The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-06-23
En- Stakeholder on 6 6
g the Negro Question.
Extracts from an Ar
hcle by Colonel Bfns-
ham of North Caro-
Ina.

petitor OF the white lEt orer In many Fields
OF activity not occupied by him on his own
account as a slave lie has bccone a ,mr
nenter blacksmith, hrickmasop shoemaker
Ste, en- his own accpl MT; he has become d
contractor and builder, a merchant Nv
cry stable keeper n restaurant keeper, q
mail carrier aud mail contractor; he has
IN some eases become q banker a lawyer
= doctor; aud In all these occupations aud
white man THIS does not tend 60 Improve
the relations between the races. Aud the
WI S 9SSrSC Is taking se places EqSStea
both upw ard and downward, In these days
~ sharp competition between lahorers OF
me same rice leading sometimes to blood
she'd racial differences are greatly empna,
sized Aud this Industrial competition must
he reckoned with by the negro, who, being
no longer protected by the Southern white
man. must meet u ln his own name and by
his own innate power And can the negro
meet this competition successfully against
a race which hns extcrminated the Celt
and the red man. which has excluded the
yellow man and which has driven the
Fcenchman and the Spaniard or the North
American continent?
~
But tho most fateful and fatal thing TO
be considered In the negro problem is the
fact that the younger generation OF ne,
groes. already the most criminal class Ia
our population, the United states census
says. have developed manla--it can
|
| Ing white women. Those who live iQVl
miles from the jungles OF India may think
\ that the reports that Tigers come out trout
/ the lungles and devour hundreds q people
every year are exaggerated On the testf
mony ~ the tiger aud OF his kith and KIN
| they may doubt or deny the facts and may
! express great sympathy for the downuQd
/ den tigers when they are slNiu 'nagrantt
/ dellcio,' or are tracked to their lairs aud
/ put to death But those who live In the
! midst Of the terrible facts feel constant
a a AHA la ~ ~
| and they shuddor when he IS abroad with
/ his appetite Tor humuu blood excited To
| such fury that he loses all sense of conse
/ quences and Il need not be a matter or
! surprise Il a very short shrlft is allowed TO
! the Indian tiger on the banks OF the Gauges
or to the African tiger on the banks OF
! the Aliumaha, Aud II makes the assaults
OF the African tiger harder for the white
man Of the South 20 bear when even the
! women of bis own race at the North eX
/ African tiger en- the anks of the Altamaha
hut none for their Anglo-SGNun sister whom
| the African tiger has devoured, and when
n, c., says that the Anglo Saxon women
! are In cousioa with the African tgels
that deyour them.
And us long as the Anglo,saxon Is the
Anglo saxon this crime has only to touch
him or his and his feeling is the same
wherever Gods sun shines on him
t1hls view is strikngly verified 10y the
recent murder Of negroes In the race
riots In New York city, and the more re-.
cent hangipgs and hurnings OF negroes hN
mohs In Colorado, in Illinois, President
Iineoln's own state. IN Indiana, President
Harison,s own state, and IN ONO, Presl.
dent Mrklpicy's own state, the lynchines
ia rrhana and Akron, Ohlo, being attended
with unusual violence.
Furthermore, In 1852 there were lyuch
iugs Ia twenty. seven l2n states of inc
Union. scattered from New York 10 can
fornia on the north, and from virginia To
Texas on the south, In 1877 there We're
lynohlngs In twenty i've l20l states In on
sections nj the tlnionO
And this assaultiug of white women 10y
negroes is a new crime. II was almost
of the South LEFT their women In the hand'
OF the negroes aud went to the front II
the civil war with the feeling that ~
women were safe In the hands OF tic
slaves And they were safe, although ot
many plantations there were a hundred
negro men and not white man In mile
No woman In the whole South was ever
molestcd by d negro during the civil war
nor for number Of years after the war
During the Spanish war asked seyera
old Coufederates and tx slave holders In
several Southern States what the men OF
the South would do now II they were all
chilled upon 20 repel an INVASION which had
advanced n hundred miles from the coast
Every one said II would hp impossible &,
go, "But" said, 1T would be imposl
BILE not to obey the call OF patriotism
, negro males to The front With Nc and keel
, them there" "But." said, 1t would b,
impossible TO take them all or keep then
an "Then we would have 10 Kill then
ain before We started" was the reply fl
every case. Such a contingency can no.
arise In any human probability; but till
view of what II would necessltate II j
? should arise shows how the best people
, In the South and the negros best fiiend
feel about the African tiger who comes III
often from his lair 10 dcyour our women
| And 10 dealing with the black man TIT
! new fnctor must be reckoned With. on
OF the most Influential journals In New
York said nothing about the iynching o
Sam Hose In Georgia for about three
weeks; then after an investigation at frs
hands as conclusion was that the SAM
I thing would have occurred under slmla
! circumstances In any state IN the Union
! And the editor OF one OF the most In
/ huentia religious weeklles In the Contra
West who had been very severe ON IN
Southern people, went 10 Georgia In per
son 10 Investigate; aud, as reported by Rev
DR. a. J. McKelway In the Presbyterian
STANDARD In answer - g hS gaesbtioa eqt
dist church as 10 what he would do IN
J negro were 20 assault his wife or hi
0 daughter or his sister, he replied promptly
, ~ would Nil him II ! could" which state
, ment he modified several days later h.
I saying, "l would try 10 kill hun; but m
y neighbors ought not to let me do H."
! We delivered the African man over to th
. I nation IN 1870 ofueFiy, ialfly 4nouHttHOui
4 without vices. without disease. wfthou
! crime In the hands Of the nation he ha
i become dlsorderly, idle. vicious diseased
4 three times more criminal than the natly
while and one and a half times more erin
mai than the foreign white, eOnsstin
largely Of the scum Of Europe. he was on,
" third more criminal In 1880 than In 1SH
7 and his maximum crnIinallty and hl
p minimum lllteracy concur In New Englan
! according TO the United states ceusus
Y But II be goes out OF politics entirely
i so as 10 cease 10 antagonize his trie
, friends, and so as 90 cease 70 feel tina
. some mysterious power IN Washington wi
G support him In idlenesE and protect hii
a In crime; and II IN this frame OF mind h
cultivates the friendship Of those anon
l. whom he lives more kindly feNcept az
II politician and as a crimlnaD than an
Il where else IN the United States. aud vii
;, less competition than he would find an,
u where else on the face Of the earth, und'
d these conditions he may become ~ by IL
u gees for full citizenship under the san
y educational and property qualifications r
l. gLifed for white men ~ New England, "a
& FOR brown men and yellow men ~ Hawai-
n And when by intelligence and sobriety N
Il African man has won without blood N
A boon which the Anglo saxon has taken eel
I. turtles 81 mol and toll and blood 10 be pr
4 pared for the right ~ suffrage should !
\, made az inallenahle 20 the black man
m 10 the white man, for the white man "a
Il NOT AFFORD not 10 share his good thinl
y with tine brother in black who lives Z
- the same soil and Is protected by the san
y, flag There Is that scattereth and q
4 increnseth: and there Is that withhOldel
4, more than Is meet and IL tendeth to 20