The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-11-17
Spirit of the Press.
! WHITE SOUTH AT ANY COST.


Atlanta Constitution.
The esteemed Boston Herald Is the
principal owner and exhibitor OF a cheap
imitator of Mr. Dooley. In his last Sur
day effort to say something funny he
wrote:
Our down trodden black frind has a hard
time iv it all round. Up here we don take
him home with us, or marry him, or SIND
him to congress, make a guvnor ~ INN
in the black north; but naythur do we roast
him, hang him, fill him full " lead
whin have dull day and the circus
doesn't come round, or becos he has job
the shupariOr race wants.
An honest confession is said to be
sanitary TO the soul and it ought to be
completely curative when it goes the en-
tire way. 1t is not necessary 10 tell us,
or to tell the negro, that he does not
get social, marital and profitable poll
teal equality in the north any more than
he gets it in the south. In the Carr
son country he gets a lot Of hp-syni-
pathy and when the fanatics want to
heat up they do it by stirring the emberS
of the race question. Nevertheless t3"y
prefer their dear colored brethren with
an apron on in Young's hotel than with
a Jim-swinger tanning the air IN the
capitol on Beacon Hill.
As to roasting, hanging and ead-i:l-
hing of negroes, our Irish lmitator OF
Washington street would do we'll to keep
posted. In the American Date Book"
published at Hartford, Conn, last year
we find some entries on pages l2S and
1856 which read as follows.
il741 New York negro plot suspected,
negroes and whites hung, negroes burned.
1929 Nov %, Pennsylvania series of riots
begin at Philadelphia between whites and
blacks.
1888 Aug. 1918, Pennsylvania, riots be,
tween whites and Blacks Connecticut. Pru-
dence Crandalls school for colored children
mobbed.
1919 Oct ., race riot in Philadelphia.
1900 Aug. Is, New York city, race riot,
several whites and blacks injured; Aug. y,
race riot at Akron. Ohio.
We charitably refuse space to enumer
ate all the cases, especially the lynch
ings at Ironton, Washington Courthouse
and Urbana, in Ohio, and the burningS
of negroes at LeavenwOrth. Belleyllle,
Wilmington and Danvile-the home Of
Dom Joe Cannon, speaker OF the present
national house of representatives.
The Herald writer, of course, did not
mean to omit these long accumulatlng
instances that dull days and dark night
are sometimes enlivened in the north
by men of like passions with ourselves
here in the south. He iust conveniently
forgot them and the make up editor did
not discover the lapses.
1t is about time, we should think, that
the northern inhabitant of a vltreoIs
mansion should quit the tomfoclery Of
heaving bricks at our glass shanties in
the south The question of white Su-
premacy in American governments IS
destined, in spite of all rage or rldicuie,
TO become a paramount national issue
one of these days. 1t is at all times and
in all places a question of good and re-
sponsible government versus ignorant
and irregular, even corrupt government.
That is the whole gravamen OF tire
question as it exists in the south.
We may be threatened with deieat,
non participation in potential government
OF the nation, and with all sorts Of ii
bald objurga tons, but none of these
things can move us away from the de-
termination that our .ocel' governments
shall not be made and managed by the
use of an ignorant, revengeful and n
responsible black electorate.