The Tucson citizen., 1902-09-19
THE NEGRO PROBLEM.

The utter failure of the negro repub
lie of Hayti to maintain order and to
make and administer just laws, and
the reported determination of our gov
ernment to intervene and perhaps ul-
timately absorb the island in our po
litical system, calls attention anew to
the attitude of the negro population of
the United States.
A recent issue of the Boston Globe is
largely devoted, at least that part of
the paper given up to home news, to
accounts OF crimes in and around Bos-
ton the day he.ore by negroes. We
believe less than ''er cent of the pop
ulation of Boston is colored, and yet
the police of the city seem largely oc-
cupied with that small portion of the
population.
There were in the one issue Of the
Boston Globe, to which we refer. no
fewer than five articles, each with a
conspicuous display head upon it, tell
ing of murders and other crimes by
negroes, besides less conspicuous ar
ticles upon the same subject. "A pa
trolman at 1:30 o'clock in the morn
ing surprised a negro burglar in the
home of a citizen and was shot and
wounded by the negro and the negro
oh hC hn I'm a
town of Lynn, Massachusetts, a negro
who is described as a leader Of ''the
colored 400' of that city saw another
negro talking to his wife on THE street
and stabbed him in the neck. A negro
in Boston was at the same time fatally
stabbed ty his wife. A big negro ran
against white man On the street and
robbed him of his watch. Two ne
groes got into fight on an elevated
train the same day and terrified the
passengers by their violent and bloody
struggle and by their shocking Ian
guage. The same paper has a report
Of the proceedings of the National
Association of of Stationary Engineers,
where a resolution to exclude negroes
from member snip was received with
enthusiasm, and was later adopted.
1t will he noted that all the criminal
doings here noted took place in one
day in city which has not as many
negroes as a single county in the av-
crage Southern State. The Boston
negroes, too, are generally supposed TO
be the best of their race. For ten
years or more there has been a de-
cided movement of negroes from the
border States to the north, and as the
negro population in the north in
creases, we hear less and less COM
plant from that section of the treat
ment of negroes in the south. The
northern people are beginning to real
ize that the negro who gets into trou-
BILE in the south is not the meek and
long-suffering Christian martyr that
they used to believe him to be. And
as tic ASSlO lboNSS w l1C uOl ILL., Id(S
prejudice becomes manifest in that
section by violent outbreaks.
There have been negro lynching
mobs in the streets Of the greatest of
the northern cities. In portions of
Indiana and Illinois the negro is not
permitted to work or reside, but is
DRIVEN out of town by armed mobs,
and colOred schools, churches and
homes are wrecked. In Nebraska,
Kansas, Colorado and other States ne
groes have been lynched and burned
at the stake. In fact it is a we'll rec
ognized fact that lynching is no
longer sectional.
The north has practically abandoned
the idea that the States of the south
should submit to the domination and
government of negroes wherever they
happen to be in the majority, and sem
sible people in the north recognize
the heavy burden it is upon the south
ern whites to provide schools for the
vast non-taxpaying negro population.
The southern white Republicans are
trying tc exclude negroes from their
party, and ia, re is some reason to be-
lieve that they have the sympathy of