Race and color not efficiency and character are the basis of the Southern caste system, and such a system produces unavoidably ill-will, oppressions, and resentments between the races which lead directly or indirectly to the commission of crime.
He critiques the Southern caste system, asserting that it breeds resentment and crime between races.
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