The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-09-07

losing game and thus far have in
iured themselves far more than they
have the packers.
If President Roosevelt's letter OF
acceptance contains as many words as
reported few days ago it should be
issued as special edition of the Con-
gressional Record and the census OF
1900 might be used as a mailing list.
Not a single Republican paper or
magazine has a favorable opinion OF
John Sharpe Williams speech of noti-
fication to Vice Presidential Candidate
Davis. Evidently it hit the mark
aimed at.
The Cotton Producers Protective
Associations which are h-ing organ
lied in various sections of the State
contain the germ of great good to the
farmers, but, as with the Alliance.
the germ of practical benefit is likely
to be killed by political aspirations OF
those who assume the role OF leaders
in the movement.
Japan has secured absolute control
of Corea, although that country
will retain nominal independence
and must be treated with as an in
dependent power by other nations.
Japan has efectually shut Russia out
of Corea, and If the war is barren of
all other benefits to Japan, the posses
sion of Corea will 60 far toward COM
pansatipg for the cost Of the war.
We have received with good deal
of doubt the reports sent out from va
rious parts of Georgia, Florida and
Alabama that there is in those states
wide spread organization of negroes
whose purpose is robbery and murder
of the whites: but be the reports
false or true the publication of these
reports bode no good for the negroes.
That there is general organization,
controlled and directed by officers
from a central headquarters we seri-
ously doubt, for no negro with sufhci-
ent intelligence and ability to create
and direct such an organization could
be such fool-as well as such cold
blooded villian-not to know that the
result Of such an organization would
be the death and destruction of every
negro connected with the organization
as we'll as hundreds of innocent and
inofensive members Of the negro race
The majoriy of the white people of
the South have nothing but kindly
feeling for the negro race as a whole
and all the i'll feeling and animosity
that has developed in recent years
have, been the direct outgrowth Of the
evil conduct of the criminal and idle
members of the negro race. The
kindly feeling toward the negroes is
dependent, however, upon the con-
duct of the negroes, and if it be-
comes all established fact that any
considerable number of negroes have
banded together in a secret organiza-
tion for the purpose of robbery, mur-
der and worse crimes, kindly senti-
menU will vanish and the nergoes will
suffer III proportion to their miscon-
duct. There is place in the South
for the lava biding and Industrious
negro and they are safeguarded in the
enjoyment of the fruits of their indus
try. There is work for each and ev-
| cry one of them and not one negro
need be idle day in the year. The
trades are open to them and there is
mo discrimination against them on ac-
! count of color, as there is in the north
| and west. A capable negro mechanic Is
always certain of employment at re-
munerative wages in the South and
SO long as he is law abiding he has
no just cause for complaint of the
treatment be receives 1t is the idle
and criminal class that is responsible
for all the trouble between whites
and negroes in the South and if these
classes grow in numbers and vicious
ness the result will oe the increase OF
trouble between the races. II there is
any substantial foundation for the re-
ports that there are hundreds of Be
fore Day Clubs Of negro murderers al
ready in existence in the South WE
are at the beginning of troublou:
times. The whites may suffer greatly,
but the negroes will be the greater
sufferers in the end.
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