New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1906-03-03
NEGRO SALOONS.

of our crime is committed by men in
state of intoXication, is too well
known to require any argument to es-
tablish that fact, a glance over the
papers Of our country readily reveals
this fact 1t occurs to US that those
who produce these criminals by deal
ing to them the fluid which sets on
fire the brain of the animal and starts
him out like a raging wild beast to
prey upon the helpless and innocent,
should in some measure be controlled
III thesselling of liquors to these per-
sons. There should be a regulation
prohibiting the saloon keeper from
selling liquor to any person showing
intoxication, were this principle en-
forced it would no doubt have q salu-
tary effect in decreasing crime, as the
victim of strong drink would no longer
have his sensibilities deadened by
liquor, and all moral consciousness
driven out, leaving only the animal
instincts to lead him to deprayity and
crime. These horrible crimes com
mitted by the negro are accelerated
and suggested by drunken condition
produced by the hell broth furnished
him at the saloons. On the saloon
owner rests a fearful responsibility,
that possibly of sending forth raven
ing wolf to destroy innocent lives,
therefore the responsibility should be
regulated by law, compelling him to
refuse liquor to one whose condition
betokens intoxication. IF our City
Fathers have the power to make and
enforce such a regulation, it should
be done without delay. If such power
does not rest in them, then the Legis-
lature, through our Parish representa-
tives should be memorialized to pass
such law:
I'm your editorial of the 2lst you
speak of the problem of handling the
negro brute who commits crimes like
that against little Miss Lear of Shreve-
port You said that these crimes lie
at the door of the leaders of the
ana that "torty years of
freedom and an equal length Of time
devoted to public education n \ has
had no impression on the criminal in
stincts of the race and certainly none
on this particular crime You say
g if means can be found to exterminate
him a wild beast of this kind before
his offense has come, so much the bet
ter -
/ have lived for years in this sec.
ton and know that vagrancy laws
exist and are not enforced in these
small towns where the negroes con-
and drink liquor and eat
cocaine and contemplate crimes against
our women. We all know that the
officials who fail to enforce the laws
are more reponsible for crimes perpe-
trated against our women than are
the educated negro. Educating ne
groes has the effect in rs out of 100
cases of making them impudent and
ill-mannered toward white people,
but this is a minor fault and not
crime. The impotence is really a
tribute to the white mans superiority.
It is the relation between the head
and the foot of the class, with the
feeling that always exists in the mind
Of the one holding down the lower
end.
Look at the origin Of the thoughts |
that must fill the mind of a buck ne
gro just previous to his committing
an assault on a white girl. The |
papers say that Charles |
Coleman was drunk when arrested
and Coleman 5 statement was randi |
ng.' He is about thirty years of |
age heavily built, and typical negro
Duck Tonight it is learned |
hat the negro first espied Miss Lear
~ she was passing a store on the |
western outskirts of the city He |
was drunk at that time and followed |
ler = The result we can all too well ,
Franklin has harbor for negroes
md New Iberia has a low down ne
yro dive. Both of these concerns are
,wned by negroes and licensed by the
Town Councils of both towns. They
ire each located within a few hun
lred feet of the passenger depots of
he respective towns. School chill
Iren returning to homes, which are
SO located that it is
necessary 10 pass near these saloons.
re espied by the same negro brutes
nd we are daily being subjected to
xtreme danger of Shreveport hor-
or
II is the desire for brute self-in-
ulgence Of an ancestry not far back, !,