The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1901-04-13

q negro for years. The chain gang et-
fects no reform and dOeA not last six
months. But the average negro doe0
not need corporal punishment often;
he needs a boss.
Thomasis right when hedeclares that
they are getting worse instead OF bet
ter, especially in the towns and cities.
Read the Atlanta papers and ask the
| Atlanta police. Ask Judge Broyles to
compare the records OF his court. Ask
the judge and solicitor of any court
They are growing worse everywhere,
except on the farms and plantations,
where they are controlled by land
lords, who are nearly as much their
masters as in the olden times. If they
don't use physical force they exercise
a will power that exacts the utmost
obedience. The landlord is the boss.
Thomas is right when he asserts that
they have no conception Of domestic
virtue and morality. They seldom mar
ry according to law, but just take up
and quit when they feelIikeit il.
There are more negro children in
this town and every other town who
are born out OF wedlock than those
who are born in it. Neither man noR
wife nor church member loses caste
for notorious intfdelity to the marriage
relation. As Thomas says, most Of the
preachers are on that line. E~ightnegrO
preachers are now in our state chain
gang and as many more in the county
gangs. l asked a negro the other day
what they turned their preacher OFF
for, and he said ut were for some on.
reglarities.' Some of our negro school,
teachers get the same reputation and
have to step down and out. We had
one here a few years ago who was high
ly educated and wrote a beautiful let
ter, but he got to kidnapping little
things and ran away in the night and
didn't stop until he got to Africa and
was made a bishop.
But Thomas does not tell US how to
e~Xterminate them, nor where to draw
the line between the inferior classes
and those who shall be allowed to live
and multiply. He eXhausts his indigna-
ton without defining the mode and
manner of the remedy. I suppose we
might transport the men and boys over
to the Philippines and turn the army
loose upon them, but that would be ex-
pensive, or we might drive them out
west and let them starve to death or
be killed off by the Indians. Any way
would satisfy Thomas if it extermi-
mated all the bad ones. We are doing
reasonably well on that line, for be-
sides the lynchings for the usual crime,
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we have retired about 5000 to private
life in the chain gangs of Georgia and
$4,000 more in other southern states.
That amounts to a partial eXtermina-
ton and is better, for We get their labor
during the process. We ought to take
up every trifling vugabOnd and send
him there, for idleness is the parent Of
vice and crime. II he had done some
thing, send him for doing it, and if be
hadn't done anything, then send him
for doing nothing. And as for those
snatch thieves who are pursuing and
robbing the ladies of Atlanta. I
wouldn't send them to the chain gang
until they had been whipped once q
week for a month. Force is the thing
the force Of a COwhide on the naked
skin. That is the remedy for black and
,hia. D9'l a. Z, ~ ne',"eF " snatch
"o 0"n III IoUOeI oaItS 10 sop
- "e9 hurry through 10
ano..sl S'"IT "HeFe mere IS no whip"
Pug Po9'' ""'H we Bt' 'egISIa'uFe
nu, ""S Eo' "'sDouI Il mora! courage
mug" - eN'e'"nIn"'e ine oogs n
~ s"eSP '"e9 VIII EeeS'aDIlsh
'rP'"5 pO,,'
""' """u' the h'aS'y DOCK mat says
me negro mas no soul; IsuPPoseitw was
""nU'"t'uFed 20 sell and fool some
uoCH' ~ my Niger hob once said to
'''oo' F't'mah' Ehen a white man
So' d soul ana a nIgger hain't got no
SOUL NOV" ABOUT me..ateF' Ihatwas
a conuh"rum. Anc how about the In
o'onS ana ChineSe and Cubans and the
ARABS HOW much coloring does it
take 10 EeFmlnate a soul? How about
Such hlgh-minded phi.anth-opic ne
EFoeS as hooker aShington, President
ouncI blshop Gaines, Bishop Turner