Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1906-09-26
THE ATLANTA RIoT.

fOllOWlng mOnt0h OF teTrOF, over
score OF assaults upon defenseless wo-
men and season Of disbOlical crimes,
Atlanta arrived ~ the crucial stage
Of her crisis last Saturday night, when
with an anger that was Just, many of
her citizens joined in a war against
the negro population, killing many
and sounding more.
This Atlanta misfortune will occupy
The center NJ the DewspapeT Stage for
the coming several weeks. There will
he pxpresions ~ regret on the part OF
the press Of the South, mingled with
echoes OF condemnation which vill
come this way from the newspapers OF
the North, where experiences with the
negro population have not sOftened
the hatred commodities in that part
of the United States have held for the
South
The Sun regrets the occurrence. az
every fair thinking man in the South
doe. lis a calamity for Atlanta,
and really calamity for the South.
II Ia great pity that the people OF
A tlanta could MT have found a better
and leS life-destructive plan TO have
rid their fair women OF the curse
which seems TO have been settled upon
them, fastened there by black brutes
whose boldness and criminal persist
ency had made the life Of the women
OF Atlanta one Of terror. and who had
forever blasted the lives OF many pure
and noble women OF our Southland.
But The sun does not condemn with.
out a thought for what led up TO the
rioting and the killing OF the negroes
In Atlanta Saturday night. While we
r'glrd II 80 unfortunate, and ne u ca
lamity, We are inclined to calmly and
dlspa Sionately view the incidents NJ
the past months and couple them with
the reports, authenticated, Of fonr at.
tempu upon women in the outskirts Of
the oity, and At their very doors in less
than that many hours. IL 10 human |
to Judge Others by ourselves, though it
IL not perhaps proper thing to do.
But In this cAse II 10 generous. What |
would Gainesville do in q similar case.
Would the men OF Gainesville. after
having exhausted all civil means, Ap.
pealing 10 the Law and standing for its
endorsements, AZ Atlanta did for
weeks, srill seek redress from their
grievances. when they had been con.
fronted with four assaults upon their
women in less than that many hour?
No power on earth could sllay their
anger, no appeals to their good sense
lesist them in their determination to
have combined and by violence sought
10 put an end 10 outrages OF this char.
acter
IL there 10 any fault to be placed At
he door Of Atlanta in connection with
lhis unfortunate affair, II IL TO be
placed there because Atlanta has
been harboring too many worthless
negroes and has been permitting
hem TO have too great 4 swing in their
lives NJ Incidence, vagrancy and crime
The rreUs Of Atlanta had taken this
4 question up In n vigorous manner inr
The pact several weeks, and had called
upon the police to close the numerous
negro clubs, where immortality, gam.
bling and ali kinds Of helli,hness has
been going on. Liberty 10 one thing
and license another, aud We are con.
strained To believe from the reports OF
her own papers that the negro popula.
ton has been granted too much Il.
sense IN Atlantis They have been per.
miied 10 eonRrseAte aud plo, against
the whites At their hearts cunten,
Let ne hope the end has come Like.
wise let ne hope thA, the be,, ludg.
mrnt Of both whites aud blacks will
prevail aud put an md 20 the frudi.h
crimes from which Atlanta Ia. .ut.
tered
II the nrgro viii ceAse protsct,rg
the 'rim'uSi members ~ hs race ana
Joan the whites Ia meiiug out punish.
ment 90 tho'c who prey anon defense.
less women there will he nn n.,a.,,,, I