The Negro A Beast In The Image Of GOD

294 MAN, AND THE NEGRO,
common occurrence in the street cars, in public places
and on the sidewalks. More than twice as many Negroes
as Whites were arrested for carrying concealed
weapons, more than twice as many for disorderly conduct,
more than twice as many for assault and battery, more
than twice as many for petty larceny, and thirteen
more for grand larceny; twice as many for profanity,
seven times as many for criminal assault, and more than
five times as many for house-breaking at night. Seven
murders were committed by Negroes to two by
Whites.
**In all the most heinous offenses known to criminology
the Negroes were largely in the excess. A very
large proportion of all crimes are committed by young
Negro toughs under 25 years of age, Tke discouraging,
even appalling, nature of these figures, their profound
significance, is only to be rightly
measured when joined
with the reflection that for years past the District has
been a veritable Negro eleemosynary.
Here he has been
cuddled and courted politically, protected in all his
equality of
rights by the law— his aspirations and efforts
for social elevation encouraged and assisted as nowhere
else. And such is the harvest— with a third of the
pepulation, more than half of the greater crimes, and a
far larger proportion of the lesser, are committed by the
Negroes.
**
But the worst feature of the incident is the rally
of
the law-abiding Negroes to the defense of their criminals—
sheltering and encouraging color line law -breaking
at the woeful sacrifice of reputation. This is a revela-