WHISKY AND RACE DIFFICULTIES.
WHILE there is no election on hand, while we may reasonably expect a hearing for the truth, we wish to reënforce this presentation of fact by condensing into one word the chief cause of all "race troubles;" of nearly all crimes committed by negroes and against them; of the negro's poverty; of his failure to secure the respect of respectable people, and of his disorderly habits. The word is "whisky." The negro who gets into trouble with a white man is generally drunk. If he is not, the white man is. They (the negroes) spend every day for whisky money enough to endow a university and to found a hundred schools. And if this money is not in some way saved for schools, the equivalent of it will have to be invested in police clubs and militia rifles. That is "the negro problem."— St. Louis Republic (Dem.), Sept. 21, 1889.