The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-07-17
THE RACE PROBLEM.
Bishop Galloway and the Vicksburg Her.
aid Discuss Its Religion and
Criminal Phases.

has won him national reputation,
Bishop Galloway discoursed on
lust Sunday, in Jackson, from the
text Christ the Desire of all
Nations. We quote the follow
ing appeal for larger missionary
pIans,' bearing upon the ever
present and all prevailing race
problem; the spirit of which COM
mands our unqualified approval:
Second, While planning
greater enterprises for the evan
gelization of the immigrant
forces from other countries we
had better show larger Christian
craftsmanship in dealing with the
laboring population we already
have. If a 1.-THE of the energy
displayed in bemeaning the negro
was exercised in his improvement
and elevation, we could make of
him far more useful factor in
the industrial and civil life of our
country. Instead of calling into
cooperation the best of the race
to assist in the improvement of
all, the policy of some is to deny
that any are capable of good,
and to denounce all as equally
guilty Of every possible crime. :.
A doctrine that shuts the
earthly door of hope in the face of
any human being, will also close
to him the gates of heaven, and
deny the teachings of the Man of
GaIilee. More to be deplored
than the complexity of any polit-
ical question or racial problem or
industrial condition, is the inf
deity that would discrown the
Son of God, and fatally limit His
gospel as the hope of the world
And what are direct effects of
this 'doctrine?" What can it he
other than to make the superior
race more contemptuous and OBJ
livious of the principles of justice
and fair dealing toward the infe-
rior; which is at the same time,
rendered more full of evil and
guilt, by a doctrine that pro-
claims him from the house tops
as an inherent criminal? But
where may we turn for relief f
how little can good words do to
arrest the spread of doctrine,
that sU fgarfufiy adds to the iuten-
| sity of race bitterness? Where,
or how can this greater evangel-
ization," this larger Christian
lstatesmaEship," this 'call for the
cooperation of the best of the
race" be applied! Suppose a
modus operandi be formulated,
organized and equipped Would
not the first eruption of the latent
but ever volcanic exceptional
crime" blow it into fragments?
Lacking ajustification under the
Christian or the Justinian codes,
is there not human cause for
that against which the Bishop,
and The Herald, protest?
The lamentabIe and dreadful
fact is, we are in the clutch of a
problem of which harsh doctrine
and cruel judgment is the natural
growth. 1t is a problem that de-
6es solution except through the
slow process of evolution-and
exudes encouragement and de-
spair for those. who cherish the
sentiment that Bishop Galloway
voices. He may secure a verdict
in the court of reason against the
doctrine he condemns. But what
of the awful deeds narrated in the
daily press, from which that doc
trine derives its sustenance. Take
the chronicles Of the day of the
Bishops sermon: Dalton, Geor-
gia-a posse Of 500 citizens
searching for a negro who sought
to outrage white woman. Gov
intgon, Louisiana The same
story, attempted assault on a
white woman. At Baton Rouge
Jim Patterson, negro, arrested on
Minor charges, confessed to be
wanted at Liberty, Mississippi,
for attacking young white wom-
an; will be lynched, Z reads the
story, "as soon as lie is taken to
the scene of his crime. = Near
Wesson, Mississippi Attempted
murder Of section foreman by
two young negroes, brothers and
Just out Of AIcorn College.
Near Raymond, two of the me-
groes charged with murder of
Robert BerryhilI a deed of de-
moniac brutality arrested. In
grounds Of old soldiers home, in
Ohio A man shot fatally BY a ne
gro who then outraged his wife.
And only because it failed of CON
summation did the following
from the Saturdays New York
World tell less horrible story |
than the New Orleans Black hand |
atrocity: