The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1906-09-30
A Northern Editor With Common
Sense.

A Northern Editor With COmmOn
Sense.
Philadelphia Public Ledger
dozen years ago 1T was the FASH
ion for Northern newspapers and or
gans of opinion" to denounce the South
FOR lynchings, and to try to make 1t
appear that the Southern people were
a band of semi-civilized creatures to
brethren of the North. The North had
no word but that of unmeasured hor-
ror of the Southeners, and 1T was
to t ta wte WHEN 5hg td
them to lynch and to burn even when
there were no attacks on white wo-
men. In fact, for long time the as
sertion was repeatedly made that the
reports of the heinous attacks on wo-
men were wildly exaggerated and cir
culated for the purpose of justifYtng
in recent years this libel is not heard
so often.
Within the past few, weeks the
Governor. Hayward tried In vain to
prevent, were the results Of attacks
on defenseless women. At Atlanta
assaults upon. white women by negro
vagabonds within two months OF
that number one was captured and nut
to death and the rest r escaped Thf
Saturday, when four attacks were
made in the city limits upon women
by negroes
South as in a class apart. because IT
understands the facts, and for the
better reason that the North now has
mington. Del, on Saturday, n negro.
was whipped and began to serve q
life sentence for attacking two wO
men in the highway in Media the
JUDGE only the ether day sentenced an
other; in Wilmington only a couple of
years ago. practically the whole city
turned out to besiege the county jail
and to burn at the stake the wretch
who was wrested from the prison
guard. In these cases, if it be said
| that the mob directed it's fury toward
nocent, it is only necessary TO point
to the race riots in Springfield. q,
where the fury OF the people vas as di-
American people to recognize two
facts very clearly; that among tn"
siderable element of as dangerous and
as degraded human beings as exist on
the planet, and that wherever any CON
siderable body of negroes live there
is always danger of en- outbreak OF
race hatred and savagery which ac-
! tually lowers the character of the
whole people.
These outbreaks will occur, and II
is now pretty Well understood by tbs
| people of the North. from their own
experience, that If negroes persist In
/ ATTACKING WOllGu anu GAilOieii hAiS ia w
will break down. 1t Is easy to theor-
lie on the subject and to deplore this
primeval saVagery and this lamenta-
| BILE and dangerous disregard OF the
law, but as a matter of fact we. know
that uncomfortable race hatred will
| result from the hideous outragea .
! What Is to be done about 1t. There
| is only one thing as appalling as these
outbreaks, and that is Inc seeming i'm
possibility in the presence of 10000,
600 people lately from the wilds o.
Africa dwelling among 70,O0o,OO0 PEG
pie of another race, color and ctviliza
ton AS a beginning to a serious con
sideration of the question nothing bet
ter has been said than the warnins
issued by Booker Washington the 9th
er day, when he declared that Their
ernea The negroes had better lister
to men like Washington than to tn
frothy demagogues who denounee tn
whites because the negroes are not ae
corded that full equality" for Whtcl
they are not equipped. And ever!
decent negro community should begll
to recognize the fact that the mus
America is the worthless negro yasa
bond who brings upon the heads
the innocent a terrible vengeance an
involves all elements IN deadly anar
chy. -,
The negro wild beast must be elm
mated THE negro must do his parl
and as for the whites of the Unite
states Of America who poured out IN
blood of half a million precious 1--we
and untold treasure to free the negF
no sum and no pains are too grea
for them to expend In order that IN
result may be a blessing instead Q
a curse.