The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-27
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RACE. WAR DANGER
CAUSES ANXIETY
Recent Outbreaks Regarded in
Washington as Symptoms Of
General Unrest.
CRIME OF ASSAULT
= rs INCREASING AGAIN
Students of Southern Situation
Look Upon This as an I'm
favorable Sign.
Journal Special Service.

Journal Special Service. - 1850
Chicago, Oct PA Washington spe-
cial to the Chicago Tribune says:
Within the last few weeks series OF
disquieting reports have reached Wash
ington from various sources and from
try, all Of which tend to show that the
public mind is in a more or less hys-
terical condition over the never
ending and tiresome question.
In many ways Washington has come
to be the center of sentiment on both
sides Of the, race question. Republican
politicians from the north and demo-
cratic politicians from the south meet
here with widely different views which
are seldom or never harmonized. The
half-educated negro Of the north is
frequently here. but the black from
the fields of Virginia, and even farther
south, is constantly drifting toward the
national. capital.
For all of these reasons it has be-
come common for reports as to cur
rent relations between the two races
to center in Washington, and just now
these reports, as far as they can be
gathered together, are distinctly dis
quoting. -'-
Atlanta Clash Symptom.
Only few days ago Colonel Young.
blood of Alabama, republican and a
former government official, openly an
nounced his opinion that the races were
on the eve Of serious clash which
could be averted only by wise frmness
on one side and equally wise modera-
ton on the other. In the latter part
of the summer and during the autumn
whites and blacks have become danger.
ously frequent, according to those OBJ
servers of both races who are anx.
iously studying the situation. They are
afraid that the riot in Atlanta is q
symptom only. p. 80;
Some persons affect to believe that
the only crime of which the negroes
fused to be frequently guilty, and for
which they were invariably hanged or
burned when caught, nearly died out a
year or two ago. They say, however,
this crime is now on the increase again.
i" Significance of Lynchings.
There Is more than ordinary signid-
eance in this. Most people who have
! studied conditions in the south know
j that only an extremely small proper
tion Of the lyLchings are for the crime
I Of assault. Southern men always bring
this to the front when they justify
4 lynchlng. u sually the most that could
be charged against the negro would be
impudence. or insult to a white woman.
An assault committed in Alabama gen.
orally results in some poor devil Of a
negro being lynched in Mississippi for
impotence or for some misdemeanor
which, could well have been punished
by? a reasonably long sentence to the
chain gang. .,>,.....;
Just now, when the efforts Of the
I government are being directed wisely
to prevent clash between this country
and Japan, growing out of the ex.
clusion Of Japanese children from San
Francisco schools, it is curious and
perhaps significant, to note that there
is an almost equal need Of diplomacy
to prevent race troubles in half q
dozen different cities where they were
j. least to be expected. "~.1,es.