The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-05-13
THE RETALIATION OF THE GOVERNOR OF
ARkAN6AS

wrong. No State has the right to dump it's criminal
population upon another State Further, Governor
Davis action tends to stir up sectional bitterness For
this reason also it is to be deprecated
This action Of the governor of Arkansas is com
pounded partly of a spirit of grim jest and partly of
serious design of retaliation The retaliation is as
Governor Davis states because of THE expressions Of
sympathy of the citizens of Massachusetts, for what
they pleased to call the poor oppressed negro of
the South" Governor Davis declares that he desires
that the Massachusetts citizens shall have oppor
tunity to reform certain portions of the negro popu
ation of his State.
Although the governors injudclous action is con.
demned at the South, all Southern feel ire.
pressible sympathy with his motives, although their
judgment and sense of right condemn his action In
the minds of those citizens of Massachusetts
who continually busying themselves with the agi-
tatou Of the question should be dsabused of the
idea that the South to blame for the condition of the
negro. not unnatural resentment fills the heart of
every Southern at the attitude which is very com,
mon in Massachusetts, and New England The sin our
Yankee brothers are constantly committing is trying
to pull the notes out of our eyes unmndful of the
beams in their eyes
The negroes in the South have not been degraded
from condition of mental and moral equality with
the best citizens of Massachusetts by the oppression
of the South On the contrary by the help Southern
white men, the negro has been raised to what he is
from condition OF semisayagery, We have taught
him the Christian religion and much of our morality
as he will learn. We have taught him to speak the
English language and taxing ourselves heavily to
educate him Every legal and industrial right is given
him. lfe is upon footing of perfect equality with
except in two things required by the necessity of self
defense The negro is barred from social equality
which means mscegenation. White political suprem
acy is maintained in the districts whore it Is threat
ened by black majorities. We will not let the black
else he may do and will, and have helped him to
our utmost means
No people in the world not the people of
Massachusetts, would could have done for the
negro than the people of the South We have borne
the white mans burden other people has been
called to bear it. Instead OF the sympathy and help
that had the right to expect from the people of
New England, whose fathers blood mingled with our
fathers blood in the founding of this republic, and
whose fathers just much as our fathers were re-
sponsbe Tor the presence of the negro in this country
we have met with continued hostility, carping criti-
cism and unjust faultfnding and disposition take
the Negroes part against u.s. when the negro has
no quarrel with us, but appreciates what doing
for him
The Southern people continually enjoined to
refrain from sectional feeling. Let the Northern peo-
pie refrain from sectional feeling, and we will meet
them half way.
LooKiNG that denet in the It is difficult to under
stand why the ring wanted win the last election
they wished appoint one OF their pets to guard the deficit
WHAT Martinique needs is to be quaranned until those
crupuons have been diagnosed.
Now the island Of ST Vincent has burst
out in sympathy with Mont Peec As the said
his second moar began to ache Darn such sympathy
InF republican States cornered pretty nearly the
Federal buildings plum, OF coursel
Now Party of DISTINGUISHED sc;e,tis,s 40. o; .. NJ
Unique to study The volcano. They be looking for
hot time
No LIVING being the site of St Pierre in fact
they can not get within sight OF the site.
Ia rs too bad Prophet Smith ynched in Louisiana he
would have been delighted have predicted that volcanic
eruption.
Ma PlfssrNo, who the only of ST. Pierres 10000
inhabitants to escape death ought to buy lottery ticket
SrrE isn't all that the president has shown refusal
Of the decorations of the Legion Honor for Miles aud
Dewey.