Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-03-28

savage race? The Negro boy is sixteen
years of age. This white girl is thir-
teen years of age. From whence came
the appetites and passions of the savage
which have been found in her?
Here is another:
DAvY, w. VA, Feb, 23.- Mrs.
Walter Dykes is being hunted by the
authorities here. Her two children
were found dead yesterday morning,
having been poisoned. Rumor has it
that she administered the drug rather
than allow her husband to secure
possession of them. She and her hus.
band had been separated few weeks.
Will the editor Of the TMEs-DIsPATCH
explain this away? This is a white wo-
man belonging to race with centuries
of civilization behind it. IssAud here is
! another case:
FRANKFORT, IND. Feb, 25. = Earl
Woods, the I7-year- old son of promi-
nent farmer, seven miles west of this
city, last evening murdered his father,
| shot and fatally wounded his mother
and sister, and then committed suicide
The motive for the boys bloody crime
is not known After the shooting the
young man went to the home of q
neighbor and said that robbers had en-
| tered his home and killed his father,
mother and sister, and that he escaped
after a running battle with the despe-
radoes. He apparently was greatly
excited and said he was organizing a
posse to pursue his fathers Slayers He
stopped at another house and told the
same story. When he was questioned
concerning the shooting he became con-
fused and resented the inquisitiveness
of the man to whom he told the story.
He started away and disappeared be-
hind barn, when shot was heard.
An investigation discovered the youth
full murderer dying, with bullet
through his breast.
The Negro boy in North Carolina is
sixteen years Of age. This white boy is
seventeen years of age. From whence
came the instincts and passions and
appetites of the savage" which were
found in him?
We presume that the editor of the
TIMES-DIsPATCH is already weary, but
we will give him another dose and this
is from the columns of the TMEs-DIs-
PATCH of Tuesday, March 24th, 1908.
Here it is:
STURBRIDGE, MASS, March ga
frenzied mother in the little Hamlet of
Fiskdale, after cutting off every means
fof escape by fastening windows and
doors, crushed in the heads of her four
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into a closet, scattered oil over them and
herself, and then, after setting all on
Ilre, closed ner awIui work ana ner own
life by cutting her throat.
1t was Mrs. Peter Burke, the wife of
machinist in an augur factory, who
committed the fearful deed, and her vic
Tins were: Lila, six years; William,
1ve years; Louise, one and one-half
years, and May Rost, five months, old
respectively.
Gould anything be worse than this ?
Does not the crime of that North Caro-
lima Negro boy pale into insignificance
beside it? If he is type, what is this
white woman? "Oh," you say, "she
was crazy" And that is just what we
saying about that lone Negro boy in
North Carolina.
But when will the Negotiating edit
or of this journal cease his attacks upon
the defenceless citizens of color who
have committed no crimes? When will
he realize that the two races must live
here in peace aud that all attempts to
engender bad feeling are not only cruel,
but, in the sight of GoD, at least is
criminal?
We had hoped that some kind white
friend would exercise his restraining
infiuC ice upon this editor. and his per-
suasive power upon the other one who
used TO, some times at least, write kind
word about us and send forth a respon-
sive greeting. Oh. that a Mr.. JOSEPH
BRYAN would leave the privacy of his
own office and lend the sanctifying
magnetism of his presence to the edito-
rial sanctnm, where these Negro hating
articles are writtenl Then we would
have at least a temporary cessation of
this species of misrepresentation which
can do the great white race no good, but
the humble Negro much harm
Truth crushed to earth will rise again.
The eternal years of God are hers;
But Error wounded writhes In pain,
And dies among its worshipers. p"
MIR. ROOSEvELT'S PERSISTENCY.