Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1909-10-22
SITUATION In THE WEST.


is as old as the human race. and never in
the history of the world has any race
of men so close to ancestry of absolute
savagery been able to resist the intoxicat-
ing effects Of the consciousness of having
little power over superior race. II
was folly; 1t was madness TO give them
such power In the first instance, and sooner
or later that power must be taken away
If the horrors of race conflict are to be
avoided. If any man thinks that ! am
exaggerating let him 90. for example, to
any of the towns of Indiana, Illinois or
Ohio where the negroes have come to con-
stitute an important percentage of the pop
ulation, though they are still far from be-
ing in the majority, and he will change his
mind. and understand better what mean.
IN all of these towns he will find exist
ing a state of affairs which may well make
him shudder, and which might possibly
cause him to talk less and think more on
this race question in Maryland hereafter.
He will find that there exists there de-
gree of race hatred between the white man
and the black which he had never dream
ed Of He will find that the two races hate
each other with an enduring hatred, and
that there exists on the part of the masses
of the white population feeling of enmity
toward the negro population, as a whole,
so violent that the safety of the latter is
constantly endangered, and racial con-
flict ever imminent He will find that when
n colored man in that community commits
a serious crime, such ms the murder of
white man or assault upon a white woman,
the white people do not content themselves,
like the people of Southern community,
with hunting out the individual offender
and Furnishing him, but they blaze forth in
fury against the whole negro population,
innocent and guilty alike, and frequently
drive them out of town, committing great
outrages upon them the while. Newspapers
have been full of instances Of this kind
within the last few years. That is what
occurred in Springfield. Ohio, and that is
what occurred in Springfield. Ill., the birth
place of Lincoln himself. and is liable to
occur at any moment in those towns. IL
behooves the friends of the negro as well
as of the white man to pause and consider
what may be the cause of this unfortunate
condition of affairs. Every SOuthern-bred
man understands it, 1t is not because the
people of these Northern and Western
States are less humane. or less reasonable
than the people Of the South. 1t Is because
the negro in those Northern communities
is different 1t is because the negro there
is so much less respectful to the white
man so much more arrogant, swaggering,
dangerous and intolerable in his dealing
toward the white man. more especially to-
ward the white man of the poorer classes
with whom he comes in contact, and 1t is
bred in the bone of every white man, North
and South. to resent that sort of treatment
on the part of the negro. IL is racial in
stinct which will assert itself In spite OF
all the laws that human ingenuity can de-
wise to repress IT, II is ineradicable, at
least in the Anglo-Saxon race.
ONLY DIFFERENCE In DEGREE.
1.-THE difference between the situation in
Ohio and the situation in Maryland in re-
gard to this race question is difference
in degree and not in kind The same con-
ditions are developing here, slowly ii is
true. which have produced in those States
horrors of genuine race hatred, with all its
dreadful consequences. Another striking
feature which goes to show that the active
and unrestraned participation Of the negro
in politics in the North has promoted race
friction and developed race hatred is this
A short time ago DIR. j. +. Cutler, professor
of economics in Wellesley College, Connec-
ticut, in his volume on Lynch Law brought
out the startling fact that the percentage
of negroes lynched in such States as In
diana, Ohio and Illinois, compared with the
negro population of those States, has been
many times larger than the percentage in
any Southern State CLynch Law" 1889
"ln the Southern States. outside of Mary
land, the negro does not vote at all. In
the States referred to by DIR. Cutler, IL is
notorious that they hold the balance of
power at every election. You may draw
your own inference. This is a serious bust
ness.
II sometimes wonder, when ! am read
ing the outbursts of my friend Mr. Leigh
Bonsal. in the newspapers, how many hours
he has devoted to the consideration OF this
aspect of the subject. cannot believe but
that If he would let his mind work IL would
tell him that ii might be just as well to so
slower in his effort to prevent the enact
ment of measure like this amendment,
which will have so strong tendency to
fOrestall racial conflict in the future. by
permitting the seeds Of race hatred to grow
and develop in this State, as the result OF
continued political conflict between the two
races. we will be providing harvest OF
trouble for generations yet to come. In the
light of this consideration and in view OF
the beneficent results which would follow
from the taking of the negro out OF politics
il is difficult to treat with seriousness some
of the arguments which are advanced by
the opponents of this amendment. Yet
they must be treated with seriousness be-
cause they are advanced in all sincerity,
and by men of the highest character"
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