[27] According to the Educational Report of the United States Bureau of Education for 1898-1899, “the total enrolment in the public schools of the South (the sixteen former slave-States and the District of Columbia) for the year 1898-1899 was 5,662,259; the number of white children being 4,150,641 and the number of negro children 1,511,618.” Of the white school population (5,954,400), 69.71 per cent. were enrolled in the public schools, and of the negro school population (2,912,910), 51.89 per cent. [28] George H. White, of North Carolina. [29] “The American Negro,” by William Hannibal Thomas, p. 74. Macmillan & Co. [30] Wrong of Slavery and Right of Emancipation: R. D. Owen, Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1864. [31] In Arkansas the total value of all property, including railroad property of the State, is $225,276,681. The taxes assessed on the property of the whites were $3,699,025, while the taxes assessed on the property of the Negroes were $205,954. The value of the property held by the Negroes was obtained by assigning to them an amount proportionate to the taxes paid by them. [32] ———————————————————+——————————+————————————— |Number of |Value of Farm | Farms. | Property. ———————————————————+——————————+————————————— Owners | 174,434 | $150,557,251 Part Owners | 30,501 | 27,358,225 Owners and Tenants | 1,582 | 1,881,163 Managers | 1,824 | 9,777,377 Cash Tenants | 274,663 | 178,300,242 Share Tenants | 284,760 | 178,849,250 ———————————————————+——————————+————————————— [33] The Comptroller-General of Georgia reports that the assessed value of the property of the white taxpayers of Georgia for 1902 was $452,122,577. The property of the Negro taxpayers in the State of Georgia for the same year was assessed at $15,188,069. This sum, though considerably larger than that estimated by Professor Du Bois, is only 3.25 per cent. of the total assessment of the State. [34] _World_ Almanac, 1903. [35] Address of Charles A. Gardiner, cited before. [36] “The American Negro,” by William Hannibal Thomas, p. 68. [37] Page 183. [38] Page 184. CHAPTER IV THE LYNCHING OF NEGROES—ITS CAUSE AND ITS PREVENTION[39] In dealing with this question the writer wishes to be understood as speaking not of the respectable and law-abiding element among the Negroes, who unfortunately are so often confounded with the body of the race from which come most of the malefactors. To say that Negroes furnish most of the ravishers is not to say that all Negroes are rapists. * * * * *