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SATURDAY. AT’flUfiT 25. IWf. TH • [E “REIG ■N OF TERROR” AND OTHER THEME :sj 4.._ _ ===== ==DISCUSSED BY THE PRO PEE- =— = • THANKS GOD FOR THE EDITORIAL IF CORPORATIONS CAN CONDEMN PROPERTY, WHY NOT MEN? REFLECTION ON SOUTHERN MANHOOD To the Editor of The Georgian: I extricated myself long enough this morning from the whirl of trended finance to read your editorial on “The Reign of Terror for Southern Women.’ and I can not refrain from thanking the good God tor a man who has the ability and the courage to write such a plea, and from assuring you that I feel you are set aside with a divine gift, which you are consecrating to what will prove ere long the greatest question that ever confronted the Cau casian race.' The negro has been taught for forty years to retaliate on the whites for having brought him from the jungles of his native land and clothed him and attempted to make something of him- more than the good God Intended him for. He has been taught by his friends that a great curse was brought on his race by our people, therefore the spirit of retaliation has burned away his rea son, and they now stand upon the vol cano of extermination which will soon explode and leave not a vestige of the race on Southern part this United States; and the sooner the eruption takes place the better. I thank you for this wise and brave defense. And I would like so much If you would draw up a bill to have passed giving every white lady a right in Georgia to carry a nice handy pis tol on her person, anywhere and any way she sees fit. Also let us move to have all our schools teach in the ath letic departments how to shoot. Your friend, J. A. DOSTER. Lumber City, Ga„ Aug. 22, 1906. THE REIGN OF TERROR. To the Editor of The Georgian': In looking for a remedy for the hor rible condition brought about by the presence In the South of the negro rapist. It seems to me that suggestions of anything short of deportation Is al together worthless. As the negro has advanced In edu cation and In political and social privi leges, the greater has become his de sire to claim equality with the white man, and this desire while originating with the educated class of negroes and nourished by them as a fond dream to be realized at some day not so far dis tant, appeals directly to the animal passions of the lower_class and prompts them to accomplish their brutish de sires without waiting for the hoped for fulfilment of the educated negro's dream. It Is not simply a matter of satisfying lust. This they might do with negro women without fear of pun ishment, but It Is the ever present, ever growing ambition of the negro to be the social equal of the whites that prompts him to outrage white women. This condition grows worse all the time and la made Infinitely worse ev- ery lime.Mr. Roosevelt appoints one to an office or Invites one to dinner or when they have the balance of pow er between two factions In any politi cal contest. There Is no hope, so far as I can see, of any Improvement, so long as the negro Is amongst us. Legal executions, nor lynchlngs, nor fire has any terrors for him. His highest ambition Is to have Intercourse with white women and this he will do, when he absolutely knows that death awaits him as soon as he is caught. There is only one thing to do that has any promise of freeing our women from this slavery and terror, and that thing Is' to send every one of the negro race out of the couhtry. This will have to be done some time and It might as well be done at once be fore there has been more outrages on our women. It Is admitted that difficulties pre- sent themselves In connection with de porting so large a number of people, but these difficulties had ha- well be overcome now In time to save the hon- or of white women as well as the lives THAT EDITORIAL ON LYNCHINQ. To the Editor of The Georgian: , I thank you—I congratulate our country on the fact that we havo an editor of a great paper who is willing to voice the real convictions of a great people on a subject that Is of vital In terest to our civilization. The real truth and the real philosophy of lynch ing Is just beginning to be made known. Judge III)Iyer’s demand for more speedy judicial methods, which was adopted by the Southern Baptist con vention last May, was on the right line. The fact Is, we as a people have been religiously at fault In the punishment of crime. God’s reason for killing of criminals Is that the stain of the crime might not rest on the whole people. That reason given re peatedly In the law of Moses shows that God will hold society responsible for the crimes It condones. In spite of this, for 300 years the Iniquity of our law-makers has been taxed to divine ways and means for evading the law. I believe that you are right—unless some new and terrible penalty, quick ly applied, may have the effect of de- terlng the black rapists, the alterna tive will be the driving of the blacks out of our country, or the extinction of their race In America. After all, lynch law Is a crude ap plication of the principle that Justifies the killing of a man who Is about to commit a deadly felony, or Is caught red-handed In the act. J. L. D. HILLYER. TRUE VER8U8 ERRONE OUS EVANGELI8M To the Editor of The Georgian: Now that there la united effort be ing made to Induce emigration to Geor gia, and If possible make her that for which nature evidently Intended her, a great agricultural state, and while an old man long past the meridian of life, yet as a native bom Georgian, I can not but ask space In The Georgian, nearest and dearest to her people, to advocate that which I believe will be for her benefit. We have still In Georgia that which is known as the "head right laws,” but there are no longer lands upon which the same Is operative. Long since they passed Into private ownership. There are, however, thousands acres of what are known as ’’wild, un improved lands,” lying Idle, and which ought to afford homes for hundreds of thousands of people, but which are held now for speculative purposes alone, and while the owners In making tax returns value them at a song, yet when some body wants to buy a home, place upon the self same land almost a prohibitive value. It is to the state's Interest that these lands should be Improved, converted Into homes, and render a proper reve nue to the state. Is there any way by which these speculators can be con trolled by which these waste places may be built up and made to blossom like unto a rose garden by which you can banish the lonely owl and replace his dismal hoot with the ringing laugh of happy children? This Is the ques tion. I think there Is a remedy, and now suggest it. Great corporations are given the right to enter and condemn any lands, and they exercise this power day by day, as we say, for the good of the state. Railroad company’s exercise this power, unlimitedly;. they enter. condemn, appraise and take possession of the old homestead, with all Its clus tering memories; they Invade, appraise, condemn and take possession of the family cemetsry, desecrate the ashes of our beloved dead, and perhaps scatter their bones along the pu.bllc highway, and all this Is’ allowed In order to build up the state. If then this kingly power Is permitted these artificial persons, In this broad sense, even where their. action Is to plunge a loving survivor In deepest grief, then why should It not be given to a citizen,, a • natural person, a bona fide home-seeker, and restrict his ex ercise of the power to '.“wild, unim proved lands?” Yes, why not? There Is no 'legal difficulty about this. If there tvere, an amendment to the state constitution could remedy this and settle It forever and the good peo ple of this state would quickly ratify It regardless of‘the strenuous efforts of landowners to prevent It. These wild lands are vacant, they af ford scanty revenuo to the state. Letts see: There are Instances where the owners return these lands for taxes for a dollar per acre, yet in the same year make sales of the self same lands for even as,high as 810 and 120 per acre. Now this Is simply swindling the state, and wronging the bona fide taxpayer, by increasing his burden to make up the deficit caused by—you name It. yourself. Like Brand, I advertise for a word. The remedy Is this: where the owner will not sell at a reasonable figure, or at all, as the case may be, then let the state exercise the right of eminent domain for the benefit of the settler, proceeding upon the relation of that settler. Restrict the acreage allowed him to a sufficiency for farming purposes to af ford a good living for himself and family. No more, no less. In making entry compell the settler to take the To the Editor of The Georgian: land as It comes, to say good bad and Indifferent, so that complete Justice may be dorte the owner and likewise to the settler. Let: the valuation placed upon that specific land; per acre, govern In as certalnlng the value of the land pro vlded he-had so returned it for taxes, for that or the proceeding year as well, When so surveyed out and platted by the county surveyor, then let the set tler enter, take possession, and malto his home, thereon, upon making or ten dering payment to-the owner, and If refused, placing some In the court registry subject to the owner's orders. Now for the benefits to the state thus Insured. Wild land owners will make proper valuation on these lands In' returning them for taxes, and this will-Increase the state’s revenue from that source to six or more times what It Is now. It will readily provide homes bona fide settlers and Induce emigra tion of the agricultural class to our state. To say that emigration which once went westerly will turn to the South, and Georgia will get the the lion’s share of It. It will stop the pernicious land spec ulation which never benefited the state and people. By this means Georgia can be built up compactly; it will become the greift- est agricultural state, and her people will be peaceful, prosperous and happy. Unless something akin to this Is done It Is Idle to prate about emigration to Georgia. The land speculators will run the better class of emigrants nut of the state by extortionate demands, I trust these suggestions hero made may be agitated, and bring out the best thoughts of our best thinkers. ' Now, listen to the howl of the flee, ’’Robbery, Robbery, Robbery." FRANCIS II. HARRIS. of many comparatively Innocent ne groes, for, be It understood, that when patience has ceased to be a virtue and when the avenging mob has grown to Include the entire white population, the Innocent negro will go down with the guilty and all of them will be destroy ed as would so many rattle snakes. The following are some of the dir acuities to be overcome In order to make deportation successful. The ednsent of the negro, the consent of the white man and a place to send him to as well as the cost of the enter- ^The consent of the negro ought to bb easily obtained. The leaders of that race certainly realise that they cannot hope to come to the front In competi tion with the superior race. They can obtain their desire to participate In government and rule themselves If they have a country of their own. The consent of the white man Is a mote serious undertaking. It la claim ed by many that the negro is absolute^ ly required as a laborer and that we cannot get along without him. This position assumes that we can not re- place the negro with white men, or that we are willing to have.an ever- increasing number of our women ruined by negro brutes, that a few large planters may have their farms culti vated while they take life easy. I am sure that the negro's place would soon be taken by white emigrants and that they would be better laborers than the negro. The North Is more prosperous with white labor than Is the South with the negro. So are the counties of our own mate which have largely white imputation, more prosperous than those counties containing large negro popu lation. But even If there was no hope of replacing the negro with whites we surely cannot afford to help him at so great a sacrifice, and he ought not be anxious to remain until It Is necessary to totally exterminate him. As to where to send him, I do not know. We might give him his choice In this matter, stipulating only that he was to get entirely out of the country, or we might give him some of the bor der states, buying the land from pres- vnt owners and riving It over to the negroes. If the consent of all parties first be obtained and especially that of the white man, the matter of place would easily be solved. ■tJ to cost, I suggest that the gov ernment put up the money needed. We certainly can buy homes for these negroes who are In a sense wards of the nation. If we can afford to buy the Philippines for a people for whom we w-ere under no obligation. The honor of one woman Is worth more than a few hundred dollars necessary to buy homes for. the negro ol the Southern states. w. L. WILLIAMSON. SHALL WOMEN WEAR GUNS IN THEIR HAT8 To the Editor of The Georgian: 'Ve read with a great deal of interest and encouragement In yesterday’s pa per* an editorial on the subject, "Let the Women Arm Themselves." In view of the recent assaults that have occurred In different parts of this and Other states, the suggestion Is an excellent one and comes Just at a time when public sentiment against such outrages is at a pitch that leads the leople to fully and heartily Indorse such an Idea. If «ime genius will only come along now and tell the women where they are to carry such things as pistols, he will confer a great favor upon perplexed ""mankind whom we know to be ut- ■'Tii lacking In such useful things as To the Editor of.Tht Georgian: As the columns of The Georgian seem open for the discussion of prob lems pertaining to religion, for the public enlightenment, I offer them the following because I see occasion there for. Dr. Torrsy and Mr. Alexander were God's agents by whom the Christian people of Atlanta were recently awak ened and put Into activity for the Christianization of thslr un-Chrlsttan fellow citizens, to a degree to which they had never before attained; but' much of, the outworking of their seal In evangelism seems~‘to be without a sufficient and correct knowledge of.the means that God appointed for the ac- pllshment. of their object, as stated in The Bible, and therefore misleading. Evangelism • Is making known to un christian persons that they are, to at least some extent, disobedient to what they know to be God's laws of moral righteousness; that the God-appointed penalty for disobedience to any one or more of God's laws of righteousness Is physical death and eternal outcastlng from the favor and presence of God thereafter, Into the companionship of the opposers of God; that no person Is, by original birth nature. In moral one ness with God; that Justice demands that the penalty for sin must be Inflict ed, and that; until this demand has been compiled with, sin cannot be for given, and the sinner etand as righte ous before God;’ that the only way In which this can be accomplished la by the subjection to death physical of a person of God nature and man nature combined, after having lived, as a man, subject and faultlessly obedient to the moral laws appointed by God for man's observance, after having been falsely convicted of violation of God's law, and thus vicariously satisfying the demand of justice for the infliction of penalty for man's sins; that, not of moral obli gation, but of love, God provided such a satisfaction of juatics for man’s sins, applicable to whosoever will accept It, in sending his God-natured son to earth to live and die as a man. That this person was Jesus (God's power to deliver) of Nasereth, of whom we learn through history, as recorded in the Bible and other writings. That he rose from among the dead, and ascended from earth thereafter to his former dwelling place with God. That he was to set up and rale over, and soon after his ascension did sat up anl begin to rule over a government on earth and elsewhere, In the regions of the depart ed from earth, the cltlsens of which ore those persons who have accepted the deliverance from the penalty for sin that he accomplished, though they are to retain. In this life, citizenship In Its political government also. That those who accept such deliverance must, as a condition additional, of re ceiving citizenship In hla kingdom, be made able and willing to obey God'e laws, which are the laws of that king dom, by being Impregnated with the God nature, by the God spirit. That this Is accomplished and with It admis sion Into cltlsenshlp In the kingdom, as the candidate for such citizenship undergoes the initiatory into cltlsen shlp rites, appointed by Jesus while he was on earth. This rite Is a spoken acknowledgment, of confession, of be lief in what I have slated, together with that of belief that Jesus, when he has gathered all of the citizenship Into His kingdom will return to earth to bring before Him for trial and adjudi cation. ail mankind, having first brought all the dead of It to life, thla confession to be Immediately followed by an application of water to the body, known as baptism, symbolic of death from the former life In sin, and opposi tion to God. as the body of the dead was bathed in preparation of it for en- tombment. „ . . . Thi» baptismal confe*«lon, as handed down to us from the patristic age of Christianity, Is: ■ . "I believe In God almighty, • and In Jesus, the anointed, HIS son our Lord. “ ' . .j . b.ImIn omiolAaH (in- Pockets. READER. "answer of a good conscience toward God," by means of which "baptism does now save us," of which Peter wrote. In I Peter 3:21, and the "confession of our hope” of Hebrews 10:22, and the "call Ing upon the name of the Lord” of Joel 2:28:82: Acts 2:21; and Acta 22:18, and Romans 10:13 (see context v. 9.. also contexts of other references).Calltng on the name of the Lord, aa used In Joel 2:28-32. A Hebrew Idiomatic way of saying confessing, orally, or orally ac knowledging to be Lord, and as used In the Acts and Romans passages cited. It Is simply a Hebrewism or a transfer- rence of the Hebrew Idiom Into Greek (See Hebrew, and Greek lexicons.) It was not, as used In these passages, calling on God or Jesus in prayer, nor was It, as modified by Acts 22:16, and Hebrews 10:22, and I Peter 3:21, an oral confession unaccompanied by bap tism. According to what I have stated, a person Is not "saved” by simply belief and oral confession of hla belief, nor by belief and calling on God, In prayer, to save him, but by belief and baptis mal oral confession. J. HASBROUCK JOHNSTON. Hotel Grant. August 20, 1906. THAT BAND OF CHIL- DREN IN THE 8TREET To the Editor of The Georgian: The article on the front page of Fri day's Georgian, with the headlines, "Band of Children in Streets Singing and Begging for Alms Arouses the Mayor to Action,” has created some comment In thla section of south Geor gia, as did a previous report, a week or so ago, In The Atlanta Journal. From the Journal's report, we gathered that the meetings held by these chil dren were very affecting and not at all for Just merely "to gather In shekels for personal or other uses,’’ as stated In The Georgian on Friday. No doubt, though, they might have had a col lection In view, and Judging from the report In your paper, a dollar could not be better placed. We gather from your article that an old gentleman named Harwell, aged 66 years, and his w ife, about 60 years old, have been supporting about 26 children at Nos. 62 and 64 South McDaniel street, for which house they pay 140 rent per month, and that they have nothing to rely on except help from God. The above plain statement of facts Is surely enough to touch the hardest heart and to bring honor and reverence to those two old souls, for the heavy labor of love they have token upon themselves in their old age, and enough to bring all Georgia, not to speak of Atlanta, to them and those 26 helpless children's aid. But Instead of that, their effort has been held up as a subject of scorn and their action as criminal and deserving the energetic action of the "powers that be,” because they had these children singing hymns on the street at 8 o'clock. I can not Imagine that that old fond mother heart would be guilty of anything that would injure these dear children. It seems that the principal charges against this old couple are having the children out In street meetings, not EVOLUTION AND CHRISTIANITY. who was born of a virgin,.crucified un der Pontius Pilate, rose from among the dead on the third day, and ascend ed Into heaven, whence he will come to Judge the living and the dead; and In the Holy Spirit." , , Assent to this declaration or stipula tion, which was first stated by the per son administering the baptism. Is th« having enough clothes to put on, or enough food to give them; having no well appointed school room In which to teach them; and, no doubt, there could be many more chargea on these lines successfully proven, all of which the old man and old woman at 64 South McDaniel street would no doubt plead guilty to and maybe cried over many a time. They did the beat they could no doubt. God bless them for It! Let us not blame them for what they could not do. And In the name of hu manity let us all rise up and show our appreciation of what the dear old souta have done by coming to their help with our means and thereby glad den the hearts of old Mr. and Mrs. Harwell by giving the twenty-five or phans plenty to eat and plenty to wear. Yes. but why not send them to regular orphanges, so many of which we have? Admission to many of these Is sur rounded by such conditions that shut out some. Besides, there la room for one more and especially Just such a home as this, where It seems their spiritual want Is especially looked aft er. Know you not that the largest or. S Manage in the world, that of George fuller, Bristol, England, was started and maintained on Just such lines as It seems the McDaniel home Is—the much scorned—faith In God to provide? I'm glad the great mayor of Atlanta Is moved to action—that Governor Terrell 1s willing to give his help—and that General Clement A. Evans' sympathy la In the movement. I sincerely hope they will all co-operate on lines suggested in this letter and not as they first ’intend ed. and then If we only get the pen of the able editor of The Georgian peald- Ing for the two old gray-headed people and the twenty-five dear children, who knows but that some day there will be an orphanage on South McDaniel street, Atlanta, Ga., larger than that of Oeorge Muller, In BrlstoL England? Oh, God plant In us hearts of sympa thy! Yours respectfully, J. LAWRENCE. Azhburn, Ga. To the Editor of The Georgian: There appeared in The News an arti cle under the above caption, signed “Enquirer.” He asks for Information relating to the above. He makes the mistake of trying to measure evolution or the body of man, as it is add as it has been, by the standard of Christianity, or what the body of man le to be. Evolution arguee with man face to face, Christianity argues with him os he Is to be in “an other” life and In another world. Evolution la a word coined to deal with the changes which have taken place In the man's body since its in ception to the present time and its future time In this planet. Evolution Is not coined to suit or to apply to any other world than this, or to any other body of man than the one we have and see about us each day. Evolution deals with man under the different phases of his nhyslcal being; hence we have the protoplasmic-man, the ape-man, the savage-man, and the hu-man, or what we conceive to be the end or perfection of the man body. Altruism Is the 'thought, mind or progressive thing in the man body, which is the Incentive and Initial force which looke ahead to the higher de velopment of the body, and to which the body conforms In order to fulfil the design as drawn by the altruistic thought. Evolution refers to the body of man as a laborer or as a machine to do tbs will of Its master, which Is the altru Istlc spirit within him. Evolution and altruism live by and through the labor of the man laborer or man machine. The difference be tween a dug-out, or bank canoe, and an ocean steamship or between a stone headed arrow and a breech-loading cannon measures the altruistic lm provement In the mechanical develop ment of the man laborer or machine. The difference between a protopins mlc man and the man with the ocean steamship or the breech-loading can non Is the measure of the Improvement or development of the body of man, so that he can fulfil the altruistic thought In the ocean steampshlp and In the breech-loading cannon. The Improvement In the body of man then Is manifest In hla works, or is Industrially manifested. We have ,no Christian, atheist or thelst ships or cannon, but simply ships and cannon developed altruistically In man, and carried out or perfected by the human body. Thus evolution and altruism deal with man as a human being and In no other way. The laws of nature we not al tered or changed to suit our opinions, politically, religiously or otherwise, but deals with all of us Impartially alike. Thus Is evolution the changed thing brought about through the altruistic or changed thought. Hence there Is no atheist, thelst or Christian evolution or altruism, but simple human develop' ment. W. A. JOHNSON, Atlanta, Go., Aug. 21, 1906. “JUNIU8” MAKES FIERY APPEAL. To the Editor of The Georgian: Let me thank you from the bottom of my heart for your grand editorial on the suppression of these awful crimes by black brutes on our women. How Ion’ have odr Southern men fallen when they can tolerate the pres ence of a race that furnishes such fiends! I had rather see every dollar of the South’s wealth swept out of existence than to sea these crimes on our women continue. It can't be en dured! The greatest war of ancient times, the Trojan war, was caused by the rape of one woman. Think of the thou sands of our outraged Southern women by black brutes and Southern men still endure It! For what? Tell me why this goes on for one single day? I can tell you—for the negro’s labor— to get more wealth for the South out of him. It Is commercialism willing to trade on ravished white women! Oh, proud Anglo-Saxon race, chivalrous cavaliers of the South, you once were kingly men, lords of cre.vlon, but you have sold your birthright for a mess of pottage! You. have fallen too low to act aa protectors of your women! God knot's this Is the sad, sad truth! By a negro the rape of one white wom an should have sufficed for the re moval or extermination of the entire negro race. I Join with you. Colonel Graves, In throwing the awful responsibility for this racial crime on the leaders of the negro race. They have not done their duty In this matter. This Is known of all men. Hold the race responsible from now on. When were negroes ever known to help run down a rapist? During past years we have had two of these crimes In Floyd county, and, so far as l know, not a nei|.*o helped to catch the criminal—not a church or negro eoclety passed a resolution condemning the crimes. In both of these cases a lynching promptly fol lowed. The same way at Cedartown, Ga. Atlanta and Fulton county; are .. disgrace to the state. The. men there should hang their heads In shame. They are not worthy to protect their women or their society. The negro brute that attacked Mrs. Moore was made a hero of before they "legally” (?) hanged him. So are every one of them regarded by their race tvhen they are dignified by a farcical court trial in these cases. Down with all delays and fomalltles In these cases, and let Jus tice and vengeance come swift and ter rible, with all the torture that can be devised. As for myself, I had rather see a race war, yea, a, war of extermination, begin tomorrow than to hear of an other pure white woman being ravished by a black brute! LET IT COME! I utter a curse against every white man In the South If this crime Is allowed to continue. Call back the days of the Ku-KIux! Let Southern whlto men show them selves worthy of thslr sires. Language falls me to express myself on this subject. Things havo gotten to where there seems no time for words. I say, let every Southern city and town and village and community call mass meetings. Let our men be there. Ask every negro to be there. Make them come. At these meetings talk to the negroes. Tell them our demands. Let them understand our ultimatum. Warn them. Then let the white men organize In a solid phalanx and give the negroes to understand that it Is race war and death to every one If as a race they do not atop this crime. It will not do to. dally any longer. The papers are full of thla crime. All over the South little girls 7 years old and old gray-halred mothers are helng at tacked dally, as well as other women. The lust fiends show no mercy or discrimination. When these cases occur the newapa pers spurt for a little while and then it Is all over until another victim, a sweet virtuous woman, Is sacrificed to ’’Southern commercialism.” The negroes seem to know that Southern white men will allow their women to be sacrificed to get and keep the negro's labor. And has It come to this In our proud, beautiful Southland? Oh, my people, my people, to what depths have you fallen! "JUNIUS.” Rome, Ga., Aug. 22, 1906. SOME OTHER WAY8 TO PROTECT. If you will kindly pardon so great an encroachment on your very valua ble time, I beg the privilege of express ing myself In regard to an edRorlil I read In The Georgian on last Tuesday evening, August 21.' In this editorial you'say; "If the . negro were so longer a part of. our population,• the women of the South would be freed from, their state of siege and'would be at liberty to go where they pleased and when they pleased." Do you not consider It a reflection on the chivalry, loyalty and heroism of our Southern white men to longer per-r mlt the existence of' so deplorable a state of affairs? Can we longer allow the black slaves of our fathers, to whom we have given freedom and edu cation, to rob our women of tho free dom and liberty they should' enjoy In this our beloved Southland, where Christian civilisation should be main tained at all costs? This Is Indeed a vita] question to day, and one thnt demnnds of every loyal white man In the South a prompt and active ao-operation in administer ing the best possible remedy to the "fiendish passion” of these black.(le mons—and such action can not ba taken too soon. The method of pun ishment you have suggested Is indeed a good one, and should be applied at once. Should It fall, however, and we be driven to a last resort, do you think we should hesitate In seriously consid ering the final and permanent exter mination of the negro? For, is it not at all times the honorable duty of every Southern white man-to.fight to the bitter end, and at all hazards/ for the safety and freedom of our pure. and noble women against a hostile, fiendish and Interior race—a race of liberated slaves? Very truly yours. CALVIN F. CARLTON. Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 22, 1906. SITUATION 18 ACUTE. To the Editor of The Georgian: Your editorial In yesterday's Geor gian, with regard to the unmentionable crime, was timely and to the point. I would, however, like to suggest a meth od by which the colored race may see that It will be to their Interest to make some attempt in assisting the white people In stopping this crime for which the only remedy Is lynch law. The suggestion which I desire to make for your careful consideration Is as follows; Advocating In an editorial the Im mediate discharge of every colored man In the city of Atlanta from any and every position In which he must neces sarily come In contact with white women. This would Include the coach men, the revoking all negro licenses for handling automobiles, even to the delivery of goods to private residences. Your Idea of personal mutilation Is good, but It comes too late. Let's con tinue to kill all negroes who commit the unmentionable crime, and make eunuchs of all the new male Issues before they are eight days old. Faithfully yours, B. A. PUGIN. Atlanta. Os., Aug. 22, 1906. STOP VAGRANCY; LYNCHING CEA8E8 To the Editor of the Georgian: Allow me to give my convictions on the matter of lynching. Stop vagrancy and lynching ceases, Let Atlanta put ten pickets mounted to keep the circuit up of the not thickly settled, then ten more pickets outside of that line. Insist that every black or white man be accounted for or ar rest same. You cannot prepare a wo man for self defense, a few only. If all counties of the state would form for each county, I believe the lynching would cease for need of material. When caught and convicted, castrate and brand on forehead. Respectfully. EDWARD 8. LATHROP. Decatur, Ga., Aug. 21, 1906. THE GEORGIAN STRUCK THE KEY NOTE To the Editor of The Georgian: I desire to Indorse most heartily your editorial, "The Way to 8ave Our Women,” which appeared In yester day's Georgian. I think you have struck the key note. That sentiment should be taken up by every newspaper In Georgia and Its suggestions made a reality at once. Respectfully, J. P. MONROE. Abbeville, Ga. To the Editor of The Georgian: The people, especially those who live In the rural districts, owe you more than thanks for the timely and ring Ing editorial in which very recently you set forth the horror which hourly threatens every white woman In the country districts of Georgia and the South. Lynching, as you suggested, does not seem In the slightest degree to meet the case. Your suggestion of severe physical treatment'nnd branding has been made repeated!y In the past, but so haltingly that It mode no Impres sion on the public mind. The situation Is terribly acute. Close following upon the heels of that awful occurrence in one of Atlanta's popular suburbs, Co- penhltl, came another last Sabbath afternoon In North Carolina. A young miss, 16 years of age, left her home to visit tho daughter of a neighbor half a mile distant. Night coming on, and the young lady not having returned home, the anxious fa ther went to the neighbor's home. He was told his daughter had not been there. He returned homeward, almost erased with anxiety. He found his daughter In a pit In one of his fields near the public road—dead. She had fallen Into the hands of a bruts. These things are of dally occurrence almost. The people cannot, ought not, will not permit the situation.to con tinue as It is. It is well enough for those whose loved ones are perfectly safe in the center of city or town to talk about the majesty of the law. There Is a higher law to which the people must appeal If they would guarantee abso lute protection to the mothers, sisters nnd daughters throughout the country districts. I noticed your 'worthy con temporary, The Atlanta Journal, ad vises the women to arm themselves and to practice shooting. Good, but that will not do of Itself. The idle and the vicious are those who commit the crime we have In tnlnd. They must be run down and run out. I believe that the .young men in the country’ should organise ’ at once, li each militia district, one or more com panies of "Red Shirts" and set thslr faces against Idle and vicious negroes wherever found. Let It ‘ go out. that they must get steady work and be able to • show a clean character or "move on." I remember, In the cam palgn of 1876.In South Carolina, that one blast - on the bugle horn; of one "Red Shirt” rider wae equal—to a thousand men. That blast reduced chaos to order. The sight or know! edge of the close presence of a com' pany of "Red Shirts” had a most mar velous effect over negroes who other wise would have been rapacious. Let the command, "Move on,” ring throughout the rural districts with a distinctness that will not admit a moment's hesitancy on the part of the brutal class to which It Is addressed. I trust that tha weekly press of the state will- promptly adopt and urge upon their readers your manly ac claim: "Our' Woiheit Must and- Shall Be Protected." This menace, which, like a terrible nightmare, hangs over every country home, .must be Ir stantly removed. MARTIN V. CALVIN, Augusta, Ga. THE NORTH 18 IN 8YMPATHY. "BEST PAPER IN THE 80UTH." To the Editor of The Georgian:. Although I am a total stranger to you I write this as a young man and a citizen of Georgia to expreas my ap preciation of your newspaper. The Georgian. In my humble opinion thee editorial page of The Georgian Is the best In the South, and for genuine merit not surpassed by any such section of any paper In the whole country. All the rest of the paper la conducted on an equally high standard, and the paper as a whole presents to the reader a well balanced report of all the news of the day. I hope that your paper will alwaya be as clean, newsy and reliable as It Is now, and that your circulation will In crease as much as the paper merits. I would like to see The Georgian have a paid subscription of 60,090 at the end of two years. With sincere wishes for the success of The Georgian, I am, respectfully, O. W. PA88AVANT. Newnan, Ga., Aug. 22, 1906. Farmers Fsal it Mozt. To the Editor of The Georgian: While I have not the pleasure of an acquaintance with you iteraonally, yet I must confess to having for you a very great admiration as a writer, an editor and an orator. From the depths of my heart I thunk you for your editorial of yesterday, headed "How to Save the Women.” My dear sir, you are on the rlgbl lines. Let every editor speak out aa ou have done and personate the lpad- rs, holding them responsible for the lawlessness of their race and I must think good would come from It. As I am a native of Georgia, I have felt great concern for the well being of the state. I noted with regret the at titude of The Constitution, together with many of the leading cltlsens on the disfranchisement question. It must come either one way or the other. Do continue on that line and with the same boldness that characterised the editorial I spoke of. I am too unwell and nervous to at tempt to write more. I am 72 years old, born and raised In LaGrange,' Ga., have been honored with seats In both branches of our Alabama legislature several times. With high regards, I am. You're truly. JOHN T. HARRIS. . Onellka. Ala. Aug. 24. To the Editor of Tha Georgian: In your editorials In The Georgian during the past week regarding the se ries of crimes committed lately by ne gro fiends, you have commenced a work which the South will alwaya thank and remember you for. Keep It up! Keep It up until the negro Is forced by terror and fear of punishment to de sist from hla horrible crimes, or Is driven from the Southland. Send him up North, where they like liim so well. Mr. Atlanta Georgian, It Is up to you to follow the suggestion of one of the loyal Southerners, to organize a "Ku- KIux.” With an organization such as you might be most Instrumental In forming great good could be done. It will be a long time before the state or Federal government will take action to protect our women, and meantime ehall we allow these fiends In human form to terrorise our women? No, a thou sand times no! Let the men take It Into their hands, and moto out the Just punishment. But a secret organization could do wonders toward accomplishing this end. Would that we had such an effeotive police system of the rural districts as has our neighboring republic, Mexico. I lived two years In the tropics of that country, and have a very high respect for the efficiency of their "rurales." I have never heard of a case of murder, or serious crime, in the rural districts of Mnxlco, in which the murderer was not caught and punished within a short time after committing the crime. Why could not the great Empire State of the South have such an effective system of protecting her cltzens, and more es pecially her women? Let The Georgian continue In Its efforts until such a system of patrolling our rural districts la perfected that our women may go about In absolute safe ty. No paper In the world can do bet ter work than to aid in the protection of the noblest and best gift that God has given man—OUR WOMEN. Moat sincerely. A BOUTHERNIZED NORTHERNER. Atlanta, August 16, 1906, OFFER8 |100 TQ.START REWARD. To the Editor of The Georgian: ,, Your editorial yesterday afternoon on the subject of negro rapists was a grand expression, and I thank you for It. The point you made about our wom en protecting themselves should be heeded by svefy woman and girl In the South. — — To encourage this action and to en deavor to strike fear to these brutes, I should Ilka to give 2100 on subscrip tion list, for 3111,000 to be given to every woman who kills her assailant. I should Uke for matters to change so that every lovely girl or woman would cause every negro who might pass her to turn out of her pathway on penalty of- being abot dead. Also that our women would Instantly shoot to kill every negro whose presence might be detected around her prem- ( It'is time now for tha fear and dread, tha suffering, and even the Inconven ience, to be shifted to tho race who has cauaad It, evan If thousands of them who are innocent have to suffer.. Let every negro fiend know that a prise of $10,000 hangs above Ills dead body, and let every woman realize what a heroine aha would make of herself. If she should so protect her honor. I pledge 2100 to this fund; surely there are ninety-nine others who will do likewise. Yours very truly, JNO. A. MANOET. Atlanta, Ga., Auguzt 25, 1906. , PROTECTION OF OUR HOMES. To the Editor of The Georgian: I was the author of the article sign ed ‘'Citizen" In yesterday's Georgian. I will reserve my name, os I am writ ing for the protection of Southern wo men. I want to congratulate Tha Georgian on being first to espouse this cause In an editorial that has attracted wide attention. Let every Southern newspaper copy the article. Violation or law Is anarchy, unless to keep the lew Is negro supremacy, or negro assaults, etc. Then principle comes In and know* no law. It Is un fortunate that tha Southern people have ever had to ba lawbreakers. For thirty years we have had to violate th« law by counting the "negro out” In elections. We had to do this or have negro supremacy. Now, we are in shape to leave him out without the vio lation of law. The assault matter Is not fixed yet, and we shall Just have to violate find mob until It is fixed. Tha sooner It Is fixed, tho better-for all concerned. I see that a Baptist gathering In the Carolines -condemn lawbreakers. Methodist gatherings have done the same. I wonder if anv of them ever had to help "count the election” to keep the negro out. I am a church man, but I would not have an easier Job than to rale# 100,000 Bap- tlats or Methodists any time our homes need protection, law or no law. Fix ing the law Is what we want ■ 1. Let The Georgian keep up tile fight. Let all the i»pers copy. 2. Let us have a general mass meet ing of white citizens nnd let Hoke Smith and John Temple Graves be tho orators of the occasion. 3. Let us have a general meeting of the states soon, and get this matter before the nation. 4. Let us send a petition 100 miles long to the governor of North Carolina asking him to pardon the mob leader. I am opposed to mobs, but I am mors opposed to their cause. Let ua remove the cause. CITIZEN. Atlanta, Ga. P. 8.—You give the women pistols, and some old, drunken husband would get his brains shot out before a week. Southern women, we will stand by you. regardless of method.