The age-herald., 1901-08-31
1No6S 0nd ANa1clsy Pgt Race
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facts of the social situatien in the South.
 No nsat who has fi0t come iH contact with wf1its public opinion in tho South; no man who 1ies not seen the eolofed masses of the South as they afe eaff form 5nde- fnent of the esitfc9I situatlefi. Of Of ths remedies fer t that Is Of the slightest value. These gre tile two factors ebOve aii others that cannot be ignored. The white men Of the South, from the erad- tate of the University of virgfnia 10 the "crscker" who has fever seen q primer, are unit fiji their belief tEat offenses against white women by eoiored men carry with them pollution that plaess thern in different and more terrible ca4e- gery from an offsnse committed on q fel- low-rnennbcr of orc race. The white man whose victim is white. the coiored man whose victim fs colored, stands fin q dif- ferent class altogether to Southern eyes from the colored criminal the object of whose brutal passions is wfite,.
 To the white men Of tho south the cues ton often turns on the first law Of nature, They are in many places & handful Of the higher against thousands Of the lower race. The fear of the na,neless evil shal- ows their lives. It even circles the out skirts of Southern cities, the national cap- ttal itself not excepted. There are breezy hills and pleasant mc2ds around Southern cities where no white man builds because if he put his home there he could not be at peace at his business, his thoughts being haunted by ''the black terror" Northern people must not in fairness to themselves, in fairness to the Southern whites, lose sight of such considerations as these, which they will touch If they go farther South even than the Maryland boundary.
 Southern whites, while united in consid- ering certain crime atroclous of itself, more atrocious when committed by ne- gro whose victim is white are by no means all advocates of lynching. They have given many instances of opposition to local mob sentiment that are simply heroic. Nor are all the southern blacks like the colored people of the north. Tns southern black is improving in educa- ton, thrift and character undoubtedly. but among the colored masses of the south there is an element of brutality that nothing but education, Christian sympathy, guidance and forebearance can eradicate or even subdue. The northern negro IS ambitious, smart, industrious and serylcabe. He likes to dress we'll and will save ana labor for his clothes. He Is sober sort of a man, quiet and respect ful, anxious to show himself as good as white folks He woaid not feel al all at home if suddenly transported to one of the southern black belts;'' he would not stay there long: for he could not endure his colored neighbors, and 1t is doubtful if they would endure him. To his enter prising and industrious spirit, many of his new neighbors would appear slothful, contented in their rags, low lived and vicious.
 If we would see the southern negroes as our vision the few thousands of colored people found in every northern city. Let us do all we can to help raise the south ern whites to a civilization that shall make lynchings as rare in the south as they are in New England, but let us not close our eyes to the fact that we must uplft the colored masses of the south also f we would forward the so- luton of th's dangerous problem
 < c ss-s-~ q ~~,..-.-s-s-ss-s-yr murders; the Northern pot is too black to Jeer at the color of the Southern ket- tie. To speak frankly, in the South there are signs of growing spirit of toier- ance, moderation and control. In Geor- gia, the Southern people under the most severe provocation controlled their pas- sions and permitted the law to take it's course on two recent occasions The most respected citizens no longer partici- pate in these lawless affairs But at the Worth not only is the contagion of cruel " spreading, but there Is clearly in the great state of Illinois and Ohio an in- crease of that deadly race prejudice whose worst exhibition is found in inc horrible antics of brutal white mob