Tuesday, September 1, 1903.
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER
II
A PATROL SYSTEM FOR COUNTRY
A Suggestion that Deserves Careful
Attention How it bnouia decrease
Crime.
Tt is not often th'at the Philadel
phia Press is able to make a sug
gestion of value to the South. It
has done so signally, however, in an
editorial referring to the lynching of
the negro White in Delaware. It
went to the root of the matter when
it said that the lynching was possi
ble because Delaware, like other
States, had neglected its' duty to
kep the peace. It added :
The country road is not safe to wo
nicn in many parts of the country
This was true in Delaware. It is
true in many counties in this State,
noticeably along our great railroad
lines, though ilot through their fault.
The human wolf is always abroad.
Sometimes he is a negro and some
times a white man. In either case
our States make no provision to de
fend the highway against him. Of
fch?es like that for which this man
was lynched are rare oil the seques
tered unbuilt roads every city has,
because its highways are patrolled by
police.
Women in the countryside and on
the eoliiitfy hitrhway have a right to
the same protection as thir sisters
in the city. A mounted rural police
should network rural highways. It
should be paid by the State, through
a tax on property, an impost most
of which the fitie would pay. If
Delaware had taxed its corporations
and city property with a fair rela
tive tslx on farms, to provide d rural
police and keep the roads' Safe, this
crime would never have been com
mitted. It is because the State leaves
its rural highways lawless and unde
fended Against the human wolf that
lawless mobs take the law into their
own hands. Make the roads safe to
women by a State rural police which
relieves the countryside of the hid
eous horror which now overshadows
Jt for all lonely women, and lynching
would disappear.
Our States neglect this duty. They
neglect another. This particular hu
nmn wolf had served a term for this
offense. ,Vo man ought to leave a
ktate prison after a conviction for
this offense or its attempt until the
prison surgeon had made it impos
Hhle to repeat offense or attempt.
The way to prevent lawlessness in the
ttifh is to prevent lawlessness in the
criminal. Begin there and the mob
will never be heard from.
Our laws instead let these things
dnft. The roads are not safe for
Jack of a rural police. A human wolf
hke this man, twice convicted for
lawless violence and once for a sim
dar crime, was turned loose, un
marked and uncorrected, to return
to his (.rimo Peril to. its women nc,
community will long endure without
pthroak; but the remedy for this
lawless peril is not more lawlessness,
l'lt more law.
Our States, most of all States like
are and PennsvlvnniA. nnmss
bich the imbruted of both colors
wander as tramps, vagrants and
semi-criminals, nejed a rural mount
ed police patrolling the country high
way. If the States keep the peace
the mob will, too. The States need
also a sharper edge and a heavier
hand for the tramp and vagrant. A
man of this class and habit convicted
of violent crime should be kept un
der watch all his life. If his crime
be of this character, or even if it be
attempted, he should never be left
able to repeat it.
This policy, persisted in, would
end lynching by removing its cause.
Nothing else will. A rural police
which rounded up tramps and va
grants at sight would soon rid our
country roads and lanes of the ter
ror and horror that now broods over
them for women, and out of this ter
ror and horror, when crimes come,
mob3 grow.
In all of that is the wisest sort of
suggestion for the South. If a ru
ral police is such a pressing neces
sity for the protection of women
from the human wolf in Pennsylva
nia, where the population averages
140 to the square mile, and in Dela
ware, where it averages 94, how much
more pressing must it -be in such
States as Florida, with less than 10
persons to the square mile, ag Texas
with 11, as Arkansas with 24, as Ala
bama with 35, or as Georgia with 37
persons to the square mile?
Thinking men have long ago reach
ed the conclusion that a revival in
modified form to meet changed con
ditions of the old patrol system is
essential to the well-being not only
of the South, but of other portions
of the Country, and an attempt to
meet the exigency W.1 made in a bill
introduced last fall by Mr, It. B.
Blackburn in the Georgia Legislature
providing for the establishment of
a State patrol force of probably 10,
000 men. ATr. Blackburn set forth at
the t ime in" the Manufacturers' Rec
ord the features of the bill, which,
put into effect, Would undoubtedly
have proved a deterrent of crime and
misdemeanors costly to the State,
and also the means for the prompt
administration of the law to a saving
for the taxpayers and for the- sup
pression of vagrancy, the parent of
so many ills in the rural districts.
That bill, we believe, is still on the
table of the Georgia house of repre
sentatives. It should be taken, there
from and promptly passed as an in
centive to other Southern States and
to the rest of the country to take
the proper steps for the betterment
of rural conditions, and especially
for the protection of women from the
prowling wolves. Manutacturers
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According to the agent it is race
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