Live Oak daily Democrat. (Live Oak, Fla.) 190?-190?, 1906-09-27
.dAiS FROM THE AItIASra RIOT,

There is no difference of opinion
among enlightened, representative
Southern people that the brutal and
work of the Atlanta mob
in its attack upon the colored people
in that city, resulting in the Killing
and swounding of innocent negroes,
was a crime not to be excused and
which should be vigorously punished.
But our people are equally sure that
back Of that crime was an melting
cause which made the mob inevitable
and until that cause is removed,
other mobs, and perhaps worse ones,
will as surely appear as effect fol-
lows cause. But even as the AL
mighty maketh the wrath of man to
serve him, so in this case has the
bloody work of the Atlanta hood
lums brought about a fortunate
sequel which perhaps might not have
been reached In years If less drastic
medicine had been used. The sharp,
sudden, destructive storm, the result
tant of atmospheric conditions long
accommodating, clears the atmosphere
and restores the normal status, and
just so the storm of riot and crime
which broke upon Atlanta as the re-
suit Of vile negro outrages long con-
tinued and rapidly growing in num-
Der, upon helpless white women, has
cleared the moral atmosphere in and
around that city, the criminal negro
element has been whipped and scat
tered, the growing arrogance of the
whole negro population has received
salutary check, and the white peo-
pie have been thoroughly aroused to
the necessity Of removing the OBJ
viOus causes right under their eyes
every day which have most largely
contributed to the prevalence of
crime. The negro saloons and dives
and dens have been driven out OF busi-
ness; the insOlvent gangs of negro va
grants broken up; the jails are
crowded with the loathsome yermin;
the negroes have been disarmed; and
better yet, the educated negroes, the
preachers and others whose teachings
and examples have long been steadily
widening the breach between the
two races, have been terrified into
common sense and sane view of the
race question, and are vigorously CO.
operating with the whites to bring
criminal negroes to justice and per-
manently remove the causes which
led up to the reign of the mob. But,
better still, the crisis in Atlanta sent
an electric shock throughout Georgia
and the whole South, and our people
have been brought to sharply realize
that in tolerating the hordes of negro
Migrants loafing in nearly every
Southern community they have been
fatuously encouraging conditions
fearfulIy dangerous to the peace and
order of society, amid which rape
fiends by thousands were breeding
like venomous reptiles. AS a result
the war on the 'Vags" is now in
fierce and relentless progress and the
glad news comes from all quarters
of the South that the vagabond
gangs are being broken up, the dives
raided and suppressed, and such
negroes as will not go to work will
go promptly to the changing and
the convict camp. The whole South
is the gamer by the Atlanta riot, for
it has cut the comb of negro inso-
lence. won the cooperation of the
best elements of the negro race with
the whites for the suppression of
crime and inaugurated universal war
on the swarming hordes of vagraney
from; whose ranks the rape fiends
come.