul work until assistance ar
piEes y II practical the revolver is drawn.
lu some such melee as his Officer
troupe IVES killed. he Blacks wero ma ie
GeHa-L by the temporary escape Of ths
murderer the police were on edge for
vengeance, and the neighborhood was
aroused, with the whites determined TO
have the price OF blood.
a pistol shot fired at a casual sympa-
thizer with the officers death by au un
known negro brought matters to hsad
For while the police near the scen1
mixed in the mob already assembled with.
cut decided object or resdlt. In n little
while, however, the reserves were collect.
ed and later the head of the department
was on hand. Negroes. wherever seen.
were seized by The mob and beaten and
kicked their lives being saved In most
Instances only by their hulking forms and
the ineffective work OF dsorganized riot
ers,
Whatever comment may be made upon
this procedure, there can hardly be a
divided opinion upon that which followed.
The whites were clearly on the offensive,
the blacks only seeking shelter. They
we're so plainly getting the worst OF it
that they made no show of resistance,
glad II only they could escape by flight
III the police appeared to charge in
we'll kept ranks with night sticks and
drawn REVIEWERS, Their chief, ever ready
TO show his brutality, was at their head.
They brushei aside the white rioters and
fin .iug tie negro, whom they were sup
posed to be rescuing. would rain club
and ri-t L. N facs and rlrm. Wnen n a
condition TO be thrown, not put, in patrol
wagon, the limp form would be tum-
psed into one ana taken 10 the station
A4use and placed, if fortunate, N a cell.
NesFoes VINO minute before cried for
saving for the fury Of the mob sought
iranically when in thee hands Of Deyery's
horde to escape back TO the mercies OF
less experienced persons Ia the art OF
punl hing. One authenticated case is
known also where, when in a back room
OF station house. a black prisoner wss
beaten and dubbed into all but life ess-
uSss p5 score OF blue coats. A paral-
lei 70 this incident would be hard to find.
One can not help but remember the NUM-
berless cases of obscure sheriffs ia the
South who have valiantly considered their
oaths OF ofhce and risked their lives 10
save their despised charges from al
ayeAe.ns mob. When IL comes TO IDIOTS
% the escutcheon" and the like, New
York hiss made the whole land feel its
shame.
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But far more important than all thi.
is the fact to be considered that wher
aroused the whites have acted IN theii
own defense, for tho large question o.
seH-preseryation was back OF it all iusi
so7ul as the whites do elsewhere. Ans
now that IL is at their own doorstep, New
YORK somehow appreciates what ii mea /
una only enters form-l protest. ii |.
Goes tAat much Probably Il does no
eanAier thai Il has forfeited the riga
u speak very louily whom the same th.ls
oceprs ia another part Of the country
But that IL different.
IN tAa comparative silence of the Scuti
on tue matter there may be an effort Il
seteh lesson OF there my only be Ia,
courteous hiGlng OF : smile.
An outbreak Of this sort IL the Norti
Is wifhai more dangerous Than the sam,
lnins would be In the South. II ten
ieney towards ouch Affairs should be al
lowed 10 develop their recurrence woui,