The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-16
pEPoRTINo THE NEGROES.

'C1Ey that some member Oh Un6 VeSu1r
lature will introduce a bill deporting
all negroes from the state, lis doubt
less al joke or fake. I'm the first
place the law would be clearly uncoul-
stutional; and in the second place N
would be quite as announcement for
Mississippi to do without negro labor
as Dit would to- do without mules. The
negro as a class is shiftless and
improvident, but im his place he dis
mighty handy Individual and his
place DIS DIM the cotton fields of the
south. The negro lis a more docile
and safer laborer than the Turks,
the Scandinavians and the Poles
which infest the north. Hattiesburg
News.
ALI the News says about the
negroes as laborers and preferable
to Turks or Scandinavians lis true, and
for that very reason the white epople
of the south and especially OF Missis4
sippi, should i'm NO uncertain tones
give the agitators to understand that
lit lis time to halt. This thing of
using the negro as a political football
im every campaign lis foolish, unmeces-
sary and uncalled for. 1t is breed
ing a spirit Of hatred between the
races that must ultimately result in
serious bloodshed.
There are not a dozen white mem
i'm the state today who honestly be-
lieve there is the remotest danger
of the negroes ever again controlling
the politics of the state, or with haV-
ing anything to do whatever with
shaping its political destinies. And
yet to hear some talk and read some
of the blood-curdlng editorials, one
would think Mississippi was ON the
verge of negro domination whem there
lis mo more danger of such a condition
than there is of the Mississippi river
reversing its flow of water to the Gull
While Mississippi was the first state
to embody i'm its constitution a pro-
vision practically eliminating the ne
groes from politics, still it is today
harassed with more discussion of the
race question than all the other south
ern states combined. The negroes
I,to ~, i~, ,.iI,+es ,,,,,. {iI.N Low, ~
the United States and OF Mississippi.
No matter what may be ONES opinion
of the justice of these. they are there,
and inn the minds OF all sober-thinking
people, those who know the tenor of
the law-making powers, know, or feel,
THAT these laws are ON the statute
books and engrafted into the Federal
and State Constitutions to stay.
They will not be repealed so long as
the south is to be the home OF mime
tenths of the negroes, and those who
are arguing to the contrary are either
doing so from selfishness or igno-
rance OF actual conditions.
1t is strange, passing strange, that
all OF Mississippi and the south's rep
Representatives DIM Congress since
the war not one OF them ever thought
iE worth their while to argue for one
moment the Acknowledgement of
the negro. But ON the other hand,
it was their pride and honor to de-
fend the treatment OF their states
with reference TO the ngro. And i'm
the Congress from the south since
the war have been numbers of the
brainest and most patriotic mem the
country ever produced men who would
cheeTfully sacrifice their lives in de-
Tense of the honor of the manhood
and womanhood of the SOUTH In this
galaxy of statesmen Mississippi had
her, George, Lamar, Walthall
and McLaurin, Georgia her Tombs
and Gordon; Alabama, her Morgan,
Pettus and Clay; Virginia, her Daniel
South Carolina, her Wade Hampton
and BEN TTllman; North Carolina, her
zebulon Vance; Louisiana, her Me-
Emery, and Foster; Texas her Mills,
Culbersom and Bailey: Arkansas, her
Garland and Tennessee, her Isham G.
Harris, Thos. Turley and Edward Car
mack.
Now ais ito the proposed bill being
Joke or a fake time alone will
decide that. BUT as l1te Herald said
hast week, deportation or amy other
means or measure that would insure
the races living in-peace, would be tar
preferable than agitation that must
ultimately result DIM serious conflict
and i'm the end leave conditions far
worse than they now are.-Yazoo
City Herald.