The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-11-17

Ill MlSSlSSlppl. DuU even Uy puUUit
them back into slavery would not pl
an end to the negro criminality,
repeating the fifteenth amendmer
would not stop one outrage; negrot
J don't commit murder or commit on
RACES because the fifteenth amenC
ment is on the statute book, or b(
cause it isn't.
Now, my friends, this question
close to the heart Of the SOuthernel
and, understand me, | don't belrli
the immense growth. the overwhelmn
ing growth OF the race question, but
my friends, the political trend ha
been substantially settled SO far as W,
are concerned; there is great race
question; there is an industrial and I
chronological side. Why is it that
the darky seems to have changed, recur
ring to the nature from which he was
! taken? When taken out of the wilds
Of Africa and kept in slavery unit
there was SuperpOSed npon him We.
neering of white mans civilization,
but since slavery he has come out
from that to a certain extent. In the
Olden times the preacher of the negro
was the white man and now it is the
black man-the blind leading the
blind. His teachers in the present
school are always the black man---
again the blind leading the blind:
learning more and more theory and
less industry, and instead of advanc-
ing he naturally gravitateS back to
his inhuman inherent racial tenden-
cy.
mo race can ever aSSimilate and
completely absorb the civilization of
a different race. | doubt if a white
man ever lived who comprehended the
darkey, nor one darkey ever lived who
cOmprehended the white man. The
horse and the zebra belong to the
same genus, yet the horse is not a Ze-
bra and the white man is not a
darkey.
Now, my friends. l have practi-
cal mind. | thank God that / have
never been called a Sky-Scraper orator,
for two reasons, first because | don't
know enough about the skies to Scrape
them, and second. because l feel far
safer with my feet on the ground
Great applauSe). Now my friends,
what are you going to do with this
great race problem? l wish to God
could answer the question, with no
degree of self-aSsurance, but with any
reasonable degree of plauSibility or as
surance [ do know this, however, that
under the economies og God there was
never yet in the history Of the world,
rs far as the white race to which you
and | belong is concerned, a problem |
that it did not solve in a satisfactory |
Now. in my plebian way. l |
will tell you one cause for the increase |
)f crime, for the recurrence of the ne |
gro to his original state. He has been |
drifting away from the white man and |
ne lives more and more life Of his |
)wn, insulated from ourselves and |
our guidance. My friends, |
was reading a book the other day;
1on't remember the title, but | came
across this sentence, which struck me |
pretty profoundly, it was this: a
thought, good or evil, then an act.
hen habit suggests the law of hu-
nan growth. Most negro crimes |
comes from the negro vagrantS and
dlers, because 'idleneSS is the DEVILS
Workshop we must close all miSer- |
lble negro dives over the country. and
would suggest the execution of the
1agrant laws that you now have on
your books and have more passed with
,reater punishment. / would suggest |
he closing up Of every dive and low
)lace, which are furnishing the Grim
nails of the negro race. | would Sug-
rest as the next thing the plain, prac-
,ical means adopted in Canada and
Cape Colony - Cape Colony for
Ter negroes and Canada for her IL-
lianS-and that is mounted rural |
police, or cOnStabulary. Most crimes
ire committed by vagrantS and |
ramps, in rural precincts. because |
hey can escape detection and that is !
he reason why, probably, the victim
S generally killed. Now, if we have
police patrol, urampS and va
rants Will be kept IN eye ana more |
,asily detected, and under the eye of
police all Of the time. There
s hardly any difference between
southern and a northern mob, and be-
ore drawing difference, l will say
his, that it seems to me much of the |
for the most of crimes
,ught to be left to public wisdom.
Racial supremacy must be maintain
ID. and supremacy of the white mans
and the white mans ideals |
,refaces any code Of statutes. My
riends not all darkieS are bad. About
20 per cent. are going ahead and try
ng to be good citizens. In my opin-
on we should encourage the good
larkey to stay good. or get better,
md the next thing to do is to punish
he criminal darkey, and if death be
he only punishment commensurate
With the crime, deal it out. But the
larkey that wants to do right, and
AN be encouraged to do right, is, in
ny opinion no solution of this or any
,ther problem. All, my friends, the
,nly solution Of this problem is to
,hink more, and pray more, and talk