The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-07

equality, there would be little objection
70 the negro ballot.
Our Burden.
It seems 20 be conceded that the task
o. solving the negro problem for the
North, East and West, where Il exists,
Is upon the people OF the South. Wen,
Let the negro alone, politically.
Keep your hands off Of the negro.
y Keep away from him, except Of
Give him help II you win, for his
schools and churches, but don't expect
or ask for a return.
tlement.
s. Don't lynch him.
z. Encourage the good and discourage
the a that's in him-to his face.
g. Keep the two races separated In
cars. hotels and all places Of amuse-
ment.
.. Enact laws penalizing social con-
tact Of every description.
10; In dealing with him never violate
II. Punish his lynchers.
IL. Punish the white man that as
socIates with him socially.
IL. Tell every Republican In the
South who ruins the negro by raising
leave-and mean II.
4AG 1&14Vbs
The best argument I ever heard
against allowing negroes to vote was
made about 20 years & by Senator H.
p. Money. Senator Money said, in eff
feet, that as The government OF the
United States Is a continuous expert
ment, aiming ultimately to attain to
something like perfection in democracy,
and that in order to achieve that result
1t is absolutely essential in govern
l manfu1 a ffatrg a. anontatk a. ha-E k,,tn.
OF the white race, WI cannot afford for
sentimental reasons to entrust the bal
lot to an intellectually inferior race.
To the man who admits the premises
and all intelligent people must admit
them-the argument is irresistible.
Blu there Is another and a greater
danger In arining the negro with a bal
lot. In struggles for office the two
races must, alb necessitate rel, be
thrown together and caused to mingle,
to wrangle, to dispute and to a~ntagonize
each other; and, whether in harmony or
In conflict; whether at peace with each
other or at lo~ggerheads, the inevitable
result Is that the negro finds himself
enjoying a social status, such as the
Republicans gave him in reconstruction
days; and SO we are confronted by a
towering stumbling block and setback
IN our struggle to solve the ace prob
lem.
Then, II, as l believe, the race prob
lem Is a social one, and the solution Of
1t makes for the purity of the white
raS&. the repeal Of the fifteenth amend
ment to the federal constitution Is a
Is here.
Mr.. Smith speaks of divided opinion
on the race question. There Is no d.
vided opinion. among Southern people,
and Is probably none among the North
ern people. There Is, however, q diff
l fArnnpA nf nnininn IN the a1hinrt ha-
tween Southern people on the n hand
and Northrn people on the other. The
trouble Is, the people up there think
they understand the negro race, while
down here, the people know.
Other sections outside of Dixie have
been and are perhaps yet, unwilling to
accept the South'sSa Paid in settling the
problem, although 1t seems to be con-
coded that our help Is necessary. We
have been unable to argue with white
same restaurant and bathroom, but we
get this consolation: We offer the
remedy-and the problem is theirs, not
ours.
Chicago Washington Riots.
The statement of states Attorney
Maciay Hayne, Of Chicago. published
on July 20, shows that the people up
there are coming to realize that poll
tics Is responsible for all ace troubles.
The statement follows: Politicians
teaching the negro element ~disrespect
for the law is the basic reason for the
riots" Had he added that disrespect
for white people was another-the prin-
| c~ipaleffect of the politicians teach
ing, he would have stated the whole
truth. Mr.. Maclay adds; The police
suca extent By the politicians, black K
and white, on the South Side, that
they are afraid to arrest and prosecute
men with political backing or who
/ claim to have political influence" It
is history repeating itself; 1t Is a re-
vival OF reconstruction days. But his
| elects to enact its repetition beyond the
| Mason and Dixon line. History will
not repeat Itself on that subject down
here. The Chicago race troubles would
bitterly, unqualifiedly opposed to lynch
ingS because It ID lawless, but | feel
that It would be almost justified II
the victim were a white politician who
had been encouraging negroes to as
ISOLATE socially with the white race,
Negroes know. as well as white peo-
| pie, that mob law is not law. and that
every member Of q mob that commits
a lawless act, Is a violator of the law
and d8ght to be punished by the law
courts. Mebs trample on the nerves
Of decent. refined men and women.
II w lJtt0G& lihp AIGD vi NAClkhpAAAo "tho
| petitioned the authorities last rear to
put an end to lynching Mpd to SO nan
| age that their husbands. brothers and
other kin could not become parties to
80 criminal and morally debasing a
/ thing as a lynching. Yet the mad mob,
| actuated by the sole purpose of swing
ing up a negro whose life or death Is
| not the equivalent of a single nervous
shock to one of our women, surges On,
needless Of rernonstrance, ignoring Of
| ficArs of the law, and ready to kill one
| who interfers--and thus steep his am
/ lily In deep and lasting sorrow-all to
/ get a negro hanged. All Of this in
the shadow of the courthouse where
the negro, II gui9E, would certainly be
stances there have been where officers
have fired upon mobs and killed GER
/ tain OF Its members; which Is lawful.
| All on account OF a. negro. But what
OF the consequences as concern the
innocent families Of the dead lynch
ers?
1t is a serious reproach to the law
and the people of that country In which
every man charged with crime Is guar
anteed a sairS and impartial trial. as
well as a stigma upon the constituted
authorities to be compelled to admit
that a mob Ia strong enough to wrest
an alleged criminal from the custody
Of the law and hang him.
Negroes Place.
All of my life L have heard the ex-
preston "a negro knows his place" II
Is true. ~Instinctiyoly he knows where
ne belongs. 1t needs no cultivation,
ever in washington and Chicago, for
him to know that he shout build his
home outside of the area of strictly
white residences, and that he is more
| than In fhA wrnnR new. when he goes In