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" m j THE “REIGN OF TERROR” MUST END To the Editor of Tho Georgian: Having read your editorials, and the numerous com munications from correspondents as to the best way to ,top 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 ns my perception goes, there seems three propositions to be offered as a solution—yours edl torlally. to call' upon all negro preachers, teachers and leaders to use moral suasion 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 (hoot and defend themselves; tho third to reorganize the Ku-Klux Klan, and by the reputed mysterious manifesta tions peculiar to that organization, to scare tho negores into good behavior. Now as to the first proposition. It will be a waste of breath, as the negro Is so constituted that be will pay very little attention to sermonizing or threats from that sourco; 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 so-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 THE CAUSE MUST BE REMOVED »••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••< To the Editor of The Georgian: 1 have read with great Interest the editorials and sug gestions from different writers as how to prevent the many assaults being made upon our white women and girls by tho black devils, and I have wondered what has become of the boahted 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 tbelr honored graves and read some of the methods suggested they would want to hurry back to their graves and hide from such abject cowardice. Some of those brave writers even go so far as to sug gest that our women and girls taK" tho matter In tbelr own hands and protect themselves. They say let our women and girls arm themselves and 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 wondor that the negroes feel they are comparatively safe In mak ing these assaults when the white men want to force the women to protect themselves—even among the most savage nations on earth and the beasts of (he fields will protect their females, and If It Is necessary willingly die to do It. 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 law In their own hands, right 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 toropeat his crime. - While you have him punish him. If lynching Is ever to be stopped In the South the cause for It must first be stopped and the law so amended that In cases of plain proof of guilt criminals must bo punished without the long delay caused by unprincipled lawyers nnd biased courts. J. I. WAITE. Waycross, Ga., Aug. 29, 1906. ! f^ev. H. H. Proctor’s Strong Views. Im To the Editor of The Georgian: None tan regret moro deeply the attacks on women that have been made In the vicinity of this city recently than tho better element of the colored people. 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 thoso vagabonds who commit these awful deeds. It will be observed that In no case are these wretches among the educated, property holding 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 la the type of the men who attack women. For reasons for which they are nc». responsible tie 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 hands tho women of the South were safe in the trying days of the sixties. It Is to tho clear Interest of the colored race as well as the white that this clement be weeded out. The preach ers, teachers and workers of the race are working stren uously toward this end. In the church I serve we are making strenuous effort through missions In slum, suburb and prison to reach this very man. Of course, such moral effort Is necessarily slow In Its effect. This moral suasion must be reinforced by the strong Brm of the law. ■ We are 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 streets should be cleared of all Idlers, and every loafer set to work. These dens of vice and Iniquity that cluster about saloons should be broken up; they are but hotbeds where thieves, cut-throats and rapists are batched 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 tho life of the lower element of tho colored people In this city. Those in authority owe this to the weaker clement of this heavily burdoncd people. I am acquainted with the leading colored men In this city, and I 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- •ft their people. Their contribution to the moral order J* 'W* dty 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 nave burdens to bear others know not of. In an hour “ke this they will be greatly strengthened and mado wore efficient In their Important task by the confidence and encouragement of their white frllow citizens. Is not this a time for all good men, white and blnck, to stand together? What have we to gain by suspicion and es trangement? Are not our Interests Identical? H. H. PROCTOR. Atlanta, August 27, 1906. 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 phaso of the case. First, If possible, have the 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 shalr send them anywhere In the county where needed; abolish tho law against mpe and leave It optional with tho relatives, friends and neigh bors of the victim to punish him ns much and as fully as they desire; then let each settlement enter n compact that upon an agreed signal, by bell, horn or mossenger, they will go to the point dhslgnated fully equipped for eventual,ties, 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 Is ono with which courts and laws have no business to deal. A strong brute overcomes end outrage* a weak woman; now f 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 aro not rare when women, rather than submit to this ordeal, have suffered and Bald 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 tho old way Is the best—a rope and tho nearest limb. EDWARD ANDERSON. A STAND FOR WOMANHOOD I To thi Editor of The Georgian: I wish to thank you for the courageous stand you are making for the defense of our noble Southern woman hood. This-question Is. I Lcllovo, 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 ahd fearless enough to volco, In tones of thunder, the true sentiment of every true Southern man, regard less of what'the editors and tho 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. 1 am sure there are thousands of your read ers who appreciate this fact quite os much as I. You have set our editors a most worthy example—an example that I hope every editor, great or small, through out tho whole South, will follow. I thank you again tor the gallant fight you are mak ing fbr the protection of our Southern women, and I pledge you my humble, but most loyal support. FRANK H. STOVALL. Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 27, 1906. >••••••••••••••••••••«•••••••••••• Enforce the Vagrancy Laws. To the Editor of The Georgian: HOw long shall our Southern white women be ex posed to tbe outrages ot 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 bis veins. A dark shadow falls athwart the door of every white home la the rural districts of the South ern states. There is much discussion In the newspapers as to the mode of punishment for this diabolical crime. The odor of burning flesh, the tortures of the damned, the groans and cries produced by the most hellish machine that human Ingenuity can devlie will not lessen the psin 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 tq the Cal vin vagrancy law. We never hear 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 clotbes to save him from lubllc Indecency and one square meal a day. This Is the die brain In which the desire is Incarnate. Every city and town In the state has a lot of Idle, loafing negroes who cannot be hired to do a good day's work at any irice and It Is from this class that the rapist comes. Put them at work. Let every militia district hare spe cial officers to enforce this law. 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 race problem, the labor problem, and tbe problem of saving our women. AUTIE COX. Loganvllle, Ga., Aug. 30, 1906. *•••••••••••••••••••1 The “Black Peril.” To the Editor of The Georgian: . I wish to Join the women of the South In praising you. the only man who for the sake of the 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 shams! Your fathers and your grandfathers would have set tled this question long ere this, without calling on tbelr women to “carry guns.” When the negro was In bond age an assault upon woman was unheard ot Why? Bo cause tho negro was taught to know his place, and kept It! Why, then. Is It that at this late day he does not still keep that place? Because the Southern man has careless ly thrown around tho negro too many rights and too many privileges In order to keep his labor. Again, has it come to pass that tbe sons of this grand old Southland shall lot their love of money and commer cialism override tbelr rare and thought of womanbood? Tho negro la born ti lore excitement, and publicity. He only gloats In tbe 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. T . - BOTH WAY8 GOOD. To the Editor of The Georgian: He waited at the trystlng gate And waited long. Oh! how he mist her, Uli; when she came, tbo rather late. He kissed her twice, then thrice he klst her. It's nice both ways In JorJa. —FONETIC. FROM THE WIREGRA88. To tho Editor of The Georgian: Your editorial suggestions on "The Way to Save Our Women" arc timely and met* with our heartiest appro- val. Hr. W. L. Williamson struck the keynote when he said it was not simply n 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. Bo assured of one thing, we of Wlregrnss Georgia will not be found wanting In any movement or plan you may direct. O. A. THOMPSON. Swalnsboro, Ga., Aug. 30, 1906. A Heart-to-Heart Talk With Our While Neighbors }. To the Editor of The Georgian. It Is no time for Inflammatory and Incendiary denunciations of one an^ other. The situation la 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 la time to reason together, to bring Into action the calm, sober ond dispassionate Judgment of every lover of law and order. Something must be done to re lieve the tension. No community can long stand for the reign ot 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 lost 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 tho cause. Lynching will not relieve the situation; Colonel John T. Graves’ branding scheme will not eradicate the Instinct Judgs Fort's deportation scheme 1: physically Impossible; Incendiary edi torials, calculated to In/taine the minds of the populace and Incite riot, will not reach the evil. The remedy must bo immediate, drastic ond heroic. The law Is ample to reach every phuse 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 cltlien. It cannot be done by Editors Howell, Graves, Daniel and Gray ap pealing to tho prejudice and mob spirit of our white neighbors, or by Indicting the whole race as rapists, it cannot be done by Insinuating that the law-abid ing negroes aro 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 brute* who assault white women. This crime and menace to the virtue of our women cannot be put down by the white man alone nor by the negro single-handed, but the united and determined action of both can put to death or expel every flend from the community. Let us get together and map out a red-hot cam paign of death and damnation to every bruto In the community. It can be done, nnd It muat be done. The Inde pendent takes this opportunity to In form our white neighbors that 90 per cent of the race Is as much oppoaed to rape and all lawlessness aa Editors Howell, Graves ond Gray. Blshopa Turner nnd Gaines, Booker T. Washing ton, Drs. Flipper, Carter, Proctor, John son, Fountain, Harmon, Fleming, Du bois are all God-fearing men and are as much opposed to the nameless crime as the Innocent tvomefl who fall vic tims to the lust of the black flends who pounce upon them like wild animals. We deelre to Inform -the Hon. John Temple Graves, who calls upon the preachers and negro leaders to thunder from their 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 the law. The thieves and rogues must be reached from these re sorts of crime and Immorality. The only thing the preacher ran do Is to create sentiment among his people to expel the 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- dance halls, negro dives and Dago joints to operate and hover criminals and Idlers by pay ing a part of their tainted money peri odically 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.” The Calvin vagrancy Inw 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 nr 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 In de stroying both -the usefulness and re spectability of the entire racial body. Both the remedy and necessity are ur gent, and it Is up to us to take decisive and determined action to save our reputation. We cannot accomplish all ouraelves. but can help substantially if the authorities will close up the dives so the thugs and beasts will hsve 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 Peter* 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 a showing or the race Is doomed. This we can do with the co-operation of the constituted authorities and w-e 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, and fix tha responsibil ity for the brutes who run loose In the community and assault white women. The responsibility must he fixed. B. J. IJAVIS. Editor Independent. OBJECTS TO THE ARMING OF WOMEN To the Editor of The Georgian: I beg leave to object to your frontispiece In yester day's paper, as a typo ot our Southern woman. Surely It Is not necessary to develop a nation of Amazons. I have always contended that all women should have add ed to tbelr other accomplishments, shooting and swim ming. Why could they not be taught In our female col leges, undor careful and competent teachers? It la well for every woman to know how to shoot, but to organize clubs In the rural districts to teach the wo men to shoot the negro as suggested by some one, can but work us untold harm. Nowhere would a woman be safe If It was understood thnt the women were practicing to kill a human being. The negro would naturally take 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 ot the woman attacked would only prove a more effective weapon In the hands of the assailant. Once the brute finds the woman armed be will be only tbe more stealthy and she will be first and unexpectedly knocked senseless. Many women are bo ex citable no man’s life would be safe If ho chanced to meet one of them In a lonely place. i If on tbe other band the woman must go armed. It calls for a revolution In dress, or carry her weapon In her purse. In that case you would never see onn woman sit by another on cars or elsewhere. In her tear ot her sister's concealed weapon the black bruto would not be In It. And would wo be any safer from the law against concealed weapons than our brothers? It Is said a woman can do anything with a hair pin but quiet tho children, what might she not do with plenty of hat-ptns If It were not becoming unfashionable to wear hats. It shrikes mo that the Increase of such crimes is no moro than the 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 aa late ob 10 and 11 o'clock unattended, except by another woman. I said to my companion that ten years ago these women would have been ostracized. May wo 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 Qther words, tramps. In the 8outh the negro prevails nnd many tramps are produced among them, while In the North the foreign ele ment prevails and there the same crimes are committed by white 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. Lot tho women know how to defend themselves If they must, but at the same time bo careful to not place themselves In danger's way by their own Imprudence. I agree with M. M. thnt other means may be more effectual than lynching, giving them also the opportunity to repent nnd bo good servants, but do not brand the forehead for In that case It they tried ever so hard to prove themselves worthy ot our trust the past could never be wiped out, MRS. C. A. MAUCK. ■ Clarkston, Ga., Aug. 28. THE NEGRO SITUATION !•••••******t****••*•••**••••«•••*••••••••••*••••••*••••••»*•••#•••»•»*•••■»*' To the Editor of The Goorglan: 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 shout a mass meeting with Hoke Smith and John Temple Graves as speakers anl It possible have Governor Vardaman, of Mississippi, speak. The objoct of this meeting will not be to solve this problem, but to know what to do. It Is about time tbe negro leaders were holding mass meetings to help us solvo It. It Is better to solve this with brains tbnn with powder. 1 believe with a joint meeting of tbe national leaders of each party wo could have tho same plank In each platform relative to this question. No difference anyway except just a matter of taste and smell. We used to think It would take hundreds of years to settle this matter, but tbq fight Is on and by tbe help of the Lord yre are ready. * While we are waiting on meetings let the 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 bead for each offender killed by a woman, as Mr. Mangot suggested; 3600 for each one brought In by man. Give "M. M.” 36 per head for his work wltb negro boys under eight. Let's have that mass meeting. Yours truly, CITIZEN. KEEP THE NEGROES 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 sell-Importance and his clslm on nnylhlng that his fancy or his pas sion calls for. The negro congress should be cleaned out from Atlanta, as well os from all other Southern locali ties. Until the deviltry of one class of negroes ha* ceased, It Is not the time to bolster up the other class— that's business. FRANCIS B. LIVB8EY, Sykesvllle, Md, August 27, 1108. ! *•••••••*•••**••••••••**••••••••••••«*••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••«• Dr. Lee on Christian Union. To the Editor of The Georgian: Dr. Lee ”‘On the Btate of Religion In. New York” In your Saturday paper la .very fine. And Dr. White, on tbe “Cheering Cross" la rich. Dr. Lee's comments on tbe ease with wbteh a congre gation of Methodists. Baptists and Duch Reformed churches come together Is very significant and very true. The fact he points out Is easily recognized by ev ery student ot religious history, as It has been disclosed during the last 26 years. The reasons given by Dr. Lee to account for the fact that these denominations can, so easily work together now, are botb true. Tbo consol (dated opposition to evangelical religion does compel evangelical chnrches to stand closer together. That is "the force from without.” It Is also true that the evan gelical Christians are finding out that evangelical Chris tianity la tbe same thing everywhere. He says: "All are coming, as never before, to realize Jezus Christ as tbelr common head,” etc. Yes, and they are recognizing aa never before that tho will of the Master Is recorded In the New Testament, and that that book must be our ul timate and only rule of ffllth and practice. We are mak ing use as never before of that single standard. It can not be a matter of surprise, therefore, If Chose who kpow and love the Ix>rd should find themselves getting Into closer and closer harmony as to tbe things he would have us to believe, and to do. “A Christian Union,” that Is forced artificially upon people who do not agree, will be sure to fall. But when It comes between people who have learned to think alike about the will of tbe Master whom they love, It will be a genuine union. And thet union Is forming now and get ting stronger every year, as we get back closer and closer to “The Book." A 'Christian must never »o afraid to meet hts creed face to face on the pages of “The Book.” J. L. D. HILLYER. Edgewood, August 26. >••••••••••••••••••••1 The Women Are Grateful. To the Editor of The Georgian: < I would Just like to voice tbe sentiments of millions ot Sonthern white women; and. Indeed, every white wo man and girl In the 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 terriblo 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 receive! the meritorious plaudits of our beloved Southland, and will continue to receive them as long as you are and continue to be the champion of fair womanhood. Oh! rero 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 eztracted In toto bis paper’s views on the subject Is too ridiculous to seriously contemplate! The negroes have grown to be (and especially the vtctons 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 Southorh White Women." would not only arouse every white man with a drop of Southern blood la hts veins, but would make him vow to "do and dare” whatever It may have to come to, to suppress this more than horrible crime, which Is ever on the 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 district* (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 trno and the brave. If we had a few more dally papers like The Georgian, 'a few more cdttora like the courageous John Temple Graves, a few more men like “Janies” of Rome, a few more citizens like the "Southernlzed Northerner” and a few others who were brave enough to "speak out,” then onr South would, Indeed, be Ideal. With gratitude and beat regards for the Hon. John Temple Graves and good luck to his paper, Tbe Georgian, 1 am AN ATLANTA WOMAN. August 30, 1900. j THE WHITE MAN TO BLAME To the pditor of Tha Georgian; I suppose > all this huo and cry of "Lynch ’em!" “Ku-Klux ’em!” tho small volco of n dissenter will not be beard, or If heard will be 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 tho courage to face such things with a nerve that muat daunt the wild ani mal . lust of a negro brute. You believe and I know—from experience that t ■hall relate—that a woman. If alone, epee- a negro, becomes frightened; ho sees tho condition that just his presence reduces her to and thoughts nnd purposes and deeds are aroused that he would never have had but for certain knowledge of tho woman’s fear of him. Again the cry of rape lc started by Borne hysterical woman when there has never been a shadow of such, only In a frenzied Imagination. Are wo a superior race when our w-omanhood, from whence a nation draws Its life, afraid In the presence ot a negro? Then broadcast such fear through the papers and reap the result. Suppress such (car and the 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 scoro that quickly follows. If lynching stops It, lynch; hut it doesn't. Deeper than physical fear must tho blow bo struck. Look at tbe hordes of mulatto children swarming in the cities, tbo towns and even tho country and say how far Is the white man responsible for conditions. If lie stoops to the black man's woman, whnt then when the black man dares to lift lustful eyes to tho white man's woman? Can the Anglo Saxon exterminate the children of his own blood, half breed though they bo? "Let he who Is without blemish cast the first stone." Accomplished by willing Intercourse on the white man's part—brute force by the negro—tho result is the same, outraged nature and degradation of our Southern blood. Then It riot, bloodshed and extermination must come. In the name of justice let It bo by men who are fit guar dians of the South’s honor. I intended to relate a bit of my own experelnce. but I have expressed myself at considerable length, so must omit It, as possibly It would benefit no one. Yours for the South’s honor and Justice. Sincerely VARA A. MAJETTE. Jesup, Ga., August 27. The Ku-Klux Klan Suggested. To the Editor of The Georgian: I hare read your editorial of the 24th under tbe cap tion, "The Reign of Terror Most End,” with Intense interest and I heartily concur with you that effective mensurcs must be speedily taken to stop the atrocious crime. However, the romedy you suggest will never do, since the more you agitate this question among the ne groes tbo more frequently will tho crime be committed. Our most eminent psychologists and criminologists all agree that suggestion Is frequently a fertile cause of crimo. Therefore, to glvo publicity to the crime of rape among an Ignorant, lustful nnd licentious people Is to In vito it through tho discussion which ensues from the leaders of the race In In all sections of the South. The duplicity of the prominent mon of the race Is one of the moat potent causes of tho commission of not only rape, but loss enormous offenses. The leaders, divines and teachers ot the negro race will, In the presence of promi nent whites, severely condomn rape, and In the columns of oar newspapers will Write scathing denunciations of It, and Implore their people to take concerted action to ellmlnato It; but onco outside the hearing nnd ken of the white man the self-same "leader” will covertly en courage the heinous crime. Every negro divine, teacher and leader, as well aa the rank and file of the negro population, la at heart an enemy ot the white, however much he may affirm tha contrary. This la no dream or more prejudice of the writer In stating this truism. Actual knowledge of the animosity of tho negro toward tho whlto can only bo gained by careful study extending over a long term ot years. The writer was reared among the negroes, and for more than forty years has In the capacity of a large planter had the opportunity of learning the treachery of the race thoroughly. He has seen the different theoret ical measures proposed by university-bred editors, un sophisticated as to the real nature of the race, all come to naught. The crime continues, and recently has taken on a more serious aspect, alnco fiends have become em boldened to even Invade the portals of our populous cities to select their victims. We must effect measures which will Inaugurate a Reign of Terror" among tho negroes. This la the only remedy. In the opinion of the writer, who 1ms seen all other supposed remedies prove futile, that will actually suppress the crime. How can the remedy be applied? By reviving the Ku-Klux Klan, and for every rape or attempt to rape execute a certain number of negro teach ers. divines or leaders In the community where tho crime I* committed. In a mysterious manner. The race Is very superstitious and tho mystery surrounding the K. K. K. wilt, If It be well organized, quickly strike terror to tho hearts of the race: and only a few executions will he nec essary to make the number of rapes few nnd far be tween. Tbe strong arm of the state, 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. Meda, Ga., Aug 27, 1906. ELECTION VERSE. To the Editor of Tho Georgian: Tho people spoke In accents loud. With a united voice; And for the good of all I'm proud They made Hoke Smith their choice. Tbe blow that broke the Georgia slates Wa* no cyclonic puff: It'a sweeping these United .States From Boston to the Gulf. —HORNADY.