West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1908-12-03
DIXIE LAND
Ioeled aud Aallsned by Norlhsrr
Press.
"LAwLtSSEESS o. THE SOUTH"
't"rN >h'nld h vote hrir >pn,
I" Horsis Z aunIry >.tb n
Mason aud i'ix MS Iur.

Former United States Senator l. w
Carmack, of Tennessee, was shot down
In pistol duel on the streets of Nashyil,,
, the other day, and instantly the northcrt
newspapers raised their editorial hand
IN horror over what they were pleased {,
term the lawlcssncss of the south"
Bands o. g lorant and criminal men
known as tnc Night Ride :. have dc.
stroycd omc property, taken human life
'nd committed other outragcs i'm n few a
the isolated provinces of Kentucky nm,
Tennessee.
The northern press blamcs it all 10 a.,
'lawicssncss of the south" notwitl..
standing that all the official powers q
those two states, from the governor
town. were promptly invoked To put an
"nd to the dcpredations and capture ant
unish the guilty
II brute of a negro IL lynchcd i'm Mi
Tlppi the northern papers shricl
Southern Lawessncsv"
Whenever crime of any special publi,
'nte'e II c mmittcd anywlc below Tie
Mason and Dixon's line the whole sout
- held mp ~ an awful example of be-.
ightcd. unrcgcncrate, and criminal ~.
ciety and placarded throu. hout the nortI
- the land of the outlaw, whcr, the mol
u sovereign and every native swappcr
'bout with siX-shootcr ON "A hunt for
human target.
The south has been libclcd and mn.
lgnrd 10y the northern press long enough
ahd more columns of editorial rot hay,
been published about the "lawlessncss O
tine south than would b. required
recount the degenerate and criminal q =
capades II "hgh society" from Pittsbur,
north for the last twenty ycars, anc
that's saying heap.
When you reca the shooting down OF
Stanford White 10y Thaw i'm the yer,
heart of New York city, the Ilains. Anni
tragedy at swell Long Island resort
the dynamiting outragcs Of the BLACK
Hand IN the metropolis OF this state. th,
anarchist massacre in Chicago, the butch.
cry at Homestead in Pennsylvania, the
annual wholesale election crimes i'm Mar.
haitian, the slaughter Of men, women,
and children by motor-mad, law-brcak
ing northern millionaires, and the str..
pendous, unchecked, and unpunishe,
crimes Of high finance in which whole
communities have been deliberately and
lawlessly looted, AZ in the New York cit
traction deals, you should marvel at H.,
patient moderation of the southern pres
IN not at least rctaliating by pointing t
the north as the land where stalks the
hidcous spirit Of lawlcssncss.
There il no such thing ~ the "lawlcs,-
ness of the south" Criminal character,
are there, but are there none in the
north? Isn't it fact that there ar,
streets in the heart Of Chicago where ten.
fold the danger turks 10 life and prop.
erty than in the lonelicst mountain paths
OF the south? And What about the sa.
l.cious records Of the northern divorce
courts which represent in an incstimab,
degree greater menace to the country
than do the ne r) lynchings OF the soutl Z
The south has problems 20 deal with
concerning which nine out Of ten north.
ern editors possess not even primitive in.
telligcnce. There are districts i'm the
south where the negroes outnumber the
whites two hundred % one, and the back
country southern negio is the most bc.
nighted human being on the continent
without exception. You can go into the
black belts Of any state in the sout
and find more inhabitants 10 sauar,
mile who resemble mere animals in their
socia5 and material activities than you
can find in the Bronx 400.
And yet, taking it all in all throughout
the SOUTH the blacks do not produce ~
much trouble and lawlcssncss as do tho
criminal and immoral elements in Pitts.
burg, Chicago, and New York.
The northern newspapers that, through
ignorance or design, pcrsistcntly seek 10
instill in the public mind that there !.
such a thing ~ "Iawlcss South" " d,
harm, not alone 10 the south. but 10 th,
republic ~ well
The wsr Is over these forty years aut
more, Mr. Northern Editor. The south
with Il wounds healed and forgotten ,an,
mauiully and patiently bearing the bur
den represented by millions Of ON indo
lent, ignorant, and improyidcnt race
ha- riscn into imperial proportions an,
has made, and b. now making gigantiD
.tridcs along educational and industria
liLcs. To teach ilc world that IN ia,
south greater proportion Of the inhabi
tsnts are lawlcss than in other sections o
the conntry, IL 10 write base lie int
the nations history And vet the north.
crn press, much Of il debauchcd and dc.
based by northern oommcrciali-m, TIM,
decrys aud a3ails the south, when il
might, with far greater profit to the pub.
lic, expose aud dcnouncc the great law.
les money interests oi the north, which Il
sO scrviloly repre- csCuts - Buffalo Republic.
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