The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-09-15
Irresistible Deductions.

we print In another column COM
4 1nunication from Sussex correspondent
calling attention to n negro organization
\ In that section, Which, By confession, was
formed for the purpose Of arson. 1t is
Known rs ''The Rough Riders, and our
correspondent naturally associates It with
President Roosevelt. who has given the
negro both social and political recogni-
H ton. s4 fl
Much the same point was recently made
Il BY the Mobile Register, = Northern news
81 paper had said: T&
ow we may expect to hear the same
\ old, tiresome story that Mr. Roosevelt is
responsible for this new outbreak Of
4lynching in the South
The Register replies:
s..Snce Mr., aRoosevelt's practice Of So
cial equality with negroes, he has inspired
& in the more ignorant of them the hope
a that the time of their social emandipa-
ton is at hand. Foolishly, these negroes
Imagine that the President will in some
way give them recognition and force the
Southern white people to follow his ex-
ample This has changed the thoughts
md demeanor of very many Of the un-
educated darkies. They have become big
z headed, presumptuous, anxious to assert
themselves.
suppose a man should find field of
dry flax and thoughtlcssly cast fire.
brand into it? This is what Mr.. Roose--
y Welt did do you not believe It? How
else will you account for the facts?
When in the history Of the South
y has there been such a carnival Of hideous
IL deeds committed by negroes, and such
Y almost licensed lynching as since Mr..
Roosevelt adopted his attitude Of equal
ity toward the negro? What other eN-
PLANTATION can he given to this sudden
II appearing frenzy We leave 1t to any
thinking man to answer. In our opinion
"A sober. carefully considered opinion
Z Mr.. Roosevelt is the author Of these
woes"
The Mobile Register is Just and con-
servative newspaper. 1t is not given to
day dreaming, and 1t is incapable of do
ing President. Roosevelt a wilful wrong
III expresses an opinion which amounts
IL a conviction. Our contemporary knows
the negro we'll, and knows how easily he
4 is influenced. 1t knows that he Is a
nationalist; that he has little respect for
state government. but that he lays great
store by the Federal government and
Il locks upon the President rs a king-much
as the President now In office looks upon
Z himself. Our ..conteH1porary knows, as
all Southerners know, that the negro
masses have ever been most insolenl and
X turbulent when the Republicans have
heed in control of the government at
Washington. We have no doubt whatso-
ever that President Roosevelt's conduct
towards the negro has had an Influence
for evil upon the negroes of the South.
and is responsible. in some degree at least
for this increased deviltry TO which the
Register refers.
1t would be contemplate. not to say
criminal, for any newspaper to make
such deductions. falsely. for political ef-
feet, and far be IT. from us to do such a
thing. But the conclusion Is Irresistible.
and 1t Is the duty of Southern newspapers
10 emphasize IT,
But the remarks of our correspondent
Z ana The remarKs OF The Register lead
4 back, after Ill. to the subject which VIC
have of late been discussing In these col
umns-betler police protection Cor the
rural districts Of tho South.