The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-05
nEAprNa THE CROP.

Some persons can talk most iearneniy and voiuminously on subjects about which they know least and we sup pose this accounts for much of the Northern discussion of the race dues- tion. Writers who rarely see a col ored person. and nothing of them IS they are down here in their old home. can tell just how is the proper way to treat them to produce the best re- suits. Perhaps that is about as harm l less as any other amusement they can indulge in. except for the fact that some of their arguments and comments tend still further to complicate the race question down here.
 That the tone of Northern newspa- per comment is often productive of | trouble is too plain for denial and late wants show that the evil effects are not confined to the South by any means. More than one community North of the line has of late had to rean the results of their evil sowing, and It will spread until there Is better conception of the subject on the part of those who are SC ready to take up the black mans burden as against the superior race. An evidence of this is shown by recent editorial in The Leavenworth (Kan) Post. l While it is true that Leavenworth is not a Northern city, so far as latitude is concerned, 1t Is essentially North ern in it's sentiments. The account says:
 .nH Ssnfienen some Accompanied by l little children. were startled Dy oe, monieal wells when the car ssSpPetSS FoppPptS s gracefni state of intoxication. and many of the females notoriousls r iiwe 1,sa a lot of pirates. They spent every- ,- l thing before them and literally took possession of the GIT. One pIaek Am, tnrn from her back. indulged In a hugglng | match with an equally black youth to the delight of the rest of the party; i 1 One of the girls was very drunk ana shouted at the top of her voice. using , | very indecent language. They nlied l all the seats and blocked the AisIes and passengers who sought the nrsf l opportunity to get out had dimculty l in doing so.
 There is a good deal more of the game tenor. but we have quoted enough to show tho almost inevitabls l result of fanatical teachings on the race question. To continually drum the doctrine of race equality into the me- gro is to invite trouble. and they are at last finding 1t out in the North in the only way that can be effectual. The problem forced on the South as the result of the emancipation of the slaves was grave and complicated one at best, and nothing but the most careful and conservative management on the part of the former slave holders could have dealt with 1t with any hope of satisfactory results.
 Unfortunately for both races the South was not permitted to deal with the problem as only Southern men could do. Barely had the din of war ceased when this entire section was invaded by swarms of fanatics. place. hunters and fortune-seelkers who took charge of the situation for their own purposes. They coddled and fastered the negro because they wanted his vote and his labor. They preached se- cial and political equality to him be- cause they needed him to carry out their own designs, and they instilied into his mind hatred and distrust of his late master so that there should be no interference with their own domination.
 The result could not have been oth- erwise than disastrous. Although the reign of the carpetbagger was short and in the main disappointing to his class It's evil effects are yet with us, and "the trail of the serpent" has not been entirely effaeed from the scene. It fingers with us still. and is the ultimate cause of nearly ali the trouble between the races that occurs even at this late day. ''The evil that men do, lives after them," said Shakes peare. and the evils of carpet-baggery and fanaticism are yet with us.
 We know that 1t is not good and charitable policy to speak of these old matters, but reading the efforts of some Northern papers to still keep alive enmity between the whites and the blacks sometimes Is a little too much for our patience. They have sown the wind. and they shall reap the whirlwind," said the inspired prophet. and If some of the Northern meddlers reap the result of their own sowing we almost feel uncharitahle enough to say that they deserve it.. Let Springfield and Leavenworth and various other places up there be a timely warning of what may be ex-
 pected from their unwise teachings.
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