The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-08-31

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shnrs ~ 4 desperate club were arrested
near salem, Ga, for attenptin TO enter
the house OF Mrs. Maggie Plot. One OF
tho members of the gang confessed that
The negroes OF the community had organs
lied FOR the purpose of nurdering, rob-
bing and burning.
< negro man OF Bullock county, Gas,
uas taken out OF his house Saturday Mig ht
BY a mob ot five men, carried TO- the
woods, viii I'd and shot. II Is not sta tat 9
what crinis he had committed, but. "
goes without saying that he had been been
guilty Of some crime.
"A negro was lynched at Laramie, Wyo"
on Monday night for attacking white
girl and slashing her face and arms With VII
a knife. 4,
a negro youth living at Montross, West est
moreland county, Va, shot and Killed * 2
white boy. Il si,s3
In the city OF Richmond a negro ma ms 2 !,
was fined in the Police Court for beat
ing a negro woman. &. "a
Another negro was fined for being e :s
tremely dsorderly on the street.
Another was fined and Jailed for shoot
ing man.
Still another negro was fined Tor shoot-
ing In the corporate limits.
X IN the same papersmention was made mad
OF the death OF Benjamin T. Wright,
n respectable colored man of the old issue.
He was a trusted employee Of spicer,
sons and Company, and 1t was said OF
him that while he lived he was highly
respected by both races.
1t is perfectly clear from this. II the
proposition needed to be demonstrated,
that 1t Is the bad negro who is giving
trouble, and making the race problem,
and melting the whites to acts OF law
lessness In dealing with him, whereas
the good negro Is getting along COM
fortably and enjoying the respect and
good will Of the other race. In view OF
these simple facts. It is amazing to us
that the great body Of good NEGROES do
not join heart and hand & WITH the grea,
body OF white menGinS an endeavor 70
suppress the bad negro, who Is mak n
the trouble for both races. Instead OF
that negro paper in this community
urges the bad negroes TO resist arrest; TO
shoot and to kip the officers when they
attempt to bring them to Justice. The
negro problem IS largely q pro- letn OF
the negros own making, and we say It
without prejudice or without any disposi-
ton to palliate lynching. When the
negro conducts himself as "a brute he
must be expected to be treated as a
brute. He cannot violate the laws OF
God and man, and even the laws OF ma
ture, which the brutes themselves OBJ
serve, and still expect to be treated with
the, consideration that belongs tosa human
being N "
Ing the brutal negro with any appeal
to reason. for there IS no reasonable hope
Of reaching him by any appeal But E''.. there here
are many good negroes; there are many
negroes who are open % argument. who
conduct themselves as good citizens. and md
who ought to have as little sympathy as
the whites with the brutal members OF
their race We say to Il all such negroes
that they must withdraw their sympathy
and support from the lawless element Of
their race and unite with the whites IN
running down the brutes and bringing
them to Justice, II they would differen-
tate themselves from the iaWless class
and be a respectable and respected ele-
ment in the body polite. Brutal negroes
are lynched, not because they are ne
groes, but because they are brutal. 1Ae
negroes who conduct themselves as de-
cent citizens arc treated with decency
and consideration. and every negro knows
that statement to be true. It is high time
for all decent negroes to cut loose from
the brutal element and assist the whites
in eliminating as far as possible that
element from the body polite.