New-York tribune., 1906-10-08
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
NEGRO PASTOR ON ATLANTA RIOT.
says Colored Policemen and Deputy Sherlffs
Should Be Appointed.

SIR nave read your editorial IN Ihe 1fiouhe
OF the 18th Inst relative TO The Atlanta hiots
with much interest ] desire however, 10 call your
attention to one statement Of yours In which you
declared that 't might be argued that the Negroes
themselves do not give US the aid they might IN
sitting the sheep from the goats; that they do
not themselves make active enough war on their
own vicious and worthless fellows. In respect to
crimes committed against white women. the help
Of Negroes in stamping them out and making them
odious would go further than any other influence in
suppressng them. The Negro owes 1t to itself
TO remove this greatest bar to friender association
and more Justice"
Your advice is the usual advice given 10 Negroes.
TO stamp out the criminal element among them: but
detection and punishment OF the criminals among
them? Is not this duty usually performed by the
the Negroes are always asked to stamp out the
Who e8en rafse sppo ne Gacs Reop @
help them in suppreSsing crimes? The bugbear OF
Negro domination" prevents them from appointing
him officer of the law but the same time they
among them. l believe the appointment of some
eant policemen 62 - in every s community or Negro
oeaL toward helping to suppress crimes among the
1t is often said by the white people Of the South
tnat they do not get any sympathy from the better
not, unless they would be willing appoint some
Negro detectives. Negro policemen and Negro Gep-
uty sherifs. What right would unauthorized
Negro have TO go around ferreting out crimes with
intelligent and Respectable Negroes are as much
opposed to crimes as the white people themselves,
cooperation that the white people ought to have
share some of the Offices with them
1t Is often said by Southern papers that Negroes
De proven against respectable and Iaw-abdlng Ne
eas % It Is rather disgusting to the
& us that & we must suppress criminal Negroes. and
eFectually enable US to do So The only consistent
thing. Mr. Editor. for the white people Of this
and treat him justly.
Neproe le5ohsIoy P Ior me saIghSer or innocent
Charles s Daniels. and especially upon Hoke Smith
diced ana criminal whes and an It wss disgusting
10 observe that some OF these very men were join
ing the law-abding citizens OF Atlanta in counsel
There IS one thing about these race riots that
would have you note. and that is that there is al
ways much lying by those who are intrusted with
cast over the country, the lie that four hundred
that these students We're held accountable for
much Of the trouble a subsequent published
versity declared that only two students were there
and that the college was not yet open for its fall
made against the criminal Negro is the fact that
always charged with ATTEMPTED rape' We are
very often told that the way TO stop lynching is
Will go for the white race will never be able
Pf5 all al W %he b W oas nGr VIII 5h9
able to suppress all Negro criminals There will
mitted, doubtless. until the millennium
I wish TO call your attention also to another
The Southern White people particularly the poll
ous to get the Northern White % people to justify
| their suppression Of the Negroes vote and their
have discovered that one of the best ways to
their point is to herald all over the country the
white women. Every time the Negro is charged
ciated Press dispa:5h tells it throughout the
length and breadth of this country; but when a
may tell about it local and state news but It
Is never heralded over the country 10 5I show how
u
from the South. and every now and then read of
Whe nd ea en bn fs fS
Associated Press dispatches tell these things
gored The crime charged agains5 the & brutal Negro Negro
sionaly.
proceedings Of one court in Wales in which about
women and children. and every OF them was
% e Bps per PRr R IoSon h for cr@e
against little girls. All these cases were white.
| States where eight or nine Negroes were held at
| time for the unmentiOnable crime, and yet we
are told that the only way TO stop lynchins is TO
ist among us vet the Iynching OF some of these
so-called brutes takes place because open trial in
| people would never wish the world 70 know. John
the White women Of the South must be proiected
at all hazards, but there is also another WOMAN
the Negro woman Particularly does she need pro-
tection from the vicious. lusttul white men OF the
pany OF their vicious white men and the creation
OF a healthy public sentiment that will make their
men respect womanhood. whatever its may be.
| would go long way toward creating a wholesome
| respect for all women and decreasing crimes of
| violence against them
| If a riot should take place every time white
scoundrel IN Atlanta insulted a colored woman,
| Atlanta before very long would be wiped off the
troubles that vex the South is the restoration of
the Negro's ballot to him. the practice Of even
handed justice, and the cessation of Negro batting
! which IS now prevalent in this country.
Let the white grant the Negro a share with
him IN the enforcement of the laws; treat him
and make white men respect the Negro
| women; lot the white papers Of the South stop
everastingy writing If there was only one
woman in the South, and that white woman.
One useful lesson the Atlanta riot has taught the
| country IS that there will be lasting peace in
| this country long the Southern white man
| is permitted only enjoy his rights but to
! fIch the Negroes from him. NJ. W. GILBERT.
New York City. Sept o. 1906