The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-02-10
Restrictive Laws

iting the teaching of the doctrine
evolution, lately introduced in tn
Kentucky Legislature, Is fully as log
iscal as the national anti-lynchin
bill, lately shown high favor by tn
American house Of representatives
If these two measures finally fin
themselves on the statute books o.
the State of Kentucky and the Unit I
States, respectively, we shall the
move to make it unlawful for due.
10 swim and a criminal ofense for :;
baby to cry.
Somebody has remarked that VI
have far too many laws and much to
little common sense per capita, an
such bills as the two just mentione
certainly seem to stress that asser
ton. A census bulletin under tn
heading, Population of the Unite
States by Color and Race" shows tha
practically seven-eights of the ne
grocs in the United States live souti
of the Mason and Dixon line. "
the vote that put the anti-lynchin
bill over the top in the house of rel
resentatives resides north Of tina
line.
Counting ms the South. Stetes fror
Delaware to Florida, and theme
westward and northward to includ'
Texas, Oklahoma, Kentucky and Ter
nessee, the negro population Is q,
92l ,23l. They own, as the same dc
partment Of the government show
farm property worth $2,19l ,0O5,64'
In all the rest Of the United State.
the negroes number only 1,55O,90
and own similar property worth on'
SOC. $50 68S. It may thus be see
hat the average value Of lands owne
by negroes, is $245.S4 per capita i
he South and only $49.65 per capt
in the remainder of the country. 1C
his population in the North an
West, which has only sprinkling {
negro populations, and which keel
what it has as poor as Jobs turke
by its vote tells us we must TAX
Sambo to our hearts and our hom
md allow him all the rights and beI
afts that it denies him.
From standpoint of moral phi
osophy, lynching cannot be justitie
my more than can any other sort @
| rimc, including house breaking
horse stealing and murder. But fed
oral and State laws have not bee
sufficient, even with their death pen
alties. TO stop house-breaking, horse
stealing and murder. Hence, "
must concede that lynching will no
be stopped by law, North or South
when the cause is the same that ha
heretofore ccused that sort Of out
lawry to fare.
The State governments, accordln!
to many congressional speakers, ar
powerless to suppress lynching:
Hence the federal government mus
step in. This sort of argument, b
even the wonderful w. Burke Cock
ran, and in spite of the record Q
wholesale lynchings and race wars !
Tulsa, Okla, East st. Louis, III
Springfield, Ill.,, Omaha, Neb., and i
dozen other places, including tn
federal capital of the nation-bloo
running in rivulets, as a result O
negro hatred-not three blocks fror
where Mr.. Cochran delivered hi
great" anti-lynching speech. Blu
federal laws will be found5in futur
as in the past just as difficult to en-
force as are State laws.
Hence, the anti-lynching "law" an
the claw" TO prohibit the teaching O
| evolution in Kentucky will be jus
about as efficient as law would b
that prohibited n duck the freedor
of pond, when the fowl was foo
| loose and there were no barriers i
sight. Science cannot be disprove
! by legislative enactment. Neithe
can economics, nor specific offense
against the most sacred Anglo Saxo
axioms. Everybody ought to be abl
in this day of enlightenment to agre
to this deduction, we believe, but
appears that we are still up agains
proposition at Washington an
Frankfort, KY, where politics make
strange bedfellows.-Col Rec
ord