The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-03-31
NEGROES ARE STIRRED UP.
They Do Not Want to Be Held Re.
SpOnSibIe as a Race
FOR THE ACTS OF DESPERATE VILLAINS
What the New Orleans Blacks Arc Doing
to Get Rid of the Worthless
Element.
New Orleans Tlmcs-Dcmocrat.
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New Orleans Times Democrat
"Go to work for living"
quit loahng around the corners
stop looking upon n policeman as a
common enemy
"lf an officer attempts to mako an arrest
do not resist or in any way Interfere with
him"
Respect the law and the officers ~ the
law, and quit shielding negroes who are
guilty of criminal olIcnses
Help the authorities to sustain and en-
Force the laws of the city aud aid in the
detection OF crime and the punishment of
criminals
flight the dives and deus and begin the
hEht tor the negroes moral elevation around
Che ncgro's own hearthstone,'
During the last few weeks tho more
prominent negroes Of New orleans have
been taking an active aud enthusiastic iu.
terest ia the matter OF Supprcssing law
neSS among negroes In this city. anu IN
substance this is the advice they have
G'ych members OF their own race
hedlY the negroes who are thounhtTul
enough 10 weigh the gravity of the sirun
ION nave come To the conclusion thar IN
'hSse fragments OF advice they mud me
only solution of the problem which now
v"mronls the negro race. In what mas
peSu sald ny the more prominent negroes
~ N''N '*'it'Nn lAlcttluAN NflI IN THIS
mere Is probably portrayal Of the renl
/ character OF the Negro as TAR as MIS- ~.
yHaos'r status Is concerned The evil.
uehcv offered ny the negro against MIA own
race has probably been tribe more vitrtoi-
lc man anything the white man has -uiL
annut ths primitive element of American
society.
these facts have como M during wnat
may he called the hearthstonc of the raec.
inc negro has been lccturug the negro
on how to I've and how TO merlt the re.
Spect aud receive the protection of the
white race. "Quit loadng around street
corners and In low dives was the way a
hard working negro layuan put it at n
meeting ia negro church on second
street several days ago, and another speak
er along the samo line told the negro wo.
men 10 quit packing food and other Things
10 worthless negro NagaOondS who fol- IN u
IN" hands OF the police. 1t Was openly de,
Jared that money earned by the honest
EFFORTS Of hard working and Industrious
negtocS was sQuaudered In an effort to
take care Of the worthless eeovnt ana
dehcacieS which are unknown Ia Lhr aver
age negro home are handed to culpritS auu
NagHhonds behind prison bars 'Oun feed.
ing these Niger Migrants, said an Indus,
ulons negro nj a recent meeting "Quit
carrying food and money 10 niggers VINO
get in Jail. aud they Will auit going 10
Jail and 20 To work for living"
The police of New Orleans aave enmc
"a tho conclusion that the negro whose
hands lave Softened In dlcness would
rather be Ia jail than be on the outside
While le is Ia Jail he generally fares bet
ter He gets more to eat, for sympathetic
women are carrying food 10 him am the
! time, on the days when they are allowed 10
/ enter the prison. Probably many OF thp
| hardworking negroes IN New Orleans are
/ forced 20 live more scantlly because a part
/ OF their earnings Is spent every week IN
! providing negro Migrants and negro chi
| rrits with such delicaeies as might he nost
1 pleasing 70 their palates. Al least this X
/ the negro's statement OF the ease and mo
| police are Ia position to partially snh
stanilate this view OF the matter
The negro meetings have been so freouan,
during the last few weeks In New Orleans
/ that they have attracted considerable mil.
lie attention, and the frank confessions ~
the races weakness and shortcomings haye
probably placed the better element Of ma
race in closer touch with those OF eau
caslan blood. and for this reason he mas
4 probably commanded a sympathy which ~
I never had before. The last meeting heId
/ az the colored Baptist church In Second
! street. was typical and the preachers mil
laymen who had gathered there admitted