The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-09-08

the position q the early South than the
present status q the negro question? W
q the p~ost-bellum period Of the South
were long half distraught On this subject
ourselves, being innoculated with the xI>-
icnary views OF the ab0it;oni>t. but noW
We see clearly that the attitude Of the ola
south towards the negro wa founded n5t
only on the %soundest wisdom. but on TIE
broadest humanity for both races. And
the world IS fast falling in line with u,
il this respect.
But colonization or segregation probab-
IS possible when the negro il Amcric.
numbered much less than one million. ana
when the men most interested and be,t
Informed on this subject controlled the ,l-
ton, Is utterly impossible now when the
negro in our midst have increased 10 over
nine million, and the Southern influence
in national affairs Ia. grown weak and
prejudice strong against her. Beside, that
the negro laborer and his white employer
at the South would now oppose the whole
scheme Of colonization.
1t IS a waste Of time and energy to
lay plans to do an impractfcable thing or
to do a practicable thing III IN imprac-
ticable way. Separation On account If The
yastness 81 the undertaking and the oppo-
sition likely to be offered by both races.
seems III its entirety utterly impossible
and chimerical.
Yet while the evil cannot be abolished
entirely, It can yet be lessened, restricted,
and that. too, on lines in conformity with
Southern policy from the beginning. The
whole negro race cannot be colonized. but
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transported. This viii not only inure to
the good OF the whites, but even more Il
the negroes themselves. For what race
would not be benefited by wedding out
and separating its worst ana most vie
ious element. l believe that the best Gle.
ment among the negroes would heartily
approve Of this measure.
Even this measure would encounter
great difficulties, but it seems infinitely
more possible than general separation.
AS Il rule the potential rapist among the
negroes belong to a clearly specialized
type, easily recognized by the obscrvant.
He IS of the lowest order of intelligence.
The offspring Of criminal parents, a Grim
inal himself from the start, gradually as
cending from small misdeeds to great,
until opportunity Offering he perpetrates
the highest crime of all. The t~ransporta-
tion of this type as soon as the hopeless
criminal bias is discovered would do fan
more than all the lynchings to abolish
this insuffcrabIe evil.
Az a more immediate and probably prac-
teal remedy we would resort to stringent
.yagrancy laws. ~stringently enforced. These
laws would work good to both races. 1t
Is the idle mind that e~ngendcrs evil and
the idle hand that carries it out.
Great restrictions should be placed Oh
the sale of intoxicants to negroes. Tho
sale of cocaine and other debasiye drugs
must be prohibited under penalty severe
enough to cifcctually deter. In this IN
stance, as III countless others, the white
man places within the reach OF this weak
minded race the means to ~dcbauchcry
which it is powerlcss to resist.
It has long been clear to my mind that
! some method of State tutelage is ncces-