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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. M'PTBSIBEJl LETTERS FROM GEORGIAN READERS. WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE RACE QUESTION ["'HOW WOMEN SHOULD BE PROTECTED To (he Editor of The Georgian: We art truly glad that tho men of O-orgla *»» at laat wide awake to the ibeolute necessity of protecting the ,-omen and glrle of the etate. We the agitation now aroused will 23% evanescent. That It will grow •trona and flourish and become aa far- inching In Its effects aa It should do, Ed applied to the many abuses tol- Sued in the past, but which are now ,1", growing obsolete among people of [he highest civilization, culture and ^."'•'unfortunate, to draw It mildly, ’ (hat men of the South class women politically with lunatics. Idiots and criminals^ Jhat t hla Is true Is, how ler n strong and telling argument In Jkvor of the Justice and expediency at this time for using every and all means at their disposal to protect our women ind girls In every way. Our hands ,lcd and we cannot attempt to helD ourselves without getting badly 2 ur t it Is much like the fcet-blndlng Chinese children, only more sp. The Idea advanced that women should carry a gun around la flne^but lot feasible. Why? Because women have been taught to beware of guns, his and little, until they are almost afraid to look at one, let alone hand ling them. It certainly puts men In a very peculiar position to tell women to take care of themselves. From time Immemorial men have assumed the po. •itlon of protectors to the female per- tlon of their families. If it la distress ing to us to bellcvo that all that is but t fable, and we must take care of our selves. how dreadfully depressing It m „rt he to the men. If we should start out with a gun ten to one we would be arrested for carrying con rested weapons, for of course we can no* wear It In a belt on the outside of our lovelv costumes. If we carry guns we must change the style of our gar ments to conform to the necessities of the case, and then the law against women wearing men’a apparel comes In force again to prevent. Women ure generally In favor of spending every cent In the treasury for extra policemen and patrolmen, and If there Is not a sufficient amount Hoke gmlth might be asked to donate the revenue he receives from that charity bar The protection of women, aa the law now stands, should be the first consideration, since men claim that "women are the preaervers of the racial Integrity of the South.” For that very resson If no other men should bend every energy to keep them from harm and Should aid them In every way to accomplish the mission Imposed upon them by men. . If permitted, however, we would ad vise our brothers to take special pains to secure only men of good morals: men who are total abstainers from the u<» of Intoxicants, tobacco and hurt ful drugs which debase all who use them. It Is not only posslblo but highly probable that women, white, black, red and yellow, will be In as great danger from the policemen as from the negro brutes unless they are men of good rhsrarter and standing In tbs commu nity. Men who control this country should carefully refrain from making bad matters worse right along this line. Gamblers, drunkards, libertines and men of generally bnd character should not he considered In any capacity as protectors of women. I tint sure If woman’s voice could be heard In the councils the advice given would he: "Stop all this foolish talk about disfranchising the negro. It has served Its purpose In electing Hoke Smith to be governor of Georgia. It can do no further harm except to ex asperate the negro and cause him to commit crimes in retaliation.”. Again, If the voters really.’wish to protect women, let them vote out of existence the traffic In Intoxicants. As a general rule the women do not- want whisky and those who suffer, dally and hourly from the consuming outrage of the drunkard In the home would say If they could with power: "Keep the deadly poison out of the reach of my husband, father, son or brother, and, from the negro brutes whose passions are Inflamed by It when they commit their dastardly outrages.” We cannot organize vigilance com mittees to co-operate with the police for If we tried It we would be driven back to our homes and called unwom anly women. We have never been per mitted to handle firearms and would perhaps shoot the wrong man, but we do know that the licensed liquor traf fic of Atlanta and of Georgia Is the deadliest menace to us and to the children of the state. We ask that we be freed from this curse and then we will have peace. But can we depend upon the white man for protection, when the early law makers of Georgia servilely copied from the old English law "the Age of Con sent,” which mode It legal to protect Georgia girls until they were 10 yeare old, and after that they must take care of themselves. Women want to know why that old law was never changed by the legislators who came after wards. We want to know all about these matters which concern women so vitally. Our eyes and ears are wide open and we are anxious and willing to b# In formed. Above and beyond all things, %vo want protection that does protect. M. L. M'LENDON. THE PHILIPPINES FOB NEGROES To the Editor of The Georgian: I would like very much to use a small amount of space In your valua ble paper to discuss or rather ex' press my Ideas upon the serious ques tion of the negro. While It Is necessary to admit that there are eotne good negroes, the bad ones are In so large a majority that we need only speak of the negro as a whole. It la evident that education la hla fault, were It not for that fact he would not try to be the equal of the white, and education has only taught them the art of laslneso, and that brings us down to the cause of all the trouble, he being lasy, finds time tor all fancy Ideas and breeds trouble In his desire for lust. Some years ago the white race found It necessary to colonise the Indian as It were, and we will find It necessary to do the same with the negro. Let us take time by the forelock and 'nslruct all our national repre sentatives to urge a bill for the col onization of the negro In the Philip pines. Give him exactly the same form of government that they hava there now, B. Washington, governor, and let the race as a whole either sink or swim. The cry that the South ranlt get along' without them Is all bosh, for you can go to any farmer today and ask him his worst trouble and he will tell you that the lasy negro won't work. Henceforth let the cry of the South ern press be: The Philippines for the negro. The United Slates for the white. Yours truly, W. S. NEWCOMB. Dublin, Ga. I Send the Negro North I i To the Editor of Tho Georgia!!? A* jrour paper amieitrs to Ik* Just now the readiest medium for airing opinions on the rmv <iin'stIon, permit me to submit it sug gestion which I have loug thought—lu tmien thinking nud writing on the subject—fur* Irishes the most prnetlcitl, the most di rect, and the most effective menus of re lieving the acuteness of tin* southern situa tion, and, perhaps, eventually of ridding the whole country of the much vexed, much discussed, nud ever present “uegru problem.” In nil the various comment upon your masterly editorials, and the discussion evoked thereby, uo one has proposed this, to my mind, very simple and very wise expedleut for the south; namely, tor the south to adopt another class of labor and turn the negro over to the philanthropists of the north. If this hud been done thirty The Negro Leader Must Cooperate. I......................... To the Editor of The Georgian It has been many years since I havp seen you (last In Jacksonville, Fla.), but I have always, with great pleasure, read after you, and I have to. thank you for your last article seen by me In my Richmond Evening Journal of August 29, "The Reign of Terror Must End." I think every Intelligent Southern man (who only truly knows the ne gro) will agree with the plan you pro pose, vis., "Invoke the full, fearleas and Impaasloned co-operation of the negro against the lust of his own crim inals.” If this can be done. For while, as you say, "the negro edltore, teach ers and preachers, will mildly admit that they condemn the rnplat," they vigorously and viciously condemn the lynching and rush to the Northern cit ies to protest and denounce the lynch ing and I venture to say, oftener than otherwise do not mention the cilme The truth Is, down In the heart of 99 per cent of the negro rflee Is a feeling of resentment against the white race and a self-assertion that "I am Just as good as any white man on earth,” and It Is plainly to be seen that their whole "effort Is for social equality. Halted In this effort their natural re sentment In many casea leads them to round the white race In Its most sacred part. My observation leads me to believe that In the great majority of the. negroes the white man has an enemy, and well as the Southern man knows the negro, he Is the most ready and easiest to be Imposed on and to be made to believe in the apparently hum- ble assertion of the negro that he Is not his enemy, but his friend. Why should he not be? What can the white men get from the negro of any profit with certainty? While certainly the negro gets from the white man 90 per cent of all his profits and favors. I have had large experience with the (Southern) negro. He Is as cunning as a monkey, a smaller experience with the Northern one I have found as im pudent as the devil. You and I, my dear sir, will never live to see this matter amicably arranged, but I ex pect and hope that my grandchildren will. I hope peaceably, but I fear forci bly. One thing Is certain. If the whole country,is not getting its full of the pegro and negro question It's getting at least a large amount , of It, and no one can tell when It will get Its plenty. This Is an Inexhaustible subject and could be reviewed from numberless points. It Is not my Intention to en large on It, but to thank you for your efforts, and all like you who write the truth and make honorable endeavors to correct the conditions and not the ories that confront us. Cordially and sincerely, your friend, W. W. DAVIES. Chase City, Va. Is all the more urgent that the Mouth should reverse her course as soon ns |k»s- slide, for ‘'when n thing Is wrong, each day's delay compounds the cost or right* ‘ug It.” In the judgment of the deepest nnd sin- erest thinkers on this subject, the only wsy to get rid of the “negro problem . *lves, deporta tion and extermination. The most recent echoes of the northern nnd nonthern press foreshadow the probnblllty that the domi nant race In this republic must soon front the alternative of ships or lets for the negroes. For seven rears, the writer has been tbe persistent and Insistent advocate of the “ships" horn of the dilem ma, thus listing myself among the “IdU dreamers” no stuffed at by the “practical” folks. Though still rooted in tniv liellef that, In this ns In other things, where there Is a will there Is always n way for the Anglo-Baxon: and too loyal an American to think there Is anything our country couldn't do*If It “set Its head." It Is not my pur* pom* now to discuss the feasibility of the deportation scheme. One thing la l>eyoud controversy: It Is certainly not within the province of the south to deport her super- nbundniit negro population lieyond the sens* tills can only come nbont. If ever, by Fed eral legislation, and I do not need to re mind your renders how little voice the south has had In ahnplng Federal policies since the Civil war. The only thing" aouth ran do In this matter nt present, nnd this, If she la wise, she will do, la to encourage by every means In her power, the migration of ner surplus negroes to northern states, thereby bringing nbont a racial equilibrium diet ween the two halves of the country, and llftlug this dark.prob lem from Its sectional setting, and placing it where It rightfully belongs, among na tional Issues. Much linn 1k*ph said In regard to the north's Ignorance of the negro, and we have wasted much time and eloquence In “ “ * her ns to hla true cbnr- _ ....... has never tw*en so Ig norant about the negro, as Indifferent to a subject which she felt concerned her so remotely. And nothing will curry convic tion to the northern mind quite so effect ively ns n notable Increase In their negro population. Within the last fire years there nan been « wonderful Influx of nturroes to northern cities, nnd to this fact, far more than to southern preachments. In due that “sudden revulsion In northern sentiment’ toward the negro we hear so much nbont these days. Send them a few more ue- ? :roes. and Instead of northern congressmen Iitroduelng bills for the reduction southern representation. GIVE THE FARM BOY8 A CHANCE l»99MH9M99M999H99999«M9MH9999M9M9«HM9H99999MimMH«99H9M99l999H9I Educate the White Masses. To the Editor of The Georgian: The people of Georgia are beginning to look upon you as the truest expres sion nt Southern Ideate,.and the ableat exponent of Southern sentiment. Your paper, The Georgian, la deattned to be come the great paper of the South. The people everywhere are hungry for a clean, tearleaa, vital dally newapapt a paper that atanda for aomethlng (Idea eenaatlonal newa and partlaan politics. I notice alao that many think- inf: people are aubatltutlng Tho Geor gian for all other dalllea. Believing that you can command and hold the attention of the people Of thle date nnd of the South more firmly than any other Georgian, I appeal to you upon a subject which carried the hopes of the present and the destinies of the future. Thla question, this subject, la that of the education of the white masaos tn Georgia. We need—we tnu»t have—a campaign of education In every community. In every village and in every city In thla etate. We yant It to begin now. We want It to t* vital, kindling an Irrealatlble, con- tumlng tire, growing brighter and high er until the great danger which now threatens us shall have disappeared. I Inclose a map. The black apote represent counties In which there are more blacks than whites attending the Public schools. If you have atudled the last report of the etate school com- misdoner you have seen that there are *5 J'* counties In the entire state *nirhi have more than a bare major ity of white children In the public school.. Did you notice the report of the schools of Bibb county? Here the ntrai schools showed a considerable decrease in white attendance. The city •chooli showed only a very alight In- JU*"' In white attendance. For the colored race the rural schoola and the schools showed a very large In- The seme may be said of many counties where the population of the rjf es Is aobut equal. The fact L' . nogroes are Intensely Interested ln K educated while the whites r„ r :,J rlmln a"y careless and woefully Indifferent. The negroea are rapidly acquiring wealth, or property, rather, In both, farms and town and city prop erty. The white Methodlste and Bap- tletz here worship In churches that cost less than 91,000, while the negroes have Just about completed an edifice at a cost of ft,000. They ride In buggies as line as any owned by the whites, and they nre learning to order goods from mall order houses. They are tak ing papers and they are reading tham. They are buying good books and they are studying them. I see something else that alarms me. I see white farmers coming to town riding by the side of negroes In the latter's buggies. I see negroes riding with white men In their buggies. I see them chatting together on the streets and in the lots, not as one talks with an Inferior, but apparently on terms of equality. This Is the case only where Ignorance of the whites predom inates. What does It mean? Does It point to negro supremacy or to amal gamation of the races? I have had the good fortune to min gle freely with the manes In south west Georgia for'the last fifteen years. I have lived In Lee, Thomas, Mitchell. Grady, Decatur and Calhoun counties. Conditions vary very little. Wherever you find the white* better educated you will also find that the negroes have likewise progressed. What are we going to do about It? Arc we going to sit with Idle and empty hands—are we to remain with apathetic Intellects and unresponsive hearts— while our people, our sons and our daughters, sink Into a state of Infe riority and dependence more galling and Ignoble than death or exile? I have never met you, but I have been rending after you for fifteen years, and I feel that I know you Intimately. And I am writing you because I believe you can and will Inaugurate some plan—keep In motion some sort of force—that will cause a "rattling of the dry bones" In our public school sys- , xote—The map spoken of elsewhere which I promised to Inclose I have been unable to find; but If you will Bracelets of Beauty The new bracelets! Thev are things of beauty, and UDequaled for smallness of effect. Never in the history °f a Southern jewelry shop have there been more or Prettier bracelets shown than in the line we are now dis playing. Tlie style-range is as wide as the tastes of woinan- , '!• The run of prices is in harmony. You can get a Jeweled baud for four figures or a tastefully simple orna ment fop one —just to suit your fancy. New things every day now. Come in and have a l<H.k at them. Maier & Berkele examine the report of the etate school commissioner you can eaelly locate them. The map referred to was one of my own design and only enabled one to get a forceful view of the sit uation. Very S. Arlington, Ga., Aug. 99, 1999. THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS. To the Editor of The Georgian: Before using so much time and tem per on the question of negro disfran chisement, would It not be welt to In- veetlgate the question as to whether the fourteenth nnd fifteenth amend ments to our constitution wore legally poised upon by the states? It would certnlnly be Interesting to many of your readers If you would give the his tory and exactly what happened, ac cording to the record, when these amendments were presented to the various states of the Union for ratifica tion or rejection. So far as I have been able to ascertain, the fourteenth amendment was ratified by >2 Northern states, rejected by Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland and not noted upon by Cali fornia. What was the attitude and were tho other Southern states not namsd above given an opportunity to act on It? If not, why not? If they did not act upon It, can It be aald to be legally adopted, It not being adopted by three-fourths of the states? The Judgment of the sword was that no Southern state was out of the Union. If In the Union, how could they be deprived of their constitutional right to adopt or reject any amendment of the constitution? If they acted upon It through military government. It waa certainly not the voice of the people of those ststes. It doea seem to ms that such question being made before the supremo court of the United States In a case properly made, that that court, which always emphasise* the rights of the states In Its opinions, when that question Is Involved, would be obliged to decide that neither the fourteenth nor'fifteenth amendment were properly passed upon and adopted by three- fourths of the states of the Union. As to the fifteenth amendment, we know that It was not acted upon by Tennes see; rejected by California. Delaware. Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey and Oregon, but ratified by the remaining thirty states, New York rescinding Its ratification on January 9. 1970. It will be well worth your time to take up each Southern state and the record of Just what they did aa to ratifying or rejecting these amend ments. A surprise Is In store for the one who probes this to the bottom, In my opinion. BILL O. WRIGHTS. Atlanta, Sept. 4, 1999. TWO FISHERMEN. You'd better nmkc ready to put out ycr light; . , . At laat. we intiat furl the lumiier! In other wonts." aald fMierman two. My dear old friend, we’re got to akldoo.” Hold Itsliemnn one, “II me, O tuy. I've tenui attch a dreadful sinner;” Kohl fisherman two, with n Broken sigh. And n |ilendllig look ami a tearful eye, "That tnett I'd er bnd for dinner!" Two tlalirrmeii then went nnder the sen: Poor fishermen two! Resolute twenty. the difficulty with n governmental aehemo for the "nafe amt peaceable" removal of the offending African from our midst. Who doea not know that the motion must eotne from tlie northern end of the country. If It ta to carry any weight tn eongreaa! The suggestion of the Atlanta -northern canltnllat vr In your Inane of Auguat 27. rtf nouthern Peinncratn to force n negro de portation plank Into the platform upon which they purpose to hoist Mr. Ilrynn. anil tn elect leaders to lioth holmes of congress who will whoop It up tn dobate, Is all very well ns fsr as ft goes, but every •outfiern delegate In congress known that It will not no further than the . mtttee room, while the bulk of the n imputation realties In southern atateo She north feela It la not her "foncrnl.” In thla. the north la only doing whnt the •oath would do. If the poeltlona were re- vented. It le human untnre. Nobody taken bin neighbor's troubles very much to heart until the same trouble Is brought home to hlm-then he Is sll attention nnd sym pathy. Anti the aoutli in greatly to blame for the average northerner a complacent assumption that climatic and economic eon ditlona will forever fix the negro', bnblta tlon smith of tho Mason mid Dixon line, Wo have cion* to him nmldnt nil t la ronragementa, hugging tho htwry delusion that wt* could not not along without him, and servlug notion on the north to hands off” the southeruer’s problem, Fnaaes or the southern slain. does the past show that the south has gotten along so very well with the negro? .And la ah® pet- ting along no well with hint today? Ton, Mr* Editor, In your terrible arraignment of the rapists, have furnished tho host answer to the lost query. ... „ . And whnt will you do? Tou have called .% uiasH mooting of oltlsons to consider ways nnd means to end your re gu or terror,” nnd doubtless even in the midst of It, speeches will bo heard at the mooting reiterating, parrotlike, the old formali: h the north will lot us alone, we will sohe the negro problem. And bow will you ioi^ It? Will you proceed In the old way with the rope, the pistol and tho torch? surely, tho wisest nnd most thoughtful am°ug os realise that we can not keep up thla sick ening program Indefinitely. &o Abhorrent the crime, how jnat the wrath which metes out the punishment, ail thoughtful persona know that continuous participation In mob violence, coarsens nnd bestlalltcs the participants, nndl will more surely degrade our people to the level of the Afrlrnn than any other known agency. But the beat argument agalaat It a Its borremic of reeult; It doea nut atop the * ’wimltl you eroko general race war? Itaee war In the aouth todny would aet back the clock of progreas for ua another uilf century. Wliv not adopt the more peneentile anil bloodless expetlfent of truna- ferrltig the ennae of all thla trtttbleto that end of the country which to chlefl.” —• apoiialldc for It'! Iuioraetlenb let have you ever tried It? Hob there pier I tee n n dcterdilned and internalised effort tn Indore the negro to leave the eolith? On the contrary. have not the movement* looking toward Inis end received active op- poeltton In the part? Even now, are not thcie many old foglea In (leorgln who sin* re rely Itelfeve that King Cotton moat re sign hla scepter If a few negroea failed In dot the cot too dolila? .Keen thongh the eensita return, for 1990 show leas than three-tenths of the entire agricultural labor of the aouth performed by negroea. Tho eonth ran not retain the synpathy ofthc world In her wrestling with tots Mae* problem. If ahe peralata In thla JgRNMMa* '•nurse If the negroes arc na mark as we have painted them, we should rcrlnlnly : * n.i,I liiseltlnintn nintiliN To the Editor of The Georgian: Being a close and appreciative reader of yqpr editorials, and appreciating the brave Hand you take on every ques tion of Importance to the people, write to you of a question that has, to me, been neglected in connection with our state fair. Why not give the town .boyi n chance? Why not offer prlxea that will encourage them to some lines of work they are In position to develop? Our country cousins are allowed to grow fine pumpkins, melons, corn and potatoes, for which they receive honors, of which they may be Justly proud. All of this I am glad exists, for whnt Is more honorable than tilling the aotl, where some of our greatest men started successful lives? Still would the man agement not give our town boys some encouragement? There are plenty of lines that might be suggested as profitable to not only the ones who take part In the contest, but the general public. For Instance, along mechanical lines—a piece of ma chinist's work, a steam pnglpe or draw ings for same, cabinet work, furniture finishing, electrical apparatus, forging, or a skillful piece of moulding. Thla would be of great help to me, who wishes to employ young men. What we need Is natural talent, de veloped. Contestants would be limited as to age and experience, to be decided by competent men. Respectfully, A MECHANIC. Atlanta, Ga., Sept. I, 1996. TRUE VERSUS ERRONEOUS EVANGELISM To the Editor of The Georgian: In The Georgian of the 29th Instant there appeared an article under the above caption. The writer sums up with tlu statement that man la saved by "belief, baptism and oral confes sion." This idea of salvation was the best that man could devlsfe probably* 800 years ago. At that time mankind waa densely Ignorant, knowledge was con fined to but a few, and what there was of knowledge or education was based upon the Ignorance of slaves, which Ignorance was exploited and turned Into huge temples, tn which the Igno rant worshiped an unknown god—In belief." Belief, then. Is a solace for want of knowledge, and to Insist that man shall always and shall have no other cree/l or can be saved In no other way than by "belief,” la to condemn the race to Ignorance, and tn the old pagan creed, “I believe." Paul said of these, "Him (God) whom ye Ignorantly worship. Him declare I unto you." Paul had got knowledge, consequent ly he was not saved by belief or Igno rance, and hla saying above quoted made It Impossible for Ignorance or "I believe" to be saved. 'I believe," then, stands for satisfied Ignorance, and not for salvation. To say that man can not be saved unless he Is ns Ignorant as were the slaves of 990 or maybe 2,000 years ago, Is to make all knowledge nnd the refine ment which goes with It a useless luxury. When we have knowledge we can not "believe" even If we wish to. So It "belief Is essential to salvation, knowledge Is essential to damnation. Knowledge has so broadened the minds The South Approves The Georgian’s Stand. Min*#! * A try every i>enceai>lt iunl legitimate menus tn get rid Of them. nr. st tenet, enough of 111*111*111 inlnlmsle the mensee to our dvtll- sntlon. Ilnve we dene this? Conditions Just now srejieeullnrly fsvnr- ntile to such n pmjeef. The negro s dlusst- tsfnetlon with southern home rule, hts ills- snttsfnetlon toward the cotton fields, more then nil. his luerraslng hostility toward everything soqthern. would Incline him to seek’ new fields for his Intents. The nt- rut districts of tlie north will never, per- turns Attract tiny considerable ntunlsT of negroes, tint whnt field so alluring to the edmutted nnd nuiMUonn negro ns northern rttles? Tlie disfranchising sets of the „m them suites will glre oimigratory lm- mitse to the isdlthwlly nspiring nsgroM. nnd It Is this clnss partlcidsrly which the sooth would lie glsd to spare. .Let south erners once moke up their minds th*t the sou Hi nnd the negro have come to the port ing Ilf the ways, still expedients will not Is* tticking to accomplish the sepnrntlon. By nil moons, enforee your "move on low for the Idle, nnd sec to It (hot when limy do move HU. they ore bended north- wnrd. Itil we seek revenge III this? .'ey. Justice and the best result*. "Turn nlHiut Is fnlr idny" the world over, snd the mirth Mmnlil take her turn with the henry end of the "white man's linnlen. Sloreorer. If the north doesn't like the negroes when she gets them, she esn do whnt the south ,','t-Hihe Voii ship them out of the .tm^lo well to nrm your women; Arjt teaching them to nlm nceorntely. )onr plan to enlist the ennperstlnn of colored teachers nnd preachers In your crusade ' am,nit * “etcVrimli.nls. was n wise move: ANGLIN VEUNK. I wise from the si '.e of diplomacy only, la inoHHMnmiiioiioiniiiioi To the Editor of The Georglnn. I desire, with the others who have expressed themselves through the col umns of your excellent paper, to nay that not only I but I verily believe the whole.South Is quite a unit In accord and sympathy with your noble and manly editorials which have from time to time since the Copenhllt outrage appeared In the columns of The Geor gian. Why do not all the papers of the South take up the refrain and sing this song of redemption with the seal and seat of The Georgian! It seems to me the people of the South have borne thin curse long enough, and that to submit longer to this deadly upon which In, perforce, blighting the very fountain head of the pureat Anglo-Saxon race under the sun would Justly subject ua to the contempt of patient but self-respecting humanity everywhere, and the matter should be settled permanently and at once. For one. I have no patience for any of the propositions for remedy ad vanced thus far noted short of depor tation or annihilation. Who that reads has not scanned the papers In vain tor some token of sympathy or some evi dence of a desire on the part of the leaders of the colored race to assist the officers of the law In their ef forts to capture these vile criminals? What an opportunity at their recent great convention held In your city the leaders of the black race had for good and allowed It to go by default, not a word of Importance having been spoken In condemnation of the crime. It cannot be said they overlooked It, unless Intentionally so, because the matter must have been fresh In their minds. What little waa said would have best been unsaid.. So far from rendering any assistance, they have about gone the limit In the opposite direction and have abetted and en couraged them. If not by word or ac tion, then by their silence, and In shielding them from a punishment which at Its worst could by no possi ble means compensate for thla hell- hatched crime. Do these people real ise that they are standing upon the crusty crater of a volcano now danger ously nearing eruption, which, when It bursts forth, will as surely engulf the whole race as If the thing had al ready happened? note the long list of merchants who condemn the proposed Ku-Klux Klan. They are a body of excellent clttxens, but by no means do they rep resent the mmasei. The masses are determined this thing shall stop, but would indorse even Ku-Kluxlsm as a means of last resort. Yours truly, RUBE HAYSEED. Bolton, Ga. of man that he knows that there Is a God, or whnt this word stands for. Knowledge has revealed this God to us through a knowledge of the world and the laws which govern It. So that as Paul says, In knowledge alone can we rightly worship God at all. Con sequently, salvation consists In acquir ing knowledge, nnd not in going to sleep over "I believe," or the Ignorance of the past. The next condition Is "baptism." This word has not lulled the world to peace- ful slumbers, other than such slumber ns soldiers seek on the field of battle. It Is a contentious word, and Is but a repetition of "I believe." The reason that it Is contentious Is because as an English word It Is a misnomer, or misnamed. It Is Blmply the Greek word spelled In English, and transplanted Into the English language without a definition. It la not translate d Into English the same as other Greek words. The Greek word means to wash clean with water, or to infuse Into the mass, tho material used In the fusion, which may be any fusible material. To dtp, to sprinkle, to Immerse, stand for the operation of washing, not separately, but all together. Jesus had traveled In the desert: He was soiled In per son, and John washed His body clean In Jordan. That Is all there la in It. Heaven Is peopled with people with clean bodies nnd Is what Jesus and John wished tn Impress upon the peo ple. You look about us and we will find that aa a rite baptiam Is a misera ble failure. Tho agitation of the plumb ers to compel tho people to have hath tubs In their houses Is more In the direction of salvation than the creed. Paul found the Corinthians baptizing os a rite, as Is (Jone today by the churches, and he condemned It, nnd sold that Christ sent him Into the world not to baptise (rlt9), but to preach the gospel. "Confession,” too, saves! This Is an other repetition of "I believe." for no one "knows" that It does. If God knows all things, nnd I find from my knowledge of the world that He does, what have we to tell Him that He dot s not know? Tell him In this way th,u we are sorry? He knows all about us, which Is more than we know by a long Jump. It makes us feel good? Doubtless! If feeling good Is a sign of salvation, a whole lot of Hoke Smith foil owns nre saved on the same line, and It Is probable that a few of them could ow n nnd uce a bath tub to advantage to complete their religious education. In a world of Ignorant people, salvation from the Ills of life can not get beyond the "I believe" plan, and as It satisfies them In their condition, It Is their ex clusive property, and granting the right of Individual preferences, we would noL If we could, and could not If »e would, disturb them In the possession of It. In a world of education, knowledge satisfies and Ignorance can not sup* | plant It. The article quoted states that "belief, baptism (rite), confession" saves, nnd It ends there, and properly so, for all of thin Is "belief.” Good win. affection, truthfulness, charity, kind ness, etc., being based on knowledge, are, of course, not necessary to salva tion. The only purpose of knowledge la to enable a few to dee that Igno rance la saved, and that the possessors of this knowledge are loat! Chrlat and God for. example. , , Every fleeting moment of time con quers the past, nnd In turn Is con quered by Its successor. ■To try to exist on the past Is to perish with It. XV. A. JOHNSON. Atlanta, Ga^ Aug. 29, 1906. that It wltl force the teachers sod lead era to show their bands But It Is not likely to be productive of any practical results In what you seek to accomplish. The few half hearted nnd jierfunctory ut terances of the negro tanebera wise enough to express such will hardly counter ' anee (he tremendous Influence of the donoment—not to say, hero worship—wrhlch the negro rapist has so long received from ness League recently enlivened lu your city, not to Indulge In o'er-inneh denun ciation nf lynching, their president confined hts condemnation nf the criminals to a Imre recognition or a very potent feet— "the negro Is committing too many crimes" —coupled with n mild disapproval of the •nme, while he devoted much space end energy to the enormities of lynch law, and the economic advantage to the negroee of n resilience In the eouth. booker Washington hss mingled much with the phllsnthronlsta nf the north, snd doubtless iinderslsiuls 1'ftler than tho nmat that his surest hope of olitslnlug nhl from them for hi, cause nnd hts people Is to keep the philanthropist* an*) the negroes as widely eeparnted a* possible, lienee wo find Booker Washington nlways Insisting. In season nnd out, that the negroea must remain In the south. Yet, I think yon will ngree with me, Mr. Editor, that, great na he Is ns a trader of hts own race, and Inflated na he appaars tn lie hy the flattering attention* nf northern nntahlm, the Ttiskegee oracle Is hardly ripe for the role of "dictator" for waitbern white men. They, and not he, will decide tho qucation whether the negroes will remain In the smith, nnd as one who yields to none In devotion to the southland, I sin cerely truet they will decide It In the nega tive. Meantime, let ns educate the negroee and eend them to northern cities; then, like “Brer Kos." "Jo* 1 lay low nu' eeo whet d* n,,X ' It.LKY HAH HAVE AROU8ED THE PEOPLE. 9lffflf9t«9lt99ft9l9f(M9l99flff9lflff9999ltf9i l9HltH99tffH9IIMIflffl*flfltfl9Mff«9M9*l*9l To th# Editor of Tho Georglnn. Thla la not a time for the dlactlaalon of qneatlona with the negro. If anch a time haa been In tho paat, more'a th# pity. Th# Intereata, th# condition, the coudurt of the negro may and ahould In* dlacuaaed nmong white men, Imt experience haa taught na that on the fornm la no. place fort he, negro when matters of Interest to tho country nro Inrolved, and especially wheu Southern In ternets are tho topic. And for thla reason It matters not wh.it th# auhj#ct may lie, or bow w#!l Informed the negro writer or speaker may lie, so mull- Mona tuts he grown—and he has been “grown” some time—that hla dlecuealop la warped br prejudice, poisoned by that envy that marks tho couacfoualy inferior, and so woefully untruthful that wo lose nil pa tience ns arbiter/ seeking for fair conclu alons. and refuse to hear or consider. The time haa come when the negro, ao a negro, ahould l>e put out of the question. The ••protdem.” as a problem. Is no prob lem. The affairs of Georgia, of the Month, of the country, engage ua and let na "he nlNtut our fathers' Imtlnoao.” Problems confront ua. serious matters must be met, considered and disposed of; the negro entera Into some nf them, and he should lie disposed of jodlcloualjr and fairly, bnt regardless of hla nolens rolens. Thla we claim liecauae we Urn In a white man's country, and under a whlto uutn'a government. This Is essentially and Irre vocably true; then why tamper longer with • ••9«99t*9999«99999999««9«9«999«99999999999««99999999«*9*«e9e*«*e8*98*e*e*e***.« The South s Problem. Hf99999t999999t9tll999tt99lt9l9t99l999l999IMi999f99*9999tll«9MMMt9t44M*si rusted. In any sense. And the claim based not npon the ground nf Ignorance nnd unfitness, tint on the showing made hy the l»eat men In the land for conservative cc cl I by black leaders; for pacific utternn and temperate advice. These negroes the heed of the msgnslne an* uni.ling monthly an Installment of bitter denun tlon, luaolent Insult and hcllMi fnNch against the white people which th -y ki must only serve to fin* the -balf-aavage taros of the race, nnd reud»*r more Into!? ble their mrnnneas. Alongside of thU u ter uro printed aQggaatlonfc In various w of tho real Inferiority of tho whlto rr The negro hss prior claim to illatlnMI even from the foundation of the world. ' beat that there la In human imturo Is Ihuroh^^wen^^passSl resolutions fb- nounclng lawlessness nmong tuo rare. «h- clsrlug against giving hiding or eomfort the time ngoln Hoinetimps open luault on the part of i«.w nnd vulgar blacks, who are all tht* time keeping abreast of the limit of cmluiniM c, seeming to gauge their encroachment upon the patience of white men only by the line of danger, as It la apparent to theta. J. V. I’l.EATON. ever sugar-coated his geueral In the hearing of white men—when sepakliig "for publication”—yet throughout bis whole discourse there raus a vein of hltternesa toward the whites, aa If hla race held deadly grievance against them that no |h*u- nance could atone for. and no amends could amend. Throughout It all there Is a wall against the shortcomings, defined ami lm- agtnery, that “retard The progress of a To the Editor of Th® Georgian: Your recent superb editorials upon the subject of negro outrages have aroused the people to the dangers of the situation. Continue the good work until every county In the state and every militia district shall have organ ised Into vigilance committees to sup press thla heinous crime. Much haa been said about speedy trials, but as the law now stands a conviction of an assault with Intent to commit this dia bolical offense amounts to little more than an advertisement of the offender. Let the governor call the legislature In extra session to consider thla grave matter, and let that body enact laws adequate to the occasion. As the law now stands, an assault with Intent to commit a rape la pun- |«f negroea from the cmintryto the towua' Ishable by Imprisonment In the penl- | T* 1 ,?” •*!? *i!ui tentlary for a term not teas than one I „ho.»t down n negro with nlmnJt na mjicli nor more than twenty years. This [ indifference as he would display In shoot- penalty la not commensurate with the! Ingen dog.” and then It asserts that hla crime. Let the legislature make the dew l *■ « f° r< T* «h* gwcntlng SS?y of fh^jXrt of the au^rlo! " whm " " K, ” m,M ’ r " f " M> , " , " rl " r courts to convene the courts an soon as a Jury can bo Impaneled to try the offender, and do It with such speed that It will amount to keeping the courts open nil the time for the trial of these rosea, and make It a felony to know the fact that one of these devils has com mitted the offense without reporting It to the officers of the law; and make the migratory villains carry a pass port, as has been euggented. Respectfully, THOMAS B. IRWIN. Marietta, Ga. Aug. 29, 1999. i WHvii nif Hiriiiiirv niv? uih ftwii ni"e, mark hla deliverances. Every line pulsates with spleen; every word Is a brand to Influ ence am! Intensify the hatred of the Ignor ant of the race. In the discussion of the question of "the scarcity of farm Inlwr,” an editorial In a uugro nmcnzlno for Kentemlfcr admitted ”a deplorable lack of farm bauds.” nnd after claiming that "ones ne gro latmr waa plentiful In the country dis tricts of the Kouth, and there was never a more reliable, more peaceful nnd wore con tented Maas of lalKirers than the stnwsrt men ami sturdy mothers of the Jolly black raw,” charged up against the white race murders, lynchlngs, peonage, wbltecnpplng, clMliigangs. forced Ignorance sud a verita ble reign of terror and tyranny na the “fear ful orgies" that brought about the “hegtra ease where n “member of ’the Inferior race grew too Inaolent.” ”An armed posse of the (test rltlseus.” says the editorial, “would ns soon go cunning for a negro chicken thief as for Why thing else." Again: “A negro plstol-toter Is worse Irefore the law thin a white murderer." And this from a publication that should stand for the best there Is In the race; that should strive to Inculcate right living and manly principles; that should srorn to print such blatant and hellish falsehood, devotes Its pages to engendering and fostering the enmity and hatred of the Ignorant blacks, for whom these agitators Themselves hive less «*ou- elderntbm, leas sympathy than the white This, too, after plea upon plea of the Emigration op Extirpation? To the Editor of The Ocorslan: At a gathering of negroea in Wash ington city a few weeks ago, Gaines, the burly black "bishop” who llv.-s in Atlanta, waa especially loud In la menting and denouncing the lynch ing of negroea by tho white men of the •South, but bad no word of condemna tion for tbe raping of white women and children by negro men. Because the editor of Tho Georgian, Air. Graves, ha* been ao persistent and vigorous a denouncer of this raping liubit of the beastly race to whlcn Gaines be longs, and to ably end fearlessly ad vocates the only sure means of |ter- mgnently saving our women from be ing sacrificed to Its hellish lust, Gaines made Mr. Grave* the special object of hi* stricture*. Almoct at the very hour when Gaines wa* thus Inveighing T lnst Mr. Graves end the defenders the white women nnd girls of the South, a negro wa* raping a white girl but a abort distance from Gaines I In Atlanta. I desire to know If this fact ha* been noted by you. The negro aeem* to be the only rap ing mco In tho world today, end every year the coming of the r*i«' season furnishes more and wore evidence of the fact that we are fostering and ed ucating a race of rapists, whose pies- ence restrain* tho liberty and Imperils the persons and live* of our women and children. How long will a course so Inexpressi bly foolish be continued by the people of the South? flow many more women and children will have to be ruined by these lustful beasts before the white people of this country utter the stern and unalterable decree that- this Innd of ours shall he freed from tho awful curse of their presence, either by emigration or ex tirpation? I would ask if you nre aware that Gaines, the negro bishop, published a book some years ago In which l.e sug gests miscegenation as th.. w .iv to set tle the race problem? THOMAS KUtGSFuRD. Savunnah. August 27, 1906.