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The Atlanta Georgian.
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor.
P. L. SEELY, President.
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The Real Spirit of Southern White Men
Lot The Georgian glvo you an Instance of the real
feeling of Southern white men toward the right kind of
. negroes.
On Tuesday we ~eeordod the proffer of personal and
military service by the College Park negroes to the
white men of that suburb In repelling any band of reck
less and irresponsible negroes who might over disturb
the town.
On Tuesday ovbnlng there was a leellng of general
unrest In the city and suburbs over what seemed a
well founded rumor thnt a disorderly force was gather
ing from nil sections Of the county to rendesvous at
East Point and to bent nnd terrorise the negroes of
East Point anil College Park.
At 7 o'clock tho mayor of College Park ordered
every negro to bo at home for safety by 8 o'clock—an
order which waa promptly obeyed. _
Then tho white men of College Park held a confer
ence over their telephones and In personal conversation,
nnd unanimously agreed that In view of the admirable
way In which the College Park negroes had behaved In
this crisis that the white men of College Park would not
permit them to be mistreated by any mob from nny
jrhero, and that If necsssary they would protect them
at the point of their guns.
* This Is the real bottom spirit of every Southern
white man to every negro whom be knows to be good
nnd worthy.
In Its last analysts there are no people under the
sun who are as kindly and helpful to the right sort of
negro as the Southern white man. Wj are the only
people on earth who know and appreciate them, nnd for
such negroes as those that llvo at College Park there
wljl always be found such white men as live at Col
lege Park to f.efend them.
The Evil Element of Both Races.
In the terrible municipal and county tragedies ot the
last seven weeks culminating on Snturday night, both
the white race and the negro race have been tho victims
of their worst nnd lenst .representative elements.
No man knows better than the editor of The Georgian
that the crime of ratio which goaded this people to a final
and terrible vengeance does not represent the Indorse
ment or the approval of tho better element or tho ma
jority element of the negro race.
The Georgian Itaclf ha* made thnt fact crystal clear.
Whatever we may or may not have done In other lines of
service. The Georgian can at least claim the full credit for
having developed the cooperation of tho lending negroes
with the white man In tho warfare against these assaults
upon white women. This wns our position, strongly as
sumed, and at least earnestly defended. We advocated
any form of business reprisal or of business withdrawal
which might be necessary to compel the editors, teach
ers, preachers nnd leaders of the negro raco to give less
time lo the denunciation of lynching nnd more time and
space to the preaching nnd teaching of boll nnd damnation
tor the greater crime ot assaulting white women. And we
have borne cheerful and hearty testimony to the fact that
these negro teachers and editor* and preachers have with
commendnble loyalty and admirable feeling accepted
this suggestion nnd have given us such oo-operstlon ns
has never been given before In the suppression of the
crime of crimes.
We are Just os confident ns we live that the fruit of
this loyal 'cooperation will be seen later, nnd we cannot
fall to express now and at all times our hearty apprecia
tion of the good sense and of the Christian support dis
played by these leading negroes In this advocncy.
We know moreover that these men represent the
majority of the negro race, and that the crimes recently
committed against white women were the acta of fren-
sled and bestial brutes who represent the more vIcIoiib
element of the negro race. It Is well to keep this fact In
mind, and these two .sets. The non-representative char
acter of the criminal and the strong moral support of the
negro leader should both lie remembered at any future
time in which Southern people might be stirred to the
frenxy of another physical vengeance from an accumu
lative series of negro Yissaults.
And we know Just as well that the recent mob In At
lanta waa not composed of the representative and thought
ful people of this dty. It whs largely composed of wild
young men, eager, passionate, adventurous, filled with hot
blood and eager to avenge without deliberation or without
discrimination the most damnable of crimen against the
women of the South.
To these were Joined those reckless nnd Irresponalble
bands of hoodlums which belong to all communities and
who are ever ready for any trouble or disturbance which
offers a vent to their passion*.
The acta of these men have been condemned, con
demned sufficiently and condemned enough, by the
thoughtful men of Atlanta who were in public meeting as
sembled.
Now that It Ip all over, the problem to be solved
how the better elements of both races can control here
after the evil element of each race.
When that problem Is solved, our wars will be over
and there will never be riots any more.
Who Shall Cast the First Stone at Us?
We are not much concerned over any permanent
lapse of reputation for Atlanta growing out of the recent
tragedies culminating on Saturday night
It Is much to be deplored, and the actions first
the rapists and second of the rioters are to be strongly'
and fiercely condemned, aa they have been.
But we do not share in the expressed opinion that
Atlanta Is going to be shamed and stigmatized and stain
ed tor any length of time by the record of this period
If all the cities without sin dr riotous records lo
this republic should throw stones at Atlanta, there
would not be enough In the falling shower to build
child's playhouse on the side of the room.
What city, for Instance, would cast the first stone
at Atlanta? Certainly not New York, the metropolis of
the republic, tor on n November night not two years ago
the streets of this great city from Thirty-second to Forty-
third, right In the heart of Its law apd authority, were
made reeking shambles ot broken heads and battered
noses and splintered arms of tho negroes of New York,
assaulted, broken, beaten nnd sought to be killed by
wild mob of New York people upon a provocation that
did not touch the lower rung of the ladder on which At
lanta’s Indignation rose to a final and fierce expression.
Certainly not Chicago, where not once, but twice or
three times In the present decade, the great metropolis of
the west, with Its maudlin negrophlllsm (In spots) has
mobbod negroes In the streots and chased them In death-
dealing riots In their owi particular quarter of the city,
and once had a rope around the neck of a negro to bang
him to a lamp post on State street tor snatching a
pocketbook from ths arm of a shopper In one of the
stores.
Certainly not Wilmington, Del., nor Leavenworth, Kan
which set a new fashion and broke all records In the
horrible tragedies of burning negroes to death.
Certainly not Danville, Ills., nor Evansville, Ind
nor Felicity, Ohio, nor Pans, nor Cartersvllle, nor Topeka
nor Lawrence, Kansas, nor a hundred towns who
live In glass houses stained with the record of more
violent riots than Atlanta has even heard of, and tor a
provocation by comparison Infinitely small.
The sporadic bursts of a few Northern newspapers
who uro compelled to write their pious homilies and to
record their dutiful protests, may roast Atlanta tor a
season and disregard the strong and forceful protests that
our own people have made against the crimes of both
races.
Four million readers of the New York, Washington,
Chicago, Cincinnati and St. Louis papers read on Mon
day tho full, Btrong statement of Atlanta's provocation,
as written by the edltrr of The Georgian.
But In tho course of time the cities and the newspa
pers will recall the record of their own mad excesses
under serious provocation, and accepting the full state
ment of Atlanta's representative condemnation, will blot
out all remembrance of the unfortunate tragedy of Sat
urday and will not fall to say that Atlanta Is just as
good, even If they have thought It Just as bad, as the
other cities of the United States.
Let Us Postpone Clansman.
The coming of Thomas Dixon's “Clansman" to the
Brand opera house of Atlanta next month should be post
poned.
It Is not good policy to have It at this time.
We do not go ns far as some of the timorous nnd
fecblo-mlnded (n condemning Tom Dixon's play. It has
some strong points nnd crystallises soma great funda
mental principles which our civilisation ought to hear
at Intervals.
But the present period In Atlanta Is distinctly un
favorable to any good thing that might como out of. Mr.
Dixon's play.
If the upper gallery should be filled with blacks, as
It was when “The Clansman" was here before, and the
lower house with white people, nnd If the whites, ap
plauding wildly every allusion to white supremacy and
eternal superiority, as they did before, should be nn-
sworod by the blacks ns they were before, breaking Into
eager yells at tho strong statement of racial equality
and intermarriage, this particular act might be conclud
ed with n tragedy akin to one In Booth's theater In the
April of 1885.
If Gits, the negro villain of tho play, should be seen
by tho second gallery skulking In the shadow of that
tender little girl with rape in hla head and hla eyes,
the chances aro not small that Gus (who Is n fine fellow
In his own character) might go home with a bullet In
his body at a reminder of the second gallery's excited
prejudices.
So let us postpone "Tho Clansman,” Mr. DoGIve,
until wo have had time to quiet down a little and we can
hear Mr. Dixon's famous play later In tho season.
MUCH IN LITTLE.
New York city has, ready tor duty In the state mili
tia. 14,367 men.
It Is estimated that 5,000,000 women are earning
wages in the British Isles.
Places of amusement In New York city have 453,000
more aeats than the churches have.
The population of Germany on July 1 was 01.102.000,
an increase of 8,350,000 in ten years.
In Mohammedan countries women are not admitted
beyond the doorways of mosques.
Central Amerioan porters carry their burdens In a
chalrllke contrivance strapped on thetr backs.
Tbp land area of the United States Is 1.900,947,200
acres. The area of Great Britain and Ireland Is 77.671,319.
The number of persons employed In tho mines of the
world Is about 5,000,000, of whom one-fifth arc In Great
Britain.
OUR PLATFORM-—The Georgian stands for Atlanta’s Owning its own gas and elec
tric light plants, as it now owns its water rsorks. Other cities do this and get gas as low as 60 cents,
with a profit to the city. This should be done at once. Tfae Georgian believes that if street rail
ways can be operated successfully by European cities, as they are, there is no good reason why they
can not be so operated here. But We do not believe this can be done now, and it may be some years be
fore we are ready for so big an undertaking. Still Atlanta should set its face in that direction NOW
YOU WILL Never Move Unless You Take the First
■* Step. Take It Now—Become 4 'Member of “The
League.”
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MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP LEAGUE
APPLICATION BLANK.
I hereby make application for membership In the MUNICIPAL OWN
ERSHIP LEAGUE.
I favor the ownership of a gas and electric lighting plant by the city
of Atlanta.
Remarks:
Dat* 110..
Name
Address
Occupation
Not*.—Cut out and return to THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
rarity, should guide him In the path
ways of fairness and truthfulness; but
how often do we see small men borne
down by the weight of great names!
It takes something beside a high-
sounding, historic name to make a
statesman.
I have often In strong terms ex
pressed my condemnation of the con
duct of these disorderly, whisky drink
ing men at the horns; but neither Mr.
Williams nor any other man ever heard
me "bitterly denounce the Inmates,"
which include the entire body of men
who are sheltered In the home, and his
statement that I did, before the com
mittee or elsewhere. Is absolutely false.
W. H. HARRISON.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
CAP!. HARRISON REPLIES
70 THE RECENI CARD OF
REPRESENTATIVE WILLIAMS
To the Editor ot The Georgian:
tn your Saturday's Issue you pub
lished a communication from Mr.
George W. Williams, a member ot the
Joint committee appointed by the gen
eral assembly to Investigate the Sol
diers' Home, which demands some no
tice.
First, I desire to say that I have
never seen the publication In "an At
lanta paper" purporting to quote what
said about the report of the com
mittee. Shortly after the committee
adjourned, and after their report had
been given to the press, some of the
reporters called at my office while
making their rounds of tho capitol for
news Items. One of them asked me
what the trustees would do about the
report. I replied In substance, "I did
not know that they would do anything;
that, under the resolution appointing
the committee, the report would be
submitted to the next session of the
general assembly to assemble In June,
1907, and that until thnt body took
action the trustees would go right
along discharging their duty under the
law, and If the rules of the home were
violated by any of the unruly Inmates
they would be dealt with Just as they
had been, patiently but firmly."
I never claimed thnt I had any pow
er to suspend, or dismiss any Inmate
from the home. I never said "we will
continue to expel the Inmates," and If
the reporter so stated he misquoted
what I said at the time. I have never
clnlmed that I was any more than the
secretary of the board of trustees.
Mr. Williams then goes on to say:
"The only place In the recent Investi
gation where Captain Harrison was
very active was his energetic defense
of the shameful mismanagement of the
home In the past and hts bitter denun
ciation of the Inmates of the home.”
This staement does the trustees and
myself gross Injustice. There has not
been any "shameful mismanagement"
of the home, and I have never "bitterly
denounced the Inmates.”
The trustees have had a difficult
task to perform; they have many dif
ficulties to contend against. They have
been compelled to discipline a limited
number or the Inmates and former In
mates. They have been forced to sus
pend some of the boisterous ones for
repeated disregard of the rules. Near
ly every one of these suspensions has
been for violation of the rule ugnlnst
no dishonesty In their purchasing
agent, Dr. Amos Fox.
Mr. Williams In a letter to me says
“this fight" was forced upon him by
a very unkind attack during the ses
sion of the general assembly.,
The trustees never assailed him. I
made no attack upon him, and Dr. Fox
replied only to the charge that he had
mismanaged or misappropriated the
funds of the home placed In his hands
as treasurer.
This Investigating committee did not
find that Dr. Fox had misappropriated
a dime of the state's money. The testi
mony showed that he had, by wise and
faithful management, saved the state
and the home hnndreds of dollars, and
that he purchased the best grade of
supplies to be had, and at the lowest
cash prices, from the best establish
ments In Atlanta.
The proof showed that every pur
chase made was delivered at the home
and turned over to the superintendent,
and by him used to furnish the Inmates
with food, clothing, bedding, medicine,
etc. Not a particle of proof was, or
can be, produced to show any misuse
of the state s appropriation.
One of the trustees expressed the
opinion that perhaps it would be best
to close up the home, and pay all the
Inmates pensions. Mr. Williams Is re
ported to have said with dramatic em
phasis, "Pay them their pensions and
let them live like kings." Few men
will believe thkt an old. decrepld man,
without home or family, can live upon
$5 per month. At 6 cents per meal his
food would cost him 14.60 per month,
and leave him only 50 cents with which
to pay room rent, fuel, lights, clothing,
shoes, medicine, washing, tonacco, etc.
But this Dr. Williams has said he
could, and I guess that ends the con
troversy.
If an old decrepld Confederate vet
eran, unable to earn a dollar, can “live
like a king” on 85 per month, what
earthly excuse can Mr. Williams ad
vance for voting himself 1120 per
month and mlloage to come to Atlanta
and snort around the halls of the capi
tol trying to make speeches?
And why should Mr. Williams pre
sent an account for right days' hotel
at 83 per day (when he only remained
In Atlanta from Sunday evening until
Saturday night) besides his 84 per diem
for eight days' service as a member
of this committee, which met Monday,
SEPTEMBER 28.
1713—British nuder Lord Howe entered
Philadelphia.
1793—French ruptured Zurich, Bwltzerlnud.
1S10—Buttle of Busneo.
1820—Daniel Boone, Kentucky pioneer, died.
doned.
1881—First time table of the Cimndlnn I’a-
ellle railway Issued.
3899—Dewey arrived In New York on the
Olympln.
' and Germany reached an
19(ft—France
agreement on their relations with Mo
rocco.
GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM.
New York, Sept. 26.—Here are some
of the visitors In New York today:
ATLANTA—Mrs. O. Dodd. I. Lleb-
man, C. Dlosser, J. A. W, Dohler.
SAVANNAH—W. S. Heyward, W.
W. Osborne. J. Palmer, Mrs. F. C.
Bootey, E. 8. Elliott.
A Secretary's Diary. ;
^ By WEX JONES.
MONDAY—'Three women suing me now.
Dftuirtge# rInlmot], 1180,000. Wanted to see
Koggleiuore Hill and couldn’t, so they try
to soak me. Life t> dreary.
TUESDAY— Bow on about piers In Clois
ter Ray. Hare been told to stop It, ns
it brings place Into wrong kind of noto
riety. How con I stop n wimian with a
Mhotjtnn or a bunch of commissionersT
Can’t do It. Wish I wns dead. *
WEDNESDAY—Hermit borrowed my
fishing rod. Hate to lend my fishing rod,
especially to l»oys. Secretary Toot's tour
partly dnmngiHl by earthquake In Chile,
nnd I mil blamed. How can I tell n btfi
THURSDAY—Had to pungle up a dollar
to cainpiilgn fund. Money a scare* these
days, too. The Infant Industries getting
most of It. Think of chucking up Job.
FRIDAY—Bum breakfast this morning.
How could I help It, I’d like to know. I
enn’t he Jollying the cc»ok nil day. Tough
a inn11 thnt does Ills level best, and
Feel like quitting.
HATFUDAY—Hhail be glad to get out of
Cloister Boy. Time the others were com
ing In for their share. Think I'll stick It
out until Washington.
AMONG OUR ENIMIES, WE-
ARE IN MIDST OF FRIENDS,
AND THEY PREDOMINATE
September 10, at nnon, and adjourned
about 2 p. m. Saturday, September 15,
1906? This, too, In face of the fact
that the resolution Introduced by him
drunkennesa nnd disorderly conduct. ! self only provided for the 84 per diem,
Samuel Bradbeer, who died at Pltmlnster, England,
the other day at 82, bad sung 70 years In the parish
church choir.
The names of these men nnd the
enusea for their suspension have been
kept out of the papers aa far as pos
sible; not because they deserved nny
favors, but because they have rela-
e* nnd friends outside, whom .the
trustee* did not desire to distress by
giving undue publicity to the miscon
duct of these unfortunate Inmates.
There are In the home about one
hundred splendid old men, grand old
heroes of a Just and righteous cause,
who richly deserve all the love, the
sympathy, the gratitude and tender
care that can be bestowed upon them.
These rules have been mude for their
protection and to render* the home a
clean, quiet, orderly place where they
can rest In their old age.
The trustees have found, on the other
hand, n number of Inmates who have
been nnd are habitual drunkards.
Men who have taken refuge in the
home because their bad habits In the
past have caused them to lose their
property, their friends, their homes and
destroyed their usefulness In any of
the walks of life. This class, as a rule,
are not the old. feekle. decrepit men.
Many of them are, comparatively
speaking, ahle-bodleil able to earn
their own living, If they would let li
quor alone. But they prefer to drink,
and bring unable to keep sober, they
tank up and create -disorder at the
home.
Thank God there are only a few of
tills class, but a small number In the
home are enough to require very rigid
rulea against drunkeSness,
These men when thry aro disciplined
and finally turned away, cry out "cru
elty, abuse, mismanagement." etc., nnd
they have to some 4xtent prejudiced
the public mind agnlnlt the home.
The trustees have hiad trouble In se
curing the right kind pf official*. And
It may be true that borne of the In
mates have been treated unkindly. The
bonrd has tried to correct every trou
ble brought to their attention. And
they have repeatedly Invited the In
mates to report any!mistreatment on
the part of any offlcltl. Two superin
tendents have been discharged for bud
management. Other subordinates lmVe
been turned off. At fmes the conking
ha* not been aa goods* It should hnvo
been. These things] are unavoidable
and happen everywh<e.
The trustees ordei ul the superin
tendent, the surgeon and purchasing
agent to spare no ialns or expense
necessary to properl t care for these
men. The records si ow these farts.
The trustees are olng to continue
tn do their full dutj to these old he
roes, and to the stntl. There has been
nothing shameful In their conduct, and
and no board bills.
The governor very properly disal
lowed the Items of hotel and street
car fare, because they were Illegal; but
Mr. Williams did not hesitate to pre
sent the account and ask to be paid
out of the state treasury.
During the Investigation, when one
of the wltneaaes presented by the
"prosecution” stated thut a number of
the Inmates had been dealt with harsh
ly and turned out by the trustees for
making complaints of their treatment
at the home. Captain William 8. Thom
son and myself both naked the witness
to name the Inmates who hod been
thus punished for complaining—this
same fair-minded, unprejudiced mem
ber of the committee, the Hon. G.
Washington Williams, objected to the
question bring asked by Captain Thom
son and myself, saying we were trying
then to Intimidate the witness.
When Dr. Fox was testifying he of
fered some letters from merchants from
whom he had purchased supplies for
the home, to show that ho had pur
chased the best at the lowest cash
prices. Mr. Williams was busily en
gaged talking to men around him. I
was reading these letters. The chair
man called for order in the committee
and stated that Important letters were
bring read—this man Williams, with
a proud and haughty wave of the hand
announced, "1 do not want to hear
them." Now, If the letter had been a
denunciation of the trustees, or Dr,
Fox, or myself, the aforesaid G. W.
would have been all attention.
What will the thinking people of
Georgia say of Mr. Williams' treatment
of a board of trustees, made up of
reputable, loyal-hearted old Confeder
ate soldiers, who have devoted their
best efforts to carry nut the law and
manage the Confederate home for the
benefit of the worthy, decrepld old
men sheltered there—men who, at
much sacrifice to themselves, have for
years cared for these old heroes?
Will fatr-nitnded Georgians condemn
these men upon the suggestion of this
little plneywood* lawyer, who soy* this
"fight" was forced upon him? HI* po.
sltlon ns a member of the general as
sembly .an not protect him from the
scorn of the honest Confederate whom
he has assailed, nor from the utter
contempt of one whom he would strike
down If he could because he resents tho
ntt:wrk* upon the board nnd himself.
Mr. Williams may sneer at the w riter
and seek to make capital lw parading
In-fori- the public as a reformer nnd nn
enemy of mismanagement and misuse
of public funds, hut in this so-called
Investigation he will and ought to fall.
Hla given name, the synonym of ve-
To the Editor of The Georgian:
Not only the race, but Atlanta, la
passing through a crista, and The In
dependent counsels moderation and de
liberate Judgment In all our actions.
Just at this time the motto pf our
grand old state might be brought help
fully Into play. Wisdom, Justice and
moderation should actuate and guide
the conduct of every cltlsen.
The negro’a plight particularly ap
peals to soberness and the most con
siderate Judgment of mankind. It
makes no difference what the provo
cation Is, we of all men can least af
ford to become lawless.
We must not become alarmed and
flee from the city, as many of us are
doing. Mob violence will occur In the
course of human events wherever there
are racial differences. The under
straps, the rabble and the lawless In
our great city are only following the
example set by the rabble In New
York, Ohio and other sections of our
common country. While the mob, who
constitutes an Insignificant parcel ot
the South, are enemies, the Southern
ers as an entity are our best friends,
and we must not disorganise and par
alyse social and Industrial conditions
by stubbornness or wholesale exodus.
We must rise above the mob and not
charge our friends with the sins and
mob violence of the vicious and Irre
sponsible. We can even do better than
our white friends. It la now time to
S rove the stuff that Is in us by our
earing through the ordeal we are
passing. Our white neighbors charge
the entire race with the sins of the
vicious; this Is malfeatedty unfair, and
It will not be fair to charge Atlanta
as an entity with mob violence. The
authorities were as much unprepared
for the rampage of the mob Saturday
night aa were the Innocent and inof
fensive‘blacks who fell their victims.
Conditions not reasonably contem
plated can not be substantially pro
vided against. We must not only give
ore normal conditions, but we must
assist them In every way possible by
maintaining order and surpresslng vio
lence.
We were In a position Saturday
night to see much of the mob, and It
was not composed of the people who
made and make Atlanta. It was not
composed of the substantial* and re-
sponslbles, but of the Irresponslblea
and that criminal element of whites
who never undertake to avenge until
they tank up on mean whisky nnd the
cover of night to hide their cowardice
and rampage against the peace and
dignity of the state.
There were fnr more representative
men and women In Atlnnta Snturday
night, who stood ns sentinels with their
guns In their hands nnd protected their
negro servants from Impending danger,
than constituted the mob. Then why
should we become alarmed, disorgan
ized and desert those who stood by ue
at the peril of their own lives?
Our service nnd peaceful presence
are nbsolutely essential to the highest
development of the city and there Is no
need of becoming unsettled and lenvlng
the community to settle In another vi
cinity, only to be molested In the same
wny for less provocation.
Branding around the corners In men
acing groups and staying away from
our employers will not contribute to re-
storing peace and harmony In the com
munity.
i Mnny of us really have better protec
tion upon the premises of our employ
ers than we have at home. Let us keep
cool Hnd convince the white man by
our demeanor that we are not the only
barbarians In the city. Let us not let
up In our fight against the criminals
and the dives and appeal to the author
ities to disarm the lawless whites and
Irresponsible boys while disarming tho
negroes.
Let us so far as He In our power re
move every semblance of provocation
for another outbreak. Let the recent
bloody scene* act aa a stimulus to dou
ble our resolution to rout from the
community the criminal and the vi
cious. But this must be done by tho
strong arm of the law. Mob law can
not do It. The majesty of the law must
be felt In the suppression of all crime.|f
the peace and safety of the community
are permanently secured. The white
mob only Incites In the negro criminal
resentment and a desire to visit ven
geance upon the entire white race. Mob
law argue* that law and the authorities
are Inefficient to cope with criminals;
this Is a libel on Atlanta's fair name.
When we speak of Atlanta we speak
of the citizen body and not of the mob,
who, In Its madness and thirst for ne
gro blood, were trilling to engulf the
entire city Into chaos and riot, endan
gering every life and demolishing alt
property.
The future of Atlanta Is too great
and the Interest of all the people too
Immense to be endangered by Irrespon
sible whites and criminal negroes, who
have nothing. Both the mob and the
criminal must go, but it Is not neces
sary for us all to become criminals to
get rid of the vlcloua. Mob violence la
to be deplored. There Is no excuse for
It. Why become a criminal to suppress
a criminal? Let us take hope. Every
day In Cuba now Is Saturday night In
Atlanta. New York, Ohio and Illinois
have had their race riots and mobs and
everything didn’t go to the bad.
In the course of our short life we
have seen more fatalities as the result
of a Saturday night's negro frolic on a
South Georgia plantation or turpentine
fabm than resulted from the cowardly
mob Saturday night. So far. there
have been authoritatively reported less
than nine deaths, Including both races.
We have seen after the pistol smoke,
rasors and club axes Were cleared aWay
at a negro party, where no white faces
were present, at least one doxen dead
and wounded negroes.
We only rite these things to discour
age abnormal exercise among our peo
ple. We must stand for law and order.
It makes no difference what the mob
does, we must stand for law and order.
ThlB appeal Is not made In the fear of
extermination; we have no such cow
ardly fears, bnt out of a heart full of
the purest patriotism In the Interest of
nil the people. We have no fears of ex
termination nor the separation Idea,
We are here and we nre going to re
main here and map out our place ns
useful nnd law-abiding citizens. We
will have an occasional loss of lire and
property here as long as the provoca
tion exists, but we have an abiding
faith In both the friendship and love,
law and order of our white neighbors.
Let us keep the peace and appeal to
their reason and sober Judgment for
protection from the Irresponsible mobs.
Let us not forget that if we are
sometimes surrounded by the mob we
aro always In the midst of our best
friend*. B. J. DAVIS,
Editor The Atlanta Independent.
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Anxious Inquirer writes to ask fnr
Jerome's record. Fifty pills a day, we
believe.
“Is spelling reform a good thing?"
asks W. H. Smy-the. It wouldn't be
bad for proper names.
Please define art. Is the request of
Botticelli Boggs. Can't do It, Botti
celli; art Is not Art without the cap A.
The darkest place on the earth's sur
face, Richmond, is Staten Islnnd on a
Slinday evening.
Marat writes to ask If It is correct;
to drink beer through a straw. Per
fectly correct, but slow.
To become an artist In ten days Is
a hard Job, Percy. We advise you to
pick up blacksmith work In your spare
time.
"Why Is the sky blue?"
"Because It's sky-blue."
♦he Lethe.
Cy ELLA ANGLIN VERNE.
I ronmed dim* day 1h*aIi)p * peMreful river,
I lienrd the tong that swelled Its depths
ticlow,
A gentle bird-voice added note* a quiver.
Itoee rippling rhythm from tbs fulgent
flow. •
T£ndi»r Hie cord that felt the pain of feel
ing.
Wont Irons the light thnt ahed a golden
glow.
Welcome the rest that silently comes steal
ing.
(irneinua ths calm those Lethean ware*
bestow.
To thnt bright stream I gave a life’s full
cleaning*
Of tears to come—hes rtf nines# gone ho
l’d found Hie open d«»or.
ABSCONDING SALESMAN
CAUGHT IN DULUTH*
to The Geor/rlnn.
Columbus. Ga„ Sept. 21—Jerome Joy,
formerly a traveling salesman for D.
Rothschilds A Co., of this city, who
disappeared several weeks »go, leaving
n shortage In his accounts, has been
arrested In Duluth, Iflnn., and will be
brought bark to this city to face the
Charges. Joy has u wife living In thli
'tty. He came her* from St. Louis.