The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-26

 ton Post observes, Horace Greedy was wrong when hc thought the solution of the problem lay Tn the sending of satoss. sne V wendsll ndM 'ffdf 'Phiiips was ike wise away off when he thought the indicated elevation Of the negro was sending him to Congress
 The best remedy as developed py the cold-blooded facts of every day life is tc let the negro alone to be treated as the growth, expansion and progress p, the deve1opmental process of the hu- man heart and mind may direct me best of him will come out all right; the
 worst of him will go the way y or snd .ns the jails, penitentiaries and the gar lows.
 We give editorial space to this ar
 ticle. partly for the truths It contains and partly because it suggests some thoughts in connection with the same
 subject. few days ago we copied from The Kansas City Journal short
 article about bad niggers." and the duty of the better classes of the col-
 ored race to assist in controlling or punishing the bad ones. In our reading of newspapers from all portions of the country we are continually finding al- iusions to the bad niggers" who are to be found in all sections of the Union. It is noted that in all these disserta- tions the reference is always to the lowest members of the race; the thieves, the thugs. the crap shooters, the rapists---in fact, all negroes of bru- tai instincts, degraded lives and crim- final habits. These are the ones who are singled out and condemned as ''bad niggers."
 And they are bad. beyond doubt or controversy. They are menace to any community. As 8 general thing they are idle andI dissolute. Too lazy to work, too undependabie to obtain em- pioyment if they want 1t, they are lazy, vicious and dangerous. and are ever ready for any crime, from stealing fowl to murder or rape. They are not confined to any section or community. The larger cities are their haunts by preference, but they can be found in the rural districts as we'll and North as well as South. They are one of the re- suits and heritages of emancipation, ana apparently HUtnhu6 oot S".S' AAAe nation will rid the country of them But this class does not contain all the | "bad niggers" nor the worts ones. They are bad because of their ignorance. their vicious instincts and their brutal passions. The real bad and dangerous ones are those like Ida Barnett, the Fortunes, the Bishop Turner's and oth- CT educated negroes who devote their time and such talents as they possess to the work of creating discontent among the ignorant of their race, fill ing their heads with impossible ambi- tions and their hearts with blood hat red. Knowing that their dangerous teachings will be eagerly received and followed, where possible, these profess ed friends, but real enemies, of the me- gro race are continually fomenting and encouraging race hatred and melting vicious negroes to crime, safe them selves from the effects of their evil counsel, but bent only on rendering the colored masses more discontented, more ambitious and more dangerous.
 It is these negores, these educated members of the race, who should be foremost in teaching industry, honesty and obedience to both divine and hu- tbefore the less informed of their race and show them that there is a right way for them to follow--it is these who are really the bad niggers." When this Barnett negress advises negroes to put revolvers in their pockets, she has sense enough to know that she is also putting the devil in their hearts. She might just as well advise them to take torches in their hands to destroy the homes of the white people as to advise them to go armed with pistols. She knows that such advise is not only
 wrong in itself. but that it is dangerous
 to the people she pretends to be friend to. Let the negroes in any com
 munity follow her counsel and their ca
 reer will be short.
 Such counsellors are dangerous to
 the well-being of the negro and the peace of any community, and they are doubly dangerous because they feel themSelVeS saIe, at least as long as they confine themselves to Northern audi | ences. Free speech is sacred in this | country and as long as they do not go about advising actual violations of the criminal laws, they have little fear of molestation. If the masses of negroes could only be made to see it, the worst enemies they have are the negroes of
 the Barnett stripe, the "bad niggersr In high places