Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-12-16
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Ga. which has mortified readers < the daily press, may well give D. the north q shock, says the Minneap9 lis tNinn.1 Bellman. We deserve it and We need ii to awaken Us to q realization Of our responsibilities to our brethren of the south. \ race war. undertaken on the part of the whites in sacred defense of their homes. or an unlawful outbreak ill which the innocent and guilty of one race were alike sacrificed to the mad dened vengeance of another; consider Il either way, as you will; denounce 1t or excuse it; find pallation in the greatest prOvocations humanity can know or condemn the perpetrators as Eatrageous law breakers, you cannot avoid tht awful fact that the condi- tion which is responsible for it exists and must De reckoned with
 This dreadful problem presses for a permanet solution. The conclusion of the rebellion demonstrated, once and for all, that this was a nation. Being such, it's component parts must share responsibility for the mainten ance of order and justice within it's borders If the protection of women is not the supreme duty of the Amer jean citizen, whether he lives north CT south of the Mason and Dixon's line, then our country no longer de- serves to rank among civilized na- lions. If it is, then it is time that the citizen of the north ceased to consider the problem of the south as an acad- emic question to be discussed calmly and respectfully at a safe distance from the scene of horror and shame. It is his duty to come forward manfully and acknowledge his share of the :blame and assume his part of the burden.
 The north is even more responsible fer this overshadowing horror than the south Let it face the facts as they are and cease it's sloppy, senti- mental talk about the elevation of the negro race and the need of self-con- trol on the part of the southern eau casan Ethical considerations. fine for gradual elevation of the negro are not entitled to a moments consid eration when it is true that no white woman living in the south is safe for moment unless guarded by the gun.
 The north freed these negroes. It elevated them to citizenship and proclaimed them the possessors of equal right with the whites Previous to the war, slavery, accursed though it was, held them in subjection and restraintd the brutes among them, dHu tueN were lidllN, lloHl 'loIcHSc. Careless of consequences, the north Jet loose and encouraged them to achieve themselves equal in every thing 10 their former masters. Af- ter brief interregnum of carpetbag government, the conquerors retired to their safe, pure, protected homes. conura in tho kDOwladUa that tho Ia " was amply strong to protect them from assault and their women from dishonor. They washed their hands pf responsibility they left to the i'm poverished. defeated disheartened south the task of making the newly freed worthy of citizenship.
 Since then the north has contribut- ed largely of money to educate the negro It has sent northern teachers devoted self-sacrificing, well meaning persons, full of zeal to lift the once oppressed race to a higher plane. | has sy sympathized with and supported every scheme devised to benefit tht negro and has lauded to the highes skies every effort to create in hin social. political and financial aspira tions To the protest of the whit men of the south who know the ne gro and had to live with him. tha the methods chosen were wrong an
 mischevious and would surely resul in disaster. the people of the nort1 turned deaf ear
 The southern white mans eXaC knowledge of conditions was discred ited his advice scorned, his warning unheeded Although he had demon
 strated repeatedly his fidelity to tn restored union and had shown hi
 country in the field when the emel
 seney arose, he was deemed unwol
 thy of confidence in questions atfecl ing the negro. lie was told te el