Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1909-02-06

storm. They decline TO be made the
victims OF Official blunders and it is
TO be expected that clash Will fol-
low the further pursuit of such meth
DDS The great trouble in these
Northern cities is that these labor a.
gents offer hattering inducements and
get the scum of Southern cities TO go
North.
They tend TO disc edit the repu-
table servant class that occupy po-
sitions Of responsibility and profit in
many Northern families. Some OF
these people will not work whei here
and as soon as they get the price
OF railroad fare go to these cities and
become a burden npon the eommun-
ity.
They frequent crap joints. patron
lie the lowest dives, live by gambling
stealing and other questionable meth
DDS and put on more airs about their
rights than "a ring-tailed monkey
in a country circus" The better
class Of coioved servants in the North
and the working elements of respec-
liability there are seriously handicapp
cd and embarrassed by this kind OF
undesirable immigration. These dis
reputable people are often found sit
ting in the lighthouses OF the North
and they do more TO afford support
TO Senator TiAman and Mr.. Thomas
Dixon, in their TRADES against the
Negro ;han years argument could
accomplish. When they travel, they
make themselves generally disagree
able and insulting and many a respec
table man or woman has had cause
to send mp a silent prayer Of uni
versal regret that they cannot be sent
20 the corn-nelds of the Southland.
But wholesale arrests and indis-
criminate abouse are not the ways to
check the evil. The Southern way is
to employ the Negro 70 catch the
Negro and success usually attends
this mode of procedure. We might
have changed the remark so as to
read that they employ criminal Ne
groes to catch criminal Negroes. This
factory" some times works overtime
With disastrous results as it did in
the case OF President Roosevelt's pri-
vate detectives. who were so crushing
ly discredited by Senator Foraker I'm
his great speech on she Brownsville
affair.
We are highly gratifed in some re-
spects over the exodus of some Of the
criminal classes Of our people in the
Southland. If Pittsburgh will estab
iish workhouse and MAKE the Grim
inal elements work instead Of loaf
IL will please every honest. indus
tTious colcred person in that city.
There are large numbers Of colored
men ina some communities, who rely
upon some female servant to support
therl These people shonld he made
20 work themselves. 1t may be but
fair and just TO say that the white
people nave white hoodlUms AMI dis
reputable characters, who are just as
reprehensible in their conduct. but
they belong to a race of people, who
can probably better aGord IL.
Colored folks must be industrious
law-abiding. GOd-fearing and they
must practice those rules OF polite
society that will tend not only to raise
them in the respect OF their own
people but in the esteem OF the large
number Of white people Of this coun-
try as well. II an organization of
colored people in Pittsburgh will at
tempt TO counterfeit the effect OF these
damaging reports that are being sent
broadcast over the country TO our
detriment, then the writing of this
editorial upon this subject will not
have been in vain.