The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-09-29
THE RACE RIOTS ~ ATLANTA

OF the riotius IN Atlanta the most
that car be said il that such out
breaks are certain To recur so long
as negroes modest white women or
provoke collision Win white men
This is as true OF Northern cities
containing negro colonies as it is 81
Southern cities Negro chasing In the
streets Of Now York city. the killing
81 negroes and bnning Of their
houses tn Springfield O.. are express
slons Of the same antipathy of race
which prompted the Virginjaus If
the Colonial period repeatedly to
pass acts against the importation OF
African slaves and 90 protest bitter
ly when these acts were vetoed by
tho British Crown
With very much more serious con
sequences TO the negroes than any
stree, brawl in which A few Of them
MAY be Killed or bruised. is the feel
ing which prompts he labor organi-
cations ln an parts Of the North 10
rule opt the negro from their respec-
tive emnlovments. They simply viii
not work side 10y side with him. As
a strjke-breaker he Is mobbed in the
coal mines of Illinois In whatso-
ever direction he turns he finds his
field of gainful occupation steadily
narrowing.
The race riots in Atlanta. like
those at Springfield O.. and Spring
field, Mo, are, so far as they go.
realizations of Jeffersons prophecy
that the negroes would some day
surely be freed, and being freed they
could not live in peace side by side |
with the whites. In the cities the !
truth of Jefferson's forecast is likely !
10 be confirmed from time to time by !
other race brawls. but there is not I
he remotest possibility of anything
ike race war
Outside Of the towns. the worst of
he so-called race problem is, the
negroes find it so easy to earn a sub
5istence that it is hard to get them to
do efficient farm work In some /
farming districts, as in parts of !
Southeast Missouri. where white till !
ers of small farms are numerous,
negroes are not wanted and are
warned away.
But in all the cotton belt the clu-
tiyators Of large farms have up to
the present found the negro the best
OF all farm laborers, and it is the
labor agents who try to tempt him
to other employment who are warn
ed away. If a negro commits an afro
cious crime summary lynching is apt
to be the end Of it, but otherwise he
is protected and encouraged.
Moreover, the negro, interrupted
by city vices, knows his own inferior
ity and fully realizes his dependence
upon the whites. He knows that in
every collision between the races he
gets the worst of it. When not mis-
ltI ~ iAlSN l4SNOuH O5-l dlOIN, lllt ne
groes of the South are little inclined
to stir up trouble with the whites
If there be any serious outcome
1 of the so-called race problem, it will
/ result mainly from demagogic ap-
( peals 10 the passion and ignorance of
| the negroes in order TO get their
| delegations i'm republican national
/ conventions and their votes for re-
! publican tickets in close states OF the
( North and West. President Roose-
ycIrs attitude on the race question
during his first administration had
even more demorMizing taAdeucy for
foolish OF vicious negroes than such
political expressions as that by which
, the Ohio republican state convention
. recently declared FOR reducing south.
] eu representation iu congress J- ID
I. penalty for aitbboldiua tb, rirh. .,
vote from lu.f.ratr- &c. Louis B,
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