Evening journal., 1914-01-16
NEcRopH0BIA.

T T is astounding that Every Evening newspaper pub
L lished in an enlightened and 4uon-loving
muniiy such have here should give quail
fled editorial approval the neerophobiac utterances
Of an Eastern shore newspaper which holds to the
view that tho way to lawessness among negroes
is deny them All educational advantages to keep
them stepped in ignorance. In the editorial columns
OF the Every Evening find the following.
The Centrevile. Nd Observer. In its current issue
gives editorial approval TO the suggestion of
pondcnt that much Of the evil arising from crime
in this country is due to Tie education of the negroes
and that the only remedy is to cease all efforts in that
direction The this editorial utterance, natural
ly, is the recent horrid murder of a farmer near
Ohestertown Nd, by Two negroes whose eVil pas
sions inhamed by the farmers unwse in
making a display Of small roll Of bank bills in the
presence of several negroes together with other vio
lent crimes the Delaware Peninsula. The argument
advanced is that education is making the negro worse
not better his Is that Of laboring
by his hands, with only such education as in isolated
instances may be desired and secured by those OF
good character and ambitions tendencies secured bv
their efforts and directed entirely towards the inn
provement OF their business affairs. OF course this
idea will be combatted but it viii find many upholders
And the fact that il prevails should teach It's lesson
TO those who feel concern IN the material uplift of
negroes u is for them to profit by the lesson and
endeavor to remove the underlying OF this
gested retrogresson-the abrogstion of all facilities
for the education OF negroes.
BY the token presume education among
the whites should be stopped to put end to crimes
perpetrated by members Of that race. Anyone who
would advance such line Of argument would be look
ed upon fools and it is difficult draw the line
between the apostle of ignorance among the negroes
and the apostle Of ignorance among the whites as a
for crime.
To begin WITH there is nothing to show that the
Eastern Shore crime referred TO due to the fact
that its negro perpetrators educated. And
if they educated it does not follow that the
crime committed because they were educated Oar
opinion is that investigation would disclose that
education did not figure in the matter at all. We do
not think anyone will deny that have in our coun-
try hundreds OF thousands of educated persons who
are guiltless Of crime and that the may be said
with respect to hundreds of thousands of uneducated
persons On the other nand no one who knows any
thing about American criminals possibly deny
that they range from college bred down those
who never have had educational advantages In fact.
many Of the most notorious crimes committed in
this country committed by educated white
men and The Far-Crittenden, the Dun
can, the Wheeler, the LeRoy-skerrett the Bowers
Benhayon the Goldensen-Keily, the Blanther-Lang-
feldt the Fredercks-Herrck the VIII
liams tho Botkn- Dunning. the Collins the Mortimer
Gibson the rullis-Dye the Lee-Mountain Meadow
the Hyde-swope. the Haymarket the Cronin the
Johnann Hook the Or. Holiness the Webster Parknan,
the Jewett the Colt-Adams the Cunningham Burdell
Thaw-White and hundreds. if not thousands of other
would supply substantial ground for The abandonment
of all efforts educate the whites IL the suggestion
OF the Cenrevie Observer the Every Evening with
is comforting to know. however that the American
people sufficiently intelligent TO discriminate be-
tween negrophobia and sensible argument