Show c NEGRO MORALITY WITH all ah due respect top to P of f kelly miller we presume to say gay that the negro public respectfully begs leave to be spared any ser mon ionizing izing on Us its morality on the streng strength ih of the very excellent I 1 series of articles on crime in the north american review there is neither anything in the condition of the race itself or the article which furnishes famishes the text of his moralizing moral izing to warrant a particle more concern than does the condition of the most favored people on 0 the face of the earth taking I 1 ever everything y thing into consideration era tion and making all justifiable allowances the negro is himself a model of morality tv which all other races would do well wall to copy there can be no argument but what wealth and intelligence constitute the main factors of a peoples moral culture while poverty and ignorance its moral depravity the white race has had twenty centuries start of the negro in the accumulation of all the elements which make a people good citizens and yet with all that advantage there is only a pitiful paltry difference of 8 per cent in their moral mora condition as atte attested sied by the statistics of crime the writer in the north american review very generously states state that one per cent of crime among negroes would be very materially moch modified fied 9 were the he mass of them theja not wholly among a hostile people where they cannot aiwas get justice in courts court of liw L w many of them being convicted for misdemeanors that would not inculpate a white man and being given ven longer sentences since conviction aud and length of sentence make up the main features of statistics of crime it is readily apparent how much less is the actual percentage of crime crime among negroes than the figures would indicate in 11 view of these facts the idea 0 o of 4 reading the negro a lesson lessau M morality a lesson they trev would not apply with equal propriety to any other people is too ridiculously silly to merit respectful consideration in his recent article in the posta post prof miller presumes to shed crocodile tears over we the fact that I 1 crime among negroes is 8 per cent greater than it is among 0 the whites if such tears are needed let them be shed because the negros lot is cast among a people whom 2000 years of f progress have not made great enough or broad enough to grant humanity the simple privilege 1 of human equality colored americal i most publics public s spirited parked and big hearted men in utah or the west when he ascertained that there was considerable I 1 suffering in our midst occasioned ed hy by the intense cold i weather wc ather lid he voluntarily donated 25 tons of coal 2500 lbs ibs of flour and iwo 1000 lesof ibs of corn com meal mad for the relief of the worthy poor let our other public spirited citizens follow in the footsteps of simon bamberger and I 1 hemby bring joy and comfort ti bohe ake poor widow and the orphan A Aith matt aa chief of police of conr 6 i i city rit r you y ou on last tuesday night V and qa aam anan 11 sitting ati anz away up on top of ima 0 wo id it looks though as j auyor b be 0 0 pel led to 1 q I 1 I 6 R f q 9 imitable imp table candidate A h az we twe do da no not t care 1 5 aith js MP wh which ich we have i 1 1 jia ra 7 0 d a i ama mr pratt V wd w 71 1 1 1 d a vt rt asti 4 1 i i ir i u r t 6 A as W vm cwi iwi dula be r 4 su il Is 1 1 A ay 1 aulty 0 of ft the 40 i fk lz F esa y s r fr y I 1 at 71 rev I 1 we I 1 I 1 I 1 it S way yf CIRA 6 y aw ova kc im 1 1 si bt T VASA sr 1110 0 fic M mt le fukio J x 4 1 zo x vae I 1 4 in N b 61 VV c g 5 I 1 me I 1 n r w r L 1 W X F 4 tat t AT sv 3 ka az W W 1 A 4 w rg r 4 U 1 iz wt r t W 1 1 4 zi 1 wl 0 I 1 I 1 I 1 AM M i I 1 aw r |