Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-03-11
MOB SPIRIT IN
THE SOUTH
Secretary of War Dickinson
Gives Wholesome Advice
at Atlanta
TAFT FAMILY At AUGUSTA
President Will Spend Forenoons
Golfing, Afternoons
Motoring.

Aulusta Ca. March 11.-President
( Taft came to Augusta early today lor
/ & brief rest before returning TO Wash
ington Mrs. Taft and Mrs. Helen
Taft will Join the President tomor-
ROW. Mr.. Taft will play golf every
morning and will motor during the
Afternoon.
Cut Out partisanship Ssays Taft.
Atlanta. Ga. March 11.--President
Taft in a speech before the closing
session of the Southern Commercial
congress last night made a plea to the
young men OF the new South to take
up the political issues OF the day from
a broad and liberal standpoint and TO
eliminate from their consideration
narrow partisanship and ectional'
ism
Mob Violence In the sourn.
Atlanta Ga, March ll.-That COM
mercial development of the South can
follow only upon the suppression OF
mob violence. is the opinion OF jacob
NJ Dickinson, the Secretary of war
Addressing the Southern Commercial
Congress here, Mr.. Dickinson declared
that because of frequent lawless out
|, breaks, an unjustifiable pre1udlce
; against the Southern States existed
not only in the North but in foreign
countries Such outbreaks, he de-
clared were the result of abnormal
= conditions produced by the Civil War.
!. Broadly viewed, however, he added
. the South will be found to be land
. of law and order, and he emphatically
g urged that the immediate necessity
!. oi establishing a reverence for an
10 imnaritaI enforcement of the law as a
=. primary step to the future greatness
n. of the South.
AS an ultimate solution of the race
problem in the South, Mr.. Dickinson
suggested the possibility of the vot-
s. untary removal of the mass of young
le negroes to a country of their own, fos-
to tered and guarde by the United
ey States.
.ty when they grow in wealth and ed
OF ,icati8T,s sad Myg Diekinson and
Dr. still find themselves confined in their
gh inspiration by the unsurmountabie
1e- barriers which bar their social and
'et political progress and deny them the
he opportunities of citizenship open tc
en- all others, an ambition to free them
selves from such conditions may, i
sustained by a liberal governmental
y policy, lead to such a movement"
Secretary Dickinson called attention
at the outset of his address to the fac
that a parallel to his subject, "Th
Enforcement of Law in the South,
:. hardly would find place at comme'
~ cial congress in the North, or
:. Great Britain, but declared that, "ev'
:. ry informed person knows that tn
a. South. through a wide spread thoue
q not general lawlessness and the MOI
x enforcement of law, is suffering Il
< jury-drect, at home, and indlrec
e on account of its reputation, abroad
x Progress and the protection OF pc
K u sons and property under the law
said Mr.. Dickinson, ARE correlatlN
terms. There can be no general al
steady economic development whe
there is a general reinforcement
the law The tremendous and steaC
VI strides being made generally In u
Uy South for successive decades, in ed
III cation. commerce manufactures, ra
roads. mines. bank capital, agricultu
II, indeed in all that indicates stea'
progress, demonstrate that the peop
\ of the South taken generally, a
peaceful and law-abiding. The gre
accumulation of property by {
negroes. the most helpless political
nav and socially of all of her people,
Uni widely heralded as evidence or the
dustry, thrift and progress OF the RAJ
shows a general stable security uno
the law. Therefore, we may CT
ny fidently proclaim this exponent OF
general fact that the South is la
Of law and order. And this we m,
night be diligent to do, for the South
ws. suffered. is suffering and for 10
Juan time until prejudice is removed, v
suffer from a general reputation pa
'rillo, ly Just in it's origin, but largely
lust. and acquired under abnorn
sault conditions.
"These conditions were produced
and war. The decentralization from
ntent wars is great; that of Civil war
greatest. Civil war of long durati
Car fought in the country of the party {
Juan fering defeat, always brings an II
eadly of woes This followed by the fl
~. ing of service millions of differ
% as race, many hardly emerged from
all with an atavistic tendency to
900. a.l, ~ .,a,tod hv ,or+;s.p
red for lawless gain and revenge
the degradation of the former ma
.,o, from the place of power to that
H. . helpless and insulted observer OF
,s Of own spoliation, and IL enacted III
onntv military rule supplanting the
# az courts, inculcates the body polite
n had SO much of evil as to make regen
. for ton almost hopeless. Such "a
dition would be fatal to any bt
petit strong and sound people.
first 1T is no wonder that state OF
/ went