Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1906-09-29

NhS i0NC ScAAVuHtt all luct arc on
par with the murderons white mob
that has been guilty OF these bar
barous outrages.
The people behind the scenes who
are responsible for this bloody work
are not now in the limelight. They
are hiding benin the actions oil
others. The editor OF the Atlanta
News, who offered a reward OF one
thousand dollars for lynching in
this gateway TO the South is now
seen in a meeting held TO restore
confidence and TO check the pillows
of crime now sweeping over Atlanta.
Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., who has
also been a prominent figure In this
effort 20 bring on a real race war
with all Of its narrowing details is
now silent. The officers OF the law
have continued the. work 60 mod
flied extent OF slsughtering more
Negroes and in their senseIess zeal
are reported TO have placed two
schools under arrest with the off,
GERS of the same.
Among these are Rev DR.. ]. w.
e Bowen, one OF the ablest colored
men in this country. He is in
charge Of Cannon Theological Sem
mary. The other institution is
Clark University It is alleged that
colored people are being arrested
for having firearms in their houses
although the federal constitution
plainly says:
"The right to keep and bear FIRE
arms shall not be infringed."
These officials had no right to do
as they have done without first plac-
ing that locality under martial law
and then everything goes" So TO
speak.
There is a very gratifying spirit of
reaction now being manifested in
Atlanta and it may be that the sac
rifce male viii have it's benehcent
results. II will tend TO prove the
blowing OFF of the safety valve. SO
20 speak and thereby prevent a
! greater explosion in the future. 1t
viii also give colored people in 9TH
er localities an insight into condi-
tions that may confront them at
lany time. II they DO not take steps
70 meet it. their blood will be upon
their own heads. In such cases,
the liberal minded white men, who
are friendly TO us are for the time
being powerless and can 10 but lit
tie until after the first damage is
done
The latent feeling ia our favor
win now assert itself throughout
the country and it may be that the
temporary check OF the anti-Negro
agitation viii enable us 20 recuper
ate AMI prepare for the next. IL is
needless for us 20 condemn the Ne
gre criminal for all OF the leaders
OF color have been waging q syste-
matte war against him. He is the
lloEical product OF the white mans
brutality ana bestialty.
We shall continue 10 exercise our
selves in eliminating him for he is
really more dangerous to us and our
interests than he is 20 himself. The
white hoodlum is also a factor 20 be
considered and II the better classes
OF both races viii combine to re-
strict and punish both Of these ir
ritating elements. the prosperity OF
this section will not again be mater
tally retarded AMI the South held
up TO the scorn OF the civilized
world.
We have no doubt. but what the
Russian Ambassador at Washington
has cabled copious extracts from the
massacreing OF Negroes in Atlanta
TO his imperial master at st. Peters
burg, by way OF the Foreign Once
and all resolutions bearing upon
the Strengthening Of the Jews will
be answered by a cynival reference
to the revolutionary conditions now
existing in one of the leading cities
in the Southland.
II would be well to remark that
because about eleven Negroes fright
ened. and struck white people a mob
undertook TO kill thirty-dve thous
AMI other eolored people who were
in no wise responsible. But. such
are the ways OF the mob.
This brings US back 70 our origi-
nal proposition that the only way
TO deal effectually with a lawless
body Of this Kind. be it black or
white is to shoot the life out IL or
convince it that you are ready to do
it.
Colored men should not retaliate.
The country Will not stand for it
and the race cannot afford it. The
time to punish is when the lyncher,
the mOb-leader is about TO take
vour. Tifa XUha, tho+ Ill.,. - -