Evening journal., 1907-10-23

IA, 1907, and ending August goth, the
writer compared the arrests for drunk.
enness in Bangor. Maine, city OF
2tS00 population, with Wilmington,
Delaware. with $4,000 population. For
the week with one days record miss
ing; Bangor had rs arrests, and Will
mingtOn for seven days had "a arr
rests. Proporuonately Wilmington
should have had over 300 arrests. 1t
was notean unusual number for Ban
gor but was above the average for
Wilmington. rfr.r
The negro of Georgia will now get
a mixture Of maddening drugs with
a percentage Of alcohol. He viii also
get chloral ana other drugs much
worse than any pure alcoholic stimu-
llent ever sold. therefore, his last state
will be worse than his first.
The prohibition experiment in Geor-
gia Will be the most miserable legis-
lative failure in the category OF fail
ures, that marks the history Of that
class OF legislation.
Is there not some intelligent human
and christian way to adjust the Negro
question? A question, the shadow OF
which VIII soon be cast over the north
as ANell as the south
Senator B. r. Tillman says. Repeal
the 18th amendment to the Constitu-
ton and leave the negro to as, dom
tforce us to Kill him"
Bisnop Gaines. says, "The coloret
ran shall have his rights If Il takes
a thousand years" ana conveys Gov.
CIT threat that II necessary he will tekg
thOm by force. II compols one to reai
for humanity and civilization on tn
/ Western Hemisphere when he listen.
to such utterances
What is the.c in the future for III,
negro If neither his education or hil
imoral worth Is TO give him place viii
his Fellow citizens? To-day he IS
lnolitlcal pariah In the south ant "
the north the paw OF demagogisn
and corrupt D ili.ics. lie cannot re
spect a political system which so IA
as he is concerned. nils the sta it.
rocks with lies and makes a mocker.
OF tne doctrine OF equality both in in
dusuiai and political nfe A man VIII,
Is Uniformly treatci With injustice an'
lcontempt, will almost inevitably be
lcO.qe !awless and. C,'.ltemptible.
Tho negro Is learning TO hate hi
master and look upon him with a ours
in his heart
The common people Of France in tn
18th Century suffered the denial %
every right OF luaiihtuo
They saw The proreeds Of their tni
used TO feed d rampe~ed aristocracy
their women ill-treated by the sam
aristocracy; but when they were in
position to express their hate ther
was no indignity. no cruelty too sever
TO be inflicted upon man and womai
alike and the silken tired women wer
dragged to the lowest depths Of shame
by the long smouldering fire Of hat
and revenge born of caste and clas
injustice.
The south by choice or compulsion o
, circumstances, Il matters not which
won't let the negro be a man; say
. that he is not a man, merely an ami
|, lmal. only fit to be beast OF burden
therefore. IL ought not to be surprises
: II he is what they call him-a beast
The south will be compelled to ad
init the negro TO participate in govern
/ lment or to goven better. With then
now, II is case of the blind leadin
, the blind. and they are all going int
, the ditch together. l.sf
This question for the whole coun
] try. is more than the tariff or the con
/ troll of corporations, or pure food o
the big stick, certainly more than
! case for police treatment
The present conditions threaten a
internal disorder, more to be dreade
than all the foreign foes who coul
( menace our borders.
Z The remedial influence OF prohibi
tion win not affect the question a
much as a feather duster against tn
t tides of the Atlantic.%