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!1!iAThe Negro Problem And The NewNegro Crime.(By 1 h* Editor ol Karp*f*H Wm-kly,]I+.......... /. *4i;M » -« * *IA wHUknown and wlt; tl-infonmd * eeurrenct- of Ihc new Cfiuit in lltc member of thr Federal House of Northern Slate*. where tii«_ Negroit-pw-^illative* from AUbatua, Mr virinot be suppiMCd t- 1m- luj »singHanklii tifr ruvutly ascetic 1 that into barbarism, lna.au c lie is smmo. tin* Sui«* Cn! 4iimion ly »uu tided by th*-• ».Ivili/ing inlluenctsv.'liidi Negro* ate htsfrnchised b*..me pet alive isi Miabistiippi, there I . lit \ occurred in that State a mho 'tic «ti• i.ifice of the so i .dhd ‘'new 1-ei t rime, by which I* nn ant thei .o' v. L .■ Theh* ptc^cut iiivi went tit. that,il thin nine should bt some un-hiriwn juths.sc- tarn oi the country, t wuuldhciio pi* I bin,’v» hi? as tin: South 14 coruertted.I I r dirged lit t in Mif.ht* ip| i wof ft while race vaMly prcputidefeiU ni number*-. Exact tatiMn al d lUarc not yet forth comttlg, hut thn.e who have itiVrsg tiled tin timttt t expfc»* the opinion that the particular. rime in utiesuoh is committed lt;vcn nioic in *10 ntJv by Negroes at ih» North than **r the South, it thesmall numerical proportion whichth«w bear in tin: environing whitean answer to this question, for theirnew State Constitutions have not been operative fora sufficiently long period. It *4 acid, however, that already in Alabama the number of outrage* has noticeably decreased. It would be superfluous to point out the tremendous important e of the mutter, not only to the Southern whites, but to tin Southern blacksthenififlve t If the new Negro crime he. inn extinct in the Gulf State*, die old plantation life might he n sutuH, and tin black laborers would again be brought under t iv iii mg influence!, instead of being U It to drift into isolated comm uni tics. The whole attitude of the South t in white toward his black neighbor would be revolutionised, mi the*two races would br brought ini 1economic t elation* that would proverautudb. beneficial. Should tin*1]iu-1 i) win of proof that the crimer.jpolalioti :tt die former v i n be i prove to be the effect ol the new kept ni v:ew, M .r- i r, it the ! Slat*; Constitution*, thr AmericanNorth* 11- it tin S utn. the pbem'mi*] people may have cause to bit**-■« thec:* ri» is a nOv* l orn thcte wa* in the refusal uf the 1*nitedStates Suprernemend men t,hi every Southern cmrnunitvto which wc have referred should be■. »uu d tlt; the : Him* ol political Northern States, wc believe, no in- Court to enforce th* bdltecnt \—and social equality with which the! stance of the crime which wc arc , .nictation of triad** then growing I now discussing before the civil war.i mt »nilu'd during the it- It woulf be absurd to contend, how where the new negro crime has beenOtiitnn lion peimd, The iufetwu r* drawn was that, with the practicalI I .ta.-ii t... ...i- e oi the reconstruction frgss bint* tis civili/ed ns tin y w« re hut) j hatred, nor can wetksttht that the exodd years ago. In the if cas*, there. | tinction of the crime t the Jodfepeuupever, 11;.11 the Negiuc m th* North ? prevah nt. tl.ere ha been engender ztn State* n« not at the |ie*M,nl ed lt;tendency to ruci* aloof nt ss and1 a i ion tmd th* cmr.« 'jucut vanishmii i t ;r ii j •ditic.o and social e*quality, the crixxit w*»dd be. asm *rXtitii hi I.aher vttpp rt Ot tiiihtheory 1 the oiigitt lt;«l th* crime.*ili : \t ili«; remcy lhf tei.u, n i - pointfjd mi that this pmicular nttncdyw.i i ■ is the i Une or the rvjUth, and h. iiloie, hl nitid reject the explanationwhkh iscribvstha new Negro crimet a lapse into savagery.On the- whole, we .»re inclined to think that there i -ome basis for the hypothesis which niakt s the rL-sablv condition of a reviv,.l of thoold pacific, trustful, and friendly inter lation*. We lincerel) hopethat the I nets with regard to Miss i^jppt are correctly ranted by Mr, (lunkhead.. U the arv* we are* inIu* . uipclhnl the iamilii Of white Idea-gen» tut-d by it responsible for d uit* r-in the bh-rh bt!lt to m-gT ue tht evolution ^ the new Ntgrcinlrtfut t ion !ugtd.diuri and the , - dint -1 tu ado; t hj- jnt* Cpretrition ofthen significance.fro:.: the rural didficts into IO^ilr( cronev. i eir.igely tinku «r \ cfrirethe t-in 1 his hypothesis ^ all lit' u t .i1vv.it, and renn.ucJ unknown for ’wmg a% appli ibte tlt;» the pheuom-lome years thereafter, go long the ideas and Imbit* at (juired under the Uwrv regime remained thuni* ii.«* t so the N gr cb nicot ol the Southern jmpulati*Ueforc Dcceptinc tin - theory, to . hi h Mb Uankbi-ad a convert,w should mention that an cnttrdv dstfurctit cause nafigned to I hr t une by other mm* who ho h.iw made ncarelul tuly of the subject. Keeping in view o: the dates at m l localities iti which the outrage^ which have been perpetrated, nri lmat king aislt;Hbc personal history of ciituimib, they have arrived at the ...h, 111yi. iri that such fiutfjigcfi are sjhs: j lie indicalb n-ot a * tp^md theSoutlu i u Negro mb a stat ■: c/i l*ar bar- in or savagery, m which theer dib it.on cl the- brutish instmcta is no longer subjected to th** ft*ena rvpoited in the Northern us to, ll-.Cac observed in the Snutbum . Statef. In the N u rib cm States theNegr . not +1r11y possesses th* fraticlusv. but is cncouiiiged ti UKcrciseit. Nntthcr i^ iHe eiicourugemeitt v nhnr I tu one of tin great political parties, c t ii is well understood thatcertain States of the Knsl and.insiramtii olctviiisr.au u. They pointto the condition of things of things m Haiti furnUliing t on ?horalivethat :t Jisrcgard far st xual realri*mts ir* charactensti ol n vommnnilywhich baa undergone s cud degeneration* 1 hi* i« ft plausible, hypothesis arid it has been e it pled bymany persons who have observed,central Wt’^t the Negro vote maj turn the scale at ckasdy coutested ek-tlions. Nor is there* any doubt that tbe- Negro enjoys more -■ fcia 1 e juality at the North than at theSouth.It U true diat in our Northern |cities black OK U a**- i.lr* arted by astom. though not by law. tromllie.it th*AtlCSr llidfcN, ttld It ,UUr-ant. buub*;y mt: not 1 alt; ed to • cupy separat* cars on railways andtramways In Washingtonfr t manyyears N* gro ofbciaH of the Districtot Columbia have been perBiitted toatic-nd oiu ot the Presidents receptions, although Mr. Ikiokci Wash-ingion is, m l it a we can now re-callf the onlv colored man that hasb-eii invited to dine at the WhiteHouse* There i % in a word, no doubt tli itthe North the black man hasor think they bare obscrv* d, that1 attained not only complete politicalilic lt;cm*iatiou of the Southern Ne ei|uahty, but a closer approach togrov'S which has grown Up since the social equality, than lie is ever like ci\ il wins morally and intellectual!) !y to attain at the South. It wouldinferior to the preceding geueratiou which was the product of the slavery regime. It is generally acknowledged. we believe, that the n* wXcgioatthc South less mdust:ions, 1 e^s thrifty, less trustworthy, and less self controlled than wa» Ins father or grandfather. Never-theless, the theory which imputes pi, with regard to the vxtuiction ofbe difficult not to associate the pbe noiumia as cause and effect, if, upon thorough investigation, it should prove true i ha it he new Negro crime is actually more frequent, pro par tionally to numbers, at the North f ban it is at the South.Will the experience uf MiMiasip-the emergence of a new crime to a tendency of the Southern blacks tothe crime be repeated in the other Souther.i States, which have virtuarelapse into savagery cannot be Uy set at n night the reconstruct ion easily reconciled with another cia^ Iegilati3iit fry disfranehUiu-; theof facts. We refer to the frequent Negrov? It is too early to expect
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Sedalia Weekly Conservator
Sedalia, Missouri, US
Sat, Jul 18, 1903
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