Show THE NEGRO SIDE in the NEWS dispatches Isi last steven even ing march 5 was an account of misa alias ida wells being excluded from a methodist meeting in san ban francisco Frano laoo because she had bad not proved that she was a member of the methodist church the woman who Is thus being given notoriety is in a degrees who formerly former lw lived in the southern states and who is entering into the reform movement agai net the treatment to w which bleb negroes are subjected there she Is ia an eloquent speaker and relates in graphic words the story of the condition of her race run oe in the south in her discussion miss wells pointe out many features which will be in te resting to consider as the statement coining from the negro side of the controversy regarding the particular occurrences which have led to tb ine movement in behalf of the colored race the lynching lunching lyn ching of negroes for heinous of ofte lenses nees against white women miss mine wells I 1 recalls that when th the matters masters of the slaves bad gone to battle during the rebellion the dearone were left leac on the plantations to protect the women and children there wa gras then no complaint of these awful 1 crimes she claims are the outgrowth of the later conduct of the white race in its antagonism to the black man she states that theA colored women have suf buffered fared more from the criminal assaults of whites than ever eveir white women have from negroes and in every case the punishment meted outto out to the whites has been infinitely lees lem than ethan to the negroes she further alleges that the silence of the worth north if ia lar largely gelly responsible fir the lyno lynch bings ings in the rhe south for the suppression of A which her race asks the operation cooperation co of moral and christian people miss wells insists that one great cause of the trouble rouble is that although the slaves were freed the war at tits its close the southerners believed that they had bad the same right to rule I 1 the negro as before and in many oases cases resorted to massacre to secure we the desired results laws were made to humiliate and ostracize the negro and the principal social and temperance societies of the south closed their doors to the race consequently the colored men built churches and schoolhouses of their own established newspapers and mercantile houses bouses and made considerable progress which however would have been much greater but for the way they were held back regarding the statement men that southern workhouses workhouse and prisons are filled with ne negroes groce miss mies wells says it is owing to the fact this for the commission commis eion of the most trivial of renee a negro is often sentenced to years of imprisonment while the penalty for a whits white man for a similar orime crime would be very light doubtless there is a great deal of truth in the negro woman claim that white is measurably re spon for negro crime and that the be colored people are the chief sufferers suffer erp err the bare fact that in 10 the south there is sentiment which justifies as a necessity the hanging and burning of negroes without recourse reci ourse to legal methods indicates a disregard of justice and humanity which I 1 is deplorable it may cause ause some gome improvement therefore to ka nave hav 0 the subject agitates sifted and au understood ad org tood giving both sides a bear ing so thed hat the sentiment complained of may be replaced by one of a more character in that view ahe be reform movement may not b be e without good fruits fruit assuring a less jose hostile relationship between the two races than exists at present |