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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. 19D9. m TI iE NEG RC F PROBLEM AND OTI m SU] PCTS DISCUSSED BY G GEORGIAN READERS THE “REIGN OF TERROR” MUST END To the Editor of The Georgian: Having read your editorials, and the numerous com munications from correspondents as to the qpt way to Stop the "Reign of Terror" which seems to be upon us, wtlh your kind permission I will make one or two re marks upon tho situation, through the columns of The Georgian. So far as my perception goes, there seems three propositions to bo offered as a solution—yours edi torially to call upon all negro preachers, teachers and leaders to use moral Buaslon upon their followers to desist from their evil ways under pain of dire results; the second to arm our women and teach them how to shoot and defend themselves; the third to reorganize the Ku-KIux Klan, and by the reputed mysterious manifesta tions peculiar to that organization, to scare the negores Into good behavior. Now as toribe first proposition. It will be a waste of breath, as tho negro Is so constituted that he will i«ty very little attention to sermonizing or threats from that source; the second proposition Is a vio lation of what Is preached on all sides—law. The third proposition, under proper control and direction will meet every condition, and will In short order rid the country of worthless whites and blacks alike—for there are some Bo-called whites, which deserve and ought to have a rope collar along with the blacks. But then the Ku-Klux are outlawed and should It reorganize and grow as useful now as in former days, what a howl would go up from judges, lawyers, preachers, educators and namby-pamby sentimentalists all over the country, at the lawlessness r THE CAUSE MUST BE REMOVED I,, To the Editor of The Georgian: I hpve read with great interest the editorials and sug gestions from different writers as how to prevent the many assaults belug made upon our white women ana girls by the black devils, and I have wondered what has become of the boasted chivalry and manhood of our Southern men. If some of the brave men who gave up their lives In the dark days of the sixties could arise from their honored graves and read some of the methods suggested they would want to hurry back to their graves and hide front such abject cowardice. Some of those brave writers even go so far as to sug gest that our women and girls take the matter In their own hands and protect themselves. They say let our women and girls nrm themselves mid shoot the devils who assault them! They do not have the manhood to even suggest that the women and girls be provided with arms, but “let them arm themselves." Is It any wonder that the negroes feel they are comparatively safe In mak ing these assaults when tho white men want to force the women to protect themselves—even among the most savage nations on earth and the beaBts of the fields will protect their females, and If It Is necessary willingly die to do ft. In my judgment there is very little excuse for allow ing one of the devils to escape; and when they are caught every man In the posse should be provided with plenty of matches and good sharp knives and In fifteen min utes after one of them Is caught he should be in hell, where he came from. I give all honor to the brave men In South Car olina who dared to take the lnw In their own hands, rlgjjt In the face of the governor, and hang the brute. I say In every case where the party Is fully Identified even If the president were present, never under any circum stances let him be taken from your hands to spend months In Jail; cost the people large sums of money and then let the prison commission and governor turn him loose to repeat his crime. While you have him punish him. If lynching Is evor to be stopped In tho South the causa for It must first be stopped and the law so amended that In cases of plain proof of guilt criminals must be punished without the long delay caused by unprincipled lawyers and biased courts. J. I. WAITE. Waycross, Ga„ Aug. 29, 190C. of the Ku-Klux. Having given this subject much thought In years past, with your permission I will make a sugges tion, which It occurs to me will meet every phase of the case. First, If possible, have tho legislature enact Into a law, a requirement that every Jailer and sheriff of a coun ty shall maintain at the county's expense a pack of track dogs, and upon call shall send them anywhere in the county where needed; abolish the law against rape and leave It optional with the relatives, friends and neigh bors of the victim to punish him as much andT as fully as they desire; then let each settlement enter a compact that upon an agreed signal, by bell, horn or messenger, they will go to the point designated fully equipped for eventualities, and once on the track to never leave It, till- the perpetrator Is safely In hand and ready to be dealt with. To my mind, this crime Ib one with which courts and laws have no business to deal. A strong brute overcomes and outrages a weak woman; now I submit It Is not right to force this woman to go before a court and Jury and be compelled to recite In detail the particulars of tho outrage, and yet her evidence Is necessary to convict There Is not any doubt that In stances are not rare when women, rather than submit to this ordeal, have suffered and said nothing rather than face the machinery which the law has put In mo tion to protect her assailant. It Is In evidence that deci sive measures of some sort are clamoring for application, for with our military under orders to protect these brutes when caught, It does look to an old Ku-Klux that the old way Is the best—a rope and the nearest limb. EDWARD ANDERSON. A STAND FOR WOMANHOOD To th< Editor of The Georgian: I wish to thank you for the courageous stand you are making for the defense of our noble Southern womafl- nood. This question Is. I lelleve, the most vital with which the South Is confronted today, and I am glad that there Is one great Southern editor, at least, who Is honest enough and fearless enough to voice, In tones of thunder, the true sentiment of every true Southern man, regard less of what the editors and the preachers of other sec tions might think or say. And I am doubly glad that you valued an editorial comment upon this awful condition and Its proper remedy above the personal criticism of a candidate for govern or—so much so, Indeed, that you gave It preference upon your editorial page, even when the recent election was at fever heat. I am sure there are thousands of your read ers who appreciate this fact quite as much as I. You have set our editors a most worthy example—an example thnt I hope every editor, great or small, through out the whole South, will follow. I thank you again for the gallant fight you are mak ing for the protection of our Southern women, and I pledge you my bumble, but most loyal support. ~ FRANK H. STOVALL. Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 27, 1906. IIHIMIIHMMf Enforce the Vagrancy Laws. Rev. H. H. Proctors Strong Views. To the Editor of The Georgian: None can regret more deeply the attacks on women that have been made In the vicinity of this city recently than tho better element of the colored peoplo. Indeed, they feel It more keenly than any other class of citizens. They feel deeply mortified and humiliated. Of course, I need hardly say that the body of the colored people have no sympathy with those vagabonds who commit these awful deeds. It will bo observed that In no case are those wretches among the educated, property- bolding or churcn-golng element of the colored race. In very case It Is a worthless, Irresponsible vagabond be yond the reach of the forces that make for righteous ness among the race. I was spiritual attendant to the last rapist executed In this county. He was densely ignorant (not being able to spell the word God), financial ly destitute, morally obtuse, spiritually blank. This Is the type of the men who attack women. For reasons for which they are nt» responsible tjjo freedmen have among them a surplus of weaker ele ments. From this class come tbise rascals who outrage women and bring contempt on the whole race. With the exception of these renegades, the young negroes of today Inherit respect for womanhood from their fathers, in whose bands the women of tho South wero safe In the trying days of the sixties. It Is to the clear Interest of the colored race as well as the white that this element be weeded out. The preach ers, teachers and workers of the race nre working stren uously toward this end. In the church I serve we are making strennous effort through missions In slum, suburb and prison to reach this very matt. Of course, such moral effort is necessarily slow In Its effect. This moral suasion must be reinforced by the strong arm of the law. We art glad the forces of the law are being strength ened,’and we trust every despoiler of womanhood will be apprehended and dealt with to the limit of the law. The Btreets should be cleared of all Idlers, and every loafer set to work. These dens of vice and Iniquity that cluster about saloons should bo broken up; they are but hotbeds where thieves, cut-throats snd rapists are hatched out. The law should be more radically enforced against these gambling dives whence as many as 60 young men are pulled at one time. The breaking up of the dance halls - some time ago was but the beginning of what ought to be done to purify tbo life of tho lower element of the colored people In this city. Those In authority owe this to the weaker element of this heavily burdened people. I am acquainted with the leading colored men In this city, and 1 know how this matter lies on their hearts. They are working with might and main, many of them night and day, some with remarkable self-denial, to up lift their people. Their contribution to the moral order of this city Is Incalculable. In a time like this they feel the humiliation more keenly than any one else possibly could, for In a sense they are suffering vicariously for their people. Lifting as they climb, they have burdens to bear others' know not of. in an hour like this they will be greatly strengthened and made more efficient In their Important task by the confidence and encouragement of their white frllow citizens. Is not this a Jims for all good men, white and black, to stand together? What have we to gain hy suspicion and es trangement? Are not our Interests Identical? H. H. PROCTOR. Atlanta, August 27, 1906. To the Editor of The Georgian: How long shall our Southern white women be ex posed to the outrages of negro brutes? Three assaults in Georgia within the last week Is surely enough to arouse every white man In the state who has a drop of Southern blood In his veins. A dark shadow falls athwart the door of every white home In the rural districts of the South ern states. There Is much discussion In the newspapers as to tho mode of punishment for this diabolical crime. The odor of burning fleBh, the tortures of the damned, the groans and cries produced by the most hellish machine that human lngonulty can devise will not lessen the pain of the suffering white victim. What we want Is preventive measures. We have on our statute books a law which I believe, If rigidly enforced, will prove the most effective preven tive that can be put into operation. I refer to the Cal vin vagrancy law. We never hoar of a negro leaving his plow handles or hoe to commit this crime. It Is Invariably the Idle, loafing, prowling negro who has no regular job, no permanent place of abode and who is satisfied If he has enough clotheB to save him from public Indecency and one square meal a day. This Is the idle brain In which the desire Is Incarnate. Every city and town In the stato lias a lot of Idle, loafing negroes who cannot be hired to do a good day's work at any price and It Is from this class that the rapist comes. Put them at work. Let every militia district have spe cial officers to enforce this lnw. It will be expensive, It Is true, but Is this a time to consider expense? Let every able-bodied negro In the state be put to work, kept constantly at It and paid reasonable wages for his work. It will help to solve the raco problem, the labor problem, and the problem of saving our women. AUTIE COX. Logsnvllle, Ga., Aug. 30, 1906. isleteeesesesi The "Black Peril” _ BOTH WAYS GOOD. To the Editor of The Georgian: , He waited at the trystlng gate And waited long. Oh! how he mist her, But when she came, tbo rather late. He kissed her twice, then thrice he klst her, It’s nice both ways In Jorja. —FONETIC. To tho Editor of The Georgian: I wish to join the women of the South In praising you, the only man who for the sake of tho fair name of woman would be bold enough to utter his convictions with regard to the "Black Peril,” which has been the ter ror to women for many years! Has It come to pass that the sons of the gallant, old-time Southern gentleman shall say “Let the women carry guns and protect themselves!” For shame! Your fathers and your grandfathers would have set tled this question long ere this, without calling on their women to “carry guns." When the negro was in bond age an assault upon woman was unheard of. Why? Be cause the negro was taught to know his place, and kept It! Why, then, Is It that at this Into day he does not still keep thnt place? Because the 8out!;ern man has careless ly thrown around the negro too many rights and too many privileges In order to keep his labor. Again, has It come to pass that the sons of this grand old Southland shall let their love of money and commer cialism override their care and thought of womanhood? The negro Is born to love excitement, and publicity. Ho only gloats In the articles In the newspapers about the lynchlngs of his fellow, and his Inward nature Is spur red to “go and do. likewise and become a hero." If the men of the South and the law of the land can not protect the fair name of their women, then In the name of God, let us, who are women, arm ourselves for protection! “ATHENA." Gainesville, Ga., Aug. 28, 1906. FROM THE WIREGRA88. To the Editor of Tho Georgian: Your editorial suggestions on "The Way to Save Our Women" are timely and meet with our heartiest appro val. Mr. W. L. Williamson struck the keynote when he said It was not simply a matter of satisfying lust In our opinion It Is a longing to be the equal of the white man that prompts him to do this beastly act. Let every true blooded Anglo-Saxon who Is proud of his race, stand shoulder to shoulder In this movement to exterminate this evil. We think a wise suggestion would be for every large farmer or mill man who Is In touch with a large number of them to show them the pending danger they are In. Be assured of one thing, we of Wlregrass Georgia will not be found wanting In any movement or plan yoU may direct. O. A. THOMP80N. Swalnsboro, Ga., Aug. 30, 1906. : A Heart-to-Heart Talk : With Out White Neighbors To the Editor of The Georgian. It Is no time for Inflammatory and Incendiary denunciations of one an other. The situation Is acute, and the tension between the races Is strained to the breaking point/ The least racial friction at this time will precipitate conditions In which the negro, In the Inevitable, must lose out. It Is time to reason together, to bring Into action the calm, sober and dispassionate Judgment of every lover of low and order. Something must be done to re lieve the tension. No community can long stand tor the reign of rapine and terror precipitated In our midst by the black beasts who have been as saulting white women. As much as The Independent hates lynch law, we feel almost like standing up and Justi fying It when we recall four brutal as saults upon our white neighbors within the last four weeks. The time has come when the negro must take deci sive action himself to save the reputa tion of the race. We must take Colonel John Temple Graves' advice and stop denouncing lynch law long enough to do something to remove the cause. Lynching will not relieve the situation: Colonel John T. Graves’ branding scheme will not eradicate tho Instinct; Judge Fort's deportation scheme Is physically Impossible; Incendiary edi torials, calculated to Inflame the minds of the populace and Incite riot, will not reach the evil. The remedy must be Immediate, drastic and heroic. The latv Is anfplo to reach every phase of crime and sentiment Is ripe to stamp out rape at any cost. But It will take the deliber ate and united determination of every citizen. It cannot be done by Editors Howell, Graves, Daniel and Gray ap pealing to the prejudice and mob spirit of our white neighbors, or by Ihdlctlng the whole race as rapists, it cannot be done by Insinuating that the law-abid ing negroes are morally responsible for the conduct of the criminal element. Neither can It be done by the negro editors and preachers denouncing lynch law In scathing terms and doing noth ing to put out of existence the brutes who assault white women. This crime and menace to the virtue of our women cannot be put down by jhe white man alone nor by the negro single-handed, but the united and determined action of both can put to death or ,expel every fiend from the community. Let us get together and map out a red-hot enm- e n of death and damnation to every e In the community. It can be done, and It must be done. The Inde pendent takes this opportunity to In form our white neighbors that 90 per cent of the racp Is as much opposed to rape and all lawlessness as Editors Howell, Graves and Gray. Bishops Turner and Gaines, Booker T. Washing ton. Drs. Flipper, Carter, Proctor, John son. Fountain, Ilsrmon, Fleming, Du bois are all God-fearing men and are as much opposed to the nameless crime as the Innocent women who fall vic tims to the lust of tho black fiends who pounce upon them like wild ahimals. We desire to Inform the Hon. John Temple Graves, who calls upon the preachers and negro leaders to thunder from Ibelr places hell and damnation to the negro day In and day out, that the rapists do not attend church and school, and cannot be reached there from. They cannot be reached from the pulpit and lecture platform. But they can be reached by Colonel Graves and .the negro leaders In short order from the negro dives, “Dago Joints,' and cess pools of vice and shame, au thorised and permitted to operate In the city by tho law. The thieves and rogues must be reached from these re sorts of crime and Immorality. The only thing the preacher can do Is to create sentiment a'mong his people to expel tho criminals from the commun ity. This they are doing dally, and will continue to do, but they cannot accomplish anything substantial so long as the authorities allow dancs halls, negro dives nnd Dago Joints to operate and hover criminals and Idlers hy pay ing a part of their tainted money perl- odlcally Into the city treasury. The city authorities know where every dive, gambler's den and rendezvous for ne gro criminals Is located, and could close up every one of them In one hour If so Inclined. Let us stop denouncing the lynchers long enough to give the cause a deadly blow. Let us demand that the authorities close up the town and sit on the "lid." Tho Calvin vagrancy law was enacted to rid the state of loafers and criminals and Its provisions are ample to do the work and save the women of the com munity If the authorities will enforce them. Whether the authorities close up or preserve the cess pools of Immor ality In operation to breed criminals or not. It Is up to the negro to do what he can to stamp out crime. Conditions are such In the community that the bar barity of the criminal element Is de stroying both the usefulness and re spectability of the entire rnelal body. Both the remedy and necessity are ur gent, and It Is up to us to take decisive and determined action to snve our reputation. We cannot isccompllsh all ourselves, but can help substantially If the authorities will close up the dives so the thugs and beasts will havo nowhere to hide. The Constitution says drive the Idlers out and close up the dives. The Independent says reverse- close up the dives and you'll have a better opportunity to drive out the thieves. Clean up Decatur and Peters streets and you will go a long way to ward protecting the women. The bur den of action has been shifted upon our shoulders and we must make showing or the race Is doomed. This we can do with the co-operation of the constituted authorities and we must put It up to our white neighbors to close up the dives or hush talking about negro criminals. The laws of Georgia are adequate to handle every criminal. It makes no difference how vicious; let us do our duty, nnd fix the responsibil ity for the brutes who run loose In the community and assault white women. The responsibility must be fixed. B. J. DAVIS. Editor Independent. To the Editor of The Georgian: I beg leave to object to your frontispiece In yester day's paper, as a type of our Southern woman. Surely It Is not necessary to develop a nation of Amazons. X have always contended thnt all womon should have add ed to their other accomplishments, shooting nnd swim ming. Why could they not be taught In our female col leges, under careful and competent teachers? It Is well for every woman to know how to shoot, but to organize clubs In the rural districts to teach the wo men to shoot tho negro as suggested by some one, can but work us untold harm. Nowhere would a woman be safe if It wns understood that the womon wore practicing to kill a human being. Tho negro would naturally tako the defensive. Then again, how many women would have the nerve to shoot a man deliberately? It seems to me that the pistol upon the person of tho woman attacked would only prove a more effective weapon In the hands of the assailant. Once the bruto finds the woman armed he will be only the more stealthy nnd Bhe will be first and unexpectedly knocked senseless. Many women are so ex citable no man's life would be safe If he chanced to meet one of them In a lonely place. If on the other hand the woman must go armed, It calls for n revolution in dress, or carry her weapon In her purse. In that case you would never see one woman sit by another on cars or elsewhere. In her fear of her sister's concealed weapon the black brute would not be In it And would we be any safer from the law against concealed weapons than our brothers? THE NEGRO SITUATION To the Editor of The Georgian: You are getting people In shape to meet and we must have you present. Let us wait till you return from New York. I want to hear from all Interested about a mass meeting with Hoke Smith nnd John Temple Graves as speakers anl If possible have Governor Vardaman, of Mississippi, spoak. The object of this meeting will not be to solve thiB problem, but to know what to do. It Is about time the negro leaders were holding mass meetings to help us solve It. It Is better to solve this with brains than with powder. I believe with a joint meeting of the national leaders of each party we could have the same plank In each platform relative to this question. No difference nnyway except just a matter of taste and smell. We used to think it would take hundreds of years to settle this matter, but the fight is on and by the help of the Lord wo are rendy. / While we are waiting on meetings let tne blood hounds be kept busy. Get the "Ku-Klux" ready, let the women shoot, let “M. M.” get In his work; offer $10,- 000 per head for each offender killed by a woman, as Mr. Manget suggested; $600 for each one brought In by man, Give "M. M.” $6 per head for his work with negro boys under eight. Let's have that mass meeting. Yours truly, CITIZEN. It Is said a woman can do anything with a hair pin but quiet the children, what might she not do with plenty of hnt-plns If It wero not becoming unfashionable to Wear hats. It strikes mo thnt the increase of such crimes is no more than tho growth of carelessness upon the part of our women In their new found Independence. I visited At lanta by night recently and saw many women out as late as 10 nnd 11 o'clock unattended, except hy another woman. I said to my companion that ten years ago these women would have been ostracized. May we not carry this privilege to an extreme which will make us subjects of many unpleasant happenings? / The crimes committed with a few exceptions may be traced to unknown negroes; In other words, tramps. In the South the negro prevails nnd many tramps are produced among them, while In tho North the foreign ele ment prevails and there the snnto crimes are committed by whlto men. Today's morning paper contains on Its first page two such Instances. Tho color is only skin deep, the brutality Is In the lower order of humanity. I.et the women know how to defend themselves If they must, but at tho same time be careful to not place themselves la danger's way hy their own Imprudence. I agree with M. M. that other means may be more effectual than lynching, giving them also the opportunity to repent and be good servants, but do not brand the forehead for In that case If they tried ever so hard to prove themselves worthy of our trust tho past could never be wiped out MRS. C. A. MAUCK. Clarkston, Ga., Aug. 28. THE WHITE MAN TO BLAME KEEP THE NEQROE8 DOWN. To the Editor of The Georgian: Atlanta, just now. Is no place for a negro business congress. Every one of these negro gatherings has the ef fect of stimulating the outside negro with his self-importance and his claim on anything that his fancy or his pas sion calls for. The negro congress should be cleaned out from Atlanta, as well as from all other Southern locali ties. Until the deviltry of one class of negroes has ceased. It Is not the time to bolster up the other class— that's business. FRANCIS B. I.IVESEY, Sykesvllle, Md., August 27, 1906. Dr. Lee on Christian Union. To the Editor of The Georgian: Dr. Lee "On the State of Religion In New York'’ in your Saturday paper la very fine. And Dr. White, on the "Cheering Cross" is rich. Dr. Lee's comments on the ease with which a congre gation of Methodists, Baptists and Duch Reformed churches come together Is very significant nnd very true. The fact ho points out Is easily recognized by ev ery student of. religious history, ns It has been disclosed during the Inst 26 years. Tho reasons given by Dr. Lee to account for the fact that these denominations can, so easily work together now, nre both true. Tho consol idated opposition to evangelical religion does compel evangelical churches to stand closer togothor. That Is “the force from without." It Is also true that the evan gelical Christians are finding out that evangelical Chris tianity Is tho samo thing everywhere- He says: "All are coming, ns never before, to realize Jesus Christ ns their common hond," etc. Yes', and they are recognizing as never befaro that tho will of the blaster is recorded In tho New Tostamont, and that that book must be our ul timate and only rule of faith and practlco. We are mak ing use as never before of thnt single standard. It can not be a matter of surprise, therefore, If those who know nnd love the Lord should find themselves getting Into closer and closer harmony as to the things ho would have us to believe, and to do. "A Christian Union,” that Is forced artificially upon peoplo who do not agree, wtU be sure to fall. But when It comes between people who have learned to think nllke about the will of the Mastor whom they love. It will bo a genuine union. And that union Is forming now and get ting stronger every year, as we get back closer and closer to "The Book.” A Christian must never ue afraid to meet bis creed face to face on the pages of “The Book, J. L. D. HILLYER. Edgewood, August 26. The Women Are Grateful !••••••••••••••••< IIMHMMMHMHtSMISI To the Editor of The Georgian; I would just like to voice the sentiments of millions of Southern white women; and, Indeed, every white wo man and girl In tho entire South, In thanking you most heartily for your brilliant and timely appeal to the duty of Southern white men to their women, and at the same time your terrible warning, not only to the negro editors, bishops, preachers and their other leaders, but to their entire race. It was simply magnificent! And you have received tho meritorious plaudits of our beloved Southland, and will continue to receive them ns long aa you are and contlnuo to be the champion of fair womanhood. Oh! rare man, would that we had more like you! And to think that a rival editor should have had the temerity to have accused the brainiest and best of edi tors of having extracted In toto his paper’s views on the subject is too ridiculous to seriously contemplate! The negroes have grown to be (and especially the vicious class of them) not only the “white man’s burden," but the "white woman’s terror." It seems that such a chivalrous and earnest appeal as your editorial, "The Reign of Terror for Southern White Women." would not only arouse every white man with a drop of Southern blood In bis veins, but would make him vow to "do and dare" whatever It may hare to como to, to suppress this more than horrible crime, which is ever on tbo Increase not only in Fulton county, but In the whole South. By all means let the wonderful Ku-Klux Klan reor ganize, empower the women to carry pistols, more than treble the police protection In the rural districts (for they are, by far, the most In danger); and perhaps again the women of the South can walk without fear and feel that they are In the land of the true and the brave. If we had a few more dally papers like The Georgian, a few more editors like the courageous John Temple Graves, a few more men like “Junius" of Rome, a few more cltliens like the "8outhernlzed Northerner" and s few others who were brave enough to “speak out,” then our South would, indeed, be Ideal. With gratitude and best regards for the Hon. John Temple Graves and good luck to bis paper, The Georgian, I am AN ATLANTA WOMAN. August 30, 1906. To the Editor of The Georgian: I suppose i all this hue and cry ol “Lynch 'em!" Ku-Klux 'em!" the small voice of a dissenter will not be heard, or II heard will bo shouted down as an alienist In tho cause of Southern womanhood. This womanhood— I am a woman—Is what I would make our protection, not that to suffer as Spartan martyrs, but the courage to face such things with a nerve that must daunt the wild ani mal lust of a negro brute. You believe and i know—from experience that I shall relato—that a woman, If alone, secs a negro, becomes frightened; he sees the condition that just his presence reduces her to and thoughts and purposes and deeds are aroused that he would never have had but for certain knowledge of the woman's fear of him. Again the cry of rape Is start:d by some hysterical woman when there has never been a shadow of such, only In a frenzied imagination. Are we a superior rate when our womanhood, from whence a nation draws Its life, afraid In the presence of a negro? Then broadcast such fear through the papers and reap the result. Suppress such fear and tho deeds that fear Induces. Who but has noticed that after the commission of such crime, no matter how horrible the punishment meted the offender, the score thnt quickly follows. If lynching stops It, lynch; but It doesn't. Deeper than physical fear must the blow be struck. Look at the hordes of mulatto children swarming in the cities, the towns and even the country and say how far Is the white man responsible for conditions. If he stoops to the black man's woman, what then when the black mqn dares to lift lustful eyes to the white man's woman? Can the Anglo Saxon exterminate the children of his own blood, half breed though they be? "Let ho who Is without blomUh east the first stone." Accomplished by willing Intercourse on the whits man’s part—brute force by the negro—the result Is the... same, outraged nature and degradation of our Southern blood. Then If riot, bloodshed nnd extermination must come, In the name of justice let It be by men who are fit guar dians of tho South's honor. I Intended to relate a bit of my own oxperelncc, but I have expressed myself at considerable length, so must omit It, as possibly It would benefit no one. Yours for th« South's honor and Justice. Sincerely VARA A. MAJETTE. Jcsup, Ga., August 27. The Ku-Klux Klan Suggested. To tho Editor of Tho Georgian: I have read your editorial of the 24th under the cap tion, "Tho Reign of Terror Must End." with Intense Interest and I heartily concur with you that effective measures must be speedily taken to stop the atrocious crime. Howovor, the remedy you suggest will never do. slnco tho more you agitato this question among the ne groes tho moro frequently will tho crime be committed. Our most omlncnt psychologists nnd criminologists all agree that suggestion Is frequently a fertile cause of crime. Therefore, to giro publicity to the crime of rape among an Ignorant, lustful nnd licentious people Is to In vite It through tho discussion which ensues from the leaders of tho race In In nil soctlons of the South. The duplicity of tho prominent mon of tho race la one of the most potent causes of the commission of not only rape, but loss enormous ofTenses. The leaders, divines and teachers of tho negro race will. In tho presence of promi nent whites, severely condonm rapo, nnd In the columns of our nowspnpers will write scathing denunciations of It, and Implore their peoplo to tnko concerted action to ellmlnato It; but once outside the hearing nnd ken of the whlto man tho self-same "leader" will covertly en courage the heinous crime. Every negro divine, teacher nnd lender, as well as the rank and file of the negro population, is at heart an enemy of the white, howover much ho may affirm the contrary. This Is no dream or mero prejudice of the writer In stating this truism. Actual knowledge of tho animosity of the negro toward the white cun only be gained by careful study extending over a long term of years. The writer was reared among tho negroes, and for moro than forty years has In tho capacity of a large planter had tho opportunity of learning the treachery of tho race thoroughly. Ho has seen tho different theoret ical measures proposed by university-bred editors, un sophisticated ms to the real nature of the race, all come to naught. The crime continues, nnd recently has taken on a more serious aspect, since fiends have become em boldened to oven Invade the portals of our ;>opulous cities to select tholr victims. We must effect moasures which will Inaugurate a 'Reign of Terror” nmong tho negroes. This Is the only remedy. In the opinion of the Vrlter, who has seen all other supposed remedies provo futile, that will actually suppress the crime. How can tho remedy he applied? By reviving the Ku-KIux Klan, nnd for every rape or attempt to rape exccuto a certain number of negro teach ers. divines or leaders In tho community where the crime is committed, In a mysterious manner. Tho race Is very superstitious and the mystery surrounding the K. K. K. will. If It be well organized, quickly strike terror to the hearts of the race; nnd only a few executions will be nec essary to make the number of rapes few and far be tween. The strong arm of tho stato. nor our federal laws can suppress rape and lynching, but the remedy sug gested will certainly do so provided It Is made universal throughout the South. JOHN T. DENNIS. Mcda, Ga.. A“S 27, 1906. ELECTION VERSE. To the Editor of The Georgian: ^■The people spoke In accents loud. With a united Voice; And for the good of all I'm proud They made Hoke Smith their choice. The blow that broke thi Was no cyclonic puff; It’s sweeping these United Stat From Boston to the Gull. rgla slates —HORNADY.