[53:3] This argument assumes, of course, that all Negroes who murdered whites in the South were either lynched or legally executed, and that all Negroes caught who committed rape against white women were likewise dealt with. It seems to be about as fair in one case as the other to assume this. [56:4] _Baltimore American_, June 15, 1875. [58:5] To make up for the high death rate. [59:6] Joliet, Ill., Sept. 10 (1917), _Riot in State Prison_. Rioters numbered about fifty. Had become angered at impositions of restrictions. “Among the privileges previously enjoyed by the convicts was an almost unlimited correspondence with sentimental women.”—_Washington_ (D. C.) _Star_, Sept. 10, 1917. [60:7] Taken from _Richmond Enquirer_, May 4, 1775. [60:8] _Baltimore Sun_, August 27-28, 1915. [64:9] W. H. Collins, “The Domestic Slave Trade,” p. 20. [64:10] It is unlikely that all rape cases get in the papers. An intelligent resident of Rapides Parish, La., told the writer that four cases of rape occurred in that parish once within a month. [65:11] William Archer, “Through Afro America,” London, 1910, p. 22. [66:12] Address: John Temple Graves, _New York Times_, Sept. 4, 1903. [66:13] The Chicago _Daily Tribune_, Dec. 31, 1904. [66:14] _Arkansas Gazette_ (Little Rock), March 26, 1904. See also _Daily Arkansas Democrat_, March 29, 1904. [69:15] Statistical Abstract of the U. S., 1915, p. 55. [70:16] H. H. Bancroft, “Popular Tribunals,” Vol. II, pp. 666-7. CHAPTER IV THE CRIMINALITY OF THE NEGRO The present criminal status of the Negro,—and his criminal record since the Civil War as well,—should cause every member of the race in America to hang his head in shame. Yet, may it not be that, after all, the Negro is, to a large extent, an irresponsible creature of circumstances, and that his crimes are upon the heads of those who unwisely placed him in a position that he was unable to occupy,—except with injury to all concerned? Scholars hold that the average citizen of the ancient Athenian Democracy, the greatest of ancient democracies, was as intelligent as the average member of the British Parliament, or of the American Congress. The Negro, however, with all his barbarism and ignorance, totally unrelated to the white man in origin, character, and race, directly after his emancipation, was made a full-fledged citizen in the greatest of modern democracies. The fact is appalling. Stupidity unsurpassed, unless by the pacifist visionaries of the present day who seek to usher in the millennium by proclamation,—peace treaties, world federations, or leagues to enforce peace. Human nature cannot be changed overnight by edict. When the sun fails to rise wars will cease. It is to be hoped that enough sanity yet remains in the American people to save them from such nonsensical vagaries of sentimental dreamers.