The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-12-01
Tells the Simple Truth.


as well as about other people. One
such is C. C. Brock, who edited Tht
a weekly paper published
at Buffalo, N. Y. In speaking of ths
many slanders uttered against the
South because of the assassination
of Editor iCarmack at Nashville
Tenn, he says there is no such thing
a lawless South, and asserts tina
for Northern newspapers Ito teacf
the world that in the South great
er proportion Of, the Inhabitants are
as lawless South, and asserts tina
the country, is to write a base liz
into the nations history" Here l.
the way The Republic deals ou
truth and wisdom on the, subject o
the south's alleged lawlessness:
whenever crime Of any spe-
cial public interest Is committed
anywhere below the Mason and
Dixon's line, TIE whole South is
held up as an awful example of
benighted, unregenerate and GRIM
inal society and placarded through
out the North as the land Of the
outlaw, where the mob is sover-
eign and every native swaggers
about with a siX-shooter on a hunt
for a human target.
J "The South has been libeled
and emaligned by the Northern
press long enough, and more col
umns of editorial rot have been
published about the 'lawlessness
of the South than would be re-
uuired to- recount the degenerate
and criminal escapades Of high
society from Pittsburg north for
the last twenty years, and that's
saying a heap.
when you recall the shooting
down of Stanford White by Thaw
in the very heart Of New York
city, the Hains-Annis tragedy at
swell Long Island resort, the dyna-
mitting outrages of the Blacl
Hand in the metropolis of this
State, the anarchist massacre in
Chicago, the butchery at Homes
tead In Pennsylvania, the annual
wholesale election crimes in Man
haitian, the slaughter of men,
women and children by motor
men, law-breaking Northern mill
ionaires and the stupendous, un-
checked and unpunished crimes OF
high finance in which whole COM
munities have been deliberately
and lawlessly looted, as in the New
York city traction deals, you
should marvel at the patient mod
Grafton of the Southern press in
not at least retaliating by point
ing to the North as the land where
stalks the hideous spirit Of law
lessness.
There is no such thing as the
'lawlessness of the South Crimi-
nal characters are there, but are
there none in the North? Isn't
it a fact that there are streets
in the heart of Chicago where ten
fold the danger turks to life and
property than in the ,'loneliest
mountain parts of the South? And
what about the salacious records
of the Northern divorce courts
which represent in an inestimable
degree a greater meanace to the
country than do the negro lynch
ings of the South?
1.-The South has problems to
deal with concerning which nine
out of ten Northern editors pos
sess, not even primitive intelli-
gence. There are districts in the
South, where the negroes out
number the whites two hundred to
one, and the back country, South
ern negro is the most benighted
human being on the continent
without exception. You can go
into the Black belts of any State in
the South and f0d more inhabi-
tants to a square mile who re-
semble mere animals in their So
cial and material activities than
you can find in the Bronx Zoo.
"And yet, taking it all in all,
through the South, the blacks
do not produce as much trouble
and lawlessness as do the criminal
and immoral element in Pittsburg,
Chicago and New York.
THE Northern newspapers that,
through ignorance or design, per-
sistently seek to instill in the pub
lie mind that there is such a thing
as a 'Lawless South do harm, not
alone to the South, but to the
Republic as well.
"The war is over these forty
years and more, Mr.. Northern Ed
itor. The South, with its wounds
healed and forgotten, and man
fully and patiently bearing the
burden represented by millions of
an indolent, ignorant and improv-
dent race, has risen into imperial
proportions and has made, and is
now making gigantic strides along
educational and industrial lines"
AS the Augusta Chronicle says,
1T would be impossible to add any
hing to the above. 1t is all so true.
al said as plainly and understand
ngly, that we could not, had we the
iesire to do so, add anything to it.
1t states the South's case clearly
!