Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1908-01-11


yers. statesmen. Office holders. mer-
chants. dentists. editors. authors. ar
fists. inventors. bank presidents.
cashiers. presidents and cashiers and
managers of insurance companies.
linQuists. skilled mechanics and men
in ali branches OF the service.
He did not study the productive
capacity of the industrious Negroes.
He kept his gaze fixed upon the loaf
ing. good-for-nothing kind He in
spected the out-houses of the Negroes
residences instead of entering by the
front door. When he had detected
rubbish bis curiosity was satisfied
he saw that for which he was look
ing and BE proceeded no further.
Had he done so. he would have
found The Negroes kitchen with q
wcli-fuej harder Tie would have
been usherod into the dining room
and then into The front and the bacl,
parior. where the piano told of cul-
tUre and refinement
Where these were not accessible.
he would have heard the strains OF q
phouograph operated by "a climb" 5f
The family while the cold man" and
Che madame iauehe3 with satsfac-
zion over the airs and recitals laat
Go contained. But Jadge Thomas ~.
Norwood was not looking for this
kind OF Information. he was wan
dering through the sewers of Sac
vannah with q lighted candle in bis
hand.
judge Norwood seemed TO have
worked overtime concerning the Ne-
gro I'm Africa but trusted Co his obser
Nations of twelve thousand criminal
Nceroos for his information concern
ing the coiored people in This couu-
try. one week spent in the United
States Patent Office at Washington
would have been "a revelation to him.
Do has been repeatedly asserted and
NOT denied chat "a Negro invented the
elevated CAR line system iu Sow York.
one OF The most powerful auto-
matte suns is the invention OF See
gro. The recent report of lhe Sec
Rotary ol Agriculture when analysed
in Che light of the United States
Census Reports shows chat the See
eroos OF she United States produced
products during Che statistical year
of 1907 valued at lS357.552 .500l
three hundred and afty-scvon million
dve hundred and ffty-two thousand.
1--WE hundred dollars and this amount
os added Co The wealth or The couu-
try iu general and the South iu par
ticular
III then The Negrocs have produced
This amount ol value in one year.
what is the amount they have pro-
duced since 1919. the time that Judge
Norwood traced them from Africa Go
this country
when judge Norwood attacks the
luicit relation between the races me
is treading on mighty delicate
ground" Tie knows chat many
white mon OF respcctabnity corrupt
the children OF the Negro race. that
they furnish houses in which Negro
women live in Injurious ease and re-
tircment There social equality" is
enjoyed and appreciated by both pare
ties Co the arrangement lie should
remember that where the educated
and the iHiterate come together in
wrong-doing the educated are the
most TO blame. He IS quoted fur
Their:
lin Africa no labor made the Ne
gro lazy. lie had never worked. In
Africa the Negro knew no govern
ment but physical force. Here he
recognizes no form OF government
when not restrained by resort TO
force. Ia Africa. the Negro having
no morals. lies and steals with no
sense OF moral wrong"
The testimony Of the African ex-
plorers Is just to the contrary. Ne
groes who have no morals. and who
lie 'and steal are those VINO are near
the coast. who have been brutalized
by the white mans rum and ruined
1y the white mans morals. In the
interior the standards of morality
's understood in that country are
higher than those found in either the
countries Of the Old or New World
He is quoted further: