The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1901-04-13
RACE PROBLEM AGAIN
Has Bodied Up in the North, Says
Bill Arp.
A Free Born Son 81 Ham Declares In
q New Book That There Is NO
Good in the NeErO-PhiIOs-
Opher'H Comments.

Opher'S Comments.
The race problem has bobbed up
again at the north. Hon. William
Hannibal Thomas out-HerOds HerOd
in his denunciation of the negro, and
the New York Sun seems to indorse
him. Thomas is a negro freeborn in
Ohio, but came down to South Caro-
lima and served in the carpetbag legis-
lature during the reconstruction
period and afterwards held judicial
Office, and says in the preface to his
book that he has been studying the
negro for 80 years, and is more and
more confirmed in his opinion that
there is no good in him-neither So
cially, morally, industrially or polit.
iCally. His remarkable book has re-
Gently issued from the ~well-known
press of the Macmillan Co., in New
York, and the New York Sun devotes
a good part of a page in reviewing it.
The author says the race is slowly
but surely degencrating-that the
negro is by nature n savage with an
Unborn ferocity and knows no such
emotion as merCy-that he is a beast
in his domestic relations, and will sell
the virtue of his wife or his daugh-
tiers and lose no social position
among his people or in his church.
That the negro preachers are the
worst of the race. They stalk into
negro ~sanCtuaries, OvershadOw the
pews, invade the precincts of do
mestic life and dcspoiI the family and
yoke virgin innocence with brazcn
guilt. That the negro churches are
debauChing rendezvous. That negro
religion is a farce and worthless to
reform or regenerate them, and the
most heinOus crimes are committed
by those who read and write and are
members of negro churches. lie says
that the negro is a brute in the COM
mission of crime, and is n craven
coward after it is committed. and
when caught and punished bellows
himself a martyr, and II he escapes
the gallOws would repeat his crime
with 10 sense of wrong doing. He
has no conception Of virtue or truth,
no fear Of he'll or damnatiOn, but
with the hangman's rope around his
neck is going straight to Heaven.
The author mildly condemns lynch
inn for certain ortra cos not bocors,
it is cruel or ILLEGAL brt bcco,so g
does NOT dotor otbor rorr,os frou,
similar O~utragcs. He saws, however.
that he has NOT vet fouDd that an j..
noccnt man has avor hoon I,.naha1
He advocates force nc tho oDir Droo
teal rcmodv for Tho Dorro
controI-subicction 70 ~ ,,,hf+o uaa,
NOT in q state of sIororr haE.
the war but in ono ~ to- aua ~
dieDce He roos s+iII t,r.ba-
~supoests tho -evtormino.iaa ~
ferior elements NJ tho raoo Laao,
il is better to bava iDdi,il,aT
termination than rooo ov+;aa.:oH
Ru+ sDace forLi5s n - I.
stbanos ,,5 uaaso- ~"
book was written INV , aoaua - NV
north and that a roDrtobIo nrh1;sb
inc bousa would obonaraa ~
northern DoorIo on5 H.
edi+or ,ybo bos haa.
vaore 10 nDoo,iz "''
DIa about 10 100 sL.,IJ P."
| This booL bis o,ogi iaJa.a 7'0
what doc al +L;a
know tbo+ tbov ala -. we
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torrm ~ ron,bIia.I o3: T""'-
;s behind tbis no,, ~ WHIT
An arar+ has rooon.If'
| toyyn dis,ribntiDr sonra.t J." our
,bor+ q D.r hooI- 49,. > ".%'S
lorfs in v,biob ~ 3" 81
the nerro is Looat ~ '""'
move Il NV aRfbIa ,LaT .'Ies 10
tfAc rasoorcb Tbis LaaI. " ~ SCREEN
vivaI of a fornor boaIl noTS5 ""I q re.
and unfinished oboTt On Ca,.,G NI'eI,
is Refreshing ~ oI5 n"'S ago u
70 he q broTd now doo.rf. ~. seems
and has the i-ndorsamon, 80 up "o''"
nreacbers and corIeaa nroC =, -"D''Io"S
preacher mn in vairoF -or- 49,. oDS
had baan T.rittaD Al ,oa " IL ii
would have baaD no oi,;r ,r'!'
DaonIa would not bova '"Ti'
frea6om of lot of Leasts l"e
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