Show THEY ARE BESET the wonder as not that there aro negro criminals but aku the number of among the colored people is not larger the are born and raised in a country where the majority of the people refuge to r them as other than an inferior race and although because of that ostracism they are handicapped in the struggle toran tor an existence as much is expected of them in the ray of good deportment and self respect as is exacted of the white race this antl negro sentiment it seems Is not all confined to the south where the hatreds developed during the reconstruction period are kept alive with never lessening intensity but we read of how the property holders of a section of harlem new york are buying out the owners of tenements where the negroes secure shelter and try to make homes for the purpose of driving the colored people out of the neighborhood this may be what you would do and what I 1 am disposed to do but how would we like this same relentless hounding to be turned against the white man the white man would re icat it and then seeing how futile were his efforts to resist the crushing power of an overwhelming force he might lose his interest in orderly government and his regard for the ten commandments and growing desperate deliberately become ah outlaw with his hand raised against every other mans hand the negroes in this country are facings serious condition of affairs they must either give up the battle for their uplifting and cease to bo self assert ive or surrender in acknowledgment of a form of seM dom or they must and centralize in some 0 the southern stated and there live to themselves without tho let or hind ranee of the wakes |