The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-19
REcoM.NG MORE TOLERANT.


The Northern papers. as a rule, are
gracefully aking dose OF their own
medicine" in the matter of the New York
r OF # We lnesday ght Even the most
rabid of the South critics are disposed
to look upon the attack on the negroes,
almost in Broadway, as an outburst of
passion that is liable to occur almost any
whore under certain conditions. and they
are awaiting. as one of them says, SOUTH
ern comment on this incident" 1t is safe
to say however, that Southern com
ment' will be confined to calling attention
10 the facts that such outbursts of feel
ing are not confined to one particular sec
ton, and that when such affairs have &C
CURED in the South the authorities have
always, instead of aiding, done their ut
most to suppress them.
The New York Mail and Express which
awaits Southern comment" and which
has teen one of the most violent of the
south's critics, very frankly says: New
York is today az the mercy of New Or
leans. The race riot precipitated by an
army of white men in the very heart of
this city last night finds no parallel n
local history since the bloody days of SO
when New York was placed under mar
tia W 1t was a cryirg dis race o that
civilization which ar aigns southern
treatment Ct the negro; a humiliation to
the first communi in the land, where
the civil and political rights of the colored
man have for a sneration been jealously
defended. 1t was a performance so as
founding as to be wel-nigh iuconceiva-
BILE" The Mail and Express, however,
makes the mistake of imagining that such
an outbreak is "wellnigh inconceivable,"
because it happens to be in New York.
1t is no more inconceivable in New York
than in Louisiana.
The New York Evening Post, an indie
pendent journal, seems to understand the
situation when il says: 1T was a dis
cre5it to the city, and New York would
undoubtedly be disgraced by far worse
race riots if the negro element were as
large a factor in the population as 1t is
In New Orleans"
The New York Commercial Advertiser,
a Republican organ, in casting around for
some argument in pallation, thinks that
"the negro quality had little TO do with
it, If the murderers had been Italians
the rioters would have assailed all "da-
gos' with no less fury. Imagine" it re-
marks, what would have been that fury
if the assalants had been Chinamen!'
The Philadelphia Ledger is, very prop
hot he ri
In New York on Wednesday evening was
as fierce and unreasonable as any that
have occurred in Southern cities" "A
lesson in tolerance" Is the way the New
York Journal heads its comment, and as
serts that the riots will teach that there
is only one general type of human nature
in America, not two types divided by sec
tionai lines" The New York World also
sees in the riot IAN object-lesson to broad
mindedness.'
There is one exception to these candid
expire ssions on the part of the Northern
journals many others Of which comment
on the same lines That is the New York
Tribune which has been one of the most
rebid of South-hating newspapers. The
Tribune says practically nothing prob
ably because 1t feels sheepish. 1t dismiss
es the affair edltorally with this queer
paragraph: "A real, live 'nigger hunt in
New York! What a sweet boon to the
thugs, thieves and pimps of the Tender
loin, The morbid lust for blood, charac
teristic of degenerates of the Jack the
Ripper type. was gratifed to gorging."
The Tribunes statement would indicate
that New York has class that is some
what worse than is found in any other
part of the country
However, the lone of Northern COM
ment on the New York riot indicates that
the Northern critics are beginning to See
things in the proper light, -and 10 real
ize that, while lawlessness is to be CON
demned wherever found, there is no par
ocular section which is afflicted with
surplus of 1t.