The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-10-22

ers who are BLACK men More and
more every year the nesroz lite
moral. intellectual. and Industrial IS
Isolated from tbs White mans ~, and
therefore from his influence There
WAS "a kiudller and more confidential
relationship betW cen tie races when
my father was "A boy than when ! was
a indie ana more confidential Tela-
tionshlp when l WAS a boy than be
tween my NhiIdte arst h present zen
GRAFTON OF negroes Just in proportion
as the white man has Withdrawn iFou1
the negro and tho negro has With
drawn from the white man, the negro
has reverted to the black mans racial
traits and tendencies has shed the
veneering which has been placed upon
him. has become more and more him
self and less and less the reflection OF
his Wnlte ~ucIlhbor. rms View n re-
enforced by the tact that nearly all
the u~nspeakablc negro crimes are
committed by negro y~agrants and
tramps. who are drought into no sort
Of relationship with the white mans
life.
When We ind a good negro we
must him 70 stay good and
to grow better. We are doing too lit
tie of that. The old adage, Give a
dog a bad name ana you have made
a bad dog" is a good one. IHdlscrim-
, mate cursing OF the whole negro race.
good and bad alike, included, is an
exemplihcation OF the adagc. i have
frequently thought how hard ii was
for a good negro, especially during
campaign times, to stay good or grow
better when he could not come within
sound of a white speakers voice WITH
out hearing his whole race lndiscrln-
inately reviled without mention Of
him as an exception, even in the
neighDorhood where he was Known to
be one. Whatever else IS, or IS not,
. solution OF this vexeG problem, TINS
habit IS not. Justice goes Aand nj
hand with power or else power be-
comes tyranny. To every white man
l would say IN the WORDS of shakes
peare: 1t IS t~yrannous u use II Ike
Il giant"-irratIOnaIly. We must and
Will maintain the supremacy OF the
White mans law, even though some
times the letter and forms OF that law
are unfortunately violated in ORDER
TO maintain the supremacy OF its spirit
We Will maintain in perpetuity the
integrity OF the race and OF its civil
To doubt that we can do
Lnat, when the governors, sherifts,
judges, and Lawmakers are OF our
race and elected by u Is to doubt our
own capacity Tor selI-goVernment.
How Ilace Feeling shows Itself.
If you go TO Cal4Iornla oda You
find an immense and IrrepresslbIe
feeling OF race a-ntagonisln against
the C~ninaman, and, virtually, none at
all against the negro. There IS race
knowledge concerlIng Cinnamon, and
enough Cinnamon there to constitute
a rae menace bur not enough ne
grOes. II YOU &c to Vermont, you
viii find none against either. II you
come to Mississippi, you VIII find the
same irrepresslble outDreaking antag-
onisIn between the White ana the ne
gro races, ana very little against the
Chinese.
"A -Cninaman, well dressed and be-
having himself, taking Dime at u
Mississippi hotel, might excite some
little remark, but nothing more. a
negro, II he We're a graduate Of Har-
ward College, spotIessly clothed and
just washed, would, II ne were admit
ted to the Unbeatable at a hotel in
my State, excite 4 riot. Ii, on the con-
trary, he went to a hotel in Vermont.
the other guests would doubtless
seek an Introduction to him, it beng
an opportunity to see and study
something OF a new and strange type.
The total absence of this feeling
among the peOple who have never
felt the presence of the negro as a
menace to the moralitie5 Of social life,
to the white mans civilization or MS
Q d of ethics, viii be realized when
you remember that Carnegie. Wan
amaker, Bishop Potter, Of New YORK,
President Roosevelt, have all eaten
with the negro, as host and guest,
at the same table. You would realize
it all the more if you knew.
IONS solution OF the Grim
maj Negro Problem.
These thoughts suggest some sort
OF c~ommon-senc remedies or the ne
gro question upon the criminal side,
principally in the nature of preyenta-
uVes. II the first place, they suggest
the rigid enforcement or lagrant ..s
] and the Strpn OF hR0inp of a%f.rfno 40
grant laws by new laws Wnc.e.or. IN
justice aid right, they need strength
enlng. IN the second place, they Sug-
gest a closing OF all low dives and
brothels where the vagrant, tramp.
and idle negroes consorU and where
their imaginations-they being pecu-
liarly a race Of Imagination and emo
tion-are inflamed By whisky. CO.
cain. and lewd pictures. 1t must be
remembered that that which would
not inflame the imagination Of a
white man viii have that effect upon
the tropical, emotional natur OF the
darky.
In the first place, l suggest that we
ought, like CaIaua ana Ia3t ,040n1.
to have mounted rural police or con-
s~tabularY, whose duty it would be to
patrol the country districts day and
night. They would, to d certain ex-
tent, tax the place Of the patrols the
Southern States used to have. We
would, of course, tind some inc0n-
veniences in that. The white man
hates to be held uD on ROAD To give
an account % himself. where he lives
and whittier he is going, but we must
sacrifice something T. meet the Pc
culiar conditions under which we live.
Putting UP with that sort Of i~ncouTen-
fence is but a slight sacrifice to
make, in order to renOye the sense
Of fear and to give N assurance OF
safety 7 our women sometimes alone
ard unprotected II rnci. aoL -. NuIe
the husband ana father il in the field.
gone Tor Tire doctor OF otAer&ise Iee
essa-ily absent Above ~! things re
must sA0r cCuI-ao9 sense a
age. and as much medication a. pos
sibIe. IL Gea ms N-.-- t. Aap.e.4.g
as it arises