The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-03

In the lynchings in the South. That is
the stock in trade in the chief material
istic section. The speculations and de-
nunciations are endless, and the bile rolls
in flood. Even Roosevelt, the hbertine
of the Constitution and executive crank,
tells Booker Washington that if he Is re-
elected he means to end lynchings at any
cost. When this blusterer puts end to
rapings OF virtuous white women in the
South. he will see the lynchlngs cease.
But he can never stop lynchings for rapes
so long as the sun shines ii he had an
army as great as that of Russia, mil
lion and a quarter of men. The recent
Ohio lynching of negro provokes much
comment in the North, and even in quiet
and calm Southland there has been
some criticism over the bloody incident.
1t was a case of unnecessary barbarity as
the law was ready to deal with the bloody
culpr;t. The Toledo (Ohio) Blade says
the authorities were either cowardly or
corrupt, and should be held responsible
for the great outrage. Not only dld the
gang lynch a negro who had killed
white man and a negro woman, but they
turned in and burnt out the negro quar-
tiers in the city of Springfield, Ohio.
While the Ohioans were hanging and
burning, the new Governor of Mississippi,
Vardaman, but recently so bitterly de-
nounced throughout the North for his
views of negro retrogression, all we'll
based and true, prevented lynching OF
a negro. He went himself to the scene OF
disturbance, and rescued the negro from
the vengeance of the mob by using
troops OF the Ohio incident he says,
that it shows the intensity of race preju-
dice even in the North. He says further
1T is a symptom of social trouble which
causes me to look with anxiety to the
future. The negro is increasing in Grimm
laity." Some fools in New England de-
clare that this is not true, but that the
negroes are advancing with phenomenal
rapidity. Rotten to the core and lie
from start to finish. Governor Vardaman
says further of the negro: Liberty is
regarded by him as license. The only
remedy is restraint and the enactment of
laws to suit his peculiar mental and moral
nature. Laws suited to the white man
DO not fit the negro. The Fifteenth
Amendment to the Constitution should be
repealed" The Episcopal Bishop OF
Arkansas is named Brown, and he is a ma
tive Of Ohio. He looks in his picture like
a man of mental vigor, and he talks cut
irrespective of prejudice and curses dire
and deep. He recently spoke in Boston on
the subject of the negro problem, and he
stirred the Yankees all over and deep
down. He is pitched into by the Episcopal,
Roman and other papers, and is scored
for his temerity, want of judgment and
plain speech. He has lived in Arkansas
long enough to understand Sambo, and
unlike ignorant Northern editors, politi-
clans and others, he sees him in his true
light, and tells the facts, and that rifles
the fools and stirs up the insulated hor-
nets. Bishop Browns opinions, as l see
them quoted in the New York Literary
Digest" are sound, well based, precisely
IN accord with the convictions of all sane,
rejecting, observing native Southrons. l
make a few citations from Bishop Brown:
THE Southern negro, although increas-
ing in numbers so rapidly, is not improv-
ing morally and intellectually"
ST do not and cannot believe that the
American negro has great future before
him."
Knowing the fatal tendency of African
blood to physical and mental degradation,
the Southern branch of our race has espe-
cially guarded against the induction of it
into its veins. The white women of the
South are pure. They are high-minded,
proud, spotless race of heroines."
"They (negroes) are, as a whole, the
most poverty-stricken, the most shiftless,
the most ragged, filthy, idle, worthless
and degraded of any people of whom I
have any personal knowledge"
'Anthropologists claim that the negro
race is at least ten thousand years old.
And yet it has never advanced beyond
the stage of barbarism, when left to
ITSELF
"The negro can never be qualified as
race to take helpful part in the affairs
of our Government"
"Lynching would pass away in three
years if it were not for that crime'-rap-
ing white women of purity and character.
These excerpts will do, and men of
sense know that they are well based. But
how they make the fanatics and ignora-
muses. howl and curse us in the blind
North.
Many people have heard and read OF
Rev. DR.. Parkhurst, of New York, man
of 'fuss and feathers" with a certain
kind of ability and much aggressiveness.
Some while back in the theological tur-
MOL of these latter times, this political
parson was keeping I'D his ecclesiastical
TRADES after the toplofty style of the
clerical jingoes like Mr.. Cert, Mr.. Briggs
and such like, and he attacked the very
fundamental doctrines of the very
church he was ordained to serve. To
show his qualities as a theological inter
prefer and critic, and how admirably
equipped this Doctor of Divinity is for his
assault upon the Confession of Faith OF
the Presbyterian church, the very arti-
cles of faith which he swore to abide by
in the conduct of his ministry and in his
daily life. one fact may be cited. He ad-
mits chat he had never read the Comics
sion of Faith" of the very church he
served and had sworn to abide by. He IS
a fine fellow for candid and serious dis
ctssion. He ought to join Dr. f. f.
Hale's church. and he might become his
successor rs Chaplain to the Senate. 1t
Is fragrant cot as to grave and imnort-