Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-08

good Judgment and patriotism of the
majority. Unfortunately, however,
the people, who, for the fret time,
had the opportunity to think and act
for themselves, deliberately and
courageously ignored the protest and
high counsel of the Bishop, and he is,
consequently, irreconcilable; though
the "angel of peace" aud the "horn
OF plenty" are abroad in the land.
"No ARlsTooKAoY IN CRIME"
The Bishop is doubtless earnest in
his error and sincere in his vagaries.
Admiration, homage and material
prosperity beget in the best of men
a lofty self. esteem, as we'll as impa-
tience of antagonism. He is man
whose learning is greater than his
vanity; whose usefulness is not de-
stroyed, though crippled by his rest
i've ambition and the turbulence of
his unripe political ideas. He mixes
a great many truths with the soph-
istry of his well dressed oratory, but
they are SO self-evident and 80 gene
rally accepted that they smack of
academic defamation, and amount
to a little more than play upon
platitudes. He says, for instance,
"the negro must be granted the equal
protection of the law" Of course
he must, and is. He says "there
should be no aristocraoy in crime"
Certainly not. But why emphasize
these and many other similar premi-
ses in a great public address, unless
such solemn utterances carry with
them covert insinuation that there
really exists in the courts of Missis-
sippi an "aristocracy of crime" and
that the laws are not equally enforced
against white and black alike? If
no such meaning ia conveyed, then
the orator has INDUCED in a great
waste of language. He says "the
white fiend is as much TO be dreaded
as black brute" Does he intimate
by this that bad white men are as
great menace to the honor of our
women az beastly negroes If not,
what does he mean2 He says 1--WE
have reason for real alarm at the
phenomenal growth of the spirit of
lawlessness." He believes that edu-
cation elevates the negro and dimin-
lshes criminality; let him through
the agency of thirty thousand negro
schools, maintained by white people,
eliminate the ghastly and horrible
crime of rape and lawlessness among
white men will vanish in night. AS
a renowned representative of the
Man of Galilee, he should strike at
the root of the evil. The outlawed
rapist has engendered all the mob
spirit of the South. The Bishop
says "I have it as my deliberate
Judgment that there is never an oc-
casion when the resort to lynch law
can be justified, however dark and
dreadful the crime" Absalom did
not await educ process of law" when
his sister was violated, but bade his
servants to "kill" the rapist, and
King David, though ga man after
Gods own heart" did not enforce the
law against Absalom. When the
Benjaminite, Gibeah, violated and
murdered the concubine of the
Levite, the children of Israel gath
cred themselves together and wept,
and asked counsel of the Lord and
"God said, go up against him, and
they went" Throbbing with the
spirit of a red handed mob they
event up against" Benjamin and
wiped him from the face of the earth
without educ process of law"
WHAT THE SOUTH HAS PAID FOR
NEGRO EDUCATION.
The Bishop says that education has
diminished the criminality of the
negro. Such an allegation is not
debatable. The actual observation
and sad experience of the whole peo.
pie of the South are entitled to
greater crcdence than statistics, or
the speculation of jealous, but theo-
retical theologians. The Bishop
says call the resources of the school
should be exhausted in elevating the
character of the negro, improving
his condition and increasing his
capacity as a citizen" He then
admits that the white people of the
South are supporting 10000 free
schools for negroes; that we have
expended of our own scant earnings,
in the last thirty years, 1925, 900, 900
on the education of the negro and
arc now giving him $7,500,00O annu-
ally. If this is not "exhausting" the
resources of the school, it is at least
"exhausting" the white mans trea-
sury; it is exhausting the toll and
sweat and patience of the laboring,
self-sacrificing white man, while it
limits the "resources" and impover-
ishes the honest and laudable aspira-
tions of his children. The Bishop
says "every lyncher becomes law
despiser and every law despiser is a
betrayer of his country" White
haired Confederate soldiers, maimod
for life in the service of their coun-
try; impoverished veterans whose
blood has been Tapped by the ensan-
guined soil of a hundred battlefields,
lashed into fury and desperation by
the agony of despair when beauti-
full young mother, with a cooling
babe at her breast, or tender, help
less, angelic maiden has been muir
dered and mutilated by demon of
dark damnation, have sometimes, like
the Israelites, taken vengeance into
their own hands and gone cup
against" the outlawed devil. Shall
men like these, under sach horrible
conditions, be branded and stigma
tized as "betrayers of their country"
by sleek, well fed, soft handed senti-
metalists, as they stand in the grand
coliseum of Southern homes and
Southern honor, and lift their hats
to the plaudits of Northern fanatics
We decline to offer an argument in
rebuttal of such calumny, but we
counter the cruel and unkind thrust